In this episode of Morning Joe, Mika Brzelec and Alex Blumberg discuss the latest developments in the Trump administration, including the latest on the latest in the Russia investigation and the possibility of a second term for President Trump.
00:01:05.260But as Mika said, people need to believe what he's saying.
00:01:10.420They need to hear what he's saying and understand that a second Donald Trump term takes America into a very, very dark place.
00:01:19.540How do we stop and get the right information into people's hands as they go into the voting booths?
00:01:27.040Well, one of the things we can do, of course, is providing them with accurate information and helping voters know where to go for accurate information, having a plan ahead of time.
00:01:36.080So someone's secretary of state website, for example, will have accurate information.
00:01:40.960I often tout the League of Women Voters as a place where you can get accurate information because, you know, we are going to see a deluge of false claims designed either to influence the outcome of the election,
00:01:51.960to dampen turnout or to convince people that voting is not worthwhile because the election is rigged.
00:01:58.380Some of the things we're already hearing from Donald Trump and some of his supporters about their refusal to accept the outcome of the election until they know what it is, is already planting those seeds that the election is rigged.
00:02:11.760And so we have to build that resilience by helping people know where to get accurate information about the election, how to vote and how the system works so that they aren't duped by these false claims.
00:02:23.860He's fired up and he's ready to go when it comes to seeking revenge to anybody who's opposed him in the past.
00:02:30.180And I'm told there's a similar dynamic behind closed doors when he meets with advisors or other Republicans where he'll talk about revenge, sometimes get a look like, well, do you really mean that?
00:02:39.460And he makes it clear he does. This is this is retribution.
00:02:43.320That's the word that has been the center of this Trump campaign for a year now.
00:02:47.520And that has only been heightened with his anger about this criminal conviction.
00:02:51.440And let's be clear, he is blustering about how he would be fine with going to prison if he had to.
00:02:56.480He'd be a martyr for the cause. He says things very differently in private, per my reporting.
00:03:01.420He also makes it clear on Truth Social with those all caps screeds, just how concerned he is at the prospect of ever being behind bars.
00:03:09.900And he and his team are putting together an actual agenda of revenge.
00:03:14.640This is just going to be his rhetoric, which was sometimes what happened in 2020.
00:03:18.640Trump would spout something off, but, you know, his administration would be unable or, frankly, at times unwilling to follow through.
00:03:24.800But there are not going to be grown ups in the room this time.
00:03:28.220It is just going to be true believers and loyalists.
00:03:30.920And if Trump says he wants revenge, if Trump says, I want to target a particular person or institution, they're going to do just that.
00:03:36.040All right. Now, I know a lot of these folks who also shared your same concerns about Donald Trump have sort of said, all right, we're rallying around Donald Trump.
00:03:44.620You had said, though, that would not be the case with you.
00:03:47.560You had said that he's a populist and an authoritarian narcissist, that character is too important to me.
00:03:53.160And it's a job that requires the kind of character he just doesn't have.
00:04:26.080I think it's a contribution of factors.
00:04:27.540But I think it really is just character at the end of the day.
00:04:29.700And the fact that if you're willing to put yourself above the Constitution, an oath you swear when you take office, in federal office, whether it's president or a member of Congress, you swear an oath to the Constitution.
00:04:37.980And if you're willing to suborn it to yourself, I think that makes you unfit for office.
00:04:45.640This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:05:30.920It's Wednesday, 12 June, and the year of our Lord 2024 is a complete and total meltdown by the mainstream media for the last, I don't know, 48, 72 hours about their obvious deep concern.
00:05:49.900And former officials, FBI officials, intelligence officials, DOJ officials, they are scared.
00:05:56.160The only thing they can focus on, the only thing they can focus on is Accountability Day, which is the afternoon, starts the afternoon of January 20th, 20 January, 2025.
00:06:05.140Accountability in the long arm of American justice.
00:06:09.280And I mean, real justice as run by President Trump will, you know, be strictly by the Constitution, by the rule of law.
00:06:16.320Not this police state that we've allowed the United States to deteriorate into.
00:06:21.460If my great producers here, by the way, we're going to be going to the floor.
00:06:25.560They're debating, I think they're debating or just have debated the rule on Merrick Garland's contempt charge.
00:06:30.480That vote is now scheduled for 3.30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time at the House.
00:06:36.400Must mean that Tom Emerson and the guys have the votes, but it's penciled in at 3.30, of which we will obviously cover here in the War Room.
00:06:43.020From mainstream media completely freaking out about all things, which they call retribution, we call justice.
00:06:50.040And Accountability Day with, if we can pull Morning Joe, that first part where they accused, not accused, they point out, yes, we have said that.
00:06:57.000And we mean this, the ministry of truth, the ministry of information that is mainstream media, particularly MSNBC, MSNBC and the hosts and all these guys,
00:07:06.900you know, Weissman and all that crowd, you pulled out CNN, McCabe, Whining.
00:07:11.520All the people that are associated with the persecution of MAGA, the persecution of folks at the abortion clinics,
00:07:19.280trying to shut down traditional Catholic churches, starting with my parents' Catholic church,
00:07:24.160Latin Mass Catholic Church in Richmond, Virginia, all of it, all of it, all of it, all of it, all of it.
00:07:29.140We're going to get to the root of all of it.
00:11:45.620We're also, and by the way, talk about retribution.
00:11:47.500We're going to get into, and I think we're going to do, Natalie Winters is going to co-host with me today at five.
00:11:52.280We're going to talk about the 51 intelligence officers who now are doubling, many of them are doubling down that the laptop from hell was Russian disinformation after it was used in a federal court to basically as evidence that a jury took and took, you know, just about three hours to find Hunter Biden guilty of three felonies.
00:12:13.320Those three felonies, all of those, Garrett Ziegler would join us to talk about, that's just a misdirection play to take off any of the charges.
00:12:21.240So Weiss, David Weiss, who was approved by the senators from Delaware, so I don't think he's a Trump appointee.
00:12:27.540So to take your eye off the ball of the crimes of Joe Biden, we had Mike Davis on here yesterday.
00:12:33.040We went through all $20 million country by country that the Bidens took.
00:12:37.440These are wire transfers that came from the Treasury Department.
00:12:40.280This is not some newspaper article or some interview with someone or even a deposition.
00:12:47.620This is hard money wire transfers that are reviewed by the Treasury Department.
00:12:54.500A Treasury Department, I might add, that knew about this transfers in both the end of Obama's term and the, more importantly, in President Trump's term.
00:13:05.960You talk about the deep state and the Praetorian Guard trying to do a selection.
00:13:09.040The laptop from hell was held by the FBI at the senior levels, and they knew it was accurate.
00:13:39.720Yesterday, Comer, the head of the Oversight Committee, and Brother Jim Jordan sent a letter to the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, William Burns.
00:13:49.540They said, it's come to our attention that you have interfered, that your agency has interfered in the investigation of Hunter and, wait for it, Joe Biden.
00:14:39.160But the guardrails will have a road, will be on the side of a road that leads directly to you, the mainstream media, the new Gestapo, the FBI, DOJ, Merrick Garland, all of you folks.
00:17:37.400She emphasized that as an Italian word that means shame.
00:17:40.020As a Catholic and as someone who like really cherishes my faith, I just don't know that we can negotiate with the lust in the way that needs to happen for the polarization to end.
00:17:54.840So I think that it's a matter of like winning.
00:18:09.000I mean, there can be a way of living together peacefully, but it's difficult, you know, because there are differences on fundamental things that really can't be compromised.
00:18:26.580It's not like you're going to split the difference.
00:18:52.900That was Justice Alito sharing his religious fervor with the stranger who turned out to be progressive activist and documentarian Lauren Windsor, who is known for approaching high level conservative figures, pretending to be an ally and recording them making candid comments.
00:19:36.420Just a note, I'm bringing Mark Paley in now, but CNN, as I told you they would, Steve Collinson, who's the smart guy over there, massive headline on the top of the site that Hunter Biden's prosecution kills the persecution.
00:20:00.380The only thing that matters to us is Hunter Biden and Joe Biden selling out the country, selling out the country to the Chinese Communist Party and to the Ukrainians for cash money.
00:20:23.940Yeah, Hunter Biden's going to get, I don't know, five years, 10 years or whatever, and they're going to use that to justify giving President Trump time in prison on July 11th.
00:20:48.320We got the receipts, and we want to see the impeachment of Joe Biden and then criminal referrals and then criminal charges later.
00:20:55.920That is what we want, and that is what we are going to get.
00:21:01.460As sure as the turning of the earth and Hunter's tax deals and Hunter's gun deals and all the cocaine and all the, you know, the testimony yesterday, people should watch it.
00:21:17.460Listen to the, I think his daughter is supposed to be for the defense, and they says, Happy Lowell picked the worst.
00:21:22.700That's what buried him with the jury because it's a pack of feral dogs and their crime family on top of it.
00:21:30.260But they're coming after the good guys, and they're coming after them in a relentless fashion.
00:21:35.220Remember, this is all about, remember, Mark Paoletta and Senator Lee, shrink the court until you can expand the court.
00:21:42.260And right now they've got, Mark, I got to tell you, they've had Justice Thomas in their gun sights for 30 years, and Joe Biden particularly got some insight on that.
00:21:52.540But man, oh man, and Jenny Thomas, but man, oh man, they are freaked out at Martha Ann Alito and Justice Alito.
00:22:03.380Lead story in the Hill this morning from Alexander Bolton, who's one of their biggest guys.
00:22:08.940The lead story there was about how the new audio tapes throw gasoline on this fire.
00:22:15.140So Alexander Bolton over the Hill going and doubling and tripling down about how this controversy is one of the biggest controversies the nation's capitals had in many decades.
00:23:19.880And they should hate them even more after this and the coverage of this.
00:23:23.200And I find it, you know, I do a lot of work in this area, Steve, looking at the hypocrisies of the left.
00:23:28.720And the left actually celebrated Ruth Bader Ginsburg when she literally directly entered the 2016 presidential election campaign to attack Donald Trump to literally prevent him from being president of the United States.
00:23:43.080And Politico put up a piece praising her that here is this woman who built up all this political capital, literally saying this, and that she was going to make sure that her legacy was protected by taking out Donald Trump because everything depended on it.
00:23:57.720And as we know, because she overstayed her time on the court, Donald Trump got to replace her, won the presidency, and in a, you know, a good karma moment, if you will, was able to pick her successor, which truly changed the court's direction.
00:24:13.780Thank God for President Trump and his appointments, the three appointments.
00:24:17.320But this is a nonstop attack on the justices, on the Alitos right now, the Thomases.
00:24:24.000You know, last week, Fix the Court came out with one of the most absurd, dishonest, sloppy, error-filled charts that I put up a big thread on.
00:24:33.760I'm going to be writing some pieces where almost everything in there is wrong or dishonest.
00:24:38.740It had to do with how many, the value of the gifts, they're not even gifts, that Justice Thomas received versus the rest of the court, and how they count gifts for Justice Thomas, but don't count the trips that Stephen Breyer took, the 17 trips that he took, funded by the billionaire family, the Pritzker family, big Democrat family, J.D. Pritzker out on Illinois, Penny Pritzker, Secretary of Commerce under Obama.
00:25:07.360That that family funded 17 trips for an architecture review board, nothing to do with the Supreme Court.
00:25:15.140It doesn't count as a trip, doesn't count as anything.
00:25:32.720Martha Ann talking about how the Washington Post fashion critic was tearing into Martha Ann for the clothes she was wearing during her husband's confirmation hearings back in 2005.
00:25:59.900They give the left to pass, right, Justice Ginsburg.
00:26:03.440I go back to Justice Ginsburg because she has a stamp in her honor, right?
00:26:08.060She has movies and books she's celebrated.
00:26:10.340And yet she was, in my opinion, the most unethical justice in modern times.
00:26:15.200OK, and so that's the that's the disparity, the disconnect of the left protecting those who bring them the results that they want on the Supreme Court.
00:26:24.080You can do no wrong if you say abortion is a right in the Constitution.
00:26:30.500And if you say otherwise, you are unethical.
00:27:32.160But they get in a phalanx and they move.
00:27:34.720They're senators that every single day are trying to destroy the Supreme Court justice and their families.
00:27:41.820And Mark Paoletta said the quiet part out loud.
00:27:45.600If they don't get them to recuse, they want them to back off these decisions of taking down the administrative state of the immunity of Fisher of these huge votes.
00:27:54.840This is political and information warfare.
00:27:59.120They understand pure Linsky one on one.
00:32:04.280I think it's a contribution of factors.
00:32:05.740But I think it really is just character at the end of the day.
00:32:07.900And the fact that if you're willing to put yourself above the Constitution, an oath you swear when you take office in federal office,
00:32:13.460whether it's president or a member of Congress, you swear an oath of the Constitution.
00:32:16.180And if you're willing to suborn it to yourself, I think that makes you unfit for all.
00:32:25.260I don't know if there's a more loathsome person in this nation than Paul Ryan.
00:32:29.520My question to the Murdochs, my question to the board of a publicly traded company,
00:32:33.700how can you have a guy that's a board member of a publicly traded company that has a cable network and he's a board member and he sits out there and trashes?
00:32:42.260I mean, would that happen to any, is that happen to anybody else that on camera every day will trash somebody?
00:32:49.920You talk about above the Constitution, wasn't President Trump the selected Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Comey Barrett?
00:32:56.920Above the Constitution because of this, is he talking about the steel of 2020?
00:33:53.460We won Wisconsin by a handful of votes and we won Wisconsin because we, you know, we had teams that just went and just ran the tables there.
00:34:08.180This guy is, you know, he was, he's just a stone cold loser.
00:34:12.180And my question to the Murdochs is that even though the SEC, is it right to have a guy that sits on the board of directors of a public attorney company and sits there and trashes, trashes the candidate for one of the parties?
00:34:46.240This nation got into the shape it's in because of Paul Ryan, because of the gutless, feckless incompetence of Paul Ryan.
00:34:54.180That wants to get all the benefits from the system but doesn't want to fight for what he believes in and what he fights and fight for what this country stands for.
00:35:03.060Remember, Paul Ryan was the one that basically set up President Trump to get impeached.
00:35:07.280Well, he threw in the towel as Speaker.
00:35:09.600Right after he failed, President Trump succeeded in getting his tax cut with no help from Paul Ryan because Paul Ryan had a different idea.
00:35:17.600We got President Trump's supply side tax cut done that Paul Ryan didn't help on because he had this crazy idea about, I don't know, border taxes or whatever that got jettisoned.
00:35:26.560But Paul Ryan, the one thing he had to do was repeal and replace Obamacare, which was the one epic fail we had because Paul Ryan couldn't get it together.
00:35:36.320Of course, McCain put the knife in everybody.
00:36:16.200And what they're trying to do is a digital lynching or a smearing or a digital assassination attempt, a media assassination, just like they had people at their houses before.
00:36:26.000They tried to assassinate Kavanaugh, right, which would have been, if it had been a Republican assassin, you'd have heard that story five million times.
00:36:39.060This is information war, and they want these people to pull back on these major decisions that are coming, the five big ones about the administrative state, the Fisher decision, which will blow up the Justice Department on J6, and also the all-important immunity decision.
00:36:53.960They want them, in your words, which is perfect, trim their sails.
00:37:08.020Yeah, you know, we could always use more out there, Steve.
00:37:10.700I've been focused on, you know, pushing back, exposing the lies, exposing these tactics, and the bad faith maliciousness of the left going after the court.
00:37:51.980This is not simply about separation of powers.
00:37:54.340They are trying to destroy the Supreme Court now to then rebuild it to be like FDR's packed the court, sir.
00:38:02.600Yeah, no, I think from the speaker to the leaders in the Senate, they need to do something en masse to protect the court and push back on these attacks.
00:39:12.540You know, the left, going back to what you're just talking about, President Trump and the rule of law and going back to Scarborough, going back to even the tapes of with the under the secret recordings of Alito.
00:39:25.260The left are the ones who go and try and assassinate people, burn down buildings.
00:39:47.480The right does need to wake up and do more to defend the Supreme Court.
00:39:53.640Also, Ted Cruz, because Ted Cruz defended him.
00:39:56.160They go to don't they go to Ted Cruz's house every Saturday morning and cause just havoc and chaos to embarrass his family and to make sure the neighbors are all irked.
00:40:04.420I mean, they go. I think they've been going every I think it's every Saturday for months and months and months because Ted Cruz, not just in his podcast, Ted Cruz is one of the few guys up there that defends him every day.
00:40:15.060So if you defend them, they come after you.
00:41:12.200They won't stop until they have undermined the Supreme Court.
00:41:15.100As I said, shrink the court to try and get the decision.
00:41:17.660You talk about there. There are some significant cases coming down, you know, in the next couple of weeks.
00:41:23.140That's why this is on red alert, high alert for the left to smear attack.
00:41:28.220You saw Jory Reid with this this this I don't even call her journalist, you know, laughing about these these undercover audio tapes.
00:41:36.860Again, could listen to him. I've listened to him several times and walk away smiling each time about about Martha Ann and how great she is.
00:41:45.600And Justice Alito. But there does need to be a more rigorous defense of the Supreme Court.
00:41:51.060And you're saying now that their spouses and families yet the husband of of Comey Barrett, Jesse Barrett, you've got Chief Justice Robert's wife.
00:42:40.460I would get out there and, again, showing support for the Supreme Court, showing that these attacks are basically a—you know, the left is just this vicious group that doesn't represent the American people, right?
00:42:53.100You talk about godliness, right, in this exchange with Alito.
00:42:59.960Our anthem says, one nation under God.
00:43:16.600But I would write to the members of Congress.
00:43:18.960I would let them know that this is, you know, in particular, Raskin, White House, Hank Johnson, Durbin, and tell them that this is—you do not support this.
00:43:30.040This is a threat to our country, to these institutions.
00:43:52.800I want to warn you of a huge change that could be coming to our money and our bank accounts.
00:43:59.840First, think back to 9-11, shortly after the government pushed through the Patriot Act.
00:44:03.840This gave the government power to spy on innocent Americans by monitoring our phone and email and tracking our movement across the Internet.
00:44:11.860Now, Jim Rickards, editor of the independent financial newsletter Strategic Intelligence and New York Times bestselling author, is warning about a coming event that could elevate this governmental surveillance to a terrifying new level.
00:44:25.900In fact, some of the guests I've had on The War Room believe that the government will soon expand their powers to track our every move.
00:44:33.300If we say the wrong things on social media, donate to the wrong causes, buy firearms, or even vote MAGA, the government may be able to shut us out of our bank accounts.
00:44:44.320I can't say for sure if this will happen, but it's an interesting and dire warning.
00:44:49.840Fortunately, Jim Rickards, an American patriot and friend of mine, has made it his mission to educate us on what he believes is coming and how to protect yourself from the possibility of programmable money.
00:45:02.180Watch Jim's warning video now, before it's censored like I've been in the past.
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00:45:14.200Look back and we realize we were just inches away from victory, and that's when we decided to give up.
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00:45:27.860You're going to hear how we're going to win in 2024.
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00:46:27.720I'm so proud of folks that have done the precinct strategy and then went up the next level and got involved in their state party, became delegates to the state party convention.
00:46:36.720And now there's so many of you that are going to the National Republican Convention.
00:46:41.340Many of you will be there at Detroit this coming weekend.
00:46:45.240We're going to be there in a full show of force.
00:46:48.580And I will hang out, obviously, with you guys and make sure you share your stories.
00:46:53.780We'll take the photographs, sign anything you've got, and just basically have some camaraderie.
00:47:21.040We're going to get a lot more into the fight in the second hour because now, hey, if you're the tip of the spear, you've got to fight.
00:47:27.760I would love to be able to focus on other things.
00:47:29.700We're going to have so much economic news.
00:47:32.260I'm going to have EJ and Tony join us tonight at 6.
00:47:36.920He's going to join us tonight at 6 to go through all the economics.
00:47:40.640Also, Ben Harnwell is going to join me at 6.
00:47:43.000We have tons of geopolitics, a lot happening on Europe, a lot happening on this war in Ukraine that we've got to get everybody up to speed up.
00:47:49.520They're actually voting on, I think, one of the – I don't think it's the rule on national defense authorization.
00:47:53.780But they're voting on – they're pairing up, I think, that with the rule on Garland, this contempt charge on Garland.
00:48:01.640That's supposed to be voted by the overall House floor, and it looks like Johnson's saying he's got the votes.
00:48:10.720Birchgold.com, you heard MTG yesterday saying one of her big concerns was the Global South being involved in the Ukraine situation.
00:48:19.420The Global South, I think, may end up being the peace broker.
00:48:22.180They're showing their muscle – they're flexing their muscle.
00:48:25.300And while they're flexing their muscle, they've got tons of the resources of the world, I would say, 80 percent of the natural resources in the world.
00:48:31.080And right now, they ain't too happy with the U.S. dollar because it continues to lose purchasing power.
00:51:30.100When President Trump takes over, like I said, don't ever forget the three things that have to be accomplished right away.
00:51:35.140Seal the border and begin mass deportations.
00:51:38.500The second is that you have to then start to work on the economy.
00:51:45.300You've got to get the tax cuts back in, but also you have to think of offsets, offsets on this spending to offset, I think, at least some of the tax cuts.
00:51:54.280And he will be directly involved in getting a solution to the Ukraine war because we're not going to pour any more money into it.
00:52:01.320And I think stepping in the middle and sorting out this situation in Israel with his enemies, particularly the Persians.
00:52:08.580President Trump backed off the Persians for years and years and years.
00:52:12.580Also, sort this mess out in the Red Sea.
00:52:14.900That's President Trump's number one priorities.
00:52:17.780He's got to take care of those three things immediately.
00:52:20.380But we have to go after the deep state.