Former New York City attorney general Eric Schneiderman joins CNN's "ACLU's Van Jones" to discuss his dismissal from the Justice Department, the indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and his replacement by Andrew Weissman, as well as the release of Palestinian prisoners from the Gaza Strip.
00:00:00.000Now, Israel's defense forces will move behind agreed-upon lines inside Gaza, and the ceasefire will take effect.
00:00:08.960Once the IDF has moved to new positions, a 72-hour clock to release, the remaining hostages will begin.
00:00:18.400President Trump said yesterday he expects the hostages to be released on Monday or Tuesday.
00:00:25.160The United States is preparing to send about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the ceasefire deal.
00:00:34.360They will not enter Gaza, but they will be there to help with transportation and planning.
00:00:40.280U.S. forces will also help coordinate humanitarian and security assistance into Gaza.
00:00:46.920The Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 goes to a brave and committed champion of peace.
00:00:56.120To a woman who keeps the flame of democracy burning amidst a growing darkness.
00:01:03.580The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 to Maria Corina Machado.
00:01:19.420She is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela
00:01:30.940and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.
00:01:40.260As the leader of the democratic forces in Venezuela, Maria Corina Machado is one of the most extraordinary examples
00:01:52.420of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times.
00:01:59.000Ms. Machado has been a key unifying figure in a political opposition that was once deeply divided.
00:02:07.840And a position that found common ground in the demand for free election and representative government.
00:02:18.520This is nothing more than a continuation of the president's desperate weaponization of our justice system.
00:02:26.100He is forcing federal law enforcement agencies to do his bidding.
00:02:31.260All because I did my job as the New York State Attorney General.
00:02:36.320These charges are baseless and the president's own public statements make clear that his only goal is political retribution at any cost.
00:02:48.820The president's actions are a grave violation of our constitutional order and have drawn sharp criticism from members of both parties.
00:02:57.440His decision to fire a United States attorney who refused to bring charges against me and replace them with someone who is blindly loyal not to the law but to the president is antithetical to the bedrock principles of our country.
00:03:14.880So she is now joining judges on the West Coast, both in San Francisco and in Portland, who have ruled the exact same way with respect to the administration's use of the military.
00:03:27.800I do think that the way that you've been first talking about this, which is not as a legal matter, but sort of as a policy matter, the idea of using the military unnecessarily and what standard that sets is the right way to look at it.
00:03:41.140Because it's sort of this is so unusual in this country and I think it sort of normalizes it to start getting into the weeds on the law points.
00:03:49.340But since I'm a lawyer, the law point here and the real thing that is notable is that Judge Immigrant in Portland and now Judge Perry in Illinois are basically saying in judicial words that they just don't believe the Trump administration, that what they're doing is untethered to the facts on the ground.
00:04:13.380In other words, that there's nothing that is happening in either location that would justify bringing in the military.
00:04:21.520Basically, Israelis and Palestinians can no longer find their way, I think, out of this conflict alone.
00:04:28.280It can no longer be solved at the level of the two of them.
00:04:31.180All trust has been completely stripped from the two sides, especially after this war.
00:04:35.820And what you see in Gaza is the outlines of basically a kind of international mandate.
00:04:40.360U.S. U.S. allies, Arab partners working with Palestinians basically to build their capacity to govern Gaza and to assure Israel also that under no conditions will Gaza ever be able to threaten them.
00:04:56.400That kind of international mandate for Gaza, if it were actually extended to the West Bank, might be the foundation of building us a bridge back to a two state solution.
00:05:06.500So I like it in the short term. I think there's real potential in the long term, too.
00:05:10.360How has this campaign-like activity by the president and his supporters, domestically and internationally, affected the deliberations and the thinking in the committee?
00:05:21.680In the long history of the Nobel Peace Prize, I think this committee has seen any type of campaign, media attention.
00:05:29.820We receive thousands and thousands of letters every year of people wanting to say what, for them, leads to peace.
00:05:38.080This committee sits in a room filled with the portraits of all laureates, and that room is filled with both courage and integrity.
00:05:46.760So we base only our decision on the work and the will of Alfred Nobel.
00:05:51.880I think this started with James Comey, and this is going to end with Tish James.
00:05:57.240We are only eight months into this administration.
00:05:59.300We have already seen a U.S. senator thrown to the ground for trying to ask a question at a press conference.
00:06:04.160We have already seen a member of Congress indicted in New Jersey.
00:06:07.040We have seen the Comptroller of New York manhandled.
00:06:10.580We have now seen the former FBI director indicted at the direction of the president, now the attorney general of New York.
00:06:20.240Oh, they arrested an older person in Chicago the other day for attempting to ask questions.
00:06:24.380The days of the Department of Justice and the rules that everyone keeps citing to me, well, the rules of this, the rules of that, those rules, that rule book is gone.
00:06:34.180This is a unitary, this is a president who believes he controls the Department of Justice, and he decides who's guilty, who's innocent, who gets indicted, and who gets prosecuted.
00:06:42.620And if we don't all wake up to that, then we're going to keep having this conversation about who checked what box on a form.
00:06:48.040Nothing about who checked what box on a form is what this case is about.
00:06:51.580I mean, this is basic, and yet Republicans, whether you're talking about lawfare, whether you're talking about National Guard going different, all of these things, they're setting themselves up for a hard fall down the road.
00:07:04.940Yeah, just go back as far as you want.
00:07:10.840And the guard against doing that is norms, right?
00:07:17.000There are norms that are part of our system, and this administration breaks them willy-nilly, and the Republican Party will regret this down the road.
00:07:30.720The good is that, obviously, the ceasefire is holding.
00:07:34.000The ceasefire is working, and these people feel free to make their way north.
00:07:38.080They are walking along a main seaside route along the Mediterranean, heading north towards Gaza City.
00:07:43.900And as you pointed out in the last hour, many of them on foot for a number of different reasons, either too poor to own a car, the fact that their cars could have been destroyed in the war, but also their cars could have been confiscated by Hamas during the war.
00:11:49.800I also will tell you, going to Utah was a wake-up call for me.
00:11:53.000I had no idea about the issues in Utah, and we'll drill down on that in the days and weeks ahead.
00:11:58.380But, you know, Andrew and Tyler and the entire team came up there.
00:12:03.160But Utah was a wake-up call for me of how far some of this radical, like the armed, was it the armed queers of Salt Lake City and others?
00:12:13.920And, of course, we have, and how prevalent, John Brown, and how prevalent, you know, the situation in St. George where you have this other tranny that killed his, who's a Mormon, you know, these kids that fall out of the Mormon church, that he killed his parents brutally and then burned the house down.
00:12:37.800It's just, it's the radical nature of what's going on, and this is why Cox, I think, he's got some accountability here, what's happening to the school system in Utah, and it's shocking.
00:12:49.460And Charlie Kirk is an American hero and a patriot for going into that cockpit every day and fighting that and doing it.
00:12:57.480And I think that's why his memory will live on in his work as the folks in Turning Point.
00:13:02.780Every day we toss, you know, we toss the show to him, which you guys are doing extraordinary.
00:13:07.040You had, what, 6,000 people in Montana State, I think, the other night.
00:18:40.800If you look at our first trip to the Middle East in May of 2017, and if then if you look at the Abraham Accords, which Jared Kushner was the architect of, then if you look at the meeting in the spring with the Gulf Emirates there, President Trump going back.
00:18:55.500And now if you look at this deal, these are kind of business and based on commercial.
00:19:02.260That's what the whole thing we're talking about then.
00:19:03.760Put the politics aside because the politics always gets into vendettas and all that.
00:19:08.120These are deep seated commercial relationships that are expanding.
00:19:20.240And Dermer and Bibi have been off to the side.
00:19:23.560They haven't even asked in this thing.
00:19:25.040They're not even asking what the Israelis want.
00:19:27.360Just I'm going to give you cold facts, not the cheerleading that Tel Aviv Levin in this crowd who basically brought this on the nation of Israel.
00:19:48.640You have Netanyahu and the America First, the Israel First crowd over here that put Israel's interest and Netanyahu's political interest ahead of the United States of America and the nation of Israel and the Israeli people.
00:20:45.940And, you know, the IDF is too punched out, too tired, and quite frankly, probably not trusted by the Arab nations enough.
00:20:53.320So the Americans are going to have some sort of coordinating role at a macro level.
00:20:56.680But the Turks, they said Turks, Qatar, UAE particularly, UAE, which probably got the best fighting force over there, Jack, are really providing the day-to-day logistics troops that are going to do this with the IDF.
00:21:09.740Your thoughts about where we are overall in this, sir?
00:21:12.740Well, Steve, I mean, it remains to be seen.
00:21:18.200Of course, you know, it's incredible, the deal.
00:21:22.940This is a testament to Steve Witkoff, the fact that this was able to get done the way that it was by bringing the Arab world together in, bring the Turks in as well.
00:21:32.300Tom Barrack, Tom Barrack up there in Turkey.
00:21:35.940And they all said it couldn't be done.
00:21:55.300In the spring meetings in Riyadh and Doha, sometimes it seemed like a Tupperware convention.
00:22:00.680I mean, they were so excited, they're cheering, and they're all talking about deals, they're talking about interrelationships, commercial flights.
00:22:08.420This thing is—the reason it's able to get done, it is a commercial relationships and a business deal by businessmen and financiers and not politicians.
00:22:24.460It reminded me of when Donald Trump went to North Korea to meet Kim Jong-un, and he didn't talk about nuclear, he didn't talk about the P-6 plus-1 talks like Obama and all the neoliberals were talking about.
00:22:38.980He said, look at this coastline you got up in North Korea.
00:22:42.420Man, you could have some incredible seaside resorts up here with the bikini girls and the speedboats and all the rest.
00:30:12.240Can we put the B-roll up of the biblical?
00:30:14.240Because this thing is kind of breathtaking.
00:30:18.120Dr. Gina, you're one of the more devout people I know.
00:30:20.320You, quite frankly, if it wasn't for you and David Brody, we wouldn't have really even had a broadcast for, what, 10 or 11 hours of Charlie Kirk's memorial service.
00:30:29.720Remember, one month ago today, Charlie was assassinated.
00:30:32.220Because, Dr. Gina, you knew all the music and the singers and all that.
00:30:36.320What do you think of my idea of, hey, if you've got two states, which we fought forever, but if, because of the way this was handled, now the Arabs, the Gulf farmers are in there financing it.
00:30:47.240You see the two million, they're not going anywhere.
00:30:49.020That whole plan of getting them out of Gaza, not going to happen.
00:30:52.560You're going to have a proto-two-state solution from the beginning.
00:30:56.720If you've got a two-state solution, why don't the Christians get, I mean, it's the holy sites of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and the foundation of the Christian church.
00:31:17.120It feels like 10 years, and it feels like an hour.
00:31:19.780It's just, it's crazy, the time passage since Charlie's assassination.
00:31:23.480But, Steve, listen, three-state solution, I am all in.
00:31:26.800I have always wondered why we in this generation, Steve, are neglecting our God-given responsibility to protect the Christian sites that are eroding and being destroyed every single day all over the Middle East.
00:31:41.240And many of us don't even realize, you go to Israel today, you can't even really go to Bethlehem.
00:31:46.400There are a lot of areas you can't even go to because they're too dangerous and they are being destroyed as we speak.
00:32:02.140By the way, the church was a desert church in Egypt, in Syria, Antioch, all of it, because of the huge persecution of the Christians in the years 33 to 36.
00:32:12.500They made a decision in 36, the apostolic fathers, that you didn't have to be Jewish and convert, that actually Gentiles could become Christians.
00:32:21.260So, yeah, the bottom line is, it was going to be two states.
00:32:24.940Why is it just the Muslims and the Jews?
00:32:27.740It is the beginning of our church, and in Iraq it's been destroyed, in Egypt it's been destroyed, in Syria it's been destroyed, and we've got to protect the sites, the holiest sites we have.
00:32:39.080Those are all the churches and cathedrals and the monasteries with the desert fathers and all the hermits and monks that really kept Christianity alive and going, right?
00:32:49.780So, and we need, you need a Christian state in the Levant, and you need a Christian state, and if Israel's going to be divided now between two states, that's what's going to happen.
00:33:01.900Don't let any happy talkers spin or, you know, Bibi got everything you wanted.
00:33:05.760Well, hey, he's got a two-state solution, and they're going to block any further development of Judea and Samaria.
00:33:13.900And so now it's time to put on the table a Christian state.
00:33:17.160I have additional work for you here, and I want to, in a normal news cycle, this would be huge and would drive the news cycle for two days, but we're overwhelmed with world historical news.
00:33:29.540But Joe Rogan, the Joe Rogan experience understood the importance of this.
00:33:33.000Let's go ahead and play Joe Rogan, and we'll get Dr. Gina back.
00:33:36.660We've seen, like, what they tried to do to her.
00:33:39.140They put her on the Quiet Skies thing, so they put her on a terrorist watch list.
00:33:44.680She was a U.S. congresswoman for eight years.
00:33:49.040She served overseas in a medical unit, right?
00:33:53.940So she was deployed twice in a medical unit in the middle of the war, and you're labeling her a terrorist.
00:34:01.800Like, whoever did that, like, whoever signed off on that should be in jail.
00:38:51.780You know, and that's nothing compared to what normal American families have gone through if we don't fix this, Steve, in the new administration, when there is another administration, when there is a Democrat elected, because someday, again, there will be.
00:40:41.740It's the first children's book in a series of 20 that I wrote with the Bible history guy, Jim Mosley, and from Liberty University, ironically.
00:40:49.660And we are just trying to, you know, you remember things mnemonically when you're a child if you memorize them then.
00:40:57.100So, that's the whole idea is to make it fun.
00:40:58.960We did it with the illustrator from Veggie Tales, Mike Sofka.
00:41:01.960And so, it's beautiful, and it's fun, and it's interactive, and people are going to love it.
00:41:07.520And you can find all that on my website at Dr. Gina's Show if you want to go there.
00:47:56.640Okay, well, I can start walking you through it by telling you that the Democrats threw up black prosecutors,
00:48:03.860Alvin Bragg, Fannie Willis, and Letitia James, to go after Donald Trump on charges that they knew would not stick.
00:48:10.200So they looked at these black prosecutors as cannon fodder.
00:48:13.720They simply sacrificed them, knowing that they would probably go down for what they were doing.
00:48:19.260Sure enough, Tish James probably should not have been charging Donald Trump with trumped-up charges of mortgage fraud in New York,
00:48:27.140given the fact that New York is a public record state, and that all of her mortgages for 43 years were online for myself or anybody else to pull up.
00:48:36.740And what I found is a pattern of mortgage fraud going all the way back to 1983, when she was only 24 years old.
00:48:44.360She purchased her first home with her father, claiming that her father was her husband.
00:48:49.340They purchased it as husband and wife in order to help Letitia qualify for a mortgage that she was not entitled to.
00:48:56.460Letitia continued this pattern of mortgage fraud with her building in Brooklyn.
00:49:03.020She bought a four-story, five-unit apartment building, and for 24 years, she told the banks it was either four units or one unit,
00:49:10.440even though the certificate of occupancy for the building said it was five units.
00:49:14.700Now, this is very significant because if you have four units or less, you get a residential mortgage rate, which is lower.
00:49:21.000You also get almost no closing costs. Five units or higher, like Letitia had, you get high interest rates and very high closing costs.
00:49:31.160So Letitia gamed the system in New York. She also didn't register for rent stabilization, which she was supposed to do every year.
00:49:38.680And she simply had her building as a crime scene, and she defrauded and scammed banks for 24 years to save money she wasn't entitled to.
00:49:47.700Meanwhile, she bought three homes in the state of Virginia, where her mother was from.
00:49:52.960Every one of those three homes, there's mortgage fraud.
00:49:56.260She buys a foreclosure with her aunt, and then she doesn't appear on the deed, which is illegal.
00:50:01.800She buys a house at Sterling Avenue in Northbrook, Virginia, and she explicitly says,
00:50:07.040I bought this for my niece's children to make us think that, oh, she's trying to help little kids.
00:50:12.780Well, her niece's two children are adult convicted felons.
00:50:15.680One of them is an absconder from justice with an arrest warrant out in North Carolina.
00:50:21.220So Letitia bought the property specifically to harbor a fugitive.
00:50:25.620Now, on that property, my colleague Sam Antar pointed out that Letitia claimed that would be her primary residence.
00:50:32.200It was actually rejected by the bank nine times.
00:50:37.440The tenth time, Letitia says, that's going to be my primary residence.
00:50:40.580It gets approved, and that was illegal because she got the mortgage and lower interest rates because she'd be the primary resident.
00:50:47.900The indictment by Ms. Halligan yesterday revolves around the third property on Perrone Avenue,
00:50:55.620and on that property, she took out a specialized loan that specifically said Letitia had to either live there or use it as a second residence.
00:52:12.700Kurt Mills is going to join us about the peace deal in the Middle East that President Trump should have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.