WarRoom Battleground EP 652: Taking On The Full Apparatus
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Summary
On today's show, Andrew Yang and Andrew Yang join us to discuss the Justice Department's decision to nominate Matt Gaetz to be the next Attorney General of the United States. Andrew and Andrew discuss the implications for the future of the Department of Justice, and the impact on the fight against authoritarians.
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this is what you're fighting for I mean every day you're out there what they're doing is blowing
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people off if you continue to look the other way and shut up then the oppressors the authoritarians
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get total control and total power because this is just like in Arizona this is just like in Georgia
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it's another element that backs them into a quarter and shows their lies and misrepresentations
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this is why this audience is going to have to get engaged as we've told you this is the fight
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all this nonsense all this spin they can't handle the truth war room battleground here's your host
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Stephen K Bannon of the most prominent people at the Department of Justice all selected by Donald
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Trump saying they cannot do this and so what I see with these announcements is a real blow to the
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independence of the Department of Justice at the independence of the intelligence community
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and that is you know to put a fine point on it if this were to come about that is a blow to any check
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that they could pose to the president and an undermining of the rule of law in this country
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that is so fundamental that it really takes us one step closer to countries that we heretofore
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have viewed as enemies of a democracy like what exactly would be their rationalization for not
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appointing somebody like Matt Gaetz or Pete Hegseth after they supported a felon for president it's like
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well Matt Gaetz had some allegations against him well you supported a felon for president who was
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indicted in four different jurisdictions well Pete Hegseth is on Sirius well you supported a reality
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tv host who was a scam artist who had a failed university and failed water company for president so
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like there's no rationale for being for Donald Trump for commander-in-chief and not
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whatever you know ridiculous alignment of characters he chooses to be around him and his cabinet so
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I find the whole thing um to your point about people's reaction yesterday I was just you know
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looking online and listening to your previous guests and it's like the reporters on the hill saying that
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John Cornyn is snorting and and people at the pentagon are aghast it's like where were all these people
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obviously Donald Trump was going to pick his cronies and tv show hosts to run the government
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that's like that's what he told us he was going to do and so um you know I think that there are some
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people the the former establishment the establishment the GOP now is MAGA but the former establishment
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the GOP the ones who remain John Thune and all of them they're in for a rude awakening as as these
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hits are going to keep on coming and I expect that most of these people if not all of them will be
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confirmed and possibly confirmed by a recess appointment which would be an unprecedented
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uh destruction of norms but that would just be the latest in a long line of unprecedented norm
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destructions again um Andrew just talk about what kind of person I mean the person that runs the
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department actually isn't the AG it's it's the principal deputy it's a job that Lisa Monaco has um
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what kind of person would go in and be principal deputy to Matt Gaetz and make all of the sort of
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offices all across the country all the U.S. attorney's offices the places that actually
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prosecute the kind of criminals Donald Trump spent four years making his base very very afraid of the
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people who hold those people to account and send them to jail are in many instances if they're federal
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crimes the U.S. attorneys around the country who who what kind of person would go run the department
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for Matt Gaetz well to me it would have to be somebody who's equally sort of you know untethered to
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the facts and law because um that would just be an incredibly difficult position I mean the deputy
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attorney general is as you know sort of the chief operating officer and deals with a lot of the day
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to day but I cannot stress enough though that even with that the attorney general sets policy um the way
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in which he or her uh or he or she um conducts herself or himself um really sets a tone for what is
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expected within department they set policies that everyone adheres to and that the deputy attorney
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general the number two um establishes and and sort of promulgates within the department so it is very
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hard to get it would be very hard to get a serious deputy attorney general um in there but it would in this
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situation you would clearly need to have somebody who was a former prosecutor and ideally with
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intelligence uh community expertise that's why Lisa Monaco was so um extraordinary because she has
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such a breadth of knowledge on the criminal and national security side um but it's hard to see how
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um this administration is going to attract somebody like that if you're going to nominate somebody like
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Matt Gaetz um and what that signals in terms of um I would say the um the way in which the White House
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is going to view the department which is just a political tool of the White House
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okay welcome uh you're in uh the war room it's Wednesday 13 November 2024 okay so uh Weissman
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you see his voice back to break Lisa Monaco is a crook a known crook you're a crook
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Weissman my advice to you is uh get your launcher your flip-flops your jams your your tank top
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that's a sight get get yourself all vacationed up ready go buy a ticket get on a plane
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go to a country that does not have an extradition treaty with the United States of America because
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brother I am sure you're at the top of the list and I will tell you sir coming out of a federal
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prison I don't think uh your federal prison time will be enjoyable
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what you have done to try to destroy people and go after people hey the hunted are becoming the
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hunters now Matt Gaetz is going to be very even-handed he's got so much more to do at at uh at DOJ
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but we have to have a reality check in that you are one of the leaders in the weaponization of
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government and you and McCabe I know you're worried you can see you're worried you don't have that big
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arrogant man when you were there and Trump was all in the in the in the docket and the doc
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right you're up there all puffed up on MSM you ain't not so puffed up anymore bro got that worried look
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got that worried look you got a man up you see the way I walk in a court you see a way I walk in a
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prison spit right in your eye dude got a man up you better man up dude you're one of the instigators
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you're one of the ringleaders Merrick Garland's going to go to prison Lisa Monica's going to go
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to prison and Royceman's going to go to prison yep yep yipper after a course investigation adjudication
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all of it in daylight your biggest enemy is transparency shifty shift all of it all of it
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the weaponization of this government against citizens against political figures all of it bro
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you had your shot had your shot man had your shot you had uh you had eight years you had you had four
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years during President Trump to torment him he had four you had eight years eight years you guys started
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immediately after we won on the nullification project on the Russia hoax eight years you had
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almost a decade eight years and we're still standing now we're still standing and this is quite
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important this is the key point the American people were able to weigh and measure this
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and the American people's verdict is that they back Trump so therefore Trump deserves the attorney
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general he wants and he's going to get the attorney general he wants and if uh if uh John Thune's got
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anything to say to it he better call up Donald John Trump tonight and get it all on the line because
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we don't want to hear it they're going to put forward they're putting forward these nominations these are
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a third of the team that he wants he's going to put forward much more than that
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he's got a mandate American people gave him a mandate
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President Lincoln got it was a he got a mandate in the Electoral College but he was a minority
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overwhelming popular vote win electoral account landslide basically
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carried the battleground states threw in Nevada new battleground state threw it in
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the American people wait and measure and you were inundated for years
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Weissman you were on TV with MSNBC and all the producers MSNBC preserve your documents
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Ari Melbourne all you hosts preserve your documents all of it
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some of you young producers better call mom and dad tonight
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you try to destroy Trump you try to imprison Trump you try to break Trump
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you haven't heard me I've never I've never complained about this never bitched and moaned about it just came with the territory I understood
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they feared us and why they fear us because we were coming to take down the globalists in the deep state
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that is what we ran on in 16 they tried to stop it
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the New York Times the Washington Post the Wall Street Journal
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was it the college edge all of our edge all the everything we put into college
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were the people that had the benefit of Ivy League
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of the marketing and the media advertising buying