Rebel News Podcast - Off The Cuff Declassified - John Cardillo - May 8⧸2018

00:00:00.000 Today on Off the Cuff Declassified, the New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman resigned in disgrace.

00:00:05.860 I'll tell you all about it.

00:00:07.640 Rebel Managing Editor Tiffany Gabbai joins me to discuss the U.S. Embassy in Israel moving to Jerusalem.

00:00:13.180 Celebrations are already underway.

00:00:15.660 Is there a little rift developing between Trump and Giuliani because of Giuliani's media appearances?

00:00:20.720 We're going to discuss it.

00:00:22.240 And guess who is deploying a large deportation force to their southern border?

00:00:28.260 I'm going to tell you.

00:00:30.000 Four women have come out and accused New York State Attorney General, 0.50

00:00:39.680 well, he's only a New York State Attorney General until the close of business today, 0.98

00:00:43.220 Eric Schneiderman, of being a sick, creepy statist. 0.94

00:00:49.420 Yeah, they allege that he wanted them to call him master. 1.00

00:00:52.340 He called one of them his brown slave and he would beat them, typically during sex. 0.99

00:00:58.180 And after he was drunk, I mean, just smack them till their ears rang and bled, joked them till they couldn't breathe, call them all kinds of degrading names, spit on them. 1.00

00:01:08.160 Well, he would do this without their consent.

00:01:12.000 Now, Schneiderman issued a statement saying, and I'll find you the statement, the New Yorker broke the story.

00:01:16.960 Schneiderman issued a statement saying that it was all consensual.

00:01:20.800 He said, quote, in the privacy of intimate relationships, I have engaged in role-playing and other consensual sexual activity.

00:01:27.920 I have not assaulted anyone.

00:01:29.720 I have never engaged in non-consensual sex, which is a line I would not cross.

00:01:35.440 Well, the women are not accusing him of that.

00:01:38.400 His statement is very selective.

00:01:40.400 His statement is saying that he never engaged in non-consensual sex.

00:01:44.660 That's not what the women are saying. 1.00

00:01:49.740 What the women are saying is that he was involved in fetishes that rose to violence.

00:01:57.960 Now, one woman, Manning Barish, she's a bit of a socialite in New York. 1.00

00:02:01.260 She wasn't with him for his money or anything else.

00:02:03.540 She's not suing him for money.

00:02:04.760 She said that he started to become a control freak right after they met.

00:02:11.960 Wanted her to have a tattoo she had lasered off.

00:02:14.220 It was painful and expensive.

00:02:16.100 And she says, in retrospect, it was the first step of Schneiderman trying to control her body.

00:02:20.840 This is where her story gets really disturbing.

00:02:24.180 This is from the New Yorker.

00:02:25.300 About four weeks after they became physically involved, she says Schneiderman grew violent.

00:02:30.580 One night, they were in the bedroom of his Upper West Side apartment, still clothed, but getting ready for bed and lightly beating each other, flirting. 0.96

00:02:37.140 As she recalls it, he called her a whore. 0.98

00:02:39.580 And she talked back. 0.94

00:02:40.820 They had both been drinking, and her recollection of their conversation is blurry.

00:02:45.220 She says what happened next is vividly clear.

00:02:48.940 Schneiderman, she says, backed her up to the edge of his bed.

00:02:52.700 And, quote, all of a sudden, he just slapped me open-handed and with great force across the face,

00:02:59.840 landing the blow directly onto my ear.

00:03:02.700 It was horrendous.

00:03:04.120 It just came out of nowhere.

00:03:05.820 My ear was ringing.

00:03:06.840 I lost my balance and fell backward onto the bed.

00:03:09.200 I sprang up.

00:03:10.720 But at this point, there was very little room between the bed and him.

00:03:14.240 I got up to try to shove him back or take a swing, but he pushed me back down.

00:03:18.340 He then used his body weight to hold me down and began to choke me.

00:03:22.600 The choking was very hard.

00:03:24.220 It was really bad.

00:03:25.540 I kicked.

00:03:26.240 In fact, in every fiber, I felt I was being beaten by a man.

00:03:31.500 He said she finally got back on her feet. 0.98

00:03:33.040 She was crying and in shock and said, are you crazy?

00:03:36.500 To her astonishment, he accused her of scratching him. 0.70

00:03:40.460 At one point, she can't remember if it was at this moment or later in a conversation, he told her,

00:03:46.480 you know, hitting an officer of the law is a felony.

00:03:49.480 He was using the power of his office as New York AG to beat women. 0.99

00:03:55.200 And if they resisted, threatening them with arrest and prosecution.

00:04:00.180 She says she would never come back.

00:04:02.520 She left the apartment telling him she would never come back.

00:04:04.800 She said, I want to make this absolutely clear.

00:04:06.700 This was under no circumstances.

00:04:08.460 A sex game gone wrong.

00:04:10.300 This did not happen while we were having sex.

00:04:13.140 I was fully dressed and remain that way.

00:04:14.740 It was completely unexpected and shocking.

00:04:17.840 I did not consent to physical assault.

00:04:21.420 And in the following days, this woman confided to friends that he had done this to her.

00:04:27.840 She, one of them was the author Salman Rushdie, who she had dated previously.

00:04:31.560 They remain close friends.

00:04:33.140 And he says that the version she told him back then is, is, is comporting with the story she's telling today.

00:04:42.280 She went to a doctor.

00:04:43.460 After this went down in 2014, this all happened about four years ago, September 2014, three and a half years ago, the doctor, a doctor, Gwen Corvin in Manhattan, removed crusted blood from her ear.

00:04:56.520 Now, this woman, Manning Barrett, says that she told the doctor that it was from using a Q-tip and she perforated something in her ear.

00:05:04.080 But she now says, well, I was embarrassed and I was afraid of him, which is not uncommon for female victims of this kind of abuse.

00:05:12.500 It's not uncommon.

00:05:13.400 In fact, it's quite common.

00:05:15.500 The doctor then, when asked by the New Yorker, could this injury have been consistent with a slap, said yes or a Q-tip, certainly one or the other.

00:05:22.440 Now, what makes me believe the woman's story is the timeline.

00:05:26.800 She claims he was physically abusive, beat her, hit her in that ear.

00:05:31.320 She heard ringing.

00:05:32.040 She had vertigo.

00:05:32.620 She lost her balance.

00:05:33.580 And then shortly thereafter, she goes to an ear, nose and throat specialist.

00:05:36.580 I believe that he beat her more than I believe it was a Q-tip because I always tell you timelines are critical in investigations and her timeline, the interval between her being beaten and going to the doctor are very close.

00:05:50.440 That makes a lot of sense.

00:05:51.940 I also tell you when things make sense in an investigation, they're typically true.

00:05:56.220 Well, that makes a lot of sense that her visit to the doctor was related to her being beaten by Schneiderman and not because of using a Q-tip.

00:06:08.320 Barris and Schneiderman, she and Schneiderman were together off and on for nearly two years.

00:06:12.160 She said that when they had sex, he often slapped her across the face without her consent, making her feel emotionally battered.

00:06:17.960 She says that he criticized how she looked and dressed and controlled what she ate.

00:06:21.520 She's 5'7", and she dropped to 103 pounds, looking emaciated. 1.00

00:06:28.540 He would also make her consume large amounts of alcohol.

00:06:31.780 Now, he had another mistress who was darker skinned. 1.00

00:06:35.280 She looks to be somewhere in Asia. 0.91

00:06:38.220 And he would call her his brown slave.

00:06:42.240 He made this woman call him.

00:06:43.740 I'll see if I can find her name here.

00:06:44.940 Yeah, her name is, last name is Selvara Tanam.

00:06:53.220 Selvara Tanam, I can't even pronounce her, but this woman is Harvard-educated. 0.88

00:06:57.180 And she, wow. 0.51

00:07:00.280 Oh, Tanya Selvara Tanam.

00:07:04.000 Tanya Selvara Tanam.

00:07:05.100 She's the other person on the record.

00:07:06.440 So Fern, Michelle Manning-Barish, and Tanya Selvara Tanam are on the record.

00:07:10.860 The Selvara Tanam, he called her his brown slave and made her call him master. 0.92

00:07:16.260 He also made her tell him she was his property.

00:07:19.480 And if she didn't do it, he would beat her up and choke her and everything else.

00:07:23.360 Now, remember, Eric Schneiderman was a guy who was at the forefront of the hashtag Me Too movement.

00:07:29.580 Oh, a big liberal crusader for women. 0.87

00:07:32.300 But he was beating them behind closed doors.

00:07:35.020 Now, these are the ones we know about.

00:07:37.380 The four women that talk to the New Yorker, two on the record, two off, they're the ones we know about. 0.99

00:07:44.000 How many women did this guy beat that didn't come forward? 1.00

00:07:47.780 The most disturbing part of this is the beatings.

00:07:51.640 Far and away the beatings, but equally as disturbing, is the fact that he threatened them with the weight of his office if they dared blow the whistle.

00:07:59.540 This guy was an arch criminal.

00:08:01.900 Now, he's not alone.

00:08:03.340 There have been a lot of political scandals in New York, predominantly involving Democrats.

00:08:10.220 And I have a story here from the New York Times on that.

00:08:11.920 Over the last decade, more than 30 have former or state office holders in New York have been convicted of crimes, sanctioned or otherwise accused of wrongdoing.

00:08:21.540 But before we get to that, I want to talk to you about one of Schneiderman's buddies.

00:08:25.680 And that's Robert Mueller.

00:08:27.220 Back in August of 2017, Reuters and a few others broke a story, Mueller, New York Attorney General cooperating on Manafort Probe.

00:08:35.420 And the reason they would do that is that presidential pardons only extend to federal crimes.

00:08:41.140 So if Mueller couldn't take down Team Trump, but he gave info to Eric Schneiderman to try to charge them in New York state, the federal presidential pardon wouldn't apply to state crimes.

00:08:51.240 And this was like Mueller's insurance policy, you know, Mueller being the insurance policy most likely that Peter Stroke and Lisa Page talked about.

00:08:59.760 Well, Mueller knew he was playing fast and loose with exculpatory evidence and there was really nothing on Trump.

00:09:05.500 So if you can't get him federally and find a willing partner at the state level. 0.71

00:09:09.080 And how telling is this that Schneiderman was that guy, Schneiderman, somebody who weaponized his own office for his sick, sadistic, sexual perversions, threatening women into silence with the power of his office, would work alongside control freak who hates Trump and wants to bring him down, Mueller.

00:09:24.740 So let me read you a piece of this Reuters story from last. 0.82

00:09:26.540 Special counsel Robert Mueller's team is working with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on its investigation into President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, and his financial transaction.

00:09:39.640 This was a Politico story.

00:09:40.600 I'm reading it from Reuters.

00:09:41.700 And of course, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter, Politico reported Mueller's team, which is investigating possible collusion between Trump's campaign in Russia and Schneiderman's aides, have shared evidence and talked frequently about a potential case in recent weeks.

00:09:56.540 The cooperation, quote, could potentially provide Mueller with additional leverage to get Manafort to cooperate in the larger investigation into Trump's campaign as Trump does not have any part in power over state crimes.

00:10:09.520 Now, this is unprecedented, but it shows you that Mueller would be willing to work with the bottom of the barrel, the most biased political hacks for the sole purpose of taking down Donald Trump.

00:10:22.720 He would be willing to work with anybody as long as he could take out President Donald Trump, get him impeached, smear his reputation.

00:10:29.960 I had people, very senior people in the Department of Justice, tell me, when I asked them, I said, look, what's the deal with Mueller?

00:10:35.540 Is he an ethical actor?

00:10:36.540 Is he a decent guy?

00:10:37.560 They said he despises Trump.

00:10:40.700 He doesn't feel Trump is worthy of the presidency.

00:10:43.220 He feels that Trump never should have won, that it was Hillary's job, and he will do anything he can to take out Donald Trump.

00:10:51.620 This was their opinion.

00:10:53.200 They work with Mueller.

00:10:54.360 They know Mueller.

00:10:55.060 They hear the, you know, the whispers.

00:10:57.060 Their opinion, people I know a long time, but man, it sure comports with the way Mueller is acting against a sitting president.

00:11:04.740 I'm going to be talking later in the show about some new developments in regards to Mueller, but this is about Schneiderman.

00:11:10.420 Schneiderman decides to ally with Robert Mueller, but it doesn't surprise me that Schneiderman is dirty because here's his New York Times story.

00:11:17.440 The many faces of New York political scandal.

00:11:20.520 I'm going to read you some of these.

00:11:22.580 William F. Boylan, Jr., Assemblyman, Democrat, convicted on bribery charges, including requesting $250,000 to pay his legal fees in a separate corruption case and other federal crimes.

00:11:33.080 Nelson L. Castro, Assemblyman, the Bronx, Democrat.

00:11:35.620 Perjury.

00:11:36.640 Mike Cole, Assemblyman, Erie County, Republican, one of five Republicans.

00:11:40.460 Ventured after sleeping at the home of a female intern.

00:11:43.280 Ventured in a criminal attorney.

00:11:44.780 Pedro Espada, Jr., Senator of the Bronx, convicted of siphoning hundreds of thousands of dollars from his family.

00:11:50.240 Dennis H. Gabrzak, Assemblyman, Erie County, New York, Democrat, sexually harassing members of his staff.

00:11:58.200 Efren Gonzalez, Senator of the Bronx, guilty to using hundreds of thousands from his nonprofit in favor of personal expenses.

00:12:04.800 Ann Gordon, Assemblywoman, Brooklyn, Democrat, convicted of bid rigging for a land developer in exchange for building her a house in a gated community.

00:12:14.120 Alan Hevesy, the former New York State controller, pleaded guilty to using state workers to chauffeur his wife.

00:12:20.400 Pleaded guilty to his role in a sprawling corruption scandal involving the state pension fund.

00:12:25.920 Alan Hevesy was actually a professor of mine in college.

00:12:28.280 Unfortunately, he's a nice guy.

00:12:29.480 Too bad he did these things.

00:12:30.600 He was actually a Democrat, a liberal, New York State political hack, but pretty nice guy.

00:12:35.640 He treated me very well in that class.

00:12:37.500 But he did what he did, and he paid the price.

00:12:40.840 Sam Hoyt, Assemblyman, Buffalo, Democrat.

00:12:43.960 Was banned from having interns in his office.

00:12:45.820 I wonder why.

00:12:47.240 Shirley Huntley, Senator of Queens, Democrat.

00:12:50.600 Stealing state grants, falsifying evidence.

00:12:52.960 Oh, and the list goes on.

00:12:55.100 Sexual harassment, corruption, obstruction of justice, lying to the FBI, fine $330,000, extortion, racketeering, and all but five are Democrats. 0.54

00:13:06.620 These charges are amazing.

00:13:09.280 Soliciting payments, taking $4 million in bribes, bribery, extortion, conspiracy.

00:13:14.920 See, Elias Spitzer and his prostitutes, more bribery, fraud, and extortion.

00:13:22.720 Ada L. Smith, Senator, Queens, Democrat, convicted of throwing a cup of hot coffee in the face of an aide. 0.97

00:13:29.000 This is New York politics.

00:13:30.860 All right?

00:13:31.380 This is New York politics.

00:13:32.960 This is Tammany Hall.

00:13:34.540 2018, the old Democratic network, old Democratic network, and overwhelming Democrats.

00:13:43.200 Out of the 30 cases profiled here, and there are more, but the Times took the 30 most prominent cases of the last 10 years.

00:13:49.480 Only five were Republicans, and we had the one Republican who was only censured.

00:13:53.580 The others, the other Republicans, obstruction of justice and tax charges, witness tampering.

00:14:03.440 Another one, lied to the FBI, a process, crime.

00:14:06.760 Let's see what the fourth and fifth.

00:14:10.000 Obstructing Nick Spano, obstructing the IRS, and Republican.

00:14:16.260 So, obstructing the IRS.

00:14:17.740 Oh, Dean Skelos, bribery, extortion, and conspiracy.

00:14:20.740 He was a Republican senator from Long Island.

00:14:22.560 And these were all recent cases from the last couple of years.

00:14:25.540 But out of the 30, they profiled.

00:14:27.240 25 are Democrats.

00:14:28.560 This is really the old Tammany Hall political machine.

00:14:31.480 But Schneiderman and Eliot Spitzer, well, nobody deserved to fall harder than these guys because they were sanctimonious guys.

00:14:39.040 They acted holier than thou, and they weaponized their offices.

00:14:43.260 And what Schneiderman did was even worse. 0.99

00:14:45.640 Spitzer used a hooker. 0.98

00:14:46.980 It was no indication she ever abused him, but he was putting people in jail for the things he was doing. 0.97

00:14:51.980 So, that was bad enough.

00:14:53.760 But Schneiderman was beating women. 1.00

00:14:56.360 Beating women for his sexual perverse fantasies. 1.00

00:15:00.880 Beating and choking these women. 1.00

00:15:02.600 Threatening them with prosecution if they told anybody. 0.97

00:15:06.100 Threatening to have them charged with assaulting a federal law enforcement officer on a felony charge.

00:15:11.600 State law enforcement officer on a felony charge.

00:15:13.320 If they fought back after he beat them.

00:15:16.240 And this guy was celebrated by the left because he wanted to take down Trump.

00:15:20.700 He was their golden boy.

00:15:23.360 They swooned over this guy. 0.72

00:15:26.040 Swooned over this guy.

00:15:27.740 And it is, well, there is no more fitting end to Eric Schneiderman's career than him having to resign in disgrace.

00:15:35.280 And watching all the liberals.

00:15:37.560 All the liberals who celebrated this guy now hiding in their little knackers.

00:15:41.780 So much going on in the world.

00:15:55.600 Most notably, the U.S. Embassy in Israel is moving to Jerusalem.

00:15:59.560 We're recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

00:16:01.860 Donald Trump finally treating Israel as the ally it is.

00:16:05.720 Reversing eight years of Obama's hostility towards the Jewish state.

00:16:10.400 We also have, well, a pretty creepy story about the New York Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, having to resign in disgrace.

00:16:16.560 Here to make sense of it all is someone with deep ties to Israel.

00:16:19.860 Rebel managing editor.

00:16:21.300 And my good friend, Tiffany Goodbye.

00:16:22.680 So, Tiffany, the embassy in Israel.

00:16:25.660 Thanks for being here.

00:16:26.720 The embassy in Israel opens officially on Monday, correct?

00:16:29.680 Correct.

00:16:30.400 Okay, but the celebrations, I know there are parties.

00:16:32.900 Some mutual friends of ours have gone over there.

00:16:35.680 They got over there yesterday, today.

00:16:37.820 They're going in.

00:16:38.640 Some pretty big celebrations this weekend.

00:16:41.160 Do we expect, you know a lot of people over in Israel, you speak to people in the Middle East.

00:16:45.860 Do we expect an increased chance of some kind of attack from Iran for Netanyahu embarrassing them on this Iran deal around the opening of the embassy?

00:16:55.400 Or do they know that's a bridge too far, in your opinion?

00:16:57.660 Is it a bridge too far?

00:16:59.220 And will that be met with international force that Iran doesn't want to see?

00:17:02.840 I don't think anything is necessarily a bridge too far.

00:17:08.140 Iran is already the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism.

00:17:12.540 Its proxies are Hezbollah and Hamas. 0.97

00:17:15.720 They are on Israel's borders daily, you know, trying to wreak havoc and causes as many Jewish deaths as possible. 1.00

00:17:23.620 So do I think that they are going to try to escalate some violence?

00:17:28.240 Absolutely.

00:17:28.760 But I think Israel is well prepared for this and is cognizant of that fact.

00:17:33.560 But in terms of moving the embassy, this was a hugely symbolic move.

00:17:39.240 Now, we passed the...

00:17:41.100 Yeah, so go to that, Tiff.

00:17:42.320 What does this mean to the world?

00:17:44.140 You know, we hear about it and Americans, especially Americans who truly believe in Judeo-Christian values, are very happy about this move.

00:17:51.500 They're glad the president did it.

00:17:53.220 But what message...

00:17:54.300 You're a student of this.

00:17:55.380 You've written extensively about this very subject.

00:17:58.400 What message does recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and opening the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem send to the global community?

00:18:07.800 Well, correct.

00:18:08.500 So, first of all, in 1995, Congress actually passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act.

00:18:13.200 And so, you know, we've basically been promising to do this for quite some time.

00:18:18.900 Trump is the first person who has actually made good on that promise.

00:18:23.420 And here's what's very important to note.

00:18:25.300 Anyone who has followed history has known that Israel has repeatedly tried to make concessions for peace, right?

00:18:31.980 Whether it was the, you know, the Camp David negotiations and when Ehud Barak offered basically Arafat pretty much everything he wanted and he rejected the deal.

00:18:41.200 And even Saudi Prince Bandar, I believe it was, blamed Arafat for the ensuing violence that happened after that escalation and after that rejection of peace.

00:18:52.480 So this has happened repeatedly.

00:18:54.220 One of the other things to note is that it isn't just about Jerusalem, right?

00:19:00.220 The idea, whether it's Hamas and in their charter from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

00:19:07.480 This isn't just about them wanting Jerusalem. 0.96

00:19:09.260 They want all of Israel and they want the Jewish people dead and wiped off the face of the map. 0.99

00:19:13.440 Well, Iran now wants the Shia Crescent. 0.98

00:19:15.500 They want to essentially, Iran as a nation state is essentially picking up where ISIS left off when we crushed them.

00:19:21.100 And now they're trying to create their own essentially caliphate, right?

00:19:24.920 By carving through Syria, eradicating Israel, assisting Hezbollah and taking over Lebanon, which is a move to further marginalize Israel. 0.77

00:19:32.300 You know, Hezbollah is Lebanon.

00:19:34.100 You know, there is no differentiation.

00:19:36.940 Well, yeah, but now Hezbollah is officially going to control Lebanon.

00:19:40.880 They've always controlled them by force and with proxies.

00:19:43.520 But now with these pickups in the legislature there in parliament, it looks like they're going to actually have standing as legitimate political figures.

00:19:52.480 Correct.

00:19:53.280 Now, what this embassy move does is show the world, like, look, we have been conceding.

00:19:58.900 We have been trying to offer peace, you know, from the get-go.

00:20:02.940 And America, as Israel's ally, has kind of, you know, obviously been supportive depending on the administration.

00:20:10.440 You know, George W. Bush was a great Israel supporter.

00:20:13.760 Obama was not.

00:20:15.140 I don't think, you know, Israel's had a better friend than Trump.

00:20:18.540 I mean, a lot of people thought, you know, GW was incredibly pro-Israel.

00:20:22.020 And in retrospect, you know, we definitely see some moves that the Bush administration made that were not in Israel's best interest.

00:20:28.500 But this is because it tells the world and it signals to the Arab world and Iran and its proxies, more specifically, that we mean business. 0.84

00:20:37.460 America does have Israel's back. 0.83

00:20:39.640 And Jerusalem is the undivided capital of the Jewish state.

00:20:43.660 And we're on to your game, or hopefully the Western world is catching on to Israel's enemies' game, that this isn't about peace. 0.81

00:20:51.580 This isn't about a two-state solution.

00:20:53.200 This isn't about Jerusalem, because they wouldn't be—they would not be happy, even if they had all of Jerusalem, as long as there wasn't, you know, the state of Israel and the Jewish people living side by side. 0.67

00:21:03.560 They would never be happy.

00:21:04.780 They want all of Israel. 0.97

00:21:05.740 And they've made that very clear.

00:21:06.860 And it isn't just Hamas, but it is also the Palestinian Authority.

00:21:10.120 When you look at Palestinian Authority school textbooks, when you look at their media outlets and what they push every day, they push that it is your national and religious obligation to murder Jews, to become shahids, that the right of return, which in the Palestinian mind is the right of the return to all of Israel, that that is non-negotiable.

00:21:31.880 So it never was about Jerusalem.

00:21:34.180 Right.

00:21:34.600 One of the things that they do respect, however, is force, and they respect strength.

00:21:40.440 And this is a display of strength.

00:21:42.160 And I think it sends a very important message.

00:21:44.620 And it has to send the message, quite frankly, to your last point, that the United States and Israel are absolute allies.

00:21:50.840 And if you attack one, you're attacking the other.

00:21:52.460 If you do decide to hit Israel-Iran, you're not just going to be met with Israeli F-16s, but you're going to be met with the might of the United States military.

00:22:00.280 Right, right, precisely.

00:22:01.480 Which is, I think, you know, critically important.

00:22:03.500 And I'm not so sure.

00:22:04.940 This is going to be a very telling day.

00:22:07.600 Today, at some point, Donald Trump is going to most, well, the conventional wisdom is going to scrap the Iran deal.

00:22:14.120 If the arguments from the left, if it wasn't such a serious situation, are almost laughable.

00:22:19.580 Oh, no, this is now going to force us to take Iran's nukes away and use force, use military force. 0.88

00:22:27.280 They try to build them again.

00:22:28.540 Oh, no, what's Iran going to do now?

00:22:30.320 Now they might actually pursue a nuclear weapons program.

00:22:33.380 I mean, are these people tone deaf?

00:22:35.040 Are they not realized Iran was doing that the whole time? 0.97

00:22:37.860 And now we at least get inspections or we take them out?

00:22:41.840 Yeah, Iran has been doing that. 0.97

00:22:43.780 Right.

00:22:43.980 And first of all, and this is what I say, you know, some of my colleagues who are a bit kind say, oh, well, you know, with with these leftists, they really were so naive that they actually believed Iran.

00:22:55.240 No, I don't think they believed Iran unless they, you know, were lobotomized. 1.00

00:22:59.240 I don't know how one could be that stupid. 1.00

00:23:00.820 I think it's literally that they hate the Israel. 1.00

00:23:03.540 I hate Israel.

00:23:04.200 Excuse me.

00:23:04.660 And the U.S. so much, you know, that this very much falls in line with the ideology.

00:23:10.340 And and just as they, you know, are wishing Marx a happy birthday the other day.

00:23:17.060 I will tell you this, I think Barack Obama and John Kerry despised Israel. 0.98

00:23:23.360 I think Ben Rhodes might be a mentally challenged adult.

00:23:26.900 I think I'm not so sure he doesn't fall into the lobotomized category because this guy is still tweeting, defending the policies of the Obama administration. 0.85

00:23:35.480 It's like Baghdad bomb with Ben Rhodes out there on on social media.

00:23:39.640 Netanyahu gets a hundred and five thousand individual files proving Israel has a nuclear weapons program.

00:23:45.580 And he's a war criminal.

00:23:46.600 And he's a war criminal.

00:23:47.720 And Ben Rhodes is a partner in peace.

00:23:49.580 Yeah, he's a partner.

00:23:50.920 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:23:51.620 Abbas is a partner in peace.

00:23:53.280 Khomeini and Rouhani are great guys who are misunderstood by the United States.

00:23:57.220 Well, we're showing you the plans for their, what is it, five atom bombs that were, excuse me, atom bombs that were five times stronger than Iraq. 0.77

00:24:06.280 Yeah, what he wanted was five warheads.

00:24:09.080 Five warheads.

00:24:09.540 And the best part of this is that they didn't even have a translation in Farsi for the 10 kiloton TNC.

00:24:14.960 So it just said, Ken, 10, K-N-T-N-T.

00:24:18.360 I mean, this was like a satire.

00:24:20.780 Like, hey, we're building nukes.

00:24:23.260 And the Obama administration, the former officials, they're still denying it happened.

00:24:27.580 And that's precisely why Netanyahu, such a great communicator, gave this presentation in advance of Trump's announcement.

00:24:36.460 This was obviously all coordinated.

00:24:38.300 He wanted to build a case for Trump, who I hope is going to announce that he's going to nix and he's going to use, you know, he's going to use these files.

00:24:48.540 And this incredible intel operation that was pulled off as the basis for that.

00:24:53.020 And I certainly hope so.

00:24:55.260 I know that, you know, listen, dealing with this abysmal Iran deal has been a hallmark of his campaign and his presidency.

00:25:04.320 So I'm really hoping and expecting some strong action.

00:25:07.420 And I think the embassy opening.

00:25:10.000 Yeah.

00:25:10.160 And look, I think that, you know, if Netanyahu were a far left sympathizer of Democrats or ally of Democrats, this presentation would have been called historical groundbreaking.

00:25:23.320 But what is being called is, oh, it's old news.

00:25:26.200 It, to me, was reminiscent of when Adlai Stevenson, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, showed the photo at the U.N., the blown up photo of the Russian missile sites in Cuba.

00:25:34.880 It was the same kind of smoking gun boom.

00:25:37.560 You're convicted.

00:25:38.640 Even before the trial, he didn't get anywhere near the media love fest that the Kennedy administration got back in the 1960s.

00:25:45.700 But his presentation was every bit as powerful and every bit as absolute.

00:25:50.300 Right.

00:25:51.220 Exactly.

00:25:51.920 Yeah.

00:25:52.060 So, all right, let's switch gears, Tiff, and talk about maybe the creepiest freak out there in politics, New York Attorney General Eric Schneider.

00:26:00.120 And I don't even want to joke about this because this guy beat women. 0.99

00:26:03.240 This guy, to satisfy what appears to be some strange sexual fantasy, would beat women. 0.97

00:26:08.800 And what I didn't like was his nuanced statement. 0.97

00:26:12.540 I never had, I'll paraphrase him, but it was, I never engaged in unconsensual sex.

00:26:17.920 It was all consensual role play.

00:26:20.360 But the women never accused him of sexual assault.

00:26:23.460 They say he physically beat them.

00:26:26.000 In fact, one of the women, Michelle Manning Barrett, says, my clothes never came off.

00:26:30.920 This guy beat me up.

00:26:32.180 This wasn't sexual.

00:26:33.540 He never denies beating them.

00:26:35.200 He simply denies engaging in inappropriate sexual activity.

00:26:39.460 Sexual or non-consensual.

00:26:40.360 Non-consensual.

00:26:41.000 That's right.

00:26:41.820 Right.

00:26:42.140 Exactly. 0.98

00:26:42.580 What a terrible, terrible guy.

00:26:44.700 And this fall, I'm sorry this happened to these women.

00:26:47.940 I wish it had never happened. 0.70

00:26:49.380 But this fall could not have happened to a more sanctimonious, sanctimonious phony.

00:26:55.500 He was out there prosecuting everybody. 0.97

00:26:57.220 And he was beating women behind closed doors.

00:27:00.220 Absolutely.

00:27:01.420 Sanctimonious, telling everybody, you know, how they should live and what they should do.

00:27:05.260 You know, going after Trump left and right.

00:27:08.740 And ironically, what, leading the charge against Harvey Weinstein, which just gives great cover,

00:27:14.320 doesn't it?

00:27:14.740 Oh, sure. 1.00

00:27:15.120 Or sexual predator or some sort of deviant. 0.98

00:27:18.360 Now, listen, there are a few very remarkable things about this case. 0.97

00:27:24.520 This kind of deviancy can happen to anyone.

00:27:26.960 I'm not going to sit there and say, oh, look, he was a Democrat. 0.52

00:27:29.240 Oh, look, you know, Republicans have had their fair share of weirdos. 0.90

00:27:35.760 So I'm not going to necessarily go there except to say and point out the hypocrisy that this is a person 0.91

00:27:41.940 who was apparently leading the Me Too movement.

00:27:44.980 And I'm not sure if you knew this, but as a state senator, he drafted a bill that would criminalize

00:27:51.180 strangling women, essentially, in this sort of setting as a. 0.99

00:27:54.980 Yeah, yeah, sexual association.

00:27:56.880 He wanted to he wanted to criminalize it.

00:27:58.760 Exactly.

00:27:59.200 So this is a person who has clearly hid behind his progressive politics and ideology.

00:28:07.260 And what is so interesting is his his victims are women who are feminists and who are progressives.

00:28:14.520 And successful.

00:28:15.700 They were all successful.

00:28:16.420 One Harvard graduate, one a wealthy socialite.

00:28:18.980 The other two haven't come forward.

00:28:20.600 They had money.

00:28:21.340 They're not doing this for money.

00:28:22.460 You know, the other thing that was just as chilling, as disturbing as the counts of the beatings

00:28:30.420 was him weaponizing his office.

00:28:32.540 Oh, you scratched me and attacking a law enforcement officer is a felony.

00:28:36.160 I am the law.

00:28:37.440 Threatening these women with prosecution.

00:28:39.900 Or if he were to plead their allegations that he threatened to kill them if they were to

00:28:44.340 break up with him.

00:28:45.080 He needs to go to prison for years, for years.

00:28:48.640 People are sick of law enforcement abusing their authority.

00:28:51.820 And I'll tell you something else.

00:28:53.100 I think he just put another nail in the in the prosecutorial coffins of Comey and McCabe

00:28:59.340 because now the national national hackles are up again.

00:29:02.520 Wait a second.

00:29:03.540 Another chief law enforcement officer abusing his authority.

00:29:06.160 I think that a jury is going to smile less favorably or a judge on everyone who's involved

00:29:11.620 in scandal at the top of law enforcement agencies because this now put it back into the headlines

00:29:15.740 and it was starting to quiet down.

00:29:16.880 Well, it was.

00:29:18.560 And again, it does go to abuse of authority.

00:29:21.340 It does go toward the fact that this is a person who is supposed to be the strongest against

00:29:26.980 sexual predators and leading these charges and investigations.

00:29:30.920 And it's it is very disconcerting.

00:29:33.520 It's very disconcerting that he was honored by feminists and progressive groups.

00:29:37.800 Well, he had a D, but he had a D behind his name.

00:29:39.760 That's all it took.

00:29:40.540 Exactly.

00:29:41.800 I don't believe Andrew Cuomo, the governor didn't know these women spoke to people that 0.96

00:29:46.680 political and society circle in New York is very small.

00:29:49.440 I grew up there.

00:29:50.140 I worked in politics up there.

00:29:52.100 It's very, very small.

00:29:53.720 I fail to believe people in power didn't know they were just afraid of Schneiderman and they

00:29:59.540 were protecting the D brand.

00:30:00.900 I don't have any evidence of that.

00:30:01.920 No one's told me that, but I know the way this world works.

00:30:05.120 These women were out there talking to their socialite friends. 1.00

00:30:08.080 People knew they chose to turn a blind eye.

00:30:11.140 I'm fairly certain that people knew it is a very small circle.

00:30:14.180 And I will say, and this was even admitted by one of his, you know, his victims or alleged

00:30:19.240 victims is that, you know, she didn't say anything at first because, you know, she thought

00:30:23.900 the work he was doing was so important and good and she didn't want to derail him so that

00:30:28.920 you would subject yourself to being beaten and spat on and abused for the good of the

00:30:37.340 party.

00:30:38.100 It's just, you know, it's, it's really perverse.

00:30:41.080 It's Stalin. 0.53

00:30:41.740 It's Stalin and Khrushchev-esque.

00:30:43.480 It's like the Vrenti Beria and the old KGB. 0.63

00:30:45.620 I mean, this is what this seems like to me.

00:30:49.420 Yes, indeed.

00:30:50.320 So it's, it's, listen, I think that, um, you know, hopefully he'll get his just desserts

00:30:55.920 and I think that, uh, it couldn't happen to a worse, more sanctimonious and despicable 0.90

00:31:04.440 person. 0.98

00:31:05.760 Listen, people have their sexual picadillos and behind closed doors, what happens, you

00:31:10.980 know, between two people is on them.

00:31:12.880 This is something else.

00:31:14.120 This, this clearly, uh, allegations seem very plausible.

00:31:18.940 This was not sexual.

00:31:19.920 This was not consensual. 0.75

00:31:21.000 This is something that's truly, uh, abusive and sick.

00:31:24.420 Yeah, this was felony assault.

00:31:26.020 I mean, this was felony assault in New York state.

00:31:28.720 Well, it'd be misdemeanor assault unless he used, but, but actually felony rises to a

00:31:31.820 felony when he then uses the power of his office to silence them.

00:31:35.200 And there's a whole, there's a whole host of charges.

00:31:37.620 Now, uh, 2014, I don't remember offhand the statute of limitations on misdemeanor assault.

00:31:43.120 This would probably be a first degree misdemeanor assault, but I think it's around five years.

00:31:47.540 So I think, yeah, and there are a couple of cases happened, um, sooner, right?

00:31:51.440 2016 into 2017.

00:31:53.020 He can still certainly be charged if they choose to go forward.

00:31:55.820 But I think the, uh, the abuse of authority and the official misconduct charges for abusing

00:32:01.880 his office, threatening them, the coercion charges, the arrest charges, you could even argue,

00:32:06.240 uh, unlawful imprisonment because they stayed in his home under fear of prosecution by him.

00:32:11.860 If they left, you know, if I were the investigator on this, there's a lot of charges.

00:32:15.740 I'd be leveling against this.

00:32:18.480 There are a lot of charges.

00:32:20.360 Last thought to you. 0.68

00:32:21.940 No, I was just going to point out the, the one other piece of left-wing hypocrisy and 0.71

00:32:26.800 all this.

00:32:27.540 So these are the, you know, empowered women and they're feminists. 1.00

00:32:30.480 And, and believe me, I'm not trying to poke fun at them in any way.

00:32:33.800 What they went through, uh, which I, I actually happened to believe their account seemed very

00:32:38.280 credible.

00:32:38.720 Yeah.

00:32:39.240 Was horrible, but to have expected his then girlfriend, who was a woman of color, refer

00:32:47.380 to him as master.

00:32:48.440 And what did he refer to her?

00:32:50.020 He made her, he made her, uh, say she was his Brown slave and his property and he would 1.00

00:32:56.040 hit her and choke her harder until she said it. 0.84

00:32:58.780 Yeah. 0.97

00:32:59.300 So, you know, I'll just leave that there.

00:33:03.100 Really nice guy.

00:33:03.900 I'll just leave that bit of a left-wing hypocrisy right there. 0.68

00:33:07.160 I think the only, uh, justice in this will come when he gets to Rikers Island and the

00:33:11.540 other inmates find out what he did.

00:33:13.300 And hopefully he's not in protective custody.

00:33:15.780 Tiffany is always my friend.

00:33:17.280 Thank you.

00:33:17.660 An absolute pleasure.

00:33:19.060 Take care.

00:33:19.400 We have to have you on more often.

00:33:20.740 Talk soon.

00:33:21.100 Looking forward to it.

00:33:21.880 Thanks.

00:33:22.160 Is a rift growing between Donald Trump, President Donald Trump and Erica's mayor,

00:33:39.360 and now one of the lead lawyers on Trump's legal team, Rudy Giuliani.

00:33:43.400 Well, Politico and some other outlets claim there is.

00:33:46.440 Now, of course, these are all anonymous sourced stories.

00:33:50.060 The allegations are that the president is frustrated and upset with Rudy Giuliani's

00:33:55.480 media tour, and he feels that Giuliani is giving the Stormy Daniels story life that it

00:34:01.340 wouldn't have otherwise had.

00:34:02.820 Now, I do have to agree with this, but I feel there's another strategy at work.

00:34:06.460 Giuliani is a smart and strategic guy.

00:34:08.740 I fail to believe that he would just go off half-cocked on this media tour without consulting

00:34:13.400 with Donald Trump.

00:34:15.260 I just don't believe that's something Rudy would do.

00:34:18.800 I think there's a strategy at work here, because they're both strategically cunning

00:34:24.620 New York guys.

00:34:25.760 I don't see Giuliani just saying, Trump, I'm going to go off and do this on my own.

00:34:30.000 Now, what Politico is saying is that President Trump has shaken up his legal team in the

00:34:34.060 last three weeks, and he's still not happy.

00:34:36.820 The president has been griping to associate that Rudy Giuliani, his new personal attorney,

00:34:41.520 has failed to shut down the Stormy Daniels hush money saga, and he has expressed frustration

00:34:46.180 that Giuliani's media appearances are raising more questions than they are answering, turning

00:34:50.380 the story into a days-long drama, happed by the admission on Sunday that the president

00:34:55.300 may have made similar payments to other women. 1.00

00:34:57.780 For now, White House aides say Giuliani still has a direct line to Trump, speak almost daily,

00:35:03.420 and nobody in the West Wing is eager to insert themselves between what they call the two

00:35:08.020 irascible New Yorkers by yanking Giuliani off TV.

00:35:11.460 But some aides said they expect the president to fire Giuliani if his behavior doesn't change.

00:35:17.520 Now, Giuliani, in a phone interview this week, pushed back against the notion that the president

00:35:22.180 is unhappy, telling Politico, if I'm not up to it, I don't know who is.

00:35:26.280 I know the Justice Department better than just about anyone.

00:35:29.220 But there's some merit.

00:35:30.500 But even if these allegations are not true, even if this is just more mainstream media

00:35:34.720 nonsense, and they're quoting Neil Eggleston, who acted as Barack Obama's counsel, even

00:35:40.600 if this is all nonsense, there's some merit to what's being reported.

00:35:47.820 Giuliani, at first, you know, and I still believe he has a strategy.

00:35:52.640 At first, I thought what he's doing is a good idea.

00:35:54.560 But now, he's creating a story where there isn't one.

00:35:57.320 Now, I get what I think, I should say, I get what he's doing.

00:36:01.900 I think what he's doing is he's putting all this dirt out there, because none of it's illegal.

00:36:07.840 You see, the Stormy Daniels story looks bad, but it's not illegal.

00:36:12.420 There's nothing illegal about settling a lawsuit.

00:36:15.380 It might look distasteful.

00:36:17.560 It might offend the moral sensibilities of some.

00:36:20.440 It might offend the ethical sensibilities of others.

00:36:23.060 But it's not illegal.

00:36:25.080 You can settle a lawsuit.

00:36:26.360 Your lawyer can advance the money.

00:36:28.580 You can pay your lawyer back.

00:36:30.320 Now, Michael Cohen might have some questions, because the timing of the payment, October

00:36:34.440 2016, is conspicuously close to the 2016 election.

00:36:39.780 And the FEC might step in and say, well, sure, it looks like you did that to help Donald

00:36:44.320 Trump not have negative information on his surface right before the election.

00:36:49.280 So we see this as an in-kind political donation.

00:36:52.500 In that case, the Trump campaign would have to say, OK, we abide by the FEC ruling.

00:36:58.460 We're going to return that money to Michael Cohen.

00:37:01.460 Or Trump can say, I've already paid him that money back.

00:37:05.420 I paid him that money back.

00:37:07.520 Reconcile it with me.

00:37:09.140 We don't want anything.

00:37:10.540 We didn't want any favors.

00:37:11.980 So it's not really something anybody ever goes to jail for.

00:37:14.780 All right.

00:37:15.000 We see the stories about Rosie O'Donnell exceeding the max campaign contributions to Democrats.

00:37:20.420 Most of the time when that happens, the FEC issues a warning.

00:37:23.300 The campaign treasurer reconciles it.

00:37:25.500 The money's returned.

00:37:26.400 End of story.

00:37:27.540 It's not this massive crime, which is why I believe the federal judge Ellis and guys

00:37:32.460 like Alan Dershowitz and even Giuliani are right.

00:37:35.920 Mueller is just trying to twist arms with the most meaningless statutes that are never enforced

00:37:40.960 to try to build an impeachment case on Trump.

00:37:45.420 But Giuliani should probably start to tone down the rhetoric if there's not now caveat that

00:37:52.860 if there's not a grand plan in place, which I believe there may very well be.

00:37:59.140 There may very well be, may very well be a real plan here, a plan to make a very big difference

00:38:08.420 in this investigation by getting all the stuff out in front that's dirty and salacious, but

00:38:12.940 not illegal.

00:38:13.900 And then Mueller is left with nothing because then you explain to people, well, it doesn't

00:38:18.980 look good.

00:38:19.400 It doesn't sound good.

00:38:20.460 It doesn't feel good, but it's not criminal.

00:38:23.980 And that is what I feel Giuliani's primary strategy is.

00:38:27.740 Get all the craziness out there.

00:38:29.100 Get people talking about it.

00:38:30.300 Then have the legal team say, well, we analyze this, this, and this.

00:38:34.040 None of it's criminal.

00:38:35.300 You might not like it, but it's not criminal.

00:38:36.720 And if you don't like it, worry about it in 2020 when Trump runs again, which it will

00:38:40.400 be forgotten about.

00:38:42.040 So if that's the play, then it's a very smart legal strategy.

00:38:45.660 Very, very smart.

00:38:47.100 And if Cohen has to be thrown under the bus, they'll be it.

00:38:49.800 That's life.

00:38:50.480 It's the presidency.

00:38:51.360 I don't predict Cohen.

00:38:52.440 If he didn't do anything else other than this payment, I don't predict Cohen is in

00:38:57.140 a whole hell of a lot of hot water.

00:38:58.460 But I do believe Judge Ellis was right when he told the special counsel's team, look, what 0.96

00:39:04.580 you're doing here is ridiculous. 0.67

00:39:06.460 You don't care about the crimes Paul Manafort committed. 0.99

00:39:08.820 You want to take down Donald Trump and you're going to twist every arm you can to do it

00:39:13.060 even going outside of the scope.

00:39:14.440 It was a very, very bad week for Robert Mueller.

00:39:17.020 Some more information is going to be coming in the next couple of days.

00:39:19.520 So I'm going to reserve a more comprehensive report on that for later in the week here on

00:39:24.140 the show.

00:39:25.100 Because there's some more info I've been told is coming out.

00:39:27.240 I'll wait and see if that happens.

00:39:29.060 Because I always want to bring you the most current information, the most comprehensive,

00:39:33.300 no sense in doing half a story.

00:39:34.860 And then three days later, something else coming out.

00:39:36.860 And we've got to do it all over again.

00:39:38.520 Do it right.

00:39:39.380 Always better in this business to be accurate and right than it is to be first.

00:39:44.040 I know that the new trend in media is to be first.

00:39:47.420 But what good is being first that we have to print 15 retractions or I have to apologize

00:39:51.180 to you on air because I got it wrong.

00:39:53.200 I'd rather bring it to you right the first time.

00:39:55.040 Just a better policy.

00:39:56.940 Now, I personally think that the president's prior legal team before Giuliani were highly

00:40:03.640 ineffective.

00:40:04.480 High Cobb and John Dowd did nothing.

00:40:06.660 They really just kissed up to Mueller.

00:40:08.880 Well, they were so afraid of Mueller.

00:40:10.020 They kissed up to Mueller.

00:40:11.180 They didn't want themselves to be subject to Mueller's investigation.

00:40:15.140 So they were almost acquiescent to Mueller.

00:40:17.640 And that's not Trump's style.

00:40:19.600 Giuliani and Trump share a style.

00:40:21.280 They're both New York guys.

00:40:22.220 They're combative.

00:40:23.560 They get in your face.

00:40:24.520 They swing first.

00:40:25.500 And then they keep swinging even when you're down.

00:40:27.500 So I have a lot of faith that this is some crazy as a fox strategy between Giuliani and

00:40:33.800 Mueller to throw things a little off balance, put all this craziness out there, make it

00:40:38.660 seem illegal, but it's not illegal.

00:40:40.360 Come out and say, well, it's all dirty, but it's not illegal.

00:40:42.960 Now, Mueller, what do you really have?

00:40:45.000 Do you have anything?

00:40:45.720 Because it sure seems like you don't.

00:40:47.180 All that stuff you wanted to talk about.

00:40:49.540 Well, you know, it sounded bad and it would have been great for an impeachment case, but

00:40:53.260 that's not what you're about, right?

00:40:54.500 I mean, you're a special counsel.

00:40:55.740 You're a man of integrity.

00:40:57.100 You wouldn't play in the gutter just to impeach a president.

00:41:00.060 That's not within your scope.

00:41:01.580 That's not within your mandate.

00:41:02.720 What's in your mandate?

00:41:03.920 So we got all this nonsense, this noise out of the way.

00:41:06.660 We know that's not illegal.

00:41:08.100 Rudy got that out there.

00:41:09.780 What do you have?

00:41:11.080 Have anything?

00:41:12.240 Don't talk about that because that's not illegal.

00:41:14.020 Let's not.

00:41:14.440 You're not going to talk about payments to Stormy D'Angelo.

00:41:16.800 None of that's illegal.

00:41:17.880 What do you have on Russia collusion?

00:41:20.020 What do you have in line with the scope of your memo, Mueller?

00:41:23.440 And Mueller's answer is going to be nothing.

00:41:25.600 It's going to be nothing.

00:41:26.420 So that's why I'm very cautiously optimistic about this strategy, because I think it makes a lot

00:41:31.480 of sense.

00:41:31.940 It makes a lot of sense.

00:41:33.800 What they're doing is they're just popping Mueller's balloon.

00:41:37.100 He's got a balloon filled with a lot of hot air, a lot of speculation, a lot of conjecture,

00:41:41.120 a lot of salacious details.

00:41:42.720 None of it illegal.

00:41:43.640 That makes Trump look bad.

00:41:45.180 It blocks his agenda.

00:41:47.020 It gets impeachment rumblings going.

00:41:49.520 It hurts Republicans in the 2018 midterms.

00:41:53.320 Pop it.

00:41:54.200 Pop that balloon of hot air is truly what I believe Giuliani's doing.

00:41:58.260 Now, Ty Cobb left recently.

00:42:02.040 I think that was a good departure.

00:42:05.100 Emmett Flood came in.

00:42:06.580 Now there's rumblings that Emmett Flood might replace when this thing is all said and done.

00:42:11.500 Don McGahn as White House counsel.

00:42:13.120 Don McGahn has done a very good job as White House counsel.

00:42:15.420 He's a name you don't hear much, but his job is to make everything, to make sure that everything

00:42:21.140 the president does, says, and says is legal.

00:42:24.640 His job is to make sure that things going on in the West Wing and the White House, the

00:42:27.500 policies are legal.

00:42:29.320 They're in line with the Constitution, that they don't overstep, they don't favor a business.

00:42:32.660 So his job is to just make sure that everything the White House does is legal.

00:42:36.500 It's a pretty massive job.

00:42:39.140 And Don McGahn receives high marks, well, from everybody.

00:42:43.300 Really receives high marks from everybody.

00:42:45.140 Now, this Politico story speculates that Don McGahn will eventually move on, which wouldn't

00:42:54.420 be a scandal.

00:42:55.740 McGahn is a very qualified guy.

00:42:57.620 He did very well in the private sector.

00:42:59.540 He'll be going on two years as White House counsel.

00:43:01.900 Well, why not step into the partnership at a law firm?

00:43:06.020 Again, as it is, I believe, mid to late 60s, 50s, I'm sorry, and still a young enough guy

00:43:11.340 to enjoy the money, put his due, he paid his dues, he put his time in.

00:43:14.600 He should step into a two, three to five, six million dollar a year equity partnership

00:43:20.000 at a white shoe law firm after being the White House counsel.

00:43:22.980 Let me read you this.

00:43:23.780 So Flood's hire was a long time coming.

00:43:25.740 Trump, White House counsel, Don McGahn, Kelly, and Ty Cobb all have been in rare alignment

00:43:31.260 with their shared view and desire to bring him on board.

00:43:34.780 McGahn himself has advocated for his hiring for over a year.

00:43:39.120 The president never made clear what the reporting structure of his Russia team would be when

00:43:42.120 Flood's hiring was announced, according to two people familiar with the case, creating

00:43:46.740 uncertainty about whether Cobb and Flood would be co-equal or one would report to the other.

00:43:51.900 In fact, the president initially told several aides that Flood would replace McGahn, who

00:43:56.960 had been the lead lawyer inside the White House on special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.

00:44:01.260 Several months.

00:44:02.700 But McGahn has decided to stay on, at least for now.

00:44:05.060 And he could do so for several more months should another vacancy arise on the Supreme

00:44:09.200 Court where several people close to him said he's eager to lead the confirmation battle

00:44:14.360 if one happens.

00:44:16.380 And I think Don McGahn should stick around for a little while longer.

00:44:19.280 I hear nothing but great things about him.

00:44:20.800 But Emmett Flood would be a great person to replace McGahn.

00:44:23.780 But again, if McGahn were to leave, the mainstream media is going to make it seem like a scandal.

00:44:27.160 The White House counsel is resigning because he sees all the illegality.

00:44:30.840 And oh, my God, he doesn't want to be part of it.

00:44:33.020 He's leaving.

00:44:33.820 That's a sign that Trump is going to jail.

00:44:35.860 No, this means that he did his year and a half, nearly two years in the administration,

00:44:40.120 and he's going out to make the big money.

00:44:42.320 That's just the way these things go.

00:44:44.740 Who wouldn't do that?

00:44:46.780 180 grand a year to work 15, 16, 17, 20 hours a day is no money.

00:44:51.380 You do it to have that on your resume and to go make the really big bucks when you get

00:44:56.580 out, blood money, and when you leave, it's money well earned.

00:45:00.420 Now, this is all very telling about the legal team and Giuliani's strategy because we're

00:45:06.000 finding out, here's a story from the Washington Times, we're finding out that Robert Mueller

00:45:11.760 and NBC News reported this.

00:45:13.700 Here's their tweet.

00:45:15.000 Rudy Giuliani confirms to NBC News that special counsel Robert Mueller rejected a Trump team

00:45:20.400 offer for the president, this was yesterday, for the president to answer written questions

00:45:24.780 in lieu of a sit-down interview.

00:45:26.760 Giuliani says this happened about 10 days ago during his first meeting with Mueller.

00:45:31.220 This is why we heard all the subpoena talk.

00:45:34.120 Mueller has refused to accept written answers and questions from Donald Trump.

00:45:40.180 He wants a sit-down interview, and what that tells me is this is a perjury trap.

00:45:46.700 That's all this is.

00:45:48.100 This is a perjury trap where he can trip Trump up, charge Trump with a bogus process crime.

00:45:54.560 That'll be pardoned.

00:45:55.220 You can't charge a sitting president.

00:45:57.360 You don't need an indictment on the process.

00:45:59.540 You can charge with a misdemeanor, and it doesn't need to go to a federal grand jury.

00:46:02.560 So the conveying conventional wisdom, prevailing wisdom is that you can't indict a sitting president.

00:46:11.620 You don't need an indictment for a misdemeanor charge, and they could very easily charge Trump

00:46:15.860 with misdemeanor process, with a misdemeanor process crime, misleading statements, lack

00:46:21.660 of candor to federal investigators.

00:46:23.340 That will stain the presidency.

00:46:26.500 That's what Mueller is trying to do.

00:46:28.340 He's setting up a case for impeachment.

00:46:31.300 Now, Giuliani has said that he doesn't want Trump to be interviewed orally and under oath

00:46:35.020 by Mueller.

00:46:36.020 He wants Trump to have the—he said that he wants Trump to get the Hillary treatment.

00:46:41.740 And he's right.

00:46:43.160 Hillary was questioned, not under oath.

00:46:45.980 No notes were taken.

00:46:46.980 Hillary was treated like a friend by the FBI when she was under criminal investigation. 0.85

00:46:53.040 Her entire team was given immunity.

00:46:55.980 There is a disgusting double standard here.

00:46:59.900 And Mueller has been a rock in a very hard place.

00:47:02.120 If he's not willing to give the sitting president the same treatment that was given to Hillary 0.78

00:47:06.020 Clinton, well, Trump should fight that subpoena.

00:47:10.460 What Mueller is doing is disgraceful.

00:47:12.400 The impropriety around Mueller is disgraceful.

00:47:14.400 Mueller's cooperation with Eric Schneiderman is disgraceful.

00:47:16.720 But this is particularly bad, that Mueller wants to take out the president of the United

00:47:21.820 States.

00:47:22.160 He knows there is no Russia collusion.

00:47:25.100 Mueller's mandate is not to investigate Stormy Daniels.

00:47:29.020 Mueller has no scope to investigate Stormy Daniels.

00:47:32.660 Jeff Sessions needs to unrecuse and take that case back over.

00:47:36.780 Mueller should be investigating Russia collusion.

00:47:39.520 There was none.

00:47:41.540 There was none.

00:47:42.480 He indicted a Russian bot for him to make it seem like there was.

00:47:44.980 But there was no allegation of collusion.

00:47:47.580 The Russians put ads on Facebook.

00:47:50.220 He indicted them for paying for Facebook ads.

00:47:53.560 There's no proof of hacking.

00:47:55.040 Look at Russia did those things. 0.77

00:47:56.240 And I'm sure they did those things.

00:47:57.620 You do that to them.

00:47:58.280 They do it to us.

00:47:59.280 The Chinese do it to both of us. 1.00

00:48:00.460 We do it to both of them.

00:48:01.700 Iran does it. 1.00

00:48:02.340 North Korea does it. 0.83

00:48:03.060 We do it back.

00:48:04.240 The nature of cyber warfare in the world in which we live.

00:48:08.200 Mueller is indicting computer code. 1.00

00:48:10.780 It is ridiculously beyond stupid. 0.99

00:48:15.000 But now, Mueller not wanting to take written answers from Trump puts into perspective Giuliani's, well, his confusing public behavior. 0.99

00:48:24.900 But now, you know, I believe, like I said, the strategy is to take the wind out of Mueller's sails.

00:48:30.340 Get all that stuff out in the open.

00:48:31.860 Don't let Mueller operate in secret.

00:48:33.520 Leak what he's looking at.

00:48:35.080 And I think that's what Giuliani's doing very deftly, very subtly.

00:48:38.500 I think Trump is enjoying every minute of it.

00:48:40.220 If you read Trump's tweets, he's more emboldened.

00:48:43.440 The FBI is in disarray.

00:48:45.220 The special counsel's office is completely biased.

00:48:47.380 And Americans are sick and tired of the double standard.

00:48:50.860 Hillary Clinton was treated, like I said, like a friend by the FBI.

00:48:56.040 Mueller wants to take out a sitting president.

00:48:58.360 Americans see this.

00:49:00.020 They're sick of it.

00:49:01.420 And the amount of Americans who want Mueller's probe to end is now approaching 50%.

00:49:04.860 It was down near 30 some odd percent.

00:49:06.680 It's up in the high 40s now.

00:49:08.300 And it's rising about two points a month.

00:49:10.840 And that's even growing.

00:49:11.820 That margin is escalating.

00:49:13.900 As we get closer to the midterms soon, over half the country is going to want to see Mueller's probe end.

00:49:19.260 A lot of anger at Jeff Sessions, being directed at Jeff Sessions.

00:49:22.540 People want him to step in and do something.

00:49:24.420 But they now see that this really is, it really truly is, what President Trump calls it.

00:49:30.300 Robert Mueller is engaged in a witch hunt.

00:49:33.060 And Rudy Giuliani sees it.

00:49:34.720 He's been on the other side of that table.

00:49:36.400 And in a very unique way, he's fighting back.

00:49:38.960 As the government of Mexico rails against the U.S. for being strict on immigration or Donald Trump wanting to be stricter on immigration,

00:49:57.840 our laws are still lax, still a joke. 0.91

00:50:00.100 Mexico, the global hypocrites, is deploying what NPR is calling a formidable deportation force near its own southern border. 0.90

00:50:13.300 From the story, on the Suachate River dividing Mexico and Guatemala, where it looks easy to cross north without papers, 0.92

00:50:20.200 a young mustachioed man is pulling a makeshift raft across the river, quiet river via two ropes connecting the country.

00:50:26.080 The crossing costs four quetzales, 10 pesos, or 50 U.S. cents.

00:50:33.300 The raft, Captain, says that nearby migration officials rarely intervene.

00:50:38.200 The impression that Mexico is lax on immigrants disappears as you head just a little north.

00:50:42.360 As you head a little north, some guy named Gustavo Rivera says, quote,

00:50:45.620 they put up a lot of checkpoints.

00:50:46.900 He's a bus driver.

00:50:48.660 He says, immigration agents, federal police, soldiers, and local police.

00:50:51.980 I don't get many migrants on the bus anymore because of the checkpoints.

00:50:55.300 It's interesting, right?

00:50:57.380 How these checkpoints now in southern Mexico, a little north of the Guatemala border,

00:51:01.300 Guatemala, vicious, vicious place, by the way, how they started after that migrant caravan 1.00

00:51:05.660 marched up through Mexico, got to our border, and we were like, not so fast.

00:51:10.620 Mexico wants you.

00:51:11.440 They can keep you.

00:51:12.200 And of the thousand or so migrants, we've taken in about 30 to 50.

00:51:15.880 Oh, now Mexico's thinking we don't want a thousand Guatemalans, Hondurans, and Salvadorans now, do we? 0.99

00:51:22.000 So we better get real.

00:51:23.300 We better start fixing this on our end.

00:51:25.140 Now, Trump tweeted back on April 1st, last month, Mexico is doing very little, if not

00:51:31.300 nothing.

00:51:31.880 It's stopping people from flowing into Mexico through their southern border and into the

00:51:35.060 U.S. 0.97

00:51:35.760 They laugh at our dumb immigration laws. 0.84

00:51:38.300 They must stop the big drug in people flows, or I will stop their cash cow NAFTA. 1.00

00:51:43.860 Need wall.

00:51:45.600 Well, I truly, in my heart of hearts, believe one of the reasons Mexico is putting this 0.91

00:51:51.000 deportation force on the border is because Trump gave him a call and said, games are over.

00:51:56.160 I'm not Obama.

00:51:57.080 Stop the nonsense or I'm cutting off NAFTA. 0.97

00:52:00.360 I'm going to choke you economically.

00:52:02.060 And at the end of the day, that's what gets countries to move the needle.

00:52:05.100 You choke North Korea economically through China.

00:52:07.700 You put pressure on China.

00:52:08.900 You put tariffs.

00:52:09.900 Choke North Korea economically. 0.91

00:52:11.180 They can't feed their own people as it is.

00:52:13.020 They back off.

00:52:14.080 We're going to choke Iran economically by being the world's largest net exporter of oil and

00:52:17.760 natural gas by 2023.

00:52:20.560 Europe would rather buy from us than Iran. 0.98

00:52:22.960 Iran, they're going to be good little mullahs on the nuclear deal that we fully expect President 0.97

00:52:27.720 Trump to scrap at some point today.

00:52:30.860 So economic pressure does a lot.

00:52:33.600 Now, what this article says, rather than amassing troops on its border with Guatemala, Mexico

00:52:38.360 stations migration agents, local and federal police, soldiers and Marines to create kind

00:52:43.280 of a containment zone in Chapa state with roving checkpoints and raids.

00:52:47.620 Mexican migration agents have formed a formidable deportation court since the southern border

00:52:53.600 plan launched.

00:52:55.040 Mexico has deported more than half a million Central Americans, almost 82,000 last year,

00:53:02.720 according to data from Mexico's Interior Department.

00:53:06.420 Since 2015, Mexico has deported more Central Americans annually than U.S.

00:53:11.600 authorities have, and in some years, more than twice as many.

00:53:14.940 So who the hell is Mexico that condemn us for deporting Mexicans who come illegally? 0.96

00:53:23.400 This is amazing.

00:53:25.380 It's such an effective force that some government officials try to give migrants workarounds.

00:53:30.200 We often tell migrants to travel at night. 1.00

00:53:33.060 You're always going to have crazy liberals who want to tell people how to skirt immigration

00:53:36.680 laws. 0.60

00:53:36.980 But look, and of course, the the priests and the far left version of the Catholic Church

00:53:43.820 today, the Mexican government is hunting migrants without sympathy, even though the exact same 0.79

00:53:48.380 thing is happening to Mexicans at the U.S.

00:53:50.120 border.

00:53:50.680 The border security measures here in Chiapas are even harsher than on the U.S.-Mexico border.

00:53:55.460 They should be.

00:53:56.400 Nations should care about their sovereignty.

00:53:58.600 I would love us to put deportation zones in South Texas and in Arizona and in New Mexico 0.94

00:54:03.460 and herd them in with military and CBP and ICE and Homeland Security investigations and

00:54:09.160 then push them back south across the border.

00:54:12.200 That's a really smart tactic.

00:54:14.000 Kudos, Mexico.

00:54:16.100 Great job on you.

00:54:18.080 But of course, liberals here in the U.S. would never allow that.

00:54:21.600 Even Republicans here in the U.S. like Jeff Flake.

00:54:23.920 Oh, my God.

00:54:24.360 They'd be crying tears if we were to do something like this.

00:54:27.300 But it works.

00:54:29.740 And I never thought I was going to say this, but maybe the United States of America could

00:54:33.660 follow Mexico's lead when it comes to security on the southern border.

00:54:36.780 We'll see you next time.

Rebel News Podcast - May 08, 2018

Off The Cuff Declassified - John Cardillo - May 8⧸2018

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