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00:00:00.000As more information emerges about FBI intervention at Twitter, Elon Musk pledges to step down from leading the social media company.
00:00:06.000Up to 5,000 illegal immigrants could begin flooding the border every single day as Title 42 comes to an end and the January 6th committee fiasco comes to its conclusion.
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00:00:30.000Well, Elon Musk bought Twitter not all that long ago, and he's been a very hands-on owner.
00:00:35.000He's been formulating Twitter policy in real time, banning accounts, bringing back accounts, doing everything by Twitter poll.
00:00:41.000Over the weekend, Elon Musk put out a poll Asking whether he should step down as the active head of Twitter.
00:00:46.000This doesn't mean he'll give up ownership of Twitter, of course, but he put out a poll saying that he would pledge to abide by the results of the poll and asking whether people should allow him to remain the CEO of Twitter.
00:00:59.000And then the poll results came in and nearly 60% of people on Twitter were polled said that Musk should not remain the CEO of Twitter.
00:01:08.000I think Musk is smart enough to know what the result was going to be ahead of time.
00:01:11.000I really doubt that he thought that 60% of people are going to say yes.
00:01:14.000So what this really looks more like is a transition plan.
00:01:17.000He's He wants to make it look like the people wanted him to step out of the way and then he'll appoint somebody else to run Twitter.
00:01:22.000But this does speak to the way that Twitter is currently being run, which is very ad hoc.
00:01:26.000Again, I don't have a problem with that because I would rather that there be someone at the top of the food chain to blame as opposed to the way Twitter was being run.
00:01:33.000But this does throw the entire social media system into at least some chaos because nobody actually knows what's coming next.
00:01:40.000I have no information suggesting that Elon Musk actually knows who would replace him as CEO of Twitter.
00:01:43.000It's not like he has somebody waiting in the wings, and this is all a setup.
00:01:46.000This is all see-to-the-pants kind of stuff, which makes it, on the one hand, fun, and on the other hand, slightly terrifying for those who actually are trying to figure out what standards Twitter is attempting to apply here.
00:01:56.000According to the Wall Street Journal, The majority of Twitter users said Elon Musk should step down as chief of the company in a poll the billionaire pledged to follow, casting no uncertainty on the social media platform after more than seven weeks of turmoil since he took it over.
00:02:07.000More than 17 million users had voted by the time the poll on the platform closed after 6 a.m.
00:02:11.000Eastern Time, with 57.5 percent saying he should leave as the head of the company he bought in October for $44 billion.
00:02:17.000Musk had said when he launched the Twitter poll on Sunday he would abide by the results.
00:02:21.000It's not clear who would be taking over Twitter, Inc.
00:02:23.000if Musk steps aside or what his role would remain, given that he still owns the company.
00:02:26.000Most of the company's prior leadership was either fired or left after he took over.
00:02:29.000And by the way, it's not going to be a great job.
00:02:31.000For all those people who are clamoring and saying out there, I could do it.
00:02:34.000Well, Musk is just going to fire you after two weeks because all that will mean is that he stands sort of behind whoever the Twitter CEO is.
00:02:42.000Musk tweeted, quote, No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive.
00:02:47.000Now, one of the reasons why Musk is doing this is because his other companies like SpaceX and Tesla have been suffering on the stock market.
00:02:53.000Shares in Tesla have fallen more than 57% this year, frustrating some retail investors who partly blame it Musk's focus on Twitter for the decline.
00:03:02.000Anytime the market perceives Musk as a volatile figure.
00:03:05.000His stock drops and then it always comes back.
00:03:06.000This happened with Tesla when Musk went on Joe Rogan's show and he smoked pot.
00:03:10.000And for a moment there, it looked like the Tesla stock was going to be in rough shape.
00:03:13.000And then, of course, Tesla pulled out of the tailspin and soon it was doing fine.
00:03:18.000Tesla shares were jumping pre-market Monday amid the suggestion that Musk would stop running Twitter and return his attention back to the engineering company that he founded.
00:03:24.000There have been questions since Musk first showed interest in buying Twitter how he would juggle running that company while also pursuing all of his other endeavors.
00:03:31.000Bill Nelson, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's administrator, this month said he had asked SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell if Twitter would divert from the rocket company's mission.
00:03:39.000She assured me it would not be a distraction.
00:03:40.000Musk said last month that he had too much work on his plate.
00:03:44.000Now again, it's been a pretty chaotic couple of months under Musk.
00:03:48.000Much of what he has done has been excellent.
00:03:50.000So for example, the breaking of new Twitter files, demonstrating what exactly Twitter was doing to shut down free speech before Musk took over.
00:03:57.000Musk had said that he was essentially a free speech libertarian when he took over.
00:04:00.000And then he's sort of activated, as I say, an ad hoc policy where he bans people and then he brings them back based on Twitter polls where the standards are not entirely clear.
00:04:08.000And what's funny to me about that is that the entire media are caterwauling about this.
00:04:11.000They're screaming to the heavens, screaming to God about why exactly the standards are so opaque and changeable.
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00:06:35.000And so over the weekend also, Matt Taibbi, who was a guest on this program last week, Former Rolling Stone journalist, he revealed how much contact was had between the higher-ups at Twitter and the FBI, and this should scare everybody.
00:06:49.000When the FBI is contacting social media companies and telling them what to put up and what to take down and all the rest of it, predicated not on typical sort of law enforcement procedures, not based on warrants, not based on investigations, but based on simply the FBI's sense that they don't want something up, that's pretty scary stuff.
00:07:06.000Late on Friday afternoon, the Twitter files are revealing more every day about how the government collects, analyzes, and flags your social media content.
00:07:12.000Twitter's content with the FBI, contact with the FBI, was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary.
00:07:17.000Between January 2020 and November 2022, there were over 150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter trust and safety chief, Yoel Roth.
00:07:25.000Some are mundane, like San Francisco agent Elvis Chen wishing Roth a happy new year along with a reminder to attend our quarterly call next week.
00:07:31.000Others are requests for information into Twitter users related to active investigations.
00:07:35.000But a surprisingly high number are requests by the FBI for Twitter to take action on election misinformation, even involving joke tweets from low follower accounts.
00:07:43.000The FBI's social media-focused task force, known as FTIF, created in the wake of the 2016 election, swelled to 80 agents, and corresponded with Twitter to identify alleged foreign influence and election tampering of all kinds.
00:07:53.000Federal intelligence and law enforcement reach into Twitter included the Department of Homeland Security, which partnered with security contractors and think tanks to pressure Twitter to moderate content.
00:08:02.000Matt Taibbi reports it's no secret the government analyzes bulk data for all sorts of purposes.
00:08:07.000But the Twitter files show something new.
00:08:08.000Agencies like the FBI and DHS regularly sending social media content to Twitter through multiple entry points pre-flagged for moderation.
00:08:15.000What stands out is the sheer quantity of reports from the government.
00:08:17.000Some are aggregated from public hotlines.
00:08:21.000Do agencies like the FBI and DHS do in-house flagging work themselves or are they farming it out?
00:08:26.000One former intelligence officer said, you have to prove to me that inside the effing government you can do any kind of massive data or AI search.
00:08:34.000Tayibi says there was a master canine quality to the FBI's relationship to Twitter.
00:08:38.000There's a November 2022 email, for example, in which the FBI San Francisco notified Twitter it wanted action on four specific accounts.
00:08:46.000Twitter personnel in that case went on to look for reasons to suspend all four accounts.
00:08:51.000Just to show that the FBI can be hyper-intrusive in both directions, they also asked Twitter to review a blue-leaning account for a different joke, except here it was more obvious that the person who kids a lot was actually kidding.
00:09:02.000Pretty much all of the right-wing accounts ended up being suspended by Twitter at the behest of the FBI.
00:09:07.000Now this, of course, is pretty scary stuff.
00:09:10.000You don't really want the FBI coordinating with the social media companies to determine what should be taken down, what should be left up.
00:09:17.000Many of the accounts that the FBI was targeting were satirical in nature.
00:09:21.000Many of them were relatively low engagement, and some were suspended, most with a generic, thanks Twitter letter.
00:09:27.000When told of the FBI flagging, One of the people suspended said, my thoughts initially were, seems like Primey Faishey won a First Amendment violation.
00:09:42.000But that's exactly what was happening.
00:09:44.000And this is one of the reasons why it was important for Musk to take over, because Musk is revealing all of the bad activity of the government in cahoots with Twitter.
00:09:53.000Now, at the same time, as I say, the Musk's running of Twitter has been extraordinarily ad hoc.
00:09:59.000I've used that phrase a bunch of times.
00:10:00.000He's just doing it sort of seat of the pants.
00:10:02.000So, for example, he suspended Taylor Lorenz.
00:10:05.000Taylor Lorenz is just a garbage pseudo-reporter over at the Washington Post.
00:10:08.000She spends all day just irritating people on social media and then tracking down her enemies on social media, and in the case of TikTok, actually doxing people on social media.
00:10:16.000Well, she was actually briefly suspended from Twitter over the weekend.
00:10:19.000She acted as though she had been shipped to the gulags under Stalin or something.
00:10:24.000She was back on social media talking about her tremendously difficult period of Twitter expulsion in pretty short order.
00:10:33.000But she came back online, by the way, and then she was sharing memes and all this, but she was suspended because of doxing of libs of TikTok.
00:10:43.000I think Taylor Lorenz is garbage, and I think there are many times where she does things that ought to get her suspended or expelled from Twitter, including doxing people like libs of TikTok.
00:10:50.000However, Taylor Lorenz, you can't retroactively decide to suspend people.
00:10:55.000You can't decide two years later, because Taylor Lorenz did something to libs of TikTok, that now she ought to be suspended, because otherwise there's no standard at all.
00:11:58.000Whoever is going to come in, foremost, because now he's pledged that he's going to step aside and he's going to put in some sort of new CEO.
00:12:03.000Here is the standard that ought to be applied.
00:12:05.000The standard that ought to be applied is a pure First Amendment free speech standard.
00:12:11.000And then, all other standards ought to be made transparent.
00:12:13.000If you're going to downgrade tweets that are First Amendment protected, but you don't want getting wide dissemination, You should have a transparent process whereby people can quickly see why the thing is being downgraded.
00:12:23.000I will say that that Musk has been radically transparent, even though he is doing things, seat of the pants.
00:12:27.000He's being very transparent about why he is doing things and how he is doing things.
00:12:30.000And the answer is he's doing because he feels like it.
00:12:32.000Whoever comes in next should continue that policy of radical transparency, but should take a very strict First Amendment standard with regard to Twitter in the United States.
00:12:39.000One of the big problems for international companies like Twitter is that the free speech standards in the United States are not the free speech standards that apply in, say, France or Britain.
00:12:47.000Where actual quote-unquote hate speech can be prosecuted.
00:12:49.000They don't have the same First Amendment standards over in Europe.
00:12:52.000So the best that Twitter probably can do, realistically speaking, is promulgate standards that are allowed by various governments in various parts of the West.
00:13:00.000That's the best that they are going to do.
00:13:02.000Whoever comes in next, however, you can imagine that Musk is not going to give up complete control of Twitter.
00:13:07.000He is just going to give up day-to-day control, which will allow him to go back to his companies.
00:13:10.000This is not a big victory against Elon Musk, the way the media are portraying it.
00:13:15.000And despite all of the best attempts of the media to try to cudgel Twitter back into what it was before, that is not going to happen.
00:13:20.000Meanwhile, we have a crisis that has now been unleashed on our southern border.
00:13:24.000It's going to get a lot worse, according to the Washington Post.
00:13:27.000Both Republicans and Democrats are warning there could soon be an unmanageable influx of migrants at the southern border of the United States with the expected end this week of Title 42, a Trump-era immigration policy that allowed border agents to expel migrants for public health reasons during the COVID pandemic.
00:13:40.000On ABC's This Week, Texas Governor Greg Abbott warned if the courts did not intervene to keep Title 42 in place, it would be total chaos.
00:13:46.000At the southern border, a federal appellate court on Friday ruled the Biden administration could end Title 42 on Wednesday unless the Supreme Court intervenes.
00:13:53.000Republican officials have signaled in court records they would appeal the decision to the Supreme Court.
00:13:58.000It's so bad, the El Paso mayor, Oscar Leaser, actually declared a state of emergency in El Paso ahead of Title 42's expiration, citing an increased number of asylum seekers sleeping in the streets.
00:14:08.000Here is the mayor of El Paso again as a Democrat, declaring state of emergency.
00:14:10.000So is this all ginned up by the Republican-leaning press, or is there a real crisis at the border?
00:14:16.000As we see the increase in asylum seekers into our community and we see the temperatures dropping and we know that Title 42 looks like it's going to be called back on Wednesday.
00:14:30.000We felt there was proper time today to call a state of emergency.
00:14:35.000I said from the beginning that I would call it when I felt that either our Asylum seekers or our community was not safe.
00:14:43.000And I really believe that today our asylum seekers are not safe.
00:14:49.000So he's being about the asylum seekers that they're coming in and they're not safe.
00:14:52.000Well, I mean, the reality is that the country is not safe when you have literally millions of people who are crossing the border and not vetting any of them.
00:15:00.000Yes, you feel bad for people who legitimately are seeking asylum and then are tossed into a completely unworkable system.
00:15:06.000But the vast majority of people who are crossing our border are not technical asylum seekers.
00:15:10.000The people who are crossing our border largely are economic migrants, people who are coming from countries that have worse economies than the United States.
00:15:16.000I don't blame them, but the people who are coming across the border are not people who would fit under a normal definition of people who ought to be receiving asylum in the United States for human rights reasons.
00:15:26.000Lieser said he had spoken to federal officials who said they believed El Paso could see four to six thousand new migrants on Wednesday alone.
00:15:33.0004,000 to 6,000 new migrants on Wednesday alone.
00:15:51.000That is hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people who are crossing the southern border before Title 42 is repealed.
00:15:58.000Once Title 42 goes away, you're going to see a vast wash of people coming into the United States.
00:16:03.000In fact, the wash of people into the United States is going to be so broad that New York City is now fretting that there is the possibility that a thousand migrants a day could be entering New York City.
00:16:10.000Remember that time when it was absolutely terrible that Greg Abbott was sending some of the migrants who had entered Texas, some of the illegal immigrants who had entered Texas over to New York, and he was sending like a few dozen people?
00:16:19.000Get ready for a thousand people arriving in New York City maybe every day, according to Mayor Eric Adams, over in New York City.
00:16:26.000Last week, California Governor Gavin Newsom visited an immigration center along the border and said it was a federal government issue that similar immigration sites were already at capacity.
00:16:35.000Senator Alex Padilla of California defended the removal of Title 42, saying it was not intended to be an immigration policy, but public health policy.
00:16:41.000He said, we're in a different place when it comes to COVID today than we were two or three years ago.
00:16:45.000It's past time for Title 42 to be gone.
00:16:48.000But again, there is no replacement policy for the Democratic Party and for the Joe Biden administration.
00:16:54.000White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said last week that the Biden administration was prepared to lift Title 42 in quote-unquote, a safe and humane way, but they do not actually have the means to do so.
00:17:04.000And everybody knows it, including the Democrats.
00:17:09.000What's happening here is that the Biden administration has decided that they have effectively an open border policy.
00:17:14.000They've dramatically understaffed the border.
00:17:16.000They've rejected Donald Trump's remain in Mexico policy, which was stay in Mexico while you apply for asylum in the United States.
00:17:23.000They've decided that they are not going to vastly bulk up the number of Border Patrol agents who are available.
00:17:29.000They've decided that they are not even going to vastly bulk up the number of courts that are available to process the people who are arriving on the border.
00:17:36.000The Biden administration has very little interest in actually stopping what's going on at the border.
00:17:40.000They have an interest in stopping people from covering it.
00:17:43.000And this is why you have Bill Malugan, who actually has drone footage of thousands of migrants crossing the Rio Grande.
00:17:48.000Then all of a sudden, the Biden administration gets very angry.
00:17:49.000They don't like being covered on this stuff.
00:17:52.000But they have no problem with the actual fundamental policy.
00:17:56.000And to the migrants who are crossing the border, they understand what's going on.
00:17:58.000They're coming because Joe Biden is president.
00:18:32.000Not only are these people getting in, we have all these people pondering when to pass.
00:18:38.000Most of them I've been talking to, they are from Venezuela.
00:18:42.000They are telling me that some of them already tried to go in.
00:18:45.000Some of them are saying that once they get there, the agent tells them that this is not the right time.
00:18:52.000A lot of people told me to at least wait, not to waste my time giving up because they were going to take me to another border.
00:19:01.000The right thing to do would be after the 21st, I would have a chance to answer because Title 42 would go away. Everybody knows what's going on here. Even the former DHS secretary, Jeh Johnson, under Barack Obama, he says migrants know that they can simply game the asylum walls. They can show up, they can be processed, they can show up for one court appearance, they can disappear into the interior waiting for somebody to amnesty them, which is probably what will happen.
00:19:21.000These people are going to be here for years because the asylum claims, the immigration claims take years to go through because the system is so overwhelmed.
00:19:36.000Well, Anderson, first of all, the courts have gotten way too involved in what traditionally has been an area where the courts defer to the political branches of government to the point where our policy is Muddled and confusing.
00:19:50.000One week it's, no you have to end Title 42.
00:19:53.000Another week it's, no you have to keep it.
00:19:55.000Clearly, the state of our asylum system and our laws is one of the reasons that migrants come here.
00:20:06.000I mean, if only you had been the Department of Homeland Security head under Barack Obama and you'd actually changed the state of the laws and made it clear that people should not come here unless they have a legit asylum claim.
00:20:14.000If only you had done something about that.
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00:23:28.000Now the White House reacting last night to this ruling in a statement saying quote to be clear the lifting of the title 42 public health order does not mean the borders open anyone who suggests otherwise is doing the work of smugglers spreading misinformation to make a quick buck off of vulnerable migrants despite the White House pointing the finger at Republicans some Democrats are directly contradicting the White House warning of what they say will be a tidal wave of illegal migrants expected to come to the U.S.
00:23:56.000on top of the more than two million in the past year.
00:24:18.000So Martha Raddatz, doing the work of the legacy media, which is essentially just the Praetorian Guard for the Democratic Party.
00:24:24.000Martha Raddatz over at ABC News, she was talking to Texas Governor Greg Abbott, and Abbott was saying, Joe Biden is leaving the border open.
00:24:29.000She's like, well, Joe Biden says he's not leaving the border open.
00:24:31.000You're saying he's leaving the border open.
00:24:47.000And then we notice you doing the bad thing.
00:24:49.000And then the media say the bad thing is happening because you noticed.
00:24:53.000Not because the person originally is doing a bad thing, but because you noticed.
00:24:56.000And because you noticed and you said something, other people are taking from that that the bad thing is happening, which they wouldn't have known in the first place unless you said it.
00:25:04.000By this token, by the way, you should disband the entire media because the media actually cover bad things happening.
00:25:08.000Then they are obviously promulgating the bad thing that's happening.
00:25:11.000Anytime the media promulgate a story in which somebody does something bad and then people react to that story, then it's the media's fault.
00:25:18.000So probably should just disband the media by Martha Raddatz's logic.
00:25:20.000Here's ABC News's Martha Raddatz doing the work of the Biden administration.
00:25:26.000I don't think I've ever heard President Biden say, we have an open board, come on over.
00:25:32.000But people I have heard say it are you, are former President Trump, are Ron DeSantis.
00:25:46.000So they do get the message that it is an open border and smugglers use all those kinds of statements.
00:25:53.000It was known from the time that Joe Biden got elected that Joe Biden supported open borders.
00:25:59.000It is known by the cartels, they have sophisticated information, whether or not the Biden administration is going to enforce the immigration laws or not.
00:26:46.000I mean, Chuck Schumer actually said it out loud not all that long ago.
00:26:50.000Chuck Schumer said, there aren't enough people in the United States to do a bunch of the low-level work, and so we have to ship in low-education, illegal immigrants into the country.
00:26:58.000That was Chuck Schumer, the Senate Majority Leader, who said that.
00:27:42.000A giant welfare state is reliant on new blood coming in and providing the labor fodder for that welfare state.
00:27:48.000Now, the problem is when you bring in a lot of people who then become dependent on welfare, you actually exacerbate the problem.
00:27:53.000Another problem is when you bring a lot of people in with no intention of assimilating them to American rights and duties, then you've actually changed the nature of the country.
00:28:00.000But Joe Biden doesn't care about any of that.
00:28:02.000For Democrats, it's all short-term gain and long-term pain.
00:28:06.000But in the end, as John Maynard Keynes said, in the end, in the long run, we're all dead.
00:28:11.000Speaking of people who are nearly dead, who are going to continue running for president, Joe Biden is still planning on running for president.
00:28:18.000Both Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer over the weekend said that Joe Biden should run again.
00:28:45.000He's a person with a great vision for our country.
00:28:50.000He's been doing an amazing job, says Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer at the Old Age Home.
00:28:56.000By the way, it is amazing that the Biden team is now apparently prepping a strategy for his likely 2024 re-election campaign, according to the Washington Post.
00:29:04.000It would dramatically expand efforts to organize content sharing between supporters and their friends on digital platforms, including TikTok and WhatsApp, where political advertising is not allowed, according to people involved in that effort.
00:29:13.000So here's the rule when it comes to the use of technology in order to facilitate campaigns.
00:29:17.000When Democrats do it, it's amazing and wondrous, and the platforms are great.
00:29:22.000This is what we saw in 2012, when Barack Obama successfully used Facebook in order to mobilize an extraordinarily large voting base.
00:29:29.000And then in 2016, when Cambridge Analytica was using data from Facebook in order to target voters, then Facebook became evil.
00:29:36.000So I'm sure we're about to see the same thing with TikTok and WhatsApp.
00:29:39.000According to the Washington Post, the plans, which build upon lessons from the 2020 campaign, are one part of an expensive research effort funded by the DNC to prepare for Biden's expected campaign launch next year.
00:29:48.000Top advisors have been testing ways to reactivate volunteers and donors.
00:29:51.000They completed a review this summer of the shifts in how voters consume political information over the past two years.
00:29:56.000The review found phone-based apps and streaming television have grabbed an increasing share of attention from voters, which offer fewer opportunities for direct advertising.
00:30:03.000Local television news continues to be popular.
00:30:07.000But much of the focus of party strategists has been on groups of voters who are increasingly spending time consuming information in private digital environments, mostly through their phones or on public platforms where paid political advertising is not actually available, including chat threads.
00:30:18.000Democratic strategists have concluded that in many cases, volunteers can have more impact by creating or distributing content to their digital communities than by spending their time in a more traditional canvassing operation.
00:30:27.000So basically, they're not going to activate all of your friend list in order to bother you on WhatsApp about voting for Joe Biden.
00:30:37.000And it will be considered a brilliant digital plan up until the moment that Republicans adopt the same plan, at which point these apps will be to blame.
00:30:42.000And we'll have to have government regulation of WhatsApp to prevent just this sort of stuff.
00:30:46.000Jen O'Malley Dillon, senior Biden advisor, said, quote, And hard.
00:30:53.000As a result, the Biden team has been reviewing ongoing experiments run by the National Party and looking at Democratic Senate campaigns involving once obscure organizing strategies, which became more common in the 2022 midterms.
00:31:02.000The options include paying social media influencers to promote and share supportive content.
00:31:08.000So you're now going to get, you know, the local makeup artist on TikTok to start advertising for Joe Biden, encouraging volunteers or paid organizers to directly push messages to targeted voters in their phone contacts.
00:31:19.000There are also technologies the party has been reviewing that make it easier for volunteers to share campaign content to their networks.
00:31:25.000Again, it's brilliant when Democrats do it.
00:32:07.000These are terrible numbers for Joe Biden.
00:32:10.000And yet, the Democratic Party seems to believe that this guy is a big winner.
00:32:15.000Again, the mask of the 2022 election could come back to really harm Democrats here.
00:32:19.000They might think that he's doing an amazing job because they didn't get shellacked in 2022 because the Republicans raided the local homeless shelter for candidates.
00:32:26.000But as it turns out, Joe Biden is an extraordinarily weak candidate, which presumably is just another reason why the January 6th committee is going ahead with a bunch of criminal referrals for Donald Trump.
00:32:35.000The goal is sort of a win-win for them.
00:32:39.000They get to either criminally refer Donald Trump and then he's prosecuted, in which case they get to ask every single Republican about Donald Trump's prosecution in January 6th and make election of 2024 about 2020.
00:32:49.000Or they fail and they somehow allow Donald Trump to regain coherence and they sort of jog Trump to new heights in the polling, which very often happens.
00:33:00.000When Democrats attack Trump, Republicans naturally tend to move into Trump's corner.
00:33:04.000That's what happened after the Mar-a-Lago raids.
00:33:06.000Right after the Mar-a-Lago raids, A lot of Republicans moved.
00:33:09.000If you look at Joe Biden's job, he was being unfairly targeted, which seems to have been true based on the fact that he was not actively attempting to disseminate serious classified information or any classified information to foreign powers.
00:33:22.000So Democrats could be looking at a win-win with the January 6th committee result, which is why it was always rigged in the first place.
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00:34:21.000Okay, so if Joe Biden is an extraordinarily weak candidate, then he has to rely on Republicans sucking at this in order to win again in 2024.
00:34:29.000And this is presumably where the January 6th committee came in.
00:34:31.000It's why so many Republicans were very upset with people like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for doing cover for the January 6th committee.
00:34:37.000Because they weren't there to ask holistic questions about what Congress could do to prevent further events like January 6th.
00:34:42.000Instead, the whole thing was about how do we provide fodder for Democrats so they can turn the entirety of Campaign 2022 and 2024 into a referendum on whether January 6th was bad or not.
00:34:53.000Well, now we are reaching the end of the January 6th Committee.
00:34:56.000According to Politico, the House January 6th Select Committee meets at 1 p.m.
00:34:59.000today to vote on its final report and possible criminal referrals against Donald Trump.
00:35:04.000Apparently, Kyle Cheney says that the House January 6th Committee is convening this afternoon to wrap up business.
00:35:13.000Their decision, it says Kyle Cheney, to recommend criminal charges for Donald Trump will suck up a lot of oxygen.
00:35:17.000The more significant development will be the sheer volume of new details and information the panel supplies to back up the eye-popping contentions in their report.
00:35:23.000For instance, I want to know what evidence of witness tampering the committee has, which they've teased during some of the public hearings.
00:35:29.000They've been teasing all along in the same way that Adam Schiff kept teasing and teasing and teasing that there was going to be a Russian collusion bombshell that never actually dropped.
00:35:37.000There was going to be some bombshell showing that Trump knew it was illegal to seek Alternative slates of electors knew he had lost and therefore was attempting to subvert the Constitution and finding an alternative slate of electors.
00:35:47.000I have serious doubt as to whether they're gonna be able to prove that actual case.
00:35:52.000In reality, it's very likely that the January 6th committee was always going to do this.
00:35:57.000Whether the DOJ acts on it is fairly irrelevant at this point.
00:36:01.000The DOJ, of course, already has a special counsel working on the January 6th case as well as the Mar-a-Lago case.
00:36:08.000The DOJ has already brought in some of the highest level figures in Trump's orbit, according to Kyle Cheney over at Politico, reaching the upper echelons of his administration.
00:36:15.000That's usually a sign of a mature investigation that could be nearing a charging decision.
00:36:19.000And also there's a Fulton County grand jury, which has similarly fought in one battle to obtain testimony from many of Trump's top aides.
00:36:35.000And many of the people that Donald Trump sided with, many of the people who are most strong about their claims that the 2020 election was overtly stolen and that Trump actually won, went down in flaming defeat in their various senatorial races.
00:36:45.000There's a major factor in Republicans not taking back the Senate this year, the first election in an extraordinarily long time in which not a single incumbent on the Democratic Party side of the aisle lost in the Senate.
00:36:58.000Apparently, according to Politico, the White House is closely watching whether the committee refers House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy and Representative Jim Jordan for ethics sanctions after defying the panel subpoenas.
00:37:07.000You can bet that Biden allies will frequently cite their obstinance in the media and potentially in the courts as the GOP sends subpoenas down Pennsylvania Avenue starting on January 3rd.
00:37:15.000A person familiar with the White House's thinking summarized the message sent by the likely new Speaker and Judiciary Committee Chair.
00:37:21.000So they're going to attempt to essentially suggest that they don't have to abide by any subpoenas because Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan didn't decide to show up in front of the Congressional Committee to be grilled by their fellow legislators.
00:37:35.000Adam Schiff, who is a misinformation font par excellence.
00:38:39.000When you blow out your credibility, you don't get it back quite that quickly.
00:38:42.000You know, Adam Schiff let the cat out of the bag here.
00:38:44.000He basically said, I hope that they charge him in the middle of all of this because I want it to still be politically relevant.
00:38:50.000This has been the Democrats' chief goal from the beginning is to keep Donald Trump at the center of the public conversation because the more people are talking about Trump, the less they're talking about Joe Biden doing a crappy job and allowing, for example, 5 million illegal immigrants into the country.
00:39:00.000Here's Adam Schiff saying the quiet part out loud here.
00:39:03.000Do you think That Donald Trump is going to face some kind of criminal charges in the coming months, independent from your investigation?
00:40:34.000It's not the best people, but this particular story is pretty insane.
00:40:37.000According to the New York Times, George Santos, whose election to Congress on Long Island last month helped Republicans clinch a narrow majority in the House of Representatives, built his candidacy on the notion he was the full embodiment of the American dream and was running to safeguard it for others.
00:40:48.000His campaign biography amplified his storybook journey.
00:40:50.000He is the son of Brazilian immigrants, the first openly gay Republican to win a House seat as a non-incumbent.
00:40:55.000By his account, the He catapulted himself from a New York City public college to become a seasoned Wall Street financier and investor with a family-owned real estate portfolio of 13 properties and an animal rescue charity that saved more than 2,500 dogs and cats.
00:41:06.000But a New York Times review of public documents and court filings from the U.S.
00:41:09.000and Brazil, as well as various attempts to verify claims that Santos, 34, made on the campaign trail, calls into question key parts of the resume he sold to voters.
00:41:18.000Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, the marquee Wall Street firms on Santos's campaign biography, told the Times they had no record of his ever working there.
00:41:25.000Officials at Baruch College, which Santos has said he graduated from in 2010, could find no record of anyone matching his name and date of birth graduating that year.
00:41:35.000There is also little evidence his animal rescue group, Friends of Pets United, was, as Santos claimed, a tax-exempt organization.
00:41:40.000The IRS has no record of a registered charity with that name.
00:41:43.000His financial disclosure forms suggest a life of some wealth.
00:41:46.000He lends his campaign more than $700,000 during the midterm election, has donated thousands of dollars to other candidates in the last two years, and reported a $750,000 salary and over $1 million in dividends from his company, the Devolder Organization.
00:41:57.000But the firm is something of a mystery.
00:41:59.000On a campaign website, Santos once described Devolder as his family firm that manages $80 million in assets.
00:42:04.000On his congressional financial disclosure, he described it as a capital introduction consulting company, a type of boutique firm that serves as a liaison between investment funds and deep-pocketed investors.
00:42:13.000But Santos' disclosures did not reveal any clients, an omission three election law experts said could be problematic if there are clients.
00:42:19.000And while Santos has described a family fortune in real estate, he has not disclosed records of his properties.
00:42:25.000At the same time, new revelations uncovered by the Times have the potential to create ethical and legal challenges once he takes office.
00:42:31.000Santos responded to no request from the Times that he furnish either documents or a resume with dates that would substantiate any of the claims he made on the campaign trail.
00:42:40.000Santos has said he was born in Queens to parents who immigrated from Brazil and was raised in the borough.
00:42:45.000His father, he has said, is Catholic and has roots in Angola.
00:42:47.000His mother was descended from migrants who fled Jewish persecution in Ukraine in World War II strife in Belgium.
00:42:51.000Santos says he's a non-observant Jew but also has said he is a Catholic.
00:42:55.000But apparently, in 2008, when he was 19, he stole the checkbook of a man his mother was caring for, according to Brazilian court records.
00:43:02.000Police and court records show Santos used the checkbook to make fraudulent purchases, including a pair of shoes.
00:43:07.000If it turns out that these aspects of his biography were falsified, it's going to be a real problem for not just him, but the Republican Party, considering that the Republican majority in the House is about five seats at this point.
00:43:21.000I mean, Republicans cannot afford to lose people in the majority.
00:43:24.000This is why it matters, the outcomes of elections, and it's also why parties should run better candidates.
00:43:29.000Alrighty, guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.