00:00:01.000He was the special counsel appointed to go after President Trump, and then all of his cases blew up when President Trump won the 2024 election.
00:00:09.000There was a hearing that happened in the United States Senate.
00:00:12.000The hearing was directed at Jack Smith.
00:00:14.000Jack Smith, of course, was the special counsel who was appointed under the Biden administration to look into President Trump on a wide variety of counts, ranging from the Mar a Lago raid to allegations that he had involved himself in election corruption.
00:00:35.000He was the one going after Trump for 2020 election interference.
00:00:40.000And then he had to dismiss the action after Trump won the 2024 election.
00:00:47.000And the reason he was called before Congress is because, in the process of pursuing all of these alleged crimes, he proceeded to basically draw information on pretty much everybody on the right.
00:00:58.000Subpoena, like basic donor information, for example, go after GOP organizations.
00:01:04.000So, Jack Smith, first, he claimed not to know that the RNC and TPUSA were subpoenaed.
00:01:09.000Did your team subpoena records concerning the Republican National Committee?
00:02:00.000Okay, we should point out at this point that Senators Graham Hawley, Ron Johnson, Marsha Blackburn, Bill Hagerty, Dan Sullivan, Tommy Tuberville, Cynthia Lummis, Ted Cruz, and Representative Mike Kelly all had their phone calls and toll records subpoenaed.
00:02:14.000In the middle of this investigation, and Senators Grassley, Lee, Cornyn, and Hawley, Graham, and Johnson all had their text messages subpoenaed between late 2020 and early 2021.
00:02:24.000Ted Cruz highlighted the subpoenas targeting GOP organizations.
00:02:48.000We had to conduct an investigation about whether any person or entity violated the law with respect to the attempt to block the peaceful transfer of power.
00:02:58.000To make that decision, yes, I understand.
00:03:00.000And you use that as an excuse to engage in a massive fishing expedition targeting over 400 Republicans, and it was disgraceful.
00:03:07.000Okay, so, you know, Jack Smith, again, it was a fishing expedition.
00:03:13.000It was, in fact, a fishing expedition.
00:03:15.000Josh Howley also went after Jack Smith.
00:03:20.000His charges were never truly substantiated.
00:03:23.000The charges themselves were incredibly vague and poorly drawn.
00:03:25.000We covered it extensively at the time.
00:03:27.000Here is Josh Hawley going after Jack Smith.
00:03:30.000But you use your ability and the powers of your office to lie to the court, to lie to Congress, to lie to the American people, to lie to the House.
00:03:42.000It's the worst abuse of prosecutorial power in the history of the United States.
00:03:46.000And all I have to say is I'm glad you failed.
00:03:48.000I don't know what our democracy would be like.
00:03:50.000If you had succeeded in your effort to interfere in the workings of a presidential election, if it were up to me, I'd charge you with perjury.
00:03:59.000But you should certainly be disbarred.
00:04:03.000And I can only pray that nothing like this will ever happen again in the United States of America.
00:04:07.000Now, Jack Smith claimed that he had not coordinated in any way with the Biden administration.
00:04:11.000And Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana was like, Are you trying to joke us right now?
00:04:17.000Like, are we really supposed to believe that?
00:04:20.000Attorney General Garland could have countermanded that decision.
00:05:26.000Basically, prosecute the former presidents of the United States into the ground before an election.
00:05:33.000And I'd say this to my ranking member here every person who they bring through to be confirmed for a position, asked over and over again, did Donald Trump win the 2020 election, refuses to say the truth.
00:05:49.000This is an eight year attempt to lie to the American people.
00:05:52.000And this is their closing argument, everybody.
00:05:55.000Right before an election, this is what they want to spend their time on.
00:06:22.000Most people believe that there will be no court ruling that the 2020 election was fraudulent, like a 10% chance at any point that there will be some sort of Ruling that the 2020 election was fraudulent.
00:06:36.000Meanwhile, in other legal issues in the headlines.
00:06:40.000So, we talked at length yesterday about this Cornell University alleged gang rape case.
00:06:44.000And I pointed out that the evidence there was unbelievably scanty, that the original police complaint that was filed by the unnamed Jane Doe in this particular situation did not even allege a lack of consent.
00:06:58.000Well, that has not stopped Hollywood from going to bat against Cornell University for supposedly not doing enough.
00:07:04.000So, Mariska Hargete, who's been synonymous with tackling sex crime stories because she played a sex crime police officer on Lawn Order SVU, used her Instagram story to rail against the Cornell Seven.
00:07:17.000That's what they're calling the men who engaged in this by reposting the following statements Dear men and boys, if your friends tell you they're gang raping someone, call the effing police.0.75
00:07:25.000Yes, I think we should ruin the futures of adult men who drug and gang rape a woman.0.56
00:07:35.000Meanwhile, heated rivalry star Hudson Wilson said, arrest them, F them, and F Cornell too, and good place in She Hulk actor Jamila Jamil.0.99
00:07:43.000She said, I think the likes of the Cornell Seven shouldn't be allowed penises anymore.0.98
00:07:47.000They use them as weapons, so now they have to be confiscated.0.95
00:07:49.000I think jail time, legal castration, and removal of the shaft seems like the bare minimum.
00:07:54.000Now, normally, when you're calling for that sort of treatment, you have to identify a crime.
00:08:04.000But as I say, the reason that the left is so exercised about this particular case is because they know deep in their heart that something terrible happened here.
00:08:11.000The terrible thing that happened here is that people consented to acts that are inherently degrading.
00:08:17.000The woman in this particular case degraded herself.
00:08:20.000The men treated her in unbelievably degrading ways.
00:08:22.000It's all a bunch of truly scummy behavior, obviously.
00:08:27.000But the evidence that this was like a gang rape is, at least the contemporaneous evidence, non existent.
00:08:38.000According to CBS News, CBS News New York investigative reporter Maza Saidi received new screenshots from a source.
00:08:45.000The source says they showed text between the former student identified as Jane Doe and one of the defendants accused of rape in the lawsuit.
00:08:51.000The messages were sent just two days after the alleged assault.
00:08:54.000The man started by apologizing for how things went down.
00:08:56.000He said his memory is kind of fuzzy and that he and another man feel bad for being too intoxicated to shut it down and kick people out before it got way out of hand.
00:09:03.000The woman in the text chain replied that her memory is super clouded too and said they had all been heavily intoxicated.
00:09:08.000She also wrote, None of the sexual stuff was illegal.
00:09:55.000Pointing out that by legal standards, she consented.
00:09:59.000She allowed other boys and consented to other boys snorting ketamine off of her body.
00:10:06.000And under New York law, voluntary intoxication or drug use that merely impairs judgment does not legally constitute an inability to consent to sexual activity, right?
00:10:16.000So that means if you voluntarily ingest drugs, you voluntarily take alcohol, you can agree to have threesomes, which In her statement, she agreed to have two separate threesomes.
00:10:31.000One boy did walk in, one young man did walk in and say, everybody out.
00:10:35.000So there was one person that did that.
00:10:38.000And according to her statement, three of the young men did not touch her.
00:10:45.000The thing I wonder, Sonny, is what you're saying.
00:10:46.000But I say all that to say the pictures of these young men who have not been charged, not been adjudicated, are being plastered all over the internet.
00:10:57.000I think people are reporting this story inaccurately.
00:11:00.000I think they're reporting it unfairly.
00:11:02.000And while this is something that we have to take very seriously, there is no way, according to her statement in 2024, that any prosecutor would have brought the case.
00:11:13.000Again, Sonny Hostin happens to be correct.
00:11:16.000And by the way, if we're going to redefine intoxicated sex as rape, I don't know where that ends precisely.
00:11:23.000Like, truly, I really don't know where that ends.
00:11:25.000If you voluntarily have a couple of drinks and then have sex, and this is now considered rape, How do you draw that legal standard?
00:11:38.000And this is all a mess, and it's a mess because no one has the moral language to just condemn bad behavior without trying to buttonhole that into some sort of legal charge.
00:11:47.000Okay, speaking of legal issues, the juror, the holdout juror, Michael Desronville, who is the holdout juror in the Lindsey Clancy trial, he did an interview with Fox in which he explained his perspective.
00:12:07.000He says, Listen, I don't want to be the center of the story.
00:12:10.000I just want the focus put back on the kids who were murdered by Lindsey Clancy.
00:12:17.000Whether you agree with him or disagree with him, I don't see any evidence that this person is some sort of intransigent, evil person, which is how the entire media have attempted to play him.
00:12:26.000Hi, my name is Michael Peggy Desronville, also known as the Lone Jour.
00:12:32.000I know the whole focus has been on me, but we want to reel everything back and put the focus on the three angels that are at hand the ones that can't speak for themselves, the ones that can't defend themselves, and the ones that can't fight the battles.
00:12:49.000And those are Cora, Dawson, and Callan.
00:12:56.000And he was demonized by the attorney for the defense.
00:13:03.000And here was Kevin Reddington, who is the attorney for Lindsey Clancy, blaming that juror for having robbed the jury of seven weeks.
00:13:12.000I think the biggest misconception is that this individual is referred to as the holdout juror.
00:13:17.000He, in fact, is the obstructionist juror.
00:13:20.000And every motion that has been filed is legitimate, it's all based on sound law facts.
00:13:27.000Jury questions, and I'm doing what I should do representing Lindsay.
00:13:31.000Okay, again, the lawyer for Desranville, again, Edward Paltic, he says that Reddington going after the juror is a violation of the Sixth Amendment.
00:14:57.000Again, whatever you think of the actual verdict here, whatever you think of the actual verdict, the reality is that the treatment of this juror is insane, truly crazy.
00:15:05.000As the New York Post points out, Kevin Reddington likely violated the Constitution by revealing Michael P. Desranville's identity and then accusing him of being an obstructionist for not agreeing with others who felt the mom should be cleared for murdering her three young kids she strangled with exercise bans.
00:15:18.000Desranville, a devout Catholic and Haitian immigrant, was thrown into the limelight when he was revealed to be the man who defied his 11 co jurors who had concluded Clancy was innocent of killing her three children by reason of insanity.
00:15:30.000Now, again, the fact that this has turned into some sort of referendum on the juror. Is truly crazy.
00:15:38.000I mean, Reddington is now arguing renewed motion for required finding not guilty, asking the judge to find the evidence presented at trial was legally insufficient for a rational jury to find Clancy guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
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