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00:32:25.460So all of these things are happening and they're all happening so fast.
00:32:30.320We needed an expert to be able to teach it to us.
00:32:33.600And while we're being taught, we said, hey, Tiki, would you be willing to put together a series, a course on this for the listener and the viewer?
00:33:17.620Mark Sanford lost last night in his primary.
00:33:24.140He has been, I think he has a remarkable story.
00:33:27.800I mean, he went from a guy who was really, really great to a guy who made a huge personal failing to coming back and just knocking it out of the park.
00:33:41.900He was a congressman who was standing for the conservative principles.
00:33:48.020And I don't know what he did other than not vote in lockstep every time with Donald Trump.
00:35:31.940This is this is loyalty to a president versus Mark Sanford, who's been unquestionably great on conservative policies.
00:35:41.420It's an interesting place that we're in because, you know, I don't like loyalty oaths.
00:35:46.480You know, I can you imagine and I am I mean this take this at any other point in history.
00:35:51.220I think of what you would have said about a liberal who changed their vote because the president told them to.
00:35:57.920I could never I would not live my life for a second in a place where I felt because the president tweeted to vote a certain way, I would listen.
00:36:08.160It would make me less likely, you know, endorsements.
00:38:21.060By then, Ali Bashar, the 20-year-old man who had raped and strangled Susanna, fled Germany, along with his parents and five siblings, all using fake names.
00:45:47.560Well, what they would say is they're just following the rule of law.
00:45:51.860But that doesn't make any sense because federal prosecutors decide what to charge and what not to charge every day in federal court across the country.
00:46:01.620There are many times people break federal law and prosecutors never charge it.
00:46:08.540Well, you know, the U.S. Congress does not value your liberty or anyone else in this country.
00:46:13.980Because what most Americans don't know is that the Congress has found that there are 5,000 federal criminal laws.
00:46:22.2605,000 things that are so serious that the Congress thinks that you could potentially go to jail or prison for.
00:46:31.860So, first of all, is Matthew, is he back in prison yet?
00:46:37.280He is in county jail in Kentucky awaiting transfer to another prison.
00:46:43.000But we are hopeful that the president, President Trump, will grant him clemency and return him back home to the community that desperately wants him back.
00:46:53.500I read an article about his going away party.
00:48:01.100Well, the goal is to just get enough public support that the president decides this is worth doing.
00:48:09.040And the White House is aware of Matthew's case.
00:48:11.280I don't I have yet to run into anyone who thinks that it was a smart or wise idea to send him back to prison for 10 years.
00:48:20.540So I'm hopeful that something will happen and that the president, much like he did last week with Alice Johnson, will sign a clemency petition.
00:48:28.820And Matthew can go back home to his girlfriend and his church community.
00:48:32.980In a theoretical world, right, if we had an Elysium or the Matrix where we could test these things and you had criminals who had, you know, did bad things and you could somehow test the fact that maybe they could return and you could prove it, you could release people all the time.
00:48:51.480The issue is, of course, that would be incredibly risky to release them into into the actual population if you weren't sure.
00:48:57.800Here's a case in which we essentially got the opportunity to test.
00:49:01.200We got we were able to release this guy to see if he could blend into community, to see if his life had been turned around.
00:49:11.700And yet on what seems to be a ridiculous technicality, they're throwing them back into prison.
00:49:17.600I mean, it is it's it's it's unthinkable.
00:49:20.600There there are thousands of Matthew Charles's in federal prison that just haven't had the opportunity he has to get out.
00:49:27.980But the great irony about the American criminal justice system is, one, we think that we are the land of the free.
00:49:36.340But on the other hand, America incarcerates its citizens at a greater rate than almost any other country on the planet.
00:49:43.280And to the great irony of it is the longer someone spends in corrections, the less likely they generally are to come out and live law abiding, successful lives.
00:50:11.180When I was released in 2008, I had never been on the Internet, never seen an iPad, an iPhone or an iPod.
00:50:18.080And one of the things I quickly realized when I went to pick up the paper and look at the classified ad section for jobs was no one advertises jobs in the classified section.
00:50:28.820And Matthew had to overcome all those hurdles, too.
00:50:31.740Just the stress of so much change when you've been incarcerated that long.
00:50:36.020And yet he was able to overcome all of that and show that he's a change person, which just, you know, in a perfect world, the Department of Justice would have recognized his rehabilitation and just cut him loose.
00:50:50.880Sean, do you have time to stay with us for a little bit longer?
01:05:15.060If you start to see that Kim Jong-un starts to kill people around him, high level hardliners, you're going to know that it's working because the next thing that happens is the hardliners are going to say to him, you can't do this.
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01:08:38.920So Cohen is dealing with 3.7 million documents that were seized and they're going through the process now of trying to figure out exactly what's going on with them,
01:08:48.800which ones are privileged and which ones aren't.
01:08:51.380So far, only a few have been privileged.
01:08:53.960162 out of 300,000 of the first batch.
01:08:56.660So 162, not 162,000 of 300,000, but 162 of 300,000 documents have been privileged and will not be introduced.
01:09:04.640So but again, a lot of that's probably also nonsense.
01:09:08.360Anyway, the big development that's apparently happening, according to ABC News, that Cohen's lawyers are leaving.
01:09:19.680There doesn't seem to be an indication in this particular story about that, you know, speculation about that he's now what they're saying is they believe this means he's cooperating with the New York attorney, attorney general and district attorney.
01:09:37.520So the development, this is how it reads in the ABC report.
01:09:43.060No replacing counsel has been identified as of this time.
01:09:46.140Cohen now with no legal representation is likely to cooperate with federal prosecutors in New York.
01:09:50.460Sources said this development, which is believed to be imminent, will likely hit the White House family members and staffers and counsels hard.
01:09:56.680And they believe as this is going through, I mean, you know, who knows if it doesn't this does not mean that Trump did anything wrong by any means.
01:10:07.600It could very well mean that he has documents on Manafort and who else was already been indicted.
01:10:13.440And we don't know what the deal is, but him cooperating is certainly not something that the White House was will be excited about hearing.
01:10:22.480Um, depending on what he has, I mean, if, if, if they already are throwing, you know, Manafort to the wolves, um, and rightly so, in my opinion, uh, what difference does it make if he, you know, turns evidence on Manafort, as long as it doesn't implicate the president or anybody else new.
01:10:41.260Uh, of course, though, I mean, it's just going to be so difficult, even if it's not criminally damaging, you know, these documents being out there are, God only knows what Michael Cohen.
01:10:52.480I mean, Cohen, as you know, is, you know, he's a movie style, bad guy attorney.
01:11:05.320Uh, you know, he's just, you know, he's not a good guy.
01:11:09.240And, and look, Trump knows how rough and tumble he is.
01:11:13.540And because of that, never brought him into the White House.
01:11:16.340Cohen was never even never in the White House.
01:11:18.340Um, so that's, he was, he was able to bring in people who, like Bannon, who were loud mouths and, you know, other people who, like, you know, you know, Flynn, who had his issues, although doesn't seem to, you know, to be nearly the bad guy that Michael Cohen is.
01:11:35.400I mean, Cohen has been, had all sorts of problems for a long, long time and, you know, his job, which was valuable at times in the real estate business is not something you want anywhere near the White House.
01:11:46.960Uh, but what this guy actually has in his archives, what he's done, I mean, you know, what he's done on behalf of the president, whether the president knew about it or not, could be an issue.
01:11:58.780I mean, you know, Trump has said a hundred times he had no business in Russia and all of that.
01:12:03.280At that time, we now, at least has been reported widely, that Cohen was, on his own, trying to get Trump Tower Moscow built.
01:12:13.660Separately from Trump, no one has said that he, that Trump told him to do this, but he had some freedom to go out there and try to create deals and was dealing with very odd sources in Russia about trying to get, in 2016, during the campaign, to try to get Trump Tower Moscow built.
01:12:33.660And here is, here is, uh, the kind of guy he is.
01:12:37.980Here's Michael Cohen, uh, talking to a reporter saying, back off.
01:12:42.980I will make sure that you and I meet one day while we're in the courthouse.
01:12:48.460And I will take you for everything that you still don't have.
01:12:51.420And I will come after you at Daily Beast and everybody else that you possibly know.
01:12:56.500Do not even think about going to where I know you're planning on going.
01:13:10.240Don't think you're going to hide behind your pen because it's not going to happen.
01:13:14.980I'm more than happy to discuss it with your attorney and with your legal counsel because mother f***ing you're going to need it.
01:13:21.000So, you know, uh, it's a kind of a, if you are in the situation where you are, uh, dealing with the press and the press is as unfair as they are to, uh, you know, Donald Trump or many people, there'd be a good portion of you that want that guy on your side.
01:14:14.360One more reason we actually might be stuck in, you know, some virtual reality version of Alice in Wonderland where everything is upside down.
01:14:23.880Spanish tennis player, Rafael Nadal gave what is seemingly a more rational explanation of the supposed gender wage gap than any of the feminists or Marxist or tenured gender studies.
01:14:39.240Uh, you know, the, those who are the professors now, gender studies that have, uh, you know, rallied around these crazy explanations for decades.
01:14:50.220Now, Rafael Nadal currently ranked number one in men's singles tennis by the association of tennis professionals, uh, with a, you know, a buttload of career titles.
01:15:02.180He, uh, he apparently is, I don't, I don't know the professional tennis embodiment of Jordan Peterson.
01:15:08.860Now I, I'm, I'm not really sure he was in an interview and he was asked in tennis, uh, should women earn as much as men?
01:15:29.320I mean, it's, it's just, wow, of course they should, you know, they're equal and in every way, and we should all support women and their fight for equality.
01:20:38.040And he was at a low point when he met Benjamin Franklin in London, uh, who said, you need to make a new life for yourself in America, in America, just leave this crap behind.
01:21:53.900Everybody's starting to say the revolution is over.
01:21:56.420He is losing, uh, guys left and right.
01:21:59.700They don't have faith in him and they're headed down South.
01:22:03.540They're headed, uh, past Philadelphia because Philadelphia, all of the members of Congress have already fled because the British are coming and they're just going to kill all of the revolutionaries.
01:22:15.120George Washington knows he has got to turn this around.
01:22:19.600And so he is, uh, camped on the Southern side of the Delaware and he is praying.
01:23:53.120War ends, by the way, Thomas Paine hasn't made any money because he's taken all of the profits and he's given all of the profits to the war effort.
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01:28:16.340If you learn that Thomas Paine was an atheist, you will see in his letter from, I thought it was John Adams, but it's to Samuel Adams, dated 1803.
01:28:26.580Payne is responding to Benjamin Franklin and Adams' criticism of the Age of Reason.
01:28:34.160And they said, why would you even write this?
01:30:20.000And he even says how these priests will stand up for the shedding of blood, and they get involved in things that they shouldn't get involved in.
01:30:31.320And all of the war and the whoop from the pulpit has concealed the object.
01:30:38.900Religion is not the cause, but it is the stalking horse that put it forward to conceal themselves.
01:30:46.780So in other words, there's a lot of these people who are total frauds.
01:30:50.820And they're using religion to manipulate to become rich or to become powerful or whatever it is.