Biased Trump Trial Jury Pool, Supreme Court Takes on January 6 Defendants, and NPR's Woke New CEO, with the Ruthless Podcast | 767
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The first criminal trial of former President Donald Trump is underway, and more than half of the prospective jurors in the New York City courtroom have already been dismissed because they've admitted they can't be fair. Plus, the NPR whistleblower has been suspended, and the DA has now officially moved to hold Donald Trump in contempt for speaking about Michael Cohen as a violation of a gag order.
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
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Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show.
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The first criminal trial of former President Donald Trump is underway,
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and more than half of the prospective jurors in the New York City courtroom have already been dismissed
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because they've admitted they cannot possibly be fair.
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So his concerns about doing this in New York appear to have been justified,
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though eventually they will find a jury. That's for sure. This is going to be a while. We're
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going to cover all of the absurdity both inside the courtroom and outside of it, and we've got
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an update on some of that in one second. And in other Trump legal news, arguments are taking place
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this morning before the U.S. Supreme Court relating to January 6th defendants, not Trump, but January
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6th defendants that could have major, major ramifications for the former president's future
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trials. We've been watching it very closely. I listened to the argument this morning all the
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way up until almost the very end, and it's not going well for the government. It's not going well
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for them at all. And we'll play you some of the sound bites, but if this case, this criminal charge,
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obstruction of an official proceeding goes away, it's huge for Trump in Jack Smith's January 6th
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D.C. federal prosecution of him. All that plus the NPR whistleblower has now been suspended.
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Yeah, this is we now get to look at the old tweets from NPR's new CEO that have been uncovered,
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and they are amazing that this woman is the CEO of NPR and that this poor guy, Uri Berlinger,
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who tried to say, hey, we seem kind of biased, got fired, tells it well suspended, tells you everything
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you need to know about NPR. We're going to get into all of it with the perfect guest today. And those
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guys are Josh Holmes, Michael Duncan, Comfortably Smug, and John Ashbrook together. They are the hosts
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of Ruthless, now on YouTube and at youtube.com slash Ruthless Podcast. Guys, welcome back.
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Hey, Megan. Great to be back. Great to be here.
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Great to see you. All right. So let's start in New York State Supreme, where they are now conducting
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voir dire of the jurors. This morning, Trump entered and sat there reading the questionnaire,
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you know, page by page as they went through it with the prospective jurors.
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The New York Times writing up every second, he closed his eyes for one minute. Oh, unclear if he's
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asleep or if he just closed his eyes. Like, all right, it's jury selection. It's one of the most
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boring things for everyone who's not the lawyer or the one juror being questioned. And all this as
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the DA in the case, Alvin Bragg, has now officially moved to hold Donald Trump in contempt for speaking
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about Michael Cohen as a violation of the gag order, trying to say that he should be fined $3,000 and
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asking the court to threaten him that if he does it again, that the court can put him up in jail for
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up to 30 days. Can you imagine? So what do you think the likelihood of that is? And what effect
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do you think Trump going to jail for some odd days for speaking out about witnesses who are bashing him
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in every turn on cable will do to this political race?
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Oh, well, let's start with the jury selection component for a minute, because I find this
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hilarious. All of us have had at some point been called for jury duty. And like, I think I speak
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for all of us when your first inclination is like, what can I do here to get out of this?
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Right. So, you know, they've given them the perfect out. And it's like, well, can you be fair to
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Donald Trump? They're like, no, not at all. You know, it's like you're always tempted in the
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beginning of one of these things to be like, well, I'm an incredible racist. I couldn't possibly
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render, you know, be like, all right, so you're dismissed and off you go. And so you don't have
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anything to do. I wonder how much of it has something to do with that. But I think the larger
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point that you conveyed, Megan, is true and that he's going to have an awfully difficult time finding
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a jury of his peers that aren't dead set against him. I mean, you just look at the demographics
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and the voting behavior of the city he's being tried. And it's very, very troubling.
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Yeah. I would also like to talk about how Megan knows the term Wadir.
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Yeah, that's which is like very smart. You know, it's almost like she knows what she's
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talking about and all this legal stuff. So people listening, you should definitely listen to her
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more than us. But but I mean, even just like from a practical standpoint, like the ideology of
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of the electorate in Manhattan aside, which is obviously one thing. But like, how could you
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really have an impartial view of Donald Trump, a guy with 99.9% name ID who has ubiquitous media
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You're telling me you haven't formed some opinion? Like after all this? You kidding me?
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Like that is disqualifying. If you haven't formed a single opinion after all of the articles that
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have been written about Donald Trump in the last six years, like I'm I'm worried about your ability
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I don't want that person my freedom in their hands for sure.
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Listen, here's a little sample of who they've had to go through so far in figuring it out.
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This is as of yesterday. This is not read today of the 96 possible jurors quoting here from the
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New York Times brought into the room for the first round. More than 50 raised their hands to say
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they couldn't be fair. They were immediately excused. Court from color on the potential
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of jurors by New York Times. The first prospective juror. So these are people who I think have still
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made the dance. They haven't yet been eliminated. First one is a young woman of color with a business
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degree who reads the New York Times and watches CNN.
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Um, she seemed unbothered by the need to be fair and impartial. Oh, you don't say the second
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prospective juror is a white creative director with glasses who lives in Midtown. Also a Times
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reader. The third prospective juror asked about her hobby said she likes to go to the club. She said
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it in a playful voice, prompting a big laugh from the reporters in the overflow room. Really? They're
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really desperate for material in there, I guess. And then the latest potential juror to be questioned
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reads the Times, the journal, and is also the first person to say that they are a New York Post reader
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and therefore will certainly be bounced by, uh, Trump's prosecutors because that shows some
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willingness with the journal and the Post to try to keep a fair mind, which is the last thing Alvin
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Bragg wants. But you go through like the resume of the people who are getting called in there. And I
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mean, that is just perfect, right? Woman of color, business degree, who reads the Times and watches
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CNN. Good luck to you, Trump's defense counsel. This is the road you have to hoe.
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I don't think, uh, she's going to have a totally open mind. Uh, and the other thing that you surface,
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the Cohen piece, which, you know, whether to hold him in contempt or not, what is hard for me to
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actually process is this is so unique. You've got a presidential nominee, right? I mean, he's going to be
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the candidate the Republicans put up for president of the United States. If he is getting consistent
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incoming from somebody who's involved with the trial in any way, is he not supposed to defend
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himself in any form or fashion? It seems like just a straight up speech and debate. Yeah. That you would
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have difficulty putting a muzzle on a defendant. Now, granted, I get how you need to do that on your
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average criminal trial. This is not your average criminal trial by any stretch of the imagination.
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He has a obligation at some point to the millions of voters who have already voted for him to try
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to defend himself in a court of public opinion. Does he not? I mean, I think that honestly, that speaks
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to the larger issue here where, yes, there used to be a set of rules of what is proper and what's
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allowed in that, you know, the justice system exists to go after criminals and make sure that
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we have a just society. But it's very clear the purpose of it now is to do everything it can to
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defend Joe Biden and his poor record. Like they have to find a way to muzzle Trump because he can't be
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out there talking about how, wow, look how open the border is. Look how terrible things have gotten
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under Joe Biden. This is, and it's a series of these trials. Like this is their only approach they
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know because they can't run on a record. The record is terrible. So the only thing they can use is,
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is these systems that they have in place where they ran on, I will prosecute Donald Trump as,
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as their platform when they're running for election. It's just completely politicized.
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It is. And the other thing, the other thing that came up yesterday is the judge making all kinds of
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different rulings as it pertains to different things that can be entered into the court record.
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And it seems extremely clear to me that the prosecution is trying to basically muddy up
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his character, right? I mean, they want to bring in people he's had affairs with to testify
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against him. There's components of it that they want into the record. And the judge is trying to
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sort through these things about what something's prejudicial or something's not, or whether it's
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relevant or whether it's not, but it's very clear in the first day, what the game plan is here,
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right? And they, they want to throw as much mud on this guy as they possibly can in the context of a
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court of law, where in the context of the court, court of public opinion, it, nothing stuck to him.
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And I think that you could say that it was clear well before the first day, what their intentions were,
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because if you look at the track record of the major dark money left-wing funders, Smug was talking
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about how there is this network of prosecutors around the country who are going after conservatives.
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They're funded by George Soros and allies of his who are spending money literally to elect these people
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to put Republicans and conservatives on their heels and make them feel like they can't be a productive
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member of our society. If you look at how much money George Soros gave color of change pack,
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for example, he wrote a million dollar check to a pack that supported Alvin Bragg. And so Alvin
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Bragg's game plan here started well before this trial opened. And I think that's a big part of the
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defense's case is that it's, it's hyper political. And you know, as well as anybody, Megan, that,
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that you can't, you can't be guilty of, of having a point of view.
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Well, you know, what's ironic, you guys is they're trying to screen these potential jurors out for
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bias and, you know, following certain news sources and so on that might evidence that bias.
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Look at Rams promising to get Trump. Look at the judge who's had negative Trump commentary in the
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past as his own daughter has espoused criticizing him on social media. Like, it's amazing that you can
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get bounced as a juror for that crap, but you can still try the case as the judge and you can still
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prosecute the case as Alvin Bragg. Here's a little bit more color from what's happening
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inside the courtroom. This is many news outlets, including NBC and the times have like a running
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blog because there's no cameras and there's no audio. It's very frustrating. Um, but here's just
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a couple. Okay. 11 potential jurors remain for questioning after reading the survey responses.
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So they're trying to go through those 11 to find actual jurors instead of just potential jurors.
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One juror dismissed after saying he follows an anti-Trump group on social media. I'm sure that's
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the hashtag resistance. I would imagine. First potential juror says he followed Trump on X and
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read some of his books. Oh, that's going to be a problem. Art of the deal and how to get rich.
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Um, the response drew a smile and a nod from Trump. It drew a smile and a nod from Trump.
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That's so good. I love that. They gotta let cameras in this. Please let cameras in this.
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He's like, he's one step away from giving the thumbs up that he does. Um, one juror says her
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Facebook page contains Occupy Democrats content. She's a goner. There's no way a hyper left-wing
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group. Um, tick tock is a common source of news. Nine of the 23 potential jurors who have answered
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the question here so far have identified tick tock as a source of news. That's sad. Uh, let's see.
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Juror dismissed after struggling with ability to be fair. She said, I believe no one's above the law.
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So I guess that's a strong opinion asked by the judge, whether she could be impartial. She said,
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I'm not 100% sure that I could be fair. She was excused. Good. Everyone knows Donald Trump. Uh,
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the prosecutor, this is not brag, but his, uh, his co-counsel, Joshua Steinglass addresses the
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elephant in the room. No one's suggesting you can't be fair because you've heard from Donald Trump.
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We need jurors who can set aside strong feelings and focus on evidence. It's not a referendum on the
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Trump presidency. We don't care. This case is about whether this man broke the law.
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And then, um, let's see one more. The prosecutor, this is interesting because it's a preview potentially
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of the opening statements that we'll get. The prosecutor fronts for the jury, potential jury,
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that some of the witness, several of the witnesses you're going to hear from in this case, quote,
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have some baggage. You think he says, uh, let's see. Several of these witnesses have what you might
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consider to be some baggage. Yeah. Like the ex-con Michael Cohen, the porn, by the way, I have been
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keeping my eye on MSNBC and, and I was watching Mad Owl last night. Just, I'd like to see what she
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says because she's probably the most lunatic of the lunatic fringe over there. And, uh, she, I,
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she has elevated Stormy Daniels from porn actress to porn director and actor.
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Oh, that's important. Maybe she gets a production credit too. That's all. Is that better?
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What she really wanted to do is direct. Is it better to be a director than an actor? It feels
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like even worse, doesn't it? I think, I think you get joined like director's guild at that point,
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right? Is there a lot of directing that happens, do you think? Do we want to know the answer to that?
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Megan? Do we want to know? You guys tell me, you look like the kind of guys who get the $19 movie
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rentals. Oh my God. They want a shot across the bar. How dare you? Unbelievable. She's starting off
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hot on us, guys. Fellas, we got to respond. Listen, Megan, this could get ugly. Baggage. Speaking of
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baggage. Oh, speaking of baggage. Okay. Let's talk for one second about Jeffrey Toobin. So the
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high court is taking arguments on this other case. So we, that's the New York case. It's
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ongoing. They're in a recess right now because they just started like two minutes ago. So they
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already need a recess. This is like when you get contractors to work on your lawn. Um, so
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they're over at the Supreme court though, they're dealing with a second Trump prosecution. This isn't
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really about Trump, but as you guys and I have discussed this other case involving J six defendants
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could directly affect the J six case against Trump brought by Jack Smith with Tanya chucking as the
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judge. Anyway, the question is whether the main charge against Trump, although again, this one
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relates only to J six defendants other than Trump is viable charge. It's called obstruction of an
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official proceeding. And more than 300 J six defendants have been charged with this. And many have
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pleaded guilty or been found guilty. And all of those could go away. If the Supreme court says,
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this is not a charge you can bring against J six defendants, protesters, it's not available to you.
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And, um, I'm going to get to the heart of that argument in one second, but let me just start with
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Jeffrey Toobin. Okay. Because he felt the need to weigh in. And there was a time in which he was
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considered and treated as an expert on the U S Supreme court. That time has passed. He tweeted out
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in oral argument today, justice Thomas is minimizing the severity of the one six insurrection at the
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Capitol. Perhaps that's because his wife was part of the conspiracy. What a disgrace that he's sitting
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on this case in response to which I tweeted. Hi tube. And FYI, you waived your right to use the
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term disgraced about other lawyers. When you took your dick out of your pants and jerked off in front
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of your colleagues. I've heard that, uh, the problem with subtleties at some point at times people
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don't get it. You've thrown that out and put a fine point, uh, Jeffrey to, but I don't think I also
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don't think he should be talking about oral anything at any, at any time. Uh, there's a wide range of
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issues that he should be, uh, entirely separated from, and including being on our television set
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because Lord knows what could happen with that. How can you think about it though, guys, you know,
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chutzpah are you, you guys know chutzpah. This guy is sitting there as a lawyer calling a sitting
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Supreme court justice, a disgrace after what he did. Just take a seat, write your long New Yorker
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articles or whatever it is you're going to do. I don't know. I guess he was fired from there.
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Cause those are the colleagues to whom he showed his penis. And, uh, I don't, I don't want to look
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at it. I don't want to see it on Twitter. I don't, I don't want to hear from him.
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It's there's a shamelessness to it really, Megan. And what I can't possibly understand
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is I feel like there's a lot of legal commentary in the United States. You're telling me CNN can't find
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somebody else like this guy. This is the only guy in America who can, you know, have a, have
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commentary on the Supreme court or our legal process. Like just fine. Literally anyone else.
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I got news for you, Michael Duncan. Okay. It's not just CNN. He, guess whose podcast he was on
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yesterday? Oh, please. Who? Don Lemon. Oh, come on. Come on. They're getting the band back together.
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They've like broken the simulation at this point. I mean, it's just one hilarious joke after another
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that Don Lemon and Tubin getting together for a high level discussion. I mean, they had Keith
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Olbermann. I'm sure they were talking about how aggrieved they are, how mean CNN is, how terrible
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they were to them. It's so unjust, both firings. This is Don Lemon who like had a burner phone to
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send intimidating messages to a coworker because he was like jealous of her. Right. Right. And then
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he has the chronic masturbator on his podcast and they're going to, they're going to lecture all
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of us about the legal system and what, who's disgraced. This is just incredible. People have no
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sense of shame. Is Duncan being fair? Is chronic, you know, is that appropriate? Do we know that
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about Tubin? I don't think you do it for the meeting. I don't think you do it for the first
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time on Zoom. That's what I'm saying. Okay. Okay. Look, this is conjecture. This is conjecture. And I
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know the man is a lawyer. And so I just want to make that extremely clear. I don't, I don't have
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any knowledge of whether he's a chronic masturbator. I would merely suggest the idea that you cannot
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contain yourself. It's an opinion. My opinion is if you cannot contain yourself on a Zoom with
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colleagues, you might have a problem. Perhaps there's a habitual nature to that. That's what
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I'm saying. That's my, that's my opinion. My favorite theory of that whole thing came from
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Victor Davis Hanson of all people. Right. But he's like so distinguished and so smart and at the
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Stanford. Anyway, um, his theory was that people don't do that by accident. And that actually this
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may very well have been intentional. Like maybe he was enjoying getting off in front of his
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colleagues. Like, whoopsie, I forgot to hit the end button. I like it. That brings it to a whole new
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level. Yeah. It's just horrifying. And then you're just like, oh, I forgot to hit the button. Either
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way, who the hell be jerking off that close to a live Zoom? You deserve the consequences of your
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terrible decision making. Anyway, now he's decided to rip on a distinguished, respected,
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beloved Supreme court justice who gets bashed by him as a disgrace because what he's an uncle Tom
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because he's married to Ginny Thomas. Who's got a political career. Um, okay, Jeffrey Toobin it's
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done. What he's really lecturing him on is ethics. I mean, truly he's lecturing Clarence Thomas on
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ethics. Does he have his dick in or out of his pants while he's doing it? That's what we need to
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know first. Is it in or out? Do you think better when it's out and you're exhibiting? Maybe. I'm sorry.
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I know it's already to forgive me audience, but I've just the audacity of this guy.
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I don't even know how we, how am I supposed to respond to that?
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Well, you know, this is, this is the point in the program when, when Megan goes down these,
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these, you know, rabbit holes where you just got to say, what else can be said?
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Well, on that note, let's talk about what's happening inside the U S Supreme court where
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there are nine distinguished jurists. Although I have to tell you, I don't get to listen to the
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high court that often anymore. Cause I have this job, but I used to all the time. I covered the
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high court for three years for Fox and I, it was wonderful. I got to sit in there for all the big
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oral arguments and it's just so fun. I really enjoy it. Like they're so erudite. They're so well
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read. They're so learned. They make such historical and textual references. You're like, oh, I was
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struggling to keep up with these big, big brains. That was not how I felt when I listened to Sonia
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Sotomayor. I'm not going to lie. She was like trying to cross-examine the lawyer for the defendant
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on this one piece of text. And he was trying to tell her, you know, no, she was like, but,
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but your second provision only relates to acts, not attempts. And he's like, no, it's attempts too.
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And she's like, no, it only relates to acts, not attempts. He's like, no, also attempts. She's like,
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the language is right here. It says if he acts or attempts, she didn't read the whole thing.
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The lawyer was right. The statute spoke to both the actual act and attempts and her whole line
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of inquiry just read out attempts. And she was like, but it doesn't say attempts. It does. And
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he was like, yes, it does. It does. And then finally she was like, no. And she tried to impeach
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him by reading the actual text of the statute, which was exactly as the lawyer was telling her.
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It was, it's just like, that's just too dumb. That's too dumb to be up there.
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You get the impression that some of the more liberal presidents that we've had over the years
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are perhaps not sending their best to the Supreme court.
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Yeah. Well, they're sending, they're sending the people who will make the decisions in their way
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without even reading. Yeah. I mean, I, I, you, you, you followed all this about how, so some people
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on the left are trying to get Sotomayor to step down so that Joe Biden can appoint. I don't know
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who he would appoint. Who would he appoint? They want. So, um, again, it's these left wing,
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dark wing, left wing, dark money groups, like demand justice stuff. We're trying to push her to retire
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because they're terrified of an RBG situation. Again, they're like, Trump's going to come back.
00:23:22.380
And if any liberal justice decides to retire, it's going to be like really over at that point,
00:23:27.820
seven, two, but they also don't like that. Sonia Sotomayor is not left wing enough.
00:23:34.060
They really want just like a complete political activist. They want someone who's like laying down
00:23:41.100
on the highway for Palestine to then go to the Supreme court. Like that's their ideal Supreme court justice.
00:23:47.140
I just love the idea that like the future of democratic politics is like this nesting doll
00:23:53.160
of liberal boomers clinging to power for too long, like RBG, then Joe Biden, and now Sotomayor. And
00:24:01.300
like, what, what, what does it say about their confidence in their nominee, Joe Biden, that
00:24:06.980
they're concerned that Donald Trump's going to come back and Sotomayor is not going to be there
00:24:10.620
anymore. Well, having listened to her again today, they're right. They should be pushing for her to
00:24:16.480
go. There's, they're not wrong. I have to say, well, I'm on the side of liberals. If I were a
00:24:20.080
leftist, I'd want her gone too. They should push harder. I completely see it in a new light.
00:24:24.560
Who they replace them with is always worse. Like Ketanji is going to look like Scalia compared to
00:24:28.860
who they try to replace her with. I mean, that's what you always think about the Democrats. And then
00:24:32.040
they go further and further left. We had topless trans people at the white house. Would you think
00:24:36.040
that would happen four years ago? That's a good point. They move fast. That's why Jeffrey
00:24:40.840
Toobin will be joining the court this fall. Can I tell you something? It's worse than we knew guys,
00:24:47.540
because my crack team, we don't actually listen to Don Lemon's podcast. No one does. But in the
00:24:53.200
wake of our discussion here, they went and decided to pull a clip of these two discussing Stormy Daniels.
00:25:02.360
Does Stormy Daniels have credibility issues? Because didn't she write a letter because she
00:25:06.360
said she didn't want to violate her NDA saying that I had no relationship with Donald Trump?
00:25:12.360
In 2018, she wrote a letter saying she never had sex with him. That she has since repudiated.
00:25:20.600
There's lots of evidence that she has told people earlier that they did, in fact, have sex. Look,
00:25:26.440
I, you know, it's important to remember that Stormy Daniels was the key witness against Michael
00:25:32.680
Avenatti in a fraud case that was tried earlier in Manhattan federal court. And the jury believed
00:25:39.160
every word she said. There's a reason why they shot Jeffrey Toobin only from the waist up.
00:25:47.720
Like Elvis. Well, you get him talking about porn stars. You never know what's going to happen,
00:25:53.080
right? I mean, that's a dangerous territory for Lemon to put his viewers.
00:25:57.240
Guys, don't you remember Jeffrey Toobin, in addition to, you know, jerk off gate? I don't
00:26:01.800
know what you even call it. He was in the news for having gotten some young woman who was the
00:26:08.840
daughter of Jeffrey Goldberg, right, of the Atlantic? Greenfield, right? Sorry, Greenfield,
00:26:14.440
of the Atlantic, that he got his daughter pregnant, they had an affair, and then he pressured her into
00:26:19.400
having an abortion. This guy, he's out there commenting. You know what? Maybe I'm wrong.
00:26:24.040
Maybe he's the perfect person to talk about Stormy Daniels.
00:26:27.800
We had a running joke for a long time about Toobin, because he would always get himself
00:26:32.760
into trouble and he would say controversial things. This is long before jerk gate or whatever
00:26:38.600
But every time his name- That works on a couple levels.
00:26:43.240
But like, every time his name was surfaced, we were like, the real victim of all of this is
00:26:48.440
Jeff Greenfield. Yeah. Right? This is the poor guy whose name is invoked every time you're talking
00:26:54.680
about Toobin, and all he's got is like a daughter who is involved with him. And this poor guy, right?
00:26:59.800
I mean, it's like he had to work alongside of this dude at CNN for years. Yeah. Meanwhile,
00:27:06.200
like Jeffrey Toobin's on TV talking about how disgraceful Clarence Thomas is. It's unreal.
00:27:11.080
How bad like Kavanaugh is. And it's like, bro, you tried to pressure my daughter into getting an abortion.
00:27:16.920
Right. It's unbelievable. It's just incredible.
00:27:19.640
And they didn't want to pay child support, right? Like they had to get a whole paternity test done
00:27:23.320
on him before he would support the baby. It's like, this is not a nice guy. Like,
00:27:27.640
let's just be honest. You can't recover from things like that. You shouldn't be able to. You,
00:27:30.920
you wind up on the Don Lemon podcast if you do those things. Okay. Back to SCOTUS. So this,
00:27:37.240
let me just give you a little background on this case, because this is important. Really this,
00:27:40.200
this, the way I see it, the way, what I heard today, the J six prosecution against Trump is
00:27:46.280
getting gutted within the next two months. This, I, I counted six, three, I counted six.
00:27:51.320
Chief Justice Roberts seemed firmly against the government on trying to turn what was a charge
00:27:57.800
meant to punish entities like Arthur Anderson, which shredded documents after it had received a
00:28:04.280
subpoena or when it knew it was about to from doing that into something that would swoop up
00:28:09.880
hundreds of J six defendants who randomly found themselves on the Capitol that day.
00:28:14.920
So here's what happened. Small town cop, Joseph Fisher spent about four minutes inside the Capitol
00:28:20.680
building, joined the crowd, breaching the Capitol from the East side. He yelled again and again,
00:28:26.360
charge the government says before pushing forward toward a cop, toward a police line while yelling
00:28:32.200
mother effers. He and other writers fell to the ground after other writers lifted him up.
00:28:37.800
Video disclosed as evidence shows that he tried to appeal to officers protecting the Capitol,
00:28:43.000
telling them that he was an officer too. It's our effing house brother. The video appears to show
00:28:48.440
Fisher saying that day. It's also on his social media as of the next day, January 7th,
00:28:55.560
Fisher writing that he had been pepper balled and pepper sprayed, but entry into the Capitol was needed to
00:29:01.560
send a message that we, the people hold the real power. Okay. Not surprisingly, this guy got charged.
00:29:07.000
He was charged with seven criminal counts, including a felony count of obstructing an official proceeding.
00:29:13.080
He also got charged with assaulting a cop and entering a restricted building, et cetera, et cetera.
00:29:17.640
But this whole case is about obstructing an official proceeding. And it is also the main charge
00:29:24.360
against Donald Trump in that DC federal prosecution. Um, what happened was the district
00:29:30.840
court judge as a trial court judge, Carl Nichols ruled that this charge could not stand that.
00:29:37.480
This was not, it didn't fit the behavior that they were alleging against Fisher. That's not what this
00:29:43.160
charge was meant to cover. It's section 1512 C one prohibits tampering with evidence with the
00:29:50.360
intent to impair the object's integrity or availability for use in official proceeding.
00:29:54.840
And then there's 1512 C two, which says, well, I'll get to it, but basically has wider language
00:30:01.480
saying somebody who with corrupt intent, otherwise obstructs influences or impedes any official proceeding
00:30:07.240
or attempts to justice. So they, they're kind of looking back to Arthur Anderson saying this,
00:30:14.680
this law was meant to get after financial fraud or like interference with an official proceeding
00:30:19.960
by somebody who's in financial trouble, who shreds documents or tries to intimidate a witness into not
00:30:24.280
testifying. And the otherwise provision is meant to only say, okay, you, you, sub one says you can't
00:30:33.720
alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal a record, a document or other object or attempt to. And then
00:30:40.120
sub two says, or otherwise obstruct. And what the defense is arguing here is that second clause doesn't
00:30:49.480
expand this statute to cover any kind of obstruction of an official proceeding. It's, it's all still under
00:30:55.720
the lane of records, documents, other objects that get destroyed, mutilated, or something like that.
00:31:01.560
That's what they're trying to argue. Has to still be in the lane of, it's like a financial fraud or
00:31:06.760
coverup or interference when you get a subpoena in this lane. And the government's trying to say no
00:31:12.760
sub two, which says, or otherwise obstruct covers everything, everything. It's, it's a catch-all
00:31:19.160
that's meant to just get all kinds of behavior, including what we saw in J six. That's what it comes
00:31:23.880
down to. Well, what happened today was the lawyer for the defendant, Mr. Fisher got up there,
00:31:30.440
made a very brief argument along the lines of what I just said. It's very limited, should, should be
00:31:35.080
limited. You can't expand it. And he got a couple of questions from, like I said, Sotomayor and some
00:31:40.520
of the more liberal jurists. There's only three, three now, which were fine. I mean, to me, honestly,
00:31:45.160
like half of them were just confusing. I'm like, I don't, I don't even understand what they're asking
00:31:48.680
these ladies, but okay. And he did. Okay. I don't, I give that guy like a B. Then the solicitor
00:31:55.800
general gets up, she represents the governor or the government. And, um, she started getting
00:32:01.160
peppered with questions by the conservative jurists almost right away. And not surprisingly,
00:32:06.360
Thomas, he was right off the bat. He, he laid into her on when the hell has this otherwise provision
00:32:12.920
ever been applied to protesters? Has that ever happened before? Or is this just a Donald Trump
00:32:17.280
J six thing? Here's a little bit of that inside 11. There've been many violent protests that have
00:32:23.640
interfered with, uh, uh, proceedings as the government, uh, uh, applied this provision
00:32:31.080
to other protests in the past. And has this been the government's position throughout the
00:32:38.440
lifespan of the statute? It has certainly been the government's position since the enactment of 1512
00:32:44.200
C2, that it covers the myriad forms of obstructing an official proceeding, and that it's not limited
00:32:49.240
to some kind of evidence impairment gloss. Have you, so have you, have you enforced it in that
00:32:54.040
manner? We have enforced it in a variety of prosecutions that don't focus on evidence tampering.
00:32:58.920
Now I can't give you an example of enforcing it in a situation where people have violently stormed a
00:33:03.720
building in order to prevent an official proceeding, a specified one from occurring.
00:33:07.560
So what role does, uh, C1 play in your analysis? So we understand 1512 C to split up the world of
00:33:14.920
obstructive conduct of an official proceeding into the C1 offense and into C2. C1 covers everything
00:33:20.440
it enumerates. It's the acts of altering, concealing, destroying records, documents,
00:33:25.240
or other objects. And then C2 would only pick up conduct that obstructs an official proceeding in a
00:33:30.760
different way. Okay. So you get the gist, right? You know, Thomas is not buying it. He's like,
00:33:37.400
I mean, look, you guys, look what happened to Kavanaugh. Look what happened when Kavanaugh was,
00:33:44.040
I don't even mean the death threats, the attempted murder. I mean, when he was sitting for his
00:33:49.080
confirmation hearing, look what the Democrats did to him on Capitol Hill. If that was that not
00:33:55.000
obstruction of an, that's what he's going for. Right. Yeah. It's exactly right. If I was Clarence
00:34:01.720
Thomas, I would have put it a little bit more succinctly. I would have said,
00:34:04.600
so counselor, uh, if somebody stood up right now and started protesting here at the United States
00:34:09.920
Supreme court, would they be charged with this offense? Yeah. Cause this is an official proceeding.
00:34:15.540
You you're accepted under the U S Supreme court because Justice Alito went exactly there. You're,
00:34:22.560
you're now in the running, uh, toward becoming America's next Supreme court justice. Take a listen
00:34:26.760
to Alito. I'll nominate you. Stand by. So we've had a number of protests in the
00:34:34.580
courtroom. Let's say that today, while you're arguing, or Mr. Green is arguing five people
00:34:43.040
get up one after the other, and they shout either keeps the January six insurrectionists
00:34:49.700
in jail or free the January six Patriots. And as a result of this, our police officers have
00:34:55.780
to remove them forcibly from the courtroom. And let's say we have to do it delays the proceeding
00:35:01.700
for five minutes. So would that be a violation of 1512 C two? I think it would be difficult for
00:35:08.880
the government to prove that at the outset, we don't think that 1512 C two picks up minimal
00:35:14.300
de minimis minor interferences. We think that the term obstruct on its face connotes a meaningful,
00:35:19.200
uh, interference with the proceeding. Well, it doesn't say, I'm sorry. Uh,
00:35:23.160
uh, C two does not refer just to obstruct. It says obstructs influences or impedes. Impedes is
00:35:33.340
something less than obstructs. I think that this is a verb phrase where iteration was obviously afoot.
00:35:39.160
And you're, you're preaching the plain meaning, uh, interpretation of this provision. The,
00:35:46.760
the plain meaning of, uh, uh, impede in Webster's is to interfere with, or get in the way of the
00:35:55.480
progress. Why wouldn't that fall within? Now you could say, well, we're not going to prosecute
00:36:00.060
that. Why isn't that a violation of five 12, uh, uh, uh, 1512 C two. We read the act as Reyes more
00:36:06.180
narrowly. You guys get it. That's why the Supreme court is so important. I mean, that right there is a
00:36:13.280
perfect distillation of why the Supreme court is so important. When like Ashbrook said, you've got
00:36:18.560
these prosecutors who are getting bought and put in place by Soros and other left-wing billionaires
00:36:24.720
across the country, because they know voters don't want to legalize crime. So they say,
00:36:29.040
why not just have the prosecutor not do it? And that's the same thing that they are attempting
00:36:32.880
to do with the Supreme court is they want to legislate from the bench for so long. They had a
00:36:37.840
complete lockdown on having their way, whether it was legal or not. The reason Roe existed for so many
00:36:42.160
years. And now they're faced with a court that follows the letter of the law. And that's what
00:36:47.760
drives them nuts because that's the only thing standing between them and complete control at
00:36:51.520
this point. Yeah. I mean, it's a perfect illustration between the difference of liberal progressive
00:36:56.240
legal theory and conservative strict constructionists. Yes. Right. Because what they're talking about
00:37:02.240
and believe me, I I'm very much a holiday and express lawyer. Like my best resume is that I had two
00:37:07.360
parents that were attorneys. That's like all I can do. But, uh, all that being said,
00:37:12.480
they're talking about the original intent of the statute, right? Yeah. The plain meaning.
00:37:17.680
Because if, if you're just somebody off the street and you say obstruction of a official proceeding,
00:37:23.360
clearly there was an official proceeding and clearly it was obstructed. Okay. That's fine and well
00:37:28.160
and good. But when you get into a court of law, the people who follow these sorts of things are like,
00:37:31.440
okay, well, here's what that statute has been used for. This is what it was intended to do.
00:37:37.840
Here's what you are suggesting. And here's the far reaching cataclysmic type prosecution event that it
00:37:44.800
would cause if we were to find in your favor, meaning like anyone, anyone.
00:37:50.560
And what he was saying was you're, you just nailed it. Exactly. First of all. And, and second,
00:37:55.120
all second of all, what he was saying was the absurdity, like this is somebody standing up here and
00:38:00.000
yelling something could fall within this and they could, they could get prosecuted and her defense,
00:38:05.200
realizing she'd been caught by, you know, her very broad definition of this otherwise provision
00:38:11.680
has her caught in a very unreasonable interpretation of the statute. She said,
00:38:16.560
oh, well that would be de minimis. That would just be a small thing. And I think there's really a,
00:38:21.440
like de minimis acts clearly wouldn't be covered by this. And he was like, hold on a second.
00:38:27.040
Now you're asking us to read new terms into this provision. There's nothing about the level of
00:38:33.760
intrusion or instruction, right? Like he's like, this is where your crazy ass interpretation would
00:38:39.680
take us. And there isn't something in here that would say, oh, but de minimis acts don't count.
00:38:44.640
Right. She's allowed to interpret things broadly where it helps her. And it's more narrow where it
00:38:50.320
doesn't help her. I mean, this is like, what, what about an official person? What, what's the definition
00:38:54.480
of an official proceeding? How about like an ambulance trying to cross the Golden Gate Bridge
00:38:59.280
while a bunch of Hamas protesters were blocking it yesterday? How about 5,000 people trying to get
00:39:06.080
to their airplanes at Chicago O'Hare airport yesterday after paying a thousand bucks a ticket
00:39:10.560
or whatever you have to pay to fly on an, on an airline in this country? Like, how about the
00:39:16.240
obstruction of those people? Like at what point, what's an official act? What's an official event?
00:39:21.120
Is it an official event? How about burning down a police station? Well, that seems pretty
00:39:25.840
official. Where were the federal charges then? Yep. Yep. Yeah. I also, I would have loved if
00:39:33.040
Kavanaugh would have been like, ah, can we just go over the definition of de minimis one more time?
00:39:38.160
Because that didn't feel very de mute to me. Yeah. This poor guy, more than anyone up there,
00:39:53.360
An attempted assassin showed up. Nobody should try to stop him from ruling in favor of, of throwing out
00:40:00.640
Roe. All these conservative justices have been harassed and tried to be intimidated out of their
00:40:07.040
draft opinion. To this day, they're still, those protesters are still outside their homes to this
00:40:13.200
day, two years later. Yeah. Yeah. But okay. That's no, no problem. That's fine. Cause I guess
00:40:17.520
it's not an official proceeding if you do it at their house. Oh wait, there's a law against that
00:40:21.520
too. So here was the crux of the day. Okay. So it was very clear to me that you had at least five
00:40:28.240
justices. Gorsuch shouldn't pick, uh, speak up until late, but he's pretty conservative on that. I
00:40:32.800
don't, I don't think he's a risk, but the question is always chief justice, John Roberts, right? Like
00:40:36.880
maybe Amy Coney Barrett, Barrett seemed firmly in the camp of, um, the defense to me, it was a little
00:40:43.600
less clear than the others, but she's, to me, she seemed in their camp and then chief justice, John
00:40:48.400
Roberts pipes in. And it was to me, a glorious moment. I loved it. Now listen, it's a little in
00:40:53.200
the weeds, but you're going to understand it. He, the whole discussion is, do we take the specific,
00:40:59.840
specific first clause and interpret the otherwise clause that comes after it to be limited to acts
00:41:07.600
like we had in clause one, or do we go with the government with the otherwise is a huge catch-all
00:41:14.800
that gets all behavior, including for sure showing up at the Capitol on J six and chief justice Roberts
00:41:22.480
drops this bomb on the solicitor general. They're arguing for the government and for the more broad
00:41:28.700
interpretation. Take a listen to South five. General, I'm sure you've had a chance to read our
00:41:34.300
opinion released Friday in the voice in that case with the anonymous, it was very short,
00:41:40.860
but it explained how to apply the doctrine of Houston generous. And it, what it said is that
00:41:46.140
specific terms, a more general catch-all, if you will, term at the end. And it said that the general
00:41:52.220
phrase is controlled and defined by reference to the terms that precede it. Uh, the otherwise phrase
00:41:59.580
is more general. Uh, and the terms that precede it are alters, destroys, mutilates, uh, or can,
00:42:06.060
and seals a record and document and the terms record document or other object carried carry forward
00:42:12.220
into two as well. And it seems to me that they, as I said, sort of control and defined the,
00:42:18.700
uh, the more general term. So I think the problem with that approach with respect to 1512 is that
00:42:25.020
it doesn't look like the typical kind of statutory phrase that consists of a parallel list of nouns
00:42:30.940
or a parallel list of verbs where the court has applied to use them generous or the nose good or
00:42:36.460
cannon. You know, these are separate prohibitions that have their own complex, non-parallel internal
00:42:41.820
structure that there are multiple competing interpretations at issue in this case.
00:42:45.580
When you, when you apply that doctrine again, as we did on Friday, uh, it, uh, it responds to some
00:42:52.860
of the concerns that have been raised about how broad, uh, C2 is. You can't just tack it on and
00:42:58.140
say, look at it as if it's standing alone because it's not. That's him saying, I'm going to rule against
00:43:05.180
you. That's him saying you, you know, you cannot make it this general. We just issued a ruling on Friday
00:43:11.980
that F's you and she's dancing and she's bringing up the Latin and you know, it's, it's over. I mean,
00:43:17.980
my prediction is the Supreme court is going to go six, three to say, this is, you cannot bring this
00:43:23.180
charge in the J six context. And that means the federal prosecution against Trump in Washington,
00:43:29.420
DC is also gutted. If that happens. It also occurs to me that in the process of listening to this
00:43:36.860
argument and I'm glad you've got the audio. Cause it's fascinating that it is like a doctorate level
00:43:42.220
on the importance of separation of powers and the importance of the way that the framers put
00:43:48.300
together our system genius, right? Because when you have strict constructionists and people who follow
00:43:53.900
law to apply justice in this country, you do it based on a legislative intent of laws that are passed.
00:44:01.260
And you may well have a huge problem with what happened on January 6th. You may argue
00:44:06.940
that that was criminal in a variety of different ways. What you cannot do is extrapolate a term that
00:44:14.700
sounds like it's being prosecuted against these people in obstruction of an official proceeding
00:44:21.260
and apply it in a way that was not intended by the legislature. Right. And so, I mean, again,
00:44:26.060
there's a lot of people who look at the importance of court fights and they think, well, it's a
00:44:31.340
conservative versus liberal. It's an outcome based thing. It's not. It's an outcome based thing on the
00:44:35.820
liberal side. On the conservative side, all we've ever wanted is someone who interprets law and applies
00:44:42.060
the constitution and acts fairly within those confines. This is a doctorate level exhibition of the
00:44:50.300
importance of all of that. So true. A little previously, I think one of the most important
00:44:55.820
parts is when you had Justice Thomas ask straight up, is there any precedent of this being used?
00:45:02.060
And she has to dance around until she finally gets to, well, there hasn't been any specific
00:45:05.740
precedent. Like the worst thing you can say at the Supreme Court is try to argue a position and say,
00:45:09.740
there's no precedent for this. I'm asking you to legislate from the bench, which is incredible.
00:45:14.060
And for him to just cut through the argument to that point, say, has there been any precedent of this
00:45:18.380
being applied in the way that you're trying to do here? Straightforward.
00:45:21.340
And her answer was basically like, well, J6 was unprecedented. So it's like, all right,
00:45:26.860
that's not going to save you. It is. It is great. You know, the Democrats for four years of Trump
00:45:32.380
would say, you know, the system held the system held against this extraordinary test of this rogue,
00:45:40.140
you know, executive. And what actually happened today, if they ruled the way I think they're going
00:45:46.540
to, is the system held to your point, Holmes, that we, we, there was a process. We somehow managed
00:45:52.780
to get six conservative Supreme Court justices sitting. It was a miracle. Your old boss, Mitch
00:45:58.060
McConnell was huge. And that is a debt that everybody who is independent or right of center owes to him.
00:46:05.500
Um, obviously when it comes to something to do with it, so did George W. Bush. But anyway,
00:46:09.340
my point is when it finally got in front of them, they're, they appear to be doing the right thing.
00:46:15.020
They're sticking to the letter of the law. And I think it's going to come out the way
00:46:18.060
Congress would have intended. And if Congress doesn't intend it, by the way, they'll go back
00:46:21.500
and clarify it. That's also the system. That's, that's the system working. And when it comes to
00:46:25.980
politics, uh, sometimes it works for you. Sometimes it works against you. That's the entire point of
00:46:30.860
having a system of laws, the way that it's set up. I mean, like there's a chance that they could go
00:46:36.140
nine O against Trump on the immunity question and just a short period of time. Yeah. Yeah. And so like,
00:46:42.780
you know, Republicans are going to be complaining about the court at that point. I'm sure some
00:46:46.700
Republicans will, it's like, you know, sometimes it's for you. Sometimes it's against you. That's
00:46:50.300
the entire point. Yeah. Uh, okay. Hold on a second. I'm just getting updates from my team. Uh, okay.
00:46:56.700
Washington post their lead on SCOTUS Supreme court. The Supreme court seemed deeply divided Tuesday.
00:47:03.260
Well, six to three, uh, over a challenge to a federal law that prosecutors used to charge more
00:47:08.860
than 350 people who were part of the pro Donald Trump mob that attacked the U S Capitol and J six,
00:47:13.580
several conservatives express concern about giving prosecutors broad power that they suggested would
00:47:20.380
allow the government to target peaceful protesters or hecklers who disrupted court proceeding. Other
00:47:24.380
justices seem to back the government. Wow. Um, they're kind of missing the headline here,
00:47:29.740
which is sure. It was deeply divided. It's going to come down six, three. I who on the conservative
00:47:35.660
side was sounded at all. Like they were entertaining the liberals argument, not one,
00:47:41.020
not one, according to what I listened to everything, but the last 10 minutes, I, there's no way they want
00:47:44.540
them over in that. We'll see. Sometimes the Supreme court can be hard to predict. They sometimes surprise
00:47:49.740
you. I don't, I don't think I'm going to get surprised in this particular case guys. So what,
00:47:54.380
what does it mean? Right? So like if the J six case goes away, do we have to take a break right now?
00:47:59.740
Hold on a second. My team's training. Oh, we have, okay. We'll talk about that on the backside.
00:48:03.740
And we've got to get to these insane protests that you guys mentioned across the country. Now,
00:48:07.340
as these lunatics are trying to shut down airports and bridges and so on much, much more with ruthless
00:48:12.620
ahead. Don't go away. Anti-Israel protesters, blocking roads, bridges, and highways in big cities
00:48:22.860
across the United States in the wake of Iran attacking Israel. Okay. Demonstrations were
00:48:30.620
part of a global economic blockade to free Palestine. Protesters seen here on the Golden
00:48:35.580
Gate Bridge in San Francisco chained themselves to 55 gallon drums filled with cement. Very tempting to
00:48:41.660
throw the cement barrels over the bridge. Very tempting. The ABC local channel in San Francisco caught
00:48:47.980
on tape one driver near the front, getting out of his car and demanding that the protesters get the
00:48:53.020
hell out of the road. Yes. He speaks for us all. They're so annoying. Police arrested 38 people,
00:48:58.220
but it took about four hours to move them out thanks to their cement blocks and get the traffic moving
00:49:06.460
again. Can you imagine how infuriating this is if you're stuck in the middle of it? Protesters also
00:49:13.020
block the entrance to Seattle's international airport for three hours. Travelers were forced
00:49:19.100
to get out of their cars and walk to the terminals with their luggage. Not everybody has the rolly
00:49:25.180
luggage. Some people actually have to carry it. Police can be seen standing near the protesters.
00:49:30.380
You're going to be shocked in Seattle. They weren't doing much of anything,
00:49:34.060
not much of anything to get them out of the street. In the end, however, 46 people were arrested there.
00:49:39.580
Um, further south into Miami, about 150 protesters attempted to block traffic to Port Miami. Key
00:49:48.220
word here is attempted. We're now we're in Florida. Keep in mind, police officers in riot gear on
00:49:53.340
horseback and on motorcycles quickly moved in to break apart the protest. And after repeatedly trying
00:49:59.100
to block traffic, several were arrested by the cops. The group behind the protest later accused police of
00:50:04.380
aggressively arresting them. Too bad. Protesters also taunted coffee drinkers at a Starbucks in Ann Arbor,
00:50:14.220
Michigan. Democratic Pennsylvania Senator and ardent Israel supporter John Fetterman tweeted about the
00:50:19.420
protesters saying, quote, I don't know who needs to hear this, but blocking a bridge or berating folks in
00:50:24.860
Starbucks isn't righteous. It just makes you an asshole here here, Senator Fetterman. But some of the most
00:50:31.420
disturbing images came out of New York, downtown Wall Street in particular in lower Manhattan.
00:50:37.500
One protester was seen waving the yellow and green banner of the terror group Hezbollah. Great.
00:50:45.180
This is video from friend of the show, Julio Rosas, who is always on the scene of these protests
00:50:51.980
to document them for his sub stack called Mostly Peaceful. You get the reference, right? He's doing the work
00:50:59.380
that the New York Times won't do and other publications like it showing you it's now come
00:51:04.340
to Hezbollah flags right here in America, right in New York steps away, by the way, from where the
00:51:09.860
Twin Towers were brought down. Other protesters proclaimed death to America and praise the man
00:51:17.060
behind those 9-11 attacks. Osama bin Laden. Watch.
00:51:20.980
What do you think about the USA? What do you think about the USA?
00:51:24.660
What do you think about the USA? It should burn.
00:51:28.660
Sir, what do you think about the American flag?
00:51:43.220
What do you think about Osama bin Laden in 9-11?
00:51:53.620
Then get out. If you don't like it, get out. We don't want you either.
00:51:58.660
Move death to America. Okay, tough guy. Sure. With your face all covered so we can't see who you
00:52:03.940
are and get you fired, which I'd be happy to because F you if you don't want to be a move along.
00:52:08.260
Go to the evil top hat Canada. See how you like it up there.
00:52:11.620
Back with me now, the guys from Ruthless. This is so infuriating.
00:52:15.620
It's amazing that this didn't result in violence. Am I wrong?
00:52:20.020
No. It occurs to me, what's going on down in Gitmo? We have some vacancies down there.
00:52:26.020
I feel like we could fill up a couple of cells with some folks, right? I mean,
00:52:30.020
that's what we had it there for in the first place. The whole death to America,
00:52:33.460
praising Osama bin Laden. Enhanced interrogation might be necessary again.
00:52:38.420
I got dollars to donuts. Half of those people are on public assistance.
00:52:41.940
Yeah, probably. See, I have a different perspective on this, Megan. I tend to think a lot of them,
00:52:47.460
especially in a place like New York like that, some of those young folks who cover their faces,
00:52:57.380
Right. Right. It's like, well, I think what's most dangerous about this and scary about it is
00:53:03.940
it's gone a long way from like criticizing the foreign policy of the United States of America to
00:53:09.140
like actively waving the flags of terrorist organizations in our own country.
00:53:16.020
I mean, if that doesn't get you on a watch from the trade center.
00:53:19.220
Yeah. Steps from the World Trade Center footprint.
00:53:24.260
To your point about Occupy Wall Street, there's a big difference between
00:53:27.620
protesting corporate greed and saying death to America, burn the flag. I mean, if anything
00:53:32.740
tells you we have an immigration problem in this country, I don't. I mean, that does. It's like,
00:53:37.700
this is this is a a gigantic problem. And I don't understand if people are going to be arrested at an
00:53:44.900
airport for blocking cars from parking and going to their planes, they're going to be arrested
00:53:50.820
eventually. Why can't they be arrested right away? You know, why is it that they're allowed to just
00:53:56.820
sit there and cause problems for everybody going about their lives and nothing happens? I mean,
00:54:02.900
literally they're arrested. And then what? Then they just released to go do it again.
00:54:08.020
So that's the thing is, is like we had again earlier discussed is when you've got these dark
00:54:12.340
money funded prosecutors, you don't need to elect officials who will pass laws to stop this kind
00:54:18.340
of nonsense when the prosecutor you can buy just won't bring up any charges. We saw this happen
00:54:22.820
in New York with all the riots that happened there and so much destruction of small businesses
00:54:28.500
and every single one of those people received a pardon. So when you have this culture of lawlessness,
00:54:33.860
it just, you know, it spirals and spirals and spirals. But to me, what's even more disturbing than
00:54:38.500
some random protesters saying this is we now have members of Congress, you know, Ilhan Omar,
00:54:43.300
Rashida Tlaib. These are people who after this rocket attack from Iran,
00:54:48.260
were completely silent. They were completely silent. And they have specifically run on their
00:54:54.900
hatred of Israel, their hatred of this country, believing that America is like a fallen country
00:54:59.780
that can't be redeemed. That's their core belief. And they were elected within 20 years or right
00:55:06.100
around 20 years of the attack on September 11th. And right there, we're seeing this happen.
00:55:10.500
And they've dragged the rest of the Democratic Party to their view in all of this. And they say it,
00:55:15.140
you know, most quote unquote, responsible Democrats say in a different way, but they've
00:55:19.380
all been pushing Israel to, you know, have a ceasefire with the terrorists who murdered all of those
00:55:24.900
people on October 7th. Mind you, Hamas, who cannot account for any of those hostages now as
00:55:30.340
part of that ceasefire deal, you got Chuck Schumer calling for a ceasefire three days before Iran
00:55:37.140
starts lobbing missiles into Israel. And now suddenly, the funniest part is how all these folks have to
00:55:41.540
sort of like retcon their opinion on Israel and say, we stand with Israel against Iran. And it's
00:55:47.620
like, dude, three days ago, you were telling them to give up trying to get Americans back and their
00:55:51.860
own citizens back from Gaza. It's a larger and more pervasive problem than we're sort of covering here
00:55:58.100
with the protesters. The reality is that those protesters have a constituency within the Democratic
00:56:03.540
party of today's America. It is unbelievable to say it is, it is, you know, akin to saying like
00:56:10.420
the Ku Klux Klan has got a constituency in one of the parties. It is not a demographic you should ever
00:56:17.540
try to appeal for. They call for the genocide and the extent extinction of Jewish people. They take them
00:56:23.700
at their word. That is what they are trying to do. They have such a constituency that you, as you said,
00:56:29.140
they are electing members of Congress that represent those points of view. And what makes it,
00:56:35.460
I think, more alarming to me, Megan, than anything else is that the Biden administration, which started
00:56:40.580
out immediately after October 7th, saying all the right things about the interests that America has
00:56:46.500
in Israel and the region. And then they've sort of figured out that they have a political problem
00:56:51.460
along the way. And you look at poll after poll where they are underperforming against progressive and
00:56:56.340
young voters. And they know that at some level in some states, Michigan and others,
00:57:01.220
it's because of this issue. And so they've begun to try to triangulate American foreign policy to fit
00:57:08.180
a political problem that Joe Biden finds himself in, in an election year, which is fucking scary.
00:57:15.220
That is an unbelievable departure from any sort of foreign policy concert. I don't care if you're a
00:57:21.380
libertarian or if you're a defense hawk, the idea that domestic politics are entirely changing our
00:57:29.140
relationship to one of maybe two of the best allies that we have in the entire world should scare the
00:57:35.380
hell out of everybody. So can I, I want to make two points and then I'll give you the floor. One,
00:57:42.020
yes, it's incredibly inconvenient for people who are flying and you never know where they're flying.
00:57:45.380
You know, it's like, this is like an assumption that every trip is for pleasure. That's not true.
00:57:49.140
Right. You know, the American industry is what it is because people work hard here. We're not France
00:57:53.620
and they have important meetings to get to. They have important things to do.
00:57:56.900
They have funerals to make, you know, they have like the selfishness of this. But then you think
00:58:02.180
about like the ambulances that get shut down, the emergency trips to the hospital, the people having
00:58:06.340
the babies, the people who had a heart attack, all of them. None of that matters because these people
00:58:11.220
want to make a point about Palestinian suffering. What about the Americans who you're making suffer right
00:58:16.180
now? They don't care. That's why they're chanting death to America. And then I have no adverse reaction
00:58:21.620
to the lunatic wave, waving the Hezbollah flag right next to them. They want attention for themselves.
00:58:27.540
They have them have no fucking idea who Hezbollah is or what this Palestinian Israel conflict is all
00:58:33.940
about. They've just decided, you know, the black, brown, white equation warrants them going out there
00:58:39.380
and siding against America. But I do want to talk about the messaging, the anti-American messaging.
00:58:45.780
Before I do that, though, Ashbrook, were you trying to get in on what those guys were just saying?
00:58:49.860
No, no, I was just actually what you just said is sort of what I was going to say is that what the
00:58:55.540
left really wants in this country is power. What the what the protesters will not talk about is how
00:59:01.300
Hamas treats regular Palestinians inside of Gaza. They're blocking the relief supplies. They're blocking
00:59:08.100
the food. Hamas is trying to keep the regular person in palace at regular person living in Gaza down.
00:59:15.380
And now you have these Hamas protesters here in America who are trying to stop regular people in
00:59:21.300
America from living their lives. And what we've seen from the left over a long period of time
00:59:28.260
is this move to where we're not allowed to have like they don't like normal Americans having the
00:59:35.140
typical American political arguments where somebody says, oh, don't I don't like tax cuts or somebody
00:59:40.820
says, oh, I don't like these Medicaid waivers like they think that those types of arguments are bad
00:59:46.020
because then we're not talking about what they want to talk about, which is completely destroying
00:59:52.020
America and completely destroying Israel and their radical ideas that are echoed by these major
00:59:59.780
institutions on the left and more and more echoed by major media institutions on the left. And it's
01:00:05.140
just one of the worst things that's happened in our society. Go ahead, Megan. Sorry.
01:00:08.980
So, no, I go on a tangent there and I was right. Here's what's so annoying about, you know, the left
01:00:17.700
can't stand this country. Not all of the leftists, right? Not liberals, but leftists and these protesters
01:00:24.180
out there in the streets or they they hate America. They're only now giving specific voice to it.
01:00:30.100
Death to America. Right. Like, OK, I'm not shocked. I knew you felt that way. But it's great to have
01:00:35.540
you actually say it explicitly. Right. Right here on American soil over and over, whether it's down on
01:00:41.060
Wall Street or is in Dearborn, Michigan, Michigan last week. And after that happened in Dearborn,
01:00:47.220
Hillary Vaughn of Fox News got in the grill of Rashida Tlaib and tried to get her because it's her
01:00:53.780
jurisdiction to condemn those words. It shouldn't be hard. It's a no brainer, madam. Yes, I condemn.
01:01:03.140
Absolutely. I am an American congresswoman. Of course, I don't agree with that. But instead,
01:01:09.460
here's what happened. Congressman Tlaib. I don't talk to Fox News. At a rally in your district,
01:01:16.580
people were chanting death to America. Do you condemn? I do not talk to Fox News.
01:01:21.540
But do you condemn chants of death to America? I don't talk to people that use racist tropes.
01:01:28.580
Why can't you just say whether or not you condemn people chanting death to? Why are you afraid to
01:01:33.140
talk to talk to Fox News? Fox News is not, not, listen, using racist tropes towards my community
01:01:39.700
is what Fox News is about. And I don't talk to Fox News. Is death to America racist?
01:01:46.340
Is chanting death to America racist? I'm talking about your guys' racist tropes.
01:01:50.500
You know, you guys are, you guys know exactly what you do. I know you're Islamophobic,
01:01:54.740
but you guys got to go deal with it on your own self. You're not going to use me.
01:02:03.620
And it's like, how many words does she take to say, I don't talk to Fox News over and over?
01:02:07.780
She could have just said, yeah, I condemn. I condemn.
01:02:11.620
Because she can't. But she doesn't. But she doesn't. And that's the problem. There is a
01:02:17.860
constituency deeply embedded in today's Democratic Party where that's the view. That's the view.
01:02:25.460
And we can all pretend like it doesn't happen because the New York Times isn't going to cover
01:02:29.460
it and the Washington Post isn't going to cover it and the AP and CNN and MSNBC are not going to
01:02:34.260
talk about that. But it's the ugly reality that you're dealing with a constituency within the
01:02:39.060
Democratic Party who wants the elimination, not only of just America, but a whole population of people
01:02:47.140
in the Middle East. I mean, it is truly, I don't think we really have grappled with the gravity
01:02:54.100
of what this represents. Because at no point in our history, since the days of slavery and since the
01:03:02.340
days of just horrible, racist prosecutions and the days of Jim Crow, have we dealt with a constituency
01:03:12.500
within a major political party in this country that is telling you exactly what it is that they say?
01:03:19.300
And what they say is, we want these people dead. That's what they're saying. Let's just listen to it
01:03:26.420
and be very, very clear about our understanding. They're going to pretend like it doesn't. But watch
01:03:30.820
what happens with Joe Biden. Watch how he's triangulating. They're trying to accommodate a
01:03:35.140
constituency where that's the view. And that is amazing that, you know, she won't talk to Fox
01:03:40.980
News. Nobody else will ask her that question. So she doesn't have to answer it at all. They're
01:03:45.860
literally the only ones with access to her and she won't answer the question. OK, all of this leads me
01:03:52.180
to this meltdown that Joe Scarborough had on MSNBC this morning. OK, and we've gone through it. Like
01:04:00.500
the as the Hezbollah, the Dearborn, Michigan chants, which we played last week, Rashida Tlaib won't
01:04:06.500
condemn. We all know why. And now here's Scarborough with what the real problem is in America, who the
01:04:17.300
real haters are of our country watches. We are so much more powerful, so much stronger than we have
01:04:28.980
ever been. And you're voting for a guy that tells you every day that America sucks. What's wrong with
01:04:33.940
you? Who raised you? You don't read. Because if you read, Mike, the facts are clear. And I'm getting
01:04:41.460
tired of saying this to people who claim to be patriotic but hate America because they're always
01:04:47.620
running America down. They're always trashing America. They're always saying America's horrible.
01:04:52.820
It's democracy doesn't work. We need a dictatorship if Donald Trump doesn't win.
01:04:57.620
So what do they do? They find a trans athlete in Utah.
01:05:02.580
The world's coming to it. Help us, Jesus. The country. Country ain't the country ours raised in.
01:05:13.540
Oh, he's not talking about Rashida Tlaib, right? MAGA. They're the very hate America. No one on his
01:05:25.380
team. I missed his condemnation of all of that rhetoric that we just went through.
01:05:30.500
They can't. And they won't. And they're going to pretend like it doesn't exist. I mean, one of the
01:05:35.780
things that the democratic corporate media has done over the years, and I think they're most effective
01:05:41.780
at, is narrative choosing. It's not so much the real power. Yeah. The real power is to try to pretend
01:05:49.700
like the news only exists in the silos that they provide it. And then they ignore the more pervasive
01:05:57.220
pieces of a democratic constituency in a party that they support and don't want to make that
01:06:01.700
a public discussion because, boy, that would threaten the narrative. And that's what you see
01:06:06.020
Joe doing there. I mean, look, he's about a week late on our hack madness tournament.
01:06:11.540
Yeah. Megan, we have our tournament where we have 64 of the best and brightest liberal hacks
01:06:17.380
in the country. And we do a tournament at Ruthless. And Scarborough made a pretty good run this year.
01:06:22.580
He made a good run, but he should have done that earlier.
01:06:30.740
I think what's really interesting to see in this is all of this is based around the fundamental change in
01:06:37.940
the progressives, the left, the Democrat party, where they've essentially made it that you have
01:06:43.540
to agree with all of it or you're the enemy, right? So you see these seemingly disparate groups,
01:06:50.100
like when you see these parades of queers for Palestine, which makes no sense at all,
01:06:56.180
as they would be killed in Palestine. But they enforce this doctrine on them of, listen,
01:07:02.580
there's intersectionality. You have to agree with all of it or none of it. You have to say,
01:07:06.980
yes, you agree with the trans movement. You also agree in this belief that Israel is
01:07:13.780
committing a genocide. You have to agree with the complete Black Lives Matter, that you're allowed
01:07:18.420
to have riots and burn down buildings. So part and parcel, if you don't agree with all of that,
01:07:23.700
then you're the enemy. And they enforce this by saying, if you're not with us, you're against
01:07:27.620
democracy. You're attacking democracy. So they have to simplify it as it's us versus them. And if you're
01:07:34.100
not with us, you're attacking democracy and you're the enemy. And you're seeing it goes beyond just
01:07:38.740
the rhetoric. Now they just use the Justice Department to go after their political enemies.
01:07:42.420
It's just amazing to me, the level of hatred and honestly, the level of stupidity,
01:07:48.100
like Starbucks, Starbucks, you can't hide. Not till we free Palestine. How is Starbucks going to
01:08:04.900
Even better. You guys know Jesse's single. He was, he tweeted out.
01:08:13.140
We shall fight in the Starbucks. We shall fight in the theater companies.
01:08:17.460
We shall fight in the small literary magazines and in the fast food restaurants.
01:08:27.300
It's easy to laugh until you see the death to America chant. And then you're like,
01:08:32.580
Right. Yeah. We should have sort of like a, a new legislative push to create a series of laws
01:08:37.460
where it provides the, like the intent of the, the protesters to live on what they're protesting.
01:08:43.460
Like all these Gaza folks, we should just load up a C-130 and send them to Gaza and see how they love
01:08:48.100
that. Or if you like shut it down over a climate change or something, you just load up a C-130 and
01:08:52.500
send them to Antarctica. You know what I mean? Like that seems like a, that seems like a pretty
01:08:57.380
good punishment. Like you actually have to live now the, what you're trying to protest the rest of
01:09:02.660
us over rather than disrupting our daily lives. And on your way there, you'll be suffering three
01:09:07.460
hour delays in the street. Thanks to the richest guys and their bags of cement.
01:09:11.140
Right. Exactly. All right. So while, while we're on the subject of, uh, errant media, uh,
01:09:16.500
which is where I put Scarborough's remarks this morning, let's talk for a minute about NPR because
01:09:21.140
there's an update in that guy, Yuri Berlinger, who wrote the Berliner, forgive me, who wrote the
01:09:27.300
piece exposing their just hardcore left bias. And we knew, but like, we didn't have all the details
01:09:35.220
around it. And now we've got a lot more color on just how bad they are over there. He wrote for the
01:09:39.540
free press and a remarkable piece. He's been suspended five days without pay. It's a formal
01:09:46.700
rebuke. And the reason is, uh, according to David Folkenflik, who works for NPR and reported on this,
01:09:53.220
that he failed to secure NPR's approval for outside work for another news outlet. He has been issued a
01:10:01.020
quote, final warning saying that he will be fired if he violates NPR's policy again. Uh, he has said
01:10:09.180
that he will not appeal the punishment and NPR has said the other thing he did was publicly release
01:10:15.200
proprietary information about audience demographics, which it considers confidential. That I believe is
01:10:21.280
a reference to the fact that notwithstanding they're making NPR into a living, breathing DEI
01:10:26.860
machine. They have just rock bottom numbers on Hispanic and black viewers and listeners. Nobody
01:10:35.540
they're shocked to find out that diverse communities are not obsessed with race and identity the way the
01:10:41.900
white liberal elites who work at NPR are. And this comes as we find out, this is one of my favorite
01:10:49.380
stories today that the new CEO, she came on in January of NPR is like hardcore resistance to
01:10:59.580
mask wearing. I mean, this is like, she must've been my neighbor on the Upper West side. Catherine
01:11:05.200
Mayer is her name. Actually, she's from Connecticut, Wilton, Connecticut, the Tony town of Wilton,
01:11:10.220
Connecticut. And, uh, Chris Rufo has been doing a great job pulling some of her tweets, which I would
01:11:17.540
love to share with you guys. Cause I think you'd like to get to know Catherine and opine on the
01:11:21.760
state of American media. Okay. I'm going to give you a couple September 27th, 2018. She wasn't at
01:11:27.000
NPR at the time. She used to run Wikipedia. Uh, this is during Christine Blasey Ford's testimony
01:11:32.020
before the Senate. I'm angry, hot, angry, slow, angry, relentless, angry. Jeffrey Toobin's reacting.
01:11:40.300
The anger is going to fuel. It's going to fuel and burn for a long time and it will deliver back
01:11:46.960
exponentially. Okay. That's her. That's Christine Blasey Ford reaction. April or August 16th,
01:11:53.360
2019. This is after Trump said he might open California's giant Sequoia national monument
01:11:59.980
to development. There are so many injustices piling up. It becomes hard to not just sit
01:12:05.580
and cry. Just sit and cry. She goes on to say, January of 2020, I grew up feeling superior.
01:12:13.740
Huh? How white of me? Because I was from new England and my part of the country didn't have
01:12:18.080
slaves or so I'd been taught. And then follows up shortly thereafter in February with I'm a super
01:12:23.820
big public transit nerd. I hate private cars and cities. I love bikes. And yes, I love buses,
01:12:31.520
transit justice and climate love in one humble hunk of rolling metal.
01:12:36.640
Oh my God. Okay. I'm not done. It's, it sounds made up. I know it sounds made up like an AI version
01:12:45.760
of what you'd think would be running NPR. Here's August, 2020 had a dream where Kamala and I,
01:12:52.020
she dreams about her and about her. Had a dream where Kamala and I were on a road trip in an
01:12:58.440
unspecified location, sampling and comparing nuts and baklava from roadside stands.
01:13:04.340
What? No. Okay. Um, yeah, there's more. She's mad about the Tom Cotton, uh, piece in the New York
01:13:12.780
Times. It shames the New York Times to publish an op-ed that should and would never have passed
01:13:17.520
journalistic editorial review November 7th, 2020 after Biden won. I can't stop crying with relief.
01:13:24.920
This person is now running NPR. And I do think I'm not out on a limb when I say
01:13:30.040
Yuri Berliner's days over there are numbered. What do you guys make of it?
01:13:36.420
Yeah. So I went and I looked through her tweets, uh, and they are far crazier.
01:13:42.780
Uh, than any of those. I'll put one up right here. Uh, she says, I know that hysteric white woman voice.
01:13:49.160
I was taught to do it. I've done it. It's a disturbing recognition. While I don't recall ever using it to
01:13:54.500
deliberately expose another person to immediate physical harm on my own cognizance, it's not
01:13:59.280
impossible. That is whiteness. Like how broken and deranged are these individuals? And the thing
01:14:10.320
is, is, you know, she's coming from Wikipedia. This used to be an arbiter of truth and is now going to
01:14:16.180
be given taxpayer dollars to have their message spread. Like it is unbelievable how deranged these
01:14:23.300
people are. Yeah. At least she's copped to understanding what a hysteric white woman voice
01:14:28.760
sounds like, right? You just have to add the wrong takeaway from it. You got to add the tip top
01:14:33.240
Richard Ney and you know, all of that included. And then you get, you pop out a CEO of NPR at the end
01:14:39.440
of it. It's amazing. There's this one from July, 2020, lots of jokes about leaving the U S and I get
01:14:45.720
it. But as someone with cis white mobility privilege, I'm thinking I'm staying and investing
01:14:51.700
in ridding ourselves of this spectra of specter of tyranny. I mean, Ashbrook, you're right. It
01:14:58.180
sounds like AI, right? And there she is in her Joe Biden for president hat marching door to door to
01:15:07.440
get people to vote for Joe Biden. It's the most biased. Like get out of here. And by the way,
01:15:12.960
can I just, can I just say something else about this punishment for Uri Berliner where he supposedly
01:15:18.940
released demographic, proprietary demographic data? I mean, we already know who the demographic is that
01:15:27.620
listens to NPR. There was no news to anybody, but aren't we entitled to some of this information?
01:15:32.680
We're paying for it. You know, it's Ronald Reagan who said he's paying for that microphone.
01:15:36.780
We're paying for theirs. Don't we get to know that in Uri, but he wasn't allowed to talk to
01:15:42.500
Barry Weiss without getting permission from David Fulkenfleck. And from this, like, from this,
01:15:47.800
from this woman who's a volunteer campaigner for Joe Biden, he has to call them before he talks to
01:15:53.900
Barry Weiss. I'm sorry. I thought Barry Weiss paid for NPR too. She's, she's just another taxpayer
01:16:00.060
who's asking questions, wondering why it's been so terrible over the years. And all Uri Berliner is doing
01:16:05.840
is saying, well, you know what? I counted in the newsroom and 87 people were Democrats,
01:16:10.940
zero were Republicans. I am a Democrat. I grew up in a liberal household. And all I'm saying is maybe
01:16:16.280
we should have a little more balance in our network. And she's like, no, sorry, you're almost fired for
01:16:21.060
that. Well, even, even, even get out of here. It's the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard in my
01:16:26.040
life. But it's even, even worse than that. I think Ashbrook is, is the irony. So, you know,
01:16:32.280
she put out this statement, basically responding to Uri Berliner's commentary on the state of
01:16:37.720
journalism at NPR. Mind you, again, we've read all of this woman's tweets where she talks about
01:16:43.340
being a hysterical white woman and reducing everyone to their identity and their race and
01:16:47.540
their gender. Actually, from her statement, responding to him, pointing out the fact there
01:16:55.240
She says, questioning whether our people are serving our mission with integrity based on
01:17:02.460
little more than the recognition of their identity is profoundly disrespectful, hurtful,
01:17:12.000
Oh, wow. Well, who started talking about identity?
01:17:17.080
That is the, that's the funniest thing is like NPR can have like, you know, support groups for BIPOC
01:17:23.480
gender neutral basket weavers and all of that sort of stuff.
01:17:30.620
But heaven forbid they have a Republican on staff. That would be offensive. And that'd be reducing
01:17:35.040
people to their identity. Like, are you fucking kidding me?
01:17:39.840
The way she led that question, that her statement, asking a question, you're not allowed to ask
01:17:46.200
questions at NPR. No, you're not allowed to ask any questions. And you know what? We've said
01:17:50.020
something here on the program here for a few days, and I think we should repeat it with you,
01:17:53.400
Megyn Kelly. Ich bin Uri Berliner. To quote President Kennedy.
01:18:01.140
I'm not sure, guys. You know, this is how he began his piece, which it was actually equally
01:18:06.500
amazing to the body of it. He writes, you know, the stereotype of the NPR listener and electric
01:18:12.960
vehicle driving, wordle playing, tote bag carrying, coastal elite. It doesn't precisely describe me,
01:18:18.700
but it's not far off. I'm Sarah Lawrence educated, was raised by a lesbian peace activist mother.
01:18:24.720
I drive a Subaru and Spotify says my listening habits are most similar to people in Berkeley.
01:18:29.960
I'm not sure if ich, dein Uri Berliner, but I get the point.
01:18:34.900
I would, I'm friends with all journalists. He's a journalist himself.
01:18:37.400
Well, no, I just, I like honesty. Yeah. And this guy was honest up front and he's honest
01:18:41.540
about the problems at his network. He wants violence. That's, that's what everybody wants.
01:18:45.180
That's the thing, Megyn, is like, if we could at the very least get an acknowledgement from people
01:18:50.520
in journalism that they carry these biases from being, you know, liberals who went to Sarah Lawrence.
01:18:55.440
I can understand that. And I would respect that a lot more than this pretend idea that these
01:19:02.500
people at NPR reflect the fabric of America. I mean, how many of them like own a Ford F-150 and
01:19:08.940
have gone hunting before? I bet you zero, zero, zero. And that's fine, but at least acknowledge it
01:19:14.660
and try to reflect the opinions of all Americans and not, Joe, cloister yourself in that environment
01:19:19.320
and declare yourself America. It's ridiculous. Right. And okay, go ahead.
01:19:22.940
Well, one thing I wanted to note is the, you know, repetition of her being like, I'm confronting
01:19:27.520
my whiteness, or it's important to understand that this is how whiteness operates. It's,
01:19:32.120
they have to make these statements of like self-flagellation because it's like these communist
01:19:37.800
struggle sessions, you know, to be allowed into the modern democratic party to, you have to say,
01:19:43.380
oh, you know, I am confronting these biases and my whiteness and I need to do the work. Like you
01:19:48.660
have to put out those buzzwords or you're not allowed into the club. Because if she's being
01:19:53.560
honest, she's like, well, I was raised in Connecticut, you know, like I'm a blue blood.
01:19:59.660
I've had everything handed to me. So what the hell would she know about like the issues that
01:20:04.580
people face in America? She's never faced any issues. It's unbelievable. So to be able to have
01:20:09.880
that position. Yeah. At least she feels bad about it. That's what makes her better than you.
01:20:14.320
That's right. His greatest defense was that he wouldn't conform.
01:20:18.660
I mean, the reason she can't focus on any of this is she's too busy organizing the
01:20:23.300
McGuy-Pock meeting of the marginalized genders and intersex people of color mentorship program
01:20:28.020
of NPR. That's why you no longer have balance on the radio. It's just busy organizing McGuy-Pock
01:20:34.700
meetings. I'll let that marinate and we'll come back and talk about the shocking cancellation of
01:20:41.420
King Charles. No one even knows what I'm talking about because it was a narrow watched show that CNN
01:20:48.400
attempted. That was a complete disaster. You'll be shocked, shocked to learn that Gail King and
01:20:54.840
Charles Barkley, who was out there threatening black voters who go for Trump, was not a hit.
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01:22:04.040
Speaking of DEI, Joy Reid is super happy about DEI and its effects on the 2024 presidential election.
01:22:14.220
She's calling it out. Listen to her. For me, there is something wonderfully poetic about the fact that
01:22:21.700
despite the fact that even if convicted, he's not going to go to prison, the first person to actually
01:22:27.800
criminally prosecute Donald Trump is a black Harvard grad, the very kind of person that his former
01:22:35.220
staff, the people who worked for him, Stephen Miller, et cetera, want to never be at Harvard
01:22:41.540
law school. But he was. And a black woman is doing that same exact thing in Georgia. And a black woman
01:22:48.940
forced you to pay $175 million fine that Donald Trump is being held to account by the very
01:22:55.660
multicultural, multiracial democracy that he's trying to dismantle. And for me, there's something
01:23:01.460
poetic and actually wonderful about that. It says something good about our country that we're still
01:23:06.840
capable of having that happen. Go DEI. My DEIs are bringing it home. Oh, my Lord.
01:23:13.040
Yeah. Like when I think about representation in our democracy, what I really think about
01:23:18.160
is taking a misdemeanor charge in the state of New York, one that wasn't going to be prosecuted by the
01:23:23.520
DOJ or Cy Vance and trumping it up into 40 felony charges and deciding there's an underlying crime with
01:23:30.760
an FEC violation. Again, that was not previously charged. That is representation. That's what it
01:23:35.920
is. That's what it is. You know, and that's that's the ridiculous nature of all of this,
01:23:40.720
Megan. Right. It's like the facts be damned. Right. Like the subsection C before the United
01:23:46.180
States Supreme Court, the subsection C that is supposed to apply to financial crimes done by
01:23:51.580
like Enron and Arthur Anderson can be applied to everybody on January 6th. And Donald Trump can
01:23:56.300
have a misdemeanor trumped up to 40 felonies. That doesn't matter to them. What matters is the
01:24:01.320
representation. Well, Michael, there was a woman, a solicitor that was arguing it before the court.
01:24:06.020
What are these details? That's not right. Just take the take the W, Duncan. It's just lawlessness
01:24:13.460
dressed up. Can I say that? Can I can I say, oh, my DEIs. There's my DEI. Alvin Bragg. There he is.
01:24:20.840
Does that is that how that works? If she can adopt a white woman hair, can I adopt her black woman
01:24:26.060
DEIs, my DEIs? Is that can that it's just that I think if you take a step back, it's just it's
01:24:32.480
deranged and disturbing of essentially you are doing everything you can to divide Americans.
01:24:39.200
That's the whole equity thing of being like, you know what? I'm really happy that there's a lot of
01:24:44.080
black people out here who can prosecute a white person. This sounds like it's a very healthy thing
01:24:50.480
to celebrate. And then the rest of the people on the on the TV panel clap like seals, like,
01:24:55.820
yeah, good idea. Let's try to divide Americans by their race, hit them against each other.
01:25:00.760
This seems healthy, but also can talk about their DEIs and the power that they're bringing
01:25:05.440
in the same breath of condemning Clarence Thomas. Yeah, of course.
01:25:09.480
Right. It's like, no, no, no. It's not actually DEIs that you're concerned about. It's progressive
01:25:15.400
liberals that you're in any sort of form or shape. And that's how gross is she to bring
01:25:21.580
Stephen Miller into it. Stephen Miller, she's talking about America first legal. Yeah, I'm
01:25:26.600
sure they did oppose the affirmative action program that was unlawful as held by the Supreme
01:25:30.900
Court. It's not Stephen Miller's fault. It's the fault of the people who put it in place
01:25:36.080
contrary to the Constitution. You're not allowed to have that kind of a program. And the Supreme
01:25:41.900
Court's been telegraphing that it would go away for 20 years. And now finally it has.
01:25:45.260
So but no, for Joy Reid, it means he doesn't want black people at Harvard. All the black
01:25:49.240
people in the world can get into Harvard just as long as they can get into Harvard, Joy
01:25:51.940
Reid. That's it. Have them get somewhat decent grades. Right now, it's much easier to get
01:25:56.800
into Harvard as a young black or or man or woman than it is to be any other race. Guaranteed.
01:26:02.800
So just stop. OK, stop. There's no problem getting black people to Harvard as long as they
01:26:06.860
have somewhat decent grades. She's a liar. It's not not going to happen anymore because of Stephen
01:26:11.280
Miller. She just loves to gin up racial enmity wherever she can. Yeah, I'd love to know her
01:26:18.240
opinion on like a male Asian American getting into Harvard. Yeah, I would I would happen to
01:26:23.640
think her opinion might be a little bit different. Suddenly that's not the EI. Nope, no, that
01:26:27.440
one doesn't work. That one doesn't fit. That doesn't qualify. So the the I was going to show
01:26:34.460
you this to just talking about like the way the media is approaching the Trump cases. That's
01:26:40.300
her. Like she's so proud that everybody's black involved. All the prosecutors are black.
01:26:43.660
Yay. Yay. Me. That's what she's saying. I mean, can you imagine? It's like seriously
01:26:47.260
think about if I were like, well, I'm just so proud that like all the whites are going
01:26:52.340
after the blacks now. It makes me feel so good. I feel wonderful. That's basically what
01:26:57.700
she's saying. It's like she gets away with it because blacks are 14 percent of the American
01:27:02.940
population. But like virtually none of them feel the way she does. Only lunatic white women
01:27:07.120
on the Upper West Side share her views are in Seattle or San Francisco. She doesn't speak
01:27:11.080
for speak for the black community. You know, I have actually many black friends and people
01:27:14.740
in my life. They'd be appalled if they saw that clip. She's disgusting. She gets away
01:27:18.700
with it over and over because she's on MSNBC. And I'm just sick of her nonsense.
01:27:24.220
But anyway, it's the same way defund the police polls. Like if you ask black voters their thoughts
01:27:28.760
on defund the police, they say, without a doubt, absolutely not, except for the talking heads
01:27:34.020
on TV and the white liberals in the Northeast and on the coast, they're the ones who push
01:27:39.440
this idea thinking, oh, you know, I want to be helpful to my DEIs. So I think defunding
01:27:46.300
the police is the way to do it. A hundred percent.
01:27:48.620
Yeah. Okay. So here is George Stephanopoulos over the weekend trying to cross examine Chris
01:27:55.280
Sununu of New Hampshire, the governor who was behind Nikki Haley and now has said he's going
01:28:00.660
to go with team Trump. I mean, he's a Republican and trying. I mean, we just put a montage together
01:28:06.000
of the questions. You tell me whether you think George Stephanopoulos understands the right half
01:28:10.740
of America and came to this with a fair and impartial approach. Watch.
01:28:15.060
Will your support for Donald Trump continue even if he's convicted?
01:28:18.120
So I'm asking you about right and wrong. You think it's you're comfortable with the idea
01:28:22.500
of supporting someone who's convicted on January 11th, 2021. You said that President Trump's rhetoric
01:28:28.260
and actions contributed to the insurrection. So please explain, given the fact that you believe
01:28:33.360
he contributed to an insurrection, how you can say we should have him back in the Oval Office?
01:28:38.460
Just to sum up, you would support him for president even if he's convicted in classified documents.
01:28:42.540
You support him for president even though you believe he contributed to an insurrection.
01:28:46.200
You support him for president even though you believe he's lying about the last election.
01:28:49.760
You'd support him for president even if he's convicted in the Manhattan case.
01:28:52.780
I just want to say the answer to that is yes, correct?
01:29:02.540
What a wonderful clip, Megan, and just a demonstration of ABC's deep and abiding commitment to DEI
01:29:09.680
and everything it stands for by hiring a Democrat press secretary to once again
01:29:17.740
Oh, it's amazing. Like he doesn't get it. He doesn't get it. Like the right half of the country
01:29:24.320
doesn't see these things as rising to the level of criminality. They haven't been treated as crimes
01:29:30.120
when we've had these so-called insurrections by the Democrats challenging elections or turning over
01:29:35.600
police stations, as we talked about earlier, setting them on fire courthouses as well,
01:29:39.400
all just completely ignored. They're having trouble finding their outrage vein on these Trump behaviors
01:29:46.540
because it's so one-sided. Even the documents case. Your guy did that too. Your guy did that
01:29:52.680
and he took the documents when he wasn't even President George. I will say I don't think
01:29:56.600
Sununu was all that effective in responding to it, but it was just a complete skewering by an unfair
01:30:01.080
journalist. And by the way, why do Republicans keep going on these shows? Because you're just there to be
01:30:06.100
their little- That's a better question. I don't know the answer to that question. I certainly
01:30:12.540
wouldn't recommend it to anybody that I was advising. Seems like Stephanopoulos has stepped
01:30:17.660
on a lot of rakes lately. Yeah. By the way, you had that Nancy Mace thing, right? And then now this
01:30:22.580
thing. But to the larger point here that he can't conceptualize, it's sort of amazing to me. I can only
01:30:30.560
imagine what your information flow and your silo of information and socialization looks like when
01:30:38.040
you can't understand, even if you are a Trump critic and you have had a huge problem with January 6th
01:30:46.160
and you didn't like any of the post-2020 stuff and you don't like him personally and you think he's
01:30:50.840
offensive, but you're a conservative and you're a Republican and you're looking out at a absolutely
01:30:56.960
feeble president of the United States that's running this country down to the ground domestically and
01:31:01.520
abroad and you have a binary choice between the two. I don't understand why it's from a conception
01:31:08.560
standpoint. Like why don't you understand? Yeah, Biden is that bad. Well, he can't get it. He's like, I
01:31:14.920
talked to my friends at Soho House and I was at Dean and to look at having a coffee and everyone said
01:31:19.800
that like Biden's doing a great job. In the Hamptons too. Yeah. Yeah. I also really love that
01:31:26.560
the Protect Our Democracy coalition of Democrats and the media and the party like suddenly want you
01:31:34.120
as a Republican to be like, no, you know, the voters who voted for Donald Trump in this Republican
01:31:38.720
primary made him the nominee. They're wrong. You know what I mean? Like it's actually profoundly
01:31:43.680
undemocratic what they're hoping that they can convince some Republican talking heads to do.
01:31:48.540
Also the same crew that expressed absolutely no outrage about the fact that this White House tried
01:31:52.520
to cancel all of their primaries and just renominate the president of the United States.
01:31:56.060
Very pro-democratic position, right? Very pro-democratic. And remove Trump from the ballot
01:32:00.540
in several states. Very pro-democratic. Also democracy. But that's what you get when the internal
01:32:05.740
conversations at your network look like the internal conversations at the DNC. If you had half of
01:32:12.920
that network who was Republicans, half of that network were Democrats, they would have internal
01:32:17.380
fights to just to recenter the perspective of the way they're approaching the news. They don't have
01:32:24.120
that now. There's nobody pushing back on him in the pre-meetings to say, hey, here's what half the
01:32:29.980
country thinks, man. You should really approach it this way if you want to actually get real news
01:32:34.700
that the middle of the country is interested in. They don't have any of that. And it's the same
01:32:39.360
problem that they have at NPR, they have at ABC, they have at NBC, they have at CBS. There are no
01:32:44.260
Republicans working at these networks. And until they get at least half, I don't think Republicans
01:32:49.900
need to go on. I mean, yeah, I mean, I guarantee you they patted him on the back after that. They're
01:32:54.260
probably doing high fives after that. Oh, yeah. Just like you rocked it. Just like just like the
01:32:59.220
press secretary in Ilhan Omar's office pats her on the back when she goes on MSNBC. It's the same it's the
01:33:04.200
same concept. It's a Democrat operation. It's not a news organization anymore. Yeah,
01:33:09.360
it's just a perversion of all of these shows and the way that we cover news today on a lot of these
01:33:14.880
networks, because, I mean, look, you remember back in the day, Tim Russert himself, a former
01:33:19.080
Democratic operative in many ways. But when he got into that sort of prosecutorial back and forth,
01:33:25.140
what it was always about in his era was trying to get answers for things he felt like people were
01:33:29.740
obfuscating from. Right. It wasn't a partisan prosecution based on a point of view that only
01:33:34.580
half of this country actually holds. Right. It was about trying to get answers on things like
01:33:38.580
the Iraq war or things that were affecting this country. And he was he was trying to just pin
01:33:43.160
people down. They have taken that model of a confrontational question and answer style to
01:33:48.880
public officials and just layered on top of it. Absolute, blatant, bald faced partisanship
01:33:56.860
as well. I'll give you the new model of journalism. We've come a long way from Tim
01:34:05.180
Russert. I give you Gayle King and Charles Barkley in their now defunct after six months
01:34:12.320
show on CNN. Look at a mashup here. Like it's so much noise coming out of D.C.
01:34:18.320
How are you able to work your way through that every day? Because we can also say he's a truth
01:34:23.780
teller because when Bob Costas sat down in the seat, can I please get a close up shot
01:34:27.940
of my face? He sat down and he goes, God, that thing's getting bigger. Look, yeah, it's getting
01:34:32.840
bigger and hopefully it won't get so big. Do you ever just like, hey, you know what, can
01:34:36.460
we just talk about issues and not talk about all the noise and the extracurricular stuff?
01:34:41.540
Yes. If you have a disagreement with a co-worker and they start giving you the silent treatment,
01:34:46.600
how do you handle that? Personally, I, you know, I respond in kind. If you give me the silent
01:34:52.300
treatment, I'm going to pretend you don't exist. Really? I hear that you get a lot of questions
01:34:56.440
from people talking about smelly co-workers. You have to say something. It's just like,
01:35:01.180
excuse me, but are you dealing with something? Do you have a hormonal issue? Is the water not
01:35:05.700
working at your home? Something tells me, Charles, this will not be the last, just saying,
01:35:10.320
this will not be the last time that we're working together. Call me, Gayle. Yeah.
01:35:13.300
Uh, I'm going to take the under. Wow. I'm going to take the under on that. That show was on for six
01:35:21.840
months? For real? It's done. They only had 14 episodes. They were drawing an average of 459,000
01:35:30.260
total viewers, 100,000 in the key demo of 25 to 54. That's a nightmare. They were up against Gutfeld,
01:35:37.820
just for, you know, comparison. That'll do it. He's getting 2.2 million total, 320,000 in the demo.
01:35:44.240
Even Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC had 1.5 million up against this. This was a nightmare. Absolutely
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nobody watched it. And the only thing CNN is able to say is it wasn't a failure because
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we attracted an audience that was 44% non-white. Oh my God. That's, that was, that's a metric for
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success. That's it. Well, that's amazing. I was listening to, I'm kind of a fan of Charles
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Barkley and his NBA and basketball analysis. And I was listening to a sports talk thing when this
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whole thing was announced. And he's like, yeah, man, all my friends tell me this is a tremendous
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mistake. I don't know. I guess we'll find out. And I was like, well, I guess you did. Right. I guess
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we did find out. It wasn't, it was a mistake. Do you feel like people didn't want a close up of
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Gayle King's cold sore? Is that what we were seeing there? And I don't know what she was calling
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attention to on her lip. It's probably ill-advised. I mean, they should be ashamed. They subjected
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people of color to that garbage. Enhanced interrogation or portraits. Depends on your
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video. They can't find good TV and are listening on NPR. Now CNN is gone. I guess it's back to
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Ruthless. Guys. Yes. So fun talking to you. You're the best, Megan. Thanks for having us. Thank you,
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Megan. Oh, the pleasure is all mine. Go check them out. YouTube.com.
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slash ruthless podcast. Well worth your time. The laughs are always there and great info too.
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