The DOJ launches a grand jury investigation into the Russiagate hoaxers. What Texas and Republican states are doing at the direction of Donald Trump, I say is nothing short of a legal insurrection. A battle over the Texas congressional map causes Democrats in the statehouse to flee their state, with other governors promising to retaliate in their states. A Stanford professor follows the money raised from those aggressive, obnoxious text message fundraising campaigns from the Dems, and guess where those donations wound up?
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00:03:08.300Attorney General Pam Bondi reports Fox News directing her staff to open a grand jury investigation into the 2016 Russiagate conspiracy to tie then-candidate Donald Trump to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
00:03:24.560In mid-July, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard sending a criminal referral to the DOJ, providing evidence that Hillary Clinton, President Obama, and members of his National Security Cabinet manufactured and politicized intelligence to subvert the incoming Trump administration.
00:03:43.680The criminal referral following the release of a declassified 2020 House Intel report that analyzed the tradecraft used to compile a 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment, or ICA, at the direction of President Obama.
00:04:03.640We also assess Putin and the Russian government aspired to help President-elect Trump's election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him.
00:04:17.380The declassified 2020 House Intel report revealing serious flaws with the intelligence and methods used to craft the 2017 ICA,
00:04:26.400exposing that the only classified information cited to conclude Russian President Vladimir Putin aspired to help Mr. Trump's chances of victory was based on, quote,
00:04:36.900one scant, unclear, and unverifiable fragment of a sentence from a single human report.
00:04:43.740A DOJ spokesperson telling Fox A.G. Bondi is taking the referral, quote,
00:04:49.500The charges at play, and exactly whom the grand jury is expected to target, not yet clear.
00:04:54.720Legal scholar Jonathan Turley on X, providing more color, quote,
00:04:59.040While Obama enjoys immunity, others, like Brennan, remain exposed.
00:05:03.560Perjury, obstruction, and lying to federal investigators are obvious areas for exploration by prosecutors.
00:05:10.260Turley posting he expects the investigation to rest with a newly confirmed U.S. attorney for D.C.
00:05:16.060and his former Fox colleague, Janine Pirro.
00:05:18.840Dozens of Texas State House Democrats now facing removal from office and potentially felony charges
00:05:28.620after failing to meet Texas Governor Greg Abbott's Monday afternoon deadline to return to special session.
00:05:34.820The Dem lawmakers fleeing to New York and Illinois over the weekend to deny a quorum ahead of a State House vote on a new congressional map,
00:05:43.540which will add five, count them, five new GOP seats ahead of next year's midterm election.
00:05:50.060Texas State Dems accusing the GOP of gerrymandering at the behest of the Trump administration.
00:05:56.260In early July, U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, Harmeet Dillon,
00:06:01.620expressing concern to state leaders that five Texas congressional districts may be unconstitutional,
00:06:08.380based on how race was the predominant factor in the past when drawing them.
00:06:12.660Governor Abbott then adding a redistricting bill to the special session to address those concerns.
00:06:19.660Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, Representative Gene Wu, on CNN Monday morning,
00:06:24.840defending the decision to flee the state.
00:09:36.360It really is the United States of America because if they succeed in Texas, they will take this to other states,
00:09:43.400but they'll do it if we only stand by and watch them.
00:09:47.840What is happening here is the most blatant, racist disregard for the voters of Texas.
00:09:54.940They expect Democrats to kind of be the nice guys that we are.
00:09:59.040They expect us to take the punch and say, thank you.
00:10:01.780Well, I am here to tell you not only are we going to punch back, but we about to beat you down.
00:10:06.860The Texas redistricting plan quickly becoming a national flashpoint as Democrat leaders in blue states promise retaliatory actions of their own.
00:10:15.740New York Governor Kathy Hochul at a Monday morning press conference with some of the Texas Democrats hiding out in her state.
00:10:21.920While Donald Trump and his co-conspirator, Greg Abbott, erode our democracy and drag us toward authoritarianism.
00:10:31.500Now, what Texas and Republican states are doing at the direction of Donald Trump, I say is nothing short of a legal insurrection against our Capitol.
00:10:45.780Legal meaning they're using the legal process.
00:11:01.480There's a phrase, you have to fight fire with fire.
00:11:05.280That is a true statement of how we're feeling right now.
00:11:08.380And as I've said, another overused but applicable phrase, all's fair in love and war.
00:11:13.960California Governor Gavin Newsom, too, considering calling a special election to redraw the maps in California in retaliation.
00:11:29.380The governor is saying that call would likely come in the first week of November.
00:11:33.120Coming up, following the money, who's behind the unhinged Democrat fundraising text message campaigns and how much of those donations actually make it to the candidate and astronaut Gail King's future at CBS hangs in the balance as new management promises an end to DEI and woke programming.
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00:13:50.120Stanford University political science professor Adam Bonica, writing for his On Data and Democracy Substack, unearthing some hard truths about the Democratic fundraising scheme.
00:14:03.440The main rationale offered for this fundraising frenzy is that it's a necessary evil, that the tactics, while unpleasant, are brutally effective at raising the money needed to win.
00:14:14.920But an analysis of the official FEC filings tells a very different story.
00:14:19.740The fundraising model is not a brutally effective tool for the party.
00:14:23.880It is a financial vortex that consumes the vast majority of every dollar it raises.
00:14:29.760Bonica, combing through a web of packs, driving the chorus of alarming messages, uncovering what he calls, quote,
00:14:37.220A concentrated ecosystem built to serve the firm at its center, Mothership Strategies.
00:14:44.120The group, founded in 2014 by former senior operators of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee,
00:14:51.500is responsible for developing the strategy relying on the frantic and hyperbolic messaging.
00:16:47.600Results in 2024 certainly suggest not.
00:16:51.380If you listened to Monday's episode of AM Update, digging into fire aid and the LA wildfires,
00:16:57.040and how the money is not getting to actual residents,
00:17:00.640you'll know the real lesson here is be very careful about where you send your donations.
00:17:05.880The New York Post reporting on the growing internal dilemma over inspirational astronaut Gail King's future at CBS News,
00:17:16.600as the network undergoes a leadership transition promising a crackdown on bias and wokeness.
00:17:22.700The $8.4 billion merger between CBS parent company Paramount and Skydance Media expected to close on Thursday following the FCC's approval in July.
00:17:32.820The merger placing CBS, Paramount Pictures, Paramount Plus, and several cable channels under the control of the independent film studio.
00:17:41.600In late May, King signing a one-year extension deal reportedly valued at around $15 million.
00:17:47.960The multi-million dollar extension coming at a time when her show is bleeding viewers.
00:17:53.620Nielsen data showing a 20 to 30 percent drop in the already low key 25 to 54 demo over the last three weeks compared to this time last year.
00:18:02.820And drawing in less than 2 million total viewers in recent months.
00:18:07.020Dreadful numbers for a network morning show.
00:18:09.900CBS Morning's consistently trailing behind its competitors, ABC's Good Morning America and NBC's The Today Show.
00:18:17.900Paying $15 million to a failing morning star, however, isn't in line with CBS's history.
00:18:24.000The programming lineup leaning heavily into woke themes that many viewers have had enough of.
00:18:30.520A source telling The Post, King and her executive producer, Shauna Thomas, set the programming agenda on the show.
00:18:37.940In mid-April, the program going over the top with its coverage of King's extremely brief blink-and-you-missed-it trip to the edge of space on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket ship.
00:18:50.120King insisting afterward, she is an actual astronaut, not missing the chance to report on what an inspiration she is to everyone.
00:19:06.780Whenever a man goes up, you have never said to an astronaut, boy, what a ride.
00:19:11.500You know, we duplicated the same trajectory that Alan Shepard did back in the day, pretty much.
00:19:16.700No one called that a ride. It was called a flight.
00:19:19.800What it's doing to inspire other women and young girls, please don't ignore that.
00:19:25.300I've had so many women and young girls reach out to me, and men too, by the way, men too, that say, wow, I never thought I could do that.
00:19:32.980Every other week, King is in the trade rags on another billionaire's yacht or at one's party, not exactly relatable for the moms watching this show from home.
00:19:44.580Last September, co-host Tony Dokopoul, who is Jewish, drawing fierce and widely publicized internal backlash from a mildly challenging interview with radical leftist author Ta-Nehisi Coates about a chapter in his new book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that Coates wrote after spending 10 days in the Middle East.
00:20:07.180When you write a book that delegitimizes the pillars of Israel, it seems like an effort to topple the whole building of it.
00:20:12.660So I come back to the question, and it's what I struggle with throughout this book.
00:20:16.880What is it that so particularly offends you about the existence of a Jewish state that is a Jewish safe place and not any of the other states out there?
00:20:26.680CBS leadership throwing Dokopoul under the bus in an editorial call, telling staffers the interview fell short of the network's standards.
00:20:34.780The standards don't allow any tough questions?
00:20:38.220Those executives have since left the network.