Legal AF by MeidasTouch - GOP Senators Get PUT IN THEIR PLACE by Dems before HEARING

Episode Date: January 8, 2025

The MAGA Senators are exploiting the carnage of New Orleans and 15 murdered people to try to fast track Trump’s obscenely unqualified National Intelligence (Gabbard), Defense (Hegseth) and FBI (Patel), picks using the attack by an American former military vet as a justification to “close the border” because we are “under attack” by foreigners. Michael Popok examines the hard shove back by Senate Democrats like Adam Schiff who are explaining that New Orleans is the very reason we CANNOT confirm any of them! Rocket Money: Let Rocket Money reach your financial goals faster by going to https://rocketmoney.com/legalaf Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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conducted by a U.S. citizen board in Texas who happened to be in the Army at one point, they're trying to use that to try to speed through the confirmations of their most obscenely unqualified cabinet members for Donald Trump, Hegseth for defense, Gabbard for intelligence, Patel for FBI. As the Democrats fight back, led by senators like Adam Schiff, about how wholly unqualified these people are, that New Orleans points out the very reason you need accomplished, mature, adult professionals with high character and morals and experience running these operations or we're going to have more New Orleans, not less. I'm Michael Popak. You're on Legal AF and on the Midas Touch Network.

and on the Midas Touch network. So Senator Adam Schiff took to the airwaves to condemn Kash Patel, the nominee for the office of FBI director, 44-year-old former public defense lawyer, Donald Trump, toady and lackey, has zero intelligence community experience at all, thinks that the FBI in his own words are cops that walk a beat, wants to get them out of Washington, wants to have them out, walk in a beat, wants to completely hollow out the institution of the FBI, not reform it, but hollow it out. As Adam Schiff said in his interview that he just gave,, and I'll show you a clip in a minute, Patel and having him in that position as the head of the FBI makes us less secure, more vulnerable to insider attacks, domestic terrorism,

because you have somebody whose hands are on the controls, who has no experience, and it is only focused on going after Donald Trump's political vendettas and his enemies' list of going after lawyers and journalists and judges. Let's play the clip of Senator Adam Schiff. Against the backdrop of this latest terror attack in New Orleans, you of course serve on the Judiciary Committee. If Cash Patel is confirmed, will you be able to work with him? You've been quite critical of him. Well, first of all, Cash Patel should not be confirmed.

And I think the terrorist attack in New Orleans, and my heart goes out to those who have lost loved ones in that attack, just underscores, again, the importance of having someone directing the FBI that has experience, that has judgment, that has character, that has judgment, that has character, that will prioritize defending the country against the violence we saw in New Orleans or the violence we saw on January 6th, not someone whose top priority is political vendettas,

who believes in deep state conspiracy thinking, not someone who is as unqualified as Cash Patel. So Cash Patel is an easy one. He should not be confirmed. The others, you know, some, look, Marco Rubio, I think Emily well qualified, several of the other nominees. Again, we should follow that regular process that the majority leader has laid out.

Now Cash Patel has been very public about what his goals are if he ever gets anywhere near the FBI. He's going to have to do a lot of explaining. It's going to be a lot of explaining to do during his confirmation process where the Democrats take control of the microphones and start asking him about his 60-person enemies list and why he doesn't think that going after these people isn't an improper diversion of scarce resources, taking the FBI's

eye off the ball from stopping domestic terror. Now, senators that just got in under Donald Trump, who are Republican, they say stupid things out loud. Like, the FBI is more concerned about going after members of the school board for their religious beliefs than they are trying to stop the Islamic terrorism. That's a lie. You can say a lot of things about Merrick Garland and his Department of Justice, but they've done a very good job of going after domestic and foreign terrorist rings organizations through money laundering, through criminal charges, breaking them up before they happen. Yes, we have the occasional mass casualty event, mass shooting event,

using a car to mow down 15 Americans and other people in a, in a crowded festive square. Yeah, I get that, but it would be a lot worse if we didn't have mature adult professional people, um, uh, doing it, you know, doing it, uh, and making sure that we are safe. doing it and making sure that we are safe. Now, Cash Patel went on Steve Bannon and he said his primary focus if he ever gets near the FBI is to go after judges and lawyers and journalists. How does that make us any safer? If New Orleans taught us anything, it's that we've got to try to stop radicalization and go after it wherever we can find it. I mean, the Republicans are against

going after radicals in the military. That's where these people came out of, the Tesla suicide slash bombing of the cyber truck and of course, the terrible, terrible carnage and murder of innocents on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, just before the sugar bowl, by this American born Texas bread guy. Donald Trump and the Republicans are using and exploiting New Orleans and the victims there and over the dead bodies of these victims

to claim this is the rationale for quickly confirming obscenely unqualified people. Lindsey Graham is off telling people in the Sunday morning news shows, this is the reason we've got to hurry up. We got to hurry up and get these people confirmed because we're under attack. We're under attack by who? We're under attack by who? Under attack by fellow Americans? Mass casualty events, 99.9% of them are by Americans.

I can't even think of one that was conducted by an undocumented person. Mass shooters, schools, churches, bowling alleys, supermarkets, synagogues, those are white middle-aged guys. I mean, you know, that's the predominance of it. We just had a school shooting with a young girl, but usually white boys or white men, citizens, not undocumented. The undocumented are too busy trying to work for a living, pay $60 billion in taxes to America, keep their kids in school and have a better life. That's why they came here. They came here to get away from the drug lords, to get away from crime and violence in their countries, whether it be Haiti, Mexico, South America, Central America. They came for a better life. They're too busy

trying to do that than to rob their local neighborhood bodega or their friends or their neighbors. That's not who's doing it. Yeah? And I know they love throwing up pictures of this guy because he's black or brown or both, but the New Orleans defendant, The New Orleans defendant, the guy that committed those crimes, he's an American, born and raised in Odessa, Texas. Was in the military, rose to the level of staff sergeant. It doesn't have to do with closing the borders from terrorists coming in. The start of a new year is the perfect time to get organized, set goals, and prioritize what matters most.

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the only thing he's ever run is two foundations that had like four or five employees and he got run out on a rail because of mismanagement and allegations of public intoxication and sexual harassment and rape. You know, how is he gonna handle two million servicemen and women? Two million people in the service.

How is he going to handle that? And a three or four billion dollar budget, a huge percentage of our federal budget is the military and it's going to be the guy that was the Fox and Friends weekend anchor? What's Tulsi Gabbard's qualifications to have 18 different intelligence agencies report to her? What is it? She wasn't even an intelligence officer within the military when she served in the military

for a short amount of time. I think she rose to the level maybe of major. She was not in the intelligence community. She hasn't been on the intelligence community. She has no experience whatsoever. Fortunately, the chief spook at the CIA, John Ratliff, has experience, but she doesn't, and she's gonna be vetting national intelligence

from around the world for the president to make critical decisions? I wouldn't let her run a bake sale. And same thing for Cash Patel. He started his career as a lawyer representing the indigent, You know, he started his career as a lawyer representing the indigent, somehow got into MAGA world and fast-tracked himself when he's not out selling merchandise with his name on it, with a dollar sign to spell out his name. Is he qualified to be the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation?

Even J. Edgar Hoover is spinning in his grave who founded the FBI. Yeah. He has no experience. He has no judgment. He has no character. And he's not qualified to be running one of our major, if not the major, intelligence organizations in America. Yeah.

Pete Hegseth, Cash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard. That's a recipe for disaster. That's a recipe for more New Orleans, not less. More attacks on American soil, not less. It's a justification not to confirm them, not to confirm, not as a rationale to confirm them in a speedy fashion, which is what the Republicans are throwing up because they want to give Donald Trump what he wants. I've read two major pieces over the weekend.

They're going to have one big beautiful bill with all of Donald Trump's policy initiatives in it for the Congress to consider up thumbs up or thumbs down. They can put it all in one, shove it all down our throats. Border taxes, tax cutting for the wealthy, the border cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, you know, the part, you know, the, uh, who knows giving money to the Jan six insurrection is one big, beautiful bill. Democrats led by Hakeem Jeffries got got to oppose that bill. Got to filibuster that bill. Got to stop that bill in its tracks.

And then, and then on the other side, the Senate, the senators want to give Donald Trump all his cabinet picks. No, that's where the Democrats come in again. Live confirmation hearings will be following here on the Midas Touch Network. So if you like this kind of analysis, the intersection of law and politics, you've come to the right place.

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