The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump prepares for ARREST as Jack Smith CLOSES IN

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Starting point is 00:00:50 charge bet mgm operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming ontario donald trump will be arraigned on tuesday in manhattan in the felony criminal case brought against him by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. The people of the state of New York versus Donald Trump. This the first in many criminal cases likely to be brought against Donald Trump for his disgusting criminal acts. What can we expect? Will the judge issue a gag order? When will the indictment be unsealed? Let's discuss. Marjorie Taylor Greene and MAGA Republicans are planning protests in New York City to coincide with the arraignment of Donald Trump, the New York City mayor, Eric Adams, had stern warnings for Marjorie Taylor Greene and those who seek to come to New York City and commit crimes. 60 Minutes on CBS lost all credibility this weekend, doing a disgusting puff piece on Marjorie Taylor Greene, which saw their ratings plummet 33%.

Starting point is 00:02:06 Now, here's the thing. The media is enamored with normalizing these fascist figures, ostensibly because they think it's good for their ratings when it's actually the exact opposite. Look, people despise Donald Trump. People despise Marjorie Taylor green and people despise the MAGA movement. And they despise media networks that are complicit in normalizing their hate and dis information. When will they learn? Jack Smith, need I say more? I need not, because the mere mention of his name scares Donald Trump. But I shall, because discussing Jack's wins scares Donald Trump even more. And there wouldn't be a show if I just said Jack Smith.

Starting point is 00:03:05 Jack's got the goods. New reporting suggests Jack Smith has key evidence linking Donald Trump directly to felony obstruction of justice charges that could see Donald Trump go to jail for the rest of his life. The term laboratories of autocracy, it's a term that was coined by David Pepper, friend of the Midas Touch Network, to discuss how certain red states were testing policies like laboratories, if you will, to destroy democratic institutions in their states as models for the MAGA Republican nationwide plan. Let's discuss what's happening in Tennessee and Florida, where MAGA Republicans in those states have just completely abandoned democracy and operate fascist state governments. And finally, President Biden is in Minnesota sharing his Invest in America plan, unleashing a manufacturing and innovation boom. Normal. It's what government's supposed to do. Can we talk about jobs? Can we talk about getting people healthcare? Can we talk about the things that Americans care

Starting point is 00:04:27 about and stop this MAGA Republican nonsense, please? This is the Midas Touch Podcast. I'm Ben Micellis, joined by Brett and Jordy. What's up, Ben? What's up, Midas? Mighty, what's up, Jordy? It's great to see everybody here on the Midas Touch podcast. Always great to be with you. And I got to say, we're just watching that 60 Minutes disaster, watching the latest coverage on the cable news, in the legacy media, reading these headlines that they say about these deranged Donald Trump rallies. You know, it oftentimes wouldn't in normal circumstances, stuff like that would get me down. It would make me depressed. It would make me angry. And don't get me wrong. It still does make me incredibly angry to see the media falling into the same exact traps that they've fallen into in all these past years. It's like they've learned absolutely nothing about how to cover these fascists. But the reason why it doesn't get me down the way it used to is because we have the Midas Mighty. We have all of you out here.

Starting point is 00:05:31 And I know I am eager every single day to get here on this show and to be able to hit you with the facts, actually cover these stuff the way that it's supposed to be covered. And that's why I am more motivated actually by watching the disastrous coverage that we see. But oh, there is good news on the horizon to folks. Tuesday, if you're listening to this on audio, that is today. If you're watching us live, that is tomorrow. Donald Trump being arraigned, everybody. This is big, big news. Excited to talk about that. Excited. We have to dig in to the laboratories of autocracy that Ben was talking about. What's happening in Tennessee right now is absolutely disgusting. We need to give the people of Tennessee a megaphone. We need to be able, we need to be showing this to all the Americans out there. We need to be watching what Ron DeSantis is doing, and I'm so excited to break it all down. Jordy, how are you doing today? Hey, brothers. Hey, Might is Mighty. Man, Brett, just like you,

Starting point is 00:06:30 this is the highlight of my week right here. Our shows, the bi-weekly shows, I absolutely love it. And I love it because of exactly what we saw today. The legacy media is not up for this moment. You can't trust them to cover this honestly and with the diligence that it needs. And so when we jump into this chat and there are so many people already here, subscribed, we're all talking, I get excited. I do because I'm like, hey, I get to hang out with sane, rational people who actually truly care about democracy and not how big Donald Trump's plane is. So, hey, thank you for tuning in and joining the show early. This is going to be an excellent episode.

Starting point is 00:07:09 Make sure you're subscribed right now to the Midas Touch YouTube channel or on audio or both, and let's get the show on the road, folks. You know, part of this propaganda propagated by MAGA Republicans, right, is to make their small size, to use Stormy Daniels' statement, their tiny, tiny size, to make it feel bigger than they really are, right? That's why they're obsessed with crowd size. That's why they're obsessed with the ratings and the numbers, right? But they the ratings and the numbers, right? But they don't have the numbers, okay? Thank you.

Starting point is 00:07:49 And the media networks just keep on getting faked out and just saying, or maybe they're not getting faked out. I mean, they're probably straight complicit, but they go on and they basically try to make these people bigger figures than they are. Brett, you mentioned the Marjorie Taylor Greene appearance. Now, CBS and 60 Minutes, I presume, did that because they think they're just going to shock everybody and get these great ratings. Well, ratings were down 33% from that episode because people don't want to watch a fascist trader have a puff piece made against her. So people tune it out. We knew it was going to be a puff piece

Starting point is 00:08:34 when 60 minutes tweeted about it and pull that tweet up one more time there, Brett. This is, we're not even going to show you the video clips because frankly, if we showed you the clips, I'm not, I'm not even going to promote that in any way. But this is what 60 Minutes said. They go, Georgia Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, nicknamed MTG, isn't afraid to share her opinions no matter how intense and in your face they are. She sits down with Leslie Stahl this Sunday on 60 Minutes. Look, it's not that her opinions are intense, nor is it that her opinions are in my face. I don't know what that means. They're hitting my face, her opinions? Opinion, opinion, opinion. Her views are fascist. Her views are traitorous. She spews disgusting things that are complete

Starting point is 00:09:28 abhorrent lies. And they not just need to be, they don't just need to be checked. They need to be called out each and every second. And you can't platform that nonsense. So she goes and does this interview when she calls Democrats pedophiles. She goes, they're the party of pedophilia. And Leslie Stahl just sits there and goes, hmm, okay, okay. If you're going to do that interview, how do you not have the list of the actual hundreds of Republicans? Thousands. I was going to say hundreds in the past week. We've made multiple videos. Yeah, we had to do a video. And honestly, when we cut the video off at six minutes where we listed all of the Republicans,

Starting point is 00:10:15 we had two videos. We actually made a follow up video because there were that many more, including like just in the past week. Some of these people have actually got in their prison sentence after being convicted. But you could go. I think Daily Kos has like a list of the thousands and thousands of Republicans and all Leslie Stahl had to do. She knew she was going to be confronted with that. She knew she was asking that question. You need to be armed with the facts in order to clap back against that sort of thing. Hey, one of the recent speakers of the House of the Republican Party, Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, went to jail for child sex crimes. You don't have that locked and loaded to go into that interview. And by the way, I actually don't fully agree with the notion that these people

Starting point is 00:10:58 should never be interviewed. I don't believe that in its entirety. But I think if they're going to be interviewed, you need somebody who is at the top of their game, who is able to confront them on their BS. And there are a multitude of people who I would trust in that role. You know, a Rachel Maddow would be incredible in that role. An Ari Melber is really good in that role. A Jon Stewart, even though he's not a journalist, is incredible in that role. And Ari Melber is really good in that role. John Stewart, even though he's not a journalist, is incredible in that role. He does on his Apple show an incredible job at bringing these people on and tearing apart their talking points. But when you have a show that's an archaic

Starting point is 00:11:35 show, like a 60 Minutes, with somebody who is used to doing more of these sorts of puff pieces on things that are happening in the country, you cannot go into that interview and be ill-prepared over somebody who has absolutely zero shame whatsoever. Literally, within the 24 hours before and after this interview, we've seen some of the most vile, vile tweets that we've ever seen from Marjorie Taylor Greene. And we're not even getting to the part of her stalking school shooting survivors and yelling at them or saying that Sandy Hook was a false flag or saying that 9-11 is a conspiracy theory and it was actually an inside job. And all the BS that she spews, all the toxicity that she spews. Now she's trying to go to New York and

Starting point is 00:12:26 her thing and the Republicans thing is, let's just talk a lot of trash about New York. We're just going to, we could openly just hate on the country. All we do, MAGA, all we do is we talk about how crappy the United States of America is. We talk about how shitty our cities are. We talk about how just disgusting the United States of America is. MAGA is a movement that actually despises America. And if you don't believe me, listen to any speech at a Trump rally, listen to any Marjorie Taylor Greene speech, look at her Twitter feed, whatever you want. It is a fundamentally anti-American movement. They do hate this country, they hate the institutions, and they hate democracy and they

Starting point is 00:13:05 want to see democracy replaced with autocracy. And this is going to be a theme that ties in later in the episode when we come back around and we start talking about what happens, what's happening right now in Tennessee, what's happening in Florida. Because you see what happens when these MAGA maniacs, you see exactly what happens when they actually get that super majority, when they actually get the power that they so desperately crave, when they are allowed to go unchecked. That's when you see the true nature of a political party. And you know what? We've seen what the Democrats do when they have control of all the chambers, right? We saw that in the last Congress when Democrats

Starting point is 00:13:42 controlled the House, barely the Senate, if you want to say that, and the presidency. They were pushing things like let's cap insulin prices. Let's try to stop gouging at the gas pumps. These are the things the Democrats were focused on, trying to pass bill after bill after bill. But when the Republicans get into power and they have super majorities in these state legislatures, perhaps where it's the most important, what do they do? They start unleashing their brand of fascism, trying to strip any opposition of power, going after businesses, everything that they claim to be for as conservatives, free market conservatives, that all goes straight out the window the second they have power. That's why you can't let them frame the debate. That's why you need to be on the offense. And

Starting point is 00:14:29 that's why you need to call these traitors out and not mince words and not pretend like we are living in normal times. Enough is enough, folks. And we are here. We are the line of defense and we are the offense to go against them. That's a breadwinner right there. Let's go. Oh my. I need a microphone that I could just drop when you guys do these. Early, often. I told you I'm fired up.

Starting point is 00:14:53 I've been excited to be on this show because I've been so enraged by the coverage I'm seeing and I'm enraged by what I'm seeing out there across the country. It is infuriating, but at least I know that we here have a voice, that our listeners have a voice, and the Midas Mighty is strong. We just blew past a million subscribers on YouTube. We have millions of other followers on all of our other platforms and listeners. Keep subscribing. Hit subscribe. Keep subscribe. It's free. And the reason that I love those numbers is not just because, oh, look, we got a lot of followers. How cool. It's because every single one of those numbers, every single one of those people, that's a person. That's a person with a megaphone, with a voice who could use it.

Starting point is 00:15:34 And collectively, our voices are actually louder and more powerful than the MAGA voices, than the Fox News voices, than all this corruption that we are seeing. That's why I am happy to see it. That was like a little earthquake, Brett, right? You got the main one and then you got a little aftershock. Let me comment on the 60-minute story real quick before we move off. Intense opinions, intense opinions. That is so intellectually dishonest. It is unbelievable. Tell me what's an intense opinion that Marjorie – that she wants to shoot Nancy Pelosi in the head, that she agrees with that. That's what you're calling an intense opinion? That she accosts David Hogg on the street, a high school gun survivor of a school shooting?

Starting point is 00:16:19 That she calls him a crisis actor? That's what 60 Minutes is telling you is an intense opinion. There has to be a way to differentiate truth from fiction without sugarcoating it. It's 2023. You can't be afraid to call a fascist a fascist and a lunatic a lunatic. And Marjorie Taylor Greene is a lunatic. And what you noticed in the edit, if you noticed this, Jordy, as an editor, I certainly picked up on it, is there was not a lot of pushback on Marjorie Taylor Greene in person. A lot of the pushback that they actually had was edited in after the fact. So there was not a lot of in-person confrontation. So they'd let her say it.

Starting point is 00:16:59 Leslie Stahl would say something like, okay, wow, that was a lot. And then they would cut to a piece. And 20, no, no, Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote this. Da, da, okay, wow, that was a lot. And then they would cut to a piece in 20, no, no, Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote this, da, da, da, da, da. And then they showed her thing. It's really just not as effective as actually putting that person in the hot seat and making them answer for it right then and there. And then they also did bizarre things. I think it was the part where she was speaking about Parkland, where she called David Hawke a crisis actor, all the stuff you were just saying. I think as she was talking about the lies, they would show videos of her working out in the gym. Leslie Stahl went to her dining room and they were looking through photos on her phone. Marjorie Taylor Greene likes to keep

Starting point is 00:17:38 fit. It's like, come on, man. What are you doing? They were in her kitchen and all that stuff. It's like, what are we doing here, people? What are we doing? And you could do a critical piece of somebody, as you should, because objectively, this person is poison. And it should be critical if you are being an honest broker of the news. Yes. You could do that, A, without interviewing her.

Starting point is 00:18:01 B, if you're going to interview her, you need to hold her feet to the fire and not be like, oh, look at these cute pictures in your living room. Oh, so sweet. Look at the workout routine. I mean, what are we doing, folks? What are we doing here? Look at the workout routine. Marjorie Taylor Greene would say things like, what, are you going to fact check all of my statements from kindergarten through 12th grade? No, but we are going to fact check you. And these are in kindergarten through 12th grade no but we are going to fact check you and these are in kindergarten kindergarten through 12th grade by the way if you made racist and despicable comments kindergarten through 12th grade i still think you you may need to explore that um but these are statements that you made like yesterday like these are statements that you made a week ago

Starting point is 00:18:43 these are statements that you still continue to make. And, you know, one of the things that she's been posting about are these protests that she wants to hold in New York. And she's doing it with a group called the New York Young Republicans Club just put out a statement that says, President Trump embodies the American people, our psyche from the id to the superego, as does no other figure. His soul is totally bonded with our core values and emotions. And he is our total and indisputable champion. The tremendous connection threatens the established order. I mean, that's the group. That's like, you know, it's been pretty wild over the past few years to see the de-evolution of the New York Republican, young Republicans. I mean, that's just one quote. I've seen dozens more from them.

Starting point is 00:19:45 And they are straight up just a fascist movement. Remember they held that event too that I think was Marjorie at that event. I think Steve was there. It was like a fascist event. Santos was there. She was there. Yeah. I think Marjorie Taylor Greene actually gave a speech at the event where she had said some just completely insane and deranged things. And, you know, and she was threatening people, you know, and then she goes, oh, I wasn't threatening people. I was just giving a hypothetical. Well, here's this, here's

Starting point is 00:20:08 what she's posting on Twitter about these protests that she wants to have around the arraignment. And she says, protesting is a constitutional right. And I am going to New York on Tuesday to protest this unprecedented abuse of our justice system and election interference. I also reject any attempt in anyone who dresses in MAGA, but incites violence or commits violence while pretending to be one of us. You are not one of us. You are one of them. We will not live in fear and we will lawfully stand against tyranny and corruption while we show our support for President Trump.

Starting point is 00:20:44 He's, again, not the president. And what she's already setting up, she's already setting up a conspiracy that it's going to be like Antifa when there's violence and that it's other people doing this, not the insurrectionists or anything like that. Do we have the clip from Eric Adams, mayor of New York? And this is what Eric Adams had to say to Marjorie Taylor Greene. Play the clip. City in America, because we respect the rule of law in New York City. And although we have no specific threats, people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is known to spread misinformation and hate speech, she stated she's coming to town while you're in town be on your best behavior as always we would not allow violence or vandalism of any kind and if one is caught

Starting point is 00:21:34 participating in any act of violence they will be arrested and held accountable no matter who you are yeah and then marjorie taylorene responded that that was a threat directed at her and that New York City Mayor Eric Adams was now weaponizing the government against her and she made a statement. Such a MAGA tactic. All of a sudden, play the victim. After you instigate, ah, and say,

Starting point is 00:22:02 oh, what are you doing? How could you come after me like this? I mean, look, I'm not making a prediction, but I'm just going to say I would not be surprised if she actually tries to get arrested tomorrow as some sort of political stunt statement, if you will. She's so far gone and so dangerous to our democracy that anything is possible. I hope she does, honestly. I really hope so. Just arrest her. Just enough. Enough. If she's going to go, whatever. And then she wrote, I guess she just got to New York. And so, like I said earlier, her first thing is to just crap on New York. She goes to the city and then she just is like, it's horrible here. Oh my God. It's like,

Starting point is 00:22:39 I don't know how these people get through the day. We're all from New York. I love New York City. This is what Marjorie Taylor Greene has to say about new york and imagine a democrat saying about this anywhere idaho this whole like i'm can you just imagine you like you saw right just once marjorie taylor green goes mayor adams and disgraced the i disgraced the da what a freaking clown alvin bragg should be ashamed of themselves on my way to my hotel in new york city i've seen many people so drugged up that they can't even stand up they just fall over on the sidewalks from using drugs at mayor adams free drug use centers but all these communist democrats care about is arresting president trump for their made

Starting point is 00:23:22 up crimes i just don't know how someone like this goes through a day like wakes up and just is so angry wakes up first thing let's tweet negatively about new york no i had an idea let's actually go to new york and i'll live tweet fake things that i see in the street just to own the libs unbelievable you know i was asked this question i went on i went on the weekend show with anthony davis it was that was a great episode all the shows are great episodes. That was an especially great episode seeing you on there. I didn't know you were going on. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:23:50 Well, thank you, Jordy. But what I said is that like for Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, right? Being a MAGA Republican, being in the Republican Party is frankly the only job they could ever get anywhere, right? Yeah, they're unhirable. frankly the only job they could ever get anywhere right yeah it is the highest they are unemployable anywhere else because there's no other job really in america where you could just harass people and lie and spread conspiracy theories like that and just be completely incompetent and be unhinged and not do any research right right? The MAGA Republican Party provides a outlet for

Starting point is 00:24:28 really people who are kind of can't get jobs anywhere else. That's why they flock to this, you know, flock to this completely deranged movement, Brett. And as you mentioned, you know, it was interesting to see, you know, how the young Republicans of New York took this turn. That's just who the Republican Party is now. That's why I always say large media networks can no longer talk about things the way they used to. You can't have a paradigm where you're like Democrats, progressive, liberal, Republicans, conservative. It's not. I mean, there is a MAGA Republican fascist party whose leadership, not fringe,

Starting point is 00:25:06 is Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, their cult leader, Donald Trump. But then you got Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, the whole crew of them. That's George Santos. That's just who they are. And I'm sorry, that is not a conservative movement. There's nothing conservative about those views. And Ben, if they were fringe figures, if this was Marjorie Taylor Greene, random lady from Rome, Georgia with a podcast or something, and if all of them were like that, we'd be like, okay, these are random people though who have found their home in the Republican Party, which is worth some introspection on their part. But at least they're not promoting these kinds of people. These people

Starting point is 00:25:48 aren't the actual people with the power. And for a long time, that's what the Republican Party was. The Republican Party, for a very long time, had these forces within it, but they were able to do a fairly okay job at keeping them sort of underground for a little bit. I mean, I always think back to that John McCain clip during the town hall that he had when he was going up against President Obama, when that woman said, you know, but Obama, he's a Muslim, a Muslim, right? And John McCain said, listen, we don't deal in conspiracy theories here. He's a good man. I respect President Obama or Barack Obama. I'm not sure he was president at the time there. And so that was the Republican Party back then.

Starting point is 00:26:36 Today, they go, you want to run for Congress, lady? That's a great platform right there. Let's make you the de facto speaker of the house. Let's put you on the education committee. Let's push you on the Homeland Security Committee. I'll push back on you slightly, though. With McCain, though, McCain wanted to appease the crazies. McCain wanted to appease that crowd. That's why he had Sarah Palin. Great one. And he instantly regretted it. He knew he made a mistake and his view and what his advisors had told him is if you want to win, you have to appeal to that base. At that time, I think we were better equipped with the way media was at that time and the way society had not let down its guard. So when Sarah Palin was doing that routine,

Starting point is 00:27:28 people were like, okay, that is some completely crazy stuff. You are 100% accurate, Ben, 100%. And at that point, I mean, social media isn't what it was today. We didn't have the proliferation of this disinformation that was being spread everywhere. And today, I hate to say it, but you look at Sarah Palin, who tried and unsuccessfully tried to run in the last elections and lost. You look at somebody like that, and you're like, oh, that's just the normal of the Republican. That's the baseline. Like, she's not even crazy for this

Starting point is 00:28:06 modern day Republican Party anymore. That's the norm for them. And then there are some people who are slightly less crazy and most of them who are far crazier than her. They took the baton and the crazy baton and they ran, man. They ran. They're this crazy. Their former indicted president has a band called the J6 Choir crazy. I mean, that sums it up for you right there. That's who this Republican Party is. And speaking of which, apparently the J6 Choir was at Moralago this past weekend. And Alina Habba, Donald Trump's lawyer, gave an interview where she talked about over the weekend, Donald Trump was hanging out with the J6 choir and the J6 families. And he said that they were in prayers together. And

Starting point is 00:28:53 it was something that she said was an incredible sight to behold. And at the same time you have that, you have Jim Jordan, the MAGA Republican who chairs the Judiciary Committee. I just want to say this about Jim Jordan. There's a lot I could say about Jim Jordan, but I want to say this, though, too. Jim Jordan is not a licensed lawyer. Okay, so setting aside how incompetent he is, how deranged he is, right? Let's just start with basic competence and then let's get to deranged, right? Wouldn't you want the person leading the judiciary committee,

Starting point is 00:29:32 the judiciary committee to be someone who has passed the minimal competency exam for being a licensed attorney in any state? Let's begin with that baseline. For MAGA Republicans, the answer is no. I'm not saying that you have to pass the bar exam to be smart, that the bar exam is actually a good test to determine if you are a good lawyer. I took the bar exam at California. It was three days. It was like six hours each day. I left that exam and didn't make me a better lawyer after passing it. Truthfully, I don't think so. But it's still the minimal competency exam for having your license. And Jim Jordan doesn't have a law license. So he does the routine where he

Starting point is 00:30:26 rolls up his sleeves and he doesn't wear a jacket. And frankly, you could just tell that psychologically he's someone who is just so jealous of a Jamie Raskin. He so wants to be an Eric Swalwell, for example, and he can't intellectually compete with them. He doesn't have any of their skills and attributes, and he's not a licensed lawyer. Okay. Then we can get into the fact that Jim Jordan is just a heinous human being. After we get past threshold of having no competence whatsoever, we could talk about the fact that Jim Jordan covered up sexual abuse at the college where he worked in the wrestling department. And then he was crying to people who were sexually assaulted, telling them, please do not go public, please do not go public. And he tried to retaliate against actual

Starting point is 00:31:18 whistleblowers. We could go there. But going back to what I said about Republicans, Jim Jordan couldn't get a job anywhere else as a lawyer because he ain't one. And he really couldn't get a job anywhere else because he's incompetent and a disgusting human being, yet he's the person who they have lead the Judiciary Committee. This is what Jim Jordan said as a result of the various investigations into Donald Trump. He talks about defunding the FBI and DOJ over this weekend here. Let's play this clip of of Jim Jordan saying this play it. Our job, but we're legislators. Our job is to pass pass legislation, write laws and pass

Starting point is 00:31:56 legislation. So we'll look at that. And maybe most importantly, Maria, is we control the power of the purse. And that's we're going to have to look at the appropriations process and limit funds going to some of these agencies, particularly the ones who are engaged in the most egregious behavior. So the DOJ and the FBI. Yeah, and what I'd really like, frankly, I'd really like for the government just to stand up the election process.

Starting point is 00:32:20 I mean, heinous, heinous. Maria Bartiromo, who's one of the central figures in the defamation lawsuit by Dominion against Fox, which is set to go to trial in the next few weeks, will be great when she takes the stand. And they just go up there and just disparage the FBI and the DOJ and you've got to defund it. By the way, you could be critical. I'm okay with being critical. Is the FBI right about everything? Is the DOJ right about it? Of course, be critical of them. But you are doing it because they are engaged in a criminal investigation of Donald Trump because Donald Trump engages in criminal conduct in front of all of our eyes. You want to talk about the document case where Donald Trump stole thousands of government records. He had two years to turn over the records before finally the Department of Justice was like, okay, I guess we have to now issue a search warrant because he keeps on lying to us. Okay. All Donald Trump had to do is what any normal human being would do in that situation, right? Which is, okay, they know

Starting point is 00:33:24 I have the documents, okay? I'm going to now take the documents that I took and I shouldn't have taken it. The National Archives has asked for it back. I'm going to return it to them. And does Donald Trump do that? No. What does he do? He lies to them over and says, you have all of the records. You have all of the records. So they have to refer it to the Department of Justice because they keep on being lied to by him. And then the Department of Justice is like, hey, can we please get our records back? And he's like, I've turned it over. And then he turns over like 15 boxes in January of 2022, where he cherry picks himself the documents he wants to turn over,

Starting point is 00:34:04 turns those over. And DOJ is like, okay, we know you still have these documents. We have a log of them. Can you please turn them over? Nothing's going to happen. Just please turn them over to us. They don't belong to you. Donald Trump doesn't do it. So the DOJ is like, okay, it's like 14 months have passed. Okay, we're going to issue a subpoena. They issue a subpoena from a grand jury. Can you turn over these records? You're hereby commanded to. Then Donald Trump sets up a meeting with his attorneys, Evan Corcoran and Christina Bob. And in a red-weld folder, they pick 37 documents. And we now learned from the new evidence that Jack Smith has, it was actually Donald Trump who selected these

Starting point is 00:34:51 documents himself. And it was Donald Trump himself who went through it and cherry-picked. And the lawyers were telling Trump, hey, you're violating the law. You need to turn over these records. What are you doing? And Trump would say, ah, it's not a big deal. Just here you go. These are all the documents. There's nothing else. So Donald Trump's lawyers in this red-weld folder turn over 37 documents, classified records, back to the Department of Justice's top counterintelligence officials. They sign an attestation under penalty of perjury that that's all of the records. And the Department of Justice knows that's a lie. So finally, on August 8th, they have to execute a search warrant. And what do they find? Thousands, not a dozen, thousands of government records and over 100 classified records. Now,

Starting point is 00:35:39 Donald Trump doesn't have to, that's not a politicization of anything. Any normal people, any normal person in that situation doesn't steal. You're not allowed to steal these records. Do we have, Brett, the Hannity interview with Donald Trump or even Hannity then asks him the question? Hannity asks Donald Trump the question, a simple question. And Hannity goes, listen, I can't imagine you ever saying, bring me some of the boxes that we brought from the Y. I can't imagine you saying that. And Donald Trump's like, oh yeah, no, I would say that. I would say that. And I watch this clip because Hannity along the way tries to give Trump every single opportunity to say the correct thing. He's like, okay, let's move on. Let's move on. And Trump's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Starting point is 00:36:26 I would do that. I would absolutely do that. Here's the full clip because you just got to hear it. You got to see it to believe it. I can't imagine you ever saying, bring me some of the boxes that we brought back from the White House.

Starting point is 00:36:38 I'd like to look at them. Did you ever do that? I would have the right to do that. There's nothing wrong with it. But I know you, I don't think you would do it. I don't have a lot of time, but I would have the right to do that. I would nothing wrong with it. I know you I don't think you would do it. I don't have a lot of time. But I would have the right to do that. I would do that. Let me move on. Remember this. This is the President. I

Starting point is 00:36:54 have the right to take stuff. Do you know that they ended up paying Richard Nixon, I think $18 million for what he had. They did the Presidential records act they literally the presidential war to nixon it says the complete opposite it literally says that you donald trump you the president these documents are not yours the presidential Records Act literally says the exact opposite of what Donald Trump is saying it says. It doesn't say, sure, all those documents, they're all yours. It literally says that they belong to the government and that they have to be taken care of. They have to be accounted for. It's clear as day. That's not even a debate. There was no alternate interpretation. That's it. That is the Presidential Records Act. It's just such a brazen lie. And like I said, Hannity tries to

Starting point is 00:37:52 give him every opportunity. Okay, we're moving on now. We're moving on now. We're moving on. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. And then at the end, I think just to get into Donald Trump's state of mind just a little bit, I thought it was very peculiar that Donald Trump at the end of it goes, they gave Richard Nixon $18 million for his documents. They gave him- It's a confession. Like, okay, so is that motive? Is that a little bit of your motivation?

Starting point is 00:38:20 Did you want to extort the United States government for these documents? Were you hoping to get a premium to give these documents back? And you know, Jack Smith is just watching all this and going, I can't believe the guy just said that out loud. And Jordy, before you go, that's some of the new bombshell evidence that Jack Smith has gathered. Jack Smith is asking witnesses questions like, was Trump showing these documents as trophies to donors? Was Trump going around and showing these to third parties? And what was he doing with these

Starting point is 00:38:51 documents? And by the way, we kind of know already the answers. Yes, I mean, remember, he's caught on tape with Bob Woodward showing him the classified documents with his letters with Kim Jong-un. If he's doing it on the record with a reporter and bragging to the reporter about how he has these records, he's doing it with everybody else. By the way, Jack Smith also now has evidence from one of Trump's top assistants showing basically Trump's schedule every single day at Mar-a-Lago. So Jack Smith's got that information. Bad dog, Jack Smith. He's also got evidence how Trump himself was the one actually taking out these documents. Trump himself, after the subpoena, was like, I want these. I don't want

Starting point is 00:39:39 these. You could give these back. I'll take these back. Trump was asking the lawyers like, hey, is this illegal? And the lawyers like, hey, is this illegal? And the lawyers would say, yeah. And he would ignore that advice anyway. So when we see that indictment, by the way, that claim obstruction of justice has a sentence of 20 years. The mutilation concealment statute is like 10 years. And then the Espionage Act, I think, is three to five years. So you add all of these together with multiple counts. That's Trump being in jail for the rest of his life. Jordy. The Hannity clip, very serious. I just want to preface it. It's hilarious. I mean,

Starting point is 00:40:16 every time these guys, every time Trump's on TV, every time his lawyers on TV, they just further incriminate themselves at this point. Like you just honestly, you just have to appreciate it. They're just willing to confess their crimes on live TV. Hannity, Brett, to your point, is walking Trump through that entire, from the setup. You would never do, like framing it for him to say no, tries to pivot and move on. Let's move off. If you told me someone cut that up and ran that on Funny or Die, like the mid-tooth, I would be like, okay, yeah, that's funny. No, that's the clip, not cut up. That's an admission. I mean, where are we at this time? I can't even speak. I can't even speak right

Starting point is 00:40:59 now. It's unbelievable. I'll tell you where we are, George. I'll tell you where we are. We are less than 24 hours away from the arraignment of Donald Trump in Manhattan. Donald Trump has arrived in New York. He's set to be booked. A mugshot will almost certainly be taken of Donald Trump. That's all going down tomorrow. Now, Donald Trump turned down a lower profile arraignment that he was actually offered to do it by Zoom. He wanted to go there and make it a very kind of circus spectacle. And then his lawyers filed in court. And Judge Juan Merchan, the judge that is presiding over the matter, clearly is going to know what is taking place here. He's going to know that he's going to be, that Donald Trump's filing these frivolous motions. So Judge Juan Merchan is going to be

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Starting point is 00:45:53 I know I'm excited to see all this go down. Finally, just a little bit of justice. We'll see if that mugshot goes down. There are reports that it is. There are some conflicting reports that it may not. We will see. I sure reports that it is. There are some conflicting reports that it may not. We will see. I sure hope that there is. And then I guess the next question that's up in the air is, will the judge, Judge Mershon, will he consider any type of gag order on Trump? I mean, Trump has already made a series of threats against the judge, threats against Alvin Bragg. Now,

Starting point is 00:46:23 he is, of course, a candidate for the Republican nomination. I don't know if they will weigh that into this at all. Ben, I don't need to go on the record with a firm yes or no on Willie gag order, but what's your general thought on that? Well, Ben, let me build on that question too, Brett. If there is a gag order, what happens if there's a violation of said gag order as well? If there's a violation- On the record. On the record, if there's a violation of the gag order, you could be held in contempt, which could be a monetary fine or could eventually be prison if you routinely violate

Starting point is 00:47:01 a gag order. It won't be like a massive sentence, but violations and being held in contempt in a criminal proceeding, you go to jail 20, 30 days, but you wouldn't get there for the first violation. You'd probably get a monetary fine, and then the monetary fine would escalate. I think what will happen, and I'll go on the record with my prediction, I think Judge Ron Mershon is not going to issue a gag order on the record with my prediction. I think judge is not going to issue a gag order on the first one. I think what he's going to say is that he's aware of and familiar with the threats that have taken place, that he is considering a gag order. And if further conduct, uh, consistent with the prior threats occurs, he will issue the gag order. I think the judge

Starting point is 00:47:47 will want to first put that on the record, knowing that Donald Trump will likely almost immediately violate it. This way, the judge will also say, look, my goal is not to try to issue a gag order in general. And in normal times, I would not want to issue one, especially where there is a potential First Amendment right in connection with political campaigning. So that's what the judge will say. However, the judge will say, this speech at issue is not political campaigning. This speech is threatening. It's obvious what the gag order would be focused on. I can give a narrowly tailored gag order regarding your threats, and you are hereby ordered not to post threats about Alvin Bragg, about this court, about the jurors, about this judicial process, period. And any threat,

Starting point is 00:48:47 any threatening statement will be met by a future gag order. And then there will be eventually contempt if you are in continuous violation of it. So I think the judge will take it in steps. Here's something to know about Judge Juan Mershon as well. Judge Mershon was the same judge who presided over the felony case against the Trump Organization, where the Trump Organization was convicted on 17 felony counts. And Judge Mershon had told the Trump Organization CFO, Allen Weisselberg, that he would have actually wanted a more significant sentence for Weisselberg if Weisselberg did not enter the plea deal that he did and said that Weisselberg was clearly infected by a ton of greed and other misconduct that was at play. And so Judge Mershon is not a fan of the Trump organization,

Starting point is 00:49:48 not because he doesn't like the Trump organization, but they've come before his court and he's seen firsthand their crimes. Remember what their defense was as the Trump organization, which completely pissed the jurors off. And it's somewhat similar to their defense here, where they argued in the Trump organization case, well, what are we talking about here? $200,000 in benefits to Allen Weisselberg that were improperly reported? Who cares? $200,000. And the jurors were like, what are you talking about? It makes it worse, by the way, that you can have so much money and still be that greedy. It doesn't make it better that you are still going to commit crimes when you're already making good money. And for the jurors, they're like, we're not making

Starting point is 00:50:37 200K. What are you talking about that that's pocket change? And if it was pocket change, then why were you doing it? And notice here, similarly, right? There really isn't any defense out there that, oh, Donald Trump is innocent. I rarely, if ever, hear anybody- I'm saying that you're so right. Right? They're not arguing that he's innocent. Their arguments are, Manhattan sucks. But there's other crimes Manhattan should prosecute. Well, Manhattan is. Crime's down in Manhattan. And so it's like, well, the DA should be focused on other issues. Well, there's no one saying Trump didn't do it. Trump committed a crime.

Starting point is 00:51:20 Trump falsified business records, and he did it in connection with an election. And he had a fairly elaborate criminal conspiracy, beginning with the National Enquirer, which engaged in these disgusting catch and kill schemes leading up to the election. It started with them paying Karen McDougal $150,000 to buy the rights to her life story to kill it. And when I say they, Trump didn't pay for it. The National Enquirer paid one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. That is a campaign contribution because you're supposed to pay it to the to the campaign. It's a benefit to the campaign. So it's an end run around campaign finance rules. So they're not

Starting point is 00:52:01 saying, oh, well, Donald Trump is completely innocent. They're just saying that the DA is being politicizing it because he's prosecuting this and he should be prosecuting other to say, New York is soft on crime. So please don't prosecute this criminal. Please don't prosecute this criminal. Prosecute other criminals. New York is soft on crime. But please don't do anything here. Please. Alina Haba the other day was on one of these shows.

Starting point is 00:52:37 I don't currently have the clip. But she was like, and they want to prosecute him for barely a misdemeanor. Like, you know, it's bad when one of your attorneys is like already calling your actions a crime and trying. How about this, Brett? Their new one, right, that the MAGA Republicans, again, not saying Trump is innocent, right? They say the real crime here, Alvin Bragg. Alvin Bragg is a felon. Alvin Bragg committed a felony because the number of indictment counts, the fact that people know it's about 34 counts, that's the reason that Alan Bragg is the real felon here.

Starting point is 00:53:14 And they repeat this over and over again here. This is Fox host Jesse Waters basically saying he's a felon. This is the real felony here. Waters is a clown. The Manhattan DA just sat there and went like that. But they're looking at this. This is crazy. Bragg is the one that committed the felony. Judge knows this right here. It is a felony on lawful grand jury disclosure. How do we know what's in this indictment? How does CNN know this? Because someone in the Manhattan D.A.'s office leaked this. That's a felony that we know is a felony unless CNN is on the jury.

Starting point is 00:53:49 And we know that's not true. So we have a case shut right there. Bragg is a felon and he's trying to make a career for himself over this. And Bragg has interfered in this election more than Russia has or China has combined. Fascist Michael Scott. What is it? They're going with the i'm rubber your glue uh legal strategy here's the thing i'm gonna film your phone okay so on friday judge juan mershon issued a limited unsealing order which actually permits the district attorney to talk about the existence of the indictments. There's actually an order,

Starting point is 00:54:25 a limited unsealing order for that purpose. And they just have their talking points. Oh, Alvin Bragg committed a felony. There's also no evidence that Alvin Bragg said anything about the number of charges in the indictment at all. And again, notice they're not saying Donald Trump is innocent, they're saying Alvin Bragg is also a felon. And by the way, you have Alina Habeb. Did you see this interview?

Starting point is 00:54:52 It was actually a good one. This is the Don Lemon interview, right? And Don Lemon asked like the most basic questions to her too. Like this was a relatively softball interview. You know, just when she goes on Fox, the questions are so leadingly weird. Like, can you tell us how incredible is your defense goal? Stupid questions like that, right? Ben, you mean like, did you not take the documents? Did you not take them right? You wouldn't do that, right?

Starting point is 00:55:26 In the same interview, Hannity was liked him all right I'm gonna let's not do questions here you seem not to be good at questions I'm gonna you know what I'm talking about right yeah this actually happened I'm gonna give you the names of people who are really bad can you just say they are bad when i read the names for you okay let's let's do this let's give this a try putin i love him i love him he's great okay but you sure president xi i get along with him he is great kim jong-un people don't want me to say this a really great person m Mitch McConnell, Mitch McConnell, total scum. Mitch McConnell has ruined the Republican Party. Barack Obama. You know what? I don't really know him. I don't know much about the guy. I kid you not. I kid you not. That was basically word for word what he said. We'll try to pull that up in a little bit. But let me just show you what happens when Alina Haba gets asked very basic questions by Don Lemon about the process

Starting point is 00:56:30 of Donald Trump being reigned. And you also see she has that talking point as well. Brags the felon. We all know that. Here, play this clip. Do you support the transparency of having cameras cameras in the courtroom? I think it depends. I think this whole rigmarole, really, for lack of better words, has been through leaks, which I don't appreciate as an attorney. I think that transparency is very important. I'm going to leave that decision to the criminal team. But as somebody who's represented the president in court, I like transparency. I think that in certain situations, it's a good thing. I do have a problem with leaking of pictures. I think that it's because we're in a campaign because he's the leading GOP candidate. It's not going to help anything. But you're talking about the possibility of a mugshot. You would prefer not to have a mugshot of the former president.

Starting point is 00:57:25 Is that what you're saying, Alina? I don't see a purpose in it. You know, the reality is, like the person prior mentioned, mugshots are for people so that you recognize who they are. He is the most recognized face in the world, let alone the country right now. So there's no need for that. There's no need for the theatrics now. Let's remember that the real crime here that we have is that D.A. Bragg did leak that there were 30 to 34 counts. We already know that. That in itself is a felony. You are not to let that go.

Starting point is 00:57:53 So at this point, I mean, and I like everybody in this country to be treated the same no matter what we do. We don't know if the DA leaked that information. That is speculation. Well, we don't have that information. So, well, it's not speculation. We don't have the information. So it came from their office. So your client has attacked the judge in this case, posting online that the judge hates him, that he was handpicked by Bragg and the prosecutors, and that he railroaded and strong-armed Allen Weisselberg. Why would he do that? I think that's a fact. I think that we have many judges, frankly, and I'm before some of them,

Starting point is 00:58:38 who have shown a venomous and vitriol against President Trump that is like nothing we've ever seen in the state of New York in practicing for as many years as I have. I've never seen cases move so fast unless they're Donald Trump. I've never seen lopsided discovery issues. And I think he has a serious concern. I think that's how he feels. And he has a right to voice that it's a first amendment, right? Okay. There's so many things I want to say about this video, but can we start with the first, her misuse of the word rigamarole. She said- For lack of a better word. She called it rigamarore, number one. A rigamarole is a lengthy and complicated procedure, a long rambling story or statement. I don't know what she's referring to as a rigamarole

Starting point is 00:59:21 here. For lack of better words, I'm just going to use the word salami sandwich. I mean, it's not, you know, it has nothing to do with anything about what she was saying at all. What's the rigmarole here? Anyway, but then she goes in and she's like, she's for transparency, she said. And she seems to be like she's okay with cameras in the courtroom. But then Trump's other lawyers filed a motion

Starting point is 00:59:57 with the judge. And I kid you not, this is what the motion says that they just filed. Quote, we have grave concerns that audiovisual recordings of tomorrow's arraignment will only further exacerbate an already almost circus-like atmosphere around this case. Pause for a second. Who's creating the circus-like atmosphere around the case? By the way, Donald Trump was given the opportunity by the district attorney's office to do this arraignment by Zoom. So there would be absolutely no circus-like atmosphere at all. and that he wanted to go there to show his supporters how he was basically doing this on their behalf and how he was suffering for them, basically. And so who's the one creating this into a circus, by the way? believe that any photography or video of tomorrow's proceedings will detract from both the dignity and decorum of the proceedings and courtroom and will necessarily interfere with the fair administration of justice. Pause there. In addition to the utter gaslighting,

Starting point is 01:01:19 here's what I love about Donald Trump's lawyers. They're so dumb. And they do not think two steps ahead, right? Because that quote, if I'm District Attorney Alvin Bragg, right, I will use that quote that they put out there all the time against them when Donald Trump makes all of these posts. If I wanted a gag order, I would say we concur with Donald Trump's counsel. We believe in the dignity and decorum of the proceedings in this courtroom. So we believe that when Donald Trump posts on his social media platform that the district attorney is animal scum or George Soros, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and post photos of himself with a baseball bat looking like he's going to bludgeon the district attorney. You know what? That demeans

Starting point is 01:02:13 the dignity and decorum of the proceedings and courtroom. And then, of course, it's a gaslighting statement, but it's going to backfire that statement on them. And finally, this is what they said in their motion. As your honor is well aware, this case presents extraordinary security concerns, including secret service related concerns. And we submit that any video or photography of the proceedings will only heighten these serious concerns. Now, what is that even? Why? Why would video and photography of the proceedings, what does that have anything to do with the security concerns? And by the way, this was what you wanted to happen. You did not want the Zoom arraignment. And by the way, the same people who are like against the Capitol Police Department saying that we shouldn't release

Starting point is 01:03:06 the surveillance footage because it would lead to potentially the deaths of lawmakers. Here you go. Let's let the Capitol security footage out there. So there's absolutely no consistency here at all. It's complete and utter gaslighting, but it just goes to show you what they're really after here. It's just the performative propaganda over and over again. They want to create the circus-like atmosphere outside, but then they don't want the cameras inside to show what a little weak, coward traitor he is and how scared he is and that his hands are going to be all sweaty. And he is going to feel for the first time that he is being held accountable. They don't want people to see that.

Starting point is 01:03:49 Yeah. And you have Trump, all the reporting. This is this is what the sources are saying. You know, speaking out about Trump's thoughts on this atmosphere and Trump actually wants a circus like atmosphere, despite what he is saying in that filing. And according to reports, Trump is vowing to escalate his attacks against Bragg. I mean, he's been so tame up until this point. But he's vowing to escalate his attacks against Bragg. And apparently in a private moment over the weekend at Mar-a-Lago, he said to somebody that it's time to quote, and this is quoting Donald Trump, politically fuck him up regarding

Starting point is 01:04:25 brag. That's what he said. And so think about that now as we played the Alina Haba clip, as we played the Jesse Waters clip. And this is happening. We just told you guys listening that we've been noticing these patterns in real time of what they're trying to do, how they're trying to smear braggg. You see it in the Fox echo chamber. If you look at all Fox News' tweets, all their tweets are about Bragg and about trying to smear him. And look, he let this person go, and he let this person go, and he let that person go. And oftentimes, they leave out some pretty key information about the people he let go, like that the people were actually the victims themselves of the crime

Starting point is 01:05:01 and not the other way around. That was one of the stories I saw today, just so obscene. But you saw how this information is laundered, this disinformation. You see how it is laundered. You saw Alina Haba do it as a little test balloon on CNN with Don Lemon. Then you saw it get picked up by the Fox News world and Jesse Waters screaming it. And now just minutes ago, you see Donald Trump pushing the same exact talking points on his social media app. Donald Trump saying, wow, District Attorney Bragg just illegally leaked the various points and complete information on the pathetic indictment against me. I know the reporter and so unfortunately does he. This must mean he must be immediately indicted, all caps. Now, if he really wants to clean up his

Starting point is 01:05:45 reputation he will do the honorable thing as district attorney and indict himself he will go down in judicial history and his trump hating wife will be i am sure very proud of him so there he gets to attack brag attack his wife spread this ridiculous theory that oh it's actually indict brag brag should indict himself and then you see just how toxic how how how big of a liars these people are and it's really the essence of what you see in other countries like russia and north korea this propaganda that they're pushing it's no different it's no different so don't think that it can't happen here that's exactly what they're doing i want to show the polling in a little bit, though. And here's the thing. Donald Trump, by and large, is detested in the United States of America. Yet again, the MAGA Republican propaganda and the large media networks want to normalize this, but he is a detested

Starting point is 01:06:46 figure and he is a loser. He is a complete loser, loses over and over and over again. Yet they continue to propagate this idea that they're great and America loves this guy. I want to just play this clip right now of Jason Chaffetz, former member of Congress. And this is what Chaffetz is saying. And Chaffetz says the following about Donald Trump posting about death and destruction and all of Donald Trump's threats about the district attorney here. Play this clip of Jason Chaffetz, who's now a contributor on Fox. Play this clip. What Trump actually said was it's known by all that no crime has been committed and also known that potential death and destruction in such a false charge could

Starting point is 01:07:39 be catastrophic for our country. Does that worry you at all? Look, Donald Trump is always going to take the non-conventional way of doing things. He's going to defend himself. He's not just going to sit back and take it and let some other attorney go out and talk. I'm sure every attorney would advise their client, just don't say anything, but that's not Donald Trump. And that's why America loves the guy is that he will go right into the face of whatever's coming after him and get back in their grill and tell him exactly what he thinks. Okay. America does not love the guy. Number one, his approval rating is completely in the tank. That's number one. Yeah. Pull this up. In the most recent poll, majority of Americans actually approve of Trump indictment. Then there's the statement, what are you going to do? Just let some other attorney go out and speak? What are they even talking about there? Is Alvin Bragg posting on Twitter photos of himself beating up Donald Trump? What are you even talking about? There is no other attorneys

Starting point is 01:08:47 out there who are saying anything. I mean, it's just complete. And then he goes, well, Donald Trump, of course, he needs to defend himself. Yeah. Well, you defend yourself in court. You defend yourself through the normal process. And that again, by the way, that doesn't look that dissimilar, by the way, from the way 60 Minutes portrayed Marjorie Taylor Greene. And when you think about it, he's just got these real big opinions and he's going to defend himself. Brett, what are we hearing? Well, what are we hearing? Well, first, I just want to address that. And I want to say, you know, all these people are kind of diluted in their own ways, because they're all in their little bubbles, right? Like Marjorie

Starting point is 01:09:30 Taylor Greene thinks she is the most popular person on the planet, because she is in a gerrymandered district where a lot of the people in her district think like her and she wins elections very easily. Now there are these reports and Trump said it at the rally in Waco that, that she should run for Senate. That's the Donald Trump says, Marjorie Taylor Greene should run for Senate. And she's so flattered. And she's considering it the next election, I think would be in 2026, uh, for Senate in, in Georgia. Uh, and the Republican party who actually know understands data at some levels panicking and freaking out because they know that she would get absolutely crushed if she faces off against John Ossoff. She would get absolutely crushed. But these people overestimate their popularity because they surround themselves both online

Starting point is 01:10:17 and in real life in these MAGA bubbles, like Jim Jordan. Have you ever seen what Jim Jordan's congressional district looks like? It's not normal, folks. It's not normal. Have you ever seen what Dan Crenshaw's district in Texas looks like? It's not a natural shaped district. Let me just say that. And on Fox News, it's sort of the same thing. They're sort of gerrymandered into their own kind of viewership. And yes, that's their viewership. That's their base. However, that's not the country at large. That's just what they are surrounding themselves in. And they have positioned themselves as we are going to try to appease and we are going to try to entertain these 20% of deranged people in the country. And so while they get big numbers, it's because just all of them are watching them

Starting point is 01:11:04 for the most part. That's why they were so freaked out when Newsmax came along and started stealing some of their thunder and taking away the conspiracy theorist. But at large, they do not represent even close to a majority of this country. And they are fooling themselves if they think that they do. I mean, we're just seeing, Ben, we're seeing conflicting reports here. Is Trump going to get his mugshot? Is he not going to get his mugshot? I mean, we'll find out tomorrow. We're at a stage right now, and we saw this also kind of leading up to the indictment where you had people with interest kind of planting things in the media in either direction. And you saw that with the Politico story, which was kind of proven completely wrong about they're not going to vote, and then this indictment's

Starting point is 01:11:44 actually not going to happen. And so I just wouldn't even trust any reporting. We'll see what happens tomorrow as far as mugshots and specifics or whatever. But while we're at it, though, let's talk about some normal news. Can we talk about President Biden pushing his economic agenda in Minnesota? And then can we also talk about these laboratories of authoritarianism and autocracy? We have to talk about it. We have to talk about it. I really think that this is probably even the most important segment on this episode. So make sure you stay tuned right after this quick break.

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Starting point is 01:16:07 counts that is being reported by Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent at Yahoo News. We knew there were 34 counts, but we believe there to be 34 counts. And now the reporting is each of those counts are felonies. So just wanted to give everybody that update. That's why it's good to stay through those commercial breaks because right after those commercial breaks, sometimes you get the biggest gems of the episode. But Brett, I think this segment right now is so important, right? We talk about these laboratories of autocracies, laboratories of authoritarianism. I think David Pepper so aptly coined that term because we used to think of states as laboratories for democracy and laboratories of a way to perfect our constitution, to make

Starting point is 01:16:59 things better, to focus on how do people get more benefits? How do we make people's lives better? But what we're seeing in places like Tennessee and Florida, especially these places that have these Republican super majorities, we're seeing what fascism looks like. We're seeing fascism here, and they're the places that are experimenting on, okay, how do we seize complete control of women's bodies? And it's a race to how do we stop all equality and how do we go after the trans community and the LGBTQ plus? They're focused on all those issues about which state can hate the most, it seems.

Starting point is 01:17:42 Which state can use government to attack businesses the most? And it's really disgusting. And talk about what's happening in Tennessee. Yeah. I mean, what's happening in Tennessee is really, really horrific right now. But it's, you know, the one good thing is that it's great to see the people standing up. But obviously, there was a horrific shooting in Nashville recently. And in the wake of the horrific shooting, the people of Tennessee got together and they went to the state capitol to peacefully protest for gun safety. They wanted their voices to be heard. And along with the protesters, a few of the Tennessee state representatives joined them,

Starting point is 01:18:22 including Representative Gloria Johnson, who's a friend of the show, has been on the show. An incredible representative, Justin Jones, a Tennessee state representative who's also been on the show. Young guy, just incredibly impressive. We loved having him on the show also. And Tennessee Representative Justin Pearson also joined in on the protests. And there was some footage going around the other day. It was really inspiring. They were singing songs. They were making their voices heard. And you see, even today, you see these protests through the streets in Nashville, just such an incredible

Starting point is 01:18:56 sight of young people coming together to demand that Republicans act, do something in the face of all the senseless gun violence that is happening in the state and around the country. They just want the Republicans to do something here. So what do Republicans do? Do they try to address the problems? Do they try to fix gun violence? No, they try to punish the people who are pushing for gun reform, for gun safety legislation. And they start by targeting Gloria Johnson, Justin Jones, and Justin Pearson, the three Tennessee state representatives who I had just brought up, the ones who stood in solidarity with the folks who were protesting. And I'll play you first a short clip that Representative Tennessee Representative Gloria

Starting point is 01:19:48 Johnson posted today from one of these protests so you could get a sense of the vibe and hear the crowd. Power to the people. Power to the people. Power to the people. Power to the people. Power to the people. So in a true Republican way, like we were saying earlier, the way they weaponize disinformation and that I'm rubber, you're glue philosophy that I joked about earlier. They see that and they see the protests

Starting point is 01:20:25 at the Capitol and they go, oh, that's an insurrection. Insurrectionists, insurrectionists. And then using that line of attack, very Russian kind of disinformation, just disgusting, disgusting behavior. Using that line of attack, what they're doing is they're now weaponizing their office in an attempt to expel Gloria Johnson, Justin Jones, and Justin Pearson. And they have the votes to do it. They have this Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton, just an absolutely disgusting guy who's putting forth a motion to expel the three. They've already, as of the time of this recording, kicked them off all of their committees and they deactivated all of their key cards that even get them into the building. That's the kind of revenge that they are getting all because they had the nerve to stand with the people of Tennessee and demand gun safety legislation.

Starting point is 01:21:19 I just want to tell you about this Tennessee House of Representatives and these Tennessee Republicans just a little bit. This is the same Republican Party who just recently passed permitless carry in the state, even though the people of the state did not want it. This is the same Tennessee House Republicans that refused to vote to expel an admitted sex offender that is still a Tennessee State Representative. There's this guy, Representative David Bird. He admitted on tape to molesting high school girls that he coached. He was like a basketball coach or something like that. He admitted to it on tape, apologized to them, admitted that he did it. And Gloria Johnson, who they are seeking to expel right now, and they've introduced the motion to expel her. Gloria Johnson actually posted it just moments ago. Here, I'll pull it up for the folks watching. Gloria Johnson was one of the

Starting point is 01:22:11 main voices on the Democratic side who was demanding that Republicans expel their admitted sex offender from the House. So this is their way also of getting revenge against Representative Gloria Johnson. And I think we also have to take note of the fact that the three people who they are trying to expel from the Tennessee House are Gloria Johnson, a woman, and Justin Jones, Justin Pearson, two black men. I mean, we have to acknowledge that that is also what is going on here. The racism, the misogyny, it's on full display right now. And they are just so bloodthirsty for power here in Tennessee that this is a true example of weaponization of the government. That's why I believe that this right here might be the most

Starting point is 01:22:58 important story that we talk about today. And so I'm not honestly sure 100% what we could do at this moment in time, but I urge everybody here, if you can make calls to the Tennessee Speaker's office, his number, I'll give it to you right now. It's a public number, so I could give it out. It's 615-741-2343. That's 615-741-2343. Or you could shoot him an email, rep.cameron.sexton at capital.tn.gov. Send him an email, let him know your thoughts, make your voice be heard. I'm happy to see these young people out there protesting, but it's really a horrific, horrific, evil, anti-democratic, just fascism in open sight, what we are seeing here. And here's the short clip of Justin Jones speaking about this earlier today. I want to make sure that Justin Jones' voice is heard. This is one of the Tennessee state representatives who is on the

Starting point is 01:23:58 chopping block here due to this motion to expel. So what's going on here in Tennessee today? So three of us lawmakers who still with our constituents demanding that they take action and hear the thousands of people gathered on Thursday talking about the crisis of mass shootings. We've been kicked off our committees as representatives elected by our constituents. Each of us represents 78,000 people and our people are being silenced because they're kicking us off committees. They're threatening to take a vote to expel us today. Our member ID badges have been shut off. Our representative ID badges have been shut off. And this is not what democracy looks like. You know, we are elected to serve our constituents.

Starting point is 01:24:31 And I'm the youngest Democratic lawmaker here in the most diverse district. And by shutting me down, they're shutting down the voice of my constituents. So this is one of my constituents, Ms. Brooks, whose family was hit and, you know, a victim of the mass shooting. And so we're here to speak for them.

Starting point is 01:24:47 And they won't even let us speak for our people. They wouldn't let us talk on the floor. They shut our microphones off. They shut our voting machines off. We couldn't even talk about the issue. And so when we went to the well to enforce the issue, they called us insurrectionists and are now trying to expel us from the legislature. And they calling them insurrectionists.

Starting point is 01:25:04 I mean, how disgusting is that? Call them insurrectionists because they want common sense gun reform. That's it. Hey, you know, maybe if we make members of the military, I don't know, like take a test and show that they're qualified to handle the exact same weapon that we're just randomly giving to civilians? I don't know. Maybe we also have the civilian go through some of the same standards. Maybe we have just some kind of common sense steps that we take here. And by the way, that Americans overwhelmingly support because it's just complete and utter madness out there that you have this fetishization of AR-15s and weapons of war because MAGA Republicans, to use Jamie Raskin's line, have an insurrectionist view of the Second Amendment, where they believe that everybody

Starting point is 01:26:06 should be armed with anything they want to destroy the government. That's what Timothy McVeigh believed. That was Timothy McVeigh's view of the Second Amendment. And I'll tell you, you put Timothy McVeigh quotes right next to modern day MAGA Republicans, they are almost identical, pretty much identical. You couldn't tell a McVeigh quote from a MAGA Republicans, they are almost identical, pretty much identical. You couldn't tell a McVeigh quote from a MAGA Republican quote on their view of guns. And that's not what the Second Amendment says. You go back historically to Republican appointed Supreme Court justices. They never viewed the Second Amendment that way. It is this new breed of MAGA Republicans who are not for democracy, who view the arming of the MAGA Republicans with these weapons of war as a way to overthrow the

Starting point is 01:26:58 government for the fascist takeover. That's not hyperbole. That's actually what they believe. I just want to say this too. What these Tennessee Republicans are saying right now That's not hyperbole. That's actually Republican Party, folks. And so I want to honestly ask our audience, too, and I don't blame you if you hadn't heard about the story from Tennessee, because it's not getting wall-to-wall coverage, but it should. And don't feel bad about it, but I just want to use that as another example of where legacy media is failing you. This story should be one of the most, the most important story right now. And just by and large, networks are failing. Well, let's all make some noise here because it really is horrific to see what they're doing. And obviously, there's also the blatant intellectual dishonesty where if they really want to go down that road and call a peaceful protest at a state capital an insurrection, then what do you call a riot at the United States Capitol

Starting point is 01:28:07 that turns into a domestic terrorist attack in which you are gouging the eyes out of police officers, slamming them in between doors, spraying them with mace, killing police officers, hitting them over the head with American flagpoles? What do you call that then, okay? And this is happening, unfortunately, all across the country. And if you're watching this live, I put the phone number and the email in the chat if you want to make your voice heard and do what you can. But this is happening all over the country and we can move to Florida as well. And while we're on this note of gun violence

Starting point is 01:28:39 and gun safety, Florida, DeSantis, they're just pushed through their own permitless carry legislation kind of in the dead of night without much fanfare. And it goes against what the people of Florida want. It goes against what the American people want. I mean, they've done polls on this, and it's like an astronomical amount of people. I have one of the polls up right in front of me here, that overwhelming majority, 76% of Floridians strongly support universal background checks. 61% of Floridians oppose permitless carry. And so just think about those two numbers right there. Let's just start right there. And now think that this Republican legislature going against the will of the people, passing these laws, it's just, that's, I mean, what we are seeing is everything Republicans accuse Democrats of

Starting point is 01:29:31 in terms of, this is tyranny of the majority. That's what Republicans do the second they have power. They go and use their power to crush opposition, to attack others, to attack you, to attack private businesses. This is what we're seeing all across the board. And on that note, we saw recently this whole situation. We did a great video on it with our new Midas Touch contributor, Dean Adal. I recommend you all watch that video for a full breakdown of the Disney DeSantis situation, but I'll give you a kind of a brief overview, which is that DeSantis got completely humiliated by Disney recently. He made all this fanfare. He made it the biggest thing in the world that he was going to shut down the corporate kingdom,

Starting point is 01:30:17 and he was going to go against Disney because Disney had the nerve to say that they supported equality. How horrible. Oh, my goodness. And so he made it his mission to punish them for going against his don't say gay bill for speaking out with the most. Jordy, I'm going to use it again. The most kind of milquetoast statement that they could possibly make even about it. No, that they support equality. How controversial. And that enraged DeSantis, enraged the Florida Republicans.

Starting point is 01:30:44 And he wanted to strip them of their special status that they've had for decades and decades and decades. But here's the thing with these fascist wannabes. They're incompetent. They're very incompetent, and they surround themselves with wildly incompetent people. So throughout this whole process, I think a lot of people were kind of scratching their heads a little bit. And when Disney came out and said, yeah, we're not going to fight this one, proceed. You got this. Take it from here. And everyone was like, that's interesting. Why isn't Disney pushing back hard enough? Well, it's because they were playing the long game and they were being smarter. And what they did is they had the board, when they controlled the board of the

Starting point is 01:31:26 Reedy Creek District, their special district, they had the board make an agreement with Disney that stripped all the power of the incoming board almost entirely and gave all the decision-making power to Disney in nearly perpetuity. And if not in perpetuity, what they put in the contract was that the agreement, if it can't be done by perpetuity, that the agreement would be in effect. And this is, I'm not making this up. In effect, 21 years after the death

Starting point is 01:31:54 of the last King Charles descendants currently living. That's an exact quote. That's a very long time, folks. And so he basically totally kneecapped DeSantis at Disney, kneecapped DeSantis' entire oversight board. They came in, they took power, they read the agreement, you probably should read it before. It was then in open hearings, in broad daylight, public hearings. And they were like, oh my God, we can't do anything. And not only could they not do anything,

Starting point is 01:32:22 but they were actually now forced to take on a lot of the tasks that Disney was previously responsible for. They now have to pay for the roads and the infrastructure. Disney used to take care of that. And Disney has entire say over anything. he's been being punched in the face metaphorically at this point by donald trump every single day as donald trump just completely humiliates him on a social media platform day in and day out and so he's he's he's desperate he's looking for a win what could i do so what he decides to do is exactly what all these republicans always decide to do oh you you try to humiliate me well i'm going to prosecute you. Everything that I'm accusing, all these other prosecutors, oh, this is a political persecution. Yeah, I know. I'm going to announce a criminal and civil investigation into Disney and the Disney board for the actions because that's what authoritarians do. He was embarrassed. He was absolutely humiliated.

Starting point is 01:33:24 So we decided to launch a criminal investigation into Disney because they passed legal agreements in broad daylight in public meetings that their lawyers just didn't read or didn't understand because they were too incompetent. So he literally released this letter and the whole... I mean, every time... Look at the Sharpie signature. Oh, he's such a wannabe Donnie. He got the Sharpie like Trump. His signature has changed to look more like Trump's. It's just completely pathetic. All these statements are just absolutely ridiculous.

Starting point is 01:33:55 So that is what DeSantis is doing right now. Meanwhile, the people of Florida are suffering from a lot of actual crises out there. They got this incredible insurance problem. They got their insurance premiums, which are absolutely skyrocketing. Every single week, they're skyrocketing. A lot of people who can't even get insurance in Florida, because the insurance companies won't even touch it at this point. But the insurance premiums are skyrocketing. They have this devastating teacher shortage. No one wants to teach there because DeSantis is stripping all the books out of libraries and has made teachers public enemy number one. They have a rent crisis.

Starting point is 01:34:30 So of course, what does DeSantis do? Attack Disney. That is what he decides to do. And that's what these Republicans do though, all across the board. And that's why we need to be able to identify this across the country, whether it's happening in Tennessee, whether it's happening in Florida, wherever this is happening. What they do is they try to distract by picking these fights, these culture war battles. And as they do that, they are inflicting pain on their very own constituents and residents. And it is absolutely disgusting. And it is everything that they pretend that they are not. It's all the exact accusations that they make. That's actually who they are. it right and then the right-wing media your fox your oan newsmax they're going to applaud you for it they're going to champion you for it they're going to spread all of the lies and propaganda

Starting point is 01:35:30 so for them they see it as a no-lose proposition if they don't get called out for it you know and that's why when we're talking about well what can you do we have to frankly do what, unfortunately, the Democrats have failed to do for so long, which is systemically build infrastructure, accurately build a communications infrastructure that just tells the truth. And you know what? The moment the Democrats start posting QAnon memes and start putting AR-15 pins and start following QAnon and start anointing people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, I'm out. I'm out. But there's one adult political party right now, and that's the Democratic Party. And what we just have to amplify is the truth. And we have to call out at each and every turn this authoritarianism, this fascism,

Starting point is 01:36:34 and just speak directly to American people and say, look, this shouldn't be a political issue, right? This is just about you. It's about people like DeSantis and people like the government in Tennessee. They're playing you for fools. They're laughing at you. Behind the scenes, they are mocking you. I mean, literally, Fox hosts, they're sending text messages talking about how stupid their viewers are and how dumb their viewers are. That's what they're actually saying about you behind your back. And we just got to be a microphone and continue to tell the truth. But Brett, maybe compare what you just talked about with what's

Starting point is 01:37:15 gone on in Minnesota today. I mean, it's hard to even make the comparison because it's like we're living on two completely separate planets. But while Donald Trump was traveling to New York to get arrested, and while Tennessee lawmakers were trying to expel their Democratic lawmakers because they had the nerve to stand up for gun safety reform, President Biden traveled to Minnesota today to share his investing in America plan. And Biden spoke at a power generation facility in Minnesota. This is what I love that he's doing right now, because I think he's acknowledging the mistakes that Democrats have made in the past. Biden is embarking on a 20-state

Starting point is 01:37:55 tour to highlight his economic agenda. And those are the issues that are incredibly important to actual voters, not these MAGA lunatics, this 20%. But Americans care about how much money is in their wallets. They care about having a roof over their head. This is the stuff that they actually care about. So Biden has embarked on this 20-state tour where he gathers with state and business leaders. And so today he gave a speech at the Cummins manufacturing plant in Fridley. I hope I'm saying all these names right. I really do. And I apologize. Just run through them quickly. It's fine. No one will notice. Don't bring attention. And if I'm not, and what does he focus on there? Is he talking about stormy horse face Daniels and the political, the J6 choir? No, he's talking about issues that are

Starting point is 01:38:41 actually important to people. He's talking about investments in infrastructure. He's talking about investments in energy. He was talking about, you know, like right here, good paying jobs. Since President Biden took office, the companies there have committed to invest over $2 billion across Minnesota. I mean, these are the kinds of things that are a big deal. Biden was talking about Governor Tim Walz's plan to invest $500 million in matching funds for semiconductors and biomanufacturing to go along with the federal money for manufacturing.

Starting point is 01:39:10 And he applauded the governor for signing a law to deliver 100% carbon pollution-free electricity across the state by 2040. And what does that mean? It means jobs. It means jobs. It means cleaner air. It means people living longer. These are all important things. And I'll play you just a small bit of Biden's speech here today, but it just shows you we're living in different universes where there's at least one party that's trying to put forth policy to actually help people and get them jobs. And you have one party that's just completely in just like bonkers land. I don't even know what to call it. But here is Biden today speaking.

Starting point is 01:39:45 Here's a short snippet. Here in Minnesota, Governor Walz and members of his legislature are working to invest $500 million in matching funds for semiconductors and biomanufacturing to go along with our federal investment. Plus your governor signed historic law

Starting point is 01:40:00 to deliver 100% carbon pollution-free electricity across the state, as one of the senators mentioned, across Minnesota by 2040. By 2040. And I mean, there you have it, folks. I mean, that's what we want out of leaders, presidents, to push forward policies that actually help people, that actually help people get jobs, that actually help infrastructure, that actually helps push our country forward, rather than defining the country as whatever Donald Trump's feelings are of the day,

Starting point is 01:40:33 which is what the Republican Party wants to do it. And then I'll just hit on just other major news just super quickly, which I think President Biden also deserves a ton of credit for. So this, I feel like has slipped through the cracks also. But on Tuesday, Finland will officially become the 31st member of NATO. I think this is absolutely massive. And it shows that Putin, all of his actions in Ukraine have completely, completely, completely backfired. They even use that as a justification to go

Starting point is 01:41:06 into Ukraine, to invade Ukraine as we need to stop NATO expansion. That's what we need to do. They did say that in addition to the Naziification, all the ridiculous things that they said. But why is Finland so important? Also, it shares an 830 mile border with Russia. So Russia's border with NATO will double, more than double after Finland's entrance into NATO. So this is all big news. I want to make sure that everybody is kind of just seeing what's happening in addition to all the chaos that we are seeing on our TVs and on our social media feeds about Trump and everything else that is going on. But there is important progress being made out there. And that's why I truly respect the work that we see being done by actual caring politicians who actually want to do things. And that's why I love

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