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Israel had warned civilians to leave the area in Rafa yesterday, but gave them little time to do it.
Our crew filmed how the bombing started just hours after Israel's evacuation notice.
Palestinian medics say more than 20 people were killed in the overnight operation, including children.
The bodies today handed over to their families.
Just another day in Gaza, and now Israel has taken three.
control of the Palestinian side of the Rafa border, thus having complete control over the
Gaza Strip, including the border that it previously did not have full control over.
And this honestly was likely Israel's plan all along, given the fact that Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu had made clear earlier that he wanted Israel to have full control of what is referred
to as the Philadelphia corridor. I'll give you more details on that in just a moment. But first,
more details on the military operations that were carried out and the fallout from Egypt.
So Israel after they had invaded Rafa erected two of their flags on the Palestinian side
of the Rafa border crossing. Another video also showed an armored vehicle ramming into
a Gaza sign flanked by two Palestinian flags by the arrivals hall. Now the IDF claims that
you know, didn't do anything wrong. It was just carrying out a very specific
targeted operation that allegedly killed 20 Hamas militants and discovered three tunnel shafts.
But also keep in mind that the IDF considers all military age men to be militant.
So it's likely that they killed civilians and identified them as militants.
We really have no confirmation and I would not take the IDF's word for it.
Now the tensions are growing between Israel and Egypt.
Egypt has warned Israel that military action on the border, meaning the Rafa border, could
violate a four decade old peace treaty between the two countries, which would, of course,
further escalate the tensions and war in that region of the world. It would be a disaster.
In a statement, the Egyptian foreign ministry said the following. Egypt vehemently denounces
the Israeli military operation in Palestine, Rafa, which has resulted in Israel controlling
the Palestinian side of the border. The Egyptian foreign ministry described the incursion
as a dangerous escalation that was threatening ceasefire efforts, adding that the operation
endangered the lives of the million Palestinians who depend on the crossing for humanitarian aid
and a safe way out for the injured and patients to get treatment. Now, very few people have been
able to leave the Gaza Strip for medical treatment in Egypt, but that has happened throughout
this war. And obviously, the Rafa border crossing has been critical in allowing for aid to come
into the Gaza Strip and now with Israel taking full control of that area, experts are saying
that humanitarian aid has completely stopped entering the strip and it was already barely
trickling in to begin with. So there's a lot more to get to, Jank. What are your thoughts so
far? Yeah, so first of all, Egypt has lived on two fronts. One is that this is a violation
of their sovereignty because the other side is controlled by Egypt. And so Israel just came in
and knocked all that down, planted their own flags.
That's why they're saying this is technically a violation of their peace deal
from all the way from the Camp David Accords.
And so Israel just shreds other countries' sovereignty without a second thought.
I mean, they bomb Syria all day, every day.
Lebanon, they bomb no hesitation at all.
The fact that they're sovereign countries, obviously they bombed the Iranian consulate,
which almost started a giant World War III.
and now they're doing it to Egypt because they don't care about international law.
They don't think they're subject to international.
They literally think they're above the law.
And so, yeah, but you have a peace deal with Egypt that has been fantastically successful for the last 40 years.
And now Netanyahu, the warmonger, is threatening to destroy that.
The second reason why Egypt is concerned is because they say that the Israeli cabinet had already approved the ceasefire deal that they sent to Hamas.
And once Hamas said yes, the Egyptians say, then Israel turned around and said, no, we were backing out of the ceasefire deal.
And Egypt's point is, what did you make us go through this whole thing for and pretend that you were in favor of the ceasefire deal?
only to have Hamas say yes, and then you turn around and betray everyone that was part of the peace deal,
including Egypt, Qatar, and the United States of America.
So that's their perspective.
And lastly, for now on the Rafa crossing, guys, there's a second giant problem.
Anna pointed out the humanitarian aid is now blocked.
Already there was very little access to humanitarian aid and already a million starving Palestinians.
The second problem is if Israel controls that border crossing, they could open the border, start bombing,
near the border to drive the Palestinians into the Sinai desert in Egypt.
They wouldn't want to do that, right?
It's not like they've stated that they want to do that.
But we're not supposed to believe what Israeli government officials say.
We're just supposed to pretend like they're not saying the things that they're saying out loud.
Yeah, correct?
We're only supposed to believe the parts where they claim to be super moral and that,
golly gee, there was nothing they could do, etc.
But when their cabinet ministers actually say, we want to drive them into the Sinai
and we want to take Gaza for ourselves,
you're not allowed to say things that they've actually said.
Yeah, this is a thing that's been so incredibly frustrating about this ongoing war.
And the reaction you get from hardline Israel supporters, when you simply state the facts of what's happening and simply repeat the quotes uttered by government officials within Israel, right?
You just state the facts and they want to pretend like that's not the reality, right?
Like, okay, so am I supposed to pretend like Itamar Ben-Gavir didn't say that he just wants
to kill Palestinian prisoners with no due, he wants to execute them with no due process
because the prisons are overcrowded.
I'm supposed to pretend like that doesn't exist.
They've been saying that they want to push Palestinians into the Sinai almost since the
beginning of this war, but I'm supposed to pretend like they didn't say that.
And every military action they've taken from the very beginning has driven to the main goal,
the main objectives that they've made clear from the very beginning.
But we're supposed to pretend like it's not happening.
I just don't understand.
So I get that people are afraid to criticize Israel.
I totally get that.
Okay, there has been a reign of terror on student protesters who are doing nothing wrong.
They're getting inflated by a handful of people who say inflammatory things.
And I think that's very much on purpose.
It's meant to shut anyone up if they even dare consider any critique or criticism of Israel's government.
And look, that effort to silence people isn't going to work.
But the gaslighting, you're right, Jake, you make this point all the time, is starting to really drive me crazy.
Because it's not like I'm making up the quotes they're saying.
It's not like I'm making up what they claim their military operations are going to be.
Bangavir said that he wants to encourage the migration, encourage the migration of Gazans out of Gaza.
And Netanyahu said, well, it could be done voluntarily, like if you open the gate and then start bombing the people next to the gate.
Well, yeah, they would voluntarily flee for their lives and they drive them into the desert.
And even Heretz has called out Smotrich for basically calling for a Holocaust of Palestinians,
saying that the civilian population should be totally annihilated.
It doesn't get any more vicious than that.
And that's not some rando next to a college chanting some random thing, not connected to anything else.
That's a cabinet, sitting cabinet minister inside Israel.
So we had a ceasefire deal that Israel crafted, according to the Egyptians,
and the Americans are winking and nodding that the Egyptians are right and saying,
you got to take the deal, Israel.
That is very clear, right?
And now Israel's saying, ha ha, just kidding.
We said we wouldn't bomb southern Gaza, then we bombed southern Gaza.
Denkan Yunus, now Rafah, 50 bombs already dropped, border crossing, seized.
And now we're going to find out, they haven't done it yet.
But we're going to find out if they're going to do a full-blown siege and annihilate Rafa.
And if they do, no one on earth can claim that it wasn't ethnic cleansing and genocide.
They will.
They will. And they'll do their usual maniacal things.
But then it becomes even more obvious that they don't care about reality at all.
And that they're not accidentally lying.
They're lying on purpose.
I don't mean the Israeli government.
The fact that they're lying on purpose is super obvious.
I mean, Israeli supporters who still think, oh, Israel accidentally killed 24,000 women
and children, which is honestly just deranged, it's totally removed from objective.
How do you accidentally kill 24,000 women and children?
It's Hamas's fault.
Yeah, everything is always Hamas's fault, we got it, we got it, we got it, we got it.
Beloved, pure, pure moral Israel would never do anything wrong.
I mean, they dropped the bombs that exploded the baby's head, but it must have been someone
else's fault. So, you know, it did Heretz lie in their reporting when they claimed that Israel
would establish kill zones in the Gaza Strip. And any person who entered the kill zone,
which of course they weren't informed about, they don't know that the kill zone exists.
Anyone who enters that kill zone killed immediately by the IDF, did Heretz lie in their reporting
about that? And as we're going to talk about later in this show, now we've discovered mass
graves, including summary executions and torture. I'm sure those are all.
all accidental too. But look, if you're super biased and I've lived this and I've said this 200 times
now, I grow up Turkish and I know what bias looks like. So good people, like really good moral
decent people can delude themselves into believing almost anything, no matter how outrageous it is,
as long as it backs their own ethnic group or religious group. Their identity. And look, let me just
Let me say this because I totally, totally understand people who are supporters of Israel and feel that like the campus protests and the criticism that you hear toward Israel on this show is offensive to them because they feel that their personal identity is under attack.
No, this isn't about your personal identity.
This isn't about anyone's personal identity.
This is about a foreign country's government and how they are carrying out a war.
that has slaughtered far more innocent civilians compared to actual Hamas militants that they claim
to want to go after. And what's also shocking to me is how what the media always misses in
this conversation is that the prime minister himself funded and propped up Hamas. So he empowered
the very monster that he's now using as justification for the slaughter of all these innocent
people in Gaza. And the Israeli press has reported that Nanjahu and his government knew
that October 7th was coming and they didn't do anything about it.
So to say that their paramount interest is protecting Israeli civilians rather
than collective punishment against the Palestinians and just destroying Gaza.
90% of the buildings are destroyed in Gaza, 70% of the housing, I should be clearer,
and 90% of the people are displaced.
That was all an accident.
90% of the civilians are collateral damage?
No, 90% of the civilians is collective punishment.
When they've all been displaced, they've all been driven out,
they're all homeless, well a million of them are starving.
You got 34,500 dead and you got another 8,000 that are missing or buried in the rubble.
Over 42,000 slaughtered, the overwhelming majority of them, women and children.
And people still want to pretend that they're the moral army.
and that they had to slaughter all those people.
They just had no choice at all.
No, moral decent people have a choice.
It doesn't matter, guys, this isn't about people.
It's about governments.
Governments do things that are terrible all the time.
And right now, Israel, their government, run by right-wing,
war-mongering madman, is threatening to start wars with almost all of its neighbors now,
including Egypt, which they've had a peace deal with,
that has worked and kept Israel safe.
all of these years. But this lunatic is looking to undo all of that and cause what is
the United Nations is calling an humanitarian catastrophe. There's already famine. There's already
famine in the north, okay? Just complete and utter devastation. But I mean, I don't know how far
Israel would need to go for people who keep denying the reality to finally accept what's
actually happening on the ground there. We got to take a break. When we come back, we'll talk a little
bit about the very lawmakers in this country who are more interested in providing cover
for Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of a foreign country, rather than serving the best
interests of their own constituents. That and more coming up, don't miss it.
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Anna.
Well, while Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel's conduct in Gaza is getting a lot of criticism internationally,
there are, of course, those here in the United States.
who want to provide cover for their actions.
So let's get to that story and give you the details.
Israel's prime minister says nobody will stop its military actions,
not even the international criminal court.
The ICC is investigating the country's operations in Gaza
in the occupied West Bank and could issue warrants
for the arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders.
He says such a move would be outrageous and set a dangerous precedent.
And the foreign minister insists the country will not be deterred,
be deterred and will continue to fight.
The notion that any Israeli government official pay the consequences for their actions
has upset Republican senators in the United States so much that they have penned a strongly
worded letter to the International Criminal Court.
Now, late last month, it was reported that the International Criminal Court was considering
issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, defense minister.
Yov Galant and other senior military officials over war crimes that have been committed
in Gaza and also the West Bank. Now, Israel is working through some diplomatic channels.
They're playing good cop in order to stop these warrants from being issued. However, the US,
or at least certain figures within the United States, have decided to play the role of bad
cop and issue threats against the international criminal court. And this is coming in the form
of a letter penned by Republican senators, and they specifically threatened the ICC chief
prosecutor, Karim Khan, in a terse one-page letter obtained exclusively by Zetio and signed by 12 GOP
senators, including Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Florida's Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz of Texas.
Khan is informed that any attempt by the ICC to hold Netanyahu and his colleagues to account
for their actions in Gaza will be interpreted not only as a third.
threat to Israel sovereignty, but to the sovereignty of the United States.
Oh, that's fascinating. So when the international criminal court investigates war crimes
committed by other countries, is it questioning the sovereignty of those countries?
Or is it trying to, you know, maintain international law?
It maintain, you know, certain rules when it comes to the conduct of militaries in
in a time of war.
Now those who signed the letter jank include Mitch McConnell,
Marsha Blackburn, Katie Boyd, Britt,
Ted Bud, Kevin Kramer, Bill Haggerty, Pete Ricketts,
and Rick Scott and Tim Scott also signed the letter.
There's more.
So in the past we've shown you how a number of people
on this list have gotten huge money from A-PAC.
And so that's the American Israel pack.
And guys, so I want you to explain the context for you all.
So are there awful anti-Semitic tropes in the world?
Yes, there are, right?
And is one of them, the Jews secretly control everyone and they're the puppet masters, etc.?
Yes, we've shown you right wingers that even have the tattoo of Soros as the puppet master.
And that's a thing that was used back in the 1930s in Germany, etc.
So those things are real and if you don't know them, you should know them so that you understand why people are so sensitive about it.
But at the same time, APEC is going to spend $100 million.
And right now, they're spending a couple of million dollars through a pro-science pack to defeat Pramila Jayapel's sister who's running for Congress. Intercept just reported on that.
And so as they eliminate anyone who dares to oppose or criticize, simple criticism of a foreign government, you can't then say, you can't say facts about my lobbying efforts because of old anti-Semitic.
tropes. Well, brother, then like, then we're stuck. What are we supposed to do? Okay,
A-PAC is actually purchasing all these politicians. They're not alone. The drug companies and all
the other corporations that give donations also purchase them. It's not specific to Jewish
people at all, not within 1%. But if you say, do not say those facts and pretend you don't
know why these Republicans are supporting Israel unconditionally, why they're protecting them from
war crime charges and and attacking the United Nations are talking about ending our cooperation
with the whole world because the right wing leaders of Israel have demanded it, well,
well, how do I do the news without telling you what's actually happening? Is it because of the
APAC money? Definitely, if anyone is telling you, oh no, these Republican and Democratic politicians,
that all took money from APAC, and for a lot of the leadership, it's
APEC is their top donor, then it doesn't influence them.
Well, that's just a flat out lie.
It definitely influences them.
And it is what?
Otherwise, they just did it because, oh, they have such an emotional connection.
Is there they're politicians that don't have an emotional connection to anything?
Except for their own pockets.
Except for their own pockets.
Let's just keep it real.
So don't like, don't say crazy things about ethnic groups or religious groups, etc.
Having said that, can you accurately state why politicians,
do what they do, which is lobbyist money? Definitely. So these people are basically raising
their hands and saying as long as you pay me through this lobbying group, I will serve Israel
and not America. How many times do we have to repeat this? How many times does that caveat
need to be repeated so we can cover a story the way we would cover any other story or any other
conflict involving any other country? I'm serious because I'm getting kind of tired of it.
Yeah, I hear you. Okay, no one here on this show is saying that Jews control everything.
No one on this show is anti-Semitic, if you're not an adult and you have difficulty comprehending
or absorbing information or criticism against a foreign country and you want to just label anyone
who has criticism against a foreign country as an anti-Semite, then don't watch the show.
But like we can't keep doing this caveat every time we cover Israel, come on.
I hear you, but I want to explain the context for everybody and I want to be careful
because those tropes exist.
Having said that, guys, Anna's right.
Nobody ever says when Egypt gives money to Menendez and the gold bullion in his closet,
etc. Now there's the stereotypes about Egyptians, which by the way, there are some stereotypes
about Egyptians.
Azerbaijan bought Henry Quayar.
He got indicted for it, okay?
So yeah, there are moneyed interests representing every foreign country.
It's just that when it comes to the Israel lobby, they're much more well resourced, and yes,
they're powerful.
And so you literally have a lengthy list of Republican senators who were elected by American citizens,
by Israeli citizens to represent American citizens, constituents in their state.
And instead they're spending their time writing a strongly worded letter threatening the
international criminal court on behalf of a foreign country that has carried out war crimes
in Gaza. That is what this story is. If that offends you, okay, and you think that's
anti-Semitic information to relay to you, then that's your problem.
Yeah. Okay, sorry, that is your problem.
But I don't just say that for the viewers out there.
Yes, mainstream, if you don't understand the context, that's why I'm giving you the context.
Mainstream media will never mention the A-PAC money in relationship to actual votes in Congress.
And to actual actions like this when politicians stand up and go, no, we're for war criminals.
America's definitely, definitely for war criminals who created the worst atrocities we've seen.
Some of the worst atrocities we've seen in our lifetime, you have to be totally confused as to why they would do that.
and why mainstream media would say you're not allowed to talk about their motivations.
gross, including mass graves and torture.
So the UN conducted an investigation looking into some of the mass graves that were found
in Gaza near hospitals that have been pretty much destroyed.
And the details are just difficult to read about, but I'm going to give you the information.
So they discovered mass graves with corpses that showed clear signs of abuse and torture.
The United Nations special procedures released a statement saying, we are horrified at details
emerging for mass graves recently unearthed in the Gaza Strip.
Over 390 bodies have been discovered at Nassar and Al-Shefa hospitals, including of women
and children with many reportedly showing signs of torture and summary executions and
potential instances of people buried alive.
Is it, is it anti-Semitic to state what the UN investigation into these mass grave states?
Are there enough adults in the world who can absorb this accurate information about the atrocities that were committed against innocent people in Gaza, or is that anti-Semitic jank?
No, in all seriousness, I believe that the majority of mainstream media, which by the way has not reported this, as far as I know, cable news has not mentioned this once.
They're very concerned, very concerned about the safety of some people in America.
But when you talk about mass graves,
etc. Why don't they mention this?
Because, well, they've been pretending all along that Israel is accidentally
killing 24,000 women and children, accidentally doing a Where's Daddy program
where they purposely murder their family members, accidentally using snipers to kill
children and women, okay?
Biden is a disgrace, okay?
Biden is a full-blown disgrace of a president of a human being.
Okay, all of that nonsense about how he's,
He's such a moral and decent person.
He really knows how to connect with voters who have suffered from such severe loss.
He's such a great guy.
Do you think he mentioned this UN investigation?
Never, no.
He gave a speech today about the, you know, about anti-Semitism and how we must fight it,
which okay, that's fine, but how about how about a mention, at least a mention for the
Palestinians who were literally buried alive based on this investigation by the UN.
Yeah. And so it was, okay, it was Holocaust Remembrance Day, and that's why Biden only mentioned Israel and the Jewish part. And I get it. And if he mentioned on the Holocaust Remembers Day, a whole heap of people would have ripped his head off. Okay. And so who are those heap of people? Yeah, some are media, some are donors, etc. But brother, you can't say on Holocaust Remembrance Day never again.
As it's happening now. And then do an asterisk and go, yeah, but it's okay.
for it's Palestinians are Muslims. It's not okay. And look, so they use the charges of anti-semitism
24-7 as a political tool, and it's really gross, right? So, but in reality, if you say 1,200
people killed 860 civilians on October 7th is terrible, which I hope to God you do say.
And then you say 34,500 dead in Gaza, 8,000 buried in the rubble, that's over 42,000 dead,
confirm 24,000 women and children dead is not a big deal.
Their lives are not as important as the 1,200 that were lost.
They don't even get a mention.
Yeah.
They don't even get a mention.
They don't even get a mention.
They don't get a mention.
They don't just don't say never again.
Just don't say it.
Just say, hey, if you're American or you're Israeli or Jewish or certain religious Christian,
whatever, then never again.
But Muslims will kill all day long and no one cares.
Biden doesn't care.
The media doesn't care.
And honestly, the reason I brought up anti-Semitism in this context is because if they're going to do false charges of anti-Semitism 24-7 to for political purposes to defend this foreign government, well, okay, then if you say that the 24,000 women and children dead are not as important as 860 dead on the Israeli side, you're being overtly racist. You're saying Muslim lives don't matter. I don't, who gives a damn about Muslim women and children? Let them, Israel should go into Rafa and massacre more innocent.
women and children?
Here's some more.
That's in a validly racist position.
Yeah, they don't care.
Here's some more details from the UN investigation.
The treatment of pregnant and lactating women continues to be appalling.
With the direct bombardment of hospitals and deliberate denial of access to health care facilities
by Israeli snipers, they refer to it as deliberate.
Combined with the lack of beds and medical resources, placing an estimated 50,000 pregnant
Palestinian women and 20,000 newborn babies at unimaginable risk.
Over 183 women per day are giving birth without pain relief,
while hundreds of babies have died because of a lack of electricity to power incubators.
The dreadful conditions have resulted in increases in miscarriages by up to 300%.
And understandably, you know, the international community sees reports like this.
They see the footage of what Gaza looks like, what the bombardments look like,
what the pain and suffering looks like.
And the international criminal court is understandably considering, you know, arrest warrants for people like Benjamin Netanyahu.
And in response to that, in response to all of that slaughter, you have Republican members of our Senate writing to the ICC to say, target Israel and we will target you.
Okay, the senators tell ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan, adding that they will sanction your
employees and associates and bar you and your families from the United States.
By the way, they'd never threaten this when the same tribunals were looking into war crimes
that America committed potentially in Iraq and Afghanistan.
So guys, don't tell me that the APAC money isn't relevant when all of a sudden they say the one
country you cannot ever sanction is not America, but Israel. And if you dare do it to Israel,
we'll go out for your family members and sanction them. If you're one of the good guys,
human rights experts that are trying to prevent ethnic cleansing and a genocide.
If you live outside America, you've got to be wondering, who the hell are we debating?
These things are so obvious and the whole world knows them. Why are you guys getting all
worked up about things that are so clear, the top human rights experts in the world have
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Eventually the two had sex, she said, but as she began to describe that encounter,
the sexual encounter, that's when the defense objected and the judge sustained the objection.
The judge has warned the prosecution, particularly when talking about the sexual encounter,
that we don't need all the details here.
The judge really doesn't want to go over a line where the details become so prejudicial
that it's unfair to the defendant.
A big day in the hush money trial against Donald Trump,
where the woman really at the center of the big controversy involving the hush money payments,
Stormy Daniels, testified in court.
Now, in her testimony to the prosecution, Daniels explained her history with Donald Trump,
how they met, including her sexual encounter with him back in 2006.
Now, that part of her testimony drew multiple objections from the judge overseeing the case.
Of course, that's Judge Juan Mershahn.
And the New York Times described what she said as follows.
Daniel's testimony was incredibly uncomfortable at various points, sometimes lurid in detail.
And she repeatedly went further than the judge wanted her to, prompting him to curtly tell her at least twice to stick to the question.
Daniels also mock Trump several times in ways that felt discordant to.
to the story she was telling.
There were other issues as well.
For instance, she was like cracking jokes at the, you know, witness stand, which according
to reports, the jury did not react to, that doesn't necessarily mean anything.
It seems like the jury is taking their job very seriously and they're not looking to
show their hand.
But at the same time, you know, you got to consider the charges that Trump is facing here.
So he is accused of falsifying documents in order to cover up a crime.
And the crime in this case is campaign finance violations that were committed as a result
of his fixer, or former fixer, Michael Cohen, paying hush money to Stormy Daniels in 2016.
And so I don't know, look, the only reason why I think they had her on the witness, Dan,
to ask her questions about their sexual relationship is because Trump has denied that
they ever had sex.
And so the prosecution kind of justified questioning Stormy Daniels at the stand, having
her testify to really home in on the relationship that she had with Trump.
But I'm uncertain as to whether or not any of her testimony is actually helpful in proving
that Trump intended to commit this crime, intended to pay the hush money payment through Michael
and then falsified documents in order to cover up the crime.
That's the kind of testimony that's super relevant to this case if you're looking to find
Trump guilty.
Yeah, there's a couple of different things that went wrong today in my opinion.
And I'm with the judge who seemed angry and irritated at the prosecution in Stormy Daniels
today.
Because look, you don't, I think prejudicing a jury is overrated overall.
And I've said that throughout every case we've ever covered.
But if you care about that issue, there's nothing more prejudicial than getting into different kinds of sex acts that somebody had with an adult actress while they were married to their wife, et cetera.
And it's not pertinent to this case.
The only thing that's pertinent is, did they sleep together?
Did he then pay or hush money and falsify business records to make that happen?
How they had the sex is entirely irrelevant.
All the CDs details of it, I mean, look, all over cable news, they're giggling about it.
And they're like it feels to me like they're so happy to hear all of these.
It's so dumb and honestly, when it comes to showing your hand, I think the media certainly is today by like salivating over like the salacious details of her testimony without really considering how today was not helpful for any case looking to find
Trump guilty of committing a crime here.
Yeah, so there's not helpful in a couple of different ways.
And so number one, if you're on the jury and you're hearing a person who now you're being
to wonder, wait, what's going on here?
So why is she telling us like all these salacious details when it's not necessarily
burden?
And then she said that she didn't necessarily consent.
She didn't say no, but she blacked out and doesn't remember.
consenting, et cetera, which she's never said before.
Yeah.
And okay, look, if that's true, that's kind of huge, but totally different case.
But you can't just, I don't know, man, saying that in front of the jury when that's not what this case is about, not helpful.
And then the defense gets to say she's never said that before, and all of a sudden she comes on to trial and says this, that seems weird.
The judge had to tell them, don't talk about genitalia, like his genitalia.
Yeah, no, it was- Come on.
It really, I mean, again, this is, this testimony is not necessary or important in proving that Trump has committed the crime that he has been charged with here or indicted for.
Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger told or says that Stormy Daniels' testimony was necessary to show that Donald Trump's motive for the hush money scheme.
cover up was that, look, the story is so salacious that this is precisely what the defendant
did not want to become public. I mean, you could just, I think everyone knows why Trump
didn't want the story to become public, right? Like he cheated on his wife, who I believe was
pregnant at the time with Stormy Daniels. No, she wasn't pregnant at the time of Stormy Daniels.
Was it Karen McDougal? I think that I forget if it was McDougal or Daniels, but right after
Melania delivered, he went to go see them.
Oh, I see.
And then when she, Melania was pregnant, he tried to hook up with a reporter that had come.
And she was upstairs, he, she interviewed them together.
And then when Melania went upstairs, Trump cornered her, according to her, it cornered
her and then tried to grab her, right?
Okay, that's not, honestly, that's enough of a reason for Trump not to want the salacious
details to come out, right?
Like, we don't need to hear about his genitalia on the witness stand, but we do need to
testimony that proves that Trump knew about the hush money payments, that he facilitated
the reimbursement to Michael Cohen, that he forged documents or engaged in falsifying documents.
And so what's interesting is the testimony prior to Stormy Daniels today was helpful
in building that case because the testimony consisted of individuals who work closely with Trump
saying that he's a micromanager as it pertains to business matters and that he's involved in
you know, every minor detail, which to be quite honest with you, is tough for me to believe
considering how he operated as president. But that testimony, again, is much more powerful
in proving the case that the prosecutors are alleged to want to prove here.
Yeah. And so, look, did he falsify the business records? That's what this trial is about.
As I've said many times, definitely. There's almost no question that he falsified him.
I think that the only way that he gets off is if the jury feels sympathy for him and goes,
yeah, he falsified the business records, but it was embarrassing.
And I don't know that he did it for political reasons.
Maybe he did it because he didn't want his wife to know what kind of a terrible,
disgusting human being he is.
I couldn't help but think about what happened to Bill Clinton when he was impeached, right?
I thought about how that impeachment process made Bill Clinton this sympathetic figure in the eyes of a lot of Americans, including those who disagreed with him politically.
There's someone sitting on this set right now who identified as a Republican at the time, right?
And you actually started to feel sympathy for Bill Clinton based on what they were putting him through.
So you have to consider that when it comes to what the jury heard today from Stormy Daniels, who, by the way, when the defense had,
an opportunity to cross-examine her, they asked whether she hates Trump, and she said,
yeah, I hate Trump, which makes it appear that this is, you know, motivated by a personal
vendetta or a personal, you know, targeting of Trump. So why is she doing it? There's a couple
different possibilities. One is what Anna just explained, two is for political reasons, they
want as much damaging information about Trump out in the public as they possibly can. And number
Number three, Stormy Daniels might feel embarrassed that she was with Donald Trump.
So she wants to say, hey, not really, right?
And so, and by the way, reason number four might be that it's true that she did go through
all of that and she didn't know, et cetera, et cetera.
But this is not the context in which to discuss that.
Anna, you're so right about that because back then I'm a Republican, they do this BS impeachment
of Clinton.
And I remember saying, look, I'm not, wasn't on anything.
any jury. That's very different, right? But I was like, look, I get it, man. He slept with Monica
Lewinsky. I get that he lied about it, and that's technically perjury. But they invested a
guy for a real estate thing, and then they smeared them on a sex thing. And this is just
garbage. This is total garbage. And yeah, it made me have sympathy for Bill Clinton. I don't
want that to happen for Donald Trump accidentally because people have their own personal agendas
or political agendas, just do the trial on the facts.
He definitely falsified the business records, stick to that.
And then one last thing about the media, I read in several headlines that Trump pushed
his lawyer today.
And I was like, even for Trump, I'm like, that has a very low chance of being true.
I read into the details.
He nudged her at different points.
That's his lawyer.
Come on, guys.
Come on, man.
So just to talk a little more about the lawyer and how she handled.
the cross-examination with Stormy Daniels. So Trump lawyer, Susan Nekyllis asked Daniels if she
hates Trump and Daniels said, yes, I wanted to give you the details on that, because I think that
that testimony might actually hurt the case against Trump. Asked if she wants Trump to go to jail,
Daniels said that she wants him to be held accountable. And if he is found guilty, absolutely.
At that point, Trump's lawyer also suggests that Daniels aims to make money in some of her
pursuits and Daniels fires back, don't we all want to make money for ourselves?
Now Stormy Daniels was also asked about a tweet about Donald Trump back in 2022, where she
said I'll never never give that orange turd a dime.
Daniel said that the tweet is in retaliation for what he said to me, yes.
Trump's lawyer confirmed you call him names all the time and Daniel says yes.
So you see what the strategy here is by the defense to basically destroy.
credit Stormy Daniels and her testimony by making it apparent that she is targeting Trump
based on a personal grudge or beef that she has with Trump. I don't know how well that's going
to play with the jury, but if you're seeing, you know, this celebratory nature and the coverage
in, you know, the corporate media or legacy media, just be careful because I don't personally
think that her testimony was all that helpful for the prosecution today.
Yeah, the Hope Hicks testimony was very mixed too, and they made it seem like.
Oh my God, that's it, Trump is toast after Hope Hicks.
No, not necessarily.
She said some things that were damaging to Trump and some things that were exculpatory.
So last thing, though, guys, Trump never helps his own case because he's so absurd and out of control.
To this day, he's denying that they had sex.
I know, and I think-
Like no one believes that, not even the most magad dude on earth.
That guy will tell you, oh, of course they had sex.
And that's because Trump's an alpha male and he's a lot to have sex with whoever he wants, et cetera, et cetera.
But zero people in America believe that Donald Trump did not have sex with Stormy Daniels.
Exactly. So he should have just taken ownership of that because at that point,
the testimony about their sexual details would not have. I don't think that would have happened.
Yeah, if he just said, yeah, we did have sex, then there's actually no point to bring Stormy Daniels on
to testify at all. Unless she has some insight into how the hush money payment was carried out or
how the reimbursement to Michael Cohen was carried out. But that's not what the testimony
was about clearly.
Yeah, or at least a great majority.
Right, exactly.
All right, you know what?
Let's just take our break.
But when we come back, I want to get to the classified documents case because there's some bad news on that end as well.
For Donald Trump.
Really?
I don't think so.
I think there's bad news for the prosecutor.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, okay, then we might disagree on that story.
All right.
Interesting, come right back.
Thank you.