Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Willkate f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, Recording from the Home Bunker, Folks.
Speaker 1: For the last couple of months, we have had the
Speaker 1: awesome pleasure of being joined by my friend, the Reverend
Speaker 1: Mark Thompson and host of Make It Plain. And each
Speaker 1: month that Mark and I sit down, we go over
Speaker 1: our host of issues that we think are going to
Speaker 1: be impacting how people will be turning out for mid terms,
Speaker 1: and this conversation was pre taped before the breaking news
Speaker 1: around Donald Trump's home being searched and how that will
Speaker 1: impact midterms. But Mark and I do get into a
Speaker 1: conversation about, you know, the Biden administration and being held
Speaker 1: to account for the people that got Biden into office.
Speaker 1: This was prerecorded before the Biden administration had a series
Speaker 1: of legislative wins which we had not seen since the
Speaker 1: beginning of this administration, and the initial rollout of vaccines
Speaker 1: as well as the economic package to help those most
Speaker 1: in need during COVID, which we are still in. But
Speaker 1: Mark and I do get into a fifty thousand foot
Speaker 1: conversation about democratic messaging and also about where we are
Speaker 1: in terms of the case against Britney Griner in Russia
Speaker 1: that has now she has now been sentenced to nine
Speaker 1: years in a Russian prison. There are still talks apparently
Speaker 1: that are happening between Russia and the United States for
Speaker 1: a prisoner swap, but we do know that those things
Speaker 1: can take months, if not years. My hope, my God,
Speaker 1: is that you know, Britney Grinder will not be as
Speaker 1: destroyed human by the time that we are able to
Speaker 1: get her back to the United States. I do believe
Speaker 1: that we will be able to get her back, God willing,
Speaker 1: but I hope that it isn't to see a ruined
Speaker 1: and fragile and tortured Brittney Griner. And so we talk
Speaker 1: about that and the effects that that case is having
Speaker 1: on the Biden administration and whether or not they have
Speaker 1: been and are continuing to do enough, because it is
Speaker 1: really difficult for US folks to detach not only race
Speaker 1: from this case and gender, but also sexual orientation and
Speaker 1: all of those layers, playing into the fact that if
Speaker 1: this had been you know, a white male NBA player,
Speaker 1: would there have not been more public outcry, Would there
Speaker 1: had not been more public response from this administration. We
Speaker 1: can't help, but you know use past history as our guide,
Speaker 1: which is that you know, when things relate to black women,
Speaker 1: this country could give a fuck right. They're banning abortions
Speaker 1: in places, and we have a maternal mortality rate of
Speaker 1: one in five. Black women that go into a fucking
Speaker 1: hospital may not come out right. So we know that
Speaker 1: this country cares very little about black women, and we
Speaker 1: have known that since its creation. So how is that
Speaker 1: playing into what we are seeing with Brittney Griner is
Speaker 1: a conversation that Mark and I get into. But as
Speaker 1: I leave you folks this week, I do believe that
Speaker 1: Democrats have momentum that we have not seen before. I
Speaker 1: do believe that we are living in absolutely extraordinarily unprecedented times.
Speaker 1: From dealing with the reality of three different viruses that
Speaker 1: are attacking this country and two of which are also
Speaker 1: attacking the world monkey Pops and COVID, we are living
Speaker 1: with unprecedented climate change that is literally washing away people's
Speaker 1: homes or setting them on fire. We are living at
Speaker 1: a time when you know there is a serial killer
Speaker 1: that is going around New Mexico killing Muslim men. Authorities
Speaker 1: believe that they have picked up that person. They believe
Speaker 1: that person to be a person of interest and their motivation.
Speaker 1: As of this time of this recording, we do not know.
Speaker 1: We know that we have a Republican party that is
Speaker 1: a white supremist, fascist party that no longer believes in
Speaker 1: democracy or the rule of law applying to anyone, whether
Speaker 1: that is a congressional subpoena or a fucking FBI warranted search, right,
Speaker 1: that everyone believes that Republicans and white people are just
Speaker 1: above the law and should have a whole set of
Speaker 1: different laws, if any, that applied to them. You know,
Speaker 1: that's just coming off the dome, on top of you
Speaker 1: vote of suppression, on top of the overturning of Rov Wade,
Speaker 1: like on top of funny, as Leslie and I had
Speaker 1: remarked earlier in the week, you know, the earth actually
Speaker 1: spinning faster for the first time ever in our history,
Speaker 1: and the day's getting shorter. So I don't know if
Speaker 1: we're just part of the leftovers, right and like the
Speaker 1: apocalypse has happened, No idea, But I do know that
Speaker 1: we need to be able to find joy, take breaks,
Speaker 1: take breaths on a regular basis because our nervous system,
Speaker 1: just the unsettledness, the uncertainty that we are living in
Speaker 1: is crazy. It's fucking crazy, and it's why, folks, I'm
Speaker 1: taking a couple of days to go and be with friends,
Speaker 1: and at the end of this month, I will also
Speaker 1: be taking a week off before we get into the
Speaker 1: craziness of the fall, because I recognize that even though
Speaker 1: the news never stops and everything keeps breaking, that if
Speaker 1: I do not take a break, I in fact will
Speaker 1: have a breakdown. And I appreciate so many of you
Speaker 1: that send me tweets and dms and are really prayerful
Speaker 1: and just meditative on sending me positive energy, you know,
Speaker 1: to keep myself healthy and saying, and I send that energy,
Speaker 1: meditation and prayer right back at all of you because
Speaker 1: I know that you listen to this show and you
Speaker 1: show up for Woke a f and for me, because
Speaker 1: you believe in democracy, because you believe in your responsibility
Speaker 1: as citizens to this country, and sometimes the responsibility of
Speaker 1: citizenship waghs really fucking heavy, like it is right now
Speaker 1: that some days I would rather just not care. I
Speaker 1: would rather just you know, bury my head in the
Speaker 1: sand and pretend all of this isn't happening and go
Speaker 1: about my day. But there is just no way for
Speaker 1: what is transpiring to not affect us right, So, whether
Speaker 1: we are actively dealing with it or as I talked
Speaker 1: about a couple of weeks ago, you know, this stress
Speaker 1: that kind of is just laying in the back of
Speaker 1: our minds because we're never able to fully relax, right.
Speaker 1: And the reason is because since Donald Trump has ended
Speaker 1: down those fucking stairs, you know, we have been living
Speaker 1: with that ambient stress, that stress that you know, we
Speaker 1: don't know how to meet head on day in and
Speaker 1: day out. We just know that we don't feel right.
Speaker 1: We know that we feel uneasy, and we can't necessarily
Speaker 1: every single day put our fingers on it. And what
Speaker 1: I want to say is that ignoring it is going
Speaker 1: to be a bigger problem than actually meeting these issues
Speaker 1: head on and figuring out what are the tactics, the
Speaker 1: self care tactics that I need to be layering myself
Speaker 1: in and building into a daily routine in order to
Speaker 1: keep me sane and in order to keep me healthy. Right,
Speaker 1: Because even when we have these winds, which this administration
Speaker 1: has had recently, I'm too scared to be excited about
Speaker 1: it because I'm just anticipating the other shoe dropping, and
Speaker 1: that is no way to live. So if you have
Speaker 1: the ability and the privilege to be able to take
Speaker 1: a break before we get ready to go back to
Speaker 1: school not knowing what the fuck that's going to bring,
Speaker 1: or get ready to go back to work or what
Speaker 1: have you, please do take time for yourself, even if
Speaker 1: it is a day that you say, you know what,
Speaker 1: you know what, my vacation is going to be turning
Speaker 1: off every single social media app and just focusing on
Speaker 1: real life and real people for one whole day. Because
Speaker 1: I will tell you that the times that I am
Speaker 1: able to take a break and leave this behind, I
Speaker 1: feel renewed, right, I feel re energized. I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm giving myself the strength that is necessary to continue
Speaker 1: pushing on. And I want that for all of us,
Speaker 1: because we are all needed in every single capacity that
Speaker 1: we are able to show up in. Doesn't matter if
Speaker 1: you have a microphone or not. It matters that you
Speaker 1: care and that you want the people around you to care,
Speaker 1: right and in order for that to happen, we need
Speaker 1: to care for ourselves. And so as I bid you
Speaker 1: ado on this day and pick it up on the
Speaker 1: other side of the week, remember that your self care
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Speaker 1: down with my friend the Reverend Mark Thompson, host of
Speaker 1: Make It Plain to Yes, make it woke, and make
Speaker 1: it plain for us about what we are headed into
Speaker 1: in the next couple of months as we make the
Speaker 1: slow march to midterms and beyond. Mark, I want to
Speaker 1: start off today with you know, I never get to
Speaker 1: actually marinate in good news, and as it turns out,
Speaker 1: surprisingly so is Kansas the new Bellweather State? Is this
Speaker 1: the new state that we need to be paying attention to?
Speaker 1: Because out of shock to me but not to others
Speaker 1: who have seen Kansas as more of a moderate and
Speaker 1: not so much of a red red state, they completely
Speaker 1: and totally rebuffed the Republican parties push to rewrite their
Speaker 1: constitution and and overturn access to abortion in that state.
Speaker 1: Now are everyone is saying, oh, Democrats, we think we
Speaker 1: have a winning issue for you. What did you make
Speaker 1: of the people of Kansas and they're pushback against abortion? Well,
Speaker 1: I think it's finally white women and their allies in
Speaker 1: a red state getting it. I think for years, all
Speaker 1: the conversation about row and row being on the block
Speaker 1: and being in jeopardy, for those of us who were
Speaker 1: saying it, we're seeing, as chicken little the sky has fallen.
Speaker 1: Now it has actually happened. And just like in sports
Speaker 1: and politics, there's something called an unforced error. I think
Speaker 1: the GOP has made a grave mistake thinking that. But
Speaker 1: they believe they own press, and their own press is
Speaker 1: Fox News, and Fox News tells them every day that
Speaker 1: this is what the American public wants, and this is
Speaker 1: not what the American public wants. Kansas has proved that
Speaker 1: I wish abortions were on every ballot in November. If
Speaker 1: so Democrats, Democrats would win resoundingly. So I think this
Speaker 1: is a wake up called Republicans. But also, as you said,
Speaker 1: we need some good news. It ought to serve as
Speaker 1: an inspiration to Democrats of what we can get done
Speaker 1: if we stick together, that the issues that we support
Speaker 1: all the issues many other Americans support, and that we're
Speaker 1: on the right side of this struggle. And I think
Speaker 1: that that's pretty much the way it's going to go.
Speaker 1: And I think I mentioned this to you before. Normally
Speaker 1: the party in power lose a ceasin them in terms.
Speaker 1: But Democrats really are not the party in power, even
Speaker 1: though Binds the president. We're not the Supreme Court. The
Speaker 1: right wing Supreme Court is the branch in power. Is
Speaker 1: the party in power. Republicans, who are filibustering everything in
Speaker 1: the Senate are the party in power. And so I
Speaker 1: think that our base is getting that. I think, look,
Speaker 1: it's just likely it's channing. It took a Republican white
Speaker 1: woman to get Democrats to focus on January sixth to
Speaker 1: the point where it is now and it's helping. It
Speaker 1: took a Republican Republican white women collectively in Kansas. Maybe
Speaker 1: it inspires because let's face it, and you've talked about
Speaker 1: this a lot um. I don't want to sound just
Speaker 1: like you because I don't have at the time band
Speaker 1: with getting as trouble as you've been getting into. I
Speaker 1: got I'm barn enough crosses. I want to bear your
Speaker 1: cross right now. I did pick your cross up later
Speaker 1: and help you. Uh you know it's it's in a
Speaker 1: babble some a couple of people help Jesus care to cross.
Speaker 1: I'm saying I'm not gonna help Danielle care her cross journey.
Speaker 1: But um, let me say this as diplomatically as possible.
Speaker 1: Um Democratic Party leadership, and I shouldn't even say that.
Speaker 1: The consultant class Democratic Party, for whatever reason, fields they
Speaker 1: gotta listen to even speech other they didn't say the
Speaker 1: word abortion. So so you do you are in what
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six, nineteen ninety one, this is twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. I'm sorry, twenty twenty two. This is twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two. So you can say abortion. That's where it's at.
Speaker 1: Stop being afraid to say the word. But the consultant class,
Speaker 1: who does not know what it's doing, is advising not
Speaker 1: to do that. The consultant classes becap. They told this Cheney,
Speaker 1: maybe we shouldn't have a committee, maybe we shouldn't have hearings,
Speaker 1: And she had to tell him. She said, why don't
Speaker 1: y'all stand up? It took a Nick Cheney's daughter to
Speaker 1: tell them to stand up for so, you know, I
Speaker 1: hope that this lets people know on our side they
Speaker 1: can stand up, and if it doesn't, let the leadership know,
Speaker 1: it lets the rank and file, the constituents know to
Speaker 1: make the leadership stand up and stop being scared of
Speaker 1: their own shadow. This is a This is a big victory, big, huge,
Speaker 1: devastating to the Republican Party, and I think it foretells
Speaker 1: what more can come if we hold a lot. You know.
Speaker 1: The funny thing is is that the punding class has
Speaker 1: been saying that Republicans are the dog that caught the
Speaker 1: car right for forty some odd plus years. They've been
Speaker 1: one Roe v. Wade overturned, one Roe v. Wade overturned
Speaker 1: forty some ide years. They've had their white evangelical Christian base,
Speaker 1: you know, telling holding up those signs of mutilated fetuses
Speaker 1: and this, that and the other thing. And now they
Speaker 1: got their wish, right, they got their wish and now
Speaker 1: you are seeing these red states. It's not enough to
Speaker 1: say that you don't have access to abortion. Now we're
Speaker 1: going to criminalize women. Now we're gonna throw We're gonna
Speaker 1: throw women and people with uteruses in jail. We're going
Speaker 1: to monitor your menstrual cycle. But so that like if
Speaker 1: you're going to New York, we know that you're going
Speaker 1: on vacation and not going for an abortion or going
Speaker 1: for business. And I think that do you believe Mark,
Speaker 1: it is this kind of owort, no exceptions, not rape,
Speaker 1: not incests. I mean, they're even having conversations. I can't
Speaker 1: believe my mind that they're having conversations about a ten
Speaker 1: year old becoming a mother, about a thirteen year old
Speaker 1: being able to be a parent, and they think that
Speaker 1: that shit is normal. And so do you think that
Speaker 1: it was this that was the overreach for white women
Speaker 1: who were, like they've been voting. I mean we talk
Speaker 1: about this all the time. They've been voting with their
Speaker 1: white men since the beginning of time, right, Like, they
Speaker 1: have not voted Democrat, they don't split. But in this
Speaker 1: instance voter registration in Kansas, seventy percent of new voters
Speaker 1: were women, right that signed up? So do you think
Speaker 1: that it is about the egregious nature and the criminality
Speaker 1: that white Republican men are I think this around that
Speaker 1: has pushed white women a little too far. I think so,
Speaker 1: and I think again, it's about autonomy, women's bodily autonomy.
Speaker 1: And when you put that right in front, I mean
Speaker 1: it's really there's no other way to spend what they've done.
Speaker 1: They are very clear about controlling women's bodies, and you
Speaker 1: have to be pretty self enslaved to be in denial
Speaker 1: about that, even if you lied to everybody on outside,
Speaker 1: when you clearly in the mirror as a woman, you
Speaker 1: cannot deny what it's going. And then they've announced, thanks
Speaker 1: to hangs here, uncle town Clarence Thomas. Well next we're
Speaker 1: coming for contraception. Next we're coming for marriage equality in
Speaker 1: two issues that are important women. So really, you you don't.
Speaker 1: You don't leave a lot of wiggle rooms. So I
Speaker 1: think what's happening now is, as I said, what we
Speaker 1: have been saying, even what Hillary said was going to
Speaker 1: happen has actually happened. Nobody believed it. Oh, y'all have
Speaker 1: been saying that years. They're not really gonna do it.
Speaker 1: I see, for exam, you take Susan Collins and Canon
Speaker 1: telling me he's not you c and then he lied
Speaker 1: to me. But to think about there a lot of
Speaker 1: white women as ignorant as Susan Collins, which really is
Speaker 1: disqualified for being in the Senate. You know. And I
Speaker 1: don't know what's worse, uh uh um, pretend lying about it,
Speaker 1: if she lied about whether or not she believed Kavanaugh
Speaker 1: or really being I don't know. I don't know what's worse, really,
Speaker 1: to be honest with Yeah, I every reason to believe
Speaker 1: she actually believed him. I think she did too, which
Speaker 1: to me actually makes it worse. But it goes to
Speaker 1: your point, why would you believe him? Because we you know,
Speaker 1: we believe our white husbands, we believe our white men.
Speaker 1: We trust these whiteman. I trust this young white man.
Speaker 1: But your friend and mine, Marcos, a daily coach, He
Speaker 1: says something to me, there was also someone controversial. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna carry his cross either on the show. I'm
Speaker 1: avoiding y'all's crosses. He said, you got your own, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got Um. I'm saying to see you and I
Speaker 1: want y'all hitter is. And I'm when I say, I
Speaker 1: know you're gonna agree with me. But Marco says something deep, right,
Speaker 1: He said, Markel men take something two women and and
Speaker 1: this is his category. Now again the two major constituencies
Speaker 1: that will determine the election black vote. Suburban college educated
Speaker 1: white women, that's it. That's that golden ticket. Suburban college
Speaker 1: that's Willy Wonka factory. Suburban college educated white woman. That's
Speaker 1: what helped Trump get in. He said, Mark's people that said,
Speaker 1: suburban college educated white women. That ain't just about their daughters.
Speaker 1: He said, Mark, that's about their sons. This is what
Speaker 1: you mean, said, these surban college educated away with these
Speaker 1: soccer moms raise these you know, these golden boys. They
Speaker 1: raise their sons and they want to send to college
Speaker 1: and be successful. And little boys get little girls knocked up.
Speaker 1: All right, So ukn't have no not having no options.
Speaker 1: And I said, I didn't thin about They said, no,
Speaker 1: ain't just about daughters. Them women don't want their little
Speaker 1: boys called out there because it ain't paying for them babies, right,
Speaker 1: you feel me? So? So he said, when you look
Speaker 1: at all of that, all right, it's what everybody he
Speaker 1: was saying. Suburban college educated white women who have daughters,
Speaker 1: that's wanting. But suburban college gets educated white women who
Speaker 1: have sons. This affects everybody. It affects if you are
Speaker 1: controlling everybody's life by making these decisions about what women
Speaker 1: ought to be with their bodies. So, um, hey, I
Speaker 1: think that this is this is this is real Kansas,
Speaker 1: and see other states are gonna look at it. And
Speaker 1: again I think I said this last time. I was
Speaker 1: do you see his a little mystery that we haven't solved?
Speaker 1: And I keep saying whenever I say this to people
Speaker 1: who pushed back to get real quiet. Rapinsburger testified before
Speaker 1: Januars six committee, Trump called him and needs you to
Speaker 1: find me a living dnod in Livenent Vook residents, why
Speaker 1: I can't find you them? Thousand of those news that
Speaker 1: we're not can you find him? Dude? Because thirty three
Speaker 1: thousand Georgia Republicans did not vote for president at all,
Speaker 1: didn't vote for you at all. That's before Danielle they knew,
Speaker 1: that's before January six. What was going on in November
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty that thirty three thousand Georgia Republicans wouldn't
Speaker 1: vote for Donald Trump? We all ask ourselves, like, why
Speaker 1: did Joe Biden? So that means and I bet they're
Speaker 1: having a few other states. There was already some folks saying, hey,
Speaker 1: you can't get with this dude. He little wut they
Speaker 1: were doing that. So now you've got everything that's happened
Speaker 1: since November twenty twenty, right, you got this Jane where
Speaker 1: six coming out and if Merrick Garland I knew, don't
Speaker 1: get into this Mary Garland because a black woman pushed him.
Speaker 1: Our friend Priston Clark had the courage to prosecute the
Speaker 1: officers who killed Brianna Taylor. If he would only have
Speaker 1: the courage to prosecute Trump, well, I don't want to prosecute.
Speaker 1: You're a prosecuting the president. You're prosecuting someone who's committing
Speaker 1: crimes outside of the presidency. Al capone, you get him
Speaker 1: on what you can get him on. If he would
Speaker 1: only prosecute Trump on witness tampering currently yep, and mail
Speaker 1: fraud like they did to Andrew gillim yep, two hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars on stop to Steel, then what are you doing.
Speaker 1: You're actually getting his constituency behind you, because then his
Speaker 1: argument he's a deal Jake, And say all y'all who
Speaker 1: sent Trump that turned fifteen dollars won't getting money back
Speaker 1: for you because that money was not used properly. Even
Speaker 1: the most staunched problems with the way. Wait a minute,
Speaker 1: I get my money that I ain't got no gas money.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we get some under back thing. I don't care.
Speaker 1: So if if, if Gland would just do that which
Speaker 1: he's afraid to do. Is interesting though, if you notice
Speaker 1: even safe Meal in mouth milktoast Democrats who said he
Speaker 1: shouldn't be prosecuted now saying he should be. He should
Speaker 1: be prosecuted. You got beyond Panetta saying as a conspiracy.
Speaker 1: He never said the word conspiracy in his eighty years
Speaker 1: of life. So so so, what I'm saying is this
Speaker 1: is an opportunity they get. Role was a gift more
Speaker 1: than we know. And I'm telling you we're close to
Speaker 1: getting get codified at as law Democrats would have. Senate
Speaker 1: is gonna be law now. Mansion and sentiment, you're gonna
Speaker 1: get him off that filibuster. Suburban college educated white women
Speaker 1: called Joe Biden in Spain, and he was old infanato.
Speaker 1: Joe Bidden says, I'll never get rid of the filibuster.
Speaker 1: They called him in Spain and hey man, miss president,
Speaker 1: good morning, how are you to days? You are now
Speaker 1: in favor of filibuster reform. The codified roles, have a
Speaker 1: nice day. Joe Badden went out before the press and said,
Speaker 1: I'm now in favor of modern fan of filibuster because suburban,
Speaker 1: college educated white women called him and told him to
Speaker 1: do it. So this is the power that they have.
Speaker 1: Hopefully they'll exercise it as they did in Kansas in November.
Speaker 1: So staying on the topic of the Department of Justice,
Speaker 1: because Merritt Garland pisses me off, and anybody who listens
Speaker 1: to walkaf knows that on a regular basis that I'm
Speaker 1: sitting around much like you, much like everybody else with
Speaker 1: goddamn sense, waiting for Merritt Garland to do exactly what
Speaker 1: it is that you just said. Prosecute Donald Trump for
Speaker 1: the crimes that he is committed. Don't give me bumper
Speaker 1: sticker slogans telling me that nobody is above the law,
Speaker 1: because if you had the mount everest of evidence that
Speaker 1: you had against any other person in these United States,
Speaker 1: they would have been indicted from seventeen months ago. But
Speaker 1: I want to look at what the Department of Justice
Speaker 1: has done recently, which is decide to go after the
Speaker 1: four police officers involved in the murder of Brianna Taylor
Speaker 1: who was sleeping in her own goddamn bed when her
Speaker 1: door was busted open and her apartment building was shot
Speaker 1: up and she was murdered. Now, if folks remember, there
Speaker 1: was no we're not going to investigate. There was a
Speaker 1: black DA who is a Republican, This, that, and the
Speaker 1: other thing. The family ends up ends up being awarded
Speaker 1: monetary damages for her death, but again no criminal charges.
Speaker 1: The Department of Justice has finally changed that. What do
Speaker 1: you make of this now, Mark, that's huge? Is huge. Again,
Speaker 1: if our sister Christy, and this is why representation matters.
Speaker 1: This is why you know, when we fight for some
Speaker 1: of the things we fight for, we want people that
Speaker 1: look like us. They had the perspective. There's a black
Speaker 1: woman who's the sister Attorney General for civil rights, Kristin
Speaker 1: Clark former, he had the largest committed to civil rights
Speaker 1: on the law. She saw this through, she got the prosecution. Then.
Speaker 1: I don't think this was Merritt Garland, but he has
Speaker 1: to support it. Now. No, this is a very big deal,
Speaker 1: and that's what people are looking for. In fact, the
Speaker 1: dj is probably doing Biden a favor by even getting
Speaker 1: this done. But this is a very very important piece
Speaker 1: of prosecution. You can tell that they did not announce it.
Speaker 1: They took their time to announce it, to have the
Speaker 1: opportunity to gather all the evidence and to make the
Speaker 1: strongest case possible. You're right, this sister was in her home.
Speaker 1: There's no reason why she should be dead. This I
Speaker 1: think is an open, open and shut case. Again though,
Speaker 1: and to me an even easier case is the case
Speaker 1: to try Donald Trump for e either witness tampering or
Speaker 1: I get it. You know they're afraid Biden, the consultants
Speaker 1: Garland are afraid of setting a precedent so that from
Speaker 1: now on, whatever the the the successor party will prosecute
Speaker 1: the previous party's president. I get that that's what they
Speaker 1: don't want to set up. UM. But I think these
Speaker 1: this is a different situation if you confine it. UM.
Speaker 1: I do think it's it's probably more complicated to charge
Speaker 1: Trump with treason and sedition, um. But witness tampering. So
Speaker 1: the people think you go to trials like it's on TV,
Speaker 1: it's not go to trial. Did he call you and
Speaker 1: threaten you not testifying? Yes? Did he call yes? Yes?
Speaker 1: That goes to the jury. That's a yes question. And
Speaker 1: a whole lot of evidence. It's just did he call you.
Speaker 1: We got the evidence and the record of the call.
Speaker 1: That's it. He's done. He's done. On the money, we
Speaker 1: got the records. Did y'all send him money, munty? Yes?
Speaker 1: What did he spend the money on himself? Himself? So,
Speaker 1: I mean, these are these things are black and white.
Speaker 1: But apparently the DOJ is fearful of doing that. But
Speaker 1: what we also need to know too, is that the
Speaker 1: DOJ is not monolithic. Their career prosecutors that are in there.
Speaker 1: And when my sources tell me even on Andrew Giller prosecution,
Speaker 1: Mary Garden didn't know about it, that he sought on
Speaker 1: news like everybody else did. So there is some level
Speaker 1: of autonomy when it comes to prosecutors in the deal.
Speaker 1: So I don't so I don't know, But he's still
Speaker 1: the attorney general, so I don't know whether or not.
Speaker 1: And and you know, Juliani revealed that he himself had
Speaker 1: even caused splits in communities within the DJ and the FBI.
Speaker 1: So Donald Trump even tore up the DJ. I mean, really,
Speaker 1: that might be another polish for prosecution, and you call
Speaker 1: sedition within the own law enforcement agencies of the United
Speaker 1: States government. I mean, we ask you Giuliani for that
Speaker 1: lock him up there, which which they have decided not
Speaker 1: to with that, but that just recently. But that was
Speaker 1: that was for his involvement um with Russia and his
Speaker 1: interference with Russia being a being an asset um. You
Speaker 1: know the other thing though here too when you talk
Speaker 1: about all of these agencies and the corruption. Right, we
Speaker 1: got the missing text messages, right, we got the We
Speaker 1: got the watchdog who then decided that like, oh no,
Speaker 1: we don't need to do a backup, we don't need
Speaker 1: to alert Congress, we don't need to do these things.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, hello, DJ, paging Merrick Garland. Again, this
Speaker 1: isn't How many coincidences do you need to equal equal
Speaker 1: corruption is the question. But last thing for you, Mark
Speaker 1: is on Brittany Griner, who, in my humble opinion, did
Speaker 1: not receive the type of attention is still is now
Speaker 1: it's starting to bubble up back to the service now
Speaker 1: that she has been sentenced. And this sham trial that
Speaker 1: Russia put on where we knew it was a sham trial.
Speaker 1: Everybody who's either been inside of Russia or been on
Speaker 1: the receiving end of one of these sentences and just
Speaker 1: release home will tell all of us this, how do
Speaker 1: you feel that we need to proceed as black folks
Speaker 1: in the media, as the media in general, to continue
Speaker 1: to put a spotlight on her and her plight so
Speaker 1: she's not forgotten. You're really trying to get me in
Speaker 1: trouble now, Yes, you need to ask Medas off there,
Speaker 1: But let me try to put this diplomatically. One time recently,
Speaker 1: there was an growing movement for people to get out
Speaker 1: in the streets on behalf of Brittany Grinder. I remember
Speaker 1: what happened was that the Biden administration realized what was
Speaker 1: happening and then woke up the little slow to things.
Speaker 1: They woke up and then they convinced many that a
Speaker 1: movement in the streets that was too loud or too
Speaker 1: confrontational would in greater Now, if the movement that got
Speaker 1: started and then stopped got Biden to get off his
Speaker 1: rusted dust to do something, then it served It's good. Literally,
Speaker 1: were just on a call for an hour today, was
Speaker 1: from a very prominent civil rights organization begging me to
Speaker 1: give them, you know, the justification to get back down
Speaker 1: the streets. I said, well, you know, I don't think
Speaker 1: that's what's desirable right now, and I think it's going
Speaker 1: to be very difficult to get people behind that because
Speaker 1: the argument is nobody wants to do anything to hurt Brittain.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm the last person who would say not
Speaker 1: to do something. But it's complicated because you don't want
Speaker 1: to hurt her, and so you don't really know. I
Speaker 1: think that I think the original mistake was from the beginning,
Speaker 1: the White House lad people to believe that they were
Speaker 1: going to do something that they never did it. So
Speaker 1: and they asked people at the beginning to be quiet.
Speaker 1: We got this, they didn't had any do squat. So
Speaker 1: for months everybody was quiet. Then many of us say
Speaker 1: we finished being quiet. Then when people started making those
Speaker 1: White House came back, Oh, you're right, we're about to
Speaker 1: do something. Go back to being quiet again. So now,
Speaker 1: technically the sentence thing was should be supposed to be
Speaker 1: a formality to get to the next step of negotiation
Speaker 1: to end political imprisonment. Who's asked that is the release
Speaker 1: of the merchant of death m Victor Bout For that
Speaker 1: to happen, Biden has agreed to. Yep, So what's the
Speaker 1: hold of I mean, it ought to be. I mean
Speaker 1: these because they want they want another one. They decided
Speaker 1: that they wanted another one, and this the other person
Speaker 1: that they want, who was actually a convicted murderer who
Speaker 1: is serving time in Germany. So isn't even underneath the
Speaker 1: United States is purview? Which is just stupid? Um is
Speaker 1: was their follow up? What's their follow up? Asked what
Speaker 1: they need to go ahead and get that. They need
Speaker 1: to call Germany now called you and just get the
Speaker 1: person released too, because I'm like, it doesn't matter, right,
Speaker 1: Like to me, it doesn't, it doesn't. I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: they want their murderers back, great, give them to them,
Speaker 1: let them have them. And you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: that these individuals ever really were a threat to the
Speaker 1: United States. And knowing the CIA the way we do,
Speaker 1: I mean, the United States could release them and then
Speaker 1: kill them on inside a week later they wanted to.
Speaker 1: I mean, so that's what they do, and they and
Speaker 1: I'm sure they've infiltrated some of the circles in the Kremlin,
Speaker 1: so if they want, they can release them and take
Speaker 1: them out. So I think that they just need to
Speaker 1: do that. We need Brittany home. I think there's another
Speaker 1: victor of people want. No one likes the idea of
Speaker 1: seeing a woman, an African American woman, locked up in
Speaker 1: a Russian prison for nine years. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: something that people can stomach. So while the DJ is
Speaker 1: prosecuting the four officers involved in Brianna Taylor's death, we
Speaker 1: can't stop there. We need Brittany Ryanner released yesterday. And
Speaker 1: until Brittany Grinner is free, none of us free. We
Speaker 1: all are Brindy Grinner and Ed regard Reverend Mark Thompson
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