WEBVTT - LIBERATE THIS! JUDGES RULE TRUMP TARIFFS ILLEGAL - 5.29.25 0:00:04.795 --> 0:00:18.235 Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump's 0:00:18.475 --> 0:00:22.275 tariffs are not legal. In a late decision by the 0:00:22.395 --> 0:00:26.595 US Court of International Trade on Wednesday evening, an Obama judge, 0:00:26.635 --> 0:00:28.955 a Reagan judge, and a Trump judge walk into a 0:00:28.995 --> 0:00:34.475 courtroom and overturn all of the tariffs. That's all, as 0:00:34.515 --> 0:00:38.595 in one hundred percent or one hundred and forty five percent, 0:00:38.675 --> 0:00:41.075 if that seems like a more fitting number for this story. 0:00:41.755 --> 0:00:45.995 Trump had used the nineteen seventy seven federal Economic Emergency 0:00:46.075 --> 0:00:50.795 laws to impose these tariffs, and this three judge panel 0:00:50.835 --> 0:00:55.515 the US Court of International Trade said, sorry, tariffs were 0:00:55.555 --> 0:00:58.875 not among the weapons allocated to the president even in 0:00:58.915 --> 0:01:02.955 the event of a federal economic emergency, which they did 0:01:02.995 --> 0:01:06.475 not prove, and no one bothered to prove any indication 0:01:06.755 --> 0:01:11.315 anywhere in any law in the Constitution, anywhere else, any 0:01:11.395 --> 0:01:15.995 statute anywhere, that the president had the right single handedly 0:01:16.075 --> 0:01:20.795 to impose tariffs without the approval of Congress. They have 0:01:20.915 --> 0:01:25.795 given the Trump administration ten days to halt all tariffs. 0:01:27.235 --> 0:01:32.035 The Trump administration has already appealed. What is interesting as 0:01:32.075 --> 0:01:36.115 a sideline to this is the corporations that were affected 0:01:36.195 --> 0:01:38.555 by these tariffs, including the ones that were pushed to 0:01:38.595 --> 0:01:42.755 the brink of true economic peril, did nothing about them. 0:01:42.955 --> 0:01:46.635 They knew these tariffs were illegal, or at minimum illegally 0:01:46.675 --> 0:01:50.715 applied and did not have anything behind it legally, and 0:01:50.795 --> 0:01:54.955 they did nothing. They rolled over rather than challenged Trump 0:01:55.035 --> 0:01:58.115 in court. This is a series of states and other 0:01:58.195 --> 0:02:01.915 groups that sued and got these tariffs at least halted, 0:02:02.075 --> 0:02:07.195 at least halted pending an appeal. In retrospect, perhaps it 0:02:07.235 --> 0:02:10.835 was a mistake by the Department of Justice, under Trump's guidance, 0:02:11.155 --> 0:02:14.675 to tell this US Court of International Trade that it 0:02:14.795 --> 0:02:18.515 had no right to review the president's actions. It said 0:02:18.555 --> 0:02:24.075 this to this court repeatedly throughout this process. He got elected. 0:02:24.155 --> 0:02:28.195 That's the only law now round here. Premise it did 0:02:28.235 --> 0:02:30.555 not go well for Trump in the slightest. No matter 0:02:30.555 --> 0:02:35.395 what happens in terms of the appeal, presumably the halting 0:02:35.515 --> 0:02:38.275 will be itself halted, and the ten days to stop 0:02:38.315 --> 0:02:41.995 the tariffs will not go into effect until the appeal 0:02:42.075 --> 0:02:45.435 is heard. But who knows. Like everything else about this 0:02:45.555 --> 0:02:50.875 misbegotten presidency and this misbegotten man, the details remain left 0:02:50.995 --> 0:02:53.995 to be sorted out by others. He is in charge 0:02:53.995 --> 0:02:58.395 of one thing, and one thing only breaking shit. In 0:02:58.435 --> 0:03:02.515 a totally unrelated bit of timing, Elon Musk has now 0:03:02.515 --> 0:03:06.275 officially bailed out, saying, well, it was scheduled for this 0:03:06.355 --> 0:03:08.155 to be the time for him to bail out of 0:03:08.995 --> 0:03:11.515 douche or whatever that was called again, but he is 0:03:11.555 --> 0:03:14.955 now no longer associated with the government. They had been 0:03:15.155 --> 0:03:19.075 gradually fading him out anyway, to the point where, like 0:03:19.115 --> 0:03:22.195 the cheshire cat in the story, all that was left 0:03:22.355 --> 0:03:25.675 was his stoned grin. And we can now ask the question, 0:03:26.355 --> 0:03:32.875 remember Elon Musk. One final note here, pending obviously days 0:03:32.875 --> 0:03:37.235 of further litigation and bombbast to come, how dare the 0:03:37.355 --> 0:03:42.755 judges never elected make a decision instead of our god Trump, 0:03:43.395 --> 0:03:48.075 who was elected in a minority vote by a minority 0:03:48.075 --> 0:03:53.755 of voters. One last note here Stephen Miller, who is 0:03:53.875 --> 0:03:58.395 nominally has nothing to do with this particular aspect of 0:03:58.435 --> 0:04:02.835 the Trump would be dictatorship. Stephen Miller announced this to 0:04:02.995 --> 0:04:08.955 his waiting world of human scorpions by retweeting the right 0:04:08.955 --> 0:04:14.315 wing nebish Bennie Johnson, and I don't know if I 0:04:14.355 --> 0:04:17.835 can think of anything that says more authoritatively, I am 0:04:17.875 --> 0:04:22.155 a serious and powerful government figure that you should be 0:04:22.195 --> 0:04:27.075 afraid of nothing, says that more resonantly than our team, 0:04:27.395 --> 0:04:33.035 a guy named Benny, and adding to Benny's reporting, the 0:04:33.155 --> 0:04:51.915 judicial coup is out of control. Do you see what happens? 0:04:52.275 --> 0:04:57.355 Gretchen Whitmer? Do you see what happens? Tim Cook? Do 0:04:57.475 --> 0:05:02.515 you see what happens? Jake Tapper, Claire Shipman, Eugene Daniels, 0:05:02.515 --> 0:05:06.435 CBS News, Bob Iger, do you see what happens when 0:05:06.475 --> 0:05:10.195 you let Trump? Well, if you know the movie The 0:05:10.195 --> 0:05:13.675 Big Lebowski, you know the twist on the rest of 0:05:13.715 --> 0:05:18.035 that speech. It's not pretty. It is, however, completely accurate. 0:05:18.475 --> 0:05:25.195 Stop capitulating to Trump, stop negotiating with Trump, stop appeasing Trump, 0:05:25.475 --> 0:05:32.235 stop letting Trump, etc. There is only one way Apple 0:05:32.315 --> 0:05:35.395 is going to survive Trump. Tim Cook, There is only 0:05:35.435 --> 0:05:39.235 one way Columbia is going to survive Trump. Claire, there 0:05:39.275 --> 0:05:41.475 is only one way the White House correspondents are going 0:05:41.515 --> 0:05:44.955 to survive Trump. Eugene Daniels. If you haven't figured it 0:05:44.995 --> 0:05:47.955 out yet, I'll spell it out. Doing what he wants 0:05:48.115 --> 0:05:51.755 only tells him you will do what he wants, so 0:05:51.795 --> 0:05:54.195 he will come back and give you another list of 0:05:54.195 --> 0:05:58.235 what he wants. Now he's a blackmailer. He's a crooked businessman, 0:05:58.515 --> 0:06:01.755 He's a bully. There is only one way to survive Trump, 0:06:01.955 --> 0:06:07.675 and that is to destroy Trump's presidency. In a world 0:06:07.995 --> 0:06:12.475 of Columbia's, be a Harvard, in a world of White 0:06:12.515 --> 0:06:16.955 House correspondents, be the Pentagon correspondence, in a world of apples, 0:06:17.075 --> 0:06:21.835 be Walmart. Put your hands on Trump's shoulders and reassure 0:06:21.955 --> 0:06:28.795 him and knee him in the groin. Instead, Gretchen Whitner 0:06:28.915 --> 0:06:32.275 praises Trump. He tricks her into going to a White 0:06:32.275 --> 0:06:34.315 House photo op. She has to cover her face with 0:06:34.355 --> 0:06:40.355 her notebook like a damn purp walk and yesterday, Trump says, yes, 0:06:40.595 --> 0:06:43.635 he is looking into pardoning the men who were convicted 0:06:43.635 --> 0:06:50.595 of trying to kidnap her. Instead, Tim Cook sucks up 0:06:50.595 --> 0:06:55.915 to Trump, and Trump responds by tariffing iPhones twenty five percent. Instead, 0:06:56.475 --> 0:06:59.075 Claire Shipman and Columbia suck up to Trump, and Trump 0:06:59.075 --> 0:07:02.355 responds by trying to put a judge, a Trump judge, 0:07:02.475 --> 0:07:06.075 in charge of Columbia's entire curriculum and hiring and admissions. 0:07:06.755 --> 0:07:10.075 The White House correspondents don't defend the associated present. Trump 0:07:10.115 --> 0:07:14.195 comes back and takes all their repertorial choices away from them. 0:07:14.835 --> 0:07:18.595 Decides who's going to be on the pool. Eiger gives 0:07:18.635 --> 0:07:22.115 Trump a bribe disguised as a settlement, and Trump threatens 0:07:22.155 --> 0:07:28.315 to take away Iiger's station licenses. Instead, CBS so hoard 0:07:28.395 --> 0:07:31.515 itself out that it's sixty minutes. Chief quit, that it's news. 0:07:31.635 --> 0:07:34.635 Chief quit. Now it is being mocked by The New 0:07:34.715 --> 0:07:40.235 York Post. The New York Post mocking Sherry Redstone and 0:07:40.315 --> 0:07:43.675 reporting that her board is flinching at her bribe settlement 0:07:43.715 --> 0:07:47.595 of Trump because paramount's insurance doesn't cover bribe settlements and 0:07:47.635 --> 0:07:51.275 there may be a congressional investigation of their bribe settlements 0:07:51.435 --> 0:07:58.515 and civil or criminal charges against her. Instead of doing something, 0:07:58.595 --> 0:08:01.715 Jake Tapper tries to throw the Trump Biden debate to 0:08:01.795 --> 0:08:06.155 Trump by refusing to fact check him, destroys his own reputation, 0:08:06.275 --> 0:08:10.515 destroys CNN's reputation, has no space remaining in journalism, so 0:08:10.555 --> 0:08:13.315 he has to put his name on a Biden acuity 0:08:13.355 --> 0:08:17.595 book now bombing so badly that to drum up publicity 0:08:17.595 --> 0:08:20.555 for it, he had to apologize to Lara Effing Trump 0:08:21.275 --> 0:08:23.915 that he had to go on Piers effing Morgan and 0:08:24.035 --> 0:08:28.635 insists and actually say as an adult, as an American 0:08:28.915 --> 0:08:32.955 as a supposed TV newscaster actually say that the Biden 0:08:33.075 --> 0:08:36.515 story was in many ways a scandal worse than Watergate. 0:08:38.795 --> 0:08:41.515 Jake Tapper's colleagues at CNN are now refusing to work 0:08:41.675 --> 0:08:45.755 with him. His career is melting before his eyes. It 0:08:45.835 --> 0:08:48.835 is so bad. Somebody on Twitter wrote that Jake's quote 0:08:49.075 --> 0:08:52.955 book tour is turning into spinal tap, where they started 0:08:52.995 --> 0:08:57.155 out in stadiums and end as openers for a puppet show. 0:09:00.315 --> 0:09:05.315 Is standing up to Trump pain free? Hell no. Harvard 0:09:05.355 --> 0:09:08.475 tells Trump to f off, sues him. He comes back 0:09:08.475 --> 0:09:11.675 and tries to expel all of their sixty five hundred, 0:09:11.755 --> 0:09:15.355 sixty six hundred foreign students, thinking this not only screws 0:09:15.395 --> 0:09:18.835 the foreigners, but it will also bankrupt Harvard or something, 0:09:19.155 --> 0:09:22.155 because of course there aren't sixty five hundred or sixty 0:09:22.155 --> 0:09:25.715 six hundred other students turned down by Harvard who wouldn't 0:09:25.715 --> 0:09:30.235 say yes if they got a new callback. Harvard turned 0:09:30.235 --> 0:09:32.195 me down in April nineteen seventy five, and I might 0:09:32.235 --> 0:09:34.315 still say yes if I got a new callback, and 0:09:34.395 --> 0:09:39.355 I mean a callback today. So Trump then cuts off 0:09:39.355 --> 0:09:41.755 one hundred million in grants to Harvard and threatens to 0:09:41.835 --> 0:09:44.915 vet the social media of all foreign students in this country, 0:09:44.955 --> 0:09:52.355 and he's out of weapons. The classic case of the bully. 0:09:52.795 --> 0:09:55.515 He'll threaten you, he'll hit you, and then he runs 0:09:55.555 --> 0:09:59.475 out because he has no backup plan. Now Harvard can 0:09:59.555 --> 0:10:02.155 keep suing him, and people at Harvard can sleep at night. 0:10:02.155 --> 0:10:04.555 Because the point is Trump would have tried to expel 0:10:04.835 --> 0:10:08.235 foreign students anyway, and would have cut off the one 0:10:08.315 --> 0:10:11.395 hundred million dollars anyway soon or late, because that's what 0:10:11.475 --> 0:10:15.635 he does. That's all he does, that's all he's ever done. 0:10:15.715 --> 0:10:18.555 He just does it faster to you. If it's obvious 0:10:18.555 --> 0:10:20.915 to him, you are going to make it easier for him. 0:10:21.115 --> 0:10:23.795 If you were as crazy and as malicious and as 0:10:23.835 --> 0:10:26.475 non human as Trump is, wouldn't you do it that way? 0:10:27.195 --> 0:10:30.315 If you were Ted Bundy Trump, would you murder the 0:10:30.355 --> 0:10:32.995 companies that put up a fight or murder the ones 0:10:33.035 --> 0:10:38.755 that just sit there? What can Harvard now get away with? 0:10:39.115 --> 0:10:42.035 One of the op ed people on the student newspaper 0:10:42.035 --> 0:10:44.755 writes a column saying she knows how to settle this 0:10:44.795 --> 0:10:49.355 with Trump and his administration. She has challenged Secretary of 0:10:49.475 --> 0:10:52.915 I didn't get any education. Linda McMahon, the ex wife 0:10:52.995 --> 0:10:56.755 of the wrestling jackass. She has challenged Linda McMahon to 0:10:56.835 --> 0:11:06.435 settle this in a wrestling cage match, Rah Voe. One 0:11:06.435 --> 0:11:09.795 can argue that Harvard's moral victory here, and it's actually 0:11:09.835 --> 0:11:13.555 two or three dozen moral victories are the proverbial p 0:11:13.795 --> 0:11:16.555 in the dark suit, a warm feeling nobody notices. But 0:11:16.675 --> 0:11:20.355 there are also material victories. To contrast the filled with 0:11:20.475 --> 0:11:26.115 inertia White House Correspondence Association, there are the fighting Pentagon correspondents. 0:11:26.515 --> 0:11:29.755 The impeccable Oliver Darcy of The Status Newsletter reports that 0:11:29.755 --> 0:11:32.955 Pete Hegseeth tried to strong ar I'm a CNN producer 0:11:33.115 --> 0:11:35.515 who had been chosen by her peers to be part 0:11:35.515 --> 0:11:39.395 of the small pool traveling with the Secretary of Greasy Kids, 0:11:39.395 --> 0:11:44.515 stuff and Scotch to Singapore. They didn't want Haley Britsky 0:11:44.595 --> 0:11:50.435 to go. They didn't like her tweets. Seriously, these are 0:11:50.515 --> 0:11:55.275 alleged grown ups. They didn't make her tweets, so they 0:11:55.275 --> 0:11:57.315 banned her. They said, no, you can't go as part 0:11:57.315 --> 0:12:00.395 of the pool, and her Pentagon media colleagues, unlike the 0:12:00.435 --> 0:12:04.355 White House Correspondence Association, promptly told the Pentagon Press office 0:12:04.395 --> 0:12:08.915 to f off Britsky doesn't go. Nobody goes. Nobody goes. 0:12:09.115 --> 0:12:12.235 Heg Seth doesn't get to be on TV and in articles, 0:12:12.595 --> 0:12:15.315 and to thus gaze longingly at himself. He'd have to 0:12:15.355 --> 0:12:18.075 go back to carrying a dozen mirrors with him at 0:12:18.075 --> 0:12:24.235 all times. The Pentagon folded like one of heg Seth's 0:12:24.435 --> 0:12:30.555 cheap suits. Britsky went a small victory, and presumably if 0:12:30.555 --> 0:12:34.355 Trump understood what it meant, he'd reproach heg Seth. But this, 0:12:34.435 --> 0:12:35.955 of course is way down on the list of things 0:12:35.955 --> 0:12:39.155 Trump will eventually fire Hegseth for, certainly when it looks 0:12:39.195 --> 0:12:41.835 like heg Seth had the Pentagon got the NSA to 0:12:41.915 --> 0:12:46.035 wiretap people in the Pentagon without the slightest authorization, without 0:12:46.035 --> 0:12:48.595 the slightest concern for the laws, because efet, what do 0:12:48.635 --> 0:12:52.315 you expect when you hire the weekend fill in fox 0:12:52.395 --> 0:12:58.275 guy and not some first string fox guy. But it 0:12:58.355 --> 0:13:00.595 underscores the point. The bully is going to hit you. 0:13:01.275 --> 0:13:05.835 Appease him. He will hit you, hit him, he will 0:13:05.915 --> 0:13:09.235 hit you. But guess which way causes him to stop 0:13:09.315 --> 0:13:13.395 hitting you fastest. Guess which way causes him the most pain. 0:13:14.915 --> 0:13:17.835 Tim Cook's response to Trump's threat of a twenty five 0:13:17.875 --> 0:13:21.675 percent tariff on iPhone should be something equally as crazy, 0:13:22.075 --> 0:13:25.795 something like saying, starting September first, Apple will no longer 0:13:26.075 --> 0:13:29.475 sell iPhones in this country, and if you want one, 0:13:29.635 --> 0:13:31.995 you're gonna have to go to the secondary market or 0:13:32.035 --> 0:13:38.475 into Canada. Fight insanity with more insanity. What do you 0:13:38.515 --> 0:13:41.555 think you're obligated to actually stop selling iPhones here just 0:13:41.555 --> 0:13:46.875 because you say you're gonna stop selling iPhones here? This 0:13:46.995 --> 0:13:50.595 is Trump's America. You can lie all you want, You 0:13:50.635 --> 0:13:52.435 can deny you ever said it. They can play the 0:13:52.475 --> 0:13:58.515 tape and you can say, oh, it's Ai. The value 0:13:58.515 --> 0:14:00.355 of all this, of course, is that even if you 0:14:00.395 --> 0:14:03.555 have made the terrible mistake of appeasing Trump, you can renege. 0:14:04.115 --> 0:14:08.635 Even at the late hour. Claire pull the plug on 0:14:08.715 --> 0:14:13.155 the deal Columbia made with him. Iiger tell him you've 0:14:13.235 --> 0:14:18.715 changed your mind and you're now suing him. CBS Paramount 0:14:18.715 --> 0:14:23.715 Board tell Sherry if she wants to settle with Trump, 0:14:23.715 --> 0:14:29.075 it's going to come out of her paycheck. Do something. 0:14:31.755 --> 0:14:34.795 This entire dynamic now becomes meaningful, not just a test 0:14:34.835 --> 0:14:37.115 of moral clarity. And whether you remember the lesson the 0:14:37.155 --> 0:14:39.395 bully in the schoolyard should have taught you namely the 0:14:39.395 --> 0:14:43.995 moment he touches you stab him. Trump is now trying 0:14:44.035 --> 0:14:48.355 the same bullshit with Putin. Something has happened to him. Putin, 0:14:48.555 --> 0:14:51.435 he's gone absolutely crazy. It will lead to the downfall 0:14:51.475 --> 0:14:55.715 of Russia. When that didn't make Putin cry or run 0:14:55.755 --> 0:14:59.795 home to mommy, Trump escalated. What Vladimir Putin doesn't realize 0:14:59.835 --> 0:15:01.635 is that if it weren't for me, lots of really 0:15:01.675 --> 0:15:03.875 bad things would have already happened to Russia. And I 0:15:03.915 --> 0:15:09.955 mean really bad. He's playing with fire. Firstly, congratulations Trump, 0:15:09.955 --> 0:15:12.875 you just confess that you have been protecting Russia, an 0:15:13.035 --> 0:15:16.315 enemy of this country, a foreign power in opposition to 0:15:16.315 --> 0:15:22.235 the United States of America. You just confessed Russia, Russia, Russia, true, true, true, 0:15:22.635 --> 0:15:27.115 trees and trees and treason. Nobody asked, you just confessed. 0:15:27.835 --> 0:15:30.555 You just confessed you've been covering up for Putin. Good work, 0:15:30.715 --> 0:15:37.435 stable genius as in horse stables. Secondly, this will stop 0:15:37.475 --> 0:15:41.235 Putin in Ukraine. Trump should have just quoted the self 0:15:41.315 --> 0:15:44.275 own that Shakespeare put into the mouth of King Lear, 0:15:44.715 --> 0:15:48.435 the definition of imfidence, the summit of empty threats. I 0:15:48.475 --> 0:15:51.155 will have such revenges on you both that all the 0:15:51.195 --> 0:15:56.235 world shall I will do such things. What they are 0:15:56.635 --> 0:15:59.315 yet I know not, but they shall be the terrors 0:15:59.355 --> 0:16:03.435 of the earth. I shall have such revenge on you Putin. 0:16:03.475 --> 0:16:06.435 I will do such things bad thing, I mean, really bad. 0:16:08.715 --> 0:16:11.515 We have a vested interest in Putin not responding to 0:16:11.555 --> 0:16:15.595 this the way he ordinarily would think Russia's inexhaustible supply 0:16:15.755 --> 0:16:20.515 of open windows. But Putin will probably have a surgical 0:16:20.555 --> 0:16:25.635 response that humiliates and damages Trump alone, because Trump's tantrum 0:16:25.635 --> 0:16:28.235 may cause Putin to think that Trump's usefulness to him 0:16:28.395 --> 0:16:29.955 is about to run out, and he was going to 0:16:29.955 --> 0:16:34.435 switch to somebody else in a few years. Anyway, JB. 0:16:34.675 --> 0:16:39.635 Vance might as well do that. Now, what's the point 0:16:39.675 --> 0:16:41.915 of owning the president of the United States if you 0:16:41.955 --> 0:16:48.875 can't fire the president of the United States. Stop appeasing Trump, 0:17:13.915 --> 0:17:16.795 and among other reasons, to stop appeasing Trump. When you 0:17:16.955 --> 0:17:21.075 thwart him, when you stand up to him, he dissolves 0:17:21.155 --> 0:17:26.075 into a self fitting, soft, stupid child and looks it 0:17:26.275 --> 0:17:32.315 and sounds it. Apparently he did not know about Taco Taco, 0:17:32.835 --> 0:17:36.355 the New Wall Street acronym about tariffs, the acronym for 0:17:36.955 --> 0:17:44.835 Trump always chickens out taco. When CNBC's Megan Cassella asked 0:17:44.915 --> 0:17:48.555 him about taco yesterday, and I've telescoped this so you 0:17:48.555 --> 0:17:52.755 don't have to listen to the whole meltdown. Trump found 0:17:52.755 --> 0:17:56.195 out about taco for the first time. Trump don't like taco, 0:17:56.995 --> 0:17:59.155 and Walster analysts have pointed a new term called the 0:17:59.235 --> 0:17:59.995 taco trade. 0:18:00.035 --> 0:18:02.115 They're saying Trump always chickens out. 0:18:02.315 --> 0:18:04.555 On tear fres and that's why markets are hired his 0:18:05.155 --> 0:18:06.155 what's your results to that? 0:18:06.435 --> 0:18:08.155 I check out? Check it out? 0:18:08.995 --> 0:18:10.675 Oh checking out. 0:18:10.715 --> 0:18:13.795 I've never heard that. You mean because I reduced China 0:18:13.835 --> 0:18:15.995 from one hundred and forty five percent that I said 0:18:16.595 --> 0:18:19.395 down to one hundred and then because of the tariff, 0:18:19.395 --> 0:18:22.795 because it was so high. But I knew that. But 0:18:22.915 --> 0:18:26.115 don't ever say what you said. That's a nasty question. 0:18:26.795 --> 0:18:35.075 Loser taco, loser appo taco. It's a baseball joke. Incidentally, 0:18:35.115 --> 0:18:38.035 as impressive as that CNBC question was, remember you can 0:18:38.115 --> 0:18:40.795 always rely on the legacy media here. They will always 0:18:40.835 --> 0:18:45.635 let you down. Jack Blanchard, the guy who nearly finished 0:18:45.635 --> 0:18:49.795 destroying Politico Playbook after Ryan Lizi started destroying Political Playbook 0:18:50.355 --> 0:18:53.355 before they moved him off, is now a lame duck 0:18:53.355 --> 0:18:58.195 at Politico playbook, and he wrote glowingly yesterday of Trump's 0:18:58.195 --> 0:19:02.795 cooperation with the media. Quote, Aside from the lamentable attempt 0:19:02.795 --> 0:19:06.275 to ban AP, He's basically taken questions from old comas. 0:19:06.515 --> 0:19:12.915 It's impressive stuff. Yeah, impressive, Governor. Aside from that attempt 0:19:12.915 --> 0:19:18.755 to ban the world's most widely distributed wire service. Oh, 0:19:18.795 --> 0:19:22.515 other than that, he's been impressive taking questions from all comers. 0:19:22.675 --> 0:19:27.675 Trying to ban a news organization, second time in a week. 0:19:27.835 --> 0:19:30.035 Just there, he threatened a reporter over a question he 0:19:30.075 --> 0:19:34.315 didn't like. That's impressive, Jack Blanchard of Politico, That's impressive. 0:19:34.395 --> 0:19:36.635 Do you know what happens if he starts getting away 0:19:36.715 --> 0:19:39.235 with banning the Associated Press or running the White House 0:19:39.235 --> 0:19:46.395 Correspondence Association. You know what happens. Politico disappears. Jack Blanchard 0:19:46.395 --> 0:19:51.955 has to go back to London and busk. Meanwhile, on 0:19:52.075 --> 0:19:55.995 the Fascism for Money Front, Axios reports Stephen Miller and 0:19:56.035 --> 0:19:59.755 Garden Nome are angry that their administration of the undead 0:20:00.115 --> 0:20:03.875 deported just seventeen two hundred people last month. That's actually 0:20:04.075 --> 0:20:10.755 below past presidential administration averages. Miller and Noam want three 0:20:10.795 --> 0:20:15.395 thousand a day, not that I'd ever question the motives 0:20:15.435 --> 0:20:20.195 of such upstanding white trash as Christy Nome and Steven Miller. 0:20:20.795 --> 0:20:24.035 But financial disclosures made public last week revealed that besides 0:20:24.035 --> 0:20:27.515 Attorney General Blondie, you know who else did work for 0:20:27.555 --> 0:20:30.395 the GEO Group, the people to call when you need 0:20:30.435 --> 0:20:34.755 a privately owned, privately operated, vermin filled concentration camp for 0:20:34.795 --> 0:20:38.115 immigrants in your neighborhood. You know who else worked for 0:20:38.155 --> 0:20:44.195 Geo ice scum Tom Holman consulted for them for at 0:20:44.275 --> 0:20:48.155 least two years before Trump put him in charge of 0:20:49.755 --> 0:20:54.195 finding people to put in GEO Group brand concentration camps. 0:20:55.275 --> 0:21:00.755 What a coincidence? And if you miss this, former nursing 0:21:00.795 --> 0:21:06.995 home scumbag Paul Waalsack Walsack as in Ballsack, pleads guilty 0:21:07.035 --> 0:21:09.995 to tax crimes. The judge gives him eighteen months, says 0:21:10.035 --> 0:21:12.395 their quote is not a get out of jail free 0:21:12.435 --> 0:21:16.515 card for the rich. Then Ballsack's mom a Trump donor 0:21:16.595 --> 0:21:26.035 named Elizabeth Fago Fago, I'm praying it's Fago. Elizabeth Fago 0:21:26.155 --> 0:21:28.555 gets an invitation to a Trump event at Mary Lago 0:21:29.435 --> 0:21:32.755 see if it would never mind. The invite comes either 0:21:32.955 --> 0:21:37.515 just before or just after her son is sentenced. No 0:21:37.795 --> 0:21:40.635 got out of jail free card for the rich. The 0:21:40.715 --> 0:21:43.515 price for admission to the Trump event is one million 0:21:43.555 --> 0:21:48.315 dollars to Trump. Three weeks after the dinner, Ballsack, her 0:21:48.395 --> 0:21:51.555 son gets a pardon because there is a get out 0:21:51.595 --> 0:21:56.195 of jail free card. Of course, it is not free. 0:21:56.275 --> 0:22:00.115 This story got wildly and widely covered, but I don't 0:22:00.155 --> 0:22:02.515 remember seeing it connected to a story from two years ago. 0:22:02.635 --> 0:22:07.835 This month, anybody else remember Rudy Giuliani's reported boasts that 0:22:07.915 --> 0:22:11.755 presidential pardons were available for purchase at popular prices without 0:22:11.795 --> 0:22:16.155 a prescription, two million dollars each, half to him, half 0:22:16.195 --> 0:22:21.595 to uh Trump. That is what a woman named Noel Dunfie, 0:22:21.675 --> 0:22:25.715 who sued Juliani for sexual abuse, says Guliani told her 0:22:26.755 --> 0:22:29.635 in twenty nineteen. And she says she has countless recordings 0:22:29.635 --> 0:22:31.795 of their encounters. And I don't know if she recorded 0:22:31.795 --> 0:22:34.115 on any of the part about the pardons, and I 0:22:34.115 --> 0:22:35.635 don't know if she's telling the truth. And I have 0:22:35.715 --> 0:22:38.155 even less of an idea of whether or not he 0:22:38.395 --> 0:22:40.955 Giuliani was telling the truth about being able to do this. 0:22:42.235 --> 0:22:46.395 But Dunfee's attorney claimed Giuliani quote asked miss Dunfie if 0:22:46.435 --> 0:22:49.395 she knew anyone in need of a pardon, telling her 0:22:49.395 --> 0:22:52.195 that he was selling pardons for two million dollars, which 0:22:52.235 --> 0:22:56.315 he and President Trump would split. He told Miss Dunfie 0:22:56.355 --> 0:22:59.435 that she could refer individuals seeking pardons to him, so 0:22:59.555 --> 0:23:02.515 long as they did not go through the normal channels 0:23:02.555 --> 0:23:06.035 of the Office of the Pardon Attorney, because correspondence going 0:23:06.075 --> 0:23:08.835 to that office would be subject to disclosure under the 0:23:08.875 --> 0:23:14.395 Freedom of Information Act twenty nineteen. Pardons for Sale, Pardons 0:23:14.395 --> 0:23:17.795 for sale, Get your pardons here, hot roasted pardons two 0:23:17.835 --> 0:23:23.515 millions apiece funny dog gun thing, though huh Giuliani allegedly 0:23:23.555 --> 0:23:26.755 boasts of selling pardons for two million, a million for 0:23:26.915 --> 0:23:30.635 him and a million for Trump, and six years later, 0:23:31.395 --> 0:23:37.595 Trump pardons ball Sack after Mommy Ballsack attends a fundraiser 0:23:38.755 --> 0:23:42.235 and buys a ticket to it, which costs a million 0:23:42.315 --> 0:23:57.315 for Trump. Two of Trump's most ridiculous delusions have now merged. Oops. 0:23:57.915 --> 0:24:02.075 Turns out he threatened Canada before he realized he would 0:24:02.155 --> 0:24:06.955 need Canada to participate in this science fiction Golden Dome 0:24:07.155 --> 0:24:11.235 bullshit that Musk must have convinced him to buy from Musk. 0:24:12.235 --> 0:24:18.995 I told Canada you got everybody in Canada just sort 0:24:18.995 --> 0:24:22.395 of sit still while you talk to them. I told Canada, 0:24:22.995 --> 0:24:29.835 I told Mars, I told God, I told Jesus. I 0:24:29.995 --> 0:24:36.035 told my invisible friend Stanley. I told Canada, which very 0:24:36.115 --> 0:24:39.035 much wants to be part of our fabulous Golden Dome system, 0:24:39.315 --> 0:24:42.275 that it will cost sixty one billion dollars if they 0:24:42.275 --> 0:24:45.755 remain a separate but unequal nation, but will cost zero 0:24:45.875 --> 0:24:49.075 dollars if they become our cherished fifty first state. They 0:24:49.115 --> 0:24:55.475 are considering the offer. Couple notes. One, If you don't 0:24:55.515 --> 0:25:01.995 have Canadian outposts in your Golden Dome, your Golden Dome 0:25:02.035 --> 0:25:06.435 would never be aware of missions or flights or missiles 0:25:06.475 --> 0:25:09.475 coming in from the north, the northeast, or the northwest 0:25:09.555 --> 0:25:17.115 until about five ten seconds before they hit. Canada does 0:25:17.155 --> 0:25:22.155 not need the Golden Dome. You trump need Canada. Two. 0:25:22.435 --> 0:25:27.835 Golden Dome is not going to work. The dome idea 0:25:28.555 --> 0:25:31.435 Ronald Reagan star wars under a different name. It barely 0:25:31.475 --> 0:25:35.555 works in Israel. Israel measures eight five hundred and twenty 0:25:35.555 --> 0:25:39.115 two square miles. The United States measures three million, eight 0:25:39.195 --> 0:25:43.995 hundred and nine five hundred and twenty five square miles. Three. 0:25:45.035 --> 0:25:51.515 The Golden Dome is at Notre Dame. Four, The only 0:25:51.635 --> 0:25:55.915 Golden Dome Trump is actually associated with is his hair, 0:25:56.955 --> 0:26:01.475 and five Canada is not, in fact, considering the offer. 0:26:07.355 --> 0:26:12.195 Also off the wire, Wired magazine quotes staffers of Nancy Mace, 0:26:12.795 --> 0:26:15.915 the house whack job who isn't Marjorie Stupid Green or 0:26:15.995 --> 0:26:20.155 Lauren Bobert staffers who say she set up burners on 0:26:20.235 --> 0:26:24.115 social media to boost her rep quoting Wired. Quoting a 0:26:24.115 --> 0:26:28.315 former Mace staffer, we had to make multiple accounts, burner accounts, 0:26:28.355 --> 0:26:31.555 and go and reply to comments saying things that weren't true, 0:26:32.075 --> 0:26:35.795 even on Reddit forums. We were congressional staff and there 0:26:35.795 --> 0:26:41.075 were actual things we could be doing to help the constituents. Wait, 0:26:41.155 --> 0:26:45.635 you're telling me Nancy Mace has burner accounts working to 0:26:45.755 --> 0:26:53.875 help her and her online persona is still that bad man. 0:26:55.755 --> 0:27:00.995 And then there's this, The last surviving grandson of one 0:27:00.995 --> 0:27:03.675 of our former presidents has died at the age of 0:27:03.795 --> 0:27:09.355 ninety six. Sad news, of course, But is it really 0:27:09.435 --> 0:27:14.435 news I mean a grandson, Well, sir, it's news because 0:27:14.635 --> 0:27:18.315 the former president, he was the last surviving grandson of 0:27:18.595 --> 0:27:24.115 that former president, left office on March fourth, eighteen forty five. 0:27:25.235 --> 0:27:28.715 I'll say that again. His grandfather, a US president, left 0:27:28.875 --> 0:27:34.795 office on March fourth, eighteen forty five. His grandson died 0:27:34.875 --> 0:27:37.995 last weekend, one hundred and eighty years and just under 0:27:38.035 --> 0:27:43.035 three months later. He was the tenth US president. He 0:27:43.115 --> 0:27:47.235 was President John Tyler, famous because it was he who 0:27:47.275 --> 0:27:50.635 ascended from the vice presidency went our ninth president. That's 0:27:50.875 --> 0:27:56.075 nine single digits. William Henry Harrison died just thirty one 0:27:56.155 --> 0:27:59.875 days after his inauguration in eighteen forty one. His vice 0:27:59.915 --> 0:28:03.915 president was Tyler. Tyler's grandson just died this past weekend. 0:28:04.955 --> 0:28:09.235 President Tyler fathered a child, not even his last child. 0:28:10.115 --> 0:28:14.555 He wasn't even in the White House yet. His third 0:28:14.675 --> 0:28:18.755 to last child, Lion Gardner Tyler, fathered when the ex 0:28:18.755 --> 0:28:23.035 president was sixty three years old. That was in eighteen 0:28:23.115 --> 0:28:31.875 fifty three. Lion Gardner Tyler fathered a son at seventy five, 0:28:33.955 --> 0:28:36.075 That would have been on November ninth, nineteen twenty eight. 0:28:36.075 --> 0:28:38.915 The son was born, and that son was Harrison Ruffin Tyler, 0:28:38.955 --> 0:28:40.795 and he was the guy who died over the holiday weekend. 0:28:42.035 --> 0:28:48.595 Three generations and you are back to the year President 0:28:48.635 --> 0:28:53.075 Tyler was born. The year President Tyler was born was 0:28:53.195 --> 0:29:00.995 seventeen ninety three generations. The last of them just shuffled off. 0:29:02.715 --> 0:29:06.115 It takes you back to March March twenty ninth, seventeen 0:29:06.235 --> 0:29:09.995 night March twenty ninth, seventeen ninety, or as we called 0:29:09.995 --> 0:29:18.475