1 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to okay f Daily with 2 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. 3 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: On this new year, folks, Happy new Year to each 4 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 1: and every single one of you, and thank you so 5 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 1: much for all of the well wishes and tweets and 6 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: dms over the holiday season. I hope that you all 7 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:38,640 Speaker 1: got as much rest and relaxation that you have set 8 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 1: your intentions for the new year. Understand that, look, time 9 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 1: is a construct and we can have a fresh start 10 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 1: any day of the week, any day of the year. 11 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:51,960 Speaker 1: But sometimes it is good to follow the crowd and 12 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: go on and say, you know what, in this new year, 13 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: you're going to set goals, You're going to set intentions. 14 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 1: You're going to let go of what happened in twenty 15 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 1: twenty two and be able to kind of look forward 16 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 1: to this new fresh start this chapter, and folks, that 17 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 1: is exactly what I am doing. Instead of starting with 18 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:16,679 Speaker 1: resolutions on all these things that we resolved to do. 19 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 1: I actually watched a really interesting TikTok and it was 20 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 1: of this white guy herbalist who was talking about the 21 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 1: fact that the reason why most people fail at their 22 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: resolutions by the time that they reach February, is that 23 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 1: we need to actually be following the cycle of the 24 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 1: environment and our seasons. If you live in an area 25 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 1: that has seasons, rather than just the start of a 26 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:47,040 Speaker 1: fresh calendar, that winter should be a time when you 27 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: go inward, when you are deeply reflective and meditative and 28 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 1: prayerful and kind of planting those seeds right, storing your 29 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 1: energy and making preparations, nesting in your space. And then 30 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,919 Speaker 1: as the season changes, right as it begins to get warmer, 31 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,080 Speaker 1: as we see, you know, the grass start to sprout 32 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 1: back up and turn green and the budding on the trees, 33 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:17,959 Speaker 1: that then that is when you take on new activities 34 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 1: and new tasks, but that you use this winter time 35 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 1: as a time of reflection, as a time of rest 36 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: and restoration, so that the spring then brings for you renewal. 37 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 1: And so that is how I'm kind of moving into 38 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:36,080 Speaker 1: this year, this new year of twenty twenty three. I 39 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: will tell you, as I stated on my last podcast 40 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 1: for the year, that twenty twenty two provided personally and 41 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 1: professionally a lot of ups, some downs, but a lot 42 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:53,799 Speaker 1: of exhaustion. Frankly, and one of the things that I 43 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: am setting an intention for for the new year is 44 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: that I am going to one once again as I 45 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 1: did back in twenty twenty and then in twenty twenty 46 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:06,080 Speaker 1: one and fell off of it last year as the 47 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:08,960 Speaker 1: world seemed to be churning back. Is that I fell 48 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,919 Speaker 1: for the ropodope of capitalism and grind culture once again. 49 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 1: I found myself working really long hours and found myself 50 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:22,920 Speaker 1: once again falling back into bad habit and trying to 51 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,640 Speaker 1: keep pace. And the thing is is that I'm no 52 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 1: longer going to try and keep pace. I am going 53 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:31,640 Speaker 1: to listen to my body. I'm going to keep pace 54 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 1: with what it needs and not what the world needs 55 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 1: of me, and assume that those things will align as 56 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: they will. That is my way of setting an intention 57 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 1: for this new year. I'm super excited about the shows 58 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 1: about the content, Folks. If you are not following me 59 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: with the other podcasts that I do, I'm going to 60 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 1: be doing more cross promotional talk about them. I have 61 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 1: Democracy Ish, which comes out every Thursday morning with my 62 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 1: friend Wahat Ali over at The Daily Beast. I also 63 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 1: am the co host of The New Abnormal, which is 64 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 1: a podcast with The Daily Beast with my friend Andy Levy. 65 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: And so you can get multiple days of me in 66 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:18,920 Speaker 1: these different contexts with different folks, in different conversations, and 67 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:22,280 Speaker 1: so I encourage you to check those out as well 68 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 1: as woke f and we will have new announcements coming 69 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 1: later in the first quarter of the new year. And 70 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:32,280 Speaker 1: so I'm excited about all the things to come. But 71 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 1: what I will not do, and what I encourage all 72 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,479 Speaker 1: of you not to do, is not to fall for 73 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 1: the rope adope of capitalism and grind culture and bullshit 74 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 1: and feeling like you have to keep up with the joneses, 75 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 1: keep up with your neighbors, keep pace with the algorithms, 76 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,720 Speaker 1: Listen to your body, listen to yourself, listen to your heart, 77 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: believe in your intuition, and move at a pace that 78 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 1: makes sense for you and makes you happy, because at 79 00:04:57,240 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 1: the end of the day, that is what matters. All Right, 80 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: let's jump into how the year ended and then look ahead, 81 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 1: shall we. So the end of twenty twenty two brought 82 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: some hot, wild shit, right. We saw the January sixth 83 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 1: Committee release their final report. We saw them provide four 84 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 1: criminal referrals for Donald Trump, John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani, and others. 85 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:30,919 Speaker 1: We got bombshell reporting with regard to the fact that 86 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 1: Donald Trump probably still has us stolen documents from the 87 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 1: White House stashed not justin Mara Lago, but in other places. 88 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:42,040 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's tax returns over the last six years has 89 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:45,359 Speaker 1: been released, which brings into question what we've all wondered, 90 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 1: which is how wealthy really is Donald Trump and where 91 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 1: does his money rely. Well, we know that some of 92 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 1: it from twenty fifteen to twenty seventeen, you know those 93 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:56,039 Speaker 1: years when he was president of the United States. He 94 00:05:56,080 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 1: was elected in twenty sixteen, didn't want to release his 95 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 1: tax returns, and then in twenty seventeen, you know he 96 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 1: was president, he was holding some money in China, that 97 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:08,160 Speaker 1: he has given some loans, questionable loans to his children, 98 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 1: and that he'd made zero goose egg charitable donations in 99 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:16,719 Speaker 1: twenty twenty when he claims to be the most charitable 100 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 1: man there. There is also Donald Trump didn't really pay 101 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,479 Speaker 1: taxes for two years or the four years of his 102 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 1: presidency either. And now I just want to remind folks 103 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 1: that as this information comes to light, that there is 104 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 1: no law that has been on the books that requires 105 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 1: a candidate for the president or a sitting president to 106 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 1: release their tax returns. It has been a political norm 107 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 1: for the last you know, forty four presidents before Donald 108 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: Trump became president when he decided to buck political norms 109 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 1: and say fuck you because I don't want you to 110 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 1: know where my money is. Because we know that Donald 111 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 1: Trump is shady. We know that his businesses are shady. 112 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 1: Oh that's the other thing that happened at the end 113 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two, which is that that organization was 114 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: found guilty on seventeen different charges and accounts, including fraud. 115 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 1: So we know that they ain't shit, and you know, 116 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 1: we're just waiting now on the multiple indictments to come 117 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: reigning down now, folks, at the end of twenty twenty two, 118 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 1: I said, look, I don't know, I don't know if 119 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 1: there is still an appetite frankly with the American people 120 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 1: for Donald Trump to be brought to justice. What the 121 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: Republicans are going to do when they decide whoever is 122 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 1: going to be the new quote unquote speaker, as I 123 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 1: want to say, puppet of the Maga Republican right which 124 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 1: is now in control of the House, is they're going 125 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:46,520 Speaker 1: to try and distract the American people with their circus 126 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 1: of bullshit committees and investigations and trying to bring down 127 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 1: the Biden administration for no other reason than the Biden 128 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 1: administration is a democratic administration that is actually trying to, 129 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 1: you know, stop the belief that was caused by Donald 130 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 1: Trump and the Republicans in this country in terms of 131 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 1: our economic recovery with covid, our ability to build more 132 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:15,240 Speaker 1: equitable systems, you know, relieve people who are suffering under 133 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 1: catastrophic student loan debt, create a patchwork of protections for 134 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 1: people with uteruses. Now that Roe v. Wade is gone, 135 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 1: we saw infrastructure bills passed, We saw gun legislation passed. 136 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 1: We saw a lot of good things happen at the 137 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 1: end of this year. But what we also saw is 138 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 1: that the American people have consistently been underestimated, not only 139 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 1: by the media but by the Republican Party in general. 140 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:52,319 Speaker 1: They put up candidates for the midterm elections like herschel Walker, 141 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:57,440 Speaker 1: like memot Oz, and others who were caricatures at best, 142 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 1: but certainly not fit to serve. And now right now 143 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 1: we're watching another saga playout, which is that of George Santos. 144 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:11,960 Speaker 1: The New York Long Island Republican who was elected and 145 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 1: he is nothing other than a Charlatan fraud grifter. And 146 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 1: it's now under investigation by the Nassau County District Attorney's 147 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 1: office as well as you know, the fetes, because they're 148 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:27,959 Speaker 1: wondering where he got his donations from, whether or not, 149 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:32,320 Speaker 1: aside from lying about his entire background, his entire resume, 150 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 1: did he lie in terms of the financial contributions that 151 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: were coming into his account. One of the things that 152 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 1: I got to say, folks, as I you know, I 153 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 1: was on Long Island back home for a lot of 154 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 1: the break and what was crazy is, first of all, 155 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 1: it's walt to wall coverage on Long Island on the 156 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:56,720 Speaker 1: local stations as well as it was being covered by 157 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: cable news because the story is just so crazy. But 158 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 1: how does a George Santos come to be? He's a 159 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:09,840 Speaker 1: product of Trump is Um and Donald Trump. Right, the 160 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 1: Republican Party decided that values and ethics no longer mattered, right, 161 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:20,040 Speaker 1: that winning and winning above all else's what is important. 162 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 1: It's why Kevin McCarthy right now has said absolutely nothing 163 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:28,200 Speaker 1: about how bad George Santos is making the Republican Party look. 164 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:30,959 Speaker 1: Because why because Santos said that he's going to vote 165 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:34,960 Speaker 1: for McCarthy. Now, I'm confused about why McCarthy would believe 166 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 1: any fucking thing that came out of that man's mouth. 167 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 1: But you know, then again, Kevin McCarthy also thinks that 168 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:42,719 Speaker 1: he's powerful, right. He also thinks that he's going to 169 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:45,200 Speaker 1: do a great job as speaker. No, sir, you are 170 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 1: going to be an indentured servant of the Magyar right right, 171 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 1: the quote unquote Freedom Caucus that is now has control 172 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:57,720 Speaker 1: over the House. He has made so many concessions that 173 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 1: you know, he makes doormats look good. Do you know 174 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:10,960 Speaker 1: what I'm saying? Like, Kevin McCarthy is exactly the perfect 175 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:15,600 Speaker 1: example of what the Republican Party has turned into. They 176 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 1: will capitulate and bow their head and kiss the ring 177 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 1: of whomever so long as they have some semblance of power. Now, 178 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy is going to have zero power as Speaker 179 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:31,720 Speaker 1: of the House. He is going to be owned by 180 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:35,320 Speaker 1: the Marjorie Taylor Greens, the Matt Gates's, the Paul Goes 181 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 1: to all of these people. He is going to be 182 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 1: owned by because he's made all of these concessions, putting 183 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 1: people on committees, giving them chairmanships, giving them the right 184 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:51,560 Speaker 1: to discount the speaker with only five votes, then he 185 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 1: said that he would bring that down to one vote. 186 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 1: One person could say, I want to take on the speaker, 187 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 1: and Kevin McCarthy said, okay, boss, what do you need? Boss? 188 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:09,119 Speaker 1: So he is indicative and embodies exactly what the Republican 189 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:12,440 Speaker 1: Party has done under the thumb of Donald Trump. And 190 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:15,600 Speaker 1: Trump is a they've let go of their values, They've 191 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:19,679 Speaker 1: let go of their center, they've let go of any 192 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:23,839 Speaker 1: spine and backbone that they might have had, and they 193 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:29,960 Speaker 1: bow to power. So how does a George Santos come 194 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:33,800 Speaker 1: to be simple? You allowed Donald Trump. And what I've 195 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:36,840 Speaker 1: been saying on this show and every other show for 196 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 1: as long as I can remember since Donald Trump came 197 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:44,080 Speaker 1: down that escalator, is that if you allow this to slide, 198 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 1: you allow this man to remake one of the two 199 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 1: major political parties to become president of the United States, 200 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:59,240 Speaker 1: what comes after him will be worse. And so you look, now, 201 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:04,320 Speaker 1: carry she won't give up right her quest to become governor. 202 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:06,640 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how many legal bills it costs her, 203 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:09,839 Speaker 1: doesn't matter how fucking stupid and pathetic she looks she's 204 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 1: gonna go after this and still continue to talk about it, 205 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:15,240 Speaker 1: just like Donald Trump three years later, is still talking 206 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 1: about how the twenty twenty election was stolen from him. Oh, 207 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,200 Speaker 1: by the way, we all remember that Donald Trump has 208 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 1: announced that he is running for president in twenty twenty four. 209 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:28,600 Speaker 1: But have we seen nara campaign rally? Right? Have we 210 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:33,160 Speaker 1: seen anything that would give Republicans some impression that he 211 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:42,400 Speaker 1: is serious about doing anything then covering his own ass? No? Right, 212 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 1: So when you look at the state of the House 213 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: and you see that what has been announced so far 214 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:52,440 Speaker 1: this week, as we are in our first week of 215 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 1: the new year, that Joe Biden is gonna keep pressing forward, 216 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:02,600 Speaker 1: Dark Brandon gonna keep doing what he does regardless of 217 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:08,080 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy or whomever, Scalasie or whomever having control of 218 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:11,400 Speaker 1: the gavel in the House. He is holding a bipartisan 219 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: event with Mitch McConnell. Now here's the thing. You should 220 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 1: not trust Mitch McConnell with anything. I wouldn't trust him 221 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:24,280 Speaker 1: as far as I can throw him, and I have 222 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 1: a good arm in back. Mitch McConnell only does things 223 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 1: that are politically expedient for Mitch McConnell. So when we 224 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 1: see that one of the first engagements that Biden is 225 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,720 Speaker 1: going to have is going to be at a bipartisan 226 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 1: event with Mitch McConnell, we have to ask ourselves what 227 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:50,440 Speaker 1: is Mitch McConnell going to get out of this, aside 228 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 1: from giving the middle finger to Kevin McCarthy into House Republicans. 229 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 1: The same thing with the Republican governor of Ohio who's 230 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: also going to be do an event with Joe Biden. 231 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 1: So essentially, what some Republicans are signaling is that they 232 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: are at least going to pretend at this time to 233 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:14,160 Speaker 1: be the adults in the room and work with the 234 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 1: current sitting president to get some things done, whether it 235 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 1: is just for their own states or for actually for 236 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:25,520 Speaker 1: the country. Kevin McCarthy or whomever's in the House, be damned. 237 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:29,560 Speaker 1: What we know is that Republicans are hell bent on 238 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 1: turning the next two years into Benghazi on Crack, which 239 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:42,520 Speaker 1: is wasting taxpayer dollars, pulling together bullshit hearings all to 240 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:48,240 Speaker 1: do what nothing. And the goal I believe that Republicans 241 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 1: have is to distract and destroy. So then what position 242 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 1: then should Hakkin Jeffries and the House Democrats take now 243 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:06,760 Speaker 1: that they're going to be in the minority come the 244 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:12,360 Speaker 1: middle of this week. Well, Kim Jeffries, for all people 245 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 1: have said about him, oh he's not progressive enough, always 246 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:18,600 Speaker 1: too progressive, has shown himself in committee hearings to be 247 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:22,960 Speaker 1: a fucking boss right to know how to message and 248 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 1: know how to stick it to Republicans. So my thought, 249 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: my advice to Democrats as they get ready to take 250 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:36,480 Speaker 1: on the role of minority in the House, by a very, 251 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 1: very slim Let's just say, if there were a couple 252 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:43,640 Speaker 1: of accidents right, Democrats could take the House back. I'm 253 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:46,640 Speaker 1: just saying, I'm not wishing for anything to happen to anyone, 254 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 1: but I'm saying that's how thin the fucking margin is 255 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:55,200 Speaker 1: that Republicans have in the House right now, that Kim 256 00:16:55,360 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 1: Jeffries needs to be the communications leader and bull horn 257 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:07,159 Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party, what does that mean. It means 258 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:12,600 Speaker 1: that he needs to allow Republicans to implode. He needs 259 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:18,280 Speaker 1: to allow Republicans to show their hand to the American 260 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:21,400 Speaker 1: people and to show their ass which they can't help 261 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:26,160 Speaker 1: themselves but to do, and then in doing so, in 262 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:32,000 Speaker 1: letting Republicans have enough leash in order to hang themselves. 263 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:39,960 Speaker 1: That He then messages in a way that says, look, 264 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 1: all the Republicans said that they wanted was this gavel 265 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:46,119 Speaker 1: that they wanted power. What are they doing for you? 266 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:49,880 Speaker 1: What new bills and legislations in order to make your 267 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 1: lives easier in order to make society more equitable are 268 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 1: they putting forward? How does going after Hunter Biden's laptop 269 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:02,280 Speaker 1: actually how you now, which you, by the way, have 270 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:06,919 Speaker 1: lower prescription drugs because of the Biden administration and Democrats, 271 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:10,320 Speaker 1: how are they doing anything to make sure that you 272 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:12,920 Speaker 1: can put food on your table, gas in your car, 273 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:15,880 Speaker 1: and medicine in your medicine chest and a roof over 274 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:20,879 Speaker 1: your head all at the same time. Now they will say, oh, well, 275 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:23,120 Speaker 1: we're going to do an eye for an eye, an 276 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:27,359 Speaker 1: investigation for an investigation, But you see, investigating Donald Trump 277 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:30,920 Speaker 1: and the Republicans for their attempt to overthrow the will 278 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:36,679 Speaker 1: of the people to try and overthrow our election is 279 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:41,040 Speaker 1: about this safety and sanctity of our democracy and the 280 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:48,639 Speaker 1: health thereof So if we're not able to recognize who 281 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:53,040 Speaker 1: the actual threat is to our country, if we're not 282 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:56,040 Speaker 1: able to showcase that, then how are we able to 283 00:18:56,080 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 1: defend ourselves against them. That was the purpose of the 284 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:06,480 Speaker 1: January sixth Committee, is to say, hey, American people, our 285 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:10,679 Speaker 1: democracy is not safe. We have no rules on the 286 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 1: books that would have ever had us in a position 287 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:20,679 Speaker 1: where we knew what to do when the main insurrectionist, 288 00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:26,879 Speaker 1: the leader of the insurrection, was the sitting president. We 289 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:31,680 Speaker 1: have no blueprint for this because never in the two 290 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 1: hundred and forty semitey years of this country did we 291 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:38,880 Speaker 1: ever believe that a sitting president of these United States 292 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:47,200 Speaker 1: will try and overthrow the government. So while I appreciate 293 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:52,600 Speaker 1: the work and the energy that has gone into painting 294 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:55,920 Speaker 1: the picture to the American people of just how guilty 295 00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:58,920 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is and how he has ended up now 296 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:09,119 Speaker 1: with four feminal referrals from the January sixth Committee, the 297 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:12,720 Speaker 1: question remains if anything is going to be done about 298 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:17,879 Speaker 1: it right, because it is not enough that we have 299 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:21,960 Speaker 1: a report that showcases exactly who was in charge, exactly 300 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 1: who the architects were, exactly every single point of their plan. 301 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 1: And if this didn't work out, this is the pivot 302 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 1: we're going to make. And if this doesn't work out, 303 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:32,760 Speaker 1: then this is the pivot that we're gonna make this 304 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 1: was not an act of happenstance or emotion in the moment. 305 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:42,760 Speaker 1: What the January sixth Committee laid out for us at 306 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:45,159 Speaker 1: the end of last year was that this was a 307 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 1: poorly orchestrated but thought out strategy and plan put together 308 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:59,159 Speaker 1: at the behest of the former twice impeached President of 309 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:05,760 Speaker 1: the United States. So that investigation was about the health 310 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:08,040 Speaker 1: and well being of our nation and whether or not 311 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:16,359 Speaker 1: the coup has stopped, has been thwarted, And what we 312 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 1: know is that it hasn't. It's just been slowed down. 313 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 1: Each election is more consequential than the last. But I 314 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:31,560 Speaker 1: believe that this year, dear friends, is actually going to 315 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:38,280 Speaker 1: be a very wild political one. I think that if 316 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:44,280 Speaker 1: George Santos being sworn in is any indication for the 317 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:48,919 Speaker 1: circus that we are in for my God, go get 318 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:53,120 Speaker 1: your top hat and your lion tamers, because that's what 319 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:56,680 Speaker 1: we're going to be doing. But also, I'm going to 320 00:21:56,760 --> 00:22:00,240 Speaker 1: tell you, maybe it's because I've slept a lot, maybe 321 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:03,399 Speaker 1: it's because I've been working out and I feel very clear, 322 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:05,639 Speaker 1: but I'm going to tell you that I believe that 323 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is going to be indicted this year. Do 324 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:14,679 Speaker 1: I know who is going to take the lead on 325 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:18,400 Speaker 1: those indictments. No, but I can tell you that between 326 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:23,480 Speaker 1: the case that Jack Smith is looking into the special 327 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:25,960 Speaker 1: Council that was appointed by Merritt Garland, which by the way, 328 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:29,920 Speaker 1: we did not need but now have, Jack Smith is 329 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:33,120 Speaker 1: looking into two things. He is looking into the stolen 330 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:39,200 Speaker 1: documents from the White House. He is looking into the insurrection. Well. 331 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:44,200 Speaker 1: They have over a million documents that have been turned 332 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 1: over to them from the January sixth Committee. They have 333 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:50,840 Speaker 1: public hearings to review, They have one hundred and sixty 334 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:57,520 Speaker 1: five page introduction to the report. They have thousands of 335 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:06,720 Speaker 1: Republicans that have testified under oath. So if this Department 336 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:09,920 Speaker 1: of Justice decides to do nothing, it's not a failure 337 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 1: of the January six Committee. It will be a failure 338 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:19,199 Speaker 1: of government because the American public does not move forward, 339 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 1: does not begin a healing process until we examine the wound, 340 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,360 Speaker 1: which is what the January six Committee opened up. We 341 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:32,399 Speaker 1: clean it out, meaning that we clean out all the 342 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:37,159 Speaker 1: motherfuckers that were responsible for creating that wound in the 343 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 1: first place, and then we begin to patch it up. 344 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:47,399 Speaker 1: Once it's been cleaned out, the cleaning out part is 345 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 1: now handed over to the Department of Justice. But the 346 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:53,760 Speaker 1: Department of Justice is not the only place that we 347 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:57,920 Speaker 1: are looking at impossible dietments to come from. We're also 348 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 1: looking at Fanie Willis in Fallon County in Georgia, who 349 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:08,879 Speaker 1: has called a special grand jury in order to be 350 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:14,440 Speaker 1: able to get testimony of Lindsey Graham, of Raffnsburger and others. 351 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:18,000 Speaker 1: For those you know, eleven seven hundred and some odd votes, 352 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 1: you can find me though. Donald Trump said that in 353 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:28,600 Speaker 1: his own words caught on tape, at some point in time, 354 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,840 Speaker 1: the chickens do come home to roost. At some point 355 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 1: in time, the everest of evidence becomes too big not 356 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:52,680 Speaker 1: to look at. And what message, then, are you sending 357 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:56,760 Speaker 1: to the American public when you decide to turn your 358 00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 1: back on the crimes of the rich, white and the privileged, 359 00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:10,399 Speaker 1: but take everybody else to task. Those are some of 360 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 1: the decisions that this Department of Justice is going to 361 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:19,520 Speaker 1: be making this year, and I believe that it is 362 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:23,240 Speaker 1: going to be made sooner rather than later. There was 363 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 1: something that my friend Mary Trump, who I do her show, 364 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:32,359 Speaker 1: the Mary Trump Show every Tuesday at noon, and you 365 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 1: can catch it on YouTube and it'll be up today 366 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:38,800 Speaker 1: when you guys are listening to this show, will this 367 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:40,240 Speaker 1: show will go up in the morning, and then the 368 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:42,919 Speaker 1: Mary Trump Show will be live at noon and I 369 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 1: will be joining her. She said something when I interviewed 370 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:52,600 Speaker 1: her for The New Abnormal, which was there isn't going 371 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:55,960 Speaker 1: to be one significant blow that is going to bring 372 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:01,640 Speaker 1: down Donald Trump. It is going to be, in her words, quote, 373 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:07,480 Speaker 1: a death by a thousand lashes. I believe, and as 374 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:15,280 Speaker 1: our friend Glenn Kirshner has said that once the first 375 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 1: indictment comes out and the fear and the shock and 376 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:26,080 Speaker 1: the awe is taken away, I believe that there will 377 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:32,480 Speaker 1: be a flood of indictments that come forward. Now, if 378 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:37,800 Speaker 1: you watched Reverend Owl's Politics Nations special, which I believe 379 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:42,520 Speaker 1: aired a couple of times over the holiday break on MSNBC, 380 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:47,640 Speaker 1: Susan del Percio gave her prediction for twenty twenty three 381 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 1: and she said that at the end of twenty twenty three, 382 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:56,919 Speaker 1: Donald Trump would not be running for president. Now, Ali 383 00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:00,760 Speaker 1: Velshi and I said, well, what is that mean, you know, 384 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,400 Speaker 1: shake your crystal ball again. Does that mean he will 385 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,800 Speaker 1: be indicted? Does that mean he will be on trial. 386 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 1: She said, I'm not going to say because I don't know. 387 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:12,960 Speaker 1: But what I will tell you is I do not 388 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:16,359 Speaker 1: believe come the end of this year that Donald Trump 389 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:21,359 Speaker 1: will be running for president. Well right now, you know, 390 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:28,680 Speaker 1: folks are calling his campaign the title of an older 391 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:33,919 Speaker 1: Matthew McConaughey movie, Failure to Launch. Donald Trump announced that 392 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:37,200 Speaker 1: he was running for president, but he has done very little, 393 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,640 Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, nothing other than release NFTs, 394 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,960 Speaker 1: which his campaign didn't even do, just Donald Trump did, 395 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 1: which is money going into his pockets that his fan 396 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,760 Speaker 1: base is so readily able to wanting to open up 397 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:56,000 Speaker 1: their own wallets and purses in order to give to 398 00:27:56,160 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. But you know, grifts Gon grift. So we 399 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:03,880 Speaker 1: will see, folks. But I will tell you I do believe. 400 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:07,560 Speaker 1: And maybe it's because again I am rested and I 401 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 1: am ready for the beginning of this new year. But 402 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:14,960 Speaker 1: I think that we are going to see indictments. I 403 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,720 Speaker 1: think we are going to see a spectacle come out 404 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:19,840 Speaker 1: of the House and that it's going to come back 405 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:24,240 Speaker 1: to bite Republicans in their ass. I believe that Republicans 406 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 1: are going to receive the type of energy this year 407 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:37,120 Speaker 1: that they deserve. That is it for me today. Dear 408 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:41,560 Speaker 1: friends on wike APP, I am so grateful and happy 409 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:43,880 Speaker 1: to be back with all of you, back in this 410 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 1: chair and back on the MIC. I am excited for 411 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 1: what is going to be in front of us this year. 412 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 1: I am proud of what is behind us, and I 413 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 1: hope that you start this new year feeling refreshed, doubling 414 00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 1: down in your self care, doubling down in your boundaries, 415 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:06,600 Speaker 1: and looking forward to what we can do and achieved 416 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 1: together as always, dear friends, Power to the people and 417 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:14,560 Speaker 1: to all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke 418 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:15,000 Speaker 1: as fuck.