WEBVTT - Chickens Will Come Home to Roost 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:14.800 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to okay f Daily with 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:19.040 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:24.400 On this new year, folks, Happy new Year to each 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:27.400 and every single one of you, and thank you so 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:30.680 much for all of the well wishes and tweets and 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:34.120 dms over the holiday season. I hope that you all 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:38.640 got as much rest and relaxation that you have set 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:42.720 your intentions for the new year. Understand that, look, time 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:46.400 is a construct and we can have a fresh start 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:48.320 any day of the week, any day of the year. 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:51.960 But sometimes it is good to follow the crowd and 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:55.800 go on and say, you know what, in this new year, 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:58.040 you're going to set goals, You're going to set intentions. 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:00.760 You're going to let go of what happened in twenty 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:03.920 twenty two and be able to kind of look forward 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:08.480 to this new fresh start this chapter, and folks, that 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:12.240 is exactly what I am doing. Instead of starting with 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.679 resolutions on all these things that we resolved to do. 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:20.160 I actually watched a really interesting TikTok and it was 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:24.920 of this white guy herbalist who was talking about the 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:28.920 fact that the reason why most people fail at their 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:32.000 resolutions by the time that they reach February, is that 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:35.600 we need to actually be following the cycle of the 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:39.319 environment and our seasons. If you live in an area 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:43.360 that has seasons, rather than just the start of a 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:47.040 fresh calendar, that winter should be a time when you 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:52.000 go inward, when you are deeply reflective and meditative and 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:58.760 prayerful and kind of planting those seeds right, storing your 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:03.880 energy and making preparations, nesting in your space. And then 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:07.919 as the season changes, right as it begins to get warmer, 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:11.080 as we see, you know, the grass start to sprout 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:14.560 back up and turn green and the budding on the trees, 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.959 that then that is when you take on new activities 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.720 and new tasks, but that you use this winter time 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:24.520 as a time of reflection, as a time of rest 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:29.280 and restoration, so that the spring then brings for you renewal. 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.200 And so that is how I'm kind of moving into 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.080 this year, this new year of twenty twenty three. I 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:40.160 will tell you, as I stated on my last podcast 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:45.240 for the year, that twenty twenty two provided personally and 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:49.480 professionally a lot of ups, some downs, but a lot 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:53.799 of exhaustion. Frankly, and one of the things that I 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:57.200 am setting an intention for for the new year is 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:01.040 that I am going to one once again as I 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.040 did back in twenty twenty and then in twenty twenty 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.080 one and fell off of it last year as the 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:08.960 world seemed to be churning back. Is that I fell 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:12.919 for the ropodope of capitalism and grind culture once again. 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:18.960 I found myself working really long hours and found myself 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:22.920 once again falling back into bad habit and trying to 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.640 keep pace. And the thing is is that I'm no 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.200 longer going to try and keep pace. I am going 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:31.640 to listen to my body. I'm going to keep pace 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:34.760 with what it needs and not what the world needs 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:38.200 of me, and assume that those things will align as 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:41.400 they will. That is my way of setting an intention 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:45.400 for this new year. I'm super excited about the shows 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:49.400 about the content, Folks. If you are not following me 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:51.720 with the other podcasts that I do, I'm going to 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:55.800 be doing more cross promotional talk about them. I have 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:59.480 Democracy Ish, which comes out every Thursday morning with my 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:03.560 friend Wahat Ali over at The Daily Beast. I also 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:07.120 am the co host of The New Abnormal, which is 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:10.480 a podcast with The Daily Beast with my friend Andy Levy. 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:15.480 And so you can get multiple days of me in 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.920 these different contexts with different folks, in different conversations, and 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:22.280 so I encourage you to check those out as well 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:26.680 as woke f and we will have new announcements coming 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:29.760 later in the first quarter of the new year. And 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.280 so I'm excited about all the things to come. But 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:34.560 what I will not do, and what I encourage all 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.479 of you not to do, is not to fall for 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:41.240 the rope adope of capitalism and grind culture and bullshit 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:43.880 and feeling like you have to keep up with the joneses, 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:47.320 keep up with your neighbors, keep pace with the algorithms, 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.720 Listen to your body, listen to yourself, listen to your heart, 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:53.520 believe in your intuition, and move at a pace that 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:57.200 makes sense for you and makes you happy, because at 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.520 the end of the day, that is what matters. All Right, 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:05.560 let's jump into how the year ended and then look ahead, 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:10.680 shall we. So the end of twenty twenty two brought 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:15.520 some hot, wild shit, right. We saw the January sixth 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:21.320 Committee release their final report. We saw them provide four 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:26.120 criminal referrals for Donald Trump, John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani, and others. 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:30.919 We got bombshell reporting with regard to the fact that 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:35.000 Donald Trump probably still has us stolen documents from the 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:38.520 White House stashed not justin Mara Lago, but in other places. 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:42.040 Donald Trump's tax returns over the last six years has 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:45.359 been released, which brings into question what we've all wondered, 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:49.080 which is how wealthy really is Donald Trump and where 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.320 does his money rely. Well, we know that some of 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.880 it from twenty fifteen to twenty seventeen, you know those 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.039 years when he was president of the United States. He 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.880 was elected in twenty sixteen, didn't want to release his 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.400 tax returns, and then in twenty seventeen, you know he 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:04.680 was president, he was holding some money in China, that 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:08.160 he has given some loans, questionable loans to his children, 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:13.520 and that he'd made zero goose egg charitable donations in 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:16.719 twenty twenty when he claims to be the most charitable 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:20.960 man there. There is also Donald Trump didn't really pay 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.479 taxes for two years or the four years of his 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:26.560 presidency either. And now I just want to remind folks 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:30.200 that as this information comes to light, that there is 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:33.440 no law that has been on the books that requires 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.160 a candidate for the president or a sitting president to 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:39.880 release their tax returns. It has been a political norm 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:44.080 for the last you know, forty four presidents before Donald 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:48.080 Trump became president when he decided to buck political norms 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.400 and say fuck you because I don't want you to 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.080 know where my money is. Because we know that Donald 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:56.000 Trump is shady. We know that his businesses are shady. 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:57.880 Oh that's the other thing that happened at the end 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:01.000 of twenty twenty two, which is that that organization was 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:05.520 found guilty on seventeen different charges and accounts, including fraud. 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:09.960 So we know that they ain't shit, and you know, 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:14.760 we're just waiting now on the multiple indictments to come 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:17.480 reigning down now, folks, at the end of twenty twenty two, 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:21.080 I said, look, I don't know, I don't know if 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:24.640 there is still an appetite frankly with the American people 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:29.280 for Donald Trump to be brought to justice. What the 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:32.840 Republicans are going to do when they decide whoever is 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.800 going to be the new quote unquote speaker, as I 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:39.920 want to say, puppet of the Maga Republican right which 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:43.360 is now in control of the House, is they're going 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.520 to try and distract the American people with their circus 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:50.200 of bullshit committees and investigations and trying to bring down 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.560 the Biden administration for no other reason than the Biden 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:57.480 administration is a democratic administration that is actually trying to, 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:02.440 you know, stop the belief that was caused by Donald 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:05.360 Trump and the Republicans in this country in terms of 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:10.280 our economic recovery with covid, our ability to build more 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:15.240 equitable systems, you know, relieve people who are suffering under 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:20.320 catastrophic student loan debt, create a patchwork of protections for 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.640 people with uteruses. Now that Roe v. Wade is gone, 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:28.080 we saw infrastructure bills passed, We saw gun legislation passed. 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:31.000 We saw a lot of good things happen at the 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:35.960 end of this year. But what we also saw is 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:42.760 that the American people have consistently been underestimated, not only 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:47.520 by the media but by the Republican Party in general. 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:52.319 They put up candidates for the midterm elections like herschel Walker, 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:57.440 like memot Oz, and others who were caricatures at best, 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:02.160 but certainly not fit to serve. And now right now 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:06.720 we're watching another saga playout, which is that of George Santos. 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:11.960 The New York Long Island Republican who was elected and 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:16.120 he is nothing other than a Charlatan fraud grifter. And 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:20.800 it's now under investigation by the Nassau County District Attorney's 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:24.920 office as well as you know, the fetes, because they're 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:27.959 wondering where he got his donations from, whether or not, 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:32.320 aside from lying about his entire background, his entire resume, 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:36.080 did he lie in terms of the financial contributions that 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:38.800 were coming into his account. One of the things that 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.160 I got to say, folks, as I you know, I 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:45.160 was on Long Island back home for a lot of 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:50.160 the break and what was crazy is, first of all, 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:52.720 it's walt to wall coverage on Long Island on the 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:56.720 local stations as well as it was being covered by 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:00.640 cable news because the story is just so crazy. But 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:04.960 how does a George Santos come to be? He's a 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:09.840 product of Trump is Um and Donald Trump. Right, the 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:16.280 Republican Party decided that values and ethics no longer mattered, right, 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:20.040 that winning and winning above all else's what is important. 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:23.920 It's why Kevin McCarthy right now has said absolutely nothing 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:28.200 about how bad George Santos is making the Republican Party look. 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:30.959 Because why because Santos said that he's going to vote 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:34.960 for McCarthy. Now, I'm confused about why McCarthy would believe 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.240 any fucking thing that came out of that man's mouth. 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:39.400 But you know, then again, Kevin McCarthy also thinks that 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.719 he's powerful, right. He also thinks that he's going to 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.200 do a great job as speaker. No, sir, you are 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:49.480 going to be an indentured servant of the Magyar right right, 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:53.120 the quote unquote Freedom Caucus that is now has control 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:57.720 over the House. He has made so many concessions that 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:02.240 you know, he makes doormats look good. Do you know 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:10.960 what I'm saying? Like, Kevin McCarthy is exactly the perfect 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:15.600 example of what the Republican Party has turned into. They 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:19.120 will capitulate and bow their head and kiss the ring 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:24.120 of whomever so long as they have some semblance of power. Now, 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:28.360 Kevin McCarthy is going to have zero power as Speaker 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.720 of the House. He is going to be owned by 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:35.320 the Marjorie Taylor Greens, the Matt Gates's, the Paul Goes 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.360 to all of these people. He is going to be 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:42.280 owned by because he's made all of these concessions, putting 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:46.920 people on committees, giving them chairmanships, giving them the right 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:51.560 to discount the speaker with only five votes, then he 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:53.720 said that he would bring that down to one vote. 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:58.000 One person could say, I want to take on the speaker, 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:02.480 and Kevin McCarthy said, okay, boss, what do you need? Boss? 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:09.119 So he is indicative and embodies exactly what the Republican 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:12.440 Party has done under the thumb of Donald Trump. And 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:15.600 Trump is a they've let go of their values, They've 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:19.679 let go of their center, they've let go of any 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:23.839 spine and backbone that they might have had, and they 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:29.960 bow to power. So how does a George Santos come 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:33.800 to be simple? You allowed Donald Trump. And what I've 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.840 been saying on this show and every other show for 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:40.240 as long as I can remember since Donald Trump came 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:44.080 down that escalator, is that if you allow this to slide, 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:49.120 you allow this man to remake one of the two 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:52.640 major political parties to become president of the United States, 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:59.240 what comes after him will be worse. And so you look, now, 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:04.320 carry she won't give up right her quest to become governor. 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:06.640 It doesn't matter how many legal bills it costs her, 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.839 doesn't matter how fucking stupid and pathetic she looks she's 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.400 gonna go after this and still continue to talk about it, 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:15.240 just like Donald Trump three years later, is still talking 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:18.520 about how the twenty twenty election was stolen from him. Oh, 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:21.200 by the way, we all remember that Donald Trump has 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.880 announced that he is running for president in twenty twenty four. 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:28.600 But have we seen nara campaign rally? Right? Have we 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:33.160 seen anything that would give Republicans some impression that he 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:42.400 is serious about doing anything then covering his own ass? No? Right, 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.880 So when you look at the state of the House 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:48.920 and you see that what has been announced so far 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.440 this week, as we are in our first week of 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:57.920 the new year, that Joe Biden is gonna keep pressing forward, 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:02.600 Dark Brandon gonna keep doing what he does regardless of 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:08.080 Kevin McCarthy or whomever, Scalasie or whomever having control of 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:11.400 the gavel in the House. He is holding a bipartisan 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:16.040 event with Mitch McConnell. Now here's the thing. You should 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:22.200 not trust Mitch McConnell with anything. I wouldn't trust him 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:24.280 as far as I can throw him, and I have 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:30.080 a good arm in back. Mitch McConnell only does things 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:35.800 that are politically expedient for Mitch McConnell. So when we 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:40.920 see that one of the first engagements that Biden is 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.720 going to have is going to be at a bipartisan 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:48.000 event with Mitch McConnell, we have to ask ourselves what 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.440 is Mitch McConnell going to get out of this, aside 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:54.480 from giving the middle finger to Kevin McCarthy into House Republicans. 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:58.960 The same thing with the Republican governor of Ohio who's 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.280 also going to be do an event with Joe Biden. 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:07.040 So essentially, what some Republicans are signaling is that they 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:11.440 are at least going to pretend at this time to 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.160 be the adults in the room and work with the 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:17.080 current sitting president to get some things done, whether it 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:20.400 is just for their own states or for actually for 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:25.520 the country. Kevin McCarthy or whomever's in the House, be damned. 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:29.560 What we know is that Republicans are hell bent on 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:36.440 turning the next two years into Benghazi on Crack, which 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:42.520 is wasting taxpayer dollars, pulling together bullshit hearings all to 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:48.240 do what nothing. And the goal I believe that Republicans 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:57.720 have is to distract and destroy. So then what position 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:03.360 then should Hakkin Jeffries and the House Democrats take now 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:06.760 that they're going to be in the minority come the 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:12.360 middle of this week. Well, Kim Jeffries, for all people 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:14.800 have said about him, oh he's not progressive enough, always 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:18.600 too progressive, has shown himself in committee hearings to be 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:22.960 a fucking boss right to know how to message and 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:26.800 know how to stick it to Republicans. So my thought, 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:31.560 my advice to Democrats as they get ready to take 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:36.480 on the role of minority in the House, by a very, 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:39.160 very slim Let's just say, if there were a couple 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:43.640 of accidents right, Democrats could take the House back. I'm 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:46.640 just saying, I'm not wishing for anything to happen to anyone, 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.880 but I'm saying that's how thin the fucking margin is 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:55.200 that Republicans have in the House right now, that Kim 0:16:55.360 --> 0:17:02.480 Jeffries needs to be the communications leader and bull horn 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:07.159 of the Democratic Party, what does that mean. It means 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:12.600 that he needs to allow Republicans to implode. He needs 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:18.280 to allow Republicans to show their hand to the American 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:21.400 people and to show their ass which they can't help 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:26.160 themselves but to do, and then in doing so, in 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:32.000 letting Republicans have enough leash in order to hang themselves. 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:39.960 That He then messages in a way that says, look, 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:44.040 all the Republicans said that they wanted was this gavel 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.119 that they wanted power. What are they doing for you? 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:49.880 What new bills and legislations in order to make your 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:53.600 lives easier in order to make society more equitable are 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:58.520 they putting forward? How does going after Hunter Biden's laptop 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:02.280 actually how you now, which you, by the way, have 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:06.919 lower prescription drugs because of the Biden administration and Democrats, 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:10.320 how are they doing anything to make sure that you 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:12.920 can put food on your table, gas in your car, 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:15.880 and medicine in your medicine chest and a roof over 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:20.879 your head all at the same time. Now they will say, oh, well, 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:23.120 we're going to do an eye for an eye, an 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:27.359 investigation for an investigation, But you see, investigating Donald Trump 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:30.920 and the Republicans for their attempt to overthrow the will 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:36.679 of the people to try and overthrow our election is 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:41.040 about this safety and sanctity of our democracy and the 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:48.639 health thereof So if we're not able to recognize who 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:53.040 the actual threat is to our country, if we're not 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:56.040 able to showcase that, then how are we able to 0:18:56.080 --> 0:19:00.320 defend ourselves against them. That was the purpose of the 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:06.480 January sixth Committee, is to say, hey, American people, our 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:10.679 democracy is not safe. We have no rules on the 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:14.520 books that would have ever had us in a position 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:20.679 where we knew what to do when the main insurrectionist, 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:26.879 the leader of the insurrection, was the sitting president. We 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:31.680 have no blueprint for this because never in the two 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:34.560 hundred and forty semitey years of this country did we 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:38.880 ever believe that a sitting president of these United States 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:47.200 will try and overthrow the government. So while I appreciate 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:52.600 the work and the energy that has gone into painting 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:55.920 the picture to the American people of just how guilty 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:58.920 Donald Trump is and how he has ended up now 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:09.119 with four feminal referrals from the January sixth Committee, the 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:12.720 question remains if anything is going to be done about 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:17.879 it right, because it is not enough that we have 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:21.960 a report that showcases exactly who was in charge, exactly 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:26.520 who the architects were, exactly every single point of their plan. 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:29.080 And if this didn't work out, this is the pivot 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:30.840 we're going to make. And if this doesn't work out, 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:32.760 then this is the pivot that we're gonna make this 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:39.080 was not an act of happenstance or emotion in the moment. 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:42.760 What the January sixth Committee laid out for us at 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:45.159 the end of last year was that this was a 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:53.800 poorly orchestrated but thought out strategy and plan put together 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:59.159 at the behest of the former twice impeached President of 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:05.760 the United States. So that investigation was about the health 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:08.040 and well being of our nation and whether or not 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:16.359 the coup has stopped, has been thwarted, And what we 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:19.520 know is that it hasn't. It's just been slowed down. 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:27.040 Each election is more consequential than the last. But I 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:31.560 believe that this year, dear friends, is actually going to 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:38.280 be a very wild political one. I think that if 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:44.280 George Santos being sworn in is any indication for the 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:48.919 circus that we are in for my God, go get 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:53.120 your top hat and your lion tamers, because that's what 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:56.680 we're going to be doing. But also, I'm going to 0:21:56.760 --> 0:22:00.240 tell you, maybe it's because I've slept a lot, maybe 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:03.399 it's because I've been working out and I feel very clear, 0:22:03.960 --> 0:22:05.639 but I'm going to tell you that I believe that 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:11.080 Donald Trump is going to be indicted this year. Do 0:22:11.440 --> 0:22:14.679 I know who is going to take the lead on 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:18.400 those indictments. No, but I can tell you that between 0:22:20.440 --> 0:22:23.480 the case that Jack Smith is looking into the special 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:25.960 Council that was appointed by Merritt Garland, which by the way, 0:22:25.960 --> 0:22:29.920 we did not need but now have, Jack Smith is 0:22:29.960 --> 0:22:33.120 looking into two things. He is looking into the stolen 0:22:33.160 --> 0:22:39.200 documents from the White House. He is looking into the insurrection. Well. 0:22:41.119 --> 0:22:44.200 They have over a million documents that have been turned 0:22:44.200 --> 0:22:47.720 over to them from the January sixth Committee. They have 0:22:47.840 --> 0:22:50.840 public hearings to review, They have one hundred and sixty 0:22:50.840 --> 0:22:57.520 five page introduction to the report. They have thousands of 0:22:57.600 --> 0:23:06.720 Republicans that have testified under oath. So if this Department 0:23:06.720 --> 0:23:09.920 of Justice decides to do nothing, it's not a failure 0:23:09.920 --> 0:23:12.760 of the January six Committee. It will be a failure 0:23:12.840 --> 0:23:19.199 of government because the American public does not move forward, 0:23:20.000 --> 0:23:25.840 does not begin a healing process until we examine the wound, 0:23:26.000 --> 0:23:29.360 which is what the January six Committee opened up. We 0:23:29.560 --> 0:23:32.399 clean it out, meaning that we clean out all the 0:23:32.440 --> 0:23:37.159 motherfuckers that were responsible for creating that wound in the 0:23:37.200 --> 0:23:41.280 first place, and then we begin to patch it up. 0:23:42.600 --> 0:23:47.399 Once it's been cleaned out, the cleaning out part is 0:23:47.440 --> 0:23:50.000 now handed over to the Department of Justice. But the 0:23:50.080 --> 0:23:53.760 Department of Justice is not the only place that we 0:23:53.840 --> 0:23:57.920 are looking at impossible dietments to come from. We're also 0:23:57.960 --> 0:24:03.280 looking at Fanie Willis in Fallon County in Georgia, who 0:24:03.920 --> 0:24:08.879 has called a special grand jury in order to be 0:24:08.920 --> 0:24:14.440 able to get testimony of Lindsey Graham, of Raffnsburger and others. 0:24:14.560 --> 0:24:18.000 For those you know, eleven seven hundred and some odd votes, 0:24:18.040 --> 0:24:22.040 you can find me though. Donald Trump said that in 0:24:22.119 --> 0:24:28.600 his own words caught on tape, at some point in time, 0:24:30.960 --> 0:24:34.840 the chickens do come home to roost. At some point 0:24:34.960 --> 0:24:46.600 in time, the everest of evidence becomes too big not 0:24:46.680 --> 0:24:52.680 to look at. And what message, then, are you sending 0:24:52.720 --> 0:24:56.760 to the American public when you decide to turn your 0:24:56.760 --> 0:25:03.280 back on the crimes of the rich, white and the privileged, 0:25:05.359 --> 0:25:10.399 but take everybody else to task. Those are some of 0:25:10.400 --> 0:25:14.320 the decisions that this Department of Justice is going to 0:25:14.359 --> 0:25:19.520 be making this year, and I believe that it is 0:25:19.560 --> 0:25:23.240 going to be made sooner rather than later. There was 0:25:23.280 --> 0:25:28.240 something that my friend Mary Trump, who I do her show, 0:25:28.720 --> 0:25:32.359 the Mary Trump Show every Tuesday at noon, and you 0:25:32.359 --> 0:25:36.000 can catch it on YouTube and it'll be up today 0:25:36.080 --> 0:25:38.800 when you guys are listening to this show, will this 0:25:38.840 --> 0:25:40.240 show will go up in the morning, and then the 0:25:40.280 --> 0:25:42.919 Mary Trump Show will be live at noon and I 0:25:42.920 --> 0:25:47.040 will be joining her. She said something when I interviewed 0:25:47.080 --> 0:25:52.600 her for The New Abnormal, which was there isn't going 0:25:52.680 --> 0:25:55.960 to be one significant blow that is going to bring 0:25:56.000 --> 0:26:01.640 down Donald Trump. It is going to be, in her words, quote, 0:26:01.680 --> 0:26:07.480 a death by a thousand lashes. I believe, and as 0:26:07.600 --> 0:26:15.280 our friend Glenn Kirshner has said that once the first 0:26:15.480 --> 0:26:20.000 indictment comes out and the fear and the shock and 0:26:20.080 --> 0:26:26.080 the awe is taken away, I believe that there will 0:26:26.119 --> 0:26:32.480 be a flood of indictments that come forward. Now, if 0:26:32.480 --> 0:26:37.800 you watched Reverend Owl's Politics Nations special, which I believe 0:26:37.880 --> 0:26:42.520 aired a couple of times over the holiday break on MSNBC, 0:26:43.440 --> 0:26:47.640 Susan del Percio gave her prediction for twenty twenty three 0:26:48.440 --> 0:26:51.520 and she said that at the end of twenty twenty three, 0:26:52.040 --> 0:26:56.919 Donald Trump would not be running for president. Now, Ali 0:26:57.040 --> 0:27:00.760 Velshi and I said, well, what is that mean, you know, 0:27:00.840 --> 0:27:03.400 shake your crystal ball again. Does that mean he will 0:27:03.440 --> 0:27:05.800 be indicted? Does that mean he will be on trial. 0:27:06.920 --> 0:27:11.000 She said, I'm not going to say because I don't know. 0:27:11.320 --> 0:27:12.960 But what I will tell you is I do not 0:27:13.040 --> 0:27:16.359 believe come the end of this year that Donald Trump 0:27:16.359 --> 0:27:21.359 will be running for president. Well right now, you know, 0:27:21.520 --> 0:27:28.680 folks are calling his campaign the title of an older 0:27:29.000 --> 0:27:33.919 Matthew McConaughey movie, Failure to Launch. Donald Trump announced that 0:27:33.960 --> 0:27:37.200 he was running for president, but he has done very little, 0:27:38.720 --> 0:27:41.640 as a matter of fact, nothing other than release NFTs, 0:27:41.680 --> 0:27:44.960 which his campaign didn't even do, just Donald Trump did, 0:27:45.000 --> 0:27:48.480 which is money going into his pockets that his fan 0:27:48.600 --> 0:27:51.760 base is so readily able to wanting to open up 0:27:51.800 --> 0:27:56.000 their own wallets and purses in order to give to 0:27:56.160 --> 0:28:01.320 Donald Trump. But you know, grifts Gon grift. So we 0:28:01.359 --> 0:28:03.880 will see, folks. But I will tell you I do believe. 0:28:04.840 --> 0:28:07.560 And maybe it's because again I am rested and I 0:28:07.600 --> 0:28:11.280