Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording not so live from
Speaker 1: our podstream studios in Times Square, Folks. As you know,
Speaker 1: I am on vacation this week, but I have a
Speaker 1: slew of shows that I am bringing to you, a
Speaker 1: slew of interviews with some of our favorites. I am
Speaker 1: really excited to introduce for today's show our friend MSNBC
Speaker 1: legal analysts Glenn Kushner, who is going to run us
Speaker 1: through all of I would say the latest and greatest,
Speaker 1: because that's what usually would rhyme, but all of the
Speaker 1: mayhem and misery of the legal fuckery that Trump and
Speaker 1: his associates are in right now. He's going to break
Speaker 1: down for us where things stand, whether or not we
Speaker 1: are going to see the indictment parade that we have
Speaker 1: been talking about for what seems like forever. Also joining
Speaker 1: I am so excited to welcome her back to woke
Speaker 1: FPP Daily, our friend Yasmin Vasuki, and you watch her.
Speaker 1: You see her on MSNBC. She anchors on the weekends
Speaker 1: and she is extraordinary, and we're going to talk to
Speaker 1: her about media's responsibility in this moment, of the global
Speaker 1: health pandemic, of the racial uprisings, and whether or not
Speaker 1: you know we're doing the job that people need us
Speaker 1: to do, which is to be truthful and transparent, as
Speaker 1: well as talking about a lot of the places that
Speaker 1: don't get a lot of coverage that she covers on
Speaker 1: her show, which is areas of the Middle East that
Speaker 1: we really do not give any attention to, any good
Speaker 1: attention anyway. And so with these two guests, I hope
Speaker 1: that you guys enjoy the conversation, send me comments and dms.
Speaker 1: Even though I'm on vacation, you know that I can't
Speaker 1: help myself but to respond to all of you. So
Speaker 1: I hope that you enjoy this show. Coming up next, friends,
Speaker 1: I am always so excited when we have the opportunity
Speaker 1: to be joined by our friend MSNBC legal analyst and
Speaker 1: the host of Justice Matters, Glenn Kirshner. Glenn, you wrote
Speaker 1: a piece this week for MSNBC dot Com entitled DJ
Speaker 1: Officials Thwarted Trump's coup. Next step a criminal investigation. Glenn,
Speaker 1: We've been talking about this at nauseum for the better
Speaker 1: part of a year, and what is interesting as we
Speaker 1: continue to wait for the parade of indictments. Is that
Speaker 1: the evidence that Donald Trump committed a conspiracy in order
Speaker 1: to overthrow the election is just mounting. We have Jeffrey
Speaker 1: Clark's letter, we have now testimony that happened from Jeffrey Rosen.
Speaker 1: I just what are we what is it that we need?
Speaker 1: What is it that you think that we need in
Speaker 1: order to begin these proceedings? Like how much more bite
Speaker 1: size pieces, huge bite sized pieces of evidence do we
Speaker 1: need in order to say now is the time? On
Speaker 1: the evidentiary front. We have all we need and then some.
Speaker 1: So you know the standard, the FBI standard for opening
Speaker 1: a criminal investigation. Fancy fifty cent word or phrase when
Speaker 1: a nickel word will do. That's what lawyers like to do,
Speaker 1: so they can charge money to define those complex words.
Speaker 1: Adequate predication and in the FBI manual, this is all
Speaker 1: that means that there is some information or allegation, some
Speaker 1: minimal evidence that conduct constituting a federal crime has been committed,
Speaker 1: may have been committed, or maybe in the process of
Speaker 1: being committed. It is as low and evidentiary standard as
Speaker 1: we have in our criminal practice. So we know that
Speaker 1: there's adequate predication. Times a thousand right there. Really, I
Speaker 1: would maintain, Danielle, there's evidence beyond a reasonable bout that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump committed a conspiracy to defraud the United States
Speaker 1: by unlawfully trying to overturn the election results, just as
Speaker 1: my friends Barb McQuaid, Joyce Fans, and Lawrence Tribe argued
Speaker 1: recently in their joint Washington Post op ed. So we're
Speaker 1: not waiting for the evidence to come in. What has
Speaker 1: to happen, and what I maintain is happening at the
Speaker 1: Department of Justice. And I can talk about why I
Speaker 1: have that bedrock belief in a minute. Is that it
Speaker 1: all has to be presented to the grand jury, and
Speaker 1: that is no small task, and then we have to
Speaker 1: craft and we prosecutors have to craft an indictment. They
Speaker 1: have to get the grand jury to vote on it,
Speaker 1: and then we're off to the races. So all of that,
Speaker 1: I think it have been accomplished long ago. With some
Speaker 1: of Donald Trump's crimes, it hasn't been accomplished yet. I
Speaker 1: think in part because the DOJ leadership team is still
Speaker 1: relatively new, right, I have complete confidence. I remain confident
Speaker 1: in this DOJ leadership team, even though I don't like
Speaker 1: some of the decisions on the institutional front that Merrick
Speaker 1: Garland has made. But Merrick Garland, Lisa Monico, Deputy Attorney General,
Speaker 1: Vanita Gupta, Kristen Clark, I have confidence, faith and trust
Speaker 1: in this leadership team. That's why I believe they are
Speaker 1: criminally investigating, given the very low bar required to open
Speaker 1: an investigation. But I think what frustrates the heck out
Speaker 1: of us is it has moved too slowly while Donald
Speaker 1: Trump trapeses around the country recruiting foot soldiers for insurrection.
Speaker 1: Two point oh public safety as at is at risk.
Speaker 1: So for God's sakes, drop an indictment on this man's
Speaker 1: head already. So let me remind folks. And this is
Speaker 1: according to the piece that you just referenced by Barbara McQuaid,
Speaker 1: Lawrence Tribe, and our friend Joyce White Vance. Here's a
Speaker 1: roadmap for the Justice Department to follow and investigating Trump.
Speaker 1: And this is in the Washington Post. And I want
Speaker 1: to remind folks because again I thought one of these
Speaker 1: things alone, Glenn was enough to move forward. So here's
Speaker 1: what we have. We have the call with Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: with Brad Raffen Raffensberger, the Georgia Secretary of State, find
Speaker 1: me eleven thy seven hundred and eighty votes. Then we
Speaker 1: have Trump's pressure on Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen as
Speaker 1: well as Mike Pence to advance the big lie. Then
Speaker 1: we have recently revealed the phone call between Trump and
Speaker 1: Rosen to say, just say the election was corrupt and
Speaker 1: then leave the rest to me and my Republican allies.
Speaker 1: Then you have Trump's own public statements along with Drudy
Speaker 1: Giuliani Moe Brooks to incite the mob on January sixth,
Speaker 1: And what they say in this piece is that none
Speaker 1: of these facts alone proves the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.
Speaker 1: But I mean, again, I'm not an attorney, but I
Speaker 1: completely disagree. How does the President of the United States
Speaker 1: calling the Secretary of State one of the one of
Speaker 1: the states being contested, Georgia, and say, find me the
Speaker 1: exact amount of votes that I need to win. How
Speaker 1: is that not beyond How is that not criminal? Beyond
Speaker 1: a reasonable doubt? I disagree with my learned colleagues. And
Speaker 1: that's a lot of brain power, Joyce, Barb and Lawrence,
Speaker 1: and it's a lot of experience, and most importantly, it's
Speaker 1: a lot of dedication to the rule of law. All
Speaker 1: I ever was. I was never a bureaucrat. I was
Speaker 1: never a muck any muck. I'm not accusing them of
Speaker 1: being those things. Mind you. All I did was proved
Speaker 1: cases in court for more than three decades. There's proof
Speaker 1: beyond a reasonable doubt that Donald Trump committed BOOKOO crimes.
Speaker 1: BOOKO is a legal term, including as you just precisely
Speaker 1: pointed out, there are Georgia's state election crimes that can
Speaker 1: be proved by that recorded phone call where Donald Trump
Speaker 1: said I want to steal the election and I need
Speaker 1: eleven thousand, seven hundred and eighty votes to do it.
Speaker 1: Find them for me. I couldn't disagree more with anybody
Speaker 1: who contends that we don't yet have evidence beyond a
Speaker 1: reasonable doubt. Yes we do. We also have an in
Speaker 1: Volume two of the Mullah Report for multiple counts of felony,
Speaker 1: obstruction of justice. We have it everywhere. We are awash
Speaker 1: in evidence of Donald Trump's crimes, and we need to
Speaker 1: move out. We need to begin to hold him accountable
Speaker 1: because the public trust and confidence is waning every day
Speaker 1: in every day, Glenn, Because you know when I just first,
Speaker 1: when we heard the call with Georgia State Secretary. I said, damn,
Speaker 1: this man is caught, right, then nothing happens. Then we
Speaker 1: hear yet another call with now Jeffrey Rosen. Just say,
Speaker 1: just directing him if that is not coercion when we're
Speaker 1: talking about right, um, coercion, Just say that the election
Speaker 1: was corrupt. Whether or not you can find anything, I'll
Speaker 1: handle the rest. Is that not like a direct order
Speaker 1: from a mob boss? Me and my body's got it.
Speaker 1: I just need you to do this one thing for me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you just blow open the bank vault door. You leave
Speaker 1: the rest to me. It's it's mob talk. It's it's
Speaker 1: transparent what he was saying, folks. I am so excited
Speaker 1: to welcome in the studio my first in studio guest,
Speaker 1: our friend returned Na Yasmin Vesugi and you know her
Speaker 1: as an MSNBC anchor on the weekends Saturday and Sunday
Speaker 1: three to five pm. Yasmen, what a crazy time to
Speaker 1: be on television. You know, how do you I want
Speaker 1: to start off because there's so many things that I
Speaker 1: want to talk to you about. But you know, we
Speaker 1: haven't seen each other in person since twenty since you know,
Speaker 1: the beginning of the pandemic. By the way, we're both vaccinated,
Speaker 1: and we're both vaccinated. What was it like to be
Speaker 1: on television at home trying to both parents be on
Speaker 1: air telling us about what was going on? Why you're
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what was going on? I don't
Speaker 1: think that we've ever heard from like actual media people, anchors,
Speaker 1: reporters about what it was, what it was like in
Speaker 1: the height for you, it was like it was so surreal.
Speaker 1: I mean on so many levels. First of all, the
Speaker 1: first time they brought a camera into my house. I
Speaker 1: have an apartment in New York City. You know, um,
Speaker 1: we have a three bedroom apartment and we were in
Speaker 1: you know, lockdown. I have a four and a two
Speaker 1: year old child, and so we needed as much space
Speaker 1: in my apartment as possible because we were going to
Speaker 1: be stuck inside together for months on end. We didn't
Speaker 1: even know how long. So I put a camera set
Speaker 1: up in my bedroom. Wow, that's how it started. Okay,
Speaker 1: So that wasn't great for my marriage literally, And if
Speaker 1: you remember, at the same time, I was still on
Speaker 1: that five AM show, So my alarm would go off
Speaker 1: for like three three in the morning. I would roll
Speaker 1: out of it. My poor husband was like asleep. He
Speaker 1: would like put a pillow over his head and um,
Speaker 1: and I would you know, he would like leave the
Speaker 1: room at five, you know, at four fifty five he
Speaker 1: would get up and leave before the show. He would like,
Speaker 1: go bake me coffee and he was like and you know,
Speaker 1: So that went on for three months like that. Um,
Speaker 1: oh my god, God bless him. Yeah. No, we we
Speaker 1: got through it, and and then you know, we were
Speaker 1: able to We ended up renting a house out in
Speaker 1: Long Island just for a little while because we need
Speaker 1: to like get away from it all. Yeah, we're able
Speaker 1: to move on a camera thing there and figure it
Speaker 1: all out, and it was out of the bedroom at
Speaker 1: that point. But it was like it's been a very
Speaker 1: intense and same period. I mean, like dealing with young
Speaker 1: children through this whole thing. Yeah, and the uncertainty surrounding that,
Speaker 1: and I think the saving grace before of course the
Speaker 1: delta variant and now possibly this new lambda thing obviously,
Speaker 1: which terrible news that children were kind of escaping you know,
Speaker 1: the worst of it, right, So that was like the
Speaker 1: saving grace of all of it. And you know, I've
Speaker 1: always been in the situation as a journalist because I've
Speaker 1: reported overseas for quite some time as well, where people
Speaker 1: were always wanting and you know, I was on the
Speaker 1: steps of the capital. People always wonder like when you're
Speaker 1: in the midst of it, do you see your own
Speaker 1: kind of fate? Like do you understand the fear and
Speaker 1: the kind of danger that you yourself are in? Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think like the same can be applied to
Speaker 1: the pandemic in which like when I was out in
Speaker 1: the field, like reporting in front of hospitals or you know,
Speaker 1: you know, we had like in front of a field
Speaker 1: hospital or whatever it is that I've been doing, or
Speaker 1: you know, if I'm in the chair anchoring, you know,
Speaker 1: you're always seeing it like as a job, right. The
Speaker 1: difference is is that you're then kind of asking the
Speaker 1: questions and trying to get the answers that you yourself need, right,
Speaker 1: and you're understanding that the world also needs too, And
Speaker 1: so suddenly it's very personal. So I'm not just like interviewing,
Speaker 1: you know, send her coons about Afghanistan as we watch
Speaker 1: yet another city be taken over, and you understand like
Speaker 1: all these people that sort of were allies of you know,
Speaker 1: American troops and soldiers for so long are being literally
Speaker 1: killed every day by the Taliban, and you're watching it
Speaker 1: from Afar and asking questions on behalf of them. Instead,
Speaker 1: you're asking questions on behalf of yourself and you and
Speaker 1: the safety of your own family. And they're while they're
Speaker 1: too equally important distinctions, it's like so much more personal, right,
Speaker 1: And so Kvida Btel is on the air with me,
Speaker 1: and I'm saying, to listen, how is this affecting children now?
Speaker 1: How is the delta variant affecting Like? What do I
Speaker 1: need to do as a parent parent? Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: know that I'm speaking for every parent out there. I
Speaker 1: know that I'm speaking for every parent when I say
Speaker 1: what do I do? Do Do I send my kids back
Speaker 1: to school? Do I put masks on them? You know?
Speaker 1: What are the symptoms? What are we looking for? And
Speaker 1: so I think all of it has been It has
Speaker 1: stretched me as a journalist personally. It's made me better,
Speaker 1: It's made me more present because the fact that I
Speaker 1: understand kind of I mean, every our work is always important,
Speaker 1: I hope, and I always understand how important it is
Speaker 1: for us to ask the right questions and get the
Speaker 1: right answers. But it is so much more personal and
Speaker 1: is like, I mean, the number of lives that have
Speaker 1: been lost during this pandemic, it is I mean, it's
Speaker 1: unbelievable to think about every single day and the people
Speaker 1: that continue to die, and how lives have completely chan,
Speaker 1: families have completely changed, the makeup of families have completely changed.
Speaker 1: We are in such a different time now, even than
Speaker 1: we were like in twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen when
Speaker 1: we were screaming from the rooftops as things were going
Speaker 1: down and we were in the midst of the Russian
Speaker 1: investigation and the It's like we were waiting for this
Speaker 1: time to see Like I felt like we were hanging
Speaker 1: on for hope right that we could that Trump was
Speaker 1: going to be our biggest problem. I feel like in
Speaker 1: in this country was you know, we can solve this
Speaker 1: wheel vote, We'll get him out of office. And then
Speaker 1: it seems to me, I feel like we were in
Speaker 1: a worse position than we were a year ago, folks.
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