WEBVTT - George Conway & Kim Hardy 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:04.160 Hi, I'm Molly John Fast and this is Fast Politics, 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:07.120 where we discussed the top political headlines with some of 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:12.240 today's best minds, and Pew research says Donald Trump's approval 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:16.280 ratings stands at thirty seven percent, down from forty percent 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:20.239 in the fall, and soon to be much lower. We 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:23.520 have a great show for you today. New York's twelfth 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:27.960 district congressional candidate George Conway stops by to talk about 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:31.880 Donald Trump's assault on the free press, his jailing of 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:38.280 my friend Don Lemon, and his many, many other impeachable offenses. 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:41.199 And then we'll talk to Kim Hardy, who is running 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:45.120 in North Carolina seventh, a swing district. But first, the 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:47.320 stories the media is missing. 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:50.520 Molly, We're seeing a huge drop of the Epstein files today. 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:52.960 One of the biggest things we're seeing is that Chislad 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:57.200 Maxwell shielded twenty nine different Trump associates and peers to 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:00.440 contain thirty two hundred documents that mentioned President Trump. What 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:00.960 are you seeing? 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:05.399 So the Trump administration has supposedly they're saying this is 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:09.920 the final release of Epstein documents. I bet you there's 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:10.600 going to be more. 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:13.000 It doesn't seem like this could be ninety nine percent 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:13.520 of them, right. 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:16.839 I think they've released something like three million, a little 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:20.760 more than three million pieces of evidence from the Epstein files. 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:23.600 I'm sure there's more. Pretty interesting, and there's a lot 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:28.280 of interesting stuff in here. One is that Howard Lutnik 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:31.680 in two thousand and five he said he would never 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:34.839 be in a room with that disgusting person. Ever, while 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:41.720 in twenty twelve he was planning a trip with his children, 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:46.040 teenagers and a seven year old to Little Saint James, 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:50.720 so that's pretty interesting. In twenty seventeen, Jeffrey Epstein donated 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:54.920 fifty thousand dollars to an organization in Lutnix's honor, So 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:58.880 that's certainly pretty recent. There's a lot of stuff in there. 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.880 There's a lot of stuff that's redacted, and this is 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.440 so Trump administration. They put it up and then they 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:08.240 took it down. So there's this spreadsheet of allegations against 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:12.200 Trump released by the DOJ, then taken down. I can't 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:15.440 imagine who called the DOJ to ask him about this. 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:20.560 There's Elon Musk, right, who wanted to visit the island. 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:25.280 This is pretty great. So New Year's Eve twenty thirteen, 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:27.760 Musk was in the calendar for New Year's a year 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:31.920 later too, So Elon had said he was refusing to 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:34.840 go to the island. But actually I guess Elon had 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:37.720 been uninvited. Elon is really mad, by the way, it's 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:43.440 Sky News for reporting that he is in the Epstein files. 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:48.079 But here's an email to Elon from I think it's 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:53.320 Jeff Gee vacation. I will send Helly for you. I 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:57.280 will be in British Virgin Island, Saint Barts over the holidays. 0:02:57.320 --> 0:02:59.920 Is there a good time to visit? Still having friendly 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:06.320 conversations In twenty thirteen talking about sleep, Elon Musk to 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:12.000 Jeffrey Ebstein. So that is something. So we're definitely seeing 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:15.080 that Elon is in fact in the Ebstein files. Now 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:19.000 the incredible bit that I think is fascinating here is 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:21.520 you'll remember that when Elon had a big fight with Trump, 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.960 he said Trump is in the Epstein files. Boom. So 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:29.200 it turns out that Elon is in the Epstein files, 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:34.160 so boom. Also, FYI, Jeff Epp says, how many people 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:38.600 will you be for the helicopter to island? And Elon says, 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:42.280 just to Lula and me, what day night will be 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:47.960 the wildest party on your island. That is something that 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:56.400 Elon Musk types to Jeffrey Ebstein as one does with 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:59.800 there is a lot, there's a lot here. 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:02.360 Yeah, it seems like this weekend is just going to 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:04.920 be this every hour on the hour, if not every 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:06.520 fifteen minutes on the fifteen minutes. 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:11.080 Trump's new pick for fed share also in the Epstein files. Okay, 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:16.000 so pretty good, pretty pretty good. He's in the Epstein files. 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:17.960 That is really something. 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.640 Sounds like the pedophile cable. 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:21.680 Brett Ratner too. 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:24.479 Of course, yes, well we do that actually. So in 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.880 other fun news, mister Trump says he wants to drive 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:29.520 housing prices up instead of lowering costs for people who 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:30.599 didn't work very hard. 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:34.360 So Donald Trump, during one of those Zeni cabinet meetings, 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.720 he says, We're not going to destroy the value of 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.440 their homes so that somebody who didn't work very hard 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:43.200 can buy a home. Okay, that is kind of the 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.720 opposite of affordability, isn't it. 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:48.159 I think that he said that's a democratic coax. 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:52.120 Actually, yeah, this is where we are. We got a 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:56.040 mad king who is running the country in a completely 0:04:56.200 --> 0:05:01.000 insane way. He is trying desperately to pivot to be 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:07.919 slightly more popular. I do not see him laser focused 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:12.480 on affordability, despite the musings of one susie. While I 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:15.120 just don't think he's laser focused on affordability. 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.800 It seems like he's focused on pretending he won a 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:21.320 different election if you ask me so. ICE has begun 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:24.920 buying mega warehouse detention centers across the US, according to 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.560 new reporting across a few different outlets. 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:32.040 Let's talk about that. ICE is buying up the is 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:39.280 mega warehouse detention centers across the United States. There are 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:44.240 nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over proximities to 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.640 houses and schools. By the way, you know what's happening here, right, 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:52.679 they're making jails. Okay, two warehouses one hundred and seventy 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.479 two million. A third in now Paso, Texas could be 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.200 among the largest jails of any kind in the country 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:02.440 as envisioned, with eight thousand, five hundred beds. So the 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:06.800 goal here is to make these twenty three warehouses into 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:10.800 detention centers. But they're not really detention centers, okay, you guys, 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.159 because they're not going to be set up in the 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:18.640 kind of humanitarian ways that you supposed to set up 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:22.159 a detention center. These are going to be like makeshift jails. 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.400 These are going to be like black sites to detain 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:28.040 thousands of immigrants arrested by federal agents in Minneapolis and 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.400 other cities. Some of these people are not in this 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:34.080 country legally. Some of these people are right. They killed 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:38.280 two American citizens over the last two weeks in Minnesota. 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:42.520 They've kidnapped numerous children anywhere from the ages of five, 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:45.600 probably younger two. We saw a two year old. What's 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:48.520 happening here is the never again stuff. This is the 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:52.720 stuff what happened in other countries we came in and 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:56.520 rescued people. Now it's happening here. And I think the 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:58.960 real question is where we rescue ourselves. 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:03.440 YEP. One of the things, though, to remember is this 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:06.200 is deeply, deeply unpopular. What are the greatest sizes of 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:08.320 this by I always think of an interview we did 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:10.600 a while ago where we were talking about where the 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.520 Democrats don't run candidates, and the one place that the 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.120 person could see it as like, Wyoming is very hard 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.520 to have in roads in because it's so deep red. 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:22.040 And yet the woke has come to Wyoming and they 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:25.520 booed Harriet Hageman out of her town hall for refusing 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:27.080 to denounce ice killings. 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:31.880 So, Harriet Hageman, I want to pull back and talk 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:36.920 about Harriet Hagerman. Harriet Hageman was the woman who ran. 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:41.080 She occupies the seat that used to be occupied by 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.240 Liz Cheney. She ran for that seat because she is 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:48.920 a craven opportunist. Right. She knew there's only one congressional 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:52.440 seat in Wyoming. It had been Liz Cheney's for a 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.680 long long time. Trump took Liz Cheney out because she 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:59.040 was not loyal to him. Harriet Hageman was happy to 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:02.680 move in there. She has the craziest as I've ever 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:03.880 seen in my life. 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:05.840 Makeup artist if I've ever seen one personally. 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.600 That is not relevant here to this, but let's just 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:11.640 go so that I am a student here at CC, 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.600 and I was here at your last town hall back 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:18.120 in August. You mentioned Lake and Riley, a male student said, 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:20.320 referring to the twenty two year old who was murdered 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:23.000 in twenty twenty four by a Venezuelan immigrant. They love 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:26.000 this poor woman. They have made her just like as 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:29.160 the one name they know. However, you did not mention 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:33.240 today either of the people who were killed in Minnesota recently? 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:37.720 Why is that the question? Elicited? In uproar from the crowd, 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:42.000 one older man shouted shot ten times in the back, 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:47.000 referring to the times that agent shot Alex pretty And 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:50.240 then she said, when I was speaking in August, I 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:53.080 was describing the Lake and Riley Act that we had 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:56.080 passed in the last year. Hageman responded, before the student 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:59.200 cut her off. That's not the question. Why haven't you 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:02.480 mentioned either of the people killed in Minnesota? He pressed, 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:05.920 and she couldn't answer. You know why she couldn't answer, 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:10.760 because this is not about justice. It's about giving Trump 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.240 as much power as possible, letting him get away with 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:15.640 any kind of weird, illegal shit he wants to do. 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:19.640 Is how we got here. This is autocracy. These Republican 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:28.960 congresspeople are handmaids of autocracy. George Conway is a candidate 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:33.000 in the Democratic primary in New York's twelfth congressional district. 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:40.480 George Conway, Hello, another truly insane day in Donald Trump's America. 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:46.000 I'm on Morning Joe this morning. Don Lemon has been 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:50.960 arrested last night in the lobby of his Beverly Hills 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:55.240 Hotel by federal agents, and now he has spent the 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:58.960 night in jail discuss. 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:06.160 Fucking outrageous, fucking illegal, and fucking dangerous. I mean, you know, 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:08.120 Mom might be using that line, but that's the only 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:10.920 way I cannot and describe it. And I don't even 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.840 know where to start. I mean, he was basically just 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:18.520 covering a protest and they try to ding him under 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.840 some law that says you can't interrupt church services. Let's 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:25.560 leave apart the question of the legality of that law. 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:27.280 I guess it makes sense. I mean, if you're really 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:31.120 truly disrupting and you're impringing on for somebody's First Amendment 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.320 rights to worship, I guess that's or you know, I 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:38.760 guess that's that's certainly protectable. But if you're a journalist 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:42.200 and you're there and you're simply observing something, whether it 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:46.400 be a disturbance or something else, you're clearly not you're 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.240 not engaging in that kind of disruption, and you're in 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:53.920 any event your actions are and should be protected by 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.920 the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:00.439 and I you know, it's it's just absolutely it's nothing 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:02.600 to do with that particular incident in the urch. It's 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:04.320 got to do with the fact that he's been annoying 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:09.040 the ship out of Ice for weeks. He was in Portland, 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.440 we saw him there, we saw him in Minneapolis. He's 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:14.480 been he's been an absolute brilliant you know he's been. 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:17.720 He's been. He's been out there shoe leather in the cold, 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:22.240 doing journalism, doing independent journalism, more of which we need. 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.960 And you know, his rights are our rights. I mean, 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:28.640 if if, if the government can shut him down, he 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:30.760 can shut anybody down, and we have to stick up 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.079 for him. And I think I think he's gonna I 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:35.040 don't know. I think he will prevail in court. But 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:38.520 that doesn't mean that, you know, it means, but it 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.600 doesn't mean that this doesn't hurt because because other people 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:43.880 might not have the wherewithal, might not have the volunteer 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:48.480 lawyers to to to to help in his circumstance. I mean, 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.240 this is so bad. The government couldn't even get a 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:54.320 US magistrate judge to sign the arrest warrant, which is 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.079 normally you just get the Act. But David and and 0:11:58.080 --> 0:11:59.960 and they'll sign the arrest warrant, and there are an 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.520 and the FBI is off to the races. And here 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:07.160 not only did the manistrate judge not issue the arrest 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.240 of warrant, they took it up to the US Court 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:11.320 of Appeals for the A Circuit, and the A Circus said, 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:15.560 what the fuck, No way, we're going to reverse the judge. 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.160 I want you to talk about the Eighth Circuit judge 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.080 who said what the fuck because he feels like a 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:21.560 real George Conway type. 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.000 You know, I don't, I don't do you ever know him. 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:27.480 I don't know him at all. I kind of saw 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:29.880 a little online that he's a pro. 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:33.000 First Yeah, yeah, you know, he's a rule of lock 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:35.920 on a guy. It strikes in the job by W, 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:37.720 by W by W. 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.679 Really, these are the real old style we believe in 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.400 individual rights conservatives who are on the bench. These are 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:46.760 the same people who did a lot remember in twenty 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.880 twenty and twenty to early twenty twenty one to stop 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:51.800 the bullshit that you know, when Trump was Shawn is 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.040 steel an election. I remember the guy Bibus on the 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:57.040 Third Circuit who was a Trump appointee and basically affirmed 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:59.959 that this, you know, the dismissal of Ludi Julianne is 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:03.960 bullshit cases like these judges aren't buying this. I mean 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.560 it's only the most recently appointed hacks that they have 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.560 really any chance with and leopart the Supreme Court because 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:10.760 the Supreme Court's like, well, h. 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:14.319 But they are you can tell they see which way 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.880 the wind is blowing up absolutely things. 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:20.840 You know, the court's on balance, particularly the lower federal 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:24.320 courts have been fantastic defending the rule of law. The 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:28.160 problem is they are not the solution. They are not 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:34.920 the solution that the framers intended to a criminal executive. 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.240 You know, the court says, and we've had this discussion 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.080 a bunch of different times, it's like the courts can 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.400 stop one thing at a time, or order one thing 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:44.880 stopped at a time, but they can't stop everything. And 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:49.280 not only that, to enforce the court orders actually requires 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:52.640 the cooperation of the Justice Department, which isn't going to 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:55.360 fully cooperate when push comes to shop. You know, the 0:13:55.400 --> 0:14:02.079 most important mechanism to fight a criminal executive is impeachment 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:05.880 and removal. And the other thing that actually can be 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:09.160 useful at least as a stopgap measure before you remove 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.439 the president is you know, it is actually the funding 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.360 mechanisms of the government, which we actually are seeing some 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:19.240 kind of interesting maneuvering in the Senate today. 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:21.960 I guess, yeah, well, I want to talk about the Senate, 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:23.760 but I first want to talk to you about mister 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:27.600 Todd Blanche, attorney to Donald J. Trump. I know you've 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:31.480 been busy running for Congress, but I spat. 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:32.840 With him, remember a few weeks ago. 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:35.400 Remind us now, I had. 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:37.320 A little spat with him, and I forget what it 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:39.120 was about, but he went out and attacked me, and 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:42.320 I cleaned his clock somehow. But he's just a ridiculous. 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:47.480 He's a ridiculous, shameless person who basically is he got to. 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:52.040 Be Deputy Attorney General because Donald was liked how he 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:53.240 was as a lawyer. 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:55.720 Well, because he was one of the few criminal defense 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:59.240 lawyers who represent Trump. And I don't know, I mean 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:01.960 this was a he represented Trump in the in the 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.720 case in which he was convicted on thirty four counts. Yeah, 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:10.240 I guess your reward, good job, good job, Todds. 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.200 So he gave it. He gave a presser today when 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:17.440 they released all of these Epstein files, which, now, by 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:22.280 the way, in an incredible bit of insanity, they released 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:25.200 all these Epstein files and then and a lot of them, 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:27.680 by the way, and I'm not defending anyone here, but 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:31.960 there are a lot of allegations in these Epstein files 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:34.680 that may or may not be true, right, Like every 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:39.440 allegation is in there. So the DOJ now has started 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:44.320 pulling them off the internet. So there's a spreadice last time. Yes, 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:49.480 there's a spreadsheet with Donald Trump a lot of pretty 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:54.840 serious allegations and then redacted names of people who said 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:57.400 he had committed the crimes. They were put up and 0:15:57.440 --> 0:15:59.320 then we saw them disappear in real time. 0:15:59.720 --> 0:15:59.920 Right. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.560 And the law that was written and it was passed 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:08.480 doesn't allow them to do that carriod full stop unless 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:10.840 there's an active investigation going on. I think you know 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:12.600 they're not investigating. 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:16.040 Donald Trump, certainly not. And what I thought was interesting 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:19.280 when Todd blanche was talking today, he said there are 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:23.240 no other men who are culpable in any way. 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:26.480 And and he did that after what looking at all 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:28.360 the documents, say, look at all three million invages of 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:29.160 the documents. 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:31.600 I'm sure he did not, but that was what he said, 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:34.920 he said, And if there were, then they would have 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:35.840 charged them already. 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:39.640 Correct, And the fact is that none of that keeps, 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:44.520 none of that allows them to to pull back these documents. 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:48.120 But of course, you know what happened. Somebody at the 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:50.600 White House started screaming about it, maybe some guy with 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.600 orange chair. It was a little a little weak in 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:58.000 the brain, maybe a little cooked, a little bit cooked 0:16:58.040 --> 0:16:58.680 up there, a. 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:01.520 Little cooked Donald Trumps. It seems as if the only 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:04.520 thing that could stop Donald Trump is an impeachment. You're 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.439 running for Congress. 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:10.359 It is not a question of politics anymore. It is 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:14.760 not a question of g how does impeachment Paul? In fact, 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.720 it should never be that. This is a solemn power 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:23.040 and obligation of the United States Congress to preserve constitutional 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:27.720 government by removing people who commit high crimes and misdemeanors. 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:31.280 And there is nobody in the history of this country 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:35.000 who has committed more high crimes and misdemeanors in such 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:38.760 a short time or at all, than Donald fucking Trump. 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:43.639 And by high crimes and misdemeanors, we mean actual statutory 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:47.640 crimes which he's been committing, like you know, bombing these 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:54.280 people out in the Caribbean. And I can't imagine that 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:57.680 some of the some of the money that's been floating around. 0:17:57.960 --> 0:17:59.800 You know, he's a criminal. We already knew that he's 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:02.919 a trump coin, but trump coin, I mean all of 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:06.919 this crypt But even apart from that, high crimes and 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:12.320 misdemeanors means just basically violating your growth of officing your 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:13.520 duties to the people. 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:13.840 Right. 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:18.840 It's like, let's say you're a trustee of a trust 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:22.119 right as a beneficiary, and you're required to you know, 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:26.680 manage the money, and you start spending it on yourself. Okay, 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:32.960 that's that's a violation of your legal obligations. And the 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:36.560 fact presidency is the ultimate trust in the United World. 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:41.120 It is it is. You know, if you violate that 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:44.480 trust and you operate the government for your own benefit 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:48.000 and not for the people's benefit, you don't execute the 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:51.280 laws faithfuble, You violate the laws because it's in your 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:54.480 interest personally to do so. Those are high crimes and 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:59.480 misdemeanor and just being generally incompetent. Maladministration of an extreme sort, 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:04.920 you know, maladministration of ice, which is absolutely appalling. What's 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:09.000 what he's doing, maladministration through doge everything, all of this 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:12.560 stuff is impeachable. Virtually everything he's doing this these days 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:16.960 is impeachable. And the problem, the thing that concerns me 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:20.440 other than you are we going to make it through 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:23.080 the next three years, is there's a lot of people 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:27.120 who don't get that that is supposed to be the remedy. 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:30.399 A lot of people think, you know, it's kind of 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:34.520 like you ever hear the term that psychologists use, learned helplessness. Yeah, 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:39.399 and this is to some extent the body politic, including 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:42.560 our electeds. And we're not just talking here. I mean 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:45.639 the Republicans are absolutely craven and cowardly and shameless, but 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:48.719 even some Democrats are like, well, we can't really do 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:51.639 anything about Trump for three years. We just have to 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:54.600 big grint it. We have to just bear it, and 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:56.280 you know, we have to make do with what we 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:58.960 can do and try to try to work on other 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:02.159 issues and de size Trump for every all sorts of 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:07.639 other issues. Like to it's a huge mistake. It's wrong 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:10.800 as a legal matter, it's wrong as a moral matter. 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:14.680 It's wrong as a political matter because he's like, you're 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:19.359 creating the self fulfilling, self defeating prophecy. And it's also 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:23.680 wrong because of the things, the things that affect people's lives, 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:28.159 negatively higher cost because of illegal tariffs. You know, I 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:30.760 look out the window from my apartment in West Chelsea 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:33.520 and I see the Gateway construction project, which is the 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:36.879 new Amtrak tunnel that Trump is cutting off funds for 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:40.760 because he wants to punish New York. That's an example. 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:45.040 Jobs are all our transportation system is on the line. 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:48.600 But a king, right, he's not a king. 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:51.280 He's not a king, but he's but he's he's an 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:55.480 elected official. His oath of offices to enforce the laws 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:59.320 and and and bide by the Constitution, and his you know, 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:01.800 to douce so own the best interests of the nation. 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:04.600 And he can't he can't do that. All he cares 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:08.440 about is himself and his seven forty seventh in his ballroom, 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:14.040 and and the Millennia movie showing at the Trump kennedyly 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:17.840 named Trump Kennedy Center, where he's putting these marble armrests 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:20.760 and so on and so forth. I mean, it's all 0:21:21.000 --> 0:21:23.080 fucking bullshit, and he seeks to go. 0:21:23.760 --> 0:21:29.800 They took four journalists, all of whom are black. Oh, surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise, 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:36.240 all of whom are independents. So they don't have big organizations. 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:37.480 They don't have right exactly. 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:40.399 Yeah, I do think like this is like Kimmel, This 0:21:40.520 --> 0:21:43.120 is like taking kim off there. It is a moment 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:46.919 where you ask yourself, like, how do we go on 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:47.280 like this? 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:49.720 Yeah, no, it's it's and it's worse though, but it's 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:53.960 I mean with Kimmel, they were basically intimidating somebody to 0:21:54.160 --> 0:21:57.439 then in their private business to screw Kimmel. This is 0:21:57.480 --> 0:22:01.840 physically arresting people. This is cashappo type taxings. This is insane. 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:04.400 I don't think it will stand, but I think it's 0:22:04.520 --> 0:22:10.480 really really important for people to understand how important those 0:22:10.640 --> 0:22:15.120 individual journalists' rights are to our rights. Yeah, because their 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:18.920 rights are our rights. Their right to inform us affects 0:22:18.960 --> 0:22:21.960 our right to be informed. It's all one and the same. 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:25.040 And ultimately, if they don't have the right to inform 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:28.159 other people, then neither do we, and we we just 0:22:28.280 --> 0:22:31.120 absolutely have to. I mean, you know, the First Amendment 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:34.200 is just essentially essential to the lifeblood of a democracy 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:36.400 in a free country, and they're trying to choke it off. 0:22:36.520 --> 0:22:40.920 And I think that why they don't like journalists, why 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:46.960 autocrats don't like journalists, comes down to very simple calculus, 0:22:47.000 --> 0:22:50.520 which is they do not want their crimes reported on. 0:22:51.040 --> 0:22:54.440 They don't want truth. And you know, I mean, scholars 0:22:54.480 --> 0:22:59.600 of fascism will tell you that the entire superstructure of 0:23:00.160 --> 0:23:06.119 a fascist government is lying lies like this administration tells 0:23:06.119 --> 0:23:08.280 about things that we can see with our own eyes, 0:23:08.320 --> 0:23:11.800 like the murder of Renee Good and the murder. 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:14.520 Of Alex pretty lies as lies. 0:23:15.520 --> 0:23:18.200 I mean, I know, I have a friend, a professor, 0:23:18.280 --> 0:23:23.320