1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WIKA F Daily with 2 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:19,440 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. Folks, 3 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:26,639 Speaker 1: let me tell you something. I watched a part of 4 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:34,520 Speaker 1: the press conference that the Uvaldi Police gave where the 5 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:40,159 Speaker 1: Department of Public Safety Director Stephen McCraw said, quote from 6 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:43,839 Speaker 1: the benefit of hindsight from where I'm sitting now, of course, 7 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 1: it was the wrong decision, the wrong decision, the wrong 8 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 1: decision to have police officers not enter a building when 9 00:00:55,560 --> 00:01:03,280 Speaker 1: there was an active shooter killing nineteen children, three adults, 10 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: wounding god knows how many, because we haven't had that 11 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 1: information in releasing its entirety for an hour, one hour, 12 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 1: that shooter was allowed to walk the hallways, go into classrooms. 13 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: I'm wondering that did the police officers that were standing outside, 14 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 1: did they hear the screams of the children in their 15 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:34,399 Speaker 1: classrooms screaming for their parents, screaming for their lives? How 16 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:37,400 Speaker 1: did they sleep that night when they got home, Because 17 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 1: you know, there are other reports that came out that 18 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 1: those very same officers went into the building to get 19 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 1: their own fucking kids, but not the kids of other people. 20 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 1: Reports came out that the very same officers that were 21 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 1: sitting outside. You know, by the way, they have guns, right, 22 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure elementary school students don't. But they decided 23 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 1: to save their own children and save their own lives 24 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:14,799 Speaker 1: while turning teachers into heroes. Teachers don't sign up to 25 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 1: do military training. We have Republicans like fucking Ted Crews saying, oh, well, 26 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 1: we just need to arm teachers. Ron Desantists did the 27 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:31,800 Speaker 1: same thing in fucking Florida. Adding more guns in schools 28 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: is not how we should be dealing with school shootings 29 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 1: where shooters use one kind of fucking weapon and AAR fifteen, 30 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: and AAR fifteen with bump magazine capacity allows you to 31 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 1: fire off hundreds of bullets without even having to think 32 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 1: about reloading. Do you think that the framers of the 33 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 1: Constitution who said that folks had a right to bear arms, 34 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:02,839 Speaker 1: we're thinking about magazine capacities that could mow down an 35 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: entire classroom without the shooter breaking a fucking sweat. I 36 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 1: don't think so. The interpretation the purity with which the 37 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: fucking Supreme Court wants to interpret the Constitution these days 38 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 1: is bullshit. Because you see the world changes and evolves 39 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 1: and regardless of how much they want to hold us 40 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: with their death grip in the past, we will break 41 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 1: free one way or the fucking other. The rage that 42 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 1: I feel these days, coupled with the absolute crippling grief, 43 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 1: it is like this continued vacillation between these emotions that 44 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 1: I know that I'm not the only one that is 45 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:55,160 Speaker 1: swinging back and forth on because it's the grief that 46 00:03:55,240 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 1: we know that a R fifteens and fucking military grade 47 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 1: assault weapons are not part of your constitutional right to 48 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: bear fucking arms. They're not. I don't understand. While military 49 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:18,359 Speaker 1: grade fucking weapons is considered a goddamn hobby, how is 50 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 1: death your hobby. I'm just you know, folks, these days, 51 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:35,359 Speaker 1: these days have just gotten so hard and so long. 52 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:44,239 Speaker 1: And I think about the families of Buffalo and how 53 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:47,039 Speaker 1: now all of the attention is on Uvaldi. And I'm 54 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 1: certain that in the next week or two there'll be 55 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 1: another mass shooting, and maybe this person will kill twenty 56 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: five kids or twenty five black people, aunties and grandmas 57 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 1: and uncles and dads. Joe Biden is doing nothing. And 58 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:12,359 Speaker 1: I say that with the fullness of my understanding of 59 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:14,359 Speaker 1: the Congress, that he is up against But when I 60 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 1: hear a fucking career politician say that we need bipartisan legislation, motherfucker. 61 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: You've been in the Senate for how long. If there 62 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 1: was an opportunity for bipartisan legislation, it's sure as fuck 63 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 1: wasn't coming out of this goddamn Congress. And if it 64 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: didn't happen in the last forty years when you were 65 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:38,479 Speaker 1: a senator and then the other fucking eight when you 66 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:40,800 Speaker 1: were a Vice president, what the fuck makes you think 67 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:45,479 Speaker 1: it's going to happen now? All of it is just 68 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:50,920 Speaker 1: lip service while families are literally planning the services of 69 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:56,719 Speaker 1: their dead loved ones, not from heart attack, not from 70 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:01,720 Speaker 1: tragic natural disasters. Know from our own own man made crises. 71 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:05,359 Speaker 1: And I say man made because it is white, male 72 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:18,719 Speaker 1: made fucking crises. I am sick and tired. I'm sick 73 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 1: and tired. I hear you know that Fanny lu Hamer 74 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 1: quote when she said, I'm sick and tired of being 75 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 1: sick and tired, Like I'm sick and tired of crying, 76 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:34,799 Speaker 1: I'm sick and tired of yelling. I'm sick and tired 77 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 1: of these goddamn stories over and over again. White supremacy, 78 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 1: coupled with fucking gun mass shootings, coupled with fucking out 79 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:48,599 Speaker 1: of control pandemic, coupled with fucking climate change, coupled with 80 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:52,360 Speaker 1: VOTU suppression, coupled with a fucking criminal ex president who 81 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:56,239 Speaker 1: is continuing to spread lies and increase violence in this country, 82 00:06:56,279 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 1: coupled with a fucking news station that is not regulated 83 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 1: at all and is just continuing to brainwash and incite violence, 84 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 1: and no one is doing anything except offering thoughts and prayers. 85 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 1: Fuck your thoughts and prayers. They don't do shit. We 86 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 1: continue to say we need to vote, we need to vote. 87 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 1: We are voting. These are the motherfuckers who are being 88 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 1: voted in. Did you see and I mentioned this last week? 89 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: Bet to our work. Bett our Work is running for 90 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:34,000 Speaker 1: governor of Texas. Bet to our work instead of going 91 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:38,000 Speaker 1: to a fucking fundraiser like Governor Abbott did following the 92 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: massacre and his bullshit press conference when he wants to 93 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:43,680 Speaker 1: talk about the school needing more doors as opposed to 94 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 1: the fact that he lowered the age of gun licenses 95 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 1: from twenty one to eighteen. Fuck it, why not make 96 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 1: it sixteen? Fuck it? Why not just give them guns? 97 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 1: At birth, because you're sure as fuck don't give kids 98 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 1: anything else, not in this goddamn state and not in 99 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 1: this fucking country. It's outrageous. And if you are not outraged, 100 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 1: then you're not paying attention. Bulletproof backpacks, sword in sales. 101 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 1: How the fuck does this make sense? Like, if I 102 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:37,319 Speaker 1: am looking outside of America, at America, I'm saying, man, 103 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:40,960 Speaker 1: that country is filled with a bunch of fucking backwards 104 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:46,840 Speaker 1: ass lunatics who care about nothing but causing harm, who 105 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 1: care about nothing but violence, who care about not even 106 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:56,240 Speaker 1: each other nothing. How do you hold the title of president, 107 00:08:56,520 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: of Senator, of member of Congress and you do nothing 108 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:04,320 Speaker 1: with the power that the people have given you. AOC 109 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 1: last week went live and in the video clip that 110 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 1: I watched, she's just like, you know, I'm just gonna 111 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 1: be fucking real. It ain't just Republicans. The entire Democratic 112 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 1: establishment is a bunch of complacent ass status quo having 113 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 1: feckless people. She's like, you want to blame everything on 114 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 1: the Republicans, and that's true, they're terrible, but let's be 115 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:36,600 Speaker 1: clear that the Democrats are not doing anything to build 116 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 1: anybody's pipeline. They're not doing anything to serve the actual people, because, 117 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 1: like I said, last week, when was the last time 118 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 1: they were with the people? And so now what can 119 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 1: we look forward to the Department of Justice doing any 120 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 1: type of investigation into the Yivaldi Police Department. I'm certain not. 121 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 1: I don't know what the fuck did Department of Justice 122 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 1: is doing, but it seems like a whole bunch of nothing. 123 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 1: So they seem to have a lot of time on 124 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:07,840 Speaker 1: their hands. Maybe you want to figure out how you 125 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:12,240 Speaker 1: have police officers stand outside and listen to gunshots going 126 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:16,440 Speaker 1: off that are riddling the bodies of children. Maybe figure 127 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:19,440 Speaker 1: out why they decided to bring in ice before they 128 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 1: brought in the fucking help that those kids could have used, 129 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 1: why they were putting parents in handcuffs as opposed to 130 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 1: the fucking shooter. Coming up next, friends, my conversation with 131 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 1: our good friend Glenn Kirshner to discuss the latest in 132 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 1: where we are with the investigation into Donald Trump and 133 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 1: to talk about what Joe Biden isn't doing. That's coming 134 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 1: up next, folks. You know that when I have the 135 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:08,079 Speaker 1: opportunity each and every week to talk to our friend 136 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:12,559 Speaker 1: Glenn Kirshner, host of Justice Matters and MSNBC legal analyst. 137 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 1: We get up to speed on all of the things 138 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 1: that can be happening should be happening with the Department 139 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 1: of Justice. But isn't all the things that Biden should 140 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:24,840 Speaker 1: be doing. But he is not Glenn. This has been 141 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 1: yet another just very long, long, depressing, violent week. Talk 142 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 1: to us about how is it that Greg Abbott in 143 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:46,720 Speaker 1: Texas can just change all of these laws. Twenty one 144 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 1: it was the age to get a gun in Texas. 145 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:53,400 Speaker 1: He dropped it within the year to eighteen. The shooter 146 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,559 Speaker 1: in Uvaldi was eighteen years old, able to get two 147 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 1: AR fifteens in the course of twenty four hours and 148 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy five or so rounds of ammunition. 149 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:08,679 Speaker 1: No red flag, no nothing. No one's being held responsible 150 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:12,560 Speaker 1: for anything that is happening. The cops, I just learned, 151 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:17,600 Speaker 1: stood outside because they didn't want to be shot, So 152 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:22,040 Speaker 1: for an hour no one entered the building while children 153 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 1: and teachers were being slaughtered. I just tell me, like, 154 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:33,800 Speaker 1: where are our laws? Why is one amendment outweigh all 155 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 1: of the other ones. The Supreme Court's interpretation of the 156 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:45,520 Speaker 1: Second Amendment is a flipping farce, and Greg Abbott is 157 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: an irredeemable human being who's putting assault weapons in the 158 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:55,680 Speaker 1: hands of children, teenagers, and this is the predictable result, 159 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:03,079 Speaker 1: and he doesn't care. What I really beside myself about 160 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:07,959 Speaker 1: at this point, Danielle, is that our federal government, our 161 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:12,240 Speaker 1: executive branch, our president, who I think has done a 162 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:15,920 Speaker 1: wonderful job trying to save our democracy in many respects, 163 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 1: is not taking action. I don't want to hear. Let's 164 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 1: come together as Democrats and Republicans and find a legislative fixed. 165 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 1: Joe Biden is a product of the Senate for about 166 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:33,280 Speaker 1: twelve hundred years. Okay, that's an for a very long time. 167 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:37,960 Speaker 1: If he could have fixed this problem legislatively, he would have. 168 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 1: They can't. And if you thought they couldn't tend twenty 169 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:45,760 Speaker 1: thirty years ago, they really can't fix it legislatively now. 170 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:48,800 Speaker 1: But you know what Joe Biden could do. He could 171 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: pick up his pen and he could start signing executive orders. 172 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 1: If I were president, I would sign a hundred executive 173 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:01,439 Speaker 1: orders in a hundred days. And when my right hand 174 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 1: cramped up and fell off, I'd learned how to use 175 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:07,200 Speaker 1: my left hand. When you look back at our nation's history, 176 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:15,440 Speaker 1: the Emancipation Proclamation was accomplished via executive orders. Desegregation in 177 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:20,320 Speaker 1: Little Rock, in large part, was accomplished by executive orders. 178 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:25,200 Speaker 1: President Roosevelt signed more than thirty seven hundred executive orders 179 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 1: dealing with the Great Depression and World War Two. And 180 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 1: we have to acknowledge executive orders were sometimes used improperly, 181 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:38,200 Speaker 1: like to put Japanese Americans into internment camps, and they 182 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 1: were used with evil and malice in one's heart, like 183 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 1: the Muslim band. But so much can be accomplished with 184 00:14:48,600 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 1: executive orders. When you realize that we have our brothers 185 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:07,520 Speaker 1: and sisters being slaughtered, our children being slaughtered, first at 186 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 1: Sandy Hook, and now this we have our Hispanic American 187 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 1: brothers and sisters being slaughtered in El Paso, Asian American 188 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 1: brothers and sisters being slaughtered while they worship, our Jewish 189 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 1: brothers and sisters being slaughtered in their synagogue, our African 190 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 1: American brothers and sisters being slaughtered when they're shopping for groceries. 191 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 1: Are LGBTQ brothers and sisters at the Pulse nightclub, And 192 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 1: we sit here and we do nothing. Nothing. President Biden 193 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:45,320 Speaker 1: could pick up his pen and in twenty four hours, 194 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 1: get his deep constitutional thinkers in the executive branch to 195 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 1: help craft an executive order that we think might withstand 196 00:15:56,800 --> 00:16:01,080 Speaker 1: a legal challenge, a constitutional challenge I here by BAM 197 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 1: high capacity magazines period. And then you go into court 198 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:10,640 Speaker 1: and you fight for what's right. You know, you fight 199 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:14,560 Speaker 1: against the suit that will be brought by the Russian compromised, 200 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 1: you know, Republicans taking MRA money. You fight for what's 201 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 1: right and for goodness sakes, if you lose in court, 202 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 1: there's no shame in that you have fought to protect 203 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 1: the American people. I declare a state of national emergency. 204 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 1: This is a public health emergency. All of those people 205 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 1: who have been slaughtered that we were just mentioning, we 206 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 1: do nothing. We do nothing, and that needs to change. 207 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 1: And that can change tomorrow with President Biden starting to 208 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:52,800 Speaker 1: sign executive orders and let the litigation come. If we 209 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 1: lose in court, Danielle, the judges will say, here is 210 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:01,680 Speaker 1: how this executive order stepped its toe over the constitutional line, 211 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:04,200 Speaker 1: just like and I hate to cite this as an example. 212 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:08,239 Speaker 1: Trump's first Muslim band was struck down I believe, if 213 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:12,440 Speaker 1: I'm not misremembering, and he retooled based on what that 214 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 1: disgusting administration learned from the litigation and he fine tuned it, 215 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:21,040 Speaker 1: and I think the second band was upheld. Why can't 216 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 1: we do that in the gun arena? The answer is 217 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:26,240 Speaker 1: we can, but we're not because it's a political calculation. 218 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:29,520 Speaker 1: I don't want to hear about political calculations when all 219 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:33,320 Speaker 1: of those populations are being slaughtered. So let's get off 220 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:36,680 Speaker 1: the diamond. Let's do something. Hey, I'm David Plots of Slaves. 221 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 1: Political Gabfest. As another election season accelerates, it can be 222 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:44,280 Speaker 1: tricky to sort through all the noise and the news. 223 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:47,679 Speaker 1: Each week, on the Gabfest, John Dickerson, Emily Bathlon and 224 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:50,480 Speaker 1: I decipher the headlines, break down the races, and tell 225 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 1: you what issues really matter. 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He 239 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:49,360 Speaker 1: was from Europe, I will say, and he's asking Ted 240 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:52,800 Speaker 1: Cruz to his face. He said, this is a uniquely 241 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:56,960 Speaker 1: American problem, and the world wants to understand. Is this 242 00:18:57,119 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 1: what it means when you say American exceptional that you 243 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 1: have these assault rifles? They're like, nowhere else in the 244 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 1: world does this happen? Nowhere else in the world. Are 245 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:16,360 Speaker 1: we selling bulletproof backpacks which have just sword in sales, 246 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:21,600 Speaker 1: bulletproof backpacks. We would rather do not a goddamn thing, 247 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,159 Speaker 1: And that includes the President of the United States to 248 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:29,680 Speaker 1: do nothing. And you're right about the political calculations, because 249 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 1: all everybody is calculating is their own neck and is 250 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 1: their own pocket. That is the calculation. The NRA. Glenn 251 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:44,160 Speaker 1: is getting ready to hold a convention in Houston. In Houston, Texas. 252 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 1: One of the headliners Greg Abbott, and guess what, there 253 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:55,120 Speaker 1: are no guns allowed because they're afraid. But our children 254 00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 1: are supposed to be spending part of their instructional time 255 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 1: learning to flee from a gunman, learning what to do 256 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:07,639 Speaker 1: when the school is locked down because there is an 257 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:12,760 Speaker 1: active shooter on the campus. I don't understand what actions 258 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:18,320 Speaker 1: should the Department of Justice be taking. Why is it 259 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:22,359 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice taking action against Greg Abbott and 260 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:26,680 Speaker 1: the fact that he is literally, to your point, placing 261 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:31,640 Speaker 1: guns in the hands of children eighteen to get a gun, 262 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:34,440 Speaker 1: but you have to be twenty one to drink. I'm confused. 263 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 1: These numbers are arbitrary. Why not just give them a gun? 264 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 1: Went after birth? Right? What action, if any, can the 265 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 1: Department of Justice take should take that this president is 266 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 1: not taking all they deliver to us our thoughts and prayers. Yeah, 267 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 1: I mean, I guess Abbott will probably try to have 268 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:07,320 Speaker 1: Texas institute a cradle to the grave gun possession mandate. 269 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 1: Oh you're born, here's your birth certificate. Here's that nice 270 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:13,680 Speaker 1: little hat we put on your head to keep warm, baby, 271 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:18,399 Speaker 1: and here's your semi automatic rifle. You know what can 272 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:21,280 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice do. Part of the challenge is 273 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:24,359 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice and the executive branch generally, and 274 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,600 Speaker 1: this will bring back the executive order discussion. They can 275 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 1: only enforce the laws, and when you have a Supreme 276 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:40,920 Speaker 1: Court who has so obviously misrepresented what the Second Amendment 277 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 1: really means. The Second Amendment, as we both know, says 278 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 1: a well regulated militia being necessary to a free state, 279 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:53,160 Speaker 1: the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. 280 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:58,399 Speaker 1: They are actually two qualifiers in the introductory clause that 281 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:04,760 Speaker 1: frame the right to bear arms, well regulated and militia. 282 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 1: The Supreme Court, in its zeal to make sure we 283 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:18,680 Speaker 1: are awashi and nuns, reads those two qualifiers out of 284 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:24,200 Speaker 1: the Second Amendment because one, these children running around with 285 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:28,760 Speaker 1: assault rifles are not members of a militia, and they're 286 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:33,680 Speaker 1: sure not well regulated, either as members of a militia 287 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:39,160 Speaker 1: or as individuals who are simply keeping and bearing arms. 288 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 1: It's such a travesty what the Supreme Court has done 289 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:51,160 Speaker 1: in the Second Amendment arena, but part of it hamstrings 290 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:54,280 Speaker 1: both the Department of Justice. They can only enforce the 291 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:58,680 Speaker 1: laws that are on the books, and admittedly, what President 292 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:01,600 Speaker 1: Biden can do on the executive order front, because he 293 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 1: can't create law, he can only faithfully enforce the law. 294 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:10,720 Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean he can't use executive orders to 295 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:17,400 Speaker 1: promulgate safety regulations in many ways for our nation, as 296 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:21,320 Speaker 1: other presidents have done over time. That's where I believe 297 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:26,120 Speaker 1: he should take a stab at crafting an executive order 298 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:31,680 Speaker 1: that at a minimum outlaws prohibits I shouldn't use the 299 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 1: word outlaw prohibits and regulates high capacity magazines because why 300 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:42,560 Speaker 1: must we give these mass murders an opportunity to kill 301 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 1: without reloading? Why? Why? Where is that in the Second 302 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 1: Amendment or in the founders intent? They had dang muskets 303 00:23:54,080 --> 00:24:00,159 Speaker 1: back then, don't tell me the Founders intended unlimited then 304 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:04,520 Speaker 1: did clip magazines so mass murderers wouldn't have to reload? 305 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 1: Are you flipping kidding me? So? Yeah? But what But 306 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:13,120 Speaker 1: here's the thing, Because all of that is accurate and right, 307 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:18,680 Speaker 1: But the reality is is that we allow these gun 308 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,439 Speaker 1: rights people to be able to advocate and say, oh 309 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:25,560 Speaker 1: my god, it'll be a slippery slope. If they ban 310 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:31,680 Speaker 1: high capacity magazines, then my gun is going to be next. Right, 311 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:35,280 Speaker 1: How is it that they're able to apply that logic, 312 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:39,080 Speaker 1: but women are not able to apply the same logic 313 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:41,680 Speaker 1: when it comes to the ban on abor. Shit right, 314 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:45,200 Speaker 1: Oh that, then it's birth control, then it's this, then 315 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 1: it's that. It's like, I don't understand how we're living 316 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 1: in a country that believes that books and uteruses are 317 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:56,480 Speaker 1: more of a threat than an AR fifteen. It just 318 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:02,040 Speaker 1: it is. I feel Glenn in insane, and I honestly 319 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:08,080 Speaker 1: don't understand the lack of urgency from this administration on 320 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 1: this issue. When you say that the president can, I mean, 321 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:16,960 Speaker 1: we know that executive orders can be overturned in and 322 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:22,760 Speaker 1: next administration, So let's worry about that the next time around. 323 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,560 Speaker 1: Let's worry about that in twenty twenty four. How many 324 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:31,240 Speaker 1: lives could be saved between now and the next election. 325 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 1: I just I don't And there's tell me this, Is 326 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:41,280 Speaker 1: there anything that the people can do that the people 327 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:45,480 Speaker 1: we the people can do, because people right now feel 328 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:49,920 Speaker 1: absolutely powerless. The people in Buffalo, they're afraid to go 329 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,800 Speaker 1: to their community center, they're afraid to leave their homes. 330 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 1: The people of Uvaldi are trying to figure out with 331 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:04,760 Speaker 1: dental records identify their children because their bodies have been 332 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:08,520 Speaker 1: ripped to shrides, what can the people do? Because the 333 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 1: people are exhausted and terrified. If you and I had 334 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 1: an answer to the question of what more the people 335 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:27,359 Speaker 1: could do that had any hope of really moving the 336 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,680 Speaker 1: ball forward, you know, you and I, we would be 337 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:33,680 Speaker 1: on the rooftop screaming it at the top of our lungs. 338 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:39,120 Speaker 1: We would never shut up. And I wish I had 339 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:45,919 Speaker 1: a satisfactory answer right now. What I hope doesn't happen 340 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,920 Speaker 1: is that with as frustrated and upset and anxious and 341 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 1: desperate and fearful as we are, all of us who 342 00:26:56,440 --> 00:27:00,719 Speaker 1: give a who give a flip about our democracy, who 343 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:04,800 Speaker 1: give a flip about our children, or about all of 344 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:07,800 Speaker 1: our brothers and sisters whose lives are at risk every 345 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 1: day because of the Greg Abbots of the world, and 346 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:15,280 Speaker 1: the Mitch McConnell's of the world, and the Romneys of 347 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:19,480 Speaker 1: the world, who takes more and our money than anybody else. 348 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:23,639 Speaker 1: What I don't want to see happen is that we 349 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 1: just kind of go into a corner and give up 350 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 1: because and I hesitate to say it, and I laugh 351 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:36,240 Speaker 1: at myself because I know we have state legislatives, legislatures 352 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:40,119 Speaker 1: trying to nullify our votes. We still have to vote 353 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 1: in numbers too big to rig and too real to steal. 354 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 1: We still have to contact every elected representative, from our 355 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 1: city council member to our senator and everybody in between. 356 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:53,960 Speaker 1: I don't care if they're going to be receptive to 357 00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:57,280 Speaker 1: our constituent calls or not. We still have to do it. 358 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:07,440 Speaker 1: And you know, citizens, nonprofit organizations, lots of entities apart 359 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:12,520 Speaker 1: from government, are actually doing some really hard work to 360 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,879 Speaker 1: save our democracy and keep us safe. Not only the 361 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:19,399 Speaker 1: anti gun groups, but you know these groups like People 362 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 1: for Free Speech who are in court every day trying 363 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:28,200 Speaker 1: to get the Madison Cawthorne's disqualified from the ballot, trying 364 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,640 Speaker 1: to get the Marjorie Taylor Greens, and the Paul Gostars 365 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:37,159 Speaker 1: and Mastriano, that idiot from Pennsylvania disqualified from the ballot. 366 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:43,280 Speaker 1: That's us, that's five citizens doing it. So yes, there 367 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:45,880 Speaker 1: are lots of ways that we can engage, and I 368 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 1: have to preach that getting engaged, you know, being a 369 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:55,760 Speaker 1: pole worker, being somebody who goes out and you know, 370 00:28:56,560 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 1: Campick canvases for a politician who, if elected you actually 371 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,640 Speaker 1: have faith in, will try to do the right thing. 372 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:08,800 Speaker 1: Difficult though it may be working the phones, I mean 373 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 1: helping some of these nonprofits that are actually attacking these problems, 374 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:19,920 Speaker 1: trying to fill the vacuum left by government sloth and 375 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 1: in action. We all have to keep doing it. It 376 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,960 Speaker 1: doesn't feel like it's having an impact, but if we 377 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:30,280 Speaker 1: stop doing it, then we're just giving it all over 378 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:35,960 Speaker 1: to the greg Abbots of the world. Glenn, with a 379 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:39,360 Speaker 1: few minutes that we have left, there has been some 380 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 1: developments with regard to Trump the insurrection, and you have 381 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 1: learned some things that I was not aware of. So 382 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:53,960 Speaker 1: because my mind has been completely on you know, mass 383 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:59,719 Speaker 1: shootings and massacres. Where are we with Donald Trump at 384 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:03,520 Speaker 1: the insurrection as we prepare I guess upcoming in a 385 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:09,640 Speaker 1: few weeks for the prime time hearings. Yeah, really blockbuster reporting. 386 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 1: I know we say that a lot. Nothing actually seems 387 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,400 Speaker 1: to bust the block I don't know if that's a thing. 388 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:20,920 Speaker 1: But the New York Times reported that Donald Trump said 389 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:26,440 Speaker 1: as the insurrection raged, as the capital was under attack, 390 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:31,120 Speaker 1: he said two things to Mark Meadows. One he said 391 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:36,840 Speaker 1: he was angry. He was upset that Mike Pence was 392 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:42,400 Speaker 1: being whisked away to safety while the Capitol was being attacked. 393 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:47,720 Speaker 1: The second thing he said, which is even more breathtaking, 394 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:52,720 Speaker 1: but maybe of less consequence. Ultimately, he said maybe, as 395 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:56,240 Speaker 1: his angry mob was chanting hang Mike Pence, he said, 396 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:02,520 Speaker 1: maybe Mike Pence should be hanged. And Mark Meadows recounted 397 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:06,880 Speaker 1: that to his Mark Meadows aids, who then told the 398 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,200 Speaker 1: J six Committee. Of course Mark Meadows is going to 399 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,160 Speaker 1: claim all his aids are lying, which is absurd. You 400 00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 1: hired them sport. So the second comment needs no further explanation. 401 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:22,680 Speaker 1: This morning, I couldn't help but tweet with a little 402 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:29,440 Speaker 1: two minute direct clip on Twitter that Trump equals trees 403 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,720 Speaker 1: and end of equation, because if you read the law 404 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:36,280 Speaker 1: of treason, it says, if you take an oath of 405 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,960 Speaker 1: allegiance to the United States and you levy war, you 406 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:42,040 Speaker 1: wage war against the United States, You've committed the crime 407 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:45,640 Speaker 1: of trees. And Donald Trump has give me three hours 408 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,000 Speaker 1: and I'll prove it in a court of law. The 409 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:52,680 Speaker 1: first statement is even more interesting because the whole goal 410 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:57,520 Speaker 1: of the stop the steal, the fake ellect, there's all 411 00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:01,680 Speaker 1: this kind of nonsense, was to delay the certification of 412 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,360 Speaker 1: Joe Biden's win for as long as possible, hoping maybe 413 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,480 Speaker 1: we can throw it to the states and then have 414 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:10,360 Speaker 1: one state, one vote, decide who the president is. And 415 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:15,880 Speaker 1: there are more Republican legislatures than there are Democrat legislatures, 416 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,680 Speaker 1: so Trump wins, even though that runs contrary to the 417 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:23,280 Speaker 1: popular vote in the electoral college count. So wouldn't you think, Danielle, 418 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:27,320 Speaker 1: that Donald Trump would be pleased that Mike Pence was 419 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 1: being whisked away from the Capitol to safety. Why because 420 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,280 Speaker 1: that would delay the vote and it would at least 421 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:40,320 Speaker 1: forward I want to overturn the election ball. But that's 422 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:44,960 Speaker 1: not who Donald Trump is. Nope, Donald Trump was angry 423 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:50,080 Speaker 1: that Mike Pence was being whisked away to safety, and 424 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,720 Speaker 1: then he followed it up with maybe Mike Pence should 425 00:32:53,800 --> 00:33:01,040 Speaker 1: be hanged. That is who Donald Trump is. And I 426 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:07,240 Speaker 1: when I see each piece of damning evidence reported, I 427 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:11,000 Speaker 1: become more convinced, not less convinced, that the Department of 428 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:14,440 Speaker 1: Justice will indict Donald Trump and all his co conspirators 429 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:16,720 Speaker 1: for what they did. And I just did a deep 430 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:21,120 Speaker 1: dive piece, Danielle that will go up on MSNBC Daily 431 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,760 Speaker 1: either today or tomorrow. And I'm going to say I'm 432 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,120 Speaker 1: really proud of it because what it does is It 433 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:33,000 Speaker 1: takes the interplay between the January sixth Committee, the thousand 434 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:37,240 Speaker 1: witnesses they've presented, and the Department of Justice, which everybody 435 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:43,400 Speaker 1: accuses of investigative slow right, and it really analyzes what 436 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:47,880 Speaker 1: I believe is going on. And the question I pose 437 00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:52,600 Speaker 1: up front is there a method to this investigative madness? 438 00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:59,160 Speaker 1: And there ultimately is. I don't know that it's entirely satisfying, 439 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,080 Speaker 1: but I hope people will read this not because I 440 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:06,880 Speaker 1: want lots of clicks, but because I do an explainer 441 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:11,360 Speaker 1: that I think is counterintuitive, because even I, as a 442 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,960 Speaker 1: former career DJ prosecutors, say, oh my god, I want 443 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:19,320 Speaker 1: these thousand witnesses first before Congress so I can indict 444 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:23,160 Speaker 1: everybody and then let Congress do its job, because indicting 445 00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:26,759 Speaker 1: them is more important than future legislation to prevent this 446 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:30,560 Speaker 1: from happening in the future. But there are some things 447 00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:34,480 Speaker 1: that play that I don't think are intuitive, and I 448 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:37,080 Speaker 1: don't think you would know unless you've been on the inside. 449 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:41,600 Speaker 1: So I'm hoping that that is helpful in adding something 450 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:46,440 Speaker 1: to the anxiety level that may help reduce it just 451 00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:51,359 Speaker 1: a little bit. You know. I have to say that now, 452 00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:57,960 Speaker 1: just in closing. Now, I become a little nervous about 453 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:04,120 Speaker 1: an indictment of Donald Trump in a time when violence 454 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:08,360 Speaker 1: is at an all time high in this country. And 455 00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:11,520 Speaker 1: what is kind of swimming around in my head right 456 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:17,200 Speaker 1: now is if that news breaks, let's just say, you know, 457 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:21,600 Speaker 1: before midterm elections would be a great time. What the 458 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:25,680 Speaker 1: response is going to be of his And there is 459 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,640 Speaker 1: no way to say I don't care what their response 460 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,759 Speaker 1: is going to be because they have more guns than 461 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,359 Speaker 1: we do. Yeah, but they're weaker than we are. They're 462 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,279 Speaker 1: better armed, but they're weaker, and they do not have 463 00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:40,640 Speaker 1: righteousness on their side. They don't have decency and empathy 464 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:44,040 Speaker 1: and inclusivity. They don't have any of that on their side. 465 00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:47,520 Speaker 1: In Danielle, not to be cavalier about it, we have 466 00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:50,799 Speaker 1: fought a revolutionary war, we have fought a civil war. 467 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:55,480 Speaker 1: I don't want to fight any more wars, either internally 468 00:35:55,680 --> 00:36:00,440 Speaker 1: or externally if we can help it. But are some 469 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:05,799 Speaker 1: things worth fighting for? I think they are. So I'm 470 00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,520 Speaker 1: not saying consequences be damned, because I don't want to 471 00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:13,560 Speaker 1: see Americans hurt left right, center anywhere. But we have 472 00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:17,480 Speaker 1: to do what's right and let the chips fall and 473 00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:21,400 Speaker 1: then deal with those chips while they fall, because we 474 00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:26,960 Speaker 1: have to do what's right. 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