WEBVTT - Man-Made Crises 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.640 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WIKA F Daily with 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:19.440 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. Folks, 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:26.639 let me tell you something. I watched a part of 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:34.520 the press conference that the Uvaldi Police gave where the 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:40.159 Department of Public Safety Director Stephen McCraw said, quote from 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:43.839 the benefit of hindsight from where I'm sitting now, of course, 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:49.400 it was the wrong decision, the wrong decision, the wrong 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:55.400 decision to have police officers not enter a building when 0:00:55.560 --> 0:01:03.280 there was an active shooter killing nineteen children, three adults, 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:07.080 wounding god knows how many, because we haven't had that 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:14.280 information in releasing its entirety for an hour, one hour, 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:21.560 that shooter was allowed to walk the hallways, go into classrooms. 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:26.360 I'm wondering that did the police officers that were standing outside, 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:30.280 did they hear the screams of the children in their 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:34.399 classrooms screaming for their parents, screaming for their lives? How 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:37.400 did they sleep that night when they got home, Because 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:39.800 you know, there are other reports that came out that 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:42.640 those very same officers went into the building to get 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:47.400 their own fucking kids, but not the kids of other people. 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:52.920 Reports came out that the very same officers that were 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.840 sitting outside. You know, by the way, they have guns, right, 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:04.120 I'm pretty sure elementary school students don't. But they decided 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:07.560 to save their own children and save their own lives 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:14.799 while turning teachers into heroes. Teachers don't sign up to 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:21.280 do military training. We have Republicans like fucking Ted Crews saying, oh, well, 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:24.600 we just need to arm teachers. Ron Desantists did the 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:31.800 same thing in fucking Florida. Adding more guns in schools 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:35.600 is not how we should be dealing with school shootings 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:40.560 where shooters use one kind of fucking weapon and AAR fifteen, 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:47.000 and AAR fifteen with bump magazine capacity allows you to 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:51.480 fire off hundreds of bullets without even having to think 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:54.720 about reloading. Do you think that the framers of the 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:58.480 Constitution who said that folks had a right to bear arms, 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:02.839 we're thinking about magazine capacities that could mow down an 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:06.680 entire classroom without the shooter breaking a fucking sweat. I 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:13.240 don't think so. The interpretation the purity with which the 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.880 fucking Supreme Court wants to interpret the Constitution these days 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:21.600 is bullshit. Because you see the world changes and evolves 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:26.120 and regardless of how much they want to hold us 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:30.200 with their death grip in the past, we will break 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:37.400 free one way or the fucking other. The rage that 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:42.480 I feel these days, coupled with the absolute crippling grief, 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:48.440 it is like this continued vacillation between these emotions that 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:50.440 I know that I'm not the only one that is 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:55.160 swinging back and forth on because it's the grief that 0:03:55.240 --> 0:04:01.400 we know that a R fifteens and fucking military grade 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:05.680 assault weapons are not part of your constitutional right to 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:13.560 bear fucking arms. They're not. I don't understand. While military 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:18.359 grade fucking weapons is considered a goddamn hobby, how is 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:25.200 death your hobby. I'm just you know, folks, these days, 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:35.359 these days have just gotten so hard and so long. 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:44.239 And I think about the families of Buffalo and how 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.039 now all of the attention is on Uvaldi. And I'm 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:49.520 certain that in the next week or two there'll be 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:53.000 another mass shooting, and maybe this person will kill twenty 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:58.520 five kids or twenty five black people, aunties and grandmas 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:08.680 and uncles and dads. Joe Biden is doing nothing. And 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:12.359 I say that with the fullness of my understanding of 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:14.359 the Congress, that he is up against But when I 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:21.000 hear a fucking career politician say that we need bipartisan legislation, motherfucker. 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:25.880 You've been in the Senate for how long. If there 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:30.080 was an opportunity for bipartisan legislation, it's sure as fuck 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:32.960 wasn't coming out of this goddamn Congress. And if it 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.400 didn't happen in the last forty years when you were 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.479 a senator and then the other fucking eight when you 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:40.800 were a Vice president, what the fuck makes you think 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:45.479 it's going to happen now? All of it is just 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:50.920 lip service while families are literally planning the services of 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:56.719 their dead loved ones, not from heart attack, not from 0:05:56.920 --> 0:06:01.720 tragic natural disasters. Know from our own own man made crises. 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.359 And I say man made because it is white, male 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:18.719 made fucking crises. I am sick and tired. I'm sick 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:22.760 and tired. I hear you know that Fanny lu Hamer 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.320 quote when she said, I'm sick and tired of being 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:30.000 sick and tired, Like I'm sick and tired of crying, 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:34.799 I'm sick and tired of yelling. I'm sick and tired 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:39.400 of these goddamn stories over and over again. White supremacy, 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:44.560 coupled with fucking gun mass shootings, coupled with fucking out 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:48.599 of control pandemic, coupled with fucking climate change, coupled with 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:52.360 VOTU suppression, coupled with a fucking criminal ex president who 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:56.239 is continuing to spread lies and increase violence in this country, 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:59.120 coupled with a fucking news station that is not regulated 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:03.200 at all and is just continuing to brainwash and incite violence, 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:08.920 and no one is doing anything except offering thoughts and prayers. 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:16.720 Fuck your thoughts and prayers. They don't do shit. We 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:21.120 continue to say we need to vote, we need to vote. 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:24.080 We are voting. These are the motherfuckers who are being 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:28.040 voted in. Did you see and I mentioned this last week? 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.040 Bet to our work. Bett our Work is running for 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:34.000 governor of Texas. Bet to our work instead of going 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:38.000 to a fucking fundraiser like Governor Abbott did following the 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.720 massacre and his bullshit press conference when he wants to 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.680 talk about the school needing more doors as opposed to 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:49.240 the fact that he lowered the age of gun licenses 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.520 from twenty one to eighteen. Fuck it, why not make 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:54.880 it sixteen? Fuck it? Why not just give them guns? 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:58.680 At birth, because you're sure as fuck don't give kids 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.400 anything else, not in this goddamn state and not in 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:10.520 this fucking country. It's outrageous. And if you are not outraged, 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:22.800 then you're not paying attention. Bulletproof backpacks, sword in sales. 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:31.440 How the fuck does this make sense? Like, if I 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:37.319 am looking outside of America, at America, I'm saying, man, 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.960 that country is filled with a bunch of fucking backwards 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:46.840 ass lunatics who care about nothing but causing harm, who 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:50.160 care about nothing but violence, who care about not even 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:56.240 each other nothing. How do you hold the title of president, 0:08:56.520 --> 0:09:01.000 of Senator, of member of Congress and you do nothing 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:04.320 with the power that the people have given you. AOC 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:09.120 last week went live and in the video clip that 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:12.640 I watched, she's just like, you know, I'm just gonna 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:17.600 be fucking real. It ain't just Republicans. The entire Democratic 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:23.360 establishment is a bunch of complacent ass status quo having 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:29.160 feckless people. She's like, you want to blame everything on 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:34.120 the Republicans, and that's true, they're terrible, but let's be 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:36.600 clear that the Democrats are not doing anything to build 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:40.280 anybody's pipeline. They're not doing anything to serve the actual people, because, 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:42.160 like I said, last week, when was the last time 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:51.120 they were with the people? And so now what can 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.760 we look forward to the Department of Justice doing any 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:57.760 type of investigation into the Yivaldi Police Department. I'm certain not. 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:00.800 I don't know what the fuck did Department of Justice 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:02.640 is doing, but it seems like a whole bunch of nothing. 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:04.120 So they seem to have a lot of time on 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:07.840 their hands. Maybe you want to figure out how you 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:12.240 have police officers stand outside and listen to gunshots going 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:16.440 off that are riddling the bodies of children. Maybe figure 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:19.440 out why they decided to bring in ice before they 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:22.400 brought in the fucking help that those kids could have used, 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:28.240 why they were putting parents in handcuffs as opposed to 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:42.280 the fucking shooter. Coming up next, friends, my conversation with 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:47.120 our good friend Glenn Kirshner to discuss the latest in 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:52.280 where we are with the investigation into Donald Trump and 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:59.040 to talk about what Joe Biden isn't doing. That's coming 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:05.080 up next, folks. You know that when I have the 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:08.079 opportunity each and every week to talk to our friend 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:12.559 Glenn Kirshner, host of Justice Matters and MSNBC legal analyst. 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.160 We get up to speed on all of the things 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:17.920 that can be happening should be happening with the Department 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:20.880 of Justice. But isn't all the things that Biden should 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:24.840 be doing. But he is not Glenn. This has been 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:36.000 yet another just very long, long, depressing, violent week. Talk 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:41.480 to us about how is it that Greg Abbott in 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:46.720 Texas can just change all of these laws. Twenty one 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:49.480 it was the age to get a gun in Texas. 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:53.400 He dropped it within the year to eighteen. The shooter 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.559 in Uvaldi was eighteen years old, able to get two 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:00.920 AR fifteens in the course of twenty four hours and 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:04.520 three hundred and seventy five or so rounds of ammunition. 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:08.679 No red flag, no nothing. No one's being held responsible 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.560 for anything that is happening. The cops, I just learned, 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:17.600 stood outside because they didn't want to be shot, So 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:22.040 for an hour no one entered the building while children 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:26.480 and teachers were being slaughtered. I just tell me, like, 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:33.800 where are our laws? Why is one amendment outweigh all 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:39.800 of the other ones. The Supreme Court's interpretation of the 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:45.520 Second Amendment is a flipping farce, and Greg Abbott is 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:50.280 an irredeemable human being who's putting assault weapons in the 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:55.680 hands of children, teenagers, and this is the predictable result, 0:12:56.000 --> 0:13:03.079 and he doesn't care. What I really beside myself about 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:07.959 at this point, Danielle, is that our federal government, our 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:12.240 executive branch, our president, who I think has done a 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:15.920 wonderful job trying to save our democracy in many respects, 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:21.000 is not taking action. I don't want to hear. Let's 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:25.440 come together as Democrats and Republicans and find a legislative fixed. 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:28.640 Joe Biden is a product of the Senate for about 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:33.280 twelve hundred years. Okay, that's an for a very long time. 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:37.960 If he could have fixed this problem legislatively, he would have. 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:42.480 They can't. And if you thought they couldn't tend twenty 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.760 thirty years ago, they really can't fix it legislatively now. 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.800 But you know what Joe Biden could do. He could 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:54.480 pick up his pen and he could start signing executive orders. 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:58.040 If I were president, I would sign a hundred executive 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:01.439 orders in a hundred days. And when my right hand 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:03.640 cramped up and fell off, I'd learned how to use 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:07.200 my left hand. When you look back at our nation's history, 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:15.440 the Emancipation Proclamation was accomplished via executive orders. Desegregation in 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:20.320 Little Rock, in large part, was accomplished by executive orders. 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:25.200 President Roosevelt signed more than thirty seven hundred executive orders 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:28.720 dealing with the Great Depression and World War Two. And 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:33.160 we have to acknowledge executive orders were sometimes used improperly, 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:38.200 like to put Japanese Americans into internment camps, and they 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:42.840 were used with evil and malice in one's heart, like 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:48.480 the Muslim band. But so much can be accomplished with 0:14:48.600 --> 0:15:00.000 executive orders. When you realize that we have our brothers 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:07.520 and sisters being slaughtered, our children being slaughtered, first at 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:12.360 Sandy Hook, and now this we have our Hispanic American 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:16.920 brothers and sisters being slaughtered in El Paso, Asian American 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:21.240 brothers and sisters being slaughtered while they worship, our Jewish 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:26.440 brothers and sisters being slaughtered in their synagogue, our African 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:30.760 American brothers and sisters being slaughtered when they're shopping for groceries. 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:35.520 Are LGBTQ brothers and sisters at the Pulse nightclub, And 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:41.760 we sit here and we do nothing. Nothing. President Biden 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:45.320 could pick up his pen and in twenty four hours, 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:50.480 get his deep constitutional thinkers in the executive branch to 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:56.320 help craft an executive order that we think might withstand 0:15:56.800 --> 0:16:01.080 a legal challenge, a constitutional challenge I here by BAM 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:06.040 high capacity magazines period. And then you go into court 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:10.640 and you fight for what's right. You know, you fight 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:14.560 against the suit that will be brought by the Russian compromised, 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:19.640 you know, Republicans taking MRA money. You fight for what's 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:23.320 right and for goodness sakes, if you lose in court, 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:28.360 there's no shame in that you have fought to protect 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:31.360 the American people. I declare a state of national emergency. 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:34.480 This is a public health emergency. All of those people 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:38.200 who have been slaughtered that we were just mentioning, we 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:43.600 do nothing. We do nothing, and that needs to change. 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:47.840 And that can change tomorrow with President Biden starting to 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:52.800 sign executive orders and let the litigation come. If we 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:56.640 lose in court, Danielle, the judges will say, here is 0:16:56.680 --> 0:17:01.680 how this executive order stepped its toe over the constitutional line, 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:04.200 just like and I hate to cite this as an example. 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:08.239 Trump's first Muslim band was struck down I believe, if 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:12.440 I'm not misremembering, and he retooled based on what that 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:18.240 disgusting administration learned from the litigation and he fine tuned it, 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:21.040 and I think the second band was upheld. Why can't 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:23.080 we do that in the gun arena? The answer is 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:26.240 we can, but we're not because it's a political calculation. 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.520 I don't want to hear about political calculations when all 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:33.320 of those populations are being slaughtered. So let's get off 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:36.680 the diamond. 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He said, this is a uniquely 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:56.960 American problem, and the world wants to understand. Is this 0:18:57.119 --> 0:19:01.520 what it means when you say American exceptional that you 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:06.080 have these assault rifles? They're like, nowhere else in the 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:10.240 world does this happen? Nowhere else in the world. Are 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:16.360 we selling bulletproof backpacks which have just sword in sales, 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:21.600 bulletproof backpacks. We would rather do not a goddamn thing, 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:25.159 And that includes the President of the United States to 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:29.680 do nothing. And you're right about the political calculations, because 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:33.000 all everybody is calculating is their own neck and is 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:37.480 their own pocket. That is the calculation. The NRA. Glenn 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:44.160 is getting ready to hold a convention in Houston. In Houston, Texas. 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:48.960 One of the headliners Greg Abbott, and guess what, there 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:55.120 are no guns allowed because they're afraid. But our children 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:59.960 are supposed to be spending part of their instructional time 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:04.840 learning to flee from a gunman, learning what to do 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:07.639 when the school is locked down because there is an 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:12.760 active shooter on the campus. I don't understand what actions 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:18.320 should the Department of Justice be taking. Why is it 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:22.359 the Department of Justice taking action against Greg Abbott and 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:26.680 the fact that he is literally, to your point, placing 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:31.640 guns in the hands of children eighteen to get a gun, 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:34.440 but you have to be twenty one to drink. I'm confused. 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:39.600 These numbers are arbitrary. Why not just give them a gun? 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:46.760 Went after birth? Right? What action, if any, can the 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:52.520 Department of Justice take should take that this president is 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:58.080 not taking all they deliver to us our thoughts and prayers. Yeah, 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:02.000 I mean, I guess Abbott will probably try to have 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:07.320 Texas institute a cradle to the grave gun possession mandate. 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:11.320 Oh you're born, here's your birth certificate. Here's that nice 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:13.680 little hat we put on your head to keep warm, baby, 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:18.399 and here's your semi automatic rifle. You know what can 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:21.280 the Department of Justice do. Part of the challenge is 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:24.359 the Department of Justice and the executive branch generally, and 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:27.600 this will bring back the executive order discussion. They can 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:31.320 only enforce the laws, and when you have a Supreme 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:40.920 Court who has so obviously misrepresented what the Second Amendment 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:45.560 really means. The Second Amendment, as we both know, says 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:49.960 a well regulated militia being necessary to a free state, 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:53.160 the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:58.399 They are actually two qualifiers in the introductory clause that 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:04.760 frame the right to bear arms, well regulated and militia. 0:22:06.960 --> 0:22:12.800 The Supreme Court, in its zeal to make sure we 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:18.680 are awashi and nuns, reads those two qualifiers out of 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:24.200 the Second Amendment because one, these children running around with 0:22:24.280 --> 0:22:28.760 assault rifles are not members of a militia, and they're 0:22:28.920 --> 0:22:33.680 sure not well regulated, either as members of a militia 0:22:34.080 --> 0:22:39.160 or as individuals who are simply keeping and bearing arms. 0:22:39.920 --> 0:22:45.040 It's such a travesty what the Supreme Court has done 0:22:45.880 --> 0:22:51.160 in the Second Amendment arena, but part of it hamstrings 0:22:51.760 --> 0:22:54.280 both the Department of Justice. They can only enforce the 0:22:54.359 --> 0:22:58.680 laws that are on the books, and admittedly, what President 0:22:58.800 --> 0:23:01.600 Biden can do on the executive order front, because he 0:23:01.760 --> 0:23:05.960 can't create law, he can only faithfully enforce the law. 0:23:06.760 --> 0:23:10.720 But that doesn't mean he can't use executive orders to 0:23:11.160 --> 0:23:17.400 promulgate safety regulations in many ways for our nation, as 0:23:17.520 --> 0:23:21.320 other presidents have done over time. That's where I believe 0:23:21.960 --> 0:23:26.120 he should take a stab at crafting an executive order 0:23:26.560 --> 0:23:31.680 that at a minimum outlaws prohibits I shouldn't use the 0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:37.560 word outlaw prohibits and regulates high capacity magazines because why 0:23:37.760 --> 0:23:42.560 must we give these mass murders an opportunity to kill 0:23:42.680 --> 0:23:47.639 without reloading? Why? Why? Where is that in the Second 0:23:47.680 --> 0:23:54.040 Amendment or in the founders intent? They had dang muskets 0:23:54.080 --> 0:24:00.159 back then, don't tell me the Founders intended unlimited then 0:24:00.200 --> 0:24:04.520 did clip magazines so mass murderers wouldn't have to reload? 0:24:04.560 --> 0:24:08.600 Are you flipping kidding me? So? Yeah? But what But 0:24:08.760 --> 0:24:13.120 here's the thing, Because all of that is accurate and right, 0:24:13.880 --> 0:24:18.680 But the reality is is that we allow these gun 0:24:19.000 --> 0:24:22.439 rights people to be able to advocate and say, oh 0:24:22.520 --> 0:24:25.560 my god, it'll be a slippery slope. If they ban 0:24:26.400 --> 0:24:31.680 high capacity magazines, then my gun is going to be next. Right, 0:24:32.320 --> 0:24:35.280 How is it that they're able to apply that logic, 0:24:35.680 --> 0:24:39.080 but women are not able to apply the same logic 0:24:39.160 --> 0:24:41.680 when it comes to the ban on abor. Shit right, 0:24:41.960 --> 0:24:45.200 Oh that, then it's birth control, then it's this, then 0:24:45.240 --> 0:24:49.080 it's that. It's like, I don't understand how we're living 0:24:49.119 --> 0:24:52.800 in a country that believes that books and uteruses are 0:24:52.880 --> 0:24:56.480 more of a threat than an AR fifteen. It just 0:24:57.400 --> 0:25:02.040 it is. I feel Glenn in insane, and I honestly 0:25:02.280 --> 0:25:08.080 don't understand the lack of urgency from this administration on 0:25:08.560 --> 0:25:13.520 this issue. When you say that the president can, I mean, 0:25:13.680 --> 0:25:16.960 we know that executive orders can be overturned in and 0:25:17.160 --> 0:25:22.760 next administration, So let's worry about that the next time around. 0:25:23.000 --> 0:25:25.560 Let's worry about that in twenty twenty four. How many 0:25:25.720 --> 0:25:31.240 lives could be saved between now and the next election. 0:25:33.240 --> 0:25:37.200 I just I don't And there's tell me this, Is 0:25:37.240 --> 0:25:41.280 there anything that the people can do that the people 0:25:41.359 --> 0:25:45.480 we the people can do, because people right now feel 0:25:45.640 --> 0:25:49.920 absolutely powerless. The people in Buffalo, they're afraid to go 0:25:50.000 --> 0:25:53.800 to their community center, they're afraid to leave their homes. 0:25:55.720 --> 0:25:58.760 The people of Uvaldi are trying to figure out with 0:25:59.040 --> 0:26:04.760 dental records identify their children because their bodies have been 0:26:04.840 --> 0:26:08.520 ripped to shrides, what can the people do? Because the 0:26:08.760 --> 0:26:18.080 people are exhausted and terrified. If you and I had 0:26:18.119 --> 0:26:20.760 an answer to the question of what more the people 0:26:20.920 --> 0:26:27.359 could do that had any hope of really moving the 0:26:27.520 --> 0:26:30.680 ball forward, you know, you and I, we would be 0:26:30.760 --> 0:26:33.680 on the rooftop screaming it at the top of our lungs. 0:26:33.760 --> 0:26:39.120 We would never shut up. And I wish I had 0:26:39.520 --> 0:26:45.919 a satisfactory answer right now. What I hope doesn't happen 0:26:47.000 --> 0:26:50.920 is that with as frustrated and upset and anxious and 0:26:51.160 --> 0:26:56.320 desperate and fearful as we are, all of us who 0:26:56.440 --> 0:27:00.719 give a who give a flip about our democracy, who 0:27:00.800 --> 0:27:04.800 give a flip about our children, or about all of 0:27:04.920 --> 0:27:07.800 our brothers and sisters whose lives are at risk every 0:27:07.920 --> 0:27:11.000 day because of the Greg Abbots of the world, and 0:27:11.080 --> 0:27:15.280 the Mitch McConnell's of the world, and the Romneys of 0:27:15.440 --> 0:27:19.480 the world, who takes more and our money than anybody else. 0:27:21.680 --> 0:27:23.639 What I don't want to see happen is that we 0:27:23.840 --> 0:27:27.320 just kind of go into a corner and give up 0:27:27.880 --> 0:27:32.240 because and I hesitate to say it, and I laugh 0:27:32.280 --> 0:27:36.240 at myself because I know we have state legislatives, legislatures 0:27:36.400 --> 0:27:40.119 trying to nullify our votes. We still have to vote 0:27:40.640 --> 0:27:43.320 in numbers too big to rig and too real to steal. 0:27:43.840 --> 0:27:47.800 We still have to contact every elected representative, from our 0:27:47.800 --> 0:27:51.040 city council member to our senator and everybody in between. 0:27:51.280 --> 0:27:53.960 I don't care if they're going to be receptive to 0:27:54.119 --> 0:27:57.280 our constituent calls or not. We still have to do it. 0:27:58.400 --> 0:28:07.440 And you know, citizens, nonprofit organizations, lots of entities apart 0:28:07.560 --> 0:28:12.520 from government, are actually doing some really hard work to 0:28:12.640 --> 0:28:15.879 save our democracy and keep us safe. Not only the 0:28:15.960 --> 0:28:19.399 anti gun groups, but you know these groups like People 0:28:19.480 --> 0:28:23.000 for Free Speech who are in court every day trying 0:28:23.080 --> 0:28:28.200 to get the Madison Cawthorne's disqualified from the ballot, trying 0:28:28.280 --> 0:28:31.640 to get the Marjorie Taylor Greens, and the Paul Gostars 0:28:32.080 --> 0:28:37.159 and Mastriano, that idiot from Pennsylvania disqualified from the ballot. 0:28:37.840 --> 0:28:43.280 That's us, that's five citizens doing it. So yes, there 0:28:43.360 --> 0:28:45.880 are lots of ways that we can engage, and I 0:28:46.360 --> 0:28:51.400 have to preach that getting engaged, you know, being a 0:28:51.560 --> 0:28:55.760 pole worker, being somebody who goes out and you know, 0:28:56.560 --> 0:29:02.200 Campick canvases for a politician who, if elected you actually 0:29:02.320 --> 0:29:05.640 have faith in, will try to do the right thing. 0:29:05.760 --> 0:29:08.800 Difficult though it may be working the phones, I mean 0:29:09.840 --> 0:29:14.400 helping some of these nonprofits that are actually attacking these problems, 0:29:14.960 --> 0:29:19.920 trying to fill the vacuum left by government sloth and 0:29:20.000 --> 0:29:23.240 in action. We all have to keep doing it. It 0:29:23.360 --> 0:29:26.960 doesn't feel like it's having an impact, but if we 0:29:27.160 --> 0:29:30.280 stop doing it, then we're just giving it all over 0:29:30.440 --> 0:29:35.960 to the greg Abbots of the world. Glenn, with a 0:29:36.040 --> 0:29:39.360 few minutes that we have left, there has been some 0:29:40.000 --> 0:29:46.640 developments with regard to Trump the insurrection, and you have 0:29:46.880 --> 0:29:49.640 learned some things that I was not aware of. So 0:29:50.120 --> 0:29:53.960 because my mind has been completely on you know, mass 0:29:54.040 --> 0:29:59.719 shootings and massacres. Where are we with Donald Trump at 0:29:59.760 --> 0:30:03.520 the insurrection as we prepare I guess upcoming in a 0:30:03.600 --> 0:30:09.640 few weeks for the prime time hearings. Yeah, really blockbuster reporting. 0:30:09.760 --> 0:30:12.760 I know we say that a lot. Nothing actually seems 0:30:12.840 --> 0:30:15.400 to bust the block I don't know if that's a thing. 0:30:15.560 --> 0:30:20.920 But the New York Times reported that Donald Trump said 0:30:21.480 --> 0:30:26.440 as the insurrection raged, as the capital was under attack, 0:30:26.600 --> 0:30:31.120 he said two things to Mark Meadows. One he said 0:30:31.800 --> 0:30:36.840 he was angry. He was upset that Mike Pence was 0:30:37.000 --> 0:30:42.400 being whisked away to safety while the Capitol was being attacked. 0:30:42.880 --> 0:30:47.720 The second thing he said, which is even more breathtaking, 0:30:47.840 --> 0:30:52.720 but maybe of less consequence. Ultimately, he said maybe, as 0:30:53.440 --> 0:30:56.240 his angry mob was chanting hang Mike Pence, he said, 0:30:57.000 --> 0:31:02.520 maybe Mike Pence should be hanged. And Mark Meadows recounted 0:31:02.600 --> 0:31:06.880 that to his Mark Meadows aids, who then told the 0:31:07.000 --> 0:31:09.200 J six Committee. Of course Mark Meadows is going to 0:31:09.240 --> 0:31:12.160 claim all his aids are lying, which is absurd. You 0:31:12.360 --> 0:31:20.160 hired them sport. So the second comment needs no further explanation. 0:31:20.440 --> 0:31:22.680