WEBVTT - Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.720 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay EFPI Daily with 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:18.640 Me your Girl. Danielle Moody, recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:24.040 I want to start off a Today's show on this Friday, 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:31.480 which will mark day sixteen, day sixteen into the war 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:37.440 in Ukraine, and I think that one of the things 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:41.000 that I find most troubling about what is unfolding, what 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:48.600 we're all watching, is we're watching real live footage right 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:55.400 war as it's unfolding for the first time on our phones, 0:00:56.120 --> 0:01:02.400 on our computers, on our televisions. There is a initial 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:07.480 outrage and shock that comes with the kinds of footage 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:13.360 that we're seeing. This week, a maternity hospital, a hospital 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:22.640 for pregnant people and children in northern Ukraine was bombed. 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:33.000 I watched on MSNBC a woman, a pregnant woman, visibly pregnant, 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:43.120 being brought out on a structure, and you see old 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:49.520 people getting bandaged on their heads. You're seeing craters the 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:57.720 size of I don't know, multiple car lengths now in 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:02.880 front of apartment buildings where once there were trees and gardens. 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:08.400 And we're watching this. In my fear, as we're watching 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:12.800 all of this unfold is a desensitization, right, that we're 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:18.160 going to become desensitized because we can watch these things, 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:23.280 these atrocities unfold from the comforts of our homes here 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.880 in the United States, where we are watching war play 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:30.320 out like some type of video game or the latest 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:34.680 action movie out of Hollywood. Realizing that the people that 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.600 we are seeing crammed at train stations and bus stations, 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:42.760 people that are walking for half of a day, twelve 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.560 hours or more in order to make it to a 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:50.600 bordering country for safe haven. That now in week three, 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:54.760 as we head into week three of Putin's aggression, Putin's 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:59.639 war in the Ukraine, that two million people, two million people, 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:07.200 three weeks, in three weeks time, have fled their homes, 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:12.000 their lives, their country, their jobs, their family, and their friends, 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:19.280 many leaving their husbands, their brothers, their colleagues, their uncles 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:25.760 behind to hold down the country and fight right and 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:33.720 fight against this aggression. And folks, I am, just as 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:38.320 all of you are, find myself some days, so incredibly 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:43.240 overwhelmed by the images, so incredibly overwhelmed by the despair. 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:50.600 Even as our Vice President Kamala Harris is in Poland 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:56.800 trying to negotiate with the polls what they are going 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:01.600 to do to help the Ukraine Zelenski. President Zelenski has asked, 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:06.680 we need fighter jets. We need the same fighter jets 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:10.840 that our pilots in the Ukraine can fly, and we 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:14.960 need them and we need them now. And the polls 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:19.600 made a fucking I don't even know what kind of 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:23.719 move you would call it. If you were playing spades, 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:25.919 you would say that they were trying to run the 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:30.839 table but didn't really have a good hand. The polls 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:36.240 were like, so, we have the fighter jets that you need, 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.440 but we don't want to let Putin know that we're 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:41.800 the ones that are going to give it to you 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:45.120 and that we're authorizing. So instead, we're going to do 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:49.719 some underhanded shit, which is we're going to give the polls. 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:54.560 We're going to give our fighter jets to the United 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:59.880 States for the United States to decide however they want 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:04.560 to use. Right those fighter jets, the United States then 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:09.960 will give us they're used fighter jets to replace the 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:13.440 ones that we are giving to them. Who then they 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:15.720 will be the ones the United States will be the 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:20.680 ones that putencies as responsible for giving the Ukraine the 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:25.800 fighter jets that they need and then the United States 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:29.040 turned around. It was just like, ah, so not it. 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:34.000 We're not touching your ship, which is why the Vice 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:38.279 President was deployed to Poland to come to some type 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:43.279 of agreement as to how NATO allies continue to aid 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:48.679 Zelenski in more than just upstanding ovation, right then, more 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:52.960 than just you know, aid at the border. But what 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:57.160 are we going to do? Because now reports are coming out, folks, 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:05.680 where based on United States intel, the intelligence community, reports 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:10.800 are coming out that Vladimir Putin is seeking to put 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:18.080 together some type of chemical attack. And we already know 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:23.040 right that at some point in time Putin is going 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:28.040 to be investigated for war crimes. But does that really 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:32.839 matter at this stage where we are? And one of 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.760 the questions that I thought I wanted to post to 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:41.680 all of you today that I heard was how long 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:48.120 is NATO? Is the United States going to allow this 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:54.640 war to continue? Knowing that if Putin releases chemical warfare, 0:06:55.240 --> 0:07:00.320 that this is escalation bigger than we have ever seen 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.600 since World War Two? And so are we going to 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:07.080 sit around and wait for millions of people like we 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.400 did in World War Two, where we waited for millions 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:16.000 of Jewish people to be slaughtered or are we going 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:21.960 to preempt what we know could be possibly genocide and 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:25.640 take action now? Now folks will say, well, we can't 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:29.760 take action now right. If we do anything, we are 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:37.040 certainly headed into World War three. None of the choices 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:41.560 that are at hand right now are good ones. And 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:45.680 I don't know if we all understand the gravity of 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:49.240 the situation that is at hand. Like again, we are 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:54.120 watching this safely from our living rooms, our cars, our homes, 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:56.720 on a walk or what have you, safely removed by 0:07:56.760 --> 0:08:04.320 an ocean right of what is happening. But the fact 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:08.000 is is that if you are putin and you are 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:12.640 somebody with nothing to lose, right and all the things 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:17.520 to gain, that if I just go completely ham meaning 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:23.840 I put on the most egregious attack right on civilians, 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:28.520 and I continue to escalate that, and those people that 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.560 are supposed to hold me accountable are only cutting off 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:38.440 my financial resources. But because I've already strategized ahead, knowing 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:41.319 that yes, sanctions were going to come and they were 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:43.960 going to be bad, and I will frame in my media, 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:47.960 which only dispenses bullshit, how this is an attack on 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.800 the Russian people, and this is an attack you know 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.640 from the West on Russia and all of these things. 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:59.360 Then I've already planned for these sanctions, right and I 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:03.840 am playing a different three dimensional chess right like, I'm 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:08.080 in a different space. So if you know that the 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.920 person that you're dealing with is ready to leave it 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:16.560 all on the fucking table with nothing to lose, then 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.920 you need to figure out what your response is going 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:25.400 to be, because it's not going to be diplomatic. I 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.760 personally believe it. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I am wrong, 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:33.160 and that there is still an opportunity for a diplomatic 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:38.600 resolution to where we are right now with Ukraine and Putin. 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:40.720 And I want to be clear that I say Ukraine 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.720 and Putin because the Russian people have no idea what 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:49.360 the fuck he's doing. Right. Russia, in the way that 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:52.520 their television is set up and their government is set 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.600 up and social media is set up, is that you 0:09:55.679 --> 0:10:00.680 are force fed alternative facts and lies, so much so 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:06.000 that even people Russian people who are in the Ukraine 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:11.680 calling home to their Russian families and are telling them, 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.959 do you hear that sound that is behind me? We 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:18.920 are under attack are being told no, you're not. Russia's 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:22.480 only going Our military would never do that. We're only 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.839 going after military places and barracks and all of these 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:29.800 things this way, would never attack civilians, And there's no 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:35.400 factual evidence to say. So they are saying that to 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:40.240 their family members who are on the phone in a 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:44.120 fucking burning building, and they're saying, you're lying to me, 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:55.040 because that's how brainwashed they have been by Russian television propaganda. 0:10:55.240 --> 0:11:01.600 So much so, folks, that Tucker Carl's sin and Fox 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:05.760 News and Republican members of Congress are doing the fucking 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:10.560 heavy lifting for Vladimir Putin even as he is in 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:15.040 the midst of being investigated for war crimes. This week, 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:22.400 Tucker Carlson said the most egregious things about the United 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:27.280 States working in cahoots with the Ukrainians and like force 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:34.840 feeding them with weapons and just lying providing Russian talking 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:39.640 points to Americans. And I keep saying, and I've said 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.240 it on social media, and I'm saying it again here, 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:47.240 like where the fuck is the FCC? When is enough enough? 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:52.720 We have, of course, certainly right freedom of speech, but 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.880 I can tell you in point too many moments in 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.200 our time and in our history where that has been 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:02.840 curtailed because it has been deemed as a national threat, right. 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:05.840 But this administration doesn't want to do that because we 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:09.800 don't want to seem quote unquote political, even as you 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:14.280 have an entire network that is feeding the American people 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:20.280 Russian propaganda. So we can't even be united as we 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:23.360 were in the past, united as a country against the 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:27.040 common enemy, because according to Fox News and Tucker Carlson, 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:30.840 Putin is their friend and it is Biden who is 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:35.280 the enemy. Tucker Carlson has one of the highest rated 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:47.160 shows in his fucking time slot and he's going unopposed. Also, 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:51.280 let me tell you something else that is and again, 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:56.520 we are paying so much attention to what is happening abroad, 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.480 whether it is with empathy or with sympathy, and we 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.200 are saying saying, oh my god, these poor people, and 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:06.959 again negating, ignoring, and I don't even know if now 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:13.800 I can just say that what we are ignoring the fascism, 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:19.240 the authoritarianism that right wing Republicans are spitting every single 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:23.760 place inside the halls of Congress, on Fox News and 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:28.280 in other places. And if we are not going to 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:32.000 actively curtail this and actively call it out and actively 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:36.880 frankly call it fucking treason, then what are we doing 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:43.080 we as I said two weeks ago, the Ukraine and 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:47.760 what Putin is doing there should be foreshadowing to what 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:51.680 Republicans and white evangelical Christians want to do in the 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:56.080 United States. They want to create this closed loop circuit 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.199 where the only information that you are given is what 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.600 it is that they want you to know, and that 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:07.160 all other avenues to actual facts right are going to 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:12.960 be negated. Republicans take control. It isn't just this boogeyman 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.040 of CRT that's going to come out of your kid's curriculum. 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:21.240 It's literally everything. Right. How are we teaching science these days? 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:25.120 If we're not talking about climate change? Right? How are 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:29.040 we talking about history and not putting not contextualizing it 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:35.480 with what is unfolding right now? What Republicans want is 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.600 what Russia has and what Putin has been able to do. 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.840 And our own members of Congress and our own media 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:46.320 are aiding him in his messaging war that he is 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.600 doing with his own people, and they are doing it 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:53.440 with our citizens here. So listen to this. This is 0:14:53.480 --> 0:15:00.280 some wild fucking shit. So this is according to The 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:07.320 Daily Beast, Representative Madison Cawthorne, Republican from North Carolina has 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:11.560 diverged from his party's stance on Ukraine in ugly fashion 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:18.640 take a list in calling President Zelenski quote a thug 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:24.160 and the country quote incredibly evil in a bizarre rant 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:27.720 caught on camera. It's not clear when the clip obtained 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:31.200 by w r a L was filmed, but former Bush 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:34.800 Chief of staff Carl Rove, who first mentioned the comments 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:37.560 in a Wall Street Journal piece, said it was filmed 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:41.080 at a town hall in Asheville last Saturday. At the 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:45.280 start of the clip, Cawthorne mentioned sending Stinger missiles to 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:48.960 the Ukraine for self defense, providing further evidence that the 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:54.000 clip was filmed after Russia's invasion began. Quote Remember that 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:58.240 Zelensky is a thug, Cawthorne said in his rant. Quote 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:03.760 Remember that the Ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt, and it 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:12.400 is incredibly evil, and it has been pushing woke ideologies. Meanwhile, 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:16.480 Cawthorne is battling right on his own three court cases 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:20.000 for driving offenses and is in the process of divorcing 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:23.080 a woman he says he met at a fake CrossFit 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:25.920 competition staged by a man he met in a casino 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:29.240 in Russia, where casinos are banned. Let me tell you 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:33.040 something like, you may want to laugh off this news 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:35.840 story and say, oh my god, look at this crackpot, 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:39.040 because this is the same way that we wanted to 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:42.360 laugh off Donald Trump and not pay attention to how 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:48.200 he had stuck his talents right into the foundation of 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:50.920 our democracy, and we wanted to laugh it off and said, 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:53.680 oh no, he could never become president. And oh no, 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:57.960 these Marjorie Taylor Greens, these Laura Beaubert's, this Madison Cawthorne, 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:02.280 They're just crazy. No, they are are not. They are 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.639 the mainstream of the Republican Party, which is no longer 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:09.119 aligned with democracy, not in this country and certainly not 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:13.760 around the fucking world. So when you're getting up on television, 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:17.640 when you're getting up at a donor event, right, and 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:25.520 you're saying Russian talking points that Vladimir Zelinski, who is 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:31.320 parted from his children and his family, is staying in 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:35.840 his country that is literally on fire to fight, is 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:41.840 being applauded by other democratic world leaders and their governments 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:45.840 around the world. But a member of our Congress is 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:50.720 referring to him as a thug and celebrating Vladimir Putin 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:54.600 on network television in the United States, and we don't 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:57.360 do anything about that because we want to say, oh, 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:01.400 freedom of speech. It is not freedom of speech when 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:06.159 it threatens their national security. It is not freedom of 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:10.560 speech when it is talking points straight out of a 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:15.400 dictator that is committing war crimes across the pond. That 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:19.879 is not freedom of speech. That is dangerous. And the 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:23.400 fact that we as a party do not call this 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.840 out everywhere in anywhere that a mic is put in 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:30.080 front of your face, the fact that we cannot tie 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:36.919 how fragile the Ukraine is right now, how fragile democracy 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.640 is around the world, with the fragility that we are 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:44.199 experiencing here at home, goes to tell me and you 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:48.520 that folks are not making the connections, and if they are, 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:52.680 they're too afraid to say so out loud. And if 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:55.800 we're too afraid to tell the truth in the face 0:18:55.960 --> 0:19:01.760 of alternative facts, lies and aggression, then when are we 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:05.399 going to tell the truth? If it's not going to 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:11.240 be now, then when is the right time? If we 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:13.840 are not going to say that not only is Fox 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:18.399 News evil, but that they are a threat and a 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:23.439 significant threat to our country, to our democracy At a 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:25.760 time when the world is on the brink of World 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:29.399 War three? When is the right time if you don't 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:32.560 have the backbone in the fortitude as a democrat that 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:35.760 is in power to say the buck is going to 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:39.679 fucking stop here. We as a country need to unite 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:42.919 because democracy around the world and in this country is 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:46.000 under threat, and we are not willing to do that, 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:50.520 then what are we willing to stand for? Because frankly, 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:53.000 it is not going to be enough to continue to 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:56.560 talk tough and not follow it up with any action 0:19:56.680 --> 0:20:02.760 here at home. The same way that Merrick Garland would 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:12.080 find himself. Merrick Garland found himself this week on MPR, 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:17.399 and on MPR he wanted to offer up the fact 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:20.960 that you know, once again, nobody is above the law 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:25.520 and that those that were criminally responsible for the outcomes 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:28.840 of January sixth will be held accountable and get this 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:34.040 in due time. We are eight fucking months away from 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:36.400 midterm elections, and I'm going to continue to say that 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:39.840 as we count down on woke af daily, we are 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:44.320 eight months away from midterm elections. What the fuck does 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:47.679 due time look like for a Department of Justice that 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:50.760 has been in control and in power for over a 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:57.159 year in a matter of a couple of days, the 0:20:57.200 --> 0:21:00.520 Department of Justice put together a task force to attack 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:04.280 Russian oligarchs and to seize finances of those that they 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:07.960 believe are financing Vladimir Putin. They did that in a 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:11.520 matter of days of war breaking out in the Ukraine. 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:15.720 Where is the energy for the American oligarchs? Where is 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:19.160 the task force that was put together on day one 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:22.560 of the Biden administration and on day one of the 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:27.359 Garland Apartment of Justice to ensure that every single person 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:29.760 that was involved, whether they were the foot soldiers that 0:21:29.960 --> 0:21:32.840 entered the Capitol Building on January sixth, or the ones 0:21:32.920 --> 0:21:35.960 at the top that funded the insurrection or wrote the 0:21:36.080 --> 0:21:39.679 memos for said insurrection, or then rally the troops on 0:21:39.720 --> 0:21:43.160 the Ellipses and sent them to the Capitol Building on 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:47.160 January sixth. If you are not going after and creating 0:21:47.160 --> 0:21:49.760 a task force to go after everyone from the foot 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:54.520 soldiers to the architects, and you haven't done so in 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:57.760 well over a year at this point, why should I 0:21:57.840 --> 0:22:01.320 believe you? When you are going on NPR and other 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:05.240 channels and again wanting to talk tough, but then not 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:11.240 offering the American people any insight into your investigation into 0:22:11.359 --> 0:22:16.080 the corrupt previous administration, all of their allies and I 0:22:16.119 --> 0:22:20.960 don't know the fucking documents over five hundred and fifty 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:24.000 interviews that came out of the commission, all of the 0:22:24.040 --> 0:22:27.240 documents that they have gathered, and then also the recommendation 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:30.840 that they've provided. What the fuck is Merrick Garland doing? 0:22:32.400 --> 0:22:36.800 What is he doing? Because it is the same bullshit 0:22:37.080 --> 0:22:40.000 that Joe Biden is doing, which is We're going to 0:22:40.080 --> 0:22:43.960 pound our chest and puff it out right and direct 0:22:44.040 --> 0:22:47.240 all of that hot energy towards putin But you don't 0:22:47.280 --> 0:22:49.919 have the same fire in your belly to hold the 0:22:49.960 --> 0:22:56.240 people in this country accountable for trying to undermine democracy. 0:22:57.040 --> 0:23:00.480 It is mind boggling to me. And again, and I'm like, 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:04.119 we are eight months away right by the time that 0:23:04.200 --> 0:23:08.360 folks cast their ballot, right for those that still actually 0:23:08.440 --> 0:23:11.199 have early voting, For those folks that are able to 0:23:11.240 --> 0:23:14.280 cast their ballot either a couple of weeks before or 0:23:14.280 --> 0:23:19.600 on the day of midterm elections, what are they going 0:23:19.640 --> 0:23:23.320 into that booth thinking? Are they going to go into 0:23:23.320 --> 0:23:26.600 that booth thinking that, Oh my god, thank god Democrats 0:23:26.600 --> 0:23:28.959 have been in charge for all of this time because 0:23:29.160 --> 0:23:31.760 we got voting rights, we have a handle and have 0:23:31.800 --> 0:23:35.080 some legislation moving around climate change, that we are holding 0:23:35.080 --> 0:23:39.160 those responsible for undermining our democracy and we're going after them. 0:23:39.320 --> 0:23:43.920 What are you going into the voting booth and thinking 0:23:45.560 --> 0:23:49.880 in November, Because I'll tell you what I'm thinking. I'm 0:23:49.920 --> 0:23:52.680 thinking that Democrats don't have anything to fucking run on. 0:23:53.640 --> 0:23:55.760 I'm thinking that running on the fact that you are 0:23:55.840 --> 0:24:01.640 not Donald Trump is not going to be enough. I'm 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:04.960 thinking about the fact that when Republicans do seize power 0:24:05.920 --> 0:24:10.520 that Merritt Garland's whole fucking oh, I don't know backwards 0:24:10.600 --> 0:24:17.280 momentum in terms of going after those responsible for our insurrection. Well, 0:24:17.320 --> 0:24:19.720 his time is going to be up. But then he's 0:24:19.760 --> 0:24:21.119 going to be able to get in front of the 0:24:21.160 --> 0:24:23.720 cameras and give a bunch of lip service as to 0:24:23.800 --> 0:24:26.800 how Republicans are coming up the works. And what I'm 0:24:26.840 --> 0:24:30.520 going to remind everybody of when that happens, because it will, 0:24:31.480 --> 0:24:35.320 is that you had well over a year of unobstructed 0:24:35.359 --> 0:24:39.320 influence from Republicans because you had control over the Senate 0:24:39.359 --> 0:24:44.280 and the House and the executive branch. So what were 0:24:44.320 --> 0:24:56.680 you doing during that time? It is every day is 0:24:56.720 --> 0:24:59.200 just another day that I'm like, this is not great. 0:25:01.040 --> 0:25:03.440 We are not headed in the rest the best direction. 0:25:04.280 --> 0:25:07.159 We are not doing the things that are necessary in 0:25:07.280 --> 0:25:10.240 order to preserve what little democracy that we have here. 0:25:12.480 --> 0:25:15.600 And as we are watching the Ukraine play out, and 0:25:15.680 --> 0:25:21.879 we're watching two million people fleet, We're watching hospitals and 0:25:22.560 --> 0:25:32.840 homes and fucking office buildings and everything be bombed, what 0:25:32.960 --> 0:25:37.119 would happen you think if it was Donald Trump and 0:25:37.200 --> 0:25:40.000 Republicans that were in charge of the presidency right now. 0:25:41.119 --> 0:25:45.520 One of the questions that was asked to on cable 0:25:45.600 --> 0:25:53.399 news this week was, you know, you have Putin. Many 0:25:53.440 --> 0:25:55.560 believe he's a sociopath. I mean, they call the man 0:25:55.600 --> 0:25:57.760 a whole host of things. What we do know to 0:25:57.840 --> 0:26:01.280 be true is that he's not dumb, right, He's evil, 0:26:01.520 --> 0:26:04.640 and there's nothing worse than evil but smart evil. Right. 0:26:05.720 --> 0:26:08.360 So the question was asked, well, why do you think 0:26:09.000 --> 0:26:14.800 that Putin didn't invade Ukraine when Donald Trump was president 0:26:14.840 --> 0:26:17.760 of the United States, And the response of one of 0:26:17.800 --> 0:26:22.440 the former diplomats from the Ukraine said this, Well, if 0:26:22.440 --> 0:26:26.000 you're getting everything that you want from the current sitting 0:26:26.240 --> 0:26:29.359 American president, then why would you want to upset the 0:26:29.359 --> 0:26:35.000 apple cart? But Vladimir Putin was betting on the fact 0:26:35.080 --> 0:26:38.520 that Donald Trump was going to win a second term, 0:26:39.720 --> 0:26:42.480 and so he was going to get what it was 0:26:42.520 --> 0:26:46.480 that he wanted from Donald Trump. Then once he saw 0:26:46.560 --> 0:26:49.359 that Trump was no longer going to be in power, 0:26:49.920 --> 0:26:52.920 Democrats were going to take over, and people who actually 0:26:53.040 --> 0:26:58.080 understand foreign affairs who were going to be in charge, 0:26:58.280 --> 0:27:00.360 he was like, well, then I don't have any other 0:27:00.400 --> 0:27:06.600 fucking choice. And while I think it's absolutely crazy that 0:27:06.680 --> 0:27:12.680 apparently we have laws around war and justifiable murder and 0:27:13.280 --> 0:27:17.040 not right, what weapons can be used and what can't, 0:27:18.400 --> 0:27:26.120 the fact remains that you have Republicans in this country 0:27:26.160 --> 0:27:30.120 that are on the side of Putin, and folks, we 0:27:30.200 --> 0:27:35.240 have never seen that before. We have never seen a 0:27:35.400 --> 0:27:43.080 divided America in the face of a global war. And 0:27:43.200 --> 0:27:47.840 I say global because everybody, whether they want to or not, 0:27:48.280 --> 0:27:52.240 is slowly but surely going to be pulled into this 0:27:52.320 --> 0:27:58.960 fucking invasion of Ukraine. We have power off at Chernobyl, right, 0:27:59.160 --> 0:28:04.280 the quote unquote defunct nuclear power plant. We got another one, 0:28:04.359 --> 0:28:09.040 the largest in Europe, which was seized by Putin. Right, 0:28:11.720 --> 0:28:14.560 I'm sitting here and I'm thinking to myself and I'm 0:28:14.600 --> 0:28:19.679 just like everyone is trying to avoid escalation in the 0:28:19.760 --> 0:28:26.640 face of Putin actually escalating daily if he stages a 0:28:26.760 --> 0:28:35.080 fucking chemical attack against civilians, what options does the United 0:28:35.119 --> 0:28:38.880 States and NATO have left if not to get involved. 0:28:39.320 --> 0:28:42.640 Because if every single person who is getting on cable news, 0:28:42.760 --> 0:28:46.760 who has intimate knowledge of Russia, of Putin and of 0:28:46.840 --> 0:28:49.959 the Ukraine, and they are telling you that this man 0:28:50.280 --> 0:28:53.000 is not going to back down, that this is an 0:28:53.040 --> 0:28:57.560 all in type of situation, you have diplomats in both 0:28:57.600 --> 0:29:00.479 the Ukraine and Russia that we're meeting in turn, and 0:29:00.520 --> 0:29:03.880 guess what they came to. No fucking agreement, Because I'm 0:29:03.880 --> 0:29:06.920 telling you, Putin is leaving it all on the fucking 0:29:07.000 --> 0:29:11.000 field right now. He is not going This is a man, 0:29:11.360 --> 0:29:15.880 right this, This is a man that embodies think about this, 0:29:15.960 --> 0:29:20.800 that embodies toxic masculinity. Right. Everything that he does, from 0:29:21.200 --> 0:29:24.520 riding bare chested on the back of a horse from 0:29:24.880 --> 0:29:28.440 it is his machismo, right, it is his bravado. This 0:29:28.560 --> 0:29:32.160 is what Trump and Republicans are attracted to because they 0:29:32.200 --> 0:29:36.680 are so frail, right, so spineless, so feeble as men, 0:29:37.280 --> 0:29:42.360 that they are attracted right to the presence, just the 0:29:42.440 --> 0:29:48.560 sheer presence of toxic masculinity gets them going. Right, So, 0:29:48.600 --> 0:29:54.160 if you are a man former KGB like Putin, who 0:29:54.160 --> 0:29:57.520 believes that all of your power as a man comes 0:29:57.560 --> 0:30:03.080 from force, do you think that given that psychology, right, 0:30:03.160 --> 0:30:06.560 given this armchair psychology that I just get that I 0:30:06.640 --> 0:30:10.280 just gave all of those things being true? Do you 0:30:10.360 --> 0:30:12.800 think that this is the type of man that, when 0:30:13.920 --> 0:30:17.680 met with all of the eyes of the world on him, 0:30:17.880 --> 0:30:20.800 that he's going to back down and show any sign 0:30:20.880 --> 0:30:25.000 of weakness, that like he couldn't handle it, even if, 0:30:26.000 --> 0:30:29.920