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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to will gae F Daily

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Speaker 1: with Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from our

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Speaker 1: pod Stream studios in Times Square. Dear friends, you know,

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Speaker 1: sometimes I go on to Twitter and I'm like just

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Speaker 1: waiting waiting for the hashtag Trump indided, waiting for the

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Speaker 1: hashtag that is Trump is going to jail and it

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Speaker 1: actually be a real thing. We are still waiting for

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Speaker 1: that moment, although I feel like it is getting closer.

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Speaker 1: But I'm not going to hold my breath because i

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Speaker 1: don't want to pass out and knock my head. But

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Speaker 1: dear friends, something interesting has developed from the investigation that

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Speaker 1: had been underway by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

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Speaker 1: They issued a press release that will shock no one

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Speaker 1: that paid attention to the four years under Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: and the fact that he was using the White House

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Speaker 1: as essentially a cash cow, the fact that Mara Lago

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Speaker 1: was an extension of that place so that he could

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Speaker 1: meet with folks that wanted to wine and dine him

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Speaker 1: throw money into Mara Lago and throw money into his pockets.

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Speaker 1: But when the House Oversight and Reform Committee, run by

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Speaker 1: Representative Carolyn Maloney issued this statement, I was like, Oh,

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Speaker 1: is that what we're doing? So let me read you

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Speaker 1: the title. Committee chairs release new documents showing Mara Lago

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Speaker 1: Trio violated transparency law and improperly influenced veterans policies under

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Speaker 1: President Trump. Now in small print, lean in to listen

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Speaker 1: to this. Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, and other White House

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Speaker 1: when I'll tell you exactly how they were skirting the law,

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Speaker 1: because you know you'll conjure the memory of what about

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Speaker 1: her emails? So here's the statement. Today. Represent Carolyn Maloney,

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Speaker 1: Representative Mark Takano, Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs,

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Speaker 1: release new documents showing that Ike Pearl Mutter, Mark Sherman,

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Speaker 1: and doctor Bruce Mauskowitz, associates of former President Donald Trump,

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Speaker 1: known as the Mara Lago Trio, violated the Federal Advisory

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Speaker 1: Committee Act and attempted to exert improper influence over government

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Speaker 1: employees and policies involving the Department of Veterans Affairs. Here

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Speaker 1: is what the joint statement says. VERBTA, our Joint investigation

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Speaker 1: found that Ike Pearl, Mutter, Mark Sherman, and doctor Bruce Maskowitz,

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Speaker 1: bolstered by their connection to President Trump's private Moralago Club,

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Speaker 1: violated the law and sought to exert improper influence over

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Speaker 1: government officials to further their own personal interests. The documents

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Speaker 1: of the trio played in developing veterans affairs initiatives and programs,

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Speaker 1: including a hugely profitable plan to monetize veterans medical records.

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Speaker 1: The committee's investigation demonstrates the need for Congress to pass

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Speaker 1: the Federal Advisory Committee Transparency Act, which would ensure that

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Speaker 1: the American people know who is providing advice to federal

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Speaker 1: policymakers and would require agencies to disclose whether individuals on

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Speaker 1: advisory committees have conflicts of interest. Here's the thing, folks

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Speaker 1: about this, is that I am really fucking tired of

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Speaker 1: policy initiatives and acts being introduced that are nothing more

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Speaker 1: than lip service. What we want is, instead of an

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Speaker 1: into how this trio, among other people in the Trump

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Speaker 1: administration were using right their connection to Donald Trump, his

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Speaker 1: connection to power in order to enrich themselves. That is

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Speaker 1: breaking the fucking law. And yet we're calling for more

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Speaker 1: acts so that things like this don't happen. Do you

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Speaker 1: know what stops people from you know, undermining our democracy

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Speaker 1: in order to enrich themselves by throwing their asses in jail.

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Speaker 1: That's what stops them, not an act like many others

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Speaker 1: Last week, we were told that there were several folks

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Speaker 1: Our friend Glenn Kirshner will walk through later in the show,

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Speaker 1: will walk through exactly who is being subpoenaed by the

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Speaker 1: one six Commission, right and whether or not those people

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Speaker 1: the Trump administration, these motherfuckers took subpoenas as if they

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Speaker 1: were suggestions, as opposed to you know, you needing to

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Speaker 1: law to make yourselves present. Well, it's not a court

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Speaker 1: of law when the subpoenas come from Congress, but it

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Speaker 1: is in fact Congress does in fact have the power

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Speaker 1: And what we will learn from Glenn Kershner also throwing

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Speaker 1: seen as a partisan act. Republicans are going to call

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Speaker 1: quote unquote collaboration meetings and then they're going to walk away.

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Speaker 1: as government officials. We know what was moving through Mara Lago.

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Speaker 1: We know what was fucking moving through the Trump Hotel

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Speaker 1: You know, good, god damn well, that Republicans would not

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Speaker 1: have needed some deep level of research and investigation to

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Speaker 1: Obama years, Right, they just kept hammering and hammering and

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Speaker 1: for this information that is unearthed to be scoop up

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Speaker 1: by federal prosecutors and investigated. Right, that's what we need.

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Speaker 1: So this is where we are at this particular moment, right,

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Speaker 1: now with the investigations, and we will learn more in

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Speaker 1: our conversation with Glenn Kirshner about the four Trump entities

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Speaker 1: their role in the insurrection. All right, folks. Coming up

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Speaker 1: next is my conversation with our friend Glenn Kirshner, bringing

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Speaker 1: Glenn is here to walk us through the latest, Folks.

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Speaker 1: I'm always so thankful when we have the opportunity to

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Speaker 1: run through the latest legal breakdowns happening with the former administration,

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Speaker 1: news was that, finally, months after the putting together of

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Speaker 1: first major round of subpoenas. Six of Trump's closest aids,

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Speaker 1: we can expect in the coming days and weeks. So, Danielle,

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Speaker 1: I am the eternal optimist, bordering on being naive or polyganna.

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Speaker 1: And so I say that because of what I'm about

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Speaker 1: in the justice can be shop with these four With

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Speaker 1: these four subpoenas being issued, it doesn't mean justice will

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Speaker 1: here's why I think they're so important. First of all,

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Speaker 1: Patel and Scavino. These are Donald Trump loyalists, acolytes, sycophants,

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Speaker 1: one that's why they're important. But as you say, Republicans

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Speaker 1: like party invitations that you can politely or not so

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Speaker 1: These people who have been subpoened. First of all, they're

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Speaker 1: attack on our democracy. One. Two, guys like Steve Bannon

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Speaker 1: Have the courts learned anything from that experience? Because Danielle,

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Speaker 1: this lawfully issued congressional subpoena. You got two weeks to

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Speaker 1: the past when they would issue subpoenas lawful subpoenas, and

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Speaker 1: Let's run out the clock approach. Criminal contempt. Here's why

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Speaker 1: that real player. Why criminal contempt takes the Department of

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Speaker 1: Justice to cooperate with Congress. Right, criminal contempt not inherent contempt.

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Speaker 1: contempt is where somebody fails to comply with a subpoena

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Speaker 1: and the Department of the Congress makes a referral to

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