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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Will Kate f Daily

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Speaker 1: with Meet your Girl Daniel Moody pre recording from the

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Speaker 1: Home Bunker, Folks. In today's conversation, I bring on one

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Speaker 1: of my faves and longtime analysts that we go to

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Speaker 1: every time there is a legal web to unravel, and

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Speaker 1: that is Glenn Kirshner. And in today's conversation, Glenn and

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Speaker 1: I look at what happened in twenty twenty three as

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Speaker 1: it pertains to ninety one charges for indictments across multiple

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Speaker 1: jurisdictions for Donald Trump. We talk about, you know, the

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Speaker 1: latest news around Rudy Giuliani being forced to pay nearly

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Speaker 1: mother and daughter, Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss that he

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Speaker 1: defamed and whose lives he destroyed. We talk about what

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Speaker 1: we think this unelected body, the black robes of the

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court will do now that Jack Smith has kicked

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Speaker 1: up a question to them, which is can former presidents

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Speaker 1: gives us his thoughts about whether or not he thinks

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Speaker 1: that the Supreme Court will rule in favor of democracy.

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Speaker 1: Or not, but what this setup is going to look

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Speaker 1: like for us in twenty twenty four, Make no mistake, folks,

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Speaker 1: everything is on the fucking line. And I keep trying

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Speaker 1: to get people to see that, to understand that, to

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Speaker 1: bite at this apple. Donald Trump gets in and he

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Speaker 1: is telling you he's going to be a dictator. On

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Speaker 1: day one. His a sycophants are telling you that they

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Speaker 1: that it's really important for us not to be placing

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Speaker 1: all of our bets on the fact that these legal

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Speaker 1: cases will transpire and somehow Donald Trump will find himself

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Speaker 1: Oval Office. The decision on whether or not he makes

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Speaker 1: on all of us deciding that we are choosing democracy,

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Speaker 1: not a person, not between Biden and Trump, but between

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Speaker 1: our freedom and our annihilation as a country of laws

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Speaker 1: that conversation with our friend Glenn Kirshner is coming up next, Folks.

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Speaker 1: I am so excited to welcome back to WOKF Daily

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Speaker 1: our friend, the host of Justice Matters MSNBC legal analyst

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Speaker 1: Glenn Kirshner, to kind of round out twenty twenty three

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty fourd's legal news. Glenn, I don't know that

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Speaker 1: when you went to law school, when you were even

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. I mean, the legal news. Your neck

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Speaker 1: looks good, but I'm assuming that your head has been

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Speaker 1: on a swivel for twelve plus months. Just give us

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Speaker 1: like an overview and your impression of the legal drama

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Speaker 1: that is played out in so many ways around Donald

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Danielle, after retiring, I did thirty years as a

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Speaker 2: federal prosecutor. I never thought my retirement would involve discussing

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Speaker 2: he will be a dictator on day one. That was

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Speaker 2: not on my bingo card. So where we are at

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Speaker 2: nothing that We've got this big orange mob boss, right,

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Speaker 2: four felony cases too federal and to state. That's a

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Speaker 2: presidential election being presided over by Judge Tanya Chutkin, and

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Speaker 2: there's a March fourth trial date. Now, that trial date

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Speaker 2: DC Federal Circuit Court of Appeals because Donald Trump appealed

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Speaker 2: Judge Chutkin's ruling that Trump ain't king and he can

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Speaker 2: Jack Smith did two things. Once Judge Chuckkins ruled that

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Speaker 2: It may take a few days or a week or two,

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Speaker 2: but it will be quick. Simultaneously, Jack Smith asked the

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Speaker 1: This was great explanation. And I have some follow up,

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Speaker 1: I can't say enough terrible things about the grifting of

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, do we already know, Glenn, how this is

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Speaker 2: You know, I have very little confidence in the Supreme Court.

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Speaker 2: As you say, not only have they been grifting, but

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Speaker 2: they have enjoyed their status of being above the law.

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Speaker 2: They have enjoyed operating under no mandatory rules of ethics.

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Speaker 2: When Congress begged and pleaded and the American people begged

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Speaker 2: ethics that applies to Supreme Court justices, what they gave

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Speaker 2: us was a pamphlet of suggestions. It says the Supreme

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Speaker 2: Court justices shouldn't act unethically, but they can. They can

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Speaker 2: ironic because they're actually the last stop for a government

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Speaker 2: absolutely not one shred of support. There are three sources

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Speaker 2: as a footnote that Kavanaugh wrote a paper twenty five

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Speaker 2: We saw it in the Roe v. Wade arena when

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Speaker 2: So consistency is not really their strong suit. But they

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Speaker 2: if they rule that a president is king above the law,

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Speaker 2: putting the Supreme Court out of business. Because Donald Trump,

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Speaker 2: They may say, oh, oh, he's not king. He can't

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Speaker 2: He can't do it. Right, So, one way or another,

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Speaker 1: Okay, so let's say right or wrong reason. They rule

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Speaker 2: So what happens is the Supreme Court can decide this

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Speaker 2: issue quickly or slowly. If they decided quickly, we should

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Speaker 2: DC for Dom Trump's election busting crimes democracy busting crimes.

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Speaker 2: That is entirely up to the whim of the Supreme

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Speaker 2: I still don't think. You know, listen, if they wanted

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Speaker 2: You know, it lands pretty well with me in theory.

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Speaker 2: But I think the signal it sends. And I was

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Speaker 2: It's great being with you. Danielle. In twenty twenty four

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Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent. That is it for me today.

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