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Speaker 1: Good morning, Peeves, and welcome to wok F Daily with

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Speaker 1: me your girl, Danielle Moody recording from the home Bunker. Folks,

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Speaker 1: I'm very excited. It's been so long since we've had

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

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Speaker 1: Glenn Kirshner on wok F, and I'm very excited about

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Speaker 1: his return this week to break down all of the

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Speaker 1: legal woes surrounding Donald Trump and answer some very real questions.

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Speaker 1: Will we see anything transpire at the federal level with

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Speaker 1: any of these cases that are being brought against Donald Trump?

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Speaker 1: Or are we just all sitting ducks waiting for the

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Speaker 1: decisions from the Supreme Court that he is staffed? And

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Speaker 1: you know, is it that basically are the biggest wins

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Speaker 1: that we are going to get is in the Egene

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Speaker 1: next is the Alvin Bragg hush money case? Right Like?

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Speaker 1: Is it that? And that he will face absolutely no

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Speaker 1: federal charges whatsoever. And frankly, if he is able to

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Speaker 1: win election, all of this is just gonna go away

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Speaker 1: and then get really really really really really really really

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Speaker 1: really bad for everyone else who believes in democracy and

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Speaker 1: the rule of bloss So that conversation with my friend

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Speaker 1: Glenn Kirshner is coming up next. Folks. I am so

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Speaker 1: very happy to welcome back to wok F after a

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Speaker 1: long time away our friend Glenn Kirshner, MSNBC legal analyst

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Speaker 1: and the host of Justice Matters. Glenn, My goodness. I honestly,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how you keep your head on straight

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Speaker 1: with the bevy of legal news that you are now

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Speaker 1: having to follow, But I believe that the last nine

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Speaker 1: years have had you earn your law degree multiple times back.

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Speaker 1: But as of the time of this recording, Peter Navarro,

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump's former White House advisor, is now required to

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Speaker 1: report to prison by March nineteenth in Miami. Talk to

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Speaker 1: us about this because I forget all of who is

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Speaker 1: supposed to go to jail at this point, So remind

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Speaker 1: us about Peter Navarro, what he did and why he

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Speaker 1: is now getting ready to serve four months.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Peter Navarro is infamous for giving the coup the

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Speaker 2: January sixth Coup a catchy name the Green Bay Sweep,

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Speaker 2: which was a famous power play by the Green Bay

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Speaker 2: thought somehow giving a coup attempt acute name, I don't know,

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Speaker 2: distracted people from the fact that it was criminal. So

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Speaker 2: now Peter Navarro is about to be green Bay swept

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Speaker 2: right into the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He has a

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Speaker 2: report date. Judge Mato, who presided over Navarro's trial, gave

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Speaker 2: him a report date to the BP, the Bureau of

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Speaker 2: Prisons of March nineteen. So, but what people should know

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Speaker 2: is this is not a conviction of Peter Navarro for

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Speaker 2: crimes involving the attempted overturning of the presidential results. This

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Speaker 2: is in some ways, this is even worse. After he

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Speaker 2: he was subpoenated by Congress by the j sixth Committee

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Speaker 2: about the evidence of criminality he could provide about Donald

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Speaker 2: Trump and others. And instead of complying with that lawfully

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Speaker 2: He defied the subpoena. He blew it off and he

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Speaker 2: He was charged with two counts of contempt of Congress.

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Speaker 2: He went to trial, he went down in Flames. I

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Speaker 2: He has been trying to delay that. You know, he's

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Speaker 2: I still fully expect if the rule if Danielle and

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Speaker 2: facing another big, mega indictment. Whenever we see the next

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Speaker 2: indictment drop by Jack Smith and or the Department of Justice. Remember,

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Speaker 2: in the indictment of Donald Trump for trying to overturn

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Speaker 2: But what a difference a judge makes. A Trump appointed

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Speaker 2: Peter Navarro was convicted by a jury sentenced to four months,

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Speaker 1: So let me ask you this, because given that the

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Speaker 1: moving at all on pace with our upcoming election in November.

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Speaker 1: Would Jack Smith, you think, do a pivot where he

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Speaker 1: again we're not just talking about running out the clock

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Speaker 1: all of the people, because if he becomes president again,

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Speaker 2: It's such a great point about the Jack Smith pivot, right,

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Speaker 2: should he just start bringing all of these other charges

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Speaker 2: Trump's prosecutions that is an intensely sort of tactical decision

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Speaker 2: the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the absolute immunity

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Speaker 2: don't have to. They should issue their opinion by June thirty,

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Speaker 2: at the end of the term, hopefully sooner. So I

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Speaker 2: feel my sense, Danielle, is that the tactical calculation is

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Speaker 2: we've waited this long, and let's see if we can

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Speaker 2: meaning there's no absolute presidential immunity, and then let's get

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Speaker 2: one of these Donald Trump cases to trial before the election.

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Speaker 2: You know what, Donald Trump could literally be in a

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Speaker 2: But I think it's a great question should he pivot,

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Speaker 2: I think that is probably something that is being robustly

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Speaker 1: Walk down the dark tunnel with me for a minute.

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Speaker 1: If the Supreme Court, Glenn decides to, you know, do

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Speaker 1: just throwout precedent, right, throw out the Constitution, like they

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Speaker 1: And that's clearly what the fourteenth meant. And this section

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Speaker 2: I feel like we've been living in this dark tunnel

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Speaker 2: that also means a president of the United States could

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Speaker 2: none of that makes sense to me, because the Constitution

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Speaker 2: So I think, for every conceivable reason, the Supreme Court

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Speaker 2: I can't conceive of them saying a president is king,

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Speaker 2: but maybe that is just how desperate they are to

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Speaker 1: Our job, right is to analyze and kind of look

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Speaker 1: for the what if I'm like, is the decision in

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Speaker 1: some type of twisty, you know, decision that both exempts

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Speaker 1: president exists but not above the law. Like, is there

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Speaker 1: a world in which they give Donald Trump something? Or

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Speaker 2: I think, first of all, the Supreme Court justice is

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Speaker 2: Right, So the first You're right, only civil cases have

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Speaker 2: So I think under the laws of New York, falsifying

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Speaker 1: the same same. Thank you, Glenn as always for making

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Speaker 1: Until the end, right, yeah, until the end, whatever that

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Speaker 1: end is. That is it for me today. Dear friends

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