WEBVTT - Unstealable Joy 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.520 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wikay f Daily with 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:19.080 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. Folks, 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:27.120 I cannot contain my joy and I am just filled 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:37.040 with such pride and joy and excitement for the confirmation 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:42.800 of Justice Katanji Brown Jackson. Yes, she won't be officially 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:50.640 Justice Katanji Brown Jackson until stephren bryar Um officially leaves 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:54.600 the Supreme Court, but which will happen in June. But 0:00:54.720 --> 0:01:00.000 I gotta say, folks that yesterday, watching the final vote 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:06.680 come in, watching the history being made, watching vice presidents, 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:17.920 oftentimes missing Kamala Harris pound the gavel and declare that 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:24.800 she has been confirmed, is an extraordinary moment. And I 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:30.199 want us to take pause to celebrate and appreciate this 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:35.720 moment because they're fleeting right, because there is just so 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:40.200 much that is going on in our country and in 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:44.000 our world right now that it is so easy for 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:48.200 us to just speed bump over this right. Let it 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:50.800 just be a flash in the pan, and then something 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:55.240 catastrophic will happen tomorrow or later in the day and 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:59.320 this will all be lost. And this is why, friends, 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:02.840 I want to say on this Friday. Why meditation to 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:07.440 me has become so important and such an integral practice 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:12.560 of mine, and it is because it forces me to 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:16.600 be present. It forces me to be with my breath 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:20.959 and in my body at the time that I am practicing. 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:26.400 And it's so important because we future cast, that's what 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:30.680 I call it, future casting, when you start to make 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.800 up stories that we often tell ourselves in our minds 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:39.080 about what could possibly go wrong in the future. Renee 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:43.720 Brown referred to it as catastrophizing. Right when you are 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.880 your brain is working through all of these fight or 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:50.720 flight scenarios as a way to keep you safe. Sure, 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.560 but it also robs you of the joy that you 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:57.359 can experience in the present moment. And you know, by 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:01.239 virtue of where we are in our politics, it's really 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:05.840 easy for us to think about what the next few 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:08.440 months will look like, what the next few years will 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.359 look like. I mean, I am forced to do that 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:16.120 because of my line of work, but in my personal life, 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:20.239 I try really hard to be in the moments that 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:24.000 I am and to really like even when I find 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:28.080 myself kind of again going off the deep end, going 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:32.320 towards the dark side where it's so easy to live 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:38.120 I even physically will ground my feet if they're in 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:42.160 my shoes, if they are barefoot, I will ground my feet. 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:47.320 I will feel, you know, my hands, feel my body 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:52.400 as a reminder to send a signal to my brain 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:57.280 that I am here. And so when the gavel was 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:04.280 struck and the applause broke out in the chamber of 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:10.560 the Senate floor, I mean, my heart bursts right because 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:17.240 I realize, let's do away with those fucking racists, which 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.719 I will get to later in the show. Let's do 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:25.000 away with the disrespectful and awful treatment that we witnessed 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.520 over four days of her the confirmation hearings. Let's do 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:32.920 away with all of that, just for a moment, and 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:39.080 think about this. Two hundred and thirty some odd years, 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:44.520 two hundred and thirty some odd years, our court has 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:52.880 been filled with only white men, two black men, and 0:04:52.960 --> 0:05:00.480 if I'm counting correctly, I think now five women, Katangi 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:05.360 Brown Jackson being the first, the first black woman to 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:08.280 sit on the Supreme Court. And I want you to 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:13.000 think about, and I'm going to get choked up, think 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:21.440 about the image that sends to young people. And I 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:25.640 don't just mean like little black girls that are in 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.839 Kate through twelve. I'm talking about what it says to 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:33.599 young people, young Black women right now, who are in 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:39.840 law school, who are in clerking positions, that they can 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:46.800 be the second that one of the largest glass ceilings 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:52.799 that have hovered over our heads has finally been shattered 0:05:53.400 --> 0:06:06.600 and been shattered with a woman who has such grace, intelligence, beauty, right, dignity, integrity, 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:12.640 a woman with natural hair, which for many of you 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.520 may not seem like a big deal, but I just 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.400 want you to understand that we had to pass federal 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:24.880 legislation entitled the Crown Act that would bar discrimination against 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:30.280 mostly black women with regard to their hair presentation not 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:36.040 being seen as professional. If you remember, it was only 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:40.040 a handful of years ago that this was a huge 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:45.080 topic of conversation in the US military because they were 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:51.280 saying that braids that black women were using who were 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:56.960 in active duty did not fit uniform. Well, what were 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:00.080 they supposed to do? Shave their heads and putting our 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:03.159 hair just throwing it back in a ponytail like white 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:09.000 women do, is not healthy for our hair. That has 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:13.840 always been a point of contention about how we look 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:18.160 and how other people, namely white people, get to dictate 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:21.680 not only beauty standards, but what it means to be 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:28.240 a professional. So for Katangi Brown Jackson not only to 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:33.760 be this brilliant black woman, but for me and for 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:37.480 so many of us that had been told when we 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:42.600 were making our first steps, first foray into natural hair, 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:48.680 my own grandparents, God rest their souls, but my grandparents 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:52.200 when I told them that I was gonna lock my hair. 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.480 We're from Jamaica, by the way. When I said that 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.880 I was going to lock my hair, my grandparents were like, 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.640 where you're going to work? What kind of job are 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:07.560 you going to have? Because you see, we have always 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:14.080 Black people have always been raised to think about what 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:19.200 white people will think about us, and that we always 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:24.640 know and we're taught that their perception of us was 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:30.360 always going to be negative. And so then we would 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:36.760 have to be forced to spend our time and energy 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:45.920 making ourselves palpable to people who've never seen the need 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:49.960 to provide us with any dignity or respect, and frankly, 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:57.000 to go even further, still want to debate our humanity, 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.440 which is why we have to sit around and continue 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:05.640 to chant and march with regard to black lives. So again, 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:09.959 I just the weight, the layeredness. I won't even say 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:13.120 the weight, because the weight indicates that there is something 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.880 that weighs on us in this moment of celebration, and 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:22.800 it's not that, but the layers that are present in 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:27.920 this confirmation. For this woman, who she is, where she 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:33.480 came from, what she looks like, fucking matters in a world, 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:39.079 in a white world that has always seen black people 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:48.120 as less than. So to see her is to see 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:53.760 myself is for so many black women who have dealt 0:09:53.840 --> 0:10:00.000 with the kind of overt racism and series of microaggression 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:03.880 that we saw in four days, many have spent their 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:09.960 entire professional life working under that kind of duress and 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:13.920 for jobs that are not that prestigious, but that you 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:17.559 actually you do need right in order to put food 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.520 on the table. So you have to have the kind 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:26.319 of fortitude that black women have to have in this country, 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:32.800 right is extraordinary. And what pisces me off most often 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:38.560 with regard to that is how it's just overlooked. Right. 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:42.080 People want to give us the moniker of strong black 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:46.160 woman and either use that as a compliment or use 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:53.520 it as an insult, right, and neither should really exist. 0:10:54.520 --> 0:11:00.600 You use it as a compliment that denies the reasons 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:05.600 why we have to be strong, right, It makes the 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.880 responsibility of strength to fall on us rather than for 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:13.880 society to actually shift. It's always about how we can 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:20.800 contort to meet other people's needs and expectations, but not 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.120 the expectations that we should have on the world to 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:28.800 be better. And then when it's used as an insult, 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.360 it's like all black women are too strong, right, that's 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:36.160 why they never find a man or a woman. And 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.360 that's bullshit as well, because if you had to walk 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:45.719 through life not only dealing with consistent, consistent misogyny, and 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:49.200 then you want to add racism on top of that, 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:54.760 and there's a term for it, misogyn noir, right, which 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:59.760 is the complexity of living and dealing with the intersectionality 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:11.440 of being both. And so to see Katangi Brown Jackson, 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:21.120 to see her glowing daughters, to see her husband, her parents, 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:30.120 to think about the enormous weight that she was carrying 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:45.319 for those days of disgusting accusations by the White Supremacist Party, 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:50.920 Senator Corey Booker really encompassed in that now viral clip 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:56.880 how millions of us felt. And that's why I am 0:12:56.920 --> 0:13:05.400 saying I will not allow these racist white Republicans to 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:14.440 rob my joy. I will not allow them to live free. 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:18.320 In my head, day in and day out, I say 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.640 what the fuck I say, and then I move on, 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:25.520 because there is nothing that they want more than for 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:29.040 us to live a life that is in fear of 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:34.240 what they may do, right, to live a life of shame, 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:39.200 right for people like me who also happen to be queer. 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:48.160 So I won't give them that, and I don't want 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:53.120 you to give them that either. I want instead for us, 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:59.400 on this day, on this celebratory day, to give all 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:05.440 of what would be the negative, hateful energy that the 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:10.400 Republican Party rightly deserves. I want us instead to give 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:16.280 that energy, to shift it into the positive, into the beauty, 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:21.240 into the light. For Katanji Brown Jackson and her entire family, 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:29.000 her friends, her colleagues, everyone who got her to that moment. 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:32.680 I want us to give that energy to them, because 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:41.000 they deserve it. She deserves it, and for all of 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:49.880 the little black girls who will see not only not 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:56.440 only a vice president that looks like them, but it's 0:14:56.440 --> 0:15:04.560 Supreme Court justice that looks like them. Don't ever let 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.640 anybody tell you that something is impossible. Because it is 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:16.040 impossible until it is done. So I refuse to live 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:20.240 a life that is so small, because that is what 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:26.760 Republicans do, and that is what they want. They want 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:32.200 a small and to stay in our place. They want 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:37.840 a small so that we're just grateful for the scraps 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:41.960 that come our way and don't demand our just do 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:51.960 That's the purpose, you know, That's one of the effects 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:59.360 of their culture war campaign that they are raging is 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:03.440 to make all of us who have finally started to 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:11.240 be seen to feel like we are seen and accepted, 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:20.360 to go back to living fearful, small, shame filled lives. 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:33.800 And I refuse. I refuse. So on this day, I 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:40.560 celebrate Katangi Brown Jackson. I celebrate all of the black 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:51.720 women who feel seen, feel heard, feel celebrated for our extraordinary, 0:16:52.080 --> 0:17:00.720 extraordinary attributes that, for once, the exception and all black 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:07.720 lady black woman was not overlooked by for some mediocrity, 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:15.480 some white mediocrity, the audacity of those people to sit 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:23.440 up there and push through their last two disgusting representatives, 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:28.480 the last two justices, give me a break. Couldn't hold 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:34.200 a fucking candle to Katangi Brown Jackson. They don't even 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:40.600 deserve to sit on this same bench with her. But 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:44.960 we see you, Republicans, We know who you are. And 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:49.320 even though mainstream media loves to hold their tongue for 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:53.399 some semblance of neutrality, I call a spade a spade. 0:17:53.680 --> 0:18:00.520 Y'all are some racist, hateful, disgusting pieces of shit. Ted 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:07.000 Cruz is your representative. Lindsey Graham is your representative. Donald 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:13.240 Trump is your fucking deity. So how dare you, how 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:19.320 dare you even begin to come out your mouth with 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:25.960 any hotshit directed at this pristine black woman. And I'll 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:31.639 say this too before I move on to me. You 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:36.080 know what equity truly looks like. It doesn't look like 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:45.000 exceptionalism in order to be accepted. It looks like black people, 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:50.600 people of color being able to be as fucking mediocre 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:57.160 and basic as white people and still get the job, 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:04.480 still get the promotion. That's what equity looks like to me, 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:08.199 not that we all have to be exceptional, but that 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:14.680 we can all just be and still get the job done. 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:23.000 Switching gears, now, folks, you know I have been talking 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:25.720 about him, probably more than I am interested in ever 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:30.320 talking about Tucker Carlson. But the fact is that you 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:35.280 are seeing over the last couple of weeks, really series 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:41.280 of intense sanctions going out against Putin and Russia and 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:46.560 Russian oligarchs coming in from the G seven countries, the 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:53.800 United States and others in an attempt to break down 0:19:53.920 --> 0:20:00.399 Russia's economy. And Russia right now is currently ex boarding, 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:07.359 blackmailing all of Europe because they are dependent on Russia's oil, right, 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:10.280 and wheat and a lot of other shit that comes 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:16.399 out of that country. And we're seeing more sanctions because 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:23.520 of what we have seen transpire in Bucha and new 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:31.840 news of what has happened in Marapol. And what disgusts 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:40.600 me about Tucker Carlson and Fox News is that outside 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:46.560 of a handful of anchors, no one pushes back at 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:52.960 the fact that Kremlin talking points airing on American television 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:58.399 and networks to tens of millions of Americans across the 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:02.800 country is a threat to our national security. And I 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:08.960 really wish, among other things, that Democrats would actually push 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:14.120 back with forceful language as it pertains to Fox News. Now, 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:18.280 you may say, well, Danielle, there is you know, the 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:23.359 constitution freedom of the press, Okay, but you're not You 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:26.119 don't have just because we have freedom of the press, 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:30.200 that doesn't not mean that you are free from people's 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:34.399 opinions and pushback. And so while you may not be 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:37.560 able to actually shut down a Fox News and I 0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:40.520 argue that I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure 0:21:40.560 --> 0:21:44.040 that you could find ways to point to the fact 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:48.120 that they are a dangerous entity, right that they spread 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:54.600 lies about COVID that contributed to almost a million people, 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:56.960 if not over a million people at this time I've 0:21:57.000 --> 0:22:00.680 lost track losing their lives to COVID. That you can 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:06.600 point to the lies that they have told about somehow 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:12.399 Trump losing or having the election stolen from him, and 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:17.080 how that then planted the seeds for insurrectionists to go 0:22:17.160 --> 0:22:20.320 and try and storm and take over the Capitol building. 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:23.880 I think that there are many things that you can 0:22:24.080 --> 0:22:27.639 point to, and there is an actual criminal case to 0:22:27.840 --> 0:22:32.640 be brought against the network and their biggest talking heads 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:37.840 like Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingram. What you need is 0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:42.000 the actual will to do so, because the evidence is clear. 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:49.600 So what discuss me is that you have Fox News 0:22:49.640 --> 0:22:54.560 allowing people to come on air to plant seeds of 0:22:54.680 --> 0:22:59.199 doubt about what we have all seen images and video 0:22:59.440 --> 0:23:04.359 of out of Buscha and now Mattow Paul, how is 0:23:04.400 --> 0:23:09.160 that okay? How is it okay that Tucker Carlson can 0:23:09.200 --> 0:23:12.160 be labeled as like a news anchor because he's sure 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:15.119 as fuck is not a journalist, right like he is 0:23:15.160 --> 0:23:18.080 nobody's journalist. And you know, I remember I'm not because 0:23:18.119 --> 0:23:22.200 I am not too old. I remember when Tucker Carlson 0:23:22.280 --> 0:23:27.000 was on MSNBC. I fucking hated him. Then I thought 0:23:27.000 --> 0:23:33.400 that he offered absolutely nothing to anyone's fucking conversations. So 0:23:33.440 --> 0:23:37.440 the fact that he has turned himself into a caricature, 0:23:39.840 --> 0:23:44.000 a Russian puppet and asset, and then there is really 0:23:44.119 --> 0:23:50.439 no outcry of the poison that this network is spewing 0:23:50.960 --> 0:23:57.000 out into the public is really problematic because to me, again, 0:23:57.240 --> 0:24:03.240 if we had an activated Apartment of Justice, then we 0:24:03.320 --> 0:24:08.360 would have an outlet that would actually do something right, 0:24:08.520 --> 0:24:12.640 that would if nothing else, if nothing comes about an 0:24:12.720 --> 0:24:15.680 in depth investigation, then by all means, the point of 0:24:15.720 --> 0:24:20.120 an investigation is to find out information, right. I want 0:24:20.119 --> 0:24:22.720 to find out if Tucker Carlson is a Russian asset. 0:24:23.520 --> 0:24:25.439 I want to find out if he is bought and 0:24:25.560 --> 0:24:31.840 sold and is paid to spew lies and hate on 0:24:32.040 --> 0:24:36.720 national television at the direction of Vladimir Putin, at the 0:24:36.760 --> 0:24:39.960 direction of the Kremlin. How is that not pertinent and 0:24:40.040 --> 0:24:48.200 important information to know? How do you not decide to 0:24:48.359 --> 0:24:52.800 address these situations head on? You know? And I'll take 0:24:52.800 --> 0:24:59.120 it now to Merritt Garland, so you know, news comes out, 0:25:00.320 --> 0:25:07.919 news comes out that the Department of Justice has denied 0:25:08.359 --> 0:25:14.280 the ability of the House Commission to see the I 0:25:14.320 --> 0:25:20.600 think it is ten boxes of White House documents that 0:25:20.720 --> 0:25:25.800 Donald Trump took with him to Morrow lago. And initially, 0:25:26.000 --> 0:25:30.639 I'm like, why the fuck are they blocking the House 0:25:30.680 --> 0:25:38.199 Commission's ability to look through these ten boxes of documents 0:25:38.240 --> 0:25:41.040 that Donald Trump just walked out of the White House 0:25:41.119 --> 0:25:49.040 with without anybody saying anything, that he's had these for 0:25:49.800 --> 0:25:55.879 over a year. Well, it turns out that the reason 0:25:56.040 --> 0:26:00.960 why they're blocking the House Commission from getting said boxes 0:26:01.440 --> 0:26:04.879 and looking through them is because the Department of Justice, 0:26:05.320 --> 0:26:09.760 many believe, and what they've been trying desperately not to say, 0:26:10.320 --> 0:26:13.800 is that they have an ongoing investigation into Donald Trump 0:26:15.720 --> 0:26:20.520 and his criminal activity and behavior. Now, while I would 0:26:20.600 --> 0:26:25.120 like there to be more news about that so that 0:26:25.160 --> 0:26:30.040 we can continue linking Donald Trump and his entire entourage 0:26:30.400 --> 0:26:41.960 to criminal work right. The tepidness, right, the unsuredness that 0:26:42.119 --> 0:26:46.560 this Department of Justice displays and that democrats you know, 0:26:47.720 --> 0:26:53.200 readily show, is just so fucking disheartening. And I said 0:26:53.240 --> 0:26:57.160 this in a video that I posted on TikTok yesterday, 0:26:57.200 --> 0:27:02.560 that like, you can't lead from the back, right. I 0:27:02.640 --> 0:27:07.760 remember when I ran track and cross country in high school. 0:27:08.040 --> 0:27:11.679 You used to love running. And you know, while I 0:27:11.760 --> 0:27:14.320 was never the fastest person, I was not a sprinter either. 0:27:14.359 --> 0:27:18.080 I was a middle distance and long distance runner, which 0:27:18.160 --> 0:27:21.960 kind of makes Actually now, I haven't even never thought 0:27:21.960 --> 0:27:25.119 about why I have like stamina for the type of 0:27:25.119 --> 0:27:28.520 bullshit that I deal with with work, probably from that. 0:27:30.359 --> 0:27:36.080 But I say that to say that my coaches. You know, again, 0:27:36.119 --> 0:27:40.120 I wasn't the fastest person, but I was the one 0:27:40.200 --> 0:27:43.040 that was like called upon to get the team hype, 0:27:43.119 --> 0:27:49.000 to like come together, and you know, my voice was 0:27:49.040 --> 0:27:51.840 always appreciated and needed. And my coach used to say, 0:27:51.840 --> 0:27:55.719 you can't lead from the back, right, People will only 0:27:55.800 --> 0:28:03.359 follow you if you were out front. Democrats constantly think 0:28:03.440 --> 0:28:07.080 that they can lead from behind, think that they can 0:28:07.119 --> 0:28:09.720 just poke up their heads a little bit. But then 0:28:09.760 --> 0:28:11.600 they're like, don't hit me. Don't hit me. Don't hit me. 0:28:13.080 --> 0:28:24.400 You can't run shit like that. You have to be fearless, right. 0:28:24.720 --> 0:28:28.600 You got to call people out to check you and 0:28:28.680 --> 0:28:31.439 be like, so what do you all hot up in 0:28:31.440 --> 0:28:34.520 the collar about? Because the last time I checked, you 0:28:34.680 --> 0:28:40.120 did eleven hour interview with Hillary Clinton when she was 0:28:40.200 --> 0:28:46.440 Secretary State about Benghazi. You wasted tax dollars money for 0:28:47.080 --> 0:28:49.280 I don't even know how many fucking hearings were done, 0:28:49.480 --> 0:28:57.000 and it came up with zero indictments, zero because you 0:28:57.040 --> 0:28:59.000 didn't have a leg to stand on and it was 0:28:59.040 --> 0:29:03.320 all a media campaign. I wish that Democrats would do 0:29:03.360 --> 0:29:05.800 the same thing, because you know why, they have a 0:29:05.880 --> 0:29:10.080 fucking legal leg to stand on, because they have actual 0:29:10.360 --> 0:29:14.840 evidence of wrongdoing to point to to say we cannot 0:29:14.880 --> 0:29:18.840 allow this shit to slide. And they're gonna say that 0:29:18.880 --> 0:29:23.040 we are politicizing everything and anything, so we gonna take 0:29:23.040 --> 0:29:26.000 a hit regardless, we might as well do something. We 0:29:26.120 --> 0:29:29.040 might as well poke out our chest, put our shoulders back, 0:29:29.200 --> 0:29:32.120 and actually put our back into the fucking work that 0:29:32.200 --> 0:29:35.720 needs to be done to restore faith and integrity into 0:29:35.800 --> 0:29:42.200 our agencies and into our government. If you know that 0:29:42.320 --> 0:29:45.600 your opponent is gonna come for you regardless. Why is 0:29:45.760 --> 0:29:52.080 doing nothing the choice that you would make, because it 0:29:52.080 --> 0:29:56.400 wouldn't be my choice. Right If you're gonna hit me 0:29:56.440 --> 0:29:58.360 over the head, if you're gonna call me outside of 0:29:58.400 --> 0:30:00.800 my name, you're gonna call me everything a child of God? 0:30:01.560 --> 0:30:04.720 Why would I then think that the best move that 0:30:04.800 --> 0:30:08.120 I could make would be to sit silent or to 0:30:08.160 --> 0:30:12.760 call you my friend and think that somehow I'm gonna 0:30:12.840 --> 0:30:20.320 lure the hive of wasps to me with somebody's honey. 0:30:22.960 --> 0:30:27.080 It makes absolutely no sense. But these are the moves 0:30:27.120 --> 0:30:30.840 that Democrats make. They make moves from a place of fear. 0:30:31.800 --> 0:30:36.720 Everything they do is about reacting or trying to preempt 0:30:36.920 --> 0:30:39.280 what it is that they think that Republicans are doing. 0:30:39.480 --> 0:30:43.160 I don't give a fuck what Republicans are doing. I 0:30:43.280 --> 0:30:47.680 don't because I know that at the core of every 0:30:47.760 --> 0:30:51.680 move that they are making is about tearing our democracy apart, 0:30:52.200 --> 0:30:56.560 ripping up the Constitution, and inserting there forever king. I 0:30:56.800 --> 0:30:59.880 know that that is what they are doing, and Democrats 0:31:00.040 --> 0:31:02.400 know that that is what they are doing. So tell 0:31:02.480 --> 0:31:07.400 me again why you think slow walking and tepidness is 0:31:07.400 --> 0:31:11.480 the kind of energy you want to show up with. 0:31:11.800 --> 0:31:20.120 I have no idea but we have reached a place 0:31:22.440 --> 0:31:27.520 and a space in time when it's either you going 0:31:27.600 --> 0:31:34.560 to put your whole self in the game, right or 0:31:34.600 --> 0:31:37.200 you're just gonna lay down and let them have their 0:31:37.240 --> 0:31:45.080 way with this country, with everything that has been fought for, 0:31:45.760 --> 0:31:52.040 bled for. You're just gonna give up, because that's what 0:31:52.080 --> 0:31:58.880 the fuck it looks like. But you know the person 0:31:59.120 --> 0:32:02.640 that isn't giving up. You know, the person that I 0:32:02.680 --> 0:32:11.120 appreciate the most right now is our friend. And I 0:32:11.160 --> 0:32:14.360 say our friend because I just think that she is 0:32:14.480 --> 0:32:21.680 rock solid. New York Attorney General Tish James. New York 0:32:21.680 --> 0:32:26.080 Attorney General Tish James has gone to a federal court 0:32:27.880 --> 0:32:32.760 to say that Donald Trump needs to be fined ten 0:32:32.800 --> 0:32:36.720 thousand dollars a day for failure to show up to 0:32:36.960 --> 0:32:41.720 be interviewed to provide the documentation that is being asked 0:32:41.720 --> 0:32:45.680 for that like, I'm coming for him. Ten thousand dollars 0:32:45.720 --> 0:32:48.400 a day may seem like nothing to Donald Trump, but 0:32:48.440 --> 0:32:52.120 I'm gonna take it right because you're not going to 0:32:52.160 --> 0:32:55.440 sit around and dick us around here in New York 0:32:55.760 --> 0:32:58.560 like you've been doing for the past forty fucking years 0:32:59.440 --> 0:33:08.440 with your salum fucking buildings and your tax evasion. She's 0:33:08.480 --> 0:33:16.800 the only one to me who is actually working right, 0:33:17.000 --> 0:33:23.040 who is actually like yeah, so no, So she has 0:33:23.160 --> 0:33:27.000 asked a judge, not a judge, to hold excuse me, 0:33:27.120 --> 0:33:28.880 not a federal judge. Let me say that, not a 0:33:28.880 --> 0:33:33.400 federal judge, a judge, to hold Trump in contempt for 0:33:33.560 --> 0:33:37.240 refusing to turn over documents and find him ten thousand 0:33:37.320 --> 0:33:44.520 dollars a day until he complies. And I'm saying, yeah, 0:33:44.560 --> 0:33:49.680 that seems about right right, because I don't know what 0:33:49.720 --> 0:33:53.360 the fuck else we're going to do is just sit 0:33:53.440 --> 0:33:57.800 down and allow Donald Trump to dictate to us what 0:33:57.880 --> 0:33:59.920 he wants to do and when he wants to do it, 0:34:00.240 --> 0:34:03.120 like he's been allowed to do for way too fucking long. 0:34:04.680 --> 0:34:07.920 I'll tell you this too. What I find, also, ha 0:34:08.120 --> 0:34:15.879 ha funny is that look who else has decided to 0:34:16.000 --> 0:34:21.840 stick their head out after two high profile prosecutes prosecutors 0:34:21.880 --> 0:34:27.719 in his office quit Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District attorney 0:34:27.840 --> 0:34:32.359 who wouldn't release the letters of resignation from the two 0:34:32.520 --> 0:34:36.719 top prosecutors who were going after Donald Trump, who then 0:34:36.880 --> 0:34:42.960 quit in protests earlier this year because they don't know 0:34:43.080 --> 0:34:45.480 what the fuck is happening with the investigation and why 0:34:45.520 --> 0:34:48.000 nobody has been interviewed and they haven't been able to 0:34:48.000 --> 0:34:51.480 move forward in them and over a month and if 0:34:51.480 --> 0:34:54.279 you remember, I mean our friend Glenn Kirshner and I 0:34:54.320 --> 0:34:59.279 have talked about this many a times. Sivance before departing, 0:35:00.320 --> 0:35:04.000 called a special grand jury to stay sit for a 0:35:04.160 --> 0:35:07.600 longer period of time than their normal handful of weeks, 0:35:08.880 --> 0:35:16.520