1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to okay F Daily with 2 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody actually recording live from the 3 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:23,080 Speaker 1: Brooklyn Bunker. UM, folks, I want to start off today's 4 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 1: show with an apology. UM. Last week ended in such 5 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:33,839 Speaker 1: an incredible uproar both just I mean, I don't I 6 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:36,239 Speaker 1: don't even need to go into detail. There was just 7 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: a lot of emotion, a lot of things transpired, a 8 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:43,199 Speaker 1: lot of news broke, and in the midst of that, UM, 9 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:46,160 Speaker 1: we lost track of the fact that we hadn't recorded 10 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 1: UM today's opening. And you know, but realizing that both 11 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 1: myself and my producer Andrew, who is who makes the 12 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 1: show UM go up and happen on a regular basis, 13 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 1: we're exhausted and so took the weekend and then surprise 14 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 1: didn't realize ahead of time that we hadn't put up 15 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: today's show. So that is the reason why it is late. 16 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: I asked that you give the both of us grace 17 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:19,959 Speaker 1: because it's something you know, we take our work, We 18 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:24,120 Speaker 1: take this work, particularly in this time, incredibly seriously. We 19 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 1: also take our mental health and our rest serious as well. 20 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 1: And in our rush to put the week behind us, 21 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 1: you know, were didn't, you know, forgot things and that happens. 22 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:42,119 Speaker 1: So I say that to say I appreciate all of you. 23 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:46,080 Speaker 1: You are important to us, to me, and we will 24 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 1: do our best to make sure in the future that 25 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 1: that does not happen again. All right, So over the weekend, 26 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 1: I really do hope that you all took a much 27 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 1: needed break from the news. Too many people, too many 28 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 1: of my friends did not and were glued to Twitter 29 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 1: and we're glued to Instagram and we're glued to the news. 30 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 1: And it was a lot and I got a lot 31 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:14,959 Speaker 1: of messages sent to me by you know, various people 32 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:19,400 Speaker 1: in particular, talking about what they are seeing as even 33 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:24,800 Speaker 1: a more egregious act on top of the horrific images 34 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 1: that we had seen since Russia, since Putin. I will 35 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 1: say I'm not going to you know, I'm also going 36 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 1: to be mindful, more mindful than the mainstream media. This 37 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 1: is not Russian aggression against the Ukraine. This is Putin's 38 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:44,799 Speaker 1: aggression against the Ukraine. And the fact is that his 39 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: own country is not behind him. That we have seen massive, 40 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 1: massive historic protests taking place in Estonia, taking place in Amsterdam, 41 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,960 Speaker 1: taking place all over the world, take place here in 42 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:06,120 Speaker 1: New York City. Massive protests taking place in Russia where 43 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 1: the penalty, the penalty for this type of you know, 44 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 1: domestic disobedience right can meet you with not only physical scars, 45 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:23,959 Speaker 1: but emotional ones as well. We're talking about an environment 46 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:28,639 Speaker 1: where it is illegal for you to protest, right that 47 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 1: you can be slapped with fines and jail time or worse, 48 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 1: depending on you know, how favorable the police and the 49 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 1: government are feeling to you at that time. I mean, 50 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: this is what it is like, what it is going 51 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 1: to be like to live in a country whose leader 52 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 1: gets to do whatever the fuck they want, right, and 53 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 1: there is no there there is no accountability, right, they're 54 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 1: accountable to no one but themselves. And by virtue of 55 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 1: the Russian people risking their own safety and lives in 56 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 1: order to say to show the world right that we 57 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 1: are not with this man. Is courage beyond. Right, is 58 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 1: courage beyond And you know, when we are watching and 59 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 1: seeing images of Ukrainian people, you know, taking up arms, right, 60 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 1: they told, they said to all of the men in 61 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:27,600 Speaker 1: the country, if you are of you know, fighting age, 62 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 1: that you can send your family, you know, off to safety, 63 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:34,720 Speaker 1: but you must stay here and defend your country, and 64 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:38,160 Speaker 1: there are many women that are doing the same. There 65 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 1: are many old people older than that can fight that 66 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 1: are doing the same, that are like, we're not going 67 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:48,040 Speaker 1: out like this. And I think that the extraordinary courage 68 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 1: that they're showing, the bravery is amazing, but it is 69 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 1: also they shouldn't have been put in that position. No 70 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:58,919 Speaker 1: one should be put in that position. And what pains 71 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 1: me right now about the mainstream news, And I know 72 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 1: that I oftentimes rail against mainstream media because I think 73 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 1: that when you have tens of millions of people watching 74 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 1: your shows, watching your networks, and you are so fucking 75 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 1: irresponsible in your coverage, right, you are the perpetuator of 76 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:23,159 Speaker 1: white supremacy. You are the perpetuator of stereotypes and lies. 77 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 1: You tell me why in this country where we have 78 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 1: just a significant population of Ethiopians, just as significant population 79 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 1: right to those that are in the Ukraine, why you 80 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,280 Speaker 1: don't cover how their countries are being ravaged by war. 81 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 1: Why it is okay to say, oh my god, when 82 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 1: you look at the whiteness of these people's skin and 83 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 1: you say, how could this happen? How could this be 84 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 1: happening to them? But it's something that you assume would 85 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 1: happen to Ethiopians or Palestinians or you know, Persians or 86 00:05:56,520 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 1: what have you. Like, you assume, you know aura and 87 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:05,159 Speaker 1: tragedy in those areas of the world. But oh, if 88 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:10,239 Speaker 1: it happens to be in an area that is predominantly white, right, 89 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:13,159 Speaker 1: then oh my god, we must do all the coverage 90 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:16,359 Speaker 1: because stuff like this just doesn't happen here. So what 91 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 1: you're saying, right, And Amanda Sials, who I cannot stand 92 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 1: the actress Amanda Seals, but I thank my friend Alicia 93 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 1: who sent me the video of her. Amanda Sials said, So, 94 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 1: what you are saying then, is that these other people 95 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 1: in these other countries, in these other parts of the 96 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:40,720 Speaker 1: world are not civil like, they're not real people, right, 97 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 1: They're not people worthy of empathy, they're not people worthy 98 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:49,600 Speaker 1: of of compassion, they're not people worthy of value in 99 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:54,360 Speaker 1: terms of coverage, right, And so how do you change 100 00:06:54,600 --> 00:07:00,479 Speaker 1: the perception of regions and certain countries by humanizing them? 101 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 1: And mainstream media has the opportunity and dare I say, 102 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:08,600 Speaker 1: the fucking obligation to do so, but they don't because 103 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 1: those that are sitting in the c suites look and 104 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 1: are white and are addicted to whiteness, right and the 105 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 1: power thereof. And any time that someone else says, well 106 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 1: what about everybody else? Oh, why do you have to 107 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:27,560 Speaker 1: bring race into it? Understand that race is brought into 108 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 1: every fucking thing by virtue of you being intentional or not. 109 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 1: So you can be intentional about what is missing, what 110 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: perspectives are missing, what coverage is missing, or you can 111 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: just choose not to cover it at all, but understand 112 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 1: that the decisions that you are making are decisions that 113 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 1: are built and based on race and racism, which brings 114 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 1: me to what people have been sending me all weekend long. 115 00:07:56,840 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 1: There are horrible stories once again coming out of the 116 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 1: bordering nations to the Ukraine that are white nations that 117 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 1: are turning away immigrants of color, namely African immigrants, right, 118 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 1: Latins immigrants, Muslim immigrants, right, that they are turning people 119 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 1: away and letting the white Ukrainians pass. But all of 120 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 1: those other people that happen to be in the Ukraine 121 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:32,760 Speaker 1: that are also human fucking beings, that are also fleeing 122 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 1: violence and looking for safety with their families and are 123 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:40,000 Speaker 1: literally and figuratively being left out in the cold because 124 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 1: they are looking at them, looking with tears and fear 125 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:46,200 Speaker 1: in their eyes and saying that your melanin does not 126 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 1: match what we want in our country. And I tweeted 127 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:55,520 Speaker 1: this weekend and I said, why is it so difficult 128 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 1: for white people to be decent? And I am asking 129 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:03,840 Speaker 1: that question outright, why is it so difficult to just 130 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:09,240 Speaker 1: be fucking kind to people who are not white? I 131 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 1: don't get it. I really don't. And as a black 132 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:16,320 Speaker 1: person in this world, not just in this country, but 133 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:21,680 Speaker 1: in this world, living in this black body, knowing that everyone, 134 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 1: everyone fucking hates you, you have no idea what that 135 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 1: feels like. By virtue of nothing other than your existence 136 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 1: in a black body, that you are dismissed in your 137 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 1: moment of need because your moment of need cannot possibly 138 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 1: be the same as what the white person that is 139 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:52,959 Speaker 1: fleeing along next to you. It's disgusting. And for people 140 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:54,679 Speaker 1: to say, like, oh, why do we have to bring 141 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:56,840 Speaker 1: race into Why the fuck do you have to bring 142 00:09:56,920 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 1: race into it? Why is it so difficult for white people, 143 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 1: not just in America but around the world to see 144 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:10,959 Speaker 1: black people and other people of color as people worthy 145 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:18,000 Speaker 1: of safety, of shelter, of compassion, of empathy, of love. 146 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:22,680 Speaker 1: Why is that so difficult? How is it that your 147 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 1: reptilian brain right which is functioning on flight flight and 148 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 1: flight mode? How is it that you don't look at 149 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:33,840 Speaker 1: the person next to you who is doing the same 150 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:36,720 Speaker 1: and say, how can I help you? Because you are 151 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:39,960 Speaker 1: my brother and my sister in tragedy at this time 152 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 1: that we are forging a bond that others will not 153 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:45,959 Speaker 1: be able to see or understand unless they are in 154 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 1: literally these shoes. But no, in the midst of tragedy, 155 00:10:54,440 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 1: you find time to create more tragedy, and that, to 156 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 1: me is outrageous. Don't talk to me about people's borders 157 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:07,320 Speaker 1: being overwhelmed, and don't talk to me about COVID, because 158 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 1: when you are letting in thousands and thousands of white 159 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:16,640 Speaker 1: people and denying everybody else, you are sending a very 160 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 1: clear message and we get it. But don't think that 161 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 1: you're going to do so over the cloak of darkness 162 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:26,199 Speaker 1: or be able to make up an excuse other than 163 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:28,400 Speaker 1: the one that's staring us all in the fucking face. 164 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:37,960 Speaker 1: You know, we cannot change this shit because we have 165 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:43,040 Speaker 1: mainstream media that is complicit in it, that will come 166 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 1: up for every excuse as to why this certain group 167 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 1: of people that are African, that are Arab, that are whatever, 168 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 1: are savages, not worthy of safety. But oh look and 169 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:58,320 Speaker 1: let me tell you these heartbreaking stories about white families. 170 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 1: It is a self perpetuating prophecy, over and over and 171 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 1: over and over again. And I for one, am going 172 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 1: to consistently and outright call bullshit all the fucking time, 173 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 1: because the only people that consistently harp on and bring 174 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 1: up and make everything, including policy about race and racism, 175 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 1: are white people in power, and they would like to 176 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 1: distract everyone by saying, oh, no, we're not talking about X, 177 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 1: Y and Z. You think that by leaving it out, 178 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 1: we don't know what you're doing. It's bullshit. And I 179 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:54,080 Speaker 1: want people to call the networks. I want people to 180 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 1: call their representatives. I want people to be called out. 181 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:01,760 Speaker 1: You know, there are times when we say are we 182 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:05,240 Speaker 1: calling people out? Are we calling them in? No, in 183 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:09,440 Speaker 1: this particular situation, I'm calling these bordering countries out. I'm 184 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:12,960 Speaker 1: calling the media out, I'm calling representatives who do not 185 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:21,839 Speaker 1: bring attention to this travesty out. Racism is never going 186 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:32,440 Speaker 1: to die out because it's rebirthed every single day. Oh 187 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:35,880 Speaker 1: it's the young people they care. No, they don't actually, 188 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:38,960 Speaker 1: because they've been force fed the same diet of white 189 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 1: supremacy that you have. But until we acknowledge the truth, 190 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 1: until we understand how this happened, we're never going to 191 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:57,440 Speaker 1: stop it. It's never going to ease, not in our lifetime, 192 00:13:57,440 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 1: and not in our children's lifetime, and not in our 193 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 1: children children's lifetime, you know. And this, friends, comes on 194 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 1: the backdrop of the historic announcement, right, that was made 195 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 1: on Friday about Biden's Supreme Court nominee. And here's what 196 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:25,600 Speaker 1: I want to say about Judge Brown. Judge Brown is 197 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:30,160 Speaker 1: beyond qualified. Right, Judge Brown was chosen because she is 198 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 1: beyond qualified. Her academic pedigree, her legal pedigree is beyond reproach, 199 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:45,560 Speaker 1: unlike the pieces of shit that Republicans put up by 200 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 1: virtue of their whiteness. Oh, they're qualified, not according to 201 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 1: the American Bar Association. And once again at the highest level. 202 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:58,000 Speaker 1: I just want to show people how black people need 203 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 1: to be over qualified for shit that mediocre white people 204 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:09,640 Speaker 1: are given by virtue of the relationships that they have. Right, 205 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 1: you have to have a pedigree beyond reproach when you 206 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:19,960 Speaker 1: are black in this country. But you can scream on 207 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:24,320 Speaker 1: the top of your lungs, show the uttermost disrespect and 208 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:30,120 Speaker 1: hostile demeanor as a Brett Kavanaugh did, and become Supreme 209 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 1: become a judge, become a Supreme Court Judge of the 210 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 1: United States. You can be so disgusting and foul as 211 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 1: a Donald Trump and become president, but you cannot be 212 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 1: overly qualified for the position and be a woman as 213 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton. You are hidden away in the attic of 214 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:58,600 Speaker 1: the White House if you are the black woman vice president, 215 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 1: only brought out for pageantry to say, look at the 216 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:05,280 Speaker 1: history that we have, and then let's quickly put her 217 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 1: back in the attic for before white people realize that 218 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 1: Joe Biden had a black woman as his running mate. 219 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:19,440 Speaker 1: I'm tired of the fucking lies because they're so blatant, 220 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:25,880 Speaker 1: it's a cartoonish At this fucking point, again, you want 221 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:28,760 Speaker 1: me to believe that this administration is so much better 222 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: than the other ones, and yet we have had to 223 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 1: put the vice president on a milk carton, wondering where 224 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 1: the fuck she is and why she isn't being utilized 225 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 1: for anything other than these flash moments where race is 226 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:47,000 Speaker 1: really at play and you want to use her for 227 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:52,520 Speaker 1: your own pageantry, and then you want to tell these 228 00:16:52,640 --> 00:17:00,480 Speaker 1: very same people whose needs you've been denying, overlooking and ignoring, that, oh, 229 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:03,240 Speaker 1: if we lose the upcoming midterm elections, it's going to 230 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:05,959 Speaker 1: be your fault. No, it's going to be your fault, 231 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:19,199 Speaker 1: mister President, It's going to be your fault. There are 232 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:28,080 Speaker 1: so many days where I am utterly just beside myself done, 233 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:34,640 Speaker 1: you know, because it is everywhere. Right. I keep rewatching 234 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 1: The Matrix over and over again, the whole series, the 235 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:42,640 Speaker 1: new one, just I keep watching it over and over 236 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:47,680 Speaker 1: again because racism is very much like the Matrix. When 237 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:52,880 Speaker 1: Laurence Fishburn's character Morpheus says in The First Matrix to Neo, 238 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:56,400 Speaker 1: the matrix is all around you. It is what you eat, 239 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 1: it is what you taste, it is on your clo 240 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:01,840 Speaker 1: it is everywhere, and it's hard to explain it unless 241 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:04,760 Speaker 1: you're in it. That is what it is like to 242 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:09,680 Speaker 1: deal with racism in this world as a black person. 243 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:19,800 Speaker 1: Doesn't matter if you are black, American, Black, Caribbean, Afro Latina, right, 244 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:25,680 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if you are from directly from one 245 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: of the nations of Africa. Does not matter. To exist 246 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:34,680 Speaker 1: in a black body in this world is to understand 247 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:37,119 Speaker 1: what it is like to live in the matrix of 248 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:42,200 Speaker 1: racism day in and day out, sometimes subtle, sometimes just 249 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:46,400 Speaker 1: a series of microaggressions, of purses being closed, of being 250 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:51,320 Speaker 1: followed around stores. Right then it escalates into being shot 251 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:54,280 Speaker 1: in your own car, or in your own bed, or 252 00:18:54,320 --> 00:19:00,399 Speaker 1: on the playground. But it is all around sound you, 253 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:04,359 Speaker 1: all the time. And it is your responsibility and yours 254 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:08,600 Speaker 1: alone to go through this matrix and somehow come out 255 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 1: alive with your emotional well being intact. So forgive us 256 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 1: right for the consistent exhaustion that we are exhibiting these days, 257 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 1: because going through the Olympics, the matrix of racism, day 258 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:35,480 Speaker 1: in and day out, is taking its fucking toll. And 259 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 1: this is why I have said many times that for 260 00:19:39,119 --> 00:19:42,320 Speaker 1: black folks, for people of color in this country that 261 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:44,600 Speaker 1: are deciding that they don't want to fucking vote, I 262 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:48,200 Speaker 1: hear you, that are opting out of giving a fuck, 263 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 1: I hear you. I want to tell you right that 264 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 1: we are not just fighting for our generation that we 265 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:02,160 Speaker 1: are living in, but for the general rations to come right. 266 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:06,640 Speaker 1: And this is our part of the marathon that may 267 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:11,520 Speaker 1: never be completed, but I want to do I want 268 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:13,439 Speaker 1: to run my leg the best that I can, but 269 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:15,960 Speaker 1: there are going to be days where I'm going to 270 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,240 Speaker 1: put my feet up and let somebody else run it 271 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 1: because I too need to rest. Because sometimes it feels 272 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:30,159 Speaker 1: like that racism matrix is just closing in in every 273 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:40,439 Speaker 1: fucking direction and I literally cannot breathe. I've been saying 274 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:46,000 Speaker 1: for a long time on this show that things are 275 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 1: going to get bloodier before they get better, and we 276 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:55,640 Speaker 1: are seeing that happen all around us. We're seeing escalations 277 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:58,240 Speaker 1: of violence in our own country. And what I will 278 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:02,679 Speaker 1: say about that is, again, mainstream media doesn't use the 279 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:06,720 Speaker 1: same language it uses for other countries when they are 280 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:11,520 Speaker 1: seeing great upheavals and political decline. They don't use that 281 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:15,879 Speaker 1: same language here. They don't talk about invasions right invasions 282 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:18,080 Speaker 1: in the United States. But I want us to be 283 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:22,800 Speaker 1: very clear about the fact that the insurrection that occurred 284 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:26,240 Speaker 1: was not the first invasion that we had seen over 285 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 1: the last couple of years. No, there have been state 286 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 1: capital buildings that have been taken over. There is currently 287 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 1: a fucking caravan of Trumpers headed from California to Washington, 288 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:41,680 Speaker 1: DC to pull an Ottawa, Canada. In Washington, d C. 289 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:50,920 Speaker 1: We are being invaded, right, These people have their guns. 290 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:59,440 Speaker 1: They have been holding buildings hostage, only to have some 291 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:06,560 Speaker 1: plan disrupted on kidnapping elected officials. But yet you want 292 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:09,480 Speaker 1: to look down on countries like Haiti. You want to 293 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:13,320 Speaker 1: call out countries like Colombia, like the Ukraine, like Russia, 294 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:16,239 Speaker 1: but you don't are not paying attention to what the 295 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 1: fuck is escalating up in here. Have eyes on everybody else, 296 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:24,520 Speaker 1: got opinions on everybody else, but don't paying attention to 297 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:29,600 Speaker 1: what is happening in your own country, thinking that we're 298 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:35,639 Speaker 1: still beyond reproach. Wait the fuck up. So when you're 299 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 1: watching the news, call out the fucking news, tweet them out, 300 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:48,920 Speaker 1: Oh really, at CNN, at MSNBC. Really, because we forget 301 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:52,639 Speaker 1: how much power we have as a collective. That's the 302 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,200 Speaker 1: point of this show, that's the point of my work 303 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:59,280 Speaker 1: in general, is for people to recognize no, no, no right, 304 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:04,200 Speaker 1: nobody's steals your vote, if your vote ain't valuable, nobody 305 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:07,800 Speaker 1: tries to lock up and incarcerrat and minimize and depress 306 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,639 Speaker 1: and opress black people. If you didn't think as a 307 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 1: collective we were powerful, and you were that fucking fragile 308 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 1: so when we really see things, I want us to 309 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:28,040 Speaker 1: see it with eyes wide open. I want us to 310 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:31,280 Speaker 1: understand all of the levers, all of the systems that 311 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:38,639 Speaker 1: are at play at the same time, so that we 312 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 1: can figure out our way through because we ain't getting 313 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 1: over this. The only way that we are moving forward 314 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,159 Speaker 1: is through right, and that is going to be like 315 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:59,640 Speaker 1: going through a motherfucking tornado. We gotta get ready, folks. 316 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:04,920 Speaker 1: What a week, What a week. It has been always 317 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 1: excited to have the opportunity to speak with our dear 318 00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:11,960 Speaker 1: friend MSNBC legal analyst and the host of Justice Matters, 319 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:17,639 Speaker 1: Glenn Kirshner, to walk us through. I mean from my 320 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 1: outrage last week at the news breaking around the two 321 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:28,600 Speaker 1: lead prosecutors in the Manhattan District Attorney's case, which was 322 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:32,840 Speaker 1: initially in the hands of Sythance. Since the election, the 323 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:39,440 Speaker 1: Manhattan DA has changed batons to Alvin Bragg, and there 324 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:44,919 Speaker 1: has always been hope. And what was announced before Syvance left, Glenn, 325 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:48,160 Speaker 1: is that you know, we had the Manhattan District Attorney 326 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:52,160 Speaker 1: working hand in hand with New York State Attorney General 327 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:54,720 Speaker 1: Tissie James. What I have you have? What you have 328 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 1: I have, which made us believe that in New York, right, 329 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 1: maybe just possibly, accountability and justice was actually going to 330 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 1: come to fruition. Then bombshell, the two lead prosecutors resign. 331 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,760 Speaker 1: So far they have said what has been said, I 332 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:17,480 Speaker 1: should say, is that they are resigning because after a 333 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 1: month of no movement that they have heard or were 334 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:26,920 Speaker 1: told that it is of doubt that the Manhattander's office 335 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:31,000 Speaker 1: will move forward with their case. What are you think? 336 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 1: What initially did you think and feel? And then what 337 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:38,160 Speaker 1: are you feeling at the offices pushback and saying oh no, no, no, 338 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:42,159 Speaker 1: that's not true. Yeah, there's so much to unpack in 339 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 1: this story. Who thought that, you know, accountability and justice 340 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:50,000 Speaker 1: would be this darned part on every single front. You know, 341 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:54,320 Speaker 1: accountability really shouldn't be too much to ask for when 342 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:59,960 Speaker 1: our high government officials just go on an unabated crime spree, 343 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,280 Speaker 1: which has been Donald Trump's life, let's face it. So 344 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:07,119 Speaker 1: my heart sank when I saw that the two you know, 345 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:12,400 Speaker 1: long time prosecutors. I can't call Pomerants a career prosecutor 346 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:16,760 Speaker 1: because even though he was a white collar prosecutor, a 347 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,840 Speaker 1: mob prosecutor when he was with the Southern District of 348 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:23,120 Speaker 1: New York Us Attorney's office. He then went over to 349 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,800 Speaker 1: the other side. I tried never to call it the 350 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,199 Speaker 1: dark side. When you go to do defense work and 351 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:33,200 Speaker 1: you defend the people who have been everybody is deserving right, 352 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 1: everybody's deserves it. And I really believe everybody deserves a 353 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:39,440 Speaker 1: fair defense, and I embrace it and I'll fight for it. 354 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:41,400 Speaker 1: You're just not going to get that fair defense from 355 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 1: me because I'm comfortable trying to hold folk accountable for 356 00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:49,160 Speaker 1: their crimes and protect the community. So but these were 357 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 1: two long term serious prosecutors, pomerants and done. And then 358 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 1: when I saw that they they coordinated their resignations at 359 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 1: the same time, obviously to make a point, and the 360 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:07,880 Speaker 1: news broke that that point was Alvin Bragg didn't seem 361 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 1: determined enough or committed enough, or persuaded that Donald Trump 362 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:17,200 Speaker 1: himself should be prosecuted, should be held accountable. Let's stop 363 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:20,439 Speaker 1: right there, Danielle, because I find it, as a former 364 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 1: career prosecutor, impossible to believe, not just difficult to believe 365 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 1: that the Trump organization that was run in dictator fashion 366 00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:36,160 Speaker 1: by Donald Trump could be criminally indicted for a fifteen 367 00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 1: year long criminal scheme to defraud in the first degree. 368 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:45,359 Speaker 1: That Donald Trump's right hand man, Alan Weisselberg, chief financial 369 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:49,240 Speaker 1: officer for the Trump organization for decades, could similarly be 370 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:53,719 Speaker 1: convicted of a fifteen year criminal scheme to defraud in 371 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:57,720 Speaker 1: the first degree and lots of other crimes. And we 372 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 1: just don't have the goods on Donald Trump. I don't 373 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:05,360 Speaker 1: believe that for a minute. I will not impugne Alvin 374 00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:10,280 Speaker 1: Braggs morals or integrity. I don't know what is behind 375 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 1: this dust up, this considerable dustup in the New York 376 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:19,200 Speaker 1: District Attorney's office, but they better write their ship because 377 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:23,920 Speaker 1: it feels wrong. It smells wrong, it looks wrong. Now, 378 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,800 Speaker 1: like you say, they're trying to back up in a hurry, 379 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:29,399 Speaker 1: and they just announced that they've appointed a new chief 380 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:35,200 Speaker 1: prosecutor whose name is Susan Huffington. I'm sorry, Susan Huffinger, 381 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,920 Speaker 1: and so I'm doing some combat research on her. And 382 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 1: what we know is that, yes, she did prosecute in 383 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:47,160 Speaker 1: that office previously for eight years, back in nineteen ninety 384 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,840 Speaker 1: two to two thousand, and then for the last twenty 385 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:53,360 Speaker 1: two years, she's been in private practice making lots of money, 386 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:57,200 Speaker 1: I assume representing whomever I don't know, because I'm not 387 00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,120 Speaker 1: going to say, because I don't know, that does and 388 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:04,320 Speaker 1: give me an enormous comfort level that Alan Bragg a politician, 389 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 1: also a serious consequential lawyer and former prosecutor himself. But 390 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:13,240 Speaker 1: once you start running for office, Danielle, you're a politician. 391 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:17,640 Speaker 1: He gets elected, he comes in and in one of 392 00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 1: the most consequential investigations and prosecutions New York has ever seen. 393 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 1: He says, Yeah, I'm not feeling going after Donald Trump. 394 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:28,480 Speaker 1: That that doesn't make sense to me, and it doesn't 395 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:30,800 Speaker 1: give me a ton of confidence that he has now 396 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:34,960 Speaker 1: brought back after twenty two years in private practice. Somebody 397 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 1: who I'll bet, if we dig down, was probably a 398 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:40,840 Speaker 1: big supporter of his in his campaign. We'll have to 399 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:44,960 Speaker 1: find out. I'll always say, follow the money. There's a 400 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:49,360 Speaker 1: team of twenty five. It's just a district attorneys dedicated 401 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:55,160 Speaker 1: to the Trump investigation and the Trump Org and Weislberg prosecutions. 402 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:59,440 Speaker 1: That's a huge team of local prosecutors of New York 403 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,200 Speaker 1: State secutors, and she's going to head up that team. 404 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:06,640 Speaker 1: Let's hope that they get this thing back on track 405 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:09,680 Speaker 1: if it has fallen off the tracks. And continue to 406 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 1: follow the facts and follow the evidence wherever it leads, 407 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 1: because if they do, it's going to lead to an 408 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,200 Speaker 1: indictment of Donald Trump. And as long as they don't, 409 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:21,000 Speaker 1: you know, start to throw politics into the mix, then 410 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,440 Speaker 1: hopefully we're still going to be okay. But this, you know, 411 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:26,880 Speaker 1: justice took a bit of a blow in the last 412 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 1: couple of days. You know, I'm telling you that every 413 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:31,920 Speaker 1: time I talk to you, it seems like justice is 414 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:35,120 Speaker 1: getting the help beat out of it. Right. Um, you know, 415 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,240 Speaker 1: I thought that one of the most pointed tweets that 416 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:42,320 Speaker 1: I saw when this news broke and everyone who's been 417 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:48,080 Speaker 1: following this took a collective gas was Ejeene Carrol. Ejeene Carroll, 418 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:53,280 Speaker 1: who has accused Donald Trump of sexual assault, right, and 419 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:58,480 Speaker 1: then because of them, what is it the term? Right? 420 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:04,239 Speaker 1: The statutory limitations on that charge? Then was suing him for? 421 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:09,280 Speaker 1: Was it defamation? Defamation and libel? So Ejean Carol tweets 422 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:13,360 Speaker 1: out and she's like, my god, will anybody stand up 423 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:17,200 Speaker 1: to this man and hold this man accountable? Right? And 424 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:21,520 Speaker 1: I'm thinking to myself, So, if I'm Ejeing Carol and 425 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 1: I'm one of the twenty some odd women that have 426 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:27,880 Speaker 1: accused Donald Trump of sexual assault. And then you have 427 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:32,680 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice that had decided to defend Donald 428 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:38,080 Speaker 1: Trump against Eejean Carol and not Trump's Department of Justice, 429 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:41,760 Speaker 1: Biden's Department of Justice deciding that this would be the 430 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:45,240 Speaker 1: case that they would take up to represent Donald Trump 431 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:49,040 Speaker 1: in defend defend him against the claims that they know, 432 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:52,240 Speaker 1: good god damn well that this man is guilty of. 433 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:56,280 Speaker 1: So when you take that and then you take this, 434 00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 1: and I'm saying to myself, and I said it on Twitter, 435 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,120 Speaker 1: I say to people, you know, you need to follow 436 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:05,239 Speaker 1: the money, because it was our conversation Glenn where you 437 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:08,640 Speaker 1: alerted me to the fact of where did Sivance get 438 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:12,960 Speaker 1: some of his donations from? Right Like this is these 439 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,880 Speaker 1: are literally open secrets that nobody does the due diligence 440 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:20,480 Speaker 1: of digging into and figuring out. How would you with 441 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,520 Speaker 1: impaneling this grand jury for an extended period of time 442 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:29,000 Speaker 1: that your predecessor did, because there is so much information 443 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:32,080 Speaker 1: to go through that in this finite amount of time, 444 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,640 Speaker 1: like we are literally working against the clock, how would 445 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,200 Speaker 1: it make sense, Glenn, for you to just slow walk 446 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:41,680 Speaker 1: for an entire month allow an entire month when your 447 00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 1: predecessor impaneled a grand jury for an extended period of 448 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,440 Speaker 1: time for you to waste that time. How does that 449 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 1: make like, Is there a way that makes sense that 450 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:58,440 Speaker 1: actually smells right. No, But here's what I'll say. Anytime 451 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:04,840 Speaker 1: there is turnover at the top of a significant prosecutorial organization, 452 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:08,400 Speaker 1: whether it's a district attorney's office or my former office, 453 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:11,560 Speaker 1: the US Attorney's office for the District of Columbia. I 454 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:15,200 Speaker 1: served there under ten US attorneys. All of them were 455 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:19,680 Speaker 1: appointed by the President, were confirmed by the Senate. Some 456 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:25,160 Speaker 1: came from Republican administration, some from Democratic administrations. Every last 457 00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,280 Speaker 1: one of them would come in and would shake things up, 458 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:31,760 Speaker 1: would put their own kind of make their own mark 459 00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:36,520 Speaker 1: on the organization, would change priorities, would shift focus, would 460 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:41,280 Speaker 1: do and that results in some turnover. That's natural. The same, 461 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,960 Speaker 1: I'm sure is true of a district attorney's office when 462 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,720 Speaker 1: a new district attorney is elected. And I don't want 463 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:50,080 Speaker 1: to get derailed over the wisdom of having, you know, 464 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:54,880 Speaker 1: people like district attorneys and judges be elected rather than appointed, 465 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:58,600 Speaker 1: because there is a friction there between the responsibilities of 466 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,960 Speaker 1: a judge and a district Jerney, both of whom need 467 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:05,880 Speaker 1: to do justice fairly and impartially without you know, fear 468 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,799 Speaker 1: or favor or prejudice. And when you're running for office, 469 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:10,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be tough on prime I'm gonna lock them 470 00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:14,839 Speaker 1: all up. I'm gonna Well, there's an inconsistency there from 471 00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:17,960 Speaker 1: my perspective, setting that aside. A new district attorney comes in, 472 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:21,040 Speaker 1: there's gonna be a shakeup, they're gonna be new priorities announced. 473 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:26,200 Speaker 1: So it doesn't surprise me that there's turnover. But this 474 00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:30,040 Speaker 1: turnover would not be the turnover I would expect, particularly 475 00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:33,840 Speaker 1: if Alvin Bragg was a savvy politician, never mind a 476 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:39,600 Speaker 1: savvy district attorney. You know. So, yeah, this is there's 477 00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:44,680 Speaker 1: no way to look at this through a rose colored 478 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:48,160 Speaker 1: lens and say, you know what, this is actually a 479 00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:50,960 Speaker 1: good thing or an okay thing. This is a bad thing. 480 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:55,440 Speaker 1: But we don't want to lose sight of the really 481 00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:59,080 Speaker 1: good things that have happened in the last week. I 482 00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:02,880 Speaker 1: think I lose act of the days. Some of this 483 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,920 Speaker 1: happened eight days ago. But I mean what Judge Mata 484 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:12,040 Speaker 1: in Washington, DC, a former a former public defender in 485 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:14,759 Speaker 1: the courts of DC. I know the good judge. He 486 00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:18,560 Speaker 1: is a serious man, a serious jurist, and he takes 487 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:23,160 Speaker 1: the responsibility of being fair to both sides deadly seriously, 488 00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:28,239 Speaker 1: the prosecution and the defense. And his words in refusing 489 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:32,840 Speaker 1: to throw out the insurrection lawsuit against Donald Trump, his 490 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:37,960 Speaker 1: words were that Donald Trump's January sixth speech were the 491 00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:43,359 Speaker 1: essence of civil conspiracy. Daniel from a federal judge, that 492 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:47,120 Speaker 1: couldn't be more ominous or more dangerous for Donald Trump 493 00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:50,960 Speaker 1: because he's shining a light on a roadmap to prosecuting 494 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:56,839 Speaker 1: Donald Trump for inciting an insurrection. That was a huge development, 495 00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:01,520 Speaker 1: bigger than was the New York Strict Attorney's development. One 496 00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:03,759 Speaker 1: was good, one was bad. The other thing is we 497 00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:07,400 Speaker 1: can't forget another judge in New York. Judge En Garon 498 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:13,359 Speaker 1: said in telling Trump and Don Junior and Ivanka, you 499 00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:17,480 Speaker 1: will sit for depositions period, and I will not throw 500 00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:21,000 Speaker 1: out a lawsuit because you claimed. Tish James doesn't like you. 501 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,759 Speaker 1: She ain't supposed to like criminals. That was my editor 502 00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:30,120 Speaker 1: but I did say precisely, he said, I reviewed thousands 503 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:33,799 Speaker 1: of documents in camera behind closed doors that had been 504 00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:39,440 Speaker 1: subpoena by attorney General James Civil investigators, and then he 505 00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:45,920 Speaker 1: commented that she had uncovered quote copious amounts of possible 506 00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:51,279 Speaker 1: no copious evidence of possible financial fraud. I don't use 507 00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:53,600 Speaker 1: twenty five cent words. I'm a gutter kid from Jersey. 508 00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:56,400 Speaker 1: I wouldn't say copious. I would say tons of fricking 509 00:36:56,480 --> 00:37:03,160 Speaker 1: evidence of financial fraud by Trump and company. Danielle that 510 00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,960 Speaker 1: motion that was being litigated, where Judge en Grons spit 511 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,560 Speaker 1: those words out, that's a routine motion to quash a subpoena. 512 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,960 Speaker 1: Happens thousands of times around the country every day. Judges 513 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,799 Speaker 1: don't say things like that, They just either grant or 514 00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:20,480 Speaker 1: deny the motion. Judge Endgron was so incensed that not 515 00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:22,160 Speaker 1: only did he say that, but he said if Tish 516 00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:26,239 Speaker 1: James hadn't investigated this and hadn't subpoena at these three, 517 00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:28,680 Speaker 1: it would have been a dereliction of duke of duty. Yeah. 518 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:33,800 Speaker 1: I mean, these are dramatically bad developments for Donald Trump, 519 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:38,200 Speaker 1: and these are paving the way for accountability for Donald Trump. 520 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:41,799 Speaker 1: But then we are now focused on the New York DA, 521 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:45,120 Speaker 1: you know, troubling development, and we can't lose sight of 522 00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:48,200 Speaker 1: the really good developments. Let me ask you this because 523 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:51,600 Speaker 1: you know, like I said at the top, what was 524 00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:54,440 Speaker 1: good a couple of months ago is when we learned 525 00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,440 Speaker 1: the public learned that there was going to be co 526 00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:01,960 Speaker 1: ordination between the Manhattan District Attorney and the New York 527 00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:06,399 Speaker 1: Attorney General's Office. What do we make right? What? What? What? 528 00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:10,560 Speaker 1: What can you tell us about what if any coordination 529 00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:16,240 Speaker 1: we can anticipate? Or because we know that Tish James's 530 00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:18,600 Speaker 1: route is a civil one, right it is. It is 531 00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:22,000 Speaker 1: not jail time. It is fine. But I don't want 532 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,600 Speaker 1: to you know, I don't want to undercut that because 533 00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:28,879 Speaker 1: she got Trump University shut down, right like, so there 534 00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,920 Speaker 1: is an opportunity here to have the whole entirety of 535 00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:36,320 Speaker 1: Trump organization shut down, have its doors shuttered. It doesn't 536 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:38,560 Speaker 1: preclude it from being able to open up under a 537 00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:41,800 Speaker 1: different you know, under a different title, in a different 538 00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,320 Speaker 1: space and all of those things. And no one is 539 00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:47,319 Speaker 1: doing a purp walk. But where does she bring all 540 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,600 Speaker 1: of the evidence that she has collected if she's met 541 00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:54,600 Speaker 1: with a oh no, we're good here from the Manhattan DA. 542 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,560 Speaker 1: Great question, and it really depends on I'm sorry to 543 00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:00,840 Speaker 1: say the personality of Alvin Bragg and whether he is 544 00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:05,200 Speaker 1: going to you know, kind of hold closely his investigation 545 00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,480 Speaker 1: and not want to play nice with his counterpart, New 546 00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:11,400 Speaker 1: York Attorney General Tis James, or if he's going to 547 00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:15,080 Speaker 1: do what public servants should and must do, sort of 548 00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:20,000 Speaker 1: work cooperatively and as a team the way we came 549 00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:23,120 Speaker 1: to learn, the AG's office in the DA's office had 550 00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:27,840 Speaker 1: been working and stay that course. And on the shutting 551 00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:32,399 Speaker 1: down Trump Universe, Trump organization front, Trump organization is done. 552 00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:36,320 Speaker 1: I would bet a buck on that. That's because Mazar's, 553 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,680 Speaker 1: his accounting firm, not only walked away from him, but said, 554 00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:41,799 Speaker 1: we disavowed ten years of work we've done for you, 555 00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:48,000 Speaker 1: because inferentially you've been feeding us garbage numbers, unreliable numbers 556 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,640 Speaker 1: on the financial front. And they flipped on him, Make 557 00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:53,280 Speaker 1: no mistake about it, they flipped on him. The Trump 558 00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,759 Speaker 1: organization has done one way or another, I have no 559 00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,880 Speaker 1: doubt about that. But as you say, Tis James largely 560 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,320 Speaker 1: only has civil jurisdiction, with a little bit of an exception. 561 00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:05,560 Speaker 1: There are a couple of criminal statutes that she can 562 00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:10,239 Speaker 1: use to go after businesses who are engaged in criminal practices, 563 00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:14,960 Speaker 1: financial accounting practices and all and that actually is a 564 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:18,279 Speaker 1: little bit of criminal jurisdiction she can exercise. So that's 565 00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:20,239 Speaker 1: a little bit of an ace in the whole for her. 566 00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:23,800 Speaker 1: But we expect the lion's share of the criminal charges 567 00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:26,000 Speaker 1: to be brought by the District Attorney's office. I can 568 00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:29,600 Speaker 1: only hope Alvin Bragg is the kind of person who 569 00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:34,680 Speaker 1: will embrace as a teammate, a full teammate, Tish James 570 00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:39,319 Speaker 1: and her investigators and her lawyers, and they will get 571 00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:42,000 Speaker 1: back on track and proceed together. You know, I can 572 00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:44,880 Speaker 1: tell you that the sentiment about Alvin Bragg here in 573 00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:47,040 Speaker 1: New York is that he is making enemies on every 574 00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:50,239 Speaker 1: single side, and that clearly, and again I do not 575 00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:53,960 Speaker 1: know him, but my job is to speculate, is that 576 00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:56,840 Speaker 1: I don't know what job he thought that he signed 577 00:40:56,920 --> 00:41:00,600 Speaker 1: up for, but he is not doing it. And I 578 00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:04,040 Speaker 1: think that he, you know, by virtue of their pivot 579 00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:07,600 Speaker 1: with regard to no no, no no no, I know, 580 00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,000 Speaker 1: the two you know, the two leads quit, but oh 581 00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:13,160 Speaker 1: we're still doing the thing. Um shows you that he 582 00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:17,600 Speaker 1: didn't he didn't anticipate how this was going to play 583 00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:19,239 Speaker 1: out and how it was going to look. As if 584 00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:22,000 Speaker 1: he thought that nobody was paying attention to the most 585 00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:27,759 Speaker 1: watched case outside of Georgia, right to the most watched case. 586 00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:31,000 Speaker 1: So I think that the calculation on his part shows 587 00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,440 Speaker 1: that he is not at the big kids table. And 588 00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:36,120 Speaker 1: that's that is words coming out of my mouth. Um, 589 00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:38,440 Speaker 1: let's hope he grows in the job. Though we can 590 00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:40,880 Speaker 1: all grow in the job. Yes, right, let's hope he 591 00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:43,640 Speaker 1: grows in the job. Yeah, so right before I let 592 00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:47,560 Speaker 1: you go, Um, Glenn also got lost in the news. 593 00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:53,920 Speaker 1: Ivanka Trump going to be interviewed before the Commission. Thoughts 594 00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:57,759 Speaker 1: on that, Um, I think it's good. Now let's see 595 00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:01,040 Speaker 1: how forthcoming she will be. And I have a feeling 596 00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:02,680 Speaker 1: this is what I'm beginning to sense. And I want 597 00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:05,879 Speaker 1: to talk about Rudy Giuliani's potential appearance before the House 598 00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,000 Speaker 1: Select Committee in a second, if we have time. But 599 00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:12,879 Speaker 1: my senses, the House Select Committee is not treating these 600 00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:16,919 Speaker 1: people the way prosecutors would treat them. Prosecutors say, take 601 00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:19,120 Speaker 1: it from me. You want to cooperate, you want to 602 00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:23,000 Speaker 1: provide information. You don't get to determine what questions you 603 00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:27,319 Speaker 1: answer and what questions you don't. The prosecutors will ask 604 00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:30,640 Speaker 1: you the questions we believe are relevant to our investigation. 605 00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:34,240 Speaker 1: I think the House Select Committee is carving out niches 606 00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:39,160 Speaker 1: where they can get really potentially damning damning information out 607 00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:43,600 Speaker 1: of the witnesses without necessarily trailing off into areas that 608 00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:46,960 Speaker 1: might incriminate the witnesses. The House Select Committee has the 609 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:51,680 Speaker 1: opportunity to proceed that way, where prosecutors generally don't. It's 610 00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:53,960 Speaker 1: kind of an all or nothing proposition. And if you 611 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,560 Speaker 1: want to invoke the fifth because you committed crime, fine, 612 00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:59,000 Speaker 1: we will either prosecute you and make you a full 613 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,840 Speaker 1: cooperating witness, or we will grant you immunity. It's an 614 00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:04,959 Speaker 1: all or nothing proposition. We don't take half a loaf 615 00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:08,440 Speaker 1: from yeah, this is who have important information. It looks 616 00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:11,240 Speaker 1: like the House Select Committee is taking half a loaf, 617 00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:13,960 Speaker 1: and I do not criticize them for that, because if 618 00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:17,320 Speaker 1: that half a loaf tells us who in the Republican Party, 619 00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:20,440 Speaker 1: for example, is complicit in the insurrection. I want that 620 00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:22,920 Speaker 1: half a loaf and I'll make some nice tasty sandwich. 621 00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:24,960 Speaker 1: Out of sandwich is out of it. Here's what we 622 00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:27,719 Speaker 1: just learned from It's a HUGO Lowell. I think in 623 00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:31,280 Speaker 1: the Guardian yesterday, who's been doing some great outfront reporting 624 00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:34,719 Speaker 1: on the House Select Committee stuff. He said, Rudy Giuliani 625 00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:38,400 Speaker 1: is in the process of negotiating an appearance by which 626 00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:42,920 Speaker 1: he will testify about the complicity of Republican members of 627 00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:46,600 Speaker 1: Congress in the insurrection. Now what does that tell us? 628 00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:49,160 Speaker 1: By inference? I guess he's not going to tell us 629 00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,680 Speaker 1: about Donald Trump's crimes. But you know what, if he 630 00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:55,799 Speaker 1: tells me about Jim Jordan's crimes, and Kevin McCarthy's crimes, 631 00:43:55,800 --> 00:44:00,879 Speaker 1: and who we go Murts crimes, and Ron Johnson's crop 632 00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:06,080 Speaker 1: and Laura Boubert, whatever the name tell me about all that, Rudy, 633 00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:09,120 Speaker 1: I'll take it. But before I believe a word out 634 00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:12,880 Speaker 1: of Rudy's mouth, if Rudy tells me his full legal 635 00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:18,759 Speaker 1: name is Rudolph William Lewis Giuliani, I'm gonna need him 636 00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:25,160 Speaker 1: to produce again, come assport his birth certificate. And if 637 00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:28,720 Speaker 1: I get three forms of corroboration, then I will believe 638 00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:32,680 Speaker 1: your name is Rudy William Lewis Giuliani. But short of that, 639 00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:35,560 Speaker 1: I'm not believing a word out of your mouth. But 640 00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:38,920 Speaker 1: you know what, the enemy of my enemy may be 641 00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:41,640 Speaker 1: my friend. And if the enemy of my enemy can 642 00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:45,600 Speaker 1: tell me who in Congress is criminally complicit in the insurrection. 643 00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:49,680 Speaker 1: You're darned right. I will talk to even a rudy Giuliani. 644 00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:53,200 Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Glenn. We're going out on a fire 645 00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:57,799 Speaker 1: note today with some with some fireworks. As always, we 646 00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:00,880 Speaker 1: appreciate you, and let's see what the cards draw for 647 00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:04,319 Speaker 1: us next week. Look forward to talking to you again 648 00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:11,800 Speaker 1: next week, Danielle. And now for your woke moment of wellness, friends, 649 00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:15,000 Speaker 1: I want to share with you that you know, for 650 00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:21,320 Speaker 1: the past couple of months, I had recloistered myself away 651 00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:24,719 Speaker 1: in my home as Amicron was surging in New York, 652 00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:28,960 Speaker 1: and now as we are seeing you know, the CDC 653 00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:34,040 Speaker 1: different states, everyone deciding to lift their mask mandates and 654 00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:38,040 Speaker 1: like pretend as if COVID is done. I for one, 655 00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:41,400 Speaker 1: am continuing to be as vigilant as I was. But 656 00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:44,640 Speaker 1: what I've realized too is that I need to go 657 00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:47,719 Speaker 1: back into the world. I missed the world, and we 658 00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:53,000 Speaker 1: all need to understand what our own safety measures and 659 00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:56,480 Speaker 1: precautions are going to be right that we cannot rely 660 00:45:57,120 --> 00:46:01,200 Speaker 1: on the CDCs or on our governors to keep us safe. 661 00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:05,440 Speaker 1: We know now what keeps people safe, right, But you 662 00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:09,359 Speaker 1: also need to understand your own tolerance for risk. Right. 663 00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:13,400 Speaker 1: And for me, this past weekend, I decided to see 664 00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:17,320 Speaker 1: friends that I haven't seen in months, some of them 665 00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:21,440 Speaker 1: since the beginning of the pandemic. Right, Because even though 666 00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:24,520 Speaker 1: there have been different times of the world opening up, 667 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:28,279 Speaker 1: we have all kind of still managed to stay in 668 00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:32,439 Speaker 1: our COVID pods in our neighborhoods. Right. We're working from home, 669 00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:36,000 Speaker 1: so you're not really exposing yourself out in the way 670 00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:39,400 Speaker 1: that you were. This past weekend, I decided to reconnect 671 00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:42,640 Speaker 1: with friends. And can I tell you how whole it 672 00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:48,840 Speaker 1: made me feel, how much joy laughter, just exchanging hugs 673 00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:53,880 Speaker 1: and like catching up. I felt like I was drinking 674 00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:59,200 Speaker 1: in sunshine. I did not know until you know at 675 00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:02,200 Speaker 1: the end of the week, and how much I needed 676 00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:05,839 Speaker 1: to be around my friends, all the different types of 677 00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:10,279 Speaker 1: friends and environments that I'm fortunate enough to have. It 678 00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:17,279 Speaker 1: was so recharging, so joyful, And yes, there was risk, right, 679 00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:21,840 Speaker 1: There is risk in gathering with other people. You hope 680 00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:25,760 Speaker 1: that you know. Folks, we had windows open and doors open, 681 00:47:26,719 --> 00:47:31,440 Speaker 1: and you know, take your own mitigation methods and measures, 682 00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:37,160 Speaker 1: but it was needed, it was necessary, and so as 683 00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:43,120 Speaker 1: spring is, you know, slowly making its way to us 684 00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:45,839 Speaker 1: here on the East Coast and in different parts of 685 00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:50,520 Speaker 1: the country. If you are feeling depleted, if you are 686 00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:56,239 Speaker 1: feeling empty, because you need community, you need to re engage, 687 00:47:56,760 --> 00:48:00,640 Speaker 1: do so. Do so. It filled my soul in such 688 00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:04,399 Speaker 1: wonderful ways, so much so that friends after we were 689 00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:07,040 Speaker 1: together were texting and saying, I love you, thank you, 690 00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:09,920 Speaker 1: this was great. Let's do it again soon. I missed you. 691 00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:14,239 Speaker 1: I missed you so much. It's needed. We need the 692 00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:19,520 Speaker 1: human connection, we need the community, particularly now right. I 693 00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:25,200 Speaker 1: wrote a piece at the end of last week. It's 694 00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:29,520 Speaker 1: more of like a creative writing piece on putting myself, 695 00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:32,719 Speaker 1: putting all of us in the shoes of those that 696 00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:36,200 Speaker 1: are fleeing war, that went to bed like we did, 697 00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:41,560 Speaker 1: right in their apartments, in their homes, you know, thinking 698 00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:44,600 Speaker 1: about what they're doing the next day, you know, going 699 00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:47,759 Speaker 1: into work, planning out dinner, all of these things, and 700 00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:56,920 Speaker 1: then boom, literally air raids, explosions. For thirty years, they've 701 00:48:56,960 --> 00:49:02,680 Speaker 1: never seen what is happening. Thirty forty years, they haven't 702 00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:06,080 Speaker 1: seen this type of fighting in Europe since World War Two? 703 00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:10,480 Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm saying? Like so we create 704 00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:14,480 Speaker 1: these ideas about what these other countries look like and are. 705 00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:18,799 Speaker 1: But if you were looking at the images past the destruction, 706 00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:23,360 Speaker 1: you were looking at fucking coffee shops and restaurants and 707 00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:28,239 Speaker 1: metros and museums and concert halls, all of the same 708 00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:31,560 Speaker 1: shit that we have here. So if what is happening 709 00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:36,600 Speaker 1: there can happen, it can happen here. What does your 710 00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:39,879 Speaker 1: preparation look like. I'm still trying to wrap my mind 711 00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:43,960 Speaker 1: around it, but it's important. And people say, well, who 712 00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:46,520 Speaker 1: do you think is going to invade us? Motherfucker? I 713 00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:50,480 Speaker 1: just talked about invasions that are being done by our 714 00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:54,640 Speaker 1: own citizens. I'm not talking about outside threats. I'm talking 715 00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:58,560 Speaker 1: about our internal domestic threats that no one's paying attention to. 716 00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:07,120 Speaker 1: So for this woke moment of wellness, reconnect, re engage 717 00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:12,160 Speaker 1: with community, with your friends, with your family. We need 718 00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:19,240 Speaker 1: it now more than ever, We need each other now 719 00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:25,279 Speaker 1: more than ever. That is it for me. Friends, be 720 00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:34,160 Speaker 1: well and stay woke. That is it for me today. Here, 721 00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:38,120 Speaker 1: folks on woke a f as always, Power to the 722 00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:41,440 Speaker 1: people and to all the people. Power, get woke and 723 00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:42,879 Speaker 1: stay woke as fuck.