WEBVTT - We Need a Wage Report 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.680 Good morning peeps, and welcome to Bokay f Daily with 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:19.640 me your girl, Danielle Moody recording from the Homebunker. Folks, 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:24.000 you know, dare I say as we begin this new 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:28.080 week that I have a bit of what is that 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:33.800 word optimism? I have a bit of optimism that I 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:39.320 want us all to really marinate and root. And because 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:44.519 you know, folks, unlike what Republicans believe, which is that 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:49.879 fear and hate rule the day, it isn't right. It 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:55.200 is really about hopefulness. Hopefulness is what allows people to 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:59.560 think and innovate off of what they believe the future 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:08.160 can look like. Right, It is this grain of feeling 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:11.319 that things can actually get better because you see, what 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:15.720 happens is that when you start to believe that what 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:18.880 is in front of you can't change, that it is immovable, 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.800 that this is just your life. It doesn't matter if 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:25.880 you work harder, it doesn't matter if you follow the rules, 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:27.720 it doesn't matter if you do the right thing. That 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:31.000 things are just not going to get any better. That 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:37.240 is when hopelessness seeps in, depression takes over. Anxiety rules 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:41.720 the day. And if you are so enthralled with that 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:46.600 level of misery, right, then you no longer have the 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:50.040 will to fight, because what are you fighting for? Nothing's 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:54.600 ever going to quote unquote change. That's what Republicans are 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:58.840 hoping for. They are hoping to throw every single thing 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:04.680 at the core. Its every single piece of disgusting, horrific 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:11.320 anti woman, anti black, anti gay, anti trans legislation at 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:14.880 the state, local, and federal level. They are trying to 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:22.280 do everything because they know that when Americans, when people 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:29.000 start to really nurture that grain of hope, right and 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:32.480 it starts to take root in us and we start 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:37.520 to see a way through some possibility, some light tunneling 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:42.880 out of that darkness, they start to run scared. Right, 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:47.560 So what are we seeing right now? What are these 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:50.840 glimmers of hope that I kind of want to center 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:55.040 us around. As we enter into this new week, and 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:58.320 it is going off of how we ended last week, 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:04.840 blockbustered jobs report comes out from the Biden administration, adding 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:10.520 over half a million jobs. As all of this talk 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:14.040 about recession, US going into recession? Are we in a recession? 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:19.720 Over five hundred thousand jobs have been added the more 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:27.600 during Biden's first year plus than any other administration, and 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:33.840 that is coming in off of considerable millions of jobs 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:38.480 lost because of COVID nineteen, because of the pandemic, and 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:42.800 because of the Trump administration's mishandling of pretty much everything, 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:48.600 we are now at a surplus. A question that, though 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:56.200 was asked, was posed rather by former candidate Nina Turner 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:00.960 out of Ohio, though, was can we get a wage report? 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:06.240 And it's true because we are always economists are always 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.920 so focused on jobs reports, we don't ever stop to 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:13.720 ask that if the jobs that are being supplied are 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:17.640 those that are of a living wage, how many jobs 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:19.919 do people need to hold down in order to be 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:22.400 able to put food on their table, gas in their car, 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.920 medicine in their medicine, chess, and take care of their 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:29.960 other basic needs. So that is still a very good question, 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:33.440 because we know that with inflation, things have become increasingly 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:38.440 more expensive. Your grocery bill has become increasingly more expensive, 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:42.000 and yet the wages have not gone up to meet 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:46.400 right the price hikes. So that's a good question, But 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:50.440 it is not to downplay the fact that this administration 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:55.080 has been able to add all of the jobs back 0:04:55.160 --> 0:05:01.160 that were lost. So bravo to the Biden administration. We're 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:08.520 going to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, which includes some 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:15.720 of the biggest climate fighting initiatives, climate change fighting initiatives 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:20.840 that we've ever seen. Now, Kirsten Cinema, who is in 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:28.159 bed with and in love with corporate interests, had removed 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.080 from the bill which would have added a fourteen billion 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:35.680 dollars surplus, which was an interest tax on private equity firms. 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:39.640 And of course she had that removed because Kirsten Cinema 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:43.920 is setting up her next act right while she's still 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:47.479 supposedly doing the job that she was elected for, not 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:51.480 by shareholders but by the people of Arizona. She had 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:55.600 that piece removed. Anytime that we ask ourselves why is 0:05:55.640 --> 0:06:00.760 it that billionaires and multimillionaires don't pay their share, Well, 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.680 it's because of the cinemas of the world, right. It 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:07.599 is because those people that you elect to actually look 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:11.039 after your best interests are only looking after their own 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:16.559 self interest, right, And it isn't like, here's the thing. 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.839 If you're able to skirt the law, if you're able 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:23.240 to keep most of your money right and not give 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:26.160 back because you're greedy, because you're selfish, because you're a 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:31.360 capitalistic pig, then you go do that, right, because you 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:34.720 feel like you don't know anybody anything, And we always 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:36.919 set up the rich to believe that they got to 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:40.680 that place all on their own. Bullshit. Tell me a 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.320 story about a multibillionaire, and I will tell you a 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:46.599 story about people that stepped on other people's backs. There 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:50.240 are but a few people who you can actually lift 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.880 up and say no, No, they got there through work, 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:58.640 sweat and tears, not by oh, making money on top 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:06.480 of their inheritance. Right, I digress. But I have to 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:10.560 mention the good but also state the obvious, because I 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.320 want us to have the full picture of where we are. 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:20.480 The Department of Justice has decided after the twenty twenty 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:26.200 murder of Brianna Taylor two put up charges against the 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:31.559 four cops that were responsible for her tragic death when 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:35.440 they I don't even want to use the word botched 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:40.480 because that isn't strong enough a steakout that would end 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:45.680 in being at the wrong fucking home and killing an 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:49.440 innocent young woman who had her whole life in front 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:55.320 of her. Those cops, some that were fired from the 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:59.000 force and some that are still active duty in Louisville, Kentucky, 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:05.680 are now facing federal charges of violating Brianna Taylor's civil rights, 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:12.560 among other things. That is good news. The Department of 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:16.760 Justice has also signaled with their grand jury that they 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:22.160 are hauling in some of the top brass lawyers chiefs 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:26.960 of staff from the Trump administration in their investigation into 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:34.200 the January sixth insurrection. For eighteen nineteen months now, I 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.560 have been railing against Merritt Garland in the Department of 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:44.720 Justice for their sloth and glacial like pace. Well, come 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:48.079 to find out they may actually be moving. The alarm 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:53.600 clock may have gone off, and what these high profiled 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:57.800 subpoenas are showing us is that they're getting to the 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:02.480 there there. And there are multiple reports coming out about 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:07.600 Trump's defense team getting ready to put together their defense 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:12.400 telling Donald Trump to cut ties and communication with Mark Meadows. 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:16.000 What is that special reporting signal that we heard from 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:19.200 CNN signal that Glenn Kirshner will get into in just 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:25.000 a bit. Mark Meadows may be flipping like a pancake, right. 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:29.880 Mark Meadows may have finally after listening to the testimony 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:35.840 of Cassidy Hutchinson, his former aide before the January sixth committee, 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:40.360 might realize that, oh shit, I could be headed to 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:46.120 federal prison, and how do I lessen what is coming 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:52.040 at me? Maybe it's time to start singing. Another sign 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:56.160 of good news on the insurrectionist front. Well, thank god 0:09:56.240 --> 0:10:03.880 for stupidity. Alex Jones as lawyers accidentally sent two fucking 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:10.960 years of his text messages two opposing counsel in his 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:17.600 trial with a Sandy Hook family who is charging him 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:24.199 with a civil suit for his lies against their dead child. 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:31.160 What we know right now is that the January sixth 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:36.560 Committee has subpoenaed those very text messages. The Department of 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:42.520 Justice wants those text messages, the FBI wants those text messages. 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:48.800 And what is being said thus far is that rumor 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:54.560 has it child pornography was found on Alex Jones's phone, 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:58.720 which is a federal crime intimate. I don't know what 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:03.720 this means, but timt exchanges between Alex Jones and Roger 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:09.319 Stone are also available in that treasure, trolls of text messages, 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:13.880 which I'm sure in the coming weeks we are going 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:18.559 to see in more detail. And God, get the popcorn ready, 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:22.680 because I cannot wait. I cannot wait to see what 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:26.960 is inside. But coming up next to walk us through 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.560 where we are with the Alex Jones case and where 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:36.280 we are with the January sixth Committee and the Department 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:40.800 of Justice's investigation is our friend host of Justice Matters, 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:51.960 Glenn Kirshner. 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Which is that of Alex Jones. Alex Jones, 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:54.400 host of Info Wars, made it his mission over the 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:58.520 course of ten years to smear I don't even smear 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:00.880 is not even a strong enough war. Glenn to what 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:08.319 Alex Jones did to the families of Sandy Hook, the children, 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:12.360 six year olds, kindergartner's, first graders, and their teachers that 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:15.040 were gunned down in their classrooms. If you can believe it, 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:22.080 nearly nearly ten years ago, Alex Jones made it his mission, folks, 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:28.280 to create conspiracy theories, lie say that the families were actors, 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:34.560 the murders never happened. And finally they were able to 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.960 get Alex Jones into court, suing him in civil court 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:43.680 one hundred and fifty million dollars for the trauma, the damages. 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:47.640 I mean, these families were receiving death threats right from 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:53.440 his rabid followers. So in this case, Glenn, you had 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:56.200 been watching because Alex Jones, as we all know, is 0:14:56.360 --> 0:15:02.560 very connected with the Trump circle, right one of Donald 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:07.120 Trump's biggest supporters, Roger Stone. Like, they're all just birds 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:10.360 of a nasty feather that flocked together. So I want 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.880 you to lay out what you saw about this case, 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:17.240 and then we can go into this series of just 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:24.000 reality TV turn of events that happened throughout the trial. Yeah, 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:29.000 first of all, anybody who profits off the pain of 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:35.240 the Sandy Hook families is there really is no term 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:40.520 to describe how indecent he is. And it's all performance, 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.440 aren't mind you? I don't I have no idea what 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:47.520 he actually believes, but I think he actually believes very 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:51.480 little of what he says. It's all about the almighty dollar, 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:56.840 because he plugs into the conspiracy theory dujure, and he says, 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:59.120 send me money, send me money, send me money, and 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:03.040 I'll say whatever where it is you want to hear um. 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:07.720 So I mean, the man is lower than whale shit, 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:13.800 quite frankly, and doesn't get much lower than that. But 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:19.080 you know what, profiting off the murder of children? Yep? Oh, 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:22.240 if I could get him in the boxing ring for 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:25.760 a fair fight. So you know you saw some really 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:31.280 poor lawyer lawyering Danielle. Now you know, civil trials um 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:35.800 can tend to spin out of control, you know, whereas 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:40.480 criminal trials, depending on the judge, are usually much more 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:46.640 closely regulated proceedings. You're dealing with somebody's liberty interest, a 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:50.400 defendant who's on trial for his or our liberty or, 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:53.760 in the rare case of a capital prosecution, their life. 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:58.880 But in civil court, you know, it often feels like this, 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:03.720 No whole barred. The rules don't really apply. I will 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:07.360 violate the rules over and over again, regardless of how 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:12.000 many times the judge yells at me, counsels me, admonishes me. 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:15.639 That's what we saw. I mean, Alex Jones is just 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:20.680 it was a pathetic performance, of course, So let's talk 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:25.760 about the damages first. Because my understanding, and I hope 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:27.840 you'll correct me if I'm wrong, I didn't follow it 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:31.480 as closely as I was following all things January sixth, 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:36.280 because there's been some really important developments there. They awarded 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:40.080 the jury awarded I believe four million dollars in compensatory 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:45.480 damages yesterday, and the deliberations will continue on punitive damages. 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:47.639 Let me just break down what those two things are. 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:56.280 Compensatory damages are awarded to this sounds ridiculous. But to 0:17:56.359 --> 0:18:01.080 try to estimate the life of the child, what would 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:05.880 the child this sounds crass. I've never been a civil practitioner. 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:10.040 What might that child have earned over his or her lifetime? 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:14.520 So such that you know the family and the child, 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:18.840 of course, has been deprived of making that money. Those 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:24.639 are compensatory damages. You're being compensated for money that you 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:28.840 basically stole by committing this murder, or in Alex Jones case, 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:33.280 by lying about and defaming the victims and their families. 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:39.840 But then there's punitive damages. Punitive damages are punishment for 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:46.400 the horrific lies that Alex Jones told in the untold 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:50.320 damage he did to those families by telling those lies. 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:52.840 I know the families have sued for one hundred and 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:59.840 fifty million dollars. So my assumption is the next verdict 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:03.480 or finding of the jury will be the punitive damage 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:06.600 is part how badly should he be punished for what 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:10.600 he put those families through. One fifty million dollars doesn't 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:12.680 sound like enough. It could be one hundred and fifty 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.560 billion dollars for what he did to these families. But 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:21.240 you know, I think whatever the ultimate finding is with 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:24.720 respect to money that he owes for his horrific behavior, 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:28.000 it will bankrupt him. It will probably you know, put 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:31.000 him in the fact pauper's prison the rest of his life. 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:33.439 At least that's what I'm hoping. And then if you 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:36.639 want to talk about one of the world's biggest legal 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:44.040 bungles ever, please his Alex Jones lawyers. According to what 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:51.200 we've seen reported inadvertently gave the plaintift lawyers, the lawyers 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:55.160 for the Sandy Hook families, his whole cell phone. How 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:59.479 two years, two years worth does that happen? You know? 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:07.119 When it comes to electronic discovery and electronic evidence, I 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:10.960 am the last one to pretend like I know all 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:13.560 the ins and outs. What I do know is that 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:17.560 we used to have our forensic experts, our electronics experts, 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:22.440 do lots of forensic searches of computers and cell phones. 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:25.920 They would generate information that, if you printed it out, 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:28.399 would fill the Library of Congress for one cell phone. 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:31.359 It's insane. They would put it on various discs and 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:34.360 thumb drives and floppy disks or whatever back in the day, 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:37.399 and then we would have to give over what we 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:41.480 would have to give over in discovery to opposing counsels. 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:45.680 It's not a simple, straightforward proposition, especially for somebody who 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:49.720 is eat incompetent like me. So I'm not going to say, listen, 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:55.080 it's a horrific mistake, you know. But what I love 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:58.960 about it is it puts all the lies to everything 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:03.399 Alex Jones has been saying and testifying about, which means 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:07.720 he's now open to possible clinal perjury charges. But the 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:12.399 last two years of his text messages, how close was 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:16.119 he with Steve Bannon and Roger Stone and Mike Flynn 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:19.959 and Rudy Giuliani. And do you think, Danielle for a minute, 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:27.080 he and Donald Trump weren't communicating somewhere somehow because Alex 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:31.760 Jones had a big audience. Alex Jones message was pro Trump, 0:21:32.520 --> 0:21:36.000 and I have a feeling this could be a treasure 0:21:36.040 --> 0:21:39.840 trove for both the j six Committee because they're seeking 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:43.560 to get their ants on Alex Jones text messages, and 0:21:43.600 --> 0:21:47.040 then ultimately for the federal grand jury that has all 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:51.119 of a sudden, you know, been prodded into wakefulness and 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:57.160 they're going gangbusters bringing in extraordinarily high profile witnesses to 0:21:57.160 --> 0:22:01.400 testify before the grand jury, like White House cow patsa Boloney. 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:07.159 So let's let's transition into from Alex Jones. We will 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:11.600 know more about his fate come next week when when 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:15.080 the punitive damages are are decided. And it was thankful 0:22:15.119 --> 0:22:17.480 to me for the people that follow me on Twitter, 0:22:17.520 --> 0:22:21.439 because I was outraged by only four million dollars and 0:22:21.440 --> 0:22:24.119 then folks who are like, don't worry, Dannie Hell don't worry. 0:22:24.200 --> 0:22:26.520 It is not just gonna be for me because I 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:29.600 I came to find out, like everybody else, Alex Jones, 0:22:29.640 --> 0:22:33.720 who was making eight hundred thousand dollars a day selling 0:22:33.840 --> 0:22:39.639 bullshit on his Info Wars, selling survival food and gun paraphernalia, 0:22:39.760 --> 0:22:45.160 I had no idea that white supremacy and stupidity were 0:22:45.240 --> 0:22:49.240 so lucrative. I had no idea. So I'm like, oh, 0:22:49.320 --> 0:22:52.840 he definitely has this money that he can come off 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:55.040 of for those families and what he did to them. 0:22:55.040 --> 0:23:00.280 But I want to transition now to January sixth because 0:23:00.600 --> 0:23:03.920 you and I for you know, god knows how long 0:23:04.000 --> 0:23:07.639 now almost two years since the insurrection, almost two years 0:23:08.800 --> 0:23:12.520 we've been waiting for the Department of Justice to activate, 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:15.680 to activate in the way that the January sixth Committee 0:23:15.680 --> 0:23:18.840 has activated. And like you have said, they have woken 0:23:18.960 --> 0:23:22.199 from their slumber right and it is as if the 0:23:22.280 --> 0:23:26.800 alarm clock has gone off there. So walk us through, Glen. 0:23:27.359 --> 0:23:30.680 What we have learned over the last week about where 0:23:30.720 --> 0:23:35.920 the Department of Justice is right now is it is 0:23:35.960 --> 0:23:39.600 it in parallel with where the January sixth Committee is. 0:23:39.600 --> 0:23:43.040 Are they still lagging behind because the January sixth Committee 0:23:43.080 --> 0:23:48.120 obviously has been working since January six, right, so they've 0:23:48.160 --> 0:23:51.080 been working for the last eighteen almost nineteen months now. 0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:55.359 So what does it look. Where are we with where 0:23:55.400 --> 0:23:58.960 the Department of Justice is on January six? Well, we're 0:23:59.000 --> 0:24:01.080 in a much better place now than we were a 0:24:01.119 --> 0:24:04.359 few months ago. And I want to just tweak my 0:24:04.520 --> 0:24:07.320 snarky comment of a few minutes ago that they've been 0:24:07.359 --> 0:24:14.160 prodded into wakefulness, because that's my frustration talking. But let's 0:24:14.240 --> 0:24:16.800 also be fair to the Department of Justice. I'm speaking 0:24:16.840 --> 0:24:21.680 to myself now. We learned recently that back in April, 0:24:21.720 --> 0:24:25.440 the Federal Brand Jury had subpoened and received Mark Meadows 0:24:25.480 --> 0:24:28.600 cell phone records. We didn't know that that had been 0:24:28.600 --> 0:24:31.159 going on. And what I can promise you, Danielle, that 0:24:31.359 --> 0:24:35.840 wasn't the first significant step DJ took that we knew 0:24:35.880 --> 0:24:38.960 nothing about. So it has been going on for a 0:24:39.080 --> 0:24:42.880 very long time, and whatever they've been doing behind the scenes, 0:24:42.960 --> 0:24:46.720 they have now decided tactically that the time is right 0:24:47.080 --> 0:24:52.359 to start subpoenaing the highest of the high profile witnesses 0:24:53.480 --> 0:24:57.159 because they knew everything would get out precisely as it 0:24:57.280 --> 0:25:00.800 has been getting out now. For example, when Mark Short, 0:25:01.200 --> 0:25:05.399 Vice President former Vice President Pence's chief of staff was 0:25:05.520 --> 0:25:08.280 subpoena to the grand jury. What did he do? He 0:25:08.359 --> 0:25:11.320 ran to the Washington Post Carol Lennig, and I'm glad 0:25:11.400 --> 0:25:14.240 he did, and he said, let me tell you what 0:25:14.359 --> 0:25:17.720 the federal prosecutors are asking me in the grand jury. 0:25:17.920 --> 0:25:20.520 So that's the point where the cat's out of the bag. 0:25:20.840 --> 0:25:23.480 And what I'm hoping is DJ has done everything it 0:25:23.520 --> 0:25:26.760 could do behind the scenes before coming to this moment 0:25:26.760 --> 0:25:29.960 in time. Doesn't mean they've been doing nothing, okay, even 0:25:30.000 --> 0:25:32.360 though I'm so frustrated that they seem to be moving 0:25:32.440 --> 0:25:36.320 too slowly and there's been no overt law enforcement activity 0:25:36.440 --> 0:25:40.160 to lock people up, like people who are tampering with witnesses, 0:25:40.440 --> 0:25:42.400 because that's the kind of stuff you have to address 0:25:42.640 --> 0:25:46.000 in real and you don't delay when it comes to 0:25:46.040 --> 0:25:49.040 witness tampering. See, I'm going off on eleven tangents already. 0:25:49.040 --> 0:25:52.320 I'm gonna try to pull myself back. So what we 0:25:52.440 --> 0:25:55.960 learned that was actually pretty earth shattering this past week 0:25:56.359 --> 0:26:00.200 is White House Counsel Pat Sippoloni and the depth the 0:26:00.280 --> 0:26:02.640 White House Council, whose name is escaping me, it will 0:26:02.640 --> 0:26:05.600 come to me, have been subpoena to the grand jury. 0:26:06.200 --> 0:26:09.879 The reason and I did a couple of videos, and 0:26:09.960 --> 0:26:12.600 I've been talking on air with Joy and others in 0:26:12.640 --> 0:26:17.280 recent days about why it is such a dramatic difference 0:26:17.720 --> 0:26:21.080 when a White House Council testifies to the January sixth committee, 0:26:21.160 --> 0:26:23.919 which we know he did, We saw that, and to 0:26:24.000 --> 0:26:26.920 the federal grand jury, because people might be inclined to say, look, 0:26:27.160 --> 0:26:29.960 testimony's testimony, he's done at once, what's the big deal 0:26:30.320 --> 0:26:34.359 the difference between testifying to a congressional committee and testifying 0:26:34.400 --> 0:26:37.600 to a federal grand jury, like night and day, because 0:26:37.680 --> 0:26:40.840 we saw Pat Sippoloni and some video tape testimony that 0:26:40.920 --> 0:26:44.320 was part of the j six public hearings, refused to 0:26:44.320 --> 0:26:48.320 answer questions about Donald Trump's primes, about Donald Trump's conduct, 0:26:48.320 --> 0:26:52.280 about Donald Trump's statements invoking executive privilege. And there's a 0:26:52.320 --> 0:26:55.199 little bit of a silver lining behind that dark cloud, 0:26:55.600 --> 0:26:59.639 because remember how there would be a really hot button 0:27:00.040 --> 0:27:04.600 question that was seeking information about Donald Trump's responsibility for 0:27:04.640 --> 0:27:07.399 the insurrection. Pat sippalone would look over it as lawyer, 0:27:08.160 --> 0:27:10.359 and as lawyer would give him like one of these 0:27:10.480 --> 0:27:13.480 motions as if to say, you can't talk about that, 0:27:14.160 --> 0:27:17.960 and Pat sippalone would go, yeah, I guess that's all 0:27:18.000 --> 0:27:20.920 I can say. You know, I'm overstating a little but 0:27:21.040 --> 0:27:23.159 only a little bit, because that was the message that 0:27:23.240 --> 0:27:29.120 was watched that back and forth. Right. And here's the thing. 0:27:29.400 --> 0:27:35.439 The January sixth Committee has zero power work to test 0:27:36.000 --> 0:27:40.320 and overcome that assertion of privilege and compel an answer. 0:27:40.800 --> 0:27:45.919 But the federal grand jury has tons of power to test, overcome, 0:27:46.200 --> 0:27:49.680 and compel an answer in real time. That's why these 0:27:49.720 --> 0:27:54.240 two settings are so dramatically different, because the Federal grand 0:27:54.320 --> 0:27:57.359 jury is going to get all the good stuff that 0:27:57.520 --> 0:27:59.919 the j sixth Committee couldn't get. And let me just 0:28:00.080 --> 0:28:03.520 tell your viewers thirty seconds of how that happens. Because 0:28:03.560 --> 0:28:06.280 I've litigated privileges in the grand jury a bunch over 0:28:06.320 --> 0:28:09.320 my thirty years as a prosecutor. So when a witness 0:28:09.400 --> 0:28:12.040 is in the grand jury, I refuse to answer that 0:28:12.160 --> 0:28:17.600 question why attorney client privilege, spousal privilege, Fifth Amendment, privilege 0:28:17.640 --> 0:28:23.080 against self incrimination, executive privilege, doccupation privilege, priest parishioner. There's 0:28:23.200 --> 0:28:26.280 lots of privileges, and they're legitimate privileges in a law. 0:28:26.359 --> 0:28:29.360 But guess what a lot of people invoke those privileges 0:28:29.400 --> 0:28:31.159 because they don't want to testify. They don't want to 0:28:31.200 --> 0:28:36.320 knock out their friend or their criminal associate, so they 0:28:36.400 --> 0:28:39.880 just throw that up as as a roadblock to prosecutors 0:28:39.920 --> 0:28:43.080 getting the information. You know what we do. We walked 0:28:43.200 --> 0:28:46.080 over to the chief Judge's chambers in this case, it 0:28:46.160 --> 0:28:49.520 would be Chief Judge Beryl Howell of the Federal District 0:28:49.560 --> 0:28:53.000 Court in DC, and we litigate the privilege in real time. 0:28:53.200 --> 0:28:56.080 I mean literally, all this happens within a matter of dates. 0:28:56.160 --> 0:29:00.320