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

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody. Recording from Podstream Studios in

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Speaker 1: Times Square.

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Speaker 2: Folks, it is.

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Speaker 1: Wednesday, and holy shit, right like you come off of

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Speaker 1: the holiday weekend, which I will get to in a

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Speaker 1: moment because if you follow me on Instagram or on Twitter,

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Speaker 1: you saw my tweet about the Juneteenth holiday. But I

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Speaker 1: will get into that in a moment. But my god,

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Speaker 1: did the news cycle decide to pick the fuck up

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Speaker 1: in a very quick way. So there is a lot

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Speaker 1: to get woke to this week, and we'll jump right in.

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Speaker 1: So first off, you know, Monday was a federal holiday

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Speaker 1: for Juneteenth, and folks, let me tell you, I got

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Speaker 1: a lot of mixed fucking feelings about June teenth being

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Speaker 1: made a federal holiday in a country that has banned

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Speaker 1: critical thought in a majority of states, that is rewriting textbooks,

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Speaker 1: that is taking out anything that is integral to understanding

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Speaker 1: the founding of this country. Our racist roots, our racial

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Speaker 1: wealth gap, all of these things are tied up and

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Speaker 1: being able to actually understand history. How the fuck do

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Speaker 1: you give a day off? But people don't really know

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Speaker 1: why they have that day off? And in a majority

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Speaker 1: of states in this country, it has been made illegal. Right,

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Speaker 1: much in the same way that white slave owners didn't

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Speaker 1: want slaves to be able to read, right, because education

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Speaker 1: is fundamental to your liberation. Right, So you saying the

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Speaker 1: same tactics that their white slave holding ancestors did have

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Speaker 1: made it illegal for young people to be able to

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Speaker 1: actualize critical thought in any real way and use that

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Speaker 1: to better understand why we have such persistent and unrelenting

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Speaker 1: racism in this country. But we're gonna give motherfuckers a

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Speaker 1: day off. And I guarantee you that if you asked

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Speaker 1: at least five people in your social circle.

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Speaker 2: What is June teenth?

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Speaker 1: Why do you have the day off? A majority of

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Speaker 1: those people would have no idea.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. It's about something black. Well.

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Speaker 1: Juneteenth is actually America's real Independence Day because it is

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Speaker 1: the time when all people in this country were liberated

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Speaker 1: from chattel slavery. How the fuck you celebrate Independence Day

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Speaker 1: while there were people in shackles?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: But what pisses me off about the Juneteenth holiday is

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Speaker 1: that instead of providing justice or actual police reform, after

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Speaker 1: we all watched and bore witness to George Floyd being

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Speaker 1: suffocated to death for close to nine minutes, right, instead

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Speaker 1: of actually doing something about every single fucking sea to

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Speaker 1: shining sea, bad fucking police department in this country, we

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Speaker 1: just were thrown a federal holiday. That's how Juneteenth became

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Speaker 1: a federal holiday. We can't get a report done on

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Speaker 1: what reparations would look like in this country for all.

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Speaker 2: Of the extracted free labor.

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Speaker 1: That then followed was followed by Jim Crow, was followed

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Speaker 1: by redlining, was followed by every single economic deterrent that

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Speaker 1: But you want to give us June teenth ice cream?

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Speaker 1: Give me a fucking break. So those are my thoughts

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Speaker 1: about Juneteenth, And what I said in my tweet was this,

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Speaker 1: I take issue with Juneteenth being a federal holiday in

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Speaker 1: a country that has banned critical thought in a majority

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Speaker 1: of its states. I take issue with white Americans who

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Speaker 1: with a nation that would provide a federal holiday after

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Speaker 1: the World War witness to the murder of a black

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Speaker 1: man on video for close to nine minutes but not

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Speaker 1: provide justice through real police reform. America could do better,

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Speaker 1: but I often wonder if it ever will. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's a tricky place sometimes to be in to try

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Speaker 1: To try and fight for liberation that your ancestors were beaten, raped, suffocated,

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Speaker 1: And I will tell you that for me, I spent

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Speaker 1: Monday Juneteenth in deep reflection. I also spent it in

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Speaker 1: deep rest. I realized that I don't often when I

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Speaker 1: say that I'm taking time off, I actually don't really

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Speaker 1: researching something. I'm always, you know, trying to piece together

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Speaker 1: the next story, the next conversation, the next set of guests,

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Speaker 2: I'm never just being.

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Speaker 1: And so on Juneteenth, I decided to just be right,

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Speaker 1: no plans, no barbecues, no gatherings, just with myself, with

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Speaker 1: most glorious act of resistance I've ever done. And I

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Speaker 1: to bend the arc right, to bend the arc towards justice.

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Speaker 2: And I will tell you.

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Speaker 1: That, as a black woman, as a black queer woman,

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Speaker 1: as a black queer woman that is a child of immigrants,

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Speaker 1: to sit and do nothing but luxuriate in my skin. Right,

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Speaker 1: act of defiance that I could do. Because white mainstream

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Speaker 1: society doesn't want me to rest right. They either want

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Speaker 1: me to die of hustle culture right, hustling to close

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Speaker 1: a racial wealth gap that they created through racist and

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Speaker 1: discriminatory policies, but dangle carrots in front of me that

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Speaker 1: be able to catch up to wealth that has been

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Speaker 1: purposefully extracted. Right, capitalism was built literally on the backs

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Speaker 1: of black people and continuing to toil away in a

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Speaker 1: system that protects right, the technocrats and you know, and

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Speaker 1: the top one percent, while the rest of us are

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Speaker 1: work hard. Rest is our biggest resistance. Joy right is

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Speaker 1: our biggest weapon. And so that's what I decided to

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Speaker 1: reflect on, you know, for the Juneteenth holiday that I

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Speaker 1: do not believe should be a federal holiday because unless

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Speaker 1: you are willing to really understand what it must have

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Speaker 1: been like to continue to toil away. How many people

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Speaker 1: in Galveston, Texas, how many people enslaved people were killed

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Speaker 1: during those two years when they could have been free.

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Speaker 2: Think about that. So shifting gears into the news.

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Speaker 1: That came off of the holiday, and where we are,

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Speaker 1: My goodness, my fucking goodness. So Hunter Biden has reached

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Speaker 1: a plea deal after five years, five years of being

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Speaker 1: investigated by Republicans because these investigations started when Jeff Sessions

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Speaker 1: Special Council who was a Trump appointee in Delaware. After

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Speaker 1: five years, god knows how much fucking money spent on

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Speaker 1: and by fabrications, I mean boldface fucking lies that the

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Speaker 1: Republicans have been able to grift off of for the

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Speaker 1: the bottom of this. He is pleaded out and there

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Speaker 1: were two misdemeanor tax charges and he's avoiding prosecution on

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Speaker 1: a separate gun charge. He didn't pay his taxes in

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Speaker 1: taxes now in full. He did so I believe in

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Speaker 1: for the next twenty four months. And this was on

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Speaker 1: some very odd gun charge right where he falsified I

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Speaker 1: guess documents, and by falsified, I mean when he went

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Speaker 1: on there whether you have used drugs?

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Speaker 2: Do you use drugs? Are you an addict?

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Speaker 1: I have no idea what the form says, but he

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Speaker 1: did not disclose, and for that reason he is being charged.

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Speaker 1: And you know what's funny is that the lawyers that

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Speaker 1: many people who lie on their gun forms, right, the

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Speaker 1: purchase forms for a firearm, and because we are a

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Speaker 1: country that is proliferated with guns. You know how many

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Speaker 1: people that you would have to arrest with regard to

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Speaker 1: the charges on the taxes. It would have been tax

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Speaker 1: But he did so five years right of taxpayer dollars

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Speaker 1: of Republican talking points and what do they say now, Oh,

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Speaker 1: this was a sweetheart deal. Oh you know, we're going

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Speaker 1: to continue to get to the bottom of this. When

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Speaker 1: asked by reporters, Kevin McCarthy, when asked by reporters, well,

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Speaker 1: this was a Trump appointee. Are you not trusting the

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Speaker 1: judge that Donald Trump put in place? Well, I mean,

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Speaker 1: do is it thorough? Is it thorough? Like? Nothing will suffice?

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Speaker 1: And that's what Democrats have to get like in their

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Speaker 1: because it is a way to deflect from all of

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Speaker 1: the fucking grift that the Trump spawn have done, that

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Speaker 1: the Trump spawns spouses have done, and that Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: himself have done. So there were no indictments, there was

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Speaker 1: And that is what many attorneys are saying that actually

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Speaker 1: this Justice Department went harder on Hunter Biden to give

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Speaker 1: the fuck does that make sense? But what does make sense, folks,

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Speaker 1: are all of the things that I've said about Merrick

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Speaker 1: Garland and his salot like pace around investigating Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: And so what we have learned right as we get

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Speaker 1: of course the Republican Party won't let go of, not now,

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Speaker 1: not ever. So I don't know why again we pretend

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Speaker 2: And this is.

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Speaker 1: New reporting coming from the Washington Post in an article

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Speaker 1: entitled FBI resisted opening probe into Trump's role in January

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Speaker 1: sixth for more than a year subtitle in the DOJ's

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Speaker 1: investigation of January six key Justice officials also quashed an

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Speaker 1: Trump's orbit. This reporting is being done was done by

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Speaker 1: Karrol Leoning and Aaron C. Davis, And so here is

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Speaker 1: what they said, which I you know, my friend Jen

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Speaker 1: Tobb and friend of the show pointed out in a

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Speaker 1: about Merrick Garland because we weren't actually just talking shit

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Speaker 1: Hours after he was sworn in as Attorney General, Merrick

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Speaker 1: Garland and his deputies gathered in a wood paneled conference

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Speaker 1: room in the Justice Department for a private briefing on

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Speaker 1: the investigation he had promised to make his highest priority

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Speaker 1: bringing to justice those responsible for the attack on the

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Speaker 1: US Capitol on January sixth, twenty twenty one. In the

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Speaker 1: two months since the siege, federal agents had conducted seven

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Speaker 1: hundred and nine searches, charged two hundred and seventy eight rioters,

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Speaker 1: Interesting. But according to a copy of the briefing document

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Speaker 1: A wariness of about appearing, partisan institutional caution, and clashes

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Speaker 2: How does that restore faith? How does knowing.

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Speaker 1: this article in the Washington Post is absolutely fucking damning.

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Speaker 1: So what Merrick Garland did was play politics by not

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Speaker 1: He gives them these two hefty cases, the Document's case

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Speaker 1: You know, the Republican Party is working overtime to twist

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Speaker 1: That is it for me on this woke Wednesday. As always,

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Speaker 1: dear friends, power to the people and to all the people.

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Speaker 2: Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck,