WEBVTT - Does Justice Matter? 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.560 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to woke f Daily with 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:20.800 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. So, folks, 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:26.160 once again, news has broken that Donald Trump has broken 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:33.280 the law. Once again, that Donald Trump's crime spree from before, during, 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:38.640 and after his disgraceful term as president of these United 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:44.040 States fucking continues. The New York Times has reported that, oh, 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:48.240 along with packing up i'm sure all of his McDonald's 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:52.400 rappers and packages and red fucking ties, that he also 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:55.800 happened to pack up a bunch of you know, top 0:00:55.880 --> 0:01:00.200 secret documents and information that should have remained with the 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:04.080 National Archives, and that the National Archives apparently has been 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:08.160 negotiating with Donald Trump for over a year now in 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:13.360 order to get those you know, documents returned. I'm going 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:17.400 to get into a conversation with our friend Glenn Kirshner, 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:21.760 and you know, I will tell you that in the year, 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:24.720 in the two years that we have been in regular 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:30.400 conversation with Glenn, Glenn has always been my He's always 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:34.240 been my beacon. He's always you restored my faith that 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:37.120 we need to keep pushing forward and that you know, 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:42.760 justice indeed matters, and that it will prevail, even now 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:46.640 though Glenn is beginning to look around and wonder what 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.280 the hell is going on with the Department of Justice. 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:53.040 The Department of Justice when they walked in, had all 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:56.320 of the documentation from the Muller Report, had all of 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.840 the documentation that had been done over the last four 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.440 years of the Trump had been stration that they could 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:04.760 have rolled out indictments after Joe Biden had put his 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:09.160 hand on the Bible and became the forty the forty 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:12.520 six president of the United States, but instead they decided 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:15.800 not to. And we'll have a conversation today about how 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:21.400 this administration, Department of Justice, and both parties, Democrat and Republican, 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:25.200 continue to want to turn the page on the Trump 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:29.120 administration and on the one six insurrection. And I'm saying, 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:32.080 how the fuck did we get here when we're the 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:35.760 only ones right, the citizens of these United States are 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:40.079 the only ones that actually still give a damn about justice, 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:44.120 that give a damn about accountability. So, on one hand, 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:46.880 you have Republicans that want to turn the page. They 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:49.239 don't want the RNC to bring up the fact that, 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:54.480 you know, they believe that one six was rightful political discourse, justifiable, 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:57.720 political discourse. They want to be able to move forward 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.360 so that they can once again take power. We're not 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.400 as a way to advance, you know, the American people, 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:05.760 not as a way to ease our day to day lives, 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:09.480 but so that they can, you know, have their moment 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:16.519 in the sun to reactivate their long standing grudges against 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:19.840 Democrats for having the audacity to want to hold the 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:23.160 forty fifth president of the United States to account for 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:28.840 his fucking crimes. Right, and so instead of pursuing policy 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.720 that would help our lives be at easier for us 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:33.920 to come to the table as a more equitable and 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:37.320 just society. We know what Republicans are going to do 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:40.640 right when they get the gavel back, and so that's 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.480 the reason why they don't. They want to turn the 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:47.120 page right and move forward. But then you have Democrats, 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.280 who we all stood out and fucking line for risk 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:53.800 our lives at the height of a health pandemic in 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:58.640 order to vote in accountability and responsibility, also wanting to 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.480 turn the page because they want to talk about bigger 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:05.360 agenda and bigger plans for the American people. Folks, I 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:08.280 can tell you that there is no bigger agenda. Then 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:12.120 ensuring that the rule of law is not just for 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:16.160 those that have no money and those that are marginalized 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.560 or those that don't have the right kind of complexion, right, 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:23.360 too much melanin in order to be seen as innocent 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:27.520 before guilty. Right, that the rule of law in this 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:31.440 country is something that, regardless of Donald Trump's attempts and 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:35.920 the attempts of this cult the Republican Party, that we 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:40.560 would in fact make sure that people in this country 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:44.440 have a restored faith in their Department of Justice, in 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:48.760 their government to do what's right even when it is uncomfortable. 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.680 Now we know right now that Republican's new favorite word 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:56.279 is discomfort. We don't want white people to feel uncomfortable. 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:58.440 We don't want white people to have to come face 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:01.880 to face with their own fucking book bullshit. Right. So 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.839 this is where we are where I will say, and 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:07.880 you'll hear in this interview with Glenn where I'm just 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:11.400 like you know, are we at a place where we 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:16.680 as a collective right should just issue civil lawsuits against 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:20.400 Donald Trump for the abuse and the assault on the 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:23.440 people of these United States, Like if our Department of 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.599 Justice is no longer in a position or has the 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:31.479 desire to ensure that justice does prevail, then what is 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:36.080 the responsibility or what is the ability of the American 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:41.760 people to do what our electeds won't Because you see, folks, 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:45.480 we are careering, careening towards the end of our democracy. 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:47.680 We all know this, we feel it, we sense it, 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.279 we know where mid term elections are going to go. Now, 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:54.560 I will continue right to tell folks, register to vote, 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:56.240 make sure your names are on the role, do all 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.200 of those things. But at the end of the day, 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.520 if you are not creating the guardrails, if you are 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.760 not making sure that my vote is actually going to count, 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:08.320 and instead you are doubling down on jerrymandering, and then 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:12.120 Democrats are only tap dancing for your vote every four years. 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:15.119 But black and brown person, when we get into office, 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:18.839 we ain't gonna do shit for you. How do we 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:22.800 think that it's going to continue moving forward? Right? How 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.200 do we think that this country is going to continue 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:31.960 moving forward? So you know, I will say that the 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:37.600 times are deeply precarious. The road that we are on 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:42.280 is not one that frankly I saw coming. And you know, 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:47.320 and I will say and offer that every single time 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:50.559 that I see Donald Trump's name in headlines, every single 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:55.719 time that yet there is another another way in which 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:59.600 he has manipulated this country where he has torched our 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:03.960 political norms, where he has operated like teflon don being 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:08.440 above the fucking law, and that no one bothers to 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.440 want to do the hard work of making sure that 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:16.080 he is held responsible and accountable for his crimes. I 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:20.080 want to scream. I want to scream because if I 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:22.880 know that how I'm feeling, and I'm a person that 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:26.400 is highly engaged right in politics, then how do we 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:30.480 think that folks who aren't listening to wokeiak who are 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.080 trying to go back to quote unquote normal, how do 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:36.960 we think that they are feeling about our body politic 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.280 right now and our democracy. There are too many times 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:43.920 when I'm getting on the phone with folks and they're like, yeah, 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:47.720 I stop watching the news. I don't care anymore. I 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:51.640 care about what's happening inside my own home, inside of 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:55.520 my own block, inside of my own community, whatever else 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:59.280 is happening. Go with God. That's the conversations that I'm 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.960 having with people who in fact, had dedicated their lives 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:09.200 to public service and who are now saying, nah, I 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:14.920 don't think so. So you know, I can't pretend to 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:17.880 say that I have all the answers, because I don't. 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.960 I have more questions. I have more questions about what 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.600 the fuck Democrats are actually doing. I have questions about 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:26.800 what it is that Joe Biden thinks that he's going 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:30.400 to get done, being as how he's gotten very little 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:32.840 done in his first year and by the time that 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.560 we get to midterms, his first two years that he 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:38.439 has gotten very little done. What does he think is 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.480 going to happen when Republicans take control of the House 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:44.720 and possibly the Senate. Does he think that he's going 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:47.360 to be holding these like White House summits and they're 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:51.359 not going to try and impeach him and hold ridiculous, 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:56.640 highly publicized hearings to do what pull another Benghazi, but 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:01.199 this time Benghazi on crack. I don't know where their 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:03.920 heads are at, folks, but I will say this about 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:07.800 where my head is at, is that we need to 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:11.240 really start focusing on the local level. We need to 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.319 start focusing on the things that we can control, on 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:18.040 our school boards, on our city councils. Right, if you 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:22.920 have even the smallest inkling to run for office, any office, 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:26.360 I say go and do it. Right, because it is 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.560 going to take all of us taking matters into our 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:33.439 own hands in order to get things done in this country. 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:36.360 Because what we realize, what I have realized over the 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.560 last several years under Donald Trump and now with Biden, 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:43.360 is that our elected officials do not apparently have an 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:46.000 alarm bell that goes off in their heads. They have 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:49.160 no sense of urgency. They think that, like the majority 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.200 of Americans, want to do the right thing. And I'm 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.959 telling you, given the opportunity to not do the right 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:57.880 thing and face absolutely no fucking consequences for it, that's 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:02.000 what they will choose. So the difference is, now, folks, 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:04.840 what are we choosing? Because I don't want us to 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:08.200 just lay down and fucking take it whatever it is 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:11.080 that either one of these parties are dishing out right, 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:16.840 which is either disappointment or disrespect. So coming up next 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:21.160 is my conversation with our friend Glenn Kirshner to walk 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:25.960 us through the latest bullshit stinking up Mara Lago and 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:34.439 continuing to plant a stain on our nation's democracy. Good morning, friends, 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.520 it is another day in America where Donald Trump is 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:42.320 getting away with yet another crime. Could we leave our 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:46.040 homes knowing that there was top secret documents there that 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:49.720 belong to the National Archives, that belong to the federal government. 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:53.839 Could we walk around committing crimes left and right, surrounding 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.240 ourselves with people who need to plead the fifth over 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:00.360 a hundred times when interviewed about their relationship ship with 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:05.080 me with the administration. No, no, we couldn't. But another 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.640 day in America reveals to us what that Donald Trump 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:12.439 can do no wrong. That the name that he received 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:16.240 in New York during his time as a real estate mogul, 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:21.320 and I put that in quotations, being called teflon don Yeah, 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:25.640 nothing sticks. So to walk us through the latest once again, 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:29.200 is our friend Glenn Kirshner, MSNBC legal analyst and the 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:33.320 host of Justice Matters. Glenn, I gotta ask you, does 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:38.120 justice matter as it pertains to Donald Trump? It does it? 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:41.600 I mean, at this point should we even care? Or 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:45.520 should we just continue about our days? Danielle I made 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:51.960 a very exasperated video yesterday after the latest revelation about 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:57.880 Donald Trump whisking away to Marrow Lago classified materials in 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:01.319 violation of yet another teral statute. And we can talk 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:04.240 about it in a minute, But I said, you know, 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:08.960 we the people are out here abiding by the laws 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:13.600 of the United States, and I think it is deeply 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:21.679 disrespectful of us that high government officials have violated countless 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:27.080 federal laws victimize the people of the United States, and 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:32.000 they're prancing around footloose and fancy free. So I think 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:36.160 justice matters to us. I think if we care about 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:42.280 our nation, justice has to matter it timely. Justice does 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:46.440 not matter to the Department of Justice. And you know 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:49.840 it's one of the three words in the title, Department 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:54.800 of Justice. And yet I don't think anybody can argue 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:59.240 with a straight face or in a fact based way 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:03.200 that there has been timely justice for what we have endured, 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:08.280 this unabated crime wave of Donald Trump and company. So 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:11.920 I am I'm at my wits end now, as I say, 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:14.080 we're gonna get up every morning, We're gonna pull on 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:18.600 the gloves and we're gonna keep punching because there's no alternative, 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:23.720 I don't think. But you know, when we hear and 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:28.240 you know what infuriates me, I think more than the 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:34.479 fact that he's been destroying presidential documents all along. Amorrosa 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:39.120 told us years ago that she walked into the Oval office, 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.800 Michael Cohen was there and Donald Trump was there. That 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:47.320 was not an aboveboard conversation going on. And when she 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:50.079 walks in, Donald Trump pops a piece of paper in 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:53.640 his mouth and starts chewing it up. Why to destroy 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:59.360 evidence of his own misconduct? Right? I don't even care 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:01.880 so much about all of that, because that is who 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:05.360 Donald Trump is. He's a mob bus. What I care 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.280 about most, and what I'm going to probably vent about today, 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:14.240 is that we heard reporting that the National Archives has 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:17.640 been negotiating with Donald Trump for more than a year 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:24.040 to do what to claw back evidence of crime that 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:29.880 Donald Trump was housing at Mara Lago. Danielle, If you 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:38.920 or I had improperly removed classified material, If we had destroyed, removed, 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:43.480 or mutilated government records or documents, those are two separate 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:46.400 crimes I just mentioned. Let me mention a third if 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.720 we had taken documents that belong to the United States 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:55.360 and violation of the Presidential Records Act. That's three different 0:14:55.520 --> 0:15:00.160 federal statutes he violated. If we had that stuff. Do 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:03.720 you think the federal government would negotiate with us, you know, 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.560 in hostage like fashion, for a year, or do you 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:10.960 think one minute after they found out we had violated 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:15.720 those laws, there would have been federal agents banging in 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:21.080 our door, guns drawn after having obtained a search warrant 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:26.200 and taken back the evidence of crime we were in 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:31.400 possession of. That's the insanity of the way our federal 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:37.200 government has gone about dealing with Donald Trump's crimes. I 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:40.080 just you know, here's the thing is that even as 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:44.640 you're saying this, I'm like, didn't we just try one 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:50.320 of the insurrectionists for removing documents from Nancy Pelosi's office, right, 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:54.800 like it's a crime. And I'm just so tired of 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.440 hearing that we are a nation of laws when we 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.800 know that that's not true. We're not ana of laws. 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.480 We're a nation of laws that applies to those that 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.840 are most marginalized, those that are most downtrodden, those that 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.560 can't bribe their way out, lie their way out, and 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:13.280 don't have the right complexion to get their way out. Right. 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:18.480 And so we have a case of a woman, once again, 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.640 black woman, six years in federal prison for the crime 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:25.840 of what not knowing that she couldn't vote in the 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:30.480 United States. Donald Trump, up and down these United States, 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:36.000 up and down this country has been lying cheating, stealing, 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:40.120 using the White House as essentially a money laundering operation 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.760 from diplomats and foreign entities. And we know all of this. 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.440 We know all of it. So I'm like, Glenn, you know, 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:50.480 at this point in time, I try not to get 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:54.440 my blood pressure up anymore because I don't think it matters, right, Like, 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:57.960 I don't know how to continue to sustain a level 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:01.400 of anger and outrage when I am no longer shocked 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:05.560 by the ineptitude of this Department of Justice and this administration. 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.760 So tell me how you think that we're going to 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:12.480 see this play out other than by the headlines, because 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:15.120 those are the only people that are doing any work. 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:18.560 Are the journalists that are out there right that are saying, Hey, 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:22.679 Department of Justice, look what we've unearthed, Look what we've discovered, 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:27.439 And then nada. I don't know how this is going 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:33.000 to play out. You know, even though we have more 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:38.199 revelations about more Trump crimes that have gone unaddressed, I 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:41.919 still find it impossible to conceive of a Department of 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:46.520 Justice that has all of this evidence of crime and 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:51.760 just completely disregards it and lets our nation limp toward 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:57.080 the end of our democracy. I don't at this point, 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:00.280 it's just faith. I don't even know if it's hope. 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:04.800 It's certainly not a realistic expectation based on what we've 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:10.120 seen do. I still think that federal prosecutors are doing 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:15.600 what federal prosecutors do, which is moved too slowly, investigate 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:20.840 everything exhaustively and to perfection in the grand jury before 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:24.960 they're ever willing to return indictments against anybody other than 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:29.000 the foot soldiers who attack the Capitol on January sixth, 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:32.200 and that they're gonna indict their way up the chain. 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:36.239 I still believe that's going to happen. The question is 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:40.040 will it be too late, and you know, will it 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:44.480 be too little? Will the House end up flipping to 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:49.160 the Republicans, at which point the Department of Justice's work 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:54.760 will slow from a crawl to a halt, not because 0:18:55.160 --> 0:19:01.320 DJ will make those changes itself, but because then it's 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:06.120 all frivolous subpoenas all the time. It's like a Benghazi 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:12.000 investigation on steroids, where all the Republican controlled House does 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:16.440 is carpet bomb the Department of Justice and the Executive 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:21.760 branch more broadly with congressional subpoenas and then find reasons 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:27.040 to say you're in non compliance, lock them up using 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:30.800 the power of inherent contempt that the Democrats in Congress 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:36.080 refuse to use. So you can see this gathering on 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:40.840 the horizon. And the only question is does the Department 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:46.120 of Justice care enough to accelerate whatever it's doing and 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:51.840 start indicting the insiders of the insurrection, the coup plotters, 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:57.520 the conspirators who designed Green Bay sweeps and false electors 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:02.920 and fraudulent legal challe lenges. I don't know. I don't 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:06.000 know if the Department of Justice has it in them, 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:10.400 has it in its DNA to do what's necessary to 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:14.280 keep our republic up and running. I don't know. You know, 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:20.640 the RNC once again showed its hand, said the quiet 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:26.680 part out loud. Right, we're going to censure anyone that 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:30.800 doesn't go along with the big lie, that doesn't fall 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:35.240 in line with the party and do what is necessary 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:41.400 in order to advance our authoritarian ideals. Right, they are 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:46.359 telling you that out loud. When we get power, we 0:20:46.480 --> 0:20:50.919 have one desire. It is to discredit and dismantle the 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:55.640 Biden administration with a series of impeachment hearings to impeach him. 0:20:55.680 --> 0:21:01.240 On what right they're going to take part this administration, 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:05.440 they're going to take apart any small bit of investigation 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:10.240 that has been going on. We know all of this, Glenn, 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:13.720 the Department of Justice. I would assume that those career 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:17.200 officials inside that have been there for decades also are 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:21.800 aware of the politics of our current moment. And so 0:21:22.280 --> 0:21:26.919 there's no sign of anything changing in the next seven 0:21:27.080 --> 0:21:31.840 eight nine months. And so I for me, you know, 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:34.879 I did have faith. I had faith that by the 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:38.320 time that we reached the year anniversary of the insurrection 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:43.480 that those that were pulling the levers of power would 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:48.160 be behind bars or at least awaiting trial, right, which 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:52.040 means that they would have been indicted. But to continue 0:21:52.280 --> 0:21:55.560 to show the American people that so long as you 0:21:55.640 --> 0:22:01.960 have enough money, right and like, you can be above 0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:05.640 the law. So, you know, I harken back to the 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:10.720 press conference that Merritt Garland gave a couple of weeks ago, 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:13.920 and we're all sitting there waiting for some type of 0:22:13.960 --> 0:22:21.320 announcement nothing. This administration, everybody, it seems, wants to turn 0:22:21.400 --> 0:22:25.360 the page on the insurrection for a different reason. Republicans 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:28.720 Mitch McConnell says to RNC chair, we need to stop 0:22:28.760 --> 0:22:31.439 talking about the insurrection because we have the House and 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:36.520 possibly the Senate within our grasps. If we keep looking backwards, right, 0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:39.440 then we're going to remind the American people who exactly 0:22:39.480 --> 0:22:43.280 is responsible for the insurrection. Then you have a Democratic 0:22:43.320 --> 0:22:46.879 party that says, ah, we want to turn the page. 0:22:47.160 --> 0:22:50.000 We have bigger agenda items, we want to do work 0:22:50.040 --> 0:22:53.639 for the American people. Everybody, Glenn wants to turn the page. 0:22:54.119 --> 0:22:58.480 How is it that both parties, for different reasons, want 0:22:58.480 --> 0:23:00.240 to turn the page and the rest of our stre 0:23:00.320 --> 0:23:07.120 hanging on believing that this criminal president who victimized so many, 0:23:07.480 --> 0:23:12.760 all of us, it's just going to get away scott free. Yeah, 0:23:12.800 --> 0:23:15.280 they keep turning pages. The end of the book and 0:23:15.359 --> 0:23:17.840 the end of the story is the end of our republic. 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:24.240 So without accountability, we don't remain viable. We just don't. 0:23:24.480 --> 0:23:29.199 And when you you know, in yesterday's video, I catalog 0:23:29.480 --> 0:23:33.920 just you know, the top ten hits of Donald Trump's crimes, 0:23:33.960 --> 0:23:39.679 starting with the campaign finance violation, conspiracy he was in 0:23:39.760 --> 0:23:43.640 with Michael Cohen on the front end to get elected unlawfully, 0:23:44.080 --> 0:23:48.680 not even talking about his encouraging Russian interference to help 0:23:48.760 --> 0:23:52.640 him win the presidency. And then you know, you tick 0:23:52.760 --> 0:23:56.240 through everything he did moving forward, you know, bribing and 0:23:56.280 --> 0:24:01.080 extorting President Zelenski. Ten counts of felony, instruction of justice 0:24:01.359 --> 0:24:04.719 that's been investigated and is ready to be indicted. Sitting 0:24:04.760 --> 0:24:07.560 in there in volume two of the Muller Report, he 0:24:07.680 --> 0:24:12.440 made false statements to Muller in his written answers to questions. 0:24:12.480 --> 0:24:17.480 Each one is a five year federal felony. He obstructed 0:24:17.520 --> 0:24:21.639 congressional proceedings a thousand times over by telling his executive 0:24:21.680 --> 0:24:27.200 branch officials do not comply with lawfully issued congressional subpoenas. 0:24:27.240 --> 0:24:30.399 He didn't tell them to invoke executive privilege. He just 0:24:30.440 --> 0:24:33.400 said be in contempt, and they were, and he has 0:24:33.400 --> 0:24:36.399 not been held accountable for that. He witnessed hampering of 0:24:36.440 --> 0:24:40.960 Ambassador Marie Ivanovitch avoidable COVID debts. Take it from this 0:24:41.040 --> 0:24:45.280 old homicide prosecutor. There's criminal liability for what he did 0:24:45.480 --> 0:24:49.199 to the American people by lying to us and chasing 0:24:49.440 --> 0:24:55.880 us all out into a deadly oncoming pandemic, inciting an insurrection, 0:24:56.320 --> 0:25:01.800 conspiring to criminally overturn a president election. And now we 0:25:01.840 --> 0:25:06.760 can add multiple counts of destroying documents and mishandling classified 0:25:06.800 --> 0:25:12.280 information and all for naught. If we turn the page 0:25:12.320 --> 0:25:17.760 on that, then the next president will have no reason 0:25:18.160 --> 0:25:23.520 and no motivation to behave in a lawful manner. He 0:25:23.720 --> 0:25:26.719 or she just won't. I hope it's a she, because 0:25:26.760 --> 0:25:29.800 maybe then we've got some luck of pulling ourselves out 0:25:29.840 --> 0:25:34.440 of this morass. But if you allow a criminal president 0:25:34.520 --> 0:25:39.280 to run rampant during the presidency and after the presidency, 0:25:39.400 --> 0:25:43.760 then it feels to me like we're done. I mean, 0:25:43.840 --> 0:25:46.399 and that's the thing is that it does. It just 0:25:46.760 --> 0:25:50.640 it feels like we're just done and we're spinning our 0:25:50.640 --> 0:25:54.040 wheels and we're trying to have to continue to have 0:25:54.160 --> 0:25:58.320 faith to believe that like justice will prevail. But you know, 0:25:58.680 --> 0:26:03.920 this isn't a movie, right and it doesn't always when 0:26:03.960 --> 0:26:08.760 empires fall, they don't have a happy ending. And you know, 0:26:08.880 --> 0:26:12.320 I look around and I have to ask, because again, 0:26:13.359 --> 0:26:16.600 the people inside of the walls of the Department of Justice, 0:26:17.320 --> 0:26:23.080 you know, what are they thinking? What are the murmurings? 0:26:23.440 --> 0:26:27.680 Because I just I can't imagine honestly, going to work 0:26:27.840 --> 0:26:30.600 day in and day out. You have dedicated your life 0:26:30.640 --> 0:26:35.359 to public service, I can't imagine in this moment right now, 0:26:35.359 --> 0:26:39.239 when you have the ability to shift the course of 0:26:39.280 --> 0:26:44.800 this country, to re establish rules and law and norms, 0:26:45.359 --> 0:26:50.640 and that's not happening that your moral your commitment to 0:26:50.680 --> 0:26:56.800 the job is still present. Yeah, I don't know. It's disheartening. 0:26:57.720 --> 0:27:00.160 I think it's probably good that I'm out of government 0:27:00.359 --> 0:27:04.439 after thirty years, because if I were inside government, the 0:27:04.520 --> 0:27:08.880 first thing I would have done is I would present 0:27:08.920 --> 0:27:12.280 a case to the grand jury for any number of 0:27:12.320 --> 0:27:18.080 Donald Trump crimes, including his responsibility for avoidable COVID debts, 0:27:18.119 --> 0:27:21.480 and the leadership at the Department of Justice would either 0:27:21.560 --> 0:27:24.639 support me in that or would fire me, and I 0:27:24.680 --> 0:27:28.280 would be I would welcome either of those two outcomes, 0:27:29.040 --> 0:27:34.119 because when you see crime being committed in the harsh 0:27:34.200 --> 0:27:38.880 light of day by high government officials, you can't not 0:27:39.440 --> 0:27:43.360 respond any more than if my next door neighbor kept 0:27:43.400 --> 0:27:47.800 breaking into my house, stealing my stuff, assaulting me and 0:27:47.920 --> 0:27:51.440 my family over and over and over again, and I 0:27:51.480 --> 0:27:55.320 reported it each time, and the evidence was there, and 0:27:55.359 --> 0:27:59.240