1 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 1: Greetings and welcome to woke a F with me Danielle Moody. 2 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:17,960 Speaker 1: I've been using my podcast to expand the scope of 3 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:22,920 Speaker 1: wokeness from strictly a political lens to include art, relationships, spirituality, 4 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 1: and so much more. But sometimes we've still got to 5 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 1: talk about politics on woke a F. 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But 11 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 1: since we are living through the historic second impeachment of 12 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 1: a president who's already left office, I wanted to give 13 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 1: you a healthy taste of this week's think Thursday discussions. 14 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: First up, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirshner, who you may 15 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: know from MSNBC Peacock and his own Patreon show. He 16 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 1: reacted to the opening statements in the impeachment trial and 17 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:07,399 Speaker 1: gave a legal breakdown of why the impeachment trial of 18 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 1: citizen Trump is in fact not unconstitutional. Glenn, I feel 19 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 1: like I don't know. For the last several months, every 20 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:21,679 Speaker 1: week is another historic week in America. I would like 21 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:24,040 Speaker 1: to get back to a time when we are bored, 22 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:27,319 Speaker 1: but that is not the case yet. So we've had 23 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:35,759 Speaker 1: now our opening statements from both the house managers impeachment managers, 24 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 1: as well as Donald Trump's last minute substitute B string 25 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 1: I guess team of lawyers. I want to get your 26 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 1: initial reactions before we dig in to specifics. So what 27 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 1: were your overall feelings on what you saw this week? 28 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: And a lot to unpack. So in Impeachment the Sequel, 29 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 1: Part two, I will say my first impression watching the 30 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 1: two teams of lawyers is if I ever need lawyers, 31 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 1: I'm going to Raskins, Nogoose and Cicillini. I Am not 32 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:19,960 Speaker 1: going to showing and cast right because it really it 33 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:23,800 Speaker 1: was embarrassing. It wasn't the B team, it was the 34 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: you know, maybe the W team. They were way down 35 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 1: in the alphabet. I heard Nicole Wade say she counted 36 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 1: him up, counted Trump's defense teams up. This is the 37 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 1: seventh defense teams he's had and over the last four years. Yes, 38 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 1: and he's clearly scraping the bottom of the barrel. So 39 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: it was an embarrassment, and even some of the Republican 40 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:50,639 Speaker 1: senators said it was an embarrassment. So look, the presentation 41 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:57,239 Speaker 1: by the three House managers the prosecutors in substance was powerful. 42 00:02:57,360 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: It was you know, they hit the right legal notes, 43 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 1: the right factual notes, the right procedural notes, and most 44 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 1: importantly from an old career trial prosecutor, the right emotional notes. 45 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 1: You know, the opening montage was put together chronologically in 46 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: a way that I hadn't seen it done before, relating 47 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 1: kind of almost in real time, how the insurrection unfolded, 48 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 1: and importantly how it was inspired by Donald Trump. Then 49 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 1: when the defense team started its presentation, you know, it 50 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 1: was laughable. But I'll try to leave all the jokes aside. 51 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: That the problem that they had, and they really didn't 52 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: handle it well, is that there are there are two 53 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 1: enormous hurdles for them to overcome argument that the Constitution 54 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 1: doesn't allow us to try at a Senate impeachment trial 55 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 1: a former president who was impeached while he was president. 56 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 1: The first is the plain language of the Constitution. It 57 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 1: says that the Senate shall have the power to try 58 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 1: all impeachments period there's no footnote, there's no caveat, there's 59 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 1: no asterisk that said the Senate shall have the power 60 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 1: to try all impeachments unless the president resigned or was 61 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:14,119 Speaker 1: out of office right quick before the trial kicked off. Right, 62 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 1: it's a silly argument that the Constitution prohibits it, because 63 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 1: the contrary is true. The Constitution expressly provides for it 64 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: with no caveats. The second is so the plain language 65 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 1: of the Constitution kills the defense argument. But the second 66 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:36,039 Speaker 1: is precedent. When we talk about precedent, Danielle, as you know, 67 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:39,919 Speaker 1: we're usually talking about court cases, Right, the Supreme Court 68 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 1: has said X Y and Z, and that's why X 69 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 1: Y and Z is precedent. Well, because there's this thing 70 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 1: called the political question doctrine, which says courts are not 71 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: permitted to touch to decide to litigate uniquely political questions 72 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:01,559 Speaker 1: like impeachment. There will never be court precedent, Supreme Court 73 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,800 Speaker 1: or otherwise on the ins and outs of an impeachment 74 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 1: hearing because it's a political question. So what do we do. 75 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:12,279 Speaker 1: We look to historical precedent, we look to political precedent, 76 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 1: we look to procedural precedent, and we have all of 77 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 1: that because this exact thing has been done before in 78 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:24,599 Speaker 1: our nation's history multiple times. And people have probably heard 79 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 1: about the Marquee case. In eighteen seventy six, the Secretary 80 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:33,159 Speaker 1: of War, William bell Napp, he was impeached. He resigned 81 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 1: because he didn't want the Senate to try his impeachment case. 82 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 1: What did the Senate do? They tried his impeachment case 83 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:43,160 Speaker 1: even though he had resigned. So in our nation's history 84 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 1: there is political precedent for the Senate to do exactly 85 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:50,279 Speaker 1: what the Senate is doing. Those are two big deal 86 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 1: pieces of information or evidence or precedent that control this thing, 87 00:05:56,279 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 1: the Constitution and our nation's history. And the Defense did 88 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:04,040 Speaker 1: nothing to talk about that. All they did was they 89 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:07,279 Speaker 1: were rambling. I don't know what they did. It was 90 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:11,679 Speaker 1: absurd and frankly obscene. And but here's the thing, Danielle, 91 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:16,559 Speaker 1: because we both saw it. Forty four spineless Republicans took 92 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:21,479 Speaker 1: the jurisdictional out we talk about in law enforcement, giving 93 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:25,040 Speaker 1: a suspect and out, like when we're trying to get 94 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 1: a suspect in a homicide interrogation to admit that he's 95 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 1: the one who killed the victim. But he didn't want 96 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:33,040 Speaker 1: to admit it, doesn't want to admit it, we give 97 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 1: him an out. The out is usually a self defense out. Well, 98 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:39,119 Speaker 1: you know that guy had a gun, that guy you killed, 99 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:40,919 Speaker 1: and I heard he was going to pull it on you, 100 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:43,359 Speaker 1: so you kind of had to kill him in self defense. 101 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 1: And then the suspect you can see the wheels turning. 102 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 1: They're like, that's right, I killed him in self defense. Well, no, 103 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 1: you didn't, because the facts don't support that. But I'm 104 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:54,599 Speaker 1: glad we've now gotten over the hurdle of the fact 105 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 1: that you killed him. Let's continue the interrogation. It's called 106 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 1: giving him an out. The forty four senators took the 107 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 1: jurisdictional out and let me finish, not finish our conversation, 108 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 1: but finish on this. You've heard this said in various ways, 109 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 1: one hundred times by lawyers. You know, the lawyers. I'm 110 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: not crazy about lawyers myself. Yeah, you've heard us say, 111 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 1: we got the law on our side, Pound on the 112 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:22,400 Speaker 1: law right when we've got the facts on our side, 113 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 1: Pound on the facts, when we've gotten either on our side, 114 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 1: pound on the table, make some noise distract. I'm going 115 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 1: to add one line based on what I saw yesterday. 116 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 1: If you don't have the law on your side, and 117 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: you don't have the facts on your side, then pound 118 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:44,080 Speaker 1: on partisanship and cowardice and weakness, because nothing resonates with 119 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 1: those Republican senators like partisanship, cowardice, and weakness. And forty 120 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: four of them took the out and that is despicable. 121 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 1: It's unpatriotic. And if they are willing to sign up 122 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: for insurrection, what the heck else are they willing to 123 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 1: sign up for? This week on woke af Daily's Think 124 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 1: Thursday show, I was also joined by legal analyst Midwind Charles, 125 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 1: founder of Midwind Charles and Associates. Midwind tour into Trump's 126 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: clown car legal team and the absurdity of Mitch McConnell 127 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 1: delayed the Senate and impeachment hearing until after Trump had 128 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 1: left office, only to claim that holding the trial after 129 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 1: he left office would be unconstitutional. I love talking with 130 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 1: Midwind because, like me, she cuts through the bullshit. So 131 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:34,679 Speaker 1: be sure to check out our full thirty minute conversation 132 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 1: at patreon dot com slash woke af With respect to 133 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:43,560 Speaker 1: the attorneys who were representing Donald Trump, who quite literally 134 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:46,920 Speaker 1: deserve no respect but please go ahead. It seems as 135 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:50,679 Speaker 1: though they got their law degrees at Trump University. That 136 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: was not. First of all, that was not lawyering. It 137 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 1: was incoherent, it was unorganized, it was unclear what points 138 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 1: they were trying to make, and most importantly, they didn't 139 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 1: even address the very valid points that the House managers 140 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:08,080 Speaker 1: made in their opening, which is, if we don't go 141 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:11,840 Speaker 1: forward with this trial, you are effectively setting the precedent 142 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:14,960 Speaker 1: for a president to go on a crime spree the 143 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:18,840 Speaker 1: last week or week before he or she leaves office 144 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 1: and there would be no accountability. They didn't even address that, 145 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 1: and to me, that's one of the strongest arguments as 146 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 1: to why having this trial is constitutional. It is appropriate. 147 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:33,720 Speaker 1: And following the opening, the Senate did vote going forward 148 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 1: in favor of this being constitutional, with I think six 149 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:41,640 Speaker 1: Republicans joining in with all the Democrats. And I also 150 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 1: find that surprising because I'm like, why would Republicans who 151 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 1: love power cast a vote that would limit their power? 152 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:52,040 Speaker 1: But then again, they have never been a party to 153 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 1: live by precedent. They have never been a party to 154 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:58,120 Speaker 1: be consistent. We know this with the Amy Cody Barrett 155 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 1: hearing versus the refusal to have a hearing from Mary Garland. 156 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 1: But I just thought the presentation by Trump's attorneys was abysmal. 157 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 1: It was not helpful. There are some arguments that could 158 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 1: have been made that would have been favorable to Donald 159 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 1: Trump that would be reasonable. I'm not saying that they 160 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:18,920 Speaker 1: would be persuasive, but there were reasonable arguments to make. 161 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 1: For example, is it fair that someone should be held 162 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:26,480 Speaker 1: responsible for the actions of someone else? Right? A reasonable argument. 163 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 1: They didn't really even make those kinds of arguments. Yes, 164 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 1: they talked about First Amendment, but they didn't drive home 165 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 1: this idea, the danger of holding someone responsible for the 166 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:42,200 Speaker 1: conduct of someone else. So I just couldn't even quite 167 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:45,480 Speaker 1: understand what was happening as I listened to the two attorneys. 168 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 1: It didn't make any sense to me. I mean, at 169 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 1: one point I tweeted and I said, literally, someone tell 170 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 1: me what is happening? Because I didn't go to law school, right, 171 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 1: and so I always ask for clarification what I don't 172 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 1: understand shit, And everyone was just like, I'm watching it too, 173 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:01,959 Speaker 1: and I don't know. I have no idea what we're 174 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:04,560 Speaker 1: looking at, and I don't know what I'm looking at. 175 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:08,679 Speaker 1: You know, what was striking to me is Claire McCaskill 176 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 1: on MSNBC. She said something that has stood out to 177 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:17,479 Speaker 1: me this week, which was that in any other situation, 178 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:22,720 Speaker 1: law firms, the top law firms in the country, would 179 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 1: be clamoring to represent the president of the United States, 180 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 1: because representing the president of the United States is essentially 181 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:36,680 Speaker 1: a career making moment, like presenting before the Supreme Court, right, 182 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 1: like it is a career making moment. So what does 183 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:43,440 Speaker 1: it say that what we know to this point Donald 184 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:49,560 Speaker 1: Trump has gone through seven different defense teams and now essentially, yes, 185 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:53,199 Speaker 1: I guess Trump University produced Trump Law School, because that's 186 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:56,640 Speaker 1: where these folks have come from. Because it looked like 187 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 1: it didn't even look like a Barnum and Bailey circus. 188 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:04,240 Speaker 1: It looked like a circus put on by like a 189 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 1: toddler in dogs like I don't even you know, it 190 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:11,559 Speaker 1: just didn't It didn't make any sense. And when I watched, 191 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:16,560 Speaker 1: I wanted to get your reaction to Senator Cassidy, right, 192 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 1: the only surprise out of the band of forty four 193 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 1: Republicans who decided that insurrection is absolutely what they're doubling 194 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:28,080 Speaker 1: down on. They can bullshit all they want and say 195 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:31,440 Speaker 1: that Oh, it was unconstitutional. Note wasn't Mitch McConnell holding 196 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 1: up Merritt Garland's seat for three hundred and sixty three 197 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 1: days that was unconstitutional? This no, especially the fact that 198 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell had the option to bring this trial when 199 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:45,520 Speaker 1: Donald Trump was still in office, which is when he 200 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:48,079 Speaker 1: was impeached in the House, but chose not to. Right. 201 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:51,439 Speaker 1: So it's like, oh, it's too late to impeach him, 202 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:54,320 Speaker 1: and now it was too early to impeach him, right. 203 00:12:54,559 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 1: And we know that Mitch McConnell is very kayle of 204 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:04,560 Speaker 1: holding a hearing and ramming through whatever it is issue 205 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 1: it is that he wants and exhibit as is the 206 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 1: Amy Coney Barrett hearing. So the idea that there wasn't 207 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:12,959 Speaker 1: enough time it couldn't have been done because I believe 208 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 1: the vote in the House to impeach Donald Trump was 209 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 1: January thirteenth, so he had what seven more days until 210 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 1: the end of his term in transition. So we know, 211 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:25,439 Speaker 1: as we know from the Amy Coney Barrett that if 212 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:28,839 Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell really wanted to have that trial, he could 213 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:32,280 Speaker 1: have done it because we saw how quickly and how 214 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 1: swift the Amy Coney Barrett hearings were done so the art, 215 00:13:36,559 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 1: so whatever argument it is that he had to delay 216 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:44,440 Speaker 1: the trial isn't credible. And again, like I said earlier, 217 00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:48,199 Speaker 1: bad faith, right, the idea, the idea that you would 218 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:51,360 Speaker 1: delay a trial. And then when it comes time to 219 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:53,840 Speaker 1: vote as to the idea that you would delay a 220 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 1: trial such that by the time it happens, Trump is 221 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 1: no longer in office. And then a vote comes up 222 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 1: as to whether it is constitutional to go through with 223 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 1: the trial because he's no longer in office, and you 224 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:07,960 Speaker 1: vote no when you are the reason as to why 225 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:11,320 Speaker 1: the trial is happening when he's no longer in office. Again, 226 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 1: bad faith, bad faith, not someone with integrity, not someone 227 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 1: with character, and not someone who can be trusted when 228 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:22,920 Speaker 1: they give their word. And I hope Democrats learn from this. 229 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 1: I don't know how many times they have to see 230 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:30,840 Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell and Republicans do this and still try to 231 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 1: deal with them in anticipation that maybe one day this 232 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 1: will be the thing to get them to act with 233 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:46,640 Speaker 1: good faith. Based on the willingness of forty four Republican 234 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 1: senators to stand with their dear leader instead of the law, 235 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 1: it looks like Donald Trump will be acquitted a second time, 236 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 1: but we need to have these conversations to point out 237 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 1: the lies, hypocrisy, and treason of the Republican Party. If 238 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 1: you know me, you know I call out the bullshit 239 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 1: every chance I get. 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