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Though the 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:25.920 President is speaking at the n r A has had 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:28.240 a lot to say already about how important the twenties 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:31.920 eighteen elections are, how important this is, which is what 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:37.360 we've been saying. Let our country beat overwhelmed, and we're 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:43.200 going to demand secure the border in the upcoming It's 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:46.319 gonna be very soon. It's gonna be very soon. In 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:51.120 recent months, Democratic lawmakers have voted against legislation to close 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:56.920 deadly immigration loopaul like catch and release. How about that 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:02.720 one we caught on release some bye bye, Welcome to America, 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:06.480 Welcome to America. That's what we have, We're going to 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:12.080 keep the violent criminals out. Senate Democrats like John Tester 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.760 and saw what happened there, What he did to one 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:19.840 of the finest people in our country, what he did 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:26.600 to the adval what he did is a disgrace. John 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:33.520 test Bill Nelson, and Bob Casey voted against Kate Slaw 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:38.760 legislation name for Kate Styling, who was gunned down by 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:42.880 a five time deported illegal immigrant. And you saw what 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:46.520 happened with that court case. Can you believe the result 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:50.680 of that court case? Can you believe them? The same 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:57.480 senators along nearly every other Democrat also voted to protect 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:02.240 something that's actually becoming very popular, sanctuary cities. Can you believe? 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:09.200 Finally people are starting together. Democrats are liberals, and Congress 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:12.800 wanted disarmed, law abiding Americans at the same time they're 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:20.120 releasing dangerous criminal aliens and savage gang members onto our streets. 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:23.519 These countries send up their worst. Remember what my opening 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:27.639 speech I got criticized for. Remember, well, guess what they're 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:33.760 not sending their finest that I can tell you. We're 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:39.800 getting some real beauties in here, but we're taking MS 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:44.240 thirteen horrible killer gang members. We get them out, because 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:49.200 our guys are much tougher than there's There is not 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:51.800 even a little bit of a contest. And that's the 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:56.200 only language they understand. That's the only language they understand. 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:02.840 These are savage killers. My administration believes our city should 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:14.200 be safe havings for Americans, not sanctuois for criminals. And 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:18.440 we believed that violent gang members must be thrown out 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:23.920 of our country immediately, not let to stay, to fester 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.479 and to get larger. We get them out, and we 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:38.000 are taken them out by the thousands, and we had 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:42.800 the right laws, which we can have very quickly with cooperation, 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.520 we wouldn't even have a problem. Be so much better, 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:52.080 so much easier. We believe that politicians who put criminal 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:56.120 aliens before American citizens should be voted out of office 0:04:56.400 --> 0:05:06.960 immediately as we secure our borders. We're also supporting the 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:14.400 election as as he goes through his list anyway, that 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:18.000 is his speech live as it's happening before the n 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.799 r A. Right now, we have so much breaking news, 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:23.560 I might otherwise stay with this and we'll be we'll 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.120 be watching and monitoring if he says anything else. He 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:30.719 did talk at length about how important elections are and 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:35.400 clearly when the next when the next bill comes up, 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.200 as it relates to the budget in September, he is 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.359 saying that he's willing to shut the government down. That 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:45.719 puts every Congressman in every senator up for election in 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:49.919 a direct path of a politically volatile issue, and that 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:53.760 is the issue of building and funding completely the border wall, 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.080 which you know what the president is using every power 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.039 he has. All right, let me let me start here 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:04.599 with with some that is unbelievable. A federal judge today 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:10.039 slapped down so hard Mueller and his merry band of 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:13.919 democratic donors involved in this witch hunt. He said, basically 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:18.000 said everything but that this is a witch hunt. It 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:23.480 was a stunning act of courage from the judiciary branch 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:31.480 of government, and it absolutely pierced the real truth behind 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:35.960 the Mueller investigation. I it is. It is that stunning, 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:38.640 and I think it is now the beginning of what 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:43.080 will become a long process where eventually the truth and 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:46.880 the constitution and the rule of law wins out in 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:52.719 spite of deep deep state operatives involved in nefarious activities, 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:56.120 abuse of power, and corruption at a level I've not 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.400 seen in my lifetime. And I can't think of either. 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.719 So at long last, you have somebody with the courage 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:08.479 to actually call out Mueller's investigation for what it is. Now. 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:11.760 What happened earlier today hat a federal judge presiding over 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:18.200 Paul Manafort's case accused Mueller's prosecutors in open court, showing 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:22.560 at times real flashes of anger, that quote that they 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:25.520 are lying. Judge in this case, his name is T. 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:29.280 S Ellis, and he also said the only reason that 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:33.080 Mueller was pursuing charges against Manafort was to get him 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.560 to flip on President Trump so Mueller could make a 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:40.120 case for impeachment. He nailed it. You finally, as somebody 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:44.520 in the legal system brave enough to stand up for 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.960 the rule of law and stand up to a a 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:52.360 prosecutor that has gone off the rails in what is 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:56.040 a witch hunt against the president, as all took place 0:07:56.040 --> 0:08:00.360 in Alexandria, Virginia earlier today, and the judge ex pressed 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:04.760 deep and wide skepticism today about the validity of one 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:08.320 of the indictments against Paul Manafort, the chairman former chairman 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:12.440 of President Donald Trump's campaign. Now Manafort appeared in court 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.000 Friday to seek the dismissal of the charges that were 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.920 outlined in the Virginia indictment. Remember there were two separate 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:21.400 cases we're talking about. In this particular case, the judge 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:26.880 appeared receptive, at least in large part, to Manaforts lawyer's 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:32.160 argument that because the counts are not related to the 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:35.800 Russia investigation, they should be dismissed. It is a It 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:39.480 is the right and the compelling argument based on the 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.720 rule of law here that they've gone so a far 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:46.960 from their original mandate. They gotta remember, special counsels have 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:50.640 a tendency to go way beyond what the scope of 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:54.240 the investigation had to do with. In the case of Manafort, 0:08:54.400 --> 0:09:00.400 now we're talking about paying fraud charges involving involving nothing 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.719 to do with Russia, nothing to do with the campaign, 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:08.960 you know, going back to two thousand and five and six. Anyway, 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:12.840 So the judge US District Judge T. S. Eliott the 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:16.480 Third told Mueller's prosecutors, I couldn't believe it when I 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:20.600 saw this. I don't see what relation this indictment has 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:25.520 with what the Special Council is authorized to investigate. You 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:28.960 don't really care about Mr. Manaford's bank fraud. What you 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:33.400 really care about is what information Mr Manafort could give 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:36.160 you that would reflect on Mr Trump or lead to 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:41.720 his prosecution or impeachment. Wow, not only is he right, 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:46.319 he stated it frankly and right up front. The whole 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:49.400 purpose here and the prosecutors play this game all the time. Well, 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:52.559 if you give me information on on person A R 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.280 person be, then we'll let you off the hook. Patrick 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.920 FitzGeralds he was never interested in Scooter Libby. He wanted 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:02.280 Scooter Libby to give up anything as it related to 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:06.160 Vice President Cheney at the time. And Scooter Libby wasn't 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:10.400 gonna lie to make his life easier. It took fifteen 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:12.600 years for him to get the pardon that he deserved, 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.280 and he got it from President Trump. I mean that 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:18.160 whole case, you know, was supposed to be who leaked 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:22.640 the information about Valerie Plane a covert operative, which he 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:26.040 was not well turned out on day one or two 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:30.520 Patrick Fitzgerald. By the way, interestingly enough, one of Comey's attorneys, 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:33.880 one of the people Comey leaked that classified information to, 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:39.840 or the privileged information to now as an attorney for COMBA. Anyway, 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:43.640 So the prosecutors, they tried to argue today that their 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:48.480 investigative powers were outlined in both Rod Rosenstein's letter appointing 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:52.480 Mueller in May and the memo he issued in August. Yeah, 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:56.040 after the fact, if you remember that particular case, we'll 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.680 we'll give you the mandate after you did what you did, 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.880 which is ridiculous. And they added that they also had 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:05.679 additional authority that they could not disclose in the courtroom 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:10.240 because it related to an ongoing investigating ongoing investigations that 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:14.840 could affect national security. The judge wasn't buying any of it, 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:19.920 and he characterized Robert Mueller's Special Counsel's office and their 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:24.320 argument as quote, we said that this was what this 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:28.080 investigation was about, but we're not bound by it, and 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:31.440 we were lying. And then he said, come on, man 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:35.760 in court. The judge said this. Now, Ellis didn't make 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.200 an immediate ruling on the mat of fort motion to 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:41.480 dismiss trial date for that is said on July ten. 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:45.079 And although Mueller's authority has been tested in court before 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:49.800 this hearing today was notable this Judge Ellis's decision to 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:54.040 wade into this to to what this entire mandate was 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:58.319 about and how a far Robert Muller and his merry 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:02.640 band of democratic don'ts have gone? Is absolutely right? And 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.440 then that's when he said, you don't really care about Mr. 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:10.439 Manaford's bank fraud. He said to the prosecutor Mueller's team 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:13.760 at times losing his temper, the judge losing his temper, 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.760 and Ellis said prosecutors were interested in Manafort because of 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:22.120 the potential Manafort could provide material that would lead to 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:27.400 Donald Trump's prosecution or impeachment. The judge said, quote, we 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:31.720 don't want anyone in this country with unfettered power, and 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:35.800 it's unlikely you're gonna persuade me that the special prosecutor 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:39.040 has power to do anything that he or she wants. 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:43.320 He said that to Mueller's attorneys in that courtroom. The 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:47.880 American people feel pretty strongly that no one has unfettered power. 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:52.240 And then when Mueller's team tried to answer Ellis's question 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:55.640 about how the investigation and its charges date back to 0:12:55.760 --> 0:13:00.560 before Trump the Trump campaign even formed, the judge shoots back, 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:04.320 none of that information has to do with information related 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:10.079 to Russian government coordination in the campaign of Donald Trump. Boom, 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:14.480 And at one point the judge posed a hypothetical question, 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:19.600 speaking as if he were the prosecutor about why Mueller's 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:25.640 office refer to criminal investigation about Trump's personal attorney Michael 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:29.280 Cone to New York authorities and kept the Manafort case 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.480 in Virginia And he said, quote, they weren't interested in 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:37.040 it because it didn't further their core effort to get Trump. 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:42.160 And then Ellis said it mimicking the prosecutor in this case. Wow, 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:47.520 this is a beat down unlike I think any I've 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:51.920 ever heard of before. Wow. And the judge is right, 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.800 by the way, we'll explain all of that when we 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:57.360 get back. 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The judge in the case, 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.960 I don't see what relation this indictment has with what 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:11.320 the special counsel is authorized to investigate. You don't care 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:15.480 about Mr Manafort's bank fraud. What you really care about 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:18.280 is what information is to Manaford could give you that 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:21.760 would reflect on Mr Trump or lead to his prosecution 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:26.600 or impeachment. Wow, do you know that when a judge 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:32.280 calls prosecutors liar? What did I say? What was I 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.200 When I look at the team that Muller had put together, 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.560 and I look I'll keep going back to Andrew Weissman 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:42.040 as exhibit A. He was the one that that The 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:46.200 New York Times refers to as Mueller's pit bull. Well 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:54.160 twice he was excoriated by judges for withholding exculpatory evidence. Remember, 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:57.960 tens of thousands of people lost their job because of 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:02.880 Andrew Weisman. The Mueller's top eight is pitbull at Anderson 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:05.800 and County. And then it gets worse from there. He 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:08.800 was overturned by the U. S. Supreme Court nine zero. 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.280 Who gets overturned by the U. S. Supreme Court nine 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:15.600 zero nobody? And then he put four Merriyal executives in 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:19.160 jail for a year, and that was overturned by the 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:22.880 Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. And now you have a 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:27.680 federal judge saying about Mueller's prosecutors in this case that 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:30.400 you are lying. Those are the words that came out 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:34.320 of this judge's mouth today. And then you know they 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:37.960 try to fight back, and Alice wasn't buying any of it. 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:43.280 You know, he's he literally characterizing the Special Counsel's Office 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:47.480 arguments is we said this was an investigation what it 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.560 was about, but we're not bound by it. And we 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:54.920 were lying. Come on, man, and the judge was livid, 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:59.320 apoplectic because of of what they did in court today 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.040 and because of how far they have gone beyond their 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:06.080 mandate in this particular case. You don't care about Manafords 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:09.560 bank fraud. You care about getting the president what Manaport 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.560 might give you. We don't need anyone in this country 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:16.440 with unfettered power, he said, unlikely you're gonna persuade me. 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.679 The special prosecutor has power to do anything he or 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:23.359 she wants, and the American people feel pretty strongly that 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:30.480 no one has unfettered power. Wow. Wow, I just I've 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:34.080 never heard this type of strong language in a case 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:38.199 like this before. This is everything I've been telling you. 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:42.280 By the way, the newest Mueller prosecutor donated to Hillary Clinton, 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.119 just like the rest of them. That's in the Daily 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:47.600 Caller today. We'll take a break, we'll come back. We 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:50.400 have a lot more on this. We've got Haraldo Rivera 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:52.239 was going to weigh in on it, new Ingridge, Dan 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:54.600 Bongino and much more. All right, glad you with us 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:58.480 now to the top of the hour one, Shawn new 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:00.680 Ingrad to the top of the hour Later on Heraldo 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:04.240 and and Bongino on this very topic. Our buddy herschel 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:06.520 Walker got a big appointment by the President. He's gonna 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.240 check in today on this Friday, all right, So let 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:14.159 me give you the headlines. Federal judge accuses Mueller's team 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:18.920 and he used the word lying to target Trump and said, 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:22.639 come on, man, that's the judge from the bench saying 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:28.600 that you don't care about Mr Manafort. US District Judge T. 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:33.399 S Ellis the third told Robert Mueller's team, you really 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:37.680 care about information that Mr Manafort can give you to 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:43.000 lead to Mr Trump or an impeachment or whatever. Now. 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:47.320 Ellis also demanded to see the unredacted scope memo, which 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:53.840 is the the memo, the document outlining hang on one second, 0:18:55.600 --> 0:19:04.120 uh blah blah blah blah, I'm I'm multitasking here. Okay, um, Now, 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:06.119 let me read this part of it to you because 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:11.280 because this is really really smart. Now it could be 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:14.800 the This is by far the most explosive development of 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:17.200 all in the in the hearings in the Monophar case. 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:19.960 You know that when a judge does this, this means 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:24.160 this judge is pissed and he's now demanding that Mueller's 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:27.960 you know, team of Democratic donors, including the new addition 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.960 we just found out the latest edition of Mueller's team, 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:35.720 uh Uzo s sone assistant U S Attorney for the 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:39.879 Eastern District of Virginia, is now joining Mueller's team of prosecutors. 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:43.400 And lo and Behold donated nine thousand dollar to Clinton's 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:49.000 presidential campaign. Shaker another Democratic donor appointed by Mueller. But 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:52.159 it's fair, and Mueller, of course worked under Obama. But 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:54.840 he's a Republican. You know, somebody was said to me, well, 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:56.480 you know, he's a good man. He served his country. 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:59.960 I honored Mueller's service of his country. I don't respect 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:04.360 him appointing Andrew Weiseman and only Democrats. I don't respect 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:07.280 that he's gone beyond the scope and mandate of what 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:11.120 this investigation is supposed to be about. I don't love 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:14.520 the aggressive tactics that they've taken. They couldn't have made 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:20.840 a call to Paul Manaforts attorney or Michael Cohen's attorney 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:24.720 and say we're outside your door. Open it, you know, 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:26.879 done it, and instead of the pre dawn raid and 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:29.880 the way it's been described in the press. They can't 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:33.679 do it in a respectful manner. It's unbelievable. What to 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:39.280 scare everybody, intimidate everybody. Anyway, So the judges demanding that 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:44.480 Mueller's prosecutors produced the unredacted version of the memo issued 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:47.800 by Rod Rosenstein, which gave Mueller the authority to broaden 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:50.520 the scope of the investigation. If by my memory serves me, 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:55.160 that was after they in fact did the the raid 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:59.040 on Paul Manafort. I'm sorry, can we have the permission 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:02.439 to do this after? Now that rose? It was written 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:06.200 after just a week after the Rosenstein wrote the memo. 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:10.920 The addendum to the memo, after Mueller's swat team broke 0:21:10.960 --> 0:21:16.360 into Manafort's home, reports was saying, with guns drawn at 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:21.600 six am and got Paul Manafort and his wife from 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:26.320 at a gun point out of bed. Really did you 0:21:26.359 --> 0:21:29.119 think he he was? He was sitting in there, you know, 0:21:29.960 --> 0:21:33.679 ready for a shootout on the Okay Corral? You know? 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:36.880 Is this how we treat drug dealers? This is how 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:42.400 we treat mob members. Anyway, So Mueller's prosecutors, they're gonna 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:45.080 have to turn over the full, unredacted version of the 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:50.000 August second memo that the Deputy Attorney General the conflicted 0:21:50.040 --> 0:21:53.679 attorney general, the one attorney general that should be recused 0:21:53.720 --> 0:21:57.280 in this case, Rob Rosenstein, the one that in fact 0:21:57.320 --> 0:22:00.560 supported the firing of James on me, he will be 0:22:00.600 --> 0:22:03.560 a witness in this case. And then of course he 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:06.480 signed one of the FISA warrants. The bulk of information 0:22:06.920 --> 0:22:10.520 were Russian lines that were paid for by a dossier 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:15.400 put together by a foreign national, Christopher Steel, with money 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:18.560 funneled through a law firm. Of course, they're not investigating 0:22:18.600 --> 0:22:21.119 any of that. And the judge said he liked to 0:22:21.160 --> 0:22:24.920 see the full memo which prosecutors submitted to the court 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:30.080 after the raid. So basically Rosenstein gave the permission after 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:33.280 the raid, not before the raid. That's a big problem 0:22:33.320 --> 0:22:37.200 for them. And for another case against Mantafort, with which 0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:41.680 with more page of redactions, while those prosecutors have urged 0:22:41.720 --> 0:22:44.359 this memo gives them the authority to bring cases against 0:22:44.359 --> 0:22:48.640 Manafort related to his work in the Ukraine. Okay, this 0:22:48.720 --> 0:22:53.000 is this is ten years before Donald Trump ever thought 0:22:53.000 --> 0:22:56.600 of running for president. You know, last there was a 0:22:56.800 --> 0:23:00.600 blog posting in Legal Insurrection and I actually said by 0:23:00.600 --> 0:23:04.600 the time of the August second memo, Mueller already was 0:23:04.760 --> 0:23:09.240 investigating Manafort's business dealings and gathering evidence for an indictment, 0:23:09.760 --> 0:23:12.200 which would be on seal. Less than three months later, 0:23:13.160 --> 0:23:17.120 July seventeen, a week before the Rosenstein memo, Mueller's team 0:23:17.200 --> 0:23:21.720 rated Manafort's home. That BI agents rated his home in 0:23:22.119 --> 0:23:27.439 in Alexandria, Virginia, arriving in the pre dawn hours, you know, 0:23:27.520 --> 0:23:31.480 seizing documents other materials related to the Special Council investigation 0:23:31.520 --> 0:23:35.240 of Russian meddling in the election. It had nothing to 0:23:35.280 --> 0:23:40.400 do with any of it. And that rate occurred without warning, which, 0:23:40.440 --> 0:23:43.600 of course is is one on one Andrew Weissman. If 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:48.280 you read Sydney Powell's book, Licensed to Lie. Anyway, They 0:23:48.320 --> 0:23:50.800 go on to say in this piece, the August second 0:23:51.680 --> 0:23:55.320 memo purported to confirm Mueller's authority to go after Manafort's 0:23:55.359 --> 0:23:58.480 business dealings. But Mueller already was doing that and had 0:23:58.520 --> 0:24:02.840 been doing that for weeks, uliminating in the July home rate. 0:24:02.960 --> 0:24:05.520 So he went in for permission to do this after, 0:24:05.680 --> 0:24:08.879 in fact, they did the investigation, and after they raided 0:24:08.920 --> 0:24:12.639 his home. Sorry, I don't see if the if we 0:24:12.720 --> 0:24:15.240 have equal justice under the law, I don't see how 0:24:15.280 --> 0:24:19.879 this holds up. Anyway, there's midnight raid or six am 0:24:19.960 --> 0:24:24.359 radar Manafort's home, waking him and his wife with guns drawn. 0:24:25.359 --> 0:24:30.600 A shocking example of unnecessary bullying on its face, intended 0:24:30.760 --> 0:24:34.560 to intimidate, not just develop evidence, but the fact that 0:24:34.600 --> 0:24:38.560 it took place before the scope was even authorized, and 0:24:38.640 --> 0:24:44.080 that subsequent authorization took place in secret stinks too high Heaven. 0:24:44.119 --> 0:24:47.879 This is not gonna fly, not with this judge today. 0:24:48.440 --> 0:24:51.879 It's not gonna fly. You know, when a judge is 0:24:51.920 --> 0:24:56.560 saying outright that, in the metaphor case, that Mueller's aim 0:24:56.640 --> 0:25:00.240 is to hurt Trump, that ought to be awake up 0:25:00.280 --> 0:25:03.520 call for anybody that believes in the rule of law here. 0:25:05.200 --> 0:25:07.440 That ought to be a wake up call for every American. 0:25:08.800 --> 0:25:11.440 I thought Levin was was so on his game last 0:25:11.520 --> 0:25:16.800 night pointing out, you know, Mueller can't disable and totally 0:25:16.840 --> 0:25:20.119 destroy a presidency. In the process of all of this, 0:25:20.560 --> 0:25:23.240 with all this president as accomplished, we're on the verge 0:25:23.240 --> 0:25:29.080 of of possible de nuclearization in the Korean Peninsula. We 0:25:29.200 --> 0:25:32.840 have our closest ally in the Middle East, Israel forming 0:25:32.880 --> 0:25:36.920 a new coalition with the Saudis, Egyptians, Jordanians, and Emirates 0:25:36.920 --> 0:25:40.760 in the US, and we saw that in spite of 0:25:40.800 --> 0:25:44.480 all of the blackmail and bribery of the Obama administration 0:25:44.480 --> 0:25:47.240 and a hundred and fifty billion in cash. Iran does 0:25:47.280 --> 0:25:50.600 have a nuclear program. The President is kind of busy. 0:25:51.240 --> 0:25:55.159 There are other issues he's dealing with. They're ongoing negotiations 0:25:55.200 --> 0:25:59.919 to release these hostages in North Korea American hostages is ongoing, 0:26:00.480 --> 0:26:02.320 you know, work to be done as it relates to 0:26:02.359 --> 0:26:05.600 trade concessions that China is making because the President forged 0:26:05.600 --> 0:26:08.679 a good relationship with the president of China. You know, 0:26:08.760 --> 0:26:12.399 there's also intellectual property protections that need to take place 0:26:12.520 --> 0:26:15.080 in all of this. You know, there's a lot of 0:26:15.119 --> 0:26:18.240 stuff here that is going on. We have the lowest 0:26:18.320 --> 0:26:23.200 unemployment rate in fourteen states ever, look at the numbers today, 0:26:23.359 --> 0:26:26.920 three point nine percent unemployers almost like full unemployment full 0:26:27.000 --> 0:26:32.040 employment rather, you know, lowest unemployment rate for African Americans 0:26:32.040 --> 0:26:35.600 and history, Hispanic Americans and history women in the workplace 0:26:35.600 --> 0:26:43.719 in history. You know. But there's a lot more to this. Also, 0:26:43.760 --> 0:26:47.000