1 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: Good morning, Peepsen. Welcome to Okay f Daily with Meet 2 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:18,920 Speaker 1: your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks. 3 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:24,440 Speaker 1: News has come out. Alan Weisselberg, Trump's former CFO, who 4 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:28,639 Speaker 1: was a part of a fifteen fucking year scheme to 5 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:33,480 Speaker 1: evade taxes defraud the government, has received a whopping one 6 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: hundred days uh sentencing from Alvin Bragg, the compromised Manhattan 7 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:42,839 Speaker 1: District Attorney, if you remember, and Glenn is going to 8 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: walk us through where we are in terms of the 9 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 1: investigation and search in Mara Lago to Weislberg sentencing. And 10 00:00:55,240 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 1: the fact is this, Alvin Bragg had two top prosecutors 11 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 1: quit publicly a couple of months ago. I know that 12 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:08,479 Speaker 1: it probably seems like years ago at this point given 13 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 1: all the things that have transpired. And the reality is 14 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: because they said that they had more than enough information 15 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:18,319 Speaker 1: to be able to bring charges and indict Donald Trump, 16 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 1: and Alvin Bragg said no. Now in this bullshit deal 17 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:27,400 Speaker 1: that the Manhattan District Attorney gave to Weisselberg, is that, 18 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 1: oh guess what, you get a hundred day slap on 19 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:33,040 Speaker 1: the wrist and you don't have to testify against Donald 20 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:37,039 Speaker 1: Trump in this ongoing investigation, Can somebody explain to me 21 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:40,040 Speaker 1: what the fuck is going on and why Alvin Bragg 22 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 1: has yet to be investigated. Because when something smells rotten, 23 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 1: when something don't smell right, it usually isn't right. And 24 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 1: I'm so sick and fucking tired of watching these wealthy 25 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 1: white men do whatever the fuck they want and face 26 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 1: no accountability for it. People say, oh, well, at least 27 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 1: it's something I don't want, just something I actually want, justice, 28 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 1: which I'm beginning to think is impossible to come by 29 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 1: in this country. And I should pretty much just give 30 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 1: up the hope and the idea that anyone is going 31 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 1: to be held accountable because, as Glenn tweeted, thank god 32 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 1: Alan Weisselberg didn't sell loose cigarettes, Thank god he didn't 33 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 1: have suspicion of stealing a backpack. Thank god right that 34 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:32,800 Speaker 1: he didn't sell a rock of crack, because otherwise he 35 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:35,920 Speaker 1: would I've either have been executed and brought fucking daylight 36 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 1: in the streets or right be thrown in jail and 37 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 1: locked up without a key. When people continue to tell 38 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 1: me to have faith and have hope and then we 39 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 1: see bullshit like this, This is what has me outdone 40 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: right and has me continue to just be like, you 41 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 1: know what, at the end of the day, I'm starting 42 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:58,080 Speaker 1: not to give a fuck and pretty much want people 43 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 1: to just take care of themselves elves right in the 44 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 1: best possible ways that they can, because authoritarianism, fascism, kleptocracy, 45 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 1: it's all here. The democracy is a farce. Right. What 46 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 1: America has always had is really good fucking pr right, 47 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:19,399 Speaker 1: the ability to go around to other nations and decry 48 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: that we are the beacons of hope and freedom and 49 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:26,079 Speaker 1: look at our country and this melting pot, and it's 50 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:30,360 Speaker 1: all a lie. It is all a lie, just like 51 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 1: white supremacy is the lie of white exceptionalism right, which 52 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 1: has also had the pr to go around the world 53 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: stoke anti blackness right and uphold whiteness as something right 54 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: as the ultimate currency. Also a fucking lie. And I 55 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 1: just want everyone to wake up to the fact that 56 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 1: we have all been bamboosled, let astray right by the 57 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 1: lies of this country, and we're seeing it play out 58 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 1: every single day. And there's no starker way to look 59 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 1: at inequity in America and not look at the mountain 60 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 1: of evidence against Donald Trump and know that ain't not 61 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 1: a fucking thing going to happen to him or anyone 62 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: around him. Coming up next my conversation with our friend 63 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 1: Glenn Kirshner to walk us through the fuckery that is 64 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Hey, I'm David. 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Glenn, we had not spoken 87 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: since the search, the FBI search of mar Lago, since 88 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 1: now Trump's former CFO has now been sentenced to a 89 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:54,280 Speaker 1: whopping one hundred days after more than a decade of fraud, 90 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 1: tax evasion, lies, schemes, and I want to get a 91 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: sense from you. Let's start with the now Republican party, 92 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 1: who wants to defund law enforcement, who wants to defund 93 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 1: the FBI. They're totally okay when police are killing unarmed 94 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 1: black people and cheering them on and wanting to back 95 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:18,159 Speaker 1: the blue at that point. But if you have law 96 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: enforcement that has the audacity to get a warrant to 97 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:27,799 Speaker 1: legally search a known criminal, right that all of a sudden, 98 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:32,440 Speaker 1: it's everything. Everything is a mess, and every agency is 99 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,840 Speaker 1: a fraud and everything needs to be destroyed. And not 100 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 1: only that, but we also need to use political violence, 101 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,039 Speaker 1: which that rhetoric is escalating as well. I want to 102 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:45,360 Speaker 1: get your thoughts on where we are right now two 103 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:50,920 Speaker 1: weeks post the search of Mara Lago. We're not in 104 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 1: a great place. But I'm going to look for the 105 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 1: silver lining on a couple of these issues, and I 106 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,039 Speaker 1: will warn you I won't be able to find it 107 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 1: on one of these issues. But first of all, with 108 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:09,040 Speaker 1: respect to the Republican calls for to defund the FBI, 109 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 1: I have seen my friends in the FBI and the 110 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 1: law enforcement communities outraged in a way that I haven't 111 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: seen them outraged before. And here is the silver lining. 112 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: The Republicans are losing votes and support every day because 113 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 1: the FBI community and all of the people that surround 114 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 1: the FBI community, friends, families, any number of organizations, and 115 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 1: I think the American people who say, you know, the FBI, 116 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 1: among other things, goes after child predators, child pornographers, people 117 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 1: who kidnap across state lines, etc. Every single day. With 118 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:59,120 Speaker 1: every stupid thing that comes out of the mouths of 119 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: the Grass and the Grahams and the Jordans, I believe 120 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 1: the Republican Party continues to die a slow death. That's 121 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: the good news, that's the silver lining. Now, the fact 122 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:19,200 Speaker 1: that the Republicans are inspiring violence against law enforcement agencies 123 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 1: that have the temerity of trying to hold a criminal 124 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 1: former president accountable is absurd and obscene. It's obviously dangerous 125 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:33,199 Speaker 1: and what I hope the Department of Justice will also 126 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: begin to wrestle with Danielle is holding politicians accountable for 127 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:45,439 Speaker 1: their speech that is designed to incite imminent violence, because 128 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:50,320 Speaker 1: that doesn't enjoy First Amendment protection. And DJ has to 129 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:56,200 Speaker 1: get over its timidity and its fear of being criticized 130 00:08:56,440 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: for trampling on our First Amendment rights. Don't you don't 131 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:04,200 Speaker 1: have First Amendment rights to incite imminent violence. That's what 132 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 1: some of these Republicans are doing. So, I mean, I 133 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 1: know we're screaming into the void saying we hope DJ 134 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 1: does X, but you know, I do think in the 135 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:17,040 Speaker 1: long run, even though they're going to try to steal 136 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:19,679 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two midterms in the twenty twenty four 137 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 1: presidential election with this dirty state legislation they keep trying 138 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:28,200 Speaker 1: to pass, in the long run, the Republican Party is 139 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 1: destined to become extinct. Does Liz Cheney rise up from 140 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: the ashes? I don't know. Ideologically I hope not. But 141 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:40,160 Speaker 1: dispositionally she's fighting for our democracy, so I hope so, 142 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 1: because then maybe we can get back to fighting over 143 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:47,040 Speaker 1: policy and ideology instead of fighting over whether we should 144 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 1: be a democracy or a dictatorship. You know, Glenn, I 145 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 1: want to ask you something about this rise in the 146 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 1: rhetoric for political violence that is coming from Republicans because 147 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:00,600 Speaker 1: it is one sided, right, as much as the media 148 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 1: wants to talk about it, generally, it is one party 149 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:07,680 Speaker 1: that is doing this, and the reality is, like you're saying, 150 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 1: we don't really have strong laws in my humble opinion 151 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 1: around what it is that politicians can and cannot say. 152 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:18,719 Speaker 1: I mean, we have seen Republicans running for office that 153 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:23,280 Speaker 1: are using their political opponents as target practice, literally using 154 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:27,200 Speaker 1: an holding an AR fifteen and having their face and saying, 155 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 1: you know, I'm going hunting for rhinos, or remember before 156 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:34,319 Speaker 1: Gabby Giffords was shot, right that Sarah Palin had her 157 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 1: on her website in gun crosshairs. This type of attitude 158 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:43,960 Speaker 1: and demeanor by the Republican Party is not new. It 159 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 1: is just gotten it is just increased, right, and the 160 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 1: and the rhetoric has risen, and so I wonder, you know, 161 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 1: do you feel as if, and this is a question 162 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:57,320 Speaker 1: that was posed by the Washington Post a couple of 163 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: weeks ago, are we headed towards some type of civil 164 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,200 Speaker 1: war here? Like? Is this something that shouldn't continue to 165 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 1: be ignored as we did with Palin and as we 166 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 1: do with these other members like a Marjorie Taylor Green, 167 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: who again used visual political violence in her campaigning for 168 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 1: Congress like it, do you feel that they are just 169 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: egging this on? And what can be done with the 170 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 1: laws that are on the books to actually stop this? 171 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 1: I actually believe there are plenty of laws on the 172 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 1: books and including communicating threats, threats against public officials, what 173 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 1: we need. I don't. I don't think we are actually 174 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 1: heading towards civil war because I don't think the Trump 175 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 1: supporters that sort of ugly ten percent of the most hateful, 176 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 1: most dangerous Trump supporters are brave human beings. I mean, 177 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 1: you know they're brave when they walk around with their 178 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 1: big automatical weapons strapped across their bellies. But they're not 179 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: brave people. They're not going to organize. They're not going 180 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:09,199 Speaker 1: to fight if it means putting themselves in harm's way. 181 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 1: Will there be pockets of violence? Where will there be 182 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 1: lone wolf idiots Trump supporters who will attack an FBI 183 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:20,680 Speaker 1: field office with a nail gun? You know, yes, there 184 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 1: will be pockets of violence, isolated incidents of violence. I 185 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:28,440 Speaker 1: don't believe that we're heading toward a civil war, but 186 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 1: there actually is an easy way to if not put 187 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:37,280 Speaker 1: a stop to it, send a great, big signal of deterrence. 188 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 1: Prosecute just one of them. Prosecute one politician for speech 189 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:51,359 Speaker 1: that is designed to incite imminent violence. Just one and Danielle. 190 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 1: I don't care if they lose the case. It's more 191 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:59,160 Speaker 1: important to try cases than to lose cases, because once 192 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:04,600 Speaker 1: we try just one politicians for crimes they commit with 193 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:11,280 Speaker 1: their dangerous speech inciting imminent violence. These people are so 194 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 1: weak and scared and motivated by self preservation that they 195 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:22,560 Speaker 1: will stop or cut back on their own reckless rhetoric 196 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:28,080 Speaker 1: because they ultimately won't say, well, if I get indicted 197 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:31,680 Speaker 1: by the Department of Justice, I will eventually beat the 198 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 1: case like that other person did. They don't want to 199 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 1: be indicted. They don't want to live for a couple 200 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:41,440 Speaker 1: of years in court fighting against a possible criminal conviction. 201 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:44,080 Speaker 1: They're weak and they're sniveling, and they don't stand on 202 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:48,520 Speaker 1: principle indict one, Just indict one if the evidence supports 203 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 1: an indictment, and it does many times over, We've seen it. 204 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 1: You've got to get off the diamond do it. Every 205 00:13:55,000 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 1: day we fail to indict criminal politicians, we are adding 206 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:03,760 Speaker 1: fuel to their fire, and I don't know why we 207 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 1: continue to do that. Let's talk about Mara Lago now 208 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 1: and the fact that Merrick Garland, the Department of Justice 209 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 1: has gone to court to want to unseal the affidavit. 210 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 1: I want to understand the difference between you know, the 211 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 1: push and for people to say that Trump needs to 212 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 1: release the release the warrant because he has the warrant 213 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 1: and knows exactly what he means affiantic. So explain to 214 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:35,640 Speaker 1: me the difference, Like, explain to me the difference with 215 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 1: what it is that the Department of Justice is trying 216 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:40,200 Speaker 1: to do, what Trump is trying to cover up, and 217 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 1: why they had to go into court. Okay, So there 218 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:46,640 Speaker 1: are three parts to a warrant for purposes of this discussion, 219 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:52,440 Speaker 1: and Let's be clear, it's a pretty historic thing that 220 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice went to a federal judge and said, Judge, 221 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:01,920 Speaker 1: we have evidence that there is crime, evidence of crime 222 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 1: located on the property of a former president's home, and 223 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 1: we can prove it by a by probable cause. And 224 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 1: they convince the judge that there's evidence of crime right 225 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 1: now as of the date they applied for that warrant 226 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:23,280 Speaker 1: on Donald Trump's property. That's pretty dramatic. The other thing 227 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 1: I'll say before I talk about the three pieces that 228 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 1: make up a warrant, is that there are three crimes 229 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 1: that are cited in that warrant as the basis for 230 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:40,040 Speaker 1: having gone down and hit Marilago and recovered all of 231 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:43,560 Speaker 1: that evidence of crime, and none of those three crimes, 232 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:48,320 Speaker 1: Danielle require that the documents be classified. So I want 233 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:52,640 Speaker 1: to set aside all of this nonsensical debate we've been 234 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 1: having over whether Donald Trump can think in his mind 235 00:15:56,400 --> 00:16:01,080 Speaker 1: something's classified declassified and it magically is. None of that 236 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:05,920 Speaker 1: matters for the three charges in the affidavit that served 237 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,720 Speaker 1: as a basis for the search horn. Let's talk about 238 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:11,280 Speaker 1: the three pieces of a search horn. One is what 239 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 1: i'll call the face sheet. All that is is the 240 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 1: formal document by which a judge authorizes the search. So 241 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 1: it has the location of the search, it has the 242 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 1: date of the application, it has the judge's signature authorizing 243 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: the search, and it doesn't really tell us anything about 244 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:36,320 Speaker 1: the evidence. It's like a bureaucratic document officially authorizing the search. 245 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 1: That's been unsealed, and I think that is the document 246 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:42,800 Speaker 1: that showed us those three crimes that the Department of 247 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 1: Justice is pursuing involving Donald Trump. The other thing that's 248 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:52,400 Speaker 1: been unsealed and that we have, although it's been redacted, 249 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 1: is the inventory or the property receipt or the list 250 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 1: of stuff that was taken, but it's redacted or it's 251 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:07,879 Speaker 1: generally described fifteen boxes of highly classified materials, right, So 252 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 1: that we have that's been unsealed, But it's the one 253 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:15,160 Speaker 1: in the middle. The one in the middle is like 254 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:19,159 Speaker 1: the story of the crime. It is the affidavit, and 255 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:24,280 Speaker 1: affidavit is a fancy word for a long narrative describing 256 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:29,320 Speaker 1: all of the evidence that leads the Department of Justice 257 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 1: to conclude the crimes were committed and evidence of those 258 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:36,399 Speaker 1: crimes will be found at Mara Lago. That's all the 259 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:40,120 Speaker 1: good stuff. That's the book, the story, the movie of 260 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 1: the crime that gave rise to the probable cause to search. 261 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:49,639 Speaker 1: That is under sealed, and a hundred times out of 262 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:53,240 Speaker 1: one hundred remains under sealed in a criminal investigation until 263 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:55,960 Speaker 1: there's an indictment, and then we have to give over 264 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 1: those investigative documents to the defense so they can prepare 265 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 1: for trial. That's when it will first be disclosed and 266 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 1: not disclosed publicly, mind you, only disclosed to the defense 267 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:09,440 Speaker 1: team so they have all the evidence so they can 268 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 1: prepare for trial. But I think it's important for people 269 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 1: to know that the hearing that was just held down 270 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: in Florida was not the Department of Justice versus Donald Trump. 271 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:25,240 Speaker 1: It was the news media, the fourth estate, news organizations 272 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:30,199 Speaker 1: asking the judge to unseal in the public interest, and 273 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:34,600 Speaker 1: the public does have an interest in seeing what this 274 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:37,399 Speaker 1: criminal president has been up to and the evidence that 275 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:40,840 Speaker 1: led to the search of mar Lago Danielle. Donald Trump's 276 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 1: defense team had every opportunity to jump in and join 277 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:47,919 Speaker 1: that motion and say we want to disclose too, and 278 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:51,359 Speaker 1: they didn't do that. Why because it's going to kill 279 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:55,000 Speaker 1: him if all a figuratively speaking in the court of 280 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:58,240 Speaker 1: public opinion. It's going to kill him if we see 281 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:01,720 Speaker 1: that movie of all of the evidence of Donald Trump's 282 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:04,640 Speaker 1: crimes that led to the search warrant. He doesn't want 283 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:08,560 Speaker 1: that unsealed. He wants it to remain sealed so the 284 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 1: Republicans can yell and scream that it's a cover up. Right. 285 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:15,200 Speaker 1: His lawyers didn't even ask the judge to unseal it, 286 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 1: but the news organizations did, including you know, my parent organization, 287 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:23,639 Speaker 1: NBC News MSNBC, and I don't. Not only do I 288 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 1: not blame them. The public does have a right to 289 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 1: know as much as we can know about Donald Trump's crimes, 290 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:35,639 Speaker 1: but I don't want to know anything that would impair 291 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:40,480 Speaker 1: the ongoing investigation, that would compromise national security, or that 292 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:45,600 Speaker 1: would hurt witnesses or deter other witnesses from participating in 293 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:49,840 Speaker 1: the investigation. So DJ actually a friend of mine, somebody 294 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:52,000 Speaker 1: I worked with for decades, I believe. Over at the 295 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:55,879 Speaker 1: DCUs Attorney's office, Jay Bratt was the attorney in court, 296 00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 1: arguing Judge, we can't unseal any of this because it's 297 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 1: you know, involves highly classified national security information. It would 298 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 1: disclose witnesses, and we know witnesses have been tampered with. 299 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 1: Think of Cassidy Hutchinson. So Judge, we can't disclose any 300 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:15,639 Speaker 1: of it. And the judge took an appropriate middle ground, 301 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:19,399 Speaker 1: in my opinion, he said, Okay, I hear you. Here's 302 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:21,960 Speaker 1: what I want you to do. I want you to 303 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: try to redact everything out of the affidavit that would 304 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:31,880 Speaker 1: compromise the investigation, hurt national security, or endanger witnesses, and 305 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:35,560 Speaker 1: show me the rest of it that you think wouldn't 306 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 1: run the risk of doing any of those things, such 307 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:40,720 Speaker 1: that we can disclose at least some of it to 308 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:44,159 Speaker 1: the public, to the media. I think that's an appropriate 309 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 1: middle ground. Now, it may be at the end of 310 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:50,240 Speaker 1: the day when DJ takes that crack at redacting out 311 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:53,639 Speaker 1: stuff it believes it needs to redact out, the judge 312 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 1: may say, you know what, You've persuaded me that you 313 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:00,400 Speaker 1: really would have to redact so much that there would 314 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 1: be no useful information for the public at the end 315 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:05,200 Speaker 1: of the day because it would be a word here 316 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 1: and a line there that was not redacted. So I'm 317 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 1: not going to order you to disclose anything. It could 318 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:15,880 Speaker 1: be the judge says, I agree with your redactions let's 319 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:18,679 Speaker 1: go ahead and disclose what you believe can be disclosed, 320 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:22,159 Speaker 1: or he might say, I disagree with your redactions. I 321 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:25,879 Speaker 1: want you to unredact more and show that to me, 322 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:27,800 Speaker 1: because this is going to be a work in progress 323 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 1: until I'm satisfied that you know you're only redacting what 324 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:36,720 Speaker 1: would really hurt your investigation. So this is not over. 325 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:39,680 Speaker 1: I think the judge is taking a sensible middle ground, 326 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:41,879 Speaker 1: even though as a prosecutor, I would be the one 327 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,880 Speaker 1: arguing Judge, please don't disclose any of it, because we're 328 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:47,959 Speaker 1: hard at work investigating the crimes of Donald Trump and 329 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:52,640 Speaker 1: we don't want anything to interfere with that. I mean, 330 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:56,360 Speaker 1: I just think that it is crazy, Glenn, that this 331 00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:00,639 Speaker 1: man left the White House with fifteen plus boxes of 332 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:04,680 Speaker 1: classified information and we know, let's just put it out there. 333 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is in debt, right and we know exactly 334 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:11,640 Speaker 1: where he gets his money from the people that are 335 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:16,880 Speaker 1: supposed enemies of the United States. MBS gave Jared Kushner 336 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:21,159 Speaker 1: two billion dollars post him leaving the Trump administration. You 337 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 1: have putin and the amount of money that is held 338 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:27,280 Speaker 1: up over in Russia that the Trumps have, so I 339 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:31,760 Speaker 1: you know, my feeling is this. They went they retrieved 340 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:34,119 Speaker 1: the boxes that they've been asking for for the last 341 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: nineteen plus months to get back and avoid right, avoid 342 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:41,479 Speaker 1: all of this. But do we not think that Donald 343 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:44,640 Speaker 1: Trump has already done something with those documents? I mean, 344 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:48,960 Speaker 1: we have computer scanners, fax machines. I mean, do we 345 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:53,840 Speaker 1: really think that America's national security hasn't been breached and 346 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:58,680 Speaker 1: isn't at risk. No. I absolutely believe he has already 347 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 1: exploited those documents to his advantage, which is in part 348 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:07,560 Speaker 1: what continues to make this a national security investigation of 349 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 1: one of the crimes listed in the search warrant authorizing 350 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:17,639 Speaker 1: the search. One of the crimes DJ is investigating falls 351 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:24,720 Speaker 1: under the Espionage Act, and it is removing, concealing transmitting 352 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:30,280 Speaker 1: national defense information that's under that's the charge under the 353 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:34,640 Speaker 1: Espionage Act that is being investigated, and that served as 354 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 1: a basis for this search warrant. So do you think 355 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 1: once Donald Trump stole and damn it, let's call it 356 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 1: what it is. He stole the stell from the White House, 357 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:47,840 Speaker 1: He didn't have any right to it. And remember fifteen 358 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:51,320 Speaker 1: boxes is what the National Archives got months and months ago. 359 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 1: And then DJ went down there the secure The National 360 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:58,119 Speaker 1: security officials went down there in June, and Trump and 361 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 1: his team said, we've given it all. We've given it all, 362 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:03,119 Speaker 1: We've given it all. And that was a lie. And 363 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 1: then they went down and got another ten or twelve boxes. Right, so, 364 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:11,480 Speaker 1: and and the part and see what I've just articulated 365 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:16,920 Speaker 1: there about the course of the way this played out. 366 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,359 Speaker 1: We know that and that that I just described as 367 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,439 Speaker 1: going to be in the affidavit, And that brings me 368 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:26,120 Speaker 1: back to how the judge could say, listen, everybody knows 369 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:30,400 Speaker 1: that part. So it doesn't really interfere with the ongoing 370 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:34,960 Speaker 1: investigation if DJ gives over big chunks like that that 371 00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:39,800 Speaker 1: we already know. And frankly, this cuts against the prosecutor 372 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:43,880 Speaker 1: in me. I hope the judge orders unsealed as much 373 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:48,359 Speaker 1: as he can without damaging the ongoing investigation, because damn it, 374 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,639 Speaker 1: we do need to know, and the pressure needs to 375 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:55,560 Speaker 1: get ratcheted up, and all the ridiculousness coming out of 376 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 1: the republic Republican Party needs to be met with the 377 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:03,159 Speaker 1: force of facts and reality. And we'll get some of 378 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:06,880 Speaker 1: that from the affidavit. I mean, the fact that this 379 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 1: man is not indicted at this point the fact that 380 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:12,960 Speaker 1: he has not been indicted, the fact that we now 381 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:17,159 Speaker 1: know that he's a ligit. He is a traitor, right like, 382 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 1: this is treason. He is literally selling state secrets, right like, 383 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:26,959 Speaker 1: never in our wildest dreams would we imagine a former 384 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,840 Speaker 1: president of the United States, anyone entering into this office 385 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:35,320 Speaker 1: doing something like this. And yet we're all carrying are 386 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:38,919 Speaker 1: your Republicans carrying around like carrying on as if like 387 00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:42,600 Speaker 1: it's the it's it's the Department of Justice? Is you 388 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:47,679 Speaker 1: know vendetta? Unlike? Do you not get that we're under threat? 389 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,159 Speaker 1: We're already under threat under so many different ways in 390 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:55,320 Speaker 1: this country, and Donald Trump up the ante and no 391 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:59,640 Speaker 1: one cares. Um, Glenn, let's let's quickly talk about Weisselberg 392 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:04,760 Speaker 1: and the fact that you know what, I quote quote 393 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:08,160 Speaker 1: tweeted your tweet because I know that you'll be doing 394 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 1: a video on his hundred day sentencing, which he doesn't 395 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,760 Speaker 1: have to testify against. Donald Trump doesn't have to do 396 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:20,399 Speaker 1: much of anything. Basically, fifteen years of stealing, thieving, lying 397 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:24,439 Speaker 1: gets you one hundred days. I quote tweeted you because 398 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:29,359 Speaker 1: I wanted to remind America about Calife Browder. I wanted 399 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:33,240 Speaker 1: to remind people about the sixteen year old black boy 400 00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:35,760 Speaker 1: that was picked up under suspicion of having stolen a 401 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:39,639 Speaker 1: backpack and spent three years three years and rikers and 402 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:43,480 Speaker 1: then was released, no trial, no guilty charge, nothing was 403 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:46,200 Speaker 1: released after three years, and he would kill himself like 404 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 1: a little bit after that release because of the trauma 405 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:52,679 Speaker 1: that he went through. Glenn, how do we continue to 406 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,200 Speaker 1: say that we have a justice system when we see 407 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:58,399 Speaker 1: things like this happening and we know that these people 408 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:03,200 Speaker 1: keep criming because nothing ever happens to them, nothing of note. Yeah, 409 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:07,560 Speaker 1: it's a darn good thing. Alan Weisselberg didn't snatch a purse, 410 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:12,399 Speaker 1: sell a rock of crack, or selsom loose cigarettes, because 411 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:14,240 Speaker 1: then he would have been in real Oh wait, no, 412 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 1: he's white. He wouldn't have been in any trouble if 413 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:20,040 Speaker 1: he had done those things either, And he didn't get 414 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:25,719 Speaker 1: in any significant trouble by running a fifteen year criminal 415 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 1: scheme to defraud in the first degree at the Trump Organization, 416 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:34,639 Speaker 1: with Donald Trump defrauding the taxpayers of the City of 417 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 1: New York in the State of New York out of 418 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 1: millions of dollars, not to mention the taxpayers of the 419 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:45,119 Speaker 1: United States because he also committed federal tax crimes for 420 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:50,359 Speaker 1: which he has not been indicted, and he gets a deal. 421 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:58,600 Speaker 1: So when we deal with cooperating witnesses, defendants that we 422 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 1: want to flip and turned them into cooperating witnesses, Danielle 423 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,399 Speaker 1: I did it hundreds of times. I was known as 424 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:07,919 Speaker 1: the King of the cooperators, and that was not a compliment. 425 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:12,040 Speaker 1: But I worked a lot with cooperating witnesses because they 426 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:16,280 Speaker 1: were my de facto experts on crime. They were inside 427 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:18,640 Speaker 1: the criminal world. They were the ones who could tell 428 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 1: me who did what, who killed whom, who was running guns, 429 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:26,200 Speaker 1: who was, you know, manufacturing drugs. I dealt with them 430 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,359 Speaker 1: a lot in my thirty years as a prosecutor. And 431 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:33,600 Speaker 1: here's what I did. When there was an important defendant 432 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:37,560 Speaker 1: that I knew could give me a bigger criminal fish 433 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:41,040 Speaker 1: that I needed to take down to protect the community, 434 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 1: I told that person basically, it's my way or the highway. 435 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:50,040 Speaker 1: My way is that you tell me the truth about 436 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:55,080 Speaker 1: everything everything you did, and then everything that the bigger 437 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:59,800 Speaker 1: criminal fish did, and then you plead guilty to all 438 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 1: of your crimes only, and I will only give you 439 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:08,800 Speaker 1: a benefit if you testify truthfully against everybody. And if 440 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,360 Speaker 1: you say nope, I'm not giving up the bigger fish, 441 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 1: I don't say, okay, even though you're facing life in prison. 442 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:16,600 Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a one hundred days anyway, thank 443 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:24,520 Speaker 1: you very much. That feels beyond recklessness by Alvin Bragg. 444 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 1: It feels worse than just recklessness because they gave Alan 445 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 1: Weisselberg a sweeththeart deal and they said, and by the way, 446 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:38,440 Speaker 1: you don't want to testify about Donald Trump or help 447 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,800 Speaker 1: us in our investigation of Donald Trump's crimes, That's okay, 448 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:45,000 Speaker 1: you don't have to. That's what's on paper. That's what 449 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 1: played out in court in Weiselberg's guilty plea. That is 450 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:53,720 Speaker 1: the opposite of what prosecutors should do. If you didn't 451 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,760 Speaker 1: want to plead guilty and cooperate against bigger criminal fish, 452 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 1: then you're going to trial or you're taking what we 453 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,680 Speaker 1: called a soldier's plea. The soldier's plea is when somebody says, 454 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,240 Speaker 1: I ain't cooperating because I'm scared, or I'm loyal to 455 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:10,480 Speaker 1: the mob boss or whatever. I am going to plead 456 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,200 Speaker 1: to every single count in the indictment, and I'm going 457 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:14,960 Speaker 1: to go to jail for the rest of my life 458 00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:19,280 Speaker 1: because I'm not. I am less afraid of jail than 459 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:23,040 Speaker 1: I am of cooperating against bigger fish. You can make 460 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:26,720 Speaker 1: that decision. I can't stop you from entering a soldier's plea, 461 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:29,160 Speaker 1: but you know what, You're not going to get one 462 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:33,360 Speaker 1: day of benefit from me, and instead the prosecutors gave 463 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:36,880 Speaker 1: him a hundred days when he was facing life in 464 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,320 Speaker 1: prison given his age that I don't understand, and people 465 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 1: are saying, wait a minute, Alvin Bragg has a double 466 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:48,360 Speaker 1: secret probation plan and he's gonna still use Weisselberg, to 467 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:54,640 Speaker 1: which I say, and why then with the top prosecutors 468 00:30:55,200 --> 00:31:00,280 Speaker 1: Pomeranson done, who said Alvin Bragg killed the case when 469 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:03,360 Speaker 1: we had enough evidence to try and convict Donald Trump, 470 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:07,000 Speaker 1: we resign what they didn't know about the double secret 471 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:10,680 Speaker 1: probation plan to hold Donald Trump accountable. Okham's raiser, the 472 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:17,040 Speaker 1: simplest explanation is the most likely. Alvin Bragg blinked or 473 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 1: he is compromised. I don't know which, But boy, you 474 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:28,320 Speaker 1: talk about a deeply unjust resolution that highlights the deep 475 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:35,480 Speaker 1: injustice of our system. Exhibit A. Alvin Bragg in my 476 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:39,480 Speaker 1: humble opinion needs to be investigated. And I have said 477 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:45,320 Speaker 1: this since those two high profile prosecutors quit that after 478 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,840 Speaker 1: all this time special grand jury, all of this work 479 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,440 Speaker 1: being done, they just decide to leave because he's not 480 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:56,200 Speaker 1: going to do anything right. There's only I mean, if 481 00:31:56,240 --> 00:32:00,920 Speaker 1: something smells, it's because there's something rotten, right, And I 482 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,120 Speaker 1: don't know if we'll ever get to the bottom. I'm 483 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:07,240 Speaker 1: assuming we won't, but my goodness, it's just so blatant 484 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:12,000 Speaker 1: it's obnoxious at this point. Glenn, as always, thank you 485 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:17,760 Speaker 1: so much for walking us through this tangled web of Trump, 486 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:21,680 Speaker 1: trump Ism and criminality that I don't know if we'll 487 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 1: ever find ourselves out of. To be honest. Public service announcement, Danielle, 488 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:30,560 Speaker 1: Let's remember that Donald Trump launched an armed attack on 489 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:35,880 Speaker 1: the Capitol try to stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power. 490 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:41,240 Speaker 1: That's the end of the PSA. In case anybody's forgotten that, Yep, 491 00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:48,480 Speaker 1: stolen classified documents, weaponized your own white militia mob. And 492 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:52,680 Speaker 1: he still has a tea time this morning. Yep, Sure 493 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:58,840 Speaker 1: it does. Oh, Glenn, Well, we'll talk more. You keep 494 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,640 Speaker 1: your eyes open, folks, make sure that you are following 495 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:05,320 Speaker 1: Glenn on Twitter. 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