WEBVTT - The End of Elections 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.680 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:19.680 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Long Island Bunker. Folks, 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:23.119 I hope that you had a RESTful and restorative weekend 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:26.639 after the hellish week that we had last week. I 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:29.479 have no idea what this Monday is going to bring 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:31.680 for us, but I'm assuming that it's going to be 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:35.400 a lot more of the same. Coming up in today 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:39.960 is my conversation with our friend Glenn Kirshner, who you know. 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:45.000 I will say this, Glenn has been coming on this 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:52.000 show consecutively for two years, every week without without fail um, 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:54.840 unless I've been traveling or he's been traveling. He has 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:58.960 dedicated his time to sharing with all of you and 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:03.360 with me his hopefulness and his feelings about where the 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:06.280 DOJ is going to go and whether or not we're 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:09.640 going to finally indict those people that are responsible for 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:14.280 trying to overthrow our government for mismanaging COVID nineteen, which 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:18.600 cost now over a million lives in this country. And 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:22.200 I've always looked to Glenn for his hopefulness, for his 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:27.640 you know wherewithal, especially when I'm in times of darkness 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:32.920 and I will tell you that this conversation that you 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:37.520 will hear is going to be very raw and very real. 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:42.480 And Glenn has moved into a space where after every 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:46.560 bit of information that we keep getting that is leaked 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:51.040 about the Supreme Courts, about Donald Trump and his documents 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.720 about who knew what and when, and the fact that 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:57.800 still still as I record this right now, there has 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:03.640 been no movement to put criminal charges on Donald Trump 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:08.040 or anybody associated with the Trump administration. And as time 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:11.639 keeps ticking on and the Republicans continue to show their 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:14.800 hand and show us exactly the type of country that 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:18.760 they want to turn America into. If we don't see 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:22.160 immediate action by the Department of Justice before November, if 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:27.560 we don't see immediate action by this administration right Biden 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:32.240 with a series of executive orders before in November, our 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:37.040 feeling now is one and the same that our democracy 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:41.800 is on life support. And when I say on life support, 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:44.680 I mean that the midterms are going to be our 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:49.440 last free and fair election if Republicans win, because they 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:53.240 will dismantle everything that we know and have come to 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:57.560 understand that separates the United States from many other nations, 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:01.600 which is our democracy, our read of we the people 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:08.320 when you are faced against a political party that wants 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:13.360 to put women and people with uteruses back into the 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:18.240 nineteen fifties, when we are seeing reports about not only 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:21.880 are they coming after Rob Wade and gleefully excited, and 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:27.280 now their glee has turned into fear as cavan Haw 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:32.080 and Thomas and others hide in their homes because of 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:36.320 protesters that are showing up at their houses. Because guess what, 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:43.520 abortion is personal. A woman's body is personal, and no 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:48.760 government should have the ability to dictate and force you 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.480 to have birth when they are not going to be 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:55.240 picking up the expense for what it means to have 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.640 a child in this country. They're not affording you the 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:02.120 ability to pay for childcare. They're not affording you the 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:06.520 ability to have healthcare. They're not affording you the ability 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:10.080 to have a good public education unless you're willing to 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:13.360 pay the property taxes of where your child can get 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:17.240 the best education. No, they're not doing any of those things. 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:24.159 And so that being said, they're not stopping there, which 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:26.880 is what I've been saying on wokef for the longest time. 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:31.960 Abortion is the beginning. It is the lowest hanging fruit, 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:35.480 and particularly when you are doing it with an administration 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:40.640 that just recently uttered. The word tells you exactly why 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:44.480 it has been low hanging fruit, because we have always 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:49.400 loved to say as Democrats, abortion should be safe, you know, 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.839 and rare. No, abortion should be safe and whenever the 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:57.960 fuck you need it right, And it should be up 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:01.479 to the person who is getting that abortion to make 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:07.640 that decision, not their priest, not their rabbi, right, not 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:11.080 their government, not their husband, not their what it should 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:15.160 be up to the person. But now there are reports 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:20.080 coming out folks where they're going after contraception. They're going 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:27.839 after your birth control, not condoms, but your ability to 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:32.200 take a pill and again dictate when, where and if 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:40.159 you become a mother, you become a parent. It's disgusting. 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:44.359 And you know what I saw over the weekend. It 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:48.600 was a New York Times article about the new excessive 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:52.719 policies that the Taliban which is now in control of 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:58.040 Afghanistan since we have pulled out in a historic disaster 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.839 that of course we have long since forgot because now 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:04.600 you know the world is in another war in Ukraine 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:09.080 with at the helm of Putin. But if you recall, 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:16.160 as we were making this remarkable pullout from Afghanistan after 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:19.400 twenty years, and watch this country, which America has been 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:23.080 propping up but clearly not in the best way possible, 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:30.040 collapse in a matter of weeks after twenty years. They're 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:34.560 rolling out new rules for women pretty much every single week. 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:39.279 First it was restrictions on your ability to work, no 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:42.240 longer able to do that. Then it was on your 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.880 restriction to be able to leave your home, to be 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:49.679 able to get an education for women. Now the latest 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:51.960 that the New York Times is covering over the weekend 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:57.400 is a full burka, the return to not just wearing 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.960 a h job right, which again should be the choice 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.160 of a woman to adhere to if in fact she 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:09.080 is devout. Now it is not a choice. It's highly 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:14.880 recommended from this abusive terrorist government that a woman cover 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:21.120 in a burka with just a lace lace over her eyes, 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.520 that there is no showing of a figure or form 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:29.400 or anything, and that if she does not adhere to 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:33.960 those things, and the government goes to her home and 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:38.040 speaks to the man in charge and he refuses to 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:41.760 adhere to that, there is jail time and other penalties. 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.320 Now we read these articles in the United States and 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.200 we think, oh, my god, how dare they? How archaic? 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.360 You tell me what the difference is between what is 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.240 happening in the United States, what is starting in the 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:59.880 United States as a way to control women and people 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:06.880 with uteruses, and what the Taliban is doing in Afghanistan. Now, 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.760 I don't love I don't like it when people refer 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:14.000 to the Republican Party. It's like, oh, the American Taliban. No, no, no, 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:18.520 you don't need to invoke them. But what I'm saying 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:23.840 is for an organization that Republicans has always jeered against 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:27.040 right and said we're archaic and this, that and the 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:30.800 other thing, and we got to stand up. What is 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.360 the difference between the way that the Taliban men want 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:36.360 to control the women in Afghanistan and the way that 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:41.600 the radical, radicalized Republican white supremacist party wants to control 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:45.880 women and people with uteruses. There is no difference. And 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:49.880 it starts with abortion, then it goes to birth control, 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:55.320 and then maybe they will begin to repeal workplace equity 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.920 laws that were put in place. Maybe they go after 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:04.880 Lily led Better, Maybe they go there. Right, you remember 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:10.600 that major case that was one that then allowed for 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:14.600 women to be able to sue their employers. Maybe the 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:18.760 Supreme Court says, well, that hinders you know, CEOs and 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:21.480 shareholders ability to make money, and that's a part of 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:25.200 regulations that corporations shouldn't have to deal with. So maybe 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:30.160 they decide to rescind that. Maybe they go so far 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:34.160 as to rescind the ability of you know, into racial 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.599 couples to marry. We know definitely that they're coming for 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:44.120 LGBTQ people. So what's next? And Hillary Clinton, in an 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:47.439 interview that she did recently and I did a TikTok 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:52.960 on a couple of days ago, was very clear she 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:59.640 essentially offered the modernization of Martin Neo Mueller's poem first 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.839 they for She goes, if you're looking at what is 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:04.480 happening right now, and you say that I'm not a 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:06.440 woman and I don't care, I'm not black and I 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:09.640 don't care, understand that when you allow this type of 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:15.160 extremism to begin to take hold, that there is no 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:21.920 telling and no stopping them from rolling over every single other. Right, 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:27.240 people like Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, people like myself who 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:31.680 are speaking out against the government. Do you think that 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:36.360 these people will not have to be forced to flee 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:40.080 in a matter of years. You think, folks, that what 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:43.480 I'm saying seems extreme, that this could not possibly happen 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.200 in your United States. And what I'm saying is that 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:52.280 the first half of your life that you understood what 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:55.600 this country was, what it stood for, what you have 0:10:55.720 --> 0:11:00.160 been indoctrinated to understand, is no longer going to be 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:07.719 the norm. We have already been on a downward slope, 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:14.240 a descent over the last several years under Donald Trump. 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:18.240 The things that we would have never accepted America has 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:23.360 rolled over for we Now. You heard reports over the 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:28.640 weekend as well in Mark Esper's new fucking book, because 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.200 everybody's got a fucking book to hawk so that they 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.520 can put money in their pockets, but didn't give a 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:38.040 shit about democracy or what their responsibility and their quote 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:44.120 unquote sacred oath was to our constitution. Mark Esper, former 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:48.160 Secretary of Defense under Trump, wants you to believe that 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.240 he stayed in office because he had a duty and 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.640 a responsibility to be the grown up in the room 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:58.679 so that Donald Trump wouldn't launch missiles into Mexico and 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:02.360 then cover it up. He was in the room when 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:07.240 he decided to order the hit on Solomony in Iran. 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:16.000 These people are unhinged, They are draconian, they are vicious, 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:20.200 and they are violent, and they are being led by 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:25.400 a fucking egomaniac. And everybody that had a responsibility to 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:27.760 say something with all of the leaks that we saw 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:30.840 coming out of the Trump administration, Mark Esper decided to 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:34.040 hold that information as we were headed into the twenty 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.800 twenty election and wait, wait until it was going to 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.560 be worth a pretty penny that then he could sell 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:42.840 and then try and sell us the lie that he 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:46.960 cares as a way to scrub his reputation. Do not 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:53.520 allow him to scrub his reputation. He is shady, he 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:59.320 is dirty, just like the rest of Trump's acolytes, just 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:02.880 like the rest of the accomplices to the destruction of 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:12.080 democracy that continues, continues to go on without anyone trying 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:18.960 to intervene. I ask every fucking week where is the 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:24.600 Department of Justice? Once again we see that the First 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:27.600 Lady has made a trip to the Ukraine, which I 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:32.240 think is great. I am very happy that our brilliant 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:37.079 doctor Jill Biden went to Ukraine to go and visit 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.840 with and speak with the First Lady there. I'm very 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:44.240 happy about the ways in which the United States has 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:50.160 wanted to step up in order to preserve the democracy 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:54.800 that is slipping through the Ukrainian people's grasps as Russia 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:59.959 closes in and now Marapole is under Soviet rule, appearance 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:07.280 with statues erected and Russian signs put up everywhere. I 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:10.800 wish that this administration would take their tough talk and 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.760 the force that they have been using and direct that 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:18.040 to the opponents of our democracy here. But we keep 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:21.080 believing that somehow we're getting another by that the apple 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:25.240 when we lose midterms, that all this is just all normal. 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:28.480 It's not fucking normal. It's not normal to have a 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:35.400 Supreme Court that just disavows precedent. It's not normal for 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:41.640 Supreme Court justices to lie during their confirmation hearings under oath. 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.880 It is not normal to have a Supreme Court justice 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:47.400 that had a wife that was closely associated with the 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:51.880 insurrection and on the hot line with the then chief 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:55.400 of Staff being one of the many voices to say 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.600 that we have to do whatever to hold onto power. 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.920 And again, no investigation to Clarence Thomas. But Chief Justice 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:05.000 Roberts wants to have an investigation because of the leak 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.760 that allowed us to see who these people are. And 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:10.160 now you want to be fearful and making up Oh 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.120 my god, it's Antifa that's coming for us. No, it's not. 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.440 You have to deal with the consequences of destroying our 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:22.680 democracy because if you think that people are going to 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:25.800 be going silently into the night, I got another fucking 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:31.200 story to tell you. Because as much as I like 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:34.880 to say that people are asleep at the wheel, and 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.880 I think that a majority of people are, because I 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:40.560 think that they're too busy dealing with the fact that 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:42.040 they don't know if they're going to be able to 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:45.720 afford their mortgages or their rent, or making choices between 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.720 what kind of groceries were getting because of inflation and 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:52.800 the gas fucking prices. This is the climate that Hitler 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:57.960 was able to covet and murder six million people without 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:04.320 the world fucking blinking. So when this Republican party that 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.760 owns the courts, that owns the state legislatures start to 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:11.920 institute their own version of Jim Crow two point zero 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.800 and apartheid, and then they say that everything that they're 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.200 doing is legal because they own all the lovers of 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:22.200 power understand that all of the things, the horrific things 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:25.320 that we have studied and learned in school, were all 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:30.840 legal at the time that they were happening. So unless 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:37.320 this administration decides to wake the fuck up and see 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:41.640 that this is not the Republican Party of your father's time, 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:45.640 or your mother's time, or your grandparents' time, these people 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:49.640 are radicalized. They are a cult, They are dangerous, and 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.640 they want to inflict as much pain and violence as possible. 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:58.240 In Esper's book, he talks about Donald Trump wanting the 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:02.920 ability to shoot protesters in the leg can't we just 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:09.960 shoot them? All you need is somebody that had the 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:13.040 ability to say, sure, we could shoot him. We'll say 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:15.640 that they all had guns. We'll say that they were 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:18.840 a militia. Put out that ship to Fox News. Let 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:21.760 it spread like wildfire. No one will be the wiser 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:25.480 because they control everything, and we'll watch our prisons fill 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:30.000 up with political prisoners. This is where this shit is heading. 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:34.800 I wish that I had some solve, some balm to 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.439 offer you as you ease into this week. But the 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:40.200 reality is I need to rip the band aid off. 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:43.239 We all do. I tell us to rest I tell 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:45.400 us to restore, I tell us to get joy find 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:48.480 joy every single day, because each and every day is 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:53.760 getting darker and darker, and people keep asking what is 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:55.480 the recourse, and what is the recourse and what is 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:58.800 the recourse? Well, I really appreciate the people that are 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:02.320 standing on in front of Breta's house. I really appreciate 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:04.600 the people that are standing out in front of Alito's house, 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:08.199 in Roberts's house. I want them to live with the 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:12.879 same type of fear and discomfort that the women trying 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:16.600 to walk into planned parenthoods feel when they are being 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:22.159 heckled and shamed. I don't want a Republican to be 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:24.719 able to walk into a fucking restaurant. I don't want 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:26.760 them to be able to walk into their fucking front door. 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:31.040 That's where we're headed, and that is exactly what needs 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:34.480 to happen. They think that they are going to roll 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:38.040 back our constitution and use it as toilet paper, and 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:43.520 I am saying, let me tell you something. There is 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:46.199 a lot that I am willing to do, and I 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:49.280 think that many people are willing to do in order 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:52.200 to fight back, and they need to be prepared to 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:55.359 deal with the consequences of the choices that they are making. 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:03.080 I have said any times before, things in this country 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:06.080 are going to get bloodier before they get better. And 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:10.800 I don't even know what better looks like, but I 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:13.199 do know that folks need to buckle the fuck up 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:17.840 because this country is going on a ride that we 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:24.000 have only ever seen in quote unquote developing nations, because 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:28.960 that's what we have become. Coming up next, my conversation 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:32.560 with our friend MSNBC Legal analysts and the host of 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:40.680 Justice Matters, Glenn Kirshner. Folks, As always, you know that 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:44.040 when I have the ability each week to sit down 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:47.040 with our friend Glenn Kirshner, host of Justice Matters and 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:52.040 MSNBC Legal analyst, it is never a good time. We 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:55.119 never have anything good to discuss, Glenn, not in the 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:59.760 last two years. But this week, this past week was 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:05.000 probably I think the worst that we have seen thus far. 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:10.720 So I just want to get your reactions to our 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:17.280 constitutional crisis that we are now in. That Justice Alito's draft, 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:22.560 and I put that in quotation marks draft opinion of 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:27.440 the Mississippi abortion case pretty much single signals to America, 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:31.240 to everyone that everything is on the table and that 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:35.639 these justices in this six to three court are the 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:40.719 ones that get to decide what is foundational to America. 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:46.280 I just want your reactions from what you saw, how 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:49.920 you were feeling, and then we'll go from there. Yeah. 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:54.639 So the phrase that continues to come to mind for 0:20:54.760 --> 0:21:01.960 me is we created this monster. And people really get 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:05.879 angry when I say we created this monster because the 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:10.280 first thing people say, understandably is I didn't vote for 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:13.920 any of these Republicans. I certainly didn't vote for Supreme 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:18.680 Court justices. Nobody did. But you know what, we all 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:22.920 voted for the politicians who have been in office in 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:28.200 recent years who allowed this to happen. The Republicans were 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:32.760 fighting for it. The Democrats may have been fighting against 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:35.359 it around the edges, but we can see now that 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:40.160 they were not fighting effectively. I maintain they've never taken 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:45.560 both gloves off. And we created this monster. How did 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:49.480 we create this monster when? And I definitely want to 0:21:49.480 --> 0:21:52.719 get to what you what you opened with, which is 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:58.440 everything is on the table, because that's hugely important. But 0:21:58.640 --> 0:22:02.919 we created this monster when we let Mitch McConnell act 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:09.840 unconstitutionally to deprive Merrick Garland of his confirmation hearing and 0:22:10.080 --> 0:22:14.000 of vote, and instead of doing what I maintain we 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:17.159 should have done which would have been a gloves off approach. 0:22:17.520 --> 0:22:21.640 When Mitch McConnell said, I, as one man, will rewrite 0:22:21.680 --> 0:22:24.879 the Constitution, and I will say there will be no 0:22:25.000 --> 0:22:29.040 advice and consent hearing by the Senate, which the Constitution 0:22:29.400 --> 0:22:33.639 provides for, and I will not give you a vote 0:22:33.760 --> 0:22:37.960 on your nominee. What the Obama administration should have done, 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:41.240 and this is not a criticism, because you know, I 0:22:41.359 --> 0:22:46.760 embrace the progress we made under President Obama's administration. But 0:22:46.920 --> 0:22:50.240 what it should have done is instead of giving into 0:22:50.280 --> 0:22:55.280 that political terrorism, they should have said, you have thirty days, 0:22:55.280 --> 0:22:58.960 Senator McConnell to hold a hearing and give the nominee 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:01.520 of a a vote. If you don't, I will deem that 0:23:01.560 --> 0:23:07.080 you have waived your constitutional prerogative to give advice and consent, 0:23:07.200 --> 0:23:09.720 and I will tell Merrick Garland to take his place 0:23:09.760 --> 0:23:13.280 on the Supreme Court. Then Mitch McConnell Danielle would have 0:23:13.280 --> 0:23:16.359 had to have run into Federal Court and convinced the 0:23:16.480 --> 0:23:20.080 judges that he had a right to rewrite the Constitution 0:23:20.200 --> 0:23:23.160 as one man. He would have gone down in flames. 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:25.679 And what would have happened, in my opinion, is the 0:23:25.760 --> 0:23:29.680 judges would have basically issued a writ of man, damis, 0:23:29.960 --> 0:23:34.040 do your job, Mitch McConnell, hold a hearing in a vote. 0:23:34.240 --> 0:23:36.720 Maybe he would have been confirmed, maybe he would not 0:23:36.760 --> 0:23:39.399 have been confirmed, but we would not have given in 0:23:39.720 --> 0:23:42.960 to the political terrorism. But we did. We allowed it 0:23:43.000 --> 0:23:48.320 to happen. We let cavitall lie his flipping way through 0:23:48.400 --> 0:23:53.400 his confirmation hearing, and we did nothing about it. We 0:23:53.640 --> 0:23:59.880 created this monster, right, We let Clarence Thomas involve him 0:24:00.040 --> 0:24:04.840 self been deeply unethical, perhaps illegal conduct of sitting in 0:24:04.880 --> 0:24:07.800 a case where he was trying to bury deeply damaging 0:24:08.119 --> 0:24:14.439 information about his insurrectionist wife. We created this monster. What 0:24:14.480 --> 0:24:16.399 are we gonna do about it? Now? Dan Yell? Are 0:24:16.440 --> 0:24:19.359 we gonna keep beating the monster? Or are we going 0:24:19.400 --> 0:24:23.000 to starve the monster? Because look at the confirmation hearing 0:24:23.040 --> 0:24:31.760 testimony of Alito, Gorsuch, Cavanaugh, and Amy Coney, Barrett, Barrett right, 0:24:32.320 --> 0:24:36.600 every one of them communicated Roe v. Wade settled law, 0:24:36.760 --> 0:24:42.399 starry decisive, entitled to respect. What is the opening paragraph 0:24:42.520 --> 0:24:47.960 of Alito's own draft opinion. It Roe versus Wade was 0:24:48.160 --> 0:24:53.200 egregiously wrong the day it was decided, and it must 0:24:53.240 --> 0:24:59.520 be overruled well that puts the lie to your confirmation. 0:24:59.680 --> 0:25:04.159 Here testimony, you used party words, you were evasive, you 0:25:04.200 --> 0:25:08.000 were a flippin' weasel. Oh, I don't want to say flipping, 0:25:08.040 --> 0:25:11.800 but I'm gonna keep saying flipping. You were a flippin' weasel. 0:25:12.800 --> 0:25:16.360 And now you are proving yourself to be a liar. Danielle, 0:25:16.359 --> 0:25:18.520 What are we gonna do about it? Are we gonna 0:25:18.600 --> 0:25:21.920 keep feeding the monster? Or are we going to say 0:25:22.400 --> 0:25:31.240 this is illegitimate? You old justices cannot dictate that women 0:25:31.359 --> 0:25:35.240 must carry a pregnancy to term against their will, against 0:25:35.280 --> 0:25:39.520 their decision, against their autonomy rights as human beings. Are 0:25:39.600 --> 0:25:42.040 we gonna let that stand? Are we going to keep 0:25:42.080 --> 0:25:45.400 feeding the monster? Or are we gonna say no, It's 0:25:45.440 --> 0:25:49.360 time for the rule of law to assert itself. And too, 0:25:49.560 --> 0:25:53.960 I don't know forty five hundred citizen tips with derogatory 0:25:54.040 --> 0:25:57.840 information about Brett cabitalf sitting at the White House where 0:25:57.920 --> 0:26:01.560 they were delivered by the FBI. Are we going to 0:26:01.680 --> 0:26:06.600 keep feeding the monster? And if we are, well, then 0:26:06.680 --> 0:26:10.560 we will not keep our republic period. With respect to 0:26:10.600 --> 0:26:14.960 everything being on the table, Danielle, Once you say Americans 0:26:15.000 --> 0:26:22.760 have no constitutionally protected privacy, interests. Not only will the 0:26:23.400 --> 0:26:27.960 right of a woman to decide for herself what happens 0:26:28.000 --> 0:26:32.120 inside her own body go away, the right of gay 0:26:32.160 --> 0:26:36.000 marriage will go away, the right to contraception will go away, 0:26:35.520 --> 0:26:39.920 the right let me tell you, get ready, because segregation 0:26:40.040 --> 0:26:42.560 is on the table. Ye if you don't think they're 0:26:42.560 --> 0:26:47.040 gonna say round versus Board of Education wrongly decided. Let's 0:26:47.080 --> 0:26:50.000 go back to the you know, framers of the Constitution. 0:26:50.280 --> 0:26:55.240 What did they have in mind about equal rights for minorities? Huh? 0:26:55.280 --> 0:26:59.120 I mean it's all on the table. We are being 0:26:59.280 --> 0:27:06.480 dragged by five flipping justices back into the dark ages. 0:27:07.440 --> 0:27:10.520 And are we going to let it happen? Are we 0:27:10.600 --> 0:27:14.240 going to keep feeding the monster, that's the only question, 0:27:14.640 --> 0:27:16.720 or are we going to decide that the rule of 0:27:16.800 --> 0:27:21.280 law must be asserted. I'm telling you right now, Glenn, 0:27:21.440 --> 0:27:26.679 that we do not have This is my opinion. We 0:27:26.840 --> 0:27:30.159 do not have the right president and the right administration 0:27:30.240 --> 0:27:35.160 for this moment. We did not elect warriors. We elected 0:27:35.200 --> 0:27:39.240 a moderate. We elected somebody who we thought had a 0:27:39.320 --> 0:27:43.879 collegial relationship with Republicans and was going to be able 0:27:43.920 --> 0:27:48.600 to somehow coerce them back into their twentieth century mentality 0:27:48.920 --> 0:27:52.919 when decisions were made in corner rooms with a glass 0:27:52.960 --> 0:27:56.359 of scotch and a pat on the back. That is 0:27:56.400 --> 0:28:00.760 the world that Joe Biden came from. It the world 0:28:00.960 --> 0:28:03.359 that he thought that he was going back to. And 0:28:03.400 --> 0:28:07.760 it is the world that, in our desperation in the 0:28:07.840 --> 0:28:11.720 election of twenty twenty, in our desperation, at the height 0:28:11.760 --> 0:28:15.680 of the pandemic, with no vaccine, with nothing in sight 0:28:15.960 --> 0:28:19.160 to give us any type of relief, we said, okay. 0:28:19.440 --> 0:28:22.960 It was not a resounding yes, that's my guy. It 0:28:23.080 --> 0:28:26.160 was a okay, this is the best that we can 0:28:26.200 --> 0:28:29.880 do to beat the beast that we see. And then 0:28:30.000 --> 0:28:36.360 come to pass, he elects, he appoints an attorney general 0:28:36.640 --> 0:28:39.560 that should have been on the Supreme Court. Because the man, 0:28:39.640 --> 0:28:45.160