1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with 2 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: me your girl, Danielle Moody recording from the Bunker. So, folks, 3 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: it's Monday, and you have all had several days to 4 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: digest the mid series finale of the January sixth hearing, 5 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:33,520 Speaker 1: and on top of that, we ended the week on 6 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: Friday with Steve Bannon being convicted on the two counts 7 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:41,919 Speaker 1: of you know, just deciding that he's above the law 8 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:46,600 Speaker 1: and doesn't need to appear. When a congressional subpoena is 9 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 1: sent out and the maximum sentence is a year, the 10 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: minimum is thirty days, I would like, of course, Steve 11 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 1: Bannon to get the full year, because you know what 12 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:02,279 Speaker 1: I really lie about our legal system, which is unjust, 13 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 1: which really only seeks to harm black and brown people 14 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 1: and poor people. Right. Think about the people that are 15 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 1: in jail right now, not because they need to still 16 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:18,559 Speaker 1: be there, but because they can't afford bail. Right, those 17 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: are the ways in which we penalize people. Think about 18 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:28,400 Speaker 1: the maximum you know, the mandatory maximum sentences that were 19 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: handed out for drug possession before we legalize marijuana, Even 20 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 1: for the faintest amount you were serving, people were serving 21 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:41,759 Speaker 1: ten years in jail for a fucking joint. So whenever 22 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 1: I see minimum maximum sentences and then people want to say, well, oh, 23 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: they won't serve it, it's like, we know why they 24 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: won't serve it because Steve Bannon is well known. Steve 25 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 1: Bannon is wealthy, Steve Bannon is white and a conservative, 26 00:01:57,680 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 1: and we know that that is not who the just 27 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: system in the legal system was built for. Nonetheless, I 28 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 1: think that if you are a judge right now, regardless 29 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 1: of what your political affiliation is and who puts you 30 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:14,920 Speaker 1: on the bench, the reality is that we have a 31 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 1: lawlessness problem in this country. That is because of Donald 32 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:23,399 Speaker 1: Trump and the MAGA faction. We have people who no 33 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 1: longer believe in the Constitution, even though they swore an 34 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 1: oath to protect it. So if you want to send 35 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: a message to Donald Trump, to his ilk who say 36 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 1: that they don't have to abide by the rules and 37 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,320 Speaker 1: the laws that everybody else does, that they can do 38 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:40,520 Speaker 1: whatever the fuck they want, then you hand out the 39 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 1: maximum fucking sentence, and you dare somebody to tell you 40 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 1: that Steve Bennon doesn't deserve it. I think that a 41 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 1: year without hearing from Steve Bannon, without Steve Bannon being 42 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:54,640 Speaker 1: on the tweets. Without Steve Bannon being on his podcasts 43 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:57,800 Speaker 1: or on radio on Fox News would do the country 44 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 1: actually fucking well and signal to the rest of the 45 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: Trump sycophants and fascists that guess what will come for 46 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: you as well? Right, because you see, this is how 47 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 1: you stave off a situation where we turned the country 48 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 1: into the wild wild West. This is where you actually 49 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:19,640 Speaker 1: do need to fucking make an example of people and say, 50 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: you know what, insurrectionists, those that storm the capitol, beat 51 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 1: capitol police officers killed one of them, that no, you 52 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 1: don't get a slap on the fucking risk, because if 53 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 1: I give you a slap on the risk, then what 54 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 1: I'm signaling to the rest of the country is that 55 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 1: it's okay to attempt to overthrow the government, brag about 56 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: it on social media, and then you get to go 57 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 1: home and talk about it at cocktail parties, or better yet, 58 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 1: run for office. No one should be able, like Doug 59 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 1: Mastriano in fucking Pennsylvania running for governor, to be able 60 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 1: to run for office if in fact we knew that 61 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 1: you were at the insurrection, and so Jenny Thomas, who 62 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 1: we also know was there, but you know she left 63 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 1: before things got out of hand. Bullshit, right. These people, 64 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 1: these prominent white supremist people, aided an embedded crime, were 65 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 1: the architects behind an attempt to overthrow the government, and 66 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 1: still up until now we have seen them face little 67 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 1: to no charges except for the foot soldiers who have 68 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 1: gotten a couple of months here, a couple of years here. 69 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 1: But the majority of those people just allowed to go 70 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 1: home and say that they got swept up because you 71 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,720 Speaker 1: know what it is in America is that white Americans 72 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:35,279 Speaker 1: get to get swept up with emotion. It's black and 73 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 1: brown people and poor people that need to learn their 74 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: fucking lesson. Right. So let me now switch gears from 75 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 1: Steve Bannon, and we will obviously with our friend Glenn 76 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:52,360 Speaker 1: Kirschner later in next week we will get a up 77 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 1: to date on his sentence, saying on the trial, what 78 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 1: we learned, what the judge signaled, and where we will 79 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: go from there. But I want to turn our attention 80 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 1: now to the last of the summer series primetime showing 81 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: of the January sixth hearing. I want to say that 82 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:23,160 Speaker 1: I believe that the January sixth committee clearly understood the 83 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:28,719 Speaker 1: fucking assignment, which was not necessarily to entertain. And I 84 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 1: know that people were all, you know, pooh pooh about 85 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 1: them hiring a producer right in order to make this 86 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:42,039 Speaker 1: work seamlessly, very different than what we experienced with the 87 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 1: Muller Report, right. And I wonder if Democrats had gotten 88 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 1: a hint from the Mueller Report from the first impeachment 89 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:58,720 Speaker 1: and took the way, took the route that this committee 90 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 1: has taken, if Donald Trump would have actually been impeached 91 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:06,840 Speaker 1: the second time. But the reality here is that they 92 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 1: laid out a brilliant, brilliant case and picture of who 93 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:18,040 Speaker 1: Donald Trump was now going into this hearing, this series 94 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:23,039 Speaker 1: that we now know it's not finished, thank god, because 95 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 1: I said in a TikTok video a couple of weeks 96 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 1: ago that I frankly wanted the hearings to wrap up 97 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 1: on October twenty fifth, which is two weeks to the 98 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:37,679 Speaker 1: nose when early voting starts in most of the country 99 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 1: four midterms. That I said, you know, let them call 100 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:44,839 Speaker 1: you fucking political. If we're in a political climate, this 101 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:47,159 Speaker 1: is politics. What the fuck do you think that it 102 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 1: is to work on Capitol Hill, to be an elected official? 103 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 1: It is politics, and at the end of the day 104 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:56,040 Speaker 1: that those that play the game the best are the 105 00:06:56,040 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 1: ones that win also those that cheat. Right. So the 106 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 1: January sixth Committee, with their opening in the prime time 107 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 1: and then their ending book ending in prime time, was brilliant. 108 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 1: But what I didn't realize, right, which was the point 109 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 1: of these hearings, wasn't just to show how depraved Donald 110 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 1: Trump is, but it was to show that Donald Trump 111 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 1: was in fact the architect of the insurrection, That this 112 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 1: wasn't an accident, that this wasn't people being swept up 113 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 1: in to a situation that they weren't expecting or anticipating. 114 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 1: What the January sixth Committee was able to do was 115 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 1: lay out so very plainly with Donald Trump's own people 116 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 1: that he knew that the crowd was armed and dangerous, 117 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 1: that he knew how to hype them up from weeks 118 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 1: ahead of time, when he told them that January six 119 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: was going to be wild. He hopped up this crowd. 120 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 1: He gave no He gave them a date right, a 121 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: target to literally shoot for. He gave them a date, 122 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 1: January sixth. He holds his stop the Steel Rally hypes 123 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:31,240 Speaker 1: them up. Is told by multiple sources as this crowd 124 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:37,960 Speaker 1: is growing bigger that sir, mister President. They have weapons 125 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:43,079 Speaker 1: in this crowd. Donald Trump says, they're not here to 126 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 1: hurt me, right. And what was interesting, I think that 127 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:54,320 Speaker 1: in one of the playbacks as well, is that the crowd, 128 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 1: the text messages and videos that were played from people 129 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 1: in the crowd, are waiting on their orders from Donald Trump. 130 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 1: He said not to hurt the Capitol police. He didn't 131 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:12,080 Speaker 1: say anything about the members of Congress. They were listening 132 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 1: for their cues, for their directives, for their command from 133 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:24,440 Speaker 1: the leader of the insurrection. He hoped them up. He 134 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:29,600 Speaker 1: told them, go charge the mountain, Go take your country back. 135 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:33,679 Speaker 1: He directed them to who is the person standing between 136 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:39,440 Speaker 1: him and winning the election, his own vice president, and says, 137 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 1: go forth. Donald Trump is then, after trying right to 138 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:51,199 Speaker 1: either grab the neck of or grab the steering wheel 139 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 1: of the Secret Service agent who would not take him 140 00:09:55,800 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 1: to Capitol Hill because it was unsecure. And I wish, 141 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:04,600 Speaker 1: you know, I gotta tell you that, in hindsight, I 142 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 1: really do wish that they had taken Donald Trump to 143 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:10,680 Speaker 1: Capitol Hill. I really do wish that we would have 144 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 1: had his car coming up there as these people are 145 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 1: breaking glass and entering through windows, that they're using the 146 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 1: American flag and Trump flags as weapons, that they're building guillotines. 147 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 1: And then here comes their leader, what walking through the 148 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 1: front fucking door down to go charge his own vice 149 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 1: president with an angry mob behind him. Can you imagine 150 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 1: that fucking imagery? Because that's what Donald Trump wanted right 151 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 1: he opened, he turned on the gas, he turned on 152 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 1: the heat. He then let the match, dropped it and 153 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 1: walked the fuck out. That's what he did. And so 154 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:57,680 Speaker 1: when you see then the pictures of Donald Trump being 155 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 1: taken back to the White House, the insurrection at that 156 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:03,840 Speaker 1: point as the committee is shown, I said, been going 157 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 1: on for eleven minutes. He still had his overcoat on 158 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: as he is in the Oval office. You are getting 159 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 1: alerts that this ship is no longer a rally, that 160 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:22,920 Speaker 1: it is turning into a full fledged riot. You have 161 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:28,439 Speaker 1: your own fucking people calling you from inside the Capitol 162 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 1: building saying called them off, called them off, called them off. 163 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 1: But you see, somebody said it so very clearly, and 164 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 1: it was Susan del Percio on MSNBC when I was 165 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 1: on with her late last week, and she said this, 166 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:47,000 Speaker 1: She said, we need to stop saying that Donald Trump 167 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 1: didn't do anything, that he wasn't doing anything. For those 168 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty seven minutes, Donald Trump was doing everything, 169 00:11:55,679 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 1: he just wasn't doing it for the country. Donald Trump 170 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 1: was waiting and giving those insurrectionists more time to get 171 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 1: Plan B done. Whether that was going to be the 172 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: pull Mike Pence out by his fucking shirt collar and 173 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 1: beat the shit out of him, beat him to death 174 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 1: on the steps of the Capitol, I have no idea, 175 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 1: because I wonder right like now that we see the 176 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 1: tweet that Donald Trump said, when he said that Mike 177 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 1: Pence basically betrayed him in the country. You'd see that 178 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:36,080 Speaker 1: tweet that the committee puts up. You see Mike Pence 179 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 1: being ushered down the back steps. Then we had also 180 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:42,560 Speaker 1: seen the video of who was at the bottom of 181 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:45,719 Speaker 1: those steps, which was a small group of insurrectionists at 182 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:49,520 Speaker 1: that time that were being held off by a couple 183 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:56,079 Speaker 1: of Capitol police. Right, Donald Trump sends this tweet literally 184 00:12:56,440 --> 00:13:00,280 Speaker 1: as Mike Pence is fleeing your vice president, you know, 185 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:06,440 Speaker 1: because you have gotten the intel is not safe. He 186 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:09,959 Speaker 1: is not in a secure location. But you don't give 187 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 1: a fuck. So when people at the beginning of these hearings, 188 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 1: said that this committee has a tough task in front 189 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:26,760 Speaker 1: of them because they have to show intent. Now, remember 190 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:33,200 Speaker 1: this is not criminal evidentiary findings, right. This is really 191 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:36,600 Speaker 1: to set the scene and make it so that the 192 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:40,239 Speaker 1: Department of Justice, in my humble opinion, can't fucking turn away. 193 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 1: Hey there, I want to tell you about another podcast 194 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:46,679 Speaker 1: I think you'll love. 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This last hearing where you 214 00:14:54,520 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 1: have two of his close aids aid to Hayley mcninny, 215 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 1: and then another aid, I don't care about these people. 216 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:11,840 Speaker 1: By the way, I don't Pottinger and Matthews, I don't care. 217 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:17,960 Speaker 1: And let me tell you why they're all complicit. There 218 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 1: is no team normal and team crazy, right. They all 219 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:27,400 Speaker 1: supported everything that Donald Trump was doing from the beginning 220 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 1: of his administration. There was not a time during the 221 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 1: Trump administration that he was not unhinged, that he was 222 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:38,440 Speaker 1: not almost tweeting us into war every other day, that 223 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:42,520 Speaker 1: they were literally withholding certain information from him because he's 224 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 1: a petulant, fucking child, which we were able to see 225 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 1: in the outtakes of the video that he couldn't manage 226 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 1: to do because the word yesterday is really difficult take 227 00:15:53,360 --> 00:16:01,560 Speaker 1: that out. That's a tricky word, yesterday, is it? But 228 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 1: The reality is is that those people who you know, 229 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 1: I get what the committee is doing, they want to, 230 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 1: you know, applaud those who actually agreed to the subpoena, 231 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 1: you know, because you're supposed to, and decided to show up, 232 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:22,560 Speaker 1: decided to testify for hours, decided to share their truth. 233 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 1: I guess right like, they deserve whatever the committee wants 234 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 1: to give them, but I don't give them any fucking applause. 235 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:43,440 Speaker 1: You stood by in the Trump administration. Twenty seventeen. We 236 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 1: have white supremacist march in Charlottesville, twenty seventeen. This is 237 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:54,240 Speaker 1: but a handful of months right into Donald Trump's presidency. 238 00:16:56,520 --> 00:17:01,880 Speaker 1: A woman is murdered. You have white men with tiki 239 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 1: torches marching down an American street talking about they will 240 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:12,439 Speaker 1: not replace us. They killed somebody that day. Donald Trump 241 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 1: says that there are good people on both sides. You 242 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:24,919 Speaker 1: stood by that man, right. Donald Trump is asked three 243 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:33,040 Speaker 1: separate times in the debate with Joe Biden to come 244 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:39,960 Speaker 1: out and denounce white supremacy. His response was stand back 245 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:49,200 Speaker 1: and stand by. So that was twenty twenty. You stayed 246 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:53,439 Speaker 1: with Donald Trump. You rocked with that motherfucker until what 247 00:17:54,480 --> 00:18:00,399 Speaker 1: two weeks before the inauguration of the President elect. And 248 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 1: you want to get a fucking cookie for that. Oh 249 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:07,479 Speaker 1: I drew the line. Oh you drew the line at 250 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:10,760 Speaker 1: the insurrection. But all the lines that you were willing 251 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:15,119 Speaker 1: to walk up to and knowingly cross, you were happy 252 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 1: to do so with Donald Trump for four years. How 253 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:24,879 Speaker 1: is it that these people have such a disassociation between 254 00:18:25,359 --> 00:18:32,080 Speaker 1: what they helped Donald Trump do over four years of lying, gaslighting, 255 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:37,120 Speaker 1: cheating the American people, and then you think that it 256 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 1: was him alone that caused the insurrection on January sixth. No, 257 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:48,119 Speaker 1: it was four years of his lies, right. It was 258 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:51,159 Speaker 1: four years of the gaslight It was four years of 259 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:55,200 Speaker 1: the divisiveness. It was four years of telling white aggrieved 260 00:18:55,240 --> 00:19:00,080 Speaker 1: Americans that they are deserving of something other than and 261 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:05,440 Speaker 1: every fucking thing this country has given them that, Oh, 262 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:08,040 Speaker 1: that they are aggrieved and we need to hold them. 263 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 1: You were the ones that went on Fox News, went 264 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 1: into social media, continued to feed the Maga monster. So 265 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:21,159 Speaker 1: when you then look at January six and you have 266 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 1: Pottinger and Matthews talking about this is where I draw 267 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:32,240 Speaker 1: the line, you get no fucking applause from me, your accomplices. 268 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:37,920 Speaker 1: In my book, every single person that was associated with 269 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:41,800 Speaker 1: that administration, from the fucking interns to the chief of 270 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:45,840 Speaker 1: staffs to the cabinet members, are all complicit and accomplices 271 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:54,720 Speaker 1: to murder. If we had an actual, real justice Department, 272 00:19:56,080 --> 00:20:00,639 Speaker 1: then Donald Trump and every single person that we have 273 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 1: now seen have a starring role in America the final 274 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:11,879 Speaker 1: season would be indicted by now. They would all be 275 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:15,119 Speaker 1: waiting arraignment. They would all have had their passports and 276 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 1: their private jets, and their bank accounts offshore, inshore, all 277 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:24,320 Speaker 1: of that shit frozen. Because if we had a real 278 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:27,280 Speaker 1: Department of Justice, they would have set up a motherfucking 279 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 1: task force for the American oligarchs that funded the fucking 280 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 1: insurrection from the jump and frozen those motherfuckers things and said, oh, 281 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: pending an investigation, you'll get your assets back once we 282 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 1: can prove that you are in fact innocent and had 283 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:52,280 Speaker 1: no part in the planning, the thinking, the articulation, the 284 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:58,199 Speaker 1: spreading of the lies that would undermine our democracy and 285 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:03,640 Speaker 1: cause the deaths of multiple police officers. But we don't 286 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:07,359 Speaker 1: do that. That's not what this Department of Justice is doing. 287 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:12,760 Speaker 1: You did have Merrick Garland last week for the first time. 288 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:15,720 Speaker 1: You know, we've only heard Merritt Garland's voice I think 289 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:17,960 Speaker 1: maybe two or three times at this point, so I 290 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:20,520 Speaker 1: was a little startled that their sound that comes out 291 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:23,720 Speaker 1: of his mouth. But he said when he was asked 292 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:29,639 Speaker 1: a question that no one once again is above the law, 293 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:33,880 Speaker 1: that his Justice Department is working twenty four seven, and 294 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:38,159 Speaker 1: that this is something that is serious. An attempt to 295 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:41,639 Speaker 1: overthrow and undermine a free and fair election, which he 296 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:45,120 Speaker 1: said is the cornerstone and the foundation of our democracy, 297 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:48,120 Speaker 1: is something that we take very seriously and we need 298 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:52,399 Speaker 1: to get it right. Well, I don't know if getting 299 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:56,080 Speaker 1: it right means taken eighteen nineteen, twenty four fucking months 300 00:21:56,080 --> 00:22:00,679 Speaker 1: to do it. But Merrick, we you know, running out 301 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:04,520 Speaker 1: of time here. TikTok, TikTok. You know, we'd love to 302 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:09,520 Speaker 1: see some fucking action, right, um. But I gotta tell 303 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:15,400 Speaker 1: you that I am really if there is nothing else, 304 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:19,600 Speaker 1: because there's there. Honestly, has not been a tremendous amount 305 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 1: to be proud of with regard to our government, not 306 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:27,479 Speaker 1: under Donald Trump, and frankly, not a lot really, in 307 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:30,040 Speaker 1: my humble opinion, to be proud of under the Biden 308 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:37,199 Speaker 1: administration either. What I will say though, is that I 309 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:43,560 Speaker 1: am app solutely in awe and actually inspired by the 310 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:48,160 Speaker 1: members of the January sixth Committee. I think that each 311 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 1: and every one of them that we have heard from, 312 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:56,680 Speaker 1: that have led different pieces, that have spoken on multiple 313 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:02,440 Speaker 1: cable news shows, that have written opinion piece, is these people, 314 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:07,360 Speaker 1: even including Liz Cheney, in this just in this very 315 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:14,120 Speaker 1: narrow thing, this is why I wanted to work in government. 316 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:19,440 Speaker 1: It is why as a young person, I was so 317 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:25,960 Speaker 1: passionate about politics, about wanting to be of service, about 318 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:31,560 Speaker 1: wanting to be a part of the machine that helped 319 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:35,920 Speaker 1: make this country better, more accepting, more loving, more caring 320 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 1: and equitable. And when I listen to those members who 321 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:46,760 Speaker 1: you know, didn't just run for pomp and circumstance and 322 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 1: to cosplay some type of like gun toteen bullshit, like 323 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:56,479 Speaker 1: you know, Josh Holly's running ass and fucking you know 324 00:23:56,640 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 1: Marshori Taylor Green and Lauren Boberd and these crack QAnon assholes. No, 325 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:09,400 Speaker 1: there were real people who believe in government, not just 326 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:13,760 Speaker 1: in power, who believe in governments ability to do right 327 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:19,040 Speaker 1: by the citizens of this country, and in these times 328 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 1: especially to have that reminder, to have that reminder that 329 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 1: there are people like Jamie Raskin, like Adam Kinzinger, like 330 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:40,240 Speaker 1: you know, all of these members who are fighting for 331 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 1: our democracy, and they are fighting to show the American 332 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:52,720 Speaker 1: people how close we still are to losing everything. I 333 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:55,000 Speaker 1: will be the first to tell you that America is 334 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:58,919 Speaker 1: not perfect and it never will be. The beauty in 335 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:05,880 Speaker 1: America and why it has been that reflection of what 336 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:09,080 Speaker 1: democracy can be is because it was a country that 337 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:14,879 Speaker 1: worked on perfecting its union, not making it perfect, but 338 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:20,600 Speaker 1: perfecting it with each generation. But with the assaults that 339 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:25,960 Speaker 1: we have seen from the republican fascist regime, is that 340 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 1: we no longer have shared values. We no longer have 341 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:35,600 Speaker 1: a shared belief in the vision that the founding fathers 342 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 1: had for this country. Now, look, even when I say 343 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:44,440 Speaker 1: founding fathers, like my stomach does a clench. Those motherfuckers 344 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:49,399 Speaker 1: were slave owners, right. They wrote that Constitution at a 345 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:53,359 Speaker 1: time that they didn't even see their own wives, white 346 00:25:53,359 --> 00:26:00,920 Speaker 1: women as equal to them. Right, So we know who 347 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:07,400 Speaker 1: they were. But I would be wrong to dismiss also 348 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:12,200 Speaker 1: the grandeur of the ideas that they had about how 349 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 1: society could work, governed by and for the people. Now, 350 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,400 Speaker 1: you can argue clearly with them. At that time who 351 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:24,320 Speaker 1: the fuck they considered people. But you know, that's a 352 00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:31,240 Speaker 1: conversation for another day. But we don't even have that 353 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:37,200 Speaker 1: shared belief right with regard to the rule of law, 354 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 1: and what has been our guiding principle this country with 355 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:47,119 Speaker 1: each generation was about expansion. We are at a point 356 00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 1: in the first time in our lives that we are 357 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:56,200 Speaker 1: in constriction right where they are taking things back, where 358 00:26:56,200 --> 00:27:01,520 Speaker 1: they are closing off paths to equity and just and 359 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:05,560 Speaker 1: so if not for how the January sixth Committee is 360 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:10,520 Speaker 1: laying out how this country began to change and change 361 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:14,360 Speaker 1: for the worst and rapidly so, and that if we 362 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:18,440 Speaker 1: do not do something bold in this moment that has 363 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,640 Speaker 1: never been done before, much in the same way that 364 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:24,639 Speaker 1: the creation of a constitution for and by the people 365 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:29,120 Speaker 1: had never been done before, that a revolutionary war had 366 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 1: not been fought before. Sometimes bold action is necessary, like 367 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:43,640 Speaker 1: indicting and prosecuting and charging and sentencing a former president 368 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:47,879 Speaker 1: of the United States, that is the walking embodiment of treason, 369 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:58,159 Speaker 1: Michael Steele said last week. Is it clear now to 370 00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:03,200 Speaker 1: every single republic that Donald Trump did not want to 371 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,919 Speaker 1: be president of the United States, does not give a 372 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:10,040 Speaker 1: damn about this country? Or the people that inhabit it, 373 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 1: not even his own fucking people. He is a selfish, megalomaniac, 374 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:25,720 Speaker 1: narcissist piece of trash. That's what I took away. I 375 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 1: was like, God damn, I had visions of this motherfucker, 376 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:32,000 Speaker 1: of what he was doing in the White House. But 377 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,920 Speaker 1: the catchup coming down the wall of the private dining 378 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,680 Speaker 1: room off of the Oval office in the fucking White 379 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 1: House is all you need to know about Donald Trump 380 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:55,680 Speaker 1: and class. So we will be taking a reprieve as 381 00:28:55,840 --> 00:29:01,280 Speaker 1: Congress will be out of session for the month of August, 382 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:07,920 Speaker 1: as per usual, and when we come back in September, 383 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 1: I'm assuming that the mountains of evidence that we will see, 384 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:17,160 Speaker 1: hopefully they will include, you know, those I don't know 385 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:24,480 Speaker 1: coincidentally are accidentally deleted texts of the days in question, 386 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 1: January sixth and January seventh just happened to go missing. 387 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:32,040 Speaker 1: And now all of those motherfuckers have lawyered up because 388 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:36,960 Speaker 1: you know clearly they have nothing to hide. But I'm 389 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:43,760 Speaker 1: certain that we will see more evidence, more bombshells as 390 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 1: we make the rest of the way to mid term elections. 391 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:56,479 Speaker 1: To me, there is no better thing that can be 392 00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 1: used to message to the American people than every sing 393 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:04,240 Speaker 1: clip that the one six Committee has shown in every 394 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:09,960 Speaker 1: single one of their hearings. Just the split screen of 395 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:15,000 Speaker 1: Donald Trump watching television, watching his plan unfold for one 396 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:19,840 Speaker 1: hundred and eighty seven minutes and doing nothing as our capital, 397 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:27,880 Speaker 1: our capital was under attack. Everyone try to get Donald 398 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 1: Trump to call off his dogs, and he refused because 399 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:40,520 Speaker 1: it was part of his plan. I have a mustard seed, 400 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:48,120 Speaker 1: friends that is growing because I was not expecting this 401 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:52,840 Speaker 1: committee to go to the mats. My only hope is 402 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:58,480 Speaker 1: that Merritt Garland's Justice Department will follow their lead. Hey, 403 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:01,640 Speaker 1: I'm David Plots of Flace Political gab Fest. As another 404 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:05,720 Speaker 1: election season accelerates, it can be tricky to sort through 405 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,920 Speaker 1: all the noise and the news. 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