WEBVTT - Bullet Points of BS 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.560 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WIKA F Daily with 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:19.000 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. Folks. 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:22.880 You know, over the weekend, I did a couple of 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:27.200 MSNBC shows, and you know, I want to talk about 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:31.560 one of my appearances, which was on Aimen Mohadeen's Saturday 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:35.600 Night show where I joined with my friend and friend 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:39.960 of the show, Joyce White Vance to discuss a myriad 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:43.240 of topics, but one in particular has really gotten under 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:49.720 my skin, and it is this um. Last week the bombshell, well, 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:52.239 one of the many bombshells that happened last week was 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:56.000 with regard to Kevin McCarthy And Kevin McCarthy, who we 0:00:56.120 --> 0:01:00.800 know is one of the slimiest Republicans. Why because he's 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:05.120 a punk. Kevin McCarthy will talk shit about Donald Trump 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.360 right to one out of one side of his mouth. 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.360 Then he'll fly down tomorrow Lago go and kiss Donald 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:15.039 Trump's a ring because he realizes that he can't get anywhere. 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:18.480 He's not going to get the speakership should Republicans take 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:23.600 back the House in November. So Kevin McCarthy is caught 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:28.320 on these tapes basically saying that Donald Trump bears responsibility 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:32.640 for the insurrection, that the Republican Party bears responsibility for 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:35.880 the insurrection, and that things need to change and things 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:39.119 need to happen. Right, the comments have been played when 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:44.000 before the leak actually happened, Kevin McCarthy was asked about 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:47.200 this conversation that was supposed to be a closed conversation 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:51.960 with House Republicans, and guess what it was recorded. So 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:55.640 you can't even trust your own people, right, because everybody 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:59.160 is trying to blackmail somebody else in order to get ahead, 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:01.800 because that's how the fuck the Republican Party has been 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:07.000 operating under Donald Trump. Nonetheless, two reporters from the New 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:11.880 York Times discover these tapes and instead of instead of 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:17.119 releasing them, they decided to hold onto pertinent information so 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:19.919 that they could then later turn around and fucking sell 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.880 a book. Now you if you've been listening to Woke 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:26.359 af you all have heard me when Bob Woodward did 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:30.000 the same fucking thing with the information that he had 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:34.520 Donald Trump on tape talking about COVID nineteen back in 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:39.880 December of twenty nineteen, when he found out information about 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:44.519 COVID and said on tape, COVID is more dangerous than 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:47.640 the flu. It is airborne. It is like nothing we 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:51.200 have ever seen. Then Donald Trump, after saying this to 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:55.960 Bob Woodward in December of twenty nineteen, would turn around 0:02:56.080 --> 0:03:00.120 when COVID finally arrived in the United States to and 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.440 tell us that it was a democratic hoax. Bob Woodward, 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.920 at that moment that Donald Trump said for the first 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:10.880 time that COVID nineteen was a hoax, could have released 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:14.360 those tapes to the New York Times, to the Washington Post, 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:18.839 to wherever and say, Donald Trump is lying. I am 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.800 currently working on my book, which I'm sure would have 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.600 flown off shelves regardless. But you wanted to hold on 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.120 to that information so that you could fucking make money. 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:31.160 We saw Bill Barr do the same fucking shit. So 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:34.600 these reporters, right with the New York Times, they get 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.920 their hands on the McCarthy tapes and turn around and say, 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:41.120 oh no, we're gonna hold it because you know capitalism. 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:45.680 Amon asked me on the show this weekend this past weekend, 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:52.360 Danielle d does media have an ethics problem? Isn't unethical 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:56.160 that when you have information that could literally change the 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:59.600 course of history that you hold onto that for your 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:03.640 own personal gain. And I said in my response that 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:08.040 here's the thing, at some point in time, our democracy, 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:12.440 your country, has to be more important than anything else, 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:16.080 and that includes making a buck. Because at the end 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:20.200 of the day, when democracy falls, right and all agencies fall, 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:24.240 and you had the opportunity to do something about it, 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:26.760 and you don't. Do you think that the amount of 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.719 money that you made on that book is going to 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:33.600 somehow save you from fascism? Do we think that somehow 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.520 that little bit of money right is going to be 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:41.000 able to withstand the long haul push to full blown 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:44.240 Putinism in the United States. I don't fucking think so. 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:48.880 And I'm really really tired of journalists right, the fourth estate, 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:51.559 which is what we call the media, the fourth estate, 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:57.360 the ability and the supposed ethics around educating the public. 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:01.320 This is the whole point, folks. Why I made a 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:05.320 switch in my career into media, right, working at the 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:08.760 intersection of media and policy, but then full blown into media. 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:13.480 Why was that? Because I believe that people on air 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:17.400 telling the truth is what changes hearts and minds. It 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.320 is what wakes people up, It is what shifts you. 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:24.240 I don't believe in neutrality, not in the face of 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:29.640 absolute authoritarianism and dictator's behavior that we are seeing out 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:33.039 of fucking Florida with Desantists and him taking on Disney, 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:36.799 a private company. Anybody that goes against Desantists is now 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:40.159 a fucking target. We think that that's how people should 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:43.839 function in a democracy, that a private company is not 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:49.000 able to decide that they believe that legislation that is 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:53.080 going out that is targeting LGBTQ youth, that is targeting 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:57.040 LGBTQ people, that they shouldn't have the opportunity to speak up. 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:00.599 This company that brings in multibillion dollars in this state, 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:03.839 and now he wants to turn around and make an 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:07.920 example of them. This is who the Republican Party is. 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:12.039 And if you have information that can stop them from 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:16.680 steamrolling the country into fascism and you don't do something 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:19.080 about that, how do you turn around and call yourself 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.279 a journalist? Right? Because here's the thing, folks, let me 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.440 be honest with you. I do not refer to myself 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.560 as a journalist. I did not go to school for journalism. 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:30.400 I went to school for politics and got a master's 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:34.760 in education. Right, Like, those are my degrees. I am 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:39.320 an opinionator, right, that is my job. But for those 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:42.919 that are journalists, for those that do the research and 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:46.000 the reporting and all of these things, I'm like, so, 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.440 if your job is to educate the people, and you 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.320 decide that you would rather make money, why should we 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:53.920 be listening to you? If your job is to educate 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.440 the people, but you want to keep pretending that this 0:06:56.480 --> 0:07:00.919 Republican Party is somehow an ideological party that cares about 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:04.839 patriotism and democracy, and you know that to be untrue, 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:08.479 and you keep handling this party that is clearly a 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:13.560 cult with fucking kid gloves, then what are you doing? Right? 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:17.160 This is why I scream most days, because I sit 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:20.600 and I have to ingest more news than anyone should 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:23.400 probably have to take in, and I look at these 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:25.640 people and I'm like, what the fuck are you doing? 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:31.400 I appreciate folks, real journalists like Aimin Mohadeen who use 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:35.600 their platforms to call out bullshit, people like Rachel Maddow 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:39.840 that use their platforms to really forgive people a deep 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:43.000 dive into what is going on so that they have 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:48.920 grounded understanding in facts. Right, you can't make decisions if 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:52.800 you don't have all the information, and what these journalists 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:56.560 did was hold on to this information about Kevin McCarthy 0:07:56.680 --> 0:08:00.360 and his belief about who was responsible for the insurrection, 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.680 and that Donald Trump told him himself that he was 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:07.120 responsible and needed to do something, and then turns around, 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:10.680 literally like a fucking flip flop, like a fucking pancake, 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.040 heads down tomorrow Lago to go and kiss Donald Trump's ring, 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:17.280 like he never had that conversation at all. And you 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:22.320 know what my friend Joyce Van said following my comments 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:27.400 is that she believes that whoever recorded the conversation bears 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:32.080 responsibility as well. Because here's the thing. Everybody was on 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:36.160 that call, All the Republicans were on that call. Somebody 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:40.280 recorded it, right, So why didn't they do anything with it? 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:45.240 Why didn't they decide again that the country is more 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:49.440 important than the bullshit manure that this party is shoveling 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:53.320 all over the United States. I'm just so sick and 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:57.640 tired of the spinelessness, right, you know. David Jolly, who 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:59.800 was on the show, said as well, I'm sick and 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:02.880 tired of these fucking anonymous op eds. I'm sick and 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:06.120 tired of people not having any conviction, you know, one 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:08.720 of the people that we also talked about over the weekend, 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.600 and if you have not seen the viral video of 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:18.240 Mallory McMorrow, the state senator out of Michigan, who took 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:22.839 on her republic one of her Republican quote unquote colleagues, 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:28.160 who made an entire fundraising email referring to this mother, right, 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:33.400 this white mother, as a fucking pedophile and groomer. And 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:36.480 instead of doing what Democrats are so fucking good at, 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:38.839 which is sticking their goddamn heads in the sand and 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:42.439 pretending that this bully, the Republican Party isn't beating the 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.600 ship out of them right as it pertains to how 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:49.120 we are defending ourselves against this very clear and evident 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:53.120 culture war that they are determined to beat America over 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:56.400 the head with. She didn't turn her back, she didn't 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.480 run away, she didn't come up with facts and figures, 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:01.960 she didn't se down with the focus group. She got 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.520 in front of the microphone and she told the people 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:08.160 of Michigan what this Republican Party is doing and who 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:11.400 the fuck they are, And then she reminded them who 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:16.600 she is, which is a straight white woman who is Christian, 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:20.199 who is a mother who is married and who believes 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.880 right that people do not need to be white, Christian, 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:27.840 straight and sists in order to be treated with respect 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:33.240 and dignity in this country. I mean, it was beautiful 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.800 and what I love so much about it and what 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:40.000 Aimon asked me, you know, should this be the blueprint? 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:44.120 And I said, authenticity should be the fucking blueprint for 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:49.240 the Democratic Party. Authenticity and passion should be the blueprint 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:53.319 for the Democratic Party. I don't need everybody copycatting what 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:56.920 Mallory McMorrow did in Michigan, but I need people to 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:01.400 start fucking standing up for themselves for this goddamn country. 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:04.160 And don't come to me, don't come to a fucking 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:08.080 gun battle with a fucking whiteboard filled with your bullet 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:13.120 points of bullshit. I'm just I'm tired, folks. I'm tired 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:18.199 of what the Democratic Party isn't doing, which is going 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.920 toe to toe with a group of people who have 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:26.640 no problem referring to us all as pedophiles and fucking groomers. 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:30.760 This ship is not going away, it's actually escalating and 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:35.600 getting worse. And what mcmarrow did in Michigan is say 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:39.120 enough is a fuck enough, right, You're not gonna sit 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:43.640 here and smear me and make money off of your evil, vile, 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:46.520 fucking statements and think that ain't nobody gonna come back 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:50.520 at you with some real hot shit. That's what she did, 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.880 And I'm wondering, where the hell else all the other 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:59.079 Democrats are, particularly those that are in leadership right, where 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:02.679 are you? Oh, it's really upsetting that my friend across 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:07.640 the aisle, fuck that you need to dead that language, 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:11.240 your friend across the aisle. These people have turned the 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:16.400 Democratic Party into their enemy. You listen to that lion 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:20.160 ass Marjorie Taylor Green when she was on the stand, 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:23.439 one to say eighty times that apparently she needs Gencoba 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:26.760 because she doesn't. She done lost her fucking memory over 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:32.160 what she has said on fucking video about Nancy Pelosi, 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:36.720 about the Democrats, about the steel that happened to Donald Trump, 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.080 And now all of a sudden, eighty times she talking 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:42.400 about she don't remember. Oh you remember. Let me run 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:46.600 you the tape back and ask you the question again, right, 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:49.640 is this you? Is this worse coming out of it? 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:53.480 Were you commerced? Right? And again I want to say 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:57.200 this too about the attorneys that had her on the stand. 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:03.040 It's that I don't know because that here was unprecedented. Right. 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:07.720 It is unprecedented to try and say that this member 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:12.280 of Congress should not be able to run for reelection 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:16.280 again because they have gone against the constitution because of 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:20.720 their involvement in an attempt to overthrow the government. Right. 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:23.880 But I got to tell you that if you were 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:27.600 able to bring evidence, I'm confused about why you would 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:31.880 not show video over and over again of the questions 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:35.480 that you are asked, asking and her saying I don't recall, 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:37.800 and then you playing the video and saying do you 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:43.080 remember now? Right? Do you recall now? Because I need 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.680 to make sure that, like we don't need to have 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:49.640 somebody's like psychiatrists or psychologists come in and do a 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:53.120 medical examination to make sure that you are functioning on 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:57.199 all cylinders. I'm just you know, folks, I got to 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:02.360 tell you that this weekend and going on MSNBC, I 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:08.720 was really fucking pissed off because I feel like everything 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:12.480 around us is crumbling and I feel like the people 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.480 that have the ability And I'm not saying that it 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:18.439 isn't inevitable what is going to happen, but at least 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:20.160 I want to believe that I'm a part of a 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.880 party that is willing to fight, that is willing to 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.320 lay it all on the field, and that's just not 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.600 who the Democrats are. And so I'm like, if you're 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.920 not willing to fight against people who are referring to 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:35.920 you as pedophiles, who are literally labeling every single person 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:39.960 that is just like your anti fucking LGBTQ bills, right, 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:43.960 are nothing but bigoted bullshit, and not calling people out 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:48.480 for their belief that we're going to dismantle essentially public 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:53.560 education because of this faux belief in critical race theory, 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.720 and then we're going to only in Florida bring in 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:00.280 one kind of textbook that happens to have financi she'll 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:03.560 ties to both the Santists and the governor in Virginia, 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:05.880 Glenn Yungcan. And we think that all is on the 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:09.800 up and up. I mean, folks, let us wake up here, right. 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:13.320 This is a it's not even just the biggest fucking 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:17.600 criminal grift that we've ever seen that began with Donald 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.760 Trump and his family but has expanded to the entirety 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.720 of the Republican Party, but it is now it is 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:29.960 coupled with their white evangelical Christian fundamentalism right and their 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:34.680 white supremacy. And so if you're not willing to say 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:38.359 what it is that they are doing and to identify 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:42.280 who the villain is, then tell me what your purpose 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:46.680 is in this moment. You know James Carville, who I 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:51.760 don't understand why Democrats continue to go back to this 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:56.040 man for advice, who is clearly not engaged or tapped 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:59.360 into the current state of what is going on where 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:02.920 he's taught about the fact that Democrats have gotten to woke. 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:06.760 Are you fucking kidding me? It's still the same centrist, 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:10.760 fucking pasty people who are running things and who don't 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:14.440 want to move too far into progressivism right, It's still 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:18.480 the same fucking mansion and cinema mentality that is running 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:22.440 the Democratic Party into the fucking ground. Why do we 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.040 think that Biden's poll numbers are where they are. It 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.720 isn't just because of inflation. It's because he ain't got 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:32.400 no swagger. He doesn't have any fucking backbone. He's not 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:36.360 going toe to toe and pushing back against this Republican 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:39.440 Party and saying to the American people, this is who 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:41.720 they are and if it's not gonna be Joe Biden 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:45.160 then tell me why you haven't tapped in Kamala Harris, 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.680 who was a prosecutor to be prosecuting, as she said 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:52.840 when she was candidate, Harris prosecuting the case against Donald Trump. 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:56.840 How about you prosecute the case against the white evangelical 0:16:56.960 --> 0:17:01.200 Christian fundamentalist, white supremacist party. How about you go to 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.600 the American people on a regular basis and remind them 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.600 who they are and that they would rather be cheering 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:11.399 on Putin right now as he's committing war crimes in 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:15.639 Ukraine than they would their own president. How about you 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:19.439 make the correlation and put in the work instead of 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:23.280 wondering or worrying about what the pushback is going to be. 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:26.560 They are calling you pedophiles. They are willing to go 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:30.240 to the fucking gutter. So what are you willing to do? 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:34.600 You know? And the last thing that I will say 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:38.840 for this Monday, where I am starting out the week 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:46.200 already fired the fuck up, is we have already provided 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:52.640 three point four billion dollars to Ukraine. Now, I want 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:57.000 to be very clear that the images, the videos, the 0:17:57.160 --> 0:18:03.160 stories that we are reading are absolutely hard breaking. Ukraine 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:07.560 needs resources, right, but the things that they actually need, 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.359 like a no fly zone. We're not willing to go 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:13.520 to that extent, which I still believe is kicking the 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:16.080 can down the road, because I don't know how we 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:21.280 are going to avoid American casualties in this war by 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:27.160 sending troops there. Because here's the thing. Putin is not stopping, right, 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:32.440 he is actually escalating when he hired right his new head, 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.760 his new general, a man who made a name for 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:40.640 himself as the Butcher of Syria because he targeted civilians 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:44.240 on purpose. That he is suffocating people to death, that 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:50.000 he is weaponizing rape, right, that he is using chemical 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:53.960 weaponry that has been banned for use in war. How 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:56.760 is it that we think that we are going to 0:18:56.960 --> 0:19:02.520 escape this without Putin being put down? Right? So that's 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:05.320 one thing. But here's the other thing. I was on 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:09.439 Reverend Owl's show yesterday and Reverend Owl asked me on 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:13.840 Politics Nation whether or not the Biden administration is doing 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:18.280 a good job with balancing the resources financial resources that 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:23.000 are needed for our domestic issues and balancing that with 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:25.520 what is happening abroad. And I'm going to be honest 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:28.560 with you, No, they are not. They are not balancing 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:32.480 these things. And the reason is that Republicans and Democrats 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:35.320 or are more willing to shell out and make a 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:38.520 fucking rain for war in terms of the money that 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:41.159 they are able to put up without a fight, without 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:44.520 a conversation, without a debate. But if you turned around 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:47.439 and wanted to give three point four billion dollars to 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:51.879 COVID relief, to education, to the Green New Deal, to infrastructure, 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:54.879 then we got to have what three fucking days of 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:58.439 debate on that shit. It's our fucking money, but we 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:01.480 don't get it spent on us. But then you want 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:03.439 to turn around and tell me, well, we're on the 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:06.439 virgin nuclear war. Okay, I get that we're on the 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:09.439 verge of fucking devastation here in the United States as well. 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:13.120 So if you are not able to be able to 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:16.639 match the resources that you are sending to Ukraine and 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:18.560 then want to turn around and tell us that you 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:22.760 don't have the money in order to continue COVID relief plans, 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:26.359 right in order to continue providing vaccinations, in order to 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:30.200 continue providing tests that you all of a sudden don't 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:34.200 have the money, that doesn't really land that well, does it. Oh, 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:37.480 we can't afford to relieve student debt, but we're gonna 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:41.320 send three point four billion dollars to Ukraine in two 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:44.080 months and then say that we need to send more. 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:51.399 Come on, folks, come on. This country is struggling. And 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:55.440 to quote Tupac Shakur who said, got money for war, 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:59.520 but can't feed the poor, that is that is the 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:04.280 month of the United States. Love a war, Love a war, 0:21:04.400 --> 0:21:08.160 and wars are expensive, not only in the cost of lives, 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:14.600 but in the cost period. But investing in social safety, 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:19.000 that's investing in education, investing in clean water, clean air programs, 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:23.639 investing in trying to slow climate change. Oh that we 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:30.040 can't possibly manage to do. Get the fuck out of here, folks, 0:21:30.160 --> 0:21:33.520 you know, I gotta tell you. Also, I'm asked about 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:38.000 whether or not Biden, you know, who recently had lunch 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:40.640 with Obama last week and said that he plans on 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:43.760 running in twenty twenty four. And then we heard murmurings 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:48.320 of Bernie Sanders saying that, you know, he's not taking 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:51.280 running again off the table. And I'm saying, my god, 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:55.280 if fucking octanagarian white men are all that we have 0:21:55.440 --> 0:21:58.000 and all that we believe that can save America, then 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:01.520 America doesn't deserve to be saved. Now, if Joe Biden 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:05.119 decides to run for reelection, that is his prerogative and 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:07.680 he is the head of the Democratic Party. But if 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:11.600 he doesn't decide to run for reelection for whatever reason, 0:22:12.440 --> 0:22:14.800 then I don't want to see the same old fucking 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:18.960 faces carted out as if they got new ideas. They don't. 0:22:20.920 --> 0:22:24.800 So if the Democratic Party isn't building a bench, isn't 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:28.080 fighting against the culture war right, and isn't giving the 0:22:28.119 --> 0:22:31.600 American people what they want, then the question is what 0:22:31.640 --> 0:22:37.800 the fuck are they doing? Coming up next, friends, my 0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:42.680 conversation as always with our good friend Glenn Kirshner, MSNBC 0:22:42.880 --> 0:22:46.520 Legal Analysts and the host of Justice Matters breaks down 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:49.480 the latest of where we are with the Department of Justice, 0:22:49.520 --> 0:22:56.600 the insurrection, and the one sixth House Commission. Folks, you 0:22:56.640 --> 0:22:59.320 know that I am always always grateful when we have 0:22:59.520 --> 0:23:03.760 our and Glenn Kirshner joining us host of Justice Matters 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:07.720 and MSNBC Legal Analysts to you know, bring us through 0:23:07.760 --> 0:23:12.439 the maze of insanity that is the current state of 0:23:12.520 --> 0:23:18.000 the insurrection, the investigations, and the Department of Justice. Glenn, 0:23:18.520 --> 0:23:22.840 another week, another series of things that have been uncovered. 0:23:23.359 --> 0:23:27.480 Right I saw on Twitter when you said, referred to 0:23:27.560 --> 0:23:32.840 Mark Meadows phone as some type of treason his hotline, right, amazing, 0:23:33.320 --> 0:23:37.200 tell us the latest on where we are and what 0:23:37.760 --> 0:23:42.880 if anything, any movement you've heard with the Department of Justice. Yeah, 0:23:42.920 --> 0:23:46.560 when you look at the text messages that Mark Meadows 0:23:46.720 --> 0:23:50.680 was fielding as let's remember the chief of staff to 0:23:50.760 --> 0:23:54.280 the President of the United States. You know, it's like 0:23:54.320 --> 0:23:57.239 he's running the treason switchboard. You know, Mark Meadows here, 0:23:57.280 --> 0:24:00.280 how can I direct your treason his call and the 0:24:00.359 --> 0:24:03.920 calls and or the texts that he was getting from 0:24:04.000 --> 0:24:07.719 Don Trump Junior, which still blows my law enforcement mind. 0:24:07.880 --> 0:24:11.520 When Don Junior says, two days after the election, long 0:24:11.560 --> 0:24:15.080 before the election has been called, before the votes had 0:24:15.119 --> 0:24:19.080 been tallied in the battleground states, Don Junior said, my 0:24:19.160 --> 0:24:25.200 daddy's second term must start now. That is so deeply 0:24:25.520 --> 0:24:29.640 treasonous in the lay sense of the word treason that 0:24:30.119 --> 0:24:32.840 it really blows my mind. And that Mark Meadows is 0:24:33.240 --> 0:24:38.159 indulging all of this and playing along together with Jinny 0:24:38.240 --> 0:24:41.879 Thomas saying, listen, you have to go to war. You 0:24:41.960 --> 0:24:47.320 have to overturn the elections results because there are ballot 0:24:47.320 --> 0:24:53.200 fraudsters being detained right now on barges outside Gitmo, awaiting 0:24:53.200 --> 0:24:59.359 their military tribunals for sedition. Mark Meadows doesn't say, Miss Thomas, 0:24:59.400 --> 0:25:03.920 that's raw, that's fiction, that's insane. He plays along and says, 0:25:03.960 --> 0:25:05.840 you're right, we have to fight and the King of 0:25:05.920 --> 0:25:10.880 Kings will make this right for us. So Mark Meadows 0:25:11.000 --> 0:25:15.879 has earned himself really a Marquis spot on a conspiracy 0:25:15.960 --> 0:25:19.480 indictment for crimes against the United States. There's no doubt 0:25:19.520 --> 0:25:23.440 about it. On the evidence the Department of Justice get there, 0:25:23.480 --> 0:25:27.120 that remains an open question. But you know, these treason 0:25:27.200 --> 0:25:32.680 as text messages that Mark Meadows was receiving and feeding into. 0:25:33.160 --> 0:25:37.040 It's just it's so far beyond fiction that you know, 0:25:37.400 --> 0:25:39.480 it's hard to know what to make of it. It's 0:25:39.520 --> 0:25:44.560 so absurd, Glenn, because the evidence being laid out. I mean, 0:25:45.080 --> 0:25:49.080 it's not as if we are we're trying to still 0:25:49.119 --> 0:25:53.440 find the smoking gun. Right. There are pages of text messages. 0:25:53.960 --> 0:25:58.040 We have a PowerPoint presentation. We have people in their 0:25:58.040 --> 0:26:01.360 own word, We have Donald Trump standing on the dais 0:26:01.680 --> 0:26:04.320 at the stop the Steel Riley saying go take your 0:26:04.359 --> 0:26:08.800 country back. We have you know, convicted insurrectionists in their 0:26:08.840 --> 0:26:12.480 own words saying the only reason why I stormed the 0:26:12.520 --> 0:26:15.639 Capitol Building. Is because the President of the United States 0:26:15.680 --> 0:26:18.919 told me that I needed to. So you have said 0:26:19.119 --> 0:26:24.439 for years now on this show that prosecutors don't like 0:26:24.640 --> 0:26:28.919