WEBVTT - Tired of Speeches 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.600 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Wika Epp Daily with 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:18.479 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody once again recording from the 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:23.119 Brooklyn Bunker. Folks, there is a bit of good news 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:25.599 which I don't often get to share with all of you, 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:27.760 so I want to start off the show on this 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:31.720 good Monday with that good bit of good news. Omicron 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:35.919 is on the decline in many of the states that 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:38.560 it started to take over, namely in New York where 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:43.280 I am. We are seeing decreases across the country, which 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:49.040 is amazing and amazing, even though there have been more 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:53.680 hospitalizations than in twenty twenty and in twenty twenty one, 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:59.480 and we are still losing roughly two thousand Americans a 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:05.920 day to this virus, where we have a preventable way 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:09.600 to deal with it, with the vaccine, with the boosters, 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:13.520 even the news that there are there is a stealth 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:17.680 variant which is according to the CDC and the WHO, 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:22.240 a variant of interest, but not a variant of concern. 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:25.920 Yet they're calling it a stealth variant, which you may 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:30.679 have heard on the news because it is hard to detect, 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:34.080 meaning that the rapid tests that we're using, the home 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:39.039 tests that we're using are not picking up this variant. 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:43.679 So what we do know is that this stealth variant 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:50.160 is one that is not easily detectable. But according to 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:53.080 the doctors right now that if in fact, you are 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:56.240 vaccinated and you are boosted right now, it seems that, 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.800 guess what, you won't get that sick, and you won't 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:04.400 be hospitalized and you won't die. So again, we know 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.919 this from the patterns that we've been seeing since twenty 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:12.160 twenty through now for two years. Right that we started 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:15.959 with the alpha. Several months later there was delta, several 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:19.720 months later there was omicron. So we cannot just assume 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:23.919 right now because we see these decreases happening that that 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:27.600 means that, oh, we're all in the clear. Follow the patterns, 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:30.680 and the patterns show us that they will most likely 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:34.760 be another variant at some point right in the next 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:39.000 several months. And so what should people be doing? Get 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:41.520 your booster If you haven't gotten your booster shot, If 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:43.880 you have family members and friends that have still not 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:47.640 gotten the vaccine, and you're walking around with the vaccine, 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:50.480 haven't lost an eye, haven't lost a limb, nothing is 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:54.360 wrong with you. Encourage them to do so. But do 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:58.120 not put yourself in harm's away. Do not raise your 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:01.960 blood pressure and put yourself in fight mode in order 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:05.000 to deal with these people. Offer the information they know 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:07.280 where to get it if they still choose not to 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:14.320 go with God. But I will say that when I 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:20.600 see the green across our states, with the decrease in 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:25.320 the numbers, I have my shoulders. You dropped down a 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:27.200 little bit, But I got to tell you that I'm 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:30.600 still on edge. I had a conversation that I actually 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.160 want to share with all of you with my therapist, 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:38.480 because last week I went back into studio for two 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:43.640 days for specials for my other podcast, Democracy Ish, and 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:50.320 I hadn't been on the subway since late November, hadn't 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:55.000 been around of any groups of people. I've only done 0:03:55.080 --> 0:04:00.280 one on ones in my home, and I realize that 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:05.200 I have become a bit agoraphobic. Right leaving my house. 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:09.400 I realize that there are days and when I say days, three, 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:13.200 four or five days that go by and I realize 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:16.320 that I haven't left, And then when I do, there 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:21.320 is this sense of fear right that the outside and 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:25.520 outside people outside of my COVID pods, outside of all 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:28.960 are dangerous. So my therapist said to me, you know, 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:31.960 I have been hearing this a lot, and I want 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:36.080 to tell you that it is becoming the norm. But 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.960 in order for it to not just become a normal 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:43.680 part of your personality, take walks. You know. I know 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.120 that it's winter, seeing I'm a huge walker, but in 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.800 all of the seasons except for when it's twenty degrees outside, 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:52.720 which it has been in New York. She's like, just 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.120 go for a walk around your block and then come 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:58.080 back in. Just take in some fresh air. You know 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:01.360 you will feel better your body, thank you, Just so 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:05.320 that you're not asking yourself when you're throwing out the garbage, 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:08.960 when was the last time that I was outside? And 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:12.200 that is kind of where I have been, And so 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:15.080 I offer that and share it because I know that 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:18.039 I'm not the only one that has been feeling this way. 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.840 That if you are working from home and and you're 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:25.960 at home, if you're working from there, if you have 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.920 a spouse or a partner and they're also working from 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.160 home and you're just staring at each other all day, 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:36.080 every day, there is this monotony, this feeling of groundhogs 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:40.719 day that becomes really overwhelming at times. And so to 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:43.680 take those breaks to go for a walk. So I 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:46.480 offered that to all of you as we are beginning 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:50.560 to see the decrease because we reach such an extraordinary peak, 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:54.760 I mean where you're looking at six and seven hundred 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:59.320 thousand people a day we're becoming infected. So there is 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.560 good news on the horizon. But I would say, while 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:06.680 COVID tests are back in stock in your local pharmacies 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:10.599 and online, buy them so that you just have them 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:15.719 at home, that while there is chlorox and things like that, 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.880 just I'm not saying to hoard them. I'm saying have 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:24.120 a supply so that when we do reach another variant 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:26.920 and we want to be doing testing and we want 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.760 to be safe, that we don't have the sense of 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:33.080 panic that we did over the holiday season. So I 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:36.200 offered that bit of good news and kind of a 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:40.279 mixed bag. I gotta tell you that the end of 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:44.080 last week, I felt like I was living inside of 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:50.880 an article in the Onion headlines across the screen. Joe 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:56.880 Biden heads to Pennsylvania to talk infrastructure as bridge collapses. 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:03.599 This country is literally crumbling. Biden was on his way 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:07.720 to someplace in Pennsylvania and right before he gets there 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:12.440 an entire fucking bridge collapses. Thank god, as far as 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:16.360 reports had shown that no one died. But if you 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:21.000 saw the pictures or the video, there were cars, buses 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:27.840 right that were trapped now on this collapse bridge. And 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.000 I want to just you know, Biden then would give 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:35.160 an impassioned speech last week Friday, he would give this 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:38.000 impassioned speech where he's angry and we need to fix 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:40.920 these things and we can do it. And I'm just like, 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:45.800 if you're not given that speech to Mansion, right, the 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:49.520 man who didn't want to do infrastructure, if you're not 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:53.120 talking about these things to him and Carsten Cinema, then 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:56.960 what difference does it make? Right? Like, what difference does 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:01.080 it make? I'm tired of speeches like, literally, you're seeing 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:04.720 bridges collapse. We will see more of that. We will 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:08.440 see roads cave in, we will see tunnels breakdown. But 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.080 so long as Republicans are able to put money in 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.680 their pocket and the likes of Joe Manchon and Kursten 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:16.080 Cinema are able to do the same, who gives a 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:21.280 fuck about the rest of America. We're supposedly right, Oh, 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:25.760 we're this best nation and we have shit collapsing in 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:29.720 the area that the President is going to visit. And this, 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:33.160 of course, as reports say, this bridge has been rusting 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:37.480 out for years and years and years, but we haven't 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.040 done anything to fix it. And so here is where 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.600 we are. You know, the same pictures you could see 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:48.400 that in the storm that hit New York caused several 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:52.840 months ago, where again on the news you're looking inside 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.960 of subway stations and it was torrential downpour and it 0:08:56.000 --> 0:09:00.320 looks like a fucking geyser is going is happening. But 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:04.000 that's our public transit that millions of people have to 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:07.000 use every single day. And we've been told for I 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.080 don't know how many decades, Oh, we're going to fix 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:12.520 the subway system. The subways are fucking built here in 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:19.280 like the early twentieth century and they haven't had any improvements. Right, 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:22.120 we get new cars, but not new tracks, not new tunnels. 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:26.719 So just think about this like we are. So we 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:31.560 were so unprepared for a health pandemic because of our 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:38.880 bullshit healthcare system. Right, you see why Asian countries were 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:42.200 better prepared to do contact tracing and other places like that, 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:47.040 because they have prepared. They used stars right as their 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:49.640 indicator of things that need to get done. But in America, 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:52.440 all we do is react, right, and it has to 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.920 happen right in front of our fucking faces in order 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.040 for anything to get done. Because you could have looked 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:00.480 at what had been going on in China and said, 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:03.320 you know, if that happened in the United States, we'd 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:06.440 be fucked and you would be right, but they would 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:13.320 do nothing about it. It's just it's so frustrating and 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:17.440 it's so obvious. But once again, what do we do. Nope, 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.440 ain't got money, ain't got money for the poor, ain't 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.679 got money for bridges. But we will give the Pentagon 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:27.080 hundreds of millions of dollars over what they ask for. 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:30.880 They're the only ones that are flush. Meanwhile, is the 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:35.160 Pentagon helping support your kids? Is the Pentagon making sure 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:38.320 that you can get to work every day? No, it's not. 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:42.960 But that's where all your fucking money is going. It's disgusting. 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:48.440 Coming up in the show today is a really great 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:52.920 conversation with our friend MSNBC legal analysts and host of 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:57.600 Justice Matters, Glenn Kirshner. And you know, Glenn is going 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:00.680 to break down where we are with the latest round 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:06.040 of insurrectionists with Bill Barr apparently complying with the one 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.560 six commission, and what does that actually mean? John Eastman 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:12.200 bragging about the fact that he pled the fifth over 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:17.079 a hundred times, and what does that mean, and whether 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:21.800 or not we are actually getting close right to anyone 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:26.640 at the high level of the insurrection planning, if we're 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.760 getting close to them actually going down. The funny thing 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:34.520 in the discussion with Glenn with regard to Eastman is 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:39.720 Eastman pulled the same shit about his PowerPoint presentation, like, Oh, 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.840 I don't know why anybody's taking this seriously. It wasn't 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.680 a big deal, it wasn't meant to do anything. It's 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:48.360 just for entertainment. It's just for bullshit. Blah blah, blah, 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.640 blah blah. This is the same fucking excuse if you remember, 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.280 and I'll bring it up in the interview that Fox 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:57.880 News said when Tucker Carlson was being sued, No one 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:02.600 considers Tucker Carlson news. He's just entertainment. And the question 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:04.360 that I asked to Glenn, and the question that I 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.040 ask all the fucking time, is then why don't we 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:11.679 have the FCC, which loves to regulate nudity and smoking 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:13.360 and this, that and the other thing on all of 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:17.000 your movies and series that we all binge watch. Why 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:21.640 aren't they doing that with Fox News right to ensure 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:24.280 that people recognize that the information that you were about 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:28.199 to consume is for your entertainment, not for your education. 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.240 I think that that would go a long way to 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:36.920 all of their Fox viewers that if the federal government decides, oh, yes, 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:41.040 this isn't real news. You mean, it's just like cotton 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:44.959 candy for my fucking brain. Yeah, then maybe they wouldn't 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:51.360 listen to everything that he says and take it as gospel. Folks, 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:58.520 this month has been the longest the first month of January. 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.920 January always fine to be the longest month, but also 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:06.520 it just feels like twenty twenty two is going to 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:10.040 be a really aggressive year. So as I do and 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.520 say all of the time, please make sure that you 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:15.199 were taking time for yourself each and every day, whether 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.120 it's a walk around the block or walk around your neighborhood, 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:22.640 going out into your backyard, doing a stretch of meditation, gardening, 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:28.360 taking your dogs, grandchildren, anyone, right, but just make sure 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:31.920 that you were taking good care of your mental emotional 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:36.640 physical health on a daily basis, because you know, the 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:40.560 more that I speak with my therapist who also knows, 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:43.760 you know, what I do for a living, obviously, she's like, 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:47.040 you know, people are unwell, They're not well, but the 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:49.319 good news is is that a lot of folks are 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:51.800 seeking help. And the funny thing she said to me 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:54.400 is just like she said, your business is busy right now, 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:57.240 so is mine. And I'm like, what does that even 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:01.240 say that I'm busy as I followed the news and 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:04.960 follow politics and society and culture on a regular basis. 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.439 And she's busy because people are at their wits fucking end, 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.560 feeling alone, feeling isolated, feeling all of the things. So 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:15.720 please do make sure you take good care of yourself. 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:23.960 Coming up next is my conversation with our friend Glenn Kirshner. Folks, 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:27.120 you know that I am always so excited when our 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:30.640 friend MSNBC legal analysts and the host of Justice Matters. 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:34.400 I'm Glenn Kirshner, Jen Kershner. This is where I am today. 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:37.400 Glenn Kershner joins us each and every week to walk 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:42.040 us through the tangled web of lies and criminality that 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:47.680 the Trump administrat former Trump administration continues to weave. Glenn. 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.160 You know, every week we have been talking about the 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:54.880 insurrectionists and the one six committee. This week is not 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:58.800 going to be any different. Tell us the latest. Where 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:05.240 we are, if one again one of the high profile insurrectionists, 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:08.560 but we're not at the big fish yet, We're still 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:12.920 at these fairly low level folks. One of them was 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:17.160 just denied the ability to wait for his trial at 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:20.280 home and is finally, you know, being treated like an 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:24.440 actual criminal, one that tried to overthrow the government. Tell 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:29.120 Us where we are with Elmer Rhodes and his prosecution. Yeah, 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:33.120 so Elmer, of course he keeps calling himself Stuart Rhodes, 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.440 but his name is Elmer Stuart Rhodes. He reportedly hates 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.440 the name Elmer. So, with apologies to all of the 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:43.160 Elmers out there, Fudd and the others, let's take a 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:47.520 deep dive on this guy. Why, Because one he's the 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:51.440 head of the Oathkeepers. That's going to tell us something 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:55.880 about the Oathkeepers organization. And two he's Donald Trump's kind 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.200 of guys. So let's see what we learned in court 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:02.080 this week about Elmer Rhodes. Now, remember he's the guy 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:06.480 who famously is wearing the eyepad. He's like an aspiring pirate. 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.000 And the interesting piece about it is, I saw some 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:15.240 reporting that I lost j Danielley there. Yep, I'm here. Okay, 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.120 your picture just went out of me. Yeah, so if 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:19.280 you can't see, but I'm still here, ye okay. There's 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:21.520 been some reporting that he was like kind of a 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:24.560 half of firearms instructor somewhere and he shot his own 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:28.040 eye out, So you know, Ralphie from the Christmas Story 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:31.960 would laugh at this guy. He also went to Yale, 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.200 but was disbarred as a lawyer in two thousand and seven. 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:39.480 He also hasn't paid his federal income taxes since two 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.720 thousand and seven. Here's the most horrific piece of who 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:47.440 Elmer Rhodes is. His own wife testified against him at 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:52.400 the preliminary hearing, saying, among other things, he is violent 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:58.520 and tried to control my behavior using firearms. He abused 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:03.360 the beat our six children. I am scared to death 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:08.960 of him. And also he had a series of escape 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:12.760 tunnels buried in his backyard. That wasn't just her saying 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:16.120 that that was presented by the prosecutors as a matter 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:20.920 of fact. So he's wait, I'm sorry, what tunnels from 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:24.720 his households had a series of escape tunnels built in 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:28.840 underground in his backyard. Feels to me like he's also 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.600 a flight risk and a danger to the community, which 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:35.240 are the two reasons a judge can detain somebody jailed 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:39.359 somebody pending trial. And the judge ordered that Elmer would 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:43.119 be jailed pending trial. Here's the other. So this is 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:45.520 the head he has no fixed addressed by the way, 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:48.760 once is a strange wife kicked him out. This is 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:55.359 the head of the oath Keepers, oath Keeper's leadership, and 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:59.080 this is Donald Trump's kind of guy. So let's just 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:02.399 understand what we're dealing with here with respect to the 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:05.960 foot soldiers of the insurrection. And you're absolutely right, Danielle, 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:09.160 they're still on the lower level, but with taking down 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.280 guys like the head of the oath Keepers, we are 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:16.280 at the top rung of the lowest level criminal food chain. 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:19.720 We're still working up. We are working up. Here's the 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:22.200 other thing I want to just share with your viewers 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:26.320 about the seditious Conspiracy investigation. It's being headed up by 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:30.480 a prosecutor named Katherine Rakozzi, an assistant United States Attorney 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:33.800 at the DCUs Attorney's office. Kate is somebody that I 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:36.560 brought to the homicide section when I was chief. I 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:39.520 tried Kate's first murder trial with her. And let me 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:44.600 reassure the American people they will be extraordinarily well represented 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:50.280 by a USA Kate Rakozi heading up the seditious conspiracy investigation. 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:54.280 She's a public servants, public servant. She's fearless, she is 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:57.600 a hammer in a velvet glove. And I am so 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:02.520 comforted knowing that she's had up that prosecution team. Um 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:05.240 that I just wanted to share that with everybody. So 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:09.240 I think on the seditious conspiracy piece against the oat keepers, 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:12.119 we are moving in the right direction. So that was 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:15.119 some good news. So, you know, a couple of things 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:20.280 about Elmer Stewart Rhodes that that I want to dig into, 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:23.040 because again, you know, Donald Trump, to your point, only 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:26.240 surrounds himself with the best people, right, and it seems 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:29.000 like every lawyer that he has surrounded himself with has 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:31.520 either been this barred, is on their way to being 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:34.400 this barred, has lost their license, or is laughed at 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:39.520 among their colleagues. So um, you know what was interesting 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:44.920 is that when the media was talking initially about Rhodes Is. 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:47.320 Of course they led with the fact that he is 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:52.080 this scholar from Yale. Right, so you're telling me that 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:57.000 he went to Yale. Okay, yes, um? But then he 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:00.919 lost his law license in two thousand seven. Do we 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:04.040 know why he was disbarked? Do we know why? Court? 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:08.400 In the court filings and part of the judge's findings 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:12.480 in the case seventeen page findings. I recommend everybody read 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:15.280 it if they have a few minutes. The judge found 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:18.040 that he was disbarred in two thousand and seven. There 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:20.640 is no more talk in the court papers. But I'm 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:22.719 sure you know, if we had some good Internet sleuths 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:25.920 out there, they could pretty easily figure out because those 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:29.679 are generally public records when somebody becomes disbarked why he 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:32.960 was disbarked. And you know, and you're a lawyer, so 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:35.160 just you know, and I know that you don't know 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:38.879 the jurisdiction for for for every single state, But in 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:43.120 order to be disbarred, right, like, tell me about some 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:46.280 of the things that you would have to do in 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:50.040 order to to lose that license. Being disbarred is a 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:52.879 lot like getting fired from the federal government. I've often 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:55.959 said tongue in cheek that if you kill one person 0:20:56.119 --> 0:20:59.399 the federal government puts on probation, kill another, you're in trouble. 0:20:59.800 --> 0:21:03.240 The same holds true. The same holds true with state 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:09.000 bar counsel. Why because attorneys protect attorneys, politicians protect politicians. Yep, 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:13.760 it's sad, but it's state of affairs in America. So 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:20.880 to get disbarred, there are so many lesser sanctions than disbarment. 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:26.520 There's letters of reprimand there's a suspension from the practice 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:29.720 of law for a period of time. There are fines 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:33.320 that can be imposed. There are requirements that you repay 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:36.359 a client if you have stolen your client's money, which 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:39.880 I have to say is the lion's share of how 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:44.480 attorneys get in trouble. They don't have appropriate escrow accounts 0:21:44.480 --> 0:21:47.720 for client funds, or they just outright steal them, like 0:21:47.760 --> 0:21:52.760 Michael Abnati did to Stormy Daniels. So there are probably 0:21:52.800 --> 0:21:57.879 ten lesser punishments that can and often are imposed against 0:21:57.960 --> 0:22:01.679 lawyers who do wrong before disbarment. Disbarment is like the 0:22:01.880 --> 0:22:05.959 mother of all punishment, and it takes a lot to 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:09.000 get disbarred. So I would love to know why. I 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:11.399 just haven't had time to go into it why he 0:22:11.520 --> 0:22:17.880 was disbarred, because I promise you it was for dramatic misconduct. Huh. Okay, 0:22:18.960 --> 0:22:22.280 all right, So moving on from Stewart, we know that 0:22:22.359 --> 0:22:26.760 he is reprimanded to jail awaiting his trial. Do we 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:31.919 know around about when that trial will begin because we 0:22:32.000 --> 0:22:34.760 know that everything. Oh July, okay, great summer. It's a 0:22:34.840 --> 0:22:37.359 tentative trial date, and there's a backup trial date set 0:22:37.359 --> 0:22:39.399 farther down the road. And can I just tell you, 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:42.200 because this is not intuitive, one of the reasons these 0:22:42.240 --> 0:22:44.320 trials are going to be pushed off into the future. 0:22:44.440 --> 0:22:48.199 One that's just federal prosecution, you know, business as usual, 0:22:48.359 --> 0:22:52.280 unfortunately from my perspective. But the second is what's called 0:22:52.320 --> 0:22:54.960 the Brady challenge. So Brady is a Supreme Court case 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:58.880 that says the prosecutors have to give give over every 0:22:58.920 --> 0:23:02.280 piece of information that could potentially help the defendant, that 0:23:02.480 --> 0:23:05.600 is exculpatory that the defendant might want to use in 0:23:05.640 --> 0:23:08.600 their defense. And right now we have I don't know 0:23:08.640 --> 0:23:11.000 how many terabytes. I don't know what a terabyte is, 0:23:11.240 --> 0:23:16.080 lots of lots of the locks. I really don't yeh, 0:23:17.200 --> 0:23:19.399 hurts and make sure that makes your giga hurts. I 0:23:19.440 --> 0:23:21.119 don't know what that means either, I'm un joked on 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:25.680 this morning, Danielle. I'm sorry. So, but there's so much 0:23:25.720 --> 0:23:29.480 information that the prosecutors have that has to be provided 0:23:29.480 --> 0:23:32.800 to the defense, literally like millions and millions of data 0:23:32.880 --> 0:23:36.000 hours that they have to pour through, and so making 0:23:36.000 --> 0:23:40.280 sure they get everything, every bit of electronic information that 0:23:40.320 --> 0:23:44.280 the prosecutors have that might help the defendant defend himself 0:23:44.320 --> 0:23:48.120 in court. I welcome and embrace the Brady requirement because 0:23:48.119 --> 0:23:52.160 that's how we give people fair trials, and everybody, including Elmer, 0:23:52.560 --> 0:23:55.480 deserves a fair trial. So yeah, it's going to take 0:23:55.560 --> 0:23:57.400 some time. These trial dates are going to be pushed 0:23:57.440 --> 0:23:59.600 off into the future. People are going to be very upset, 0:23:59.800 --> 0:24:04.040 my self included, because it's it's justice delayed. But it 0:24:04.200 --> 0:24:06.879 is also making sure that the defendants have everything the 0:24:07.000 --> 0:24:12.440 Constitution demands before they are made to go to trial. Okay, 0:24:13.440 --> 0:24:18.119 all right. Pivoting now to the one six Committee and 0:24:18.160 --> 0:24:22.400 where they are. So News of course breaks and says 0:24:22.480 --> 0:24:30.640 that America's worst former AG Bill Barr is quote cooperating 0:24:31.440 --> 0:24:35.320 with the committee. Now, my god, Glenn, over the last 0:24:35.400 --> 0:24:39.840 two plus years. You and I have laid out multiple 0:24:39.880 --> 0:24:44.000 ways in which Bill Barr should be in federal prison. Right, Like, 0:24:44.440 --> 0:24:47.880 the man was operating as Donald Trump's personal attorney when 0:24:47.880 --> 0:24:51.040 he was supposed to be the attorney for all of America. 0:24:51.440 --> 0:24:56.399 He created mechanisms that would ensure that whatever was coming 0:24:56.400 --> 0:24:58.880 out in the Muller Report, he was like, oh, there's 0:24:58.920 --> 0:25:02.960 nothing here, right, remember his four page press conference. I mean, 0:25:03.240 --> 0:25:06.960 jaw dropping, right. But again, the lie will get around 0:25:07.000 --> 0:25:09.359 the corner before the truth even gets out the door. 0:25:09.760 --> 0:25:12.639 And that is what Bill Barr and the Trump administration 0:25:13.119 --> 0:25:19.120 knew and used all the time. So now he's cooperating, Why, Glenn, 0:25:19.400 --> 0:25:23.560 Why to try to save his own skin? So and 0:25:23.880 --> 0:25:27.000 I have to add to your parade of horrible, Danielle, 0:25:27.000 --> 0:25:30.880 that Bill bar corrupted the Department of Justice and weaponized 0:25:30.920 --> 0:25:34.680 it to help Donald Trump's criminal associates like Mike Flynn 0:25:34.720 --> 0:25:39.000 and Rogerstone and punished Donald Trump's perceived enemies like Andrew 0:25:39.080 --> 0:25:44.520 McCabe and Michael Cohen. So everything that man did cries out, 0:25:44.600 --> 0:25:48.080 you know, for a need for accountability and prosecution of 0:25:48.160 --> 0:25:50.800 Bill Barr. But here's what's going on. In my estimation, 0:25:50.840 --> 0:25:53.240 we're reading he leaves a little bit. But Bill Barr 0:25:53.280 --> 0:25:56.359 is cooperating. What does that mean. Well, first of all, 0:25:56.920 --> 0:26:01.840