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Speaker 1: This is the Political beat Down with Michael Cohen and

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Ben my Cellus. On today's episode, we will talk about

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New York Attorney General Letitia James civil fraud lawsuit against

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Donald Trump in New York and his adult children seeking

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at least two hundred and fifty million dollars. In emergency

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hearing was held yesterday after Donald Trump filed a frivolous

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verified answer. Want to get Cohen's reaction to that. The

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next thing we're going to talk about is Alina Habba

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still Donald Trump's lawyer or not. She was not at

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yesterday's emergency hearing, and in the Egen Carroll federal lawsuit,

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Egen Carroll's lawyer, ROBERTA. Kaplan filed a document saying Habba

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was going to withdraw. This comes after Donald Trump and

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Habba were sanctioned over one million dollars by a federal

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judge in Southern District of Florida. Legal troubles continue to

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mount for the MAGA trader fraud George Santos. The FBIS

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opened up a new investigation and George Santos and the

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MAGA Republicans have now replaced their American lapel pins with

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AR fifteen lapel Pins. It is utterly disgusting there. It

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is right there. And Matt Gates was called out by

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Congressman Sicelini at the Judiciary Committee. Matt Gates was called

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out as an insurrectionist. We're going to talk about that here,

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and Cohen will react to Donald Trump saying some things

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about Michael Cohen. This is not just an interview, folks,

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This is a new podcast. It is called Political beat

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Down with Michael Cohen and Ben Marcellus. You were watching

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the first episode. Michael Cohen, this is so great to

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do this with you. So tell the folks how this

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come about?

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Speaker 2: All right, So the Midas Touch family to the Maya

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Kulpa family. Let me just give you a little bit

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of a background story here on how this all materialized,

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what ended up happening. Is Ben, Jordie Brett, the Misellas brothers.

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We all became friends approximately two years ago when I

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started Maya Culpa. Midas Touch has been involved, but we

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became friends over the course of the past two years,

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to the extent that we would speak at nighttime with

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all of this nonsense and craziness going on. I would speak,

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you know, a lot, and mostly really to Ben about

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some of the things that are happening, some of the

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things that I'm involved with, so that he would be

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able to share it with you the Midas family. And

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ultimately what ended up happening is I started, as you

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all know, coming on the various different programs, and things

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lit up where now at twenty thousand people, thirty thousand people,

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fifty thousand people started joining in order to listen to

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our raw, well uncensored, unfiltered, as you know, I have

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a filthy mouth, uncensored explanations of what is transpiring right

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now in America, in our unfortunate you know, democracy, and

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in our unfortunate Department of Justice situation. Well, to make

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a long story short, this is where the concept of

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the beatdown came from, because that's what Ben and I do.

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We beat down on all of these individuals who deserve

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to be beaten down. But unfortunately, you're not going to

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get that type of information from mainstream or cable news

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media simply because they have restrictions and we don't. So

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Ben and I decided this is what we're going to do.

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We're going to create a live show out of this.

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We're then going to place it into a podcast situation,

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so you can go back, you can tell your friends

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about it. It's going to be something special, I promise you.

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Speaker 1: So let's just get right into it. And I can't

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tell you how thrilled I am to host this with you.

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And by the way, we're planning on doing this same

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time every week Thursday at twelve eastern nine am Pacific,

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and then Tuesdays the same time, so twice a week.

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Maybe you'll get Cohen and I doing it more than

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twice a week, but for now, Tuesdays and Thursdays nine

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am Pacific, twelve eastern. We are going to beat down

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on the fascists and beat down on those who are

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enabling fascists and the erosion of our democracy. And so

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let's start right at the top here with the New

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York Attorney General's fraud lawsuit. And look, Cohen. When this

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lawsuit was announced back in September, after a year and

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a half plus of the special proceeding a deposition where

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Donald Trump invoke to his Fifth Amendment rights over four

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hundred times, New York Attorney General Letitia James credited you

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as being one of the main sources, if not the

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main source, to initiate this by providing the information about

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Donald Trump's fraudulent valuations. This case is set for trial

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early October of twenty twenty three, and emergency hearing was held.

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And I'll get into the nooks and grannies of the

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emergency hearing, but the big takeaway from the hearing is

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Judge Arthur and Goren saying we are not moving that

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trial date. I want to be crystal clear with the

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Trump lawyers here, all of your tactics are not going

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to delay this thing. So from a thirty thousand view, Cohen,

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what's this case about? And how much trouble is Trump

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in for this case?

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Speaker 2: All right? First of all, it'll be great if Salty

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if you, by chance happened to have the clip of

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Tis James credited me for it, because that then brings

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into obviously the testimony, the deposition that Donald gave that

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was recently released. That just goes to show how absolutely

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inept and fucking stupid that he actually is. So if

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you have that and you can play it, just let

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me know. But it's why we call this the beatdown.

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All right, That's what we did. We went ahead. We

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provided the information that the Attorney General needed, and what

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is she going to do now in this civil matter,

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beat down on Trump, beat down onto the Trump board.

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Just as just as it's already happened at the DA side,

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it will happen at the Attorney general side now. As

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Bagel Ben had said, not too you know, many seconds ago,

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what Judge Angeron has had enough. He's had enough, he

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has seen and I have talked about it. So I'm

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sure much of it is coming from comments that I

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had made. Donald's tactic on everything is to delay, delay, delay,

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and he will have none of that. He already told them,

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no frivolous motions, no more bullshit. I've had enough. It's

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going to start. I believe it's October second or third

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of twenty twenty three, and this guy means business. He

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wants he wants this thing over and done with. And

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what I really loved also is in the deposition, the

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recorded deposition that Attorney General Tiss James had with Donald

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the other day. She's explaining to him the distinction between

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a criminal and a civil procedure, a criminal and civil

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matter whereby he is being deposed. However, any lies that

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are told obviously have repercussions that can also be criminal.

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So this is really moving. It's moving very quickly. As

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I have said so many times, not just on this program,

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but on other news television outlets and through media. I

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don't believe that the base of two hundred and fifty

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million is going to be where tis James finishes this case,

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because based upon what I know and the information that

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has been provided, I believe the number is at least

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six seven hundred million dollars. It is a multiple of

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the base that she's looking for. Here.

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Speaker 1: Here's what I love about this podcast is that we're

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getting the insider's view. I mean, we're not giving you

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a hypothesis. You know, we're not getting what We're not

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trying to act like these analysts. Goll Here's what I

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think is going to happen. Like Cohen has seen the financials,

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like Cohen knows the documents. This is such a rare

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thing that while this is occurring in the real world,

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while these prosecutions are happening, while these massive civil lawsuits

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are happening, we have the main witness hosting this show

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the political beat down here who's giving you the inside scoop?

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And so you know it's the inside scoop because Trump's

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calling Cohen out in the depositions before he invokes the

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Fifth over and over again. Let's play this clip. The

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video was just released, the video deposition of Donald Trump

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where he invoked his Fifth Amendment rights over four hundred times, which,

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by the way, in a civil case, when you invoke

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the Fifth Amendment like that, it's an adverse inference, unlike

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in a criminal case. So you can go to the

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jury or go to the judge if you're the New

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York Attorney General, and say, look, donald Trump pled the

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Fifth when asked this question. You can offer you can

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infer based on this that the reason that he is

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not answering the question is that because he is. If

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he did answer the question truthfully, he'd be admitting guilt,

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he'd be admitting liability. So you should find them responsible

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for that. That's one of the many reasons that's Trump's

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dead in the water on this one. But let's play

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this clip from the deposition.

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Speaker 3: As a pretense for commencing our bogus investment mitigation, Letitia

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James relied on the testimony of Michael Cohen, a convicted

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felon and liar the Southern District of New York. Astutely

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described Cohen as a man who quote repeatedly used his

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power and influence for deceptive ends by engaging in quote extensive, deliberate,

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and serious criminal conduct consistent with a quote pattern of

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deception that permeated his professional life. This was a long

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mini page statement by him. It only gets worse. This

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is the witness a Stone called loser, the real loser

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that she used to justify her obsessive work, her obsessive

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investigation of men, though he got in civil and criminal

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trouble for representing himself on a taxi cab company that

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he had and other things, and also others as a lawyer, Cohen,

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your reaction.

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Speaker 2: My reaction is fuck you, all right. First of all,

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all you have to do is now take a look

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at Ali Hoenigg's new book, Untouchable, which is the bookend

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to Revenge, all right, something that again I will always

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tell everybody you have to read. It is the playbook

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for what Donald is doing right now. Donald is the

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one who set this thing up with his Attorney General,

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Bill Barr if anybody had not seen two days ago,

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and we're going to post it here on Midas. We're

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going to make it a part of this thing. Rachel

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Maddow and Salty. If you have that one, it's absolutely fantastic.

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Please put it up for everyone to see. Rachel Maddow

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did a fifteen minute takedown on Jeffrey Berman, fifteen minutes

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that explains every thing so well what Donald had done.

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And Judge William H. Pauley, the third the judge in

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my case. First of all, Donald conflates nine different things.

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I didn't represent myself. I had counsel my entire cases.

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You would read in revenge took place in forty eight hours.

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And the only reason that I took the plea I

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had no choice. They were going to file an eighty

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page indictment from a Friday at five point thirty pm

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to a Monday that was going to include my wife. Now,

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unlike Donald, who doesn't care about anyone or anything other

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than himself, who would have thrown any one of his

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three wives under the bus, I'm a little bit different

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of a person. I actually loved my wife dearly. I

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would not allow them to walk my wife out of

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my home in cuffs in front of the whole world

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for their publicity bullshit. The Southern District of New York

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Tom McKay, Nick Ruse. You have Robert Kazami, you have

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Jeffrey Berman, Andrea Griswold, the whole lock stock and barrel

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of these bullshit artists. They will all be All of

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this will be revealed in time, simply because government still

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to this day refuses to give me any of the

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documents that we have made the request for under foyer.

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All right, I'm talking four hundred and eighty six thousand documents,

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and again I talk about it in the book Revenge.

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They first claimed that nothing in our foyer met with

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any of the documents that they had. It did not

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it did not touch on any of the items that

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we had asked for in our Foya request. We realized

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that that was wrong. I hired the council Mark Zaid,

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who is this is what he does for a living.

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They then come back with an apology. This matter is

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also being pursued by Ted lu Hakim, Jeffrey Steve Cohen,

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It was by Carolyn Maloney as well as Senator Dick Durbin,

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all to the ig. But this is yesterday, right. This

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is things that I've ordered done that will ultimately show

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to be true. It will be my revenge, my vindication

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against this corrupt Department of Justice, which Donald Trump is

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now trying to claim to be his own when he

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states weaponization of the Justice Department. It's a bunch of bullshit,

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which is just part of the eighty two billion lies

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that Donald Trump had told the American people. But let's

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now take this and let's use this. Oh, by the way,

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somebody has to explain to me, how does the term

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stone cold get used with the term loser. It just

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doesn't make any sense, which again is why I say

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Donald is stupid. Stone cold is somebody like a stone

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cold killer, right, somebody who has no emotion, They don't

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care about life or anything like that. How does that

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term get used when you're talking about a loser. You

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want to call me a loser, call me a loser.

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And the fact of the matter is, as it related

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to the taxi industry, he has no idea what he's

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talking about because I have never which again and I

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talk about in the book, I have never filed a

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late tax return in my life. I have never owed

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the government any money. At least that's what I thought

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based upon my CPA. Who I pay this guy, Jeff

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Getzel to do my tax You know, my taxes. I

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gave him every single statement, and I'm going to then

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put all of the checks that were deposited. Every single

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dollar was in Capital One Bank, which is located the

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base of the building that I live in. And so

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moving forward, Attorney General Tiss James has this guy literally

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by the short hairs, and trust me, with his mushroom pecker,

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you could bet that there's short hairs. They probably flip

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over to from one nutsack to the other. My point

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is when it comes to Donald, I promise you the

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way that he was talking in that clip, that sort

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of I'm on way too much valium or I didn't

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sleep for a month. I promise you, when this case

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goes to trial in October, he's going to be even

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worse because he may be the worst person to ever

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have on a witness stand to be deposed. It's why

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he hates being deposed, because his true stupidity, his true

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intellect or lack of comes out. And I promise you, folks,

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the pain that he is going to feel as a

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direct result of Tiss James's civil case is unspeakable. Then

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there's the District Attorney's case, which is criminal, and I'm

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sure Ben and I will be getting to that in

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a few minutes.

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Speaker 1: And Lak Cohen, here, here's the difference. You spoke in

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front of Congress. You explain to them you didn't invoke

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the fifth, you speak on them.

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Speaker 2: And eight times I spoke to eight different Congressional committees,

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eight times each one nine ow seventy two hours of testimony.

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I may hold the record in American history for speaking

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before Congress, especially regarding an investigation. I never took the fifth.

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I may have said I don't know about that, I

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have no knowledge or information about it, but I never

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took the fifth. You know what? Do you know why?

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Because only criminals take the fifth? Right Donald when he's

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talking about Hillary Clinton? Who takes the fifth? Only? Well

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Speaker 1: What took place for the rest of the deposition of

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Donald Trump after him saying that about Cohen and reading

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a prepared statement, if you even want to call what

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Donald Trump was doing their reading, this is how the

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rest of the deposition went play the cliff.

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Speaker 3: For all of the above reasons, I respectfully declined to

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answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to

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every citizen under the United States Constitution. This will be

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my answer to any further questions is Trump.

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Speaker 4: The focus our investigation and what we are primarily going

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to today involves the presentation of your statements of financial

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condition between two thy eleven and the present. I take

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it you are generally familiar with those statements.

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Speaker 2: Is that correct?

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Speaker 3: For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which

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is incorporated herein in its entirety, I declined to answer

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the question, so.

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Speaker 1: What Donald Trump tried to do? Why there was this

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emergency hearing though that the Attorney General had requested and

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Judge Arthur and Gron granted it right away. In the

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answer that Donald Trump filed to the complaint that New

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York Attorney General Letitia James filed. So the answer responds

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to all of the allegations. Donald Trump and his adult

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children's responses were we don't have the information to respond.

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They tried to not deny. They denied things that they

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shouldn't have denied that were absolutely true. But then with

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other things where they were asked like who leads the

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Trump organization? Is the Trump organization a Delaware corporate Is

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this LLC related to the Trump organization? The response was,

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we don't have by Trump, we don't have the information

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to respond. Therefore, we can neither admit nor deny. And

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it was about a three hundred page document. And so

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New York Attorney General Latitia James and lots of lawyers

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now in these Trump litigations, they're doing it because they

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know that these are all delay tactics by Donald Trump.

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So the moment Trump does that, they go right away,

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right to the court, rush to the courthouse, tell the judge, look,

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he's trying to delay it. And that's what happened. And basically,

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after this hearing took place yesterday, Judge Arthur and Gorem

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took a break, and then Trump's lawyers back down. When

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you confront Trump, he's very weak and he backs down.

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And his lawyers said that they were going to correct

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the answer and that they would file a new answer,

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and that the trial date is not being moved. Let's

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talk though about the Manhattan District Attorney. You were on

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the Midas Touch podcast a few weeks back after you

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were seen leaving a meeting with the Manhattan District Attorney.

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I mean, look, you're one of the key witness, if

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not the key witness in that case. I know there's

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a lot that you can't legally talk about to protect

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the integrity of the case. So we obviously want to

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respect that here. But about two weeks ago after you

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have that meeting, we've now learned it's been reported that

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the you know, and as we believed was we're going

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to happen after the meeting that you had, that there

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is now a criminal grand jury in Manhattan that is

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investigating Donald Trump for tax fraud related crimes, specifically the

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Stormy Daniels hush money that Donald Trump, uh, you know,

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paid and or paid you paid, and he tried to

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hide and conceal as legal costs, and that he blames

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one hundred percent on you. So what's your reaction though,

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in terms of what you can talk about it what's

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publicly out there regarding this grand jury and about this

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case in general.

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Speaker 2: So I can't discuss anything as it relates to the

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impaneling of a grand jury. I can't discuss, you know,

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anything about going back in testifying the whole nine yards.

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I had an interesting phone call today from a journalist

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you know, who wanted to ask me a couple of questions.

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And unfortunately, because my goal is to provide uncensored, raw truth,

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as I have whether it was to the Moler team,

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whether it was to the Attorney General, the district Attorney,

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Mark Pomerants carrying Dune while I was in Otis Field

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when they came up to visit. By the way, in

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case anybody is curious in regard to when Syvance was

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running the show, just prior to Alvin Bragg taking office

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and you had Pomerants and done seven weeks into Alvin

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Bragg's into his tenure. One of the things that you

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may want to do is watch sixty Minutes. I heard

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that Mark Pomerantz is going to be on it. That's

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what this journalist was asking me if I know anything

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about the book that he's putting out. But I do

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suspect that it's probably it's probably a pretty good interview

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on sixty Minutes, So I would certainly recommend watching that.

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But as it relates to this da case, I've been

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asked not to disclose anything as it relates to what

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they're doing now. One of the things that did come

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out on my appearance on CNN with Don Lemon yesterday morning,

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and believe me, it's early, you know, at seven to

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fifteen am. One of the things that I did disclose

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is that the district attorney requested my two phones, the

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same two phones that were seized by the FBI during

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the April twenty eighteen raid. And it took me a

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little time to find them because it's not the phone

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that I use any longer. Right after it was taken,

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and obviously I was free to do what I wanted,

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I went to the store. I got myself another phone.

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So these ended up in a massive box and got

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confused with some other boxes. Ultimately found them, turned them

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over their charge. They're functional, they have everything on them.

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The district attorney had much of that, if not all

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of that information before. Why they wanted the phones, I

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don't know. I can speculate like anybody else. It's to

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have the originals in case anybody wants to challenge it.

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Maybe there was more that they wanted to see. I

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don't know. The more that I get sucked into this matter,

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the more I will be able to share down the

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line with our Midas family, with our beatdown family here,

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our political beatdown family, because one thing that that I

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have no intention of doing is not sharing this information

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with the public. I believe in transparency. I believe the

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reason that I got my ass kicked so badly in

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that forty eight hours. What the Southern District of New

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York did is because there was no transparency. There still

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is no transparency as it relates to my case. And

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again I request everyone to please pull up that Rachel

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Madam and we're going to put it onto the Midas

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site for everybody to see. It's a fifteen minute It

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explains so much about what I've been yelling from the

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rooftops for the last two and a half years since

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I was ultimately released and then of course with the

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unconstitutional reman back to prison. So my friends, I promise

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you stay with us. You're going to hear it from

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the guy who's there at the epicenter of this again,

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you know. And I also I wanted to just touch

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on I received another phone call this morning from another

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other journalists who then asked me a question that nobody

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else has asked. Are you actually going to even participate

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if they call you to the grand jury? Will you

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willingly participate? Will you be a witness against Donald with

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this District attorney case? And I sat for a second

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before answering, which is what they teach you to do

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during depositions? Whether you're giving it or you're the recipient.

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And I thought to myself, that's a question nobody has

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ever asked me, including the DA, whether or not I

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intend to be called as a witness. So I thought

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it was very, very interesting because look, at the end

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of the day, there were a lot of MAGA crazies

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that are out there. You may all recall when the

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Maga crazies storm the Capitol on January sixth. You see

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now all of these both Republican and Democratic members of

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congre screaming that they need security, they need protection. Well,

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you know what, so do we. You know, this doesn't

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benefit me personally. I've already done my time. I've already

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been financially decimated, you know, by this. And it doesn't

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benefit Bagel Ben either or Midas, because what happens is

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you create an ire from somebody as sick and crazy

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as Donald who has the ability to weaponize the Justice Department.

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He is the ability to create this mod the army.

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And so the thing I said to the journalist is

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I have no reason to say that I'm not but

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I do actually want to speak to my wife and

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to my tuth because this affects them too. People don't

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realize just how injurious this entire process is, especially when

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you have people who are crazy that are willing to

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do anything for their fury. So you know that I'm

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not saying I'm not going to be a part of this.

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I most certainly am, but I do want everyone to

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understand that it does come with consequences, consequences far beyond

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you know what most people think or know.

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Speaker 1: Well, look, and the consequences are right here. Look what

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Donald Trump reposted yesterday, And Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut

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points this out and says, look, it will likely get

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little to no attention today that the current front runner

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for the Republican presidential nomination just told his supporters to

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start arming themselves for a civil war to overthrow the

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government in case he loses. Just Trump being Trump so quirky,

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and this is what Donald Trump reposted. Then they will

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have to figure out how to fight eighty million plus

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It's not going to happen again. People my age and

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old will physically fight for him this time. What do

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we got to lose. I'll donate the rest of my

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time here on this planet to do it, and I

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know many others feel the same. They got my six

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and we are locked and loaded. And Donald Trump reposts

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that and that's the leader public right.

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Speaker 2: They call it retruthed, which is hysterical because there's not

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He wouldn't know truth if it bit him in his ass.

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It is so dangerous what he's saying. Go ahead, Bagel Ben,

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I apologize. I shouldn't have interrupted.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, that I want to to your point.

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That's what I'm going to read you another one that

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he posted. But what's your response to that one?

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Speaker 2: He's dangerous, and it's what I've been saying all along.

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It's one of the reasons, as you may recall, in

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my testimony before the House Oversight Committee, when I turn around,

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I said, the reason I am here today is I

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have a fear. And what is my fear. It is

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that if Donald Trump loses the reelection, there will never

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be a peaceful transfer of power. What he is doing

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is he is trying to intimidate the American people. He's

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trying to intimidate the courts. He's trying to intimidate prosecutors.

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He's trying to intimidate everyone so that they do not

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charge him, that they do not go after him or

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his family or his inner circle, for all of their

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dirty deeds. It's not happening. Trust me when I tell

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you that's right. There are eighty million people, which I

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don't believe that that's the right number. It's probably more

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like sixteen to twenty million that are diehard Trump fans.

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But you also have to remember that of that twenty million,

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how many of them are older where they're not going

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00:29:32,359 --> 00:29:35,200
to be doing the things that Donald wants, which is

478
00:29:35,519 --> 00:29:39,880
to storm a capital, to start taking prisoners, to arm themselves,

479
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:45,960
and to lead another insurrection against democracy. All right, but

480
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,839
I do want people to understand even a fraction of

481
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:55,000
that number is serious numbers, and we all need to

482
00:29:55,039 --> 00:29:57,960
be vigilant. We need to keep our eyes and our

483
00:29:58,119 --> 00:30:01,279
ears open. We need to be safe, we need to

484
00:30:01,359 --> 00:30:04,960
be strong. It's why I also, please, I implore each

485
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,559
and every one of you with us here today on

486
00:30:07,599 --> 00:30:11,880
our first podcast, tell your friends about Political Beatdown, Tell

487
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:15,319
them to join us, because this is not just a podcast.

488
00:30:15,319 --> 00:30:17,599
And I say this all the time, and I hope

489
00:30:17,599 --> 00:30:21,359
people aren't getting angry at me for being repetitive. But

490
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,839
we are a family, we are a movement. We need

491
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:29,920
to ensure that when midas touched when political beatdown speaks,

492
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,000
and we all are going to assemble somewhere that we

493
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:38,039
have force larger than Donald's forts in order to combat it,

494
00:30:38,279 --> 00:30:42,400
because rest assured, if we don't and we sit back

495
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,440
and we put our head in the sand waiting for

496
00:30:45,519 --> 00:30:49,200
this stuff to pass, we may find ourselves in America

497
00:30:49,279 --> 00:30:52,960
that we don't recognize. And that's the danger of Donald Trump.

498
00:30:53,039 --> 00:30:56,440
You know. I end my book Revenge with a quote, Well,

499
00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,720
it's a line that I had written. Trump Ism is

500
00:31:01,039 --> 00:31:04,039
and we need to erase it from our body politic

501
00:31:04,519 --> 00:31:08,880
we do, and I'm imploring everyone to please tell your

502
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,720
friends about this, make sure that they join us in

503
00:31:11,799 --> 00:31:15,400
this movement, because we need to be so strong that

504
00:31:15,599 --> 00:31:19,440
not only do we put fear into the hearts of

505
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,519
the Republicans, but at the same time we have the

506
00:31:22,559 --> 00:31:27,279
ability to wield force within the Democratic Party in order

507
00:31:27,319 --> 00:31:31,160
to ensure that things get done that protect all of us,

508
00:31:31,319 --> 00:31:34,880
that provide benefits for all of us, not just the

509
00:31:35,039 --> 00:31:38,240
elite class that appears, you know, to claim that they're

510
00:31:38,279 --> 00:31:39,200
representing us.

511
00:31:40,559 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 1: Here here's one of the other posts that he made.

512
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:46,359
This one seems to be about you, where it says,

513
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:50,559
with respect to the quote stormy nonsense. And by the way,

514
00:31:51,119 --> 00:31:54,599
you see his new avatar, it's this weird image of

515
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:58,880
his like face looking you know, ominous with the American

516
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:02,240
flag painted over it, desecrating the American flag. I mean,

517
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:07,480
it's just a sick, disgusting trader. Like in every aspect,

518
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,039
this individual is like the most despicable person ever.

519
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 2: Anyway, do you do notice that he spelled counsel wrong

520
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,960
he is, So I have to tell everybody how stupid

521
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:20,960
he is. Honestly, first of all, it's co u n sel,

522
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:25,640
which is what he's trying to say. So he sowed them. Actually,

523
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:30,240
many people think from that tweet Pigel Ben that he's

524
00:32:30,319 --> 00:32:35,960
acknowledging that he had the relationship with Stormy Daniels. Why

525
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,880
don't you let's take this, Let's take the whole thing apart. Right,

526
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:40,400
let's just let's just take it apart.

527
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 1: I'll read it and let's break it down. With respect

528
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:47,200
to the quote stormy nonsense, it is very old. It

529
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,920
happened a long time ago, long past the very publicly

530
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,519
known and accepted deadline of the Statute of Limitations. I

531
00:32:54,559 --> 00:32:58,240
placed full reliance on the judgment and advice of counsel

532
00:32:58,279 --> 00:33:01,079
spelled incorrectly, who I had every reason to believe had

533
00:33:01,119 --> 00:33:04,279
a license to practice law, was competent, and was able

534
00:33:04,319 --> 00:33:09,000
to appropriately provide solid legal services. He came from a

535
00:33:09,039 --> 00:33:11,920
good law firm, represented other clients over the years, and

536
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,759
there was no reason not to rely on him, and

537
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,079
I did. Yeah, it sounds like a confession to me.

538
00:33:17,839 --> 00:33:20,039
Speaker 2: It sounds like it's to me to me as well. However,

539
00:33:20,319 --> 00:33:23,119
let's see what he's doing here, what he's trying to do,

540
00:33:23,279 --> 00:33:28,400
and obviously he got some advice from somebody decided to

541
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:33,920
then try to be his normal unclever self and you know,

542
00:33:34,319 --> 00:33:38,000
deflect and to blame somebody else, because if you've noticed

543
00:33:38,359 --> 00:33:44,440
over the course of Donald's history, he never accepts responsibility

544
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:48,880
for anything. It's always somebody's fault. It's Michael's fault, it's

545
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:53,599
Rudy's fault, it's a Lena Habaa Baba's fault. Right, it's

546
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:57,359
you know, it's everybody else's fault except for his. Let's

547
00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:59,440
be very clear about something. I'm not the one who

548
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,279
had the there. He did. In fact, he had it

549
00:34:02,559 --> 00:34:08,159
before I was even working for him. The notion that

550
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:13,519
I'm supposed to tell him that he doesn't or he

551
00:34:13,599 --> 00:34:17,840
shouldn't do an NDA. This is not going to be

552
00:34:19,159 --> 00:34:21,519
this is not going to be beneficial to him. But

553
00:34:21,639 --> 00:34:25,079
the best part, and the part that is hands down

554
00:34:25,559 --> 00:34:29,239
the stupidest of all, is the notion that there is

555
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:34,199
a statute of limitations bar on this case. For so

556
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:38,159
many reasons that it is not. But I promise you,

557
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all right, the District Attorney of Manhattan, with the one

558
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:46,519
hundred lawyers that are working on this, I assure you

559
00:34:47,039 --> 00:34:52,079
that this is a question that originally came up, and

560
00:34:52,599 --> 00:34:57,760
they have everything in their arsenal to ensure that the

561
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:02,400
statute of limitations defense that is Council will attempt to interpose,

562
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:06,159
will not be accepted, will not be granted by the court.

563
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,239
Speaker 1: Coin I couldn't agree more with you. And you mentioned

564
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:13,039
Elena Habba there. She was not in court at the

565
00:35:13,079 --> 00:35:18,119
emergency hearing that took place yesterday. There was a filing

566
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in the Egen Carol federal case where Egen Carroll's lawyer

567
00:35:22,199 --> 00:35:25,280
said that Habba said that she was withdrawing from the

568
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:27,920
case and Trump was bringing in Joe Tacapino. They brought

569
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in Tacapino, and Hobba said, no, I'm still clinging on

570
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because like Habba doesn't know how to really be a

571
00:35:33,639 --> 00:35:36,480
real lawyer. She doesn't know how to try cases anyway.

572
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:40,840
You know, it's all bluster and bravado. And that's why

573
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:42,800
she was sanctioned. I mean for a lot of reasons.

574
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You know, with these frivolous lawsuits that she's attached to.

575
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:48,320
Trump's been held in contempt, She's been sanctioned, and he's

576
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:52,280
been sanctioned over one million dollars in the Southern District

577
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,519
of Florida. They then had to withdraw all the other

578
00:35:54,599 --> 00:35:58,079
cases that she filed in these various other federal courts,

579
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including one in a federal court New York that was

580
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,639
before the Second Circuit, another one that was pending before

581
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the same Judge Donald Middlebrooks in the Southern District of Florida.

582
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:13,039
Judge Donald Middlebrooks in his sanction order, though also basically

583
00:36:13,079 --> 00:36:15,679
said that Alena Habba should be disbarred. He didn't use

584
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those exact words, but said that, you know, sanctions enough,

585
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,960
sanctions alone is not enough, and that ethics and state

586
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,320
bars need to look into her. So I think that

587
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:26,880
she's going to be in a lot of hot water

588
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:31,039
there with her legal license filing that frivolous lawsuit. I

589
00:36:31,039 --> 00:36:33,280
don't know if the New York Bar has already started

590
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:38,000
an inquiry, but it's everything Trump touches dies Elena. Alena

591
00:36:38,039 --> 00:36:41,480
Habba got to at least see what was happening before

592
00:36:41,519 --> 00:36:45,920
her with other council as well. Look what's happening with

593
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:50,760
John Eastman. Eastman is now likely going to be disbarred

594
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:54,679
in California. California State Bar filed a proceeding against him.

595
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Is Alena Habba in?

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Speaker 2: Is she out?

597
00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:59,599
Speaker 1: I mean, she's eventually going to be out. It's obvious,

598
00:36:59,639 --> 00:37:03,199
you know, whether you know whether it's Trump firing her

599
00:37:03,639 --> 00:37:06,480
or her being disbarred or something happening like that, but

600
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you know it. The whole thing is just so strange

601
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and as gen Z would say, cringey. But I'll also

602
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add fascist to it as well.

603
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:21,320
Speaker 2: Exactly Now there's another lawyer as well, the one who

604
00:37:21,519 --> 00:37:25,519
signed the affidavit stating that there are no more documents

605
00:37:25,599 --> 00:37:29,840
or records being kept at Maro Lardo, which turned out

606
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,800
to be false. My understanding is that there's bar complaint

607
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,679
against that lawyer as well. But since we're on the

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00:37:36,679 --> 00:37:39,400
topic of bar complaints, this is a really interesting thing.

609
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:43,039
You follow me on Twitter. You'll see I posted something

610
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,360
yesterday and then again this morning. I filed a bar

611
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,760
complaint against Jeffrey Berman, the former head of the Southern

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00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,880
District of New York here, you know, with the New

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00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:57,280
York State Bar Association. And I did it because in

614
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:01,920
his own book he acknowledges that while he was recused,

615
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:04,360
and that means he is not permitted to be a

616
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,039
part or have anything to do with this case. Right,

617
00:38:07,079 --> 00:38:09,559
It's the whole concept of building the wall. He was

618
00:38:09,599 --> 00:38:13,239
supposed to step aside. Everything was supposed to run through

619
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this guy Kazami, that was his second in command. He

620
00:38:17,159 --> 00:38:21,679
steps aside, but main Justice Bill Barr and his people

621
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:26,599
were contacting him on a regular basis, making claims, all right,

622
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:31,000
that they need to whitewash documents that have Donald's name

623
00:38:31,039 --> 00:38:34,159
attached to it or individual number one. In fact, that

624
00:38:34,199 --> 00:38:37,599
they did that to over twenty pages of the document

625
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:42,119
in my charging in the charging document against me. This

626
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,920
is interesting. So the New York State Bar Association then

627
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:50,360
responds back, and I give quotes from Jeffrey Berman's own book.

628
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:55,440
I give quotes. The Bar Association comes back and says, well,

629
00:38:55,639 --> 00:38:58,280
he also said in his book that he did nothing wrong,

630
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,199
so they're not going to investigate. Well, what I did

631
00:39:01,199 --> 00:39:05,280
then is I attached Rachel Maddow's fifteen minute takedown of

632
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:08,840
Bill Barr. Of yep, that's that's it right there, all right.

633
00:39:09,079 --> 00:39:12,440
I then go ahead and I attached to the Bar

634
00:39:12,519 --> 00:39:17,519
Association that YouTube video. They're telling us that they can't

635
00:39:17,639 --> 00:39:20,000
use it. So I'm getting the transcript that I'm gonna

636
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,960
have it sent in a different format, you know, to them,

637
00:39:23,119 --> 00:39:25,880
which is the takedown of Bill Barr, Jeffrey Berman and

638
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:29,800
so on. To make a long story short, I asked

639
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:34,000
for a reconsideration, and I will once again keep everybody

640
00:39:34,079 --> 00:39:37,719
in the loop because, as Bagel Ben said a minute ago,

641
00:39:38,039 --> 00:39:41,840
everything Donald Trump touches dies, but it's not he doesn't

642
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:45,440
have to be, you know, the opposite of the Midas

643
00:39:45,519 --> 00:39:48,559
touch guy, right. I mean, it's funny that Midas touched

644
00:39:48,639 --> 00:39:51,239
where everything turns to gold. He's the you know, he's

645
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:55,159
the shit guy where everything he touches just dies at

646
00:39:55,199 --> 00:39:58,079
the end of the day. All right, It's not just him.

647
00:39:58,159 --> 00:40:00,800
Bill Barr, a guy, do you know, Well, this is amazing.

648
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:04,719
A journalist spoke to Bill Barr the other day and

649
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:08,639
tried to lock in on him regarding me and how

650
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:11,599
Donald Trump used him, and whether or not he feels

651
00:40:11,639 --> 00:40:14,800
bad about it. His comment to this journalist, and you

652
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:19,519
can't make this shit up. Michael Who, Michael Cohen Who.

653
00:40:19,599 --> 00:40:21,480
I have no idea who he is. I have no

654
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:25,119
idea what you're talking about. Can you possibly imagine that

655
00:40:25,119 --> 00:40:28,320
that's what this idiot would say? I have no idea

656
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:31,199
why he has not been pulled in front of many

657
00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:36,320
different like the House Judiciary, the Senate judiciary, somebody. How

658
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,760
is it possible that he has not been brought forward.

659
00:40:40,119 --> 00:40:42,840
I don't know the answer to that, but I want

660
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:46,199
to go one step further too. It's not just Jeffrey

661
00:40:46,199 --> 00:40:48,800
Berman from the Southern District of New York WO. I

662
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:52,199
filed the bar complaint. I want everybody to be held accountable,

663
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:55,920
and I'm doing it to protect our democracy. These people

664
00:40:56,039 --> 00:40:58,400
cannot get away with it and rest to shortened. I

665
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:01,440
say this again in revenge, and I ask everyone to

666
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:03,679
get the book to read it so you understand what

667
00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:07,280
I'm saying to you. I did this as well to

668
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:12,239
a guy named Brent Blakely in California. I file that document,

669
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:16,400
that bar complaint eighteen months ago and I'm still waiting

670
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:20,159
for a determination from the California Bar. I mean, this

671
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:24,920
bullshit has to stop. People have to be held accountable.

672
00:41:25,039 --> 00:41:27,559
And when I say people have to be held accountable,

673
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:32,000
I don't only mean the poor, the minority, the black

674
00:41:32,039 --> 00:41:35,840
and brown, the Hispanic, those that can't defend themselves. I'm

675
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:39,679
telling of people who have positions of power. They're the

676
00:41:39,679 --> 00:41:44,360
ones that are more dangerous than the people on the street.

677
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:50,400
It is absolutely inconceivable to me that eighteen months should

678
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:53,159
pass by. And the answer that they've given me as

679
00:41:53,199 --> 00:41:55,559
to why it's taken so long, Well, this is a

680
00:41:55,639 --> 00:41:59,000
very high profile case, so it has to go through

681
00:41:59,119 --> 00:42:02,360
multiple channels of review. Interesting thing is, at the very

682
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:06,880
beginning of that case, the attorney that was working and

683
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:11,159
doing the investigation. My understanding is that she moved on

684
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:16,000
to a private firm and that somehow my file got lost. Now,

685
00:42:16,159 --> 00:42:19,199
if you believe that bullshit, I have three bridges here

686
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:21,400
in New York to sell you. They're not doing too

687
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:23,840
well in terms of shape, which is why we needed

688
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:27,199
an infrastructure bill. But nevertheless they're for sale and I

689
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:30,320
got it for you. That's how crazy it is. We

690
00:42:31,079 --> 00:42:36,400
Midas touched Michael Cohen the Myceells, brothers, Mayakulpa, all of

691
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:40,280
you together. We have to ensure that these people are

692
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:44,199
held accountable because every single day they tread just a

693
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:47,920
little bit further down the road in terms of destroying

694
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:51,360
our democracy and not while we're breathing, we will not

695
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:52,239
let this happen.

696
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:55,719
Speaker 1: Cole, You know how I know we mind meld because

697
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:59,599
you stole my Infrastructure Act corny joke that I was

698
00:42:59,639 --> 00:43:01,599
going to you took it. I was like, I got

699
00:43:01,639 --> 00:43:04,760
the Infrastructure Act joke ready to go. You took it,

700
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:08,119
but you did mention. The House Judiciary Committee, which is

701
00:43:08,199 --> 00:43:12,280
now being controlled by a bunch of MAGA nutcases led

702
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:15,239
by Jim Jordan and Matt Gates, is on it. You know,

703
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:19,960
we've seen this week all of this like performative weird

704
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:24,639
crap going on by these MAGA Republicans, and one of

705
00:43:24,679 --> 00:43:27,519
them is in the House Judiciary Committee, which they said, look,

706
00:43:27,559 --> 00:43:30,400
we want to make sure that, you know, one of

707
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:34,079
the MAGA members can always say the pledge of allegiance

708
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:38,639
before the House Judiciary Committee, you know, starts the meetings

709
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:41,360
like okay, sure, like do it. I don't think you

710
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:44,159
need a resolution for that, but just do the pledge.

711
00:43:44,199 --> 00:43:46,880
It's it's okay, but you know what we've seen in

712
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:51,559
these committee meetings, you know, basically led by Hakeem Jeffrey's

713
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fierce defense of democracy and the kind of unification of

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Democrats pushing back against these fascist MAGA report publicans. We've

715
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seen so many examples of it, but this is the

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one I want to show on our show right now.

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In the House Judiciary Committee, where after Matt Gates introduced

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the Pledge of Allegiance resolution, a Democratic Congress Member David

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00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:17,440
Cicillini added a caveat. He added an amendment and said,

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so long as insurrectionists individuals who support the overthrow of

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our democracy and who supported the insurrectionists on January sixth,

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they won't be able to lead the Pledge of Allegiance.

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I think we have this clip. It's quite incredible if

724
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we could play it, Salty, let's play that clip right now.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, mister chairman. I know mister Ia just made

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reference to how important it is for us to display

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our commitment to the Constitution and to commit to defend

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it aggressively. So I'd like to offer an amendment to

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the amendment, adding in the second paragraph where the chair

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may designate an individual to lead the Pledge of Allegiance

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to add the following language, provided, however, the pledge shall

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not be led by an individual who supported an insurrection

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against the government of the United States in any way,

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Because I think if we adopt this amendment, then we

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will be truthful in representing that stating this pledge is

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an affirmation of your defense of democracy and the Constitution.

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It's hard to take that claim seriously if in fact,

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an individual who in any way supported an insurrection against

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the government that I say is allowed.

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Speaker 2: To leave the pledge.

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Speaker 5: So I would ask mister Gates to accept this friendly amendment,

742
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and I look forward to supporting with the gentleman yield

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for at first asked me the Gates, I will support

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the amendment to make sure that someone who led an

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insurrection against United States doesn't make a mockery of the

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Pledge of Allegiance and stand before this committee with their

747
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:46,599
hand over their heart claiming to support the Constitution.

748
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Speaker 6: Misterizelini, my concern would be if your definition of an

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insurrection is objecting to electors, then there would be many

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Democrats on the committee that wouldn't be eligible to lead

751
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the pledge.

752
00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:59,400
Speaker 2: In so many that's not my definition.

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Speaker 6: Last Republican president get worn in democratic objectors was George

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Herbert Walker.

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Speaker 5: Claming my time as Skates, I will allow the chairman

756
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to determine whether or not someone has participated in insurrection, and

757
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I says, I think this language is important.

758
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Speaker 2: With the gentleman further yield, I'm.

759
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Speaker 5: Asking, mister Gates, will you now accept the amendment?

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00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 6: Well, I'm concerned that you may be disqualifying too many

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of your own members.

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Speaker 5: Misters siswam, I'm not concerned about that at all.

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00:46:22,679 --> 00:46:26,039
Speaker 2: Then agreed to the amendment. With this, let's make this real.

764
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Speaker 5: If you want to give someone the right to stand

765
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before the House Judiciary Committee and lead the pledge of allegiance,

766
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:36,039
at a bare minimum, let's guarantee that that person has

767
00:46:36,079 --> 00:46:39,519
not participated or supported or in any way helped and

768
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:41,760
overthrow of the government of the United States with the gentleman,

769
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A simple proposition.

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Speaker 2: And since the lead he.

771
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Speaker 1: Was great, he's like, I'm not worried about that at all. Okay,

772
00:46:49,119 --> 00:46:51,599
tell me which Democrat I know you want to do? Well,

773
00:46:51,639 --> 00:46:54,960
what about this? What about that? No, y'all led an

774
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insurrection on January sixth, including you, Gates, you who asked

775
00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:06,239
for a blanket pardon regarding all of your criminal activity

776
00:47:06,519 --> 00:47:11,119
throughout your entire freaking life. To Donald Trump and all

777
00:47:11,199 --> 00:47:14,280
the others on the Judiciary Committee and the magi Republicans

778
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:16,840
in Congress who have also asked for pardons for their

779
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:20,079
conduct leading insurrections and all their other criminal conduct, cod

780
00:47:20,199 --> 00:47:21,239
what's your reaction to that.

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00:47:22,159 --> 00:47:25,320
Speaker 2: This is exactly why I keep saying thank God for

782
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:27,880
all of the folks that are with us today that

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00:47:28,039 --> 00:47:30,400
a part of the mightas touch family, that are going

784
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to be part of the political beatdown family that may

785
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occulp the family. These people do not belong wearing congressional pins.

786
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:43,639
They do not belong as members of the of our

787
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you know, of our house. They just don't look how

788
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:52,320
look how stupid this makes us look in the eyes

789
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of the rest of the world. The fact that you

790
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have somebody who was charged with underage X trafficking of

791
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:07,920
young females and males. His wingman, this guy Joe Greenberg,

792
00:48:08,599 --> 00:48:11,960
ends up going away. This is Matt Gates is like

793
00:48:12,079 --> 00:48:16,880
a little Minnie Donald, right. This is absolutely insane that

794
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:22,760
somebody else can go away for his complicity in a

795
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:28,880
felony in a crime and he's now the chair of

796
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:33,239
the House Judiciary. Folks, what the fuck is wrong with us?

797
00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:37,280
What are we doing? Can you imagine what's gonna happen? Now?

798
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:40,280
What's gonna happen when you know they they really get

799
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themselves situated, They sit down, they decide, oh, you know what,

800
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:47,760
the House Judiciary is going to call John Doe or

801
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:51,800
James Smith, you know, to the you know, to the

802
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:56,119
House for testimony. Simply then they're gonna subpoena that person,

803
00:48:56,480 --> 00:49:00,000
simply to go after Joe Biden, simply to go after

804
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are Hunter Biden, simply to go after Kamala Harris, simply

805
00:49:03,519 --> 00:49:07,000
to go after Nancy Pelosi, simply to go after Michael Cohen,

806
00:49:07,119 --> 00:49:10,559
Ben Micellus. I mean, who knows who they're going to

807
00:49:10,599 --> 00:49:13,960
go after. This is the danger when you have people

808
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like Matt Gates as the chair. I mean the fact that.

809
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Speaker 1: Cohen we're going to be fair, to be fair, the

810
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chair is actually Jim Jordan, who covered up sex abuse

811
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at Ohio State University for a wrestling coach who sexually

812
00:49:30,559 --> 00:49:34,400
abused close to twenty or thirty of the individuals in

813
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:39,079
that program. Matt Gates has a leadership position. He's accused

814
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of sex trafficking miners and raping minors, so we've got

815
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both of those on leaders which the clarification makes it worse.

816
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, my apologies. You are right, he's in

817
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a leadership position role. I mean, this is so dangerous,

818
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the fact that he's even on the judiciary. If in

819
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:02,280
fact he's innocent of the charges, then so be it.

820
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He's innocent, go back to your position and so on.

821
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But the fact that these charges are still pending. From

822
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what I understand, I don't know that he has been

823
00:50:12,199 --> 00:50:16,239
you know, relieved of these you know of this investigation.

824
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I don't know what's happening. It's it goes to show

825
00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:23,800
you why a podcast like this is so necessary, because

826
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now we're going to go do our investigation and find

827
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:30,159
out what happened because I don't know. They have not

828
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:32,920
been transparent with it. And the same thing when it

829
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comes to Jim Jordan, this is a serious allegation that

830
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he has been sitting with for years, and the fact

831
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that he could be the chair. This just goes to

832
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:45,079
show you why we need to be so vigilant, why

833
00:50:45,119 --> 00:50:50,039
we need to ensure that everybody you know that everybody

834
00:50:50,559 --> 00:50:55,360
remains active, proactive to ensure that people like this are

835
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not re elected. They do not have the right, they

836
00:50:59,039 --> 00:51:01,639
do not have the qualify vacation, they do not have

837
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:05,639
the they don't have what it takes in order to

838
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:10,400
be representatives of the people. That's just how I feel

839
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:12,559
about it. And you know, one of the things actually

840
00:51:12,599 --> 00:51:15,920
that one of our viewers today was talking about, I'm

841
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:18,679
going to call her him or her out Marta. It's

842
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:24,920
at Womack Rights. Regular people are held accountable with overkill.

843
00:51:25,199 --> 00:51:29,480
The rich, political or famous get off Scott free not cool. Well,

844
00:51:29,519 --> 00:51:32,320
You're one hundred percent correct. That's the point that I'm

845
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:35,199
trying to make. That's what Ben and I are trying

846
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:37,960
to do with this podcast, what we do with our

847
00:51:38,039 --> 00:51:41,280
other podcasts as well, what I'm doing with the book Revenge.

848
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:45,840
I am ensuring that people understand that there are others

849
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:48,880
that are out there that are fighting as hard as

850
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:52,480
we can in order to combat what is wrong with

851
00:51:52,599 --> 00:51:58,159
our Department of Justice with the inappropriate sentencing guidelines that

852
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:02,480
only seem to affect the non rich. Well, I mean,

853
00:52:02,519 --> 00:52:04,239
I was rich in my tom look what happened to me.

854
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:08,159
But I was opposed to somebody much richer and more

855
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:13,360
powerful than I. This cannot happen. This is handmade tail stuff.

856
00:52:13,599 --> 00:52:16,760
And the second we allow them to do this, to

857
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:22,280
violate our constitutional rights, to take advantage of the judicial system,

858
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:25,719
to weaponize the Department of Justice, that will be the

859
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:27,119
end of our democracy.

860
00:52:28,159 --> 00:52:34,360
Speaker 1: Cohen, you mentioned these individuals, these fascists disgracing the congressional

861
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:37,719
pins that they're wearing. I don't know if you caught this,

862
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:40,679
Like this is real, This isn't a made up meme.

863
00:52:41,239 --> 00:52:45,079
So the Maga Republicans in the House of Representatives, they've

864
00:52:45,119 --> 00:52:49,920
now removed their American lapel pin from the other side

865
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:54,400
of their jackets and they're now all donning AR fifteen

866
00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:59,119
pins in honor of school shootings. Promoting school shootings. Now

867
00:52:59,639 --> 00:53:02,840
you talk about what the world thinks of the United

868
00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:06,480
States of America. I mean there you have two Maga

869
00:53:06,519 --> 00:53:09,199
Republicans there, one George Santos, and both of them, by

870
00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:11,599
the way that you just saw there, they like change

871
00:53:11,639 --> 00:53:14,599
their names and they've like had multiple identities. Like that's

872
00:53:14,599 --> 00:53:17,119
one of the things with these Maga Republicans, Like they've

873
00:53:17,199 --> 00:53:21,599
changed names, changed identities to grift or whatever. Just beyond

874
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:24,199
just weird, weird crap. But I want you to think

875
00:53:24,199 --> 00:53:27,480
about that. You know, these individuals they remove their American

876
00:53:27,559 --> 00:53:29,920
la pelpons and it's not unique to those two. This

877
00:53:30,079 --> 00:53:32,199
is what the Magas and the House Republicans are wearing.

878
00:53:32,199 --> 00:53:36,840
This is real. Uh, they're wearing ar fifteens to celebrate

879
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:41,559
school shootings. I mean, it could not be more disgusting

880
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:45,960
than that. And that the fact that there's a constituency

881
00:53:46,079 --> 00:53:49,920
for that, and you know, while whatever the hell that dystopian,

882
00:53:50,039 --> 00:53:55,400
disgusting performative display of promoting schools, but at whatever that is.

883
00:53:56,119 --> 00:53:58,840
There's additional news on the legal side for us to

884
00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:04,079
cover about George Santos. The FBIS opened up another investigation

885
00:54:04,199 --> 00:54:07,280
into Santos. They're of course investigating him out of the

886
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:11,800
Eastern District of New York for campaign finance violations. Santos

887
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:15,559
claims he loaned himself seven hundred thousand dollars. He obviously

888
00:54:16,039 --> 00:54:18,519
doesn't have that money. He's lying about that it came

889
00:54:18,559 --> 00:54:20,920
from someone else to try to do an end run

890
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around the campaign finance limit of fifty eight hundred dollars

891
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:28,239
per cycle twenty eight hundred primaries, twenty eight hundred in

892
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:30,480
the general for a total of fifty six hundred dollars.

893
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So the Department of Justice FBI is investigating that. They're

894
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:38,320
also investigating now the fact that he set up a

895
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GoFundMe account for disabled homeless veterans to raise money for

896
00:54:43,199 --> 00:54:46,440
their pets, claiming that they were going to provide life

897
00:54:46,519 --> 00:54:50,119
saving treatment for their pets, and then a Santos using

898
00:54:50,119 --> 00:54:53,239
the name Anthony de Valder, he would steal the money

899
00:54:53,559 --> 00:54:56,639
that was supposed to go to life saving treatment for

900
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the pets of homeless disabled veterans, and then he would

901
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:07,119
mock the veterans and call them needy and telling him

902
00:55:07,119 --> 00:55:09,679
to shut the f up. And I mean there's text

903
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:14,519
messages of this of him saying this, and you know

904
00:55:14,599 --> 00:55:18,119
the veteran in question, his name is Astoff, is one

905
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of the veterans.

906
00:55:19,159 --> 00:55:19,360
Speaker 2: You know.

907
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Speaker 1: He provided his text messages to the Patch, which is

908
00:55:23,599 --> 00:55:28,960
a local newspaper which published those messages. I mean, you

909
00:55:29,039 --> 00:55:33,079
can't get more low than this. And speaking of the MAGA,

910
00:55:33,119 --> 00:55:38,519
Republicans like rewarding that they originally rewarded Santos. They put

911
00:55:38,599 --> 00:55:45,159
him on the Small Business Committee that oversees PPP fraud

912
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:49,599
in small businesses. They put a fraud to do the

913
00:55:49,679 --> 00:55:54,840
oversights of PPP loan fraud, when indeed the MAGA Republicans

914
00:55:55,239 --> 00:55:58,920
were the ones taking hundreds of thousands of dollars and

915
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:02,880
millions of dollars in some cases of PPP money, getting

916
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:08,960
that debt forgiven, but then also attacking Americans when Biden

917
00:56:09,039 --> 00:56:12,159
proposes a plan to relieve ten thousand dollars of student

918
00:56:12,199 --> 00:56:14,800
debt for people making less than one hundred and twenty

919
00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:17,880
five thousand dollars. We need to talk in the terms

920
00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:20,760
that you and I talk like this, because we got

921
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:24,559
to tell Americans this is We've got to call these

922
00:56:24,599 --> 00:56:29,280
people out as disgusting, effing traders. We just got to

923
00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:32,559
call them out and just be direct. Their losers, their traders,

924
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:37,159
their MAGA fascists, and they are anti American. Let's use

925
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:40,199
the right language, and we're going to use that language

926
00:56:40,239 --> 00:56:43,920
on the political beatdown. Because do I agree with Democrats

927
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:45,199
and Biden on everything?

928
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:45,360
Speaker 2: No?

929
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:48,320
Speaker 1: I disagree. I disagree on a lot of things. But

930
00:56:48,639 --> 00:56:51,920
you know, where are political parties focused on having a

931
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:56,119
living wage for people and bringing manufacturing jobs and developing

932
00:56:56,159 --> 00:57:00,400
plans for infrastructure, and protecting a woman's right over her

933
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:05,280
body and making health care costs lower and focusing on

934
00:57:05,320 --> 00:57:09,199
making education more accessible and affordable and helping veterans get

935
00:57:09,199 --> 00:57:12,800
life saving care like those are real freaking things. And

936
00:57:12,840 --> 00:57:16,400
then you have maga Republicans, these freaking idiots, these freaking

937
00:57:16,480 --> 00:57:22,440
trader losers wearing AR fifteen pins on their jacket, like

938
00:57:22,559 --> 00:57:25,840
disgusting freaking traders con you see, you get me going

939
00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:26,719
a little bit on the show.

940
00:57:27,159 --> 00:57:29,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's the whole purpose here. I mean, one

941
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:31,239
of the things in salty if you could put this

942
00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:36,400
up as well. You know Jared Kushner, who, it's been reported,

943
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:41,599
received over two billion dollars from the Saudis to run

944
00:57:41,639 --> 00:57:45,079
as a fund. I mean, the guy is incapable. It

945
00:57:45,119 --> 00:57:50,679
was disclosed by members of the Saudi Investment Authorities Committee

946
00:57:50,719 --> 00:57:53,519
that he is incapable and not competent to do it.

947
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:59,039
He himself received over three point what they say like

948
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three point six five million dollars three point sixty five

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million in PPP money. This is the guy who, allegedly,

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over the four years that he and Ivanka write Javanka together,

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pulled down over four hundred million dollars while they were

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working in the White House. She received over two dozen

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or so Chinese patents or I shouldn't say, patents which

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to her various different items she received what is it,

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bagel ben, I'm referring to she received trademarks, trademarks to

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over a dozen Chinese products and so on. I mean,

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these are the people three point six five million dollars

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to something like twenty five different companies that Kushner was

959
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involved with. Could you yeah, there you go? Could you

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imagine this shit? I mean, at some point in time,

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somebody has to scratch their head and say, why are

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these people not being prosecuted? Don't people understand? And when

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I say people, I'm referring to the Republicans and not

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too just the Magas. I'm talking about all the Republicans

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that are out there. This is who Donald is. This

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is who he surrounded himself in Washington with. I mean

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the Steve Bannons, the Steve Millers, right, the Dan Scavenos

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of the world. I mean the Jim Jordan's of the world.

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Why why you know, I shouldn't say Jim Jordan. He

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didn't take any PPP money. Let's be fair to Jim

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on this one, all right. People are entitled to have

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taken PPP money, but you're supposed to take it for

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the right purpose. You know why, because it costs you

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and I money. There's now a deficit in this country

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that is so great. We are destroying our children and

976
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grandchildren and great grandchildren's few because they have to pay

977
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this back. And it's to have money stolen when you're

978
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trying to do the right thing by America because of

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this pandemic, to me, makes you the lowest form on earth,

980
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:19,159
makes you just shit upon shit that you know, you

981
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think that Uncle Sam is here to give you money

982
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simply because you can take advantage of it. And the

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bad thing that Trump did here is the role. Look,

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let's give the guy credit for what was needed. He needed,

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Americans needed PPP money. It got done. Of course, let's

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not forget he held it up because he wanted his

987
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name on the checks, not Steve Minuchin, the Secretary of

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the Treasury. Okay, ego, YadA, YadA. Americans needed that PPP money.

989
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But did Kushner need it? Did Kushner Company need it?

990
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The answer is an emphatic no. So why was it given?

991
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Where's the oversight? How is this thing being run? Do

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people know that there's like a trillion dollars missing from

993
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the PPP allotment? Well, where is that money? Could you

994
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imagine what's happening in this country, the theft of money

995
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from our coffers. It's just astronomical. And I really hope

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that under this administration, somebody and listen, I'd like to

997
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stick a fire onto Merrick Garland's ask on something. There

998
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:34,719
should be a PPP fraud investigation unit immediately set up,

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and if you don't qualify, return the money with payment,

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with an interest in principle payment, not interest in penalty.

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Speaker 1: It'd be an interesting concept to set up to maybe

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you had a thirty day kind of safe heart. You

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announced what you were saying, you have this PPP task force.

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You announce a safe harbor provision, basically saying we're goe

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you know, the same way they do that sometimes with

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01:01:59,559 --> 01:02:02,280
like return earning drugs or guns, like return the money

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01:02:02,320 --> 01:02:05,239
in thirty days and you're not going to be prosecuted

1008
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and then we're going to go after everybody, you know,

1009
01:02:07,760 --> 01:02:11,599
everybody else. But what doesn't really get enough attention, and

1010
01:02:11,639 --> 01:02:16,079
it needs to is how disorganized the PPP program itself

1011
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was necessary at the time, but how disorganized within which

1012
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it was implemented by Trump is also something that needs

1013
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to be called out, but it brings me to another point.

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You know, PPP technically would be a form of socialism

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if you really broke it down, or or a strand

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of it, which is you know, an interesting concept. Because

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in the House Rules Committee, and this is what I

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want to close with this incredible moment by Maxine Waters,

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01:02:44,079 --> 01:02:48,599
where talking about all this Maga Republican performative bs in

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the House Rules Committee, the Maga Republicans wanted to introduce

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a nine non binding resolution that condemns socialism in all

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its forms. And then the concept though of in all

1023
01:03:00,440 --> 01:03:03,679
of its forms is a bit of odd phrasing because

1024
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what we're going to talk about Medicare and social security,

1025
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like where do we draw the line in all of

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its forms? And so Maxine Waters, unlike these Maga Republican cowards,

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01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:17,400
she has the courage or just being a leader that

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she is, she goes, I'm going to testify in front

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of the House Rules Committee under oath swear me in.

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Ask me questions about why I think this proposal that

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01:03:26,920 --> 01:03:31,199
these House Maga Republicans are making is utterly stupid and

1032
01:03:31,320 --> 01:03:34,400
utterly makes no sense. And so you have this Maga

1033
01:03:34,440 --> 01:03:39,400
Republican who's asking these questions to Maxine Waters. You know,

1034
01:03:39,599 --> 01:03:44,880
basically like the UN American committee that McCarthy won started

1035
01:03:44,920 --> 01:03:49,719
back in you know, over eighty years ago at this point,

1036
01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:54,079
or seventy years ago, saying do you condemn Vladimir Putin?

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He goes, what is Vladimir Putin, Trump and Kim Jong

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01:03:57,519 --> 01:04:00,079
lud have in common? Do you condemn these people? We

1039
01:04:00,159 --> 01:04:02,199
gotta watch this, Coen and I finally got to ask

1040
01:04:02,239 --> 01:04:04,280
you to react to this, and then we'll close this up.

1041
01:04:04,280 --> 01:04:07,400
But let's play this clip of Maxine Waters being questioned

1042
01:04:07,719 --> 01:04:13,039
by a MAGA Republican idiot for this performative, ridiculous, non

1043
01:04:13,079 --> 01:04:17,880
binding resolution that MAGA Republicans wanted everybody to condemn socialism

1044
01:04:18,079 --> 01:04:20,920
in all its forms. Meanwhile, they're taking PPP money they're

1045
01:04:20,960 --> 01:04:22,360
played the clip mention.

1046
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Speaker 7: Just says everything about my friends across the aisle that

1047
01:04:26,440 --> 01:04:29,679
you can't condemn socialism. I mean, in your opening remarks,

1048
01:04:29,719 --> 01:04:33,159
you were talking about Putin, Kim Jong un, and you

1049
01:04:33,199 --> 01:04:38,400
know what they all have in common? Right, Trump? Trump,

1050
01:04:41,079 --> 01:04:43,199
North Korea, China and Russia.

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01:04:43,480 --> 01:04:45,639
Speaker 8: He loves.

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01:04:45,480 --> 01:04:49,119
Speaker 7: That's quite the intellectual leap. I would say communism, Uh,

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01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:51,760
would you like to denounce any communist leaders.

1054
01:04:53,920 --> 01:04:56,719
Speaker 8: Well, I don't know what you're asking, but let me

1055
01:04:57,000 --> 01:05:01,000
just the leader of the Republican poet. Donald Trump has

1056
01:05:01,039 --> 01:05:06,400
made often glowing described other Ontarians like Kim Jong un,

1057
01:05:06,679 --> 01:05:11,599
who is condemned. In the resolution regarding North Korean leader

1058
01:05:11,719 --> 01:05:17,719
Kim John Un, Trump said, Kim wrote me beautiful letters,

1059
01:05:18,159 --> 01:05:21,360
and they're great letters, and we fell in love. You

1060
01:05:21,400 --> 01:05:26,800
sure you want to hear the rest of it?

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01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:29,079
Speaker 2: Listen, Maxine Waters is the best, I mean, you know,

1062
01:05:29,199 --> 01:05:31,599
good for her. First of all, it was said with

1063
01:05:31,840 --> 01:05:35,239
great humor, it was said with integrity, and it was

1064
01:05:35,440 --> 01:05:38,199
honest and truthful. And that's all that we want from

1065
01:05:38,239 --> 01:05:44,199
our representatives. Honesty, truthfulness, direct to the point. And that's

1066
01:05:44,199 --> 01:05:47,880
who Maxine Waters is. She's no bullshit. She's there, you know,

1067
01:05:48,320 --> 01:05:50,880
as a representative of the people, and she's one hundred

1068
01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:53,559
percent correct in everything that she said. Now, I know

1069
01:05:53,960 --> 01:05:57,639
what these Republicans, you know, like to do when they

1070
01:05:57,679 --> 01:06:00,719
have a camera on them and they have the microphone. Remember,

1071
01:06:00,880 --> 01:06:04,559
I mean, you just go back to the House Oversight Committee,

1072
01:06:04,639 --> 01:06:09,880
when every single Republican attacked me based upon credibility, based

1073
01:06:09,960 --> 01:06:13,639
upon information that they had no idea about, but simply

1074
01:06:13,920 --> 01:06:17,039
following the game plan and this guy was doing no different.

1075
01:06:17,960 --> 01:06:21,400
He was following the Trump playbook. He was protecting his

1076
01:06:21,440 --> 01:06:25,519
fearless leader, the Furor, and she really dished him an

1077
01:06:25,719 --> 01:06:29,079
s whooping made him look stupid and good for her.

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