WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.200 --> 00:00:05.160 Thank you for being with me at the Intersection tonight. 2 00:00:06.599 --> 00:00:09.480 I bumped into a friend of mine today about an 3 00:00:09.480 --> 00:00:12.400 hour ago as I was finishing dinner with my family 4 00:00:13.320 --> 00:00:17.320 who is very, very concerned about her right to vote 5 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:23.320 and the Democrats and midterms. And it's a person that 6 00:00:23.399 --> 00:00:26.920 I use as a bellweather because she has very good 7 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:32.159 instincts and if she's worried, I know that the messaging 8 00:00:32.439 --> 00:00:40.600 around voter protection, election elections and databases is not where 9 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:44.479 it should be, that Democrats not leading the charge strongly enough. 10 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:49.280 And that's why I think it's so perfectly exquisitely timed 11 00:00:49.719 --> 00:00:51.960 to have Mark Elias join me in about a half 12 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:58.719 an hour to give some more confidence to our audience 13 00:00:58.799 --> 00:01:02.920 that if working together, or we knit ourselves together, we 14 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:08.159 protest together, we campaign together, we register to vote together, 15 00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:13.519 and we vote together, we will overcome all of the 16 00:01:13.599 --> 00:01:17.799 attempts to steal an election when all those things fall 17 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:21.359 into place. So thank you to Sharon. I'm glad I 18 00:01:21.439 --> 00:01:25.000 bumped into you for many reasons, but what it did 19 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:27.840 motivate me for tonight. I have so many things I 20 00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:30.000 want to talk about that I've curated for you here 21 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:33.560 at the Intersection. Thanks for being such fervent supporters. The 22 00:01:33.599 --> 00:01:36.719 generosity of your time, your spirit, and sometimes your money 23 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:42.760 is greatly appreciated. For independent journalists can only exist. You 24 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:46.319 are the oxygen that we breathe. We can't exist without you. 25 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:52.719 Let me kick it off with something. It's all linked 26 00:01:52.799 --> 00:01:57.000 to voting and Donald Trump's assault unvoting, and of course 27 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:00.879 the Iranian War, where Donald Trump blithefully tells the America people, Oh, 28 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:03.959 don't worry, the midterms won't impact my Iranian strategy that 29 00:02:04.079 --> 00:02:08.520 presupposes there is an Iranian strategy. Trump got very angry 30 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:12.400 today at a reporter, obviously a female reporter, when she 31 00:02:12.479 --> 00:02:17.080 said to him, mister president, what's the plan. Is there 32 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:21.039 a plan? And that he had to put upon is 33 00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:23.240 there something you don't know, something I don't know? Is 34 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:25.840 there a plan? I mean, she asked a very good question. 35 00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:32.800 I'm one degree separated from somebody that knows somebody this 36 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:35.680 close to President Trump and is part of his inner circle. 37 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:40.000 And that person said, to that inner circled person, so 38 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:43.520 what's the plan. And the person who's this close to 39 00:02:43.599 --> 00:02:47.159 Donald Trump said there is no plan. There's no plan. 40 00:02:47.479 --> 00:02:51.280 It's Tuesday, that's the plan. And that was somebody I 41 00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:53.120 can't reveal who it is right now. But when when 42 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:56.439 I finally am able to completely consistent with this reporter. 43 00:02:56.560 --> 00:02:59.039 I don't think we have that clip, but completely consistent 44 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:03.039 with that reporter's quitequestioning and Donald Trump acting so put 45 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:07.039 upon about being asked a fundamental question about his stewardship 46 00:03:07.560 --> 00:03:10.240 of this folly of a war that's already taken the 47 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:14.240 live of almost twenty service people, probably more more than 48 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:17.719 four hundred and fifty wounded, probably more and more to come. 49 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:21.280 And we're running out of missiles. That's not the reporting 50 00:03:21.319 --> 00:03:26.560 over the weekend. We're literally running out of munitions because 51 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:30.479 we weren't prepared to go to war with Iran, especially 52 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:34.560 the way that Donald Trump is navigating it. In fact, 53 00:03:34.599 --> 00:03:36.879 I think we have a clip of Trump today in 54 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:39.800 the Oval Office talking about the war. 55 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:46.039 There are no signs that Iran is ready to stop fighting. 56 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:47.159 So what is the plan? 57 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:49.840 Is the plan to just keep bombing until that you're out? 58 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:55.360 You know something that I don't know. You don't know 59 00:03:55.439 --> 00:03:57.919 what the dialogue is behind the scenes, that they want 60 00:03:57.919 --> 00:04:01.560 to meet the control and ended because they're getting decimated. 61 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:04.479 You don't get that when you listen to your state station, 62 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:07.159 but you don't know. 63 00:04:07.879 --> 00:04:08.680 You don't know anything. 64 00:04:09.719 --> 00:04:11.159 You know something that I don't know. 65 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:14.759 You know something I don't know. I will tell you 66 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:18.879 that they want to get forty and until they're ready 67 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:21.279 to meet in a meaningful way, we have no interest 68 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:22.000 when even. 69 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:26.360 All right, So there's that clip, right, So you know 70 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:28.399 she has a very good follow up question. So tell 71 00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:32.519 us this is what you know, reporters. Scrums are supposed 72 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:36.279 to be about to educate the American people. Remember when 73 00:04:36.759 --> 00:04:39.519 in Wars passed and I asked that you. Ben and 74 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:42.319 I were preparing for the show last Saturday and we 75 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:46.120 were talking about the war, and I said, well, where 76 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:50.519 is Donald Trump's Norman schwartzkof Where is his Colin Powell? 77 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:56.519 Where is his general strategist briefing the American people on 78 00:04:56.600 --> 00:04:59.839 a daily basis about the war that's being conducted. There 79 00:04:59.879 --> 00:05:04.160 is one, because there is no plan. There is no 80 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:09.439 genius military strategist that's in charge. This is it, folks, 81 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:12.079 this is you know, I'm showing you the magic trick. 82 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:17.680 This is it. It's Pete hagg Seth, a lieutenant general 83 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:21.439 who was elevated to general kin And that's about it. 84 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:24.240 And a whole bunch of other leaders who got tossed 85 00:05:24.279 --> 00:05:28.959 on their ass by Pete Hegseth because he was challenged. See, 86 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:32.480 in my career, I've always wanted smart and smarter people 87 00:05:32.519 --> 00:05:38.959 than me around me. At continues, Oh no, not Pete Hegseth, No, no, no, 88 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:42.759 you're your criteria for being to having a career under 89 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:46.600 Pete Hegseth is that you are dumber than him. And 90 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:50.680 we're watching the war play out, And does anybody really 91 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:54.720 believe Donald Trump that Iran is calling him back channel 92 00:05:55.079 --> 00:05:58.560 and begging for the war to stop. That is that even? 93 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:01.759 Is that even a thing? I don't think so. And 94 00:06:01.800 --> 00:06:06.759 then we have the confirmation nine to eight see elections 95 00:06:06.759 --> 00:06:11.800 matter of the new Director of National Intelligence, Jake Clayton. Everybody, 96 00:06:11.800 --> 00:06:14.920 come on down, Jay, tell us a little bit about yourself. Well, 97 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:17.040 I like to play golf with the President. I did 98 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:21.639 that very well. Okay. I was the Securities and Securities 99 00:06:21.639 --> 00:06:23.639 in Exchange Commission chief for the first term. That was 100 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:27.439 my dream job. Okay. And what is your background. Oh, 101 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:30.120 I'm a corporate transactional lawyer. That's what I did my 102 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:32.959 whole lot. I did deals. Great. Are you leaving out 103 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:37.040 anything about your national intelligence experience as spymaster, perhaps worked 104 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:41.480 in the FBI, the CIA, the Director of National Intelligence before. Nope, 105 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:44.759 don't have any of that. I am a tremendous loyalist 106 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:48.639 to Donald Trump, and I have on occasion, including during 107 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:52.920 my confirmation hearing denied the election results. This is the 108 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:59.360 new Director of National Intelligence, to which seventeen different intelligence agency, civilian, 109 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:02.920 and military now report. And if you think he's an 110 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:06.360 upgrade from Tulci Gabbert, only it's only because Tulci gab 111 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:09.720 Gabbart for years was rumored to be a Russian asset 112 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:14.000 who was a puppet of Putin and read his talking 113 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:17.920 points like like she was a talking head on one 114 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:21.040 of those news shows on Russian television. So I guess 115 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:25.759 he's better than that. But if you thought, well, it'll 116 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:27.720 be a breath of fresh air to have somebody else 117 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:32.560 to which the CIA reports and advising Donald Trump, well 118 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:36.040 think again, because he got tripped up by one question 119 00:07:36.600 --> 00:07:39.399 that he should have saw coming a mile away, which is, 120 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:43.120 are you an election denier or not? That's what we 121 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:45.839 need to know before we make you the Director of 122 00:07:45.959 --> 00:07:50.560 National Intelligence, especially after Tulci Gabbert was caught wearing her 123 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:55.120 baseball cap lurking around places like Fulton County, Georgia and 124 00:07:55.279 --> 00:07:59.759 Puerto Rico, trying to take and grab voting machines, saying 125 00:07:59.759 --> 00:08:03.120 it was her job as the Director of National Intelligency. 126 00:08:03.160 --> 00:08:07.279 Trump is using the national intelligence community that he now controls, 127 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:11.519 the and the FBI and the Department of Justice now 128 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:15.360 led by him, and a whole band of mary election 129 00:08:15.480 --> 00:08:19.959 deniers that all reside inside and outside the White House. Right, 130 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:23.000 Cleta Mitchell write the name. Now we'll talk about it more. 131 00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:27.800 When Mark Elias joins us, a lawyer, election lawyer at 132 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:32.840 some point created something called the Election Integrity Network the 133 00:08:32.919 --> 00:08:37.279 ei N, putting chapters in every state. And wouldn't you 134 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:41.519 know it, there is an election integrity department inside the 135 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:45.879 White House led by an election denier, Kurt Olsen. So 136 00:08:45.919 --> 00:08:49.279 many of the things that we're watching is this two 137 00:08:49.320 --> 00:08:52.960 step play between Kurt Olsen and then the Director of 138 00:08:53.039 --> 00:08:56.879 National Intelligence, Tulci Gabbert. And that led to the seizure 139 00:08:56.919 --> 00:09:00.360 of equipment in Puerto Rico and in Georgia. And now 140 00:09:00.360 --> 00:09:03.360 you've got Jake Clayton. Jake Clayton at one time, you know, 141 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:05.919 he'd been like a prosecutor back in the day you 142 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:10.879 know he had some some ethics. Go oh god, watch 143 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:15.519 a senator as off of Georgia. Just ask a simple 144 00:09:15.639 --> 00:09:19.200 question and see the response for our what could likely 145 00:09:19.240 --> 00:09:21.240 be on the nine to eight vote voting amount of 146 00:09:21.240 --> 00:09:24.279 committee today our next director of National Intelligence? Play the clip? 147 00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:28.480 Yes, who won the twenty twenty election? 148 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:31.600 You know what, I'm not going to do this with you. 149 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:37.080 This is a job interview. We've established that you have 150 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:41.240 an obligation to pretty honest and forthright with the committee. Yes, 151 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:43.279 you do have an obligation to be honest and forthright 152 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:45.799 with the committee. Yes, who won the twenty twenty election? 153 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:48.039 Like I said, I'm not going to get into that. 154 00:09:47.960 --> 00:09:49.879 With you, but you do have an obligation to be 155 00:09:49.919 --> 00:09:52.960 honest and forthright with the committee. Is anything that I 156 00:09:53.039 --> 00:09:55.360 just said non honest or forthright? Yes, you're not being 157 00:09:55.399 --> 00:09:59.240 honest or forthright. Who won the ask the question? We 158 00:09:59.480 --> 00:10:02.159 can keep doing this, Well, we're going to keep doing 159 00:10:02.200 --> 00:10:04.720 it because you're not being honest and forth right. 160 00:10:04.759 --> 00:10:06.519 I'm not going to engage in the theater. 161 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:11.320 It's a simple question, mister Clayton, And I've asked who 162 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:16.320 won the twenty twenty presidential election? I've answered it you're 163 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:20.360 here asking for the support of senators to lead America's 164 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:24.320 intelligence community. We've established that you have an obligation to 165 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:27.679 be honest and forthright with this committee and with the 166 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:31.080 American public. But you refuse to answer a simple matter 167 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:33.200 of fact about the twenty twenty election. 168 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:33.799 Is that right? 169 00:10:34.399 --> 00:10:35.200 No, that's not right. 170 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:39.440 Then answer the question who won twenty twenty election? Answer it? 171 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:41.039 What is your answer? 172 00:10:41.639 --> 00:10:42.639 I've given you my answer. 173 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:50.399 What is your answer? You refuse to answer a basic 174 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:54.960 question about who won a presidential election, but you asked 175 00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:59.679 to lead America's intelligence community. Isn't it humiliating to be 176 00:10:59.799 --> 00:11:04.200 un able to answer this question? To have to indulge 177 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:11.399 the president's delusions? We know you know everybody in this 178 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:15.720 room knows the truthful answer to that question. Why can 179 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:16.759 you not give it? 180 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:20.600 I think I gave you the answer. Are you aware 181 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:25.480 that Director gap right, I gave you the answer. I'm 182 00:11:25.480 --> 00:11:28.759 not answering the question. I'll kill my job, opportunity, my 183 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:31.960 job I'm trying out for with my main client, Donald Trump. 184 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:35.000 I'm not giving you the answer. I love Senator Osa 185 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:37.200 for so many reasons. By the way, he's up for 186 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:40.279 election at the midterms, and a little bit of a 187 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:44.879 programming note. His colleague, Reverend Senator Warnock, is going to 188 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:48.519 be joining me tomorrow on Legal af for an exclusive 189 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:53.480 interview to talk about voting, voter protection, the United States 190 00:11:53.559 --> 00:11:57.240 Supreme Court, and his ideas of what the Democrats should 191 00:11:57.279 --> 00:12:01.080 do if they get all three branches of government. It's 192 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:05.720 a must see YouTube interview, podcast interview. And he's also 193 00:12:05.759 --> 00:12:07.519 going to be working hard to get his friend and 194 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:12.879 colleague center asoff Re elected. And I think we just 195 00:12:12.919 --> 00:12:15.759 saw the reason why we need him in the Senate. 196 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:18.360 But it was a close vote, but it was nine 197 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:21.799 Republicans and eight Democrats. Are those that caucus with us 198 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:27.720 that confirmed that guy to be the Director of National Intelligence? 199 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:32.159 Now a puppet, a tool of Donald Trump to be 200 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:36.679 used in his attack on voting, No doubt about it. 201 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:39.840 He's already used him as an attack on free press. 202 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:43.519 You know what his parting gift was. You can, by 203 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:46.679 the way, we're live live when Mark Elias joins too. 204 00:12:47.720 --> 00:12:52.519 Put your questions in comments tonight and our staff will 205 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:53.840 flag it for me and put it up on a 206 00:12:53.879 --> 00:12:56.039 screen for me, and I'll try to answer as many 207 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:59.720 as I can. You know what Jay Clayton is parting 208 00:12:59.720 --> 00:13:02.200 gift to Donald Trump was when he was the acting 209 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:07.200 Southern well the Southern District of New York Manhattan federal prosecutor, 210 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:11.159 the subpoenas against the New York Times reporters and their 211 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:16.440 mother's phone records and testimony before a grand jury as 212 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:18.399 they try to get to the bottom of the leak 213 00:13:18.799 --> 00:13:21.879 of the anonymous sources. The New York Times relied on 214 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:26.480 to report that the Katari Air Force one is unsafe 215 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:31.200 at any speed, is unsafe to fly, and doesn't have 216 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:36.559 the missile protection components and apparatus that all the other 217 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:39.120 Air Force ones have had. All they gotta get to 218 00:13:39.159 --> 00:13:42.000 the bottom of who who leaked that? Who leaked that? 219 00:13:42.519 --> 00:13:45.840 You just look at the plane. There's there's a there's 220 00:13:45.879 --> 00:13:48.679 a periodical that I look at for plane issues called 221 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:49.559 Aviation Weekly. 222 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:50.279 Go check it out. 223 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:54.720 They have photos it's not classified, of the tail and 224 00:13:54.799 --> 00:13:57.519 the back end of the current the real air Force one, 225 00:13:57.600 --> 00:14:01.720 the baby blue one with all of the anti missile 226 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:04.840 systems in place. And I'll look at the tale of 227 00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:07.759 the Katari plane, the reality of by the way, oh 228 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:10.360 was I'm on the Quitari plane that was a flying 229 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:17.159 albatross that for decades a decade. The Kataris tried to sell, 230 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:21.200 they couldn't find a taker until they gave it to 231 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:25.600 Donald Trump. That plane was on the market for almost 232 00:14:25.639 --> 00:14:29.399 ten years. It's a fourteen year old plane. Trump announced 233 00:14:29.399 --> 00:14:32.120 it as a four hundred million dollar gift, according to 234 00:14:32.159 --> 00:14:34.679 sources in the aviation world. At best it was one 235 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:37.720 hundred and fifty million, maybe two hundred million tops, because 236 00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:41.000 it was a depreciating asset. And then it needed to 237 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:44.440 be retrofitted with a billion dollars in two years worth 238 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:46.600 of retrofitting. But of course Donald Trump likes to cut 239 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:50.360 corners on every building project he does. See reflecting pool, 240 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:57.200 see ballroom, see arc the Triumph, see Kennedy Center. And 241 00:14:57.279 --> 00:15:01.600 so suddenly he cut a year off of the retrofitting, 242 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:07.080 and still the billion dollars. And then you know, there's 243 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:10.399 two new Air Force ones being delivered by Boeing right 244 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:13.879 at the end of his term for the next president. 245 00:15:14.039 --> 00:15:16.120 And that's when he gets to say, and I'll be 246 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:18.440 flying away and the one we don't need, No, we 247 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:21.000 don't need this Kuitari one with the billion dollars of 248 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:24.200 taxpayer dollars, I'm gonna fly it away to Miami, you know, 249 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:28.600 like the helicopters leaving Hanoi in Vietnam, or Nixon flying 250 00:15:28.600 --> 00:15:32.519 off after his disgraceful resignation to fly away, and he's 251 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:38.320 gonna try to anyway in that Kutari plane. And so 252 00:15:38.399 --> 00:15:42.440 that was Jay Clayton's parting gift. Right now, there's a 253 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:44.759 motion to quash pending by the New York Dimes. Shout 254 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:47.440 out to the New York Dimes doing some tremendous reporting 255 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:53.399 lately under fierce. They're taking heavy artillery from the Presidency 256 00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:57.600 and from the Department of Justice. Heavy Maggie Abram and 257 00:15:57.639 --> 00:16:01.559 Jonathan Swan in the situation room, you know, with recordings 258 00:16:01.639 --> 00:16:06.480 or transcripts about Epstein files and everything else. And now 259 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:11.879 this but a judge, judge, a supermanian Biden appointee in 260 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:13.879 the Southern District of New York, has blocked for now 261 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:18.000 those and quashed for now those subpoenas until he can 262 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:21.639 get his mind around with further briefing. And then I 263 00:16:21.679 --> 00:16:26.480 want to turn to the Block Blanche movement, which is 264 00:16:26.519 --> 00:16:31.440 gaining a tremendous head of steam. You see what can 265 00:16:31.480 --> 00:16:33.759 happen though with a close vote nine to eight for 266 00:16:33.879 --> 00:16:37.360 j Clayton, but the Block Blanche movement is really important. 267 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:40.120 And who's leading the charge, who's out in front with 268 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:44.320 the pitchforks and the torches. The Epstein survivors. Of course 269 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:48.200 they are. Who has the moral authority encourage more than 270 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:54.279 the Epstein authorities to call for the block of the 271 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:59.159 of voting for Todd Blanche who no one. They're the 272 00:16:59.240 --> 00:17:03.159 living embody of the scandal of the of the of 273 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:05.880 the child sex trafficking cover up and the cover up 274 00:17:05.880 --> 00:17:08.720 of the cover up by Todd Blanche and his Department 275 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:11.720 of Justice and Donald Trump to protect his client because 276 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:14.720 of his relationships with the leaders of that child who 277 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:17.119 were friends of his, of that child sex trafficking ring 278 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:21.119 and more. Of course it's not gonna be the you know, 279 00:17:21.160 --> 00:17:24.000 the other major scandal is JAN six, the JA six 280 00:17:24.079 --> 00:17:26.880 fund and the release given to the Trump family. Who's 281 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:31.559 the living embodiment of that the JAN sixers. No, So 282 00:17:31.640 --> 00:17:34.759 you've got to have and their willingness. This twenty five 283 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:38.039 or so Epstein survivors out of fourteen hundred, like people 284 00:17:38.079 --> 00:17:42.680 like Danny Benski, who I'm gonna have the honor of interviewing. 285 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:47.359 I think this week, I think this week is my 286 00:17:47.480 --> 00:17:49.720 Danny Benski interview. I think it might be on Thursday 287 00:17:50.359 --> 00:17:53.079 on Legal af YouTube channel. I've had Danny on before. 288 00:17:53.799 --> 00:17:53.880 No. 289 00:17:54.119 --> 00:17:57.480 I was not surprised that they picked Danny Benski to 290 00:17:57.599 --> 00:18:02.839 testify against Todd Blanche and then Todd Blanche because he 291 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:05.640 was forced into it or it was choreographed with Tom 292 00:18:05.720 --> 00:18:11.000 Tillis was forced to meet with the Epstein survivors and 293 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:14.599 like a schoolboy dragged to the principal's office where a 294 00:18:14.680 --> 00:18:17.240 person walking around with a stone in his shoe. He 295 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:19.279 let it be known immediately he didn't want to be there. 296 00:18:20.039 --> 00:18:25.240 It was it was degrading and insulting and pecked and patronizing, 297 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:30.680 patronizing to the Epstein survivors. That didn't help. In fact, 298 00:18:30.720 --> 00:18:33.039 if you wonder what I'm talking about, rather than me 299 00:18:33.160 --> 00:18:35.960 comment on it, let's play a clip of the Epstein 300 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:39.039 survivors talking about their meeting with Todd Blinch. 301 00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:45.319 It wasn't substantive, It was not productive. It very much 302 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:47.519 felt like we were just taking the box off of 303 00:18:47.599 --> 00:18:50.119 the meeting. I didn't expect to walk out of the 304 00:18:50.200 --> 00:18:52.839 meeting feeling the way that we feel right now. 305 00:18:54.279 --> 00:18:55.039 It was. 306 00:18:57.799 --> 00:19:01.480 Demoralizing, to say the very least. 307 00:19:01.920 --> 00:19:06.279 His attempt at empathy and compassion. Really came off as 308 00:19:06.319 --> 00:19:10.039 patronizing and condescending. It was very clear he was taking 309 00:19:10.079 --> 00:19:12.319 the meeting because he wants this premiere. 310 00:19:13.759 --> 00:19:15.519 Well, I couldn't put it any better than that. And 311 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:17.480 when I have Danny Benski on for our audience, we'll 312 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:23.079 talk to her about that. Todd Blanche filed answers to 313 00:19:23.240 --> 00:19:27.759 four hundred and forty one pages of questions by the 314 00:19:28.440 --> 00:19:31.319 members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. I got my hands 315 00:19:31.359 --> 00:19:33.599 on them. I'm making my way through them now. Two 316 00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:37.240 things that popped out already. One, at least he answered 317 00:19:37.240 --> 00:19:40.359 the question of who won the twenty twenty election. Of course, 318 00:19:40.359 --> 00:19:42.599 he answered it with the patty answer that the MAGA give, 319 00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:48.079 which is Joe Biden was certified by Congress and the 320 00:19:48.119 --> 00:19:51.920 Electoral College as the person who won. I'm like, oh 321 00:19:51.960 --> 00:19:53.400 my god, can't you just say that the winner was 322 00:19:53.440 --> 00:20:00.799 Joe Biden. Spare us, Spare us the robotic programming. You 323 00:20:00.880 --> 00:20:02.960 know that you've been given. You know, it's like the 324 00:20:03.039 --> 00:20:07.400 Manchurian candidate, So makeup. That was one. And secondly, he 325 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:12.079 admits he admits, in a response to a question from 326 00:20:12.119 --> 00:20:17.640 Cornan that he is not independent. He will not be 327 00:20:17.720 --> 00:20:21.880 an independent from the president attorney general. He thinks that's 328 00:20:21.920 --> 00:20:24.279 a bad thing. He thinks he's just a regular cabinet 329 00:20:24.279 --> 00:20:27.319 member that's not independent, and that Donald Trump controls well, 330 00:20:27.319 --> 00:20:29.359 I'm lead, he said it out loud. I mean, there's 331 00:20:29.400 --> 00:20:31.480 other things in there that I think are really really interesting, 332 00:20:31.599 --> 00:20:34.359 including his responses to Tom tell Us. I'm not sure 333 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:37.200 he's not all the votes wrapped up. The vote is 334 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:39.359 going to be the end of this month, in about 335 00:20:40.039 --> 00:20:43.759 eight or nine days. They'll first fill the seat vacated 336 00:20:43.759 --> 00:20:47.559 by Lindsay Graham's death on the Judiciary Committee, and then 337 00:20:47.599 --> 00:20:52.640 they're going to vote with that committee twelve twelve to ten. 338 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:56.759 It'll be twelve Republicans, ten Democrats. But Cornyn has said today, 339 00:20:56.799 --> 00:20:59.200 as we just put up the headline, I'm not satisfied 340 00:20:59.240 --> 00:21:02.079 with the answers. And the answers he's talking about is 341 00:21:02.119 --> 00:21:04.359 not just the ones in those little ten minute clips 342 00:21:04.359 --> 00:21:07.559 that we've been playing. It's the four hundred and forty 343 00:21:07.599 --> 00:21:09.960 one pages. So if I can show you what that 344 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:17.039 looks like. This is part of the four hundred and 345 00:21:17.079 --> 00:21:20.440 forty one pages I have organized, and these are all 346 00:21:20.559 --> 00:21:26.279 single space questions that he needed to answer. Of course, 347 00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:28.119 so there's a lot of I reject the premise of 348 00:21:28.160 --> 00:21:33.400 your question. He's able to answer it. He's about as 349 00:21:33.400 --> 00:21:36.640 straight as a quarkscrew. Todd Blanche, he answers a few 350 00:21:36.640 --> 00:21:38.519 of them straight. For the rest of them, it's a 351 00:21:38.559 --> 00:21:41.559 lot of sea above. It's an active investigation. There's a 352 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:44.480 grand jury process. I follow the law. The Department of 353 00:21:44.599 --> 00:21:47.160 Justice always follows the law. I'm like, really, because that's 354 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:49.200 not what we've been watching for the last five hundred 355 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:54.000 and forty days plus. So Cornyon still on the fence. 356 00:21:54.559 --> 00:21:57.480 Tom Tillis, I don't think that's what he had in 357 00:21:57.519 --> 00:21:59.119 mind when he said you better meet with the Epstein 358 00:21:59.160 --> 00:22:03.319 survivors or I'm not going to vote for you. Pissing 359 00:22:03.319 --> 00:22:06.359 them off and crapping on them and victimizing the victims 360 00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:08.799 was not quite I think what Tom Tillis had in mind. 361 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:13.000 And even if they voted for for a Blanche and 362 00:22:13.160 --> 00:22:15.319 voted him out of committee, it doesn't mean they couldn't 363 00:22:15.319 --> 00:22:17.920 take back their vote under public pressure. That's where we 364 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:22.480 come in, uh and vote against him on the Senate floor. 365 00:22:23.640 --> 00:22:26.200 That could happen. It's happened in the past, you know, 366 00:22:26.279 --> 00:22:28.319 and everybody that I've spoken to and all of the 367 00:22:28.319 --> 00:22:32.640 groups that collaborate with with Legal a f NAACP, A 368 00:22:32.839 --> 00:22:38.039 c l U and the Democracy Forward, Senators, Attorneys General, 369 00:22:38.079 --> 00:22:40.960 they all say the same thing. Pick up the phone 370 00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:44.759 and make a pest of yourself, you know, go to 371 00:22:44.839 --> 00:22:47.880 your go to your your Congress offices. There could be 372 00:22:47.960 --> 00:22:51.880 home for the summer. Be a pest in the Senate 373 00:22:51.960 --> 00:22:55.440 office in your area. Okay, go to the town halls 374 00:22:56.200 --> 00:23:04.519 email phone the senators tell them to block the We're 375 00:23:04.559 --> 00:23:06.200 going to be doing a little bit of a programming 376 00:23:06.200 --> 00:23:13.039 note again along with Not Above the Law, We're going 377 00:23:13.119 --> 00:23:17.000 to be hosting the live stream of a major block 378 00:23:17.160 --> 00:23:21.559 blanch event Thursday night at eight pm Eastern time. I'll 379 00:23:21.599 --> 00:23:25.119 be sort of doing the intro for it. It's going 380 00:23:25.200 --> 00:23:31.039 to have Dick Durbin, Senator, Dick Durbin, Representative ro Kanna, Representative, 381 00:23:31.119 --> 00:23:36.599 Lamonica mcguver represent we have Norm Eisen is there, Lisa 382 00:23:36.680 --> 00:23:41.160 Graves from Court Accountability Action and Legal AF, We've got 383 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:45.160 one of one of the Capitol Police are going to 384 00:23:45.200 --> 00:23:47.000 be there. You're not going to want to miss this 385 00:23:47.079 --> 00:23:49.440 live stream. We're going to put in the notes a 386 00:23:49.559 --> 00:23:51.920 link to it, so you guys and actually if my 387 00:23:51.960 --> 00:23:54.359 staff could do it, put a link in the chat 388 00:23:54.720 --> 00:23:56.839 to the live stream, and if we can get an 389 00:23:56.839 --> 00:23:59.000 asset up before I'm done talking, would be good too 390 00:23:59.200 --> 00:24:01.720 to show people when I'm talking about. So that's going 391 00:24:01.759 --> 00:24:04.480 to be on Thursday. It's under the live tab right 392 00:24:04.519 --> 00:24:08.799 now for legal a f set your reminders. You're not 393 00:24:08.839 --> 00:24:10.960 gonna want to miss it. And at the end it's 394 00:24:11.000 --> 00:24:13.960 a major motivator and call to action for people to 395 00:24:14.079 --> 00:24:18.039 do something to block Todd Blanch from being confirmed. The 396 00:24:18.119 --> 00:24:22.480 other person is working hard to get Todd Blanche exposed 397 00:24:22.519 --> 00:24:27.119 and blocked is our friend and colleague, Katie Fang. Katie 398 00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:30.680 Fang's lawsuit is far from over. In fact, some of 399 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:34.279 the best parts of it may have just begun because 400 00:24:35.119 --> 00:24:38.920 yesterday in a what's the legal ternam, I'm looking for 401 00:24:39.079 --> 00:24:43.920