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"Trump is in town for a civil or a criminal case, we feel it's important to come out and hold him accountable. Trump is at tis James's office for another deposition regarding James lawsuit which alleges he and the organization misled banks about the company's net worth to obtain favorable loans, a favorable loans I should say in tax breaks, Trump already taking the 5th at a previous deposition and has called the suit politically motivated. The wildfire burning in west mill for New Jersey now 30% contained after scorching 250 acres. Right now we do have high confidence that the work that we're doing to put containment lines around the fire and to suppress some of the hotspots is working well. New Jersey forest fire chief Greg McLaughlin says at this time no structures are threatened and no injuries have been reported. However, there is some sad news. Authorities say Sussex township firefighter, Tony Devon, died after fighting a brush fire in wonton for our department officials say he responded to two calls yesterday morning and later died at his home. And at least a dozen different fire departments are fighting a wildfire in Orange County and broke out earlier this afternoon officials say dry conditions and winds seem to be feeding the flames in the south blooming grove with officials using water from a nearby Lake. A suspect is under arrest for the murder of cash app founder bob Lee. San Francisco police chief Bill Scott says 38 year old tech entrepreneur, nimai, has been booked on a charge of murder. We can confirm that mister Lee and mister mo many knew each other. Police did not share further details about their connection with many is being held without bail at the San Francisco county jail. And Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell will be on Capitol Hill next week when the Senate returns from recess. McConnell made the announcement today more than 5 weeks after suffering a concussion at a private dinner in early March. The Kentucky Republican said the chamber has important business to tackle and big fights to win. I'm Lisa Taylor. WBC news time 6 O three sports and your full forecast coming
WCPT 820
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"Members almost here. Hooray. Okay. Okay, thank you, Chicago. I want to say again. Sexy little. Amazing. October 22nd, the last one coming up, a lot of rockstars they're including. I think. Maybe rockstar Allison gill, of Mueller she wrote. You never know who you're going to see. John Cusack showed up out of the blue. You don't know. Oh, hi, rockstar. Hi, it's Alison gill. Of the Mueller she wrote in daily beans high. Hello, good morning. Listen, you just said did you see my tweet? I'm like, yes, I see every one of your tweets. And I like and retweet almost all of them. You had a happy you said many were worried the judge cannon and Donald could delay the DoJ classified documents investigation for months as it turns out the delay lasted 16 days. Happy Saturday. That was happy. And I reached freedom. Yeah. I have said this before, Ellison. We just had our mutual our shared hunk, Glenn kirschner. On Friday. And I really do feel like justice is coming. And I don't know on which front and maybe all of them and when, but it certainly is, there is a lot, as you always point out, for all the people saying nothing's happening, nothing's happening. A lot's been happening. Yeah, quite particularly that the hammer that tis James brought down in 222 pages of a lawsuit against Trump and his crotch goblins. And I'm exceedingly excited about that one because that honestly, I mean, if he gets indicted, yeah, he should be indicted. We need accountability. We need rule of law in this country. But you know, he'll get like three to 8 years, maybe. And because, you know, he doesn't have a criminal history, believe it or not, he doesn't have a rap sheet. And he probably won't go to jail, jail, he'll probably be on home confinement so he can continue to have a Secret Service. This New York attorney general tish James lawsuit is what will break him. Yeah. I love here's the part where it seems like he almost forgot Eric's name. Travis is that? Yes. Rather than spending all of her time going after me and my family, Ivanka, think of it Ivanka. Ivanka is a very good person. Don Junior, he's a good person. Eric
WCPT 820
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"So anyway, you know, the basic report Ellie is talking about how this they started in those courts and state legislatures and then this became a surreptitious illegal effort to try to do this. But how does Mark Meadows not end up under the jail for everything we've learned so far? Yeah, the TLDR of that story stuff is that Mark Meadows is in some trouble. Right. Mark Meadows is in some serious trouble. And from where I sit, the only way he doesn't end up under the jail as he put it is if he tells the truth and tells tells the people who ordered him to do these things. Because Mark Meadows is very close to that situation where like, one of y'all is going down. Either Mark Meadows, you are the mastermind behind the coup and the plot to overthrow the election, either because everything ended up on your desk and you signed off on all of it, either it's all you, Mark Meadows, or everything ended up on your desk because your boss and there's only one person who can be your boss Mark Meadows, because your boss told you to do it. Yeah. So which one is it, Mark? Yeah. And I would hope that the reason why he hasn't been charged yet is because the DoJ still thinks that he is either cooperating enough or can be made to cooperate more. I would hope that there are some age going on there at the DoJ and that's why he's not literally out on bail right now. So that is the hope, but like, again, stuff that at the end of the day, I mean, we come on, come on your show, so often we talk about, we always get to the same guy, right? Yeah. Always ends up on Merrick Garland's desk. And it's either, is he doing the things he needs to do to eventually bring him to justice on these January 6th conspiracy to obstruct Congress charges. Like, is that happening or not? And we still don't have enough information to make a call, although I will say this, as opposed to, let's say, 6 months ago? Yeah. I'm more feeling like we don't have enough information to make the call as opposed to Merrick Garland needs to be like need some smelling salts in his oat bran, right? I do think that the summer run of the January 6th committee woke Merrick Garland up and got him to understand that the people were not just going to sit quietly and let him pull an Alvin Bragg and shove this under the rug. So I do think that again Cassidy Hutchinson really seems to have a fire throughout the entire DoJ. And now tis James put another, 'cause that's DoJ, the SDNY is something. He's the Jamie Williams is the U.S. attorney for the SDNY first African American to ever hold that spot, but Damian Williams, law clerk two, Merrick Garland. So we'll see. Well, I just love in your piece you described it. What James uncovered was shocking and darkly hilarious. I mean, even for those of us that know what a giant crook, Trump has been all his life, it really is. I mean, because it's just how is any normal person can understand this is fraud, right? This is a massive ten year old. I had them in stitches. Just talking about how stupid these crimes were. I mean, how are you going to have a 10,000 foot apartment? They call it 30,000 ft². Like, so obviously. And remember, Steph, their arguments, not just the trumpian arguments, but like the Trump arguments, Alan Dershowitz, like those people, they're literal arguments right now as it's okay to lie to banks. Because banks know you're lying when you talk to them. Right. Like that's not true. Yes, no. It's everything we teach our kids not to be. Everything Donald Trump has ever said just about. Like when I go, when I go to get my house refinanced, I can't say it's actually three times as big as it is. I can't do that. Right. I would go to jail. So the idea that you can just lie to that bank to induce the bank to give you money is such a ridiculous argument. But that's where we are in this country. Yeah. Well, normally you're here to light a fire under our ass and, you know, make us just a psychotically angry about what, because that's also a. You also, this is almost happy clappy for you. You said there are more of us than there are of them, and if the good people would just stand up together, we can defeat these cultists. So that's what I try to do inspire the good people not convince the bad people. It hits different because my focus is different. Thank you. If you look at these Trump rallies, you go, yes, it's scary, but it's also pathetic. Look how few people are there. There are more of us. That's the important part. I've been trying to get people to understand that in the context of the Ron DeSantis kidnapping scheme. There are such a push. I believe in corporate media. And I do mean, I mean, I mean, your major publications and news outlets to do what the Republicans want. And to turn this kidnapping story into some kind of larger expose on the immigration problems in the United States and it's not that. Like if there's a time and a place where you want to talk about immigration reform, we can talk about it and we can talk about why red states will not let us have a national immigration reform with spots we can talk about that if you want to. But this story is not about the immigration crisis or immigration reform. This story is about the governor of Florida kidnapping 48 people and sending them to Martha's Vineyard for a political stunt. That's what this story is. And the inability of corporate media to focus in on that is infuriating to me. And the idea that we are roughly split half and half between people who think kidnapping is okay and people who don't is again ludicrous to me were not half and half. There are 35% of the country that are cultists and are willing to use and weaponize Brown children for political stunts. Those people are diabolical and bad and in the minority. Yeah. And we can stop these people if we would just focus for 5 minutes on the actual crimes that are being committed. I think it's another political gift before the midterms, Ellie. You know, that tells you exactly how Republicans govern. It's the cruelty. They don't govern. They do stunts for Fox News. And how the people in
WCPT 820
"tis james" Discussed on WCPT 820
"That is kidnapping by physical force, but if anybody reads the federal law, there is kidnapping 5 in vagal men. Funny word I know, but all it means is that you cause somebody to move from point a to point B high lies by deception, deceit by false promises. The reason I said DoJ please take this up is not because they were asylum seekers or they're necessarily civil rights violations, but because it directly violates the federal law of kidnapping another by and vagal and transporting them across state lines. This is not that tough a case. Yep. I was going to, yeah, I was going to say the DoJ is looking like Lucy and Ethel and the chocolate factory between what tis James dropped on their doorstep. And this. Real quick, it seems like Ellen Bragg was woken up from a nap of some sort. Just James as well. What do you think's happening there? He was like, what? No, no. I'm still on it. We're on it. I mean, there's nothing else. Right. If nothing else, it makes him look really bad. I think tish James highlighted the. Really, I'm trying to find a nice word that won't get bleak. The really poor decision Alvin Bragg made when he decided to kill the Donald Trump investigation, which he did over the objection of really experienced prosecutors who advised Alvin Bragg when he arrived as district attorney at the Manhattan DA's office. We have enough evidence to both indict and convict Donald Trump of crimes. He said, I'm not feeling it. And he killed the investigation. Well, Tisch James has highlighted what a poor decision that was. And Bragg is playing catch up, or at least pretending to play catch up. By saying, oh, wait, wait, wait. I'm still investigating Trump, yeah. We'll see. Yeah, exactly. All right. Glenn kirshner, I thought it into existence. I thought I thought it, and then I declassified the information that you will also be at sexy double LA along
WNYC 93.9 FM
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"Staying in the shelters say they have to meet at the park across the street just to speak with one another. New York's attorney general has sued former president Donald Trump and his company alleging business fraud involved in some of their most prized assets, including properties in Manhattan, Chicago, and D.C., attorney general tis James's lawsuit was filed yesterday in state court in New York. It is the culmination of the Democrats three years civil investigation of Trump and the Trump organization. New York City's redistricting battle moves into a new phase today, double NYC's Bridget Bergen reports, the commission redrawing the city's 51 city council districts is voting on their second draft set of maps The 15 member body needed to adjust the lines to account for an increase of 630,000 New Yorkers this past decade, with an eye towards communities protected under the Voting Rights Act. Commission chair Dennis Walcott says they incorporated thousands of pieces of feedback on the first set of maps to create the new version. There are a number of districts that didn't like the way the maps impacted their particular area. And we took that very seriously. Next steps include sending the draft maps to the council for review. If they reject them, it will trigger another round of public hearings. The commission aims to wrap up by December 7th, all council seats are up for election next year. Another gridlock day ahead because of the UN General Assembly meeting and there are no delays in the subway reported at this moment. Isn't that a good thing? 72 and partly cloudy, a cold front will bring showers and possibly a storm today, fall begins tonight and it will feel like it at 6 34. Support for NPR comes from WNYC members and from clavio, an email and SMS platform designed to bring all customer data
WNYC 93.9 FM
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"Good morning the House committee investigating the deadly January 6th attack on the U.S. capitol will hold its second hearing this morning will have covered starting at ten on WNYC The panel will try to show that former president Donald Trump knew he lost the election but continued to press false claims about fraud anyway I'm Mike will hill It's morning edition from NPR and doubly NYC Ukrainian officials are warning that the next few days could be critical to a key city in the eastern region as Russia continues to make gains New York City has failed to pass legislation to require sprinklers in older buildings and we check in with the state of New York politics with WNYC's Bridget Bergen It's Monday June 13th the noose is next Live from NPR news in Washington on corps of a Coleman the House committee investigating the January 6th insurrection holds its second public hearing today as NPR's Windsor Johnston reports lawmakers will continue to make the case that then president Trump was at the center of a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election Lawmakers on the committee are expected to present additional evidence that then president Trump had in effect planned a coup in order to stop Congress from certifying the results of the election The committee's first hearing featured clips from former White House officials who among other things testified that Trump refused to call off the mob of his supporters who violently breached the capitol that day Today's hearing is expected to focus on the fact that Trump knew he had lost the election but continued to spread false information This week lawmakers are expected to detail Trump's efforts to pressure the Justice Department to overturn his election loss Windsor Johnston NPR news Washington Dozens of people affiliated with a white supremacist group are set to be arraigned today in Idaho authorities arrested 31 people who now face misdemeanor charges of conspiracy and Pierre's Amy helms says they're being accused of planning to riot at a weekend gay pride event As hundreds gathered for pride in the park in downtown Coeur d'Alene elsewhere in the city at a hotel parking lot a witness told police a group resembling quote a little army was piling into the back of a U haul van Police pulled it over and arrested 31 people wearing matching outfits with logos from the white supremacist group patriot front They also had riot plans and gear according to authorities including a smoke grenade NPR's Amy held reporting A bipartisan group of 20 senators says it has reached a narrow agreement on some proposals intended to reduce gun violence among other features these would encourage states to pass red flag laws and increase background checks for gun buyers between 18 and 21 but it may be weeks before a bill is finalized and ready for a vote Ukrainian officials say Russian troops are making a push to encircle a key city in eastern Ukraine and Pierre's Nathan rotten reports officials say the next few days could be critical The battle for several to nets an industrial city in eastern Ukraine's Luhansk region has been the focus of the war for a couple of weeks Both sides had been pouring resources and troops into the industrial city and both are believed to be suffering heavy losses Ukrainian officials have said they're losing 100 to 200 soldiers a day in the fighting as they plead with Western Allies for more ammunition and weapons Luhansk's regional governor said on telegram late Sunday that Russia was trying to encircle several Donetsk a victory there would give Russia control of every major city in the Luhansk region Nathan rott reporting this is NPR On doubly NYC at 6 O four good morning 69 see the sun trying to poke through those clouds out there Chance of a shower or thunderstorm this morning partly sunny and a warm 84 today It's a crash on the garden state Parkway south near exit one 38 in kennel worth In the news Florida governor Ron DeSantis is facing renewed backlash over his don't say gay law this time in New York protesters flocked one of his speaking engagements yesterday at Chelsea piers a conservative Jewish group the teak fund sponsor the event this year desantis signed a flaw to parental rights bill that prohibits school instruction on sexual identity often referred to as the don't say gay law activists have called it an attack on the LGBTQ community Patient avik and Peter Morley posted video of the protest on Twitter This Santa's speech was titled a Florida model in why it's good for religious America speculation has increased at the Florida governor is gearing up for a run at The White House A New York judge says the state attorney general's lawsuit against the National Rifle Association is no mere witch hunt a decision dismisses the gun rights advocacy groups claims that the case is a political vendetta The ruling means the legal fight can continue AG tis James's 2020 lawsuit accuses the top and our executives of financial improprieties the NRA alleged a court filing last year that James was retaliating against a group because of its views Manhattan judge Joel Cohen says the investigation was prompted by reports of serious misconduct and can not be written off as a politically motivated witch hunt The reverend Al sharpton is tested positive for COVID-19 shotgun says he's not showing symptoms and is in isolation according to his civil rights nonprofit the national action network sharpton will continue his radio and TV appearances remotely while monitoring his.
Opening Arguments
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"And we've got enough time for to sneak another story in here. And I'm excited because it seems as though Trump has been held in contempt, possibly. And I have nothing. But contempt for this Trump and his crime family. So what's going on? Yeah, well, there has been a motion made. At that state, we're not at the border. Well, you know, it's always a half. Wait, can I second the motion? If I second it, then it's good, right? Call for general consent. Okay. It's agreed. This has now been fully briefed. So this is the New York attorney general's civil complaint against Donald Trump and his crime family, letitia James, and this is about principally the overvaluation of Trump properties. And this is an interesting motion because it kind of gets at a question that people ask me about fairly often, which is how do you go about drawing inferences when you're in the discovery process and you're dealing with a bad faith actor, but you're not dealing with Alex Jones, right? Like Alex Jones, it's super easy when you say produce a 30 B 6 witness, a corporate deposition for somebody who knows about your finances and you put up a guy who is an InfoWars editor who like read stories on the air and you ask them how much money is in the InfoWars account and he's like, I don't know. That's real easy. And that's why those sanctions in those cases were sort of knocked down, no doubt about it. I guess I'm saying Donald Trump is a more crafty litigant than Alex Jones. That's not a statement I thought I would ever be uttering professionally in any context. It's a true race to the bottom and I hope everyone loses. I agree. But here's where we are. It seems like Donald Trump is acting in bad faith in connection with discovery requests. And this is why it is interesting because a lot of the evidence is open to interpretation. So when you say, give me all of the documents that you have and they say, okay, we absolutely will do that. We have done. All of the documents that you have that relate to the valuation of your properties and you're like, yep, sure, absolutely. We and I'll quote from the exact language. Personally made or caused others to make a diligent search of all of mister Trump's relevant records for materials sought by the subpoena and for each document I was unable to locate any responsive documents that are in mister Trump's possession or custody. That feels like maybe you're hiding something. But I mean, are they getting by on this Trump mob boss thing he does, which is no email, know anything, just phone calls, you know? I mean, I guess it's not impossible that he wouldn't have documents because he doesn't read. So there are a couple of things. There are a couple of ways to break that down. And the first is and again, all of this sort of lens some color to understanding the discovery process. So I request for documents is a document. You serve on the other side. And it says it first it defines terms. It sets out the temporal limitations, right? From X date to Y date, you make it clear exactly what documents you want. And then you list numerically, document request number one, all documents in your possession custody or control that refer or relate to the valuation of any property by DJT holdings. I'm making that one up, but that probably something like that is their number one. And Trump and his family stonewalled on that for a very, very long time. They moved to quash, ultimately there was a court order and the court said were denying your motion to quash, you are to respond in full by producing all responsive documents by March 31st. Instead of producing all of those documents, this is again straight from the from Tisch James filing. Mister Trump did not comply at all. Instead, he served a quote response on the office of the attorney general, raising objections to each of the 8 document requests. In the subpoena based on grounds such as over breadth burden, lack of particularity, he further asserted based on his objections that he would not produce any documents responsive to the subpoena because his counsel could not find any such documents and because his council's information and belief that if such documents exist, the Trump organization has them and the office of the attorney general will just have to wait until the Trump organization completes its ongoing document production to get them. That's not the way discovery works. It can be if you are a non party. So for example, if a person is in an auto accident, Sue's person B and person B wants to get the medical records of person a and issues a third party subpoenaed a person a's doctor. Person is doctor might say, number one, we're protected by pippa. So unless my patient releases me, I'm not going to produce any documents because that would violate doctor patient confidentiality. And also, I don't have anything to do with this case. You guys are suing each other, right? Any relevant documents. The medical records might not be the greatest example, but get it from the plaintiff. Get it from a party to the case. So in other words, that argument is valid if you have a good reason to say, don't put this burden on me, your burden is to produce. You can not be alone. They say documents you say, how high. Exactly right, exactly right. Here's how tis James put it, which I just love. This court's order was not an opening bid for a negotiation. For a new round of challenges to the subpoena. It was rather a court order, entered after full briefing an argument during which mister Trump could have, but did not raise any of the purported objections or assertions he is now raised, under settled law, a party is not permitted to delay proceedings through Syria submissions to challenge an investigative subpoenas. So that ship as long since settled on mister Trump's ability to raise any new objections. So they filed a motion of did I stutter? They filed a motion for a finding of civil contempt, okay? And here's the remedy that they're seeking. They are seeking of a daily fine on Donald Trump until he produces all responsive documents in the amount of $10,000 a day. So way less than Alex Jones, which they've described as a some sufficient to coerce his compliance with this court's February 22, 2022 order..
WCPT 820
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"Yes That seemed too short All right find a longer one Let's go to that is how she sings it in the song Marry in New York Hi Mary You're on with frangela Hello Mary Hi I'm calling for mine And I just wanted to tell you that this morning I went out for a walk along the Tennessee river And that's how they get Jenny cream ale from the genesee river right Well just kidding Disappear Just the beard I feel Okay But anyways I was walking up at come home to watch your show and a woman came And to see if I was coming you know going to home Yeah A woman came up and she was walking in a beautiful white Paradise and now you could think of was king And I thought and I thought well boy you started your career in radio here and perhaps a stern Yes And maybe I probably embrace sister sleep Yeah Thank you Yeah Listen by the way people keep asking great periods association of Southern California is where I got Jamie and they can always use help like all rescues It is a great peer rescue dot org Dottie sisko out there Okay so Friends I'm just saying I don't know if there's I think the amount of Trump whining shows that I don't know at least he's I don't know if he's scared but he's annoyed by because I really do feel like what's our early morning system Chris Black ladies Yes tis James Are you really judge Jackson We're going to have to do it Are you going to have to do everything Apparently you are Yes All of it Yes And we are doing it Okay Yeah But letitia James right As at least asking the judge to hold Trump accountable Glen kirschner thinks he will in terms of finding him until he produces documents We are at a point where they just think justice is optional And as Gwen said until someone prosecutes him that's they're proving that it is For white men for powerful white men you know I'm at it Yeah it's a very long statement from the office of 45th I don't think I'll read the whole thing.
Opening Arguments
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"This is hopefully us earning our credit with you as telling it like it is. So New York Times broke a story yesterday Wednesday that Casey Dunn and Mark pomerantz, those are the two line prosecutors on the Manhattan district attorney's investigation into Donald Trump for criminal tax fraud related to his real estate. The New York Times is saying, we can't confirm this with any other source. The New York Times is saying that they resigned because the incoming DA Alvin Bragg, quote, has doubts about moving forward with the criminal fraud case against Trump. So people are reading that going, well, look, even if we didn't have that bit of reporting, discount that because we don't have a second source, that would be what I would infer. If it just came through, done in pomerantz resign, your line prosecutors don't just resign so that somebody who's not familiar with the case after two years of investigation can come in and take over. This means a decision what we call a declination decision is coming. The office is going to say we decline to indict Donald J Trump in connection with real estate fraud. You should be disappointed. That's a terrible decision. My best guess from behind the scenes. If you want to know, should we storm Alvin Bragg's office? No. But my best guess is that they just couldn't flip Alan weisselberg. Do you have to? I mean, this all these crimes seem so obvious to everybody looking, like he exaggerates the values of stuff when he's trying to secure loans and when tax time comes, then all of a sudden, is worthless. This is nothing. That's the argument done in pomer answer making. So if you want to envision this like season one Law & Order episode, done and pomerants are in Bragg's office and they're saying, look, we can do this. We can authenticate these. We can go forward. It's a straightforward story. I know it's a financial crime picture. Law and orders Adam Schiff as Brad going. Do you got weisselberg? Is he going to authenticate the documents? And they're like, well, no, and he's like, all right, well then make the deal or dismiss the case. And that would be my best estimate of what's going on is that from the top down, you can understand from a managerial perspective, the idea that financial cases are super complex to take before a jury in the first place. That's why they brought in Mark comrades. He was not a member of the Manhattan DA's team. He was in private practice. They brought him in because of his experience in prosecuting financial cases. And you can see sort of the skepticism of this is really, really hard to do. And it is, right? As somebody who has had some involvement in these kinds of cases, it's a challenge to do that before a jury to start talking about numbers and accounting and X and Y and Z and if you have to go to a hostile witness to authenticate 800 different documents. I agree, it's going to be it's going to be a hard case to do. It seems very clear to me that dun and pomerantz were like, yeah, this is going to be really, really hard, but we're up for the challenge. And I think Bragg said, again, you want to be most fair to brag, what I would envision is him saying, right, but if we bring the case and you lose, that would be way worse than just not bringing the case at all. I'm tired of that being the excuse every single time with everything related to Donald Trump. I don't agree with that decision. Okay? I don't defend what happened. I just want to tell you, you need to know, is this the sign that Donald Trump is not going to get criminally indicted in New York? Yes. Yes, it is. Anybody saying otherwise is even more optimist prime than I am. Where you want to set your sights now is Fulton county. Georgia, DA, Fannie Willis. Let's see what happens there. That is a slam dunk case as I've said from the very beginning. So that's where I'm holding out hope. Close the door in Manhattan. Folks have asked about the cooperation with tish James and the New York attorney general's office. That's a civil case. So, you know, yes, that's going to go forward. Tis James is not going to take over this investigation for a lot of reasons, too complicated to get into right here. And Trump is going to come out way ahead on fraud, right? Even if they get a ton of civil penalties, it's still going to be a net benefit to him. So, you know, it's kind of hard for me to get worked up over maybe he will face some penalties in connection with that civil proceeding. If that motivates you, great, but no, you have a right to be disappointed here. Okay, Andrew, main story here while co main stories, I suppose, what's going on with this Abbott letter. Texas governor Greg Abbott sent a one page letter to the Texas department of family and protective services. That once again explains how Republicans are using trans people as a political football for cheap gain in that state. Obviously, our hearts go out to our trans listeners to trans people everywhere. I want to tell you that this is largely political stunt. It does not mean that it's not horrible and that the people behind it are not awful human beings. It does mean that from a practical perspective, I do not think that things are likely to get materially worse. Other than, you know, if you're a trans person in Texas, you're already the political football. And I can't emphasize how angry and upset we are over that. So let's explain. The letter says in light of a recent determination opinion KP zero four zero one, I am instructing you the Texas department of family and.
WCPT 820
"tis james" Discussed on WCPT 820
"The 5th 500 times Thank God will you us attorney Former 30 year federal prosecutor Clinton The call for his country once again MSNBC legal analysts playing Kirchner Glen kirschner We got that clean Christmas and I feel okay Hi glad kirschner Good morning staff I feel like justices I don't know it's warming up in the bullpen stretching something I feel like right A lot of stuff happening this week legally Yeah we're getting there It seems like you know the snowball is picking up both size and steam and we're heading in the right direction a lot of bad stories for Trump and company in recent days Yeah Well let's talk about that one Obviously Trump and two of his adult children must give depositions in a long running civil investigation of the family's business practices are ruling that means they could face hours of uncomfortable questioning by investigators in the near future attorneys for Trump Trump Junior and a vanka tried to get subpoenas for their testimony and related documents thrown out in a series of recent court filings so the judge obviously ruled against that So please explain this to us once again So now the lawyers for the trumps say they plan to appeal So how long could this go on now before they actually have to sit for a decade It says within 21 days They have to sit for a year within 21 days They're going to have a right to appeal to the appellate court in New York They're probably going to refuse to hear the case So I think this is going to come to a head sooner rather than later And I'll tell you I recommend this 8 page ruling that the judge issued to everybody just give it a read because there's some really ominous stuff in there The most important line I think in the whole ruling is the judge said I reviewed thousands of documents that were subpoenaed by attorney general tish James of the Trump organization's financial shenanigans And here is the quote after he read all those documents He said when a state attorney general commences an investigation and uncovers copious evidence of possible financial fraud she has a clear right to question under oath the organization's namesake Donald Trump I mean if that's not a tell the judge is saying the evidence of here is here copious evidence of financial fraud let's get it on Well you know Tristan Snell who I know you know was in that office The prosecutor He said tis James didn't open the investigation into Trump's tax and financial fraud because of animus She opened the investigation because Michael Cohen and Mary Trump and The New York Times all had substantial evidence of fraud As we always hear documents don't lie This isn't people or testimony right Yeah And Tristan is right and the judge in his order said had AG James not opened an investigation not subpoenaed Trump Don Junior and Ivanka It would have been quote a dereliction of duty So it's not just that she had the discretion to open this investigation based on the evidence he saw The judge said it would have been a dereliction of duty not to go after Trump and company Well one more from Tristan I wanted to get your debt reaction to He said fun fact The New York AG is investigating Trump for fraud under executive law of 63 12 which also provides that a fraudulent company may be dissolved and have its corporate charter canceled Is that sounds significant to me Well remember what happened when tis James went after Trump university That's gone The Trump charitable found it That's gone The Trump organization Steph after mazars is accounting firm pulled out and said the last ten years of work we did for you We will no longer stand by because you're provided us garbage information I added that last piece That's the inference The Trump organization's days are numbered There's no doubt about that Right You actually tweeted So with Trump's accounting for how he say it Walking away from Trump Oregon declaring ten years of their accounting work can not be viewed as reliable obviously because Trump and company as you said fed mazar's false information Trump organization tries to spin it as a complete exoneration and George Orwell blushes I mean they do that every time right The Mueller report complete exoneration The fact but what is mazar's culpability here I mean they had to have known he was lying for ten years Are they just going just now a warning We realized that he might be a crook Yeah this is mizar's getting on the train instead of getting run over by the train They've clearly flipped on Trump It's hard to say that we didn't know he was feeding us bogus information for ten years Listen remember enron remember when that blew up The Arthur Andersen accounting firm a story accounting firm it went belly up because of the dealing it was doing with enron I mean you feel I don't want to make accusations because I don't know what mazars was up to But it feels like they were complicit and bizarre has made the calculation I'm going to flip I'm going to cooperate I'm going to mitigate the damage to my accounting firm and I'm going to give them whatever they want on Donald Trump Yeah Yeah Well so what is it you all say You prosecuted the other right to remain silent Fortunately for us Donald Trump is too stupid So to James yesterday pounced on Trump's defense of his company's financial statements saying the 5 page statement Trump issued a day earlier contradicted a court filing by his attorneys I mean this is she said it's not unusual for parties to a legal proceeding to disagree about the facts but it's truly rare for a party to publicly disagree with statements submitted by their own attorneys in a sign pleading let alone one day after the pleading was filed So Trump's attorneys repeatedly stated he didn't know enough to respond to allegations of inaccurate valuations but the former president's 5 page statement got into detail and possible discrepancies implying that he had more knowledge than his lawyers said And that's one of the many reasons that when push comes to shove and he has run out his appeals and he walks into the deposition room with tish James lawyers He will invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination He can't testify because his every word is an admission if not a confession And here's the thing If you can invoke your Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination in a civil deposition and that can never be used against you in a criminal trial But it can be used against you in a civil fraud trial because the jury will be informed Hey Donald Trump fled the 5th You can use that You can hold it against them You can draw a negative inferences about that So it will hurt him on the civil front but it can't be used against him on the criminal front Right right right right So okay talk to us about this hearing because it seems like there's not endless but enough lawyers that will just throw their reputations in the garbage for Donald Trump So who is this woman Is his lawyer She asked a lawyer from tis James offices they would go after Hillary Clinton in a hearing about whether Trump should be forced to sit for a deposition She said I want to know mister Wallace miss James are you going to go after Hillary Clinton for what she's done to my client that she spied at Trump Tower in your state Are you going to look into her business dealings Of course the judge stopped them slapped him down said the clintons are not before me It stems from an obviously oh my God how many times do we have to go through this A misreading of court documents that even John Durham is distancing himself from now So I mean but I've never seen this in a court of law These are Fox News talking points And I haven't either This is like you know Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham for president Trump as his lawyers You know it's funny because in my 30 years of prosecuting cases once Steph I had a lawyer hold up a news article and wanted to make an argument based on some media account The judge said to that lawyer put that down and don't ever pull anything like that in my courtroom again Because we actually have standards and rules of ethics that were supposed to abide by But you know listen the.
WCPT 820
"tis james" Discussed on WCPT 820
"What what It is the Stephanie Miller show Friday's the frangela Okay this is the level of COVID anti vaxx nonsense That we are exporting now from the United States Mike lindell Mike pillow Yes house parks calls him Was reportedly turned around at the Canadian border as he and a videographer were attempting to join the trucker protest in Ottawa on the same day a truck carrying over 10,000 pillows including a thousand Bible pillows Oh God What Really Destin for us Truckers were intercepted as they tried to cross the bridge Lindell his videographer and the driver of the truck were all turned around because they were unvaccinated and did not have a negative PCR test So I guess they haven't read any news about what the protest is about because you can't get into account that we're not being okay So lindell now says he intends to drop his pillows into Canada from a helicopter with little parachutes attached AirDrop God is my witness I thought pillows could fly Okay We were in W car Territory Yes I mean we just that's our only export now as co video C right Yeah Yeah I just can't I can't This was the man who was advising the president of the United States Correct This is who he was taking advice from fellow drops Right Chris what does America's early warning system Black ladies Who could be taking Donald Trump down Black ladies I'm just saying how about that tis James this week All my parts got excited and tingly girls I was like oh that's a black lady We would like to tell date the depositions Being black people are not as familiar with the tailgating sort of any some help Yes I feel like I particularly want you in the front row for a Vancouver I don't know why I would be nothing more delicious I mean first of all we would drink popcorn and we'd pop it in the room In the room and you would all you would take the judge be like a man could you stop shaking that martini shaker 'cause I could just mix and drinks They're like who else Who knows what a drink I'm afraid she can't your honor We like it shake it and that's there but please go ahead I loved in this judge in the case was fantastic Because they tried to lawyer tried to say that Trump is a protected.
WCPT 820
"tis james" Discussed on WCPT 820
"Taking the 5th 500 times Thank God Well U.S. attorney Federal prosecutor clan partner For his country once again MSNBC legal analyst Glen Kirchner Glen kershner We got that clean Christian now and I feel okay Hi glad kirschner Good morning staff I feel like justices I don't know it's warming up in the bullpen stretching something I feel like right A lot of stuff happening this week legally Yeah we're getting there It seems like you know the snowball is picking up both size and steam and we're heading in the right direction a lot of bad stories for Trump and company in recent days Yeah Well let's talk about that one Obviously Trump and two of his adult children must give depositions in a long running civil investigation of the family's business practices are ruling that means they could face hours of uncomfortable questioning by investigators in the near future attorneys for Trump Trump Junior and a vanko tried to get subpoenas for their testimony and related documents thrown out in a series of recent court filings so the judge obviously ruled against that So please explain this to us once again So now the lawyers for the Trump say they plan to appeal So how long could this go on now before they actually have to sit for a decade It says within 21 days They have to sit for a decade Within 21 days they're going to have a right to appeal to the appellate court in New York They're probably going to refuse to hear the case So I think this is going to come to a head sooner rather than later And I'll tell you I recommend this 8 page ruling that the judge issued to everybody just give it a read because there's some really ominous stuff in there The most important line I think in the whole ruling is the judge said I reviewed thousands of documents that were subpoenaed by attorney general tish James of the Trump organization's financial shenanigans And here is the quote after he read all those documents He said when a state attorney general commences an investigation and uncovers copious evidence of possible financial fraud she has a clear right to question under oath the organization's namesake Donald Trump I mean if that's not a tell the judge is saying the evidence of here is here copious evidence of financial fraud let's get it on Well you know Tristan Snell who I know you know was in that office The prosecutor he said tis James didn't open the investigation into Trump's tax and financial fraud because of animus She opened the investigation because Michael Cohen and Mary Trump and The New York Times all had substantial evidence of fraud As we always hear documents don't lie This isn't people or testimony right Yeah And Tristan is right and the judge in his order said had AG James not opened an investigation not subpoenaed Trump Don Junior and Ivanka It would have been quote a dereliction of duty So it's not just that she had the discretion to open this investigation based on the evidence he saw The judge said it would have been a dereliction of duty not to go after Trump a company Well one more from Tristan I wanted to get your debt reaction to He said fun fact the New York AG is investigating Trump for fraud under executive law of 63 12 which also provides that a fraudulent company may be dissolved and have its corporate charter canceled Is that sounds significant to me Well remember what happened when Tisch James went after Trump university That's gone The Trump charitable foundation That's gone The Trump organization Steph after mazars is accounting firm pulled out and said the last ten years of work we did for you we will no longer stand by because you're provided us garbage information I added that last piece That's the inference The Trump organization's days are numbered There's no doubt about that Right You actually tweeted So with Trump's accounting for how you say it bizarre Walking away from Trump Oregon declaring ten years of their accounting work can not be viewed as reliable obviously because Trump and company as you said fed mazar's false information Trump organization tries to spin it as a complete exoneration and George Orwell blushes I mean they do that every time right The Mueller report complete exoneration The fact but what is mazar's culpability here I mean they had to have known he was lying for ten years Are they just going oh just now a warning We realized that he might be a crook Yeah this is mizar's getting on the train instead of getting run over by the train They've clearly flipped on Trump It's hard to say that we didn't know he was feeding us bogus information for ten years Listen remember enron remember when that blew up The Arthur Andersen accounting firm a story accounting firm It went belly up because of the dealing it was doing with enron I mean you feel I don't want to make accusations because I don't know what mazars was up to But it feels like they were complicit and mazars made the calculation I'm going to flip I'm going to cooperate I'm going to mitigate the damage to my accounting firm and I'm going to give them whatever they want on Donald Trump Yeah Yeah Well so what is it you all say You prosecutors you have the right to remain silent Fortunately for us Donald Trump is too stupid So to James yesterday pounced on Trump's defense of his company's financial statements saying the 5 page statement Trump issued a day earlier contradicted a court filing by his attorneys I mean this is she said it's not unusual for parties to a legal proceeding to disagree about the facts but it's truly rare for a party to publicly disagree with statements submitted by their own attorneys in a sign pleading let alone one day after the pleading was filed So Trump's attorneys repeatedly stated he didn't know enough to respond to allegations of inaccurate valuations but the former president's 5 page statement got into detail and possible discrepancies implying that he had more knowledge than his lawyers said And that's one of the many reasons when push comes to shove and he has run out his appeals and he walks into the deposition room with Tisch James lawyers He will invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination He can't testify because his every word is an admission if not a confession And here's the thing If you can invoke your Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination in a civil deposition and that can never be used against you in a criminal trial But it can be used against you in a civil fraud trial because the jury will be informed hey Donald Trump pled the 5th You can use that You can hold it against them You can draw negative inferences about that So it will hurt him on the civil front but it can't be used against him on the criminal front Right right right right So okay talk to us about this hearing because it seems like there's not endless but enough lawyers that will just throw their reputations in the garbage for Donald Trump So who is this woman What is her alena haba is his lawyer She asked a lawyer from tis James offices they would go after Hillary Clinton in a hearing about whether Trump should be forced to sit for a deposition She said I want to know mister Wallace miss James are you going to go after Hillary Clinton for what she's done to my client that she spied at Trump Tower in your state Are you going to look into her business dealings Of course the judge stopped them slapped him down said the clintons are not before me It stems from a obviously oh my God how many times do we have to go through this A.
WCPT 820
"tis james" Discussed on WCPT 820
"Will the committee will start to go through those records properly We've received some already You will continue to receive some in the days ahead But it's important to just note how important this is for us In our desire to get to the truth and to seek justice this is important This is an important step The former president did not want these records out there And we're going to find out exactly why Pardon me Steven best lawsuits What a lovely sentence from representative Thompson and Cheney The select committee has already begun to receive records that the former president had hoped to keep hidden And tis James has his tax records What a morning to talk to Glen Carson Thank God Former U.S. attorney Glen Kirchner Former 30 year federal prosecutor Glen For his country once again MSNBC legal analyst I feel okay I have paper cuts from my Gwen stack already I'm good morning Good morning glad Good morning staff a lot going on on the justice front Wow wow wow Where should we start I don't even know where to start Let's start with a vanka So they are asking her this is not a subpoena yet They're asking of Anka Trump but there was a lot in this letter that was released publicly As if to say we already have a lot of stuff right I mean give me your obviously Liz Cheney had said before we know his daughter We have firsthand testimony She went in at least twice to ask him to stop this violence That was previously So what is your take on Ivanka first of all what's going to happen There and also there's she's in the New York AG thing which looks more like criminal culpability right And that she was the one that dealt with Deutsche Bank and may have signed false statements But go ahead Yeah she's going to be privy to some of daddy's corrupt intent His state of mind What he was thinking what he was saying And so those statements are important important like you say stuff You know we can see the investigative circle tightening because they're beginning to get to the players who are closest to Donald Trump Rudy Giuliani and now Ivanka That is a sign that they are nearing the end of their investigation because you don't begin stepping to the main players or what might actually be the targets of the investigation until the very end because you want everybody else's account of what happened you want the documents the texts the and everything else and then you want to confront the main players with that evidence And Ivanka better remember there is no daddy daughter privilege that she can invoke to try to that's not a thing And there is a husband wife privilege but I'm not even going to go there But nothing for daughter wife in the law But the only question for Ivanka and we may all know the answer to this step but I think it's a serious question You know does she want to be a patriot that she want to tell the American people about what was going on that day or does she want to be part of the cover up Does she want to join the cover up club which presently consists of Mark Meadows Jim Jordan Scott Perry and she will be at least the fourth member if she decides that even though I have important relevant and potentially incriminating information about what my father said and did I'm not going to provide it There's a term for that step It's called the cover up Did these people learn nothing from Watergate Joe exactly well Glenn you tweeted I believe about you know does the Supreme Court ruling on the records change the calculus for these other people because you know clearly they blew up that there's no what do you call it executive privilege As you said there's no daddy daughter privilege And it would seem to me that Giuliani et cetera there's a crime fraud exemption would say there's no attorney client privilege Talk to us just about the privilege question Yes So the key is though the answer to the question shouldn't the Supreme Court lay this executive privilege nonsense to rest The answer is yes if you care about the law And these people don't care about the law So they will continue to lodge legal challenges mainly frivolous legal challenges Some meritorious like attorney client that's a real privilege Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination That's a real privilege Any number of these witnesses stuff like a Rudy Giuliani could wall sin to the House select committee and say I invoke the 5th And he would be excused after invoking the 5th 500 times like Eric Trump did in New York He would be excused because that's a legitimate privilege He gets to invoke that you know no matter how cruddy you are the constitution protects you against self incrimination But these people don't care what the Supreme Court has said about Trump having little to no executive privilege They're going to keep fighting the corrupt fight Yeah Sorry we have a lot of dog related activity this morning You brought up Giuliani So again that sort of surprise but it still is legitimate bombshell that we know now Giuliani is behind the fake elector thing On December 14th 20 20 day of the Electoral College vote of Republican electors convened in capitals of 5 states that Biden won They declare themselves duly elected and qualified sent sign certificates to Washington The Trump electors gathered in plain sight assisted by Rudy Giuliani who said publicly that rival states were necessary and appropriate these were a necessary and appropriate internally Giuliani oversaw the effort I mean how is this not going to attorney general data nestles so this is slam dunk This fake elector case What do you think And one of the most interesting questions I think that ultimately the Department of Justice will have to confront is are we dealing with one overarching conspiracy and we can pull a whole lot of different sort of strands of information and investigation into it Or are we dealing with separate conspiracies I can tell you any time we bring a big conspiracy case like a RICO conspiracy case Every single defense team will attack our indictment decision saying no no no no no If this was anything it was 6 little conspiracies It wasn't one big conspiracy This is beginning to feel a particularly with the revelations about the fraudulent electors and Giuliani heading that up and you know Jeffrey Clark at DoJ and John eastman with the bogus memo how to overthrow the government It feels like one big overarching conspiracy And I hope that's the way DoJ gets after it But then at some point we should talk about whether DoJ is going to get after it Well yeah I mean clearly all of the templates being exactly the same in the 7 states would you know I'm not a lawyer Glenn but it seems to me to be pretty hard evidence Not a coincidence Right Right right right So where else do we go here So hang on Harry lipman had a tweet one to get your take Again so many things swirling around this morning He said for reasons I've said for a while Fulton county poses the most direct personal threat to Trump the scandal is but the scandal doesn't metastasizing quickly and now may threaten team Trump more than any is the forgeries They've got Watergate level potential breadth So what is your take We got a lot of walls closing in I mean obviously we have to talk about Fulton county requesting a special grand jury And also primarily because she's not getting cooperation there right I mean she said fanny it's funny Willis right It was requesting a special grand jury to aid in her investigation of Trump and his efforts to overturn the Georgia's election results She said the move was needed because a significant number of witnesses and perspective witnesses has refused to cooperate with the investigation absent the subpoena requiring their testimony including raffensperger Such a low bar for what a good guy is on the Republican side right People will do the right thing once right But anyway social called special purpose grand juries are rarely used in Georgia but could be a valuable tool They can issue indictments right They can subpoena witnesses compel production of documents et cetera So that's people don't realize they can indict but she needs to get to indictments she needs the stuff they can compel right Yeah so and I actually think there's a parallel that we can draw between what's going on in the House select committee and what we're learning about what's going on in Fulton county Georgia because think about this Funny Willis asked the chief.
The Stuttering John Podcast
"tis james" Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"And she can actually, let me show you the power that a civil investigation can have if it's done properly. Because remember, she's done this before with the Trump charity. She had literally put she can literally give the death penalty to the Trump organization, have it dissolved, put into receivership, have a receiver appointed take over the company. Oh yeah, take over its bank accounts, fire everybody, dissolve the company completely, put them out of business and find them to death. She can do that, but she can't put them in jail unless they violate the order of the judge to give testimony or ultimately in criminal contempt. Alvin Bragg, who's the new Manhattan district attorney who took over gen one, Eric Adams came in. And our first black Manhattan district attorney in 200 years came in, malvin brack, Alvin took over for Cy Vance, his office is now looking at all the evidence. And deciding in parallel, whether there are criminal issues that are implicated, they've already got two convictions, right? They've already got well, I'm sorry. They've already got two charges against the CFO and the COO of the Trump organization. Alan weisselberg. Alan Weiss Alan weisselberg and his actually is a son. The question is, is Alvin in his independent review of the evidence? Is he going to find enough evidence to bring charges against anyone else the Trump organization, including the former? That's now, that's up to Alvin. He's got statue of limitations that are running behind him, but he's got some time. So it's not of this year problem. For the issues he's looking at. But in 2022, he's going to have to make a decision about either shitting or going to get off the pot and he's either going to bring these prosecutions or he's not. I'll give you an example. His office just announced yesterday or the day before that former governor Cuomo is not going to be prosecuted for anything related to the nursing home someone had a question about COVID death scandal. So basically the Manhattan DA has publicly announced we are not prosecuting him for that. We looked at it. And we don't think, you know, we might have our own opinions about what happened there. And there might be some civil regulatory problems for him. But on a criminal level, we're not prosecuting him. So his office is going to announce if they are or are not going to pursue prosecution of the Trump family. But that's with Alvin's office. That's Manhattan DA. Tis James, New York attorney general is civil, civil, civil. Okay. Now, sidebands seem to drop the ball, or he's another trumper. I mean, to me, I don't know. I don't know what your opinion is, but to me, he seems like a Trump who didn't because he never seems to prosecute..
The Stuttering John Podcast
"tis james" Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"New York attorney general can do criminal investigations. But her office is not doing criminal investigations of the Trump family. Because then Manhattan district attorney, different office, different prosecutor, is doing the criminal prosecution. And they're working together. It's been public that they've been working together. Tis James, you know, the teacher James has people in her office that are seconded sent to the Manhattan DA's office to work on their team and vice versa. And that's okay. Just like the Department of Justice has a civil division and a criminal division, one does prosecutions. One does civil investigations. One can find you out of existence and put you out of business. And the other one can put you in jail. She is doing her office is doing the civil only investigation of the Trump organization and all the Trump and all the little trumpers. So she has issued subpoenas. She issued one to Eric. He went in and gave testimony. She issued a subpoena for documents and testimony to Don Junior and Ivanka. Rather than move to quash the subpoena, which means go to court and have the judge on some legitimate basis, quash or suppress the subpoena or throw out the subpoena. They didn't do that. They did another press release. They filed the document like letters with the court, because latisha James hadn't even made public that she had subpoenaed that information. They went public. And they filed a document that said, oh, New York attorney general can't do this. She's playing both sides of the fence. She's cooperating with the criminal investigation and she's doing a civil investigation. And what are we to do? Because that puts us on the horns of a dilemma. No, it doesn't. If you are the subject of a civil investigation, whatever it is, and you believe that whatever you will testify to or documents that you will produce will be could be used against you for a criminal prosecution, whether this office is doing it or somebody in Oklahoma is doing it. You're allowed to take the Fifth Amendment. You're allowed to plead the Fifth Amendment in response to the question or the subpoena. However, in a civil context, it doesn't end there. In a criminal context, if you properly assert the Fifth Amendment, you don't testify. They call you to the stand. I call the accused to the stand Fifth Amendment. Okay, you're not taking the stand. The jury's instructed that no adverse inference can be raised. Nobody is under the constitution is required to testify against themselves..
The Breakdown with Shaun King
"tis james" Discussed on The Breakdown with Shaun King
"We're now nearing the one year anniversary. Of the riots. At the American capital, the insurrection at the American capital, the break in and take over of the American capital. And what's clear to me, there was a path that I thought we were going to go down. In some ways, 2021, in some ways it flew by, but when you begin to unpack everything that happened in every month, it was a year packed with a lot of very important and sometimes disturbing and problematic moments. But if you can go back in your mind to January of 2021, January 6th, 2021. And remember what it looked like. At the time. To see thousands and thousands of almost exclusively white men and women, there were some other people sprinkled in there. But thousands and thousands of Trump supporters. To storm and take over the American capital. I'm out with speechless and most Americans. From whatever political persuasion, like it's something that we had never seen in our lifetime. And it's generally something that you will never see in any nation's lifetime. For the capital of a country. To be stormed and taken over. With a 125 police officers injured, multiple deaths, taking over the literal capital from the actual chambers to people's offices to see that in any country anywhere in the world. Is virtually unheard of. And traditionally what it has meant is the collapse of a nation. At when you see, I remember the white man I don't remember his name, the white man who went into Nancy Pelosi's office and sat in her chair and put his feet up on her desk. And wrote her a note. Like, generally when you see that, when you see people storming the actual chambers of Congress of breaking through windows and doors, the country has collapsed. And I thought. Wrongly I thought the response. Was going to be way more serious than what we've actually seen. Now you may not recall my coverage of the riots and insurrection and take over at the capitol. But I remember at the time just saying, hold on. Why are these people not being stopped? And then when they were let go, I remember saying like, hold on. Why did the Washington D.C. police or the capitol police not form a perimeter around the capitol and say, listen, we gave y'all space to do the craziness that you just did? But now you're surrounded and we are arresting all of you. Instead, not only was everybody able to storm the capitol, they were all also able to storm themselves right out of the capitol. We've now had even as of yesterday, new people are still being arrested still being charged. We've had about 750 arrests. It appears that there were thousands of people who participated. So it's likely that thousands of people will never be held accountable. In great part because the entire security apparatus of the American capital failed. Yes, there were heroic moments and God bless those men and women who put their lives on the line to protect senators and Congress people and to protect their peers, but by and large the entire security apparatus of the American capital completely failed. And we were very close, I believe. To Congress people being killed as well. Had certain doors in certain parameters not been completely protected. I think they would have stormed literal offices with Congress people in them, and they might have killed folk. Whatever the case after it was all said and done. There was a part of me that expected when Joe Biden took office when Democrats took office. When Joe Biden took over The White House and Democrats took over the House and the Senate with vice president Kamala Harris being the tie breaking vote, there was a real part of me that thought. Democrats are going to drop the hammer here. Like people stormed the capitol. The American capital was taken over lives were lost in the months since several capital police officers have killed themselves. I don't fully have the backstory there. I don't know if those men were clinically depressed before the insurrection or if it was guilt or shame from the insurrection. I don't know the backstory there. Suicide is high among police officers in general. But the hammer hasn't been dropped. And not only that, but leading conservatives who are being subpoenaed by Congress and leading conservatives who are even being subpoenaed by other state governments. Let me say what I mean. Congress has issued multiple subpoenas to men and women who have just said, no, I'm not coming. I'm not going. The first was Steve Bannon, and he was held in contempt, and that is what it is. But now multiple other people following Bannon's lead have said, I don't care that you've subpoenaed me. I'm not going. Just yesterday the attorney general of New York just James, attorney general tis James from Brooklyn, a great woman tis James subpoenaed Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump for a separate case here in New York. And my understanding is that they.
The Stuttering John Podcast
"tis james" Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"That she's doing this also because now that you went after a Democrat when she goes after Trump, they can't say it's a partisan thing. I think there's any enforcement. We don't do law enforcement business that way. We're not supposed to do John. We assess every single case on its merits on the facts. The evidence and the law. And we make a decision in that case regardless of what it might mean in a bigger picture, politically or we don't play that game where we leverage one case we bring and we think that then gives us some political cover to bring another case because if you're a prosecutor and you're behaving that way, get out of the business, go into private practice and chase ambulances. Okay, yeah. I just, I don't know, I was trying to see the silver lining and all of this because tis James does have a case against Trump, correct? It's James working together with DA vans, DA Vance is the prosecutor to James is largely going to bring civil actions in her role as attorney general with a couple of exceptions. He does have criminal jurisdiction over a couple of pigeonholed crimes. But their partnered up now in the investigation against Donald Trump. So essentially, it would be the district attorney's office. His office, working in conjunction with his James, who would bring the criminal charges against Trump. Glenn, you know, I've been talking about this today. And. I think it's so hypocritical that everybody now is jumping on Joe Biden over Afghanistan when. You know, look, if you're going to jump on anybody, it should be judged W Bush who put the freaking troops and started the war in the first place. Well, I just want to get your take on did Joe Biden botch this up or was this just an unwinnable situation? Yeah. And people have been reposting Trump's comments from a few months back. Saying Joe Biden can't stop a withdrawal from Afghanistan that I put in place . So let's keep that as a frame of reference, right? Yes. Here's now listen, John, I am not a foreign policy expert. I know active duty, army guy for 6 and a half nearly 7 years before I went over to the Department of Justice. My pop was an army guy. So I am very fond of in a big supporter of our military. The way I see it, now this is my gutter kid from Jersey sensibilities. I don't bring foreign policy expertise to any of this. You know, we were there for 20 years, basically we were there trying to help Afghanistan build its own government, build its own military build its own security forces, so it could self govern in a safe effective way. But that has never happened in Afghanistan and I don't happen to believe we are the world's policemen and we can go into every country that is experiencing atrocities as much as our heart goes out to people in those countries who need help. It's not for the United States to go into every country and try to fix what's broken there. I believe whenever we withdrew from Afghanistan, whether it was today, tomorrow, 5 years ago, ten years ago, this is precisely what would have happened. Yeah, I've heard a lot of military experts say that. So then my question is, we should have gotten in, done what we could in 6 months to a year and we should have withdrawn 20 years ago..