0:13

a new report has exposed that Donald

0:15

Trump just moments after hearing his 34

0:18

guilty verdicts being read out,

0:20

apparently ran to a

0:22

dark corner to call up Mike Johnson

0:25

and rant to him about how you

0:27

need to save me. So

0:29

Politico's playbook newsletter recounts that the

0:32

GOP presidential contender was overheard quote

0:34

dropping frequent F bombs in his

0:36

call with Johnson on May 30th

0:38

as he told the speaker, we

0:41

have to overturn this. And

0:43

I just love that like, think

0:46

of all the people you could call moments

0:48

after finding out like, dear God, I've been

0:50

found guilty the first president ever and I

0:52

might not likely but I might end up

0:54

going to prison. You could call your wife,

0:57

you could call your children. No, it's

0:59

Mike Johnson save my butt

1:02

please. And how

1:04

is he gonna do that? Like we'll get

1:06

to all the ways he's trying to do

1:08

that and he was a great lackey, a

1:11

great toady. He immediately jumped to doing what

1:13

he could but why didn't you

1:15

like get that sort of passion into

1:18

coming up with a defense or I

1:20

don't know like if you were so

1:22

scared of going to prison, maybe don't

1:24

have all of the affairs and then

1:26

cover them up with hush money. I

1:28

mean, that's my advice but granted, I

1:30

don't have a lot of experience in

1:32

this world. So I guess I should

1:34

defer to Donald Trump. But as I

1:36

said, Mike Johnson, he's playing ball he's

1:38

in Trump's corner now. And so the

1:40

next morning, he gets up early to

1:42

join Fox and friends and that's where

1:44

he announced this his calls for the

1:46

Supreme Court to step in after Trump's

1:48

historic conviction saying, I do believe

1:50

the Supreme Court should step in. Obviously, this

1:53

is totally unprecedented and it's dangerous to our

1:55

system. If he's talking about Donald Trump as

1:57

a candidate, I agree with him on both

1:59

counts. but I don't think that's what he

2:01

means. This is diminishing the American people's faith

2:03

in our system of justice itself. And to

2:06

maintain a republic, you have to have that.

2:08

People have to believe that justice is fair,

2:10

that there's equal justice under the law. They

2:12

don't see that right now. And I think

2:14

that the justices on the court, I know

2:17

many of them personally, I think they're deeply

2:19

concerned about that as we are. So I

2:21

think they'll set this straight, but it's going

2:23

to take a while. You'll notice, he

2:26

says not one word, not one syllable,

2:28

not one about the

2:30

evidence. Not that they got

2:32

anything wrong, just no, this isn't fair,

2:34

you can't do this. No,

2:36

of course, he filters it through the bizarro

2:39

warping of reality that they all do that.

2:41

Donald Trump, who definitely committed these

2:43

crimes being found guilty as anyone

2:45

else could be, is not

2:48

evidence of the justice

2:50

system being fair in relation to

2:52

all. I would argue that this is perhaps

2:55

the first indication that it in fact can

2:57

be. That even if you're a billionaire, even

2:59

if you're a former president, even if you

3:01

personally know Supreme Court justices and in fact

3:04

appointed one third of the SCOTUS, you

3:06

can still be found guilty in a court of law.

3:09

I think that should provide a renewing

3:11

of faith in the system of justice

3:13

that we have in America for many Americans. And honestly,

3:16

it probably did for many. I know

3:18

I felt a little bit better about our system

3:20

of justice and not just in that one, but

3:22

in the Hunter Biden verdict as well. But

3:25

again, this is all a cover story. He doesn't care about

3:27

any of this stuff. He doesn't care about the American people

3:29

or about the courts.

3:31

What he cares about is protecting Donald Trump

3:33

because he doesn't wanna have another one of

3:35

those phone calls. I wouldn't either, I feel

3:38

like Mike Johnson in this. And

3:40

think about the way he ends that.

3:42

I think they'll set this straight. That's

3:46

not how you talk about something if

3:48

you're like, they'll discover the truth. They'll

3:51

consider evidence that was unfairly excluded from

3:53

the court. They'll have Donald Trump testify

3:55

in the way that he totally could

3:58

have but chose not to. There's none

4:00

of that, it's just Bell said it

4:02

straight. And think about

4:04

if your goal actually was for people to have

4:06

more faith in our courts, the

4:09

idea that Donald Trump, who had his

4:11

day in court, his six weeks in court,

4:13

okay? And had a jury unanimously

4:15

find him guilty of all of these. The

4:17

evidence was presented and the jury believed that

4:19

he did it. But no, now

4:21

the Supreme Court was not

4:24

chosen by the people. In fact, one third

4:26

of it was chosen by Donald Trump, they

4:28

will overturn that ruling that

4:30

will give people faith in the

4:32

system. No, it'll ensure for them that

4:34

they know that elites are not bound by

4:36

the law in the same way that they

4:39

are. That is exactly what it would be, and

4:41

that's how it would be interpreted. But I also

4:43

want to be clear, that is not the only

4:46

way that Mike Johnson tried to protect Donald Trump,

4:48

or more likely, at least show

4:50

Donald Trump that he's trying. Because again, he

4:52

doesn't want another phone call. He

4:54

also, of course, tried to do what he could in

4:56

terms of the house. And so

4:59

this was June 7th, so this

5:01

was back then, Johnson seeks

5:03

votes for Bill to support Trump after

5:05

guilty verdict. So after this phone call, he

5:07

immediately starts talking to the Republicans about what

5:09

can we do, what bill can we pass?

5:12

And that's the bill that we discussed previously on the

5:14

show. It's the one that would allow any case

5:17

that targets a former president to not

5:19

be tried in the state court, but

5:21

instead be tried in federal court. Which

5:24

is just such a cowardly, deceitful

5:26

way to handle this. That

5:28

has nothing to do whatsoever with the evidence.

5:30

Again, federal court has already shown in the

5:33

past week that they are willing to find

5:35

the wealthy and the powerful guilty

5:37

in Hunter Biden. So

5:40

it's not like he would have gotten a

5:42

better showing in court. It's just he'll be

5:44

able to get rid of it if he

5:46

becomes president again. The law, by the way,

5:49

is very much not supposed to be written

5:51

so that it only impacts one

5:53

person. That is the opposite of justice. It's

5:55

the opposite of the sort of ethical guidelines

5:57

that our Congress.

6:00

should run by, but this was

6:02

designed to benefit one man, the

6:04

man that they support. Now,

6:07

it's never gonna pass in the Senate and Joe

6:09

Biden obviously isn't going to sign it. So I

6:11

think this is the perfect example of the sort

6:13

of thing that he's doing just so that Trump

6:15

feels like he's trying to help. But

6:18

even that wasn't it. There also,

6:20

I'll remind you trying to target

6:23

the appropriations process to try to

6:25

defund Jack Smith's probe into

6:28

Donald Trump. And again, that's not gonna save

6:30

him when it comes to the hush money

6:32

trial. But it's just trying

6:34

to make sure that Donald Trump knows

6:36

that everything they're doing, whether it's in

6:39

the media or in Congress is all

6:41

designed around what he wants. And

6:43

that signal I think has been sent

6:46

very strongly. So good job, Mike

6:48

Johnson. That's what you're there for. That's all

6:50

you're there for. You're terrified that if you

6:52

do anything other than Congress, you'll cast aside

6:55

that Marjorie Greene will get her way. But

6:58

I hope that that signal is not

7:00

only received by Donald Trump. I hope

7:02

it's received by the American people. And

7:04

in particular, I hope it's received by

7:06

Republican voters. And I know that you'll

7:08

interpret it wrong just as they are

7:11

in that, yeah, you think that the only goal

7:13

of governance is to protect Donald Trump because Donald

7:15

Trump is the end all be all of what

7:17

all of this is supposed to be. While

7:21

they're doing all this, they're not doing anything for

7:23

you. I know, I know they're coming for him

7:25

because he's in the way and they want to

7:27

come for you. But no, no, this has nothing

7:29

to do with the economy. This has nothing to

7:31

do with health care. This has nothing to do

7:33

with energy or education or the environment or any

7:35

of this stuff. This is an

7:38

entire Republican Party, one of the two

7:40

parties we have spending every

7:42

single moment just to give Donald

7:44

Trump what he wants. And it's both in terms of

7:46

what they do, these sorts of

7:48

bills, what they're considering. And it's also what

7:50

they don't do, shooting down the border bill.

7:53

The Republican Party has been made

7:55

100%, they're supplicating

7:58

themselves before Donald Trump. And

8:00

I know that that's for some reason what you want.

8:02

But I just want you to bear in mind as

8:04

the days and weeks and months go by, nothing is

8:06

being done to solve the very real problems that I

8:08

think if you were to stop and consider,

8:11

you'd know you're currently suffering from. This

8:13

is not a solution any of those, it's not even

8:15

a pretend solution to any of those. But

8:17

with that said, I want to turn to potential

8:20

additional crimes. We've covered the 34 felonies, let's

8:22

move on to other things. Fresh

8:25

off his literally dozens of felony

8:27

convictions, Donald Trump has apparently admitted

8:29

to violating a key consequence of

8:31

him being a felon, and

8:33

maybe admitting to an additional crime along

8:36

the way. So an official who

8:38

was briefed on the pre sentencing meeting that Donald

8:40

Trump had earlier this week, told

8:42

CNN that Trump admitted to still possessing one

8:44

of the three firearms listed on his New

8:46

York City permit to carry concealed weapons. Two

8:49

of the three pistols he was licensed to carry

8:51

we previously discussed were handed over to police back

8:53

in March of 2023, after

8:56

his gun license was suspended in light

8:58

of his arrest by the Manhattan DA's

9:00

office. The third gun though was lawfully

9:02

moved to Florida. This is according to

9:04

the source, who knows if that's even

9:06

true, but that's what they're saying. Presumably

9:08

to Mar-a-Lago where Trump was for the

9:10

remotely conducted hearing. So he had

9:12

the license for three guns, he was supposed to

9:14

turn all of them in, he turned in two

9:17

and just decided no

9:19

on the last one, it's mine, you

9:21

can't have it. It is, however,

9:23

and this is an inconvenient truth, I guess,

9:25

for Donald Trump, a federal crime for someone

9:27

convicted of a felony to possess a firearm

9:30

or ammunition. And apparently

9:32

he does. Or if

9:34

he doesn't, he's certainly not being forthcoming with the change

9:36

in status of his firearm or where it is or

9:38

who he gave it to. Did he sell it? Did

9:41

he give it to one of his kids? I don't know,

9:43

I don't know. I do know that Palm Beach Police

9:45

told CNN that they were not told of any gun

9:47

that Trump might have, and none were turned over to

9:49

them since his conviction in May. The

9:51

New York City Police Department has now

9:54

notified police in Florida and asked them

9:56

to take appropriate action. And that's where

9:58

things, I think, become potentially very interesting.

10:00

interesting, maybe spicy, certainly dramatic because he's

10:03

not supposed to have these guns. It

10:05

is a clear violation of the law.

10:08

And yet the NYPD can't go take the

10:10

gun, they're not going to raid Mar-a-Lago, they

10:12

have to go through Florida police. And

10:15

now that this story is out there and

10:17

it's making headlines, what are we, maybe 10

10:19

minutes away from Ron DeSantis weighing in on

10:21

this? Do you think that

10:23

the Florida police or that to the extent

10:25

that Ron DeSantis can control them, would

10:28

actually go and take that gun, demand that he

10:30

comply with the law? Maybe

10:33

I hope so, I find it a little bit hard

10:35

to believe that they're going to do that. They've

10:37

already said that although he's not supposed to

10:40

necessarily be able to vote in this election,

10:42

they're going to change the regulations to allow

10:44

him to. That's what Ron DeSantis and the

10:47

Florida Republicans are going to do after spending

10:49

years trying to stop former felons from exercising

10:51

their right to vote. They're willing to totally

10:53

180 on it for Donald Trump. I expect

10:56

that they'll do the same thing for guns.

10:59

And I don't even know for what does Donald Trump need

11:01

with that gun? As we discussed

11:03

earlier this week, the very idea of him

11:05

holding a gun is utterly ridiculous. The

11:07

guy's only comfortable holding slices of chocolate cake. Come on,

11:10

he's not going to use a gun, he doesn't need

11:12

a gun, he's never going to defend himself, and he's

11:14

not legally supposed to have it. By

11:17

the way, on the topic of guns, I want

11:19

to have fun for a moment. I want to

11:21

remind you that he once promised the NRA that

11:23

he would reverse President Joe Biden's gun control measures.

11:26

All of those gun control measures that he's

11:29

passed, it's just every day it's another gun

11:31

control measure. But anyway, he has

11:33

long bragged about his guns and what he would

11:35

do with them. Following the terrorist attacks in 2016

11:37

in Paris, he told the French magazine that quote,

11:40

I always carry a weapon on me. And

11:43

that if he was there, he would have

11:45

opened fire on the assailants. If

11:49

he was caught in the middle of

11:52

a deadly terrorist attack, he'd

11:55

go John Rambo. He'd be diving

11:57

in front of civilians trying to

11:59

absorb the fire. protecting the innocent,

12:01

bravely firing back at those terrorists.

12:03

That's what he would do. But

12:06

look, even if he wants to have his hero

12:09

fantasies, I don't even see why he would care

12:11

if his gun would be taken away. Because he's

12:13

been on the record before that he doesn't even

12:15

need a gun to be a hero. Here's what

12:17

he said in the wake of the Parkland shooting.

12:21

You know, I really believe you don't know until you test

12:23

it, but I think I really believe I'd run into even

12:25

if I didn't have a weapon. I

12:29

know that I say this pretty much every day,

12:31

but that's the most ridiculous thing that he's ever

12:33

said in his life. Look,

12:35

maybe the terrorist attack in

12:37

Paris is more ridiculous. He's

12:40

not going to defend people with a gun. He's

12:42

certainly not gonna run in there without a gun.

12:44

I mean, I know some of you might be

12:46

Maga and you think that he's brave and you

12:48

think that he's got like the V lines on

12:51

his abs or whatever. You see him in a

12:53

way that has never been true and never will

12:55

be true. But come on, you have to admit

12:57

that that's a joke, that he's not

12:59

gonna do that. The guy, he

13:02

went so far beyond the bounds of what

13:04

should have been acceptable in avoiding serving in

13:07

Vietnam with his lies of an education and

13:09

bone spurs and all that. And ever since

13:11

he's made a mockery of those who actually

13:14

serve and talking about avoiding STDs being his

13:16

personal Vietnam. He is a guy

13:18

who has never done anything more physically strenuous

13:20

or brave in his life than maybe

13:24

recovering one of his stray golf

13:26

balls from the brush. What

13:30

hero? He doesn't even exercise and you

13:32

think that he's going to take down

13:35

a mass shooter. But

13:37

anyway, I digress for now, he at

13:39

the very least should not have that

13:41

gun, okay? He needs to turn it

13:43

over. And I also in closing, just

13:45

wanna say how ironic it is that

13:48

the right who admittedly, they're not all that

13:51

excited about the fact that Hunter Biden was

13:53

just found guilty of gun related charges. But

13:55

they at least accept that he should be.

13:57

They think that he did violate the law.

14:00

that if you don't apply the law or

14:02

don't follow the law when it comes to

14:04

your guns, you could potentially suffer the consequences

14:06

as a result of that. And

14:08

we're like days off of that verdict, and

14:10

we find out that Donald Trump is risking

14:12

it too. And by the way, I don't

14:14

know that I believe that he will suffer

14:16

any legal consequences for this, maybe they'll turn

14:18

it in. But if

14:20

he does, is this not like the

14:23

most stereotypically Trumpian legal problem

14:25

to cause for yourself, that

14:28

you just don't give it back? I mean,

14:30

it's like a stack of classified documents next

14:32

to his toilet. He doesn't need

14:35

to have it. There's no reason for him

14:37

to have it, he's not legally allowed to

14:39

have it, but it's mine. It's

14:41

my you can't have it, who are

14:43

you to take away my object? And

14:46

I would imagine that if I were a

14:48

MAGA person, and I was seeing this right now,

14:50

I would think, can you

14:52

not make it so easy for the

14:55

other side to prosecute you? Stop

14:57

willingly violating the law. He

14:59

doesn't carry the gun, he doesn't need the gun,

15:02

just give it in, you stupid idiot. The

15:22

those who might not have much money to give, but

15:24

they want to be a part of the Trump thing.

15:26

And so they give their last $10 billion

15:29

of the last $25. And they give it to

15:32

Trump so he can win the election. And

15:34

instead, he's stealing millions of those

15:36

dollars. So far in this campaign,

15:39

at least from what they've been able to track

15:41

down, he has moved $4.6

15:43

million of campaign money into his

15:46

business empire. So it used to be campaign

15:48

money, now it's his money. He

15:50

gets to keep it, he could spend it

15:52

on guns or whatever if he

15:54

wants to. And so that's according to a

15:57

review of FEC records. So the bulk of that cash

15:59

so far. Some $4.2 million has gone to one

16:03

of Trump's aviation companies, Tag

16:05

Air, which he has.

16:07

He has an aviation company still. That

16:10

one didn't go bankrupt. Did anyone even know that

16:12

this existed? He apparently did because he's enriching himself

16:14

through it. The Secret Service, which

16:16

has to by law travel with Donald Trump,

16:19

has paid more than $800,000 for airfare

16:21

to his campaign, perhaps contributing

16:24

some of that $4.2 million. And

16:28

needlessly so. He's

16:30

flying. Why do they

16:32

have to pay? It's his

16:35

plane. They're there to protect him. And

16:38

by the way, sorry, I'm an idiot.

16:40

I said they pay like the Secret

16:43

Service, we're paying. That's

16:45

our money. That was tax money. They went to

16:47

the Secret Service and now it's

16:49

going to him, okay? So that wasn't

16:51

even specifically MAGA money. I

16:53

fronted a little bit of that, a couple

16:55

pennies, I guess. But anyway, it's

16:57

not just airfare. Also, Trump's 2024 campaign has

17:01

spent $332,000 at Mar-a-Lago, the

17:04

private club that serves as his personal residence.

17:06

So he has campaign events there at his

17:09

house, and they pay

17:12

Mar-a-Lago, which he owns

17:14

and lives at for his campaign

17:16

events. There's

17:19

no need to pay at all. But

17:21

why not? It's just stupid MAGA

17:23

people's money from his point of view. Why

17:25

shouldn't he steal a whole bunch of it?

17:28

His campaign also spent $20,000 at Trump

17:31

National Doral, that's his Miami

17:33

Golf Resort. Another $36,000 went to the

17:35

Trump hotel in

17:37

Las Vegas. And before we get to their response to this,

17:39

let me just pause for a

17:41

second to remind you, it's $20,000 here, $36,000

17:45

there, $300,000 on the side. So

17:49

that's significant money. For you or

17:51

I, that would be a lot of money. If

17:53

I ever ran for office or something, that would

17:55

be a lot of money to have raised. But

17:58

doesn't it seem like the most Pidly,

18:00

needless, spiteful theft by

18:02

Donald Trump. He

18:04

has billions of dollars and he's

18:06

stealing $36,000,

18:10

needlessly. Now, it's a lot of money when

18:12

you break it down into all of the

18:14

individual donations. Someone who

18:16

owns a small business in Phoenix

18:19

or whatever, like a retired MAGA

18:21

person in Florida, they give 10 bucks,

18:23

they give five bucks, they give 100 bucks. You

18:26

add all of that up, so many people

18:28

who love and admire Donald Trump. No,

18:31

it's mine, I take it. I send it to

18:33

my club or I send it over the golf course.

18:35

It's mine, it's not going to the campaign anymore. Jesus.

18:39

Well, this doesn't look good for Trump. So

18:41

a strong response from his campaign is needed.

18:43

And here's what we have instead. A spokesperson

18:46

for his campaign deflected from the

18:48

criticism, criticizing Joe Biden's travel to

18:51

Delaware, to Delaware

18:53

from DC, he traveled to Delaware, okay?

18:56

And Hunter Biden's overseas business

18:59

dealings, which

19:01

exist, I guess, the evidence is

19:03

gonna come someday. While pointing out

19:05

that Trump donated his $400,000 a

19:08

year White House salary and left office

19:10

poorer than he entered it. Look,

19:13

did he donate his salary? They

19:15

say that he did. I haven't

19:17

seen any proof that he did, but I'm

19:19

perfectly willing to accept that he did. That's

19:22

$400,000. He's made countless millions while

19:27

in office off the fact that he's

19:29

present. He has stolen countless tens of

19:31

millions from his own fans. And

19:33

look, I personally think that if you

19:36

robbed me of money, but then donated

19:38

a very small fraction of your salary,

19:40

I guess back to

19:43

the US government, what does

19:45

that have to do with the theft

19:47

you just perpetrated against me? I donated

19:49

that to your campaign, not so it

19:51

could just sit in some bank account

19:53

accruing interest. Why would I be

19:55

interested in a billionaire getting more money? But

19:58

then again, it does seem to be a very popular position

20:00

on the right. So maybe I'm just confused about

20:02

that. But I also want to be

20:04

clear, all of this appears to be accurate the theft,

20:06

millions of dollars and we're just getting started. There's going

20:08

to be millions more that he's going to rob his

20:10

fans for. But if it seems

20:13

like it's getting worse over time, that's because

20:15

it actually is. If you go back

20:17

to the 2016 race, he invested

20:19

$66 million of his own campaign,

20:21

of his own money into his campaign.

20:24

So that's more than the $13 million

20:26

that his campaign paid his business. Now

20:28

that $13 million could be zero, but

20:31

at least he gave more money to the campaign

20:34

than he got from it. He also

20:36

got far more in donation, so never

20:38

believed the lies, the myth making that

20:40

he self funded his campaign. It was

20:42

still largely on the back of big

20:44

donors. But

20:46

in 2016, at least it was a net, or it was

20:48

a net negative. In 2020, he

20:50

gave nothing to his campaign, he was done

20:52

with that. And he did

20:54

continue to collect money from the campaign though,

20:56

he gave $3 million of donor funds into

20:58

his business. So suddenly we're not negative anymore, we're

21:01

positive, at least for a few million dollars.

21:03

This election, he's already exceeded that

21:06

amount. And we're a month away from

21:08

the RNC, months

21:10

away from the actual election. So he's going

21:12

to certainly multiple times overlap that. And so

21:14

he appears to be learning over time. I'm

21:16

not going to waste my money getting elected,

21:18

and I'm going to rob you. And I'm

21:20

going to rob you even more because he's

21:22

seen over the course of the past two

21:24

elections, that the Republicans are going to do

21:26

anything about it. They're going to continue to

21:28

shower him with money, despite

21:30

all of the support that he has. And

21:32

I'll remind you, other Trump connected

21:34

groups have also paid his businesses.

21:37

So we're talking about his campaign stealing, but

21:39

there's all the leadership packs, and the affiliated

21:41

super packs, and all of that. All of

21:43

them raising money that is supposed to go

21:45

to his campaign, they're also

21:47

giving his businesses money. And

21:50

so when you add it all up, it's about $7

21:52

million already, that

21:55

he has taken. And again,

21:57

I have no confidence whatsoever that

22:00

any MAGA people are going to have a problem with

22:02

the fact that he is routinely picking their pockets. But

22:05

I would at least remind them, according

22:07

to him, he is worth

22:09

$6.4 billion. Why does he

22:13

need to steal $7 million from you? Why

22:16

does he need to do any of this? Why, and this

22:19

is a much bigger issue, why does

22:21

he need your donations at all? He

22:25

could spend a small fraction of

22:27

the wealth he has to do his entire

22:30

run for office. Not even

22:32

counting all the free media and all that that

22:34

he's going to get and all that. He

22:36

would still be a many times over billionaire, and you

22:39

guys would get to keep your money. He could

22:41

even say, here's why I'm doing it. Normally,

22:44

I'd accept your donations, and I know many of

22:46

you want to give me donations that I love

22:48

that you want to be a part of this

22:50

campaign. But you know what? You all have been

22:52

wrecked by the Joe Biden inflation. And so what

22:54

I'm going to do is in some small part, I'm

22:56

going to try to make good on his

22:59

own. Don't give me your donations. Instead, put

23:01

it into overpriced eggs and milk and gas

23:03

and whatever. And they'll tell all sorts of

23:05

lies about inflation. But you could say that,

23:07

and he would still have all the money he

23:09

needs and more to run for office. But you've

23:12

seen the pattern over these three elections. That is

23:14

not at all how he sees his

23:16

donors. He sees them as a piggy bank

23:18

and not just for his campaign, not just

23:20

saving him from having to sell fund his

23:22

campaign. But he also takes a little bit

23:24

on the side. Money that to you

23:26

and I would be huge to him, it's a small

23:28

fraction of his wealth, but still worth

23:31

robbing them for. I'll

23:33

never understand these people. With that said, we're

23:35

going to take our first break of the hour and we come back

23:37

much more to talk about after this. The Republican

23:39

party should always be on the

23:42

side of the miracle of life

23:45

and the side of mothers, father, they're beautiful babies. And

23:48

that's what we are. IVF is an important

23:51

part of that and our great

23:53

partner in the outbreak,

23:58

in the your quest for

24:00

the ultimate joy in life. Yeah,

24:04

no, he's lying. Maybe he individually

24:06

supports IVF, but the Republican Party

24:08

increasingly doesn't. And if he becomes

24:10

president and they try to outlaw

24:12

it, which they will, he

24:15

is going to sign it. And there

24:17

goes IVF, it's gone, at least

24:19

here in America. And here is

24:21

some strong evidence that that's the direction they're moving

24:24

in. The Southern Baptists, the country's

24:26

largest Protestant denomination, voted yesterday to

24:28

oppose the use of IVF. They

24:31

have 13 million church members,

24:33

incredibly influential on the

24:36

right. And here is what they had to say about

24:38

this. Here's their thinking for

24:41

why they now oppose this thing that we've

24:43

just had and I guess maybe taken for granted

24:46

in this country. So many other rights

24:48

to control what happens to our body. That

24:51

was quaint in the 70s, 80s, 90s, and aughts. But

24:54

now, we need to take it back

24:56

to an earlier phase of America. They

24:58

said, this is a resolution they

25:01

passed. It called on Southern Baptists

25:03

to reaffirm the unconditional value and

25:05

right to life of every human

25:07

being, including those in an embryonic

25:09

stage. And to only utilize reproductive

25:11

technologies consistent with that affirmation, especially

25:13

in the number of embryos generated

25:15

in the IVF process. It

25:18

also exhorted them to advocate for

25:20

the government to restrain actions inconsistent

25:22

with the dignity of every human

25:24

being, which necessarily includes frozen embryonic

25:27

human beings. And I love this

25:29

for them. I love that they

25:31

get to use phrase as unconditional

25:33

value and right to life of

25:35

every human being and the dignity

25:37

of every human being. It's

25:40

the sort of thing that conservatives

25:42

like to say only about

25:45

this, only about abortion. And

25:47

then as soon as you're no longer an

25:49

embryo or in an embryonic stage, you

25:52

have no dignity, you have no unconditional life.

25:54

You're on your own. You might end up

25:56

on the streets. You might literally starve and

25:58

if you commit the wrong sort of crime. the

26:00

government will kill you. But you're

26:02

an embryo, you're cool, we got your

26:04

back. So that's what

26:06

they had to say, okay? And this has

26:09

not been their stated position in the past,

26:11

but now this is

26:13

what they're going to be advocating for,

26:15

too. There are millions of constituents and

26:17

they, Barron, will be encouraged to do

26:19

the same thing to their elected representatives.

26:22

And you might be thinking, well, but

26:24

is that that strong of a connection?

26:26

I mean, these are people who go

26:28

to church, it's not actually politicians. Well,

26:30

here's what political scientists are saying about

26:33

this change. One said

26:35

the move may signal the beginning of

26:37

a broad turn on the right against

26:39

IVF, an issue that many evangelicals, anti-abortion

26:41

advocates, and other social conservatives see as

26:43

the pro-life's movement's next frontier. One

26:46

they hope will eventually lead to restrictions or

26:48

outright bans on IVF at the state and

26:50

federal levels. We're going to get to another

26:52

in a second, but I just want to

26:54

amend that a little bit. It's not the

26:57

start of anything, it's another big step down

26:59

that path. First

27:01

of all, they've already tried to ban it in one

27:03

state. And I don't know if

27:05

you watch the so-called independent right wing

27:07

media, you probably shouldn't, but they have

27:09

been increasingly advocating for this for at

27:11

least a year. And for

27:13

exactly, I'll give credit to the political scientists

27:15

for the reasons you said. They

27:18

killed Roe v Wade, they got what they

27:20

wanted, and then they were sitting there thinking,

27:24

so what do we do now? We

27:26

don't want to do anything about it, but I think that's

27:29

all it is. And we're not looking back

27:32

with perfect hindsight. We were saying this is what

27:35

they're going to do then. They're going to

27:37

come for IVF, they're going to come for

27:39

contraception, they're going to come for

27:41

no-fault divorce. We can have interesting

27:43

discussions about what the stages are

27:46

that come after that, but this is the path they're on.

27:49

This is how they run elections, trying

27:51

to take away your rights and demonizing

27:53

migrants. That's pretty much it, that's been

27:56

the right thing to do. That's pretty much it,

27:58

that's been the road map for a very long time. they're gonna get

28:00

creative at this point and move in

28:02

a more productive direction. Don't bet

28:05

your rights on it. But anyway,

28:07

here's another political scientist, David Darmofall, who

28:09

said Southern Baptists are the base of the

28:12

Republican Party. Parties are responsive to their bases.

28:15

The Southern Baptist Convention just voted to

28:17

oppose IVF. Republicans will ban IVF if

28:19

Trump wins. And hey, maybe

28:22

I'm wrong and maybe they'll put all this

28:24

pressure and they'll have a bill on his

28:26

desk and he'll say, no, I have to

28:28

be consistent with what I said during the

28:30

campaign. Yeah, right.

28:33

How has that worked for your rights in

28:35

the past? Remember all of those

28:37

Supreme Court justices who killed Roe v Wade said that

28:39

they would never do it. Okay, maybe

28:41

Trump will be uniquely honest for the first time

28:43

in his life. I kind of doubt it. The

28:52

GOP is using tricks to try to confuse you

28:54

about their position on IVF. You might

28:56

have seen this headline, Republican IVF

28:58

Bill Blocked by Senate Democrats.

29:00

Well, that's interesting.

29:03

Wait, the Senate Democrats are blocking the bill?

29:05

I mean, they say they like IVF. And

29:09

it's true, sort

29:11

of, in a very dishonest way. So

29:13

Senate Democrats did, in fact, kill a

29:15

Republican led bill. This was Ted Cruz

29:18

and Katie Britt. We've previously talked about

29:20

it on the channel to protect access

29:22

to in vitro fertilization, okay? Their bill

29:25

is also expected to fail, the Democratic

29:27

one. And so here's what Ted Cruz

29:29

said. We're the ones that want to

29:31

protect IVF. Understand we could have passed

29:34

strong federal legislation today, but Senate Democrats

29:36

don't want a protection of IVF. They

29:38

want a campaign issue, which

29:40

is partially true. The Democrats almost certainly do

29:43

want it as a campaign issue. But they

29:45

also oppose this bill not only to maintain

29:47

as an issue, but also that it was

29:49

designed to be weaker than the Democratic bill.

29:51

I just told you the Democratic bill is

29:53

also gonna be shot down. It's not

29:55

gonna be shot down by the Democrats. So who would

29:58

be killing that one? Stay

30:00

tuned, we'll find out together. But anyway,

30:02

the GOP bill that was killed that

30:04

was dubbed the IVF Protection Act is

30:06

far more narrowly tailored than that of

30:08

the Democratic bill and over supposed religious

30:10

liberty concerns. It would strip

30:12

states of Medicaid funding if they prohibit IVF,

30:15

a move that gives states broad discretion and

30:17

does not bar them from passing restrictions on

30:20

the fertility procedure. Many Republican

30:22

governors have been perfectly willing to kill a

30:24

Medicaid expansion in the past. So I'm not

30:26

sure that that's all that's scary of a

30:28

threat for them. And it would not block

30:30

them from doing so. It's

30:32

a very weak way to protect access to

30:35

those rights. And I'll say again, over

30:37

religious liberty concerns, look,

30:40

I have no doubt that a lot of religious

30:42

conservatives believe that their opposition to

30:44

these procedures has something to do with their religion. It

30:46

just isn't founded in their religious texts. They

30:49

say it's a religious thing because it sounds

30:52

bigger or better or stronger than just saying

30:54

it's a thing I believe. It's

30:57

something the left should learn from. I don't

30:59

want the world to heat up. I'm opposed

31:01

to climate change. But that's just a thing

31:03

that I believe based on the evidence. Wouldn't

31:05

it be better if it was a religious

31:07

belief that was underlying that?

31:10

But anyway, the Democratic bill would have

31:12

been trying to write to IVF into

31:14

federal law, but would not force providers

31:16

to offer services over religious concerns. So

31:18

they even give them the religious liberty

31:20

thing. It would also shield providers

31:22

from legal liability, safeguard access for service members

31:24

and veterans, and require health insurance for federal

31:26

employees to help pay for the procedure, which

31:28

can cost up to tens of thousands of

31:30

dollars. It's one of the main reasons that

31:32

IVF isn't more popular because it's prohibitively expensive

31:34

for the vast majority of people. Very

31:37

few private health insurance plans actually

31:40

cover it. So that's an actual

31:42

bill that would protect IVF. Instead,

31:45

to get out in front of that,

31:47

Katie Britt and Ted Cruz have their

31:49

weak ass bill. It's designed to provide

31:51

a little bit of cover for now

31:53

while still allowing states to ban the

31:55

procedure and just to buy time, take

31:58

it off of the campaign. we're

32:00

gonna be talking about. That's what's actually going

32:02

on. It's super dishonest of them to pretend

32:04

otherwise. Now that said, let's talk about some

32:06

more dishonesty, okay? Republicans

32:09

are still pushing the narrative that women

32:11

are for some reason desperate to have

32:14

abortions in the last trimester of their

32:16

pregnancy. In the last week, in

32:19

the last day, sometimes the way the

32:21

Republicans tell it in the last hour

32:23

or moment before they give birth, they're

32:25

suddenly deciding to have abortions. Now, that's

32:28

a fantasy. It's not grounded in reality.

32:30

And that was reminded to John Kennedy

32:32

when he decided to bring up this

32:34

conspiracy theory, this fantasy to a witness

32:37

during a hearing. Take a look at

32:39

this. Should the mother at

32:41

that juncture have the right, clearly

32:43

a viable child, to

32:47

abort the child? My example

32:49

is not unrealistic. I

32:52

think if your answer, I'm

32:54

gonna save my time. If your answer is gonna be

32:56

that never happens, let me go

32:58

to Ms. Fry. What do you think?

33:00

Well, Senator, first of all, don't

33:02

ask a question if you don't wanna know the answer. But

33:05

I'm saying to you, Senator, 1%, 1% of abortions happen at 21 weeks or later. So

33:07

I think the premise of

33:16

your question sets up a

33:18

conversation about abortion that is unfair. It

33:21

rarely is that ever

33:23

the instance. Most, the

33:26

vast majority of pregnancies

33:28

and abortions that are considered late

33:30

in a pregnancy have to

33:32

do with severe, devastating

33:36

medical circumstances. And

33:38

I understand your point, Senator, I

33:40

understand your point. But with all

33:42

due respect, I also think the

33:45

chances of people sort of

33:47

getting all the way through a pregnancy

33:49

and just sort of saying, I don't

33:51

want it, is disrespectful to women. She

33:55

is being so polite and so

33:57

needlessly respectful to a guy, John

33:59

Kennedy. will never deserve an ounce of respect.

34:03

It is disrespectful. It is disrespectful.

34:07

What must you believe about women

34:10

or people who can get pregnant to think

34:12

that they go through eight, eight

34:15

and a half, nine months of

34:17

pregnancy? Okay, think

34:20

about all of that minute by minute, hour

34:22

by hour, day by day, interacting

34:24

with family, interacting with friends, maybe

34:27

having a baby shower, all of the

34:29

planning, all of the checkups with your doctor, all

34:32

of that stuff. And then an

34:34

hour before giving birth, nah,

34:36

I'm good actually, I don't want that. That

34:38

is psychotic, okay?

34:41

I'm saying it's psychotic of Kennedy to

34:43

pretend that that's a thing that

34:45

anyone, let alone many people could

34:47

believe, say or do, and

34:50

because he is pitching people as being psychotic

34:52

to make that sort of choice. It

34:54

doesn't happen. It doesn't happen. It doesn't

34:56

happen. And they're lying about this to

34:59

cover the fact that they are the

35:01

radicals. They want you to believe that,

35:03

there's crazies on all sides. Well, the

35:05

crazies exist only in the fantasy land

35:07

between their ears, whereas anti-abortion

35:10

radicals are getting what they

35:12

want legally all over the

35:14

country already. That is an

35:16

absurd fantasy. And I know people are saying

35:18

in the chat, many Republicans are going way

35:20

further than saying that people are trying to

35:22

have an abortion hours before giving birth. And

35:24

they're saying that they're going to

35:26

have an abortion after birth. Again, these people

35:29

are loony tunes. They're out of their mind.

35:31

But I want you to extend them a

35:33

little bit of empathy because they are very,

35:35

very desperate right now, because they know that

35:37

their positions on abortion, the killing of Roe

35:39

v Wade, the outlawing of abortion states across

35:42

America has not been popular at all. And

35:44

that is why we are seeing a

35:46

near historic shift in how people

35:48

are prioritizing abortion access for their vote. And

35:50

I understand that we don't have this graphic,

35:52

but I'm going to summarize it for you.

35:54

There has been tracking for more than a

35:56

couple of decades right now for the share

35:59

of single issue voters. say that they're

36:01

pro-life or pro-choice. So these are people

36:03

who only decide their vote based on

36:05

if the candidate is pro-life

36:07

or if they are pro-choice. Pro-life

36:11

outnumbered pro-choice up until

36:13

about 2020. Every single

36:15

year there were more single issue voters who

36:17

were pro-life than pro-choice. And even

36:20

then, it was only about 10

36:22

or 12% of voters on either side that

36:24

held those positions. Well,

36:27

in the last year, two years, the

36:30

percentage who are pro-life single issue voters

36:32

has dropped down to 8%.

36:34

It is in the last couple of

36:36

decades a low historically. Whereas

36:38

the number of single issue voters, the percentage who are

36:40

pro- choice has shot up to 23%. It

36:43

is now three times as high as single

36:46

issue pro-life voters. This is

36:48

the very natural and understandable

36:50

product of what the Republican

36:52

Party has done. And when you

36:54

see polls like that, okay, when

36:57

you're John Kennedy and you see stuff like

36:59

this, you're going to be scrambling for some

37:01

nonsense to confuse the issue as well. And

37:03

that's what they're doing here. Right

37:06

now, apparently, 32% of

37:08

voters say they would only vote for candidates for

37:10

major offices if they share their votes on

37:12

abortion. So it is being very highly prioritized and

37:14

not in the direction that the Republicans would like

37:17

it to. Now just before we go

37:19

to our break, I do want to at least mention, the

37:21

Supreme Court did come down with

37:23

a decision that is perhaps surprising

37:25

today in that they struck down

37:27

a legal challenge to the abortion

37:30

pill, methoprestone. And so Brett

37:32

Kavanaugh wrote the opinion, which is disgusting when

37:35

you think about it. But they at least

37:37

are now, for now, continuing the status quo on this

37:40

medication. But I want to be very clear about why

37:43

they're doing that. The decision is

37:45

not that you obviously have

37:47

a right to continue to access to

37:49

this medication that has been FDA approved

37:51

for literally decades and is available in

37:53

countries around the world, no. It's

37:56

that those challenging it didn't have

37:58

standing because they didn't

38:00

prescribe it anyway. And

38:02

so, look, if you wanna take this

38:04

as a good thing and be optimistic,

38:07

sure, they did continue access to this

38:09

abortion pill. But they also

38:12

allowed for, in the future, someone who does

38:14

have standing to challenge it. And

38:16

in that case, they potentially could take away

38:18

those rights and it wouldn't even be breaking

38:20

the precedent that they're setting here. So

38:23

good news for today, potentially bad news for tomorrow.

38:25

And with that, we'll be right back. Okay,

38:36

with that said, let's see what we can

38:38

cover in what remains of the

38:40

show, starting with this. Campaign

38:43

is now resorting to very

38:45

desperate pandering to win over

38:47

voters. They're launching seniors for

38:49

Biden Harris, promoting pickleball and

38:52

phone banks. And meanwhile, Democrats simultaneously,

38:54

they're trying to win back younger

38:56

voters, many of which are abandoning

38:58

their support for Biden. James Carville's

39:00

been screaming about this, and

39:03

you can't make this up. How are they

39:05

trying to attract young voters? With

39:07

beer and birth control,

39:10

free beer, free birth control,

39:13

and I guess free college tuition. Vote

39:15

for us. Beer and birth

39:17

control and free college. What a nice

39:19

deal, please vote for us. I

39:23

would actually, I mean, I'm already going to, but if I was

39:26

young, yeah, I'd find that kind of appealing.

39:28

Sean Hannity is like a weird guy. He constantly

39:31

presents things in a framing that makes the

39:34

Democrats sound awesome, like honestly more awesome

39:36

than they deserve. And I cannot imagine

39:39

that his fans buy that that's horrifying.

39:41

But as you probably

39:43

know, this is a pattern and we'll get

39:47

to the pattern. But I want to talk first

39:50

about his issue here. So his issue

39:52

is that Biden is trying to

39:55

buy voters or pander to voters, which is

39:57

apparently something that Biden came up with. But

40:00

even as examples are weak, they're

40:02

doing seniors for Biden. Okay,

40:05

doesn't Trump have blacks for Trump or

40:07

whatever? Like don't we often constantly hear

40:09

about like, yeah, they have organizations. What

40:11

is Biden doing? He's got this villainous

40:13

idea. He's going to do phone

40:16

banking. Yeah, literally

40:18

every candidate ever has done phone

40:20

banking. Look, whatever the

40:23

pickleball thing is about, maybe that's weird. And

40:25

if they're actually giving out beer, maybe that's

40:27

something. I don't even think that they're doing

40:29

that. But seriously, of all the times to

40:31

be criticizing someone for buying votes, now is

40:34

the time you're going to do it, Sean

40:36

Hannity. We are like two days off of

40:39

Donald Trump, who went to Nevada to tell

40:41

service workers that he's going to

40:43

eliminate your taxes on tips, we're

40:46

going to do it. It was clearly so

40:48

that he could get those service workers to

40:50

vote for him. He's never mentioned this before

40:53

in his life. He'll probably never mention it

40:55

again, but he said it to them to buy

40:58

their votes. And they're not even going to get the

41:00

pickleball, they're not even going to get the beer, they're probably going

41:03

to get nothing off of this. But that's what they're doing and

41:05

it's not the first time we had a little mash up there.

41:07

We can bring it up again. He wants to build a free

41:09

online university and make Harvard pay for it. That's

41:11

not even necessarily the worst idea, I'm not

41:13

even that against it. But he promised $200

41:15

prescription drug cards for seniors, which might be

41:17

fine. I personally think that you just cap

41:20

the amount that they can charge for those

41:22

medications. That would be a lot better for

41:24

seniors. And I'll also remind you that he

41:27

has his name printed on stimulus checks. Now

41:30

let's cut to all the footage of Sean

41:32

Hannity denouncing that. I'm kidding, we obviously don't

41:35

have that because that would never, ever, ever

41:37

happen. Look, is Biden trying to get

41:39

support from these groups? Yes, should he? Well, he's

41:41

a politician and he wants to win the election.

41:44

Yes, he should. Nothing that has

41:46

been presented seems unfair or

41:48

outside of the bounds of

41:50

the reasonable. Nothing like the names being

41:52

printed on the stimulus checks or anything

41:54

like that. And so Sean Hannity, if

41:57

you're going to try to make a big deal out of

41:59

this, even just win over your fans, you're

42:01

going to have to come with a little bit

42:03

stronger evidence than this. But as I said,

42:06

he has a history of kind of doing the

42:08

Democrats job for them. Remember when he talked

42:10

about how the Dems were obsessed over Trump

42:12

investigations? And then he just reminded everyone

42:14

of all of the different things, the

42:17

crimes that Trump is alleged to have committed. And

42:19

even I hadn't remembered a whole bunch of those.

42:21

I don't even think most of those are

42:24

continuing, like the emoluments clause investigations, like who

42:26

is working on that right now? But it

42:28

does look bad for Trump. Or

42:30

when he included what's in the Green New Deal, and

42:33

he had food security and paid

42:35

vacation time and guaranteed green

42:37

housing, universal health care. Yes,

42:40

please, again, all of those things aren't even in

42:42

there, but I wish that they were. It's a

42:44

good idea, actually, the squad should start implementing some

42:46

of that. And then when he tried

42:49

to scare people about AOC and he listed all the

42:51

stuff that she wants, like women's

42:53

rights and support seniors,

42:55

clean campaign finance, and I get

42:57

that this is supposed to terrify

43:00

the geriatrics watching his show, but what

43:02

is terrifying about why would you put

43:04

support seniors on there?

43:07

You know who's watching, Sean, right? That's

43:09

not how you scare them. Sure, say

43:11

gun control, assault weapons ban, because for

43:14

some reason they think that that's worse than

43:16

having kids needlessly being

43:18

gunned down all the time. Or

43:20

Medicare for All, you've demonized that.

43:23

I guess maybe that could work, but

43:25

some of the stuff that he's doing

43:27

doesn't make any sense at all.

43:30

Criminal justice reform, Trump says he wants

43:32

that. Sean Hannity is just so bad

43:34

at this, so bad. See, he's bad at the media part

43:36

of it. He's certainly good at the career part

43:39

of it because he is making $25 million a year to

43:41

do these incredibly weak sauce attacks. Anyway,

43:44

with that said, why don't we move into

43:46

our final story of the hour with this? There's

43:48

some media report today about Jared Kushner's made all

43:50

this money since he left the White House. He

43:52

was rich before he was in the White House.

43:55

He's probably lost money going to the

43:57

White House. That's not true,

43:59

that's. buffoonish and ridiculous,

44:01

what would you expect? It's Laura Ingraham. But

44:03

at a base level, her argument there is,

44:07

you know how we're populous and we hate

44:09

the elites? We don't mind if people enrich

44:11

themselves in office if they were already rich.

44:14

So it's only corruption if a poor

44:16

person gets into the bureaucracy and suddenly

44:18

strikes it rich. I

44:20

don't understand that literally at all. But the

44:22

report that she's talking about is not that

44:24

he made the money fundamentally. We all know

44:26

that he cashed in on the fact that

44:28

he'd been in the White House. It's obvious

44:30

corruption. No, the report is that

44:32

he's now being investigated for it. And that

44:34

potentially could be bad news for Jared Kushner

44:36

because this entire thing stinks to high heavens.

44:38

And we're going to get to that. But

44:41

I want to focus on the fact that

44:43

that money in particular doesn't

44:45

bother Laura Ingraham, doesn't bother JD

44:47

Vance, both people who masquerade cosplay

44:49

as populous. But I'll remind you

44:51

too, that the fact that he's getting that

44:53

money from the butcher Mohammed bin Salman, that

44:55

doesn't bother Jared Kushner at all. Remember this?

44:59

After the Jamal Khashoggi murder, some either gave

45:01

money back or stopped. At the time, you

45:04

said you wanted to wait for the DNI report,

45:06

for the kind of official report, for the State

45:08

Department report. Before talking about it, you kind of

45:10

only give very glancing mentions

45:12

in your book to it. The DNI report came

45:14

out a couple weeks after you left the White

45:16

House. It says that

45:18

MBS personally was responsible. Do you

45:20

agree with the DNI? Or

45:22

do you believe that report? Are

45:25

we really still doing this, Stan? I mean, absolutely.

45:29

Oh, the sheer mediocre entitlement. Are we

45:31

still doing this? I'm a billionaire. And

45:34

you're going to talk to me about

45:36

the fact that I accepted these billions

45:38

from someone who greenlit a person being

45:40

chopped into little pieces. Come

45:43

on. And that's

45:45

Jared Kushner. He's being totally honest there, by the way.

45:47

He goes on to say, I haven't

45:50

read the DNI report. I

45:52

guess he's been very busy cashing in, working

45:54

with mass murderers. Because the DNI report,

45:56

at the time of that interview, had

45:58

been publicly available. for three years.

46:02

I think it's not that he hasn't read it,

46:04

it's that he doesn't want to read it. And

46:06

he doesn't care because he likes the bloody money

46:08

that he's getting. And there was more from that

46:10

interview that I think is worth reminding you of, take a look.

46:13

Were you at the time concerned about taking money from KIF?

46:16

And if you could do it again, would you have done

46:18

it at all differently? Yeah, so PIF

46:20

is one of the most prestigious investors in

46:22

the world. Every fund manager is trying to

46:24

work with them. I think what's happening in

46:26

Saudi Arabia is one of the most exciting

46:29

transformations that we're seeing now in the world

46:31

of a country. And if you ask me

46:33

about the work that we did in the

46:35

White House, for my critics, what I say

46:37

is point to a single decision we made

46:39

that wasn't in the interest of America. Okay,

46:41

I'll point to one. How about

46:43

letting an ally kill a Washington

46:46

Post columnist, Jared? I

46:49

don't really love Jake Tapper, but I

46:51

wanted to include that because that's a

46:53

good point. There are others certainly. And

46:55

honestly, the stuff that they

46:57

did for Saudi Arabia, which was already buffoonish

46:59

and the weird orb and the weapons deals

47:01

and turning a blind eye to the devastation

47:04

Yemen and all that. We could go through

47:06

all of the stuff that they've already delivered

47:09

for the Saudis. But the argument about the

47:11

corruption of him getting all of that money,

47:13

and we'll get more into that, is not

47:15

really about what they'd already done. It's about

47:17

what they will do. They want

47:19

to have their hooks in Jared Kushner

47:22

and his family, Donald Trump, going forward

47:24

so they can continue to get stuff

47:26

from them. That is the actual argument

47:28

that's being made. And I'll also

47:30

just remind you that the idea that they went broke while

47:32

they were in office, being given forward

47:35

by Laura Ingraham is absolutely ridiculous. They apparently

47:37

reported between 172 and $640 million in outside

47:39

income while working in

47:44

the White House. They were only there for

47:46

a couple of years, and they made

47:48

the better part of a billion dollars. Laura

47:50

Ingraham, you wanna read that or is it like

47:53

the DNI report and you just do that on

47:55

time? I don't think she's gonna read it. But anyway, the

47:58

Senate Finance Committee is looking into this. So, Ron

48:00

Wyden asked Kushner's firm, Affinity Partners for

48:02

details about the $2 billion investment.

48:06

And I wanna remind all of you that

48:08

there is a reason this is considered so

48:10

suspicious. And it isn't just that it's a

48:13

massive transfer of money to someone obviously

48:15

very closely related to Donald Trump. It's

48:17

also that he's not even really

48:20

an investment guy. He was born into

48:22

a family of real estate people. He

48:24

sets up this company. He gets virtually

48:26

every center that he has from outside

48:28

the United States. United States investors have

48:30

no interest in putting their money with

48:32

him because he doesn't know what he's

48:34

doing. It's not what his training is.

48:37

And interestingly, that was basically what

48:39

the Saudis thought too, not MBS.

48:41

He obviously wants connections with Donald

48:43

Trump. But the sovereign wealth fund

48:45

like managing board that's supposed to

48:47

evaluate the risk of different investments

48:49

looked into him, looked into his experience and they

48:52

were like, no, we obviously shouldn't give him the

48:54

money. And MBS personally greenlit

48:56

it in the same way that he

48:58

personally greenlit the murder of the journalist

49:01

Jamal Khashoggi. So he

49:03

takes a personal interest sometimes. For

49:06

some reason, that doesn't bother Jared Kushner,

49:09

but it does bother Ron Wyden. It

49:11

does bother the Democrats. It bothers me

49:13

and hopefully they will really look into

49:15

this. I mean, aspects like the huge

49:17

management fee that they were getting and

49:20

the fact the firm's operations were apparently

49:22

classified by the Saudis as unsatisfactory in

49:24

all aspects. The huge risk to losing

49:26

the money, the massive investment without any

49:28

prior investment history. A lot

49:31

of this is incredibly suspicious and so I

49:33

hope that they really delve into

49:35

this. k

49:45

Upload a book Ship Bye.

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Grian