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Morgan: “What do you think of Trump?” QUAID: “I myself, I think — I think I’m going to vote for him.” Morgan: “Really?” QUAID: “Yeah. In the next election. Yes, I am.” Morgan: “Are you ready for the blowback?” QUAID: “Well, yeah.” Morgan: “That inevitably comes with Trump?” QUAID: “Well, you know, I think this election, everybody’s going to — I think they’re going to take a side or whatever, but it’s — it just seems to me — it just makes sense. I was ready not to vote for Trump until what I saw is more than politics, I see a weaponization of our justice system and a challenge to our Constitution. This is America that I don’t think we’re going to have. And, you know, Trump is the most investigated person probably in the history of the world. And they haven’t been able to really get him on anything.” Morgan: “And this whole Stormy Daniels thing to me is so kind of pathetic. I mean, whatever happens as we sit here now, we’re going to find out in a few days whether he’s guilty or not guilty, I don’t think it matters.” QUAID: “It doesn’t.” Morgan: “In fact, if anything, if he’s found guilty, it would help him more.” QUAID: “Even the way you just said it made it seem like that trial, guilty or not guilty, is about Stormy Daniels.” Morgan: “Right.” QUAID: “Which it’s not.” Morgan: “No, it’s not.” QUAID: “And in fact, what is the crime? I still can’t figure it out.” Morgan: “Well, they —“ QUAID: “Neither can they because they haven’t — (crosstalk) — a misdemeanor that had run out of its — run out of its time and, you know, turn it somehow, trying to turn it into a felony and — but they won’t even say what that is.” Morgan: “Do you — do you have to like Trump to vote for him?” QUAID: “No.” Morgan: “Do you like — do you like him personally?” QUAID: “Well, look, you know, I was — in the last campaign in ‘16 and, you know, and in ‘20, I found myself going, oh, please don’t do that, please don’t say that. You know, it’s like these things have come out of his mouth. But as president, I — the only thing I liked about Trump was everything he did.” Morgan: “Right.” QUAID: “You know, what he did with Korea, with rocket baby, the way he defeated ISIS in three weeks. You know, people don’t even remember, it happened so fast. What he — how he stood up for us overseas and — China and the way he responded to China, he stands up to people and he’s — that’s what makes him a leader rather than — what I, I kind of compare it to what was going on in Jimmy Carter’s administration where we were trying to be everybody’s friend and pal. And there’s some evil people and bad actors in this world. And so, you know, it might, people might call him an a**hole, but he’s my a**hole.” Morgan: “Right. No, I get it.” QUAID: “Because he’s — I’ll tell you one true thing about him is that I really feel that he is working for the American people, that’s what he’s all about, and I do believe that to be true and sincere.”

HURT: “— and how, you know, if a New York — if a New Yorker can’t fix this, nobody can.” PIRRO: “All right, Charlie and Ned, hold on. I want to bring in Laura Ingraham, host of The Ingraham Angle. She joins me now on the phone. Hello, Laura. I hear you’re at an airport or on a plane somewhere.” Ingraham: “Oh, yeah. Eight hours — friendly skies of the United Airlines. It wasn’t so friendly today, but that’s alright. Everybody was nice and patient. I’m so sorry not to be on tonight, there was just literally no way I could get to a studio in time given what happened on the airline with the weather and mechanical problems, but I followed everything that was happening today and continues to happen in Manhattan, Judge. And I know you have the bird’s eye view. What is going on in our country with the weaponization of the judicial system topped off with the spectacle of complete confirmation of what we, you and I have been saying all along, that this was political from the outset. Obviously, I heard you talking about De Niro. But we know this, but they’re so stupid. They just confirmed it for everybody today and then it’ll be confirmed again when Joe Biden speaks after the verdict is in. So we know this. We know this.”

DOOCY: “Are you guys here at the White House in full-blown freak out mode?” Jean-Pierre: “What are you talking about? What are you talking about?” DOOCY: “There’s a Politico story —“ Jean-Pierre: “Peter?” DOOCY: “It sounds like Democrats outside — the quote is: ‘Biden’s stubbornly, stubbornly poor polling and the stakes of the election are creating the freak out.” Jean-Pierre: “So again, I’m really mindful. I’m not going to comment on 2024 election. I will say this, the president has never forgotten where he comes — where he came from, who he is. He understands what the American people are going through as they’re sitting around the kitchen table. You talk — you hear the president talk about his time growing up where he watched his family having to sit around the kitchen table making incredibly difficult decision. And the president has always said he’s going to fight for communities that have been forgotten. And you see that in the policies, economic policies that he’s put forward. He’s going to continue to fight for the middle class. He’s going to continue to fight in every way that he can. You heard me at the beginning talk about junk fees, incredibly important. And he’s going to continue to fight and to make sure, you know, that corporation greed doesn’t continue to take hold. He is — that is something that he’s been very clear about while Republicans are doing the opposite. They put out a policy where they want to give a big tax break to the wealthiest among us, billionaires and corporations. That’s not what the president wants to do.”

Smith: “Leo, let me give you this update from Jonathan Turley at the courthouse right now, saying that the prosecution — Steinglass — just dismissed Cohen’s admitted to grand larceny and is justifying Cohen selling merchandise and making money off Trump. You can’t blame him, he says, because he has only this connection to sell. He’s portraying Cohen, Jonathan Turley writes, like he’s selling goods on the street to support his struggling family in their multimillion-dollar Trump condo. His struggles amounts to earning millions in attacking Trump. Leo?” TERRELL: “Sandra, he — he’s portraying Michael Cohen as a criminal Robin Hood. But let me be very clear, all our legal experts, we have to address one key issue. There are two lawyers on that jury, Sandra, and they’re going to neutralize this unfairness exhibited by the judge and this far-range discretion by the prosecution. Those two lawyers, not only have an ethical obligation to evaluate the facts, but they have an ethical obligation to make sure fairness takes place. And I’m telling you, unlike any other trial, you have two lawyers in there, and those two lawyers, if they do the right thing, they’ll see through this judge, they’ll see through the politics and they’ll do the right thing. Those two lawyers are the key to an acquittal or a hung jury.”

ANCHOR: “Camilo Montoya-Galvez spoke to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who responded to the accusations of the administration encouraging migrants to come to the U.S..” [Clip starts] MAYORKAS: “That is — that is false. If we take a look at migration, not just at our southern border but in context, the level of migration throughout the hemisphere is unprecedented and throughout the world, it’s the greatest level of displacement of migration since World War II. I think there are about 73 million displaced people in the world. The reasons why people leave their countries of origin are those with which we are quite familiar.” [Clip ends]

DE NIRO: “Yesterday was Memorial Day. It is a good time to reflect on how Americans fought and died so that we may enjoy the freedoms guaranteed to us by a democratic government, a government that, as President Lincoln said, of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Under Trump, this kind of government will perish from the earth. I don’t mean to scare you — no, no, wait, maybe I do mean to scare you. If Trump returns to the White House, you can kiss these freedoms goodbye that we all take for granted. And elections? Forget about it. That’s over, that’s done. If he gets in, I can tell you right now, he will never leave. He will never leave. You know that. He will never leave. What does that mean? Is that the country we want to live in? Do we want him running this country and saying, ‘I’m not leaving, I’m dictator for life?’ I hope this new ad campaign reaches outside the bubble to remind supporters of what a danger he is to our lives. This is not a threat, this is a reality. That’s why I have joined the Biden/Harris campaign, because the only way to preserve our freedoms and hold on to our humanity is to vote for Joe Biden for president. Really. We don’t have a choice. On January 6th, while Republican lawmakers despicably tried to keep the loser Trump — the loser Trump — in the White House, and Trump inspired insurrectionists storm the Capitol, brave men and women from law enforcement put their lives on the line to defend this country, our democracy. They are the true heroes. These guys are the true heroes. They stood and put their lives on the line for these lowlifes, for Trump.”

BOLDUAN: “Randy, what Michael’s getting at is the — is the burden of proof is an important one to remind everyone. It’s on the prosecution, right? They need to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed that — that Donald Trump broke the law. And you think — after listening to all of this you think they fell short? How?” ZELIN: “They fell way short because let’s start with reasonable doubt. What is reasonable doubt? And it’s not simply a doubt based upon reason. Any time a human being needs to make an important decision in life, if you have enough information — for example, doctor says you need open heart surgery. Doc, go ahead and schedule. I don’t have a reasonable doubt. Conversely, if I say I appreciate it, but I need a second opinion. I need more information. That is having a reasonable doubt. There is reasonable doubt all over this case. Where is Keith Schiller? Where is Allen Weisselberg? How did Michael Cohen get away with stealing $30,000? Hold a pity party for him. Made $4 million on this. Thought he’d be chief of staff. He’s a fixer. If the plumber comes to my house to fix my leak, I could be home. That doesn’t mean I know how he’s doing it and what it’s taking to be fixed. Stormy Daniels — let’s hold a pity party for her. Why do we need to know whether or not the former president wore a condom or not? It’s simply about did the former president know that books — his records — false entries for legal fees. Michael Cohen was his lawyer. Did he intend to cover up the election or to protect his family? It’s everywhere.” BOLDUAN: “When Randy gets to whisper tones, I start getting concerned.”

DE NIRO: “Thank you. I mean, this is really — even these people over here are kind of — it’s kind of crazy. It’s really crazy. This thing, Donald Trump has created this. He should be telling them not to do this, but he is just — he wants to — he wants to sow total chaos, which he is succeeding in some areas and places to do. Anyway, beside all that, this is my neighborhood, Downtown New York City. I grew up here and feel at home in these streets. I feel comfortable. The Twin Towers fell just over here, just over there. This part of the city was like a ghost town, but we vowed we would not allow terrorists to change our way of life. And we started the Tribeca Festival to bring people back. I love this city. I love this city. I don’t want to destroy it. Donald Trump wants to destroy not only the city, but the country, and eventually he could destroy the world. But we vowed we would not allow terrorists — I owe this city a lot. That’s why it is so weird that Donald Trump is just across the street, because he doesn’t belong in my city. I don’t know where he belongs, but he certainly doesn’t belong here. We New Yorkers used to tolerate him when he was just another grubby real estate hustler masquerading as a big shot, a two-bit player lying his way into the tabloids, pretending to be a spokesman, a spokesperson for himself. He was calling it as himself for himself to fool the press and to inflate his net worth. A clown. But this city is pretty accommodating. We make room for clowns. We have them all over the city, people who do crazy things in the street. We tolerate it and it’s part of the culture. But not a person like Trump who will eventually run the country. That does not work and we all know that. Anyway, we make room for clowns. To each his own. But no one takes him or took him seriously. They take him seriously now, of course.”

HANDLER: “As you may have heard, there’s a man by the name of Harrison Butker, who’s talking more than I typically like for a male. He’s a kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, and I learned that kickers rarely get tackled. So based on his misogynistic rant during a recent commencement address, I’m guessing this Bible thumper thumped himself a little too hard with his Bible and gave himself CTE.” [Clip starts] BUTKER: “Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world. (...) And embrace one of the most important titles of all: homemaker.” [Clip ends] HANDLER : “First of all, Harrison, you’re a kicker, so so you have one important part of your body and it’s not your f**king brain.” [Clip starts] BUTKET: “I can tell you that my beautiful wife, Isabelle, would be the first to say that her life truly started when she began living her vocation as a wife and a mother. (...) Isabelle’s dream of having a career might not have come true, but if you ask her today if she has any regrets on her decision, she would laugh out loud, without hesitation, and say, ‘Heck no.’” [Clip ends] HANDLER: “Isabelle, please blink twice if you need us to call for help. But the real kicker is that Harrison Butker’s mother is a renowned physicist, who has a degree in chemistry and a masters in medical physics. So who paid for all those youth athletic team fees and uniform fees and equipment fees when Harrison was a kid so he could grow up to have a career making millions of dollars for f**king kicking things? My guess is a working woman. Harrison, this is the first time I’ve heard about you and hopefully the last. After this I’m going to go ahead and do what your fellow teammate does and just pretend like you don’t exist.” [Clip starts] MAHOMES: “I don’t talk to Harrison all year long, man. I just let him do his thing. We sit right beside each other in team meetings and I don’t say one word to him.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: This is what I struggle with, Eddie. It’s do you try to reason with those people? Do you try to make some type of understanding of who they are when they’re built inherently on a hatred of others, of people who look like you and me, the black and brown people, because white America is what Trump tries to rally the people behind. So how do I as an individual if I’m looking to myself to lead, to not be lazy or not to be complacent, because it is easy to follow, as you say, what does it take for me to be able to have the mettle to feel I can make a difference in November? >> Right, so first of all, what Trump is appealing to is what Frederick Douglass talked about in 1852. He said there’s a horrible reptile in the bosom of the nation and that was slavery. It was a certain set of assumptions not simply about black people, but about the superiority of white people to own people. He said we must rip that reptile from our hearts. It’s the central contradiction. It’s the contradiction that eats at the entrails of the country, and Donald Trump is appealing to those grievances, those hatreds, those old ghosts, as President Biden says, the old ghosts that have the nation by the throat. So >> He says, we have to make a distinction between those people we must persuade and those people we must defeat. We often times spend a lot of energy trying to persuade people who really don’t accord standing. They are not interested in being persuaded. What you and I have to do is understand the problems right in front of us, not to think about this in some abstract way. I use this phrase over and over in the book. Let’s engage in our politics close to the ground. Let’s stop looking to D.C. Let’s look right where we are in the local communities around education and jobs and a decent wage and around basic municipal issues that face-off that can then be networked across the country. The problem is often right in front of our noses. Let’s not pan out too far. When we bring it close to the ground, that is when we can get about the hard work. It is not too much and we all have the courage and capacity and capability to do that work. >> Your book is powerful and the personal anecdotes are one that, for me, resonate the

PATEL: “And that’s — that’s what they wanted, because the judge in this case and the prosecutors know, they’ll never publicly admit, if they jail Donald Trump, he’s going to win overnight. If they — if they — if Donald Trump is found guilty, which, because it’s a rigged system, there’s a likelihood that he might, they are going to have to allow Donald Trump to stay out on bond while he appeals this bogus trial. Otherwise, this country’s going to go nuts.”

PSAKI: “I think for the Biden campaign, Molly, as you know, they’re thinking about the overall electorate and obviously how to get more votes. That’s how you win campaigns. But there is this risk, which I think they’re fully aware of, that if he does not say something that the kind of base of the party feels is strong enough when this case is resolved, that people will feel upset, disappointed, even more complacent. I mean, how do you strike that balance if you’re them?” Jong-Fast: “Well, look, I think that Biden has done well with he is a protector of institutions. Like, important institutions. Like democracy. Right? He should run as that, the keeper of democracy. It’s a flawed system but it works. And I would say, look, I still think if you look at these polls — I just wrote a long thing on the polls. And they really do — they take a lot of these voters that — Trump wins a lot of these voters that aren’t traditional voters. They’re sort of may show up. They’re the voters that showed up in 2016, but they don’t show up for other elections. So I actually think that that group of voters may actually be moved. They may be slightly less likely to come out. I’m not talking about the Trump base. I’m talking about the people, the number that Biden needs to win in swing states. And some of those people are just not traditional voters. And so, it’s not clear to me what will make a difference, but I think that Biden world certainly has an opportunity here to take back the narrative and to sort of change where things are going.”

Netanyahu: “Despite our best effort not to harm those not involved, unfortunately, a tragic mistake happened last night. We are investigating the case.”

ALCINDOR: “Fernand, I mean, Lanhee just said this could be all baked, but I wonder if you think, could there be an impact if he ends up running this election, running for president as a convicted felon here?” AMANDI: “Well, Yamiche, if you look at it from a polling perspective, that is what 20 percent of folks who are leaning towards Trump or voting for Trump suggests in study after study, that if he weren’t convicted felon, that that would be enough, that would be a red line that, if crossed, would cause them to reconsider if not outright withdraw their support for Trump. And we’re not going to know the answer to that question, Yamiche, until if and when he is convicted and then when the public polls start to come in within days or weeks of that event. But I think if you’re looking at this from the perspective of the Biden campaign and the DNC, the only conviction that they really are looking for is the conviction on November 5th when and if the voters reject Donald Trump’s run for the presidency because it could very well be that this trial either results in a non-conviction or some sort of Trump making the case that he was the victim of a weaponized judge and judicial system, which is what has been his unhinged posts over and over again. So I think the question really becomes will the voters react numerically, will we see that reflected in the polls, and that will lead up, of course, to the debate on June 27th. And if not, what does the Trump campaign do in response if they do not get convicted? Do they plant that flag and say, see, it was all about going after him and rigging the justice system against him?”

Tur: “I also think it’s important to question what kind of person, what kind of promises do they make to themselves or to Donald Trump, wants to be his running mate after the last guy, the last vice president was run out of town to chants of ‘Hang Mike Pence,’ chants that Donald Trump seemed to be endorse. Who wants to be that person this time around, and what might they be promising themselves or be willing to do to make it so that those chants don’t follow them. One other question. I know you don’t want Donald Trump to win. Do you see Joe Biden beating him as of today?” HORN: “I see there’s absolutely a clear and strong path for Joe Biden to beat Donald Trump in the fall. And we’re right at that turning point right now, too, Katy. It’s Memorial Day weekend, going into the summer, approaching the conventions. I have no doubt that the Biden campaign has a plan to start ramping things up, regardless of how the trial goes this week and next week, regardless of some of these weird, crazy Trumpian things.”

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LEMIRE: “So let’s talk about — give us a quick sense of the defense. And then tell us about the — the jury instruction process. For those of us who aren’t in your line of work, who who are not in a courtroom day-in. Day-out, what does that — what does that look like?” COLEY: “Well, starting with the defense, I think their — their strategy could really be summed up in four words, ‘Don’t believe Michael Cohen.’ And what we saw in four days of somewhat meandering testimony, cross examination towards the end of this trial, we saw them take a couple hits at Michael Cohen’s credibility. We now know, for example, that in addition to being a convicted felon, and a liar, we know that Michael Cohen, by his own admission is a thief. So I expect to see defense attorneys returned to those thematics. I think what I would worry about if I’m on the prosecution case, and I say this tongue in cheek, because I ran communications at arguably the largest law firm in the world, the U.S. Justice Department, I do worry that there are lawyers on this jury, and not one but two lawyers. And by my own experience, lawyers can sometimes be overly analytical, they can be hyper technical, and I do worry that the non lawyers on this jury may rely on the lawyers who, quite frankly, don’t have expertise in this area of law.” LEMIRE: “All right. MSNBC Justice and Legal Affairs Analyst Anthony Coley, thank you.”

RAJU: “Maybe they’ll help Trump.” MURRAY: “I mean, he has succeeded. Look, I think that it’s very likely this is the only trial that we are going to get before Election Day. And this case is not a slam dunk, which means that Donald Trump may very well not be convicted. Acquitted is the worst-case scenario for Democrats, because then its the only trial you have and Donald Trump gets to go out there and say, ‘Joe Biden’s prosecutors,’ which, again, not true, ‘came after me, his Department of Justice came after me, and they still didn’t convict me. I’m still innocent.’ I also think you could end up somewhere in this sort of muddy middle where you end up with a hung jury, a jury that cannot reach a verdict. And then this truly does just get kicked to the voters to decide. Look, we’re not going to have any kind of convictions here or nothing else could potentially go to trial. It’s up to you to decide if this is someone that you want to live with in the White House.” RAJU: “And how does Biden handle the ultimate outcome? Politico had some reporting about this just a couple of days ago, saying that Biden attends to address this if there is a verdict, according to people that they spoke to. If the jury convicts Trump, Biden’s team will argue the results show Trump is ill-suited for office and that the extremes that he would go to try to win again, they also say that they would prepare for a barrage of attacks from the GOP if he is acquitted. What are you hearing from your sources about how he plans to address this?” PARKER: “So what I hear, that — that lines up, from what I’m hearing from my sources as well.”

Tlaib: “Y’all Welcome. Welcome to the most beautiful black city in the country, the city of Detroit. (Applause) I don’t know if I need to remind you all but Detroit, we birth movements, not just labor movements, we birth movements on environmental justice, on women’s rights and so much more. So welcome. Gain strength from this amazing, beautiful black city that raised me. I don’t need to tell you that you’re on the right side. I don’t need to. But I’ll be damned if I wait 10 years before they apologize to all of you for doing what was right at this moment. Each year, our country — and I say our country because it is our country — sends billions of dollars to maintain an apartheid government and support the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. It is disgraceful that the Biden Administration and my colleagues in Congress continue to smear them for protesting to save lives no matter of faith or ethnicity. It is cowardly. But we’re not going to forget November, are we? The International Court of Justice just ruled that the Israeli government must stop its invasion of Rafah. But President Biden says what’s happening in Gaza is not a genocide? Where’s your red line President Biden? You know, every single bullet, every single gun, every single weapon bombs that we send, is the sacrifice of our own schools here at home, many of which, when I go into the schools have garbage bags over the drinking fountains because they don’t have clean water. President Biden I hope you hear us loud and clear. (Cheering and Applause) Attacking the authority of the International Criminal Court and interfering in the legal process is nothing more, nothing more, than an attempt to prevent the genocidal maniac Netanyahu and his senior Israeli officials from being held accountable for those crimes against humanity. You are an enabler President Biden. But wait, wait, you know, when my colleagues are outraged? They’re outraged over the protest on college campuses in our country. They’re more outraged than that, than the atrocities happening right now on the ground in Palestine, the war crimes. Y’all there’s no universities in Gaza. We all know this. We say it over and over again. And now, and now if they get their way, they’re going to silence the universities here at home.”

ZAKARIA: “Some people say the wrong thing. Some people go too far. But the whole tradition of this kind of expansion of rights, it’s messy, it’s chaotic. You know, yeah, we’re — you know, there’s probably a bunch of excesses, as there probably was in the ‘60s. There was the Black Panthers and the Weathermen and things like that. But they think of you as somebody who was, you know, you were okay with all that, but you’ve turned.” MAHER: “I haven’t turned. Yes, people have said to me, ‘You make fun of the left more than you used to,’ and guilty, I have, because the left has changed. Now, the right has changed also, and even worse. I mean, the right doesn’t believe in democracy anymore. I mean, they’ve thrown their lot in with this sociopath named Donald Trump, who only thinks elections count when we win. Okay, well, that’s worse. But it’s not like the left hasn’t changed also. So I’m going to call it out wherever I see it. I mean, there are things that have to do with, you know, gender and race and free speech, and just ideas about, you know, you can be healthy at any weight and gender is always a social construct and maybe we should give communism another try and maybe we should get rid of capitalism and the Border Patrol, and let’s tear down statues of Lincoln and get rid of the police. Just, you know — no. It’s not that I’ve gotten old, it’s that your ideas are stupid, okay?” ZAKARIA: “Common sense is still common sense.” MAHER: “Yes, common sense is common sense, and I’m going to call it out wherever it is on the spectrum.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: BREAM: “We will wait and see, that result in November have everything to do with these plans, let’s talk about this, President Trump is taking his argument to nontraditional places this week, you are part of his trip into The Bronx. He has people who love that idea and those who hate the idea but you were there with him on stage and it reignited a conversation you and I have had previously on the show about racing critics who say Republicans are using black and brown people there I one news personality out there who says you are being used as a prop. Here is joy reed.” Reid: “The one black guy that Republicans love to roll out as fake proof that black people are MAGA. It’s a joke. They were knocking to make him speak of the house.” BREAM: “You think she’s making a statement about Republicans are about you?” DONALDS: “First of all I find her comment to be nothing more than grabs in a — grabs in a barrel. Just because of a different way of looking at the white world in politics I’m now being used? You can make an argument that MSNBC is using her. The rally in The Bronx was amazing at a very diverse crowd of people from The Bronx Puerto Ricans, dominicans, black people, white people, all are supporting President Trump because they have seen the disaster that is New York City, they have seen the disaster that has become the nicest America because of the master of disaster Joe Biden himself and they want Donald Trump back. This would be a decision for the mayor can peel between two did the better job and it’s without question Donald Trump that was a significantly better president on every metric and that’s what he has support in The Bronx and that’s why when the president want — went to Minnesota he had supported Minnesota and there’s more support and a lot of blue areas that is for President Trump coming back. We’re looking at expanding the political map not shrinking it based upon race or anything else because that’s what joy breeden Joe Biden and the rest of them want to do. They want to shrink this map based upon racial lines. Is not what President Trump’s focus is. ’s focus is on all of America.”

CONWAY: “All of the testimony that we heard just has Trump neck-deep in all of this, and it’s gonna be hard for the jury not to conclude that the he didn’t cause all of this, and it’s gonna be hard for the jury not to conclude that the purpose of it was to aid the election campaign, in which case it was a campaign finance violation. So, the defense has its work cut out for them, but all the defense has to do is convince one juror to hang the group. I don’t think they can get an acquittal. I don’t think they’re going to get 12 votes unanimously to acquit him. I think their best shot, and that’s what they’re going to do, is hope that there’s just some person on the jury who just refuses to convict, but I think that’s going to be really, really hard with Trump having signed eight of those checks and also the attempts to — so much other evidence, but the attempts to basically conceal it all. I’m not sure how a good outcome, other than possibly a luck-of-the-draw mistrial on a jury, 11-1 or 10-2, I don’t see a good outcome for Donald Trump out of this.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: BREAM: “I want to start with the ICC. You have called these weren’t outrageous, you have condemned them as the White House as well. You heard mark they’re talking about the potential sanctions. And onto the truck administration ICC officials were sanctioned and there was restrictions on the phone numbers for the visas and even a counter investigation into alleged corruption. President Biden lifted those, should he have left those in place?” MOSKOWITZ: “Obviously, hindsight is trying 20 we are here where we are today. I’m for putting sanctions back in place, I am for Congress asked — acting in a bipartisan basis. Let state facts here. When asad killed 300,000 civilian using chemical weapons if you recall which was a redline for this country to the ICC go after them? No, they didn’t because they said Syria was not a party to the ICC. People have asked them to look at the human rights violation in China, have begun after China? No. The ICC has specifically said China is not a party to the ICC. But is Israel a party to the ICC? They are knots and yet they are now going after Israel. This is totally political. They have no jurisdiction we might as well call them the Harry potter and ministry of magic. They are relevant because Israel is not a party to their treaty. So this is pressure unfortunately from the international community that wants to see no more Israel. They are using the ICC to go ahead and do this and I think they need to respond in a strongly partisan way which is why you were seeing Democrats and Republicans in the house and the Senate and the Biden ministration coming together hopefully we will get this done when we come back from break.”

CHAFFETZ: “New York Governor Kathy Hochul took a page out of the old Hillary Clinton playbook and insulted Trump supporters who attended the rally.” [Clip starts] HOCHUL: “I will tell you it won’t make a difference at all, Jake, and that is for Donald Trump to be the ringleader and invite all his clowns to a place like The Bronx. (...) He wants to spend his time doing these made-up, fake rallies and pretending there’s support here? Be my guest. Because while you are doing that, Donald Trump, Joe Biden is out there on the other side, making sure he’s delivering.” [Clip ends] CHAFFETZ: “And guess what? New Yorkers are ticked.” [Clip starts] VALENTINO: “Just look at the crowd, right? So when she says ‘clowns,’ you’re talking to me, you’re talking to a whole bunch of people who just want to listen. That liberal or Democratic approach is just wrong. (...) Let’s not be so condescending and call them people clowns and start to get to these insults. That’s just something wild to hear from your politicians.” [Clip ends] CHAFFETZ: “Yeah, these are New Yorkers that showed up at this rally. Miranda, I’ve never seen politicians attack their own constituents in their own state, and ever have it go well.” DEVINE: “Well, because they’ve been completely humiliated. Here is Donald Trump, he’s gone into their territory, into their den, and being wildly popular. It’s fantastic to watch Democrat politician after Democrat politician in New York just so outraged. That haughtiness, that arrogance of Kathy Hochul is exactly what Hillary Clinton did, and you would think that the Democrats would have learned by now.” CHAFFETZ: “No, it permeates, though. The Democrats, I don’t think they’ve ever understood the Trump supporters, I don’t think they understand or appreciate or — they just take their own constituency for granted, doctor. That’s the way I see how they do it.” SIEGEL: “Completely right. And I also wonder how Governor Hochul, who’s an Upstater, would actually do in The Bronx herself if she same down there to rally. They are busy measuring crowd size when they should be thinking this: What is Donald Trump trying to do here? He’s trying to show that he’s unabashed, that he’s a street fighter, that he has courage, that no place is off-limits for him. That’s the American spirit, isn’t it? That’s what Americans are about and people will resonate with that.”

BRENNAN: “Boeing released a report that said they saw a 500 percent increase in the number of employee submissions about safety concerns during the first two months of 2024. This is, of course, after all these high profile incidents that happened, with that plane door just flying off. Okay, it’s good employees are seeing something and saying something, but a 500 percent increase, I mean, that would suggest that there are actual issues here.” Buttigieg: “That’s right. There’s an encouraging part and a concerning part. The encouraging part is we want Boeing and any producer in the aviation space to have a culture of, if you see something, say something. We want to make sure those mechanisms for reporting work. We have both whistleblower mechanisms to let us know something directly at the FAA, but in a healthy company, that should also be happening within the company.” BRENNAN: “Were they discouraging it earlier?” Buttigieg: “If there were evidence of that, that would lead to direct action. I’m not here to make an accusation like that at this time. If anything, we want you to err on the side of reporting. So that’s the encouraging part. The concerning part, of course, is that any of those issues are happening at all. And that’s why a Boeing is under a huge amount of scrutiny right now, including from the FAA. The administrator took the extraordinary step of saying that Boeing cannot increase their production until they’ve demonstrated that they can do it safely. And again, all of this is about making sure that we maintain the extraordinary safety record of U.S. aviation. That’s not something that will happen by ever being satisfied with the status quo.”