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SEINFELD: “Nothing really affects comedy. People always need it, they need it so badly, and they don’t get it. It used to be, you would go home at the end of the day, most people would go, ‘Oh, ‘Cheers’ is on; oh, ‘M.A.S.H.’ is on; oh, Mary Tyler Moore is on; ‘All in the Family’ is on.’ You just expected, ‘There’ll be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight.’ Well, guess what? Where is it? This is the result of the extreme left and PC crap and people worrying so much about offending other people. When you write a script and it goes into four or five different hands, committees, groups — ‘Here’s our thought about this joke’ — well, that’s the end of your comedy, they move the gates like in skiing. Culture — the gates are moving. Your job is to be agile and clever enough that wherever they put the gates, I’m gonna make the gate.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: CAPEHART: “Anthony, I want to turn to the Trump’s immunity claim. Justice Gorsuch said during oral arguments, I am going to read this, I’m not focused on the here and now of this case. I’m very concerned about the future. Anthony, why shouldn’t I be concerned that he isn’t concerned about the facts of the case before them?” COLEY: “Right, that is really a head-scratcher because what you see in most court cases, and certainly the Supreme Court, justices, judges, are required to look at the facts of the case, and what he’s saying here has a lot of people scratching their head. I don’t know that anybody can really understand how this is going to play out, but, Jonathan, I will tell you the thing that disturbed me more is the fact that this could get pushed back down to the trial court level. That would achieve what Donald Trump really wants. He’s not trying to win this case on the merits at all. He is trying to throw sand in the gears of the case, to slow down, to keep the case from going to be fully adjudicated before the election. I think at the end of the day, it’s going to come down to the American people doing what we all did in 2020, and that is going to the polls.”

Jill Biden: “We ride with you! Isn’t that right, Joe? (Cheering and Applause) Say hi to Michael and Tom.” Joe Biden: “Folks, I’m sorry for running out here, but I’ve been just signing, finishing up the bill that — that I think all the wounded warriors and warriors would care about. We just finally, thank God, provided the need to protect Ukraine with the money they need. (Cheering) I’m supposed to go back and make one more call, it’s only the first time I’ve not been with you the whole time. I’ll be very, very brief. I want to say one thing to the wounded warriors: You are the spine of America. And that’s not an exaggeration. I really mean it. You are the backbone, you’re the spine of America. You’re the reason why we’re the nation we are. You’re the best America has to offer and God love you all. That’s all — oh, over here too? Well, I tell you what, thank you. And Jill is gonna kick me in the rear end if I don’t get out of here and finish my job. No, I really mean it. You’re the sinew and spine of America. Not a joke. You know, the idea that someone would say winners and losers and — anyway, I don’t want to get involved. But thank you, thank you, thank you. One percent of you, one percent of you, defend all of us. One percent. That — those of you who are wounded, and like I said who died, are the ones who have kept this country what it is.”

BRENNAN: And you have ‘205’ there. That’s the number of days he has been held. In the video, your uncle, under duress, mentions the protests that have been taking place in Israel, pressuring the government for a deal. Do you think that a deal can be reached at this point, and is it up to the United States to close it?” SIEGEL: I do think a deal can be reached. I mean, we know that. A deal was reached in November. Dozens of women and children were released, including my aunt, Aviva Siegel. So, we know that it’s possible. And I do think that’s really important to remember. the United States plays a critical role. It played a critical role in November. I think, you know, ultimately, this is a negotiation between Hamas and Prime Minister Netanyahu in Israel. And one of the things that really worries my family, and worries me, is that it’s arguably not in Prime Minister Netanyahu’s political interest to close a deal. You know, for us, this is the moment. These videos — as you know, there was a video released a couple of days ago of another American hostage, Hersh Goldberg-Polin. I do think that these two videos are a signal from Hamas that they are ready to make a deal and a reminder that there are American citizens being held, including Keith.” BRENNAN: “There are 133 hostages that we know of, five of them Americans. Why do you believe it is not in Prime Minister Netanyahu’s interest to cut a deal to bring them home?” SIEGEL: “I think, you know, there is a lot swirling in the political landscape in Israel. And I’m not here to talk about that. But there have been negotiations going on for months now. We’re at 205 days. There have been deals on the table and they’ve proven elusive. And I worry that that is because of Prime Minister Netanyahu. So, I think that now is the moment. I think — I have faith that we can do a deal now. But I also think that if that isn’t possible, then the Biden Administration should think about what they can do directly to bring our American citizens home.”

GOWDY: “Joining us is New York Congressman Mike Lawler. Welcome, congressman. What is going on with these threatening, dangerous protests on college campuses, some of which are happening in places where you are familiar, you’re a member of Congress, you’re following this. I mean, what is going on with these college campuses?” LAWLER: “Well, unfortunately, Trey, anti-Semitism has been brewing on college campuses for years. These students have been peddling in it, promoting the BDS movement. And really, obviously, in the aftermath of October 7, it has been hyper charged. And Congress must act to crack down on it because these universities and college presidents and administrators are failing in their responsibility to keep these students safe and to ensure that there is a free exchange of ideas, but based in truth and reality and not anti-Semitic rhetoric designed to threaten and target Jewish students. That is why this week we will be voting on my bill, the anti-Semitism Awareness Act, which will require the Department of Education to adopt the IHRA working definition of anti-Semitism and all of its contemporary examples for its discrimination enforcement cases. You have to be able to define and crack down on it. And that’s what we’re seeking to do because these administrators are failing miserably.”

LEMON: “And I’m not minimizing what’s going on, but it teaches some of these students to deal with discomfort, right?” MAHER: “Yeah, that’s good. It does. You mean living in a tent?” (Laughter) LEMON: “Well, living in a tent. And also, listen, I’m different than you guys, you know, I’m a black gay man, so I live in uncomfortable spaces all the time, and I think that is a good lesson for a college student. Again, not — “ MAHER: “What — why? What’s going on?” LEMON: “What do you mean, what’s going on?” MAHER: “Well, you said, ‘uncomfortable spaces.’” LEMON: “Well, it’s uncomfortable. Everything — college is not a comfortable place.” MAHER: “You said you live in these spaces.” LEMON: “Yeah, I live in these spaces.” MAHER: “I mean, just tell me what?” LEMON: “Well, look, I’m often the only person of color in the room, especially in — “ MAHER: “There’s only three of us here, come on. Come on.” (Laughter and Applause)

KHALIDI: “I started TikTok, like, the spring semester of my senior year and I was like, ‘F**k, I finally have to start applying for law school.’ And then, like, female privilege life is so easy for a woman. Obviously, I lucked out — I’m just kidding. I lucked out and then TikTok was basically full-time for me. I was taking ads by the time I graduated college from, like, the Biden Administration and Planned Parenthood and, like, dating apps and stuff, so it was fully financially sustainable.” HOST: “So you were getting — the Biden Administration was buying ads from you?” KHALIDI: “Yeah, I was doing full-on political propaganda.” HOST: “They would just — oh, really? What kind of — like, Biden created 10 million jobs?” KHALIDI: “Yeah. Honestly — and the funny thing is, they’re like, ‘Do not disclose this is an ad because, you know, technically it’s not a product so you don’t have to disclose it’s an ad. ‘Cause I think they just wanted, like, some edgy girl of color to just tell people — like, when they nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson, they were like, ‘Can you say, like, as a person of color, you know, that you feel reflected?’ And it’s like a white woman E-mailing this to me and she’s, like, giving me this script. I’m like, ‘No.’ And she’s like, ‘Please.’ I’m like, ‘No. I’ll talk about the news of it, but I’m not gonna be — like, I’m not gonna have a white person tell me to be like, you know, this is how I feel like a person of color. Like, it’s just so — I think that blacks will be slightly on, like, political propaganda stuff.” HOST: “So the Biden Administration sees, ‘Oh, here’s this young art student...’” KHALIDI: “Yeah, it’s like a conduit, you know what I mean? It’s not Biden. But it’s like a third party. You know what I mean? It’s like a media company that’s doing it on his behalf. I’m not blaming him for this.” HOST: “Yeah. And the message is, like, because you’re a dark-skinned woman, you will be inspired by Ketanji Brown Jackson, all the kids should support her?” KHALIDI: “Yeah, they’re like, ‘Basically, as, like, another black person, just say that. Like, you feel reflected by Ketanji.’ I’m like, ‘No, I’ll talk about, like, Ketanji’s background and her accomplishments.’ But I never — you know what I Mean? I’m not going to say, like, the corny stuff. Even if it was a brown person E-mailing it to me, I’m like, ‘No, that’s not how I feel. I don’t look at Ketanji and feel like, ‘Wow.’” HOST: “Yeah. Yeah.”

SCHAUB: “Well, Catalina, if tensions were high last night, when both sides were kind of going back and forth, from what I heard, about midnight till 4 o’clock in the morning, then right now this has evolved into utter chaos. I’m going to step out the shot, I’m going to kind of paint the picture of what today was supposed to look like and what it’s devolved into. So, we know that there has been a pro-Palestinian encampment on the campus of UCLA for about four days now. This is a group made up of students here last night, they kind of expanded their encampment, pushed out the barricades a little bit, ahead of what was supposed to be a pro-Israel counter protest put on by the American-Israeli federation. That was supposed to take place, a permanent event, from 11:00 A.M. until 1:00 P.M. today. Well, about 10:30 A.M. this morning, we had protesters walk through. These are pro-Palestinian protesters, walked through, kind of pushed their way into the pro-Israeli area here, pushing, shoving, fighting their way in, and now they have occupied the other half of that grass lawn that you see behind me. And both sides, you’re kind of just going back and forth right now, there’s a lot of shouting, there’s a lot of name-calling, there’s been some fighting. It is — we’ve definitely seen this environment kind of escalate as far as it can from what it was supposed to be, a rather peaceful protest. So, again, this is all going on here in the campus of UCLA and it’s just, right now, kind of a wait and see.” VILLEGAS: “Taylor, we’re seeing a lot of folks. Do you have a sense of who is actually a student and who is not? I’m seeing a lot of older individuals.” SCHAUB: “Yeah, you know, Catalina, that’s really interesting. So, on the pro-Israeli side, especially the organizers of this, they were not students at all. They were from different groups, supporters, some volunteers that came out here. They were setting up early this morning, they had trucks out. You probably saw the stage behind me. There was some real support behind this from community members, not necessarily students. And, of course, the encampment has been mostly students, the pro-Palestine encampment that’s been here for four days. You know, the pro-Palestine group that marched their over here, from what I told, those are not students. Those are different groups, different community members, activists, people that came out here to March, and those are the ones that came over to this side and kind of pushed their way through, and that’s who’s occupying this area right now, along with the pro-Israeli protesters.” VILLEGAS: “Taylor Schaub from UCLA, we’ll be checking in with you all day. Long on this developing situation. Thank you so much.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: Ayman: “Speaking of, we are showing live pictures outside the Washington hotel where protesters have been gathering outside. Others are going to be speaking this evening at the Washington, sorry, the White House correspondents dinner. Let me get back to the point that I started this show with, on one hand we saw with the president, with the former president is trying to do with his power grab, with him claiming he has immunity, even if it was to kill a political opponent. This person has invoked the insurrection act to quell blacks like Black Lives Matter protests. If the Supreme Court grants this president this type of authority, and he comes back into the White House, that we can see the unleashing of military violence against civil rights protesters or other protest movements in this country?” Stanley: “These are anti-word antiwar protests, just like vietnam, these are peaceful, less disturbing at university campuses than those antiwar protests. And they are sending a signal of what they are going to do with other kinds of pro- democratic protests. Let’s be clear what the Supreme Court is considering. Carl schmidt, the Nazi legal theorist famously said he who can make the exception is above the law. This is fascist legal theory 101. This is what the Supreme Court is playing with. He who can make the exception is above the law. That’s meant to make way for a fascist dictatorship. That is fascist legal theory. This is what the Supreme Court is playing with his fascist legal theory. So, we know where that leads. We know that means that there will be violent repression. We know that the violent rhetoric that say the nazis aimed against marxists, the Jewish, and liberals are being targeted as marxists. So, so that’s where we have got the fascist legal theory. We have the fascist rhetoric, and you are gearing up for the fascist state violence.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: In my independent campaign for president liberals have been calling me a conservative and conservatives have been calling me a liberal this isn’t just name calling the confusion is genuine for many people and maybe you yourself aren’t sure where you are I don’t really think these categories are very useful anymore my father was opposed by the liberal establishment when he ran for president 1968 and so it’s confusing even for me sometimes about how to label myself but if I had to label myself I would say and I’m a classic liberal or a Kennedy Democrat so let me help you unravel with that all means because I want you to vote for me or against me not based upon the labels that people fix to me rather based on my position on the various issues first the classic liberal protects civil liberties from authoritarianism for most of my life it was the Republicans who sought to restrict freedom of speech and cour other constitutional freedoms in the name of national security or Law and Order for the last 10 years or so it’s been the Democrats who are restricting free speech and other constitutional rights so who are the real liberals here as president I’m going to roll back the surveillance State and restore America as the land of liberty second the classic liberal beliefs in free market capitalism but understands that the need to protect the public from corporate access is is also important without regulation and oversight corporations cheap they capture government agencies and they pervert free markets transforming the system from free market capitalism into corporate crony capitalism a system of this very cushy socialism for the rich and a merciless barbaric capitalism for the poor for example they pollute the air and water and soil and leave the cost to the public that’s Che or they infiltrate government and they write laws and regulations in their favor in recent years both political parties have failed to stop this undermining of our democracy by crooked industry lobbyists as president I’m going to level the playing field so that consumers and small businesses at last have a chance I’m going to get corporate influence out of government once and for all third a classic liberal sticks up for the little guy and the people who get left out and the of those who have been left out have been growing every year as president I’m going to reverse that Trend and bring them back in fourth and this might surprise you a classic liberal favors a strong border that’s because uncontrolled immigration depresses wages putting American workers in competition with an endless pool of easily exploited labor as president I’m going to bring order to the Border I’m going to end the humanitarian crisis there and allow the optimum level of lawful orderly immigration into this country the classic liberal maintains a healthy skepticism of the intelligence services and the war machine the classic liberal seeks peace and pursues democracy recently Democrats and Republicans have sought to outdo each other in their belligerence as president I’m going to keep us out of foreign conflicts and bring the resources home to rebuild our own country six the classic liberal nurtures the future of our country robust health and economic opportunities for Young Americans and the opportunity to get into a home will be my priority seventh a classic liberal protects the environment as president I will return us to the traditional environmentalism that protects our Wilderness rebuilds soils preserves our forest and rivers and endangered species and biodiversity I’m going to get the toxic chemicals out of our food supply and our water as part of my drive to reduce the chronic disease epidemic in America eth classic liberalism recognizes that stable democracies require a strong middle class giant disparities in wealth between rich and poor create a configuration that is too unstable to support a constitutional republic as president I’m going to Foster entrepreneurial ecosystems and prioritize Main Street over Wall Street and rebuild the American middle class finally classic liberalism is about fairness this economy has become extremely polarized as Labor’s share of the income has fallen steeply to the benefit of Corporations and the super wealthy as president I’m going to raise the minimum wage support labor close tax loopholes for the super rich cut housing costs and increase support for women and children with free daycare and a stronger food stamp program I love the fact that creative industrious hardworking people can get rich in our country but we also have to take care of the less fortunate so that no child ever goes hungry in America call me liberal call me a Kennedy Democrat call me independent or conservative whatever you want I don’t care these are the things that I believe in and that’s where I stand if you resonate with my vision for our country then I invite you to stand with me I invite you to be part of the reweaving of America I invite you to join our Coalition of liberals conservatives committed to taking this country back not just for the left or right but for the American people [Music]

But your vice presidential pick wants to recall the madna vaccine that’s the one I got she’s not going to what do you agree with that recall it I think the you know the I I think those vaccines need to we need to have again true double blind placea control trials on that there’s 25% of Americans who believe that they know somebody who was killed by a Covid vaccine killed killed 25% of Americans 52% of Americans believe that the vaccines are causing uh injuries including death 52% oh if you look at the clinical trial studies the actual studies that were done that were released of the fiser vaccine Mna has not released it if you look at the fiser vaccine there was there were 22,000 people in the placeit group 22 000 people who got the actual vaccine and the the people who got the vaccine had a 23% higher death rate from all causes at the end of that study but that could not be the disease itself no well because we know if it is then the vaccine doesn’t work does well well it it’s it’s ear well no no that’s not that’s not true at all and I’m somebody who did not want the vaccine and didn’t think I should have been made to get it but it does work it all I think wait a minute wait a minute work in the sense that if you many people who would have died because they were not in good health it killed mostly the obese and the Very elderly okay those people should they those people are alive today I think because of the vaccine I I think that’s the truth does it also does it also have complications yes I mean anecdotally uh I’ve have not heard about one out of four people dying but I know a lot of people who had issues yes but they could have had worse issues if they got the disease that’s the thing medicine is always so I just am for let’s make it a caseby casee basis certainly I agree with that too I believe that people want vaccine that they should be able to get it I’m not any vaccine what I say is that well people think you are well I know but that’s because I’m called that because it’s a way of silencing me but I have said for years I’m not any vaccine I just want good science I want people should be able to make informed choices I am against vaccine mandates why why can’t like I am too why

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: You had spent so many years in the Senate you were so prepared to be president yourself was it hard to be vice president I would think in some ways you’d say to yourself she I liked it better in the Senate at least I had like I had more to do well I’ll tell you a true story Brock became the deao candidate in I guess it was the middle of August and I’m riding home in the train as usual and I get a phone call as Barack he said I want to do a background check on you I said Brock I don’t want to be vice president I can help you much more as a senior senator I was fairly successful there and he said well there’s only two of you I think that’s what he said and I said Brock he said well there’s only you and I said Brock I don’t want to be vice president I can help you better and so I go home he said do me a favor when you get home the night he knew my family talk to your family get back to me in 24 maximum 48 Hours said okay Brock so I called and said let’s get a family Mee in the back porch we get a family meeting and to my not not to my surprise Jill says you know you ought to do it I said what she said otherwise you’ll be asked to be Secretary of State and you’ll be away all the time and then my son Bo gave a reason why I should do it and Hunter and everybody and my mom was living with this time because we just lost my dad and I looked at my mom I said honey you haven’t said anything she said let me get this straight when I called you and asked you about Barack when he defeated you back in the bring you said he was bright he was honest he was really a capable guy I said yeah Mom what’s your point she said Joey the first black man history is a chance to be president and you told him no right

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: ASMAN: “That’s horrible because, I mean, the jury’s not expected to know law, and they don’t know what’s legal and what isn’t. It’s the job of the jurors, it’s the job of the judge in the case to tell them what is legal and what is not, and if they don’t know it, they’re getting propaganda and not law. I do, you mentioned the opening statement of the prosecutor prosecution. And, by the way, this is the guy who came over from the DoJ – from the president’s DoJ. So he took a lesser job in order to pursue this. Makes people wonder whether the White House is involved. But here was something else he said if his opening statement, it was election fraud pure and simple. We will never now, and – know, and it doesn’t matter if this conspiracy was the difference maker in a close election. He was talking about suppressing the story in the national inquirer. Now, the same exact thing could be said for watt Biden folks were doing in 2020 before that election in trying to kill the Hunter Biden story, couldn’t it?” McCarthy: “In fact, David, at the same time, simultaneously, the same thing could be said for Hillary Clinton’s campaign. They were putting out a bogus story that Trump was an operative of the Kremlin. Operate I have of the Kremlin. – operative. And they did that under bogus campaign research that they said they did, opposition research. And then in the books of the campaign, they did what Bragg is alleging Trump falsely did, which is they characterized a payment that was for one thing as legal expenses. So this case could just as equally have been brought against Hillary Clinton. And in many ways, you could argue that it was a stronger case against Hillary Clinton because her campaign was actually fined by the Federal Election Commission for a fraudulent practice. Both the Justice Department and the FEC looked at Trump on the same thing Bragg is prosecuting here and decided it wasn’t a campaign finance violation”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: I want to thank you for doing this today I want to thank you for your compassion you know the reason I’m so excited to talk to you was because I wanted to understand the tragedy in your life and how you dealt with it and you’re the kind of leader I love because we’re lucky to have you in the Oval Office and serving as the father of the country because if you’re a good father to your family which you are I know you’d be a good father to the country and I and I want to thank you for providing a calming influence an organized Administration postco getting that vaccine out I remember what the world was like at that point getting NATO getting us to feel comfortable standing up to Putin the incredible large growth in the jobs unemployment rate down I’ll give you your greatest hits the lowest uninsured rate in history four out of five Americans are covered for less than $10 a month knocking off a few ISIS leaders cutting the emissions in half I mean you’ve always been an environmentalist even the marijuana reform laws enough sitting there fighting that battle respect for Marriage Act what the hell is with people with this gay stuff who cares if someone’s gay how is it affecting anybody people in love it’s good right love is good my dad we said I we saw two men kissing one another and Rodney Square when I was going in to get a license I looked at him he said Joey it’s simple they love each other that’s it that’s how I look at it you know who deserves credit the American people are Relentless the American people are stepping up whe who are they V for they they they just never give up we’re we’re we’re the most unique country in the world we really are we are but I don’t want to lose it we’re not going to lose it God willing thank you for doing this well thanks for having me Mr President look at me sitting with the president look at me sitting with Howard turn wow I mean uh you can tell people this is the most important event in your lifetime I’ll tell them that

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: EMANUEL: “Vince, hot topic on talk radio?” COGLIANESE: “It is, it is a critical thing. I really do want to see them debate but I don’t think Biden’s statement today was the last word on this subject. In fact, I would imagine that there may be some people within his campaign who were cringing that he gave that answer because they weren’t quite ready for that. Look, as Spencer said I just don’t think Biden is with it. I think the reason for that I can assess is because look how many things need to be choreographed for him. Everything about his existence in public is handled, including today this report from Axios that he is surrounded by White House aides as he walks from the White House to Marine One in order to block the camera’s vision of how frail he is. He is even reading notes off the teleprompter indicating that he is supposed to pause for audience effect. He says pause when he is just supposed to read it. That’s an issue and it is going to be a big problem in a debate against a guy who is clearly able to handle the stresses of an immense day including at a courtroom all day every day.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: MELBER: “Jason, I don’t want to be unkind to the defendant and he’s legally presumed innocent, but his family’s not there. The jury can notice that. These are his friends and allies. Some of them have gone so far like Michael Cohen who’s so angry at Trump that it might affect his credibility. Some like Mr. Pecker who say, yeah, I’m friendly. The guy’s a liar, but we’re friendly. I mean, he may have committed campaign crimes, that’s what I thought we did, but we’re friendly. And he’s got a whole backstory of, shall we say, really complicated allegations but we’re friendly. If these are the views of his friends, how does that hurt him both in not only the jury but in the court of public opinion?” Johnson: “That’s the thing, Ari. That’s why this is such a bad week, because we can go through all the sort of legalese, jargon, but really the average person is picking up every fifth word. What they’re picking up are things like adult film star, payoff, family isn’t there, and falling asleep during a trial. So the outside world is like, okay, this doesn’t look good. He doesn’t sound alert. We’re not seeing anything that gives us the opportunity to think, oh, my gosh, Trump is alert. He’s paying attention to this. Friends? How many of us have them? Right? But if you heard someone say this room was filled with people who are supporting Donald Trump and they leave the room every day and Melania is there and everything else like that, it gives the outside public the impression, well, these people believe in him. Even if he’s guilty, his family is still with him. The fact that he doesn’t have people who are down with him, that’s what the public is picking up and the jury sees that.”

Trump: “Every legal expert, Andy McCarthy — Jonathan, Andy, every single one. Jonathan Turley came out with a scathing report of this trial today. Andy McCarthy, scathing report. Mark Levin, can’t believe this is happening in our country. There’s no case here. There’s no case whatsoever. It’s a disgrace. And we have a conflicted judge and it shouldn’t be happening, not in this country. Thank you very much.” Reporter: “Do you think you could beat Biden in a debate?” Reporter 2: “What do you think of witnesses so far?” TAPPER: “All right, Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States and the defendant in this case talking after a full week of court. Let’s bring in CNN’s Daniel Dale, our fact checker, who’s looking into everything we just heard from the former president, most of which was criticizing the trial and telling the world that he’s ready to debate President Biden whenever, wherever it can happen. Daniel?” Dale: “Fair enough. He said something that we fact checked, I think, five times in the last couple of weeks. He said, this is a Biden indictment. It’s a well-coordinated attack coming out of Washington, completely baseless, zero evidence whatsoever. This is an indictment approved by a grand jury of New York citizens. There is no basis for any claim that President Biden had a personal role in it. The prosecutor behind it is Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who’s a locally elected official, does not report to the federal government. Now, former President Trump has repeatedly cited the fact that a former DoJ official went over to work for Bragg. That’s Matthew Colangelo, who you’ve been talking about, zero evidence that President Biden had any role in that personal employment decision. Colangelo and Bragg were former colleagues in the state attorney general’s office. I think it’s also worth noting, Jake, that when former President Trump says every legal expert thinks this case is a sham, and so on, the people he named today, he named Mark Levin, who, yes, talks about the law. He’s also a right-wing radio host who’s a frequent defender of Donald Trump. Andy McCarthy sometimes criticizes Trump, but is also a conservative commentator. Jonathan Turley, a professor who defended Trump in the impeachment context and other things. So, yes, there are even liberal professors, anti-Trump professors and so on who have questioned this case. But those names are the regular, the usual suspects defending Donald Trump. And then I’ll note he talked about Michigan being destroyed. No more auto jobs. I think some of that was a prediction, but it’s worth noting there are more auto manufacturing jobs today, more people employed in Michigan in that industry today than there were when Donald Trump left office.”

Trump: “I just want to thank everybody for being here. I know you have to suffer through this like everybody else. Nothing has come — this is a case that should have never been brought. Every legal scholar, every legal expert, Andy McCarthy — Jonathan, Andy, every single one. Jonathan Turley came out with a scathing report of this trial today. Andy McCarthy, scathing report. Mark Levin, can’t believe this is happening in our country. There’s no case here. There’s no case whatsoever. It’s a disgrace. And we have a conflicted judge and it shouldn’t be happening, not in this country. Thank you very much.”

Biden: “And I looked to my mom, I said, ‘Honey, you haven’t said anything.’ She said, ‘Joey, remember...’ — true story, said, ‘Remember when they were de-segregating Lynnfield, the neighborhood, it was 70 homes built in white suburbia,’ and I told her — and there was a black family moving in, and there was — people were down there protesting. ‘I told you not to go down there and you went down. Remember that? And you got arrested standing on the porch of the black family and they brought you back, the police?’ I said, ‘Yeah, mom, I remember that.’”

Reporter: “How do you think this will translate to the Jewish students who are facing anti-Semitism here on campus?” Omar: “So, I actually met a lot of Jewish students that are in the encampments, and I think it is really unfortunate that people don’t care about the fact that all Jewish kids should be kept safe and that we should not have to tolerate anti-Semitism or bigotry for all Jewish students, whether they are pro-genocide or anti-genocide.”

KHYMANI: “If we can agree as a society, as a collective, that people, that persons, some persons need to die if they have an ideology that results in the death of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, if there are people like that who exist, shouldn’t they die? Zionists, they are Nazis. They are Nazis. They’re fascists. They’re supporters of genocide. Why would we want people who are supporters of genocide to live? I’m confused. Someone in the chat, right now, should people who are supporters of genocide, should Zionists AKA Nazis, white supremacists, should they live? Should they live? Zionists, along with all white supremacists, need to not exist because they actively kill and harm vulnerable people. They stop the world from progressing. Oh, okay, thank you. What? Thank you. So be glad, be grateful, that I’m just not going out and murdering Zionists. I’ve never murdered anyone in my life and I hope to keep it that way. I genuinely hope to keep it that way. But when you have a whole bunch of Zionists and white supremacists and Nazis and fascists threatening your physical safety, one feels the need to remind them that one is not afraid to reach that point. And we know what that point is.”

Hannity: “Well, let me ask you this. I don’t see a definitive ruling against Trump- I know it’s not wise to maybe listen to oral arguments and think about how these justices ultimately will rule. I think ultimately a majority of justices, and this is my impression, seem inclined to ruled the former presidents have protection from criminal charges but not absolute immunity. I don’t know if that means remanding it down to a lower court. I don’t know if that means that they will give instructions to a lower court or if they will just outright decide it right there. What are your thoughts?” TURLEY: “Well, if this trajectory continues from oral arguments, it was a good day for Donald Trump because there were five justices that clearly were not buying into the D.C. Circuit’s approach. Now that does not mean that they are going to say that Trump is immune from prosecution, but at a minimum, if that is the case, they would likely have to remand it to the district court to say, ‘We need you to develop this record a little further. If they do that, it is hard to see how this could possibly be tried before the election. And if former President Trump is made the next president, then Jack Smith may never see a jury in this case, I mean, it could end the prosecution.” Hannity: “Yeah, that. And of course, the other case that they’re hearing unrelated to Donald Trump involving people with January 6th, that could also impact the special counsel’s case against Trump as well. Professor Jonathan Turley, thank you, sir.”

UNKNOWN: “And so, be glad — be grateful — that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists. I’ve never murdered anyone in my life, and I hope to keep it that way. I genuinely hope to keep it that way.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: This Supreme Court majority, Leonard Leo six, are so clearly politicians, the only difference between them and politicians like yourself is you’re honest about it. You’re a democratic politician. They are Republican politicians trying to achieve Republican goals. They didn’t even pretend today that they had some constitutional argument. Even as a lay person, I didn’t hear them try. What I heard was them saying we’re going to make sure that Donald Trump is protected from prosecution, the end, and what are you going to do about it. Your thoughts? >> Well, they’re politicians who are not even subject to popular election, unlike me. They should move the Supreme Court over to the RNC headquarters, because they’re acting like a bunch of partisan operatives. The most astonishing thing for me today was Justice Alito’s question, he actually asked whether holding the president criminally accountable for actual crimes committed, whether murder or coup or you name it, whether holding them accountable would actually encourage them to stage more violent coups to stay in office to avoid prosecution. Which buys completely into Donald Trump’s narcicisstic criminal world view. For all of American history, we have said presidents are subject to criminal prosecution if they commit crimes. That’s why Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon. That’s why Bill Clinton agrees to give up his law license with the bar for five years. Now they say, well, if you’re really mean to Donald Trump and hold him accountable the way every other American citizen is accountable, then he’ll really overthrow the government. He’ll really bring out the big guns and we can’t afford that. And that’s a kind of masochistic capitulation to Donald Trump’s authoritarianism. Of course we have to hold the president accountable to the law. It’s the basic premise of our law that nobody is above the law, including the president. And when they say, oh, well, you can impeach and convict him and then you can prosecute him, again, that twists the language and turns it upside down in the Constitution. It says even if you’re impeached and convicted, nevertheless, you can still be prosecuted and tried and convicted and punished. Presuming presupposing that of course the president is subject to criminal law, and now we’ve got a bunch of justices who are asking questions that indicate that they are as corrupted as members of Congress who I serve with. When we get through this period, this miserable period of American history, and we will get through it and we’re going to beat them all in November, which is the only solution to this nonsense, these people are going to be fit only for selling incense and flowers at dulles

HUNT: “I want to dig into — you have this new organization. You are planning to try to resume this work. It has become a central piece of our political arguments —“ JANKOWICZ: “Yeah.” HUNT: “— right? What is disinformation and what isn’t disinformation? What is free speech? What is quashing free speech? The fight itself has become political.” JANKOWICZ: “Yeah.” HUNT: “How do you view that in your work that you are unrolling today?” JANKOWICZ: “Yeah. Well, I think it’s really unfortunate, right, because disinformation is not something that knows a political party. It comes for people on all sides of the political spectrum. It can upset lives. And frankly, right now, we see this fight against disinformation researchers. We see this fight against social media platforms doing content moderation. And we see it empowered by Congress and people who are powerful people — Elon Musk, et cetera. And what does that do? That makes our nation less safe. We are in a point where we’re about to head into an inflection point ahead of the election. We’ve got supercharging AI. We’ve got foreign threats, right? Our foreign adversaries are looking at our domestic polarization and thanking their lucky stars that they have so much material to work with. And in the meantime, disinformation researchers — people who are working on this threat — the canaries in the coal mine — they’re being snuffed out by our very own members of Congress. And so, I think we’re in a — there’s a dereliction of duty going on, basically.” HUNT: “We have seen some evidence that the Republican Party and certainly, the sort of — what I would guess refer to as the Reagan — the Reagan throwback wing, at this point, of the Republican Party — that they are starting to understand the depths of influence from foreign actors, including Russia —“ JANKOWICZ: “Yeah.” HUNT: “— that was almost — it became very difficult for them to talk about it when Trump was in office because he saw it as an assault on him. But you had Mitch McConnell talking just yesterday —“ JANKOWICZ: “Yeah.” HUNT: — about Tucker Carlson going to interview Vladimir Putin and saying that was almost where he expected him to be. The cover of the New York Post had ‘Moscow Marjorie’ on there, talking about Russian disinformation. What are you doing in your group to try to include those kinds of voices to try and reach kind of the broadest and appeal to the broadest set of people here?” JANKOWICZ: “Yeah. So we’re a bipartisan group. We represent people on both sides of the political spectrum. And I, in my career — although the right would prefer everybody forget about that — I’ve worked with Republicans. I’ve worked with Democrats. I’ve worked across the aisle. And I’d say to anybody who cares about this issue, come to us. We’re a big tent here. Frankly, we’re going to expose and investigate every Link in the causal chain of disinformation. And I think we’re going to make the case to Americans who care about this issue that, frankly, it is something that is important to our democracy and our national security. And it doesn’t matter what your political party is — disinformation’s ultimate victim is democracy.” HUNT: “What did you learn from the experience that you had with this DHS board?” JANKOWICZ: “Ahh, I could make a lot of funny comments, but I would just say there’s a couple of things that make me really worried for our country. One, the fact that they went after somebody just for doing their job. It’s not like I was a Senate-confirmed appointee. I was — I was the GS-15, right? I was somebody — just a normal person going —“ HUNT: “A civil servant —“ JANKOWICZ: “Yeah — going —“ HUNT: “— for people who don’t know that language — yeah.” JANKOWICZ: “— going to work every day, right, in my area of expertise. And the vitriol that came after me in my personal life, that’s really disturbing. And so, I want to return that sort of civility. I want to return that humanity to our politics and remind people that online actions have consequences, right? That it’s not just mean words on the internet. I got death threats and things like that, and that’s really, really disturbing. But I would also say that, in general, we need a lot more transparency in initiatives like this. I did not agree with how DHS rolled out the board. And so, what we’re doing with the American Sunlight Project is really looking at open-source investigations — transparent, accessible work. And in all the work that we do, we’re going to try to make it so that anybody can understand it. A lot of the stuff is technical We want to bring it back to the people.” HUNT: “Yeah. I was — I was going to say I absolutely — the death threats, the personal vitriol is something that we have seen just absolutely invade our politics and it’s awful no matter where it’s coming from. But you did mention that you disagreed with the rollout. I mean —“ JANKOWICZ: “Yeah.” HUNT: “— do you understand — or how do you understand, I should say, the distinction between the government doing something like this — a board inside the Department of Homeland Security and a group like the one you’re going to found now?” JANKOWICZ: “Yeah. Well, I mean, first of all, the board was widely lied about, right? People said that it was going to be administrative truth and decide what was true or false on the internet. That’s nonsense. It wasn’t going to do that, as you heard the secretary saying in that old clip, which kind of gives me the willies when I look at it now.” HUNT: “I like that.” JANKOWICZ: “It was about coordinating best practices within the department. I didn’t have any power to decide what was true or false online, nor as Tucker Carlson said, did I have the power to send men with guns to the homes of Americans with whom I disagreed. At the time, I was 37 weeks pregnant and I was just trying to do my job, right?” HUNT: “Yes, and trying to get up every day.” JANKOWICZ: “Exactly.” HUNT: “I have been there.” JANKOWICZ: “Yeah, doing that backwards and in heels.” HUNT: “Yeah.” JANKOWICZ: “But what we are doing is very different I think, right? We’re still bringing people together. We’re coordinating, but we’re shining a light on some of the informational harms that have infected our information ecosystem right now. I think the government has a role to play here and that coordinating role is one that I hope a future administration can still play. It’s one that needs to be done, frankly, from what I’ve seen in my short time in government. We need a little bit more coordination and communication between different entities. But I would say we’re on the outside of that and there is a huge role for civil society to play in curing this informational ecosystem right now.” HUNT: “All right, Nina Jankowicz. Thank you very much for being with us this morning. I really appreciate —“ JANKOWICZ: “Thanks for having me.”