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Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump's crypto dinner raises questions on ethics and access. Also, Trump confirms his attempt to deport migrants to South Sudan. Plus, Trump confronts South Africa's leader with debunked “white genocide” claims. And the Trump Justice Department announces its plan to cancel George Floyd era police reforms. Nnamdi Egwuonwu, Sen. Jeff Merkley, Barbara McQuade, Patrick Gaspard, and Toluse Olorunnipa join Jason Johnson.

The Hur tapes drop and show you that Joe Biden was losing his mental facilities. Enter a cancer diagnosis to take your attention away from the fact that we as American's don't know who was running the country during his presidency. Chris Murphy and James Clyburn say Joe Biden is still capable of being President. Trump Justice Department removing key check on lawmaker prosecutions. 

CTL Script/ Top Stories of May 16th Publish Date: May 16th   Pre-Roll: From the Ingles Studio Welcome to the Award-Winning Cherokee Tribune Ledger Podcast  Today is Friday, May 16th and Happy Birthday to Pierce Brosnan I’m Peyton Spurlock and here are the stories Cherokee is talking about, presented by Times Journal Appellate court takes up mass voter eligibility challenges Kaitlyn Lawrence Wins Judy Johnson Memorial Scholarship The Circuit in Downtown Woodstock Seeking New Vendor Plus, Leah McGrath from Ingles Markets on grass-fed beef We’ll have all this and more coming up on the Cherokee Tribune-Ledger Podcast, and if you’re looking for Community news, we encourage you to listen and subscribe!  Commercial: MILL ON ETOWAH REV GENERIC_FINAL STORY 1: Appellate court takes up mass voter eligibility challenges A federal appeals court heard arguments Tuesday on whether True the Vote’s mass voter challenges in Georgia in 2020, targeting nearly 365,000 voters, were intended to intimidate minority voters. Fair Fight, a voting rights group, argued the challenges were frivolous and aimed at discouraging voters, particularly Black voters, ahead of key Senate runoffs. True the Vote denied intimidation claims, stating their actions were legitimate. Judges questioned the intent, noting none of the challenges succeeded, while a lower court previously ruled in True the Vote’s favor but criticized their methods as "reckless." STORY 2: Kaitlyn Lawrence Wins Judy Johnson Memorial Scholarship Kaitlyn Lawrence, a 2025 Cherokee High School graduate, has won the Judy Johnson Memorial Scholarship, a $500 award honoring a dedicated CCSD School Nutrition employee. Lawrence, a scholar-athlete and active community member, plans to study biochemistry with a minor in criminal justice at Lee University. She excelled in academics, sports, and extracurriculars, including lacrosse, flag football, drumline, National Honor Society, and her church’s youth group, while also working part-time. STORY 3: The Circuit in Downtown Woodstock Seeking New Vendor The Circuit at Chattahoochee Technical College's Woodstock campus is seeking a new vendor for its café space as Circle of Friends' Circuit Café closes on May 15. Founders Diane and Glenn Keen are consolidating operations at their Hickory Flat location, Flourish Café. Cherokee Office of Economic Development President Heath Tippens praised Circle of Friends' success and invited new coffee vendors to consider launching at The Circuit, a coworking and innovation space for entrepreneurs and the community. The café offers an opportunity for small businesses to grow in a supportive environment. We have opportunities for sponsors to get great engagement on these shows. Call 770.874.3200 for more info.    Break: STORY 4: Woodstock Considering $86.2M Budget The Woodstock City Council is reviewing an $86.2 million proposed budget for fiscal year 2026, a $5 million increase from 2025. The budget prioritizes infrastructure, parks, trails, and public safety, including 12 new firefighter positions and a fire captain training officer. It also includes a 2% cost-of-living raise for employees, a 4% water rate increase, and $27 million for parks projects, with $18.3 million allocated to Little River Park. Key SPLOST projects include road improvements, trail extensions, and public safety vehicle replacements. The council will discuss and vote on the budget in upcoming meetings. STORY 5: Trump Justice Department names new interim U.S attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg has been appointed interim U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. Hertzberg, a seasoned prosecutor, has served nearly a decade as an assistant U.S. attorney, handling cases involving violent crime, drug trafficking, and fraud. He previously worked in Savannah and Atlanta, prosecuting gang leaders and other dangerous offenders. A graduate of Amherst College and NYU School of Law, Hertzberg succeeds Richard Moultrie Jr., who served in an acting capacity after Ryan Buchanan’s resignation. Commercial: And now here is Leah McGrath from Ingles Markets on grass fed beef We’ll have closing comments after this.   COMMERCIAL: Ingles Markets 6   SIGN OFF –   Thanks again for hanging out with us on today’s Cherokee Tribune Ledger Podcast. If you enjoy these shows, we encourage you to check out our other offerings, like the Cherokee Tribune Ledger Podcast, the Marietta Daily Journal, or the Community Podcast for Rockdale Newton and Morgan Counties. Read more about all our stories and get other great content at www.tribuneledgernews.com Did you know over 50% of Americans listen to podcasts weekly? Giving you important news about our community and telling great stories are what we do. Make sure you join us for our next episode and be sure to share this podcast on social media with your friends and family. 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Carol Rose, executive director of the ACLU of Massachusetts, discusses the appeals court hearing today in the case of Rümeysa Öztürk. Plus, the Trump Justice Department taking the same position as the Biden admin on a major abortion access case.Senator Ed Markey zooms in to discuss national politics: the impacts of tariffs on small business, Republican rule-breaking, Harvard, and Trump's deportations.Lee Pelton of the Boston Foundation discusses how Trump's nonprofit policies will devastate vulnerable communities, and the Boston Foundation's $2.6 million in Safety Net grants. Chuck Collins of the Institute for Policy Studies discusses the American oligarchs — Zuckerberg, Musk and Bezos --- and their impact on politics. He also joins to discuss the proposed Hanscom Field expansion as it relates to private jet use and climate change.

It was the kind of email that hits like a gut punch. More than 350 community programs received a message from the Trump Justice Department: their funding was done. No warning. Just done. Millions of dollars slashed from efforts to stop gun violence, treat opioid addiction, and support victims of violent crime. The DOJ says the money no longer aligns with department priorities, but for programs like Oakland Youth Alive and the Baltimore Center for Hope, it's a death sentence. These frontline groups have helped reduce homicides by more than 30% in cities like Baltimore. And now, just before summer—when shootings typically spike—federal support is gone. This includes a $2 million grant pulled mid-cycle, hotlines shut down, violence interrupters laid off, and victims left with no resources. All while the Trump administration shifts its focus to law enforcement operations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight on The Last Word: A judge blasts the Trump Justice Department for its refusal to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Also, Donald Trump escalates his fight with Harvard University. Plus, Trump blames Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the war yet again and calls Vladimir Putin's deadly Palm Sunday attack “a mistake.” And The Washington Post reports a government memo lays out the Trump administration's proposal to slash State Department and USAID budgets. Andrew Weissmann, Laurence Tribe, and Nicholas Kristof join Lawrence O'Donnell.

The prosecutor who tried to bankrupt and imprison President Trump is now facing serious allegations of her own. Federal investigators are reviewing claims that New York Attorney General Letitia James committed mortgage fraud to secure favorable terms on multiple properties—allegedly misrepresenting her primary residence, falsifying occupancy status, and even listing her father as a “husband” to qualify for loans. We walk through the documents, the timeline, and the explosive referral letter now in the hands of the Trump Justice Department. Plus, the IRS begins a major shake-up, the Pentagon reels from internal leaks, and 22,000 IRS workers line up to resign under Trump's aggressive downsizing push. And later—chaos erupts at a Marjorie Taylor Greene town hall, the DOJ sues Maine over transgender sports, and Senator Van Hollen flies to El Salvador to recover a deported man ICE says was sent back “by mistake.” The tide is turning—politically, financially, and globally—and today's headlines prove it.Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 4/16/25Join the leading community for Conservative Christians! https://www.FaithandValues.comYou can partner with us by visiting TruNews.com, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961.Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!https://www.AmericanReserves.com             It's the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today!https://www.amazon.com/Final-Day-Characteristics-Second-Coming/dp/0578260816/Apple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books!https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/final-day-10-characteristics-of-the-second-coming/id1687129858Purchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today.https://www.sacrificingliberty.com/watchThe Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today!https://tru.news/faucielf

Mediaite editor Aidan McLaughlin speaks with veteran reporter Noah Shachtman about the Trump Justice Department's weaponizing dropping of the charges against New York mayor Eric Adams, why he believes it's never been easier to steal secrets from the U.S. government, and the FBI's massive use of resources to comb through Jeffrey Epstein case files. They also speak about his career as the former editor-in-chief of Rolling Stone and The Daily Beast, and now a contributor to many large publications.

A last-minute intervention from Chief Justice John Roberts has paused the midnight deadline that could determine the life or death of Kilmar Garcia – a Maryland man mistakenly deported to one of El Salvador's deadliest prisons. Garcia, 29, was ripped from his home despite a 2019 court order that barred his removal due to likely persecution. He had no criminal record, was legally working as a sheet metal apprentice, and was married to a U.S. citizen. Still, the Trump administration deported him, labeling it an administrative error, but also accusing him without evidence of being tied to MS-13. Even the federal appeals court wasn't buying it, calling the government's actions "lawless" and admitting bluntly that the government screwed up. Now, the Trump Justice Department is asking the Supreme Court to let it continue deporting others under an obscure wartime law from the 1700s. Roberts' pause gives the high court time to consider whether the lower court went too far in demanding the U.S. get Garcia back. But here's the kicker: the administration claims they can't bring him home because he's no longer in U.S. custody. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How far will a judge go in challenging the Trump Justice Department over the deportation flights? Did the planes takeoff against the judge's order? Plus, flights are once again landing in one of the world's busiest airports, Heathrow in London, after a shutdown that caused a global ripple effect.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This Day in Legal History: James Earl Ray SentencedOn March 10, 1969, James Earl Ray was sentenced to 99 years in prison for the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ray had pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty but later recanted, claiming he was coerced into confessing. His conviction came just under a year after King was fatally shot on April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The murder of King, a pivotal leader in the civil rights movement, sent shockwaves through the nation and intensified calls for racial justice. Ray's arrest in London after a two-month international manhunt led to one of the most scrutinized legal proceedings of the era. Despite his guilty plea, Ray repeatedly sought a retrial, arguing that he was a scapegoat in a broader conspiracy. His appeals were unsuccessful, and he remained imprisoned until his death in 1998. The King family later advocated for reopening the case, believing the government and other entities were involved in the assassination. In 1999, a civil jury in Memphis ruled in favor of the King family, concluding that the assassination was the result of a conspiracy, not the actions of a lone gunman. This verdict fueled ongoing debates about the true circumstances of King's death and the extent of Ray's role. The case remains one of the most controversial in American history, with lingering questions about the extent of government involvement. The King family's pursuit of the truth highlighted their belief that justice had not been fully served. While the official record still names Ray as the assassin, many continue to question whether he acted alone or was merely a pawn in a larger scheme.A Baltimore judge ruled that Adnan Syed, the subject of the popular Serial podcast, will remain free after reducing his life sentence to time served. Despite this decision, his 2000 murder conviction for the death of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, remains intact. Judge Jennifer Schiffer stated that Syed is no longer a threat to public safety and that his continued freedom serves the interests of justice. Syed was originally convicted by a state jury, but his case gained national attention due to concerns over trial errors and potential prosecutorial misconduct. He was released from prison in 2022 after prosecutors questioned the integrity of his conviction, though an appeals court later reinstated it. The ruling ensures he will not return to prison, though legal battles over his conviction continue. His case has fueled ongoing debates about wrongful convictions and the role of media in influencing the justice system.Adnan Syed of 'Serial' Podcast Will Remain Free, Judge Rules (1)The Trump administration fired Adam Cohen, the head of the Justice Department's Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces, as part of a broader effort to remove career officials. Cohen, who had just helped draft a memo expanding the task force's role in immigration enforcement, said he was shocked by the decision and insisted his work had been apolitical. His dismissal follows other high-profile removals, including three assistant U.S. attorneys in New York, two of whom prosecuted a corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams. The attorneys were placed on administrative leave after Justice Department officials resigned in protest over pressure to drop the Adams case. Additionally, Liz Oyer, the Justice Department's pardon attorney, and Bobak Talebian, who handled Freedom of Information Act requests, were also dismissed. The shake-up reflects a broader effort to reshape the Justice Department under Trump's leadership, sparking concerns over political interference in law enforcement.Trump Justice Department fires head of organized crime drug task force | ReutersU.S. immigration agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian graduate student at Columbia University, as part of President Trump's crackdown on certain anti-Israel activists. Khalil, a U.S. green card holder, had been active in pro-Palestinian protests and served as a negotiator with university officials. The Department of Homeland Security accused him of leading “activities aligned to Hamas” but did not provide details or charge him with a crime. His arrest was widely condemned by civil rights groups as an attack on free speech. The Trump administration also revoked $400 million in government contracts with Columbia, citing antisemitic harassment on campus. Critics argue the move is part of a broader effort to target higher education institutions and suppress pro-Palestinian activism. Khalil, who was detained at an ICE facility, had previously expressed concerns about being targeted for speaking to the media. His case has sparked legal challenges and heightened tensions over immigration enforcement and academic freedom.US immigration agents arrest Palestinian student protester at Columbia University in Trump crackdown | Reuters This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.minimumcomp.com/subscribe

Fat Tuesday! Grab your donuts and breakfast beer and March 4th with David Waldman this morning. This year for Mardi Gras, Cybertruck-shaped piñatas will be roaming the streets!  Happy Tariff Day! Trees, a major source of income for both Canada and Joyce Kilmer, will be going up like eggs, as will just about everything, since just about everything comes from Canada, Mexico or China. The only thing going down will be stocks, and they're going way down. Donald K. Trump will be going viral tonight, up or down, he DNGAF. Can you imagine Dems treating this thing like the locals at a town hall? Well, imagine away, because they aren't going to do that. They will bring some people, release some statements mentioning those people, and… ...sorry, my fingers fell asleep typing that. Elon Musk is of course, a visionary-genius, as of course, reflected by his visionarily genius child-naming. Which one was at the White House recently… “5138008”? “88-14WYTB01? “D3L3TDG0VT”? Nope, it was “X Æ A-Xii”… accent on the ”Æ”. (You know how to pronounce Æ) That tyke is Elon's favorite human stole to wear on formal occasions and knew exactly how to trigger fellow toddler Donald K. Trump through the time-honored tradition of wiping boogers on his desk. DataRepublican may not be a visionary-genius name, and neither is Jennica Pounds, but if she doesn't like you are just as fired as if X Æ A-Xii fired you himself. Donald took the classified documents that he had previously stolen and returned them to… Mar-a-Lago. Because, as previously mentioned, Trump is a toddler. Professional psychopathologists may have a more complex definition of his behavior, but really, someone should just take him out of the adult room before he breaks something. Operation Smell the Whirlwind might have lost their prize quarry, Chuck Schumer. Meanwhile, the Trump Justice Department is figuring out how to spring Tina Peters out of a State Pen. Soon we'll see how loyal the Trump Supreme Court is. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has yet to return to the US, but it is certainly expected that he will be required to wear a different wardrobe for his upcoming apology visit. Does clothes make the man, or the man make the clothes?

-- On the Show: -- Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) joins David to discuss the aftermath of Trump's first month, the outlook for Democrats into 2026 and 2028, whether Schiff believes he will be personally targeted by the Trump Justice Department and much more -- A review of the economic indicators of Donald Trump's first month in office for his second term -- MAGA loyalists will not even admit that Russia under Vladimir Putin started the war with Ukraine by invading it -- A furious Donald Trump suffers a complete and total meltdown during his speech to CPAC -- During a meeting with Governors, Donald Trump threatens Maine Governor Janet Mills, and she does not back down -- Blue states are threatened with being removed from the map by Donald Trump during a dangerous and unhinged meeting -- Podcaster Dan Bongino is chosen to be Deputy Director of the FBI by Donald Trump -- Despite MSNBC ratings collapses and CNN continuing to decline, The David Pakman Show and other independent progressive media are rapidly growing -- On the Bonus Show: Elon emails every federal employee asking them to justify their jobs, Pope Francis in critical condition, Associated Press sues 3 Trump administration officials over freedom of speech, much more...

The federal judge overseeing the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams held a hearing Wednesday about the Trump Justice Department's sudden decision to drop the case. That reversal prompted seven federal prosecutors to resign in protest and has further plunged the mayor’s administration into turmoil. William Brangham was in the courtroom and reports on the developments. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Is the Trump Justice Department establishing a precedent that those who promote the administration's agenda can evade criminal accountability?  In an excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast, Joyce Vance and CAFE Contributor Elie Honig, former SDNY Assistant U.S. Attorney, break down the alleged quid pro quo between the Trump administration and NYC Mayor Eric Adams.  In a recent letter, former interim SDNY U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon accused acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove of seeking dismissal of the Adams case to further President Trump's hardline immigration policies. In the full episode, Joyce and Elie further discuss the turmoil at DOJ stemming from the Adams case: – The resignations of Sassoon, Assistant U.S. Attorney Hagan Scotten, and leaders of DOJ's public integrity unit after they refused to comply with Bove's demands; and – The procedure for federal prosecutors to seek dismissal of criminal charges and the upcoming court hearing on the Adams dismissal request. CAFE Insiders click HERE to listen to the full analysis. To become a member of CAFE Insider head to cafe.com/insider. You'll get access to full episodes of the podcast and other exclusive content. Subscribe to our YouTube channel. This podcast is brought to you by CAFE and Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York Governor Kathy Hochul, along withother top officials spent much of Tuesday weighing whether to use her power to remove New York City Mayor Eric Adams from office.It's a power that no New York Governor has ever used before.Adams faces growing calls to step down over allegations of corruption - and criticism that Adams' deepening ties with the Trump administration have compromised his ability to govern independently.The nation's biggest city has been all but paralyzed by the legal and political problems of its Mayor. What's next for Eric Adams, and what does the scandal tell us about the Trump Justice Department? For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.orgEmail us at considerthis@npr.orgLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

On episode 66 of The Sal Greco Show, candidate for city council Frank Morano joins the show to discuss New York City politics, why he is running for NYC City Council, the Trump Justice Department”s decision to drop NYC Mayor Eric Adams indictment, and more!Salvatore "Sal" Greco is a Former 14 year New York Police Department (NYPD) veteran, and a Sicilian-American. Being a strict fitness enthusiast, food connoisseur, and cigar aficionado Sal is no stranger to the Good and Evil in our lives. His origin story began with food industry work and a love for how it brought everyone together.Follow Sal:https://twitter.com/TheSalGrecohttps://www.instagram.com/thesalgrecoFollow Frank : https://twitter.com/FrankMoranohttps://www.instagram.com/MoranoVisionhttps://secure.moranoforcouncil.com/website

The morning after the mass resignation of prosecutors sparked a crisis inside the Trump Justice Department, acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove led a meeting with the Justice Department's public integrity section. His message: they had to choose one career lawyer to file a dismissal of the corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, according to three people briefed on the meeting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of The Sal Greco Show, we get into the fallout of the Trump Justice Department rogue attempt at dismissing the very serious federal case of NYC Mayor Eric Adams. We also cover a new legal case involving Eric Adams and his NYPD with guest retired NYPD Lieutenant and co-host of the Finest Unfiltered Podcast Eric Dym. Salvatore "Sal" Greco is a Former 14 year New York Police Department (NYPD) veteran, and a Sicilian-American. Being a strict fitness enthusiast, food connoisseur, and cigar aficionado Sal is no stranger to the Good and Evil in our lives. His origin story began with food industry work and a love for how it brought everyone together.Follow Sal:https://twitter.com/TheSalGrecohttps://www.instagram.com/thesalgrecoFollow The Finest Unfiltered :https://twitter.com/TheFinestCasthttps://www.instagram.com/TheFinestUnfilteredFollow Eric Dym :https://twitter.com/EricDymCophttps://www.instagram.com/MostComplainedCop

Former top FBI counterterrorism agent Chris O'Leary tells host Michael Isikoff how Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove was a diligent prosecutor of Jan. 6 rioters before he turned on his teammates at Trump's behest.  Follow Jeff Stein on Twitter:https://twitter.com/SpyTalkerFollow Michael Isikoff on Twitter:https://twitter.com/isikoff Follow SpyTalk on Twitter:https://twitter.com/talk_spySubscribe to SpyTalk on Substackhttps://www.spytalk.co/Take our listener survey where you can give us feedback.http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=short

Today's Headlines: Saudi Arabia rejected normalizing ties with Israel without a Palestinian state after Trump claimed the U.S. would take over Gaza. Meanwhile, the Pentagon is drafting plans to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria, a move Trump has attempted before. In domestic news, 20,000 federal employees accepted buyouts amid Trump's push for widespread layoffs, with intelligence agencies and USAID also facing major workforce reductions. The FBI turned over details of 5,000 employees involved in January 6th investigations, prompting lawsuits. The USPS briefly halted package shipments from China before reversing course due to backlash. Trump also signed an executive order banning transgender women from women's sports. Finally, January was recorded as the hottest month ever. Resources/Articles mentioned in this episode: Yahoo: Saudi Arabia contradicts Trump, vows no ties with Israel without creation of Palestinian state  NBC News: Defense Department drafting plans to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria after recent Trump comments Reuters: Unions sue to block federal worker buyout plan as 20,000 line up to quit CNN: Trump administration plans sweeping layoffs among workers who don't opt to resign  Reuters: Unions sue to block federal worker buyout plan as 20,000 line up to quit  NPR: Trump offers deferred resignation to national security and intelligence workers  NBC News: USAID announces nearly all direct hires will be placed on administrative leave NBC News: USAID announces nearly all direct hires will be placed on administrative leave CNN: FBI turns over details of 5,000 employees who worked on January 6 cases to Trump Justice Department, as agents sue  WSJ: U.S. Postal Service Resumes Shipments of China Parcels  NBC News: Trump signs executive order banning trans women from women's sports Axios: January surprises with a global temperature record  Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage alongside Bridget Schwartz and edited by Grace Hernandez-Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight on The Last Word: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent grants Elon Musk unprecedented access to sensitive data. Also, Donald Trump releases water in California, but floods areas unaffected by wildfires. Plus, prominent attorneys warn the Trump Justice Department against publicly releasing the names of purged officials. Norm Ornstein, E.J. Dionne, Sen. Adam Schiff, Frank Figliuzzi, and Andrew Weissmann join Lawrence O'Donnell.

The Justice Department says it's fired more than a dozen employees who had worked on criminal investigations into President Trump before his election. A DOJ official says the career prosecutors were fired because the acting attorney general doesn't trust them to carry out Trump's agenda, and that it's part of ending, quote, "the weaponization of government." DOJ didn't identify the fired employees, and it's not yet clear whether they'll challenge their terminations under civil service protection rules. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Justice Department says it's fired more than a dozen employees who had worked on criminal investigations into President Trump before his election. A DOJ official says the career prosecutors were fired because the acting attorney general doesn't trust them to carry out Trump's agenda, and that it's part of ending, quote, "the weaponization of government." DOJ didn't identify the fired employees, and it's not yet clear whether they'll challenge their terminations under civil service protection rules. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A purge at the Justice Department. More than a dozen officials who worked on the criminal investigations into Donald Trump have been fired, according to sources familiar with the matter. Also, the interim US attorney in Washington, DC, has launched an investigation into prosecutors who brought obstruction charges against some rioters that were ultimately tossed because of a Supreme Court decision last summer. Plus, Elon Musk under fire on Holocaust Remembrance Day for comments he made over the weekend to a far-right German political party about, quote, "too much focus on past guilt." Professor Deborah Lipstadt, the former State Department special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, speaks to Anderson about Musk's comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Michael Monks and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Trump Justice Department fires officials who assisted Jack Smith cases. Dr. Phil joins immigration authorities during ICE action in Chicago. Police respond to mystery behind viral ‘Help' satellite images from downtown Los Angeles.

AP Washington correspondent Sagar Meghani reports on the Trump Justice Department firing employees involved in prosecuting the president.

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Vice President Kamala Harris responded to comments from Donald Trump's onetime chief of staff John Kelly, who said his former boss fit the “general definition of a fascist.” Both the US and Israel issued security alerts for certain coastal areas of Sri Lanka. The CDC is investigating an E. Coli outbreak linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounders—we'll tell you the latest. Elon Musk's America PAC has gotten a warning from the Justice Department. Plus, Goldfish crackers are getting a new name... kind of. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tuesday, July 9th, 2024Today, Senate Democrats canceled their meeting to discuss Biden Monday, but House Democrats have a meeting this morning on the topic; there's an economic renaissance happening in rural counties across the country; the RNC platform is out; the Fyre Fest guy is working for Donald Trump now; The Washington Post confuses Rep Mark Takano with Rep Ted Lieu in reporting on a call about Biden; Biden has written a letter to House Democrats telling them he's the nominee; a piece from doctor Timothy Snyder on fascism and fear as we learn more about project 2025; plus AG and Dana deliver your good news.Promo Codes:Go to drinkAG1.com/dailybeans to try AG1 and get a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D3 AND K2 AND 5 FREE AG1 Travel Packs with your first purchase.Netroots Nation 2024:Netroots Nation is in Baltimore, July 11-13. Go to netrootsnation.org and type NN24Partner in the promo box for 10% off your ticket. Tickets and LIVE show dates https://allisongill.comSubscribe for free to MuellerSheWrote on Substackhttps://muellershewrote.substack.com RNC releases party platform with softer abortion stance, call for voting restrictions (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)The Fyre Fest Fraudster Is Connecting Trump With Rappers (Rolling Stone)Fascism and Fear The Moment, The Media, The Election (Timothy Snyder | Substack)Economic Renaissance or Fleeting Recovery? Left-Behind Counties See Boom in Jobs and Businesses Amid Widening Divides (Economic Innovation Group | eig.org)Biden Letter to House Democrats Full Text PDF  (PBS) Subscribe to Lawyers, Guns, And MoneyAd-free premium feed: https://lawyersgunsandmoney.supercast.comSubscribe for free everywhere else:https://lawyersgunsandmoney.simplecast.com/episodes/1-miami-1985Check out other MSW Media podcastshttps://mswmedia.com/shows/Follow AG and Dana on Social MediaDr. Allison Gill Follow Mueller, She Wrote on Posthttps://post.news/@/MuellerSheWrote?utm_source=TwitterAG&utm_medium=creator_organic&utm_campaign=muellershewrote&utm_content=FollowMehttps://muellershewrote.substack.comhttps://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrotehttps://www.threads.net/@muellershewrotehttps://www.tiktok.com/@muellershewrotehttps://instagram.com/muellershewroteDana Goldberghttps://twitter.com/DGComedyhttps://www.instagram.com/dgcomedyhttps://www.facebook.com/dgcomedyhttps://danagoldberg.comHave some good news; a confession; or a correction to share?Good News & Confessions - The Daily Beanshttps://www.dailybeanspod.com/confessional/From The Good NewsHeads up – The Seattle show is sold out. |If you are in a position of having tickets to empty seats please send us a message at hello@muellershewrote.com – put “Seattle Tickets” in the subject line – and we'll see if we can connect you with people who would like to go, but were unable to get tickets.Fandom-inspired all-natural handmade soap collections. (ClaireifiedbyClaire.com)Temporary Expanded Public Service Loan Forgiveness (TEPSLF) (studentaid.org)https://carolinaforward.orgThe North Carolina Democratic Party (ncdp.org) Live Show Ticket Links:https://allisongill.com (for all tickets and show dates)Wednesday July 10th – Portland OR – Polaris Hall(with Dana!) - SOLD OUTThursday July 11th – Seattle WA – The Triple Door(with Dana!) - SOLD OUTThursday July 25th Milwaukee, WI https://tinyurl.com/Beans-MKESunday July 28th Nashville, TN - with Phil Williams https://tinyurl.com/Beans-TennWednesday July 31st St. Louis, MO https://tinyurl.com/Beans-STLFriday August 16th Washington, DC - with Andy McCabe, Pete Strzok, Glenn Kirschner https://tinyurl.com/Beans-in-DCSaturday August 24 San Francisco, CA https://tinyurl.com/Beans-SF Listener Survey:http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=shortFollow the Podcast on Apple:The Daily Beans on Apple PodcastsWant to support the show and get it ad-free and early?Supercasthttps://dailybeans.supercast.com/OrPatreon https://patreon.com/thedailybeansOr subscribe on Apple Podcasts with our affiliate linkThe Daily Beans on Apple Podcasts

House Republicans launched a formal impeachment hearing Thursday against President Joe Biden, promising to “provide accountability” as they probe the family finances and lucrative business dealings of his son Hunter and make their case to the public, colleagues and a skeptical Senate. The chairmen of the Oversight, Judiciary, and Ways and Means committees used the opening hearing to review the constitutional and legal questions involved with impeachment. They are trying to show what they say are links to Biden's son Hunter's overseas businesses, though key witnesses said they do not yet see hard evidence of impeachable offenses. Rep. James Comer, R-Ky, the Oversight chairman, said the lawmakers have “a mountain of evidence” that will show that the elder Biden “abused his public office for his family's financial gain.” Hours after the hearing wrapped, Comer issued subpoenas for additional banking records from the personal and business accounts of Hunter Biden and the president's brother, James Biden. He said the panel will continue to “follow the money and the evidence to provide accountability.” It's a high-stakes opening act for Republicans, taking place just before a potential federal government shutdown, as they begin a process that can lead to the ultimate penalty for a president, dismissal from office for what the Constitution describes as “high crimes and misdemeanors.” The White House pushed back with statements throughout the hearing saying nothing can distract from the Republicans' inability to govern as the shutdown loomed. Spokesperson Sharon Yang called the hearing a “baseless stunt” and said, “President Biden will always stay focused on the priorities of the American people — not these political games.” The more than six-hour hearing came as House Republicans face scattered resistance to an impeachment inquiry from their own ranks and deep reluctance in the Senate from Republicans who worry about political ramifications and say Biden's conviction and removal from office are unlikely. As the hearing began, Democrats displayed a screen showing the days, hours and minutes left until the government shuts down as Congress struggles to fund the government before Saturday's deadline. “We're 62 hours away from shutting down the government of the United States of America and Republicans are launching an impeachment drive, based on a long debunked and discredited lie,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the Oversight panel. Raskin questioned the legitimacy of the hearing since the House has not voted to formally launch the impeachment inquiry. He said Republicans are rehashing five-year-old allegations raised by Donald Trump, who is Biden's chief rival in 2024, during the former president's 2019 impeachment over Ukraine. “They don't have a shred of evidence against President Biden for an impeachable offense,” he said. The hearing Thursday did not feature witnesses with information about the Bidens or Hunter Biden's business. Instead, the panel heard from outside experts in tax law, criminal investigations and constitutional legal theory. A top Republican-called witness, Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor who is an expert in impeachment issues, said he believed the House had passed the threshold for an inquiry but the current evidence was not enough for charges. “I do not believe that the current evidence would support articles of impeachment,” Turley said. Democrats, who decry the investigation as a political ploy aimed at hurting Biden and helping Trump as he runs again for president, brought in Michael Gerhardt, a law professor who has also appeared as an expert in previous impeachment proceedings. In detailing the reasons Republicans say they have to impeach Biden, Gerhardt concluded: “If that's what exists, as a basis for this inquiry, it is not sufficient. I say that with all respect.” Still, questions remain as Republicans dig into the Biden family finances and the overseas business dealings of Hunter Biden, who has acknowledged being a drug user during much of the time under scrutiny. The president's brother, James, was also involved in some work with Hunter. Republicans have been investigating Hunter Biden for years, since his father was vice president. And while there have been questions raised about the ethics around the family's international business, none of the evidence so far has proven that the president, in his current or previous office, abused his role, accepted bribes or both. One former business partner of Hunter Biden has told House investigators the son was selling the “illusion of access” to his father. Turley told the lawmakers the question remains, “Was the president involved?” In the run-up to the hearing, Republicans unveiled a tranche of new documents and bank records that detail wire transfers from a Chinese businessman to Hunter Biden in 2019. Hunter Biden had listed his father's address on the wire transfer form, which Republicans say provided a clear link to the president. Abbe Lowell, an attorney for Hunter Biden, said the address on the wire transfer, which he says was a loan, was listed to the president's Delaware home because it was the address on Hunter Biden's driver's license and "his only permanent address at the time.” “Once again Rep. Comer peddles lies to support a premise — some wrongdoing by Hunter Biden or his family — that evaporates in thin air the moment facts come out,” Lowell said in a statement. House Republicans are also looking into the Justice Department investigation into Hunter Biden's taxes and gun use that began in 2018. Two IRS whistleblowers came forward to Congress in the spring with claims that department officials thwarted their efforts to fully investigate Hunter Biden and that they faced retaliation when they pushed back. The claims have since been disputed by the Department of Justice, the IRS and FBI agents who worked on the case. “The Biden Justice Department protected the Biden family brand.” said Rep. Jason Smith, a Missouri Republican and Ways and Means chairman. What Smith did not mention was that the discussions occurred during the Trump Justice Department and were likely in keeping with the agency's practice of avoiding overt investigative steps concerning political candidates in the immediate run-up to an election. But Republicans have pointed to a failed plea deal over the summer as proof that Hunter Biden received preferential treatment because of who his father was. “They tried to put together this sweetheart deal,” said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the Judiciary chairman. The impeachment inquiry hearing is taking place as the federal government is days away from what is likely to be a damaging government shutdown that would halt paychecks for millions of federal workers and the military and disrupt services for millions of Americans. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced the impeachment inquiry this month, egged on by Trump and with mounting pressure from his right flank to take action against Biden or risk being ousted from his leadership job. Trump is the only president to be twice impeached, first over accusations he pressured Ukraine to dig up dirt on Biden and later over accusations that he incited the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol. He was acquitted in both cases by the Senate. The hearing Thursday is expected to be the first of many as House Republicans explore whether or not they will pursue articles of impeachment against the president. It's unclear if McCarthy has support from his slim Republican majority to impeach Biden. If Biden was impeached, the charges would then be sent to the Senate for a trial. - by Farnoush Amiri, Lisa Mascaro and Eric Tucker, APSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this day in legal history, August 16, 1918, Lothar Witzke was convicted of espionage in the United States on behalf of Germany and became the first German spy convicted during World War I. Lothar Witzke was a junior officer in the German Imperial Navy during World War I, who became a spy and saboteur in the United States and Mexico. After escaping internment in Chile, he reached San Francisco in 1916 and began sabotage activities with another agent, Kurt Jahnke. They were involved in various missions, including suspected connections to significant explosions, though later investigations ruled out their involvement in some cases. Witzke was arrested in 1918 near the Mexican border, convicted, and sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by President Woodrow Wilson. After an act of heroism in prison and diplomatic pressure from Germany, he was pardoned and released by President Calvin Coolidge in 1923. Upon his return to Germany, Witzke was decorated with the Iron Cross and later served in the Abwehr, or German military intelligence, during World War II. After the war, he became a member of the Hamburg Parliament, representing the German Party from 1949 to 1952.Donald Trump may have a 40 point lead ahead of DeSantis in the GOP primary, and Chris Christie may have overtaken the Florida governor in early New Hampshire polling, but among one demographic DeSantis seems to have the edge over all other Republican candidates–lawyers. According to a report by Bloomberg Law, Ron DeSantis has a significant advantage over Donald Trump in campaign donations from lawyers, leading with a 6-to-1 ratio. As of the end of June, DeSantis had received over $1.3 million from individual lawyer contributions, compared to just under $200,000 for Trump. DeSantis's background includes a Harvard Law School education and time as a U.S. Navy lawyer, while Trump has been known to criticize and even sue attorneys. Many larger law firms seem uncomfortable supporting Trump, contributing to DeSantis's advantage.DeSantis's fundraising from lawyers has also surpassed other GOP primary candidates, including former Governor Nikki Haley and Senator Tim Scott. His campaign haul includes significant contributions from elite law firms like Sullivan & Cromwell. DeSantis's support in Republican legal circles also includes several high-ranking Trump Justice Department officials and lawyers from Jones Day.While DeSantis leads in lawyer contributions, he still trails Trump by double digits in state and national polls. Some political analysts question whether DeSantis's momentum will continue, especially as his campaign has faced staff shakeups and strategy shifts. Meanwhile, Trump's campaign, powered by small-dollar donors, has raised over $50 million between January and June. Contributions from the legal industry have historically favored Democrats, with President Joe Biden out-raising DeSantis among lawyers so far this year with $1.5 million.DeSantis Crushes Trump in Cash from Lawyers Seeking AlternativeDavis Polk & Wardwell, a prominent law firm, has signed a 25-year lease extension to expand its Midtown headquarters in Manhattan, adding 30,000 square feet to its current space at 450 Lexington Ave. This deal increases the firm's footprint to 700,000 square feet, making it the largest commercial space leased in New York City in 2023, as announced by the building's landlord RXR Realty. The firm's managing partner, Neil Barr, emphasized that the expansion reflects the firm's growth strategy.Davis Polk has been proactive in moving back to in-office work after the pandemic and is requiring its lawyers and business services personnel to be in the office Monday through Thursday after Labor Day. The building, located near Grand Central Terminal, will undergo a $300 million renovation, including private outdoor terraces for Davis Polk and new gathering spaces.The firm's lease renewal comes amid a challenging time for Manhattan's commercial real estate market, with available office space reaching an all-time high in the second quarter of 2023. Financial and legal services have dominated the leasing transactions, with Davis Polk's lease being a significant highlight. Other law firms like Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Paul Hastings, and Sheppard Mullin have also renewed or expanded their New York footprints this quarter.Davis Polk Inks Manhattan's Biggest Office Lease of 2023 (1)A Delaware judge has ruled that the fair value of Pivotal Software Inc.'s shares at the time of its 2019 go-private merger with VMWare Inc. was $14.83 per share. This ruling came in an appraisal suit brought by Pivotal's former investors, who argued that the shares should have been worth $20, while Pivotal sought a valuation closer to $12. Chancellor Kathaleen St. J. McCormick arrived at the fair value figure by averaging two valuation methods suggested by the parties. The court's decision also clarified that the deal price does not provide a cap on fair value, emphasizing the importance of strong procedural protections for minority stockholders.Ex-Pivotal Investors Lose $20 Share Valuation Bid in VMWare DealThe American Bar Association (ABA) is considering a new rule that may require law schools to adopt free speech policies. This change comes after several incidents where students disrupted controversial speakers on campuses. The ABA's Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar will consider a rule mandating "written policies that encourage and support the free expression of ideas." Schools would develop their own policies, but they must protect the rights of faculty, staff, and students to communicate controversial ideas and ensure robust debate.The proposed rule emphasizes that becoming an effective advocate requires learning civil discourse, even in disagreement, and that concerns about civility should not justify barring controversial discussions. While ABA's law school standards have covered academic freedom for faculty, this proposal would be the first to address free speech for the entire law school community.Prominent U.S. law schools have faced criticism for handling student protests against conservative speakers, leading to apologies and mandated free speech training at institutions like Stanford. Yale Law School also strengthened its commitment to free speech after disruptive incidents. The proposed rule would allow restrictions on unlawful expression, defamatory speech, threats, harassment, or unjustifiable invasions of privacy, and would enable reasonable regulation of the time and manner of expression. The council is set to vote on Friday on whether to send the proposed rule for public notice and comment, and further revisions are anticipated.ABA weighs new free speech rule for law schools | ReutersA federal appeals court has refused to revive a lawsuit by longtime umpire Angel Hernandez, who accused Major League Baseball (MLB) of racial discrimination. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan rejected Hernandez's arguments in a 3-0 decision, stating that the league's promotion practices, including its failure to promote him to crew chief, did not reflect unfair treatment of minorities. Hernandez, an MLB umpire since 1993, claimed he had been discriminated against after being passed over for crew chief five times between 2011 and 2018. He also cited a "history of animosity" with Joe Torre, MLB's chief baseball officer at the time of the lawsuit. The court found that Hernandez failed to show a statistically significant disparity in promotion rates, despite a "bottom-line imbalance" between white and minority crew chiefs. It also rejected Hernandez's claim that the judge erred in accepting MLB's reasons for not promoting him, which included a missed call and an "overly confrontational style." The court upheld the March 2021 dismissal of the lawsuit, and lawyers for Hernandez did not immediately respond to requests for comment. In 2020, MLB named its first black and Hispanic crew chiefs born outside the United States.Major League Baseball umpire loses appeal of discrimination lawsuit | Reuters Get full access to Minimum Competence - Daily Legal News Podcast at www.minimumcomp.com/subscribe

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Jon is joined by Geoffrey Berman, a former US attorney from the Southern District of New York—and author of the new book Holding the Line: Inside the Nation's Preeminent US Attorney's Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department. They dig into how Bill Barr tried to have Berman fired, why nailing down powerful guys like Trump is so hard, and whether better guardrails could protect our democracy. Berman also happened to be Jon's neighbor growing up in New Jersey, so they reminisce about old neighborhood gossip. Plus, writers Jay Jurden and Tocarra Mallard trash-talk Ron DeSantis and Brett Favre, who fully deserve it.CREDITSHosted by: Jon StewartFeaturing, in order of appearance:Tocarra Mallard, Jay Jurden, Geoffrey BermanExecutive Produced by Jon Stewart, Brinda Adhikari, James Dixon, Chris McShane, and Richard Plepler.Lead Producer: Sophie EricksonProducers: Zach Goldbaum, Caity Gray, and Robby SlowikAssoc. Producer: Andrea BetanzosSound Engineer & Editor: Miguel CarrascalSenior Digital Producer: Frederika MorganDigital Coordinator: Norma HernandezSupervising Producer: Lorrie BaranekHead Writer: Kris AcimovicElements: Kenneth Hull, Daniella PhilipsonTalent: Brittany Mehmedovic, Marjorie McCurry, Lukas Thimm Research: Susan Helvenston, Andy Crystal, and Cassie MurdochTheme Music by: Gary Clark Jr.The Problem with Jon Stewart podcast is an Apple TV+ podcast, produced by Busboy Productions.https://apple.co/-JonStewart

Geoffrey Berman was the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York in the Trump administration. He was appointed under peculiar circumstances, and he was fired under even more peculiar circumstances. He is now a partner at the law firm of Fried Frank, and he's the author of the new book, “Holding the Line: Inside the Nation's Preeminent U.S. Attorney's Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department.” He joined Benjamin Wittes to discuss the book's shocking revelations of political interference in the Southern District's work by Bill Barr, by Donald Trump, and by others in the Justice Department. They also talked about the pattern of political interference, the relationship between it and more famous cases, the efforts by senior Justice Department officials to shift gears after the 2020 election, and whether this is a story of fragility in the U.S. Attorney's office or strength. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today's edition breaks down everything we learned from the release of the FBI search warrant for Mar a Lago. What did the FBI find, what does it mean, which laws could the Justice Department prosecute former President Trump for violating, and what comes next?  Mosheh is joined by Sarah Isgur, editor of The Dispatch and co-host of the Advisory Opinions legal podcast for the show. Isgur brings a unique legal and political perspective as a former Trump Justice Department spokesperson, Harvard Law grad, a former Republican National Committee official and former adviser to Mitt Romney, Ted Cruz and Carly Fiorina.  Among other things, Isgur takes us inside how this scandal compares to the Hillary Clinton email investigation (and how both parties have flip-flopped their views on classified documents!), how the DOJ approves a search warrant at this level, how the decision by former FBI Director Comey not to prosecute Clinton in 2020 impacts potential charges against Trump, and how the search and the fallout will impact the 2024 race for the White House. – Please remember to subscribe to the podcast and leave us a review. – Mosheh Oinounou (@mosheh) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. He has 20 years of experience at networks including Fox News, Bloomberg Television and CBS News, where he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News and launched the network's 24 hour news channel. He founded the @mosheh Instagram news account in 2020 and the Mo News podcast and newsletter in 2022. Follow Mo News on all platforms: Newsletter: https://monews.bulletin.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mosheh/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mosheh Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MoshehNews Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/moshehnews Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Tonight on the Last Word: The U.S. deploys 3,000 troops to eastern Europe to bolster allies amid the Ukraine crisis. Also, Trump Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark met with the Jan. 6 Select Committee. Plus, Rep. Ro Khanna says democratic values should guide tech development. And New York archives finds documents of Sojourner Truth's 1828 lawsuit against a white man to free her son from slavery. Ron Klain, Rep. Adam Schiff and Nell Irvin Painter also join Lawrence O'Donnell.

Tonight on the Last Word: Conservative justices signal their support for Mississippi's law that bans abortion after 15 weeks. And the January 6 Select Committee votes for a criminal contempt referral for Jeffrey Clark, a former Trump Justice Department official. Laurence Tribe, Cecile Richards, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Adam Schiff and Claire McCaskill join Lawrence O'Donnell.

Today, in the Hot Notes: The infrastructure bill passed by the House late Friday; a top Trump Justice Department official who aided the former president's quest to overturn the 2020 election refused to answer substantive questions in a meeting with congressional investigators on Friday; Merrick Garland has filed a lawsuit against the state of Texas over voting restrictions; the January 6th House Select Committee is turning its attention to the Willard Hotel “command center” where Trump allies gathered to discuss plans to subvert the 2020 election results; “Insurrection Karen” gets 60 days in jail; plus Aimee Carrero joins Allison to deliver your Good News. Our Guests: Ashley Ehasz https://twitter.com/ashley_ehasz https://www.ehaszforcongress.com Follow AG and Dana on Twitter: Dr. Allison Gill  https://twitter.com/allisongill https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote https://twitter.com/dailybeanspod Dana Goldberg https://twitter.com/DGComedy Follow Aimee on Instagram: Aimee Carrero (@aimeecarrero) Have some good news, a confession, a correction, or a case for Beans Court? https://www.dailybeanspod.com/confessional/ Want to support the show and get it ad-free and early? https://dailybeans.supercast.tech/ Or https://patreon.com/thedailybeans Give a gift membership: https://dailybeans.supercast.com Promo Codes Today's episode of the Daily Beans is brought to you by Allform, creating beautiful furniture customized to your specifications. Allform's furniture is tailored to exactly meet your needs and is delivered to your doorstep free of charge. Allform is offering twenty percent off all orders for our listeners at allform.com/dailybeans Today's episode of the Daily Beans is brought to you by Wealthfront. If you want to invest for the long-term, it helps to invest on your terms. Get your first $5,000 managed for free at wealthfront.com/dailybeans If you're looking for a super fun and engaging mobile game to keep your anxiety low but your mind sharp, you've got to try Best Fiends! Download Best Fiends FREE today on the App Store or Google Play.  Treat yourself and your loved ones to the new standard in bedding from Boll & Branch! Their gifts come wrapped and ready in their special holiday packaging. Bollandbranch.com promo code DAILYBEANS Today's show is brought to you by Athletic Greens, the health and wellness company that makes comprehensive daily nutrition really really simple. Get a free 1 year supply of Vitamin D and 5 free travel packs with your first purchase at athleticgreens.com/dailybeans This helping of the Daily Beans podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp, providing professional online therapy whenever you need it most. Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/dailybeans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight on the Last Word: The House delays the vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. Also, the Jan. 6 Select Committee reportedly postpones the testimony of former Trump Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark. And the Albany County sheriff seeks a misdemeanor charge against Andrew Cuomo for forcible touching. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, Rep. Colin Allred, Norm Ornstein, John Heilemann, Zerlina Maxwell, Paul Butler and Jimmy Vielkind join Lawrence O'Donnell.

Its the Delta Variant in lock down. It's time to talk turkey on COVID. We then say goodbye to right wing anti vaxxers who are now...well...um. Then we look back at the Trump Justice Department and Supreme Court Justice Brett  "Frat Boy" Cavanaugh. We discuss. The Russians leak "proof" that they were silent partners in Trump's campaign. Randy brings the songs we review the most recent news from the states. Pull up a chair...your regular drink has been poured!!!

Renato and Patti discussed recent news that the Trump Justice Department obtained data related to journalists and Democratic Congressmen, as well as reports that Trump pushed DOJ to investigate bogus election fraud claims. They were joined by former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week the Business Software Alliance issued a new report on AI bias. Jane Bambauer and I come to much the same conclusion: It is careful, well-written, and a policy catastrophe in the making. The main problem? It tries to turn one of the most divisive issues in American life into a problem to be solved by technology. Apparently because that has worked so well in areas like content suppression. In fact, I argue, the report will be seen by many, especially in the center and on the right, as an effort to impose proportional representation quotas by stealth in a host of places that have never been the objects of such policies before. Less controversial, but only a little, is the U.S. government's attempt to make government data available for training more AI algorithms. Jane more or less persuades me that this effort too will end in tears or stasis.  In cheerier news, the good guys got a couple of surprising wins this week. While encryption and bitcoin have posed a lot of problems for law enforcement in recent years, the FBI has responded with imagination and elan, at least if we can judge by two stories from last week. First, Nick Weaver takes us through the laugh-out-loud facts behind a, government-run encrypted phone for criminals complete with influencers, invitation-only membership, and nosebleed pricing to cement the phone's exclusive status. Jane Bambauer unpacks some of the surprisingly complicated legal questions raised by the FBI's creativity. Paul Rosenzweig lays out the much more obscure facts underlying the FBI's recovery of much of the ransom paid by Colonial Pipeline. There's no doubt that the government surprised everyone by coming up with the private key controlling the bitcoin account. We'd like to celebrate the ingenuity behind the accomplishment, but the how it pulled it off, probably because it hopes to do the same thing again and can't if it blows the secret. FBI isn't actually explaining. The Biden administration is again taking a shaky and impromptu Trump policy and giving it a sober interagency foundation.  This time it's the TikTok and WeChat bans; these have been rescinded. But a new process has been put in place that could restore and even expand those bans in a matter of months. Paul and I disagree about whether the Biden administration will end up applying the Trump policy to TikTok or WeChat or to a much larger group of Chinese apps. For comic relief, Nick regales us with Brian Krebs's wacky story of the FSB's weird and counterproductive attempt to secure communications to the FSB's web site.  Jane and I review the latest paper by Bruce Schneier (and Henry Farrell) on how to address the impact of technology on American democracy. We are not persuaded by its suggestion that our partisan divide can best be healed by more understanding, civility, and aggressive prosecutions of Republicans. Finally, everyone confesses to some confusion about the claim that the Trump Justice Department breached norms in its criminal discovery motions that turned up records relating to prominent Democratic congressmen and at least one Trump administration official. Best bet: this flap will turn out to be less interesting the more we learn. But I renew my appeal, this time aimed at outraged Democrats, for more statutory guardrails and safeguards against partisan misuse of national security authorities. Because that's what we'll need if we want to keep those authorities on the books. And more! Download the 366th Episode (mp3) You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed. As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@steptoe.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of their institutions, clients, friends, families, or pets.

Tonight on the Last Word: 14 Republican-controlled states have passed laws to impede or subvert elections. Also, the House Judiciary Committee announces its investigation into the Trump Justice Department's subpoenas of House members and staff. Plus, the Poor People's Campaign holds a ‘moral march' against Sen. Joe Manchin in West Virginia. Anand Giridharadas explains why the tax system “needs to be made to work again.” And Kurt Andersen revisits the Pentagon Papers 50 years after their release. Ari Berman, Janai Nelson, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Hoppy Kercheval and Jonathan Kott also join Lawrence O'Donnell.

Seth takes a closer look at yet another bombshell scandal from the Trump era in which the former president's Justice Department spied on Democratic lawmakers investigating him during the Russia probe.Then, Kenan Thompson talks about the time Charles Barkley pranked Cue Card Wally on the set of SNL, the time he and Seth drove to Rhode Island together and Season 2 of Kenan.

Ryan talks to Ryan Barber, Justice Correspondent for Insider, about the controversy involving the Trump Department of Justice investigations into leaks.

4:10 PM - This Week in the Nation’s Capitol (Biden-Putin summit on Wed ... + ... Biden wrapping up first foreign trip ... + ... Netanyahu out of power ... + ... Trump Justice Department secretly seized records from Dem lawmakers and journalists) ... GUEST Greg Clugston … SRN News White House Correspondent 4:25 PM **Average age of vehicles hits all-time high: Cars, trucks, SUVs getting older as used car prices soar USA Today 5:10 PM to 5:25 PM Dante in 2021 … GUEST Matthew Lee Anderson … assistant research professor of ethics and theology at Baylor University 5:35 PM to 5:50 PM .. GUEST Tony Woodlief ... lives and writes in North Carolina ... His short fiction has appeared in Image, Ruminate, Saint Katherine Review, and Dappled Things, while his essays about parenthood and faith have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Comment, and The London Times ... He runs a website for fathers called Intentional Fathering, and he can occasionally be found on TwitterSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

–On the Show: –It is revealed that Apple gave the Trump Justice Department information and documents on Democratic lawmakers during the Trump administration –Benjamin Netanyahu is finally out as Israel Prime Minister, replaced by Naftali Bennett –Argentinean President Alberto Fernandez says that, unlike the Mexicans, who came from Indians, and the Brazilians, who came from the jungle, Argentinians came from Europe in boats –Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones says that he coordinated the January 6 Trump riots with the White House itself, an absolutely bombshell allegation, if credible –Donald Trump delivers an unhinged, bizarre speech via videoconference to MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's “Frank Speech” rally in Wisconsin over the weekend –Radical Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene says that she does not “believe in” evolution in her latest ignorant screed –An anti-vaccine nurse appears on CNN to say that coronavirus vaccination and vaccine trials are similar to Nazi medical experiments –Lara Trump, Donald Trump daughter-in-law and the wife of Eric Trump, appears on Fox News to tell Americans living on the border to take up arms against immigrants that may or may not be undocumented –Voicemail caller the Eggman blames David for his daughter still wearing a mask in public despite being fully vaccinated –On the Bonus Show: Jeffrey Toobin back on CNN after exposing himself, NC county ends Coca-Cola vending machine ban, iPhones will soon be able to hold your ID, much more… ⌚ Use code PAKMAN for 15% off Vincero watches at https://davidpakman.com/watch

In our news wrap Monday, new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett formally took office, ending Benjamin Netanyahu's 12-year rule. The U.S. neared 600,000 deaths from COVID-19. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland promised tighter rules for obtaining information on members of Congress after reports that the Trump Justice Department gathered phone records on House Democrats and journalists. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

In our news wrap Monday, new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett formally took office, ending Benjamin Netanyahu's 12-year rule. The U.S. neared 600,000 deaths from COVID-19. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland promised tighter rules for obtaining information on members of Congress after reports that the Trump Justice Department gathered phone records on House Democrats and journalists. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

4:10 PM - This Week in the Nation’s Capitol (Biden-Putin summit on Wed ... + ... Biden wrapping up first foreign trip ... + ... Netanyahu out of power ... + ... Trump Justice Department secretly seized records from Dem lawmakers and journalists) ... GUEST Greg Clugston … SRN News White House Correspondent 4:25 PM **Average age of vehicles hits all-time high: Cars, trucks, SUVs getting older as used car prices soar USA Today 5:10 PM to 5:25 PM Dante in 2021 … GUEST Matthew Lee Anderson … assistant research professor of ethics and theology at Baylor University 5:35 PM to 5:50 PM .. GUEST Tony Woodlief ... lives and writes in North Carolina ... His short fiction has appeared in Image, Ruminate, Saint Katherine Review, and Dappled Things, while his essays about parenthood and faith have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Comment, and The London Times ... He runs a website for fathers called Intentional Fathering, and he can occasionally be found on TwitterSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nicolle Wallace discusses President Biden reaffirming the country's commitment to NATO following his press conference at the summit. Plus, the Trump Justice Department seized record of members of Trump's own administration, Republicans continue their efforts to restrict voting, Vladimir Putin sits down for an interview ahead of his meeting with Biden, the case to prosecute former President Trump, and new developments in the prosecution of Capitol rioters.Joined by: Michael McFaul, Claire McCaskill, Keir Simmons, Katie Benner, Matthew Miller, Matthew Dowd, Eugene Robinson, Michael Schmidt, Frank Figliuzzi, Jeremy Bash, Kimberly Atkins Stohr, Tim O'Brien, Scott MacFarlane, and Ali Vitali

The Trump Justice Department requested phone records of two congressmen. What should Merrick Garland do about it? Mary Jo and John have ideas.

President Biden representing the United States on the world stage at the G7 Summit in Cornwall, England. The G7 pledges to match the U.S.'s offer to donate 500 million doses of Pfizer's COVID vaccine to poorer nations. Growing concern over the Delta COVID variant, first seen in India. At least 29 states reporting new cases involving the variant. The Justice Department Inspector General launching an investigation into whether the Trump Justice Department went after some Democratic lawmakers and their phone records through secret subpoenas. And the lobster diver who says he was attacked by a humpback whale off the coast of Cape Cod.

The Trump Justice Department secretly subpoenaed Apple to obtain phone data belonging to Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee as part of a leak investigation. Now, Attorney General Lisa Monaco is asking the Justice Department’s Inspector General to investigate the handling of these subpoenas. Plus, a group of 10 bipartisan senators signal that they have reached a compromise on an infrastructure package -- but the proposal faces an uncertain future in both chambers of Congress. And, a Peach-state sized blow to Trump’s 2022 recruitment efforts. Sources tell CNN that the former president’s top recruit to primary Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has eyes for another job. On today’s show: CNN’s Abby Phillip, Jessica Schneider, Manu Raju, Evan Perez, Kaitlan Collins and Michael Warren; CNN Legal Analyst Carrie Cordero; Tarini Parti of The Wall Street Journal; Margaret Talev of Axios; and Karoun Demirjian of The Washington Post.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Did the Trump administration weaponize the Justice Department against Congress? There are reports that it seized data from the accounts of at least two members of the House Intelligence Committee in 2018 to look into leaks to the media about the Russia investigation. The Justice Department's watchdog is now taking action. The Inspector General will investigate the department's handling of the leak investigation.Congress is working on a bill to break up the biggest of the Big Tech companies. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin could soon be part of people's 401k portfolios. Doctors are finding that the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines are causing a higher number of cases of heart inflammation in young adults and teenagers.Some drugs used to help people with depression might have a positive side effect--they can help fight cancer. California's high-speed rail project hasn't exactly gone as planned. So will that change now that the federal government is giving back a lot of money to help get this thing built?A lot of Millennials are buying homes and later regretting it.  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Prosecutors in the Trump administration Justice Department subpoenaed Apple for data from the accounts of House Intelligence Committee Democrats -- including Chairman Adam Schiff -- along with their staff and family members as part of a leak investigation, an Intelligence Committee official and a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN. The prosecutors, the New York Times first reported, were looking for the sources behind news stories about contacts between Russia and Trump associates. Those subject to subpoenas were notified in May by Apple that the Justice Department had issued grand jury subpoenas in February 2018 for their information, the House Intel committee official said.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Did the Trump administration weaponize the Justice Department against Congress? There are reports that it seized data from the accounts of at least two members of the House Intelligence Committee in 2018 to look into leaks to the media about the Russia investigation. The Justice Department's watchdog is now taking action. The Inspector General will investigate the department's handling of the leak investigation. Congress is working on a bill to break up the biggest of the Big Tech companies.  Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin could soon be part of people's 401k portfolios.  Doctors are finding that the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines are causing a higher number of cases of heart inflammation in young adults and teenagers. Some drugs used to help people with depression might have a positive side effect--they can help fight cancer.  California's high-speed rail project hasn't exactly gone as planned. So will that change now that the federal government is giving back a lot of money to help get this thing built? A lot of Millennials are buying homes and later regretting it.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nicolle Wallace discusses reporting that Pennslyvania Republicans are calling for an audit in their state similar to what’s happening in Arizona. Plus, a second January 6th rioter has reached a plea deal with the Justice Department, the White House is set to send millions of covid vaccines overseas, yet another news outlet finds out the Trump Justice Department sought records from its reporters, new legal trouble for Rep. Matt Gaetz, and the NFL says it will stop a racist practice called 'race-norming'.  Joined by: Tim Miller, Frank Figliuzzi, Yamiche Alcindor, Josh Shapiro, Eugene Daniels, Ashley Parker, Dr. Kavita Patel, Betsy Woodruff Swan, Peter Strzok, Michael Shear, David Jolly, and Kevin Blackistone 

Leslie begins today's show with her 'Ripped from the Headlines' news segment.  Here are the stories that she gave her take on: 1. AXIOS: "Biden signs anti-Asian hate crimes bill into law" 2. NEW YORK TIMES: "The pandemic may now be in permanent retreat in the U.S." 3. USA TODAY: "Fact check: Businesses can legally ask if patrons have been vaccinated. HIPAA does not apply." 4. AXIOS: "Policing task force calls for national training standards" 5. WASHINGTON POST: "Arizona secretary of state says Maricopa County should replace voting equipment because GOP-backed recount compromised its security" Leslie is then joined by Elie Honig, CNN Senior Legal Analyst and a former Federal and State Prosecutor.  Elie is also Author of the upcoming book, "Hatchet Man: How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutor's Code and Corrupted the Justice Department," which will be released on July 6th and is available for pre-order now at Amazon.com.  The new book exposes William Barr as the most corrupt attorney general in modern U.S. history, with stunning new scandals bubbling to the surface even after Barr's departure from office.  Leslie and Elie analyze New York Attorney General Letitia James joining the Manhattan district attorney's office in a criminal investigation of the Trump Organization.  They also discuss the news that the Trump Justice Department secretly obtained CNN reporter Barbara Starr's email and phone records. Elie's handle on Twitter and Instagram is @ElieHonig.

Leslie begins today's show with her 'Ripped from the Headlines' news segment. Here are the stories that she gave her take on: 1. AXIOS: "Biden signs anti-Asian hate crimes bill into law" 2. NEW YORK TIMES: "The pandemic may now be in permanent retreat in the U.S." 3. USA TODAY: "Fact check: Businesses can legally ask if patrons have been vaccinated. HIPAA does not apply." 4. AXIOS: "Policing task force calls for national training standards" 5. WASHINGTON POST: "Arizona secretary of state says Maricopa County should replace voting equipment because GOP-backed recount compromised its security" Leslie is then joined by Elie Honig, CNN Senior Legal Analyst and a former Federal and State Prosecutor. Elie is also Author of the upcoming book, "Hatchet Man: How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutor's Code and Corrupted the Justice Department," which will be released on July 6th and is available for pre-order now at Amazon.com. The new book exposes William Barr as the most corrupt attorney general in modern U.S. history, with stunning new scandals bubbling to the surface even after Barr's departure from office. Leslie and Elie analyze New York Attorney General Letitia James joining the Manhattan district attorney's office in a criminal investigation of the Trump Organization. They also discuss the news that the Trump Justice Department secretly obtained CNN reporter Barbara Starr's email and phone records. Elie's handle on Twitter and Instagram is @ElieHonig.

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Fridays!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Trump Justice Department secretly sought and obtained the 2017 phone and email records of a CNN correspondent.Then, on the rest of the menu, a kayaker's photos show the crack that recently closed the I-40 bridge linking Arkansas and Tennessee, in 2016; McDonald's is facing a $10 billion lawsuit for bias against Black-owned media; and, Biden's tax enforcement proposal seeks reporting of cryptocurrency transfers over $10,000, and a doubling of the IRS workforce.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where graves at the home of a former El Salvador police officer is investigated for possible femicide; and, the United States and Russia held thinly-veiled competing military exercises in the Balkans.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.” ― Douglas Adams "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/5/21/2031448/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Friday

White House correspondent Courtney Subramanian looks at what happens next. Plus, journalists cry foul after the Trump Justice Department secretely collected phone records, we look at how the return to the office will go, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot faces controversy after she announced she will only grant one-on-one interviews to journalists of color and the Asian American community bands together for a TV special.(Audio: Associated Press)Episode Transcript linked hereAlso available at art19.com/shows/5-Things

Tonight: The Republican Leader moves to kill an investigation into the Capitol riot as one of his members defends the insurrection on the floor. Then, alarming reporting on the lengths the Trump Justice Department went to unmask a Devin Nunes parody account on Twitter. Plus, Joe Biden's National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy on what today's big push for electric trucks means for the country. And Senator Chris Murphy on why the White House still isn't formally calling for ceasefire in Israel.

In today's episode, we have a lot to catch up on. We start with a ransomeware attack forcing a shutdown of a major U.S. pipeline and the Trump Justice Department's seizure of Washington Post reporters' records. Next, we move to the growing tensions in East Jerusalem and Arizona's response to the 2020 election audit. To finish off this busy news day, we end with Headlines That Speak For Themselves.

Welcome to Majority.FM's AM QUICKIE! Brought to you by justcoffee.coop TODAY'S HEADLINES: Israeli police brutally cracked down on protests over the weekend, further persecuting a Palestinian community already threatened by Israeli settlers trying to forcibly evict them from their homes. Meanwhile, the GOP is once again in turmoil, as House leaders move to bench Liz Cheney for criticizing her own party’s entertainment of Donald Trump’s idiotic election conspiracies. And lastly, a new report reveals that the Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Washington Post journalists’ phone records, and even sought to get their emails. THESE ARE THE STORIES YOU NEED TO KNOW: Israeli police have been running rampant throughout the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, savaging protesters and bystanders alike on Friday and Saturday nights. The recent violence came in response to Palestinian protests over forced evictions sought by Israeli settlers. The first clash came on Friday, which Israeli police stormed a protest at the Al-Aqsa [AL-AKSA] Mosque, catching thousands of bystanders in the melee while they were at their evening prayers. The mosque is a huge complex. It’s the third most holy site in the world for Muslims, and thousands of people were inside worshipping the final Friday of Ramadan when police stormed in. At least 205 people were injured. On Saturday night, Police cracked down on protests across the city, injuring at least 90 protesters, including several children, according to Al Jazeera. Israeli police claim 17 of their officers have been injured. Sunday night was more subdued, but tensions are expected to rise again on Monday, which is known as Jerusalem Day to Israelis to celebrate occupation and later annexation of East Jerusalem in 1967. Al Jazeera reports that right-wing Israelis are expected to march through Palestinian neighborhoods, which will surely do the opposite of calm things down. GOP Moves to Oust Cheney House Republicans are once again squabbling amongst themselves, this time over -- you guessed it -- loyalty to former President Donald Trump. This time it’s Liz Cheney in the hot seat. Cheney has been openly critical of her party’s support of Trump’s stolen election theories, saying that they are quote “poisoning our democratic system.” endquote. In response, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told Fox News on Sunday that he supports removing Cheney from her post. She’s currently the number 3 republican in the House and the party’s highest-ranking woman. McCarthy wants to replace her with New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, who has been a staunch Trump loyalist. Listen, we’re not going to waste any tears over Cheney, the daughter of the most famous Dick to ever hold office, but it is telling that the House GOP still isn’t humoring any critiques of Trump. According to AP, McCarthy is generally betting that there’s no way the GOP can take back the house in 2022 without running on a strictly pro-Trump line. To be fair, he’s probably right: Trumpism is basically all the GOP has left, but it’s still a powerful ideology. And because Trump himself is such a sensitive little baby, McCarthy knows he’s got to shut down any criticism well before those midterms hit. After all, we know that Trump’s down there in Mar a Lago glued to the TV, just waiting for people to say his name. Trump DOJ Snagged Reporter's Cell Records phone records of some of their journalists while they were reporting on Trump’s connections with Russia in early 2017. According to the Post, the Justice department sent out letters to the reporters involved on May 3 of this year telling them that they’d had their phone records pulled. A Justice Department spokesperson, in some complicated legalese, effectively admitted that they were trying to figure out who had leaked to the Post during that reporting. The Justice Department got their hands on some combination of home, cell, and work phone records from three reporters who were involved in Trump Russia reporting. They also got a court order for non-content email records, but never got the actual records themselves. This isn’t a new thing for the Justice Department, but it is rare and troubling. According to the New York Times, the specific reporting the Justice Department was seeking had to deal with media leaks that infuriated Donald Trump. Bill Barr was in charge of the DOJ at the time, so you can imagine how quickly he sprang to do Trump’s bidding. Trump wasn’t the first president to aggressively pursue leakers, of course: Obama did it before him. It remains to be seen how hard Biden will crack down on reporters and their sources when these issues come before him. AND NOW FOR SOME QUICKER QUICKIES: The longest gas pipeline in the U.S. was forced to shut down on Friday after a cyberattack. In a vaguely worded statement, the company that owns the 5500 mile Colonial Pipeline said that it had to shut down to contain the breach, which sounds ominous. Newest reports say it may be shut for days, which could impact the fuel supply on the East Coast. Afghanistan is still in mourning after a horrific triple bombing outside of a girls’ school in Kabul killed at least 50 people, painting an ominous picture of what the country’s future will look like after decades of U.S. occupation and a newly-resurgent Taliban. Bo, the Portugese Water Dog adopted by the Obamas in 2009, died at the age of 12. Barack Obama said in a statement on Twitter that Bo “had a big bark but no bite,” which could be interpreted as a dig at Joe Biden’s bitey German Shepherd Major. Who knows! New York Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang came out strongly against any notion of defunding the NYPD on Sunday, after a shooting in Times Square left three people, including a child, injured. The current number 2 in the polls, Eric Adams, is a former NYPD officer who also opposes that platform, so the nation’s biggest city probably won’t get much in the way of police reform anytime soon. AM QUICKIE - MAY 10, 2021 HOSTS - Sam Seder & Lucie Steiner WRITER - Jack Crosbie PRODUCER - Dorsey Shaw EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - Brendan Finn

Once again it's time for the Sunday Sum Up and my god, it's a doozy...There's the rising return of fascism in Italy and Spain (two countries who should know better), the Tokyo Olympics banning all Black Lives Matter apparel and permanently banning any player kneeling during an anthem, Loblaws cutting pandemic pay early in the pandemic while raking in $400M in profit, internet companies throttling service for emergency responders, Angela Merkel pushing back on loosening IP restrictions, pandemic errors making the Canadian COVID-19 outbreak far worse than it needed to be, a motorcycle airbag vest that would stop working if you didn't pay a subscription, The Trump Justice Department secretly obtaining Washington Post journalists' phone records and trying to obtain their email records over reporting they did in the early months of the Trump administration on Russia's role in the 2016 election, a team of Toronto cops conspiring to lie in court under oath, and the harrowing COVID-19 crisis in India. Sources: https://twitter.com/FabianEberhard/status/1389491281232113664?s=20 https://twitter.com/mymixtapez/status/1390192060158730242 https://ottawacitizen.com/news/retail-marketing/union-slams-loblaw-over-pandemic-pay-as-company-reports-nearly-400m-profit/ https://twitter.com/Salem4Congress/status/1390409941626798084 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-06/merkel-pushes-back-on-vaccine-patent-waiver-in-clash-with-biden https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-pandemic-errors-made-canadian-covid-19-outbreak-far-worse-than-it/ https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/371421 https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1390789903412338694 https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2021/05/06/team-of-toronto-cops-conspired-to-lie-in-court-under-oath-judge-finds.html https://twitter.com/shahidtantray/status/1385621135245512709

The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Washington Post journalists' phone records and tried to obtain their email records over reporting they did in the early months of the Trump administration on Russia's role in the 2016 election, according to government letters and officials. In three separate letters dated May 3 and addressed to Post reporters Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller, and former Post reporter Adam Entous, the Justice Department wrote they were “hereby notified that pursuant to legal process the United States Department of Justice received toll records associated with the following telephone numbers for the period from April 15, 2017 to July 31, 2017.” The letters listed work, home or cell phone numbers covering that three-and-a-half-month period. Cameron Barr, The Post's acting executive editor, said: “We are deeply troubled by this use of government power to seek access to the communications of journalists. The Department of Justice should immediately make clear its reasons for this intrusion into the activities of reporters doing their jobs, an activity protected under the First Amendment.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tonight on the Last Word: President Biden’s plans ensure an inclusive economy. Also, Republicans obstruct Biden’s agenda while focusing on culture wars and voter suppression. Plus, the Associated Press reports that the Trump Justice Department considered a Rudy Giuliani raid last fall. North Carolina lawmakers introduce bills to ease laws regarding the release of police body cam footage. And the USDA extends its free meal program to feed more than 30 million children through the summer of 2022. Mark Zandi, Pennsylvania State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, Jonathan Capehart, Renée Graham, Glenn Kirschner, North Carolina State Sen. Don Davis, Rep. Jim McGovern, and Jean McMurray join Ali Velshi.

In this episode, I interview Rob Knake, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, about his recent report, “Weaponizing Digital Trade -- Creating a Digital Trade Zone to Promote Online Freedom and Cybersecurity.” The theme of the report is what the U.S. can salvage from the wreckage of the 1990s Magaziner Consensus about the democratizing and beneficent influence of Silicon Valley. I suggest that it really ought to be called “Digital Dunkirk,” rather than invoking a swaggering “weaponization” theme.  Rob and I disagree about the details but not the broad outlines of his proposal.  In the news roundup, we finally have a Google antitrust complaint to pore over, and I bring Steptoe's Michael Weiner on to explain what the complaint means. Bottom line: it's a minimalist stub of a case, unlikely to frighten Google or produce structural changes in the market. Unless a new administration (or a newly incentivized Trump Justice Department) keeps adding charge after charge as the investigation goes on. Speaking of Justice Department filings that may serve up less than meets the eye, DOJ has indicted GRU hackers for practically every bad thing that has happened on the internet in the last five years, other than the DNC hack. (In fact, I lost an unsaved Word document in 2017 that I'm hoping will be added to the charges soon.) The problem, of course, is that filing the charges is the easy part; bringing these state hackers to justice is unlikely in the extreme.  If so, one wonders whether a policy that requires an indictment for all the cyberattacks on the US and its allies is a wise use of resources. Maury Shenk thinks it might be, at least in demonstrating US attribution capabilities, which are indeed impressive. While we are covering questionably effective U.S. retaliation for cyberattacks, Maury also notes that the Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on TsNIIKhM, a Russian institute that seems to have developed industrial control malware that caused massive outages in Saudi Arabia and may have been planted in U.S. energy systems as well. Again, no one doubts that heavy penalties should be imposed; the doubt is about whether these penalties will actually reach TsNIIKhM. Nick Weaver celebrates the German government's dawn raid on spyware exporter, FinFisher. Maury expresses modest hope for Facebook's Oversight Board now that it has started reviewing content moderation cases. Color me skeptical. Now that we've seen the actual complaint, Nick has his doubts about the Microsoft attack on Trickbot. It may be working, he says, but why is Microsoft doing something that the FBI could have done? I pile on, raising questions about the most recent legal theory Microsoft has rolled out in support of its proposed remedies. Finally, in quick hits:  I hum a few bars from “John Henry” in response to a Bloomberg story suggesting that CEOs are successfully beating the AI engines parsing their analyst calls and trading on the results. Maury debunks the parts of the story that made it fun, but not before I've asked whether Spinal Tap was decades ahead of its time in repackaging failure. Maury also notes the ho-hum upcoming Judiciary Committee testimony of Twitter and Facebook CEOs about their suppression of the New York Post “laptop from hell” Hunter Biden story.  I'm much more interested in the Commerce Committee's subpoenaing of contacts between the campaigns and those companies.  Because you just know the campaigns have a whole strategy for working the speech refs, and it would be an education to see how they do it.  Nick and I congratulate Edward Snowden on the confirmation that he'll be in Russia forever.  And more! Download the 335th Episode (mp3) You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed. As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@steptoe.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of their institutions, clients, friends, families, or pets.

Kevin Gosztola interviewed Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who testified during the second week of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's extradition trial.   In the interview, a parallel is drawn between Dan's case and the mental health evidence that was presented by the defense in the third week. He has Dan comment on the questions he received from lead prosecutor James Lewis.    Later, Dan addresses the U.S. Espionage Act, how far the Trump Justice Department thinks they can go in prosecuting Assange, and how the law was deployed against him nearly 50 years ago.   Kevin and Dan conclude with some discussion on the political nature of this unprecedented prosecution.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Daniel Lazare. He is a journalist and author of three books--The Frozen Republic, The Velvet Coup, and America's Undeclared War.A federal appeals court ruled today that the criminal case against former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn must be dropped. This is a major victory for Flynn and it points to chaos in the Justice Department. Meanwhile, the House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing this afternoon to discuss alleged political interference in the Trump Justice Department. The star witness is Aaron Zelinski, a senior member of the Mueller team during the Russiagate probe, and a former Obama Justice Department official, who said that he was pressured to cut Roger Stone a break because of his ties to the President. Confirmed coronavirus across the country are spiking, with troubling surges in at least 26 states. In Florida, the number of cases is doubling every two weeks. In Texas, Gov. Abbott encouraged all residents to remain in their homes. And in Arizona, all intensive care hospital beds are full. But President Trump has ordered that federal testing for the virus be slowed. Despite the fact that White House officials have said that the president was joking, he told campaign supporters in Tulsa last weekend that he had ordered that testing slow. And he confirmed to a CNN reporter yesterday that he was not joking. Dave Lindorff, an investigative reporter, a columnist for CounterPunch, and a contributor to The Nation, Extra! and Salon.com whose writings can be found at ThisCantBeHappening.net, joins the show. There were a number of surprising political upsets in primary races in Kentucky, North Carolina, and New York yesterday. In Kentucky, the race between establishment Democrat Amy McGrath and progressive state legislator Charles Booker to take on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is too close to call. But in New York, Jamaal Bowman, a progressive middle school principal appears to have defeated Congressman Eliot Engel. Engel has been a member of the House since 1988 and is chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. And in North Carolina, a 24-year-old real estate investor, Madison Cawthorn, defeated a Trump-endorsed candidate to win the nomination to succeed Rep. Mark Meadows, who is now White House Chief of Staff. He’ll face Guantanamo whistleblower Col. Morris Davis in the general election. Brian and John speak with Jim Kavanagh, the editor of thepolemicist.net. The Biden and Trump campaigns apparently have agreed to three presidential debates in the weeks before the November election. But in a case of role reversal, it is the Trump campaign that is demanding even more, not fewer, debates. President Trump has said that Biden is sequestered in a bunker and does not want to debate him. He has commented on what he called Biden’s poor mental condition and said that it’s “very sad” that Biden’s handlers won’t let him out in public. But what is the truth here? Why is Biden so consistently out of the public eye? Is that his campaign strategy? Ted Rall, an award-winning editorial cartoonist and columnist whose work at www.rall.com, joins the show.

The guest host for today's show is Brad Bannon. Brad runs Bannon Communications Research, a polling, message development and media firm which helps labor unions, progressive issue groups and Democratic candidates win public affairs and political campaigns. His new show, 'Deadline D.C. with Brad Bannon,' airs every Monday from 3-4pm ET. Brad is first joined by Ed Chung, Vice President for Criminal Justice Reform at the Center for American Progress, where he co-hosts 'The Tent' Podcast. Before working at CAP, he served as Senior Adviser on criminal justice, policing, and civil rights issues for the Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Justice Programs at the U.S. Department of Justice. Chung also held positions in the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, including special counsel to the assistant attorney general and federal prosecutor with the Criminal Section, where he received the John Marshall Award for successfully prosecuting the first case under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009. Ed's Twitter handle is @EdChungDC and the handle for his podcast is @TheTentPod. Brad and Ed discuss police reform legislation that was released today by House Democrats in response to the police killing of George Floyd. They also compare the police reform work that Ed did as part of the Obama Justice Department to that of the Trump Justice Department. During the second half of the show, Brad leads a political round-table with Will Jawando and Mark Grimaldi. The roundtable continues the discussion of reforming policing in America. They also have a conversation about public opinion of nationwide #BlackLivesMatters protests, and President Trump's deployment of the military in response to peaceful protests in our nation's Capitol last week. Will Jawando is Councilmember At-Large for Montgomery County, Maryland. Described as “the progressive leader we need” by revered civil rights activist and Congressman, John Lewis, Will has worked with House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senator Sherrod Brown, and then-Senator Barack Obama. During the 8-year Obama Administration, Will had the honor of serving as Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, followed by a position as an advisor to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in the U.S. Department of Education. Will's handle on both Twitter and Instagram is @WillJawando. Mark Grimaldi has been a progressive political activist for the past 12 years. He volunteered for the campaigns of President Obama (2008 and 2012), Senator Bernie Sanders (2016), and Secretary Hillary Clinton (2016). Mark is also involved in campaign finance reform efforts around the country, and philanthropic efforts for Cancer research. His Twitter handle is @MarkJGrimaldi. Brad writes a column every Sunday on the 2020 Presidential race for 'The Hill.' He's on the National Journal's panel of political insiders and is a national political analyst for WGN TV and Radio in Chicago and KNX Radio in Los Angeles. You can read Brad's columns at www.MuckRack.com/Brad-Bannon. His Twitter handle is @BradBannon. Watch a video broadcast of the show here: https://www.pscp.tv/w/1LyGBaMRNoPKN

Welcome to Majority.FM's AM QUICKIE! Brought to you by justcoffee.coop TODAY'S HEADLINES: Minneapolis police killed George Floyd, an unarmed black man, in a horrific incident captured on video Monday night, which shows an officer kneeling on Floyd’s neck as he struggles to breathe. Widespread protests broke out across the Twin Cities on Tuesday night, which law enforcement responded to with more violence, firing tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowd. Meanwhile, Amazon’s high-powered PR unit sent around a pre-prepared script and news package to local stations across the country -- and at least 11 of them fell for it, airing the uncritical segment just as the company wanted it. And lastly, President Trump launches into the conspiracy theory that MSNBC Host Joe Scarborogh killed a staff member while he was a Congressman, and Twitter made the weakest possible response, despite the pleas of the staffer’s surviving husband. THESE ARE THE STORIES YOU NEED TO KNOW: The Twin Cities area of Minnesota erupted on Tuesday night following the tragic killing of an unarmed black man by police the previous day. On Monday night, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd after kneeling on his neck for several minutes, all of which were captured on video by a bystander. According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Chauvin had previously been involved in multiple shootings over his 19-year career, wounding a suspect in one. Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey said on Tuesday afternoon that Chauvin and other three officers who were on scene for Floyd’s death had been fired. But that action didn’t stop massive protests breaking out across the Twin Cities area, as thousands took to the streets to call for justice. The cops, however, reacted about how you’d expect: meeting protestors with force, firing rubber bullets, marking rounds and tear gas into crowds that battled them for hours in the rain. Floyd’s death was one of the most brutal captured on tape. In the video, Chauvin kneels directly on Floyd’s neck for an extended period of time while Floyd and several onlookers plead for Chauvin to release the pressure. Floyd eventually passes out, after saying quote “I can’t breathe, they’re going to kill me.” endquote. He was pronounced dead in the hospital. Mayor Frey said he had originally been stopped on suspicion of forgery. That’s all it took for the police to murder him in broad daylight. Local News Parrots Amazon PR Amazon’s PR machine has kicked into overdrive during the coronavirus crisis, in large part due to the fact that it has fired organizers within its ranks left and right while neglecting its already oppressed workforce. While diligent reporting by Vice News, the New York Times and others has held Amazon’s feet to the fire, other outlets… aren’t doing so great. On Sunday, Amazon sent around a prepared news segment specifically crafted to show the company in the best possible light. Most reporters, like Zach Rael at Oklahoma City’s ABC affiliate KOCO, who first publicized the pitch on Twitter, brushed it off. Rael, for example, instead asked Amazon to let journalists into the facility to do a story for themselves. But reporting by Courier Newsroom found that at least 11 stations around the country fell for the obvious PR job and ran the story exactly as Amazon scripted it, with anchors repeating the spokesperson-provided lines verbatim. The story is a troubling reminder of what our media could look like if corporations are allowed to completely control the conversation. There’s already a shortage of critical reporting in the country, and even the best-funded outlets often fall in line with what’s comfortable for the various powers that be. It’s just usually not this obvious. Twitter Delivers Weak Rebuke of Trump A strange, chaotic news day wouldn’t be complete without the president spreading conspiracies and lies online -- and it looks like Twitter, his platform of choice, isn’t willing to do much to stop him. On Tuesday, Trump again tweeted several references to the 2001 death of Lori Klausutis, a congressional staffer for then-Representative Joe Scarborough. Trump and Scarborough have been feuding over the usual petty cable news crap for months, and recently the president has decided to bring up the popular conspiracy that Scarborough was involved in Klausutis’s death. In a letter published in the New York Times, Klausutis’s husband plead for Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to delete Trump’s tweets about the conspiracy. In response, a company spokesperson mustered up a pitiful response, expressing some token sympathy and saying QUOTE: “We’ve been working to expand existing product features and policies so we can more effectively address things like this going forward.” That means effectively nothing, obviously, but the company did take one concrete step. Late into Tuesday afternoon, it attached two advisory tags to Trump’s tweets -- not the ones about Kausutis, but instead Trump’s lies about vote by mail. The tags merely redirect users to Twitter’s news page for vote-by-mail stories and urge them to “get the facts.” Great job everyone, they fixed it. AND NOW FOR SOME QUICKER QUICKIES: The white woman who attempted to call police on a black man birdwatching in Central Park has been fired from her job at the investment bank Franklin Templeton. The woman, Amy Cooper, implied that she would use the police to inflict violence on the birdwatcher, repeatedly mentioning to the operator that he was “African American.” The altercation started after the man asked her to leash her dog. Four Uber and Lyft drivers in New York filed suit with the New York Taxi Workers Alliance against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, arguing that the state had failed to provide drivers with unemployment benefits. A 2018 decision ruled app-based drivers should be classified as employees and eligible for unemployment, but the drivers say the state is failing to process their claims quick enough to help them pay the bills. Congress’s pandemic EBT program, an emergency relief measure intended lessen child hunger during the pandemic, is way behind schedule and application, according to the New York Times. Congress approved the act in Mid March -- in Mid May, the Times reports only 15 percent of the kids it was supposed to feed are getting what they need. And finally, the Trump Justice Department is closing insider trading investigations into three U.S. senators previously caught trading stock they may have had advance tips on due to their position on Congressional committees. The only one still under investigation is GOP Senator Richard Burr, the former head of the Senate Intelligence Committee -- but the other three appear to be getting off scott free. Funny how that works! That’s it for the Majority Report’s AM Quickie today. Catch the full show this afternoon. May 27, 2020 - AM Quickie HOSTS - Sam Seder & Lucie Steiner WRITER - Jack Crosbie PRODUCER - Dorsey Shaw EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - Brendan Finn

Is Attorney General Bill Barr’s dropping all charges against Michael Flynn an utter breakdown of justice? Or is it absurd to fixate on Flynn and dredge the Russia investigation up again amid a pandemic? Ross returns to debate Frank and Michelle over just how alarmed Americans should be by recent actions of the Trump Justice Department. Plus, what, exactly, is Obamagate? Then, when it comes to coronavirus, are we too quick to blame the sick? For background reading on this episode, visit nytimes.com/theargument

Trump: Not looking to get into a new conflict, but sometimes you have to; Trump: Don't want war with Iran, but "more prepared" than ever; Trump: Secy. of State Pompeo to visit Saudi Arabia; Trump: U.S. "would certainly help" Saudis "under attack"; Sen. McConnell slams Dems call for Kavanaugh's impeachment as "laughable" & "self-serving"; Sen. Coons sent letter to FBI flagging alleged misconduct by Kavanaugh days before confirmation; Trump: Justice Department should "rescue" Kavanaugh from being "assaulted" by news media; NYT OP-ED: Biden problematic, antiquated on racial matters; CNN Poll: Biden leads Dems by 30+ points among black voters; Warren to deliver major anti-corruption speech in NYC tonight; Nearly 50,000 GM workers strike over pay and idle plants.

***  I think this was the show where everyone was watching the Mueller Freak Show before Congress, not that Mueller is going to say anything, and as I watch the hearings now, that is exactly what is happening.  However, on Action Radio today we got to go over complex documents on the dangers of 5G technology, a speculation that these technologies are so powerful they are actually working both to bring unlimited data to the user, but also in reverse bringing ulimited computer and device search information from individuals back to the internet and social media marketing companies known as "big tech," so they can have access to the "minds" of the users - and got us into - Mind Share.  We know the health effects of 5G include fatal cancers and a host of other diseases and problems that result from the radiation generated by the transmitters in cell phones, other devices, and the massive amounts generated by the 5G network and all it's antennas, arrays, and focused beams.  This is a mess.  The Trump Justice Department has now started to look into the mess with an anti-trust violation investigation of Big Tech.  What they should do as we have advocated before, is make "ideological discrimination" a Civil Rights Violation, punishible by fines and jail time, for any mind manipulation and censorship of their networks, and look at preventing the massive health consequences of 5G, and make it a safe technology before it is implemented. Stay connected by going to the "Action Radio with Greg Penglis" Facebook page:   https://www.facebook.com/radiolegislature/ Please share our show with friends and family at: BlogTalkRadio.com/citizenaction Check out our citizen written bills at:  www.WriteYourLaws.com On iTunes, Stitcher and Tunein - now at: Action Radio Online with Greg Penglis On Twitter at GregPenglis@ActionRadioGP

Senior officials in the Trump Justice Department really have suspected the president of allegiance to Russia. They considered invoking the 25th Amendment. That's according to former FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe. Now, some Republicans want to investigate what they call an attempted “administrative coup.” On our Environmental Update: The Trump EPA proposes new rules for public health, claiming toxic substances are good for you.

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights hosted a press call to discuss the need for the Senate Judiciary Committee to determine whether Attorney General nominee William Barr is committed to upholding the civil rights of all people. With Barr’s confirmation hearings beginning on Tuesday January 15th it is crucial that the nation’s top law enforcement officer and leader of the U.S. Department of Justice is committed to our country’s ongoing progress toward equal justice. Civil rights leaders joining the call were Kristine Lucius, Executive Vice President for Policy, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., Michael Collins, Director of National Affairs, Drug Policy Alliance, Avideh Moussavian, Legislative Director, National Immigration Law Center and Sharon McGowan, Chief Strategy Officer and Legal Director, Lambda Legal. First Kristine Lucius from The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights stated, “Under former Attorney General Sessions, we saw nearly unbridled disdain for the Justice Department’s vital role as the nation’s primary agency for protecting people’s rights. For nearly two years, Sessions destroyed families and communities by attacking voting rights, restarting the War on Drugs, failing to enforce constitutional policing policies, rolling back protections for LGBTQ individuals and justifying officials separating children from their parents and locking immigrant children in cages. William Barr’s record suggests more of the same. Our families and communities deserve better and members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have an obligation to seek assurances from Mr. Barr that he will not be Sessions 2.0.” Then Janai Nelson, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., added, “If confirmed, William Barr will inherit the abominable legacy of Jeff Sessions, who established policies that undermined and attacked the civil rights of communities of color. The Trump Justice Department has dismantled racial diversity efforts and rescinded guidance on racial disparities in school discipline and special education, promoted voter suppression and abdicated its obligation to protect the civil rights of persons who encounter the criminal justice system. Senators must determine whether Barr will continue to weaponize the Justice Department and eviscerate civil rights protections or whether his record suggests that he can repair and restore integrity and fairness to the Justice Department and ensure that all persons are treated equally under the law. Next we heard from Michael Collins, Drug Policy Alliance, who added, “Trump is appointing someone who has long been a cheerleader for mass incarceration and the war on drugs. It shows the Administration’s true colors and undermines any recent criminal justice reforms. During this nomination process, I hope that Senators from both parties take Barr to task for his retrograde views on drug policy and criminal justice, instead of giving him an easy ride like they did with Jeff Sessions.” Then Avideh Moussavian, National Immigration Law Center stated, “William Barr’s own track record and his unmitigated support for former Attorney General Sessions is cause for serious alarm. In his own right, Barr has supported border militarization, criminalization of migrants, and subjecting vulnerable populations of HIV+ Haitian asylum seekers to indefinite detention. His open praise for Sessions -- from explicitly supporting the first and most egregious version of Trump's Muslim ban to implicitly supporting policies to turn immigration judges into mass deportation agents and forcibly cage thousands of children in order to coerce their parents to abandon their legal right to claim asylum -- shows he will continue to weaponize the role of the DOJ and Attorney General to devastate the rights of those who most need its protection.” Then we heard from Sharon McGowan, Lambda Legal and former senior official in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice who concluded, “Jeff Sessions transformed the Department of Justice from a guardian of civil rights into a weapon of discrimination and bigotry and William Barr has made clear that he is eager to pick up where Sessions left off. As Attorney General under George H.W. Bush, Barr defended what CBS News described as ‘the world’s first and only detention camp for refugees with HIV’ and only just a few weeks ago, William Barr ‘saluted’ Jeff Sessions for his efforts to nullify legal protections for LGBT people. The Department of Justice needs new leadership to get it back in the business of defending civil rights and equal justice under law for all people. William Barr, through his own words and actions, has proven himself unworthy for this important role.” The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is a coalition charged by its diverse membership of more than 200 national organizations to promote and protect the rights of all persons in the United States. Hear 450+ LGBT Interviews @OUTTAKE VOICES

Jennifer Rie, senior litigation analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence, discusses the regulatory hurdles still facing T-Mobile and Sprint as the wireless carries work towards their $26.5 billion tie-up. Plus, Robert Hockett, a professor at Cornell University Law School, discusses a tentative deal between the Justice Department and the Royal Bank of Scotland to resolve an investigation into its sale of toxic mortgage-backed securities a decade ago. The settlement is good news for banks like Wells Fargo and UBS, who can look forward to lower penalties under the Trump Justice Department. They speak with Bloomberg’s June Grasso. 

Jennifer Rie, senior litigation analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence, discusses the regulatory hurdles still facing T-Mobile and Sprint as the wireless carries work towards their $26.5 billion tie-up. Plus, Robert Hockett, a professor at Cornell University Law School, discusses a tentative deal between the Justice Department and the Royal Bank of Scotland to resolve an investigation into its sale of toxic mortgage-backed securities a decade ago. The settlement is good news for banks like Wells Fargo and UBS, who can look forward to lower penalties under the Trump Justice Department. They speak with Bloomberg's June Grasso.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Congressman Peter Roskam from the 6th District joined Dan and Amy with reaction to President Trump’s plan for tariffs on steel and aluminum, the debate over gun control and the fight between Jeff Sessions and sanctuary states. Plus, The Trump Justice Department filed a lawsuit Tuesday night against California, saying three recently-passed state laws were deliberately interfering with federal immigration policies.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The closer the Mueller investigation gets to the president, the more dangerous he becomes - and the special prosecutor is currently breathing down the neck of his inner circle. That's why we spent the last several days watching the drama play out between Devin Nunes, the White House, and the Trump Justice Department and FBI. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss this and a few of the other political events of the last couple of weeks, including the State of the Union and the Democratic response, the FBI "secret society" that was just a joke... and as much as can be fit into 60 minutes of talk. An Engender Media Production.    

Starting things off on this episode of the Conservative Conscience, Daniel gives a rundown of examples showing the establishing winning more control in the nascent Trump administration.  What was once a promise to drain the swamp is looking more and more like an exercise in making the worst elements of the swamp great again. While it’s important to fight for a few key conservative victories that are within reach, we must also voice our concerns early and often about harmful policies and personnel.  We can’t afford to wait six years to pushback against “our own party” like we did during the Bush years.  Next, we move onto our latest update on judicial tyranny.  There is no way to sugar-coat this.  The federal courts pose an imminent threat to our republic. It’s worse than ever.  The courts are destroying our culture, inclinable rights, Constitution, and system of government.  They have already redefined marriage and now are redefining human sexuality.  This is broadly consequential and is not just about bathrooms.  And judicial tyranny is not going to change simply with the election of Trump – unless we get the administration to engage in battle with the courts.  Simply appointing a few conservative judges, most of whom will uphold existing anti-constitutional “precedent” anyway, is like spitting in the wind.  In this episode, Daniel gives a background on Marbury v. Madison and shows how judicial review is very different from judicial supremacy or judicial exclusivity.  All branches of government have a say in constitutional interpretation because, as John Marshall observed, they all swear an oath to uphold the supreme law of the land, which is the Constitution, not the courts.  Using the latest cases surrounding transgenderism, Daniel demonstrates how the other branches of government can cut the legs out from under bad court decisions by using their legitimate powers to counter the court’s abuse of its power.  Unless the Trump Justice Department, Congress, and the states begin pushing back against the courts, they will nullify every common sense policy we enact on a federal and state level beginning in January, thereby rendering the election moot.         Key Quotes:   “Judicial supremacy/exclusivity + one directional stare decisis + unelected life tenures + living and breathing Constitution = an equation of tyranny King George himself never envisioned.”   “The several departments being perfectly co-ordinate by the terms of their common commission, neither of them, it is evident, can pretend to an exclusive or superior right of settling the boundaries between their respective powers.”  ~ James Madison, Federalist #49     Show links   Courts hit rock bottom. Make transgenderism settled law An inconvenient right: Ninth Circuit fails to protect 2nd Amendment   Judges mandate funding for Planned Parenthood   Gingrich: Trump doesn't want to "drain the swamp" anymore Trump Jr. changed pick for Interior because he supports federal land grabs Huckabee wants to make stimulus and Keynesian economics great again   Schumer loves Trump’s $1 trillion porkulous Reince Priebus winning the day with Trump Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hard-Headed America, Policy Whiplash, and Oval Office Nonsense—The Week in ChaosThis week on The Final Word, we gather more undeniable evidence that Americans—bless their hearts—are hard-headed. Case in point: House Republicans narrowly passed their "Big, Beautiful..." tax plan, which, in classic form, translates to big, beautiful giveaways for the rich at the expense of everyone else. Proving, once again, that there is no low too low for this MAGA-fied GOP.Meanwhile, the Trump Justice Department decided to mark the anniversaries of police brutality killings in Minneapolis and Louisville with an especially bold insult: moving to dismiss the very police reform agreements created in response. Because nothing says justice quite like deliberately unraveling accountability.And world leaders—bless their hearts—keep strolling into the Oval Office like there's any possibility of a rational conversation. This week's guest, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, was treated to a Trump monologue pushing false claims of “genocide” against White Afrikaner farmers. That's right—another Oval Office meeting, another alternate reality.Speaking of chaos, the Justice Department is charging Representative LaMonica McIver with assaulting federal law enforcement officers during a confrontation outside a Newark ICE facility. Meanwhile, Homeland Security Secretary and known cosplay enthusiast Kristi Noem took to the mic to proudly mis-define “habeas corpus” as a constitutional right for the president to kick people out of the country. It's not. But points for confidence?We digest the madness so you don't have to on The Final Word.Do you want to hear more Idiots of the Week?? Become a Frangela patron at Patreon.com and get three exclusive Micro Idiot podcasts each week as our thank you for your support. Now in video!Frangela swag available at https://www.zazzle.com/store/frangela! Book a personalized video shout-out from Frangela at Cameo.com/frangeladuo. https://sexyliberal.com/Our Sponsors:* Check out Happy Mammoth and use my code FRANGELA for a great deal: https://happymammoth.com* Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal: https://www.rosettastone.com/todayAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy