Jack - Malloch, Dearborn, & Mashburn

Episode Date: April 2, 2018

This week we give an update on Elliot Broidy; embattled former RNC chair, we break down the connection between Dearborn and Mashburn, and we'll tell you who the heck Malloch is! 

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All right, I think I got all the formalities out of the way. Why don't we get into it with just the facts? All right, we learned right after we recorded last week's show that my prediction I think I got all the formalities out of the way. Why don't we get into it with just the facts? All right, we learned right after we recorded last week's show that my prediction about DeGeneva, that's the, you know, the crazy conspiracy theory fox attorney. Right. My prediction about him not being able to represent both Trump and Caralla was correct. Jalisa, can you play that clip from last week about DeGeneva? Oh yeah. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Monday, Trump hired a new attorney. And this is a conspiracy theorist that he saw on Fox and Friends like a year ago, who believes that Trump has been framed by the FBI. He believes that the FBI in the Department of Justice wanted Hillary to win. And when she didn't, they set out to frame Donald Trump for these crimes.

So this is De Genova. De Genova. De Genova. His name is Joe De Genova and here's something I didn't know. De Genova is also representing Corallo. Corallo was the legal spokesperson for the Trump legal team and he quit after he witnessed Trump and company drafting a false statement about the June 2016 meeting Mm-hmm on Air Force one right so there could be a conflict of interest there

Yeah, so right after we recorded we learned that DeGeneva has refused to represent Trump or Trump says it's because he doesn't like him and they have a personality conflict, but Trump's legal team sites conflict of interest, which is what we cited last week. So make no mistake, though. He cannot represent Trump and a guy who's going to testify against Trump. That's you'll lose your law license. Right. And despite the crazy exposure he would get for a repping Trump, he would rather be on the

winning side probably. Yeah. Even though he's way less known. Yeah. I like his name it sounds like a pyramid scheme in itself oh that the terrible life did you know that yeah did you join to gen of us let's do it sorry yeah anyway he's the conspiracy theory nut job that thinks that FBI framed a Trump and even that guy knew that Trump was the losing prospect. So as much as he'd like the fame, he'd rather have the W. So then in a shocking display of pro-European

anti-Putin sentiment, Trump decided to make, or excuse me, he decided to take McMaster's parting advice and he ordered the expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats from the US on Monday morning. Now I know we hear this a lot, we hear about leaders expelling diplomats and closing consulents, but like, what does that even mean? Right? Well, because they closed the consulate in New York and one in Seattle. And is 60 a lot? Yes, that's pretty, 60 is how many all of Europe expelled and we just met their number. Yeah.

So, you know, I guess a lot of them are spies. I still don't quite understand why we build houses for foreigners spies to live like this. I don't get bad either. Yeah, such nice houses. Two mansions. Yeah. Maybe it's like a triangle, make sure we're on the level playing field kind of thing. Like some of us got to have spies and low places.

I know. It's so fair. No, I'm not going to think. But I don't know. I'll be honest. I didn't think he was going to do anything. Yeah. I think it's a cover up.

Yeah. I mean, last week we were talking about this, how he McMaster recommended it and the intelligence community recommended it. And you, Julie, so you were like, nah, he didn't know. Yeah. I don't think he would do anything about it. In fact, we thought he was just going to do something crazy to just retaliate in favor

of Putin, if anything, but he just kind of stepped out of the way, I guess, right? The idea is that this motion was already in play and he just, he shouldn't do anything to stop it, I guess. Yeah, I don't know. But, I mean, it's interesting, because the White House has said some tough things about Russia. You know, they did enact sanctions on those 13 Russians that Mueller indicted.

They've been copping him past him into an indictment or into some sanctions. And now they're expelling the diplomats, but Trump has not taken any unilateral action against Russia. He hasn't said anything. He keeps quiet about it. It's interesting. Lindsey Graham says, quote,

I think the problem is that Russia is running wild. Whatever we're doing is not working. And the president for some reason has a hard time pushing back against Putin. Yeah. For some reason, we just can't figure it out. They can't take the entirety of our pockets. I think.

Also on Monday, Trump told some close-ades he wants Porter back. Oh my gosh. That's the wife, Peter. Guy, the double wife, Peter. I do it lonely, I guess. Hicks left. He misses him. Yeah, I guess so.

Yeah. His kid Wrangler left. Yeah. yeah, Raffle, Josh Raffle. He needs to have someone that is at least as far as the press is concerned lower than him around him at all times. Oh really? Maybe I don't know. Yeah, it sounds like him. We found out there's still some back and forth on those loans

that Kushner got from the CEOs of Apollo and City Group after they visited the White House. Remember that, you guys? Kushner got half a billion dollars from them. Let's rewind a second to episode 18 from a month ago for a quick reminder. As you know, he's in debt up to his bitty little eyes on a few of his big Satan properties. And though he stepped down as CEO of Kushner Properties when he joined the White House, he didn't divest most of his real property. It turns out he met with the CEOs of some big banks and hedge funds in the White House as a presidential advisor, including the CEOs of Apollo and Citibank.

And what do you know? Shortly after those meetings Apollo and Citibank let him about $500 million dollars. What the fuck? Well around the time we reported that a Congressman from the House Oversight Committee named Raja Krishna Moody. He sent a letter to the head of the Office of Government Ethics saying you know what the heck in of the Office of Government Ethics saying, you know, what the heck in? And well, the ethics guy sent a response back on March 16th that basically said he looked into it, and it turns out the White House is already investigating it. Oh, oh, if the White House is investigating itself.

Nothing to worry about, I guess. I'm sure everything's great, I roll. It's all taken care of. Yeah, don't know where you're going to see. I'm going to see. I know. I think we should just call. We get a bit of an off-shoot podcast called Nothing to See here. Or just nothing, just people sweeping things under the rug. That's our graphing. I love it. Well, Raja, Krishna Moothe sent a letter back this week to, well, to, to McGann. He this is the first one he sent to McGann. That's the White House Council saying, I hear you're investigating these loans to Kushner. I need all your documentation. And he's given him to April 10th to hand it over. That is not a long amount of time.

No, no. So we'll see what happens. And you guys remember that fundraiser in Beverly Hills that Trump was going to go to and it was hosted by Elliott Brody? That was the day after he was here, right? Yeah, he was in San Diego looking at his wall prototype. Yeah. Which is just creepy to me.

Oh, it's so creepy. Also, a wall is a wall is a wall, I would think. I don't understand why I need different prototypes. I appreciate the aesthetics, but yeah, it's just a weird situation. Yeah, they're just different hues for sure. Well, some of them, yeah, they are different colors. One of them is surf horizon, another one is camera down.

What a guy. No, they have, like some of them have anti-climbing features. Right. Oh my God. Yeah, it's so Berlin. Yeah, someone did a joke right, but the other night about the wall having just a red white blue boxing glove that just yells out. Oh my God. It just hits people on the way up. So much fun. So much fun.

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Exactly, right? Yeah. So, anyway, and you guys remember Qatar is under blockade by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain for alleged supportive terrorism, which Qatar denies, and they've refused to comply with the demands of the blockade, which include dismantling the new service Al Jazeera, which I love. Yeah, they're great. And don't forget, Jared's dad tried to get a loan from the cutters. From the cutters?

From the cutters. Yeah. Because he's in debt over a billion dollars on his 666, Satan Avenue building. Is there ML? And they turned him down. So, I don't know, at least it's going to go over that later. I'm interested to hear more on it. This week a lot more news dropped about Cambridge Analytica. Gives Modo put out a weird report on Monday

that Cambridge Analytica was given intellectual property software from Canada which would be considered an in-kind campaign contribution from a foreign entity and that's a federal crime. That's a felony. And yeah, who can it be? So like, remember blame Canada? Yeah, we can actually blame Canada. Finally, the episode becomes relevant. Yeah, it actually turns out to be partly true.

So even though it is Canada, it's not part of, you know, NAFTA to, you know, interfere in our campaigns, but but or at least even provide software to those who intend to or even just help any campaigns in the United States. That's against that's against the campaign finance law. Right. So, and then on top of that, it seems as though from as far as I can tell, because this report is a little weird, it seems that Cambridge Analytica lied about the origins of the contributions to cover up the fact the software and intellectual property came from a foreign country. And seemingly because they know it's wrong, do you remember the memo that they got from

Giuliani's law firm, a guy named Levy, saying to Mercer, Bannon, and Nick's of Cambridge Analytica, hey, you might want to have Americans do this. And that's because they were advising against having foreigners. Yeah. Good advice. Advise on campaigns because it's illegal. So, but they ignored that. So, that's interesting. And we already knew from our show last week that Russia had contact with Cambridge Analytica via a professor from St. Petersburg State University and in Cogor, I think his name was Cogor, that stole data from 50 million Facebook users. And he was given grants by the Russian government to study psychographic micro-targeting,

psychographic micro-targeting, and how to influence American voters, because they had been doing it in the battle against ISIS, like how to win wars. Like really Machiavellian shit, art of war type stuff. So Seth Abramson summed it up pretty nicely on Twitter saying, quote, the digital marketing company, the Mercers and Bannon brought to Trump's campaign via Kushner was quite possibly a criminal enterprise illegally funded by and benefiting from work done by foreign actors." Further, it seems as though Cambridge Analytica either gave those data to the Russians or it

was hacked by the Russians, and all that means that the chances Kushner, Bannon, and Parscale and probably Trump himself thought everything was on the up and up are like slim to none. Oh, yeah. So, details like this could be used by Muller to charge and flip Kushner and Bannon on Trump unless of course Bannon and Kushner are in the top tier of his target pyramid. Yeah I wonder. So I don't know we'll see but a lot of... I feel like they've got to be. They've done so much shit. They're pretty big fish. Yeah. I would rather get, if it were me, I'd rather get Kushner on money stuff and use the conspiracy

stuff to roll them. Yeah. Can you charge him on money stuff and then have him flip on the conspiracy stuff? Yeah. You can say, I'm going to charge you with all these. Right. If you don't want all these charges I need you to tell me about what you and Trump did just like how Mollers been giving people the line to the FBI charge and then having them flip

Even though they've done way more than that right, but I think if you charge them with too much they might not be Inclined to flip. Yeah So I either get 80 years or a hundred years. Yeah. I'll take 80. Yeah, I won't snitch. So also out this week, and here's another thing about Cambridge Analytica, the Brexit campaign may have been illegally funded through Shell Company's time to Cambridge Analytica.

They might, Brexit might have been part of this. We learned that Cambridge Analytica sent foreigners to advise US Republican House campaigns in 2014. Also, and that could explain why we've said this forever that the GOP and the House is complicit. They're pushing back on this and not investigating because they are... They're part of it. ...targets. And...

Yeah, very frustrating. Like, they were there. They were helping them in 2014. John Bolton was a beneficiary. We talked about that last week, but that could be why the GOP scrambled to shut down the Russian investigation in the house and produce that stupid majority report

on its quote unquote findings. Discourse. They knew Democrats were about to expose Cambridge Analytica or at least Mueller. So, and then finally on Monday, the United States Federal Trade Commission, the FTC, launched a probe into Cambridge Analytica or at least smaller. And then finally on Monday, the United States Federal Trade Commission, the FTC, launched a probe into Cambridge Analytica. But that's not the end, though, because we also learned that British Parliament is investigating

Cambridge Analytica, and they have summoned Mark Zuckerberg, I think, four times, three times. Yeah. Now, and he's refused to appear. He's going gonna send somebody else Sighted, you know, so Cambridge Analytica is so so big now that British Parliament is investigating their role Inhacking the American elections. It's crazy. The FTC is investigating it So pretty much everyone except our own Congress is looking into this for us

Fantastic. So embarrassing. It's very embarrassing. And this is speculative But it's clear to me that the house GOP wanted to end the investigation before it led right into their bank accounts pretty much Yeah, that makes sense the same reason my trump wants it to end too Yeah, exactly one because of it. It was sketchy illegal Right because there's multiple reports that GOP congressional races accepted funds funneled through intermediaries tied to Cambridge Analytica. Yeah, I bet. Eric Prince and Elliott Brody.

So they put their own interest ahead of ours and shut down that inquiry. But at least we have the UK government looking out for us. Yeah, that's good. Good old UK. Thanks guys. I can't wait for them to find the criminality in our house, GOP. And it's like your neighbor, neighbor investigating your own domestic abuse. Right.

A little neighbor. Thanks, ma'am. Help me, please. Good looking house. The cops won't do anything. I appreciate that. Oh, yay. Additionally, the FTC launched a probe into the data scandal, specifically whether or not

Facebook violated its consent decree when it released the data on these users. And each violation carries a fine of $40,000. So that's a lot. That is 50 million users. It'll put a nice little rock-chip dent in Mark Zuckerberg's fortune. So, you're easily dropping the bucket for him. It was also reported that Cambridge Analytica sent foreigners to advise US Republican campaigns in 2014, like I just said.

So, you know, that's crazy. That we had foreigners, like Tom Tillis is one of them. And the guy at Cambridge Analytica, who did it, who is a foreigner, has a big advertisement on his page about how he helped Tom Till us when the election is. It's been taken down since this started though, so that's funny. Zuckerberg will testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Cool.

Yeah. That's good. I think that, I mean, the House Intel Committee investigation is a sham investigation. Oh, yeah, it's a kangaroo court. Except for shave, obviously. Kangaroo court is more sophisticated and legit. They look into serious pouch issues. And these guys aren't doing anything, but the Senate, I still think is pretty shammy, but at least they're making end runs and trying to look into things that the house didn't look into. Yeah, and they're making some bipartisan moves as opposed to releasing two separate ideological

memos. Exactly. And trying to pass that as like information to the frickin' citizenry. Look what we did together. Yeah. You're maybe like fake memo. Yeah. We like to give you all sides with no real

recommendation. So this is irony. On Tuesday, Trump took off in his motorcade to dine with a friend of his in town at his house. And here's the funny side note. The guy who had him over for dinner is the architect that designed the Watergate hotel. Wow. Brilliant. Strange company. That pleases me. Trubbs like, I'd like to fit in breaking into the Watergate again. Yeah, too possible.

Tell me how to do it. Could you design my campaign headquarters next year? Yeah, this guy, I can't remember his name, but he's known as the condo king of Washington. Okay. You're Abe Froman. That's right. I made Froman the sausage king of Chicago. Yeah, that's me. Yeah, Watergate. Fun. A big news on Tuesday. Nine senators and this goes along with what you were just saying about the Senate being a little more bipartisan than two dumb memos Two opposing memos on Tuesday nine senators sent a letter to the top five department of justice officials asking them to pledge that they wouldn't fire Mueller or try to Impede the investigation by defunding it or anything pretty much don't not impede it in any way. Yeah, if the purse if they ended up being in charge of it.

So they're trying to prevent a Saturday night massacre, basically. Very nice. And they're trying to get everybody on the record, public record saying that they won't do this, that they will, you know, resign if it comes to that. And it was one GOP and eight DEMs. I can't remember the mix, to look at it, but I know it's bipartisan.

Overwhelmingly, yeah, technically at least that's good. At least we can say. Yeah, even if it's like half a guy. Yeah, I'll take it. Like John McCain sort of just puts an ex on that. I don't think he was part of it. But Senators Coons and Tillis also released a bipartisan statement. That's one in one.

So that's a little closer. Saying that they believe the Mueller investigation should not be allowed or should be allowed to continue. That should not be impeded. They said, quote, we urge President Trump to allow the special counsel to complete his work without impediment, which is in the best interest of the American people, the president and our nation. Yes. So this is interesting that Tillis would do this since he was one of the beneficiaries of Cambridge Analytica in 2014. Maybe he got the least amount of money. He's better. He just had some, yeah, just some...

He was paid in beers. Or cover up some British guy make a lame commercial for him. Yeah. It would make sense to me that if anyone who has been involved in these sketchy foreign government influences, if they could just do the most that they can to just say face a little bit and just make a seam. Just a little. Just divert the attention from their sketchy doings.

That's what I would do. I would turn all the way and be like, you know what? And look at my list of evidence of things I've done that are right. And just hands up, but I'm going to be a patriot. And I surrender and here's what happened. And gonna be a patriot and I surrender and here's what happened and I've seen this and I saw that. Oh yeah, that would be ideal.

Well, it would be the smart thing to do too because no one's gonna remember you, you're gonna have no legacy, but right now you're in a position and that not many people are in a position to do, which is to become a historic figure. Yeah. I would take that shot.

Yeah, I don't that shot. Yeah. I don't know. Like John Deane or whatever. The only reason we know who John Deane is is because he came out and said, yeah, I did it. It's like infamy or obscurity. I think some of them would rather have obscurity, which is unfortunate. You could be considered a hero.

For sure. Yeah. I mean, you'd be a hero to me, but some people will always remember. And you could always claim you were Sorry for stepping on your truck Or you could just claim that you were undercover two-timing the whole time. Oh, right. Yeah, it's mole mole Yeah, I think it's worth the shot. I think you're right self moles Self moles I'm old myself. I did

Vanders won appeared in court to ask for leniency in his sentencing and special counsel was like what no No We're not gonna give you they're like well He was good after that and we're like we're not gonna reward you for not breaking the law Yeah, it was just a pretty funny hearing there was also some speculation as to whom Person A was. There was a Person A mentioned in this, a court document. But we all knew from February that Person A was Kalimnik. Yes.

We've been saying that, which I was stunned at how many people were stunned at that, who was Person A? And I was like, you guys. Yeah. They don't follow them. I'm more sure. They gotta listen. Well, I told them.

Did you call that? And the New York Times confirmed that on Tuesday. So that's actually the first time a major news, I don't know journalism, syndicate, whatever reporting mainstream media, which I guess some people don't like, but a legit source actually confirms something that we've been saying for a while.

So that's cool. Oh, yeah. And we have a whole mini-sode this week on person A. So check that out. Remember our reporting on Russian money and the NRA, Jordan? Senator Widener those guys. Yeah Well, Senator Wyden we've reported this already. This is this is old news that Senator Wyden wrote a letter to the NRA and the Treasury Maneucia asking for all documents regarding campaign funding from the NRA and the sources of those monies We also knew from early reporting that the Treasury did not get back to him, but the NRA did basically giving, citing their policy

on accepting foreign donations. Right. And which is like dumb. Yeah, very dumb. Like here, oh, did you take any money? Well, here's the law on money. We're not allowed. You're like, thanks.

I am a citizen. And a citizen is not supposed to do that. Jordan, I think you were saying earlier like, did you murder that guy? Well, here's the laws on murder. Yeah, you're not supposed to murder people. It doesn't answer the question. And we also reported that widening sent another letter back asking them for clarification and then they got back to him again saying actually yes We did accept foreign campaign contributions That's the new news and Widen wrote back to them again demanding their finance records. This is the dumbest back and forth Like I can't believe they just admitted it like the second time they even put up a fight for like a little while longer

It's like when you have those texts I can't believe they just admitted it, like the second time. They even put up a fight for like a little while longer. It's like when you have those text conversations where someone's like, well, chicken and dumplings, and you're like in reference to what? And they're like, you know, and I'm, no, I don't know. Can you tell me what you like chicken? Like, yeah, I don't know. I do like chicken. What are you talking about? I need more than the sales. have you guys know people like that. They just say something without all the information

Yeah, I'm talking circle. Oh, yeah, knowing that you have to ask them for the additional information. Oh, yeah Kind of like guess what happened to me today. Yeah, no yep, you can play Cading those people So this poor job senator widen, dude, come on. Will you just get on with it? Out with it. We learned this week that Dowd had floated the idea of pardoning Manafort and Gates before they were indicted. This is huge because discussing the possibility of a pardon to try to get Manafort and Gates

to not cooperate with special counsel. That is witness tampering. Oh yeah. And to the highest degree. That's like super witness tamper. You like you can't tamper harder. Yeah, don't worry about it bro. I'll get you out. If you think about it, Trump has pardon power.

Right. And he can use it whenever he wants. He would not need to speak to an attorney about it. He wouldn't have to talk to doubt about it. Doubt wouldn't have to go and talk to a man of fortune gates attorneys about it. He would just pardon them. The fact that they spoke about it indicates that there was a squid pro-crow. Squid pro-crow, is that what you call it?

Jordan? Squid pro-crow, yes. Sorry, I just like it better than squid pro-crow. Yeah, I'm actually thinking of giving a squid pro-crow tattoo. Like a... I have a confession, sorry, after your tattoo idea. No, that's it. Yesterday you were saying squid pro-crow and a squid pro-crow.

And I thought, shit, there's another one I don't know. You can tell me where it is. I can tell you where it is. I can't tell you where it is. I can't tell you where it is. Yes. In Fendi and La. Why, why does it sense that? It's just that I'm so familiar to quid pro quo.

She doesn't usually make mistakes. Oh, that's funny. But yes, it's tattoo. This squid pro crow tattoo. Yeah, I think. It would just be a great inside joke and cool looking. Anyway, this is bad news for Trump. I'm sure, as you can tell, I'm not sure

why Dowd would have done that. That's way um that puts his license in jeopardy so I don't get it. Yeah maybe he's just taught I don't know why the fuck am I trying to defend this guy. He's just gonna be like maybe he's it. No. Yeah no I just I can't figure out a reason. Yeah it just looks horrible. I can't think of a way that it would not be horrible. There's not. Also Wednesday night, we learned Trump hired a new lawyer. No one's heard of this guy. The only thing we know about him is that he had a midlife crisis in the 2000s and ended up

getting a degree in medieval history. So I just picture like there's a larper. Like I am your lawyer, Hazard. He's like making legal decision role in 20-sided dies. Like, oh, I have an attack for. Let's get him. It's like... It's all mine!

Oh, sorry. I mean... I don't know. I was trying to larp riff, but I don't know what larp is saying. That's the impression. Yeah, that's what I think of. I don't think you know enough about larp. I don't tear I was trying to larper if but I don't know what larper's like impression. Yeah, that's what I think of Yeah, I don't think you know enough about larper. I don't to riff on it. I haven't seen yeah I haven't seen it. We should go watch a larping tournament. We put this together with our medieval IT guy And we and we have a sitcom

I like for this is going. I know I like it too Thursday Trump fired VA Secretary Shulkin and replaced him with the randy jackson but you have to gather for randy jackson i said you know that this is some good stuff and so far here we go no no no way we're on a jackson ronnie jackson excuse me my bad uh... he's the white house physician nice guy straight teeth uh... shulken spoke out uh... to nPR and NBC, a matlower on Meet the Press.

He's making the round, saying he was fired. Even though White House said he resigned, he's like, no, I didn't resign. And he believes he was politically moved out because he was blocking the privatization of the VA. So if you think Trump cares about veterans, you'd be wrong. But he does care about money, though. That's consistent. Yeah, he's got, he could stand to make a lot of money

for the private health care sector at the expense of the taxpayer using veterans. It's, yeah, all the veterans groups are against this and all the veterans are against privatization, including the DAV and Amvets. I mean, it's so clear that the Republican agenda is to privatize the VA, but, you know, how are there still Republican veterans when it's always the GOP who votes against funding for the VA? It's always the GOP who tries to privatize.

Yeah. Yeah, that's weird. Doesn't add up. No, but we'll see what Ronnie stands for during his confirmation hearings. Like, I don't know, dog. It's going to be a no for me. Yeah. No for me on privatization. It's not feeling it. Check it, dog. No. If he's against privatization, that'd be great. But he's also got no experience running a major organization. The V is the second biggest organization in the government. The biggest health care provider in the United States, probably the world. We have 9 million veterans, 340,000 employees in the VA. It's giant. I know that this has nothing to do with Russia, but I thought it was important because I'm a veteran. I know we have a lot of veteran listeners, so I just

wanted to talk about that. Absolutely. And an exobama official said, quote, picking the White House physician to run the VA as like having your Uber driver park the space shuttle. So that kind of gives you an idea of the massiveness of it. And it wasn't Trump that really pushed Shalkan out because of privatization. It was other high level officials in the VA that Trump appointed that have been trying to privatize the VA from within. Still awkward. That pushed him out.

There are bosses and stuff. And good old Ronnie might be against privatization, but if you put him in that wolf's den and he doesn't have any experience warding off these bureaucrats, you know, yeah, or if he doesn't know what privatization looks like coming from afar or something. Yeah. Right. He's still active duty. He's never even been to the VA.

So I don't know how it's going to work out. He's like, man, this place is. So even if he says, even if he's like, no, I don't want to privatize the VA. It's like, yeah, but okay, do you know how to hold off bureaucrats who do? Exactly. Because Shalkin lost his job for it. So.

That's the most up to say that someone resigned when they were actually fired. Yeah, it's always been weird. And they did a column, they did the typical thing. It was via tweet. Ronnie Jackson was surprised that he was so that he's like what what yeah Like no one knew he was even on a short list So that is pretty insane. Yeah, it's interesting

How would Trump fire people if he didn't have Twitter? I don't know well John Kelly Sheldon just a little sign your fight Sheldon, just a little sign, you're right. Just facts. Because I don't think it's understand stuff. Edits is his own photos. He writes a letter. Do you want to resign? Check this box.

Anyway, it's a mess, I don't know. But moving on here, the Senate recently requested emails. Anyway, it's a mess, I don't know. Moving on here, the Senate recently requested emails, and this is the Senate, I think it's a Senate traditionally. I think finestein had something to do with this. They want to see the emails from Dearborn and Mashburn as the special counsel winds its probe to include the easing of Russian language in the GOP platform at the RNC. Remember when they did that? Exactly. Yeah. They took out the lethal arms part.

And we go into really good depth on this in the Russian roulette book series. So check that out. And Jordan is going to go over this a little later in the show too. So Muller is also investigating Sessions contact with Kislyak, the Russian ambassador at the RNC and the Mayflower. The one that he didn't have, right? Oh, yeah, I do not recall. The two that he didn't have, like right now opening sequence, I did not have a... God, I'm so sorry. ...to call the surrogate at a time of two.

A time of two, and they'd admit Julep. He sounds like such an idiot. Not because of his accent, though. Just because he's just an idiot. Because in the words that he says, I'm an order, his accent. No, just because he's just a word that he has in the order he said. No, it's a very debonair accent actually. It's just the words that are included in it are terrible. And he stutters over his lines.

He just gets lost so quickly. Not as bad as Manafort. I know that clip. I'm getting his advice. That's what I said. He's hard to watch. Yeah, that's that's that's that's that's what the channel. Yeah, I've seen that video of the lady.

She's an anchor woman and she has like, she actually has a stroke on camera, but you can't tell because it just comes out as her just misspeaking, but it went viral and she was fine. Everything's okay. Okay, but she was just talking and that's what he sounds like. She was like, we're here today at Greenfield Midd and you can dig in your garden.

Yeah, Zabin you do. The internet is so cruel. It's not that go viral. People are so mean. Oh, it's crazy. You sort of sounded like the sweetest chef right then. Oh, that is so cool. All right, that's cool. Is that the Muffins guy?

Yes. Oh, good, yay! Poor, poor, poor Canadian. We need to get points for getting references right. Yeah, we need to get the 80s game. It's good. Thursday, Sessions refused to appoint a special counsel to investigate FBI corruption, despite multiple GOP members in Congress,

the House in particular, House Strange, insisting on it, right? Gates, who is the House of Representatives official fuck boy, I think, said if I can just see him like driving a Mitsubishi eclipse, date, rape, and people, like he's just texting you back. Definitely. Listen into sublime, you know, just anyway, he said if sessions didn't appoint a special council that sessions should be fired, we should get a new AG, not me. But you know, whatever, sessions did appoint Hubert. He's a US attorney from Utah to team up with Horowitz. He's

the head of the DOJ IG to look at the FBI and Fisk. Wow, that's a lot of acronyms. Yeah, IGDOJ, FBI Fisk, because I'm like, I sound like that clip from Good Morning Vietnam. Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? Because if it leaks to the VC, you can end up in an MA and then we'd all be put on KP. Yeah, just made me think of that. I love that clip. Anyway, we also learned that when Mueller flipped gates He wasn't doing it to get the juice on Manafort, which is kind of what we all thought, right?

He wanted gates as testimony on conspiracy and collusion We know that gates was in contact with a pro-Russian Ukrainian because that's Kolumnik, right during the campaign and He would have all the info on Manafort's collusion with Darapaska as Kalimnik was the go-between. Yeah. If you guys remember we learned that Manafort dined with Kalimnik at 666 State and Tower and Darapaska landed in Newark that night on his private jet and then met with Kalimnik and then flew to Moscow to pick up the deputy prime minister of Russia and then on to Norway where they hung out on a boat and Darapaska uploaded all the Manafort details Columnant gave him to the deputy prime minister.

And so the Russian sex coach, remember her? Yes. Rebka? She got video of it and Putin's jailed, now jailed opponent Navalny released that video. So Gaita, Gaita's all that. Yeah.ed opponent, Navalny released that video. So. Gates has all that. Yeah, that was a bold move to release that. I mean, he had to know.

Especially if he's in custody. Yeah, that's true. I wouldn't, I wouldn't do that. No, Navalny? Yeah. I'd be afraid of, you know, from my life. Like, they know where he is. Yeah, at this point, I guess that's just his mission.

It's just to stand up to Putin. Yeah. Maybe he's willing to die for it. Yeah. Yeah, at this point, I guess that's just his mission is just to stand up to Putin. Yeah. Maybe he's willing to die for it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of people have and they've actually said, you know, you might kill me, but, you know, the truth will. The truth will come out. Yeah. So if you've noticed, it seems Mueller is really getting into collusion and conspiracy now. With the reports about gates and person A and sessions contacts with kissley ac, it seems like he was putting conspiracy and an obstruction on the back burner. And now these, because remember we reported that, he was putting obstruction on the back burner to look at conspiracy and vice versa. And now these reports are coming out. It's interesting that those tiny little leaks have borne out. They've become accurate. Borne out.

Not borne out. Borne out. They've become accurate. They've been robbery. Yeah. Exactly. The White House also leaked that Trump has been telling his aides not to talk about anithetical moves that he makes against Russia.

Poor guy. He doesn't want upset. He doesn't want upset. Who's boyfriend? He doesn't want he doesn't want upset Whose boyfriend. Yeah Thursday night Ross story reported that Melania's fed up With Trump and she's thinking about taking Baron and fleeing Wow, I hope they fly away in the plane that I read Baron flu And I don't know how true that is, but it's funny to me.

Funny, but sad. Also funny, but sad. Roger Stone this week went out on Instagram smoking a cigar and called Nunberg a lying psychotic coke addict or something. Jesus. Did you really see that clip? Oh yeah. This is Roger Stone.

Say Nunberg is a cocaine addict and any news organization that takes anything he said seriously is courting a serious lawsuit. Go, Ken. That's so sad. Yeah. Cause he was like, oh man, he's my hero, he's like my dad. And, and wow.

Who gets drunk and then leaves cigar? Videos as a grown ass man hating on your contemporaries. Yeah, that's a special man. Somebody who has Nunberg as a contemporary. Yeah, that's who. Yeah. I mean, I can't even imagine. Yeah.

We learned Friday, a guy named Ted Malik, who was detained at Boston Logan Airport Tuesday by the FBI. He was questioned for over an hour. His electronics were confiscated. He was questioned about Farage. His ties to Farage, Assange, WikiLeaks, and Stone and Brexit and Cambridge Analytica and all that.

And he was given a subpoena to appear before Mueller's grand jury on April 13th. I'll go into this a little later in more detail because everyone knows like, who the fuck is this guy? Like, I'm sorry, Malik. No one's heard of him before, right? Right. Except I have seen his name before, so stay tuned and I'll tie that all together a little bit later. Nice. That was the name of my dean in college. Malik?

Yeah, my resident dean. No relation. Oh no. It would make sense, because he was a fucker. Oh, that's great. That's a great. What's a resident dean? Exactly.

He just, for they live with you? Yes. On the first floor of our building, and then he would just come out and be like BAM No smoking weed no happiness. Yeah, oh We call those RAs he was the head of the RAs. Oh, well whoopsy shit. Yeah Sorry, I'm not them don't give them that's not that's not a dean. Yeah, he was a resident dean He told me once that he only thought 10% of the school population smoked marijuana.

No accounting for delusional people. Yeah. Let's see, also Friday, two Republican congressmen were caught in a lie. I love this because one of them is Jim Jordan from Ohio and that guy is such a dick. And Mark Meadows from North Carolina, they both asserted that Andy McCabe, former deputy director of the FBI, fired by sessions just a couple of days before he was gonna get his pension.

Also my boyfriend. They said that he lied to James Comey about his contacts with journalists. Well, there are now emails proving that McCabe did not lie to Comey. And frankly, I'm looking forward to Comey's book coming out on April 17th. We'll be reviewing that book in a series of episodes available to our patrons and I'm looking forward to Komi's book coming out. On April 17th, we'll be reviewing that book in a series of episodes available to our

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Elliott Brody, didn't we, Jelisa? Mm-hmm. Take it away. Oh yeah. So we recently learned that hundreds of pages of Elliott Brody's emails were leaked by an anonymous anti-brody source. And they detail how Brody, while he was the vice chairman

of the finance committee for Trump's inaugurationuration was inviting foreign leaders to meet with President Trump and would imply in the invitations that these opportunities were only for countries willing to do business with his personal company or personal company Cercinus. So yeah. Cercinus, the dumbest name ever. You're gonna love our work. I don't know why I think Circuit City or something. I think a gladiator. Oh, you're too much credit for them. True. True.

Yeah, yeah, and you know you're right. Yeah. Do they all work gladiator office? Sucsonists. Yeah. Would that make them cooler? I don't know. Maybe just like, heat wise, but not.

Yeah. Awesome wise. Yeah. Nice cut piece. Well, fight those lion for you. So these emails revealed how Brody offered tickets to VIP inauguration events, including a candlelight dinner, attended by SRUM. He also helped arrange meetings with the public incinitors, and he offered trips to Mara a logo and arranged an invitation to a party at Trump's Washington hotel for

remaining politician facing corruption charges. Did he do candlelight dinner? So like the lights are so dim, you don't have to look other people in the face. I like that. It seems like that would be a creepy look to like looking at Trump with like a candlelit. Yeah. Like it's just like when you do the horror stories with a flashlight under your

chin. Yeah, that's what comes to mind totally. Yeah, he doesn't need any help looking evil. So, Bernie was actually so aggressive with his approach that some of his assertions. Yeah, he came on strong, growling, serving his long. I can only imagine. Yeah, they had to warn him to basically tone down his whole approach. They were just afraid that you know He wouldn't pretty much have them found out and like dude chill. Yeah It is business actually it took off after Trump won so a sersonous received lucrative contracts from all around the world worth $200 million including the United Arab Emirates contract.

No. Yeah, so this was all in the emails and things you've discussed before, but he's pretty upset, as you can imagine, and he's actually suing the nation of Qatar for, quote, hacking his computers and leaking unflattering information to the media. I'm flattering.

Don't hold a mirror up to me so everyone can see. Exactly. Only I can do that to myself. It's a new standard for a libel. Yeah. It's very unflattering. Right. And even if they did,

because Brody's representatives are saying they have proof that the emails were stolen by hackers, working for a guitar. It's still like, like you said, he's already been doing this. He's the one that, you know, bragged about setting up a meeting with Trump and the crown prince. And it makes sense that you would pivot it that way to be like, they painted me in an unflattering light.

I mean, that's what happened. Like when the DNC got hacked and Podesta got hacked, they were like, don't, what's in there doesn't matter. What matters is that we got hacked by the Russians. Exactly, yeah, it's like, don't worry about the content. You shouldn't have done that. So his attorney said, we're hoping to hold accountable those individuals

who reached into the United States to conduct a hostile attack against a prominent US citizen, like you were saying. And yeah, according to the lawsuit, Qatar violated the federal computer fraud and abuse act, and there also accused of civil conspiracy, invasion of privacy, and possession of stolen property. Amazing. Sounds like you're talking about Russia? Yeah, exactly. So, from the investigation into guitar, go so swiftly, just with justice immediately. Oh, I'm right. Oh, man. So, yeah, the whole idea is about how guitar

coordinated and flattering leaks to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, and other media outlets to depict Brody, and this is in the lawsuit, as someone who used his is in the lawsuit, as someone who used his influence in the Trump administration to enrich himself and affect policy. I mean, it's just... That's a word for word, what Russian did. Exactly.

That's crazy. It's really parallels. Yeah. The guitar you say they didn't do it, you know, as folks per se. Ah, yeah, I wish they just owned up to it like, bang. I think that'd be cool too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it's definitely a point towards them.

Did you guys have a Katari 2600 or a Katari 5200? What is a Katari? I knew you wouldn't know what I would have gotten in the coin. Oh, yeah. Now you're that person. This is a biscuit. What did you say? It rhymes with a Katari.

It rhymes with a Tari. Oh, what is a Tari? That sounds familiar. A Tari is a game, right? Yeah, it's a video game. You ever heard of Pac-Man? Yeah! Original console, yeah. Either the console? You play Pac-Man on a Atari 2600 or 5200.

The 52 was pretty new. See that? I didn't know it all. Yeah, that's a nice nerdy stuff right there. I like you. No, not really. No? That was pretty friggin mainstream. I like this. That where Pong was. That was Activision. See now it's vintage nerdy stuff. Yeah. That's nerdy. But no Atari was like it was the game Pokemon. Yeah. Yeah. Pogs. Wow. That's a big one. Yeah. Yeah. It was huge. Anyway, sorry. Oh no worries. Forgive my it's easy. Only a Katari pun I could think of. I'm sorry. I forgive Mike. It's these the only a cattari pun I could think of I like it I do appreciate it. So yeah the guitar is the guitar is you're denying it Spokesperson for the guitar is sent in Bissy in Washington said mr. Brody's lawsuit is a transparent attempt to divert attention from US media reports about his activities His lawsuit is without merit or fact. Yeah, they're just like, you know.

I wonder what proofy has that it was the guitar is the hack test. Yeah, they just come out with it. Like, did CrowdStrike help them look into it? Yeah, it sounds like it's all cyber tracing stuff. There's no privacy on the internet. I mean, like, we have all the links and stuff to APT29, APT28, Cosy Bear Fancy Bear, also known as all the Russian stuff and how that's all tied in and the different codes

that we go over in the Russian roulette book review about the different codes they found in their database. Right, it gets really intricate, to be able to be able to connect it. Like there is proof. Yeah. And I'm just wondering if he has any or if he's just saying that. Right, maybe he's betting there's proof,

he's probably not wrong. So. He would you're gonna need to bring it to court true true They're probably trying to stir up, you know like the set of distractions It reminds me like watching people's court and she's like do you have your rental receipts? And they're like no, I didn't bring him today. She's like where do you think you were going? All right, well, thanks to Lisa. Of course. Yes yes. Always a good update on Elliott Brody-Forest. I appreciate it. That was awesome. You're pretty much assigned to him now.

Oh, now Jordan has some information on a couple of guys named Dearborn and Mashburn. The reason I gave this to you is because you had earlier done some reporting. I think it was in our NRA, Russia, mini-sode, about email from Dearborn to the NRAs, where the subject line is Kremlin connection. Like, yep, so Dearborn and Mashburn both, they were Trump-Aids. And this week, the Senate Judiciary Committee's Chairman and Top Democrat, aka Chuck Grassley, Republican and Diane Fancy, Democrat, had lovely released a joint request for new emails from those two folks.

So basically this was a really nice bipartisan step in the right direction, I would say, in our Senate Judiciary Committee. Not to say that they've been anything like the debauchery that was the HIC, but they have not been the best. Well, I was going to say is the the house in tell committee looking into this at all I don't know no, you know why? Oh, cuz they're done. You mean yeah, yeah that whole That's a good question. Yeah, yeah me. It was convincing that you had to go in that's got your journalism That's how it works you guys

Yeah, but exactly a perfect point they're not even doing the investigation anymore. If the house reopened the thing and was like, we're gonna look into all these things in the minority report and then they were like, had Fools day. Oh my God, that is something newness would do. Definitely. How do you say April Fools in Russian?

Oh yeah. I don't know, we'll figure it out. Yeah, definitely. When does this come out? Today's April Fools, isn't it? Dance. We'll figure it out. Yeah. Definitely. When does this come out? Today's April Fool, isn't it? Dance.

Yeah, it comes out tomorrow. All right. We'll have to learn how to say yesterday in Russian as well. Okay. So basically, they sent a letter to Trump campaigns, the Trump campaigns attorney seeking these emails from Rick Dearborn, who actually went on to play a prominent role in the presidential transition before reportedly leaving the White House earlier this year. And John Mashburn, who served as a campaign's policy director, and still remains in the administration.

So Grassley and Fiesci noted in their letter that their previous requests for 21 Trump campaign aids emails resulted in more than 28,000 pages of documents that gave them reason to believe that they needed to investigate further into Dearborn and Mashburn. So they found stuff in those emails where we need to ask more questions. Yeah, which is promising. I mean, it is good. We all know these things, but it's nice to know that they're also finding them in a green. Exactly.

I guess our standards are so low. That's what their jobs are now. That's like, they're at least pretending to get along in their shame investigation. Yeah. And then, you know, then the house, yeah, pretending to shame investigation. So Dearborn was a former top aide to attorney general Jeff Sessions actually and during session senate career. And they had a cute relationship.

They worked yearly for a long time. But if the things that I've read, if I'm getting the right vibes, it seems like Dearborn actually grew kind of annoyed with Sessions. And yeah, or just didn't, I'll have to find my sources on why I'm thinking that. I can't pull them up. Just get the vibes. Yeah. I'll just get some vibes, which is not a way to report a story at all.

I like that kind of journalism. Yeah. It's a podcast. We can advise journalism. We can advise journalism. We can advise journalism. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. No, I forget. I read something about like the nuances of their relationship, but anyway, so. Dearborn. Dearborn was probably like, this guy racist is fuck. One came out with a man, and the only host. Racist vibes. Hopefully it was not that he wasn't racist enough.

Oh, good point. The feet right. Dearborn's probably like, I don't, I mean, I don't like black people either, but you're taking it a little far. Yeah. He's like, I was born from deers, okay? I'm okay with a lot of things. That was great. So stupid.

Yeah, that was pretty stupid. That was pretty stupid. I love you, though. Mashburn, grandma, Thanksgiving, fucking up. That's what that is. Get it. Okay, I'm done. I'm so done.

I'm sorry. I thought that was a funny pun. Anyway. Okay, I'm done. I'm so done. I'm sorry. I thought that was a funny pun. Anyway, so my matchbird and deer board actually deer board is connected with having received emails like AG was talking about about that Mayflower meeting that happened with sessions and it was actually Donald Trump. It was Sessions Trump and Kushner. And then he is now under investigation, or I imagine that's what they're trying to investigate

is when he received his emails, what he knew, when he knew it, and why he didn't alert anybody about it. Mm-hmm. Incohoots, I would say. I know why. Yeah. This letter, another interesting fact about this letter from Grassley and

Feinstein also asked the Trump campaign to search for records of quote unquote possible misspellings of the name George Papadopoulos. This is my favorite. They're like search all your emails, but search also P-PAD, because they could have spelled pop-a-dopolis a million ways. Oh, yeah. And I wouldn't put it past them to search for pop-a-dopolis spelled correctly only, and not any variations. It was like, we got four emails, and that's it. But there's probably a hundred with his name spelled wrong.

Yeah, exactly. I bet there was a fight in that committee just to convince them to put that in the letter. Like why do you not want us to search for all the popular public emails? Or that was their plan, guys, we'll just misspelled, pop it up. It'll be fine. But the Russians have a different spelling. Yeah. They almost got away with it too until this letter.

So yeah, great bipartisan effort, I would say, and we'll see what comes of that. I imagine they're gonna, I mean, I think it's, we'll talk about the indictment fantasy league after, but I think they could be perspective picks. I think they're on there. Oh, I dearborn was, I don't think Mashburn was. Right, to us.

Yeah, we'll have to add Mashburn. We'll do that. We'll do that a little bit. I'm glad, well thank you. Yes, yes, thank you, you're welcome. Thank you. All right, guys, I wanna talk a little bit. I'll do that a little bit. All right, well thank you. Yes, yes. Thank you, welcome. Thank you. All right, guys, I want to talk a little bit about a guy named Ted Malak, to whose name I'm

sure most molar junkies simultaneously proclaimed who the fuck is this guy? Well, it was a huge nerd myself. I remember exactly where I had seen his name before. So I wanted to tell you guys about it. This past Tuesday, a man named Ted Malik was stopped at the Boston Logan Airport on his way into the country from the United Kingdom. Just like Nader and Popodop, Popodopolis, they were both stopped at Dallas, remember? Just like this, they, they, Malik was stopped and he was searched and his electronics were confiscated and he was

questioned for over an hour in the airport by FBI agents about his ties to Stone and Wiki Leaks, Farage, Brexit, Cambridge Analytica, all that. So who was Ted Malik? Well, the first time I saw his name come up was in the Fusion GPS House Intelligence Committee transcripts back when there was a House Intelligence Committee doing investigation. The line of questioning starts on page 99. When Adam Schiff returns to the room, I guess he had been on a break or he'd left briefly, and Adam Schiff asks, first about whether or not Simpson had thrown out any of the intel

he received from Christopher Steele because he thought it was sourced from disinformation. And Simpson said, no, the only things that we threw out were microscopic and significant words. The major points of the report were all included in the dossier. Then, Schiff changed his line of questioning to WikiLeaks and said, quote, and didn't you during the course of your work uncover any information regarding a connection between Trump or those around Trump and WikiLeaks. And Mr. Simpson said, yes, I mean you've seen some of the public reporting. I mean this would be separate from the steel stuff, but you know, we gradually towards the end of the project became very interested in Roger Stone when he bragged about having his contact.

We tried to figure out who that contact was. We started going into who Stone was and who his relationships were with and essentially the trial led to sort of an international far right group. And you know, Brexit happened, and Nigel Farage became someone that we were very interested in. And I think that's interesting.

And so I've formed my own opinions that there was somewhat unacknowledged relationship between the Trump people and the UKIP people. UKIP is the party that was for Brexit, the pro-leaf party. Right. The Tea Party party. Quote, and that the path to WikiLeaks ran through that. Ran through Trump and UKIP. And I still think that.

That's what Mr. Simpson said. Then Adam Schiff says, quote, and when you talk about the connection between the Trump campaign and the Brexit campaign, is that a line you're drawing through Cambridge Analytica? Unquote. And then Simpson answered, well, Bannon went over to the UK in 2011 to set up sort of a British tea party, no pun intended. Then a redacted person says, one minute, and talks to Mr Mr. Simpson and then Mr. Simpson starts speaking again And he's the little seems a little flustered when he comes back and he says I don't think that Cambridge is the nucleus

I think there's some ban in connections and other stone associates a guy named Malik the Udoore Roosevelt Malik Who's an American that was living in the UK? He was associating with you Kip and I believe he's a significant figure in this Unquote. Simpson went on to say that he, quote, I've been told but not confirmed that Nigel Farage has had additional trips to the Ecuadorian embassy to provide data to Assange

on a thumb drive. So that's where Malak first came up. So FBI officials have now questioned Malak about whether or not he traveled to Ecuador to meet with Assange. He denies everything, which makes me think he's about to be charged with lying to the FBI. Just like, I don't know, Papa Doppler's. So he's been given a subpoena on, he will appear before Mueller's grand jury on April 13th. So the way that I feel like this went down is Mueller had the information on him. He had criminal wrongdoing and he was able to, that's how he was able to obtain a warrant

to obtain this guise and to detain and obtain his electronic devices. That's how Mueller operates. And then he asked him questions that he already knew the answers to. And apparently it's from Mallex point of view is he denied everything. So we'll see. What happens at the grand jury?

Excited to see that. So that could be an upcoming indictment. Yeah. Malik is convinced the whole reason he was denied, or excuse me, the whole reason he was detained by the FBI in the first place is because he's writing a book on the deep state. I'm not sure if he knows that deep state is a made up term from Cambridge Analytica based in psychographics and micro-targeting.

So I'm running. Basically, shit dumb people will be afraid of. I like calling someone a shit dumb person. Shit dumb. Oh, that's pretty funny. But yeah, that's exactly what deep state was, along with Drain the Swamp. You know, those were Cambridge Analytica terms that they tested on people. And apparently, gullible people fell for it.

So they used it in the campaign. Malik is also wondering aloud to the media how the FBI can legally search his cell phone, but he knows better than to try that, I think. Like I said, if Mueller wants your phone, it's because he knows what's in there and he has sufficient proof that's what's in there is criminal. Exactly. That's how you get a warrant. Yeah, you don't get to have the rights of a citizen and at the same time undermine us all.

Nope, that's the way it works. Anyway, that's Malacue, guys. So, yeah, with that, we'll be right back. We love our listeners, and we want your input on the podcast. Please take a moment and rate us on iTunes, and leave us feedback on any of our social media platforms. You can follow us on Twitter at MolarShirote, and you'll be automatically entered to win a PlayStation 4, when we reach 10,000 followers. We're also on Facebook and Instagram.

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All right, this week I want to add Mashburn, just like he said, right? Okay. That's the guy, the Dearborn. Because I think Dearborn's already on there. We'll check. Yeah, yeah. If he's not, I'll put him on there. And I have a feeling there may be a few GOP congressmen we can add, including Tom Tillis, who despite his work to protect Mueller with coons, Senator Coons, he did have foreigners advising his

2014 campaign via Cambridge Analytica. Have you ever noticed that all of the most evil GOP people have alliterations for names? Oh, give me an example. Mitch McConnell. Tom Tillis. Chris Christie. Yes. I'm sure it goes both ways. We just, we know so many Republicans now. Yeah. Barack Obama false be open. Yeah. They love that one. Anyone doesn't roll off the tongue. Yeah, I don't know. So we'll see. Well, you guys ready for sabotage? Yeah. Yes.

All right. I got a story from Russia State TV, which could be disinframazia, but they're reporting a top-white house official told Russia not to worry about their 60 diplomats. They got rid of 60 who's they have two to three year terms. They got rid of 60 who's terms were expiring anyway and just gonna let them send 60 back in their place. Just replace them. Again, I do not have credible confirmation on the story. But if it were true, that would definitely be something Mueller might be interested in hearing about. This story has been verified by a source at the State Department along with one of my personal sources, but that's

it. So take it as you will. These are like loosely corroborated through people and I'm telling you on a podcast. So I, you know, like one of the things I really want to do on this podcast is say, I got this from the New York Times, this came from Washington Post or I think this and it's been corroborated by the New York Times or, you know, AP or Reuters or something. And then if it's something, it's could be wishy-washy, I want to let you know. I don't feel super confident about it, but it's what I've heard. It's been, and I'll tell you, how many people have corroborated it.

And then there's stuff that's completely theory and fantasy for us. And I try to make sure that we make those differences known as well. Definitely. That's just important to me. Anyway, having the White House and the UN ambassador make the denigrating statements about Russia and Putin, you know, doesn't really match Trump's pattern of behavior towards

Russia, but his pattern is intact. Like, this whole thing where somebody says, don't worry about the 60 people, you can send 60 people back. Or, you know, right before the election went down after the Obama sanctions went down, after the election went down. And I think it was Kushner or D.T. Jr. who told Kisley Act don't worry about the sanctions. Or was it Flynn? Flynn said, was hair him up and then Jr. was like, we'll take care of that with my dad's president. Yeah. That's more consistent with that personality in their history. Yeah, and this, now something like this, and something, I don't know, he just, the removal of the

heavy anti-Russia language in the GOP platform at the RNC, all these things, and he never says a bad word about Putin, but his whole life is insulting people. It's just like, but this one guy, he more do it. They're curious. So like I said, it's with the White House statement and the UN ambassador making the harsh statements on Russia on behalf of this administration,

but he never says anything himself. And when he did sanction, when he did, the only sanctions he's put into place, the ones that were voted in that were due in October and then January, I still haven't been put into place. But he did sanction 13 Russians, but it's only because Robert Mueller did it first. So his pattern of piggybacking of this,

yeah, and his pattern of not saying anything bad about Russia is maintained. Yeah, he's not gonna say not saying anything bad about Russia is maintained. Yeah. He's not going to say any precedence on punishing Russia. Exactly. No, yeah, no way. No, but I don't know. I can see where he's trying to, or at least the administration is trying to do some stuff,

taking McMaster's advice and all that. But do you, he just won't do it himself. Just kind of like he won't fire anybody himself, he's just a coward. Yeah. I think, I think that's probably part of it. If you could tweet the Russians away, that would be ideal. I don't want one. That would be great. Yeah, it isn't even tweet against him though, which just means that there's something going on.

Oh, definitely. All right, you guys, let's go to this week's something going on. Oh, definitely. All right, you guys. Let's go to this week's comments and questions. First, I wanted to address a tweet I got from Amanda Levitt, who is at Fat Body Politics on Twitter. She wrote to us saying, quote, I'd enjoy the podcast 100% more if they stopped using the word fat in such a negative way.

There are much better ways to talk about Trump than by calling him fat, unquote. And that's a good call. She's totally right. There are so many other things we can call him out on. I don't think that body shaming is the answer. So I agree with it 100%. So we're going to move away from that.

She also suggested she made suggestions. I love that, which I do love, because I understand, like, I just love it when people say, hey, there's a problem with this. And I have some solutions, you know, as opposed to just, there's a problem, you know, so she suggested we can use Dillhole or trash bucket as alternatives. I think that's great. They are. Does it look at alternatives?

Yeah, I love it that she offered solutions. Thank you, Amanda, for your insights. Thanks for pointing that out. So we're very body positive people in general. So we would hate to project the that we don't want to perpetuate that we're very against that. Yeah, and I but I think that where the rubber meets the road is that we're also comedians and shit just comes out of our mouth. And that's that's not an excuse. We have to be more conscious of what comes out of our mouth because it can actually influence people. Yeah, to us, if I may speak for us, it's more so the humor of hitting him where it hurts because he's created this very fragile ego

that centered around vanity. So hitting him with something that is typically vain is like entertaining to us to do But if it's perpetuating yeah, but if it's perpetuating negativity, we don't want to do that No, only shame the body of his politics. Yeah, there you go. Like it. Yeah, yeah, because yeah, you're totally right That's exactly right Jordan. It's it's because like that's why I want to call him a pussy Yeah, because even though Pussy's are awesome and way stronger.

We claim our own pussies in our, and they're like, pretty amazing. It would bother him. Because he doesn't see them as amazing. Yeah. So, because he, I don't know. Yeah. But yeah, totally fair comment and that's awesome.

Yeah, so we're gonna be away from that. We'll be more conscious of that. Thank you very much Amanda. At RJ Aelius asked if we think Mueller is holding off on indictments of the top people until a new Congress is set to impeach him, or do you think it's because he's not got a sound proof case yet? And this is interesting. I think that he's probably got some indictments ready to go and I think if he's not inditing people, it's because it would be giving away stuff to other people who still haven't spoken to him. Yeah, right. It could change their tune or do whatever they can to try to protect themselves. It would be tickling his hand. It would be showing his cards and he doesn't want to do that yet. I don't think he's waiting for Congress.

I think he's completely apolitical. So he's like, I'm going to do my job the best way that I can. I might have to hold some indictments back in order to make sure that I have all the information I need on other people before I release them because they'll become public. So, I don't know, maybe he can indict people in secret. There are sealed indictments, but it makes sense to me, though, what you just said, that seems anything that is strategic is what I would imagine he's doing. Yeah, anything just for sure. Strategicity.

All right, the three Bucklies wants to know what are reasons for thinking Mueller won't indict a sitting president? Just for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Like if he waited for some reason and you know might just be because that's a part of the plan It's a part of I mean if that's what we like it's to the end right now exactly. Yeah. Yeah, no, but he means in general Yeah, or they're really never right. Oh, well, yeah, I don't think he he would just not do it if he could I think if he had the Unless he for some reason thinks that it's against the law Mm-hmm, but I don't thinks that it's against the law. But I don't think that that's been settled. Exactly, yeah. In case law.

But he knows better than I do. But I think he can indict a sitting president. I think he might. So I don't know. We'll see. Fingers crossed. Fingers crossed. At Poop Weasel, I just have to always read a question from Poop Weasel.

The best thing. Asked on a scale from one to 10, how fucked is Maniford? Maniford is fucked. And you just wanted us to say that. I appreciate it. Also, how badly does Trump want to fire sessions? I think he desperately wants to fire sessions. And that's why I think sessions came out this week,

sicking the IG and a US attorney huber on the FBI. It makes it hard to retrump to fire him, though he could fire him for not appointing a special prosecutor. I don't know. So many reasons, but he definitely wants to. Yeah, I think he does too. Making just that would be the easiest way to replace somebody above Rosenstein who can, you know, put a kibosh on the Mueller investigation.

At B. Adler, San Diego G is wondering why people like Ronograph and Ellen Weissenberg are not facing any consequences because they're the ones who have to complete all the tasks. I think they're just going to be pumped for information, honestly. I think they're just gonna be pumped for information, honestly. As long as they don't lie to the FBI, they could be charged with conspiracy, but I mean, I don't know. I feel like Mueller is just gonna get what he needs out of them to get the bigger folks, but he also doesn't seem like a guy who would leave any stone unturned, or leave any criminal

and it died it. So I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder, can you do you think that he would just straight up not and because can you get someone to flip if you don't indict them on anything? Can you get someone to flip? You tell secrets. You could offer them immunity. Yeah. You tell secrets. You could offer the immunity. Yeah. Like Nader. Yeah. So I don't know and that might have already happened and we don't know I Think that if they committed a big enough crime and didn't have any information to give on someone else that they would be Indicted fair that would be charged or whatever. It's kind of unfair that the whole flipping thing is even a thing But it's necessary to get a bigger fish. It is. Yeah, it's a tool. Yeah, the tool that prosecutors use all the time

Just even sometimes to just win a case plead down, you know, so I can win. Yeah, it would just be so nice If everyone could just get leveled to the degree they deserve At the deep magic asked why Rosenstein's only option is to resign if Trump asked him to fire Mueller. And here's why. Remember that report we did a minute ago about the nine senators who sent a letter to the five people in succession to the Department of Justice saying you have to come out publicly and say that you won't fire Rosen or Muller or impede the investigation. The reason Rosenstein's only option is to resign is

because he has said that publicly. That's why Rosenstein wasn't in the letter. They weren't talking to him because he already so that means he would, if Trump asked them to, he'd have to resign. Or Trump would fire him, so that's why. At Surrell Woods wants to know what makes white color crime so hard to prosecute, citing that if someone steals a honey bun from a convenience store, boom, charges are filed. But if somebody makes off with 500 million of an oligarch's cash, he's still being investigated four years later. So the answer is money. Definitely.

And they don't forget, they have the annual white collar crimes symposium every year. I'm gonna get passes, check it out. Yeah. Yeah, that's... And just counsel, yeah, exactly. The counsel you can afford. Yeah.

Manafort's lawyers are very pricey and so they can drag this out. They know the law. Whereas most low crime or blue collar crime, you have a public defender that you're assigned and they're stretched so thin. Public defenders are amazing, but, you know, they're not, they don't have a zillion dollars and unlimited resources to work with them. Yeah, if you have money, you could get the Twinkie defense or the Honeybun defense. Yeah.

The Honeybun defense. I was very psychologically disturbed at the time. I really, really needed a honeybun. Yeah, case dismissed. Have a honeybun. You've been through a lot. If the Honeybun fits Yeah, case this missed. Have a honeybun. You've been through a lot. If the honeybun fits, you must quit. That makes no sense.

All right, that's okay. Sam Stanton says, wants to know when Mueller will show his hand and who's going to get the next indictment. Oh, that could just, there's so much that we don't know. I am not going to be able to predict that correctly, but I'm still waiting for the additional Russian indictments to drop, but he may not be able to drop those without revealing a little conspiracy with a sange and wiki leaks and now Cambridge Analytica is tied into it, which brings Malik and Sessions and like so many Kushner and Bannon, they bring so many people

into it, he might be that whole giant ball of stuff, he's just like working on and he's waiting until he's done with all that. But so he might not be able to separate those, the hack of the DNC and the Podesta emails out from that. Gosh, everything's so entangled. It's like he's got to get to the end of every rope before he can just drop everything.

Yeah. I had him indictment vomit all over the place. I wonder if all of these guys have a Facebook group where they just talk about. They're like, and I thought that about me. She's getting crazy, isn't it? Yeah, we might be fucked.

We might be. I thought that about meter maids, like, what are meter maids? They're the people who hand you, right? You parking tickets? Oh, God. Yeah, like where did they hang out? Like, they can only be friends with each other.

Yeah. So they must have a closed Facebook group like, yeah. Today is Dick said, I don't know, I don't want a ticket. Like, yeah, that's, yeah, that's new. And then he turned his wheels the wrong way. He didn't grant to the curb Some people's kids man gosh

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