00:00I think between the cases, the letting George Santos off the hook, all of the people are paying attention to all of that.
00:09But I think the reality is, is if it's not if the Justice Department is a tool of his weaponization, it has become it.
00:17Right.
00:17Anybody who is a prosecutor, like, unfortunately, if you work for this Justice Department, if you work for this president, if you are still within the administration and you are unwilling to carry out the crazy,
00:29again, let's not let's not gloss over Carol Lennox reporting from yesterday.
00:32Right.
00:32The fact that John Bolton was in brought the indictments were brought against John Bolton because the other indictments that Donald Trump wanted,
00:40they didn't think that they could. The prosecutors didn't think that they could meet the bar.
00:44So they were like, let's give him this instead of that. Where is the justice?
00:48So I do think people have to start asking themselves the questions because John Bolton won't be the last.
00:53He won't be the last prosecutors fired from the Department of Justice for not carrying out the will of this president.
00:59We have to start asking why are people fired and why are people being prosecuted?
01:03And if the reason is, is because if they were fired because they wouldn't do what the president said and or they're being prosecuted because the president asked for a prosecution.
01:12Where is the line? We have absolutely crossed it.
01:15And if that is the case, then quibbling about the details of the indictments, in my opinion.
01:20Again, we've lost the plot. That's just me. I don't know.
01:23Look, we have to draw the line.
01:25It's not going to come from the current Republican Party or this regime suddenly waking up someday and say, you know what, we're not going to break the law.
01:31We're not going to engage in unconstitutional behavior. That's not going to happen.
01:34What we need is for leaders and institutions to understand that this authoritarian breakthrough moment is temporary.
01:40We are going to have the House of Representatives, maybe the Senate, in 13 months.
01:43We are going to have subpoena power and hearing power.
01:45We're going to drag people to testify.
01:47We are going to investigate.
01:49We need to make that clear now, not 13 months from now, but now so that people who receive illegal orders, who receive orders to do things that are unconstitutional, have part of their calculus be, well, I don't want to testify in front of Congress about this.
02:03So instead, I'm going to resign or I'm going to push back.
02:05But that's a message we need to bring now, perhaps in the largest peaceful protest in modern American history tomorrow.
02:10Let's talk about that protest, Ezra, because you've already seen Governors Abbott, Governor Youngkin saying they're going to deploy the National Guard.
02:19You have administration spokespeople very casually using the term terrorists or trying to link your organization to avowed terrorist groups.
02:30It all seems like a predicate that they are setting part of their crackdown on protests.
02:36And I am most curious how organizations like yours are preparing for a crackdown that is already underway.
02:43Here's what I would say.
02:44The single worst thing we could do when somebody threatens our First Amendment rights to peacefully organize and protest is to back off.
02:51If you are unwilling to exercise your First Amendment rights when they're under attack, you don't have them.
02:56So we start there.
02:58Second, we have to respond a little bit with this is freaking ridiculous.
03:02The Austin organizers of No Kings got the message from the governor.
03:06And what did they say?
03:07They said, I hope the National Guard in Texas enjoy our dancing and music because that's what we're going to see.
03:13We can't like them.
03:14We can't just let them take our power or our joy.
03:17These are joyful demonstrations of people power.
03:20And we've got to maintain that commitment that we set out from the beginning, regardless of how they try to smear us.
03:26And then beyond that, yeah, we do safety trainings.
03:29We have security plans.
03:30Every single one of the 2,600 events on the map right now has a safety lead and a safety plan.
03:35So we're taking it seriously.
03:36But also, we're not backing down.
03:38You know, George, on the backing down pieces, what I love about this moment is citizens, moms, dads, grandmoms, cousins, family members, workers coming together in neighborhoods, as Simone noted, in small towns, big cities, red, white and blue, baby.
03:57Absolutely.
03:57Red, white and blue.
03:58This isn't Republican versus Democrat.
04:01This is American standing up to autocracy, standing up to someone who wants to be a king very much as colonists did, you know, 249 years ago.
04:14Just give it Hamilton.
04:15Rise up.
04:15There we go.
04:16Just give it Hamilton.
04:17Can we say it?
04:18When are these colonies going to rise?
04:20I mean, for the people that haven't seen it, I will just say it does feel like that moment in the play.
04:25It does.
04:25Where the people are like, we refuse to live under this tyranny, so we're going to make our voices heard.
04:32And the important part of that and the backdrop of that is what we see playing out.
04:37So you've got now John Bolton, who pleads not guilty in the latest political prosecution.
04:42You've got Letitia James.
04:44You've got Mr. Comey.
04:46You even have the president on tape in the Oval Office.
04:51Oh, you know, Andrew Weissman.
04:52Yeah, we need to go out here because I don't like him either, basically is what the man's saying.
04:56Yeah, I know y'all dealing with a petty president, right?
04:59Y'all figured that out yet?
05:00This is schoolyard crap.
05:03This is stuff where the principal and the teachers of the schoolyard would separate the kids and tell the bully, let me call your parents.
05:10But that's a whole other conversation.
05:11I don't understand what folks out there who are, whether you're in the Republican Party or whatever, who just sit silently watching the TikTok of names on Donald Trump's prosecution list, persecution list, come out.
05:30The man's telling us who he's going after.
05:32What do you say to that?
05:33How do you push back on that?
05:35What what you just sitting here as an individual waiting for the hammer to come or what?
05:40Yeah, I mean, look, if you're if if you're too worried to come out, wait till you wait till what happens if you don't come out.
05:47And this is this is just it is such a crucial moment we have reached.
05:51I mean, this has been building, obviously, all year, all the different things that the Trump administration has done.
05:57And it's accelerating now.
05:59There is no question now when people were kind of frowning, like frowning about the use of the word authoritarian and fascist to describe Trump at the beginning of the year.
06:07But we've seen nothing but that ever since.
06:10Right.
06:10The prosecution of political enemies, soldiers on the streets,
06:14everything that you read about in, you know, the attempt to divide, demonize the enemy, calling them, you know, terrorists,
06:24people calling people who are just marching in the streets, terrorist supporters and Antifa and Hamas and all that stuff.
06:30And you see, it is really, really insane.
06:34And and what they're trying to do with all these lies.
06:36I mean, these these are all these people.
06:38I mean, that's one of the problems that leads to authoritarianism is that you have a bunch of people who are lying, liars who lie.
06:43And they continue to lie.
06:45They're lying about the protests.
06:46They're saying, oh, these are going to be violent.
06:48These are going to be they're trying to do two things.
06:50One is they're trying to delegitimize something that they know is going to be bad for them.
06:55And the second thing is they're trying to deter people from showing up.
06:57But they it's they've absolutely had the opposite effect.
07:00And it's sort of like the way Trump is with selling books for the people who write about him.
07:06He trashes the book and the book ends up on the top of those charts.
07:09And that's what's happening tomorrow.
07:11Yeah.
07:12Tomorrow, a big day.
07:13We are all going to be watching.
07:14I got to tell you, George Conway, I'm worried about being replaced by A.I.
07:18I did not have being replaced by a dog on my bingo card for this Friday.
07:43I got to tell you, George Conway, I got back theAGEMS.
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