It will be an economic revival of our country. Within 12 months, your energy prices will be cut in half. And getting gasoline below $2 a gallon, bring down the price of everything from electricity rates to groceries, airfares, and housing costs. I will bring back free [00:00:17] speech in America. I will end forever the weaponization of government and the abuse of law enforcement against political opponents. You're not gonna have a war with me and you're not gonna have a third world war with me, that I can tell you. So some of that sounded okay, much of it was [00:00:35] massive lies that he was never gonna make good on. But more importantly, he didn't just not do that stuff, he doesn't even care about that stuff anymore. What does he care about? Well, he sort of indicated it with a bit of uh projection there. Weaponization, he likes going after [00:00:50] his opponents in cartoonishly villainous and petty ways. The media, of course, being one of those big targets. He apparently is so mad at them for their accurate reporting of what a debacle the Iran war has been that he is sending his acting AG after them. Todd Blanch [00:01:07] vowed to secure subpoenas specifically targeting the records of reporters who've worked on sensitive national security stories. In one meeting, Trump passed a stack of news articles that he and other senior officials thought threatened national security to Blanch with a sticky note on it that said treason. They had a pile of papers, I guess they must have had multiple [00:01:27] piles of papers and they wanted to make sure that they knew which was the treason pile. So they put a post-it note with treason on it. It's just news articles. It's just reporting that by the way, all of them would have been happy to have had available if it were being critical of like a Joe Biden war or something. But as soon as it's being done under Donald [00:01:46] Trump, it is now treason and needs to be investigated. And it's one thing for Donald Trump to write something on a sticky note. He's got a loyalist in power. He's got Todd Blanch and Todd Blanch is moving on this. And so we know that the Wall Street Journal received grand jury subpoenas [00:02:02] dated March 4th for records of some of the records of journal reporters. The request related to a February 23rd article that reported that General Dan Cain, sorry, they must mean Raisin Cain, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and others at the Pentagon warned the President [00:02:18] about the risks of an extended military campaign against Iran. Other news outlets including Axios and the Washington Post published similar stories that day. Trump launched the war five days later. We actually reported on that story when it happened. And evidently, either they're [00:02:34] disputing that Donald Trump was given good accurate information from his generals, which you would want him to get. Or they just don't want you to know that he was warned and yet stupidly launched the war anyway. And he is willing to throw journalists in jail to stop them from [00:02:50] doing similar reporting in the future. Last month, officials said Trump was specifically angry about an article from April 7th in New York Times that outlined how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pitched Trump on bombing Iran. That reporting provided vivid detail about senior staff meetings on the topic, including ones in the Situation Room. It [00:03:08] described how US intelligence officials skeptically viewed Netanyahu's argument for a war that would end in regime change. But once again, what's important is Trump is surrounded by people in this reporting that are reacting with skepticism. And yet he ends up doing it anyway. So this doesn't even make the whole government look bad. It just makes Donald Trump [00:03:27] look bad. And that apparently makes it treason, Yaz. What do you think? Yeah, again, maybe I just watched too much historical fiction, but Donald Trump and his entire administration feel very cartoonish and even evil, villainish. me, I don't know, like in an archaic kind [00:03:45] of way. And in these like these shows, like Game of Thrones, for example, that's probably the most obvious example. You always see them accusing people of treason, which is considered to be the highest form of civil and political disobedience to the point where it like immediately [00:04:01] you get killed over it, right? If somebody calls treason, cites you for treason, treasonous behavior, and they're like this person needs to go, you need to be exiled or you need to be executed. And Trump just pulling out his treason card, it feels very much like that, [00:04:16] right? That is exactly what he's trying to do. That's who he's trying to be right now. He's trying to behave like he's some kind of Roman Emperor, and he just is not that. And what has always bothered me about even in those shows and throughout history, in real life history, uh the definition of treason has always been very murky and very loose, right? It really [00:04:35] just means if you do or say something that's against whoever is the leader, then that could be considered treason. If they just don't like it, if it makes them feel bad, if it makes them look bad, that's treasonous. And in this country, that is especially confusing because we have the First Amendment, we have the freedom of speech, we have freedom of press. We're [00:04:55] allowed, we're even encouraged, at least in the Constitution, to disagree with our elected officials and our elected leaders, right? That is how this government functions, right? The way that the Republicans behave these days, right, where they cannot disagree with the [00:05:10] president, they can't criticize the president or else they are disloyal, that is very undemocratic, that is very un-American behavior. They work for us, we're supposed to criticize them, we're not supposed to be loyal to these people who we gave power to. We're the ones who voted for them to be in these positions. We said, you go represent me. represent all of us and [00:05:30] the will of these people and you go and do that. We're not supposed to be beholden to them in this way that the Republican Party has kind of redefined American politics to be. And Donald Trump very much has been at the forefront of that. He demands loyalty from [00:05:46] his people. If you show any signs of disloyalty, you're out, right? We saw it happen with countless. uh officials who have served him in either of his administrations. Most recently, like we talked about, we're seeing it happen right now with Stephen Miller. And it's just it's very [00:06:02] undemocratic behavior and I need people to remember that. I need them to just remember that this behavior where we treat politicians as if they're celebrities, it is very un-American and it's not good for anyone. Yeah, no, I definitely agree.