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ea even course. controversial dining with kanye west and nick fuentes, then family convicted of criminal tax fraud and final hand-picked candidate herschel walker lost and distanced himself from trump's constitution and trump's only legal team found more classified documents squirreled away at mar-a-lago. trump's raising money now selling onnine nft cards himself as a superhero. they sold out and the price skyrocketed from $99 to in the thousands. no wonder a hypothetical one-on-one 2024 matchup with ron desantis. and word monday, the january 6th committee final report released next week pursuing multiple charges against trump by the doj. obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy to
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defraud the federal government, and the final report could include additional proposed charges for trump based on its findings. a trump spokesman stephen chung criticized the committee as a "kangaroo court that held show trials by never-trump partisans are 0 stain on the country's history." what impact this could have remains unclear since doj special counsel jack smith's january 6th probe is already examining donald trump's role. i want to know what you think. go to smerconish.com and answer the poll question. does donald trump rebound politically from his recent setbacks? joining us, a former federal prosecutors and co-oeft of podcasta it's complicated, and ranaudo, nice to see you. i get this is of no legal significance but does the nonetheless increase pressure on jack smith's role as special
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counsel? >> i really don't think so. i mean, i think it certainly is the case that the public is paying a lot of attention to this. here we are on a saturday morning talking about it. but i think that jack smith is putting his head down and doing his own thing. as a certain of these matters he is just digging in. some of these grand jury subpoenas suggest that the january 6th investigation, his, in an early stage and i think he'll make sure he has a case and carefully assemble the evidence. if there's a case he's bring up but nothing under pressure. >> do you believe feds in this instance will benefit from the road map that january 6, the committee, provided? will they rely on some of that investigation and might that be the real impact here? >> yeah. i think the impact will be the evidence assembled. i really think that based on some of the public reporting, michael, the justice department was pretty far behind the committee at one point regarding
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the investigation, and i think it's really unconscionable and a slap, i think, in the department's face that congress interviewed cassidy hutchison, for example, before the justice department did. i don't know how that happened and shouldn't have happened. this was an apparent crime and really should have been investigated by the justice department. so i do think the committee, you know, assembled evidence that the doj didn't, and at periods of time, and i think can be credited in getting the justice department to investigate this matter very thoroughly. >> we're not -- step back for a moment. big picture. where is donald trump legally speaking most vulnerable? is it from the feds? from the state of new york? is it georgia? is it some place i'm not thinking of? >> if i was his attorney, i would be the most focused on the mar-a-lago case. that's what i think is his biggest source of liability. it is a straightforward legal
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case. if you have classified documents in your baitment or garage you are in trouble, and he had some potential defenses that you or i wouldn't have. we are in that situation, that's because he was the former president. a lot of things from the white house, but he undercut a lot of those because the justice department i think bent over backwards to give him every accommodation, sent letters, warnings to visit he had these documents and nonetheless decided to keep them. his biggest source of a problem. the new york a.g. case, a civil problem on the business side. a very significant problem for him but obviously spending time in prison is a more serious issue. >> i get the mar-a-lago case is the most straightforward of all matters we're aware of, but if when all is said and done that's
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the indictment and a large part of the country will say is that all they got? all the time and expense, taking documents without a showing looking to profit or share state secrets because he want the ine inenfemra or nicknamed on their shelf? >> a lot of people spent time in prison for that. if feds ultimately convict him with a felony a judge, a federal judge, will take that seriously and consider all of this other conduct including january 6th when passing a sentence. >> got it. saying politically speaking, not legally, politically speaking could help him. merry christmas. appreciate all of your appearances during the course of this year. >> thank you. your thoughts? tweet me at smerconish, go to my social media page, hit me up on social media, what i'm trying to say. and we have political theater, nothing more. theater in a sense nothing
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binding about it. i just discussed with ranaudo. many don't understand and regard this as the, okay, now the justice department has to act. if anything, might be a hassle for the justice department, because it brings this outside pressure on them, and they're trying not to make it political. trying to make it just about the facts. so if i'm jack smith, if i'm merrick garland i don't know i want a referral from the house committee, because it's turning up the heat. i don't need anymore heat. got enough heat. what i'm thinking. make sure you're going to the website. smer con.com answering this week's poll question. can't wait to see how it turns out. think i know, but i wonder how close the margin will be. does continue to come back from his recent setbacks? by the way, how many times have we asked that about donald trump and wrong? the pretrial hearing of the attacker on paul pelosi revealed live, but won't silence
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the rule known at title 42 expires this coming wednesday as a homeland intelligence memo reviewed by cnn puts it, this change likely increase migration flows immediately. previously projected 19,000 a day. the border town of el paso, texas, already has over 2,000 migrants arriving daily. in a statement homeland security alejandro mayorkas blamed inaction. our outdated system is under strain in the access of congressional action. a significant increase in migrant encounters will strain our system even further. the dhs has unveiled an emergency six-point plan including hiring of nearly 1,000 border patrol crossing coordinators and 2,500 additional contractors and personnel from government agencies. joining me now, brandon judd,
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president of the national border patrol council representing at least 16,000 border patrol acts of whom 14,000 are on the southern border. so brandon, how nervous are your members about what's to come this week? >> extremely upset about what's to come this week. we know that had proper policies and programs been put in place we would have been able to avert this potential -- already thcrisis level will become a disaster wednesday the 21st. we could have done what was necessary, just didn't. everybody knew title 42 was on its last leg yet this administration didn't prepare or put into place any policies and program that would have averted this. >> it's really the fault of congress. isn't it? primarily kicking the can down the road after all of these years? because title 42 is premised on public health. we don't want to allow people in with communicable diseases, but if we're beyond covid, that
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rationale says the court has gone away. congress should have fixed this years ago. isn't that the reality? >> so for a long-term fix, absolutely. however, what we have to do is look at what caused this issue in the first place. when we look at trump's era, look at his policies and programs, very effective, yet the day that biden took office nearly abolished every one of them except title 42. he had this issue under control. it is congress' responsibility to fix it for a long term, we could have fixed it in the short term to give congress time to do it. we didn't to that and that's why we're in the situation we're in. >> okay. and i don't want to get caught up in the hole r versus d thing but obligated to say the only covid measure that many republicans want to leave in place is title 42. but if the justification for all the other covid measures has gone away, it no longer holds
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for this one either. >> i don't disagree with that. we're not talking about title 42. we're talking about a program had president biden kept this program in place wouldn't be in the situation we're currently in. look at it historically. we should apprehend between 1,000 to 1,200 people did. we're at 8,000 people right now. we would be at that level had he have kept it in place. by the way, says it's inhumane yet our other state department certified mexico as a safe country. that doesn't make sense. i agree title 42, if the pandemic is winding down, title 42 should in fact go away, yet there were other policies and programs that could have remained in place that would have averted this disaster in the first place. >> okay. i have a naive question wondering as i've watched this unfold. you're the right guy to ask. here it comes -- if we can expel migrants more quickly from the border under
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title 42, then why are so many migrants trying to get in right now instead of waiting until after it expires next wednesday? i keep seeing footage what'spas. that's driving my question. if i were poised to come into the united states why wouldn't i wait until after the measure goes away? what's the answer to that? >> because we're only exercising title 42 on a certain number of countries. again, look back. when this administration originally took office, they were expelling nearly every single person that entered the country illegally then started to give carveouts for nation after nation after nation. gave those carveouts, that encouraged more to cross. look at venezuelans, haitians, nicaraguans, people from all of these countries not expelling them. last month we only expelled a third of the people that crossed the border illegally. again, that's fueled this current explosion. >> let me ask you a different way.
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do folks seeking to gain access to the united states, illegally, are they politically knowledgeable? are they in the loop? >> they are. >> those who guide them? >> they are. >> how sophisticated is their knowledge? >> so this is all cardtel drive. use our policies and laws against us. go throughout the world advertise our services knowing what our policies are. what they've done, gone and told everybody. just give me several thousands of dollars and i will bring you to the united states and cross you into the united states and you will be released. all of these individuals are coached on exactly what they need to do and why the cartels are able to generate a profit we've never seen before. as they're generating that profit, as they're flooding our resources with illegal border crossings, as it takes our agents out of the field is when they create gaps in our coverage. creating the gaps, they cross higher value products such as fentanyl, aliens from special
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countries. why this is so important. more overdose deaths in the last two years than in the history of the united states, all driven by cartels and it starts with illegal immigration. >> i hope this week is not as bad as the projections that your thoughts anticipate. i wish the guys you represent, the men and women you represent all good things. thank you. >> i really appreciate that. thank you very much. some of the social media that's come in via youtube, twitter, facebook. what do we have, gang? republicans and democrats need to stop playing political games and compose a comprehensive workable immigration policy and implement it asap. until then with rare exceptions we need to close our borders. said this before. representative, don't wish to be on it. we need a flow of immigration. we need the risktakers who are willing to come to this country at great peril to be here as entrepreneurs and do the jobs many americans won't do. but it needs to be lawful and it
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needs to be orderly and needs to be fair to the people who are playing by the rules. you're right. congress, republican and democrats need to get it together. i think it's a scary situation and shouldn't be just a republican issue. it's an american issue. all should be concerned about border immigration. i am. still to come, the most feems feline known at p22 now? custody amp killing a chihuahua. inspired a bridge over a freeway but will he see it finished? plus, americans are passionate about their yards. traditionalists love their man cured lawns while woo environmentalists see them as ecological deserts that suck up excessive amounts of water and pesticides. our guests fought their home owners' association, who won, and what it may mean for your neighborhood is coming up. i remind you, go to my
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you might note expect the urban sprawl of southern california to be a place you'd encounter roaming mountain lions, but according to the national park service about 100 make their home in the santa monica mountains. local residents surprised by these cougars on hikes even in their yards, and this week perhaps the most infamous an 11-year-old male known at p22, captured south of his home range of griffin park after having attacked and killed a pet chihuahua walked on a leash back in november. p22 previously expected in killing of a koala in 2016. the lion became akonic after a
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"national geographic" photographer checked that picture out. snapped that image of him near the hollywood sign back in 2012. love that. he has his own mountain lion of hollywood facebook page, 19,000 followers and a retracing of his steps. journey to griffith park itself remarkable if you knknow topography of los angeles, he would have had to cross two major freeways, 405 and 101. this big cat survived despite fragmentation by habitat, roads and other development leading to vehicle collisions and inbreeding. p22 the face for the campaign for the wildlife crossing, now under construction, costing an estimated $90 million. this overpass, 200 feet above a brizzi ten lanes of the 101 will be the languagest wildlife crossing in the world, completion expected in 2025.
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the issue now is what to do with p22. after capturing, transferred to a wild animal care facility for evaluation, severely underweight and suffering from an eye injury. the park service and fish and wildlife department issued a statement saying they will work together to find the most humane option available for the lion and the community in which he lives. so what does that look like? joining me now is regional al executive director of the wildlife federation in california and following p22 the last ten years's what is it, beth, about p22, that captivates so many of us? i'm in this category. i follow that facebook page. >> yeah. first of all, michael, thanks for having me. i'm going to apologize in advance. it's really hard. i'm having a hard time, like many, trying to grapple with what the fate of our beloved p22 may be but on the same token i have to do my job and make media
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appearances. it's really hard to kind of do both. but, you know, he's -- i think the reason he has captivated so many of us including myself. he had me at hello ten years ago. here's this beautiful, magnificent animal like you said, did the impossible. i can't even drive on the 405 not feeling like i'm not going to make it, as i'm sure you do, to find a home in griffith park, there's the hollywood sign. the observatory. to me, the typical underdog story. we love underdogs in hollywood and he's no exception. i think it's something deeper. the connection to wildness in los angeles that we thought was lost. i think he brings us that, and i think that's why he's resonated with so many people and has so many people, not just in l.a., but around the world really rooting for him. >> you're wearing, literally wearing p22 light now. right? >> yes. and i actually -- i have, my
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comfort animal here, our p22 plushy helping me through this time. >> okay. i know this is hard for you to, to go to the next step and wonder what comes next, but what are the options? is the zoo an option? is returning to the santa monica mountains an option? is a sanctuary an option? can he go back to griffith park? >> yeah. all good questions. first, i want to make clear. he wasn't captured because he preyed on the chihuahua. you know, listen, the chihuahua owners are amazing. we are devastated as i would be but love p22 and don't want to hurt. captured because almost radically overnight his behavior changed. a., preying on dogs. and signs of distress they could
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see from photos and observations and ring cameras. the totality of the behavior for ten years stayed in griffin park, came into the neighborhood occasionally and something happened. that's what necessitated this capture. >> do you -- do you fear that p22 will be euthanized? >> i -- yes. i -- i trust in the -- i don't know if fear is the right word. the updates i'm getting, he was hit by a car and extent of those injuries from the updates i'm getting, they were more extensive than first thought when he was captured. but i trust in the california department of wildlife and the top veterinarians caring for him to make the right decision. the decision on the table right now, i they it is very -- he's not going to be re-released to the wild, just based on probably the extent of what they're
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uncovering, and also, listen. he did injure a human. not purposeful. she did try to protect her dog what i would do. to show you how unprecedented in california. wee treat the co-existence ethic, that most animals would have been put down immediately. doesn't matter the circumstances. >> can i just ask a quick, a quick final -- >> sure. >> ask a quick final question. >> sure. >> there are people watching who say, this is a nutty california story, and this is all crazy. it's a mountain lion living in a densely populated area. of course, you've got to remove the mountain lion. take 30 seconds. what do you say to those people? >> attacks by mountain lions are extremely rare. listen, if we don't start making room nor wildlife in our urban and suburban areas they are not going to have a future and we're not going to have a future. and mountain lions of an indication of a healthy
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ecosystem and a connection to wildness, listen, californians aren't crazy. we have a value of co-cexistenc i appreciate and i think the rest of the world should model. we wipe out all mountain lions and wildlife we're not going to survive. we need wildlife to be healthy and have ecosystems. >> thank you for being here. thank you for being here so well representing p22. really appreciate it. >> thanks for having me, michael. >> you got it. see what you're saying, i love the merch. i have some, by the way. really do. take him out to the wild and let him live out his life in peace. he has a place in the grand scheme of things. anna, i think part -- not that i'm the authority on this. i think part of the problem is that p22 is older and a little long in the tooth. like the rest of us, some of us, and might not do so well if encroaching on the territory of a younger mountain lion.
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i think that's the answer as to why you can't just let him go and be released in the santa monicaless. i love that story. laugh all you want. i love that story. okay. smerconish.com. poll question this week -- does donald trump. no transition from one to the other. is there? does donald trump rebound politically from his recent setbacks? go and cast your ballot. register for the daily newsletter while there. still to come, lawns continue to polarize, lawns, americans. this maryland couple's homeowner association ordered them to rip out their wildlife-friend ly plantings for a man cured lawn. they sued and ended up changing state law. they're here to tell their tale. it's the subway series menu. 12 irresistible subs.
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and ultimate got a state law changed, or as the "new york times" put it, they fought the lawn, and the lawn's done. lawns like everything else have lately become a polarizing issue in america. traditionalists see beloved green grass and economist see desert-like. living on a cul-de-sac in maryland. instead of grass opted for planting native plants to attract wildlife without pesticides. bringing butterflies and gold finches. part of a national movement according to the national wildlife federation, a 50% increase in people creating wildlife gardens. the "times" quotes this ecog gist author of "best hope" urges owners to make their yards
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conservation corridors. without it, destroying the planet, and humans. only way is to co-exist. the next door neighbors complained saying it was a mess of a jungle, over grown with weeds, figurines and rain water barrels attracteding rodents, snakes, deer, bats, and like 74 million other americans reside in a community with a homeowners association and in fall of 2017 they were sent a letter saying their plantings violated buy laws but eye sores. they were told your yard is not the place for such a habitat and given ten days to rip it up and put down grass. jeff and janet join me to talk more about it. janet, some look at your yard and see an environmentally-sound pollinator meadow, is the convey i'm supposed to describe it, and your neighbor seeing a
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quote/unquote, mess of a jungle. to those detractors what do you say? >> i would say that we, you know -- everybody in our community has the right to grow a turf grass lawn, but they tried to take away our right to have an environmentally friendly garden. and our garden is actually quite beautiful and most people who come by, some people even come by to -- you know, to see it, to see the butterflies and the birds, but there's a larger purpose to all of it, which is that it's healthy for the environment, for the kids in the neighborhood, the animals, and it helps the wildlife as well. >> so, jeff, the photographs that we're showing on cnn right now are photographs you supplied, and the place looks great. everything is in full bloom. when i talk about this with some of my colleagues they said, yeah, but what does it look like the rest of the year when it's not the season that things are in bloom? what's the answer to that question?
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>> well, it's -- when it's not blooming, the -- birds and other animals still use these, the stalks to eat in the wintertime and we do have some green in the winter. but it's really good for animals all year round. birds especially, and other animals. >> and, michael, it's also the property value issue is really a myth. and most people find it appealing in all seasons. it looks different in all seasons, because it's a live garden. but our next, other next door neighbor recently sold her home for, in a couple of days after the peak this fall. and it wasn't the peak bloom time for our garden. and she sold it, received several offers over asking price. within a couple of days.
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so -- >> i was going to ask about -- going to ask about that issue, because, of course, i'm aware of the fact that that was one of the complaints that your neighbor who doesn't like it had. what did the hoa, i know they said they wanted it neat and clean. what did the hoa rule or reg mandate? what did it say before you took it on and beat it? what were you supposed to be doing? >> so there was no rule prohibiting any type of garden in our community. which is one of the reasons we fought back. we didn't feel we were violating any rules. no one in our community had previously requested approval to plant any type of garden in the over 30-year history of our community. so they told us that we had to, to request approval. so there was no particular reg. there was, nothing in the documents that required us to get approval. >> you ended up spending,
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spending $60,000 on legal fees, as the "times" said. you fought the lawn, a great line. you were successful and as a result of your challenge, what now is maryland law? >> always that hoas in maryland can't tell you, you have to have all turf grass. you can plant pollinator plants, native plants, which are grown at wild here. so we're really into native plants, because they're better for the environment and birds and bees pollinators, and the ground. so maryland, they can't tell you what you can grow in your front or backyard. >> okay. jeff and janet, thank you so much for telling your story. it's quite a, it's quite a unique one and i appreciate it. >> and lastly, all states can do this. this was bipartisan, completely
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bipartisan. so any state can do this. >> yeah. and passed with near unanimous. which is rare. in facebook and tweets what do s we have? get off my lawn. we all believe we have the right to do whatever we want to do with our lawn! but -- we look at our neighbors, and we don't give them that same benefit. right? like, we have the right to do the what we want to do, but that person, or that person, oh, no, no, no. they can't do that. get the boat out of the front yard. still to come, for of your facebook and youtube comments and i think i know to the poll question, which way it goes. i just want to know the margin. does donald trump rebound politically from his recent setbacks? by the way, remember how many times we've been wrong about him
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responded to the poll question at smerconish.com. where this week i'm asking does donald trump rebound politically from his recent setbacks? how many times to could i have asked that question in the past? wow. 30,000 votes. hang on a second. 29,136. the no votes. i knew it would be a no result. i wondered what the margin with be. the no votes, 87-13. he is in mar-a-lago and watching this right now and saying, yeah,
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you all said the same thing when i same down the escalator and said mexico is sending us its rapists and you said the same thing when i said i don't expect john mccain, i respect the ones who didn't get caught and you said the same thing when i said we can grab them by the -- you know the rest of that sentence. and every one of those instances, in my case, he would be right and i would say there is no way he comes back from this. of course, it's been a rough couple of weeks for him and some say maybe, hopefully, this really is politically the end. time will tell in 2023. something exciting to look forward to. okay. enough of me. social media, what's come in? we need a new candidate that speaks softly but carries the same stick that trump did, says owd. trump's mouth was his worst enemy. i talked about this on radio this week, owd. i mean, the polling suggests, i
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hear it anecdotally from radio listeners on siriusxm there is a large swath of the country that wants trump policies, just don't want trump as the architect of them. many think that's what they are getting with ron desantis. they are not getting the bombast, but the same policies. the issue politically speaking is can a ron desantis energize the base in the same way that donald trump can? not so much the base loves him, in my view, and this is in the my original thought, peter winner says they love donald trump because donald trump will bring a gun to a knife fight. it's not so much trump. it's who he is against. all those progressives and liberals and schumer and pelosi, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. what else? give me some more. nothing is going to happen to trump. in the end, the attitude -- this is just trump being trump will
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win out and he will continue to keep on doing what he wants, says john anderson. a fly fisherman. i love that. so what do i think about that? i don't know. i think merrick garland in bringing in special counsel jack smith has tied his hands because garland's hands because smith comes in and you would think would be devoid of the political considerations, would simply be nose down to the grindstone evaluating what is the conduct and what was the violation of law. if so, he makes a recommendation to merrick garland. if smith looks only at the facts and if the facts are that he took documents that didn't belong to him, whether they are classified or not, people get hung up on that issue, it really doesn't matter, takes them to mar-a-lago and doesn't can give them back, so smith says he broke the law, you know, got to prosecute him. how does garland say, well, i'm not so sure. he is a former president.
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i think it probably happens. i think it probably happens. what i say to rinado is that a large part of the country will then say, if you remember the peggy lee song, "is that all there is?" they looked at him in georgia, in new york, the feds looked at him, in the end all they could get him for is that he took the documents to mar-a-lago because he liengd to have that stuff around to impress his guests, that could energize his base. what else? more social media. i love it. thank you for the twitter and youtube and facebook comments. good luck trying to find an impartial jury. indictments will come. convictions will not. hang on a second. we just had a trial. we had a criminal trial in new york against the trump organization as well as the trump payroll whatever it was called and i interviewed the two lawyers because they are philly lawyers and i know them, van der
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veen and veteran criminal defense attorney william j. brennan. can you get a fair and impartial jury for donald trump? they thought they could. in the end, it was a verdict for the prosecution, a guilty finding. so in that case there were a number of years who said i don't like donald trump but i can be fair to trump. of course, the defense lawyers are left wondering were they really able to put aside any bias they had of donald trump? it cuts both ways, is what i'm saying. more social media. what do we have? can we do longer segments like this every week? i love responding to this. any incoming migrants should be bussed to blue states. they want this. they can deal with. it's not fair to small texas and arizona cities to bear the brunt. i agree with that. this tweet will not be read on air. you are right. the point i was trying to make earlier in the program about title 42 is this. title 42 is a public health
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measure. title 42 exists to keep people out of the country who otherwise would be bringing in disease. so that's why title 42, you know, in the eyes of the court, has outlived its usefulness because we are beyond the pandemic. and the point i tried to make earlier in the show is that it's like the one covid restrictions that republicans hang on to. they want to get rid of masks and mandates and everything else and in many cases i agree with that. but no, we need to keep title 42. well, yeah, but not because we are keeping people out with disease, which is the predicate for it. so it doesn't make sense, is my point. it's congress' fault. congress kicked this can down the road forever. with we need an orderly flow of migrants in the country. we need them for jobs that americans, frankly, won't do. i know many of you don't agree with that. final for one more. make it good. smerconish, just another reason
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to hate hoas. pay to be policed. i love the lawn story. i really do. it probably would have been a great poll question in and of its own. i get it. environmentally, they are doing the right thing. my head says one thing, my heart the other. i am caught up on whether my lawn is green enough. have a wonderful holiday. see you in 2023. what's the #1 retinol brand used most by dermatologists? it's neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair®
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