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but i came out so high on life that i did-- i-i was amazed. - yeah. - i think for me, at least, i think it's about stepping out of my comfort zone. and when we go in the sea, then it is difficult, and it's always a challenge. even though margarét and i are very used to go in the sea now, and we go three times a week, it's always a bit of a challenge. but then you think, i am doing this. i am going to do it, and, um, there's nothing changing that. i'm here, i'm doing it. then you can transfer that onto so many other things in life that are difficult or challenging. [suspenseful music] - everyone's ready? [all singing in icelandic] ♪ ♪♪ [singing continues]

[moody music] - the main task is to surrender to the cold. - and now we're going to calm the system again. breathe in on three. out on six, and we go in. - ooh. - [exhales] - ah. - and we're breathing. - and the second was to say to your body, "i'm okay." - i know for me, i have-- literally have been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. like, i am a highly anxious person. and there's work that i do on a daily basis that helps bring me kind of to-- vaguely within normal. so it was--for me, i had a lot of resistance of like, oh, i can't believe i have to do this. it's early in the morning. it's cold outside. but i found it so, uh, uplifting. ♪ ♪♪

- so guess how long you've been in the water. - how long have i been in the water? - guess. 3:40. - 3:40? that's crazy! [laughter] oh! oh! oh! oh! [women cheering] aah! i love it, i love it! i feel invigorated in a really new and positive way. and honestly, it didn't feel that cold. - all this ocean dipping is also about just letting go. and it's funny, because in iceland, it gets dark in the winter, and often we have bad weather. and you can complain about the weather all the time if you want. but when you do ocean dipping the whole year, you don't even notice that it gets dark. you don't even notice that the weather is bad. it just does not matter. - let's go again! are you two happier than when you started this 15 years ago? - 100%. - definitely, yeah. - i just--i could not imagine life without going in the sea every week. - and not just happier, because it's, like, a word.

and then you says-- then you think, what does it mean? it means that you are healthy. it means that you can cut through difficulties. it means that you are able to enjoy life just the way you are, and nothing else matters. - aah! - aah! [cheering] [upbeat music] ♪ ♪♪ [cheering] - woo! - whoo! [cheering] ♪ ♪♪ - hey, bliss heads. it's me, rainn, sitting in my hotel room in reykjavík. um, what an incredible day.

i had a lot of anxiety going up to, like, you're gonna be jumping into an ice-cold north atlantic ocean. i mean, i knew it was going to suck. i didn't know that it was gonna be a really transformative morning. it was beautiful. and it's a lot more than just cold swimming. it's about overcoming obstacles, and healing, and celebration. [light music] ♪ ♪♪ when i first arrived in iceland, i was skeptical that a place as remote as this could legitimately be such a happy one. signa, any thoughts on happiness? happiness is subjective, of course. you're making a mess here. - [laughs] - but in the same way you a good meal when you taste it-- - whoo! - yay!

- you know a happy place when you visit it. oh, look at that. look at that. that's ridiculous. look at that. for my final day in iceland, darri has been gracious enough to invite me and my motley crew of ice swimmers and former mayors, sheepherders, and indie rockers to one last feast. - did you meet old lamb boy as well? - i met lamb boy, yep. mm-hmm. if i've learned anything from my time here, it's that happiness, at least some small fraction of it... oppa! skál! is a matter of choice. [glass tinkling] - hey-hey! hey, guys. thank you so much for coming and being here with us. cheers. and rainn-- i think rainn's gonna say a few words. oh. [laughs] [laughter] cheers. - "skál," i believe you say. skál. uh, i just want to thank all of you. darri and lovisa, thank you for having us in your beautiful home. and, you know, it's been an incredible adventure

in iceland, and i've learned so much, you know, about what we're searching for. we're searching for something larger than ourselves. and in the spirit of the great quest for ice cream, the ísbíltúr of iceland, it's not about the destination. it's about the journey along the way. so once more, skál! - skál. - skál. - ladies and gentlemen, bjork. [laughter] - the lamb or the musician? - the lamb that's in your sandwich. yes. [guitar music] ♪ ♪♪ - [singing in icelandic] - so this guy kept approaching our director, offering to play a song at the party, and eventually, she gave in. ♪ ♪♪ - as it turns out, his name is hreimur,

and he is an extremely popular singer-songwriter in iceland. and literally every person there knew this song. - [continues singing] - as i said... - come on! - there are no strangers in iceland. [all singing] ♪ ♪♪ nietzsche tells us that the measure of a society is how well it transforms pain and suffering into something worthwhile. not how a society avoids pain and suffering, but how it transforms it into something useful. happy, even. ♪ ♪♪ faced with a brutal climate and utter isolation, icelanders could easily have chosen despair. ♪ ♪♪ but instead, these hardy descendants of vikings

peered into the unyielding darkness of the midnight sky and chose a different option: happiness. it is, i think, the wiser option. besides, what else is there to do in the dark? - yeah! [all cheering] - [whistles] - whoo! [applause] - now that i've seen one of the world's happiest places... merci! - bye. - i wonder, what does it mean to live in an unhappy place? but where should i go? [sighs] [mid-tempo music] the lowest-ranked countries on the happiness report say more about the nature of war than about the nature of happiness.

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confirmed what we are all afraid of reshaping the structure of the executive branch in cars running far greater power directly in his hands. in trump's hands surely we capture the presidency next year. even if it's not trump's name on the, ballot what about all the other many trumps in the gop presidential field. how big of a threat do they pose to the future of our democracy? earlier, i spoke about just that with miles taylor, former chief of staff at the department of homeland security

during the trump presidency. he has since become a critic and an author of the new book a blowback, a warning to save democracy from the next trump. take a listen. >> miles taylor, you are a lifelong republican. a conservative. you served under george w. bush as well as donald trump. you've written a book about a safety mobocracy. some, quote at the next trump ron desantis is trump's main rival for the gop presidential nomination in 2024. do you believe he is or could be the next trump? cohen do ideally want to see when the presidential race? >> desantis certainly could be. jaime, and i think that's concerning to me, we've actually seen a number of these candidates take trumpism beyond where donald trump was willing to take it. policies that were thwarted in his first term have been seized upon by his acolytes then carried forward things like abusing migrants as political pawns, things like trying to detonate the federal bureau of

investigation. ballot watchers at the polls. there is a range of different things that donald trump was talked out of in a first term. people like ron desantis have moved forward with it. it worries me. i don't think we will have a more rational republican in the white house if ron desantis wins. i think he would be a savvier successor to the helm of the maga movement now, who would i like to see, i'd like to see a republican that actually believes in what we consider real conservative values. free mines and free markets and free people a government that's actually a limited government and what we are hearing donald trump talk about on the campaign trail is a government that's almost fascist in nature he wants to exert power so much into our lives that would be probably the biggest government we've ever seen and that's to a conservative pretty scary stuff. >> you mentioned the abuse of migrants as political pawns. the guardian describes you as having the zeal of a convert in its review of your new book because you did serve in the administration before becoming

his outspoken trump critic. in an administration which you say in your new book that there were quote no heroes only survivors you say in fact, you were just a staff to the department of homeland security during the trial separation controversy when migrant kids were kidnapped and put in cages. an investigation by buzzfeed news found that you actively worked to push through the policy. they got in hold of emails showing how integral you are in coordinating family separation efforts and defending it to the public. how do you square that miles with this public opposition you now have to authoritarianism and trumpism? i have to ask, would you like to apologize tonight to the parents and kids whose lives were privately damaged by family separation during the trump -- >> well, it's incorrect. and i was not tkirsten neal's chief of staff at the time. i was actually the adviser for counterterrorism and intelligence. later became deputy chief of

staff. i want to go back in time even further. i was never a maga person. i didn't vote for donald trump for president. i try to to -- create a trump inoculation plan to prevent him from being the nominee. clearly we failed spectacularly. there was no one i knew that that thought going into the trump administration is going to be beneficial to a career. it was career suicide to go in mentors of mine like john kelly were very attuned to the danger and i did think that it was really important to protect the department of homeland security from his whims. what i will say about the family separation policy is yes i was actively involved in trying to get them not to implement the family separation policy. now you can love or hate christian nielsen, the real story people should go read the atlanta -- >> i have to jump in, the buzzfeed reporting shows the exact opposite and they speak to trump officials and colleagues. by, quote i sat within inches of miles taylor during meetings solely focused on zero tolerance policy. he was not vocally opposed to

the weighty decisions before. us many, a lot of those people or probably people who got to be in the room for the real conversation. i would urge people to go read the most definitive history of family separation. written by caitlyn dickerson at the atlantic. it shows that as a -- much -- love or hate kirstjen nielsen, when they took a vote at the white house about whether to move forward with the family separation policy at doj, i wasn't there in those meetings she was the only one to vote against it. it was evident mehdi that it was a humanitarian catastrophe -- despite the fact i knew nothing against -- what was my involvement? i helped co-write the executive order to end it. the moment after that policy became public, to me, it was horrific, it was a reason people needed to resign. >> just to be clear, we are out of time. we are out of time. i want to give you the opportunity you don't regret not resigning at the time and you don't think you have anything to apologize for today? >> no, i regret that we didn't get multiple cabinet secretaries not to resign. the policy was not my

responsibility. it was the president of the united states. the attorney general. and then ultimately, the secretary couldn't stop it i'm glad it was reversed. it was one of the most horrific humanitarian catastrophes of the administration. it was preventable. what i will warn mehdi is in the second term, donald trump wants to bring a policy like that back and put it on steroids. >> we can definitely agree on that. miles taylor, i appreciate you coming on the show thank you for your time. thank you. >> after the break we finally have a date for what could turn out to be the beginning of the end for donald trump. now, prosecutors in the classified documents case need to find jurors who aren't all trump synthesizers. is that even possible in southern florida? don't forget, you can listen to the mehdi hassan so anytime free wherever you get your podcasts new.

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we finally have a date for the classified documents trial. aileen cannon, the trump appointed judge overseeing the case has scheduled a criminal trial for may the 20th, 2024. that's when the former president will officially begin defending himself for allegedly retaining dozens of classified documents after he left the white house. that means between now and the end of the gop primaries, trump could be in at least five different criminal and civil trials. that tally doesn't even include a potential third criminal indictment coming from special counsel jack smith's probe into the former president's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. this week, trump said he received a target letter from service team in that case. according to nbc news, the letter outlines three federal statutes under which he might be charged. deprivation of rights, conspiracy to defraud the u.s. and tampering with a witness. and it's worth noting that based on the polls, by the time the documents trial gets underway, donald trump will likely be the 2024 gop

presidential nominee. let's bring in my panel of experts. glenn kirschner, msnbc legal analyst and former federal prosecutor and judge the doors claudell, the author of the book my life on the bench. what works what's broken and how to change it. thank you both for coming back on the show. dutch cordell, the last time we spoke, you are on my peacock show talking about judge cannon's interesting role at the -- the conflicts of interest. she is now split the difference on timing and scheduling this trial later than the december date that the team wanted. but not the indefinite postponement that trump wanted. that our federal state for trump or for smith? >> preliminarily, the argument that trump made that it should be postponed because he's going to be really busy running for president the implication was that if he were to be elected he would then would not be busy.

he would then be able to deal with all the litigation. it is absurd. it's more harder to run for president than to actually be president. that being said the day that she picked is likely a realistic update at the same time it's also likely to be continued because of pretrial motions and i don't think he she just sat up there and split the difference. she carefully understood how many documents are involved and then decided this is the date we're going to go and i think that should be a citizen. time as you mentioned, there are five cases -- four of those cases are and four different jurisdictions. florida new york georgia and in washington d. c.. so, this is really unprecedented in terms of all

this litigation involving one person. so, i think realistically she gave a good date. i don't know how realistic it would be in terms of holding to it. >> in terms of that date moving i was mentioning at the top of the show i was in the uk on vacation it's hard to explain to foreigners from my fellow brits in the uk that trump is going on trial in front of a judge he appointed. people don't get that how that can be. there wasn't a recruit sal and she could move the date for good reasons and bad. we any indictments which could be coming any day now that trial, that judge would have to defer to cannon because she went first in terms of states? >> you know mehdi, there really is no first and first out rule. it's not a hard and fast rule that the -- which is arraigned is not necessarily the first case that's going to go to trial. when i was a federal prosecutor at the u.s. attorney's office high off had defendants in common with my friends and my colleagues up in maryland the

states attorneys with my friends and colleagues across the river in virginia. the commonwealth's attorneys. i can tell you i communicated with them to try to come up with the best overarching approach to how a particular defendant and his cases should be handled. what was in the best interest of justice? what was really going to protect all of our respective communities? here's what i said. being a fed for 30 years, the feds like to come in and bigfoot state prosecutions. i don't endorse that and i intend no disrespect to the state district attorneys, because thank goodness, we have the fani willis'and the alvin bragg's of the world pursuing violations of the law in their respective distant jurisdictions the feds have the most resources and they have a

very high i would argue inordinately high conviction rate it is anyone's guess at this point which of these would be the first to go to trial. >> in the jack smith case, it was fed versus fed. two teams and two indictments. judge cornell, i want to play the sound of trump issuing a not so subtle threat made on a radio show this week. warning what would happen, he thinks, if he ends up being sent to prison. have a listen. >> for example, they do say jack smith says okay i'm going to put donald trump in jail. i think it's a very dangerous thing to even talk about it. we do have a tremendously passionate group of voters who would be very dangerous. >> judge if you had a defendant saying something like that in a trial you are seeing, what would you do? would you restrict their speech or hold him into contempt. i can't imagine anyone getting away with this threat before going to trial. he's threatened the judge. he's threatened the prosecutors.

he talked about family members. >> this is clearly a threat. he's doing it again. this is what he's done in the past. nothing has changed as far as he is concerned. so what can a judge do? a judge can issue a gag order. that's a threat, a threat to me, a threat to the community, a threat to potential jurors. a threat to a judge who will issue the sentencing and issue a gag order. it's likely trump would violate it. in which, case the judge has absolute authority say come on in here. this, time you stay locked up. i'm not mad -- and the only recourse i have is to lock you up. there is one other. put a bracelet on his ankle and make him stay in one place. it wouldn't work. he has all this litigation. no judge, no judge should take this sitting down or quietly when he makes statements like this.

>> well said, glenn last question to you. as a former prosecutor howard jack smith get a jury and a heavily pro trump county like saint lucia where this would take place next may. it doesn't include a hard-core maga folks who just refused to find them guilty. no matter what the evidence. without merit were you? >> it would concern me. i have great faith in the selection process. hard-core maga folks on the one hand and who will not be fair who will not find him guilty on the other. these are two different things. people come into jury selection with a preconceived notions. their biases and prejudices. their ideologies. their politics. however, once they raise their right hand during jury selection and swear to tell the truth, you, know they will be grilled by the parties, prosecution, defense, by the judge to make sure they can set aside any preconceived notions. any political associations. and the ideology. they can decide the case based solely on the facts presented

in the courts. i have confidence that a fair and impartial jury can be seated. will be seated will resolve this case in accordance with the evidence. >> i hope you're right, glenn, i have my doubts myself. let's see what happens. glenn kirschner, thank you both for your analysis tonight. much appreciated. >> still to come. israel is on the precipice of completely overhauling its judiciary -- a move that would consolidate power for a prime minister benjamin netanyahu. >> peter beinhardrt just returned from the country heat joined us in a moment. first, richard louis is here leaving with the headlines. good evening. one dead another 20 injured. historic buildings were damaged including an early 19th century cathedral. presents lewinsky vowed retaliation, this comes just days after president putin canceled a crucial deal with ukraine. wildfires raging in greece for the six-day forcing 19,000 people to evacuate from the island of boroughs.

it was the largest evacuation from wildfires in that country. more fires breaking out today. temperatures hit 110 degrees. in the u.s., also sweltering under more record temperatures this weekend. salt lake city reached an all-time high of 106. phoenix hitting 118. the las vegas weather service actually baked cookies in a hot car that he did after 210 degrees. more of the mehdi hasan show right after this. right after this ♪♪ voltaren. the joy of movement. ♪♪

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judiciary finally raptor the vote expected tomorrow. now, we have to acknowledge that these are in many ways inspiring images as people march and camp out in 90-degree heat. for many of the palestinians watching, the protest might seem a little self serving. while israelis are undoubtedly standing up for their own rights, they are marching in jerusalem, a city that's half occupied. they are remaining largely silent about the lack of rights for palestinians living under a decades-long israeli military occupation. remember netanyahu and his government have also continue to expand settlements. they remove people from their homes. earlier this, not israeli authorities affected palestinian family from an apartment in jerusalem's old city. on thursday, they stormed the house and masafer yatta along the southern west bank as the family was celebrating the results of their daughter's high school exams. msnbc's -- is just back from the region. he joins me. now peter, thank you for coming back on the show. on the one hand, you see hundreds of thousands israelis marching for their rights. and then you have palestinians watching that. especially palestinians who've been under occupation saying where is the large for us? is that a fair criticism of

these protesters in your view? >> yes, i think so. i think for palestinians, it's quite surreal to hear people marching under the banner of democracy and equality and yet not paying much attention to them who live and very nearby. they live under the control in the west bank. for instance, live under the control of the israeli state. they can't become citizens and they can't vote for the government that controls their lives. they live under military law. there is a small group of these protesters who are trying to make that connection. i think that's really terrific. unfortunately,, most of the protesters, either because they are afraid of being attacked by benjamin netanyahu from the right politically or they genuinely just don't make the connection because they internalize the idea that they don't deserve equality they can talk about these terms without thinking they apply to palestinians. >> talk about what you saw on the ground in the occupied territory. you just got back in there a few days. ago what does settlement

expansion and evictions of palestinians actually look like? >> in parts of the west bank, what you are seeing is a slow motion ethnic cleansing. so in areas you -- see the west bank, it's 60%, it's a territory where israel doesn't want palestinians to be. you have a place like masafer yatta -- 2800 people's over villages. they are faced with expulsion virtually all the buildings are threatened with demolition. i saw a school that was demolished by the army. the children have to walk kilometers to another village they are also threatened with demolition now. >> this is the kind of thing that i desperately wish that people in israel would feel the same degree of passion. people in the united states would ask questions like is this a good use of our taxpayer money to help the israeli army do this it's a -- horrifying to see people who live every day with the

prospect that bulldozers to come and destroy all of the buildings in their village and for some to go somewhere else. >> it's interesting. you mentioned the use of our money. we send billions and military aid. this week, we saw for the first time to former american ambassadors to israel come out and tell the new york times that they think we need to stop some of this or all of this aid. it doesn't give us the leverage we thought we had. sometimes, peter, it feels like things are changing in the u.s.. and then on other days it feels like things are the same. just a few days ago democratic congresswoman primala jayapal received blow back after calling israel a racist state and she promptly apologized and retracted remarks i don't actually think that and then her fellow house democrats -- enough 400 and 12 to 9 vote the house overwhelmingly passed a resolution expressing their support for israel saying is not racist, is not apartheid today. only nine democrats voted against that resolution. not jayapal. peter, you and i have talked before about how democrats and a grassroots level according to

polling seem to have become less pro israeli, more sympathetic to the palestinians living under occupation. yet, you still have this almost unconditional overwhelming bipartisan support for israel in congress. >> yes, i don't think that surprising. if you look at the way movements historically in america grassroots movements for equality and freedom have worked, they start from the grassroots. it tends to be the politicians who get the matches last. that was the case with the anti apartheid music the case with the movement against the vietnam war. as you talk about it, there's a

fundamental shift happening in the political culture of the democratic party at the grassroots it's very hard to see how that doesn't continue and i think at a certain point that grassroots dynamic will puncture the kind of cocoon of washington no matter how much influence there is on the other side. look, the same democrats for saying israel is not an apartheid state are people who listen to the -- apartheid state when they condemn russia or they condemned china. it's not logically consistent. >> i think there's a phrase for. it progressive except palestine. last question before we run out of time. in your view as someone who is jewish and written about antisemitism for many years, is primala jayapal, quick, was it racist, antisemitic to call israel racist? >> when you have a territory where two people live under legal systems faith on their -- what would you call it? >> peter beinart, thank you for coming on the show. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> it is the surprise head of the summer movie season, no, not barbie are oppenheimer. on talking about the child trafficking thrilled that everyone from elon musk to donald trump to qanon is embracing. more on that till next. >>

forget barbenheimer and mission impossible for a moment. have you watched the sound ofhao freedom yet? sound of what? sound of freedom. it is the sleeper hit of the summer that made as much money as the new indiana jones did on opening day. it's so far grossed over hundred million dollars in total revenue. it is a thriller chronicling the efforts of an agent trying to rescue children from sex trafficking in columbia. it has the backing of not just republicans and religious conservatives, not just ted cruz and elon musk, but also qanon folks. the internet tinfoil hat brigade.

now, i could focus today on how actual experts on child trafficking say the movie offers sensational false perception of child trafficking that could further harm real victims. or on how a vice investigation into the anti trafficking group at the center of the film found a pattern of image burnishing and mythology building a series of a bag exaggerations that are in the aggregate quite misleading. i'd rather focus on the star of the movie. actor jim caviezel. you may remember him for the 2002 hit movie the count of monte cristo or even mo gibson 's controversial passion of the crisis in which cause he's all played christ but what you may not know about jim caviezel is that he is now a peddler of the coolest and we are destined craziest most dangerous conspiracies in american public life. yes, he's gone for qanon. don't just take my word for it.

>> we are headed into the storm of all storms. yes, the storm is upon us. the reason that crowd exploded right there had applause and cheers is because could easily reference the infamous qanon catchphrase. it gets a lot more dodgy and extreme than that. caviezel is now perhaps the most high-profile pusher of qanon's adrenal chrome conspiracy. >> the adrenaline roaming of children, if a child knows he's going to die his body will secrete adrenaline. >> the whole adrenochrome and pyre, this is a big deal. it is listed under the any age. it is a chemical compound. it's a molecular structure. it's c nine age nine. it's an elite drug. it's used for many years. it's more potent then heroin. >> okay, lots to unpack.

the long short is that qanon believes hollywood and democratic elites harvest adrenaline rome from traffic and torture children and use its mystical psychedelic properties for satanic rituals. it's sort of like if the plot of pixar's monster inc was penned by the manson family. obviously, it's absolute bs. it's top to bottom. in reality, adrenochrome is an easy to come by chemical compound prescribed by doctors in some countries to treat blood clotting. let's not use sight of the lingering antisemitism here either. the similarly hateful -- that jews use the blood of christian children and secret ceremonies was used to justify the torture and murder of jews. and blood libel conspiracies are the only example of antisemitism swirling around the star of sound of freedom. >> you have got to go after the head of the occupants in this one. who is it the central banks, the imf, the ecb, the central banks and the bears and the rothschild banks. we have a rothschild pope. >> oh, boy.

now, fortunately, sound of freedom's producers have come forward to condemn qanon conspiracies. i can't take seriously a movie on child trafficking being pushed by and starring an out now conspiracist who dabbles in qanon and antisemitism and suggests elites are behaving like vampires with kids and even now claims donald trump as the new moses. i will stick to barbenheimer, hank you very much. coming up at the top of the hour with ayman williams, christina, greer and tim heaphy discuss the ex presidents pack calendar of civil and criminal trials, after a man joins me to answer an important question, why are conservatives so scared of a movie about a plastic doll? stick around. ingrained in our skin. and even when we metamorphosize into our new evolved form, we carry that spirit with us. because you can take alfa romeo out of italy.

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tonight. my special thanks to michael steele for holding down the fort over the past two sundays. i was on a much-needed vacation. we will be right back here next sunday at eight pm eastern and you can find the show on the msnbc hub on peacock. a new episode the show airs every week on thursday. now it's time to hand it over to my good friend ayman mohyeldin. amen, i haven't yet had a chance to watch barbenheimer. either movies. i'm semi enjoying watching the male conservative meltdown over the barbie movie. send it to ted cruz, declaring war on barbie, ponded ben shapiro claiming he has destroyed barbie. these are grown men losing their minds over a movie about a doll. amen, what is happened to the conservative movement. there is a time when conservatives had substantive

things to say about taxes, regulation, defense, foreign policy. now it's just barbie, best dr. seuss that, bud light, mr. potato head. the skin color of the little mermaid. it's ridiculous. it is childish. it is pretty pathetic, actually. is it not? >> don't forget the m&ms. remember, there was a period when they had an outrage over m&ms. you are totally right. it is beyond pathetic and honestly, you know it's worse, it's not just you know the desperation of people like cruz and shapiro to inject themselves into every aspect and make it a point of friction between the right and the left. it's that they always do it with this arrogance. a sense that they somehow speak for the masses. they have the pulse of what americans really care about. and what they. what everyone else is out of touch. ted cruz and ben shapiro they

know what's up. we just got the numbers for the box office this weekend. the movie that ted cruz and his -- for chinese communist propaganda has brought in a whopping 100 and $55 million in the u.s. alone. it's a staggering number that has not been seen since the pandemic. once again urges to tucker's ability bureau in the others who have been burning their barbie dolls the past few two weeks in protest, they are once again wrong. americans were excited to see this movie. do you know i? they know it's just a movie to enjoy, not some sinister ploy to brainwash the masses. >> it's always projection with the right. there is a movie in the box office right now that i was just talking about called sound of freedom it's all about enraging and getting the base work done. barbie is not that. >> no it's, definitely not that. but i'm right there with you. i'm excited to see both of them i'm not going to. i am going to try and catch it this week. all right, my friend, good to see, a great show as always.

tonight on ayman, good to see a great show as. all right tonight on ayman four seasons of accountability, we're going to dive into his packed trial calendar and take a special look at the outstanding cases we are all waiting for including finding fani willis is the investigation in georgia. plus, fighting back texas women are opening up about the harsh dangerous restrictions on abortion in that state. republican roadblock john roberts won't fix the supreme courts. republicans in congress, they are giving him cover. i'm ayman mohyeldin let's get started. >> donald trump has escaped accountability almost his entire life. but this year, every thing is changing. welcome to the summer of