have to worry about the nlrb because on january 27, the nlrb is rendered powerless. three days later on january 30, trump awards more than $800,000 worth of stock to several of the board members of the trump media and technology group. this is the publicly traded company behind his social media platform. so now his cabinet members, people like kash patel and linda mcmahon, are owning equity in trump's media platform, equity that can be cashed out, sold to people who want to buy them out of their interest at any time. those people who might want to buy them out, cabinet members, could be individuals with issues before the department of education, before the fbi. yet another avenue in which people who have influence, who want to gain influence inside the trump administration, have a conduit to be able to move cash from their pocketbooks, from their treasury, from their bank accounts into the bank accounts of trump cabinet members. shortly thereafter, we start to see the weaponization of the doj. on february 23, a civil complaint from doj that had been pending against s

you guys noted the nlrb board member who ordered her reinstated.t i think will be a bigger question that will actually get to the supreme court on the merits as a member of an independent federal agency. somewhat independence. >> bill: looking at lindsey graham joining you on your program this weekend. i don't know what happens between now and sunday morning. >> i know next week we run out of money. if they don't figure this out. he's the senate budget chair. we will talk about that. next friday is the day pick we will talk about the domestic issues, and talking foreign policy. you saw how frustrated he was with president zelenskyy ahead of those talks this week in saudi arabia. we will talk foreign policy. we just added a democrat who's had very interesting reaction to gavin newsom's podcast pick we've got a white houseguest to announce a little bit later today. >> bill: cool. >> dana: that is a deep tease. i will be peg attention. thank you. >> bill: have a good show. >>> internal documents revealing a significant number of guns ahead of a mexica

. >> this is the line from judge beryl howell reinstating the nlrb member, gwynne wilcox.sident is not a king, not even an elected one. and his power to remove federal officers and honest civil servants like plaintiff is not absolute. we're going to see that probably go up to the supreme court along with all of those cases. kyle cheney, great reporting today. thank you. >> thank you. >> still ahead is elon musk and donald trump plot to make their rich friends even richer? senator chris murphy tells me why the trump crypto scams are why the trump crypto scams are so patients who have sensitive teeth but also want whiter teeth they have to make a choice one versus the other. sensodyne clinical white provides two shades whiter teeth as well as providing 24/7 sensitivity protection. patients are going to love to see sensodyne on the shelf. still have moderate to severe ulcerative colitis... ...or crohn's disease symptoms after taking... ...a medication like humira or remicade? put them in check with rinvoq, a once-daily pill. when symptoms tried to take control, i got rapid re

. >> judge basically said the president doesn't have the power to remove a member of the nlrb, except misfeasance or incompetence. there are a series of circumstances in which a president does have removal powers, but they can't just willy nilly decide to fire any member of that board. there is a statute that sets forth the conditions under which a member of that board can be removed. those conditions haven't been met. and the judge said that that congressional statute was a fair use of congressional authority. the president can't just override that, given his understanding of his maximalist powers. >> so, mark, the judge also said that trump's, quote, interpretation of the scope of his constitutional power or more aptly, his aspiration is flat, wrong, very stark language. has it surprised you at all that donald trump's interpretation of the breadth of his power, power, power that largely comes, frankly, at the expense of congress isn't getting more pushback from republicans in congress? >> yeah, i guess. >> that is the surprise. >> i mean, i was glad to see the supreme court in anoth

the ruling comes after gwynne wilcox, who was appointed to the nlrb by president biden, sued the trumpnistration, arguing that her ousting violated federal law. and the judge did not mince words in her ruling, writing, quote, an american president is not a king, not even an elected one, and his power to remove federal officers and honest civil servants like wilcox is not absolute. a president who touts an image of himself as a king or a dictator fundamentally misapprehends the role under the constitution. quite the statement to make, considering she's speaking about a president who posted this picture captioned long live the king. and there's more. today another federal judge is extending an order that prevented the white house from freezing billions in congressionally approved funds to 22 states and washington, d.c., writing that the executive's categorical freeze of appropriated and obligated funds fundamentally undermines the distinct constitutional roles of each branch of our government. here, the executive put itself above congress. joining us now to discuss former miami-dade coun

. >> howell reinstating the nlrb member. >> gwynne wilcox. an american president is.g, not even an elected one. >> and his. >> power to remove federal officers and honest civil servants like plaintiff is not absolute. >> we're going to see that. >> probably go up to the supreme court along with all of those cases. kyle chaney. great reporting today. thank you. >> thank you. >> still ahead is elon. >> musk and donald trump plot to make their rich friends even richer? senator chris murphy tells me why the trump crypto tells me why the trump crypto swhen you really need to sleep. you reach for the really good stuff. zzzquil ultra helps you sleep better and longer when you need it most. its non-habit forming and powered by the makers of nyquil. >> to sleep. >> net credit. >> is. here to. say yes, even when other lenders won't. apply online. in minutes and get funds deposited the next business day or sooner when you. >> said ah, these bills are crazy. she has no idea she's sitting on a goldmine. well she doesn't know that if she owns a life insurance policy of $100,000 or

judge howell also ruled that wilcox, who is the first black woman to ever serve on the nlrb, must be reinstated. the administration has appealed that ruling. now, i'm not the only person who sees the courts as potentially the last, best chance to stop donald trump from fully dismantling our democracy and seizing power. trump and his allies also see the courts potentials to. that's why they're now escalating their attacks on judges and lawyers, who they see as threats to trump's power. in recent weeks, elon musk, a special governmental employee, has used his in various posts on x, he has called them corrupt, evil and radical, and according to reporting from reuters, all of this has led to a heightened threat environment for judges. musk has also called for some of those judges to be impeached, and a few house republicans have actually answered the call and filed impeachment resolutions against three judges. although it is very unlikely that these efforts will be availing. but all of this is part of a broader effort to delegitimize the courts. meanwhile, the white house is not just tar

. >> that wilcox, who was the first black woman to ever serve on the nlrb, must be reinstated. the administration has appealed that ruling. but i'm not the only person who sees the courts as potentially the last, best chance. >> to stop. >> donald trump from fully dismantling our democracy and seizing power. trump and his allies clearly see this, too. >> and that is. >> why we are now seeing. them escalate their attacks on judges and lawyers, whom they see as threats to trump's power. in recent weeks, elon musk, a special government employee, has. used his social media platform to criticize individual. >> judges who. >> have issued unfavorable rulings against the government. in various posts. he has called these judges corrupt, evil. >> and radical. >> which, according to reporting from reuters, has. >> led. >> to a heightened threat environment for judges. musk has also called for some of these judges to be impeached, which has led to a heightened threat environment again for judges, according to reuters. >> and a. few house. >> republicans have actually answered musk's call a

congress passed a law saying that this particular nlrb official can only be removed if there is noticeand a hearing and good cause. trump didn't care. he just said you're fired without regard to any of those things. but the key thing to keep in mind here is donald trump is not playing for the district court, the trial court where we were today, he's playing for the supreme court, and he knows that this case or one of the other firing cases is going to make its way up to the supreme court, where he will argue that it's unconstitutional for congress to pass those kind of laws because he's in charge of the executive branch, and he will argue he can do what he wants within the executive branch. we're not surprised me to see the supreme court take one of those cases would not surprise me to see trump win in the supreme court. >> yeah, we don't know. i mean, obviously, everyone's been watching justice amy coney barrett, especially when it comes to how she sided with the other justices on the usaid funding. but on this tonight, what judge howell did write is at one point she said, the preside

for low wages because they do not want the american people to see the republican plan to dismantle nlrb to dismantle unions and never pass a bill raising wages for american workers for the blame immigrants or housing costs because the republicans are dismantling the department of housing and urban development and restricting affordable housing from the country part of $8 million a day people like at elonmusk in federal contractl he attack hard-working immigrants and while they attack officials that are actually just trying to do their jobs. mayor johnson, do you have a limited number i suppose, of jail cells in cook county a limited amount of loss enforcement resources is that correct? exodus. >> , so it i've been hearing all morning for my republican colleagues as they would the federal government to go tell the city of denver or the city of boston, or the city of chicago note, that the federal government to go to call you and take over your police resources. take over your counties shale resources and they do not even represent the county for whatever case they may come up with the pe