"Well, Like I always like to say, hyperbole is worse than Nazis. Okay, so we have a lot we have to cover on today's episode special Holiday Malfeesi's edition between Corporate Power and the sixty Minutes Crisis. Of course, the Epstein files an inherent contempt, which I thought was just how my wife's family viewed me. And we have to talk a bit about dishonesty and how used we've all become to disinformation because this was the week where we found out who was the perpetrator of the Brown Univer…"

"cover for a year that doesn't want to stay buried. Today, we'll talk about some of the good news at the end of the year, as well as the most egregious violations of law and constitutional norms and basic human decency by this administration. We're going to cover due process abuses, illegal military deployments. We're going to talk about questionable executive actions and unqualified, corrupt crony cabinet members and endless dreary lies and racism, public corruption, bribery in the open, and se…"

"I think you're talking about the ancient history of America's illegal invasion and subsequent occupation of Venezuela to loot them for their natural resources, and oil companies are terrified of having Iraq all over again, so no one wants to invest after Trump bought it and broke it for the rest of us. But that's eight days ago, Corey, that's really old history. When we last taped an episode, we had no idea that events in Minneapolis would draw the attention of the world away from the attention…"

"Friday night, after I got off the air on Sirius XM, Donald Trump finally illegally invaded Venezuela while we were asleep, which I thought was rude. Professor, if you're going to start a war, have the decency to do it during normal business hours, like a proper sociopath. Monday this week in New York, Maduro pled not guilty to charges of narco terrorism, conspiracy, and other alleged crimes on his first day in US federal court. Turns out the indictment against him and his wife is a little flims…"

"Republican control of the House right now. But I want to ask a lot of questions about this, because we tend to think of impeachment as something reserved for presidents and judges. But now, I mean up to eighty Democrats could be supporting this. Constitutionally speaking, professor, what does it mean to impeach a cabinet official? And why is this not some kind of like fringe or symbolic act here."

"He owned it legally, you know, he wasn't brandishing it or using it in an illegal way. So not only, as you say, were his First Amendment free speech rights shut down, but like it or not, his Second Amendment rights."

"There were all sorts of constraints on what the administration could do. But of course the American Revolution, this is the point about the declaration of a dependence, didn't think that those limits were enough on the king, and especially in relation to us to the colony. And so when the king's abuses are pointed out, that isn't irrelevant to the constitution. What we're trying to do in the Constitution is resolved the abuses of a king like figure, including a president. So how did we do it? An…"

"It's a symbol, I think, if nothing else, of the destruction of democracy into a kind of kleptocracy of regime of theft, and you know, thankfully he can't be indicted for extortion likely that you know, there's a question anyway about whether this is part of his official duty, but a good chance courts would say it is, and as part of his official duty, it's protected. That's the horror of the immunity case. That's part of why we're talking all of this. You know, I wish I could say, yeah, in Diete…"

"rock at an ICE agent please, and nobody did. I mean, there's a reason why folks are saying the citizens of Minnesota should be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. This grassroots resistance to this federal immigration enforcement surge and ordinary citizens pushing back against this overreach of federal power. The Trump administration deployed thousands of federal agents. The state only has about one hundred thousand undocumented humans living there, as opposed to Texas, which has over two milli…"

"Your intros get better and more extreme every week, which I appreciate. Just try to endanger your tenure, Professor, That's all I'm trying to do."

"That report from CBS This Morning includes Reality's first TV interview from the Lincoln County Jail in Georgia. The hosts of the program they seem sympathetic, but I wasn't. As an official with the Department of Homeland Security, I thought what she'd done was plainly illegal and in fact, maybe even treason US. She deserved a lengthy prison sentence, at least That's how I viewed it at the time. Then we met after she was released from prison. I'm Miles Taylor, and this is the whistleblowers on …"

"Just minutes ago, The New York Times published an anonymous op ed that editors say was written by a senior official in the Trump administration. The opbed is titled quote I Am part of the resistance inside the Trump Administration, and it details the way in which the author and his or her colleagues are, according to the op ed, working to thwart part of the President's agenda and his worst inclinations."

"in Congress, a disturbing number. Actually, what got Denver canceled by the Freedom Caucus and other Republicans was that he started talking about the dangers of that conspiracy movement and its ties to leaders on the far right, all the way to President Trump. I caught up with another person who fled town after the Trump administration, Stephanie Grisham, who was also once a popular figure in Republican Washington. She was the White House Communications director, defending the President by atta…"

"controversial political appointee of President Donald Trump, newly installed to run the US Agency for Global Media or USAGM, where Grant Turner is the CFO. The agency runs a number of media networks outside the United States, the best known being Voice of America. They broadcast all over the world, but are especially focused on countries where authoritarian regimes make a free press impossible. And Grant is a real believer in the mission the agency. I think of his kind of a gift of American val…"

"One of the more senior people in the Trump administration who was still there, comes walking up with their puppy."

"I've dedicated my entire professional life to the United States of America for more than two decades. It has been my honor to serve as an officer of the United States Army. In July twenty eighteen, I was asked to serve at the White House National Security Council."

"That's Andrew McCabe, former acting director of the FBI. Emphasis on acting because mckab is describing what's essentially a job interview with his new boss, President Donald J."