Mike Howell
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And so where the rubber hits the road is going to be whether the Trump administration can have their National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, which is the framework for the whole of government response.
It brings in Treasury, the IRS, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, the FBI, DOJ, who's supposed to prosecute not just the stuff they want to, but everything they can.
Zero tolerance prosecutions.
And so...
Yeah, absolutely.
But first, I'm shocked.
It looks like Miles Taylor is joining a boy band in some weird midlife crisis.
That was a heck of a get up that he was rocking.
Yeah, kind of looks like him and Rachel Maddow are sharing the same stylus, to be frank with you.
But National Security Policy Memorandum 7, hugely important.
OK, if implemented, if there is huge.
So what this document is, it's the comprehensive strategy of the Trump administration looping in so many different components of government.
What it does is it names the threat.
Things like, you know, yelling anti-fascism, dehumanizing your opponents that way, immigration extremism, the like.
All of the problems we're seeing that pervade this country.
And so it directs the government to go out and counter those things when they get into illegal activity.
Now, the great part of it and what it'll hinge on is it tells DOJ, Attorney General Pam Bondi, if you can prosecute, you must prosecute.
In other words, zero tolerance.
In other words, we don't care what the DOJ policy preferences are or what the line prosecutors think.
If you can, you must.