Tim Miller

And like when I became Monica Lewinsky's age, I felt that way about that question about his treatment of her.

It's like there's nothing that was illegal here.

Like that was not it was not not equivalent to a 15 year old girl, of course, different than 22 or 23, however old she was.

But like.

what is appropriate comportment and treatment of somebody, you know, and when there's that kind of dynamic is obviously like something worth contemplating.

And I do think that if you go back and look from a bipartisan level at basically, you know, the period before up through Bill Clinton, it was, as you're saying, it kind of was just like accepted that you can do whatever you want with women.

That's a side deal.

I want to talk about a couple of other items of the news.

Are these settlements now?

I'm sort of bundling a couple of things together.

But obviously Trump, there's some rumors that Trump was talking to DOJ about having the taxpayers pay him directly for the ill treatment that the government –

Made against him in this shutdown deal.

The worst part of the shutdown deal, I think we can just be honest about that, is that it allows senators to bring lawsuits if federal law enforcement seizes or subpoenas their data without notifying them with potential damages about a half million each.

This apparently was about the fact that Jack Smith's investigation into January 6th included looking into some of the phone records of people that the coup plotters' conversations with GOP senators.

And then out this morning from Bloomberg, the DOJ is in settlement talks with Michael Flynn, Trump's first national security advisor, who's seeking $50 million over what he says is a wrongful prosecution by Robert Mueller.

And there's another Trump lackey that is also in negotiations for similar.

This is, I think, unprecedented and insane, right?

The Trump wants the taxpayers to pay off his cronies, basically, is what's happening.

Yeah, and the Flynn case is even more stark.

I mean, he was a Turkish intelligent asset, and he takes the job to be national security advisor, and he's being investigated for back-channel conversations he's having with the Russians, and he lies.