Episode 5514: The Strait Is Open But It Will Cost You; Shutting Down Leaks From The WH

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What’s the White House primetime speech about and when is it happening?

Unknown 0:00
Now has learned Donald Trump's prime time address. This Thursday will focus on claims in newly declassified intelligence reports that there was planned foreign interference in the 2020 election. Here we go again, folks. It's set to be the latest instance of Trump using the power of the Oval Office to promote his election lies and set the stage to potentially call future elections into question. I don't know, like the ones coming up in November. MSNOW also reports that two FBI agents were fired last week for refusing to participate in the Trump administration's investigations of Georgia's 2020 presidential election. It bears repeating that there has been none, zero, nada. Nothing, none, again, no credible evidence whatsoever of widespread voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election.
Unknown 0:55
Period. Full stop.
Rachel Maddow 0:57
We apparently are going to suffer through, once again, Trump trying to get people exercised over the fact that he lost the 2020 election, which he lost. The president is apparently planning some kind of primetime speech on Thursday to talk again about how wrong it is, what a scandal it is that he lost the 2020 election. His desperation ramping up on this subject. In recent days, his effort to subpoena information about election workers in Fulton County, Georgia in 2020 was thrown out in court. He's now taken hundreds of FBI personnel and taken them off whatever else they were working on to assign them instead to work in Fulton County, Georgia on something. We don't know what exactly that something is, but it's apparently required them to push out the special agent in charge at the FBI field office in Atlanta.
Rachel Maddow 1:54
And now at least two FBI intelligence analysts who refused to be part of these reindeer games and had to be fired so that they could go forward. Trump's DOJ within the past week has now threatened in writing to jail all the senior elected election officials in all the states. On top of all that, he's now fired everyone on the Federal Election Assistance Commission, which helps states with election security and certifies voting machines.
Unknown 2:22
We are closer to forever war than we are to a ceasefire, and I take no joy in saying that. I have felt for a long time, ultimately, the two parties here would get to a negotiated conclusion, but Certainly, the ceasefire is frayed, if not completely off the charts. And, Kate, you pointed out the most important thing the administration is doing is this 1,000-mile blockade. of the Iranian coast. That's about California, Oregon kind of length. A lot of ports, very expensive to do that. But if anything is going to get the attention of the Iranians, it'll be closing down those red ports that you're showing right there. But final thought here, that takes time. You can't just open and close that gate overnight.
Unknown 3:15
So unfortunately, we're probably in for a period of turbulence here. These are not like pie in the sky scenarios.
Rachel Maddow 3:22
He's literally talking about this. He's literally talking about doing these types of things.
Unknown 3:28
So when you say like, well, I don't understand if you could do something that crazy. The answer is yes. Right. And I just want to say, you know, I don't live in Maine. I'm not an immigrant, but I'm a proud American. And this administration has made every single American complicit in these deaths. This is happening with our taxpayer dollars that could be going to schools, to health care.
Stephen K. Bannon 3:53
Because of what Susan Maine and Republicans are doing.
Eric Bolling 3:57
And they've sat back and let this happen.
Unknown 3:59
But the other thing here is the hardliners in this administration, they don't care about the politics because many of them are white supremacists. And they don't care. They're cruel. And this is what they want. This is the same administration that removed protections for Haitians, for Syrians. At the same time, it's allowing more Afrikaners only. white South Africans only in. So this is all one of a piece. And when we ask ourselves, why is this administration doing something that is so obviously bad politics in addition to cruel and un-American?

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