Jared Kushner emerges as focus of intel whistleblower complaint about Gabbard
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What is the whistleblower complaint involving Jared Kushner about?
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We've got a big, huge show for you tonight. I just mentioned a couple of our guests. And I mean, some of these people are people who I really think you're going to want to hear from because this is one of the big issues happening in this country. And it is so telling for so many reasons. I mean, the Trump administration just announced that the surge of their immigration operations in Minnesota is concluding. And let us all be hopeful. We should all be hopeful. But I'm going to believe that when I see that. And there are a lot of questions to be asked about what still needs to happen. And we're going to talk about what that announcement does and doesn't mean for the situation on the ground there, what's actually happening, and what comes next in the fight to hold Donald Trump's complete goons accountable for what they did there.
Because that's part of it, too. Minnesota Senator and now candidate for governor, Amy Klobuchar, is going to join me here at the table in just a moment. And Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, fresh off of a very heated hearing on Capitol Hill, is going to join me here as well.
How is Tulsi Gabbard implicated in the whistleblower report?
But before we get to all of that, again, I told you there's a lot going on today. So we're going to talk about all of it. I just want to take a very quick step back and take stock of how absolutely terrible things are going for Donald Trump and his administration right now. I mean, today, Trump was tucked away, all cozied up in the White House, bumbling through a nonsensical answer. And yet another one of his buddies associations with Jeffrey Epstein.
Mr. President, were you aware that Secretary of Commerce visited Epstein's Island?
No, I wasn't aware of it. No, I didn't. I actually haven't spoken to him about it. I wasn't. But from what I hear, he was there with his wife and children. And I guess in some cases, some people were. I wasn't. I was never there. Somebody will someday say that.
What does Senator Amy Klobuchar say about immigration accountability?
I was never there.
OK, first of all, I love the way he starts his answer by saying, I wasn't aware of it, which is not believable. But OK, maybe that's his approach. I wasn't aware of it. And then in the next breath makes it clear that he is, in fact, very, very aware of it. And the fact that he is so quick to assert that he has never been on the island himself. It kind of feels like he's throwing his commerce secretary under the bus there. I mean, was that Donald Trump, the former best friend of Jeffrey Epstein, admitting out loud how bad it looks to have visited the island? Because it sure sounded like that to me. And Commerce Secretary Howard Ludnick is hardly the only senior member of the administration taking heat for his association with Epstein.
I mean, we all just learned that yet another member of Trump's administration is in the Epstein files. Trump's administrator of Medicare and Medicaid, Dr. Mehmet Oz, appears to have invited Jeffrey Epstein to a Valentine's Day party in 2016. Now, he hasn't been accused of any wrongdoing, but that invitation came long after Epstein first pleaded guilty to soliciting sex with underage girls. Long after. Who wouldn't want that creepy man at their party celebrating love?
What challenges is Minnesota facing with federal investigations?
I mean, Dr. Oz wanted him there, apparently. So there's that. the number of people in Trump's orbit who associated with Epstein really does seem to grow by the day. There's a new story every day. And that is to say nothing of the thousands of times Trump himself is mentioned in the files. But guess what? Things are not going much better for the members of the cabinet who may have been breathing a sigh of relief because they are not in the Epstein files.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the whistleblower complaint involving Jared Kushner about?
0:00–1:26
2
How is Tulsi Gabbard implicated in the whistleblower report?
1:26–2:14
3
What does Senator Amy Klobuchar say about immigration accountability?
2:14–3:31
4
What challenges is Minnesota facing with federal investigations?
3:31–4:44
5
How is the Trump administration responding to the whistleblower allegations?
4:44–6:07
6
What insights does Attorney General Keith Ellison provide on the investigations?
6:07–7:28
7
What are the implications of the Trump administration's immigration policies?
7:28–9:07
8
What future actions are expected in the ongoing investigations?
9:07–43:23
Speakers
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