Bill Kristol: Cannons All the Way Down
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What legal motions are affecting the Jack Smith report?
Hey everybody, when I taped this with Bill this morning, we were discussing these legal motions from a couple of Trump's underlings, including Walt Nauta, that was trying to delay the release of the Jack Smith report. They'd put in a filing with Judge Eileen Cannon. Since we've recorded, those motions have been denied. And so, as of right now, there are no legal barriers to the release of the Jack Smith report. So, hopefully we'll be seeing that soon, and we'll be discussing it later this week. Up next... Bill Kristol. Hello and welcome to the Bullard Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. It is Monday, so we've got Bill Kristol live from Washington. A big moment for Washington. The football team has won a playoff match on the backs of LSU grad Jaden Daniels.
First in 20 years, I believe. The first playoff victory in 20 years. And they can go to Detroit next Sunday. Next weekend, I was thinking about this, will be a good distraction from the inauguration that's coming up Monday. This will have pretty good, I don't follow pro football much like I used to, but it seems like at least pretty good playoff games next week, right?
We will have some great games next weekend. That distraction will absolutely be needed. Our friend Ben Stillman with Severance is coming back. Maybe on Friday I'll create a list for people of various distractions from the inauguration.
You need Monday 9 a.m. to midnight, you know, 15 hours of things to watch.
Yeah. I'll work on that assignment for our listeners. I guess I wasn't going to do this, but since you brought it up, I was going to pretend like the inauguration wasn't happening for this hour, but we'll just do briefly. Because you announced just right before we were coming on the schedule for the inauguration, which includes on Sunday night a MAGA rally, followed by a candlelight dinner. So not exactly traditional to have a rally, you know, a partisan rally before the inauguration, which I'm sure will have a message that they leak to the media. It's like about unity and blah, blah, blah. The night before he's going to have... a MAGA rally, and then a nice candlelight dinner. Who knows, a picnic or something.
It's all grift, isn't it? I'm sure. I haven't seen it, but I haven't seen the announcement. But Trump can't personally, I don't think, still benefit from ticket prices to the – I don't think the inauguration, but you don't pay for it to go there, right? So people can go to that in the old-fashioned way as a public civic event. But Trump can't miss 24 hours without the chance to charge people for something, and he can charge them. I assume maybe there's a price to get into the rally, and then certainly –
candlelight dinner is it with him or just with him oh yeah oh wow very nice yeah i guess that must be it i don't have it in front of me but somebody reported that there's a report out there that trump they've already filled up the coffers for the inauguration because of all these suck ups pre-submitting to him and so like some one of his fundraising advisors was saying to corporation well Well, you know, you could just give the money to the pack instead. Yeah. So, I mean, like the grift is just couldn't be more out in the open at this point as if the 40 million for Melania wasn't enough. All right. Let's we have a little bit of actual news here. So we're expecting today. You read about this in the morning newsletter, the Jack Smith report.
For people who have not been following this that closely, the favored judge of Donald Trump, Eileen Cannon, put a stay on the release of the report based on some kind of ridiculous rationale. She doesn't even have any jurisdiction, obviously, over the Jack Smith trial. She only has jurisdiction over the classified documents case. And today there's another delay because Walt gnawed up one of Trump's flunkies, who was not indemnified by the Supreme Court like Trump, so he still is going to have to face trial over the classified documents case. He filed a petition, or his lawyers filed a petition, to delay the Jack Smith report because it might prejudice Trump the jury and the classified documents case against him.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What legal motions are affecting the Jack Smith report?
0:00–4:31
2
What are Judge Eileen Cannon's recent rulings?
4:31–6:49
3
How is Donald Trump manipulating the judicial system?
6:49–11:12
4
What implications do Trump's judicial appointments have?
11:12–12:30
5
What are the key takeaways from Chris Wray's interview?
12:30–40:13
6
How is John Fetterman navigating his political strategy?
40:13
7
What are the upcoming hearings and their significance?
31:13–52:17
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