shipping on your first order. good morning, everyone we do begin with breaking news this morning. alright there. it is the result of this week s poll question. it s smerconish. i m kind of surprised. wow should honking car horns be protected speech under the first amendment , nearly 30,000 have voted thank you for that. and it s like 70 30 know which, by the way, puts you in alignment with that opinion from the ninth circuit. i think that s the right answer. are there speech implications to this decision? there are and the majority of you acknowledge that but i think the even handedness of it. they re not applying it. just two people who are on the left or on the right and there s a safety issue here. i m only surprised by the fact that i thought the audience would be the reverse of that. it was an obama appointee who wrote the majority opinion for the ninth circuit. and it was a clinton appointee who wrote the dissent. so thanks for playing along. that s a fun issue. here s some more
of candidates to serve as a court appointed third party or special master to examine documents seized during the fbi search of mar-a-lago. the doj is suggesting two former federal district judges. barbara jones is a clinton appointee and thomas griffith who is a george w. bush appointee. the trump legal team is suggesting retired federal district court judge and reagan appointee raymond deery. the other, a former deputy attorney general from the state of florida, paul huck jr. this all comes as the doj gauff judge eileen cannon to give them access to the materials seized. otherwise the doj says they plan to appeal to a higher court in the interest of national security. meanwhile, saturday former fbi official and frequent trump critic floated a theory on twitter that the former president may have transferred
that judge whom we all come to know very well over the past few weeks, of course, is judge aileen cannon. well, that scheme did not work. and instead, trump s suit was assigned to a clinton appointee, donald middlebrook s. today, judge middlebrook throughout trump s conspiracy lawsuit and he did not hold back in his ruling. here s a full 65-page takedown of donald trump s absolutely bonkers lawsuit. in his ruling, the judge says the problem with trump s lawsuit is he is quote, not attempting to seek redress for any legal harm. instead, he s seeking to flaunt a 200-page political manifesto outlying his grievances against those who have opposed him, and this court is not the appropriate for him. in other words, not here, mr. trump. take those complaints somewhere else. judge middlebrook s called trump s characterization of events implausible because they lack any specific allegations
really a communications stunt or is this authentic? i don t think this is a moment of self-reflection at the cdc. the gao report is coming out next wednesday and they are probably trying to get ahold of it. the cdc is still pushing boosters for every 6-year-old in the united states. they just pushed boosters in babies and toddlers. if they want to make some real change, they need to show it in their policy. and the person they are bringing in to lead this transition, ainsley, is an old career government bureaucrat, a former clinton appointee. that s not exactly the person we want right now. ainsley: yeah, they hired this individual that worked with the clintons to come in and help with the reset. but he brings up a good point. is this a communications stunt? is this just to make us all happy and think that they are doing stuff behind the scenes? it will we will have to look at their policies. are kids going to have to be masked up when they go to school this jeer? some are already
soldiers a few weeks ago. the centers for disease control is still pushing boosters for every 6-year-old in the united states. they just pushed boosters in babies and toddlers. if they want to make some real change, they need to show it in their policy. and the person they are bringing in to lead this transition, ainsley, is an old career government bureaucrat. a former clinton appointee. that s not exactly the person we want right now. ainsley: it s more of i will believe it when i see it. we will see what the future looks like? yeah. exactly. and, look, if they want to really do something, have a smaller agency so it s more nimble. set some term limits. get some new leadership in there and invest in local public health agencies. if you look at what happened with covid, we had basically 21,000 employees at the centers for disease control unable to answer the most basic questions and then an engineering graduate student at my institution, johns hopkins comes up with a website to tr