that it was an inside job. i mean, it was an inside job. the head of the federal government at the time was sort of encouraging it, if you want to go down that road. but that was the most animated. everything else he was very decaffeinated, very subdued. look, what i m reminded by watching him tonight, there is a marketplace for conspiracy theorists in our politics. he knows it, and that s why he s doing it. that s why robert f. kennedy jr. has a following out there because he s been a conspiracy theorist. there is a market for it. there is always a market for a flash in the pan shooting star, outsider candidate, right? whether it s herman kang or andrew yang. when you dig a little deeper, when you listen a little closer, you realize that vivek ramaswamy, thomas jefferson ramaswamy who spent 55 minutes quoting thomas jefferson talks and talks and talks but says precious little. it is all platitudes and cliches and spreading of conspiracy and hawking books and hawking podcas
all right. so, admittedly, there is so much trump legal moves, that he may be having a little bit of trouble keeping track of it all. you ve got election interference. you ve got fraud, hush money payments, classified documents. yes, it s a lot. let me tell you what the main takeaway is tonight, the thing that puts, really, all of this in perspective. the presidency well, it just might be the ultimate get out of jail free card for one donald j trump. and imagine you are all in law school now. because, in a way, we all have become law students. how can all of this legal trouble just, maybe, fade away? i m going to explain to you. but don t worry, no pop craze quiz, no socratic method. that s all coming up. but first i want to look at what we have learned just in the past few hours. first is kenneth chesebro, coming back to, maybe, haunt the former president. remember who he is. he s the ex-pro trump lawyer who claimed to fame was helping to cook up the fake electors plot, an
Somehow it puts your brain even deeper to sleep. Mine at least. Maybe. Doesnt take much. All right, we mentioned flying. Our next guest has created a lot of buzz about a situation on long island. Lets go to the videotape, please. Oceanside, long island. Hal not too long ago started parking his cessna aircraft right there in the driveway. Yeah. He said he couldnt afford the airport fees anymore. He had been parking his cessna in an airport and just couldnt do it anymore because hes going through a divorce, hes got some financial problems. Hes 69 years old, right now hes got a medical condition, so right now he cant fly. Especially since hes not using it right now. Yes. So hes its on the driveway. Now, some of the neighbors, they dont like it and, apparently, the up to doesnt like it either. Theyve slapped him with a summons, at least one that we know of, that could start really adding up. Now, into the mix we have a guy at mac arthur airport who says, hal, you can keep the plane here fo
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