he has an effective governor, republican governor not afraid to fight back. it was all that covid and obviously with parents right pas rights act and mess nbc hateful honest conspiracy theorist, ron desantis is trying to stop people from voting, really, take a look. buckle up, buttercup because today, signed a bill that allowed him to create his own private police force and test with pursuant alleged election law violation. the big life will now have its own battalion of goons. i wonder who they will go after first? i think you can guess. he has taken with black representation. as you said, he s taken away black african-americans to vote and the police force to intimidate them out of being able to vote.
states, it would be seen as the completion of an election law violation solicited by the u.s. president. it is a violation of the u.s. code to solicit a thing of value from a foreign national in the context of u.s. elections. federal or otherwise. that s what our president appears to have been trying to ill licit in the phone call tha gave rise to so much conversation here and i think to some extent, we have to thank the ukrainian officials that they haven t totally caved to that and that s more than some on our wednesday if you re the show. and also the concern that if they don t have and they re not going to get the military aid they need to keep russia out. it s part of the equation as well. thank you very much for joining us. we appreciate ahead, despite wo a gop wipeout in 2020, two republicans think they could be comeback stories. why do you think they have more
decided the white house had decided to wall off not only the transcript of this call but perhaps other documents, again, for political reasons, not for a national security concern. those are two things that appear in footnotes in this olc document that s been posted today, which shows that they were at least aware that these were part of the concerns that were raised by the person who filed this complaint, the whistleblower, but were essentially not part of the legal analysis that was done here by the lawyers of their office of legal counsel. i should add, john, that we know they kicked it over to the criminal division of the justice department. we have lawyers from the national security division, public integrity lawyers, a lot of lawyers in the department looked at the complaint that was filed by this whistleblower, and they essentially limited their analysis to whether or not this was an election law violation, whether this was a campaign finance violation.
he, evidently, michael cohen writes checks for over 100,000 to do so two women. that s an election law violation. according to everybody s staffs in 2008, barack obama s campaign spent nearly 2 million in illegal in violation of election law. they got a fine of 300,000. but you want to throw this president in jail about payments to women that he may or may not have known about that divamps dwarfed the $2 million? we should just accept that. yeah. there is a lot in what you just said. what you said is factually correct. the barack obama team was guilty of the exact same thing and was given a civil fine of i think it was $375,000. brian: 375. because it s barack obama, the anointed one, nothing happened and the media, of course, there was no clamoring to have him thrown in jail. the first thing prosecute documents which me as a