momentous trials for american officials. for this one you have to go back over 2,000 years to 430 bce to the greek tragedy oedipus rex, which traces a story of a king who learns of his future fate and attempts to defy it, an act of hubris, and ultimately seals his fate. the greek worse interested in oracles who might predict the future, a tradition that carries on today when we think of horoscopes or tarot card readings. one of the reasons oedipus as a story endures is because people remain interested in their own future and whether it can be predicted or shaped. oedipus who would eventually cry over his own tragedy begins with a story where he consults a soothsayer and gets a terrible horoscope he tries to avoid,
i appreciate it. my point is if you say something to the audience that follows you, it has more weight and credibility to them because they trust you. for the audience that trusts bill o reilly it matters he s saying some of these things. i think we re seeing it in the candidates in the selection. ron desantis and mike pence themselves making more forceful statements than they have in the past. wait till we see georgia s indictment. it will be interesting to see as this progresses how much more vertebra start appearing. backbones can be calcified. good seeing you. we have a lot coming up. it is a chai day, and we ll get into why it is that, run for office when you re charged. first, the special report i mentioned. how trump played himself. we get into the oedipus of it all, and later, a novelist as our guest. back in 60 seconds. our guest.
concern. he said, it took them two and a half years to do this. it did. may be an inconvenient truth, may be understandable. we don t know why as the public that s the truth, but it is true. two and a half years. that s nicolle and i talking about it last week. this is in the water. you see how trump thought rushing his announcement could reinforce that dynamic at doj. trump trying to outrun his fate. but like oedipus, that backfired. let me show you exactly why tonight, because it was only by announcing the early candidacy that the attorney general appointed a new dedicated special counsel to lead the trump probes, bringing jack smith into the scene for the first time. it was formally triggered by one thing trump s early campaign announcement. here was garland just three days after what i showed you earlier, donald trump declaring that early bid for president. we re here today to announce
learning he was fated to kill his father and marry his mother, oedipus resolved never to return to corinth, according to one account. oedipus and story vows never to return in order to avoid being even near his family where he might somehow meet that fate. but through various twists, it is running from his fate that seals it. he ends up fulfilling that terrible prophesy, as you may remember from school or wherever. now, honestly i m bringing this up tonight because it s a classic tale that raises big questions would you even want to know your future if you could? if you did, would you try to change it? do we have free will? is there a lesson about not trying to outrun your own fate or karma about the futility of
history, as slate reported. and it was done at his home front gathering, sometimes panned as looking lackluster or rushed. in order to make america great and glorious again, tonight i m announcing my candidacy for president of the united states. now, there was very, very early. weird usual early thing over here, and that s what brings us to the tragic flaw of oedipus over here, because i can actually show you interesting as i said given what s happening, that there was reporting, clues, leaks, analysts all discussing donald trump s exact unusual motivation. i am curious about this very early announcement, and i m wondering if you think that maybe donald trump is trying to beat the a.g. or any of the other legal officials the