i think i said this and someone earlier today, it s a donald trump method. we re whatever vile nonsense appears in your replies, is the fact of the matter. right. when the method begins with the with it will get with whatever vile nonsense, you re onto a winner. thanks to you for joining us this evening. it s that time of year when your books come out. everybody gets to pour over pictures of their classmates and quietly judge their haircuts in their senior quotes. these kind of photos are like time capsules in a decade to get to look back and remember when certain classmate seemed so incident innocent other seemed so awkward. and look what has happened since. mullets are back in style, who could ve known? well, there was a unique sort of class photo taken in washington. it was for a very small group of people the men and women who have been speaker of the house. that is speaker kevin mccarthy, posing with almost all of his living predecessors, there is newt gingrich, of cou
brand-new reporting regarding financial payments made out not to clarence, but to ginni thomas, the wife of the supreme court justice, who is already under fire today. we are going to get to all of it tonight. but first, before all that, there is this. do you remember, during the peak of the pandemic, when people would banged pots and pans outside their windows and clap and cheer for essential workers every night at 7 pm? well, this is kind of like that, but only for mogadore hards. since august, almost nightly, trump supporters have met outside the d.c. jail, and at about 9 pm, the january six defendants, inside the jail they flicker their lights on and off. and that s because they are signaling it s time for everyone, inside and outside, to seeing the star-spangled banner. the washington post reports that they do that on most nights. former president trump even recorded and released a rendition of the national anthem using these guys as, like, a backup cho
and recently, not some past generation or just the past few years, if you had been the chairman of the intelligence committee in the house of representatives again not a long time ago but recently, if you had been the attorney general of the united states recently, if you had had any of those jobs in the very recent past you d think that you d kind of be a hot ticket, right? you d think that you d hav you d be moving in impressive circles maybe not for the whole rest of your life, the sort of impactor of that highfalutin jo you had would wear off, but at least while you were in that impressive very high end government job you d think you can kind of write your own ticket and you think you d move in kind of rarefied air. you would think. alas, this week all of those people i just mentioned, literallyt the guy who was attorney general of the united states ando the guy who was pentagon chiefuy of staff and national security advisor and white house trade chief, all the rest of th
trade policy at the white house. them as parallel or do they intercept? again, recently you held that i don t think we can see they re adjacent. job. if you had been national i think at least the republican security adviser to the president of the united states and recently, not in some past party in so far as it is generation, but within the past represented by donald trump has few years. if you had been the chairman of fully embraced these elements. the intelligence committee in the fact that this speech is not the u.s. house of representatives, again, not a only sort of waved through with long time ago, but recently. a wink and a nod but they are if you had been the attorney general of the united states invited in. recently. if you had had any of those jobs we can see with nick fuentes to in the very recent past, you dinner at mar-a-lago. would think that you would be a the main welcome of the hot ticket, right? you would think that you would candidate. and the one that
were convicted today of seditious conspiracy. it s a rarely used, often difficult to prove charge. a fifth member was acquitted of seditious conspiracy, but he has been convicted on other very serious charges, including obstruction of an official proceeding and assaulting an officer. but today s verdict means so far 14 people, including members of another far right group, the oath keepers, have either pleaded guilty or been found guilty of conspireing and plotting a violent overthrow of the united states government. this victory by the justice department, while it is a milestone and a massive and hugely consequential federal investigation into that plot to overturn an election and overturn democracy on january 6th, only underscores questions about holding accountable the man, who the vice chair so memorably puts it, quote, some in the mob, assemble the mob and lit the flame of this attack. we re talking about the disgraced ex-president himself. as the washington post report