Job spending at home. The whole trip has drawn high marks from many experts. But biden returns home to republicans so intent on topping him no matter what that theyre now talking up the idea of biden only getting half a term, which is not a governing concept. Republican senator says he wants to functionally kneecap bidens fullterm by taking back the other branches. Mitch mcconnell has come under a lot of criticism for saying at one point he wanted to make sure barack obama was a oneterm president. I want to make joe biden a onehalf term president. And i want to make sure they have a senate white house. Appears a little confused. There is no such thing as a halfway president. Any Student Of The Constitution Or Mob Deep Knows that. And some in d. C. , they want to compromise with these shook republicans over the funds, like trimming the biden jobs bill to get gop support while more and more democrats ramming through Jobs Spending in the trillions. Now, President Biden has done most of the traditional things that are demanded in washington to show that you mean it, that you are trying to be bipartisan. Meeting with the other side. Negotiating with the republicans chosen negotiators. Biden didnt choose who they were. Making his case to a public that increasingly backs biden Style Spending if you look at the polls of republican voters. Now were getting right near where the rubber hits the road. Stop your first term than meet you anywhere near the middle. Joining me now is david corn, Washington Bureau chief for mother jones and were thrilled to announce here on the beat, he has a new newsletter coming out. And mark thompson. Good to have you both here. I would be remiss if i didnt mention here in person. Happy 2021. It is great to be here. You havent missed a beat. It is great to have you both here. Mark, i come to you. Theyre drawing the line in the sand and talking about the midterms, Nullifying Biden may do by trying to fin back the house and the senate. That is why the hold up for manchin to get rid of the filibuster, to bring about the type of Voter Protections that go further, compromise people can build on that but it is not enough. We need to deal with preclearance, we need to deal with no excuse absentee voting. If manchin is a democrat. If cinema is a democrat, they must defend everything john lewis fought for in his life so that the democrats can keep the house and the senate. Otherwise barrasso will get exactly what we wants. Votes rights have been attacked. If you reason to Mitch Mcconnell today, they dont see a problem. So it is not a matter of them compromising and trying to find a way to make this work and to make sure it doesnt give the democrats a part son advantage, its not what theyre talking about. They dont agree with the premise that democracy is threatened here. How can you put a reasonable deal with people on that side of the weissle . I think, okay, you go through the motions. You give them a chance. But at that point, you got to then say, okay, our decision here is not to compromise or not. It is to deal with these problems. When i worked in the senate, it is about can you get someone towards the things they wanted or their home state. Here there is thats not really whats going on. There is the idea of after this pandemic recession, after everything were going through, after the notion of having infrastructure, which is something they all pretended or claimed to support. It is all up in the air. Then you have Senator Manchin who is the one. He is the one that everybody wants at the cocktail party, david. Let me play for you and then get you in something that did leak. This is not the typical interview. Manchin has taken a hard line against all of this stuff. Now this leaked audio where he sounds warmer to go at the mcconnell obstruction filibuster. The infrastructure has become stronger because you only need five more republican senators. But i dont see, you know, him yet in a position where hes caught on to the fact that what republicans are doing is theyre taking everything. Talk about the way we used to deal with spending bills. Theyre making everything part of a political culture war. Infrastructure, vaccinations, Voting Rights. It is all about us versus them. And we cant give an inch on any of this for most of the republican party. 70 of the party believes joe biden is not the president. Until he comes to terms with that big dynamic, this isnt it fathers senate where you can sit down and talk about what great guys these republicans are. It is a different thing. Until he comes to that realization, he will get played for a fool. You raised a good question, david. Thats what you do. Thats how you roll. You raised a question of what is less, being an ill le legitimate nonpresident. Our panels stays here. I want to turn to the other big story i mentioned. President biden signing into law this bill that establishes juneteenth as a federal holiday. The first holiday since Martin Luther king day, which is four decades ago. This is a day of profound power. Freedom day, liberation day, emancipation day. And today a national holiday. [ applause ] we are gathered here in a house built by enslaved people. We have come far and we have far to go. But today is a day of celebration. It may be long overdue, and it may be partly symbolic, but its meaningful to many people there. You can see for yourself. When the last remaining slaves were free on june 19th, 1865. Now, this managed to pass the United States senate unanimously. And a majority of House Republicans voted for the bill. This is about our history. It is about facts. It is about facing america. It comes, though, at a time where i think it would be incomplete to report this without noting that republicans who did vote for the holiday, ill tell you that happened, are also actively pushing so many issues that undercut the very spirit in the civil rights at issue, including opposing the teachings of facts about slavery, dealing with Racial Injustice in schools. To say nothing of the ongoing crackdown with Voting Rights that specifically has been found to target minority voters. Our panel is still with us on this other big story, mark. Walk us through what this means. I like to be precise. If people say nothing ever gets done bipartisan, it is interesting that this, however symbolic, did. And, yet, what good is it if it comes with a crackdown on the right to vote. Youre absolutely right. And of course everyone welcomes a holiday. And welcomes the recognition of the history. But if you vote unanimously for yunteenth and then try to stop Voting Rights, ill be on the bus all this week with black voters matter as we go from city to city for voter suppression. If you suppress the vote and if you want to do a holiday and not bring hr40, the Reparations Bill to the floor when it has almost 200 cosponsors for the first time in history, if you vote for a holiday and dont stop suppressing the vote, dont bring hr40 to the floor, then you are speaking with a forked tongue. I want to be clear. I know people are happy about the holiday. Thats an accomplishment. We fought to get dr. King a holiday and that was a bitter and ugly fight. Ronald reagan opposed it. But this holiday in 2021, we have all matured. Everyone evolves. We like holidays. But you cant recognize and commemorate and celebrate the holiday of emancipation if you also are not going to do what is necessary to bring about repair. We still have a reckoning in this country. We still have modern day lynchings in the form of police violence. We still have the voter suppression. We still have a fight against Teaching Truth in schools. And we still have not addressed all of these things, which are vestiges of enslavement which hr40 would establish a commission. Everyone who voted for this, we expect to see them before the end of the summer for hr40 or else the democrats run the risk of actually making that a halftime because the same base that President Joe Biden said. He said the black community has had my back. Now it is my time to have yours. If the house passes and it has the votes, it is important to me today that nancy pelosi asks the whip, the Speaker Of The House asks to start the whip count. If it comes to the floor, it will pass. Joe biden must appoint hr40 Reparations Commission by executive order. He can do that. And we could start the process. I appreciate. We are out of time. But, david, how do people get your no, no. How do people get your newsletter and should they expect it to be more of a bob dillon experience or a billry Joel Experience . Oh, come on. I cant believe you asked that. The clash, actually, and bob dillon. The simplest thing is to go to my twitter feed davidcorn dc. Does the dc stand for washington, d. C. Or david corn . Its strategic ambiguity. Definitely more dillon than billy joel. Why do you sound like a politician when we talk about music . Why do you . Why do you . I could tell you i like dillon more than billy joel. Listen, i want a big tent. I want to appeal to bob dillon fans, jayz fans. Are you going to sign up . Yes. You heard it from david. We have so much more on the program. Let me tell you whats going on. Obamacare super sized. I have my legal breakdown. First our report on how the manhattan da could target trumps company with the very law used to target the mob. To b like many people with moderate to Severe Ulcerative Colitis or crohns disease, i was there. 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It is a fictional reference but to a real law, rico. Congress passed it over 50 years ago to give prosecutors a better tool to prosecute the mob. And its been used against big crime families. In all 17 of the main 24 mafia families across the u. S. Have at one time or other faced rico prosecutions. Rico was the strong new weapon that helped convict john gotti back when mobsters were openly terrorizing neighborhoods in new york and the famed fdny was taking them on under u. S. Attorney rudy giuliani. An indictment to be made public later today charges the five godfathers with a racketeering conspiracy and running a criminal enterprise. Authorities call this the most important pros kougs case ever brought against Organized Crime. In just 13 hours, a federal jury found gotti guilty. John gotti convicted here of five murders that carry 20 years apiece. Rico count is a big deal. The other acts like murder are already of course crimes on the books. But rico meant taking more people down for working together on those crimes. From top bosses to lowerlevel people who just take their commands. Rico cases are challenging. Theyre complex. But they do carry that big payoff for prosecutors to crack. Although a syndicate. Thats how the reputation was lured to entire songs about how rico puts heat on gangsters. He says he cant talk to the cops. Thats illegal. No Double Crossing my peoples. And he goes on to lament, you might just get hit with the rico. Now fact check, talking to cops is actually not illegal. It is uncouraged under the law. But meek is referencing how it feels illegal in the streets. He knows what so many groups have learned from the mafia to helds angels. You dont want to be hit with the rico. If you are, it would likely be the down fall of your entire organization. Now, this Special Report with that context is to help us understand why were talking about this on the news and what a rico charge might look like for the Trump Organization because they could get hit with the rico. I say that based on the evidence, the precedent and some new clues that we have because the Trump Organization, we know, is under criminal investigation by that same office fictionalized in batman, by the new york da. And it has tapped a mob prosecutor, rico, to work the case. Now, rico is a federal law, but new york is called little rico. It could be triggered by the little requirement of three crimes would carry a big Prison Sentence up to 25 years. Now, you have to prove a pattern of criminal activity, not just a single crime. We have reports of probing evidence of bank fraud, of financial deceit, tax fraud. And da cy vance is the only person to get trumps tax returns so he could compare them to test lies for trump properties. The other limit is time. At least two other crimes for this type of prosecution must be within five years. Now, if the theory of the case includes any crimes done around the 2016 campaign, that deadline hits soon. And i mentioned the campaign not as speculation. We know the one Trump Organization official who already went to prison, Michael Cohen, was convicted of an election crime for Donald Trumps benefits. So prosecutors have every reason to scour any similar violations of new york law in their work. And ive spoken to Allen Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up, so im all over that. And i spoke to allen about it. When that audiotape first leaked, you might have thought, whos allen . Well, hes Allen Weisselberg, who we all know now because hes at the center of this probe. The top money man on that call that cohen was referencing, the cfo, could be indicted by this summer. And that brings us to what Harvey Weinstein and donald trump have in common, at least according to legal experts because the Southern District of new york brought a rico suit, this mafia law im telling you about against weinstein. It was a tough tactic. They ultimately won the case. Although that part of it was dismissed by a judge. We have seen this in other forums. An Olympic Gymnast suing Usa Gymnastics under the rico act. Trump himself knows how dangerous rico can be because there is an open probe in georgia where theyre investigating donald trump trying to shake down the Secretary Of State to, quote, find votes. Now theyre working there with this prosecutor on, basically, a rico theory. Racketeering, did you say . Is this State Prosecutor in georgia really thinking about prosecuting him like a mob boss . Well, now that prosecutor has hired a racketeering georgia. They have hired an outside prosecutor, an expert in racketeering who literally wrote the book on prosecuting state racketeering. A sign that racketeering may be a big part of the case against trump and his allies. These are just legal facts. It may sound bad or mean to talk about what trump does if subject to a mafia racketeering charge, but it is just how hes being investigated. Meanwhile, the doj is considering using rico against Trump Supporters in the january 6th insurrection. You can see its a lot. But it is not the only legal problem facing the Trump Organization. Even if donald trump himself is not ever indicted, there is another way that prosecutors can actually indict the entire trump org, which could bankrupt it as a corporation, sending it out of business and bankrupting donald trump again but in a more final way. Let me repeat that because there is a lot going on in all these cases and the cfo. The people who know how this stuff works say it is possible and, thus, bad for trump that this could all end with his whole company indicted at the corporate level. Now, for a prosecutor to do that, its a high bar. It is not enough to find evidence of a single crime at the company. To indict the whole thing, it is a higher bar. I can tell you what it requires. You have to factor in whether the company is pervasive in its wrongdoing, how long have the crimes been going on if theyre found. Two, prosecutors look to the past misconduct. Is this a one off or has this company been faced with these kind of allegations before . Three there is a question of harming inno