We like to say here that the truth matters, but only if you see it. These we thank you for your film and your bravery. On that note i wish you a very good and safe night. From all of our colleagues, thanks for staying up late. Smack thanks to you at home for joining us do you remember when the right wing freaked out t about bud light . They were really freaked out. They were shooting bud light cans. They were hitting bud light cans with baseball bats. They were setting up towers of bud light cans to use as Target Practice at Republican Party lincoln day dinners the right was very, very upset about bud light they were so mad. In the in florida, the governor got so excited about it he ordered an official investigation into bud light. In congress, House Republicans started their own federal congressional investigation of bud light. They have spent the better part of last year on this. No longer would everyone see it as the beer as more flavor the fold than bud light coors light but not quite as flavorful as miller light. If you are drinking like beer, no one expects to be in love with that stuff, anyway. That is how we all used to think of it. After nearly a year of right wing culture war, No Holds Barred demagoguery against bud light, no longer what any self respecting republican purchase bud light because it was on the endcap. No, over the course of just under a year, it was transformed from a normal american thing you dont think much about into something very, very bad. Something you shoot on sight. The former president jumped on board. Money does talk, anheuserbusch now understands that. He said that in a post promoting rightwing boycotts of companies that seem to be liberal or maybe if you squinted they might feel liberal but you are not sure why. Bud light over the course of this last year became a conservative target. A trump world bogeyman. Until donald trump did a total 180. Out of the blue, he decided, unilaterally, to call off the fight against bud light. He told all his followers to start Drinking Bud Light again. He said, anheuserbusch is a he Great American brand that deserves a second chance. What caused this radical u turn . What atcaused the former president to turn on a dime like this . The word dime is a help in this question. If you put that trump post back up there, where he says everyone to go back to Drinking Bud Light, look at the time and date stamp. Just make that a little bit bigger. There we go. Keep that in mind. 3 30 p. M. On february 6. Why is that when trump did his 180 degree uturn on bud light . Well, look what happened that same day. Lobbyists for anheuserbusch announces a 10,000 per plate fundraiser. At 9 40 7 am the lobbyist announces a fundraiser for trump. That same day at 3 30, trump announces he has changed his mind on bud light and conservatives should drink red light again. That fundraiser was announced on february 6. It was held wednesday last week. All anheuserbusch had to do al was announced they were going to do the fundraiser to get trump to do what they wanted. To get him to call off what had been a years long conservative culture war, topline issue. Would you like the head of the Republican Party in the next pu nominee to be president of the united dates to do something for you . Is there something you would like him to do for you or your company . Perhaps you would consider opening your checkbook and swiveling your wrist. That is apparently what it took to end the great right wing Bud Light Freak Out of 20232024 now, behold, here comes the w, same process, again. At the end of last week something happened in k washington that almost never happens. There was a vote in congress on a new piece of potential policy. New legislation that would actually do cya thing. It is not just some kind of stunt which is what we see out of the Republican Controlled Congress this was an actual policy end on a somewhat controversial issue. Nevertheless, the vote on this bill was 500. 500. This is a committee boat. It is a committee that is divided between democrats and republicans democrats and republicans these day players do not agree that the sun rises in the east and that bud light is generally them more tasteful beer. They took a vote and it was 50 0. 500, that never happens this bill is moving. It has unanimous support. It is on its way to the house or. After that 500 vote, this would obviously be expected to pass. It has y the support of the republican speaker of the house. It also has the support of resident joe biden who says, if indeed they pass this and it gets to his desk, he will sign it this bill is on the issue of tiktok. Whatever you think of it, there have been bipartisan concerns that have been expressed for a long time that this very cost popular app can pose threats because of links of the company that owned the app and the Chinese Government. Already, if you are a federal government him we or contractor, if you have a phone are another device that belongs to the federal government, the federal government says you area not allowed to install tiktok on that device. There are similar bands in more than 30 states. This bill racing through congress right now would effectively force tiktok off the market altogether. It would not just be for government employees, not just the military, it would basically mean you could not download it in the United States anymore. It would require app stores to remove tiktok. You cannot download it reanymor the only contingency would be if the company was sold to a firm that did not have links to the Chinese Government and beijing. Tiktok would effectively be off the market. As i said, this is a real policy. It is a matter of both concern and also some controversy, certainly. But, politically, this is one of the few things on which democrats and republicans pretty much agree. Pu it was a 500 vote in the Energy Committee last year. Resident biden supports the bill and will sign it lots and lots of democrats its a it,. That includes donald trump. When he was president , in the summer of 2020, he tried to ban tiktok unilaterally, himself he tried to force the company to be sold he issued an Executive Order banning any american citizen from making a transaction with tiktok. He tried that in the summer of 2020. That Executive Order was struck down by the courts which is whys tiktok is not banned right now. Trump was very clear and made a huge issue of tiktok being evil and dangerous. That was his stand until something happened. Do we have that Cash Register sound . Chaching after trying to step out and shut this down in the United States he has come out and said actually, we should not get rid of tiktok, that would be terrible. Has a lot going for. He said so online on thursday and today, he said it in an interview on cnbc. There are a lot of people on tiktok who love it there are a lot of young kids who would go crazy without it. There are a lot of users that do a lot of good. It is a lot of good, really. All of a sudden. Why the change . Some have noted that trump recently hosted jeff yass who is a Billionaire Investor in the company that owns tiktok. Step one, notice nearby man. Who has a 33,000,000,000. 15 percent stake in the company. Step three, need money desperately. Step four, announce a new ep stance in favor of the company you used to pose while blinking eyelashes at the man you just noticed. Step five, cash it. If you would like the head of the Republican Party and the Republican Partys next nominee to be part dished to do something for you or your company, open your checkbook and swiveling your wrist. If you dont believe me, take it from trumps own folks. Steve bannon suggests donald trump has been bought. Steve bannon, the former advisor suggested on saturday that the former president was paid off after a shift in his stance on Senator Manchin or. O when even steve bannon is like, this guy appears to be for ea sale, he has been sentenced to prison and is out of prison while his appeal is pending. He has been put up on charges that had to be pardoned by trump for an alleged massive fraud scheme. He is going to be charged for that alleged massive fraud scheme. And he is saying it is a little transactional. This guy appears to be for sale. If steve bannon is saying you appear to be a little for sale, that means you have ceased to be subtle about it. This is the part of the commercial or this commercial where the pitchman starts talking about what a big sale this is, indeed. Where everything must go. Because the need for money is real. On friday, donald trump had to put up cash and collateral for a 91 million bond in the case in which he was found liable for repeatedly defaming e. Jean carroll. We have been looking at that, i think the frame on that is that this is a difficult and dangerous time for donald trump. But because of the position he is in, it makes it a difficult and dangerous thing for us as a country. He has to put up bonds for 500 million worth of poor judgment right now within the next two weeks. He has put up 100 million of that, still another 400 Million Dollars to go. He does not appear to have the cash and assets and collateral to pay for those bonds and put e up what he needs to put up without considerable strain, if he can even hobble anything together to boast bolster those bonds together. He desperately needs money, right now. That have a billiondollar bond, that is two weeks from today. He needs that money so urgently, right now while he is openly changing his publicly held, longheld, heartfelt positions in a way that seems to be straight up responsiveness to kaching financial incentives. There is no public transparency into who might be cosigning to with him or otherwise th underwriting these bonds somebody helping him put up the cash and collateral . If so, what are they getting in exchange for their generosity . We know the name of the Bonding Company that put up the 91 million bond for the e. Jean carroll case. We dont know if it was trump alone or trump and some helpers who put up the cash and collateral necessary. We asked mr. Trump this evening. If he would tell us if there are cosigners or anyone otherwise assisting him. We have not heard back from him and we will let you know if we do. But, in National Security terms, this is a family dangerous thing. Regardless of what it means for him personally and politically, it is dangerous for us as a country. If you needed to get a Security Clearance, or you wanted to, but when he applied for that clearance, the if ei did their Bit Room Check on you and found that you are in this much need of this much money this urgently, if you were applying for a Security Clearance right now and the f i found that two weeks from today, you need to put up cash and collateral to secure almost half 1 million of bond to pay your Court Judgments, do you think you would get a Security Clearance . There is no chance you would ever be approved for even the lowest level Security Clearance. The risk is too obvious that you would be tempted to sell americans secrets for this money that you so desperately need. Whether or not you were known to be a particularly transactional type of person, there is no way that the scene, that would not be seen as a National Security risk. Last week, politico was first to report that he would be receiving classified briefings again. No one has ever received classified material while in court for. Needing to come up with half 1 million of cash and collateral to put up bonds to pay their Court Judgments work there is a lot going on in republican politics right now that is nothing we have ever seen before. That is underplaying it a bit. Even not just when it comes to him, but to people in the trump world of republican politics. Trump advisor Peter Navarro has been told to report to Federal Prison next tuesday. April trump republican lawyer who tried to overturn the re the election results, she has had a Bench Warrant for her arrest after she refused to comply with court orders to have a dna sample taken and fingerprints taken. There is a warrant out for her arrest. In the state of wisconsin, the trump effort to get revenge on that particular legislator in wisconsin, that has already led to multiple rooms wisconsin officials ring. They are trying to recall him when wisconsin is one of most important swing states in the country. As recently as this weekend, trump rallies are still starting with a version of the National Anthem sung by people n who are in prison for their role in the january 6 attack on congress to overthrow the general election. Then they play the sound from the prison. Just tonight he said online st that he would order the release of january 6 defendants as one of his first acts in office. There is a lot going on in republican politics right now which is not the way things usually go. There is a lot of overlap between crime and politics, prison and politics. As politico. Calm reports on the bloodbath at the are in c with trump Office People taking overm and as of today they are Firing Dozens of people in the ns Republican National committee, there is no longer an effort to stop them from paying his personal legal expenses, we are in a place where the entire Republican Party apparatus is merging with trumps personal Legal Defense apparatus. The way he has been behaving when it comes to being transactional at his time of most desperate financial need puts us, no matter how you think of him, no matter whether you care about politics or not, it puts the American People in a radically fragile lace when di it comes to what exactly is for sale in our country. Bud light and tiktok seem to have get out exactly where you insert the coins to receive your prize. If anything is for sale, if everything is for sale, what makes you think he is going to stop with beer and chinese Op Social Media Apps . Everything must go everything is for sale. 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