Them hostage in the steam room. Hes making the steam room hotter and hotter and hotter and he says hes going to keep making it hotter and hotter and hotter unless unless the newspaper publishes his crazed, deranged, Mad Scientist, insane theory. Why are you here . Thats a fact. Hundreds of millions of people will die. How . Global warming. Thats his insane theory. Global warming. See, hes insane. Hes going to kill those very attractive sweaty people in the steam room in order to get his deranged way of publicizing his crazy theory but not before somebody has to rip off their bikini top. The executive producer of that spectacular achievement in bathing suited American Cinema has now just learned that he just got a very, very fancy new job. I should also mention the executive producer of the steam room thing is also the producer of a new film that came out this year whistle greats the oldest guy from the duck dynasty tv show, it celebrates him as literally, i kid you not, a living prophet here on earth. Its called the torchbearer and the guy with the beard is the torchbearer. He may look like he has duck calls but this documentary proves that god has sent him here to show us on earth the light and the truth and the way he speaks for jesus. I highly recommend that you watch the video trailer for the val kilmer, i highly recommend that you watch that trailer. At the same time, i highly recommend that you do not watch the trailer for the Phil Robertson is a living prophet thing because if youre tempted to look it up, im not going to stop you. But in the twominute trailer for the duck dynasty guy, there is a killing and people are being shown beheaded and theres a ton of nazi footage, multiple real executions shown in the trailer, including somebody being run over and crushed to death by a tank. So unless thats your sort of thing, you probably dont want to go there with the duck dynasty as a living religious prophet documentary. But if you are looking for an emotional punch to get your message through, shocking people by showing them actual murders, thats one way to achieve it and thats what the filmmaker has chosen to do in the one about the duck dynasty guy. The same movie producer also created a film called the undefeated and thats an unlikely title for a movie about Alaska Governor sarah palin. She was defeated to become Vice President of the United States after quitting her day job of the not quite one term governor of alaska. But the same guy who produced it filmed Phil Robertson is a prophet and the val kilmer Global Warming movie with all of the people in the steam room. And that guy really did just get a gigantic promotion. Interesting, interesting career. Before his hollywood days, he had his own minor Mad Scientist moment when for a time he took over the management of something called biosphere 2, which you may remember from the 90s set up in the desert in arizona where people pretended for months on end that they were on mars. During his time running that operation when it was reportedly losing a million dollars, admitted in a lawsuit filed against him at the time that indeed he had called one of the biosphere residents a bimbo and told her he would, quote, ram them down your fing throat. Although he didnt say fing. It sounds like that was a nice Work Environment he created when he was running the biosphere 2 project. What he admitted to saying to the person working for him in that lawsuit, that took on a darker tone a couple years later in 1996 when Someone Called Police on new years day in los angeles and claimed that he had attacked her. His wife told the responding officers that he grabbed her both by the wrists and by the neck, according to the Police Report she said she ran away from him and into their home to try to call police and told the officers he chased her into the house after he had grabbed dialed 911, he grabbed the phone out of her hand and threw it across the room and shattered it. The department only responded to that call as a silent 911 call. When the police turned up, the phone was shattered. And in pieces. The Police Report says the officers did observe red marks around the womans neck. And red marks on her wrists and prosecutors did file Domestic Violence and battery charges against him. They also charged him with seeking to prevent a crime victim or witness from reporting that crime to authorities. That ends up being a really key part of this because there was an arraignment. The man was brought up on these charges in march 1996. He pled not guilty to all of these charges but his wife claimed in Court Documents that her husband had threatened her specifically. And threatened repercussions against their kids. If she showed up in court to testify excuse me. To testify against him on those charges, so the police she called 911. The Police Showed up. The police documented what they documented about those charges. Prosecutors chose to bring charges against him, including him trying to intimidate his wife, a witness, into not being able to pursue those charges. And his wife says, after the charges were filed, in fact he threatened her and their kids if she showed up in court for when he was going to face trial and in fact when his court date came up for him to face trial, his wife mysteriously could not be located. She did not appear at the trial. And so without the witness there, without her able to testify as a witness, prosecutors had no choice but to drop those charges and thats how that case went away. Over the following decade, he and his wife continued to tangle over money and child custody and ultimately divorce. On Court Filings related to the divorce in 2007, his wife said one of the reasons they had a hard time deciding where their child should go to school, he felt like too many private schools had too many jews in them. She described him asking the director of one los angeles prep school, quote, why there were so many hanukkah books in the library and the biggest problem he had with another school was the number of jews that attends, he doesnt like jews and doesnt like the way he raises their kids to be whiny brats and thats the man that donald trump has named to be his chief strategist and senior counselor in the white house. His name is steve bannon. We have reported on him extensively on this show ever since donald trump named him to be campaign ceo earlier this year. Part of the reason we have focused on him is because trump hiring somebody like that for any job on the campaign, let alone the top one, sort of begged the question as to whether or not the Trump Campaign was running background checks on the people they were hiring. Now that hes not just working on the campaign now, hes going to be in the oval office, serving the position that the trump folks are describing as equal to the white house chief of staff. Now i really want to know if they are doing background checks. This summer at the Republican National convention, steve bannon told reporters sarah posner at mother jones, that at his old job he created, quote, the platform for the altright. Altright is, of course, a term that has not been around very long. Breitbart. Com interestingly, under steve bannon, ran a long, sympathetic profiler, selfexplainer where they described the constituent parts of the altright movement and describes his own website, describes breitbart. Com as the platform for the altright. In their explainer about what the altright is, the breitbart website describes this guy with the trendy haircut as the, quote, center of altright thought. This is a man named Richard Spencer who weve also covered a number of times on this show. Richard spencer and other leading altright Movement Held their own press conference in washington, d. C. , to clarify for everybody what the altright is and what they stand for. Steve bannon at breitbart. Com had given the altright all of this new publicity, all of this attention that comes with having somebody who represents you who says they run the platform for the altright, having them writing at a highlevel of national politics. Steve bannon, new senior counsel to the president elect, describes himself as having created the Online Platform for the altright. So that platform, his publication describes, Richard Spencer is at the center of altright thought. Richard spencer freely admits that his goal as the center of the altright thought, his goal is to create a whitesonly homeland in the United States. Probably the most radical of any of the three of us here. He wants a white homeland, a white identity. A lot of mainstream publications today are having a hard time coming up with the right way to describe who is going to be this karl rove figure in the trump white house. The senior counselor who president elect has named to be his top adviser and, again, they are being explicit, equal in status with the white house chief of staff. You can feel the discomfort in the beltway media referring to him as a White Nationalist, someone who comes from the White Nationalist corner of conservative media and conservative propaganda. But that really is true. That is documented. That is in his own terms the way he has characterized his own work or did he leave that work to go run the Trump Campaign . We dont actually know that. Steve bannon has disclosed none of his Financial Information either, much like president elect trump himself. We dont know if he still has ties to the White Nationalist altright platform that he created at breitbart. Com. Will he keep running that media outlet or will he keep a financial interest in that media outlet while also running the oval office . Can you do that . And while were on that subject, a further update and almost unbelievable update to a sort of Surprising Development we started covering at the end of last week, which is the certainly unprecedented, definitely astonishing dual role that donald trump has appeared to have assigned to three of his children, simultaneously on friday, the trump folks announced that mr. Trumps eldest three children would be taking over his share of the Family Business, which means they will continue to run the Family Business while mr. Trump is president elect. All other president s in the modern era have put their assets in a blind trust. Trump is not planning on doing that. Hes keeping his Family Business his Family Business and his kids are going to keep operating it while he is president. We learned that simultaneously on friday along with the news that those same trump kids will also be brought on board in a formal role setting up the Trump Administration as part of the transition effort. So they are going to be running the trump Family Business and they are helping set up the Trump Administration with formal roles on the transition team. Nbc news has confirmed as well tonight that in addition to all of that, in addition to them running the business and helping set up the administration on the transition team, donald trump has already requested top secret security clearances for all of his children. Did i mention that they are still running the trump Family Business . Nbc news now reports that mr. Trump has requested top secret security clearances for his three eldest children. If the Obama Administration and the Intelligence Community decides to grant those clearances, that would allow them access to Top Secret National Security information between now and the inauguration. The Trump Campaign says that ivanka, don jr. And eric will be unpaid National Security advisers to their father and thats why they need security clearances now during the transition. If that doesnt pass muster with the Obama Administration and the Intelligence Community right now, however, dont worry. Once donald trump is sworn in as president in january, he wont have to ask anybody for the permission to do that. He can just make that decision himself unilaterally, he could clear them all the way up to president ial level information if he wants to. While they are running his business. Today, cbs reported that not only former president george w. Bush and former president george h. W. Bush placed congratulatory phone calls to president elect trump. 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His soninlaw, Jared Kushner, who is now serving an official role on the president ial transition team, on that thursday visit, Jared Kushner was also part of the trumps entourage on their visit to the white house. Mr. Kushner apparently left a real impression while he was there. The l. A. Times says that he drew notice from obamas staff when he asked as they toured the west wing how many of the individuals there would remain into the next administration. None of them. No. Did you ever see that tv show, the west wing, it sort of none of them stay. The west wing when the president leaves, all of the president s staff, whoop, out the door. Youre supposed to bring in all new people. The west wing staff will all leave when president obama leaves and the Trump Transition Team apparently doesnt know that. Woohoo. The l. A. Times reports that there was supposed to be a followup meeting after the initial meeting on thursday, a substantive meeting between the white house transition staff and the trump transition staff but the trump folks canceled it. They didnt feel like doing it. Something does appear to be going wrong here with some of the basic parts of the transition period, which, again, is not that long of period. Its a steep learning curve. You have to do a lot. All of the president ial staff does leave. You have to hire 4,000 people. Thats not even talking about your cabinet, right . And something does appear to be going wrong with this. Nbcs Andrea Mitchell reported that as of today the Trump Transition Team had made no contact with the state department or the cia or the department of Homeland Security or the pentagon. All of those departments, theyve all got theres transition folks ready to go, ready to start handing stuff off, they have reached out to the Trump Campaign but no interest so far from the trump folks, no comment. The pentagon, the Defense Department isnt getting their calls returned. The cia isnt getting their calls returned. They are ready and willing to go. Theyve reached out. Nothing. As for mr. Trump himself, the wall street journal reports on something that i dont quite know what to do with. Ill read to you how they reported it. During their private white house meeting on thursday, mr. Obama walked his successor through the duties of running the country and mr. Trump seemed surprise by the scope. President obama realized the republican needs more guidance. He plans to spend more final with his successor than president s typically do. And if thats true, that is a nice thing for president obama to be doing. It also puts a whole different cast not just on what presiden