Become a reality among democrats. Up first, a tale of two felons. President trump praises Paul Manafort, his former Campaign Chairman, now convicted on eight federal counts of tax and bank fraud. The president tweeted this, i feel very badly for Paul Manafort and his wonderful family. Justice, and he puts the word justice in quotes took a 12yearold tax case among other things applied tremendous pressure on him and unlike Michael Cohen, he refused to break. Make up stories in order to get a deal. Such respect for a brave man. The president took another swipe at Michael Cohen, his former lawyer and personal fixer for more than a decade who pleaded guilty to eight charges and implicated the president of the United States in a hush money scheme. The president tweeted this. Quote, if anyone is looking for a good lawyer, i would strongly suggest that you dont retain the services of Michael Cohen. Lets bring in our white house
house, thank you. Republicans, meanwhile, in congress for the most
pete: okay, got it. i was looking at the wrong sound bite. rachel: they killed that sound bite. pete: oh, i should pay attention. rachel: this is what that deputy 2iñx2:2 ú very upset about gascon s policies, and some people wish he was actually the real d.a. at the so much the at the top of command there. he says we are supposed to believe he has suddenly changed his entire belief system overnight? to your point, pete. he is a politician, and he believes he will be recalled lose his job. don t be fooled, actions always speak louder than words. look what gascon has done to l.a. in just one year, we can t trust him. will: we ll see what happens in los angeles. something else that s happening in los angeles, pete, rachel, i ve talked about this on the will cain podcast from time to time, and that is i think that the average joe, the average
clear we can t trust him. so, is it a surprise his plan to fix the supply chains makes no sense? after weeks of negotiations and working with my team and with the major union retailers and freight movers, the ports of los angeles the port of los angeles announced today it is going to begin operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. jesse: the issue is the ports are not open long enough,s everything is made in china. another issue is that there is no place to put the new cargo because a shortage shortage of truck drivers is stopping goods from going to ports to warehouses to us. and you can thank biden for those labor problems, as mandates free biden box and the left permanent pandemic have trade and anti-work environment here in the united states. even the people who want to work are being fired over this foolish backs mandate. for the lack of workers just covers up the real issue, the u.s. have sold out to china. it is easy to think all of this
swamp, and they want to see something new and different, as a result we saw a blue wave in the past november. we know what the american public kind of things right now with that leadership. what really affects his base is the shut down. there is very few people out there that can go without a paycheck. you live paycheck to paycheck, that relates to people everywhere. whether the stories are showing up on conservative news outletting or liberal ones. and that s his base that says wow, this is really not working. i can t this is this is hurting. this guy elected to make deals it not making deals and we can t trust him. when you look at the special council s response to the buzz feed story, who are they
he s had a lot time of when he could have done that and hasn t seen fit to do it. and his insistent all along, including after the verdict, this case has nothing to do with me. this is stuff manafort did long before i ever knew him. and, you know, there is a point to him announcing this in public on twitter rather than simply sending a private message. he is speaking to the public. he is speaking to his base and his supporters and to republicans. he is sending a message about the whole narrative he s been shaping of this investigation. the narrative of the witch hunt. the narrative of loyalty and disloyalty. these characters that he s created in the public imagination to say, here is a good man who has been loyal to me. here s a bad man who is not loyal to me and we can t trust him. he s continuing his ongoing campaign to discredit anything that michael cohen says by creating this contrast with the character of manafort. i agree. i think the fact it s happening in public and that we