12/5/24: Trump melts down over failed nomination, Biden considering blanket pardons
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David Pakman
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🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- Sam Wolfson, features writer and editor at The Guardian, joins David to discuss his recent article "Don’t underestimate the Rogansphere. His mammoth ecosystem is Fox News for young people"
-- President Joe Biden is reportedly considering preemptive blanket pardons for a number of Democrats who will be targeted by the incoming Trump administration
-- Donald Trump melts down as yet another nomination implodes
-- Megyn Kelly interviews Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense, and it does not go well
-- CNN's Manu Raju asks Pete Hegseth whether he will commit to "not drinking on the job" if confirmed as Secretary of Defense
-- Senator Richard Blumenthal claims that a number of Republican Senators have privately told him they will not support Pete Hegseth's nomination, which if true, means the nomination cannot succeed
-- Republican Florida Senator Rick Scott wants to ask questions about the allegations against Pete Hegseth, but tells CNN's Jake Tapper that Hegseth should not lift the non-disclosure agreement preventing an alleged victim from speaking
-- Democratic Senator John Fetterman says he'd considering voting to confirm Ron DeSantis as Secretary of Defense on the condition that DeSantis admits that he wear shoe lifts to make him appear taller
-- On the Bonus Show: South Korea's opposition parties move to impeach the president, Satanic Temple to offer religious program for elementary school students in Ohio, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thomspon killed in targeted attack in NYC, much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, everybody. |
| 0:08.2 | We are talking about pardons increasingly, not only because Joe Biden pardoned his son, |
| 0:14.2 | Hunter Biden, but because we now have some Republicans, including Marjorie Taylor Green, |
| 0:18.7 | saying, I would like Trump to give me a blanket pardon. We'll talk about that tomorrow. The obvious question is if Marjorie Taylor Green, saying, I would like Trump to give me a blanket |
| 0:20.9 | pardon. We'll talk about that tomorrow. The obvious question is if Marjorie Taylor Green wants a pardon, |
| 0:26.4 | why does she think she would need one? But we'll deal with that. The Biden administration is now |
| 0:31.7 | discussing preemptive pardons for officials who might end up in the crosshairs of Donald Trump's revenge tour. |
| 0:40.3 | Now, normally, preemptive pardons raise some pretty significant red flags. |
| 0:45.1 | They imply that you're guilty. |
| 0:47.1 | If you go out and say, I am issuing a blanket pardon for this particular person, the natural |
| 0:52.5 | reaction would be to say, well, what did they do that anyone |
| 0:56.0 | thinks they need a pardon? |
| 0:57.8 | And this can really undermine public trust in government and generate a lot of other problems. |
| 1:04.8 | When Donald Trump is openly planning to weaponize the government to punish his enemies, which is what he has run on |
| 1:13.5 | now for over a year, it might be the perfect time to break out what is admittedly an extraordinary |
| 1:21.1 | measure. |
| 1:22.3 | Now, it's not paranoia. |
| 1:24.3 | It's not a desire to circumvent the law that has triggered these discussions in |
| 1:30.5 | the Biden White House. It's Trump's nominations. And it's the threat that has been so clearly |
| 1:36.8 | spelled out for everybody to see in the public. Donald Trump has selected Cash Patel to be FBI director. Now, we don't yet know |
| 1:46.4 | whether Cash is actually going to be confirmed, but this is not someone who's going to go and |
| 1:51.8 | soberly push law and order and judicious use of investigative power. We know why Patel has been |
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