41: Hush Money with Karen Friedman Agnifilo
Jen Rubin's Green Room
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🗓️ 21 February 2024
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Summary
Jen gives an update on the presidential primaries and frames the choice facing Nikki Haley, before welcoming NY prosecutor Karen Friedman Agnifilo. As Trump’s first criminal case moves to trial, they discuss why his hush money payments broke the law, the role of Michael Cohen, and the possibility of Trump racking up an additional perjury charge. They also cover the courtroom process, including jury selection, the demeanor of the judge, and Trump’s possible participation, explaining how our judicial system handles a former president becoming a defendant and weighing his chances of conviction.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Jen Rubin, and this is Jen Rubin's Green Room. |
| 0:07.1 | This week, as we sit here on a Tuesday, we have several groups of people who have decisions to make. |
| 0:13.9 | One is the United States Congress, specifically the Republicans in the House who went on vacation. |
| 0:30.1 | They went on vacation despite the fact they hadn't yet come up with a bill to pass on Ukraine aid, Israel aid, Taiwan aid. |
| 0:44.3 | And despite the fact that Vladimir Putin had murdered not only one but now two dissidents, The latest was one Maxim Kuzmanoff. He was found on a Spanish street riddled with bullets and run over. I suppose all the windows were sealed shut |
| 0:52.5 | in that part of Spain, because that's the usual way they kill people. |
| 0:57.1 | But this is Vladimir Putin acting with impunity because the West does nothing. |
| 1:03.0 | He thinks he can get away with it, and sure enough, he does, because the United States Congress, |
| 1:08.8 | along with people like Tucker Carlson, who goes to a Russian |
| 1:13.8 | supermarket to do PR for Vladimir Putin, have no interest in defending U.S. interests, in defending |
| 1:20.9 | freedom. They are shills. They're shills for Trump, who is in turn a shill for Vladimir Putin. So what are they going to do? Are they going to |
| 1:29.5 | come back and finally pass this? Or they're just going to let the bodies pile up both in Ukraine |
| 1:34.6 | and on the streets of Europe? I guess we'll find out. Another group that has a decision to make. |
| 1:41.2 | No labels. Do you remember them? I barely do. But yes, this is the group that |
| 1:45.9 | wants to run some kind of bipartisan ticket because, gosh, it's just so hard to choose between Trump |
| 1:52.6 | and Biden. Really? It's so hard to choose between the sane pro-democracy, accomplished president |
| 1:59.0 | and the fascist, who is a complete dunderhead, who is a |
| 2:04.3 | malicious and complete narcissist? Really? It's that hard to choose between the two of them? |
| 2:09.6 | Apparently for these folks, it is. Now, remember, this was supposed to be all about democracy. |
| 2:14.5 | They were going to have a convention. They were going to have people come and choose their leader. |
| 2:20.7 | That is not happening. One reason it's not happening is anybody with a name has upped and left. |
| 2:27.7 | If you recall, Larry Hogan, former Republican governor of Maryland, he doesn't want to run on this cock and bull story of a ticket. |
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