The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (05/17/2024):

3:05pm- Rich opens the show on a somber note—friend, and frequent listener, Sid Weiss passed away earlier this week.

3:30pm- While appearing before the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on Wednesday, Michael Cohen’s former attorney Robert Costello accused Cohen of lying during the Donald Trump “hush money” trial. Costello said that Cohen once told him: “I swear to God, Bob, I don’t have anything on Donald Trump…I don’t have anything on Donald Trump.” You can read more here: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3004761/michael-cohen-lawyer-accuses-lying-trump-trial/

3:40pm- Reacting to Michael Cohen’s testimony in the Donald Trump “hush money” trial on Thursday, CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said Cohen had his “knees chopped out” from under him during cross-examination.

4:05pm- On Thursday, President Joe Biden asserted executive privilege—preventing the House of Representatives from acquiring audio recordings of an interview the president conducted with Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert Hur. In a letter to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), White House counsel Edward Siskel reasoned: “The absence of a legitimate need for the audio recordings lays bare your likely goal—to chop them up, distort them and use them for partisan political purposes.”

4:15pm- The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board writes of President Joe Biden’s assertion of executive privilege: “The privilege claim is bogus on two grounds. First, once a President waives a privilege right, it can’t be reclaimed. Mr. Biden conceded that the interview wasn’t privileged, and there’s no legal basis to say that a recording is different from a transcript. Even if Mr. Biden had first claimed privilege over the interview, that wouldn’t pass legal muster because the interview subject didn’t concern his presidential duties or White House deliberations. It concerned his handling of documents while in the Senate, as Vice President, or as a private citizen. Mr. Siskel’s claim that the goal is to protect the Justice Department’s ‘law enforcement investigations’ also doesn’t work. Such a claim of law-enforcement privilege typically attends to a continuing investigation, but Mr. Hur’s work is complete. He has filed his report and closed up shop.” You can read the full editorial here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-executive-privilege-recordings-robert-hur-interview-edward-siskel-265ab86b?mod=opinion_lead_pos2

4:40pm- A Thursday House of Representative Subcommittee hearing devolved into total chaos when Republican Marjorie Taylor Green exchanged insults with Democrats Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Jasmine Crockett. No wonder nothing ever gets done in Congress! But at least it was entertaining.

5:05pm- Dr. Wilfred Reilly—Professor of Political Science at Kentucky State University and author of “Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me”—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss the hilarious Congressional feud over “bleached hair” and “fake eyelashes.” Marjorie Taylor Green, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, and Jasmine Crockett gave us a Congressional fight we won’t soon forget—no matter how hard we try. PLUS, Dame Judi Dench takes a stand against “trigger warnings.” Dr. Reilly’s new book releases on June 11th but you can pre-order it now: https://a.co/d/jd6PjBb.

5:30pm- Jimmy Failla—stand-up comedian & Fox News host—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his parody song being “reposted” by President Donald Trump on Truth Social, his recent visit to the White House, and his dream of driving the president’s limousine: “The Beast.” Failla hosts “Fox News Saturday with Jimmy Failla”—and this week, Rich will be on the panel! Failla also has an upcoming comedy show in Red Bank, New Jersey on June 22nd and promises that if the Zeoli Army buys 100 tickets, he will attend The Rich Zeoli Show’s live broadcast from Cape May on June 21st. So, buy tickets! https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1D00606EC69C218F

6:05pm- While being questioned by Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) during a recent House Select Subcommittee hearing on the coronavirus pandemic, former Principal Deputy Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Dr. Lawrence Tabak confirmed that the NIH did fund “gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology through EcoHealth.”

6:30pm- Tudor Dixon—Former Republican Nominee for Governor of Michigan & host of The Tudor Dixon Podcast—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss the current state of the 2024 presidential election.

6:40pm- Reacting to news that President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump agreed to a debate scheduled for June 27th, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said she would “would never recommend” debating Trump.