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And Donald Trump says he was the one who told Melania to threaten Hunter Biden with a $1 billion lawsuit.

We have such great show for you today.

As the world churns, Andy Levy stops by to talk about the media's role in letting Trump

subvert the law.

Then we'll talk to author Jason Stanley about how to read Trump's play in the fascist playbook.

But first, the news.

Somali, the D.C. Attorney General is suing the Trump administration to stop the police

takeover so they don't chase down people in West End who are throwing sandwiches.

Yes. It's called Sandwich Gate.

And it's the story of a man and a sandwich.

No, so here's what's happened.

We have a very nightmarish scenario in the District of Columbia,

something that we all saw coming when D.C. was denied statehood, right?

Trump can do whatever he wants to D.C.

It has no protection. It's not a state.

It's not protected. It's this weird sort of amorphous thing. So Donald Trump, when he can do what he want, he is doing what he wants. And we are watching him do this authoritarian takeover of the District of

Columbia. This is what it looks like. This is what authoritarianism looks like. So we knew this was coming.

Thank you, Kristen Sinema, and Joe Manchin for making sure the Democrats couldn't use the filibuster, because by the way,

that would have crushed norms and institutions. And so here we are.

Sending Kristen a glass of wine across the bar at whatever wine tasting she's at today. Yeah.

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