Welcome to a special edition of Legal A.F. As we've said, time and time again, it is the

attorneys general, primarily the Democratic Attorney's General, who are the first responders,

who are running into a burning building of our rule of law and trying to save us. And whenever

something goes awry, like, for instance instance in the shutdown, when Donald Trump decides

to make a political football out of 40 million plus people, children, babies, elderly, disabled,

who would be receiving and need to receive supplemental nourishment assistance plan payments,

totaling $8 billion starting on November 1.

And instead, Donald Trump is using that and holding it hostage through his Department of Agriculture

of all things in order to make the Democrats look bad in the

shutdown, it is the attorneys general who run to the rescue. And today, they filed in the district

of Massachusetts, 23 of them, led by California and Massachusetts, they filed this emergency

complaint, temporary restraining order. We got the judge,

we got the hearing this week, and for our audience, we've got Attorney General Rob Banta of

California to talk about the new filing. Welcome, Attorney General Banta.

An honor to be with you once again, Michael. Thanks for us. As people may know, we were together and briefing the audience

on No Kings Day, as Donald Trump threatened or did shoot live ordinance over the five when you

and I were in San Diego right near Camp Pendleton. And you talked then so eloquently about the

three Cs, and we've stolen it from you, and we've repeated

it frequently on the minus such network and legal a half, of courts, crowds, and courage.

And you've got it all here. Talk to our audience, brief them about what is the SNAP program?

Why did you, why did you spring into action? And then we'll talk about the logistics of the case that's been filed in Massachusetts

with a hearing this coming Thursday.

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