The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (03/30/2023):

3:05pm- According to reporting from Zach Jewell of The Daily Wire, “[a] group of around 400 people rushed into the Tennessee state capitol building in Nashville on Thursday morning to protest for stricter gun laws following the mass shooting at the Covenant School earlier this week…Footage from inside the state capitol showed at least six Tennessee state troopers holding back a crowd of angry protesters as they attempted to reach lawmakers.” You can read more about the story here: https://www.dailywire.com/news/protesters-storm-tennessee-capitol-demanding-gun-control

3:10pm- Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been detained in Russia—accused, by Moscow, of espionage. Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned the unwarranted arrest and stated that the Kremlin was attempting to intimidate and repress all forms of free press.

3:15- Congressmen Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and Brain Fitzpatrick (R-PA), alongside Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), reintroduced the Protection from Abusive Passengers Act. The proposed legislation would ban any air passenger convicted of unruly behavior during a flight from ever flying again. Would this extend to passengers that opposed in-flight mask mandates?

3:35pm- According to a report from The Post Millennial, the National Hockey League (NHL) may discontinue “Pride Night” as a growing number of players are reluctant to participate.

3:50pm- According to a new study published in The Journal of Sleep Medicine, it’s recommended you get between seven to eight hours of sleep per night in order to decrease the accumulation of dangerous, visceral fat.

4:05pm- In the hallway of the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) screamed in the face of Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) over the need for new gun control legislation. Bowman referred to Republicans as “freaking cowards” and “gutless.” Rep. Massie attempted to engage civilly, suggesting that teachers and schools should be armed to dissuade would-be mass shooters. Massie noted that no school allowing teachers to carry a firearm has ever had a school shooting. Bowman dismissed the counter argument.

4:15pm- MSNBC seemingly glorified rioters who, on Thursday, forced their way into Tennessee’s state capitol in Nashville, fighting on behalf of gun control legislation. According to Trending Politics, several Democrat state lawmakers may have participated in far-left protests that eventually spilled into the state capitol.

4:35pm- Students at the University of Wyoming are suing their sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma, for admitting a biological male into their female-only organization.

4:50pm- According to The New York Post, a bearded powerlifter participated in a women’s competition in Canada and was able to bench-press 370 pounds beating the previously established women’s lifting record by 95 pounds.

5:05pm- The Drive at 5: Dr. E.J. Antoni—Research Fellow for Regional Economics in the Center for Data Analysis at The Heritage Foundation—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his most recent article for The Daily Caller, “This Could Be the Final Nail in the Dollar’s Coffin.” Dr. Antoni writes: “Joe Biden is dethroning King Dollar in real time. The US dollar’s financial dominance is under siege from a uniquely bad combination of foreign and domestic policies, and Americans should be deeply concerned by the fallout if the dollar loses its 80-year reign as the world’s reserve currency… If foreigners no longer want [dollars] for trade, central bank reserves, private wealth funds, and the official currency of about a dozen countries, all those dollars have nowhere to go but back to us in a flood like our country has never seen. This flood will compete for goods and services in the US against the dollars already here as decades of accumulated trade deficits come flooding back all at once. At that point, hyperinflation will not be hyperbole.” You can read Dr. Antoni’s full article here: https://dailycaller.com/2023/03/30/opinion-the-ukraine-war-could-be-the-final-nail-in-the-dollars-coffin-ej-antoni-peter-st-onge/

5:30pm- Billionaire Elon Musk, along with University of Montreal’s Yoshoua Bengio, are requesting a six-month pause on advancements to Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) technology—citing the need for established safety standards as the technology becomes more and more intelligent.

5:35pm- BREAKING NEWS: Former President Donald Trump has been indicted for his role in allegedly providing hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in 2016. On Thursday, a Manhattan grand jury voted in favor of the indictment. According to The New York Times, “[a]n indictment will likely be announced in the coming days. By then, prosecutors working for the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, will have asked Mr. Trump to surrender and to face arraignment on charges that remain unknown for now.” You can read more about the story here: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/03/30/nyregion/trump-indictment-news

6:05pm- Does the state of New York have jurisdiction? While appearing on The Rich Zeoli Show earlier this week, John Yoo— the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley & a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University—argued that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg does not have the authority to enforce federal criminal law. Yoo writes: “It is not even clear that Bragg could prove that the payment had anything to do with the campaign, as Trump could claim that he would have paid the hush money anyway to spare his wife and family from humiliation… Building Trump’s prosecution on federal campaign law would breach a central principle of the Constitution’s separation of powers… In the Trump case, Bragg would be interpreting and prosecuting a violation of federal campaign laws. In this, he would be acting contrary to the settled view of the U.S. Justice Department, which conducted its own probe and chose not to bring a prosecution.” You can read Yoo’s full editorial, “Bragg’s Case against Trump Has a U.S. Constitution Problem”, here: https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/03/braggs-case-against-trump-has-a-u-s-constitution-problem/

6:20pm- Speaking with Sean Hannity on Fox News last week, Robert J. Costello, a former legal adviser for Michael Cohen, called his former client a “serial liar” and insisted that Cohen paid hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels without former President Donald Trump’s knowledge.

6:25pm- While appearing on Newsmax, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said of the Manhattan District Attorney’s office bring charges against former President Donald Trump: “They’ve made a foolish decision…the case [will be] thrown out on statute of limitations grounds.”

6:45pm- In response to news that he will be indictment, former President Donald Trump said on Truth Social: “These Thugs and Radical Left Monsters have just INDICATED the 45th President of the United States of America, and the leading Republican Candidate, by far, for the 2024 Nomination for President. THIS IS AN ATTACK ON OUR COUNTRY THE LIKES OF WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE. IT IS LIKEWISE A CONTINUING ATTACK ON OUR ONCE FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS. THE USA IS NOW A THIRD WORLD NATION, A NATION IN SERIOUS DECLINE. SO SAD!”