Hi, everyone. We made it to Friday. It's 4 o'clock in New York. We come on the air with an incredible piece of news. Donald Trump is facing a giant ego boo-boo. The federal judge has ruled that Donald Trump's name must be removed from

the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. It is a huge setback for his ridiculous effort to take over

the institution by brute force. We don't know yet when the letters will actually be removed,

but the crowds are growing bigger and bigger by the

half hour there in Washington, D.C. as onlookers cheer, the effort underway. In the meantime,

we start today with another one of Donald Trump's power grabs, the attempted takeover of our

elections. Donald Trump finally has everything. He always wanted to achieve that

in the Justice Department, loyalists who will not just indulge his conspiracy theories and his attacks

on our democracy, but the foot soldiers who are ready to put the machinery of the federal government

and the Department of Justice behind Trump's conspiracy theories to amplify them and to

validate them. Just have to look at what's happening in California in what would be an incredibly

unusual move in normal times. Here's how the top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, Bill

Assaley, cast doubt on that state's primary elections while the votes were still being counted.

We're doing the work. We're doing the best we can in the circumstances. I expect people will be

charged. It will be election fraud charges in the next. I hate to put timewise on things, but one

to two months, I believe we need some of these results to be certified so we can, you know, prove some of the allegations.

People will be charged?

How do you know that?

What crimes happened?

There's no evidence of any crime. There's no evidence of any fraud. And the

Times report says that that promised by a salee, quote, would most likely have been considered a

violation of Justice Department policy under decades of past practice. But it's a, quote,

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