Now I mention the church committee because at the time, it was part of a larger movement aimed at curbing abuses of power.

Members of both parties wanted to prevent a repeat of Watergate.

They went to great pains to make sure something like that never happened again.

Passing laws and measures to claw back congressional powers

and curb political influence. Fifty years later now, Donald Trump has blown past many of those

protections, culminating in last night's indictment of former FBI director James Comey, only days after publicly pressuring

Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute him. So we have to ask, is this the moment

Senator Church was warning us about, that abyss from which there is no return?

Senior White House official telling Politico that they are strapped in for a fight.

But Democrats aren't budging either, betting that the White House is bluffing about its threats to carry out a mass firing of federal workers, and hoping voters hold Republicans responsible for a shutdown. Voter registration, things like that. Why does Donald Trump, why do Republicans can use Soros as such a bogey man?

Sure. I mean, this is not, did not start with Donald Trump and will not end with Donald Trump.

I mean, this has kind of been, you know, the Charles and David Koch of the right here.

And by that, I mean, this is a target who Trump brings up all the time. When Trump was indicted by Alvin Bragg in 223, his first line of attack was that Bragg was funded and handpicked by George Soros.

So to some extent, it's surprising this didn't happen earlier.

What's happening now after the killing of Charlie Kirk is Trump is kind of targeting the democratic infrastructure

and sort of the left wing that he sees as fomenting political violence.

And lots of that, you know, as he said, as he put yesterday in the Oval Office, he says,

he keeps hearing about George Soros.

It did not take him a long time to begin hearing that because he has become a obsession

of conservative media.

And it appears now this is going from talk to action right where we have the oj

planning to try to find a way to bring charges against the OSF or Open Society Foundation

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