really happy to have you here. There is a lot that the U.S. government and this presidential

administration is failing at right now. In the courts, in public opinion, in politics, in the

technocratic and practical functions of government, even some of their schemes and scams are falling apart. Every day, every news

cycle, the list just piles up of things at which they are failing. Today, for example,

the Justice Department and the Homeland Security Department learned that their officials

may be held in contempt of court by a federal judge in Rhode Island. The administration

put out a press release lying about this particular judge, vilifying this particular judge

in terms that were not true. What it said in the press release about this judge was false.

Now, today in court, the Justice Department's lawyer begged the judge's forgiveness for that. He admitted in today's court hearing in Rhode Island

that he, in fact, had deliberately withheld information from this judge. He said he only did so

because the Department of Homeland Security

explicitly instructed him to do that. That's really bad, but he sort of threw himself on the

mercy of the court, told the judge he's so, so sorry. Lying to a federal judge, lying about a federal

judge is a really big deal if you're a lawyer or a government official.

And even though Trump's Justice Department lawyer, quote, profusely apologized for it in court today,

the judge said at this hearing today that she is weighing contempt charges against DOJ officials and Homeland Security

officials for the lying. That is very not good. And that happened today, while another federal

judge, a judge in Alabama, is also weighing a very serious allegation, a potentially very consequential

allegation, that DOJ lawyers may have lied to the

grand jury in a very high-profile case in Alabama. This is the case about the Southern

Poverty Law Center, where Trump's DOJ has brought a bizarre prosecution against that long-time

civil rights group, Southern Poverty Law Center,

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