Welcome to Media Roots Radio.

This is Abby Martin.

And this is Robbie Martin.

So Robbie, before we talk about all this insane stuff that's going on, I wanted to just tell our audience really quickly for the people who weren't following me in Telesource coverage for the inauguration.

It was very ominous and it set a really disturbing tone for me for the Trump regime.

Because I was there in the morning, of course Mike's group, the Answer Coalition, had secured this permit so protesters could protest on the inauguration route.

Trump's people had tried time and again to shut it down.

There was people waiting all night and day to guard this, like, area.

They made it as hard as possible to even have this little space.

And even, like, people in the Answer Coalition were tried to, like, FBI agents tried to bribe them to, like, plant stuff in the bleachers and stuff.

Like, they tried everything they could to ruin this and set them up.

And, you know, the morning of the inauguration, I'm standing there in line with my crew for

six hours standing there.

It was a militarized checkpoint.

They were letting in maybe one protester every 10 minutes and they just let in all Trump people

over and over again.

And it really just set a completely disturbing tone for me because I was like, this is how it's going to be.

I kind of realized that, wow, it's going to be really rough. And then I heard later, of course,

after we were lucky enough to get in. And, you know, tens of thousands of people were trapped out

in this checkpoint all day. When we left, after the entire inaug enough to get in. And, you know, tens of thousands of people were trapped out in this checkpoint all day.

When we left, after the entire inauguration was over, there were still tens of thousands

of people trapped outside in that checkpoint.

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