And a sign of the times we are living in, the Speaker of the House got sued today over his refusal to seat a duly elected member of Congress.

For weeks, he's refused.

And the person who sued him, I just mentioned her, Arizona Attorney General Chris Mays, is standing by to join me in just a moment.

She's my first guest.

But I wanted to start tonight with another story I just talked with Chris about, the jaw-dropping news out of the New York Times

that Donald Trump is demanding that the Department of Justice, which is now under his complete control,

pay him $230 million because in his mind, I guess, he thinks they owe him that simply because he was investigated multiple times for a variety of things.

I'm not even going to list him all here. You all know, I'll know what they are.

And in case you were thinking, that's pretty outrageous, even for him. I didn't even believe

necessarily the push alert for a second. Well, when Trump was asked about the Times reporting earlier

today, he confirmed he is in fact demanding money from the Justice

Department, falsely saying that, quote, they rigged the election. He loves that one, doesn't it?

I mean, I guess there he must be referring to the election that he himself tried to steal and

overturn. That aside. Now, then even getting into how completely baseless that claim is,

or how justified the federal

investigations into Trump or which they were, let's just focus for a second on how Trump is

demanding this reported $230 million from his own Justice Department.

As the Times put it today, Trump is, quote, negotiating, in essence, with his subordinates.

According to the Justice Department manual settlements of claims against the department for more

than $4 million must be approved by the Deputy Attorney General or the person who oversees

the agency's civil division. Now, the current Deputy Attorney General just happens to, of course,

be that guy, Todd Blanche,

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