Dahlia Lithwick on the Trump Trials

Will the Jan. 6th Trial happen in time? Or will it just be the Stormy Daniels Case?

[@erickborling1302]

Determining Trump ineligible is NOT "disenfranchisement" of any voter.

[@Kari.F.]

I agree. Republican voters will still have an eligible candidate to vote for in the general election, like they always have. If they can vote for their party's candidate and choose not to do it, that's them making a choice for themselves. People who are disenfranchised don't get to choose.

[@hereigoagain5050]

Excellent observation.

[@stanhubbard3812]

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[@efowlermail]

New Yorkers have hated Trump for a long time-We know him.

[@mistiecantey1]

And all the witnesses against him know him too but his supporters still insist that he’s being persecuted. 🙄

[@jujumama]

​@mistiecantey1 if you all have known him for a long time, why is it coming now?

[@norb.engineering]

I was in New York when Agent Orange tried to join the new York yacht club, it didn't go well!

[@lukeworldwide]

Hi Al and Dahlia Regarding the 14th Amendment case, I think there may be an example of similar situation from Australia, where I'm from, which might provide some lessons. A few years ago, a few smarties realized that the Australian constitution prevented people with certain types of dual citizenships to be members of parliament. Like the section of the 14th Amendment, this is very clear from the text of the constitution. But Australia's highest court, being the High Court, did the right thing which was ignore the politics completely and follow the letter of the law. As a consequence, a whole bunch of members of parliament had to resign. This was huge. It potentially could have changed the government of Australia. But guess what? We all survived. Members of parliament had to resign, relinquish their citizenships of other countries, follow the rules and rerun for office. And most importantly, our democracy survived, stronger, because we followed the rule of law. Love the show. Thanks.

[@MrSean03839]

The SCOTUS has been corrupted so there is little hope of the court preventing the establishment of a dictatorship.

[@13699111]

I agree with your comment

[@Yve55]

That's great. I learned something today. Thanks for sharing this information. Hello from Colorado🏞 🌎

[@conscientioussubjector1360]

My response is to quote Winston Churchill: You can always count on America to do the right thing…..after all other options have been exhausted. This has been especially true in the Trump era. As a citizen, as a veteran….i find it sad and pathetic…and even moreso, infuriating.

[@georgianacairns145]

Thank you, thank you for this input!!!!! Hello from Florida.

[@SEOshogun]

Well he said more than it will be wild. He said, "go to the capital and fight like hell! Or you won't have a country anymore"

[@yowzephyr]

Yes! So many commentators quote "will be wild". Too few quote "fight like hell or you won't have a country any more".

[@user-pt3gi5ul2e]

​@@yowzephyr and too many on the pro - democracy side use the "fight like hell" exhortation! We need to "fight like heaven", nonviolently and rationally, to set a good example and achieve the country we deserve!

[@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401]

​@@user-pt3gi5ul2e No longer...Democrats have tried that route for decades and see where we were pre- 2020. The gloves came off and we are making progress...more to be done, believe no Republican!

[@EmmettHenderson-hf1zm]

A campaign is not a defense.

[@dfuher968]

I honestly find it so utterly mindboggling, how Americans talk about this 14th, section 3. Coz as Dahlia says, the text is very clear, if u go by the law, there is zero doubt.. Yet all I hear is "oh, let the voters decide", "oh, how will Trumps cult react", "it will be political" bla-bla-bla. Its all bs. Either ur a country of laws, or ur not. Like another poster from Australia described, they had a case a few years back, that went solely by the law and meant a lot of MPs having to resign, and they survived. Guess what, America, u will survive following the law. I dont get, why following the law is even up for debate. Its not something, that would even be discussed in any other Western democracy, we follow the law as written, as thats it, politics do not get a say, nor do feelings or what ifs or any of the other bs. How is just following the Constitution as written so hard???

[@OdyTypeR]

There is an assumption of the prevalence of "good-faith actors" baked into your analysis. To the American public, it's pretty cut and dry. (Of course I mean, to those who think for themselves, not the hat-carrying cult members, they'll do whatever the Emperorange says) But to the Federalist Society who selected the Supreme Court (and the right-wing ecosystem behind the entire process), _any_ challenge to power is just an opportunity to find that one innovative loophole that just needs a little more money to squeeze out... It's a 1789 worldview when it suits them, and if that proves inconvenient, then they switch to the 2540 worldview (632 AfterFord) to get the job done. Capitalism drives innovation, ya know. 🤦

[@dougsholly9323]

You are missing the point entirely. This whole premise is based off an assumed fact that an insurrection actually took place. Someone just labeled it that, and the left went with it. But what makes that true? I would assume, for the purposes of 'a country of laws', that someone, in particular Trump, would have to be actually charged an convicted of said violation of the law. No one has been convicted of committing an insurrection. As matter of fact, no one has even been charged with it. Lacking that makes the 14th amendment argument irrelevant, and means that not allowing Trump to be president should be decided by the voters. See how that works, you know, in a country of laws...?

[@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401]

​@@dougsholly9323 No one sees how that works because the premise is incorrect. There was an insurrection on January 6th; that has been legally established. At the same time, it has also been legally established that tfg,Trump (so looking forward to never hearing or seeing that name again), instigated this insurrection. It should be even easier for you to see that.

[@mistiecantey1]

Exactly

[@colchiandragon7396]

Hannah Arendt wrote “Origins of Totalitarianism” in about 1950. It should be required reading for all Americans.

[@nancyshaw9604]

Thank You Mr. Franken !

[@carolbulmer8253]

Thank you, Al and Dahlia, for speaking the truth👏👏👏👏👏

[@patrickpierce1635]

Biden NEEDS to add those 4 seats to the Supreme Court NOW. Everybody always cites tit-for-tat w/the republicans on that one, I'm telling you the next time they get into power they sure as HELL are going to add those seats whether we do or not, and it's going to be Justice Aileen Canon, and Jeneanne Piro.

[@hereigoagain5050]

Sure, but the GOP will want to add another 15 justices when they get power. I'd go for term limits and mandatory retirement age.

[@stevenmaginnis1965]

@@hereigoagain5050 I'd go for replacing the whole darn Constitution with a new constitution based on the French or German constitutions, because those governments obviously work better. And remember, France's constitution only dates back to 1958 because the previous one was so bad!

[@yvonneplant9434]

It kinda sounds like Sotomayor may leave soon. She says she is tired/ worn out.

[@yvonneplant9434]

​lll

[@yvonneplant9434]

​@@stevenmaginnis1965Too risky. Germans are still dealing with right wing lunatics in their midst. I doubt those neofascist care about their constitution.

[@TrudyVanDyke-sq9uh]

Merrick Garland was too slow.

[@dizzolve]

9:20 'too chicken to do it' ?? They weren't too chicken to overturn Roe. If they hide behind being chicken here ..... that's BS

[@isnamthere4690]

I hope Merrick Garland is happy that he delayed long enough initially to get us on the late schedule we are on today.

[@stevenmaginnis1965]

He'll regret it when the Trump 47 administration selects him as one of the top Democrats to send to the gallows for being an enemy of the state.

[@yowzephyr]

With these Trump cases it's "Justice delayed is justice denied, and also possibly democracy fried".

[@pauldockree9915]

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." Like many of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous quotations, these words echo through the ages.

[@katherinecompton6591]

Great conversation as always, Al. Thank you, Dahlia.

[@susan174]

Thanks for doing the hard work of truth-telling

[@adamconroy2146]

Thank you Uncle Al and Dahlia Llama. Soooo good to listen to two clear thinking peobods addressing purely current material with some levity now and then. Again Taa for that guys.

[@darthsirrius]

This should all have been done two plus years ago. The fact we have to deal with this at all is absolute nonsense. Every single one of these should have went with absolute haste, it's nothing but insane for these to not have taken precedent over all other cases, and be handled with singular purpose until resolved.

[@davidmacleod9313]

I want to see Trump wearing an orange onesie!!!!

[@dougsholly9323]

Hey, you are just like me. I'd love to see Biden in one...

[@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401]

​@@dougsholly9323 LOL...Biden would look good! Trump?... Heaven forbid !

[@susanschaffner4422]

She's always great. Thanks.

[@thermodynamics458]

The European Union approved funding of 54 billion dollars for Ukraine this week. So it’s not all bad news.

[@hereigoagain5050]

True:) but it is over 4 years :(. EU spends more than 54 billion in one year on farm aid (CAP). It really is a drop in the bucket compared to the 16 trillion GNP of the EU.

[@sydgriffin7591]

Wow. Thanks Al! Dahlia Lithwick is a treasure. She explains extremely complicated issues clearly, calmly, and with good humor. I don't think anyone else is doing the work you do. Of bringing unhysterical analysis to these highly charged events and making them accessible to us lay people. I'd go so far as to say your shows are pretty good! I think they will be a valuable part of the historical record when we have a chance to look back at these fractious times. Assuming we have a chance to look back from some point in the future. Seems like even money on that idea as of late.

[@MR2spyder100]

We got the answer yesterday, 2/5! They took so long w the writing, to make it tight enough the Supremes may take a pass. If he chooses to run for office while trials are pending, the courts have no obligation to accomodate him. The consequences are on him.

[@nomercadies]

Thank goodness. Something to quench our entertainment thirst on a Saturday night.

[@user-wl2bd8vn3p]

WW 3 on the horizon. Military draft coming 🤭🤣

[@mcjordan76]

thank you Al... a dose of sanity... so glad to see/hear you again...

[@Yve55]

Thank you both for this podcast. My #2cents is this Coloradan is voting for President Biden💙 #VoteBlue2024 MASSIVELY

[@jujumama]

why?

[@Yve55]

@@jujumama What's your problem?

[@jujumama]

@Yve55 stfu and answer the question? What's your problem? I asked a question. I got no answer, and a hostile reply. Do u think it makes u look good? What's YOUR problem? 🧐 we all REALLY wanna know. WHY?! What is a reason for voting for biden? It's a question!!! So hostile!!!!!! WHYYYYYYYY

[@sfong718]

Dahlia is right. NO ONE is going to save us from a second Trump presidency except US. We voters have to do the work to save our democracy. I am committed to voting blue for President, Senator, Congressperson; donating to Democrats running for election; volunteering to write postcards to encourage registered voters to actually vote. #SaveYourLifeVoteBLUE

[@carmelaguanciale6620]

The question is, who is paying these conservative judges to slow walk their decisions?

[@efowlermail]

Turns out his codefendant in the Mar-a-Lago was dishonorably discharged from the Navy for sexual harassment, bullying and revenge porn.

[@hereigoagain5050]

Was that Ron DeSantis? :)

[@user-pt3gi5ul2e]

​@@hereigoagain5050 Waltine Nauta

[@Tam5115]

I love Dahlia and I miss her with the Nerd Avengers

[@songsmithy07]

It is foolhardy to hope and pray for some extra-political agent will keep DJT from becoming POTUS. There is only one option; VOTE! 🪖 Defend the Constitution 🪖 🇺🇲 Protect Our Democracy 🇺🇲 💙 VOTE BLUE VOTEo 💙

[@AndreaCuchetto]

Of course we will vote. We will win, too. But, like gerrymandering, voter purging, voter intimidation, and every other wrong thing done to disenfranchise and dishearten voters, allowing Trump to further damage our democracy by putting him on the ballot is both morally and legally wrong.

[@pattykelly6621]

Didn't we already litigate this? Didn't Nixon say something like 'when the president does it, its not illegal'? And that didn't fly?

[@ScottDodgson]

Read On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder. Being afraid of the backlash is the first step to tyranny.

[@riqpate7122]

Nazis rose as first local then regional institutions failed to apply law. Then Hindenberg failed to support law lest public order be 'disturbed '.

[@patriciamartinez-lx8dy]

Thank you Al , great podcast.

[@sharonhearne5014]

All of this discussion verifies that these legal roadblocks are benefitting criminal behavior rather than providing justice to Americans and that justice is losing ground inching closer to the failure of American democracy. How big is this coffin going to be?

[@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401]

Thank you for a sensible comment.

[@joaniebraddock]

Thanks!

[@ArtDocHound]

A great one! for a change.

[@dl8193]

Come on Lithwick! You know darn well that none of the 3 judges hearing the immunity appeal were appointed by Trump

[@EmmettHenderson-hf1zm]

If campaign was a defense anyone could file for office and use campaigning as a defense, it is in no way a defense. He could campaign from a prison cell.

[@EmmettHenderson-hf1zm]

One go out and commit murder and claim campaigns as a defense.

[@EmmettHenderson-hf1zm]

He kept campaigning because he is very stupid ignorant and has convinced himself he is above the law.

[@susanyoung10]

I’m not sure that “enjoyed” is an accurate description of what I felt while listening to this. Disappointed, frustrated, worried, angry certainly apply. The snails pace of the legal system is beyond frustrating! If ever there was a time to make haste, this is it.

[@PleaseDontEatTheAnimals]

Was certainly quick to decide the Bush v. Gore case though... 😩

[@newnewhutchison991]

And I agree 💯

[@tammyjantzen9004]

Great discussion! I often wonder if Trump uses Alina Habba so he can appeal using the excuse that he had bad representation.

[@daveetcetera7952]

Along with the "entertainer defense" and "insanity defense" because "no reasonable person should believe me."

[@ateamfan42]

That thought occurred to me as well, but I tend to believe he has highly incompetent lawyers only because anyone competent who might consider representing him has learned that he doesn't pay his lawyers.

[@user-pt3gi5ul2e]

Habba is begging for a defamation lawsuit from E Jean Carroll herself! Perhaps Barbara Jones will get Alina paid so she can hand it over.

[@tammyjantzen9004]

@@ateamfan42 But all of his lawyers are being paid right now with his donor money. When his attorneys are unethical and spew his propaganda, that's the ones he pays.

[@joyrico5989]

Love your show 🎉

[@elaineburnett5230]

Correction judge Henderson was appointed by Reagan

[@nunyabiz1780]

So happy he found work. I loved him as Pat on SNL

[@davidwilkie9551]

Thank you

[@mmsapollo]

So grateful to both of you for sharing your wisdom. Maybe we can stay clean and pure?

[@davidmacleod9313]

9:15 Why can’t the DOJ start saying “The law is the law!”?

[@pauldockree9915]

"The arc of the immoral universe is long, but it bends towards just ice." 😊😅😮😊

[@catznjam470]

This was very enjoyable, I love you both, and have for more years than any of us want to acknowledge 🤗👍👍👍😘🫂💙🗽 Register to vote, check on your registration to make sure they didn't purge you for some crazy thing, try to keep it together and enjoy life, and be there!! Bring friends and family and you won't be alone, and we can all have a good time, watch out for each other, and save our democracy 💪😘🗽🫂

[@plazfram8641]

Is Sen Franken surprised at how long one can survive while abusing uppers and downers simultaneously? How long before cardiac event?

[@jonathanrossddsmhs1271]

With Elvis as an example, probably 7 years.

[@bethnapoli2066]

Jonathan Ross interesting that he compares his looks to Elvis.

[@joeb4142]

This discussion assumes that Jack Smith won’t bring more charges against Stinky in the next few months. Don’t underestimate Special Counsel Smith. So much intelligence and wisdom in this podcast. 👍🏻

[@leannesheary-ru7ju]

I hope you’re very well. 😊 You Sound Great 🎉 ❤From x Broadway . Friend on the street 🎉.

[@leebrock4783]

Please keep Donnie on all ballots. Give him no excuse to whine after his ass gets handed to him.

[@spicyirwin5835]

He will still whine of a stolen election tho. Trump has zero class🤯

[@btbingo]

Trump is certain no laws apply to him.

[@susanford2388]

Then so much for the SC & textualism. That means then that a President can indeed try & overthrow the Gov & have another go

[@Kari.F.]

He was on the ballot in 2018, and lost quite convincingly. And as you know; he has been whining, raging and blaming everyone but himself all day, every day ever since. Do you really think he won't find excuses to repeat the 2018 cycle all over again if he stays on the ballot? He's a top tier narcissist. Believe me, he will ALWAYS find excuses to rant and whine and feel put "up on". They don't have to be even a little bit justified or rational.

[@conscientioussubjector1360]

Absolutely nuts that we cannot get these cases tried in a timely fashion. Justice should be slow but also deliberate. In these cases, deliberately swift, considering there is a timeline for elections …our nation-hood is hanging in the balance.

[@clearfield2009]

How many people have the luxury of time to donate to fighting for this democracy? People are working 2 jobs just to survive.

[@catznjam470]

It may be a good thing that the payoff of a porn star goes first in a criminal case - the evidence is incredibly strong, and if he's already a convicted criminal felon, that can't hurt in a general election or in the minds of the public at large - these kind of cases are watched lol it's a shame, but that's the nature of sex stuff, it gets attention... The case is really about falsifying business records 🤷‍♀️ but people won't really understand that part as much

[@sblumenstein6688]

Al, Do you know the podcast, Inside Russia with Constantin? You’d like him and his insights into what is actually happening in Russia now.

[@SkeletalBasis]

“Law” is slow? More realistically, it has been *slowed* to a near halt by bad actors embedded in the system by worse actors.

[@orffrocks5667]

yikes! that was some overwhelming information

[@stevenmaginnis1965]

The Democratic House district in Nebraska is NOT a suburb of Kansas CIty - it is the district centered in Omaha. Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas are 185 miles away from Omaha. I can't believe that Al Franken can draw a map of the continental U.S. from memory yet think Nebraska is outside Kansas City!

[@user-pt3gi5ul2e]

Was just thinking that!

[@michelebenedosso3899]

The Supreme Court wasn’t “chicken” to get rid of the Roe decision…🤷‍♀️ This incenses me…. They should DO THE RIGHT THING- Follow the Constitution!

[@user-rj3oq4cq6b]

Everyone else says Henderson is a Bush appointee

[@rayschoch5882]

And if Trump's argument is ruled to be correct, why couldn't the current president send Seal Team 6 to take out Trump, who's an obvious and demonstrated enemy of the Constitution and representative government? Someone should ask Mr. Trump about that in a public place where there are cameras and recording devices. I'd be interested in his reply.

[@Jamescityboygardening]

The Border Bill PDF Text just dropped, last night.

[@suzannebennett8987]

I would think that being in the presence of a jury would always be a losing proposition for 45, what with his presence being offensive to all human senses in every way.

[@pauldockree9915]

Star Trek The Next Generation big movie Generations quotes Kirk: Did we do it? Did we make a difference? Picard: Oh, yes. We made a difference. Thank you. Kirk: Least I could do for the captain of the Enterprise. [last words] Kirk: It was... fun. Oh, my...

[@efowlermail]

Pause the trial only if he agrees not to stage a riot while cogress is certfying his third loss. That is idiotic.

[@scottmorse8847]

He DOES have to post a bond in the full amount of the verdict award BEFORE he can file to appeal right?

[@davidmacleod9313]

31:07 Trump is running out the clock on the United States of America… DO SOMETHING!!!!

[@daveetcetera7952]

crazy pants? I've heard of crazy town...

[@johnspehn4051]

Your first pt is understood. It begs the Q, if SCOTUS judges were subject to threats of violence against themselves, their families and associates from the left, if they ignore sect 3 and allow Trump on all ballots, would their decision be different. The argument to ignore sect 3, no matter 😊the contrived benefit, has to be unconstitutional. If we can select which amendments to follow and which to ignore, we don't have any amendments. This SCOTUS will, IMO, will have spent their legitimacy and the consent of the people will have been dissolved. SCOTUS gonna need an army to enforce their oppressive, unconstitutional rulings.

[@Dctosd]

I want to vote for Obama to have a third term. Does that mean if a State puts him on the ballot, then the Supremes won't order Obama's removal under the Constitution's bar on 3rd terms because it would disenfranchise me and other Obama voters? The Constitution is clear - Obama is barred from a 3rd term; dumb donnie is barred under the 14th amendment's insurrection clause.

[@pedronoa1973]

So we are going to commit the same mistakes, not charging Nixon and not disqualifying chump from the ballot. What's gonna be the argument for NOT Locking him up? How are you guys gonna rationalize this, when your sitting I one of chumps camps. WE MUST INSIST ,the laws are followed.

[@hereigoagain5050]

Love Dahlia! How can Trump use campaign contributions to pay legal fees that are not associated with a campaign? Does Citizen's United allow unrestricted spending? Does he have to declare it as income?

[@joangravitz3280]

He doesn't pay taxes on it

[@margil9368]

Aileen Cannon starts in May. Seems pretty open and shut. Did you take the classified docs? Yes, yes you did. I'm sorta thinking May is a good time, if this weirdo immunity thing gets trounced.

[@susanford2388]

Or Trump will say "Yes, yes I did as I am entitled"! Aileen "Yes, I agree as you are above the law Mr. President". Case closed. No judges or justices should be appointed during a lame duck period when the then President has not been re-elected.

[@joangravitz3280]

She will delay as long as he wants

[@mistiecantey1]

So poor indicted defendants have to go to trial, unless they are campaigning for something. Hmm. 🤔

[@4OHz]

Al -Al-AL!!! You need to listen to LEEJA MILLER - and convince her to Run for CONGRESS!! !!!!!

[@Jamescityboygardening]

Your talking about Trump Election Interference Trial in NYC...

[@talithamac]

If he's not on the ballot in ME & CO, won't people write him in anyway? Biden wasn't on the ballot in the NH primary but he still got the majority vote.

[@wstbrook]

They just would just not count the vote because Trump would be ineligible to serve as President.

[@susanford2388]

I love Al Franken, he is intelligent & eloquent & does not need to say the word "like" incessantly unlike his guest. DL used it when she was talking in fact so the "Like" is superfluous, not needed. I was getting quite fed up listening to her.

[@hereigoagain5050]

That is, like, an interesting observation.

[@susanford2388]

@@hereigoagain5050 like hahahaha. When someone says "Like" it makes me wonder about their vocabulary. DL is evidently very bright so her need for the "like" is beyond my comprehension. If I were to transcribe the podcast & remove the "likes" it would sound more intelligent & eloquent. 40 years ago people did not speak the same way, I blame the dumbing down of education.

[@hongolloyd8728]

I kind of like like, like you know what I mean. Right, right, right?

[@susanford2388]

@@hongolloyd8728 yeah, yeah, you did make me laugh though, I was like smiling.

[@hereigoagain5050]

@@susanford2388 I like English because it is like the party girl of languages. It morphed half dozen languages together, and freely borrows words from around the world. It doesn't have an official institution to decree changes. It now allows you to like split infinitives, and to like end with prepositional phrases. These types of changes up with which I will not put. :)

[@dougvalmore1450]

I believe Dahlia was correct about 6 men/3 women for the chronologically first trial, but the recent verdict was delivered by 7 men/2 women (not that gender should have anything to do with it...). Just to set the record straight...

[@davidmacleod9313]

20:10 Merrick Harland waited two and a half l o n g years!!!!!!!

[@jujumama]

wow

[@rennkkrennkk8406]

Can Trump voters do a write- in even if he does not appear on the ballot? Would those votes be counted. If yes, could he ,therefore ,win if he actually got the most votes?

[@ateamfan42]

This is why everyone has to vote, not matter what the courts say about names on ballots.

[@hereigoagain5050]

Roe vs Wade was decided on a broad reading of the 14th Amendment. Dobbs was decided by this SCOTUS on a narrow interpretation. It will be interesting to see which SCOTUS shows up if these insurrection cases make it that far. BTW. My high school US Government class taught the insurrection clause, so, no, some people were aware of it, but that was decades ago.

[@user-pt3gi5ul2e]

All citizens BORN or NATURALIZED shall be free from involuntary servitude! That should have covered it!

[@timhighfield748]

That woman always scares the piss out of me Al.

[@hereigoagain5050]

I know, right! She is so happy and bubbly, then tells us we are all going to have horrible deaths.

[@user-pt3gi5ul2e]

​@@hereigoagain5050 It's why I don't dance to "People Who Died" by the Jim Carroll Band.

[@dianesilkey1445]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@LMM7880]

If Trump wins he replaces Alito and Thomas. Maybe more. What a world.

[@stevenmaginnis1965]

You want ME to be a poll worker? Me, a resident of Sam Alito's home town, a town where a Trump supporter has a life-size cardboard cartoon impression of Trump giving the thumbs-up sign attached to the railing of his front porch? I don't THINK so!

[@damonbernard2802]

Pathetic, I hear people both siding trump and Biden, and it drives me crazy

[@annielindt6245]

Encore!

[@damonbernard2802]

I love Dahlia as a guest

[@gjnelsondotcom]

15th!

[@pauldockree9915]

Too soon to TELL. Cross Beau or what?

[@yowzephyr]

2:54 Not sure why Al says Russia's invasion of Ukraine is the first cross border invasion since World War 2. Is Al forgetting Iraq's invasion of Kuwait? Perhaps Al meant in Europe.

[@direwolf6234]

so the bottom line is .. we will all be feeling nothing but 'schpilkes' for the next 9 months ...

[@DougGrinbergs]

4:00 Dahlia

[@bbergin5228]

I feel seen. Poll workers ARE old and scared of being terrorized. If you're young and brave, sign up with your county to work the elections. Live dangerously! YOLO!

[@OrkunAkin]

dear Al, please stop interrupting your guests mid-sentence. you know, for a change. otherwise, love everything you've done and are doing. thanks.

[@joangravitz3280]

Okay. So, in short, we are doomed?