on for their own good.

And then they make a good case for it. Maybe there's some blackmail. Maybe there's some bribery. And then they just own anybody they want. They just own any politician they want. Now the bad guys don't have to own every politician. If you said to me, Scott, do you think Thomas Massie is owned by the intelligence people? No, I don't think so. Because they don't need to. All they have to do is own the speaker because the speaker will determine what they can even vote on. And he'll just not allow the Thomas Massies to vote on things that would be a good idea if there's some other reason.

So that's all as dirty as it looks, probably.

Here's another of the know the players. It's not enough to know the news and hear the news and know the names and know the people involved. You have to know about the players' backgrounds to understand the story. So let's say I told you this story that there's a bunch of important ex-government people who are arguing that the January 6 charges should be not thrown out and that the president should be liable for what he did in office on January 6 because if you gave him full immunity, you know, he could do terrible things in office because you don't want presidents to have full immunity.

Now suppose I told you it was a bunch of retired military people. What would you say to that? You'd say, oh, retired generals and military people. Pretty credible. Pretty credible. Suppose I told you that one of the leading people in this effort is a fellow named Michael Hayden. How many of you recognize that name? If you don't know the players the news doesn't make sense. He is a former CIA director, former CIA, also one of the biggest anti-Trumpers, Russia collusion guys ever. He has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that he's not anything but a propagandist, a brainwasher, professional liar who used to be the head of the CIA.

Does that scare you? Because if you told me it was just some generals got together and they were worried about this technical change to a law about presidential immunity and they said this could be a problem, I'd say well you know we should listen to that. But if one of the people who's probably the main principal is the past CIA director Michael Hayden, you should think that that's a completely illegitimate process and that it's part of a propaganda effort and that none of it's legitimate. You just have to know the players.

Or to put it in another way, Michael Hayden I would best describe him as the poor man's Adam Schiff. Did I bring it home? Is there anything else I need to say? He is the poor man's Adam Schiff. That's all you need to know. Same guy, just one's a low-rent version.

Speaking of low rent, do you remember Avenatti? He's in jail for all of his many abuses and the Stormy Daniels situation and others. And from jail he called into MSNBC to talk to Ari Melber. And I guess it didn't go the way they expected because he said he expects Trump to be convicted but there are all kinds of problems with the case. So basically Avenatti said that Trump will be illegitimately prosecuted.

Now that's not exactly what MSNBC wants to hear, is it? They'd like to hear that he's going to be prosecuted and it's all legitimate. Nope. Even Avenatti, even Avenatti, no friend of the president, says yeah he'll probably be convicted but the case is — now Ari had to immediately have on a guest who had big saucer eyes, you know the saucery liars, wide-eyed. Oh, Avenatti doesn't know anything about this case, which he doesn't know enough probably. So I don't think Avenatti's opinion should carry any weight.

It was just hilarious to watch MSNBC try to tap dance away out of the fact that somebody who doesn't like Trump, knows Stormy Daniels, knows the law, says no, it's he's going to be convicted unfairly and it's a bad case. So anyway I saw that Jack Posobiec is all over this and he said that Avenatti just called into Ari Melber on MSNBC from prison and told him the Trump case next