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Back to episode — Episode 2948 CWSA 09/04/25

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surprise me that Harvard of all places could put up a good legal battle because the whole point of Harvard is it's the best of the best and even with DEI there still it's like smartest people around. But they also have the Harvard Law School and they're the most connected people in the world. So you would expect that the most connected, capable, high-level lawyers in the world would know how to ge…

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just heard horrible things and it was every day and it was continuous and lots of people were involved.

Now one of the things preventing any of them from naming names might be that they'd all signed settlements in court because there was some large amount of money for settlements. And they're just not allowed to talk about it without risking losing whatever substantial money they got. And so that's part of it.

But there's also the problem that if the only thing you knew is that somebody was a regular or that you knew that they had visited the island, you have that problem of people who literally broke no laws and didn't do any of the naughty stuff whose lives would be pretty well ruined by the release. So what do they do? And then how do they prevent payback and getting sued and all that? Because they would all get sued if they mention a name of some billionaire and there's no hard proof that they did anything wrong. I mean the lawyers are going to just destroy these poor victims.

So I think was it Marjorie Taylor Greene and maybe somebody else were noodling with the idea that they would be the ones who would read them out loud because if you do it on the House floor, apparently there's some kind of law that gives you legal immunity so that you can say any damn thing in that specific context so nobody can sue you.

So they need a way to get the names out that won't get them sued. And so they might pull together names, give them to Marjorie Taylor Greene, and have her read them. Now Marjorie Taylor Greene then would have the problem of being the agent of possibly ruining the lives of people who got pulled into something that they didn't quite know what it was about but maybe didn't do anything wrong. So how do you handle that? I don't know.

But I would like to suggest the following. It shouldn't be one list. If they pull together something, it should be something like here's the people that we have a living human who says I watched it or I participated or I was the specific victim or I walked into the room and saw it or my best friend described it to me and I knew it was true. So that should be one list. But the other list should be people who maybe visited or associated but there's no accusation. So it might be the accused list and then literally called the not-accused list because that would at least give the people on the not-accused list the easy out. Say, just look at the news. I'm on the not-accused list. It literally is the not-accused list. So leave me alone.

So that would probably be, even though that's not enough, the best you could do. Yeah. You need to give the people who don't have a real hard accusation with a witness or something, you need to give them some kind of constitutional protection in this situation. And I think just clarifying that there's two sets of people, the ones you know did some bad stuff and the ones who just sort of were around, that you've got to make that distinction. I hope they do. Anyway, who knows if that will even go anywhere. Nothing else has.

Mayor Bowser of DC is not only in favor of Trump helping with crime by putting in some National Guard, she's also saying that they need a lot more regular police and they've got openings and they're hiring as fast as they can and that's all good. So Muriel Bowser, good job in not being ridiculous.

So many Democrats act in ways that are just ridiculous except the farthest left people that we might be seeing a little bit of a movement back to the middle. You've already seen that, right? The Bill Mahers and such saying we're going to need to get back to something more reasonable. David Axelrod was on CNN saying the same. He said the right answer to this whole crime stuff is, quote, "We'll take all the help we can get as long as it's appropriate an

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d it's stuff that will really help. Send us the resources we need. We want to work with you." Exactly. So this is Axelrod with good advice for his team, which is you need to stop acting like you're pro-crime. You know that's my version of it. But his version is why don't you act a little bit more like you're legitimately anti-crime, if I could paraphrase it. I would give you the additional advic…

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