Wednesday, October 4th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: the House voted to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy; the judge in the Trump New York fraud civil trial has placed a limited gag order on Donald; Arizona prosecutors are investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, the Fulton County DA has offered plea deals to at least a handful of the remaining 18 defendants in the election interference RICO case; Governor Katie Hobbs has canceled Saudi owned water leases; Rep. Henry Cuellar is un...
Oct 04, 2023•31 min•Ep. 1212
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: Trump’s fraud trial in New York is underway with Judge Engoron presiding; California Governor Gavin Newsom appoints Laphonza Butler to fill the senate seat left vacant by the death of Dianne Feinstein; an appeals court has upheld the Tennessee and Kentucky bans on transgender care for minors; North Carolina Republicans are creating a secret police force; Matt Gaetz is threatening to oust McCarthy as speaker but so far he’s all talk and no actio...
Oct 03, 2023•38 min•Ep. 1211
Monday, October 2nd, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: the Democrats swoop in a save the day by passing a continuing resolution to keep the government open but not before the Putin caucus strips Ukrainian funding; January 6th fugitive Christopher Worrell has been captured, and you’ll never guess where they found him; Scott Hall becomes the first Fulton County defendant to flip; the police chief who led that raid on the Marion County Kansas newspaper has been suspended; an arrest has been made in the...
Oct 02, 2023•31 min•Ep. 1210
Friday, September 29th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: The First Department Appellate Division of New York has denied Trump’s attempt to stay his business fraud civil case brought by the New York Attorney General and the trial will commence Monday; special counsel Jack Smith has filed his opposition to Trump’s motion to delay the obstruction and espionage case in Florida; the state of Alabama seeks to execute an inmate with an untested nitrogen hypoxia; Elon Musk has fired half of the Twitter ele...
Sep 29, 2023•33 min•Ep. 1209
Thursday, September 28th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: Judge Tanya Chutkan has denied Donald’s motion for her to recuse herself from his case; Jared Kushner pressured The Washington Post to fire its editor over Russia reporting; the FBI is investigating Senator Bob Menendez canoodling with Egyptian intelligence; Senator Tommy Tuberville has said that the military is not an equal opportunity employer; Congressman Goldman demands Justice Clarence Thomas recuse himself from an upcoming case involv...
Sep 28, 2023•45 min•Ep. 1208
Wednesday, September 27th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: a judge has found Donald Trump and his sons guilty of fraud and has ordered the Trump Organization LLC dissolved; Hunter Biden has filed a lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani and Robert Costello; DA Fani Willis has filed an opposition to Meadow’s removal motion appeal in the 11th circuit; the Supreme Court denies the Alabama GOP’s bid to use their old racist district map; the Department of Justice is investigating Tyson and Perdue for child labo...
Sep 27, 2023•49 min•Ep. 1207
Tuesday, September 26th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: Senator Bob Menendez pushes back on the charges against him and refuses to resign; the FBI issued a notice ahead of January 6th that extremists would be willing to take violent action; Judge McAfee orders no juror information will be disclosed to the public in the Fulton County RICO case; the former president attacks MSNBC and Mark Milley accusing them of treason; former Cassidy Hutchinson lawyer Passantino pulls Judge Chutkan in his defamat...
Sep 26, 2023•30 min•Ep. 1206
Monday, September 25th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: Clarence Thomas secretly attended Koch brothers donor events; Cassidy Hutchinson’s Trump paid lawyer Stefan Passantino is suing Andrew Weissmann for defamation; President Biden has established the first ever Office of Gun Violence Prevention; the Ohio Redistricting Commission selects a Republican working map and sets public hearings; a judge has ordered the arrest of far right blogger Jacob Engels for contempt of court in a defamation case; p...
Sep 25, 2023•31 min•Ep. 1205
Friday, September 22nd, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as chairman of Fox News and the Fox News Corporation; House Republicans leave for vacation after failing to reach a solution to the looming government shutdown; Jack Smith files a proposed gag order in the DC coup case; Georgia fraudulent electors argue they’re federal officers in their bid to move their case to federal court; a judge denies an Oath Keepers’ motion for acquittal; plus Allison and Dana deliver y...
Sep 22, 2023•41 min•Ep. 1204
Thursday, September 21st, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: Rudy Giuliani has been accused of groping Cassidy Hutchinson on January 6th according to her new book; Democrats win two key elections in Pennsylvania and New Hampshire; the former federal prosecutor who resigned from the Durham probe confirms she left over the politicization of the investigation; the Department of Defense increases its efforts to reach out to veterans discharged under Don’t Ask Don’t Tell to correct their military records;...
Sep 21, 2023•29 min•Ep. 1203
Wednesday, September 20th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: Hunter Biden is set to plead not guilty to the special counsel gun charges; Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer is suing him for $1.4M; Ray Epps is charged by the Department of Justice for his role in the insurrection on January 6th; Tuberville threatens to subpoena the VA if it doesn’t hand over medical records on reproductive health care; Elon Musk is under federal criminal investigation in the Southern District of New York for tax fraud; Governor Sh...
Sep 20, 2023•34 min•Ep. 1202
Tuesday, September 19th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: More obstruction of justice in the Mar-a-Lago documents case; Jeffrey Clark didn’t show up to his hearing today in his bid to remove his Fulton County case to federal court; House Democrats press for cameras in federal courts; Hunter Biden has filed a lawsuit against the IRS; Kenneth Chesebro has filed a motion to quash one of the Fulton County charges against him arguing that the fraudulent electors were duly elected and certified; Jann Wen...
Sep 19, 2023•51 min•Ep. 1201
Monday, September 18th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been acquitted on all impeachment charges, but only after Trump allies pressure State Senate Republicans to exonerate him; data shows that lying to ATF on gun purchase forms is rarely prosecuted; Judge Middlebrooks bench slaps Donald Trump’s attempt to re-litigate his previously sanctioned lawsuit against HRC and 30 other defendants citing the durham report as “new evidence”; Kevin McCarthy’s brother in l...
Sep 18, 2023•38 min•Ep. 1200
Friday, September 15th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: Special Counsel David Weiss has indicted Hunter Biden on federal firearms charges; Wisconsin’s Republican assembly leader has created a panel to review the criteria to impeach Justice Janet Protaseiwicz; Fulton County Judge McAfee has ruled that he will not try all 19 co-defendants together in the 2020 election interference case; threats mount against prosecutors and FBI agents working on the Hunter Biden probe; the Republican controlled Wisc...
Sep 15, 2023•28 min•Ep. 1199
Thursday, September 14th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: a judge denies a stay pending appeal for Mark Meadows in his bid to move his Fulton County case to federal court and the 11th Circuit expedites a stay hearing for this Friday; Fulton county DA Fani Willis argues to the 11th Circuit that former federal officers can’t have cases removed to federal court; an appeals court has denied Trump's motion to stay his E. Jean Carroll trial; a judge has unsealed the appellate court decision on the DoJ’s...
Sep 14, 2023•38 min•Ep. 1198
Wednesday, September 13th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: Without the House voting and without a shred of evidence, Kevin McCarthy has opened an impeachment inquiry into President Biden; a NY judge says he may delay Trump’s hush-money trial, citing the former President’s ‘Rapidly Evolving’ Court Schedule; a group in Minnesota has filed to disqualify Donald Trump from the ballot under section 3 of the 14th Amendment; five former police officers are federally indicted in the death of Tyre Nichols; ...
Sep 13, 2023•51 min•Ep. 1197
Tuesday, September 12th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: new updates on the draining of the pool into the server room that housed surveillance video at Mar-a-Lago, the DoJ has dropped their case against Mike Flynn business partner Bijan Rafiekian; Luis Rubiales has resigned as president of the Spanish football federation after kissing Spain forward Jenny Hermoso without consent; Donald Trump has filed a motion to disqualify Judge Tanya Chutkan and recuse her from his case; plus Allison and Dana de...
Sep 12, 2023•35 min•Ep. 1196
Monday, September 11th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: Meadows’ motion to remove his Georgia State case to federal court is denied by Judge Jones; Judge McBurney has released the Fulton County special grand jury report with no opposition; the Justice Department has petitioned the Supreme Court in the mifepristone case; Donald Trump files to remove Colorado’s 14th Amendment Case to federal court and then quickly changes his mind; Trump’s partner in Truth Social Media gets a reprieve days before li...
Sep 11, 2023•47 min•Ep. 1195
Friday, September 8th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: Peter Navarro is found guilty on both counts of criminal contempt; the federal grand jury that indicted Donald in DC is meeting again today; John Eastman declines to elaborate on Senator Grassley saying he was going to preside over the joint session of Congress on January 6th during his disbarment proceedings; That 70s Show actor Danny Masterson is sentenced to 30 years in prison; Elon Musk secretly used Starlink to foil a Ukrainian drone atta...
Sep 08, 2023•36 min•Ep. 1194
Thursday, September 7th, 2023 *We had some issues with the recording on this episode. Some of it had to be stitched together a bit. Do not adjust your podcast players. Today, in the Hot Notes: Fulton County Judge McAfee has denied Kenneth Chesebro’s motion to sever from Sidney Powell; a federal judge has ordered Texas to remove it’s floating barrier and stop any construction of additional barriers pursuant to a DoJ lawsuit; E. Jean Carroll has won her second defamation suit against Trump with th...
Sep 07, 2023•33 min•Ep. 1193
Wednesday, September 6th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: Enrique Tarrio has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role in the attack on the capitol in January 6th; a federal appeals court appears to partially vacate a ruling about Rep Scott Perry’s phone; all 19 defendants in the Fulton County racketeering case have waived arraignment and pled not guilty; Alabama’s Supreme Court defiant congressional map has been struck down and a special master has been appointed to draw a new one; Peter ...
Sep 06, 2023•47 min•Ep. 1192
Tuesday, September 5th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: a junk poll from The Wall Street Journal is making the rounds on legacy media but there’s something you need to know about the pollster who conducted it; Ron DeSantis is opting out of an energy rebate program; the man in charge of Trump’s Black America for Immigration Reform is a racist white guy; a new lawsuit exposes the ties between Saudi Arabia and Twitter; and the growing call to disqualify Trump under Section 3 of the 14 Amendment; plus...
Sep 05, 2023•29 min•Ep. 1191
Monday, September 4th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: Clarence Thomas finally updates his financial disclosure forms; a Trump campaign aide told Capitol Police officers to go hang themselves during the January 6th attack on the Capitol; after crying in front of Judge Kelly at sentencing, a Proud Boy yelled “Trump Won” as he left the courthouse; Governor Brian Kemp has assembled a commission to determine whether a fake Trump elector should be suspended from the State Senate; a judge has rejected D...
Sep 04, 2023•49 min•Ep. 1190
Friday, September 1st, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: the first Proud Boys’ sentences come in at HALF the recommended time by sentencing guidelines; representative Jamie Raskin asks Rep Comer to subpoena Jared Kushner after failed attempts to retrieve documents regarding his $2B Saudi payout; several filings are made in Fulton County about the speedy trial considerations and removal of Meadows’ case to federal court; the jury in 1/6 fugitive Brandon Fellows’ case reaches a guilty verdict after su...
Sep 01, 2023•50 min•Ep. 1189
Thursday, August 31st, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: Sidney and The Cheese both file motions to sever in the Fulton County election interference case; Judge Beryl Howell awards Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss a default judgment pursuant to sanctions in their defamation suit against Rudy Giuliani; the Proud Boys’ sentencing is delayed because Judge Kelly is sick; a judge has denied Pete Navarro’s motion to dismiss his criminal contempt charge; an Alabama republican has been arrested for voter fraud; ...
Aug 31, 2023•35 min•Ep. 1188
Wednesday, August 30th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: Judge McBurney rules the entire Fulton County Special Purpose Grand Jury report will be released Sept 8th barring objections; a January 6th rioter has been held in contempt of court and sentenced to five months in jail while he awaits his verdict; five anti-abortion activist have been convicted of a federal civil rights conspiracy; Fani Willis responds to the judge who approved an early trial for Chesebro but not with the other 18 defendants;...
Aug 30, 2023•26 min•Ep. 1187
Tuesday, August 29th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: I was in the courtroom when Judge Chutkan set the DC trial date for March 4th 2024; Mark Meadows took the stand at a hearing in Fulton County over his motion to move his trial to federal court; Pete Navarro took the stand in DC for his motion to dismiss count one of his criminal contempt indictment; a New York man has been sentenced to three months for threatening Marjorie Taylor Greene; and Ohio Republicans infuse their ballot proposal with an...
Aug 29, 2023•29 min•Ep. 1186
Monday, August 28th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: a white gunman with swastikas on his AR-15 opened fire in a Jacksonville, Florida Dollar General killing three Black people in a racially motivated attack; new US intelligence reports show Russia is laundering propaganda through unwitting Westerners; a Texas judge blocks a ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors; there are now MORE sexual misconduct claims against CPAC’s Matt Schlapp; Fox News has apologized to a gold star family for lyi...
Aug 28, 2023•36 min•Ep. 1185
Friday, August 25th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: Trump will self-surrender at the Rice Street jail in Fulton County pursuant to his racketeering indictment; Fani Willis accepts Kenneth Chesebro’s motion for a speedy trial and the court grants it in part; Trump supporters think a pro-Trump rally outside the Atlanta jail is an FBI set up; Donald makes a change to his Georgia legal team ahead of his booking; there was a GOP primary debate; the Trump era DEA is being investigated for hiring agents...
Aug 25, 2023•30 min•Ep. 1184
Thursday, August 24th, 2023 Today, in the Hot Notes: a new Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington investigation reveals emails between Oath Keepers and the Secret Service; a new Jack Smith filing says Taveras, the Mar-a-Lago IT guy, flipped after getting rid of his Trump-funded lawyer; Kenneth Chesebro has filed for a speedy trial in Fulton County; head of the Wagner Group and the Internet Research Agency Yevgeny Prighozhin has died in a plane crash from Moscow to St. Petersburg, R...
Aug 24, 2023•33 min•Ep. 1183
