THE SHOW NOTES: Biden’s Executive Privilege, Dow 40K, & Don't Forget Nakba

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Biden’s Executive Privilege

Joe Biden is claiming executive privilege over audio and video records from the two-day interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur pertaining to his handling of classified documents. Biden’s interview performance was infamously summarized in Hur’s reports as, “a well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

Context: The GOP-led House Oversight and Judiciary committees were scheduled to move forward with a contempt resolution against Attorney General Merrick Garland for refusing to relinquish the recording. Garland petitioned the White House to assert executive privilege “because releasing the tapes would damage future law enforcement efforts."

Why this matters: The Justice Department released the transcript of the interview but Republicans have been seeking the audio and video for months. The coordination between the White House and the Justice Department suggests that Biden’s interview performance is likely worse than previously thought.

Scott Jennings’ take: Everyone has already read it. His speech must’ve been incredibly slurred and weird for them to do this.

Flashback: In February, White House spokesman Ian Sams bragged about Joe Biden not asserting executive privilege during Special Counsel Hur's investigation.

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Don't forget Nakba

Yesterday was Nakba Day and today the media has lots of stories about elderly Palestinians showing their house keys. The spin is that the Israelis forced these people from their homes and they have never been allowed to return. Generationally, as the elderly Palestinians have died, they passed their keys down to their children. It is a real tragedy.

Details: But that is spin. Here is truth. On May 14, 1948, Israel became a nation. The next day, Arabs packed up and fled the land because Arab armies of surrounding nations promised to invade, kill all the Jews, and return the land to the Arabs. The people kept their house keys because they expected to come back the next week to take back all the land the Jews had been lawfully and legally purchasing to build out the land of Israel. But Israel won. The Jews survived. The Arabs who had plotted the Jewish murders were evicted. That is actually Nakba. You can tell the antisemites from the truth-tellers by who is, today, pushing sob stories about Palestinian house keys. Don’t forget the truth.

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