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So first they got rid of Gregory Bavino, the little guy who lives in a shoe,

who was inexplicably promoted well beyond his job title to lead Donald Trump's chaotic, violent, trigger-happy inept paramilitary invasions of multiple U.S. cities. They got rid of him. Then they got rid of Christy Nome, the secretary of Homeland Security. Also, technically they also got rid at the same time. They got rid of the guy who

“didn't formally work for the Department of Homeland Security, but nevertheless he was there”

every day and at all of her events sitting or standing right next to her, and he was definitely definitely definitely not her boyfriend because she is super happily married. Then of course we immediately got some quite unexpected news about that aforementioned marriage.

And then we got the multi-million dollar luxury private jet that she and her not boyfriend

procured with taxpayer funds for what they said would be high profile deportations. The private jet with the bar and the queen size bed. Then we learned that the Homeland Security Department would not be keeping that jet after all. The White House instead would be taking it and now is going to be used by other cabinet members and also for some reason by Melania Trump. Investigations into the not boyfriend of Christy Nome demanding payments from companies

“with Homeland Security contracts reportedly continue. The not boyfriend of course denies all wrong”

doing. But then they got rid of the attorney general. She only barely made it a year. In that time she did reduce the U.S. Department of Justice to a smoking Hulk. But apparently she was just getting started when they got rid of her. She had just moved into some general's house because the true mark of making it in the upper echelons of this administration is that you're allowed to essentially loot from the U.S. military. You're allowed to just take over

military housing for yourself because hey, some of it's quite nice. But right after she got moved into some general's house attorney general Pam Bondi was out, then they got rid of the director of ICE following reports that he had had to be hospitalized not once but twice since taking the job because of stress plus another incident in which his security detail reportedly retrieved a portable defibrillator from a nearby office because he was freaking out so hard. They were

sure they were going to have to shock him. Last week the head of ICE Todd Lyons found himself unable to answer basic questions from Democratic Congresswoman Lauren Underwood of Illinois. As she pressed him on why so many people have been dying in ICE custody, he could not answer her basic questions about those deaths. Even basic questions about why those deaths weren't being investigated. And then as soon as that, I'm sure very stressful hearing was over. We learned that

he's out too. He has resigned and he will be gone next month. Well now today, another one down. The Secretary of Labor is out. And where do you want to start with this one? In January,

the New York Post was first to report on a complaint about Trump's labor secretary

that had been made to the department's inspector general. And I got to tell you the New York Post has since done a ton of groundbreaking reporting on this scandal at Trump's labor department. But because it's the New York Post that I'm going to show you some of the reporting, I feel like I just have to mention that the outset that they do decide to decorate much of their reporting on this scandal with photos of Trump's labor secretary in a bikini. Like, I mean, not every article, but a lot

of their articles about this just randomly have pictures of her in a bikini. And I don't, I just, I get, that's just kind of the business model over there. But the reporting is what it is. Trump's labor secretary, Lori Chavez, the remer faced allegations of drinking in the office during the work day and of taking staff members to strip clubs and of taking personal trips at taxpayer expense. She was accused of pursuing a sexual relationship with a member of her security detail.

That member of her security detail was then put on leave. Then he resigned. Then her chief of staff was forced out. Then her deputy chief of the staff was forced out. Then her director of advance was

from going inside the labor department's headquarters building. That ban on him entering the building

“came after two labor department staff members accused him the secretary's husband of sexually assaulting”

them at the labor department headquarters building. The husband denies wrongdoing, but then the

hits just kept coming. Last week, the New York Times was first to report on Trump's labor secretary

allegedly sending text messages to her employees during the work day telling them to bring her wine. The Times says it has reviewed the messages and that they're part of an inspector general investigation. We here at MSNow have not reviewed the messages and have not independently confirmed this reporting. But this is what the Times says, quote, "in one text message, Ms. Chavez DeRimer asked a staff member to bring Rose to her hotel room." The messages are undated, but a picture of the

menu in the text message exchange suggests it comes from a hotel bar in Murdoch, South Carolina,

“where the labor secretary went on an official visit last July. She asked, quote, "Do they sell by the”

bottle?" And it wasn't just the wine, the alleged day drinking, and having labor department employees

bring her wine for day drinking. This is also from the Times. Quote, Ms. Chavez DeRimer's husband and father exchanged text messages with young female staff members at the labor department. Some of the young women were instructed by the labor secretary herself to quote, "pay attention." To quote, "pay attention." To her husband and father. In an April 2025 exchange provided to investigators, Ms. Chavez DeRimer's father wrote to a young female labor department staff member,

quote, "Hearing you are in town, wishing you would let me know. I could have made some excuses to get out and show you around. Please keep this private." The young female labor department staff member responded, quote, "We'll do! No need to worry!" She apologized to him for not reaching out. He responded, quote, "When are you leaving and where are you staying?" This is the labor secretary's father. She allegedly told her young female staffers

“that they needed to quote, "pay attention to him." When are you leaving and where you staying?”

Three labor department staff members have filed civil rights complaints against Trump's labor secretary and the department describing a hostile work environment. But now Trump's labor secretary is out too. As of tonight, Trump's labor secretary, Laurie Chavez DeRimer is out of her job. Her lawyer told us here at MSNow tonight, quote, "Secretary Chavez DeRimer did not resign due to findings that she violated the law." Her decision to leave office was personal.

You know, personally, I think it's got a sting that I don't think they ever gave her a general house. I mean, not like everybody else in the cabinet. I don't think she ever got one. Not even like an admiral's house. But now she's out as well. That said, the FBI director still has his job. The deputy director of the FBI, the podcaster guy, they got rid of him, but the other podcaster guy is still there in the director's job. After learning about director Cash Patel assigning

the FBI SWOT team to be personal bodyguards for his girlfriend after director Cash Patel flew the FBI private jet to the Olympics. So the taxpayers could pay for him to go to Italy and chug beer in the hockey team's locker room. FBI director Cash Patel has now filed a lawsuit and

a demand for $250 million against the Atlantic magazine following the Atlantic reporting this weekend.

I'm what reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick described as his quote, "conspicuous in the creation." quote, several officials told me that Patel's drinking has been a recurring source of concern across the government. They said he is known to drink to the point of obvious intoxication in many cases at the private club Neds in Washington, D.C., while in the presence of White House and other administration staff, Patel is also known to drink to excess at the poodle room in Las Vegas,

where he frequently spends parts of his weekends. Early in his tenure meetings and briefings had to be rescheduled for later in the day as a result of his alcohol-fueled nights, said, "Six, current, and former officials and others familiar with Patel's schedule."

waking him, because he was seemingly intoxicated, according to information supplied to Justice

“Department and White House officials. A request for breaching equipment, normally used by SWAT and”

hostage rescue teams to quickly gain entry into buildings, was made last year because director Cache Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors. According to multiple people familiar with the request, some of Patel's colleagues at the FBI worry his personal behavior has become a threat to public safety. FBI officials and others in the administration have privately questioned whether alcohol played a role, for example, in the multiple instances in which Patel has shared

inaccurate information with the public about active law enforcement investigations,

including following the murder of Charlie Kirk. The Atlantic says its reporter spoke with more

than two dozen sources for this story. MSNow has not independently verified these allegations. Mr. Patel has denied all wrongdoing. He's now suing the Atlantic over this story calling it malicious and defamatory. But for now at least he remains in his job at the FBI with the speculative odds on how quickly podcaster Cache Patel might be fired from that job, hinging somewhat on the question of how much alcohol remains in the news about Trump's FBI director.

Since President Donald Trump is somewhat famously averse to drunkenness. Hey, Pete Higg's death. Still on the job as a defense secretary as the supposed ceasefire in Iran comes to an end. And maybe there are talks in Pakistan or maybe there are not. And maybe Vice President Vance is going to those talks again or maybe he is not. And the president said he made a nuclear deal with Iran and Iran says they did no such thing. And if you're trying to understand even something

as basic as whether or not oil tankers and other ships are now safely navigating the straight of Formus, I don't know what to tell you, but I can't tell you that the U.S. government

has not turned out to be an accurate source of information on that rather crucial point.

The U.S. military did update their casualty numbers today. In addition to the 13 U.S. service members killed in this chaotic war, the number of wounded U.S. Marines in this conflict now stands at 19. The number of wounded U.S. Air Force Airmen stands at 62. The number of U.S. Navy sailors wounded stands at 63. And the number of U.S. Army soldiers wounded in this Iran war stands at 271. That means the current tele, provided we can trust these numbers from the Pentagon.

The current tele is 415 U.S. wounded 13 killed. As thousands more U.S. service members are being sent over there now, even as we speak,

“and as casualty numbers rise. Do we think our service men and women are in good hands?”

Do we think that there is care being taken in terms of what they're risking their lives for? Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend that during the planning and in the operation to rescue a U.S. Airmen shot down in his F-15 and SID Iran, quote, "AIDS kept the president out of the room as they got minute by minute updates because they believed the president's impatience wouldn't be helpful."

It's the Wall Street Journal reporting, attributed, reporting attributed to a senior administration source. And again, we have not validated this reporting on our own terms, but if what the Wall Street Journal is reporting is true, that means in the middle of a war that Donald Trump started, White House AIDS believe President Donald Trump cannot be allowed around sensitive and urgent decisions because he's too much of a mess so they need to keep him

out of the room. Well, okay, how about the season far-sighted experienced wise men, the

“president has surrounded himself with, generally, and specifically to help him make crucial decisions”

about this war that he started. Quote, some of the president's advisors were caught off guard, that tanker traffic in the Strait of Formos would grind to a halt so quickly after the bombing began. They were caught off guard. Quote, Trump has since marveled, marveled at the E's with which the Strait of Formos was closed by Iran. He has marveled. Yes, who possibly could have ever seen that coming? It had no idea. Well, the war seems poised to start right back up again this week,

with American still having no real idea, no credible explanation from the president as to why he has started this war, let alone how he might end it. President Trump continues to send his

U.S. government, but is nevertheless doing the negotiating. In the Middle East, around whatever

this war is about. Now, the president says, Jared always acts in America's best interests,

so nothing to worry about, but does that settle all your concerns about these matters? I mean, they seem to find it not awkward at all, not embarrassing at all, that in these discussions, the person, apparently, leading negotiations on behalf of the United States of America, the president's son-in-law is not being paid by the United States of America, but he is being paid by other countries, in the region who definitely have their own reasons for wanting a war with Iran,

even if the United States actually doesn't. He's being paid by countries that have a lot of skin in the game and have a lot of interest in war with Iran. The United States, at least the people of the United States, haven't been given a reason why we're raging this war, but I mean, Jared's leading the talks, this was the headline in Forbes magazine last fall, quote, "How Jared Kushner's bold bets in the Middle East made him a billionaire."

Well, now the people in the Middle East paying him and making him into a billionaire as of last year, they now get to quote, "negotiate with him with this guy there paying." About whether the U.S. military fights a war.

“Honestly, I don't think the White House gets how repulsive this is to people.”

The smarter Democrats out there are starting to talk about it, though, because I think smarter Democrats out there know how repulsive this kind of thing is to regular people. Take, for example, Democratic U.S. Senator John Osso, speaking this weekend in Augusta, Georgia. How much do you guys know about Jared Kushner? He vanka's husband. He's on the Saudi payroll for $2 billion. Did you know that?

And now he's leading American diplomacy in the Middle East, apparently while at the very same time asking princes and shakes across the Arab world to give him billions more. If you're watching this online, don't take my word for it, look it up for yourself. Can you imagine like a normal sitting U.S. ambassador just hitting up Saudi

“grandparents, Muhammad bin Salman for billions of dollars?”

But he's a Trump, a royal, a princely, the rules are for us, not for them. I tell you what,

never before, have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption?

Democratic U.S. Senator John Ossoff of Georgia, speaking this week, and we're going to be speaking live with that Senator in just a moment. In his state in Georgia, the Trump administration has bought two warehouses where it is trying to build huge new prison camps to hold people without trial. MSNow's Antonia Hilton just went to one of the towns where they're trying to do that, the little town of social circle, Georgia, and she found in this little Republican leaning Trump supporting town,

she found the town absolutely dug in and enraged against this planned prison camp. And particularly

“enraged against their Republican congressman, Mike Collins, for not helping them. You should know”

Mike Collins is running against John Ossoff for his Senate seat in Georgia this fall. Watch. Helping lead the fight as Newton County Commissioner and real estate broker Leanne Lawn, DHS paid almost $130 million for an empty building that had not been able to sell. What's going on there? They paid almost three times a amount for that building. So as a taxpayer, first of all, that's my first thing is good Lord, you're wasted our tax dollars.

In 2025, Newton County assessed the property's value at $29 million before construction was completed. This year officials increased that estimate to $65 million, but DHS paid $128 million. A price tag that didn't even cover the cost of renovations to retrofit it for human habitation.

When we asked why, DHS ignored us. If you've ever seen a deal like that, then this area never.

The owner of that building, they cashed it out, boy, big town. A long time Republican organizer. Now she says she can't even get a call back about what's happening in town. On the sudden, we're calling and nobody cares, nobody's answering, nobody knows. They say they don't know. We're just wondering, how do they not know? City of some buyers are Morris right now?

I won't really help them. They don't have our back. They're not calling us. But what would you say to them? I would say that in my Collins, if you want our vote ever again,

“you need to help us and come down here and do something. You need to go to President Trump.”

You do all these videos with them like your besties. So why don't you go with him and tell him, help us? I sent Tony a Hilton reporting for MSNL. It's part of a little documentary that she's just done. Grab your phone and click that QR code on the screen right there. That will take you to Antonio's full report from Social Circle, Georgia. It's great stuff. A report on that little town pulling out all the stops doing everything they can to try to stop Trump from putting a prison camp

there. Not incidentally, it's also a pretty amazing story about how the Republican who's going to

run against John Ossoff has absolutely interraged people in his own district for not helping them stop that prison camp in their town. Interesting. Hundreds of people turned up this past week in Maryland outside the federal court hearing there in a really important case where the

“state of Maryland is suing the Trump administration to try to stop them from opening the first”

of these new warehouse prison camps. This one in Maryland is a prison camp. They wanted open by May 4th. It was the first one they wanted to open anywhere in the country. But this Maryland lawsuit has stopped that this past week with hundreds of people peacefully protesting outside and and many more people packing the courtroom. The judge decided to actually move the case to the bigger ceremonial courtroom in Baltimore to accommodate all the public interest.

The judge is now ruled after that hearing and a ruling that just excoreates the Trump administration

saying that what they're trying to do with that first warehouse prison they're trying to open

is quote a crystal clear example of a federal agency failing to comply with the law. The judge notes that the Trump administration lawyers in this case quote could not answer

“basic questions about the government's behavior. He said he found their actions”

arbitrary and capricious. He ruled that the Trump administration is quote enjoying from construction and renovation at the warehouse in William Sport Maryland for the purposes of operating the warehouse as a detention and processing facility. So that is not a ruling that is for now and forever, but it is for now and that is the first Trump prison camp warehouse facility they were trying to get open in this country and they are not going to get it open. The report has this weekend in

Dilly, Texas against the Trump immigrant prison there where they hold men and women and children, lots of children, the medical care and even the food situation at Dilly is now considered to be so dire that local residents are calling on the Trump administration to close down that Dilly facility by Mother's Day by next month. Keep your eyes as well on the Trump immigrant prison in motion in Valley, Pennsylvania. Men held prisoner there have just gone on hunger strike.

Against what they say is just a catastrophic danger as healthcare situation at that out of the way rural facility in Pennsylvania. It's in clear field County, Michelle and Valley, Pennsylvania. This week at the citizens bank shareholders meeting in Providence, Rhode Island on Wednesday day after tomorrow, we're expecting large scale protests against that bank and it's financial ties to Trump prison camps. People at that shareholders meeting trying to get citizens bank

to drop its financial ties to Trump prison facilities. Last week at the Thompson Reuters shareholder meeting, shareholders there demanded an investigation into that company selling data to ICE. This weekend, Saturday, April 25th, there are more than 160 protests planned all over the country, specifically to stop Trump's prison camps to hold people without trial. 160 different protests planned for this Saturday, including after places, his prison camps already

are, and at all the places that he is trying to build them, where in every instance there is considerable local fight back. And so happy spring, right? The president is 26 points underwater in his approval rating, fully 50% of the country say they strongly disapprove of him.

The administration has never been more of a mess than they are right now. They are failing at

every major thing they are trying to do. Now they are starting to hemorrhage cabinet members as they try and fail to outrun their own rapidly compounding failures and increasingly drunk in personal scandals. It's like I said, a lot to get to tonight, but happy spring everybody. It's getting brighter every day. Stay up to date on the biggest issues of the day with the

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Corruption always comes with a cost. In politics at the highest levels of government,

corruption comes with a high cost for ordinary people. And if the party in power is corrupt, part of the cost of corruption for them ought to be their political opponents, making them pay for it because corruption at high levels of government. Corruption at all levels of government is inherently repulsive to the American people. And it is something they are happy to put front of mind when they turn out to vote. That is part of the argument right now in the great

“state of Georgia on the Democratic side of a crucial election for the United States Senate.”

The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice, while he and his family rake in billions from foreign princes, while he plungers our health care to cut taxes for the rich. Meanwhile rent, power, groceries and health care have all hit all time highs this year. This year ground beefs up 20% since Trump took office. Coffee 40%. Health premiums through the roof. And remember, while you pay more for everything,

the first family's wealth is growing by billions of dollars. Because they're crooks. And everybody knows it. That's incumbent, U.S. Senator John Ossoff of Georgia. Going for it this weekend in Augusta

“said the president and his family are raking in billions of dollars from foreign princes,”

while you pay more for rent, power, health care, ground beef, coffee. The first family's

wealth is growing by billions of dollars. Senator Ossoff this weekend saying quote, "never have never

before have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The moral logo Mafia has taken American corruption to spectacular new heights." Joining us now live is Senator John Ossoff Democrat of Georgia candidate for reelection in November. Senator, it's nice to see you. Thanks for making time to be here with us tonight. Thank you Rachel. Good to see you. I wanted to talk to you about this once I saw this speech of yours this weekend,

because I've been thinking a lot about the always and every time relationship between authoritarian, leaders and corruption, and how that corruption translates to regular people. Wow, regular people understand the stakes of that, what it means for their own lives, what it means for their own economic prospects, what are you trying to explain to your constituents? In this speech this weekend in general, about the relationship between corruption and their own lives, their own prospects.

“I think people across the political spectrum are feeling outrage that while families in Georgia”

are made to pay more and more for everything, the first family is pocketing vast sums of money

from all over the world. You were talking earlier about Jared Kushner, the guy leading our diplomacy in the Middle East is bringing in billions from Middle Eastern princes and shakes and going around the region, asking for billions more while he conducts nuclear diplomacy on behalf of the country. It's cartoonish. It's grotesque. It's obscene. And I'm hearing not just from Democrats, but from independence and Republicans that they are excited and motivated more than ever to impose checks

and balances in these midterm elections, but I want to warn people against complacency. This is Georgia. This is the most competitive battleground state in the country. I'm the only Democrat running for reelection in a state that Donald Trump won and something that folks aren't paying enough attention to is national Republicans have vastly more resources than national Democrats right now. I expect the GOP to come in

with hundreds of millions of dollars against me and I'm asking folks across the country to take nothing for granted to go to elect john electgeoen.com and support my campaign right now. If Democrats could take control of the U.S. Senate, if you're re-elected, if Democrats

and take control of the U.S. Senate, Donald Trump will still be president. Jared Kushner will

“still be whatever he is. What sort of difference could it make in Washington to have”

Democratic control of the Senate? Well, with command of Senate committees, with subpoena power, imagine Secretary Pete Hugseth, if he remains secretary that long or former secretary Hugseth, I suspect at that point, will have to come and testify under oath about reports that his stock broker was calling around trying to buy him defense stocks just days before the Iran War broke out. Jared Kushner will have to come and testify under oath or be

deposed under oath about the billions of dollars of business he was trying to do in the Middle East

while he engaged in diplomacy in the region on behalf of the United States. We will be able to

investigate this corruption in these grotesque conflicts of interest with the power of the United

“States Senate and that will both deter corruption while we have that power in the Senate and allow”

us to impose accountability. I'll ask you about something that's been happening in Georgia that's having both really practical and moral consequences, but also sending to have some political ripples now too. And that is the Trump administration's effort to put to Trump prison camps in two different warehouse facilities in two communities in Georgia. MS now just did a bunch of reporting in social circle, Georgia, and one of those towns where Mike Collins is their congressman

or Republican who wants to challenge you for your Senate seat. Local saying they're very frustrated. The Mike Collins has not helped them as they're trying to stop this thing. What have you done to help the communities in your state that are trying to fend off these facilities who say that

“these massive Trump prison camps are both unsustainable and deeply unwanted in their communities.”

Well Mayor Keener over in social circle sent me a text message a few months back expressing his concern in the concern of the community and Senator Warnock and I leapt into action demanding transparency from the Department of Homeland Security and the Trump administration insisting that they brief local officials. The commission is dead set against it. The city is dead set against it. They don't have the water and power infrastructure to accommodate this. The administration wants to put

this massive prison camp in a warehouse just down the street from a school. They've done no local consultation. They've kept everyone in the dark and the community is up and arms about it. Senator John Osaf, Democratic Georgia, thank you very much for talking to tonight's good to have you here. Thank you Rachel. All right we got much more news ahead here tonight. Stay with us. Stay up to date on the biggest issues of the day with the MS now Daily Newsletter.

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universe in the United States of America there's a special and unique place held by an outlet called Info Wars and its manic host Alex Jones. Alex Jones for decades has pedaled broke conspiracy theories alongside a really scammy trade in survivalist merchandise and hilarious supplements that promise lots of things I cannot even say or describe on basic cable. Info Wars isn't just one more thing in the weird right-wing media world for all its ridiculousness.

Info Wars has left a real world trail that is not just toxic I would argue it is evil. Specifically when it comes to Alex Jones's signature conspiracy theory that the 2012 massacre of school kids at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut didn't really happen. That it was a hoax and the kids who were all killed there are in fact still alive or they

never existed in the first place. His insanity and unbelievably cruel. As Alex Jones repeatedly pushed

that insanity on Info Wars some of his fans subjected the grieving families in Sandy Hook to hears of online abuse and harassment and death threats. Years into it in 2018 several Sandy Hook

awarded about one and a half billion dollars. But the families have never received a penny of that

because Alex Jones declared bankruptcy after the verdict. A bankruptcy judge ordered that all of Info Wars's assets including intellectual property. The Info Wars brand itself needed to be sold off to help Alex Jones satisfy those debts to the families. Well you may remember about a year and a half ago we learned that the surprise winner of an auction of Info Wars assets was the satirical news site The Onion. For which Alex Jones and Info Wars would of course be a delicious punchline.

The Onion would turn Info Wars into a parody of itself. Stop it from doing more harm. Start maybe repairing some of the harm that it's done. You might also remember though that almost as soon as the Onion got a hold of Info Wars they lost it again. Alex Jones challenged the auction.

It's been tied up in court ever since. But then today a breakthrough. This is the front page of the

Onion tonight. Look, the Onion Info Wars. You can see the top store in the upper left there at long last Info Wars is ours. You see the Info Wars logo with the Onion for the O and Info on the upper right hand side of the screen. The Onion today announced that pending final approval by a judge. They have reached an arrangement to actually truly take over Info Wars. The Onion's new Info Wars page like the original is Chuck Full of Scami ads. The Scami products include

a demon guard patch. 24 hour holy protection from all dark entities. Also pure O oxygen capsules. As well as an offer to quote, "learn to float, discover the secret." This is all meant to do some practical good as well. Proceeds from the new Onion Run Info Wars will go in part towards

starting to pay off. Alex Jones is incredible debt to the families of Sandy Hook. Joining us now is

my old friend Ben Collins CEO of the Onion Ben. Congratulations. Thank you so much for making time to be here tonight. Oh, thank you Rachel. It's quite a day. What didn't I say about this that you want people to know or did I say anything about it that I got wrong? No, you got everything

“right. I do want people to remember that it was nine days after the election, the 2014 election”

where we saw the burning building known as the Info Wars auction and walked directly into it, knowing that likely no one else but Alex Jones is going to be on that thing. And we won that auction and then it was held up in court for reasons we still no one understands. And for 17 months we were threatened by Alex Jones with the long-arrow of the Trump government where we had a lot of friends. And thankfully these families, my staff, everybody saw it through and we're about to take over the

thing and do something really fun. Can you tell us more about what your plans are for Info Wars? I mean, obviously you've got the Info Wars website but what else do you get? And what should we expect you to do with it? Yeah, we'll get everything inside of that way too vast

“studio in Austin, Texas where I think we also get like a rowing machine or something. There's”

something in the inventory list. It's a little ridiculous. But we're excited to find out what's actually in there. Most importantly though, we get to take over this name and look, Rachel, the way people get their information now has changed. They get it from people who think, tell you that you're like one animo away from solving world hunger or something. That's not actually true but no one is really made fun of these people professionally yet. And thankfully we got a really good professional

comedian, Tim Heidecker, to take over this thing. And we look forward to infesting your social media feeds with characters and grotesque degrees of the very people who have ruined army ecosystem over the last 10 years. I have to ask just because I've been obsessed with it for so long.

“Are you getting all the supplements? That's I think that's still up in the air. The first”

time where we definitely were and we're going to we read a boil it all down into one big pill. Now we're not so sure but we will be selling supplement and Jason's stuff. Maybe water that cares everything or I believe that we're selling Omega-3 fish oil from exclusively conservative fish. That's a big important thing for us. Ben Collins, CEO of the onion now at least one of the

can show. There's nobody I would rather see do at the new. Thank you so much for being here my friend.

“Good luck. Thank you, original. All right, we'll be right back. Stay with us.”

The White House Correspondence dinner is this weekend. No, I'm not going. I'm allergic. It's awful. But the White House Correspondence dinner is a thing. It's the big annual event. It's a gigantic hotel in

Washington and journalists dress up all fancy and everybody gets together to celebrate the first

amendment. The point of the dinner is to put a spotlight on the importance of the free and independent press in this country. The dinner also funds scholarships excuse me for journalists and students. It's been a tradition for decades that the sitting president attends the dinner and toasts

“the press and celebrates the press and gives a speech every president since Calvin Coolidge”

has attended at least one correspondence dinner except the current president. Donald Trump has

skipped the White House Correspondence dinner every year he has been president. Traditionally

the correspondence dinner involves lots of jokes, politicians expense, particularly jokes at the president's expense. President Donald Trump absolutely positively cannot withstand anyone making fun of him and so he has not gone to the correspondence dinner ever since he has been president ever. Except now this year he says he's going and it is shall we say awkward that this president will attend

“an event that is supposed to honor and celebrate the free press in this country. He has repeatedly”

sued news networks in this country because he hasn't liked their coverage of him. Even those outlets that he hasn't sued he has threatened to sue. He has blocked the associated press from the White House. He has repeatedly ridiculed and belittled and berated individual journalists by name. His administration has pulled press access to the Pentagon. His administration has tried to defund public broadcasting. They have threatened to strip TV networks that of their broadcast

licenses if they'd say things or do things that Donald Trump doesn't like. At this point it's the hard to keep track of all the ways in which this president has threatened and shown hostility to the very existence of the free press in this country. Luckily ahead of this weekend, somebody made a list. This is a petition that's been sent to the White House correspondent association signed by more than 250 veteran American journalists. It includes a handy bulletin

list of some of the ways this president has tried to block or erode the first amendment in this

country. And in light of that list, the petitioners are urging the White House correspondent association to effectively protest at this correspondence dinner on Saturday, protest against what they call the president's efforts to trample freedom of the press. They say the association should offer from the stage a quote "forceful defense of freedom of the press and condemnation of those who threaten that freedom." They say to do so quote in front of the man who seeks to undermine

our country's long tradition of an independent strong and free press. Like I said more than 250 veteran journalists signed this petition, I have no idea what will happen on Saturday again. I won't be there, but we should all watch this space. All right, that is going to do it for me tonight. I'm very happy to have you with us here tonight. (upbeat music)