to our questions now? well, we will wait as long as it takes. at every step of this process, i sought advice from my most for months, we exchanged hundreds of messages with the sources in north korea, each containing just snippets of information to protect people s identity and to keep them safe. until finally, identity and to keep them safe. untilfinally, we had enough to
trump and his company kicks off. march 25th is the trial dates set in manhattan d.a. alvin bragg s hush money criminal case against trump so, there is a lot to talk about with my first guest this morning. joining me now is harry lippman, former u.s. attorney, los angeles times legal affairs columnist, and host of the podcast talking feds, harry, thank you for coming in, it is great to see you in person. my pleasure. thank you for having me. the quote i just read from special counsel jack smith s letter about ongoing investigations, is he referring to his other investigation? the january six investigation? or could he be talking about other investigations that we don t know about? both of course, every time we get these little snippets jonathan, but then there are mountains that he has, including a great revelation from a couple weeks ago that just passed us by. mark meadows having testified in washington. meadows is the central witness for january six investigations.
former president continues to speak as he does and how challenging is it for his team when anything you say can be used against you. in terms of the actual defense it has to be making it more challenging and even finding a jury that s not impartial. everything he says can be use as evidence in the case. he continues to do that. he did it at the cnn town hall. he did it last night. they ll take the statements because he s made so many contradictory statements about what he did and they ll take the snippets and they re all admissible admissions by donald trump. with respect to the jury pool. i think what people realize is they ll be able to find a jury that s fair and impartial. you d be shocked at how many people are out there that really don t know a lot about this case. we saw it in spades with the forelady of the grand jury in georgia who said she knew nothing about what was going on
the new york post i heard snippets of her speech. meaning the one in new york you just watched and i honestly feel inspired by her courage to speak up. we re trying to speak up against what the oppressive government is doing. in reaction on twitter was fierce. that speech was hijacked with false anti-semitic rhetoric. when did graduation commencement speeches turn into anti-israel rant? we reached out to the community college in california for comment. your response. i think anti-semitism has often become the province of the left wing in this country. i think both of these speeches are emblematic of that trajectory. the fact that the democrat party doesn t condemn opinions like these when you are calling israel an apartheid state is a totally laughable and absurd accusation. i don t have a problem with her ability to say it but i think democrat party should speak out
years ago do that? not only did you change locations, you changed genres. did you go country when you went nashville. i did. i grew up in california. i wanted to try living somewhere different and nashville i had so many friends and song writing friends and i knew i could do music and try a different experience and i started a country band called gone west with my friends and this new album along the way is considered as well. brian: would you consider that new country. it s organic music and steel guitar. i write about my personal experience in life. steve: we have been doing a lot of deep diving into your background. okay. steve: i was reading apparently when you were 15, a guy by the name of michael blue who is a producer of sorts and doing different things. he started using little snippets of your voice. he used your voice in different things. he was producing, and people are going hey, who is that? so he was the producer and he would make the runway music for st.