Bloodbath Explodes as Trump White House Faces Reality

Two Justice Department officials are now gone in just 48 hours. A Defense Secretary Republicans are actively lining to impeach. Well, it's getting worse for him. The world's richest man is down more than $100 billion. A 250-foot arch was blocked by a judge within an hour of being approved in Trump's response. He's blaming you. His words, "You only have yourselves to blame." Three days after the blue tsunami swept across America, Trump's world in Washington, D.C., is actively coming apart. And so he's fleeing to South Florida for the first time in a long time to spend the weekend at Mar-a-Lago. I do have something to share with you all. We're now beating every major media company in the country, including the Daily Mail and Fox News in terms of engagements. And we're doing it together. Independent media is surging, and that's because of you. So if you can't subscribe, support this work like Common Share, and truly thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything. It really means the world to me. I do want to start at the United States Department of Justice where this happened today. Attorney General Todd Blanche has accepted the resignation of Jason Redding, Kenyaris, Donald Trump's US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. Blanche gave no reason why. Kenones has said, has not said anything publicly. But here's why it matters. The Southern District of Florida covers Miami and Palm Beach home to Mar-a-Lago. It's one of the most politically significant federal prosecutor posts in the entire country. He also was the man who was leading Donald Trump's grand conspiracy grand jury investigation against his political opponents. And it comes just one day after Harmie Dillon, the head of the Civil Rights Division, walked out the door. Dillon was a Trump loyalist who pushed out roughly three-quarters of the division's lawyers, sued more than two dozen states for voter road data, and lost every single one of those cases, including in front of Trump appointed judges. So now two senior Justice Department officials gone in two days, and the White House Council's office is staffing up because they need to lawyer up. The question right now in Washington is now, who's next? Because the blood bath inside the Justice Department is only set to grow, and it's going to grow fast. One answer though about who might be next is Pete Hexeth. Republicans have officially found their fall guy, and his name is Pete Hexeth. Trump launched the Iran War, but with two years left in his term, Republicans won't blame him directly. So they're blaming the Defense Secretary who cheered him on. And it's not subtle. Two sources told the Hill that Trump is asking allies about Hexeth's standing, and one said he's in a lot of trouble. Our Republican congressional official calls his position completely untenable. Congressman Thomas Massey is reintroducing eight articles of impeachment next week, and well, both Democrats and Republicans are now lining up against him. Massey says the only thing that stops is Hexeth resigning. So what is Hexeth, dude? He went on the Pentagon steps in this video under a Department of War sign, posted a video saying, quote, it's all about the politics of personal destruction. Didn't work against President Trump, but it won't work with me. Even a vote butler saying Trump shook his fist and said, fight, fight, fight. And so will we. Well, here's the thing. Even Hexeth's own former Pentagon spokesperson, John Yulot, to the country has had a quote, cross between a court jester and a personal trainer running the Pentagon. His own former spokesperson said that. And the parallel is very hard to miss. Back in 2006, voters pushed George W. Bush, or punish George W. Bush for an unpopular war. And Donald Rumsfeld was gone right after the midterms. History may soon be about to repeat itself. And it all comes as Trump is reviewing plans to potentially resume strikes on Iran. And now the biggest loser, Elon Musk, Musk spent more than $445 million on Republicans this cycle, $225 million in Texas alone trying to elect Ken Paxson. He lost. And listen to this, Cameron County, Texas, which is home to Space Existar Base. Trump won it with 52.5% of the vote two years ago this year. James Talleriko won it with 68% of the vote. Gina Inahosa, 67% of the vote. Musk's own backyard turned on him. Wall Street is also punishing him. Tesla and SpaceX shares dropped hard after the election. Musk lost over $100 billion in wealth in just two days. And now Musk is also announcing that Tesla is in that ending production of the Cybertruck in mid-2027. The truck that was supposed to take on the Ford F-150 because of the words of Ars Technica, quote, "an all too visible reminder of this politics." Musk's response, "A joke." Guess my election interfering space lasers didn't work this time, but the worst for him may soon be ahead. And then there's the arch. Because overnight while you slept, a commission stacked with Trump allies approved his 250-foot arch eight to four after overwhelming opposition. But within an hour, a federal judge blocked it all. Here's Judge Tanya Chekkin. That's her order. Blocking the judge. And blocking the building of the arch. And I do want to hear-- I want you to hear directly from a veteran who sued. Because this entire speech is worth hearing. I went to Vietnam in September 1967 as a 21-year-old Army helicopter pilot, Warren Officer. I flew in combat for 13 months, big tent, little tent. You all right? Remember that in your history books. When I came back and went on to my next posting, which was in Germany, I finally came back to the US in May 1970. But some of you were old enough. Most of you don't look like it. May 1970 was not a hospitable time for a Vietnam band in America. Now, I didn't experience directly any abuse other than the sort of quiet avoidance, the polite dismissal of you as an inconvenient reminder of a war that was fading from popularity, and they wanted to fame from the mind. So like most of my buddies, I put my head down, cloud forward, trying to leave Vietnam behind. Went year-round through university, took the Foreign Service exam, came in, and I had a 34-year career. But when I came back from my first posting in Moscow, it was in the State Department. And I attended the 1982 dedication of the Vietnam veterans memorial. And I had some of my Vietnam flight school buddies who came down to join me. And I can't tell you how emotional it was, emotionally cathartic, for some of them who were carrying that memory and that burden. And they had been basically ignored and dismissed here and could go away, get on with life. I would then walk over from the Vietnam Memorial to the Lincoln Memorial and look up across Memorial Bridge at Arlington House, an Arlington National Cemetery, got by then in my late 30s. And I would feel the hurt, the anger, the pain, the trauma to begin to recede. That's why this means so much. And I have a duty, as a Vietnam vet, as a survivor, to my buddies buried there, to honor their sacrifice and protect their memory from this pain glorious monument. This is not-- just I'm sorry-- another park. This is something profoundly important and incomparably different. And we have to remember that. Respect it. Honor it. Protect it. Thank you. [APPLAUSE] We'll ultimately see what happens. That's the news this morning, and I'll see you soon.