My resentment for Chuck Schumer will live rent free right here for what he did to Angie Nixon.

Well, Jen, you are 100 percent right with that.

And thank you for saying it.

And yes, Angie Nixon has had to overcome things that most people in this country, most women, especially white women, would not understand.

Right.

Because it's not because they're not in her shoes.

But also, I think.

Yeah.

uh...

they wanted them to do more and and whether they could do more not i'm not sure because of what you said you know what uh...

the republicans were in control but they still wanted more which which logically they'd shows you that they want accountability so when i had had came jeffries on yesterday when i said ice asked him specifically what does accountability look like is that more hearings what does that look like and then i said to him do what do you think robert garcia means when he says lawyer up what is that what do you guys planning to do about this so again i think People want it.

I know that Democrats want it and people who are not MAGA favorable, they want it as well.

And some Republicans, they want accountability.

They want our democracy to return to some semblance of a democracy, our country to return to some semblance of a democracy.

So look, read the room.

So just tell us a little bit, as far as you can, because it's still an ongoing court case, where you are at the moment, what you've been charged with and what your response is.

86% of Americans get their news on their phone.

Yeah, that's it.

Period.

That's it.

And you know what I said? When you asked me why did I get so many viewers so fast, I realized I want to go where the audience is.

So the audience is on the phone that's sitting on the table right there.

I'm in everybody's pocket.

Is that the first time you've ever been

It

backfired.

And yeah, it backfired because...

I think that they're really out of it.

I don't know if tone deaf is the right word, Mike, but they think what they're doing is actually good for the American people, which is odd, especially for Republicans when it comes to the economy.

But the reason that they think that it's good is because they just keep following Donald Trump.

They do whatever he says.

And if we're prepared to use it,

That 0% did not happen.

It's not nine translators in the ER.

And guess what? maybe the people speaking those nine languages are better doctors.

Maybe the hospital or whatever facility you're going to are actually basing it on meritocracy and not because they're cute and blonde.

And maybe we can put them to be the White House press secretary, or maybe they can be in charge of the Pentagon and the Defense Department when they're not qualified.

So I'm more concerned about a doctor that is qualified, that is giving me or my child, or I don't have a child, or my fur baby, if there's a veterinarian, or the love of my life, Jen Welch, that they're giving them great healthcare.

And so, okay, great.

Aren't you shaking in your boots?

better for democracy.

There are tensions between the Black and Arab communities that go back for a while.

And this is from The Guardian.

Tensions between Arab American and Black communities in the U.S. stem from a mix of political divergence, economic dynamics, and anti-Black prejudice.

This friction is visible in areas like Metro Detroit, which is what I'm talking about.

where majority Arab Dearborn and majority black Detroit neighbor one neighbor, one another.

And it is heightened by contrasting electoral choices, foreign policy views and historical neighborhood interactions.

black the black electorate black communities and they've been complaining justifiably about all of the uh terrible things that happen in their communities at the hand of the government and oftentimes people don't listen unless it's election season

I didn't smell liquor on his breath.

Yeah.

So, uh, you know, I, I, I don't...

No. He's...

Yeah, he's doing it sober.

And the thing is, is that, [sniffs] you know, I would say, uh, when I said Kimberly, she would be, you know... maybe they would ex- accept her back into polite society, um, if she became that other person.

I think that's tough for people.

I don't either.

It's Jennifer's Bible.

But, uh, the people ask very similar questions, and I'll ask...

This is a series of them.

Someone says, "How do I speak with," um, this is from Nick.

"How do I speak with my parents about politics when they are victims of right-wing media? Thanks." And then someone else says, "I just broke off my relationship with one of my closest family members.

I feel like shit, but I know what I did was for the best.

What do I do now?" Um, and someone says, "Advice for the liberal atheist black sheep of the family with a MAGA dad." People want advice from you about how to deal with their MAGA relatives or friends.

Mr. Softy

Three times.

Recently.

Yeah.

And, and he's changed how he feels about Trump.

He was Hillbilly Elegy, oh my gosh.

Uh, uh, uh, I, I believe in these principles and America and helping people and all of the things, my mom who is a, has addiction issues, and all these...

We should be helping people, social safety net.

[laughs]

How did you get so many viewers so fast?

[laughs] I want more.

[laughs] I feel like it's not fast enough.

Um, I, just from, you have to, you have to have a personal relationship with your, with what you're doing.

Um, I tell you what, when I first started, I started, you know, s- my show was supposed to be three days a week, uh, doing interviews, and which is great.

I, you know, it's great to have that, that s- kind of schedule.

Uh, but then one day I said, "You know, it just feels like what I was doing in cable." It had no interaction with my audience, right? It was just sort of-

Don't you think?

love that.

No, but I think there's an opportunity.

There's an opportunity for people like you and me who have these platforms to speak out loudly about what we just talked about today, about taking it into your own hands.

And I think if someone comes with that message, whether they're running for Congress or Senate or president, I think that they'll be very successful in their efforts.

And here's what I think young people need to know, okay? And I like to give people advice when they ask me.

I tell young people, you mentioned AI.

When I was growing, back in my day, I know I sound like an old man, but back in my day, we had other people were our competitions, other network, other journalists, other people who worked with us as our competition.

So I try to remember that so that I don't just feel stressed by the schedule, you know, all the time.

and

possibly a new Senate.

And they know it.

And that's why they try to restrict voting, mail-in balloting, and changing the voting lines in the U.S. so that it restricts poor people and Black people from being able to vote less frequently.

Access to the voting box, the ballot box, then more when we should be out there really advocating for more access.

People should have more access.

And so I think we're going to have to wait.

love that.

Whereas some people are like, Ooh, it's an opportunity to indict her black womanhood because black women take all the, take the most, take the most shit on the internet.

Come on, let me say this.

You are 100% right.

You cannot win with those issues.

Look, I take criticism well, and when I think that it's warranted, I will respond to it.

But most of the time, I don't.

Because if you look on the internet, and if you just Google Don Lemon, Chris Brown, oh my gosh, Don Lemon made excuses for Chris Brown.

And I think we

Doesn't.

And, um, I have had, you know, I know Elon Musk.

I've gone through that already.

I went through what I d- what, with, um, with Warner Brothers Discovery.

Canary in the coal mine, right? Right.

I, and I tried to tell people, I'm like, "Do you really think that they got rid of me for the shit that they're putting in the paper?" No.

That's not...

Yeah.

... d- darling, for you.

All right.

L- let me go.

So, um, I know Colin Kaepernick.

Um, I produced a documentary on Colin Kaepernick.

Uh, I...

Last time I saw Colin Kaepernick was at a, a mutual friend's wedding, I think it was a year or a year and a half ago, maybe two years.

I think it's great because I truly love free speech.

Those were are the gist and like the majority of the threats, death threats I've been receiving.

Sound engineer Janetta Brantley says family faced threats and doxing after she enhanced Nolan Wells' audio.

Doxing can be terrible if you've ever had it happen to you.

Audio engineer Janetta Brantley says she and her family have been threatened, harassed, and doxed since Janetta released an enhanced version of the emergency call connected to the Nolan Wells investigation.

What began as an independent audio review has reportedly turned into a campaign of intimidation against a black professional, her family, and their business.

Janetta Brantley says strangers have circulated her personal information, attacked her company online, and portrayed her as a criminal because Janetta publicly shared what she believed she heard in the recording.

So these are people who are mad at you for just enhancing the audio?

This is why her audio really blew this case apart.

And I'm curious, what do you think as someone who's a student of history, like where does that leave us? And more importantly, what tools do the American people have to fight against that?

Well, it's what I said.

It's the F word.

You said not to cuss.

I'm not cussing.

It's fascism.

That's what it is.

And that's definitely the fact at this table.

... adjacent, you volunteered that you were molested at what age?

God, at probably five, six years old.

Um, the reason that I, uh, I think the v- a big part of the reason that I've, uh, and I've been, I've had the success that I've had is because of authenticity and transparency, and I don't believe that I'm any different than the subject that I'm discussing, and I think, I think sunlight is the best disinfect- disinfectant, and that's what journalism is about.

It should be at least.

Um, and so, uh, I just happened to...

I'm just, I'm just, I'm the same person on the air as off the air.

When I leave this microphone, as you know, I'm doing the same thing when we were talking.

... fairly anymore.

In a report about – that was adjacent, you volunteered that you were molested at what age? God,

probably five, six years old.

The reason that I – I think a big part of the reason that I've had the success that I've had is because of authenticity and transparency.

And I don't believe that I'm any different than the subject that I'm discussing.

And I think sunlight is the best disinfectant.

And that's what journalism is about.

It should be at least.

But explain to me why and how this came to be with D.L. Hughley.

Yeah, that's it.

Period.

That's it.

And you know what I said? When you asked me why did I get so many viewers so fast, I realized I want to go where the audience is.

So the audience is on the phone that's sitting on the table right there.

I'm in everybody's pocket.

And so if I wanna do a story, if I wanna put my show, I stream my show on just about every social media site, people can just tune in and watch.

I remember you start at WNYW as a kid with Brooklyn College.

I'm trying to fill the gaps where mainstream media has failed us.

And the good thing is that we don't have to be mainstream media.

I don't try to be mainstream media.

If I try to look like cable, I'd lose subscribers.

If people wanted cable, they would be tuning into it, and they're not.

So, look, I think that it's...

I would love to have a foreign bureau, yes.

maybe don't want to go into a story like that anymore because of how, you know, the risk associated.

Uh-huh.

So I can't say that I, uh, disagree wi- disagree with you on that point.

And, uh, to me, uh, it's obvious that's where we are in America.

So when people like me, and like you women, right? Um, you're liberal.

I'm an independent.

But when people like me, especially Black people, talk about, uh, the bigotry and the racism, uh, the homophobia, all of it, you know, gay people talk about that, but especially Black people, when we talk about that, um, people deny it.

Even people like, uh, Officer Tater, right? They deny that there is systemic racism, that there's systemic, uh, racism in policing, uh, that America's not a racist country.

And antisemitism is really nasty and really disgusting, and I want to remind you that the Vice President of the United States of America, our little smoky-eyed sociopath, refused to condemn Republican Nazi group chats.

And they deserve what's coming to them because they're horrible human beings.

Yeah, they're saying none of this stuff that they had mentioned here.

Tate Brothers, let's see which one is online.

Yeah, this is the Forbes that we're looking at, right? Tate Brothers lied online about being uber wealthy.

Lawyers claim they are playing a role.

Yeah.

Isn't that like the last thing that they want out there? Lawyers from Battle Manosphere stars Andrew and Tristan Tate.

specific.

They put their big fat thumbs on the scales of justice when they presented your case to the grand jury because having presented the law and all the parts that should have gone into the grand jury, for them, uh, for the, for an, for a g- grand jury to indict you, I thought was shocking.

Yeah.

Well, you know, you would know better than I.

Again, I'm in the middle of it, and so, but I'm not an attorney.

I report on things, and so some things I understand very clearly b- having reported on them for decades.

And then there are other things I just don't understand.

I don't understand why it takes so long.

From your perspective, why are we so far down the road here from what happened without a sol- without, without any, uh, transparent facts?

They put their big fat thumbs on the scales of justice when they presented your case to the grand jury because having presented the law and all the parts that should have gone into the grand jury, for them, uh, for the, for an, for a g- grand jury to indict you I thought was shocking.

Yeah.

Well, you know, you would know better than I.

Again, I'm in the middle of it, and so, but I'm not an attorney.

I report on things, and so some things I understand very clearly b- having reported on them for decades.

And then there are other things I just don't understand.

I don't understand why it takes so long.

From your perspective, why are we so far down the road here from what happened without a sol- without, without any, uh, transparent facts?