West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy
Oct 7, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 24 segments
Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump…
Michael PopokHostRick SmithHostClinton JohnstonHost
Anne WheatonGuestBrian BealeHostCharlotte DuganHost
The Mar-a-Lago Volume 2 report of Jack Smith is back in the news as the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals wakes up and sets oral argument on the motion to intervene by the Knight Foundation at Columbia University and American Oversight, who have tried to intervene in the case in order to reverse Judge Cannon's decision from February of this year, in which she put into a tomb, a sealed tomb, never to be opened, Mar-a-Lago Volume 2 of the special counsel Jack Smith.
The public demands to know what serious crimes Jack Smith was talking about when he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, when he said Donald Trump committed beyond a reasonable doubt serious crimes, when he, when he referred to the litigation in Florida.
The indictment was for Espionage Act violations, obstruction of justice violations.
Now, the oral argument is on November 2nd, ironically, or maybe on purpose, the day before the midterm election when votes have already been cast by mail-in ballot, but it still matters.
It still matters that justice delayed is not justice denied, and that the 11th Circuit seems to have woken up.
And Donald Trump, his lawyers, Walter, uh, Nauta, his co-defendant who still works for him as his butler in the White House, and Carlos de Oliveira, the IT worker, who were all co-defendant, co-conspirators in that indictment involving Mar-a-Lago and all of those documents spilling out of closets and dining rooms and hidden away behind locked doors.
Those lawyers have all stepped forward and said, uh, "This is all [chuckles] variations on a theme of the dog ate my oral argument." One lawyer for Carlos de Oliveira said, uh, "I got a three-day planned trip, everybody, and it's, uh, non-refundable." Another lawyer said, "I, I'm in trial," although he didn't submit an affidavit or anything under oath that demonstrates he can't coordinate his way out of that with a federal judge.
Like, "Hey, Judge, I need off on November 2nd to do an oral argument at the 11th Circuit in Atlanta." Judges accommodate those kind of requests.
And lastly, Kendra Wharton, who is Donald Trump's local lawyer in West Palm Beach, Florida, she argues, "I haven't had time to consult with my client.
Uh, he's busy with the midterms, and this has been rescheduled a number of times, and it's very confusing." Knight Foundation, American Oversight have responded.
The Mar-a-Lago Volume 2 report of Jack Smith is back in the news as the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals wakes up and sets oral argument on the motion to intervene by the Knight Foundation at Columbia University and American Oversight, who have tried to intervene in the case in order to reverse Judge Cannon's decision from February of this year, in which she put into a tomb, a sealed tomb, never to be opened, Mar-a-Lago Volume 2 of the special counsel Jack Smith.
The public demands to know what serious crimes Jack Smith was talking about when he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, when he said Donald Trump committed beyond a reasonable doubt serious crimes, when he, when he referred to the litigation in Florida.
The indictment was for Espionage Act violations, obstruction of justice violations.
Now, the oral argument is on November 2nd, ironically, or maybe on purpose, the day before the midterm election when votes have already been cast by mail-in ballot, but it still matters.
It still matters that justice delayed is not justice denied, and that the 11th Circuit seems to have woken up.
And Donald Trump, his lawyers, Walter, uh, Nauta, his co-defendant who still works for him as his butler in the White House, and Carlos de Oliveira, the IT worker, who were all co-defendant, co-conspirators in that indictment involving Mar-a-Lago and all of those documents spilling out of closets and dining rooms and hidden away behind locked doors.
Those lawyers have all stepped forward and said, uh, "This is all [chuckles] variations on a theme of the dog ate my oral argument." One lawyer for Carlos de Oliveira said, uh, "I got a three-day planned trip, everybody, and it's, uh, non-refundable." Another lawyer said, "I, I'm in trial," although he didn't submit an affidavit or anything under oath that demonstrates he can't coordinate his way out of that with a federal judge.
Like, "Hey, Judge, I need off on November 2nd to do an oral argument at the 11th Circuit in Atlanta." Judges accommodate those kind of requests.
And lastly, Kendra Wharton, who is Donald Trump's local lawyer in West Palm Beach, Florida, she argues, "I haven't had time to consult with my client.
Uh, he's busy with the midterms, and this has been rescheduled a number of times, and it's very confusing." Knight Foundation, American Oversight have responded.
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