"America is for Americans" -- so says new Trump White House Deputy Chief of Staff Steven Miller who along with new Border Czar Tom Homan, is responsible for the most inhumane and depraved of Trump's heartless immigration policies starting with workplace hunts, and caged children. Popok is @ The Intersection to outline how the Democrats will use the federal courts to oppose Trump's misuse of his power to issue Executive Orders that Miller dreams up, and block these orders in the Courts.

Legal Breakdown episode 410: ‪@GlennKirschner2‬​ on Trump possibly destroying DOJ evidence against him.

Trump is calling on the MAGA Senators now in the minority to use every delay tactic and dirty trick to block Biden's remaining judge vacancy picks and give Trump dozens of extra judges to appoint to reshape the face of the federal judiciary. Popok is @ The Intersection to explain the obvious fingerprints of Trump's new WH chief of staff on this attack on Biden, and what the Senate Dems still in power can do about it.

The Trump team is moving quickly to sell out Ukraine, but it's not clear yet whether Putin would settle for taking a quarter of the country—or if he intends to crush it, so he can plant the Russian flag in Kiev. Meanwhile, Elon has been at Mar-a-Lago every day, expanding his oligarch resume to include helping choose the incoming president's Cabinet and advisors. Plus, key Senate Republicans are already prepping to sacrifice their constitutional duties to advise and consent, and the election denialists on the left have to stop. Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.

Susie Wiles, the new White House Chief of Staff, is likely behind Trump's demand that the MAGA Senate agree to go into immediate and fake "recess" in January for at least 10 days to allow Trump to appoint everyone he wants without Senate oversight or public knowledge, having learned this trick when she worked with Florida's Ron DeSantis. Popok is @ the Intersection to pierce through the rhetoric and explain that Wiles is behind her old boss Rick Scott likely becoming Senate Majority Leader, and Trump calling on Scott to call a fake Recess, and then how the MAGA Supreme Court will handle this naked violation of the Constitutional separation of powers doctrine and the Senate trashing its Article 1 responsibilities.

Harry breaks down whether Trump will retaliate against his alleged enemies and what it means for the DOJ in the future.

Trump's cheating and stealing have already begun -- he wants the MAGA Senators who bent the knee to him to agree to call an IMMEDIATE recess of the Senate as soon as it gets back into session on Jan 20 and allow him for 10+ days to just appoint for 2 years, whomever he wants to federal judgeships, ambassadors, cabinet members, and federal officers, without public scrutiny, a hearing or senate confirmation. Popok is @ The Intersection to explain how Senate Democrats have the tools to stop this unprecedented power grab both under the Senate's rules and in federal court.

With Eliot traveling, Eric welcomes John Bolton, former Ambassador to the United Nations, National Security Advisor to Donald Trump and author of Surrender is Not an Option and The Room Where it Happened. They discuss why Trump is so susceptible to the blandishments of foreign dictators like Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong Un as well as his abysmal level of basic knowledge of how the U.S. government actually works and international affairs more broadly. They discuss the likely makeup of a Trump national security team in a putative second Trump term and what a Trump victory would mean for Ukraine and the future of NATO. They also discuss what a Harris team might look like and whether a Harris foreign policy would be a continuation of the Biden policies or whether it might be more reflective of the more Reaganite rhetoric she has used on the campaign trail. Finally, they discuss the two or three international security issues that Ambassador Bolton believes will require the most urgent attention from whoever wins the election.

Leave it to MAGA to get drunk on power already, and play right into the Democrats hands by taking steps to make Special Counsel Jack Smith’s entire legal file and evidence against Trump available to the public! Popok takes a look at a new demand letter from MAGA Congress to Jack Smith, and explains how this will be used by Democratic leaders like Jamie Raskin to issue “minority reports” and give the public complete access to the case against Trump, rather than wait around for Jim Jordan to cherry pick out of context “evidence” to help Trump.