WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.740 OK, so let's unpack this. It is Friday, February 00:00:03.740 --> 00:00:08.140 20, 2026. And I don't know about you, but if 00:00:08.140 --> 00:00:10.019 you're feeling like the ground is just shifting 00:00:10.019 --> 00:00:11.800 under your feet this morning, you are definitely 00:00:11.800 --> 00:00:15.400 not alone. No, you're really not. It feels like 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:17.179 we woke up in a completely different timeline 00:00:17.179 --> 00:00:19.859 today. It really does, because usually you get 00:00:19.859 --> 00:00:22.179 one of these stories and it consumes the entire 00:00:22.179 --> 00:00:24.899 news cycle for a week. Right. But today we're 00:00:24.899 --> 00:00:28.320 seeing three massive pillars of authority. I 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:31.320 mean, the U .S. presidency, the British monarchy 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:34.299 and the Department of Homeland Security all facing 00:00:34.299 --> 00:00:37.640 these huge simultaneous reckonings. It's tectonic 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:39.460 plates moving. You aren't just looking at headlines 00:00:39.460 --> 00:00:41.299 today. You're looking at institutional stress 00:00:41.299 --> 00:00:43.960 tests happening in real time. Exactly. And so 00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:45.960 that's our mission for this deep dive. We are 00:00:45.960 --> 00:00:47.929 going to try and cut through the noise of this 00:00:47.929 --> 00:00:50.549 really chaotic Friday and connect the dots. Right, 00:00:50.549 --> 00:00:52.770 because there is a thread here. There is. We've 00:00:52.770 --> 00:00:55.270 got a stack of legal analysis on this historic 00:00:55.270 --> 00:00:58.490 Supreme Court decision, some breaking news reports 00:00:58.490 --> 00:01:01.250 out of the UK regarding a literal prince in a 00:01:01.250 --> 00:01:04.189 prison cell, and some pretty damning investigative 00:01:04.189 --> 00:01:07.090 reporting on the DHS and the Epstein files. And 00:01:07.090 --> 00:01:08.829 that thread connecting all of it really comes 00:01:08.829 --> 00:01:11.319 down to accountability. You know, who gets checked, 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:13.579 who gets a pass, and what happens when the systems 00:01:13.579 --> 00:01:16.379 we trust to just keep things running start to 00:01:16.379 --> 00:01:18.780 break down. Yeah, the rule of law is having a 00:01:18.780 --> 00:01:21.340 very weird day. So let's start with the big one 00:01:21.340 --> 00:01:23.780 right here at home, the Supreme Court versus 00:01:23.780 --> 00:01:26.859 the tariff king. This is a massive ruling, historic. 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:30.780 In a 6 -3 decision, the Supreme Court has completely 00:01:30.780 --> 00:01:33.060 struck down President Trump's blanket tariffs. 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:35.659 Which is huge. And they didn't just trim the 00:01:35.659 --> 00:01:37.920 edges here. They dismantled the entire legal 00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:40.560 foundation his administration was standing on 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:42.819 regarding the International Emergency Economic 00:01:42.819 --> 00:01:46.200 Powers Act, or IEEPA. OK, so wait, before we 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:47.859 get into the acronyms, help me make sense of 00:01:47.859 --> 00:01:51.040 the math here. Sure. Because I see 6 -3 and my 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:53.040 brain immediately goes, oh, the conservatives 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:55.260 won or the liberals won, but that's not the breakdown 00:01:55.260 --> 00:01:58.659 here. No, it's not. And that's the first real 00:01:58.659 --> 00:02:01.760 aha moment when you read this opinion. Chief 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:04.000 Justice Roberts wrote it, and he was joined by 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:06.920 the three liberal justices. Sotomayor, Jackson, 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:10.280 and Kagan. Right. But then, crossing the aisle 00:02:10.280 --> 00:02:12.800 to join them, you have Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:15.219 Bear. I mean, that is an unusual alliance. You 00:02:15.219 --> 00:02:17.979 have the most liberal justices agreeing with 00:02:17.979 --> 00:02:20.439 the most conservative originalists to stop a 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:22.680 Republican president's core policy. How does 00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:24.949 that happen? It happens because of something 00:02:24.949 --> 00:02:27.509 called the Major Questions Doctrine. This has 00:02:27.509 --> 00:02:30.050 actually been Gorsuch's sort of pet project for 00:02:30.050 --> 00:02:32.930 years, and the liberals are signing onto it here 00:02:32.930 --> 00:02:36.990 for a very specific strategic reason. Break that 00:02:36.990 --> 00:02:39.569 down for us. What exactly is the Major Questions 00:02:39.569 --> 00:02:41.810 Doctrine? Basically it says that if the executive 00:02:41.810 --> 00:02:44.110 branch, the president, or an agency wants to 00:02:44.110 --> 00:02:46.349 do something with massive economic or political 00:02:46.349 --> 00:02:49.129 significance, they can't just rely on some vague 00:02:49.129 --> 00:02:51.939 old law. They need Congress to explicitly give 00:02:51.939 --> 00:02:53.939 them permission. Exactly. Congress holds the 00:02:53.939 --> 00:02:57.240 power of the purse. And Trump was using IEPA, 00:02:57.479 --> 00:03:00.120 which is a law from 1977. Right. The 70s. It 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:02.740 was designed for specific emergencies like the 00:03:02.740 --> 00:03:05.379 Iran hostage crisis. You freeze the assets of 00:03:05.379 --> 00:03:08.479 a specific adversary. It was never meant to let 00:03:08.479 --> 00:03:10.939 a president just wake up and say, I'm putting 00:03:10.939 --> 00:03:13.759 a tariff of unlimited scope and duration on everything 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:15.939 coming into the country. So they can't just find 00:03:15.939 --> 00:03:19.370 a loophole and completely reshape the U .S. economy? 00:03:19.689 --> 00:03:22.030 No. And that's why the liberals joined Roberts 00:03:22.030 --> 00:03:25.409 and Gorsuch. Usually liberals don't love the 00:03:25.409 --> 00:03:27.590 major questions doctrine because it's often used 00:03:27.590 --> 00:03:30.990 to limit environmental regulations. I see. But 00:03:30.990 --> 00:03:34.270 here they are terrified of an unchecked executive 00:03:34.270 --> 00:03:36.550 branch. They're looking at this tariff policy 00:03:36.550 --> 00:03:38.349 and saying, well, if we let the president do 00:03:38.349 --> 00:03:41.030 this without Congress, what else can he do? Right. 00:03:41.629 --> 00:03:43.930 So Roberts was pretty blunt in the opinion about 00:03:43.930 --> 00:03:46.879 this overreach. Very. He literally wrote that 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:48.939 the text of the law cannot bear such weight. 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:51.240 Wow. It's essentially telling the White House 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:54.280 you're driving a semi -truck over a wooden footbridge. 00:03:54.539 --> 00:03:57.080 OK, so the legal bridge just collapsed. But let's 00:03:57.080 --> 00:03:58.759 talk about the wreckage, because the immediate 00:03:58.759 --> 00:04:01.400 fallout is not just theoretical law textbook 00:04:01.400 --> 00:04:04.159 stuff. No, it's financial chaos. We are talking 00:04:04.159 --> 00:04:06.740 about hundreds of billions of dollars. Right, 00:04:06.860 --> 00:04:08.259 because these tariffs have been in place for 00:04:08.259 --> 00:04:11.159 a while. The government has collected over 175 00:04:11.789 --> 00:04:15.770 billion dollars under this law already. 175 billion. 00:04:15.810 --> 00:04:17.769 So what happens to that money? Do they have to 00:04:17.769 --> 00:04:21.569 give it back? That is the big question. And based 00:04:21.569 --> 00:04:23.870 on the filings we're looking at, the answer looks 00:04:23.870 --> 00:04:27.050 like yes. Companies are already demanding refunds. 00:04:27.230 --> 00:04:29.990 Costco actually... Wait, Costco? The bulk paper 00:04:29.990 --> 00:04:33.550 towel guys? The very same. Costco has already 00:04:33.550 --> 00:04:36.189 sued for a full refund. They're arguing the money 00:04:36.189 --> 00:04:38.189 was taken illegally so the government needs to 00:04:38.189 --> 00:04:40.529 cut them a check. I can't even imagine the logistics 00:04:40.529 --> 00:04:43.009 of the Treasury Department writing refund checks 00:04:43.009 --> 00:04:46.410 to every importer in America. It would be a nightmare. 00:04:47.009 --> 00:04:48.889 Justice Barrett actually brought this up during 00:04:48.889 --> 00:04:51.589 the oral arguments. She interrupted the government's 00:04:51.589 --> 00:04:53.709 lawyer and said it could be a mess regarding 00:04:53.709 --> 00:04:56.389 these refunds. Which for a Supreme Court justice 00:04:56.389 --> 00:04:58.750 is basically shouting that the sky is falling. 00:04:58.970 --> 00:05:01.740 Pretty much. And it's not just the refunds. The 00:05:01.740 --> 00:05:04.500 Congressional Budget Office estimated these tariffs 00:05:04.500 --> 00:05:07.980 were generating $300 billion annually. Which 00:05:07.980 --> 00:05:10.339 the government was already counting on. Exactly. 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:12.199 That revenue was factored into the budget. And 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:14.560 now that revenue stream is just evaporated instantly. 00:05:14.779 --> 00:05:16.759 So obviously the administration's response has 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:18.680 been totally calm and collected. Oh, of course. 00:05:18.819 --> 00:05:20.540 No, Trump was in Georgia when the news dropped. 00:05:20.879 --> 00:05:23.240 He was at a factory and he immediately went off 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:25.879 script. What did he say? He claimed the country 00:05:25.879 --> 00:05:27.639 is going to go bankrupt without these tariffs. 00:05:28.329 --> 00:05:30.829 He's framing it as a total national security 00:05:30.829 --> 00:05:32.689 disaster. But they have to pivot, right? They 00:05:32.689 --> 00:05:35.470 can't just ignore a 6 -3 Supreme Court ruling. 00:05:36.029 --> 00:05:39.670 What is Game 2 for them? Game 2 is pivoting to 00:05:39.670 --> 00:05:43.170 Section 232 or Section 301, but it's a much rougher 00:05:43.170 --> 00:05:45.870 road. What are those sections? Section 232 is 00:05:45.870 --> 00:05:49.329 for national security. But to use it, you actually 00:05:49.329 --> 00:05:52.589 have to prove that importing, say, a specific 00:05:52.589 --> 00:05:56.060 type of steel from a specific country directly 00:05:56.060 --> 00:05:58.379 threatens U .S. security. So it takes an actual 00:05:58.379 --> 00:06:00.399 investigation. Yes, by the Commerce Department. 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:03.899 It takes months. And Section 301 is for unfair 00:06:03.899 --> 00:06:06.740 trade practices. Again, you have to investigate 00:06:06.740 --> 00:06:09.560 specific countries for specific bad behaviors. 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:12.000 You can't just hit the whole world at once. Right. 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:14.420 Trump essentially lost his sledgehammer today. 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:18.089 Now he has to use a scalpel. And this is an administration 00:06:18.089 --> 00:06:20.649 that really prefers the sledgehammer. Yeah, clearly. 00:06:20.990 --> 00:06:23.930 So here in the US, we're seeing the system, the 00:06:23.930 --> 00:06:26.529 checks and balances actually checking the president's 00:06:26.529 --> 00:06:29.009 economic power. Yes. But I want to transition 00:06:29.009 --> 00:06:31.689 across the Atlantic because over in the UK, the 00:06:31.689 --> 00:06:34.550 check on power we are seeing is a lot more physical. 00:06:34.829 --> 00:06:38.060 This is the story that really made my jaw drop 00:06:38.060 --> 00:06:40.779 this morning. We are looking at a literal member 00:06:40.779 --> 00:06:43.560 of the British royal family in police custody. 00:06:43.959 --> 00:06:46.019 Andrew Mountbatten -Windsor, formerly Prince 00:06:46.019 --> 00:06:48.019 Andrew. Right. And we should clarify something 00:06:48.019 --> 00:06:49.620 right at the top, because I think a lot of people 00:06:49.620 --> 00:06:51.980 see Prince Andrew arrested, and they assume it's 00:06:51.980 --> 00:06:54.879 about the sexual misconduct allegations. Which 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:57.379 is a very fair assumption, given the history. 00:06:58.199 --> 00:07:00.839 But no, it's not. Right, because those are notoriously 00:07:00.839 --> 00:07:03.720 hard to prosecute, especially across borders. 00:07:04.259 --> 00:07:07.120 This arrest is actually for corruption. Specifically, 00:07:07.579 --> 00:07:10.399 the charges misconduct in public office. So what 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:12.360 are the actual details there? What is he accused 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:14.920 of doing? Well, according to the breaking reports 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:17.860 from London, This stems from his time serving 00:07:17.860 --> 00:07:21.040 as the UK's special envoy for trade back in 2009 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:24.819 and 2010. OK. As envoy, he had access to highly 00:07:24.819 --> 00:07:27.540 privileged trade secrets and sensitive economic 00:07:27.540 --> 00:07:31.300 data. And the allegation is that he shared that 00:07:31.300 --> 00:07:33.699 information with Jeffrey Epstein. Shared privileged 00:07:33.699 --> 00:07:36.740 government data with Epstein. Just why? For money. 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:39.279 That's the core of the investigation, whether 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:41.980 it was for profit or favors or just to show off 00:07:41.980 --> 00:07:44.939 to his billionaire friend. Under British law, 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:47.540 using your public office to share privileged 00:07:47.540 --> 00:07:50.689 secrets like that is a massive crime. It's straight 00:07:50.689 --> 00:07:52.850 up corruption. It's just wild. I was trying to 00:07:52.850 --> 00:07:54.569 think, when was the last time a British royal 00:07:54.569 --> 00:07:57.589 was actually arrested and faced a tribunal? You 00:07:57.589 --> 00:08:00.610 have to go all the way back to 1647. Wow. King 00:08:00.610 --> 00:08:02.910 Charles I. And he lost his head. Literally lost 00:08:02.910 --> 00:08:05.350 his head, yes. Obviously, the modern UK justice 00:08:05.350 --> 00:08:07.629 system doesn't do beheadings anymore. But the 00:08:07.629 --> 00:08:09.730 fact that historians are pulling that specific 00:08:09.730 --> 00:08:11.990 comparison tells you how unprecedented this is. 00:08:12.009 --> 00:08:14.430 He could go to actual prison. He faces real prison 00:08:14.430 --> 00:08:17.089 time. It's a very stark message that the monarchy 00:08:17.089 --> 00:08:19.319 is not above the law. And it's not just, Andrew, 00:08:19.379 --> 00:08:21.899 if you look at the sources covering the broader 00:08:21.899 --> 00:08:25.379 Epstein file releases, this wave of accountability 00:08:25.379 --> 00:08:27.620 seems to be sweeping across Europe right now. 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:30.959 It really is. The net is cast incredibly wide. 00:08:31.300 --> 00:08:33.940 You've got the former Norwegian prime minister, 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:37.220 Thorbjorn Jagland, facing criminal charges. Yeah. 00:08:37.500 --> 00:08:40.320 Jack Lang, a major French official, just resigned. 00:08:40.519 --> 00:08:43.360 And then in the corporate sector, you have Thomas 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:46.039 J. Pritzker from Hyatt and Brad Carp from Paul 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:48.690 Weiss stepping down. Europe is aggressively cleaning 00:08:48.690 --> 00:08:51.909 house. Which brings us to the U .S. angle, the 00:08:51.909 --> 00:08:54.409 Trump connection in these very same files, because 00:08:54.409 --> 00:08:58.190 the contrast here is just glaring. While Prince 00:08:58.190 --> 00:09:01.190 Andrew is sitting in a cell in London, the situation 00:09:01.190 --> 00:09:03.429 in the U .S. regarding the same document dump 00:09:03.429 --> 00:09:05.750 is entirely different. It's night and day. Now 00:09:05.750 --> 00:09:08.090 we want to stick strictly to what the investigative 00:09:08.090 --> 00:09:10.980 reporting says here because these are Very serious 00:09:10.980 --> 00:09:13.059 allegations. Of course. So let's walk through 00:09:13.059 --> 00:09:15.519 what the sources actually lay out because they 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:17.539 categorize the allegations against Donald Trump 00:09:17.539 --> 00:09:21.679 into three distinct levels of guilt. Yes. Level 00:09:21.679 --> 00:09:24.919 one is basically knowledge and association. The 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:27.419 files reportedly contain over thirty eight thousand 00:09:27.419 --> 00:09:31.100 references to Trump, his family or his businesses. 00:09:31.340 --> 00:09:33.799 Thirty eight thousand. Right. The argument at 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:35.580 level one is that he had extensive knowledge 00:09:35.580 --> 00:09:38.120 of Epstein's behavior and maintain the relationship 00:09:38.120 --> 00:09:40.830 anyway. OK. So that's level one. But the source 00:09:40.830 --> 00:09:43.029 material notes that levels two and three move 00:09:43.029 --> 00:09:46.470 from just association into alleged criminal territory. 00:09:46.690 --> 00:09:49.509 They do. Level two details allegations of Trump 00:09:49.509 --> 00:09:51.929 actually being a client of Epstein's. The files 00:09:51.929 --> 00:09:54.009 reference specific witness reports. And level 00:09:54.009 --> 00:09:56.389 three. Level three involves allegations of outright 00:09:56.389 --> 00:10:00.730 felonies, statutory rape, assault. The reporting 00:10:00.730 --> 00:10:02.929 mentions some very disturbing details in the 00:10:02.929 --> 00:10:05.269 files, including emails talking about, quote, 00:10:05.730 --> 00:10:08.149 sweet young coconuts. Oh, man. And a documented 00:10:08.149 --> 00:10:10.330 disregard for the age of the victims. So just 00:10:10.330 --> 00:10:12.129 to be clear, these are the kinds of allegations 00:10:12.129 --> 00:10:14.730 that would normally trigger an immediate massive 00:10:14.730 --> 00:10:16.929 special counsel investigation. Without question. 00:10:17.370 --> 00:10:18.950 But the response from the Department of Justice 00:10:18.950 --> 00:10:21.830 has been total silence, or rather total shutdown. 00:10:21.929 --> 00:10:24.570 Right, Todd Blanch. Yes. The deputy attorney 00:10:24.570 --> 00:10:27.169 general, Todd Blanch, actually went on the record 00:10:27.169 --> 00:10:29.590 and stated there will be no further investigation. 00:10:30.070 --> 00:10:32.149 He called the entire matter settled. And Trump 00:10:32.149 --> 00:10:35.389 himself claims total exoneration. Exactly. So 00:10:35.389 --> 00:10:38.470 in the UK, the law is literally coming for a 00:10:38.470 --> 00:10:42.029 prince. But in the US, the DOJ is essentially 00:10:42.029 --> 00:10:45.429 acting as a shield for the executive. One of 00:10:45.429 --> 00:10:47.350 the legal analysts in our sources called the 00:10:47.350 --> 00:10:50.740 DOJ, the president's private law firm. It's a 00:10:50.740 --> 00:10:53.340 completely lopsided reality. We just talked about 00:10:53.340 --> 00:10:55.299 the Supreme Court holding the line on his tariff 00:10:55.299 --> 00:10:58.159 power. Right. But when it comes to personal conduct 00:10:58.159 --> 00:11:00.639 and these incredibly severe criminal allegations, 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:03.440 the executive branch seems totally untouchable. 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:05.820 They've built a fortress. And just to highlight 00:11:05.820 --> 00:11:08.519 how bizarre this disconnect is, while the Epstein 00:11:08.519 --> 00:11:10.879 files are making global headlines and European 00:11:10.879 --> 00:11:13.360 leaders are resigning, tell us what the Florida 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:15.820 legislature was doing this week. It's incredible. 00:11:16.259 --> 00:11:18.740 The Florida legislature just voted to rename 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:21.240 Palm Beach International Airport. To the Donald 00:11:21.240 --> 00:11:23.200 J. Trump International Airport. That's right. 00:11:23.220 --> 00:11:26.139 You will soon be flying into DJT. And it's not 00:11:26.139 --> 00:11:28.600 just a ceremonial plaque. They're spending five 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:31.100 point five million dollars on new signage. Five 00:11:31.100 --> 00:11:33.360 point five million dollars of taxpayer money. 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:37.059 Yes. But the detail that really gets me, the 00:11:37.059 --> 00:11:39.679 Trump organization has actually filed for a trademark 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:42.200 on the airport's new name. Wait, can you even 00:11:42.200 --> 00:11:44.360 do that? Can a private company trademark the 00:11:44.360 --> 00:11:47.179 name of a public taxpayer funded airport? They 00:11:47.179 --> 00:11:49.620 are certainly trying. I mean, the Reagan family 00:11:49.620 --> 00:11:52.080 didn't do it for DCA. The Kennedys didn't do 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:54.440 it for JFK. So why are they doing it? The Trump 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:57.100 Organization claims they need the trademark to 00:11:57.100 --> 00:12:01.019 prevent abusive use of his name. But legal experts 00:12:01.019 --> 00:12:03.220 in the reporting point out that having that trademark 00:12:03.220 --> 00:12:05.860 could theoretically let them charge licensing 00:12:05.860 --> 00:12:08.159 fees for merchandise sold inside the airport 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:10.419 or even control how the airport is marketed. 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:13.240 Profiting off a public utility. Exactly. But 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:15.740 just the timing of it. Claiming you need to prevent 00:12:15.740 --> 00:12:18.559 abusive use of the name right as these massive 00:12:18.559 --> 00:12:21.220 Epstein files are dropping. It's a master class 00:12:21.220 --> 00:12:23.200 in distraction. It's all about controlling the 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:26.019 brand when reality is getting messy. Which is 00:12:26.019 --> 00:12:28.559 actually the perfect transition to our final 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:31.159 story. Because if the airport thing is about 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:33.799 branding, this story is about what happens when 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:35.940 government branding just completely detaches 00:12:35.940 --> 00:12:39.279 from facts. Oh, the DHS website? Yes. The Department 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:42.419 of Homeland Security fiasco. They launched a 00:12:42.419 --> 00:12:45.379 new public database this week with the most reality 00:12:45.379 --> 00:12:49.899 TV name ever. Arrested. Worst of the worst. There 00:12:49.899 --> 00:12:52.299 is zero subtlety there. It was clearly designed 00:12:52.299 --> 00:12:55.159 as a propaganda tool. They wanted a public list 00:12:55.159 --> 00:12:57.679 profiling the dangerous criminals that ICE is 00:12:57.679 --> 00:13:00.080 arresting. Right. A most wanted list to project 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:02.659 this image of extreme law and order. But then 00:13:02.659 --> 00:13:04.440 reporters and data scientists actually started 00:13:04.440 --> 00:13:06.740 digging into the website. and they realized it 00:13:06.740 --> 00:13:08.379 wasn't the worst of the worst at all. No, it 00:13:08.379 --> 00:13:11.399 was a list of 25 ,000 people, basically everyone 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:14.179 they had arrested. A total data dragnet. And 00:13:14.179 --> 00:13:16.080 when you look at the actual crimes listed for 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:18.940 these 25 ,000 people, sure, there's some serious 00:13:18.940 --> 00:13:21.360 offenses in there, but a huge portion of the 00:13:21.360 --> 00:13:24.139 list were people arrested for things like unauthorized 00:13:24.139 --> 00:13:27.679 use of a vehicle or... perjury or jaywalking 00:13:27.679 --> 00:13:30.379 yes jaywalk you literally had people scrolling 00:13:30.379 --> 00:13:32.519 through a government website titled worst of 00:13:32.519 --> 00:13:35.019 the worst expecting to see cartel leaders and 00:13:35.019 --> 00:13:36.899 finding a guy who crossed the street on a red 00:13:36.899 --> 00:13:39.799 light but it gets so much worse than that because 00:13:39.799 --> 00:13:43.019 a cnn investigation looked at the backend data 00:13:43.019 --> 00:13:45.860 and found a massive glitch in how the site was 00:13:45.860 --> 00:13:48.919 built. A spreadsheet error. Right. It was misaligning 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:51.620 the photos with the criminal charges. Because 00:13:51.620 --> 00:13:54.080 of a simple row shift error in their database, 00:13:54.679 --> 00:13:57.019 you had photos of people who were picked up from 00:13:57.019 --> 00:14:00.879 Miner and Frackens appearing right next to descriptions 00:14:00.879 --> 00:14:03.440 of horrific crimes. The example in the reporting 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:06.340 was a jaywalker whose photo was displayed next 00:14:06.340 --> 00:14:09.100 to the text description of a rapist. Yes. I mean, 00:14:09.100 --> 00:14:11.379 that is horrifying. That destroys a person's 00:14:11.379 --> 00:14:14.039 life. It really does. It's what experts call 00:14:14.039 --> 00:14:17.440 data violence. It's when administrative incompetence 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:20.600 causes massive real world harm to innocent people. 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:23.399 They're being publicly defamed by a federal agency. 00:14:23.500 --> 00:14:26.000 And the DHS just called it a glitch. Yeah. Oops. 00:14:26.120 --> 00:14:28.179 Glitch. That was essentially their defense. Which 00:14:28.179 --> 00:14:30.240 doesn't really cover it when you've permanently 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:32.720 attached a violent crime to an innocent person's 00:14:32.720 --> 00:14:35.500 face on the Internet. And this is the profound 00:14:35.500 --> 00:14:39.320 danger of security theater. DHS wanted the tough 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:41.779 optics. They wanted the scary headline to prove 00:14:41.779 --> 00:14:43.879 they were securing the homeland. But they didn't 00:14:43.879 --> 00:14:46.679 actually care about verifying the data. Exactly. 00:14:47.019 --> 00:14:49.860 They prioritized the propaganda over the actual 00:14:49.860 --> 00:14:52.659 human beings trapped in their spreadsheet. Which 00:14:52.659 --> 00:14:55.220 really brings this entire deep dive full circle 00:14:55.220 --> 00:14:57.440 because all three of these stories are about 00:14:57.440 --> 00:15:00.220 the projection of power versus the reality of 00:15:00.220 --> 00:15:02.779 accountability. That's exactly it. You had Trump 00:15:02.779 --> 00:15:05.379 projecting absolute economic power with the tariffs 00:15:05.379 --> 00:15:08.340 and the Scream Corps stepped in and said, no, 00:15:08.600 --> 00:15:10.679 you have to follow the text of the law. You had 00:15:10.679 --> 00:15:12.879 Prince Andrew projecting royal invincibility 00:15:12.879 --> 00:15:15.379 for over a decade. And the British justice system 00:15:15.379 --> 00:15:17.960 finally said, no, corruption is corruption. And 00:15:17.960 --> 00:15:21.200 then you had the DHS projecting this image of 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:24.399 a flawless security machine. And investigative 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:27.440 journalists proved it was just a broken, defamatory 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:29.720 spreadsheet. It is a real -time stress test of 00:15:29.720 --> 00:15:32.039 Western institutions. It is. And the fascinating 00:15:32.039 --> 00:15:33.940 thing is that the results are totally mixed. 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:36.860 The judicial branch is checking power. The press 00:15:36.860 --> 00:15:39.080 is checking power. But the political guardrails. 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:42.000 The DOJ. Right, the DOJ seems completely unwilling 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:44.539 to act. And that is the terrifying part for a 00:15:44.539 --> 00:15:47.299 lot of people. Because if you have strict accountability 00:15:47.299 --> 00:15:50.559 for economic policies, but total impunity for 00:15:50.559 --> 00:15:53.980 personal criminal conduct, what kind of system 00:15:53.980 --> 00:15:56.679 are we actually living in? A very unstable one. 00:15:57.220 --> 00:15:59.580 History shows us that you can't have a two -tiered 00:15:59.580 --> 00:16:02.200 justice system like that forever without something 00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:05.500 breaking. So as we wrap up, that is the thought 00:16:05.500 --> 00:16:07.960 we want to leave you with today. We've seen the 00:16:07.960 --> 00:16:10.440 Supreme Court reclaim the power of the purse 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:13.120 from the executive branch. We've seen a British 00:16:13.120 --> 00:16:16.200 royal sit in a jail cell. But with the administration 00:16:16.200 --> 00:16:19.120 already hunting for new legal loopholes to push 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:21.919 tariffs through and state legislatures renaming 00:16:21.919 --> 00:16:24.279 airports in the president's honor while his own 00:16:24.279 --> 00:16:26.720 Justice Department looks the other way, is today 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:29.039 actually a victory for checks and balances or 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:31.340 are we just looking at the opening shots of a 00:16:31.340 --> 00:16:33.820 much larger institutional That really is the 00:16:33.820 --> 00:16:35.240 question you have to ask yourself. And honestly, 00:16:35.460 --> 00:16:37.220 I think we are gonna be watching the answer play 00:16:37.220 --> 00:16:40.519 out every single day. Stay curious. Stay curious.