 Okay. We are back. We are back for our holiday special show. Happy Festivus. Happy Winter Solstice Yule. And Hail Crampus. We're back. All right. Let us return to our readings. I am James P. Madonna of Megalife 21. And I am here with my partner, my talk show partner, the Reverend Dr. William J. Eisman. I continue. Governor Christie's remarks over the past few days attacking the head of the PBA, the New Jersey Education Association, Democratic State Center's Loretta Weinberg of TNEC, Paul Sarlo of Woodridge, and Stephen Sweeney of Gloucester, and the media all reflect vintage Christie on the one hand, but also demonstrate a new desperation that will only increase over the next few months. That's the old cowardly, snarling bully hiding behind his security detail. Well, only Chris Christie is allowed to make a decent income and achieve the American dream. No other profession in New Jersey is allowed to be happy and live well. Who's he? Who elected him? I'm the governor. Are some things he has said. Dictatorial comment. As for Luke Margolis, a former newsman and now Senate aide, he is another genius according to the governor. It's no coincidence this developed after Donald Trump called him out on the George Washington Bridge. The court case is right around the corner. Yeah, and he said some nasty things about Barack Obama, the guy who he was hugging practically, and, you know, when he needed a storm sandy FEMA money. The unindicted coast conspirators may eventually be named. One time, Christie Aide, Bridget and Kelly is not about to take the fall unless there is a plea bargain, which would be the governor's worst nightmare. Well, if your if your head's on a chopping block, I would say take everybody down with you. So Christie lashes out at all the usual suspects and then some in so doing he proves that his claim that he did not set a tone of vicious petty behavior is absurd. He exposes himself in his last desperate attacks while he still holds office. An office he has completely neglected while running a campaign based on denial. Why don't this real record? Why don't all these other people in New Jersey expose him? How come they don't speak up and expose this man for what he has not done and what he has done that is negative? Nobody's speaking up in New Jersey. You know? They're pussies. I saw the statement by Governor Christie about Union pigs. Too bad. Too bad. Too damn bad if people require an iron title to a living wage and benefits, and you don't like it too bad. Let me tell a story about real people and how they live. Who Christie's saying this? Oh the the writer. Oh, okay. I worked as a restaurant server for more than 32 years. I actually made a pretty good living, although the work was long and exhausting. Tips. He made money on tips. And I still had a house to run and a family to feed. However, I had no benefits. There was no medical insurance. Motherfucking restaurant owners. Nor were there paid sick or vacation days. And no thought of the future in terms of a pension. Freddie had some cheap motherfucking European restaurant owner that didn't want to give him any benefits. The upside of this story is I am married to a union iron worker. So my kids had medical insurance. We're able to go to college. Thank God. And we were able to take an occasional vacation. Now that we are retired, our home is free and clear. We have an adequate pension and are able to live a decent life in our golden years. So the union job in that family like many, many multitudes of families. Saviors. What is the savior? And it's the union that is responsible for that family having the benefits that they so rightfully deserve. All right, go ahead. It is the unions who have made the middle class. And the labor laws that we have today came from the blood, sweat and tears of unions. Yes, but unfortunately they were undone by the corporation. There's more to be, yes, they were undone thanks to the puppet Ronald Reagan. I know. Might as well put the blame on him, the Hollywood actor. I cannot imagine where we would be or how we would survive without my husband's union. Employers give you nothing without the strength and determination of the union. I salute unions. I will hereby dedicate this show to America's unions. Feel the burn. If Christie wants to see greedy pigs, just take a look at some politicians. Take a look at himself in the mirror. Power is their mistress and greed is their driving force. Absolutely. It's time for Christie to keep his mouth shut. Yeah, Christie has been really shooting his mouth off, especially since he's at the bottom of the barrel in the campaigning, huh? Yeah, how he is. Percentage wise. He knows nothing about the real people of New Jersey. No, he just claims he knows he's in touch with New Jerseyans. He just, he claims a lot. Yeah, I would say. You know, he's a very good liar because he acts, he acts, he behaves very, I was going to say passionate about his opinions, but he's just an obnoxious bully. A little hard. Bully, bully, bully. Bully, bully. Bully, bully. A sham in the faros. Bully, bully. Bully, bully. Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe, Africa. Is no longer pressing for the extradition of Walter Palmer. The American dentist who killed the well-known lions, a cabinet minister said on Monday. Somebody got paid off. Palmer can now safely return to Zimbabwe. I bet you somebody in Zimbabwe got paid off. As a tourist because he had not broken the southern African country's hunting law. Well, Africa is loaded with poachers. Environment, water and climate minister, aqua, moochingery, cashery. Say, cashery. Cashery, cashery. I bet casually took a bribe from the dentist. Monday Zimbabwe's police and the national prosecuting authority had cleared Palmer of wrongdoing. Oh, I bet they did. Through an advisor, Palmer declined to comment. Palmer was identified as the man who killed Cecil in a bow hunt. Cecil, a resident of Howeons National Park in western Zimbabwe, was well known to tourists and researchers for his distinctive black mane. So, Cecil was killed by a bow, arrow. If I'm not mistaken, he was shot with a bow and was not killed instantly and was found elsewhere, if I'm not mistaken. Led to death in the era. Moochingery, cashery, had said in July that Zimbabwean police and prosecutors would work to get Palmer returned to Zimbabwe through face poaching charges. On Monday, however, Mochingery, Guru, cashery, said of Palmer, he is free to come, not for hunting, but as a tourist. Palmer was subject to extradition, talk, in Zimbabwe, and a target of protests in the United States, particularly in Minnesota, after he was identified. Hunting aside from the acquisition of meat for food. Look at me and look at my trophy room. It's an extension of his manhood, his asshole, my god. Ego maniacal, selfish manhood trophy. There's no reason, logical reasons, to kill any animal for trophy reasons, especially if they're in danger. Especially if they're supposedly on a protected area. Yeah. Yeah, like the black and white rhinos have been made extinct. Because of this ridiculous notion that their horns have some kind of medicinal value. Use deer antlers. They use deer antler horns in Asia, pulverize deer antler horns. Deers shed their antlers, the males, the bucks. They don't even have to kill them to get the antlers. Oh, I'm not forgetting the African elephants for their ivory, there's no need for it. You know, so some rich person could brag that their chachki in their living room is made from real ivory. Messages left on Monday with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which was handling a U.S. investigation of Palmer, weren't immediately returned. I bet he's hated in the United States, by animal rights activists. Theo Gronkhorst, a Zimbabwean professional hunter who was a guide for Palmer, returned to court last week on charges of allowing an illegal hunt. He's the guide, he's responsible. He's supposed to say, no, we can't hunt here. No, you cannot, you cannot target that line. His lawyer, Perpetua Dubey, argued that the charges are too vague, it should be dropped. You're not too vague, it said. You're right, it's an illegal hunt. What the hell's vague about that? Oh my God, the region is prohibited. How could that be vague? I didn't understand a minute. I didn't know it was vague. Hold on, hold on. Let me get the nutcracker. Hey, you, you over there, judge. You know, the region is a little vague. You know, how do you, how do we supposed to know we have to read signs? No, boy, there was no sign up there. There was no sign to tell us we need to read another sign. You should have had a sign to remind us that there's a sign, to remind us that there's a sign that we need to read. Yeah, you know. I'm totally confused. Well, you're confused because the whole thing is vague. That's what his lawyer said. Oh, God, I love it. A little holiday ventriloquism, even though I'm not a professional. Seven bells for the king nutcracker. Something like 1.7 million documents have been collected by federal prosecutors during the course of the investigation of the George Washington Bridge fiasco. Oh, I hope Christy gets nailed before the end of his term. The trial is scheduled for April. April, that long? State Senator Loretta Weinberg, Democrat of TNIC, New Jersey, said that the judge's opinion shows that the report was a political document. Weinberg called the report a whitewash. The notion of the lane closures, being a traffic study, was the original cover story. Said Assemblyman John Wisniewski, the Middlesex County Democrat, who with Weinberg led the special legislative committee into the lane closings. When the original cover story blew up, they had to hire Randy Maestro for $8 million to come up with an even better one. You know, the fact that so many New Jersey Democrats supported Chris Christie in his re-election, I wouldn't be surprised if he gets off scot-free with this George Washington Bridge case, really. I mean, New Jersey is really a scumbag possibility part of the United States. Christy was due to attend a fundraiser in Los Angeles on Wednesday night, co-hosted by a Gibson Dunn partner who worked on the bridge investigation, did not respond to a request for comment. He sure spends a lot of time outside of New Jersey, doesn't he? As the record reported on Saturday, that partner, Deborah Wong Yang, continues to perform work for the governor's office at a rate of $350 per hour. Why? I guess she's paid for that. I guess she's, for that kind of money, she's never Wong. She's always right. Yang is always, is never wrong. Was it Wong or Yang? Yang. Oh, Yang, I'm sorry. Oh, Yang. Oh, Yang. Deborah Wong Yang. Deborah Wong Yang. Wong Yang. He's always right, never Wong, yeah. Oh, man. Maestro. I'm on a roll. Johnny Maestro under Brooklyn Bridge. The author of the Gibson Dunn report, as well as a representative of the law firm, did not respond to requests for comment. How often is Christie actually in New Jersey? That's what I want to know. I believe he was back here either testifying or doing something in the legislature. Yeah, I guess his wife must have a lot of things to do being that her husband is rarely home, you know. He probably has breathing space, you know, when he's not home, you know. He occupies a lot of space, you know. I'm sure he cracks many a toilet ball too, probably has a titanium toilet ball. Michael Critchley. Critchley. Who represents Kelly said, I have consistently maintained that the manner in which the Maestro interviews were conducted were akin to a deliberate flim flam. Yeah, titanium toilet seat. I must correct myself, not the ball, seat. The court's words in his opinion were more eloquent, but have the same meaning. Michael Baldassere. Man, we got some interesting names with this. Honestly, God, what the hell? Who represents Barone. I would hate to introduce these people. Said that every taxpayer in New Jersey ought to read Wiginton's opinion. Bonnie Barone. We cannot say it any better. Barone, at the time of the closures, was the Deputy Executive Director of the Port Authority, the agency that operates the bridge. Kelly was Christie's Deputy Chief of Staff, best known for the eight-word email she sent to a Port Authority executive in August 2013. Time for some traffic problems, infortely. That email was received by Wildstein, a Port Authority executive, and Christie Ally who ordered the closures. He replied simply, got it. Wildstein has implicated Barone and Kelly in the scheme. So is this an actual trial that's coming up this April of 2016? Okay. Attorneys for Barone and Kelly who have denied the charges had subpoenaed Gibson Dunn for interview notes and summaries compiled during their investigation. But Gibson Dunn said it could not hand over such materials because they did not exist. Instead, Gibson Dunn said its attorney had typed notes into a computer and that those files were later edited into summaries. Wiginton noted that Gibson Dunn's decision not to keep a detailed record of interviews was highly unusual. Attorneys are trained to scrupulously document information when conducting internal investigations, including taking and preserving contemporaneous notes of witness interviews. Contemporaneous. Wow. She added that although Gibson Dunn said not to delete or shred documents, the process of overriding their interview notes and drafts of the summaries had the same effect. Wiginton also denied the defense attorney's request for metadata, the electronic information that reveals the history and management of an electronic document saying it was not relevant or admissible in the case. Wiginton's opinion follows a November defense filing alleging that Christie's office improperly withheld thousands of documents from federal prosecutors in response to subpoenas. Now, as a former prosecutor, he still wants to know better, isn't he? Yeah. Critchley and Baldassaray have also asked Wiginton to force prosecutors to turn over more documents that could be critical to the defense, including the names of unindicted co-conspirators. Police were allegedly involved but not charged. Prosecutors agreed in late November to release the names as long as they remain under seal. Well, I'm glad to see they have not forgotten about the bridge, infamous bridge, GW bridge. And you got one of those funny light ones? No, I do not. I have a Trumpy in front of my stuff. Oh, that's good. We'll make that the last. I have a Trumpy. We'll make that the last for the winter solstice, Yule, Happy Festivus season. This is my Yule log. Donald Trump's Republican campaign for president is built on the same win at all costs, no second-guessing confidence that made him billions in real estate and a star of reality television. Well, he definitely grabs the bull by the horns and the balls. Yet, in a recent interview with the Associated Press, the GOP front-runner displayed rare fleeting moments of humility and introspection. Well, he's running. He's campaigning. I think I could lose a state, sure, said Trump, of the first three states to vote in next year's presidential primaries. If I came in second or third, I think that would be, you know, I wouldn't be happy because I want to win in retrospect, Trump also said. So do they all. Yeah. He might not have used the phrase truthful hyperbole in his 1987 book, The Art of the Deal. The phrase has trailed Trump in the 2016 campaign as have questions about whether his penchant for exaggeration and tenuous relationship with some facts would be appropriate for a president. Yeah, I heard Great Britain is not happy with Donald Trump. No. They're boycotting him in every which way. I think maybe if I had the phrase to do over again, I'd use the word optimistic. Perhaps I would want to be very optimistic, Trump said. I'm telling you right now, this campaign after it's over, if he loses, he'll be more famous and legendary than ever before. Trump displayed his signature bravato throughout much of the 30 minute interview with the AP at his golf course in northern Virginia. He declined to name a single thing he has said over the course of the campaign that he wished he could take back. He repeatedly referenced his dominant standing in preference polls and the enthusiasm of his crowds. But the glimmers of self-reflection and self-awareness stood out. They offered a look at a side rarely seen at Trump's rallies and television appearances. Trump unexpectedly leaped to the top of the GOP field this summer and has yet to be knocked from that perch. With less than two months until the Iowa caucuses, his hold shows no signs of slipping. But people in early states often make final decisions close to voting day. I'd like to win, Trump said, and clean the table. History suggests that's unlikely, even if Trump does take the nomination. In modern history, a non-incumbent has never won all three of the early goings to Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. Trump said that while he's doing very, very well in them, he was aware of the precedent. Even if he were to lose one, he said, I won't lose badly.