 It's Friday. It's 11 o'clock. That could mean only one thing. It's Trump week. I'm Tim Apachele filling in for Jay Fidel. And I'm Cynthia Sinclair. We're here to bring you the latest news from Trump. Trump week. Because it has been loaded. It has been completely loaded. Yes it has. And as every week it's drinking out of the fire hydrant of news. And how much can we take? I don't know. Not much more I think. Apparently we keep showing up here every week so apparently the answer is more. I don't know. Maybe we call it more Trump week. More Trump week, yes. Okay so the title of this show is Hissy Fit of POTUS. And by gosh did we have one. Oh boy. So before we start I'd like to read something that the President of the United States has done along with every politician, they do it. Every person in the military does it. Every elected official, every senior official, they will cite the oath of office. And I'd like to read it because I'd like to put this oath of office in context to where we've been in the last couple days. Good idea. I like that. So the President of the United States being sworn in as President of the United States said, I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States. And will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, defend the Constitution of the United States. So the emphasis is on faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. Those are the two key points from the oath of office. What we saw this week, I think, is a dereliction of that oath. And specifically when we had this, basically this tantrum or a Hissy Fit that Donald Trump had with Nancy Pelosi. And remember, this all things started because they met to talk about the infrastructure. Right. Something that he had agreed to a few weeks back. They asked for $1 trillion. He said, well, how about $2 trillion? And I'll show up with all my stuff and let's plan this meeting. And then Nancy Pelosi had said something about him being involved in a cover-up just before... Well, and it has been reported that maybe she was baiting him. It is possible. I think she was just telling the truth about what's happening because he is involved in a cover-up. Well, and that, you know, for Donald Trump is fighting words. And so when it came time to have this meeting, what I call a stagecraft was all put in place. The curtains were drawn. The press was outside the window. He had a kind of a script that he was going to follow, and by gosh, he did. And what was that script? Basically he says, I'm not going to do anything until the Democrats drop the investigation. That's very serious because what he's saying is I'm not going to sit and pass... Sorry, in any bills, I'm not going to perform my job as president. I'm not going to do that. Why? Because I'm tired of the Democrats investigating me. Well, I don't think the oath of office said, comma, as a qualifier, comma, because you're tired of being investigated. I don't think I read that just now in the intro and I don't think it's there. So this is a very serious thing again. Once again, it's very serious. We know that by, you know, instructing people to deny the subpoenas been issued, whether it be for documents or individuals and telling them and refusing those subpoenas, you know, there's an immediate conflict with the congressional powers that have been bestowed upon the House of Representatives to do these things. Right, absolutely. When it comes to the IRS tax returns, a subpoena for that, that's been blocked. You know, the language is very clear on that. Shout, you know, give these documents over. We're just going to be in big trouble because of what he's doing. It's not really even his place to say no. He's not even the one that really has the power to do that, except that Trump has sort of empowered him to do it. Right. But there was two cases, court cases, where the judge said, no, sorry, the one where they were going after his financials. And so he put a block in there against them being able to do that. And they said, no, you do not have enough. They actually ridiculed the... Yes. They ridiculed them saying, are you kidding me? Yes. The judge is like, this is frivolous and trivial and don't waste the court's time anymore. Just, you know, do what you're supposed to do is basically what the judge said. We'll talk a little bit about that. I just think that, you know, we have this, I mean, it's the apprentice all over again. It's reality TV being played out before the American public and it involves our sense of government. And Schumer came out and said, point blank, the presidency is not a reality show. Very specifically called it for what it was. That's how it's being played. It is how it's being played. So what you had was Nancy Pelosi's, you know, basically saying, I'm concerned. I pray for the president, his aides, his staff, his family, for an intervention. Please and he needs one. Okay. You know, I've got to put myself in devil's advocate on this situation as well. That was pretty inflammatory. Very inflammatory. You know, but here's the response. I'm walking away from this negotiation. I'm not going to do anything until the investigations are halted. That's extreme. But also then, of course, now his response about crazy, crazy Nancy. Crazy Nancy. Now she's got a nickname now. She took her a while, but now she's got a nickname. Crazy Nancy. You know, she's lost it. She's not the same Nancy that I knew before. Crazy now, right? I think the one that really though, we all know we get a nickname from Donald Trump. I mean, that's, that's what you get from a third grader. But we know that that's what Donald Trump loves to do is assign nicknames. And that's by gosh, that's what he's done with Nancy Pelosi. Crazy Nancy. Now, what upset me was to see these mocked videos that have been tweeted by the president of the United States that have been edited, basically disparaging her words and image by a slowing it down to make it appear that she is either inebriated, right? Or, you know, there's something wrong with her. And so they slowed that down. So she's slowing her words. And then editing out the parts where she's this frantically waving her hands or arm gestures. And that's, that's fairly disturbing. You'll have these in campaigns, but you don't alter. You don't alter the videos you claim as is. And then you make your commentary about how, you know, wrong this candidate is or how wrong that candidate is, but you don't alter them to make it appear that that is an actual reality. That's what he's been doing all along. He did it in 2016. He's doing it now. And he will do it in the future as we go forward, you know, and for him to come out into the Rose Garden completely prepared to give this little speech. He even had flyers to hand out for goodness sakes. How does that happen with a spontaneous reaction? Yes, exactly. When he's supposed to be inside an infrastructure meeting, he's actually outside in a pre-planned, obviously orchestrated little talk that he's going to give. Claiming how he wasn't out of control. And then the next day when he's in front of the farmers, and instead of talking about what's going on for the farmers, he's getting some of his, like, as Huckabee Sanders was there, and Kelly Young, Kelly and Conway, Larry Cudlow. Oh yeah, they all, he put them on the spot and say, now you tell me, was I calm? And of course they say, yes, you were calm. Well, I don't know if he put them on the spot because they almost said, identically, the same words, word for word. I'm not sure it was on the spot impromptu. I think it was, again, stagecraft. Stagecraft, I agree. It reminded me of very early on in his presidency where they're all gathered around the table and they're all required to see how thankful they are to be working for the president of the United States. And it reminded me of something you would see with Kim Jong-un in North Korea. Exactly. Expecting to have accolades or else you'd get lined up. Exactly. Against the wall. And that's kind of the way we're headed, which is just absolutely terrifying. It's just silly. I mean, it's... Well, I used to think silly and I used to think ridiculous and I used to just go, this is outrageous and kind of laugh about it. But, you know, the closer we get to war with Iran that is very another scripted type of a theatrical move that he has put in place himself by all the different steps he's taken to poke at them, to make them, you know, be inflammatory. So it scares me. I'm terrified. We're going to go to war. Well, okay. Let me ask you this question pertaining to the walk away. I call it the the tantrum walk away. The tantrum walk away. Exactly. The messy tantrum walk away. I already want to call it. Do you think he's serious about not entertaining legislation until the Democrats drop the investigation? Absolutely. I think he is. Do you think that's serious? I do think he's that. I think he's even said at one point that he will shut down the government until it's done. Okay. Well, he's already done that. Right. So we know he'll go again. So we know he did that. He followed up. He followed up on his words. Right. So if you're a Republican in the Senate or the House, and you just heard, you know, the commander-in-chief, your president of your party, basically saying, I'm going to gridlock everything until this happens. I'm going to hold my breath as a child would. It's like he did about the government shutdown because I didn't get my 5.7 billion dollars for the wall. I'll hold my breath until everyone stops everything. What do you say as a Senator, a Republican Senator? If you're Mitch McConnell, you've already been doing that anyway, because how many bills that have been passed, overwhelmingly passed in the House, and they get to the Senate and he won't do anything with them? He's already said, I'm not going to do anything. I'm not going to pass any bills. So why don't the Democrats make more hay out of that? Why don't they put a spotlight on the fact that, you know, if we have nothing to pass, we might as well go with impeachment. Have we got nothing better to do? Do it. I don't understand why they're not. I'm very frustrated with the fact that they are dragging their feet. We'll talk about that one too. We have so much to talk about. But I still want- There's so much in it, I don't know. And each thing is kind of connected to the next and- So what was your reaction regarding the video? Um, well- When you first saw it, I mean- The one that he- the doctored one, you mean? Yes, of Nancy Pelosi. The first ones that I saw were, they were next to each other. The news channel had put the doctored one and the real one right next to each other. That's the one I saw. So you could really see how much it had been doctored. And then it was just outrageous. Absolutely outrage. So given the- given the- what we used to say, the new normal, I like to say the new deplorable normal. Do a deplorable normal. Yeah, the new deplorable normal. Normal, right? Does this even register on the- on the scale of something that people should get shocked about and upset about? Well, I- And I'm not talking about- I'm not talking about journalists. I'm not talking about any news agencies. Just regular people. I'm talking about just good old-fashioned folks in the Midwest. The East Coast, the West Coast. You would think that they would. But I'm afraid that they won't. Because Trump can walk down 50 and shoot somebody, remember? And they won't- they won't change your mind about him. And it's Nancy- and it's Nancy Pelosi. And it's Nancy Pelosi, so she's not well-loved by many. By the Republicans, yes. I agree. Right now, I'm not so happy with Nancy either, because of the way she's dragging her feet. There's a majority now of people in the House- Democrats in the House that want her to move forward. At least with an impeachment inquiry, you know, start the inquiry, even if you're not going to start official, you know, impeachment process, at least start the inquiry. Can't you say that the investigations and the requests of subpoenas is a really part of that inquiry? Yeah, but it's not official. So unless it's official, it's not going to be on his record as any kind of impeachment. And he needs to have that on his record. Or we have basically said, it's okay to do what you did. It's okay to work with the Russians to get yourself elected. It's okay. We don't mind taking money from the Russians and the Saudis. It's okay to do that. And I just don't think that's okay. And I think- But we got a lot of- we got a lot of- actually a lot of senators jumping in on this issue. And we're going to get to that as soon as we get back from our break. I'm Tim Appichella with Cynthia Sinclair. We'll be right back. Hi, I'm Rusty Komori, host of Beyond the Lines on Think Tech, Hawaii. My show is based on my book also titled Beyond the Lines, and it's about creating a superior culture of excellence, leadership, and finding greatness. I interview guests who are successful in business, sports, and life, which is sure to inspire you in finding your greatness. Join me every Monday as we go Beyond the Lines at 11 a.m. Aloha. Got it. Hi, this is Tim Appichella. Welcome back. I'm here with Cynthia Sinclair, and we're talking Trump week. The title of the show is Hissy Fit for POTUS. Before the break, what we did, we talked about, you know, the impeachment discussion. But before we get to that, I just want to finish up on the comment again from Donald Trump about the stable genius comment. I'm a stable genius. I'm not crazy. I'm a stable genius. I can't believe he said it. When he heard it come out of his mouth, I just laughed. But he said it before, even before he became president. I got a good brain. I have a brain. But, you know, isn't that... A big brain. It's just abnormal. It is. I mean, but at this point, we're now almost 900 days into the presidency. It's insane. I mean, at what point do people go, hmm, the 25th Amendment? Maybe this is an issue we should go back and explore? I don't know. It's just, it's kind of scary. And, you know, maybe that's what Nancy Pelosi was trying to allude to. That is what she was alluding to, I believe. And so, of course, he doubles down and went on the attack to respond to that. But what she said after, he said the stable genius comment is, and I quote, when the extremely stable genius starts acting more presidential, I'll be happy to work with him on infrastructure, trade, and other issues. I love that. I love that she said that. That was so great. I don't know though, I'm a little concerned about what Nancy's doing. I think she's dragging her feet, and I think she's looking at this from a political point of view. And I'm sorry, but when that's your job is to keep America safe from presidents like this guy, you don't get to be political anymore. You have to go by the Constitution. The Constitution says you got to impeach this guy. Well, it doesn't say you have to. It says thou mayest versus thou shalt. Right. You know, and it doesn't say I don't know those. I just made that up. But you know, when Nancy Pelosi says obstruction, it's a very clear and in plain sight. Yes. Okay. So she kind of boxed herself into a corner with these definitive statements. Right, I agree. And I think her concern is that she is being boxed in into a corner of impeachment. Well, she even said that she thought that he wants that. He wants to be impeached. And I thought, I don't believe that because he doesn't want that on his record. Because if you look at all of the stuff back in the beginnings and the things that people said then and now even, that this was all about getting the Trump brand, you know, he didn't even exactly expect to be president. He was thinking this is just a really good, you know, free advertisement for the Trump brand. Well, and help him get his show back. Right. The apprentice, because his ratings were way down. Right. That's not how our stern has recently been seen on air. Seen into you, right, exactly. And I know that there's been a lot of people sort of all along that have said that, that that's all he was really after. So impeachment does not help his brand at all. Well, let me read something from a Democrat from New Jersey, a freshman Democrat in the House of Representatives, Tom Melanowski. And I like what he said. He said, the law can survive the efforts of bad people to defy it. The law cannot survive the hesitation of good people to defend it. Thank you very much. Exactly. Yes, I agree with that guy. And I believe that the hesitation gives him more power. He becomes more blatant and more powerful every single day that we wait. It's not just the power. It's what is being compromised in the process of gathering that power. Right. What is the erosion of the institutions? Yes. You know, the new... The judge is being put in place. The new deplorable, new low, the new normal. I mean, so as he's gathering more and more strength and power, what is being compromised? Well, the State Department has been gutted. You know, the judges that are being put in place are very partisan. The people that he's putting in key positions of power, namely the Department of Homeland Security, and who he's got overseeing the election safety. Right? Can we move into that now? Well... That's my number one thing that I think is the most important. Wait, wait. But there's a couple of comments. There's more. There's more. And I think I want to talk about, before we talk about the election security. Okay. I do want to talk about what the Senate's saying. Okay, right, right. Because they're very, very concerned that this impeachment process will damage their chances of overtaking the Senate in 2020. Well, and Amash has come out saying that he will support impeachment, which is a Republican senator. Yeah, but he's a lone voice. Yes, he is. But maybe in the old-fashioned one... And we said last week, did that crack the vase? Was that a crack in the vase? No, it's not. Well, if it's a crack, it wasn't big enough. Yeah, well, it hasn't been answered, you know, because there's been no other chorus to back... Right, right, right. ...to sing along with him. Exactly. But I do want to talk about what basically Diane Feinstein, she's the senator of the Judiciary Committee. She said that we, the Senate Democrats in the House, have to cool it on impeachment. It'll hurt to win back the Senate in 2020. And I don't want to go there. We should not go there now. And it's basically, we need the evidence. We need to ask the questions, get the documents, and see what we have before we march forward. Now, I've said there's at least something there in the Mueller report as is, unredacted or redacted. Nothing else added to it. I think you could move ahead. Thou mayest move ahead. Thou mayest, I agree. And I think there's something there. I think Diane Feinstein is wrong to say that. I think it's the same mentality that Nancy Pelosi has, too. Let's drag our feet. Let's get the evidence first. We walk closer and closer to 2020 every single day. Every day that we wait, we give him more power to be re-elected. So it's that Diane Feinstein is coming from a partisan political point of view. And I think that's wrong. Because right now, there's a crime that has been perpetrated on the America. Yes. And so he needs to be held accountable for that crime, not whether or not it's going to hurt our ability to take back the Senate. I'm sorry, but if we still have Trump in charge, who cares if we've got the Senate? I mean, we've still got Trump in charge. And Trump doesn't get held accountable. Now, that can't happen. And at least I don't understand how it would possibly hurt anybody to start the impeachment. I don't understand that. Because all it really does to start the impeachment inquiry anyway. Sorry, I get all worked up with all this stuff. We love to see you here once more. What is all about? But the thing is, sorry. No. Your point is, we have to make a statement or why are you there in the first place? Exactly. You've got to do your job. And your job is to hold people like this accountable. You don't hold them accountable at the beginning of the show. Exactly. And so we've got to hold them accountable. And if he gets to, this is the thing that makes me mad, is when I hear these people that are against the impeachment, we'll just let it get worked out in the election. Sorry, our election is not secure. Period end. We know about the two Florida hacks. We know about the gerrymandering thing that you I would like to hear more about that we were talking about before. We know that Trump cheats. He's going to cheat again until we get some election security bills passed, which are now dead in the Senate. Two of them that were passed overwhelmingly in the House. Bipartisan bills are dead in the Senate. And they are bills that would help to protect, you know, at least get paper ballots going, all of these things to secure our election. Because without a secure election, it doesn't matter if Biden's ahead. Why aren't, you know, if you're a Democrat, why aren't you putting a spotlight on that? I don't understand. Because it seems to me that I don't care if you're Republican, independent or Democrat, a fair election is a fair election. Exactly. I don't think anyone wants to see a tilted election. Right. I just don't think. Well, that's why the two bills that come out of the House. And I don't think even loyal, loyal Trump supporters would want to see that. Maybe I'm giving them a bit of a doubt here. But I don't think they want to see that. Most of them I don't think would either. So why are the Democrats missing that opportunity? I don't understand that. That actually is the thing that scares me the most. Because right now, who cares if it's Biden or Bernie or Kamala Harris? Who cares if he's going to cheat? It doesn't matter who the Democrat, you know, what you call it's hard. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter who's running. Right? It absolutely matters not at all. Because he will cheat, he will win. Well, let's talk about the election. And this is a recent breaking news here. The U.S. Supreme Court has denied the lower court's decision about Germanning in Ohio and Michigan. So that means those court decisions that they're going to have to redraw the districts before the 2020 election now will not take place. And that was a Republican gerrymandering bunch of stuff. Yes. They were the beneficiaries of that gerrymandering. The Democrats thought they were going to have an even playing field. So okay, so U.S. Supreme Court has struck that down. Oh, gee, funny thing. Okay, so what does that mean, though? What it means is don't cry the blues. That means get activated. That means get engaged and get every registered Democrat and every unregistered that become registered voter. Get them engaged. Because that's the only way you've got to, you know, basically respond to these kind of court decisions. Right, yeah. There's no other way. You could cry the blues. We all cry the blues. It doesn't matter. Doesn't change anything, that's right. So lick your wounds and move on. Lick yourself up and get those people to the polls in 2020. Well, I'd like to see some really smart IT guys get involved. Because having worked the polls, and I know I've said this before on the show, I mean, work the polls, I can see how easy it would be to hack them. And you don't need to hack all of them, just a few of them. Now, your Secretary of State in each state of the Union, they run these elections, not the federal government. Right. Okay, so what to prevent them from implementing these ideas that you didn't get passed in the Senate? Right, well, look what happened in Georgia with the election and Stacey Abrams. And we know that, was it Keane or Kern, whatever his name is. He talked about some gerrymandered stuff, same thing. Making it almost impossible for black voters to get to the polls and things like that. Like that what happened in Texas. And things like that that were addressed in these bills that came out of the House that Mitch McConnell will not bring to the floor for a vote. So it's like, how can we do anything? Even if we try, there's nothing can be done if the Republicans are going to stand firm on being corrupt, no screw bowls kind of people. Well, a free and fair election, although history has said that they haven't been free and fair, asked in the 1850s, 1860s, in the reconstruction phase of our country. But really it's a primary building block of our Constitution and our democracy. It is. And you would think that, even in red states, that they are interested in any free and fair election. But maybe that's not the case. Well, Cynthia, we've come to that time where we're out of time. I can't believe how fast it goes by. Wait, I have three more cards. Well, let's go ahead. Go ahead, give me one of them. Just give me one of them. Go ahead. Okay, let's see. We'll go with Treason. He calls Treason for all of the investigators that have. He did that. He did that. Specifically named McCain, John McCain. He wants to accuse John McCain of treason. My God. Well, you also see. Tell me the page and struck all of them. Well, and the page was the girlfriend of struck. Right. And they talked back and forth with the text messages saying. He repeated himself, this is very treasonous, this is very treasonous. You know, again, when you start throwing out treason as a political barb, that's very serious, number one of two. It's, you know, you really should have the evidence before you make the accusation. Well, he doesn't even know what he's talking about because there has to be aid to the enemy. Right. Well, and here's my, everyone's an enemy. That's right. It's like, aid to the enemy. Not a foreign country. He's not thinking foreign countries. He's just thinking my political enemies. Exactly. And unfortunately, I think that's how he's interpreted the definition of treason. I think he is, because he keeps saying that there was a coup, an attempted coup of my presidency. Maybe Nancy Pelosi's prayer for intervention isn't that far off base. I agree. I think maybe not. I, well, okay. Cynthia, thank you so much. Thank you. We'll hit this next week as we always do. I hope Jennifer Gale's here next week. Right. And so this is Tim Apachele with Cynthia Sinclair. It's Trump week and we'll see you next Friday at 11 a.m. Aloha.