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Hey everyone welcome to another DailyJim today is man, I always swipe up on the phone to see what day this is june 28th. No, it's not, is it? Yeah, Tuesday june 28th 2022. Today, I wanted to talk about the hearing that happened today and mostly I want to talk about how I don't think people know what the rules are okay. This includes me. Um, So for example, today there was a January six hearing from the committee, and they had testimony from this woman named Cassidy Hutchinson, who was, I believe an advisor or a close aide to the chief of staff, Mark Meadows in the trump White House. And she was testifying about her experience.
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I think one of the biggest challenges we have had in terms of, uh, trump presidency and just in general is that.
Let's say for example, she testifies under oath, under oath, according to the law. From my understanding here in the US is that if you testify under oath, you have to tell the truth the full truth and nothing but the truth. Um, and if you do not, and they find out that you didn't tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, then they can charge you with a crime for lying under oath perjury.
The challenges. People who are not under oath can lie as much as they want. So there will be people who are going under oath and testifying at the penalty. The the risk of, you know committing a crime and there are people who go on television and say whatever they want because on television people can lie. I mean, I think there are some laws that apply towards, defrauding investors and, and yeah, defamation and some of these things, but there's a lot more freedom to lie on television, on the Internet, on lots of different platforms that aren't under oath. And I think what this gets at is just this idea that I think a lot of. People who don't think that they are going to win in the legal process, try to win in the court of public opinion. And there seemed to be, there seems to be a clash, I think a lot of times trump and Giuliani and some of these people will go on television and they plead their case on television, but that's not in the courts. So if they claim that there's election fraud, but then they go to the courts and the courts over and over and over and over again, say that there's no election fraud that they've proven through the evidence that they presented, then they still come back on television and say, oh but there's lots of election fraud, but that that's not how the legal system works. And it's like, I think the analogy that comes to mind is when I watch professional basketball with somebody, you know, and then they go, oh my God, they travel all the time, look at them, they're traveling. And if you don't know basketball traveling means uh moving without dribbling the ball. So running basically taking steps without dribbling the ball. But the problem is they're not traveling all the time it looks and may look as if they're traveling all the time. Um but there are very specific rules on what is and isn't traveling and in the N. B. A. Which I think a lot for example, there's something called the euro step, which is a new move, but it's still complies with, I think you're allowed to take 1.5 steps before passing or shooting the ball. And so I don't even know the rule very precisely. And so I have to trust that the referees, are monitoring the rule very well and I have to enforcing it and then I have to trust that the players and the fans who are there and the coaches are also making sure that the referees are enforcing it properly. But a lot of times me, I played basketball growing up, I played all the way through high school. I don't know the rules. So how do a lot of people don't actually haven't actually played the game or haven't embedded themselves too much and do it even know what's happening. And I wonder if that parallels what's happening in society here in the US where because we have so much conversation on the internet, on tv in so many places, we talk about things, but we don't understand what are the actual laws behind it and what is the legal process and how do these laws get enforced?
I think many of us are becoming more informed and we're learning a lot more, but there's still a lot that I don't know as we come up with new laws as we try to interpret old laws. I think there is.
I think there's a big challenge. And I think one of the biggest challenges is how do we have rule of law when people don't understand the rules of the law and how the law is enforced. And I kind of laugh at that just because of the planned words. But there's this, it frustrates me. It really frustrates me when somebody will come on television and say one thing and claim one thing and then really spin this argument that doesn't have a legal premise. It doesn't have any standing in the courts. But people believe it because we don't either know what has legal standing or we don't care. And I'd like to think that people care, but they just don't know. They think, oh, everyone breaks the law. No, everyone doesn't break the law like that. Not everyone is obstructing justice. Not everyone is trying sending text messages to people who are going to testify and telling them, Hey, remember if you stay on the good side, then you'll be okay. But watch out because the big boss is reading all the transcripts and you know, he doesn't like it when people go against the big boss, not everyone is doing that. Sending those messages to people who are testifying in front of the United States Congress. That's not a thing that happens By every, you know, all 330 million plus Americans. So I think a lot of the challenges that in communication.
People can tell stories that aren't true or not even aren't true don't align with the rules of the law. It's playing a basketball game and saying, but everyone travels. No, not everyone travels. No, they really don't. The referees are pretty good at calling it or not calling it. You know, there's a lot of stuff that the referees are actually pretty darn good at calling in basketball, in hockey, in american football and soccer. All these different things. So I don't know. I think in a way perhaps we, as americans as citizens can get better at learning how the law works. The law process works and at the same time trusting the people who work in the legal system, understand it a lot better than we do. And recognize maybe they're doing their jobs pretty well and that they're not all corrupt or incompetent.
So it was a long day today and I will talk to you tomorrow because this is much longer than five minutes. All right. Take care of y'all.
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