The Intersection with Michael Popok

Popok reports on 50 House Democrats calling for the creation of a bipartisan 17 person Commission on Presidential Capacity to Discharge Powers and Duties, to get the Trump Cabinet and VP under oath about Trump's mental capacity and provide oversight over the 25th Amendment removal process.  At the same time, a group of leading psychologists and psychiatrists have sent a demand letter to Congress t...

VP JD Vance just made public statements longing for Hungary's dictatorship over America's democracy, and admitting that the US is engaged in "economic terrorism" as it loses its soul under the Trump Administration to win an unwinnable war with Iran.  Popok reports on Trump making JD into his "Kamala" tasked with fixing unfixable world issues, as JD has a crisis of faith silently watching his boss...

One way to beat Trump at his steal the vote game, is to file suits to, as Skye Perryman, founder of Democracy Forward puts it, places  "all the liars in one room" in a federal suit to pull the mask off of the Administration's coordinated efforts with known Election Deniers, to lower voter turnout for those opposed to Trump.  Skye joins Popok to brief our audience. https://democracyforward.org/news...

Trump is in full panic mode now that his insane "Trump as Jesus" social media posting in his attacks on Pope Leo have led the Christian Right and Catholics to join together to condemn him as the "antichrist" and "blasphemous". Popok reports on Trump first pulling the image down; telling reporters that he wasn't Jesus he was a "doctor," and Pope Leo rising above it all to condemn Trump by using the...

Popok knows the judge and the Wall Street Journal's lawyer and puts the pieces together in today's breaking news and dismissal of Trump's $10 billion dollar "epstein birthday card" defamation case against Rupert Murdoch and his paper. Incogni: Get 60% off an annual plan at https://incogni.com/truth and use code: TRUTH at checkout! We NEED your help! Legal AF and The Intersection podcasts are both...

Trump’s retaliatory 10 percent tariffs based on an obscure 1974 law never used met fierce resistance at the Court of International Trade. Popok covers what happened in the oral argument about the suit brought by 22 Democratic Attorneys General against Trump’s latest illegal scheme as he foot drags on repaying the $160 billion owed to American businesses. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAF...

In breaking news, Popok explains how a weekend 2-1 decision by the DC Federal Appellate Court not only is a major set back to Trump's Ballroom and Secret Hospital and Top Secret Military Installation, plans at the White House sending it back to the trial court judge for another round of hearings, but also smoked out the Trump appointed judge (Rao) who showed her true colors in her dissent. Subscri...

Popok reports on Former CIA Director John Brennan,--once our nation's chief Spymaster -- far from being silenced by Trump's DOJ's ongoing retaliatory criminal probe of him, has fired back and called for Trump's immediate ouster under the 25th Amendment because the Iran War campaign has revealed him to be "unhinged" and the exact person that the "25th Amendment was created for." Subscribe: https://...

Popok reports on the demands made on the White House physician by Ranking Memberr of the Judiciary Committee Jamie Raskin to immediately conduct a "comprehensive neuropsychological assessment of the President" based on his demented conduct on social media and in public over the last week, including about the Iran war. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a membe...

Popok is joined by author, actor, narrator, and politically authentic leader Peter Coyote to brief our audience on the corrosive effect of wealth on American values and systems, and how the Democrats can meet the moment by leading a change in American values, as outlined in his new book "Smothered by Riches." Powell Memorandum: Attack On American Free Enterprise System: https://scholarlycommons.la...

Popok is joined by Epstein survivor and leader Lisa Philips responding to Melania' being the first First Lady in 250 years to have to deny being involved with a child sex trafficker, and her shocking call on Congress to conduct PUBLIC hearings to allow each and every Epstein Survivor if she wishes to testify on the Congressional Record.  Is Melania finally putting her foot down and making a break...

The new economic numbers are worse for Trump than the old ones, all issued by his own government. Popok puts on his Wall Street hat to decipher the worst consumer confidence numbers in 46 years, the highest rise in prices since 2009, and a 21 percent gas "tax" on voters due to the Iran War, and all Trump's people can do is to tell people to eat more eggs! Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalA...

Trump is so desperate to get out from under a court-ordered monitor that supervises to this day all business of the Trump Organization and to allow Trump and his sons to be able to take out NY loans and be heads of NY businesses, that he has filed an appeal with NY's highest court to get his fraud case tossed again, appealing a ruling from a lower court that was generally in his favor to begin wit...

What do you do when the Trump DOJ and its Antitrust Division is corrupted and ruled by lobbyist instead of law?  You turn to State Attorneys General like Colorado's AG and antitrust expert, Phil Weiser, who explains how states are protecting consumers from monopolies and price gauging like against Live Nation and its ticket and venue monopoly, by enforcing state and federal antitrust law to bypass...

Popok reports on the breaking news (use template), that Senior Judge Friedman has found that the Pentagon has violated his orders and has ordered it to immediately unlock the Pentagon, and give the press free access to ensure a free press does its job to protect our democracy. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://w...

Popok reports on Federal Judge Sorokin joining judges in California, Oregon, and Michigan, to block the DOJ's fake use of the Civil Rights Act of 1960--passed to protect Black Americans and their voting -- to steal states' and our confidential voter data -- under the guise of "just checking" while trying to build a giant federal and illegal voting data base! Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@Leg...

Popok reports on Pam Bondi trying to wiggle out from under the House Oversight Committee subpoena by claiming in bad faith that the subpoena only applies to her as "AG" and not personally, as House Democrats threaten to begin contempt proceedings against her, and Epstein Survivors demand she comply.  And all the while, all Bondi's resistance will do is lead to Todd Blanche her number #2 and now th...

In breaking news, Popok reports on the California Supreme Court entering an emergency order granting the Cali Attorney General's petition to stop Sheriff Bianco (a MAGA candidate for state governor) from willfully ignoring the Attorney General, his boss, and his direction to end the phony "criminal investigation" and seizing 650,000+ voter ballots from the 2025 special election on redistricting. S...

Popok reports on Judge Millet (Obama); Judge Garcia (Biden) and Judge Rao (Trump) being assigned to decide whether the Trump Ballroom project will continue to be blocked during the appeal process, as the National Trust files its new brief that declares once and for all that Trump making a giant hole next to the White House, and wanting a Ballroom to cover it, is NOT a national security risk! Subsc...

Popok reports on Trump using his Civil Rights Division and its head Harmeet Dhillon who is angling for the Attorney General job, to go after the former junior aid to Trump's Chief of Staff on Jan 6, Cassidy Hutchinson who's brave testimony through tears  to the Jan6 Committee about Trump's violent and bizarre actions on Jan6 brought down the House, and Trump has never let her forget it. Subscribe:...

Popok reports on the Democrats as big winners in last night's Election Night in America, as Georgia Democrats flipped counties and improved in deep red country by more than 25 points, and Wisconsin's State Supreme Court became 5-2 Blue, with a massive 20 point win for the liberal candidate, in a State Trump won by less than 1 point. We NEED your help! Legal AF and The Intersection podcasts are bot...

The Supreme Court just used the First Amendment to criticize state laws regulating what dangerous therapies mental health professionals can use. But there is a silver lining and Shannon Minter, legal director for the National Center for LGBTQ Rights (NCLR), knows what has to happen next at the state level and in malpractice suits. He joins Popok for an exclusive briefing of our audience. NCLR: htt...

Popok breaks down how Senator Elissa Slotkin responded to Trump's genocidal threats that amount to war crimes,  to wipe the Iranian people off he face of the earth, and by sending a message directly to the Military and its commanders again that they would be committing war crimes if they follow Trump's commands. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of L...

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Popok reports on a brand new lawsuit filed against Trump's new effort to destroy and steal public records and the "people's papers" by not abiding by the Presidential Records Act and Supreme Court precedent dating back to the 1970s.  Leave it to the historians to bring a suit and mention Mar a Lago and Jack Smith while they are at it for support for the position that Trump will steal again if we l...