How Luigi Mangione Could Go Free, Kamala Goes Far Left | First Look | 8/3/26

**Dave Rubin** (0:04)
Hey, everybody, I'm Dave AI, and this is First Look. It's Monday, August 3rd, 2026 We've got a packed show for you today. Kamala Harris says we need to revisit the Electoral College, wants to expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices, and push DC and Puerto Rico into statehood, all while still dodging any decision on 2028 and airbrushing Joe Biden out of her list of great presidents. A radical support group for accused UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione is openly pushing jury nullification, so a New York jury can let him walk free even if the evidence proves he murdered Brian Thompson in cold blood. Ozempic and the other GLP-1 drugs are creating a new temporal hollowing problem, and plastic surgeons are sounding the alarm about the high-risk fixes and the DIY online black market fueling it. Let's dive in. Kamala Harris is done pretending. Speaking Friday at the National Urban League Conference in Nashville, the former vice president and 2024 loser was asked about the Voting Rights Act. She didn't stay there long. She immediately pivoted into an attack on the American system itself, claiming Republicans are cheating, that Democrats must be ruthless about turnout is too big to rig, and then unveiled the real agenda. Tear down the guard rails that stop one party rule.
We must allow for a real conversation about revisiting certain things, Harris said. For example, and I know this is going to be controversial coming from me in particular, we need to revisit the Electoral College.
She got a smattering of applause. The Electoral College was written into the Constitution by the founders precisely to prevent pure majoritarian tyranny and to protect smaller states. Abolishing it would require an act of Congress and a constitutional amendment, something Harris knows full well.
She didn't stop. We need to expand the court to 13 justices, like we have 13 district courts. The Supreme Court has had 9 justices since 1869
Court packing was tried by FDR and rejected even by his own party, because it destroys judicial independence. Harris is now openly floating it again. And she added that we should revisit making Washington DC and Puerto Rico the 51st and 52nd states. Pure power grab to lock in four more Democratic senators forever. Later, National Urban League President Mark Morial asked her to name the most effective American presidents. She listed Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Then, she brought up Barack Obama and the Affordable Care Act to loud applause. Completely absent? Joe Biden, the man who put her on the ticket and later handed her the 2024 nomination. Not a word. Harris insisted she has not made a decision about running again in 2028, and claims she is sincerely and fully focused on these midterms. A new poll this week still shows her leading the Democratic field with 30%, more than double Gavin Newsom. The left already knows the plan. If they can't win under the current rules, change the rules. Electoral College, Supreme Court, New States, that's not reform. That's regime change by other means. The radical campaign to free Luigi Mangione.
Luigi Mangione is accused of hunting down and gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a midtown Manhattan sidewalk on December 4th, 2024
He was arrested five days later at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Police recovered his journal in which he allegedly wrote of his plan to whack an insurance company's CEO.
He has pleaded not guilty to both state and federal murder charges. Now a radical outfit calling itself the December 4th Legal Committee, which has already raised more than $1.5 million for his defense, is pushing a rarely used legal loophole called jury nullification. The idea is simple and dangerous. Even if the jury believes beyond a reasonable doubt that Mangione murdered Thompson, they can still refuse to convict because they think the law or the healthcare system is unjust. Jamie Peck, one of the group's spokespeople, called jury nullification a beautiful feature of our justice system and really one of the only safeguards against tyranny that we have. Criminal defense attorney Kenneth Belkin warned the Times that New York City's juror pool is particularly politically inflamed. Luigi Mangione has a lot of support in New York City, despite the fact that he's accused of an egregious murder, Belkin said. That raises a real possibility that you could get some jurors on that jury that may not convict no matter what the evidence says.
Jury nullification is not legally sanctioned. Lawyers are forbidden from arguing it to the jury. Judges will specifically ask potential jurors during selection whether they will follow the law.
But the concept is not outlawed either. In 2015, two people handing out nullification pamphlets outside a Denver courthouse were charged with jury tampering. The Colorado Supreme Court later tossed the charges. Historically, it was used by American colonists against British law and by abolitionists against the Fugitive Slave Act. Today, the left wants to use it to let a man who allegedly executed a corporate executive walk free because they hate the health care system more than they hate murder.