WEBVTT - The U.S. Report | 3 April 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:06.080 This is the US Report with James Morrow. 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:11.560 Good evening and welcome to the program. Here's what's coming 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:16.520 up tonight. Bondie beached. Trump fires his attorney general. I'm 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:19.720 going to bring you the what, where and why very shortly, 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.640 plus disorder in the court. You're not going to believe 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:30.760 the gobsmackingly dumb reason one justice had for granting birthright citizenship, 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:34.880 and America is going back to the moon. About time. 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:38.960 I say, but first, what is going on with the 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:41.440 war and Iran? Well, I thought we should take a 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.200 bit of a look at it and Donald Trump's big 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:48.920 address to the American people and the world this week. Now, 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:51.400 the aim of this speech was to give Americans both 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:55.480 a status update and a justification for the war effort, 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:57.840 which has gone on for more than a month now, 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:02.720 and indeed it has been militarily a hell of a success. 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:07.920 We are systematically dismantling the regime's ability to threaten America 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:12.760 or project power outside of their borders. That means eliminating 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:17.000 Iran's navy, which is now absolutely destroyed. 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:24.360 Trump also laid out the long historical justification for this conflict. 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:27.280 The fact of the matter is, and Trump is completely 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.120 right here Iran had it coming. 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:36.480 This fanacular regime has been chanting death to America, death 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:41.280 to Israel for forty seven years. Their proxies were behind 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:44.920 the murder of two hundred and forty one Americans and 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:48.920 the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, the slaughter of hundreds 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:53.120 of our service members with roadside bombs, and this. 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:56.840 Bit here too. This was very important. So much of 0:01:56.880 --> 0:02:00.480 the reason why Iran has been so awful lately. Trump 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.680 made the point that this is because of Barack Obama's 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:09.440 Iran Deal, which saw literal paletts of cash flown to 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:10.440 the Malahs. 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:15.919 Obama gave them one point seven billion dollars in cash, 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:20.240 green green cash, took it out of banks from Virginia, DC, 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:25.000 and Maryland, all the cash they had, flew it by 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:28.440 airplanes in an attempt to buy their respect and loyalty. 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:29.240 But it didn't work. 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:34.000 Yeah, and let's never forget what an absolute disaster that 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:37.799 Obama foreign policy was. But then things started to get 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:41.440 a bit confused because Trump also said this. 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:45.440 We're going to hit them extremely hard over the next 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:49.040 two to three weeks. We're going to bring them back 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:52.680 to the Stone Ages where they belong. In the meantime 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:57.240 discussions are ongoing. Regime change was not our goal. We 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.960 never said regime change, but regime change has occurred. 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.120 So here's where I get a little bit confused. On 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:07.400 the one hand, America has achieved all its goals, achieved 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:13.000 regime change, but the bombing's gonna continue. Look, I'll be 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.400 really honest with you. If you watch this show, you 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:18.120 know we've got a lot of time here for Donald Trump. 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.440 And if you know me, well, you know that the 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.960 disaster of the Iranian Revolution is something that I have 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:27.799 been wanting to see reversed since I was literally a 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:31.880 little kid when I watched American diplomats be paraded by 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:36.040 Sheite Muslim thugs who'd seized the embassy in Tehran back 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:40.720 in nineteen seventy nine. But I think ultimately Trump left 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.160 a lot of us with this speech with a few 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:47.000 more questions and answers. For one thing, if the objectives 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:49.640 have been met, then why does there need to be 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.960 a deal backed up with the threat of bombing Iran 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:56.360 back to the Stone Age? Though I would argue for 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.400 the people in charge of Iran, the Mullas and Iatolas, 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.400 at least mentally well when it comes to the Stone Age, 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:05.840 They're already there. And as far as fixing the whole 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.240 problem with the oil coming out of the strain of 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:11.600 Horror Moves, Trump told other nations that the strain of 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.680 Horror Moves now wasn't America's problem. 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:19.520 So to those countries that can't get fuel, many of 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:23.440 which refuse to get involved in the decapitation. 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:25.560 Of our end, we had to do it ourselves. I 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:26.479 have a suggestion. 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:29.760 Number one, by oil from the United States of America. 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.599 We have plenty, We have so much. And number two, 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.880 build up some delayed courage. Should have done it before, 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:38.520 should have done it with us as we asked. Go 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:42.600 to the Strait and just take it, protect it, use 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:43.479 it for yourselves. 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.520 Take it. But with what I mean I guess to 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:51.640 ask the question, though, is to answer it. European nations, 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:55.320 including once great seafaring people like the British and the French, 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:59.960 have let their navies run to seed and have no 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:04.680 no capacity, no capability to protect power even if they did. 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.880 There's another problem, and that is that the borders of 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:12.560 the Islamic world now squarely sit within their territories, and 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:17.320 weak Western leaders like Keir Starmer and Emanuel mccrun don't 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:22.920 dare offend their growing populations of Muslim voters by taking 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:28.360 action against Iran, particularly not with the Great Satan Donald Trump. 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.279 So yeah, all right, Look, we've got a dead Ayatola 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.440 and a new one, this fellow bush Taba, who sounds 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:38.080 like an HR Department's ultimate fantasy by the way I 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:40.719 mean think about it. He's gay, Muslim, a person of color, 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:44.760 and missing at least one leg. And we've also got Iran, 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:48.479 we are told, unable to achieve its nuclear ambitions, which 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:52.520 is unreservedly good. These are all good things, but we've 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:57.000 now got the practical problem of a major strategic chow point, 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:01.680 choke point left in the hands of the Mullahs. Look, 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:06.800 I get Trump's point. European nations have been free riding 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:11.240 for so long on American defense, ever since the end 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.520 of World War Two, and they won't even let the 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:18.240 US use their bases for missions against Iran. And yeah, 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.520 the Europeans need a bit of a lesson here. And 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:24.719 what's more, this bay also who knows all of this 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:28.240 may be a big bluff before US briins go into Iran, 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:33.880 take carg Island and finally choke the Iranian regimes economic 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:38.640 lifeline once and for all now I hope so, and 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:47.920 not just because I drive up thirsty V eight. Sorry, Greta, Okay, now, 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:51.240 just quickly, I wanted to bring you a shocking story 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.719 out of Providence for Rhode Island that I think pretty 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:57.200 much sums up where the American left now sits on 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:02.000 the politics of race, crime and free speech. I remember 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:05.720 this woman, twenty three year old Ukrainian refugee, Irena Zaruska, 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:10.000 brutally stabbed to death last year in Charlotte, North Carolina, 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:14.400 as she made her way home from work, allegedly by 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:19.080 this man to Carlos Brown Junior, a career criminal and 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:25.400 diagnosed schizophrenic. Well in Providence, Rhode Island, local muralist Ian 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:29.920 Gudreau decided that he wanted to memorialize Irena and her 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:33.720 tragic death. That's the half finished mura that he drew there. 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:39.520 But guess what this guy, Providence mayor and Democrats Brett 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:43.600 Smiley said, No way to the mural. Take it down, 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:46.160 he said, and you'll love the reason why. He said. 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:51.920 It's just too divisive, which courses code for. This was 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:55.000 a black on white crime that became a flashpoint for 0:07:55.120 --> 0:08:01.120 discussions about failed criminal justice policies and Smiley. The mayor 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:05.320 was joined in this by Democrat Congressman David Morales. 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:09.800 This mural behind us does not reflect Providence's values, nor 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.720 does it reflect the creativity that we want to see 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:13.120 in our stay. 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:14.120 Ultimately, we want to. 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:16.920 Make sure that every community member that calls Providence home 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:19.880 feels safe. 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:27.760 Wait, what you know, Teya? You know who didn't feel safe? Irena. Again, 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.400 here's what's happening. The Democrats are just mad because this 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:35.400 because Trump champion IRENA's case at the State of the Union. 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:38.559 But it is worth noting that Providence has had no 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:44.800 trouble celebrating other, yes divisive cases. Remember George Floyd who 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.480 died in an encounter with Minneapolis police. When it later 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:50.240 came out he had a massive amount of fentanyl and 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:55.400 meth in his system that prompted riots and looting across 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:59.640 the country, including in Providence Rhode Island, which makes Floyd 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:02.680 I think a pre divisive figure in my book. But 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:06.959 what did Providence do during all of that, Well, they 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:10.040 used their own taxpayer funds to pay to great Big 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:15.240 Black Lives Matter mural literally on their streets. Now, the 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:18.040 difference of courses at the BLM riots of twenty twenty 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:21.720 were all about a coordinated push to cost Donald Trump 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:25.880 his reelection, and so promoting the BLM slogan was all 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:30.360 about helping that narrative. But IRENA's case was taken up 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:34.880 by Trump, and therefore, no matter how sad or wrong 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:38.319 or tragic or death might have been, or the issues 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:42.160 highlighting it highlights being so important, she has to be 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:46.240 sent down the memory hole by the same people who 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:54.480 glorified George Floyd. Well for all the breaking news, let's 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:56.920 bring in our first guest, former White House Chief of 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:01.120 Staff and senior advisor of Bondi Partners, Mick Malveigh. Mick, 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:04.480 Welcome to the program. Happy Easter. A few days early, 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:07.240 I wanted to talk about the big news here that 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:12.000 President Trump has fired his Attorney General, Pam Bondy. Now, 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:15.079 of course Pam Bondy has been controversial about the release 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.160 of the Epstein files, but she's also had a lot 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:21.400 of success prosecuting the White House's case in veryous appellate 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:26.360 courts against the anti Trump Lawfair Mick, what's the latest, 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:28.960 Who's going to replace her? And why do we reckon 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:31.240 that she got the pink slip. 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:35.800 Last question. First, there's a lot of discussion here tonight. 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:36.320 James. 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:37.600 By the way, it's great to see you. Happ Easter 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:38.320 to you as well. 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:41.720 That Trump really didn't like the way she had handled 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.760 the Eric Swalwell matter. That there were some rumors unsubstantiated, 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:47.480 but that's how Washington works sometimes. 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:49.880 That Attorney General. 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:54.520 Bondi had given Swalwell heads up on the investigation into 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:56.400 his spy girlfriend. 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:57.800 True or not. 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:01.400 Sometimes perception is reality, and and apparently that was the 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:06.680 straw that broke the camel's back. Todd Blanche, Donald Trump's 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.719 personal lawyer and an assistant Attorney General, will take over 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:13.360 on an acting basis for a temporary period of time. 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.000 There's a lot of discussions whether or not Lee Zelden, 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.760 another former colleague of mine, former House member from New York, 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:26.200 currently the EPA Administrator, the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, is 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:27.120 on a short list. 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:27.960 Apparently for the replacement. 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.560 But I've got to ask James, you know, just out 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:34.040 loud in the Republicans circles, Ken Paxton is running for 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:37.880 Senate as a Republican against John Cornyn in Texas, and 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.040 I got to tell you, Ken Paxton is the sitting 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:41.320 Attorney General in Texas. 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:42.840 Moving Ken Paxton. 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:45.240 To the Attorney General's office in Washington solves a lot 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:46.400 of GOP problems. 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:50.040 That's a very interesting one there, Ken, Paston, you heard 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:51.959 it here. First. Let's see how that one plays out. 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.320 But you mentioned Eric Swalwell, and I want to talk 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:56.600 a little bit about this too, because there has been 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.760 a lot of controrascy around this guy. And one of 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:02.240 the things I found fascinating this week is that, you know, 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:04.520 when it came to those Epstein files, he was a 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:08.320 massive vocal advocate for the need to release the Epstein 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:11.360 files in full. Oh, we've got to get them out there. 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:13.840 We got a you know, full transparency. Who's in there, 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.880 what's in there? But now this week his attorneys have 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:20.560 said a cease and desist letter to FBI Director Cash Pttel, 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:25.400 who was, as you suggested, preparing to release files relating 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:30.440 to his purported ties to a suspected Chinese intelligence operative, 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:34.000 i e. His girlfriend Fang Fang. Tell us about this 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:38.280 and this hypocrisy around privacy. I mean, suddenly now we're 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.360 clutching our pearls over investigations. 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:44.000 Yeah, James, it's hard to know to start with Swallowell again, 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.840 another former colleague of mine in the House. By the way, 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:50.440 you needed to add a suffix to your introduction of 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.720 Eric when you said he was a proponent of releasing 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:55.959 the full files, a strong advocate for reaching the full files. 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:59.240 He's been a strong advocate since Donald Trump has been president, 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.080 advocating for any of these files to come out. During 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:05.000 the Biden administration. Keep in mind, Biden had these files 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:08.280 for four years, so you have to ask yourself what 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:10.880 the motivation is there. But yeah, if you're asking me 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:13.959 if there's a chance that politicians in Washington, DC are 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:16.760 hypocritical when it comes to their own behavior, the answer 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.120 is yes. But look, I know a lot of Republicans 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:22.920 and some Democrats who have been concerned about this alleged 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:25.760 girlfriend for a long time. She was in his office 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.920 I think at the time, and I will stand corrected 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:29.719 if I'm not right about it. 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:31.880 I think he was on the Intelligence Committee at the time. 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:32.679 I believe it was. 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:33.160 He. 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.480 Yeah, so you know, this is the type of thing 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:40.560 that gets members of both parties interested and concerned. So 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:44.440 hopefully that investigation will continue, and if he's innocent, that's great. 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.240 Everybody's innocent until proven guilty. But if there's something there, 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:48.960 I think we need to know about that just as 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:50.720 much as we need to know about the Epstein files. 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.160 So are we going to start to see some swallowl 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.960 files come out? I mean, this was potentially the thing 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:58.440 that caused Trump to get off side with Pam BONDI. 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:02.439 Are we going to start to see more substantive allegations 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:06.600 or evidence around what he's alleged to have possibly done 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:09.440 with this alleged spy. 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:13.400 And to be clear that the rumors about Bondi giving 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:16.000 Swallow the heads up are just that they're not substantiated. 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.400 I've not seen anything that really has any credibility. But 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:20.400 if your question is should we expect to see some 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:21.760 Swallwhell files coming out? 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:23.360 The answer is yes. I think you would have seen 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:24.240 them under PANM. Bondi. 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:26.840 You'll absolutely see them under Todd Blanche or anybody else 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.280 who comes into the Attorney General's office. And again, it's 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:32.120 the type of thing that even in hyper parts in Washington, 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.880 d C. There will be some Bi Parson interest in 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:39.360 this because we just can't have spies, alleged spies working 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:40.440 in congressional offices. 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:43.240 Well, no, I think that. I think both sides of 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.920 politics really should agree on that, but you know, parts 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:47.600 of ithip is such a tricky thing these days. 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:47.720 Hey. 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:50.400 Also, while talking about the Department of Publand Security, there 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.360 has finally been a deal to move ahead to reopen 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:57.200 the Department of Hubland Security. We saw the TSA agents 0:14:57.240 --> 0:15:00.280 helped out by ICE agentscy the other day. But here's 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.920 the interesting thing here. To me, it seems like Trump 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:05.000 may have had a bit of a win here because 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:07.960 the money is coming back to the agency, but there's 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.720 not the restrictions on ICE and border patrol that the 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.480 Democrats had called for. So chalk this one up for 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:14.040 the White House. 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:17.040 Yeah, the trade off was that there were none of 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:19.880 the Democrat demands got passed into law. That being said, 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:21.840 there was no funding for ICE, But as you and 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:23.840 I have talked about before, there didn't need to be 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:27.120 any funding for ICE, that's the Immigrations and custom enforcement 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.040 because that funding came through a different avenue than one 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:34.440 big beautiful bill. Now, the Republicans didn't originally want to 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:36.600 sort of send the signal that they would cut ICE 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:39.760 out of this new funding, but at the end of 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:41.960 the day, everybody was frightened by the pictures you are 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:44.680 just seeing, which was the tremendously long lines, And there 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:48.760 were real concerns, James, about major airports in this country closing. 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:52.840 You can imagine the effect that has on the economy. Plus, 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:55.320 the Department of Homeland Security seems like the type of 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.280 agency you might want to have fully funded during a 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:02.280 war with Iran. All of that being said that the 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:06.760 Republicans now are talking about funding ICE through a different mechanism, reconciliation, 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:09.680 which you and I talked about previously, which doesn't require 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.720 sixty votes in the Senate. And there's some discussion now 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:14.920 about in the next couple of weeks taking up a 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.240 separate reconciliation bill to fund IO. 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:18.920 This story's not over yet. 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:21.200 And finally, Mick, I just want to talk about Donald 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:24.800 Trump's big address to the nation over the Iran war, 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.240 the prosecution of that so far. Want to get your 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.800 reaction generally to the speech, what she thought about how 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:34.720 that went and how this war is going, and particularly 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:38.720 about his talk about questioning the future of the US 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:41.000 in NATO. Have a look at this. 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.040 We didn't need them here either, To be honest, I 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:48.960 was really asking because I wanted to see what they do. 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:51.440 We didn't need it. We blasted the hell out of 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:54.600 them out of their end, and the last thing I 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.800 needed was NATO stepping in our way because they're not 0:16:57.960 --> 0:16:58.960 They're a paper. 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:02.400 Tiger, mik. It's fascinating to me because on the one hand, 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:04.520 I feel like Trump has a great deal of affection 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:07.920 for Europe and the West. On the other, I feel 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:11.359 like he really doesn't like a lot of the organizations 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:14.200 that are associated with it, particularly NATO, which he's always 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:17.159 said is a free riding operation. What do you do 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:20.640 you make of the speech overall and this thread around NATO. 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:22.760 Yeah, I thought it was a good speech. 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:24.560 I thought it would have been a better speech thirty 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:26.720 or thirty five days ago, at the outset of the war. 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:27.720 But that's water under them. 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:32.040 So but let's talk about that European relationship. Look, he's angry, 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:34.320 and I got to tell you he's not the only one. 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:37.919 I'm angry. I understand if the French and the Brits 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:40.359 and the Italians come to us and say, look, we 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:43.120 don't want to commit troops for XYZ. You didn't ask 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:45.040 us about it beforehand, We're not prepared to do it, 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.040 et cetera. But that's not what they're doing. At least 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:51.000 that's not all they're doing here. They have denied American 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:56.680 overflights and denied American refueling at American bases in their territory. 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:59.520 That's a slap in the face, James. It really really 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.879 is to fly from the UK to Iran, which some 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:05.360 of our soldiers are doing right now. It's a lot 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:08.119 easier and a lot safer if you go over France 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:08.879 and or Italy. 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:11.600 But they weren't allowing them on a couple of occasions. 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:12.320 That's wrong. 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:14.200 You don't do that to friends. I get the part 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:16.119 about not committing troops. I get the part about being 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:20.360 upset about not being consulted. That's all reasonable. But your 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:22.560 closest ally in the whole country and the whole world says, look, 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:24.440 can you at least let us fly over your nation 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:26.720 on the way to Iran. The ANSWER's got to be yes. 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:30.560 And if it's not, that speaks to something much deeper 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.360 than I think exists. This is not from the Americans 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:35.400 to the Europeans. This is the Europeans to the Americans. 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:37.440 I think they just really hate Donald Trump and it's 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:41.119 manifesting itself in these terrible decisions. As far as the 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:43.480 long term status of the alliance goes. 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:45.200 And Nick, there's a long history of that. Of course, 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:47.879 we all remember Robald Reagan having his over flights to 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:51.680 Bob Olivia tonight, I think in nineteen eighty four for memory, Mick, 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:53.880 thanks so much for your time, appreciating Happy. 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:55.359 Eastern Thanks James. 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:58.360 Okay, Well, there's a lot going on in the courts 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:00.760 this week here to talk about this, so let's bring 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:05.160 in political journalist John Fund. John a huge story out 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:09.600 of the US this week around birthright citizenship. It started 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:13.280 with President Trump signing an executive order stopping the US 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:18.760 from granting citizenship automatically to children of undocumented migrants and 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:24.119 temporary visitors. Now, the administration argues that it's necessary in 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:28.240 order to curb illegal migration, but opponents argue it would 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:31.720 change more than a century of precedent. And this has 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:35.720 been argued now in the Supreme Court, where there was 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:40.920 a fascinating argument for one Justice Justice Katanji Brown Jackson, 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:46.040 who argued that illegal aliens have birthright citizenship by saying 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:49.800 that if she stole someone's wallet in Japan, well she 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:52.600 might somehow, I don't know, try it make sense of. 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:56.920 This clip, I was thinking, you know, I'm ius citizen 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:00.439 and visiting Japan. You know, if I steal someone's wallet 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:07.560 in Japan, the Japanese authorities can arrest me and prosecute me. 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:10.960 Even though I'm a temporary traveler, I'm just on vacation 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:17.280 in Japan. I'm still locally owing allegiance in that sense. 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:20.239 Is that the right way to think about it? And 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:27.399 if so, doesn't that explain why both temporary residents and 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:32.320 undocumented people would have that kind of quote unquote allegiance 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:35.000 just by virtue of being in the United. 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:39.040 States, John, make this make sense to me? If I 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:42.639 go to a foreign country and commit a crime, I 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:43.320 get a vote. 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:48.200 Well, I think if the judge had been a travel agent, 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:51.280 it would have been an interesting conversation about what your 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:54.720 rights and responsibilities are to the local laws. But as 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:58.560 a judge, it makes absolutely no sense. Look, I'm apparently 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:01.720 glad that the judges lost your wallet, but it's clear 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:02.840 that she's lost her mind. 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:08.640 Yeah, it is quite it's quite extraordinary that. But John, 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:10.720 tell us more about where this all winds up going 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:16.040 with this birthright citizenship case, because they're saying that this 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:18.720 is just simply pretindent, it can't change. Do you think 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:21.040 there's any chance as Supreme Court will give Trump a 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:24.080 win on this or is birthright citizenship something that the 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:25.280 US is just stuck with. 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:31.320 Well, let's say that the Court, if it were going 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:34.080 to vote for Donald Trump, the odds might have been 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:36.280 a little bit better if Donald Trump didn't call them 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:42.000 all those names. You know, talk about spread. You know, 0:21:42.359 --> 0:21:47.600 honey gets you more than vinegar. The problem here is this. Obviously, 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:50.359 if the American people voted on this issue a national referendum, 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:54.400 they would say worthright citizenship is outmoded in an era 0:21:54.520 --> 0:21:57.360 of jet travel and people can fly into this country, 0:21:57.840 --> 0:22:01.360 give birth and their child is automatic citizen. However, there 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:03.560 is one hundred years of precedent, and I have to 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:06.200 say the Solicitor General, who is the top Trump lawyer 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:09.040 from the Justice Department who arguet this case, got tripped 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:13.159 up a couple of times. Justice Mesitch, for example, said, Okay, 0:22:13.480 --> 0:22:17.200 you know you say that people who aren't automatically born 0:22:17.240 --> 0:22:24.440 here aren't citizens. Well what about Native Americans? And he 0:22:24.560 --> 0:22:26.639 was flummixed. He didn't have an answer. That was a 0:22:26.680 --> 0:22:31.320