WEBVTT - The U.S. Report | 13 March 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:06.040 This is the US Report with James Moro. 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:09.640 Well, good evening and welcome to the program. Got a 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:13.160 huge show for you tonight as Operation Epic Fury approaches 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:16.960 the end of week two. Plus is the MAGA coalition 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:21.040 splitting over Iran. I've got some surprising new polling numbers 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:23.880 on that, Plus the last minute push to save the 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:28.520 Save Act and finally fixed voter ID, and suddenly it 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:32.199 seems like the separation of church and State isn't that 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:34.760 big a deal to the left anymore. We'll take a 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:37.640 look at that too, but first there is an awful 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:39.120 lot to get through, so I don't want to take 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:41.640 too much time before we get into it tonight with 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:44.760 tonight's all star lineup of guests including Michael Dorin and 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:48.720 John Heindraker. However, there is one story that has been 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:51.000 making a lot of news on the left side of 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:55.120 politics in America that hits at the absolute intersection of 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:59.440 media cluelessness, the military, and America's effort to wage a 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:04.480 successful war against the molows of Iran. You see, it 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.839 seems that the Democrats and the left have finally found 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:12.000 a piece of government spending that they disagree with, not 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.959 you know, billions of dollars funneled through USA to quite 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:19.760 literally try and explain the conceptual art of barcel duchamp 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:24.440 to Afghani tribeswomen, or the similarly huge sums of cash 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:28.080 to fraud schemes close to the home, like Minnesota's infamous 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:32.960 Quality Leering Center. No, no, no, no no. They're angry 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.759 about this defect. 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:37.479 Has steak and love. 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:40.399 I'll just think you love? 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.320 All right, I'm here, decent, I'll Lewis I war. 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:47.000 Going to war? 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:53.520 Yes, that's right. They are angry about steak and lobster 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:58.040 dinners for American servicemen and women before they go off 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:01.600 to war. They have finally found, as I say, a 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:05.880 piece of spending they want to cut. Let me explain 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:09.160 all This got started a few days ago when a 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:12.040 writer for the New Republic magazine, a woman named Molly 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:16.560 jong Fast, wrote a piece criticizing Secretary of War Pete 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:20.880 Hegseth's management of the Pentagon's budget. In this she wrote 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:25.000 that hag Seth bought quote an astronomical amount of shellfish, 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:28.520 including two million dollars for Alaskan King Krab and six 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:32.640 point nine million dollars worth of lobster tales as well 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:36.880 as get this fifteen point one million dollars for Ribbi steak, 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:40.200 And then you know what happened next. The left got 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:42.600 hold of it. It got shoved through that weird Blue 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:46.080 Ski Network and the Bulwark and sites like that, and 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:50.920 all of a sudden, it became officially a thing. Democrat 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.600 Adam Schiff was one of the first to jump on 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:57.720 the bandwagon, criticizing, of all things, fruit purchases. 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.840 So how much did you spend last year on fruit 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:02.960 basket stands? 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:05.679 Well, the Pentagon spent twelve thousand. 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:10.320 That's a lot of fruit basket stands. 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:13.480 But that's not all. They've wasted a whole lot more 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:14.040 money than that. 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:18.480 And predictably, of course, Late night Comedy got into the act. 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:23.120 Hag Zeth also went all out on the buffet. Reportedly, 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:26.840 the Pentagon spent two million dollars on crab legs, six 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.880 point nine million dollars on lobster tail, and over fifteen 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:31.679 million dollars on Ribbi steakes. 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:35.640 No, no, no, no, no boo. 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:39.600 They're just hearkening back to our founders, As Paul Revere 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.600 declared on his famous ride one if by Surf two 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:46.120 of by Turf, that. 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.320 Guy by the way had a whole team of writers 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:52.360 behind him to come up with that gag. But to me, 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:56.440 the really fascinating thing was how the audience booed the 0:03:56.520 --> 0:04:00.720 idea of troops getting a nice meal when heading off 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:04.240 to war. That's the left for you, seth Meyer two 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:06.760 had some fun if that's the word with the system 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.880 A clip from former Biden flak Jensaki. 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.600 Today, we've got reports that initial estimate showed Trump's war 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:17.120 cost American taxpayers five point six billion dollars in. 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:18.080 Just the first two days. 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:20.279 At the same time, a new report from an external 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:23.880 government watchdog finds that Pete hegxas Pentagon was already on 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:27.480 a massive spending scree before the war began, dropping fifteen 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:29.760 million dollars on wait for it. If you haven't seen 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:33.599 this story, look it up steak and another six point 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:37.160 nine million on lobster tail in just the month of September. 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:39.720 They spent fifteen million dollars on steak in one month. 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:41.280 Who are you, sterling, Cooper. 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:41.920 Draper and Price. 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.039 If you're gonna eat that much steak, you better have 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:47.000 come up with a new campaign for Lucky Strike. 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:51.640 Oh and by the way, all of this puts Seth 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:54.839 Myers and Stephen Colbert and Adam Schiff on the same 0:04:54.960 --> 0:05:00.000 side as Vladimir Putin's favorite propaganda channel, Russia Today, which 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.520 criticized hag Says spending frenzy in a long tweet and 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:07.560 overlaid it with some old footage of Hagg Ceths eating 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:11.800 barbecue on a breakfast TV program. I gotta say it 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:17.080 is all, as the man said, so so tiresome. I mean, 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.840 you get the implication here. Millions spent on steak and 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:24.279 lobster tails by Secretary of War Pete Haig says like 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:26.640 he's just blowing the corporate credit card on having the 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:32.200 boys around, not you know again, feeding America's war fighters. 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:38.640 I'm not kidding. They really are this stupid. Here's CNN's 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:39.400 Paul Bagala. 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:44.159 He has spent fifteen million dollars, yeah, in one month 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:46.960 for Ribbi's steak, six point nine millions for lobster tail, 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.920 two hundred and twenty five million dollars for furniture. He 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.320 spent more than the month of September than most countries 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:53.440 on Earth spent in their default. 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:54.600 Do you believe you? 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:56.640 For himself lobster tails. 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.480 I don't even know where to begin, So instead, I'm 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:04.159 going to leave it to Begala's fellow panelist, the far 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:07.440 more sensible Scott Jennings, to take it from here. 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:10.880 You believe the Secretary of Defense is personally eating all 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:17.160 the lobster The troops are getting lobs frequently, troops are 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:21.880 going to watt. 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.640 Well, the internet has in fact been full of clips 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:31.159 now from troops posting about their steak and lobster dinners 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:34.080 they've been given before heading off to the fight. And 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:35.760 you know, I have to say, this is really kind 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:37.840 of funny to be because for as long as I've 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.440 been around, the left has always loved to accuse the 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:44.160 right of being all Marie Antoinette and saying let them 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.120 eat cake when it comes to people less privileged than them. 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:49.840 But when it comes to the fighting men and women 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:53.080 of America, they get all tetchy about them getting something 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:57.280 nice to boost their morale. Well, you know what, forget 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:01.200 let them eat cake, I say, let them eat steak, 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:08.000 all right. Well, to discuss how America's war against the 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:11.200 Mullas is going, let's bring in Hudson Institute's senior fellow, 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.520 And as far as I'm concerned, he's one of the 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:16.080 best in the business when it comes to this stuff. Michael, 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:19.120 Dori and Michael, welcome to the program. There's been some 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:22.800 news today from the Iranian government, or what's left of it. 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:28.400 They've issued a statement from the new Ayatola Iatola most Tama, 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.960 and he said, I sympathize with the families of the martyrs. 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:35.120 I have a similar experience to these noble people. In 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:39.360 addition to my father, I've entrusted my wife and my self, 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:44.600 sacrificing sister, her husband to the caravan of martyrs. Mike, 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:48.160 this was essentially a tweet from the regime written a 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.800 written statement. We haven't seen the guy, and as far 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:54.320 as I'm concerned, this has about as much legitimacy as 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:57.440 a new written statement from Elvis. What are your thoughts? 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.960 Well, hello, James, thanks for having me. I agree with 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:08.640 you one hundred percent. Nobody is certain that he's among 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:12.000 the living. If he is among the living, there's no 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:15.160 certainty that he's not in a coma. No one really 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:19.120 knows at this point. He was the consensus candidate of 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:24.280 the ruling elite because he assured everyone, all of the 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:29.320 power centers in the regime, that nothing would change the 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:34.880 regime of course, is under unprecedented, unprecedented pressure as a 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:39.800 result of the Israeli American campaign and all the different elements. 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.520 And when I say the different elements, that means the 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:46.280 IRGC first and foremost, this is the dominant element in 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:49.800 the regime, the revolutionary Guard, the praetorian guard of the regime. 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:58.640 Then the household of Ali Khamanei, his Muchtuba's father. When 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.120 I say household, that's the that's what they call it 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:05.280 in Iran. But we're really talking about a multi billion 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:10.760 dollar economic empire and the power center of the regime 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.760 under his father. So there's a lot of people there. 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:15.160 I want to make sure they weren't going to lose 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.480 their jobs. And then finally the clerics, who are not 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:21.040 as important to the Islamic Republic as they used to be, 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:25.080 but there's still a significant element. And so he's the 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:29.280 consensus candidate that assures everyone the boat is not going 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:33.840 to be rocked. But his job, his job really is 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.640 not to rock anyone's boat. So a dead person can 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:38.440 do that, a person in a coma can do that, 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:43.400 or a relative non entity simply because he's his father's son. 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.800 Sure, well, Mike, before we get to the US prosecution 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.680 of the war. Then this brings up another question. If 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:53.640 mush Taba is in a coma, if he's incapacitated, if 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:56.400 he doesn't even know he is the new supreme leader, 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:59.000 who is actually calling the shots in Iran, And who 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:03.000 does the US talked to eventually about a surrender or 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:04.240 a treaty or a deal. 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.400 Well, it's a good question, and I think it's a 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:09.720 bit of a murky question at the moment that the 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:14.120 simple answer is the commanders of the Revolutionary Guard. 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:16.840 They are the. 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:19.960 The i RGC commanders are the most powerful people. Also, 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:29.680 Ali Lera Johnny, who was who was deputized by Ali 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:33.800 Khamanei before he died to take over the executive the 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:38.120 executive functions. But it seems like Lara Johnny was sidelined 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:43.559 a little bit in this decision to to select Muchtaba. 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:44.200 You know. 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:51.200 Pozzeshkian, who's the the president, came out last weekend and 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:55.959 he apologized to the neighboring states for the attacks that 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:59.240 Iran carried out against them and he promised that they 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:03.680 wouldn't there wouldn't be anymore. And then the commander of 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:07.480 the Revolutionary Guard came out and said, don't listen to possession. 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:09.000 He represents nothing. 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:11.480 So you don't have to have it, you know, you 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:13.559 don't have to read the tea leaves and figure out 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:14.400 what's going there. 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.319 The IRGC is in charge. 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:20.280 Yeah, yeah, but twos in charge of that, who knows. 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:24.360 But onto the American side of the equation then, you know. 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:26.240 One of the things that struck me all week is 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:28.599 that there's already as there always is whenever there is 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.160 this sort of campaign by the United States, a massive 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:33.800 amount of doom saying, people saying, oh, you know, it's 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:37.400 Vietnam all over again. Trump has no plan. Can I 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.199 get your take, as somebody who studies and thinks about 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:43.600 these things very deeply, your take on how the US 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:47.960 Israeli prosecution of this war is going from a strategic 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:51.720 point of view? And are the critics from the various 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:53.559 news outlets and so on in the West and in 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.720 the United States particularly, are they right or you know, 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:59.120 or do they need to give Trump more credit for 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.400 how this is going, particularly at this stage of the game. 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:09.240 So uh, they they're wrong. The war is going extremely well. 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:13.480 It's a war, and the enemy, the Iranian enemy, is 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:16.120 more resilient than I think a lot of people expected, 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:20.080 possibly even more than the Trump administration expected. I'm not 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:23.600 sure about that. Uh, but it's it's not a cake walk. 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:27.840 And and so you can look at the challenge and 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:31.040 then you can you can say that you can turn 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:35.560 the challenge into uh a sign of of of complete 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:39.120 disarray and lack of a plan and so on. But 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:43.800 I think that that's that that's terribly you know, terribly 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:48.920 one sided or I would say very tendentious. The the 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:54.600 military uh, the military plan is going extremely well, and 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:59.840 they it's this is exemplary, and they the the losses, 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:03.760 the huge the losses of American and Israeli soldiers have 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:07.760 been very very small. Now, if you're a family member, 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:11.200 you know that this is a this is a catastrophe. 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.800 But from the point of view of of comparison with 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:19.480 other wars, it's going extremely well. The what what the 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:23.280 the regime had though, the Iranian regime had a strategy 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:25.920 that I think caught everyone a little bit by surprise, 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.080 and that was to focus in on the neighbors, the 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:32.120 Gulf States and in particularly the UAE. The UAE has 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:37.079 absorbed more blows from the drones and missiles from Iran 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.960 than Israel. Has I think they may have surprised people, 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:42.960 uh the closing of the straits of a strait of 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.880 hormones that didn't happen in June, and this time they're 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:49.920 they're they're doing it. The resilience of the missile core 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:53.360 that this is the key, the key instrument that Iran 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:57.760 has in its arsenal. Are these ballistic missiles. They're still 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:01.360 getting off the shots. It's they're they're down by about 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:04.920 ninety percent in terms of the volume, but the accuracy 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:08.200 is increasing because they're getting targeting data from the Russians 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:10.920 and possibly from the the Chinese. 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:12.640 But they're gonna be broken. 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.400 It's just a matter of time before the US and 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:20.400 Israel breaks the back of these of these resilient missile forces. 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:24.120 It's hard to get at them. They're decentralized. They have 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:28.600 they they they've been they've been broken into about thirty 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:32.280 different units which have their own uh which they which 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:35.320 have their own autonomy. They don't have to ask Mother 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:38.760 may I to shoot off a missile and and they 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:42.040 they're good at shoot and scoot. So it's it just 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:45.800 takes it takes time to destroy all of them, but 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:49.000 they will be destroyed. And once those missile forces are destroyed, 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:53.000 then Iran doesn't have a major it doesn't have another 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:54.160 major card to play. 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:57.120 Finally, Michael, there's only a ben min orso left here. 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:59.480 Just want to ask you very quickly about this story 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:01.320 that I I think the White House kind of shot 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:04.600 down about the threat of Iranian tax sleeper cell attacks 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:09.400 on California. But what are the risks around Iranian sleeper 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:11.480 cells in the United States. I've heard this spoken about 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:14.040 for years. Just quickly, is this something that they need 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:14.680 to worry about. 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:17.840 We have to be worried about them. 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.120 They have their backs to the wall, and they will 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:23.240 do They've shown they'll do anything. They have no compunction 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:27.840 about hitting civilian targets or carrying out terrorism. But we've seen, 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:31.120 you know, in recent years, their usual mo is to 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:34.120 work through biker gangs, drug gangs. 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:35.120 And so on. 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.840 I don't believe that there are super sophisticated cells waiting 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:43.040 to be waiting to be activated that are gonna really 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:46.720 surprise us greatly. But they may have a few, they 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:49.280 may have a few tricks up their sleeve. 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:51.720 Fair enough, Michael, thank you so much for your time. 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:56.560 Has always really appreciated. Thank you now, on to other 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:59.240 news out of the United States. This week, President Donald 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:02.320 Trump has a peace to the Supreme Court to terminate 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:06.440 the temporary protected status of more than three hundred thousand 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:09.800 Haitian migrants. This comes after a ruling by a federal 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:13.280 district court last month. Yeah, you know, those guys that 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:18.880 blocked the administration from just letting the statuses expire. Justices 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:22.960 are also considering the administration's decision to end similar protections 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:26.400 for more than six thousand Syrians. To talk about this 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.800 and a whole lot more, I'm joined by the president 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:34.040 of the Center for the American Experiment, John Heinraker. John, 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:37.640 thanks so much for coming on today. The Supreme Court must, 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:40.560 I would assume, wind up having to do the right 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:45.440 thing here and overturning this latest activist judge who has 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.360 once again blocked Trump. I mean, this seems to be 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:51.040 a real pattern here, and as lawyer, you would know 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:53.960 how to talk about this and explain this. These judges, 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:57.200 they keep attacking Trump, but they keep wind up getting overturned. 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:58.440 It's a huge waste of time. 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:02.600 Well more often than not, that's true, James. So what's 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:06.560 going on here is that the temporary status for Haitians. 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:10.160 Goes back to twenty ten when there was an earthquake 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:14.520 in Haiti, and these people have been temporarily in America 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:17.720 ever since, so that the temporary status has been renewed 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:20.440 a number of times, and if it's up to the Democrats, 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:23.760 of course, it will never expire. It was last renewed 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:27.560 by the Biden administration for eighteen months in twenty twenty four. 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:31.200 So now it has expired, and by law, the administration 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:34.199 has to either extend it again or terminate it. And 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:39.320 Secretary Christy Noam terminated the temporary protected status rather than 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:42.280 extending it again. So, as you said, last month, a 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:45.600 liberal a district court judge of Washington, d C. Issued 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:50.720 an order barring the administration from terminating that temporary status. Well, 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:54.640 the case is being litigated again a temporary order, and 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:56.959 as you say, this is one of many orders that 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:01.240 liberal judges have entered temporarily blocked in the administration from 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:05.399 carrying out really just about any of its immigration policies. 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:08.879 And the strategy here really is just to delay implementation 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:12.560 of the administration's policies on immigration, hoping to get a 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:17.719 Democratic president in twenty twenty eight that will reverse those policies. 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:20.439 So now it's all heading to the Supreme Court and 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:21.879 we'll see what happens there. 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:25.280 John. The great irony about all of this is that 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:28.080 the left of the Democrats are always the ones who 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:31.520 are saying the right is a threat to democracy. Trump 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:34.359 is a threat to democracy. And yet the will of 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:37.520 the people is quite clearly to do something about borders 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:40.199 and migration, because that was the number one thing Trump 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:42.720 ran on and won big time on. Now they just 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:44.240 don't seem to accept this. And I want to show 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:47.880 you an incredible exchange which unfolded during a Senate budget 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:53.000 hearing this week. Republican Senator Bernie Moreno pressed former Biden 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:56.760 advisor Brendan Duke on illegal immigration and whether this is 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.320 even a crime. Have a look at this bizarre response. 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:03.120 Do you think it should be a crime to enter 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:09.800 the country illegally? I don't know anything about this. 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:10.840 I'm here to talk. 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:13.360 You don't have to like I'm not a lawyer. 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:14.040 You don't have to be a lawyer. 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:17.280 It's a simple question. Do you have a home, hi, right? 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:20.359 Do you have a place that you sleep in? 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:21.320 Okay? 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:24.400 Is should it be a crime for people to enter 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:29.960 your home without permission? Yes, you're pretty certain on that one, okay, 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:33.200 But you're not sure if it's okay to enter America 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:36.879 without permission, which is our home, by the way, you 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:38.120 don't know about America. 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:40.920 Okay, John, I thought that this kind of gave the 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:43.119 game away. And I've noticed that there's a number of 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:45.520 think tanks, including some libertarian ones on the right, that 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:48.240 are pushing this idea that no, it's not illegal to 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:51.160 enter the country illegally. Tell us about this, and am 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:54.840 I right that this is undermining a very democratic principle here? 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:58.760 Well, it really is, James. I mean, the question should 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:02.480 illegal immigration be a crime kind of answers itself. Thank 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:06.440 you at Entering the country illegally is a crime under 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:10.080 Title eight of the United States Code, Section thirteen twenty five. 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:13.360 It is punishable by six months in prison. But keep 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:16.960 in mind, James, that the Biden administration, instead of enforcing 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:20.880 the law, invited millions of illegal immigrants to enter the country. 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:24.000 They gave them cell phones, they bought them plane tickets, 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:26.440 and they put them up in hotels around the country. 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:30.320 And so it's not too surprising that former Biden administration 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:33.479 officials really don't want to talk about the fact that 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:36.640 illegal immigration is in fact a crime. 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:38.960 Well, you know, and I mean I think John, if 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:41.400 they really want to go to the election on that 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:44.520 in the next presidential election in twenty twenty eight, I'd 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:47.080 love to see them run on this as a platform. 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:49.800 But speaking also of other people who are running, I 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:52.119 also need to get your thoughts on this question of 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:54.920 how old is too old to be in office, because 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:59.000 eighty five year old Representative James Clyburn from South Carolina 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:03.080 has said he's going to seek an eighteenth term. And 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:05.800 this is part of a sort of a longer problem 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:09.119 with a kind of a gerontocracy that's seen our Congress be 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:13.159 the third oldest in US history. Does something need to 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:17.320 be done? Do you think, John, constitutionally to maybe bring 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:19.359 some new blood into the game here? I mean, is 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:23.040 this why young people are so disillusioned with politics? 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:27.720 Well, James, especially on the Democratic side, it is a gerritocracy. 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:29.760 I mean, I mean, a guy like Chuck Schumer, I 0:21:29.800 --> 0:21:32.119 think he's what seventy five years old, He's a spring 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:37.240 chicken compared to James Clyburn and Nancy Pelosi and many others. 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:39.240 And of course, to be fair, Donald Trump is what's 0:21:39.280 --> 0:21:43.960 seventy nine. It's a really hard problem, James, because conservatives 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:46.440 have often proposed term limits in the past, that you 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:49.480 shouldn't be able to serve in Congress for forty years 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:52.880 or whatever. And yet the reality is that the voters 0:21:53.000 --> 0:21:56.720 keep re electing these people, and so it's democracy at work. 0:21:57.240 --> 0:21:59.720 Indeed, finally, I just want to ask you too about 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:03.560 while President Trump was out campaigning in Kentucky this week, 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:07.240 he invited social media star Jake Paul on stage two 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:10.680 give some words and seemingly endorsed him for political office. 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:13.600 Have a look at this, you guys have that swag. 0:22:13.640 --> 0:22:16.280 There's a lot of young kids in here, the future 0:22:16.320 --> 0:22:19.440 of America. I grew up just a few hours away 0:22:19.440 --> 0:22:21.880 from here, and my dad taught me to fight, and 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:30.440 all of our voices matter in America. 0:22:32.000 --> 0:22:32.880 Now. He's a great guy. 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:35.359 He's a courageous guy and a talented guy. He's a 0:22:35.359 --> 0:22:36.880 hell of a fighter too, by the way. 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:40.240 You know what I find fascinating about this is that 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:43.160 Donald Trump, at his age, manages to be so plugged 0:22:43.160 --> 0:22:46.480 into who young people are into, into this whole internet 0:22:46.520 --> 0:22:49.639 meme culture. This seems to give him an advantage in 0:22:49.720 --> 0:22:51.800 his campaigning. Do you think that advantage will be able 0:22:51.840 --> 0:22:55.639 to translate into the midterms into whoever winds up taking 0:22:55.800 --> 0:22:57.600 up the Maga mantle in twenty twenty eight. 0:22:59.200 --> 0:23:02.000