1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:04,880 Speaker 1: Right up, but huh, listen up, Gobber's your mission is 2 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 1: to assure the little girl from Virginia, who says Miko says, 3 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:10,719 Speaker 1: go here dot com, grows up in the land of 4 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 1: the Free and the home of the brave. The rules 5 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 1: are engaging for that mission are as follows. First rule, 6 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:18,479 Speaker 1: you will text their written set rep to Secretary Brown 7 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:21,880 Speaker 1: at three three one zero three on your phone. Second rule, 8 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:24,280 Speaker 1: you will download the iHeartMedia app where you will mark 9 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: the situation with Michael Brown and the weekend with Michael 10 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 1: Brown as your favorites. 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If you want to see a great 19 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 3: ratioed posts Today, Chuck Schimer posted a picture of the 20 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 3: East Wing portico being demolished and said this is the 21 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 3: picture the White House sends that what you do see 22 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:06,679 Speaker 3: three point nine likes, fourteen thousand comments. One of the 23 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 3: best ones was Chuck the White House provided this picture. God, 24 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:13,760 Speaker 3: these people are awful. 25 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 2: I happened to catch Brett Bear's program last night and 26 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:25,400 Speaker 2: he was he had Hugh Hewett and a Democrat strategist 27 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 2: in a some reporter from the Wall Street Journal, and 28 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 2: they were talking about the renovations to the East Wing 29 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 2: and they were all laughing about how the Democrats are 30 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 2: trying to make this such a big story. And I 31 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 2: there are so many renovations that have been done and 32 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 2: so much remodeling that has been done over the course 33 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 2: of the history that entire building that it really it's 34 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 2: just another example Trump derangement syndrome. As I said yesterday, 35 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 2: when I first saw the picture of the you know, 36 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 2: the cranes, the whatever it is, the baco of some 37 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 2: sort that was tearing down the walls. I find yes, 38 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 2: I find that jarring because you don't know how many 39 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 2: times I've walked, you know, front through that part of 40 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 2: the East Wing, or I've come from Treasury and it's 41 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 2: a nice day, so I've walked outside and I've walked 42 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 2: along and come through the northeast gate to walk over 43 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 2: to Pebble Beach, to walk into the Oval office, to 44 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 2: walk into the West Wing, and so yeah, when it's 45 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 2: something that's familiar and you see it being torn down, Yeah, 46 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 2: it's it's jarring, particularly when it's such an iconic building 47 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 2: like the White House. But good grief, people get over it. 48 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 2: Nobody got upset about the swimming pool or the basketball court. 49 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 2: Nobody got upset when tr built the built the West Wing. 50 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 2: I forget who actually changed the Oval Office into the 51 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 2: Oval Office, you know, but that was changed. It was 52 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 2: not always the Oval Office. In ignorance of history is 53 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:08,920 Speaker 2: just fascinating to me. I have said that one of 54 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 2: the things that bugged me the most about illegal immigration 55 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:17,840 Speaker 2: was the human and child sex trafficking that took place 56 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 2: between the mules that were working for the cartels, the 57 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 2: cartels themselves or other or other crime syndicates were doing it. 58 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 2: But whatever, we now know that it was really bad. 59 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:33,080 Speaker 2: We now know it was actually worse than what we 60 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 2: thought it was and what Trump has done. When you 61 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 2: think about the America First Agenda, which I may get 62 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 2: to this in a minute, but you know, I said 63 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 2: from the very beginning that America First, as the title 64 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 2: of his agenda, is going to cause some consternation among 65 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 2: some people because there was the America First movement headed 66 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 2: by Charles Lindbergh trying to keep us out of keep 67 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 2: us out of a world war. They're not the same. 68 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 2: They're not the same at all. So let me tell 69 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:21,280 Speaker 2: you a story. On the morning of September tewod in Warres, Chihuahua, 70 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 2: Mexican law enforcement rated a remote safehouse and they uncovered 71 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 2: one of the most grotesque cartel operations they say that 72 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 2: they had ever encountered. They didn't find just the usual drugs, 73 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:44,600 Speaker 2: but they found rudimentary medical equipment and tarps that were bloodstained. 74 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:50,920 Speaker 2: The evidence that they found confirmed what the investigators had 75 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:56,720 Speaker 2: suspected but had so far been unable to prove, that 76 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 2: growing US demand demand in this country had created a 77 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 2: black market in human babies. Now, before we even think 78 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:14,920 Speaker 2: about the mothers of those babies, and before we even 79 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 2: think about the babies themselves, think about the demand side 80 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 2: of this equation. You have supply and demand. Right, let's 81 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 2: be pretty crude about this. You have a demand, and 82 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:32,039 Speaker 2: so an entrepreneur in this case happens to be a 83 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 2: criminal organization decides, Oh, we see a demand out there, 84 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 2: we can supply the product. The product happens to be babies. 85 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 2: But the demand. Now, I'm going to tell you more 86 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:53,120 Speaker 2: about the product the supply in just a minute. But 87 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 2: how deranged does an individual have to be to want 88 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:01,360 Speaker 2: an look? I understand the desire for children, maybe not 89 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:06,479 Speaker 2: so much in the generations you know behind me, but 90 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 2: it is human nature to want to reproduce, to populate. 91 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:19,200 Speaker 2: But when that desire to be a mother or a 92 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 2: father to reproduce and have children becomes such that you 93 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:28,159 Speaker 2: turn a blind eye to where that child is coming from, 94 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:33,240 Speaker 2: you're as big of a problem as the cartails themselves. 95 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 2: And I think that is an another indication. Bo I 96 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 2: didn't really think about today's program in terms of a 97 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 2: of a thread through all of it, but it is 98 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 2: about morality. And here we have demand for babies so 99 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 2: growing that we've created a black market in human babies. 100 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:03,800 Speaker 2: So the Popo arrested a brutal female gangster. Her name 101 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 2: is Martha Alicia Mendez Agualar. She was running an operation 102 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:15,080 Speaker 2: that procured these babies, lured young mothers, performed illegal c 103 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 2: sections on the streets. They called her Lo Diablo, the 104 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 2: she Devil. So for months, the US Counter Terrorism Center 105 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 2: the NCTC, they've been tracking Lo Diobolo's movements. The dossier 106 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 2: they compiled before the raid described a woman who was 107 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 2: an expert. She would go out and she would find 108 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 2: the most impoverished impregnant girls that she could find anywhere 109 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 2: in Mexico or any other Central or South American country 110 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:56,160 Speaker 2: impoverished pregnant girls, and then she'd real am in with 111 00:07:56,240 --> 00:08:00,560 Speaker 2: promises of work or money or both. The girls in 112 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 2: La Diabolo's grip. The promises proved obviously going to be empty. 113 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 2: The babies were cut from the young mother's bodies and 114 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 2: sold for as much as two hundred and fifty thousand pesos. 115 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 2: You want to do the math, fourteen thousand dollars to 116 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 2: American buyers in El Paso knowingly. I mean, you can't 117 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 2: tell me that wasn't knowingly knowingly buying a baby for 118 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:40,880 Speaker 2: fourteen thousand dollars. The cops believe that many of the girls. 119 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 2: Now they say they use the word many. My guess 120 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 2: is it's probably most. But many of the girls didn't 121 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 2: survive the ordeal. And so then what happens, Oh, now 122 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 2: you've got more product, You've got the baby. Oh too bad, 123 00:08:56,320 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 2: mom died. Oh now we've got kidneys, We've got hearts, 124 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 2: we've got eyes, We've got all sorts of body parts 125 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 2: that we can now sell. Too. Happy Friday morning, everybody. 126 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:19,960 Speaker 2: This almost seems too macab to be true, but a 127 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 2: reporter has talked to a mother of one victim who 128 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:34,040 Speaker 2: persuaded this reporter that indeed it can and does happen. Quote, 129 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:36,720 Speaker 2: my daughter was a good person. She never wronged anybody. 130 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 2: She was so excited to have her baby. Investigators asked 131 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:42,560 Speaker 2: me if my daughter wanted to sell her baby, But 132 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:45,679 Speaker 2: that wasn't the case. She was already buying everything for 133 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 2: her son and telling her daughter how she was going 134 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 2: to be a big sister. But then she started to 135 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:58,600 Speaker 2: break down as she described going out searching police stations, hospitals, morgues, 136 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 2: any place that might give her answers after her daughter 137 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:09,839 Speaker 2: went missing. Only after Lo Diobolo's arrest. Only if she 138 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 2: got arrest were investigators able to confirm that the daughter 139 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:17,439 Speaker 2: had been one of Lo Diobolo's alleged victims. She'd been 140 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:20,960 Speaker 2: lured with the promise of money so she could get 141 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:27,560 Speaker 2: prenatal care. In the end, she gets butchered. She gets butchered. 142 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 2: That's the best word for it. You think this is 143 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:39,440 Speaker 2: just an anomaly. You think this is just one example. Apparently, 144 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 2: these stories are all across Mexico's northern states, where women 145 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 2: vanish every single day into the machinery of organized crime. Oh, 146 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 2: here we go again, organized crime. Maybe not the mafia, 147 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:59,680 Speaker 2: this time the cartels. I've been to Warrez. It's a 148 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 2: pretty crappy place. It's been synonymous, It's become synonymous with femicide, 149 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:10,319 Speaker 2: the killing of women often dismissed as just collateral damage 150 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 2: in the cartel wars. Lou Diobolo's alleged operation is only 151 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 2: the latest twist in really awful, awful stories. So many 152 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:22,840 Speaker 2: of the women that fell prey into this who fell 153 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 2: into this operation where you know, they get promises of 154 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:30,080 Speaker 2: easy cash, You get promises of jobs during your final 155 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:32,959 Speaker 2: months of the pregnancy. You're worried. You know, you're you're 156 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 2: a baby mama, and you you know, where's dad? No 157 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 2: idea where the dad is. Of course, others would get 158 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 2: lured in with invitations to make new friends or to 159 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:48,840 Speaker 2: meet a man that is interested in taking a pregnant 160 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:52,960 Speaker 2: woman on a date. One woman told the reporter that 161 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:56,560 Speaker 2: she narrowly escaped this network. You see being promised simple 162 00:11:56,679 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 2: legal work for quick Bay and wars and nothing really 163 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 2: seemed suspicious, she says. But then my friend had been 164 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 2: working with people in the Warriors and making money, so 165 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 2: I guess she told them to contact me over messages. 166 00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 2: The guy made it seem like a good deal and 167 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:13,839 Speaker 2: I wouldn't have to stay long. They said they wanted 168 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:15,960 Speaker 2: to help me because I'm pregnant, and they kept telling 169 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,160 Speaker 2: me how much money I would make with them. She 170 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 2: described being contacted over Facebook. Apparently the individual was very 171 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:36,920 Speaker 2: persistent urging them to meet. Now, think about this. You know, unmarried, young, 172 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:41,680 Speaker 2: pregnant woman lives in a craphole country, lives in a 173 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 2: craphole place, a craphole state. No it's not Colorado, but 174 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:51,319 Speaker 2: you know she lives in a craphole place. Now a 175 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 2: relative of hers became suspicious and said, you know, wait, 176 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:59,080 Speaker 2: this seems odd, So the woman backed out of the meeting. 177 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 2: Her testimony is now part of the prosecutor's case, and 178 00:13:03,559 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 2: that survival that one woman gives us a glimpse into 179 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:14,880 Speaker 2: the mechanics of the trade, recruitment, transport coercion. Investigations into 180 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 2: this network on both sides of the border are just 181 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:21,080 Speaker 2: now beginning. To start now before I go any further, 182 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:27,000 Speaker 2: I want to say something that you may consider crass, 183 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 2: but I believe this from the bottom of my heart. 184 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 2: The Democrats, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, everybody including Republicans who 185 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:47,319 Speaker 2: are open borders, but anybody who stood by, in particular 186 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:51,040 Speaker 2: during the past four years of a Biden presidency when 187 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:55,200 Speaker 2: the borders were literally just the gates were just not opened, 188 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 2: the gates were removed and just said anybody that wants 189 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:04,640 Speaker 2: to come on in. You facilitated this. You are the 190 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 2: ones that facilitated this, because they all started, they all 191 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:14,680 Speaker 2: started running toward those northern states in Mexico, whether it 192 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:20,400 Speaker 2: was Oras or anywhere else, because they saw the lure 193 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 2: that we were creating. And then you had the demand 194 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 2: on this side of the border, where people desperate for 195 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 2: babies were willing to look sideways or turn their eyes 196 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 2: completely knowing that this just can't be right. But I 197 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 2: want a baby so badly, I'll pay fourteen grand to 198 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 2: get this baby. A Mexican law enforcement source, speaking on 199 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 2: the condition of anonymity, said, there's a lot of talk 200 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 2: that these babies were sold into illegal adoption, but when 201 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 2: we check the phone contacts of the woman law of Diablo. 202 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 2: The men transferring the money and crossing the babies were smugglers. 203 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:08,920 Speaker 2: We don't know where the babies eventually ended up. So 204 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 2: we got babies in this country. We have children, and 205 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 2: through no fault of their own, had been bought by 206 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:24,320 Speaker 2: their parents and their parents, the men and the women, 207 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 2: or the women, whatever the situation may be. I don't 208 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 2: give a rats ask whatever the situation may be, they 209 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:37,360 Speaker 2: know intuitively what they've done. Now they may care for 210 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:41,040 Speaker 2: that baby, they may take great, you know, raise it 211 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 2: as wonderful parents. But how can you actually be a 212 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 2: wonderful parent when you know that you're complicit in that 213 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 2: kind of activity. Some reports that I got yesterday indicate 214 00:15:56,640 --> 00:16:01,560 Speaker 2: that this was like an industrial scale operation, the one 215 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:05,480 Speaker 2: particularly more as a cartel, cutting babies straight out of 216 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 2: mothers and then selling them to the highest bidder. Now, 217 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 2: since January, the Southern border crackdown, thanks to Donald Trump 218 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:20,320 Speaker 2: has hit cartel profits harder than most I think policymakers, 219 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 2: members of Congress, I think, much more so than they realize. 220 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:29,360 Speaker 2: All this strict enforcement, all the expanded surveillance has disrupted 221 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 2: some of the most lucrative human smuggling routes and slowed 222 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 2: the flow of babies and fentannel shipnts coming across the border. 223 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 2: So to compensate, the cartel's pivoted inventing new economies of violence, 224 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 2: baby trafficking, organ harvesting, crypto laundering. Every one of those 225 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 2: is a response to the lost revenue, and every shift 226 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:56,000 Speaker 2: in American policy changes the underworld of organized crime. Crackdowns 227 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 2: don't end the business, they mutate the business. So while 228 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 2: we should celebrate, and I do celebrate the closing of 229 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 2: the border, we got to recognize that that's just step 230 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 2: one that the cartails were morphed into. Okay, we can't 231 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:14,600 Speaker 2: get fentanyl across, and we can't even do it out 232 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 2: of Venezuela anymore because that damn Donald Trump is now 233 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:19,960 Speaker 2: blowing up submarines and ships that are trying to get 234 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 2: across the Caribbean. So the oh, babies, that's a pretty 235 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:30,800 Speaker 2: that's a that's a profitable business. Let's do that. The 236 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 2: in the National counter Terrorism Center, the director's guy named 237 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:38,760 Speaker 2: Joe Ken, I don't know Joe. He calls it a 238 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:44,960 Speaker 2: terroriced cartel operation, a phrase that was once controversial. Oh, 239 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:49,359 Speaker 2: we can never refer to the cartels as terrorists. But 240 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 2: now that's been codified by Trump's designation of the cartels 241 00:17:54,520 --> 00:18:01,159 Speaker 2: as a foreign terrorist organization or foreign terrorist organizations. This 242 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:04,960 Speaker 2: means that US counter terrorism infrastructure can now be redirected 243 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:08,160 Speaker 2: against them, and I hope they do, and I hope 244 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 2: they really crack down on it, and I hope they 245 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:13,800 Speaker 2: can eliminate it to the degree that can be eliminated. 246 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:17,119 Speaker 2: But maybe we ought to start thinking about the demand 247 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:22,080 Speaker 2: side of this equation, the people in this country who 248 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 2: drive that demand for those babies in those organs. 249 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:26,959 Speaker 3: Hey, Mike, this is Jennifer. Hey, I'm gonna have some 250 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:28,680 Speaker 3: renovations done down in my softway. 251 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:29,879 Speaker 2: I'll sell you some pictures. 252 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:30,400 Speaker 3: Sick freak. 253 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:43,359 Speaker 2: You need a different kind of renovation, maybe mental, maybe physical. 254 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 2: But then again, most of my audience does need renovations, 255 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:55,560 Speaker 2: So you know, they're just a bunch of goobers. Along 256 00:18:55,640 --> 00:19:01,480 Speaker 2: the same lines as we have with the human trafficking. 257 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 2: Trump's recent military strikes against the drug cartels that are 258 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:08,119 Speaker 2: operating out of Venezuela and for that matter, of other 259 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 2: Latin American nations has, interestingly, at least from my perspective, 260 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:17,639 Speaker 2: sharp or ignited some really sharp debate about the legality 261 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:21,520 Speaker 2: of those yet within the framework of Article two of 262 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 2: the Constitution, most legal scholars note that the president's actions 263 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:31,480 Speaker 2: are broadly consistent with historical interpretations of his powers as 264 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 2: commander in chief, and of course, his authority to defend 265 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:40,160 Speaker 2: the country against foreign threats. Under Article two, Section two, 266 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:44,160 Speaker 2: the president serves as commander in chief of the armed Forces. 267 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:48,560 Speaker 2: That clause, in particular, has long been interpreted to grant 268 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:53,920 Speaker 2: the executive branch discretion to direct military operations abroad, particularly 269 00:19:53,960 --> 00:20:00,119 Speaker 2: when those actions protect the United States or its citizens. 270 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:04,000 Speaker 2: Justice Robert Jackson observed in a nineteen fifty two case 271 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:09,000 Speaker 2: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company versus. Sawyer that the scope 272 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:14,800 Speaker 2: of presidential power grows when Congress acquiesces or remains silent, 273 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:20,680 Speaker 2: precisely the case we have going on here. Congressional resolutions 274 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 2: to restrict Trump's operations failed in the Senate earlier this month, 275 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:29,680 Speaker 2: but set that aside for a moment. What's Congress done 276 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 2: over the past twenty years to control the border. I mean, 277 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:43,880 Speaker 2: even our hero Ronald Reagan got snookered into actually allowing 278 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:49,760 Speaker 2: more people in granting some amnesty. Trump has grounded his 279 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 2: legal justification in that Commander in Chief authority, he asserts 280 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 2: that the cartel networks constitute an armed foreign threat. This 281 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:06,879 Speaker 2: engaged in narco terrorism against this country. When in in 282 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:12,000 Speaker 2: October twenty third briefing just yesterday, he argued that a 283 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:16,920 Speaker 2: formal declaration of war is not necessary because the operations 284 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 2: are defensive, that they're targeting individuals responsible for bringing narcotics 285 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 2: into this country. Someone gave him some good talking points 286 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 2: on that presidents from both parties, Republican and Democrat alike, 287 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 2: have taken military action under Article two without explicit congressional authorization. 288 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 2: Thomas Jefferson his anti piracy operations in the early eighteen 289 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 2: hundreds from the shores of Triple E to Obama's twenty 290 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:54,320 Speaker 2: eleven air campaign in Libya. Now, scholars at the Council 291 00:21:54,359 --> 00:22:00,320 Speaker 2: and Foreign Relations and the CSIS note that Trump's legal 292 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 2: team has drawn parallels to those precedents, and they emphasized 293 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:10,119 Speaker 2: the executive's authority to respond to quote foreign non state 294 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 2: actors conducting hostilities against the United States. Now, they've also 295 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:23,680 Speaker 2: designated several cartels Trinda Ragua, Columbia's National Liberation Army. They've 296 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:28,760 Speaker 2: designated both of those, for example, as foreign terrorist organizations 297 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 2: did that earlier this year, So that frames his campaign 298 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 2: as part of an ongoing armed conflict, akin to the 299 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 2: post nine to eleven war and terror. Now that framing 300 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:45,159 Speaker 2: in pure constitutional terms bolsters the president's claimed that military 301 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:49,240 Speaker 2: force is necessary for national defense, not just law enforcement. 302 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:52,280 Speaker 2: I think the cabal is too busy focused on oh 303 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,160 Speaker 2: this is law enforcement. Why you took away their due 304 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:59,239 Speaker 2: process rights without giving them a miranda warning? What are 305 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:03,639 Speaker 2: we supposed to do? Fly you know, fighter jets over 306 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:07,560 Speaker 2: the cigarette boats as they go speeding across the Caribbean, 307 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 2: with you know, some sort of loud speaker PA system. Hey, listen, 308 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 2: we're going to arrest. You have the right to remain slightly. 309 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:17,680 Speaker 2: What do you think they're going to do. They're probably 310 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,360 Speaker 2: stupid enough to fire on an F sixteen or an 311 00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 2: F thirty five. Yeah, that's probably how done they are. Now, 312 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:29,680 Speaker 2: Congress does retain the power to declare war, and they 313 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:34,640 Speaker 2: still have the power to fund or to restrict military operations, 314 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:39,600 Speaker 2: but that's pretty much the limit of what they can do. Historically, 315 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 2: they faced serious difficulties constraining unilateral executive action. Now there 316 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:48,359 Speaker 2: was this recent Senate resolution that tried to limit Trump's 317 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:51,320 Speaker 2: authority that was introduced, it failed to pass. It let 318 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 2: the president unimpeded in asserting his Article two powers. Think 319 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,159 Speaker 2: about the War Powers Resolution of nineteen seventy three, the 320 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:04,119 Speaker 2: War Powers Acting teen seventy three that requires presidential consultation 321 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:08,280 Speaker 2: and reporting to Congress within forty eight hours of initiating hostilities. 322 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 2: But both Republican and Democrat administration Republican Democrat presidents have 323 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:21,480 Speaker 2: treated that as advisory, not mandatory. So historically, at least 324 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 2: according to CSIS, that's the way that both parties have 325 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:30,480 Speaker 2: interpreted the War Powers Resolution of nineteen seventy three. So, 326 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:35,680 Speaker 2: taken together, the strikes against the cartels operating from Venezuela, Colombia, 327 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:41,159 Speaker 2: Ecuador all fall squarely within the historical and constitutional scope 328 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 2: of the president's Article two powers as the commander in chief. 329 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:50,720 Speaker 2: Then you couple that with classifying the NARCO trafficking networks 330 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:54,919 Speaker 2: as terrorist entities posing in an imminent threat to US security. 331 00:24:55,720 --> 00:25:00,199 Speaker 2: Trump's operating within his constitutional duty to preserve, protect, and 332 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:04,120 Speaker 2: defend the country. Now, I know that the political and 333 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:08,119 Speaker 2: the moral debates will continue. This is the reason I 334 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 2: do this portion of the story after telling you the 335 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:16,240 Speaker 2: earlier story about the human trafficking in babies and organs. 336 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,040 Speaker 2: Do you think that's better or worse? Or she do 337 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 2: even compare trafficking babies and organs to hauling tons and 338 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:30,879 Speaker 2: tons of fennel into the United States. I don't think 339 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:35,600 Speaker 2: there's an equivalency there. I think they're both bad. I 340 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:38,760 Speaker 2: think actually one's worse than the other. That's just my opinion. 341 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:44,200 Speaker 2: So when you're trying to stop that kind of activity 342 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:48,920 Speaker 2: and it's coupled with a cartel that is also dragging 343 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,480 Speaker 2: drugs into the country too, once again because of the demand. 344 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:54,959 Speaker 2: Well you can have all the political and moral debates 345 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:58,040 Speaker 2: that you want, but I think the legal base basis 346 00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:02,200 Speaker 2: for these actions is clearly rooted in precedent, and it's 347 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 2: reinforced by congressional acquiescence. So it appears constitutionally sound under 348 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 2: prevailing interpretations of executive authority. But I don't want to 349 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:19,280 Speaker 2: gloss over the note that I make here about congressional acquiescence. Oh, 350 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:21,520 Speaker 2: occasionally you'll hear a talking head on, you know, You'll 351 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:24,920 Speaker 2: they'll get some congressman, usually that jerk about whatever I 352 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,760 Speaker 2: can't remember his name from from New York that will 353 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:29,920 Speaker 2: come on, and you know, he wants to denounce everything 354 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:33,600 Speaker 2: that Donald Trump does. If you know, if Donald Trump, 355 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:37,359 Speaker 2: you know, wanted to build a memorial to Mother Teresa, 356 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:42,080 Speaker 2: he hit object to it for some reason. But I 357 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:46,360 Speaker 2: think it's important to note that Congress has remained silent. 358 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:51,399 Speaker 2: They've acquiesced. Now they're a equal branch, they're a separate 359 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,560 Speaker 2: branch of government. We have these co equal branches of government, 360 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:58,720 Speaker 2: and each one of them has, you know, certain duties, 361 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 2: powers and responsibility. And if Congress wanted to, which is 362 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:06,200 Speaker 2: kind of interesting considering that we're in a shutdown right now, 363 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:10,360 Speaker 2: if Congress wanted to fund the military, they could, which 364 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:14,159 Speaker 2: they decided not to do thanks to the Democrats. But 365 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:19,800 Speaker 2: omb and the Treasury Secretary know that there is plenty 366 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:23,760 Speaker 2: of money. There's lots of money that if they really 367 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:25,439 Speaker 2: wanted to, they could figure out a way to go 368 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:29,159 Speaker 2: ahead and pay those paychecks. Because, as I've tried to explain, 369 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:34,160 Speaker 2: the appropriations process, before money gets appropriated, that means that 370 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,960 Speaker 2: the Office of Management and Budget has let's just say, 371 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,680 Speaker 2: a bazillion dollars, So they got a bazillion dollars there 372 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:45,480 Speaker 2: that they've been authorized to spend by Congress. But that 373 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:50,080 Speaker 2: money doesn't get spent, sometimes even in the year in 374 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:53,919 Speaker 2: which it's authorized and appropriated. When I should have been 375 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,399 Speaker 2: Washington for the first time in twenty twenty inauguration of 376 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:01,040 Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, twenty twenty one, end of dating myself 377 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:05,800 Speaker 2: in August. In January two thousand and one, there was 378 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 2: money within FEMA that had been appropriated ten years earlier 379 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,399 Speaker 2: that was still waiting to be spent. So one of 380 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:16,800 Speaker 2: the things I had to do was figure out what 381 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,919 Speaker 2: was the money appropriated for. Why hasn't it been spent. 382 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,880 Speaker 2: Has that project been taken care of? If it's been 383 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 2: taken care of, this is money that we can either 384 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:28,359 Speaker 2: wann use another projects, or we can return it to 385 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:31,320 Speaker 2: the treasury. We can return it to OMB and say, hey, 386 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:34,520 Speaker 2: this is money that was in our you know, on 387 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 2: our balance sheet, but money that we've never spent. That 388 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:43,360 Speaker 2: exists across the entirely of the federal government. So when 389 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,080 Speaker 2: you take all these things together, the strikes against the 390 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:49,719 Speaker 2: cartels operating out of Venezuela, Columbia and Ecuador, it falls 391 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 2: squarely within the historical and the constitutional scope of the 392 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:57,360 Speaker 2: President's Article two powers. He is the commander in chief 393 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,480 Speaker 2: and then by classifying them as he did. He has 394 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:07,880 Speaker 2: the authority to preserve, protect, and defend the nation. These 395 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:13,320 Speaker 2: are when you think about and it's hard, This is 396 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:18,760 Speaker 2: hard to do. But because we quickly forget and we 397 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 2: get in the vernacular of Washington, d c. It becomes 398 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:29,840 Speaker 2: obe overtaken by events. And what's been overtaken by events 399 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:33,320 Speaker 2: here is the fact that we see all of these 400 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 2: things being done, and so we are excited and we 401 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 2: focus on what's being done now, and once again forgetting 402 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,040 Speaker 2: our history. We forget that for just the past four 403 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:50,880 Speaker 2: years that this problem was exacerbated to the nth degree. 404 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:55,240 Speaker 2: And finally we're showing that it could have been stopped. 405 00:29:56,080 --> 00:30:00,560 Speaker 2: It could have been stopped, and Congress do a damned 406 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:04,120 Speaker 2: thing to stop him from stopping that. When I want 407 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,400 Speaker 2: to give just because I you know, I love history. 408 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:09,440 Speaker 2: When Jefferson took office in eighteen oh one, the Barbary 409 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:12,720 Speaker 2: States of North Africa, particularly Triple E where we get 410 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:16,520 Speaker 2: from the shores of Triple Le, we're demanding tribute, annual 411 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:20,360 Speaker 2: tribute from the United States in order to allow American 412 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:25,880 Speaker 2: ships safe passages through the Mediterranean. Jefferson refused the payments, 413 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:30,400 Speaker 2: so the Pasha Triple le declared war on the United States, 414 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:33,760 Speaker 2: and he did that. But it's kind of funny. By 415 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 2: cutting down the American flag at the US consulate, that 416 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:42,320 Speaker 2: was apparently the symbolic act of hostility. Now, Congress was 417 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 2: an incession. So Jefferson faced the constitutional dilemma, do I 418 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 2: have the power to use force abs in a formal 419 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:54,480 Speaker 2: declaration of war. His conclusion was that as commander in chief, 420 00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:59,520 Speaker 2: he could deplore naval He could deploy naval forces defensively 421 00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:05,040 Speaker 2: to protect American ships from attack without congressional authorization. So 422 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,160 Speaker 2: that's when he dispatched a small naval squadron to the 423 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:12,160 Speaker 2: region to defend American commerce and to repel those from 424 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:16,680 Speaker 2: Triple E. Now, he maintained that his actions were defensive, 425 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:21,720 Speaker 2: not offensive. That is, he was not making war, so 426 00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:25,560 Speaker 2: he did not need Congress to declare war. Rather, he 427 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:30,880 Speaker 2: was resisting war that had been made upon the United States. 428 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:38,240 Speaker 2: For example, when Pearl Harbor was attacked, Roosevelt asked Congress 429 00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:43,560 Speaker 2: to declare war against Japan. He did so because he 430 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:46,680 Speaker 2: wanted to make war against Japan. He didn't want to 431 00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:51,920 Speaker 2: just defend you know, Hawaii. He wanted to go to Japan. 432 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,240 Speaker 2: And deliver the war to them, and so he did. 433 00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:56,760 Speaker 3: So. 434 00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:01,240 Speaker 2: Once Congress reconvened in back in eighteen old one, it 435 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 2: effectively ratified Jefferson's decision by passing the Act for the 436 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,080 Speaker 2: Protection of Commerce and Seamen of the United States against 437 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:13,520 Speaker 2: the Tripoli Cruisers of eighteen oh two. That law formally 438 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:17,440 Speaker 2: authorized the President to employ such of the armed vessels 439 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:21,280 Speaker 2: of the United States as meet as may as he 440 00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:24,760 Speaker 2: may judge to be requisite to protect commerce and capture 441 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:28,960 Speaker 2: enemy ships. So here you have a decision in the 442 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:33,600 Speaker 2: Barbary crisis, setting back in eighteen oh one, a durable 443 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:39,440 Speaker 2: constitutional precedent that the President may initiate limited military force 444 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:44,160 Speaker 2: and response to foreign aggression, and of course here against 445 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:49,200 Speaker 2: non state actors without prior authorization. Now, Congress still has 446 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:53,080 Speaker 2: the power to ratify, expand, or determinate the operations. They 447 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,720 Speaker 2: still have the power of the purse. And even though 448 00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:57,680 Speaker 2: they have the power of the purse, they would have 449 00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:02,920 Speaker 2: to be very specific. You cannot spend money to do X. 450 00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,680 Speaker 2: What Republican or Democrats going to stand up and say 451 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:14,280 Speaker 2: you cannot spend money to stop fentanyl from coming into 452 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,720 Speaker 2: the United States. I just think that's when you start 453 00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:22,080 Speaker 2: getting into the practical considerations of how the Constitution operates. 454 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:32,960 Speaker 2: Congress again an equal, separate organization of the United States government, 455 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:39,800 Speaker 2: and they're going to acquiesce in it because politically, I think, 456 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:42,920 Speaker 2: maybe with the exception of some of the Marxist wing 457 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,200 Speaker 2: of the Democrat Party, are not going to stand up 458 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:46,960 Speaker 2: and say, oh no, no, no, no, you can't do that. 459 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:49,120 Speaker 2: You have to wait for us to debate a war 460 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:54,120 Speaker 2: powers resolution. Ain't gonna happen. So, in essence, Jefferson used 461 00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:58,600 Speaker 2: his constitutional authority not to declare or start a war, 462 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:03,600 Speaker 2: but to defend American interests and to defend our sovereignty 463 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:07,920 Speaker 2: on the high seas. Trump's doing exactly the same thing. Everybody, 464 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:09,919 Speaker 2: take a deep breath and shut up and sit down.