WEBVTT - The Truth with Lisa Boothe: Andrew Bailey vs. The Radical Left 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.160 My next guest is an absolute savage. His name is 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:07.520 Andrew Bailey. He is the Attorney General of Missouri. He's 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:09.560 only been there for a little over a year and 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:11.959 he's already made waves. He's a thorn in the side 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:15.080 of the Biden administration. The left hates him. He started 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:19.119 by ousting a Sorrow's backed prosecutor and since then he's 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:25.639 tackled every big issue, transgender issues, abortion, Second Amendment, the border. 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:29.600 I mean, the list goes on diversity, equity, inclusion, every 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:32.640 issue you care about, every issue we talk about on 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:35.680 this podcast. He has taken up the mantle to defend 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:39.120 the rights of Missourians and Americans and to go after 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:41.840 the left. So I think you're really going to enjoy 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:44.919 this conversation. I was going through everything this guy has 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:47.440 done so far. I can't believe it's only been a 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:50.400 little over a year. So stay tuned for this conversation 0:00:50.479 --> 0:01:03.920 with the Attorney General of Missouri, Andrew Bailey. Well, Attorney General, 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:06.560 it's great to have you on the podcast for the 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:09.560 first time. You know, I was going through this and 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:12.320 you've only been in office for like a little over 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:12.680 a year. 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:15.040 Yeah, that's right, Lisa. I mean, look it's a privilege 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:17.080 to get to serve the people of State of Missouri 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:20.199 as the forty fourth Attorney General in our state's history. 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:23.200 But we hit the ground running back on January third, 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:25.440 twenty twenty three, when I first swore into office, and 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:27.000 we haven't looked back. And I'm here to tell you 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:28.720 we haven't hit our ceiling yet. No. 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:31.000 I know. I was going through all the stuff that 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:32.640 you've done, and I'm like, I don't even know if 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:37.280 we're going to have time from investigating Planned Parenthood stuff 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:42.080 on the border, big tech, investigating media matters, Second Amendment stuff. 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:44.760 I mean, getting rid of a Soros product. Like the 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:47.440 list is long. How much does the left hate you? 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:51.760 Oh, I'm despised by the left, and that's okay. You know. 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:53.440 I tell the people of State of Missouri to judge 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:55.160 me by my enemies. I mean, the fact that the 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:58.680 ACLU and Planned Parenthood have sued me more times than 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.360 I can count on my my my fingers means that 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.240 we're doing the right things for the right reasons. I mean, 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:05.600 at the end of the day, we are fighting in 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:10.079 a war to protect our freedom, our safety, and our prosperity. 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.919 It used to be that Republicans and Democrats had differences 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:16.840 over policy nuance, but the rule of law matter. And 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:22.080 these days the left has abandoned this approach of elevating 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.320 the rules of the game above the players in the outcomes, 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:28.440 in favor of weaponizing the government to tear down cultural 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:30.600 and legal institutions in the United States of America to 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:35.440 achieve radical progressive evolution. And I think it's contrary to 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.840 the will of the peoples state of Missouri. It's certainly 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.880 contrary to our interest in freedom, safety, and prosperity. And 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.639 it's a fight, it's a war. It's no longer a 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:46.680 debate over nuance of policy. 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.120 Do you think in part that's happened just because the 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:54.080 government has gotten so large and inevitably we the people 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:55.560 loser rights in that process. 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:58.640 Absolutely, I think that it's a zero sum game, more government, 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.800 less freedom. I mean, I believe that the best thing 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.240 the government can do so many times is get the 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:06.919 heck out of the way. But at the same time, 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:09.560 there is a proper role for government. And you know, 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:11.800 it seems to me that under the Biden administration, and 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:16.040 it really this became pronounced during COVID and it grew 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:20.360 exponentially once Biden took office, that the government was everywhere 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:24.800 were unwanted and nowhere where needed. In other words, during COVID, 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:26.239 they were going to tell you you had to wear 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.239 a mask and stand this far apart, and you couldn't 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:30.800 do this, and you couldn't do that. But they wouldn't 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:32.920 secure the southern border once Biden took office. I mean 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:35.360 it's instances like that. Or you know, here in Missouri 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.840 you had a source back prosecutor had a ninety six 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:41.000 percent non prosecution rate. So she'll be the first one 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:42.680 to demand that you put on a mask and to 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.960 go after political opponents, but she won't prosecute the criminals 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.560 that are actually breaking things and hurting people. And so 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.400 it undermines the rule of law. It undermines the credibility 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:53.840 of our legal system. And that's why it's important to 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:55.880 have state attorneys general who are willing to fight back 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.119 and have the not only the audacity to fight back, 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:00.560 but the experience and the battle scars to take with 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:01.400 them into that fight. 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:04.000 Yeah, you know, it is kind of funny come to 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.200 think about it. You know, Joe Biden trying to force 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:10.920 a vaccine on Americans that is untested, but somehow he 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:14.640 doesn't have the authority to close the southern border and 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:15.760 stop the invasion. 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:19.599 That or saying yeah, that's right. I mean, look, we 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:22.000 had to file suit against the Biden administration because he 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.960 used the Department of Energy to try to regulate which 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:28.000 dishwashers and washing machines you have in your house. I mean, 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:32.960 the federal government has no authority to select appliances for 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:34.600 your home. And as a you know, a parent who 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.360 has four children at Galli, I need my appliances running 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:39.880 NonStop just to keep up with the daily grind and 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.520 keep people fed and clothed. But I'll tell you you 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:44.920 know that lawsuit. People think it's trivial, or you know, 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:47.479 might might mock the insignificance of it. But if you 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:50.760 give an inch there where, what is the principled response 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.840 when your freedom's on the line. And so keeping the 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.560 federal government in its limited proper role is essential to 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.640 maintain maximizing our freedom and maintaining our constant structure. 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:03.440 You've been willing to engage on a lot of important 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:06.520 cultural issues. You know, at one point, an emergency rule 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:10.160 that would require adults and children to undergo therapy at 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.560 other requirements before they can move forward with, you know, 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:17.080 transgender surgery, puberty blockers, things like that investigation, a planned parenthood. 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.720 I believe there was a lawsuit into a school over 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.120 a bathroom as well. I think not doing an open 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.560 hearing on that correct in the school. So why are 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.880 these fights important to you? And kind of go through 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.159 some of the things you're most proud of in that arena. 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:33.840 Yeah, Lisa, Look, I want Missouri to be the safest 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:37.280 state in the nation for children, and we've been fighting 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:39.400 for that since day one when I took office. You know, 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:43.360 in February January, February of twenty twenty three, a whistleblower 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:45.840 came forward from a pediatric transgender clinic in the Saint 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:49.560 Louis region that made allegations in an sworn testimony. I mean, 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:51.120 she was willing to put her life on the line, 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:53.560 put her name on the line, subject herself to scrutiny 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:56.760 and penalty of perjury, and the allegations she made were 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.880 not only credible, but amounted into nothing short of child abease. 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:02.240 So we launched an investigation. It was the first of 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.080 its kind in this nation. It was a multi agency 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:07.480 investigation to hold wrongdoers accountable. And as we looked into 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:11.360 the matter, we demanded the clinic institute it self impose 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:14.120 a moratorium on these procedures until we could the state 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:17.000 can determine what safeguards were in place to protect kids. 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.200 The clinic refused and opined that they were the only 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.600 clinic in the state of Missouri offering these kinds of procedures. Well, 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.880 subsequent investigation revealed that wasn't true. There's a shadowy and 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:30.880 clandestine network of these clinics operating across the state, and 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:34.000 so it was necessary for the Attorney General's office to 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:37.120 use the full authority of the state to propose an 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:39.640 emergency rule to stand in the gap as a safety 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:42.440 measure to protect kids and give our General Assembly a 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.080 time to enact a statute that was ultimately signed into law, 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:48.120 that Senate Bill forty nine. And I'm proud to say 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:49.960 that Missouri is the first state in the nation to 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:54.520 successfully defend that kind of statute that ends this pediatric 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:58.120 child gender mutilation. We're the first state in the nation 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:00.760 to successfully defend that kind of status at the trial 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:04.240 court level. The work we've done to root out and 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:08.240 shut down the pediatric transgender mutilation industry in the state 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:12.600 of Missouri will have saved countless lives, will have preserved 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:16.120 the bodily integrity of countless children, and will have protected 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.120 printal rights. You know, one of the allegations that was 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.480 made by the whistleblower was that some of these parents 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:25.160 were cajoled into consenting to these procedures and weren't provided 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:29.000 the opportunity to actually provide legitimate legal consent because they 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.720 were deprived of information, and that the patients at these clinics, 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:35.480 the children, were deprived of access to mental health services 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:39.240 like psychology and psychiatry. And so just having the fortitude 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:42.000 and the moral clarity to call this what it is 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.840 and to take on that industry and to have delivered 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:46.400 wins for the people of the state and certainly for 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.400 the safety of children of the state, I think is 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:49.440 a major accomplishment. 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:52.520 No, Nan, I've interviewed people at Chloe Cole on this 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:56.360 show who underwent a double misactomy at fifteen years old. 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:00.440 I mean, you just you aren't fully aware of anything 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:05.880 in life at fifteen years old, particularly making life altering decisions, 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.600 and you know, destroying your body should also take in 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:12.800 puberty blockers at one point as well, or you know, 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:14.520 we're not doing right by these kids. 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.680 That's absolutely right. I mean, look, there are zero FDA 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:22.480 approvals showing that puberty blockers or cross sex hormones are 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.680 safer effective in the treatment of gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria, 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:27.960 of course, is the mental health condition that so many 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:29.760 of these children present when they come into these clinics. 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:32.440 They're confused about their gender. So rather than talking to 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:35.000 the kids, are providing psychology or psychiatry. So many of 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:39.440 the clinics race towards powerful life changing drugs or referring children, 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.199 you know, under seventeen years of age for irreversible surgeries. 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.880 And as you point out, these kids will never enjoy 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.839 the full spectrum of adulthood because the adults in the room, 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.360 they were supposed to be responsible for their health and safety, 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:54.040 failed And so that's why it's important that legislation like 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:56.720 Senate Bill forty nine be enacted and defended in court. 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.559 That's why it's important that state attorney's General used their 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:01.920 investigation of authority and rule making authority to stand in 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:04.640 the gap to provide some kind of safeguards to protect 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:05.360 the children. 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:09.400 You're also involved in a Second Amendment case as well. 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:11.880 Can you talk a little bit about that, the Second 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:14.840 Amendment Preservation Act, and you know, what is it, why 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:18.120 is it important, and what could this mean for the 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.800 country moving forward. Regarding the Second Amendment in states rights. 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.360 Absolutely, you know, I believe that the Second Amendment is 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:25.920 one that makes all the other amendments possible. The Constitution 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.680 exists to protect us from the government, and the government 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.000 exists to protect our rights. And we celebrate the right 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.240 to keep in bare arms here in the state of Missouri. 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:35.920 If you look at Article one, section twenty three of 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:39.000 the Missouri Constitution, it is a robust protection of the 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:40.640 right to keep in bear arms, and it says that 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:47.119 state officials are obligated to defend against infringement of infringements 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:49.559 upon those rights. And it's a sacred and honorable duty 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.560 that we undertake happily here at the Attorney General's office. 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.040 But our General Assembly an act at a statute to 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:58.319 the Second Amendment Preservation Act designed to prevent enforcement of 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:03.560 unconstitutional Second Amendment infringements in statute or rule and to 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:07.400 really be a codification of the Tenth Amendment anti common 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:10.439 deering doctrine. As you'll recall, the Tenth Amendment stands for 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:13.880 the proposition that authority not explicitly given to the federal 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:16.680 government or deprived to the states, is enjoyed by the 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:18.600 states and the people of the states. And so what 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:23.360 SAPPA actually says is that state officials can't be cajoled 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:27.560 by the federal government into enforcing unconstitutional federal mandates. But 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:29.959 it doesn't. It only limits state officials, it doesn't limit 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.520 federal officials. And so we've defended this statute in court. 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:37.080 The Department of Biden's Department of Justice instantly sued the 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.960 State of Missouri and hauled us into court and attacked 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:43.199 our state sovereignty and our Second Amendment rights. They believe 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:46.120 that the supremacy clause makes the federal government supreme to 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.920 the state of Missouri. That's not what the supremacy clause says. 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.720 The supremacy clause says that when there's a conflict between 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:56.560 a constitutionally valid federal statute and a state statute, that 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.679 the federal statute prevails. But that doesn't mean that the 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.240 federal government has the right to commandeer the apparatus of 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:07.320 state government to carry out unconstitutional objectives. So one of 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.640 the issues that we've defended, and we were at the 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:13.400 Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals defending this matter just last 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:15.920 week last Friday, and we're confident in our ultimate success 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:17.160 on the meriage. But one of the issues here is 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.160 that when the Department of Justice sues the state, you 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:21.760 have to be able to show the plaintiff has to 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:24.920 be able to show an injury in fact, a concrete 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:27.960 injury in fact from a result of an unconstitutional act. 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.760 And the problem here is because SAPPA does not limit 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:34.960 federal officials, and no federal officials can demonstrate harm, the 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:38.120 federal court actually lacks subject matter jurisdiction over this case. 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.480 And we think that ultimately the courts will dismiss this 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:41.720 case and SAPPA will stand. 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:44.400 Let's take a quick commercial break more with Attorney General 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:51.840 Andrew Bailey. You've been involved with Texas and securing the 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:55.560 border and kind of you know, pushing back against this administration. 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:59.440 Is that the path forward for our country is for 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:04.080 state to start taking back state rights and you know, 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:06.840 kind of peeling back that power from the federal government. 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:08.839 Well, Lesa, I think it has to be. I mean, 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:11.240 look at what federal authorities have done at the border, 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:14.000 and really it's the Biden administration. President Trump used the 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:17.240 immigration laws on the books to reduce illegal border crossings 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:20.160 by more than ninety percent. He instituted policies like remain 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:24.360 in Mexico and detention of illegal criminal aliens, and that 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:27.600 deterred illegal border crossings. But what Biden has done since 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:29.800 day one is hanging an open sign at our border, 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:33.240 undermine our rule of law, and deny Americans of our 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:35.960 national sovereignty. Some of the ways he's done that include 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:39.360 termination of the Remain in Mexico policy, institution of a 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:41.800 catch and release policy, an executive order that said he 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:43.960 wasn't going to build any more border walls, despite the 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:45.920 fact that in two thousand and six, while serving the 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:50.080 United States Senate, Senator Biden voted for the Secure Fens Act. 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:51.400 But now all of a sudden he thinks they don't 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:54.719 work because President Trump lights him. And the problem he's 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:58.440 got is that he's perverted the law to allow people 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:01.480 into this country to have no legal right to be here. 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:05.359 It undermines the rule of law, discredits are legal institutions, 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:09.400 and again it's creating a crisis of enormous magnitude. More 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:12.800 than fifteen hundred deaths from finnyl exposure in Missouri and 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:16.160 one year loan forty three innocent children who have died 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:19.199 from accidental finnel exposure. We've had more than eleven hundred 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:22.880 cases reported of human trafficking, and that's the cases that 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:25.520 are reported. How many go undetected. And so you know, 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:28.520 every state's of border state, Missourians are suffering and are 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:31.440 less safe because the President Biden's refusal to do his 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:33.120 job at the southern border. And so it's going to 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:35.200 be up to states to hold him accountable. 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:41.440 And you testified before Congress regarding Secretary markas correct. 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.480 Yeah, that's right. I was honored to be allowed to 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:48.080 be called before Congress to testify in the impeachment proceedings 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.880 against Secretary of may Orcus. And look the border wall 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.680 lawsuit that Missouri and Texas have pen against the Biden 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:55.360 administration right now, I think it's going to end up 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.120 being a really significant piece of litigation, mark my words. 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:02.120 In fiscal year twenty twenty, Congress appropriated money to erect 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:05.840 new border barrier systems. Period. Well, like I said, on 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.640 day one, President Biden signed an executive order saying he 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:10.720 wasn't going to do that, and then he hired Secretary 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:13.839 of may orcis to submit an endless series of environmental 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.920 studies to vex harassment, delay the command from Congress and 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:20.280 the Appropriations Bill to build new border barrier systems. Well, 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:22.640 if may orcus didn't want to follow out the commandments 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.360 of Congress that are in the Appropriation Statute, he shouldn't 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:27.480 have taken the job and taken an oath to uphold 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:29.360 the laws of this country in the Constitution of the 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:32.040 United States of America. So I think that at the 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.360 end of the day, Congress has the power of the purse, 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.360 but it ceases to mean anything if federal officials can 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:41.080 just ignore Congressional commandments that are codified in statute. And 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:44.800 so certainly our lawsuit against the Biden administration we think 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.800 will be successful in that we've been reinstated by the 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:49.480 Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and are back at the 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:51.920 district court level. We may be the first state in 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:53.840 the nation to successfully sue Biden on one of these 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.480 border issues. But in the meantime, Congress has a role 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:58.920 to play too, and that's holding federal officials who refuse 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:00.880 to follow the law accountable. 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:04.880 And you've also been involved with the administration with the 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:08.600 student loans. I mean, it's not really forgiveness because we're 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:12.240 all on the hooky can't forgive. It's you know, tell 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:15.160 us about your involvement in that and what should people 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:15.960 be looking out for. 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.440 Yeah, so, you know, President Biden initially tried to quote 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.840 unquote cancel student debt, and any of your working families 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:24.800 out there, business owners out there that are listening, are 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.400 going to understand, like, there is no such thing as 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.000 a cancelation of debt. Someone is paying it, you know. 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.800 I think that the estimates were somewhere around four hundred 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.760 billion dollars to taxpayers in the state in the United 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:39.080 States of America, forty four million dollars to working families 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:41.680 an additional tax burden here in the state of Missouri. 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.400 It decreased revenue to the state of Missouri. We're not 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.200 gonna let President Biden saddle working Missouri families with Ivy 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:49.440 League debt. And I paid for my college and blood, 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.360 sweat and tears. I went to University Missouri on an 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.880 Army ROTC scholarship, served in the War on Terror, deployed 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.440 to Iraq twice. Used the post nine to eleven GI 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:00.720 Bill for law school. So look, I did it, honest. 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:02.520 There's no such thing as a free ride. You got 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:05.520 to earn it. It's not given. And so President Bien 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:07.920 trying to saddle working Missouri families with IVY League dead 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:11.120 is unacceptable. The Court has already deemed it unconstitutional once before, 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.720 and certainly we are joining with other states and looking 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:18.800 for opportunities to fight back against another unlawful, unconstitutional redistribution 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:19.360 of wealth. 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:21.560 You know one thing that worries me, well, a lot 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:24.440 of things worry made these days, but one of them 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:27.120 that I will bring up to you is this article 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.840 in the Atlantic, and the headline reads how Democrats could 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:34.360 disqualify Trump if the Supreme Court doesn't, and it goes 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:37.200 out to lay out how senior or House Democrats would 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:41.000 not commit to certifying a Trump when YadA, YadA, YadA. 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:44.640 But what worries me is I do feel like the 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:48.400 left is at a point where, like, let's say Trump wins, 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:53.560 that they would just outright deny him that victory. So, 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.280 I mean, I guess how close are to were we 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:59.280 to where like there is absolutely no rule of law. 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.200 I think we're on the precipice. I mean, we're certainly 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:08.240 slouching towards authoritarian third world dictatorship. I mean, President Biden 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.520 has the and his army of federal bureaucrats have the 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:12.600 attitude that they get to do whatever they want until 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:14.760 someone tells them to stop. I mean, thank goodness, here 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:16.960 in the state of Missouri, we've used the long arm 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:20.240 of the law to sue the Biden administration thirty times, 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:22.120 to take them to court, to get a court order 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.280 demanding that you preventing them from unconstitutional, actually demanding that 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:28.240 they stop. But you know, to your point, more government, 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:30.560 less freedom right And at the end of the day, 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:33.440 there is no sanction in the United States constitution free 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:36.040 fourth branch of government. And yet look at the alphabet 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:40.159 soup of federal bureaucratic agencies. And when President Biden deploys 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:43.119 that army of bureaucrats, like minded individuals that are like 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:46.600 minded with him, they're not there to maximize your liberty 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:48.440 and the choices you get to make. They're there to 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:51.840 make decisions for you and take away your freedoms. And 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:56.000 so the apparatus is certainly there. And the left seems, 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:58.920 in the radical progressive left, seems intent on tearing down 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:02.480 the structure of our government. Again, that structure was carefully 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:05.119 designed by our founders to maximize our freedom and liberty 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:10.199 and to restrain an overactive central authority and prevent us 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:13.639 from slouching towards authoritarianism. And the Left is clearly jettisoning 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:18.119 that approach in favor of authoritarian dictatorship. You know. 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:20.440 I do think, you know, at least if you look 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:23.959 at what the Left has tried to do to Donald 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:27.880 Trump with these four criminal indictments well and then also 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:29.520 whether they're trying to do it to him civilly and 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:33.040 you know, bankrupt him. But I do think Americans are 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:36.680 kind of waking up to they've overshot a little bit, 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:39.639 you know, particularly when you have the Special Counsel's report 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:43.000 on Biden showing that he's mishandled classified information since the 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:46.439 freaking nineteen seventies, you know, and then you've got Fanny 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:50.240 Willis inappropriately engaging with you know, a man that she 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:53.560 hired who didn't have a background in Rico or anything. 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:57.040 You know, he's involved with with that case in Fulton County. 0:18:57.200 --> 0:18:59.520 I do think people are kind of like, okay, you know, 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:01.920 are going to go after someone like that, You really 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:04.000 have to have the moral high ground, and they don't. 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:07.880 And so I think Americans are kind of realizing that, 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:10.160 all right, you know this, this is a witch hunt. 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:13.480 No, that's right, And again it undermines the credibility of 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:17.520 their position. It undermines the credibility of our system of government, 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:20.479 certainly of our judicial processes, when those processes can be 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.480 weaponized against political opponents. And I refer to you know, 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:26.320 third world banana republics, That's exactly what I'm talking about, 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:28.960 and America was not. The United States of America is 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:30.960 never supposed to be that way, and if we just 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:33.399 followed the rule of law, we wouldn't have these problems. 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:36.200 But again, the left is jettison that approach. They hate. 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:39.800 They're blinded by their hatred for President Trump and are 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:42.439 willing to destroy the United States of America to attack 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:46.240 him politically and legally. I think there are three really 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:49.440 main strategic objectives in the fight for the soul of 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:52.080 America today, and you've covered two of them already. You know, 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:55.399 the border, no border, no country. If we don't secure 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:58.840 our southern border and maintain our national sovereignty, we don't 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:01.960 have a country anymore. Number two, it's the weaponization of 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:05.679 government again, are we going to allow the apparatus of 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:10.160 our legal system to be hijacked by radical progressives who 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:12.120 are willing to use it to take out political opponents 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:16.399