Speaker 1: My next guest is an absolute savage. His name is
Speaker 1: Andrew Bailey. He is the Attorney General of Missouri. He's
Speaker 1: only been there for a little over a year and
Speaker 1: he's already made waves. He's a thorn in the side
Speaker 1: of the Biden administration. The left hates him. He started
Speaker 1: by ousting a Sorrow's backed prosecutor and since then he's
Speaker 1: tackled every big issue, transgender issues, abortion, Second Amendment, the border.
Speaker 1: I mean, the list goes on diversity, equity, inclusion, every
Speaker 1: issue you care about, every issue we talk about on
Speaker 1: this podcast. He has taken up the mantle to defend
Speaker 1: the rights of Missourians and Americans and to go after
Speaker 1: the left. So I think you're really going to enjoy
Speaker 1: this conversation. I was going through everything this guy has
Speaker 1: done so far. I can't believe it's only been a
Speaker 1: little over a year. So stay tuned for this conversation
Speaker 1: with the Attorney General of Missouri, Andrew Bailey. Well, Attorney General,
Speaker 1: it's great to have you on the podcast for the
Speaker 1: first time. You know, I was going through this and
Speaker 1: you've only been in office for like a little over
Speaker 1: a year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, Lisa. I mean, look it's a privilege
Speaker 2: to get to serve the people of State of Missouri
Speaker 2: as the forty fourth Attorney General in our state's history.
Speaker 2: But we hit the ground running back on January third,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, when I first swore into office, and
Speaker 2: we haven't looked back. And I'm here to tell you
Speaker 2: we haven't hit our ceiling yet. No.
Speaker 1: I know. I was going through all the stuff that
Speaker 1: you've done, and I'm like, I don't even know if
Speaker 1: we're going to have time from investigating Planned Parenthood stuff
Speaker 1: on the border, big tech, investigating media matters, Second Amendment stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, getting rid of a Soros product. Like the
Speaker 1: list is long. How much does the left hate you?
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm despised by the left, and that's okay. You know.
Speaker 2: I tell the people of State of Missouri to judge
Speaker 2: me by my enemies. I mean, the fact that the
Speaker 2: ACLU and Planned Parenthood have sued me more times than
Speaker 2: I can count on my my my fingers means that
Speaker 2: we're doing the right things for the right reasons. I mean,
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, we are fighting in
Speaker 2: a war to protect our freedom, our safety, and our prosperity.
Speaker 2: It used to be that Republicans and Democrats had differences
Speaker 2: over policy nuance, but the rule of law matter. And
Speaker 2: these days the left has abandoned this approach of elevating
Speaker 2: the rules of the game above the players in the outcomes,
Speaker 2: in favor of weaponizing the government to tear down cultural
Speaker 2: and legal institutions in the United States of America to
Speaker 2: achieve radical progressive evolution. And I think it's contrary to
Speaker 2: the will of the peoples state of Missouri. It's certainly
Speaker 2: contrary to our interest in freedom, safety, and prosperity. And
Speaker 2: it's a fight, it's a war. It's no longer a
Speaker 2: debate over nuance of policy.
Speaker 1: Do you think in part that's happened just because the
Speaker 1: government has gotten so large and inevitably we the people
Speaker 1: loser rights in that process.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I think that it's a zero sum game, more government,
Speaker 2: less freedom. I mean, I believe that the best thing
Speaker 2: the government can do so many times is get the
Speaker 2: heck out of the way. But at the same time,
Speaker 2: there is a proper role for government. And you know,
Speaker 2: it seems to me that under the Biden administration, and
Speaker 2: it really this became pronounced during COVID and it grew
Speaker 2: exponentially once Biden took office, that the government was everywhere
Speaker 2: were unwanted and nowhere where needed. In other words, during COVID,
Speaker 2: they were going to tell you you had to wear
Speaker 2: a mask and stand this far apart, and you couldn't
Speaker 2: do this, and you couldn't do that. But they wouldn't
Speaker 2: secure the southern border once Biden took office. I mean
Speaker 2: it's instances like that. Or you know, here in Missouri
Speaker 2: you had a source back prosecutor had a ninety six
Speaker 2: percent non prosecution rate. So she'll be the first one
Speaker 2: to demand that you put on a mask and to
Speaker 2: go after political opponents, but she won't prosecute the criminals
Speaker 2: that are actually breaking things and hurting people. And so
Speaker 2: it undermines the rule of law. It undermines the credibility
Speaker 2: of our legal system. And that's why it's important to
Speaker 2: have state attorneys general who are willing to fight back
Speaker 2: and have the not only the audacity to fight back,
Speaker 2: but the experience and the battle scars to take with
Speaker 2: them into that fight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it is kind of funny come to
Speaker 1: think about it. You know, Joe Biden trying to force
Speaker 1: a vaccine on Americans that is untested, but somehow he
Speaker 1: doesn't have the authority to close the southern border and
Speaker 1: stop the invasion.
Speaker 2: That or saying yeah, that's right. I mean, look, we
Speaker 2: had to file suit against the Biden administration because he
Speaker 2: used the Department of Energy to try to regulate which
Speaker 2: dishwashers and washing machines you have in your house. I mean,
Speaker 2: the federal government has no authority to select appliances for
Speaker 2: your home. And as a you know, a parent who
Speaker 2: has four children at Galli, I need my appliances running
Speaker 2: NonStop just to keep up with the daily grind and
Speaker 2: keep people fed and clothed. But I'll tell you you
Speaker 2: know that lawsuit. People think it's trivial, or you know,
Speaker 2: might might mock the insignificance of it. But if you
Speaker 2: give an inch there where, what is the principled response
Speaker 2: when your freedom's on the line. And so keeping the
Speaker 2: federal government in its limited proper role is essential to
Speaker 2: maintain maximizing our freedom and maintaining our constant structure.
Speaker 1: You've been willing to engage on a lot of important
Speaker 1: cultural issues. You know, at one point, an emergency rule
Speaker 1: that would require adults and children to undergo therapy at
Speaker 1: other requirements before they can move forward with, you know,
Speaker 1: transgender surgery, puberty blockers, things like that investigation, a planned parenthood.
Speaker 1: I believe there was a lawsuit into a school over
Speaker 1: a bathroom as well. I think not doing an open
Speaker 1: hearing on that correct in the school. So why are
Speaker 1: these fights important to you? And kind of go through
Speaker 1: some of the things you're most proud of in that arena.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Lisa, Look, I want Missouri to be the safest
Speaker 2: state in the nation for children, and we've been fighting
Speaker 2: for that since day one when I took office. You know,
Speaker 2: in February January, February of twenty twenty three, a whistleblower
Speaker 2: came forward from a pediatric transgender clinic in the Saint
Speaker 2: Louis region that made allegations in an sworn testimony. I mean,
Speaker 2: she was willing to put her life on the line,
Speaker 2: put her name on the line, subject herself to scrutiny
Speaker 2: and penalty of perjury, and the allegations she made were
Speaker 2: not only credible, but amounted into nothing short of child abease.
Speaker 2: So we launched an investigation. It was the first of
Speaker 2: its kind in this nation. It was a multi agency
Speaker 2: investigation to hold wrongdoers accountable. And as we looked into
Speaker 2: the matter, we demanded the clinic institute it self impose
Speaker 2: a moratorium on these procedures until we could the state
Speaker 2: can determine what safeguards were in place to protect kids.
Speaker 2: The clinic refused and opined that they were the only
Speaker 2: clinic in the state of Missouri offering these kinds of procedures. Well,
Speaker 2: subsequent investigation revealed that wasn't true. There's a shadowy and
Speaker 2: clandestine network of these clinics operating across the state, and
Speaker 2: so it was necessary for the Attorney General's office to
Speaker 2: use the full authority of the state to propose an
Speaker 2: emergency rule to stand in the gap as a safety
Speaker 2: measure to protect kids and give our General Assembly a
Speaker 2: time to enact a statute that was ultimately signed into law,
Speaker 2: that Senate Bill forty nine. And I'm proud to say
Speaker 2: that Missouri is the first state in the nation to
Speaker 2: successfully defend that kind of statute that ends this pediatric
Speaker 2: child gender mutilation. We're the first state in the nation
Speaker 2: to successfully defend that kind of status at the trial
Speaker 2: court level. The work we've done to root out and
Speaker 2: shut down the pediatric transgender mutilation industry in the state
Speaker 2: of Missouri will have saved countless lives, will have preserved
Speaker 2: the bodily integrity of countless children, and will have protected
Speaker 2: printal rights. You know, one of the allegations that was
Speaker 2: made by the whistleblower was that some of these parents
Speaker 2: were cajoled into consenting to these procedures and weren't provided
Speaker 2: the opportunity to actually provide legitimate legal consent because they
Speaker 2: were deprived of information, and that the patients at these clinics,
Speaker 2: the children, were deprived of access to mental health services
Speaker 2: like psychology and psychiatry. And so just having the fortitude
Speaker 2: and the moral clarity to call this what it is
Speaker 2: and to take on that industry and to have delivered
Speaker 2: wins for the people of the state and certainly for
Speaker 2: the safety of children of the state, I think is
Speaker 2: a major accomplishment.
Speaker 1: No, Nan, I've interviewed people at Chloe Cole on this
Speaker 1: show who underwent a double misactomy at fifteen years old.
Speaker 1: I mean, you just you aren't fully aware of anything
Speaker 1: in life at fifteen years old, particularly making life altering decisions,
Speaker 1: and you know, destroying your body should also take in
Speaker 1: puberty blockers at one point as well, or you know,
Speaker 1: we're not doing right by these kids.
Speaker 2: That's absolutely right. I mean, look, there are zero FDA
Speaker 2: approvals showing that puberty blockers or cross sex hormones are
Speaker 2: safer effective in the treatment of gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria,
Speaker 2: of course, is the mental health condition that so many
Speaker 2: of these children present when they come into these clinics.
Speaker 2: They're confused about their gender. So rather than talking to
Speaker 2: the kids, are providing psychology or psychiatry. So many of
Speaker 2: the clinics race towards powerful life changing drugs or referring children,
Speaker 2: you know, under seventeen years of age for irreversible surgeries.
Speaker 2: And as you point out, these kids will never enjoy
Speaker 2: the full spectrum of adulthood because the adults in the room,
Speaker 2: they were supposed to be responsible for their health and safety,
Speaker 2: failed And so that's why it's important that legislation like
Speaker 2: Senate Bill forty nine be enacted and defended in court.
Speaker 2: That's why it's important that state attorney's General used their
Speaker 2: investigation of authority and rule making authority to stand in
Speaker 2: the gap to provide some kind of safeguards to protect
Speaker 2: the children.
Speaker 1: You're also involved in a Second Amendment case as well.
Speaker 1: Can you talk a little bit about that, the Second
Speaker 1: Amendment Preservation Act, and you know, what is it, why
Speaker 1: is it important, and what could this mean for the
Speaker 1: country moving forward. Regarding the Second Amendment in states rights.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, you know, I believe that the Second Amendment is
Speaker 2: one that makes all the other amendments possible. The Constitution
Speaker 2: exists to protect us from the government, and the government
Speaker 2: exists to protect our rights. And we celebrate the right
Speaker 2: to keep in bare arms here in the state of Missouri.
Speaker 2: If you look at Article one, section twenty three of
Speaker 2: the Missouri Constitution, it is a robust protection of the
Speaker 2: right to keep in bear arms, and it says that
Speaker 2: state officials are obligated to defend against infringement of infringements
Speaker 2: upon those rights. And it's a sacred and honorable duty
Speaker 2: that we undertake happily here at the Attorney General's office.
Speaker 2: But our General Assembly an act at a statute to
Speaker 2: the Second Amendment Preservation Act designed to prevent enforcement of
Speaker 2: unconstitutional Second Amendment infringements in statute or rule and to
Speaker 2: really be a codification of the Tenth Amendment anti common
Speaker 2: deering doctrine. As you'll recall, the Tenth Amendment stands for
Speaker 2: the proposition that authority not explicitly given to the federal
Speaker 2: government or deprived to the states, is enjoyed by the
Speaker 2: states and the people of the states. And so what
Speaker 2: SAPPA actually says is that state officials can't be cajoled
Speaker 2: by the federal government into enforcing unconstitutional federal mandates. But
Speaker 2: it doesn't. It only limits state officials, it doesn't limit
Speaker 2: federal officials. And so we've defended this statute in court.
Speaker 2: The Department of Biden's Department of Justice instantly sued the
Speaker 2: State of Missouri and hauled us into court and attacked
Speaker 2: our state sovereignty and our Second Amendment rights. They believe
Speaker 2: that the supremacy clause makes the federal government supreme to
Speaker 2: the state of Missouri. That's not what the supremacy clause says.
Speaker 2: The supremacy clause says that when there's a conflict between
Speaker 2: a constitutionally valid federal statute and a state statute, that
Speaker 2: the federal statute prevails. But that doesn't mean that the
Speaker 2: federal government has the right to commandeer the apparatus of
Speaker 2: state government to carry out unconstitutional objectives. So one of
Speaker 2: the issues that we've defended, and we were at the
Speaker 2: Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals defending this matter just last
Speaker 2: week last Friday, and we're confident in our ultimate success
Speaker 2: on the meriage. But one of the issues here is
Speaker 2: that when the Department of Justice sues the state, you
Speaker 2: have to be able to show the plaintiff has to
Speaker 2: be able to show an injury in fact, a concrete
Speaker 2: injury in fact from a result of an unconstitutional act.
Speaker 2: And the problem here is because SAPPA does not limit
Speaker 2: federal officials, and no federal officials can demonstrate harm, the
Speaker 2: federal court actually lacks subject matter jurisdiction over this case.
Speaker 2: And we think that ultimately the courts will dismiss this
Speaker 2: case and SAPPA will stand.
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick commercial break more with Attorney General
Speaker 1: Andrew Bailey. You've been involved with Texas and securing the
Speaker 1: border and kind of you know, pushing back against this administration.
Speaker 1: Is that the path forward for our country is for
Speaker 1: state to start taking back state rights and you know,
Speaker 1: kind of peeling back that power from the federal government.
Speaker 2: Well, Lesa, I think it has to be. I mean,
Speaker 2: look at what federal authorities have done at the border,
Speaker 2: and really it's the Biden administration. President Trump used the
Speaker 2: immigration laws on the books to reduce illegal border crossings
Speaker 2: by more than ninety percent. He instituted policies like remain
Speaker 2: in Mexico and detention of illegal criminal aliens, and that
Speaker 2: deterred illegal border crossings. But what Biden has done since
Speaker 2: day one is hanging an open sign at our border,
Speaker 2: undermine our rule of law, and deny Americans of our
Speaker 2: national sovereignty. Some of the ways he's done that include
Speaker 2: termination of the Remain in Mexico policy, institution of a
Speaker 2: catch and release policy, an executive order that said he
Speaker 2: wasn't going to build any more border walls, despite the
Speaker 2: fact that in two thousand and six, while serving the
Speaker 2: United States Senate, Senator Biden voted for the Secure Fens Act.
Speaker 2: But now all of a sudden he thinks they don't
Speaker 2: work because President Trump lights him. And the problem he's
Speaker 2: got is that he's perverted the law to allow people
Speaker 2: into this country to have no legal right to be here.
Speaker 2: It undermines the rule of law, discredits are legal institutions,
Speaker 2: and again it's creating a crisis of enormous magnitude. More
Speaker 2: than fifteen hundred deaths from finnyl exposure in Missouri and
Speaker 2: one year loan forty three innocent children who have died
Speaker 2: from accidental finnel exposure. We've had more than eleven hundred
Speaker 2: cases reported of human trafficking, and that's the cases that
Speaker 2: are reported. How many go undetected. And so you know,
Speaker 2: every state's of border state, Missourians are suffering and are
Speaker 2: less safe because the President Biden's refusal to do his
Speaker 2: job at the southern border. And so it's going to
Speaker 2: be up to states to hold him accountable.
Speaker 1: And you testified before Congress regarding Secretary markas correct.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. I was honored to be allowed to
Speaker 2: be called before Congress to testify in the impeachment proceedings
Speaker 2: against Secretary of may Orcus. And look the border wall
Speaker 2: lawsuit that Missouri and Texas have pen against the Biden
Speaker 2: administration right now, I think it's going to end up
Speaker 2: being a really significant piece of litigation, mark my words.
Speaker 2: In fiscal year twenty twenty, Congress appropriated money to erect
Speaker 2: new border barrier systems. Period. Well, like I said, on
Speaker 2: day one, President Biden signed an executive order saying he
Speaker 2: wasn't going to do that, and then he hired Secretary
Speaker 2: of may orcis to submit an endless series of environmental
Speaker 2: studies to vex harassment, delay the command from Congress and
Speaker 2: the Appropriations Bill to build new border barrier systems. Well,
Speaker 2: if may orcus didn't want to follow out the commandments
Speaker 2: of Congress that are in the Appropriation Statute, he shouldn't
Speaker 2: have taken the job and taken an oath to uphold
Speaker 2: the laws of this country in the Constitution of the
Speaker 2: United States of America. So I think that at the
Speaker 2: end of the day, Congress has the power of the purse,
Speaker 2: but it ceases to mean anything if federal officials can
Speaker 2: just ignore Congressional commandments that are codified in statute. And
Speaker 2: so certainly our lawsuit against the Biden administration we think
Speaker 2: will be successful in that we've been reinstated by the
Speaker 2: Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and are back at the
Speaker 2: district court level. We may be the first state in
Speaker 2: the nation to successfully sue Biden on one of these
Speaker 2: border issues. But in the meantime, Congress has a role
Speaker 2: to play too, and that's holding federal officials who refuse
Speaker 2: to follow the law accountable.
Speaker 1: And you've also been involved with the administration with the
Speaker 1: student loans. I mean, it's not really forgiveness because we're
Speaker 1: all on the hooky can't forgive. It's you know, tell
Speaker 1: us about your involvement in that and what should people
Speaker 1: be looking out for.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, you know, President Biden initially tried to quote
Speaker 2: unquote cancel student debt, and any of your working families
Speaker 2: out there, business owners out there that are listening, are
Speaker 2: going to understand, like, there is no such thing as
Speaker 2: a cancelation of debt. Someone is paying it, you know.
Speaker 2: I think that the estimates were somewhere around four hundred
Speaker 2: billion dollars to taxpayers in the state in the United
Speaker 2: States of America, forty four million dollars to working families
Speaker 2: an additional tax burden here in the state of Missouri.
Speaker 2: It decreased revenue to the state of Missouri. We're not
Speaker 2: gonna let President Biden saddle working Missouri families with Ivy
Speaker 2: League debt. And I paid for my college and blood,
Speaker 2: sweat and tears. I went to University Missouri on an
Speaker 2: Army ROTC scholarship, served in the War on Terror, deployed
Speaker 2: to Iraq twice. Used the post nine to eleven GI
Speaker 2: Bill for law school. So look, I did it, honest.
Speaker 2: There's no such thing as a free ride. You got
Speaker 2: to earn it. It's not given. And so President Bien
Speaker 2: trying to saddle working Missouri families with IVY League dead
Speaker 2: is unacceptable. The Court has already deemed it unconstitutional once before,
Speaker 2: and certainly we are joining with other states and looking
Speaker 2: for opportunities to fight back against another unlawful, unconstitutional redistribution
Speaker 2: of wealth.
Speaker 1: You know one thing that worries me, well, a lot
Speaker 1: of things worry made these days, but one of them
Speaker 1: that I will bring up to you is this article
Speaker 1: in the Atlantic, and the headline reads how Democrats could
Speaker 1: disqualify Trump if the Supreme Court doesn't, and it goes
Speaker 1: out to lay out how senior or House Democrats would
Speaker 1: not commit to certifying a Trump when YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 1: But what worries me is I do feel like the
Speaker 1: left is at a point where, like, let's say Trump wins,
Speaker 1: that they would just outright deny him that victory. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess how close are to were we
Speaker 1: to where like there is absolutely no rule of law.
Speaker 2: I think we're on the precipice. I mean, we're certainly
Speaker 2: slouching towards authoritarian third world dictatorship. I mean, President Biden
Speaker 2: has the and his army of federal bureaucrats have the
Speaker 2: attitude that they get to do whatever they want until
Speaker 2: someone tells them to stop. I mean, thank goodness, here
Speaker 2: in the state of Missouri, we've used the long arm
Speaker 2: of the law to sue the Biden administration thirty times,
Speaker 2: to take them to court, to get a court order
Speaker 2: demanding that you preventing them from unconstitutional, actually demanding that
Speaker 2: they stop. But you know, to your point, more government,
Speaker 2: less freedom right And at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: there is no sanction in the United States constitution free
Speaker 2: fourth branch of government. And yet look at the alphabet
Speaker 2: soup of federal bureaucratic agencies. And when President Biden deploys
Speaker 2: that army of bureaucrats, like minded individuals that are like
Speaker 2: minded with him, they're not there to maximize your liberty
Speaker 2: and the choices you get to make. They're there to
Speaker 2: make decisions for you and take away your freedoms. And
Speaker 2: so the apparatus is certainly there. And the left seems,
Speaker 2: in the radical progressive left, seems intent on tearing down
Speaker 2: the structure of our government. Again, that structure was carefully
Speaker 2: designed by our founders to maximize our freedom and liberty
Speaker 2: and to restrain an overactive central authority and prevent us
Speaker 2: from slouching towards authoritarianism. And the Left is clearly jettisoning
Speaker 2: that approach in favor of authoritarian dictatorship. You know.
Speaker 1: I do think, you know, at least if you look
Speaker 1: at what the Left has tried to do to Donald
Speaker 1: Trump with these four criminal indictments well and then also
Speaker 1: whether they're trying to do it to him civilly and
Speaker 1: you know, bankrupt him. But I do think Americans are
Speaker 1: kind of waking up to they've overshot a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know, particularly when you have the Special Counsel's report
Speaker 1: on Biden showing that he's mishandled classified information since the
Speaker 1: freaking nineteen seventies, you know, and then you've got Fanny
Speaker 1: Willis inappropriately engaging with you know, a man that she
Speaker 1: hired who didn't have a background in Rico or anything.
Speaker 1: You know, he's involved with with that case in Fulton County.
Speaker 1: I do think people are kind of like, okay, you know,
Speaker 1: are going to go after someone like that, You really
Speaker 1: have to have the moral high ground, and they don't.
Speaker 1: And so I think Americans are kind of realizing that,
Speaker 1: all right, you know this, this is a witch hunt.
Speaker 2: No, that's right, And again it undermines the credibility of
Speaker 2: their position. It undermines the credibility of our system of government,
Speaker 2: certainly of our judicial processes, when those processes can be
Speaker 2: weaponized against political opponents. And I refer to you know,
Speaker 2: third world banana republics, That's exactly what I'm talking about,
Speaker 2: and America was not. The United States of America is
Speaker 2: never supposed to be that way, and if we just
Speaker 2: followed the rule of law, we wouldn't have these problems.
Speaker 2: But again, the left is jettison that approach. They hate.
Speaker 2: They're blinded by their hatred for President Trump and are
Speaker 2: willing to destroy the United States of America to attack
Speaker 2: him politically and legally. I think there are three really
Speaker 2: main strategic objectives in the fight for the soul of
Speaker 2: America today, and you've covered two of them already. You know,
Speaker 2: the border, no border, no country. If we don't secure
Speaker 2: our southern border and maintain our national sovereignty, we don't
Speaker 2: have a country anymore. Number two, it's the weaponization of
Speaker 2: government again, are we going to allow the apparatus of
Speaker 2: our legal system to be hijacked by radical progressives who
Speaker 2: are willing to use it to take out political opponents
Speaker 2: while ignoring the actual law breakers elsewhere. And then finally
Speaker 2: number three, I think one of the other main strategic
Speaker 2: objectives in the fight for the soul of America is
Speaker 2: the fight for free speech. I mean, this used to
Speaker 2: be a non partisan, non controversial issue that the First
Speaker 2: Amendment protected a freefair and open marketplace for ideas. And
Speaker 2: yet now the left screams for government censorship, and one
Speaker 2: wonders if the legacy media would squeal so loudly if
Speaker 2: they were the one censor quick break.
Speaker 1: We've got so much more to get into. I've heard
Speaker 1: different arguments on this, but you know Donald Trump saying that,
Speaker 1: you know, look, Presidential Records Act, the authority to declassify
Speaker 1: and classify. You know, where are you into that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I agree. I mean they're prosecuting him for a
Speaker 2: technical procedural flaw when certainly there is evidence to suggest
Speaker 2: that President Trump engaged in the proper procedure and the
Speaker 2: bureaucracy stemi his attempts to accomplish his objective which ultimately
Speaker 2: is his decision as the president to make. And so
Speaker 2: Joe Biden, you know, for forty years or more, has
Speaker 2: classified documents sitting in a cardboard box in his closet.
Speaker 2: And yet President Trump, who had the authority to declassify
Speaker 2: these documents, has them locked in a sealed safe and
Speaker 2: is negotiating with the National Archives to do it the
Speaker 2: right way. And all of a sudden, stormtroopers are rating
Speaker 2: mar a lago. I mean again, this points to the hypocrisy.
Speaker 2: And look, I agree with Senator Holly on this. Merritt
Speaker 2: Garland has two options here. He either charges President Biden
Speaker 2: for knowingly retaining classified documents and violation of federal law,
Speaker 2: or he needs to invoke the constitutional amendment that gives
Speaker 2: him and the rest of the cabinet the authority to
Speaker 2: declare that there is not no longer fit to hold office.
Speaker 2: Either he has the mental state to commit the crime,
Speaker 2: or he doesn't have the mental capacity to be president.
Speaker 2: But Merrek Garland can't have it both ways on that issue,
Speaker 2: and right now, that's the needle he's trying to thrive.
Speaker 1: Real quick before we go. I can't believe I almost
Speaker 1: forgot to ask you about this the Supreme Court is
Speaker 1: going to be hearing Missouri versus Biden on March eighteenth.
Speaker 1: What should people know about that? What should we be
Speaker 1: looking out for? If you can just kind of break
Speaker 1: that down with us or for us before we go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a, Lisa, and again, this is the most important
Speaker 2: free speech case in this nation's history. We've uncovered through
Speaker 2: this lawsuit or relationship of both coercion and collusion between
Speaker 2: the Biden administration across a spectrum of bureaucratic agencies with
Speaker 2: big tech social media platforms to silence American voices in
Speaker 2: violation of our First Amendment right to free speech. The
Speaker 2: remedy for disfavored speech in this country has always been
Speaker 2: counter speech, not government censorship. The President has again he
Speaker 2: has rejected that approach. The President, his staff, his army
Speaker 2: of bureaucrats have now developed a vast censorship enterprise, and
Speaker 2: it's going to be up to us in this lawsuit
Speaker 2: to root out that censorship enterprise, to restore the proper
Speaker 2: constitutional order to the freefare and open marketplace of ideas.
Speaker 2: It is a sign of cowardice and weakness that the
Speaker 2: President and his left wing bureaucrats can't win an argument
Speaker 2: on the merits, so they feel the need to silence
Speaker 2: any voice and opposition. We have the evidence to prove it.
Speaker 2: We've won in court three times now. We're going to
Speaker 2: the super Bowl on March eighteenth. We'll be arguing that
Speaker 2: case at the United States Court Supreme Court, the highest
Speaker 2: court in the land, and we're going to bring home
Speaker 2: a win.
Speaker 1: I can't believe you've only been there for a little
Speaker 1: free years. We just went through so much stuff and
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm going to look back and have
Speaker 1: missed some things to have discussed.
Speaker 2: We hope we'll be talking again soon. We're going to
Speaker 2: update you.
Speaker 1: With well, obviously I will. It'll be two months from now,
Speaker 1: and it will be fifty things we have to cover.
Speaker 1: Where where can people learn more about you? You know,
Speaker 1: help you out? I know you've got a campaign race
Speaker 1: right now. Where can people learn more about you and
Speaker 1: help out?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Check us out at AGO dot MO dot gov.
Speaker 2: That's the official website where you can see all the
Speaker 2: work we're doing to fight back against the enemies of freedom, safety,
Speaker 2: and prosperity, and certainly for people in the state of Missouri.
Speaker 2: If you feel like you've been aggrieved by a fraudulent
Speaker 2: business practice. We've got a consumer Protection division for standing
Speaker 2: by to assist you, and the complaint forms are available
Speaker 2: there on the website. We want to serve the people
Speaker 2: of the state of Missouri and fight for freedom across
Speaker 2: the nation.
Speaker 1: Attorney General Andrew Bailey appreciate you taking the time to
Speaker 1: join the show. Loved having you. Would love to have
Speaker 1: you back.
Speaker 2: Hey, Thanks Lisa, great talking. Do you hope we can
Speaker 2: talk again soon?
Speaker 1: That was Missouri. Attorney General Andrew Bailey. Appreciate him taking
Speaker 1: so much time to join the show. Obviously he's already
Speaker 1: done a lot and he's barely been there, so we'll
Speaker 1: keep a look out for him. Thank you at home
Speaker 1: for listening every Monday and Thursday, but you can listen
Speaker 1: throughout the week. I want to think John Cass you
Speaker 1: and my producer for putting the show together. Until next time.