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Speaker 2: So it was very interesting to watch.
Speaker 1: There was a feature in the New York Post about
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi and over the course of her very long
Speaker 1: career in Congress, had a whopping return of just shy
Speaker 1: of seventeen thousand percent, outperforming pretty much, you know, every
Speaker 1: major market, every private equity firm, every investment firm in
Speaker 1: the entire country, by a long shot, went from a
Speaker 1: net worth of three million dollars to two hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty million dollars. We did call over to her office
Speaker 1: and the answer was, well, that would be her husband
Speaker 1: that does the investing. A lot of people question, well,
Speaker 1: is it possible that maybe the husband had information that
Speaker 1: other Americans may not have. People are very suspicious. There
Speaker 1: are a lot of suspicious people in this world, and
Speaker 1: frankly for good reason, especially when you're looking at money
Speaker 1: and you're looking at a massive return such as she has.
Speaker 1: You know, and here's what got so interesting to me is,
Speaker 1: you know, she doesn't personally own any stocks. Let's start there,
Speaker 1: but it's her husband. A seventeen thousand return net worth
Speaker 1: as a family three million grows to two hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty million. Wow, for being in a public service role.
Speaker 1: And she can say, Okay, my husband did all this,
Speaker 1: My husband did all this. You know there are there's
Speaker 1: an entire group of people because every elected official has
Speaker 1: to publicly file financial information and disclose what stocks they own,
Speaker 1: what stocks they've invested in. And let's put it this way,
Speaker 1: there's a whole group of people and a whole application
Speaker 1: you can download where you can follow Nancy Pelosi's investments
Speaker 1: and make the investments yourself. And apparently, you know it's
Speaker 1: it's been an amazing bed Over the last year. The
Speaker 1: portfolio went up of whopping thirty two point five percent,
Speaker 1: outperforming traditional investment strategies. Autopilot's CEO Chris Josephs, in an interview,
Speaker 1: said Pelosi's newly announced retirement is bittersweet. No other politician
Speaker 1: meant so much to this community of stock watching finance junkies.
Speaker 1: And as good as Pelosi's been for business, he wants
Speaker 1: a ban on politicians trading stock. He created the tracker
Speaker 1: as a marketing tactic, but also to call attention to
Speaker 1: the issue. He said, we thought, we know, what better
Speaker 1: way to call out the hypocrisy than to literally trade
Speaker 1: alongside them. And anyway, the Pelosi tracker got set up.
Speaker 1: The Ethics and Government Act requires members of Congress to
Speaker 1: disclose their own and their spouse's sales and purchases of stock.
Speaker 1: I mean, an almost seventeen thousand percent return, and that
Speaker 1: increase in net worth is pretty staggered. Congressman Chip Rowley,
Speaker 1: who's now a candidate for Attorney General in Texas, is
Speaker 1: pushing for the rule of law in Congress again by
Speaker 1: removing the right to trade individual stocks to spending our
Speaker 1: tax dollars on illegal immigrants and a bunch of other things.
Speaker 1: I'd say that's a pretty good return on her investments.
Speaker 1: I'd say she's one of her husband's one of the
Speaker 1: best investors I've ever heard of.
Speaker 2: I mean, it makes Warren Buffett blush.
Speaker 3: I would assume, Yeah, it's pretty it's pretty extraordinary. Sean.
Speaker 3: Great to be on the show, and this is something
Speaker 3: we've been observing a long time. And you know, as
Speaker 3: all these jokes, I mean, I joked when Nancy Pelosi
Speaker 3: announced her retirement, like how on Earth are people going
Speaker 3: to know how to invest their stocks because you know,
Speaker 3: following her was better than watching CNBC or Fox Business
Speaker 3: or anything else. And look, we can joke about it,
Speaker 3: but it really does reduce or eliminate trust in Congress
Speaker 3: for the American people. And a lot of people use
Speaker 3: the term insider trading, and yeah, that's a problem, and
Speaker 3: it's certainly something that is driving our desire to pass
Speaker 3: legislation to fix it. But the real thing is is
Speaker 3: that it calls into question what your votes are. It
Speaker 3: calls into question when you're making decisions on the Flooring Committee.
Speaker 3: Let's say you've got a big position in Google and
Speaker 3: you're having a big debate and the Judiciary Committee about
Speaker 3: anti trust or breaking them up. Or you own a
Speaker 3: lot of Palenteer or some big defense stock and you're
Speaker 3: voting in defense or in appropriations about defense spending. I
Speaker 3: don't think there should be conflicts of interest that are
Speaker 3: that nakedly obvious. And this isn't that hard. There's three
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty million Americans. There's four hundred and thirty
Speaker 3: five of us in Congress, five hundred and thirty five.
Speaker 3: When you have the Senate, I think you can pause
Speaker 3: for a little bit. Come be a public servant. If
Speaker 3: you want to betray, go going back home. So we
Speaker 3: introduced legislation in twenty twenty on a bipartisan basis to
Speaker 3: address this. I'm thankful that now five years later, we've
Speaker 3: gotten a bigger coalition. We introduced a version that is
Speaker 3: a bigger bipartisan block with ninety co sponsors. We had
Speaker 3: a hearing on it yesterday, which is great. But now
Speaker 3: we need Republican leadership to drive this train forward and
Speaker 3: deliver a result. We got to stop this day training
Speaker 3: among members of Congress so we can restore trust.
Speaker 1: Now you are also you've announced the Pause Act, which
Speaker 1: would freeze all immigration into the US until you reform
Speaker 1: chain migration and H one B visas, eliminate birthright citizenship.
Speaker 1: And how is that going in Congress?
Speaker 3: Well, we had an initial fantastic response, a lot of
Speaker 3: people in my colleagues that are jumping in board and
Speaker 3: could sponsoring it, a great response across the country. You know,
Speaker 3: I announced it last week that we were going to
Speaker 3: do it. We couldn't get it drafted because the shutdown
Speaker 3: with the lawyers or Legislative Council. But we got it
Speaker 3: done this week we introduced it, and look, I don't
Speaker 3: mean to say that it can't be tweaked or amended,
Speaker 3: but the concept I think is very popular. Like let's pause,
Speaker 3: let's push pause. We have fifty one million foreign born
Speaker 3: people in this country. That's almost sixteen percent of the population.
Speaker 3: That's the highest percentage we've ever had. And we got
Speaker 3: to look at what happening to our country. We've got
Speaker 3: American workers who need jobs. We've got forces that are
Speaker 3: driving up the price of goods. We've got people who
Speaker 3: are coming here who want to change our laws, people
Speaker 3: who want to embrace your re alon undermine our constitution.
Speaker 3: We've got people here who are dangerous. We need to pause,
Speaker 3: We need to stop. The President is doing an extraordinary
Speaker 3: job with the leadership of Tom Home and the Steven
Speaker 3: Miller and Secretary Nome freezing the flow at the border.
Speaker 3: They've done a great job with that. Ice is removing
Speaker 3: a lot of bad actors. Now, let's revamp our legal
Speaker 3: immigration system that has been abused to create massive pockets
Speaker 3: of Somalies and people who are coming here in advancing
Speaker 3: shre al and undermining our country. And you and I
Speaker 3: have talked about that issue before, and I think we
Speaker 3: need to freeze immigration and then let's fix it right now.
Speaker 3: By the way, it still allows tours visas. We can
Speaker 3: have a conversation about what to do with some of
Speaker 3: these things, but let's reform or eliminate or change h one.
Speaker 3: V's end diversity, MiG visas and chain migration. Let's fix
Speaker 3: things like birthright, citizenship and the magnets that cause people
Speaker 3: to come here. Then we can have insane conversation about
Speaker 3: the guest workers and other stuff. But Lord knows we
Speaker 3: can afford a freeze. You know, back when we had
Speaker 3: the big boom in the early nineteen hundreds of immigration,
Speaker 3: in nineteen twenty or so, we kind of stopped and
Speaker 3: we caught our breath and for about thirty or forty
Speaker 3: years we kind of regroups. We need to make sure
Speaker 3: people are assimilating, buying into the American dream rather than
Speaker 3: changing it. The melting pot means that you buy into America,
Speaker 3: you don't come here to change it.
Speaker 1: So last night on TV I had Texas Governor Greg Gabbott.
Speaker 1: I know you're friends with them, and he has taken
Speaker 1: a stand against the group care in the Muslim Brotherhood.
Speaker 1: He signed a proclamation declaring them both foreign terrorist organizations
Speaker 1: in Texas, citing what he called actions taken to support
Speaker 1: terrorism around the world, and you know, care pushback. They
Speaker 1: put their Texas chapters saying that they are proud of
Speaker 1: their record of standing up for free speech and religious
Speaker 1: freedom and justice for all and not going to be
Speaker 1: intimidated by smear campaigns launched by quote the Israel First
Speaker 1: politicians like Greg Abbott. No, I know Greg Abbott. He's
Speaker 1: a Texas First governor period and a sentence now just
Speaker 1: for the record. The same group that was identified as
Speaker 1: an unindicted co conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism
Speaker 1: financial financial trial, their national executive director following the horrific
Speaker 1: terror attacks on October seven, said, the people of Gaza
Speaker 1: only decided to break the siege the walls of the
Speaker 1: concentration camp on October seventh, And yes, I was happy
Speaker 1: to see people breaking the siege. Then the government, then
Speaker 1: the governor before we had him on last night, said
Speaker 1: he's investigating sharia courts in Texas.
Speaker 2: There's sharia courts in Texas well.
Speaker 3: It's a great question. The governor made that point, I think,
Speaker 3: and said it to you. I think that he knows
Speaker 3: that they're in fact Sharia courts. He sent a letter
Speaker 3: in which he sent it to the DA's in tom
Speaker 3: County in Dallas and the sheriff and said, look, you guys,
Speaker 3: go find these courts that are operating in direct conflict
Speaker 3: with our laws, and then let's go shut them down
Speaker 3: and issuing is executive. That executive order with respect to
Speaker 3: CARE and the Muslim Brotherhood is really important because it
Speaker 3: unlocks tools that the legislature provided to ban the purchases
Speaker 3: of real estate, dirt, and other assets in Texas by
Speaker 3: people that are declared to be affiliated with terrorist organizations.
Speaker 3: And look, Care is very obviously affiliated with terrorist organizations.
Speaker 3: They've got leadership that were a part of the Holy
Speaker 3: Land Foundation case that you'll remember Sean from twenty five
Speaker 3: years ago, all the way back in the Bush administration.
Speaker 3: DOJ went after them and unlocked the extent to which
Speaker 3: they were tied to terrorists. Some of their folks they
Speaker 3: have an unindicted co conspirator that's at the top leadership
Speaker 3: in Care. Care was extolling the October seventh attacks on Israel.
Speaker 3: I can go down a laundry list of other things.
Speaker 3: Recent reporting two days ago in the New York Post
Speaker 3: of Care's affiliation with these groups that have been on
Speaker 3: college campuses that were you know, riling up all the protests,
Speaker 3: all associated with terrorist groups. And look, we've got to
Speaker 3: fight this stuff. And God blessed Governor Rabbit for doing that.
Speaker 3: We need to step on the gas. Not just Epic City,
Speaker 3: not just these things that grab the headlines, but we
Speaker 3: need to actually have a concerted effort to stop the
Speaker 3: advancement of sharia law. And the governor took a great
Speaker 3: step in that direction.
Speaker 1: You're running for this is your last term in Congress.
Speaker 1: My understanding is a friend of mine is leading the
Speaker 1: way to replace you in your district. Is the former
Speaker 1: first baseman although these Texas you know, his Texas roots
Speaker 1: are run deep, including playing for Texas and then in MLB.
Speaker 1: And that's Mark Tsherah, who I know is a Maga Conservative.
Speaker 1: Have you spoken to him? And how are you looking
Speaker 1: in your race?
Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate the question. Yeah, I know Mark. You know,
Speaker 3: we've known each other a long time. Our kids go
Speaker 3: to the same school. And look, my race, I'm very
Speaker 3: excited about where we stand. We're pulling around forty points.
Speaker 3: My nearest competitors are usually in the single digits or
Speaker 3: around ten points. We've got a big enthusiasm raising good money.
Speaker 3: The reaction has been fantastic. We're having good conversations, of course,
Speaker 3: and where we want to take the AG's office to
Speaker 3: extend what Governor Abbot did as AG, what Ken Paxson
Speaker 3: has done as Attorney General, and now put it you
Speaker 3: really step on the gas, you know, go after these
Speaker 3: issues with respect to the Sharia law adherents and what's
Speaker 3: happening with those issues. Really step on the gas with
Speaker 3: respect to our border. Never again be subjected to a Biden,
Speaker 3: my orcus undermining of our laws and our security in Texas.
Speaker 3: Stop this release of criminals on our streets. Going after
Speaker 3: this network, this vast networks of source funded folks. Election integrity,
Speaker 3: the Stave Acts which I let on in Congress. We
Speaker 3: got to make sure we secure our elections. These are
Speaker 3: all reasons why, look, Sean, I could stay in Congress
Speaker 3: and keep fighting here. And we've done a lot of
Speaker 3: great work. Remember you and I, we've worked together and
Speaker 3: tried to navigate through the speakers debates and whether it's
Speaker 3: Kevin and the now Speaker Johnson and my philosophy has
Speaker 3: always been to deliver right, fight hard, get the most
Speaker 3: conservative outcome, and deliver results. And we've done it on
Speaker 3: so many levels. Proud of what we've been able to pass.
Speaker 3: But now we need to save Texas. Sean, if we
Speaker 3: lose Texas, there is no America and Texas under assault.
Speaker 3: So I'm proud to go back and run for Attorney General.
Speaker 3: But I got fourteen more months here to keep fighting,
Speaker 3: and so I'm staying. And you know, the joke number
Speaker 3: in high school was always senioritis. Oh you're gone. I
Speaker 3: don't know. I'm a United States Congressman for the twenty
Speaker 3: first district. I'm going to keep fighting and keep doing
Speaker 3: my job here as well.
Speaker 1: Oh, I think that's that's noble, and I wish more
Speaker 1: people had the same attitude. I do know it's gonna
Speaker 1: you know, winning Texas is critical. It's actually astounding the
Speaker 1: amount of moneies that have been thrown by the way.
Speaker 1: I am endorsing Mark to schri I don't know if
Speaker 1: you're going to endorse on a primary, but I'm endorsing him.
Speaker 2: I've known him forever. He is the real deal conservative.
Speaker 1: And don't I don't say that lightly about a lot
Speaker 1: of people you know, people are asking me, now, who
Speaker 1: do you think is going to replace Trump? Well, first
Speaker 1: of all, nobody's going to replace Trump. He's you know,
Speaker 1: one unique historical figure. But I'm going to do what
Speaker 1: I did when I first endorsed Trump. I'm I'm going
Speaker 1: to vet all these candidates and I'm going to talk
Speaker 1: to them, and I'm going to interview them, and I'll
Speaker 1: make my own decision and I'll share it with my
Speaker 1: audience like I did the last time. And in the
Speaker 1: last time, like I don't know, if you remember, conservatives
Speaker 1: have beaten the hell out of me if it's supporting Trump.
Speaker 1: They crucified me on the air. Ben Shapiro, Glenn Beck
Speaker 1: and others.
Speaker 3: Well, it's Sean. You've always been a good proponent of
Speaker 3: seeking the truth and standing up on your beliefs. And
Speaker 3: you know what, I've done the same thing, and like
Speaker 3: the ninety nine percent of the time their line, And
Speaker 3: I remember how great you were and respectful. You remember
Speaker 3: when when I was We're out there on the campaign trail.
Speaker 3: And you know, Governor de Santis a long time friend
Speaker 3: of mine, Byron Donalds, he's one of my good friends.
Speaker 3: I've endorsed him and he's endorsed me. Byron and I
Speaker 3: were sitting on your set, remember during the Republican Convention,
Speaker 3: and we had a great dialogue and discussion about how
Speaker 3: great the work is that the governor was doing in Florida,
Speaker 3: how great the president is, and you know, look, the
Speaker 3: president just crush the field. Was our nominee, we crushed
Speaker 3: it last year, and now he's crushing it as president.
Speaker 3: I'm honored to work alongside him, big fan, working with
Speaker 3: his team. Some of my best friends in the administration,
Speaker 3: people like Russ Vote, the head of omb Tom Hoeman
Speaker 3: is a dear friend who's obviously kicking butt on the border.
Speaker 3: This president is doing great things. But Congress, we got
Speaker 3: to deliver. We've got another year. We've got to deliver,
Speaker 3: win the midterms, and then two more years of deliver
Speaker 3: set up a twenty eight election. We need twelve years.
Speaker 3: We got to clean up this mess, and we've got
Speaker 3: to step on the gas and get in behind the
Speaker 3: president to deliver. And I think if we do that,
Speaker 3: we can win, and we can create a whole new
Speaker 3: generation of Conservatives. In the spirit of Charlie Kirk and
Speaker 3: everything that he gave, and he gave his life for
Speaker 3: in talking about his faith, talking about freedom, let's inspire
Speaker 3: a new generation. I think the president's setting the fields
Speaker 3: with that.
Speaker 1: Well said, and I support your race for Attorney general. Also,
Speaker 1: so you know, our favorite congress woman's back in the news, Linda,
Speaker 1: did you notice Kasmin Krockett is.
Speaker 4: Back in My favorite n She is definitely not He's no.
Speaker 2: He's definitely our favorite.
Speaker 4: Come on, every time I speaks no, my favorite is Pelosi.
Speaker 4: I never get enough.
Speaker 1: She's got herself a little bit of a Biden cognitive
Speaker 1: problem right now.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And she's retiring, So I'm not gonna I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: go too deep in the paint on that one. So
Speaker 1: Jasmine listed a friend of the program, Lee Zelden, is
Speaker 1: now the EPAUH, and claim that he received donations from
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein. He said it on the House floor. Here's
Speaker 1: what she said.
Speaker 5: Folks who also took money from somebody named Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 5: As I had my team dig in very quickly, Mitt Romney,
Speaker 5: the NRCC, Lee Zelden, George bush Win, Red McCain, Palin,
Speaker 5: Rick Lazio. I just want to be clear, if this
Speaker 5: is the standard that we're gonna make, just no, we're
Speaker 5: gonna expose it all. And just know that the FC filings,
Speaker 5: they are available for everybody to review.
Speaker 1: Whoopsie Daisy the only one that actually was soliciting money
Speaker 1: that we know for sure based on the document dump.
Speaker 1: We know that a lot of Democrats are now implicated.
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton for one, Laurence Summers for another one. We
Speaker 1: know that Hakeem Jeffries the leader in the House and
Speaker 1: name only, he's not the real leader. And yeah, then
Speaker 1: Jasmine got caught because you see, Lee Zelden never received
Speaker 1: solicited or tried to get any money from Jeffrey Ebstein.
Speaker 1: And then the facts come out and Jasmine had to
Speaker 1: admit that she was wrong. But she's not trying to
Speaker 1: do it purposefully.
Speaker 6: Mentioned to lee Zelden there he's now a cabinet secretary.
Speaker 6: He responded and said it was actually doctor Jeffrey Epstein,
Speaker 6: who's a doctor that doesn't have any relation to the
Speaker 6: convicted sex chracker. Unfortunate for that doctor, but that is
Speaker 6: who do it into a prior campaign of his. Do
Speaker 6: you want to correct the record on the people.
Speaker 5: And I never said that it was that Jeffrey Epstein,
Speaker 5: just so that people understand when you make a donation,
Speaker 5: your picture is not there. And because they decided to
Speaker 5: spring this on us in real time, I wanted the
Speaker 5: Republicans to think about what could potentially happen because I
Speaker 5: knew that they didn't even try to go through the FEC.
Speaker 5: So my team what they did is they googled, And
Speaker 5: that is specifically why I said a Jeffrey Epstein. Unlike Republicans,
Speaker 5: I at least don't go out and just tell lies
Speaker 5: because it was not the same one. That's fine. But
Speaker 5: when Lee Zelden had something to say, all he had
Speaker 5: to say was it was a different Jeffrey Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 5: He admitted that he did receive donations from a Jeffrey Epstein,
Speaker 5: So at least I wasn't trying to mislead people. Now,
Speaker 5: have I dug in to find out who this doctor is?
Speaker 5: I have not, So I will trust and take what
Speaker 5: he says is that it wasn't that Jeffrey Epstein. But
Speaker 5: I was not attempting to mislead anybody. I literally had
Speaker 5: maybe twenty minutes before I had to do that debate.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but people might see that day. Well, you're trying
Speaker 6: to make it sound like he took money from I
Speaker 6: did not know registered sex offender.
Speaker 5: No, but I literally did not know.
Speaker 1: That's an accident, right, we should It's it's like Sandy Burglar,
Speaker 1: the burglar you know when remember he went into the
Speaker 1: National Archives for Bill Clinton after nine to eleven, and
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: It was he was being sloppy.
Speaker 1: He was just being sloppy, Linda when he put, you know,
Speaker 1: all of those secret documents in his pants and his socks.
Speaker 2: This is a case of sloppiness, I'm sure careless.
Speaker 1: Sloppy sloppy about it.
Speaker 4: Can you imagine if that same sort of you know,
Speaker 4: leeway was given to the right. It's mind blowing to me.
Speaker 4: I'm like, the guy's got files in his underwear. Like, guys,
Speaker 4: this is not hard. It's really not.
Speaker 1: By the way, I would imagine if you're being sloppy,
Speaker 1: I'm sloppy. Everybody sloppy, you know, is spy when I'm
Speaker 1: not either. I hate I hate messes. But is it
Speaker 1: really sloppiness when you take archives that you illegally that's
Speaker 1: illegal to take out of the National Archives and you
Speaker 1: shove it down your crotch? How do you describe that
Speaker 1: as sloppy exactly? And they got away with it.
Speaker 4: That's a problem. But see the reason they get away
Speaker 4: with it is because they have all their buddies and
Speaker 4: cronies in the positions of power that they need in
Speaker 4: order to say that's all good.
Speaker 2: He didn't me either.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump was sloppy like that, and he was shoving
Speaker 1: documents down about it. They would have been you know,
Speaker 1: they would have pants.
Speaker 4: He doesn't need to do anything, just like Leez Elden
Speaker 4: didn't do anything, and she's burying him. And the problem
Speaker 4: is is where do you go to get your good
Speaker 4: name back? I mean, the guy who donated to Leez
Speaker 4: Elden had been dead.
Speaker 2: He was dead.
Speaker 1: Ray Donovan was investigated in the Reagan years for years
Speaker 1: and years and then he was exonerated, and he comes out,
Speaker 1: Where do I now go to get my good name back?
Speaker 1: And the answer to that question is you don't get
Speaker 1: it back. The smears, the slander, the besmirchmant the attacks.
Speaker 1: All right, it's facts were busy, it's great, it's gross.
Speaker 1: I mean, who wants to be in politics. Nobody, nobody's
Speaker 1: I don't know why people do it. I'm glad some do.
Speaker 1: Joy in my free state of Florida. Hey, Joy.
Speaker 7: How are you hi, Sean. It is our free state
Speaker 7: of Florida.
Speaker 2: Love our free state of Florida.
Speaker 1: Especially love it at this time of year when all
Speaker 1: my friends are calling me and writing me and whining
Speaker 1: and moaning and bitching and complaining about the weather where
Speaker 1: they live.
Speaker 7: And their taxes where they live.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean they're complaining about that. I mean
Speaker 1: what's so amazing is how quickly that Zorn Marxist Kami Mamnani.
Speaker 1: Now apparently there's going to be some meeting or meet
Speaker 1: up with President Trump at the White House tomorrow. That
Speaker 1: ought to be interesting. I almost feel like flying in
Speaker 1: for it just to watch it. In real life, that
Speaker 1: would be quite entertaining. But uh, it's if he thinks,
Speaker 1: I mean, he was out there today talking about that.
Speaker 1: If Donald Trump thinks that he's going to get the
Speaker 1: operation for Ice officials like you did under Eric Adams,
Speaker 1: he is mistaken. Listen, Zoran, you take on Donald Trump
Speaker 1: all you want, because it ain't gonna end well for
Speaker 1: you and is not going to end well for New York.
Speaker 1: By the way, real estate prices in the last five
Speaker 1: days outside the City of New York in the Five
Speaker 1: boroughs is up a wopping twenty five percent. Talking to
Speaker 1: my friends down in Florida in the real estate industry,
Speaker 1: they said activity is skyrocketing. It's called the Mamdani effect.
Speaker 1: It's taking place now.
Speaker 7: Just as long as they don't bring their New York
Speaker 7: politics with him.
Speaker 1: Well, that should be a requirement. We ought to have
Speaker 1: a political litmus test. You welcome to Florida, But if
Speaker 1: you're one of these lunatic liberals that ruined your state,
Speaker 1: don't bring you stupid policies with you. I think that's fair.
Speaker 1: That's a fair you know, that's a fair entrance requirement
Speaker 1: to me. Anyway, Joy, we appreciate you. Thank you in
Speaker 1: North Carolina.
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 7: Mark, My honor and pleasure to be with you today, Sean.
Speaker 7: The reason I'm calling is there's been a lot of
Speaker 7: noise accusing President Trump of acting illegally with his hits
Speaker 7: on the Venezuela and Narco votes. And I have something
Speaker 7: of the legal background the Columbia law at eighty one.
Speaker 7: My constitutional law professor was Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I was
Speaker 7: on the board of uh at the Law School for
Speaker 7: the Society of Internet.
Speaker 1: I interrupted, do you know what Clarence Thomas once told me.
Speaker 1: And when Ruth Bader Ginsburg's best friend, you know who
Speaker 1: was on the court.
Speaker 2: It was anthonin Scalia, you.
Speaker 1: Know, and Clarence Thomas said, she's lovely, she's a one
Speaker 1: of a very nice women.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and she was approved with a vote of ninety
Speaker 7: three senators, by the way, if I remember correctly, And
Speaker 7: I was able to disagree with her to her face
Speaker 7: over was let's use national legal cities and equal rights
Speaker 7: of renmen. And she graded me fairly. And back when
Speaker 7: the Democrats were talking about packing the court, she said, no,
Speaker 7: that's not a good idea. So you know there was
Speaker 7: intellectual integrity there and respect across different points of view. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad, you know, God rest us all. I mean,
Speaker 1: we can disagree, and you can still have disagreements. By
Speaker 1: the way, let me ask you this question, babe, because
Speaker 1: you brought this up, and then I'll let you make
Speaker 1: your point. What should I spend time on the program
Speaker 1: next week or maybe tomorrow? How do you deal with
Speaker 1: your crazy relatives over Thanksgiving? Because probably every family has
Speaker 1: some and they go they're gotta come itching for a fight.
Speaker 1: And I've been in situations where I sit down and
Speaker 1: within thirty seconds.
Speaker 2: I read the room and I'm like, okay, here it comes.
Speaker 2: It's coming.
Speaker 1: And I'll usually sit back and just wait for them
Speaker 1: to bury themselves and then I'll go in and set
Speaker 1: them straight because I do this professionally.
Speaker 2: This is what I do for a living, and I
Speaker 2: know a lot more than they do.
Speaker 1: But for other people, it's very hard when they're being
Speaker 1: attacked by family members because of that political belief.
Speaker 7: What do you think, well, well, at present, I do
Speaker 7: martial arts for a living, and my teacher has a saying.
Speaker 7: He says, be the temperature, not the thermometer, and so
Speaker 7: I've I think there's a lot of wisdom in that.
Speaker 7: And I read a little piece on Charlie Kirk and
Speaker 7: his techniques and I'm looking trying to do better with that,
Speaker 7: and it said what Charlie did is he always began
Speaker 7: with defines your terms. You know, you know, you know,
Speaker 7: in whatever word you use, please define it so we understand.
Speaker 7: And he always looked for where you could give it,
Speaker 7: you know, find an area of the state agreement.
Speaker 3: I agree with this, or I agree with.
Speaker 7: That, and you know, so that that changes the dynamic
Speaker 7: of the conversation. And so I try to do that.
Speaker 7: And indeed, that's kind of my motive in calling today,
Speaker 7: which is a lot of people are upset and how
Speaker 7: that you know, you know, they see all the wild accusations.
Speaker 7: Back on the first No King's Day, I went to
Speaker 7: the No King's rally in Southern Pines here and I
Speaker 7: asked the if I could speak on the other point
Speaker 7: of view. They were very upset about President Trump federalizing
Speaker 7: the California National Guard, and I kind of played a
Speaker 7: trick on them. I was wearing a grateful dead t
Speaker 7: shirt that said make America Grateful again, and so that
Speaker 7: got them the lower their garden. I said, yeah, here's
Speaker 7: my grateful bad t shirt. My constitutional law professor was
Speaker 7: Ruth Vader Ginsburg Gay, and I've got good news for
Speaker 7: you. You're wrong. I've read the statute and what President Trump
Speaker 7: is doing as legal and they didn't quite know what
Speaker 7: to do with me. But you know, what I want
Speaker 7: to get to today is about the Venezuelan thing.
Speaker 3: As I looked.
Speaker 7: Into things a bit, I have a bit of a background,
Speaker 7: and so it starts with Article one, Section eight, Claws
Speaker 7: ten of the Constitution, which gives Congress the power to
Speaker 7: define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high
Speaker 7: seas and offenses against the law of nations. An example
Speaker 7: of that would be the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act
Speaker 7: forty six USC. Seventy fifty and sequence ran this by
Speaker 7: a friend of mine who is a special agent for
Speaker 7: the DEA to make sure I was getting this right.
Speaker 7: And you know, it lays out the procedure. Is the
Speaker 7: vessel in question an American flag, is it a foreign flag,
Speaker 7: is it a state? Is it unflagged entirely? And so
Speaker 7: there's all kinds of processes and so forth. But the
Speaker 7: Supreme Court's rule that the jurisdiction on the high seats
Speaker 7: can be defined even without violence and predation of piracy,
Speaker 7: which would seem to be applicable here. And so you know,
Speaker 7: everybody is seen over the years, or the drug boats
Speaker 7: are stopped and so forth. But where we're going here
Speaker 7: is with what President Trump did with his declaration of
Speaker 7: the marcocartels. As here I have what was the exact
Speaker 7: that it was back in January, I think, and so
Speaker 7: the r the yeah, January twenty fifth, And so with
Speaker 7: that we go into a different legal category, which is
Speaker 7: transition to counter terrorism mode. And so that is going
Speaker 7: to tap into the existing authorized use of military forces,
Speaker 7: such as the one in two thousand and one, which
Speaker 7: have been affirmed by the courts an extent to non
Speaker 7: state actors posing imminent threats. So, for example, think of
Speaker 7: all the hits that President Obama did with the drones.
Speaker 7: And so the DOJ's assertion is that the emminent scrap
Speaker 7: for Article fifty one of the UN Charter is the
Speaker 7: American death resulting from the doug trade, and the territorial
Speaker 7: invasion or a congressional war declaration is not required.
Speaker 1: The press, Well, that's a good point about you making
Speaker 1: about Obama and the drone strikes. I have a really
Speaker 1: great story that I've never told, and I'm not sure
Speaker 1: when i'll tell it, but I'll tell it one day. Linda,
Speaker 1: you know exactly what story I'm telling talking about And
Speaker 1: on a scale of one tool one hundred, how great
Speaker 1: is that story.
Speaker 2: It's a great one.
Speaker 4: That's why it's untold. Your whole it for the right moment.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm holding it because I don't want to draw
Speaker 1: attention to the underlying issue behind it.
Speaker 2: And you know, let's just put it this way.
Speaker 1: Had to do with a threat against me and my family,
Speaker 1: but I'll save that for another day.