WEBVTT - The Minnesota Scandal 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:04.480 Hey everybody. I'm Greg Jared, filling in for Sean Hannity 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:07.200 on the Sean Hannity Show. Happy to be here for 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:09.920 the second day in a row. Shaw's taking off a 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:14.280 few well deserved days of rest or in the holidays. 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:17.880 I've been at Fox. I'm a legal analyst there for 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:22.000 going on twenty four years. I've written several books, beginning 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:26.600 with the Russia Hoax, the Sequel witch Hunt, I wrote 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:29.159 The Trial of the Century, and the latest book is 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:35.680 The US Constitution and other patriotic documents. Please check them out. 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:38.760 But I want to begin today with the burr in 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:44.040 my saddle over fraud. Have you ever wondered where a 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:47.960 lot of your hard earned tax dollars go? Well, look 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:51.920 no further than the screwed up state of Minnesota. It 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:56.360 is a blue state, to be sure, run by idiots 0:00:56.360 --> 0:01:00.760 and morons that are so utterly incompetent. If they failed 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:05.080 to refuse to recognize one of the greatest ripoffs in 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:11.480 American history, Minnesota is now the epicenter of fraud. We're 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:15.680 talking about roughly two billion dollars with a capital B 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:22.480 stolen by scammers from social service programs. In fact, there 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.759 were so many swindles going on at the same time. 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:29.240 You'd need a float chart just to keep track of 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:31.520 them all. And of course, at the top of the 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:35.440 float chart should be a big fat picture of Governor 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:39.480 Tim Walls and his sidekick Keith Ellison, the state's scandal 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:44.480 plugued attorney general. Together, those two are the dumb and 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:50.760 dumber of politics, and both are to blame because they 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:56.559 were repeatedly warned of all the hustles and flim plans 0:01:56.600 --> 0:02:01.680 going on in their precious Somali community. But they didn't care. 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:08.560 Now they thought it would be racist to prosecute Somali constituents, 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:14.000 so they happily allowed the fraud to continue and indeed 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:19.600 to escalate. You see, in uber liberal Minnesota, it is 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:25.040 politically incorrect to enforce the law against Somali's God forbid, 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:31.520 putting criminals behind bars might lose some votes. Not only 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:35.440 did Waltz turn a blind eyed all the conjobs going 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:40.799 on under his bulbous nose, he actually helped them flourish. 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:46.720 Evidence shows he was told repeatedly of the ginormous COVID 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:51.440 fraud scandal early on, but instead of fixing it, he 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.400 worked to protect it and to cover it up. He 0:02:54.600 --> 0:03:01.639 allegedly aided and abetted all of the schemes, retaliating against 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:07.000 whistleblowers who had come forward with courage to try to 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:12.239 expose the fraud. Waltz tried his level best to discredit 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:16.880 the fraud reports themselves. So you know that's not merely 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:24.000 rank in competence, it's intentional malfeasance. No wonder Walt's admitted 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:29.800 during the vice presidential debate that he's a knucklehead. Really, 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:33.520 he actually said that, and by the way, nobody has 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:37.360 ever disagreed with that assessment. The guy is a total buffoon. 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.200 I wouldn't trust him to run a hot dog stand, 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:45.160 and yet he has the audacity to run for reelection, 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:49.640 So you know he can ruin Minnesota further with even 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:55.400 more corruption. Tim Waltz is so clueless that his own 0:03:55.520 --> 0:04:00.240 state workers that the Department of Human Services denounced his 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:06.640 epic incompetence. They issued an official statement saying Waltz's one 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:12.240 hundred percent responsible for fleecing more than a billion dollars 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:17.120 from taxpayers. Look, is anybody really surprised? I mean, this 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:20.880 is what happens when the government begins handing out free 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:27.160 money while relying on states like Minnesota for oversight. I mean, 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:31.159 the scammers and the grifters are having a field day. 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:36.480 The pandemic relief was supposed to be administered by Waltz's 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:41.880 Education Department, but they were so inept under his leadership 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:45.880 or lack thereof, that it became a piece of cake 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:50.840 to steal hundreds of millions of dollars in phony claims. 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:54.719 Money that was supposed to go to feed needy children 0:04:55.400 --> 0:05:00.960 was stolen by scammers who splashed their cash on luxury homes, 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:06.599 fancy cars, elaborate vacations, lavish lifestyles. They were yucking it up. 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:11.479 In one case alone, they claimed to have served ninety 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:17.600 one million meals that were never served, for which they 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:23.800 fraudulently received two hundred and fifty million dollars in federal funds. 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:28.960 Those are your tax dollars going into the pockets of 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:34.640 Minnesota cruks. I can't think of anything lower than stealing 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:38.800 money from hungry children, or taking money away from kids 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:43.799 who were supposed to be receiving autistic services that never happened. 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:49.000 But that's not all. Housing programs were also ripped off 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:53.040 in Minnesota. In fact, the list is so long that 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:57.239 one former US attorney estimates that the total figure will 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:04.120 likely surpass two bills billion dollars in fraud. Trump is 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:08.960 vowed to prosecute and then deport the Somali criminals responsible 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:15.000 for all that fraud. But Timmy Waltz calls that petty vindictiveness. 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:19.720 I'm not kidding. In the twisted world of Waltz, the 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:25.039 law should be selective, because you know, equal enforcement of 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:30.039 the law is racist. It's not just the wicked world 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:34.400 of Waltz, but mega thefts are now being discovered in Ohio, 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:41.280 where you guessed it. Somali's reportedly perpetrated a massive Medicaid 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:48.320 theft involving healthcare payouts based on fake medical conditions. All right, 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:53.200 that's appalling, But is anybody surprised since Obamacare, one of 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:57.479 the greatest deceptions of all time, opened the door to 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:03.680 a wholesale plundering of our nation's treasury. The General Accounting 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:09.280 Office says that Obamacare subsidies are costing you, the taxpayers, 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:15.280 some twenty seven billion dollars a year. Twenty seven billion 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:21.880 in fake identities, dead people, and improper use of Social 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:26.320 Security numbers. And then there's food stamps or we're not 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:29.480 supposed to call them food stamps anymore, because that's what 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:33.960 they are. We call them snap payments. Well, those are 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:38.880 rife with fraud. Hundreds of thousands of people are getting 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:44.440 government money, except they're dead, so you know they're not 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:48.200 eating a lot. Don't get me started on my home 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:54.480 state of California. Massive unemployment fraud has recently been uncovered 0:07:54.520 --> 0:08:00.720 that resulted in billions of stolen dollars. Get this, up 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:06.840 to thirty one billion dollars that was paid to criminals, 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:16.239 including people behind bars. Education fraud, healthcare fraud, Medicare fraud 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:23.520 in California has been uncovered. Again, that's your money down 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:27.200 the drain, and Gavin Newsom doesn't care, except to the 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:31.000 extent that his former chief of staff was caught and 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:37.400 charged in one of those schemes. Here's the bottom line. 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:42.200 Democrats say they care about the needy, except they don't. 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:46.439 That's just a ruse. It's a pretense for something else. 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:52.640 They use the needy. They exploit the needy to strong 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:57.959 arm the government into handing out benefits so that the 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:03.680 cash can then be by their constituents, and people like 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:09.559 Tim Waltz look the other way, and always liberal democrats 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:15.199 want more. They will ruthlessly and persistently dig deep into 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:20.280 your pockets until they're empty, and then they demand more 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:25.400 of your income with higher taxes. It's the old socialist 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:31.440 stratagem that seems appealing to some until, as Margaret Thatcher 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:36.120 famously observed, you eventually run out of other people's money. 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:41.080 That's the history of socialism. It's a well worn story 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:47.000 of failure and collapse. Later on in our program, I'm 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:50.640 going to be talking with Peter Schweitzer about this. He's 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:55.840 president of the Government Accountability to Institute, and he is 0:09:55.880 --> 0:10:00.760 certainly an expert on the subject of fraud. Peter also 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:05.240 wrote the book called Clinton Cash, so he's going to 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:08.800 tell us about the recent news of how the FBI's 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:14.840 corruption probe into Hillary Clinton's suspected pay to play schemes 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:23.360 was killed by her protectors in Barack Obama's administration. We're 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:25.800 going to take a quick break right now. Coming up, 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:29.480 we have, in addition to Peter Schweizer, I'll be talking 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:35.160 to Mike Davis about whether any of the people involved 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:39.960 in the law fair crusade against Donald Trump will ever 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:45.240 be held accountable with indictments. I think there'll be indictments 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.720 in the beginning of the new year. We'll also talk 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:55.040 to Brian Finch about Trump's attacks on Caribbean drug boats 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.959 tied to Venezuela. Are they legal? 0:10:59.160 --> 0:10:59.559 They are. 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:02.680 We'll be right back. I'm Greg Jared filling in for 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:03.480 Sean Hannity. 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:16.240 Are you ready to get out of the media spin room? Well, 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.199 you've come to the right place. 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:43.640 It is the Sean Hannity Show. Welcome back to the 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.720 Sean Hannity Show. I'm Greg Jared filling in for Sean. 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:50.960 A few minutes ago, I mentioned, in the context of 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:54.920 all the fraud going under the nose of Tim Waltz 0:11:54.960 --> 0:12:00.679 in Minnesota, how he's incompetent, and in fact, he admitted 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:04.920 in the vice presidential debate when he was running with 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:09.240 kamalaw that he's a knucklehead. And so I want to 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:12.240 play you know, some people have said, and I've mentioned 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.520 it before, have said, oh, did he know he didn't 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.040 really he didn't call himself enough. Yeah he did. And 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:19.000 I'm going to play the clip for you right now. 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:22.920 Here's the context. Waltz is a known liar, and he 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:26.360 got caught many times in lies. The number of times 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:29.120 he was in China he claimed he was there at 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:33.839 the time of the Tienneman Square massacre in nineteen eighty nine. 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:37.240 Record show he wasn't there. He was in the United States. 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:41.560 So a moderator asked him during the debate, and here's 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:43.520 what Timmy Waltz had to say. 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.600 Governor Walls, you said you were in Hong Kong during 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:50.800 the deadly Tienanmen Square protests in the spring of nineteen 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:54.600 eighty nine, But Minnesota Public Radio and other media outlets 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:58.200 are reporting that you actually didn't travel to Asia until 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:02.720 August of that year. Can you explain that discrepancy? 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:02.960 Ye? 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:04.720 Yeah, Well, and to the folks out there, it didn't 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:07.120 get at the top of this. Look, I grew up 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:11.200 in small, rural Nebraska town of four hundred town that 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.040 you rode your bike with your buddies till the street 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:14.000 lights come on, and I'm. 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:14.840 Proud of that service. 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.840 Now, look, my community knows who I am. They saw 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.680 where I was at they look. I will be the 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:22.720 first to tell you I have poured my heart into 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.200 my community. I've tried to do the best I can, 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:28.040 but I've not been perfect, and I'm a knucklehead at times. 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:31.760 I will say more than anything. Many times I will 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.240 talk a lot. I will get caught up in the rhetoric, 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:38.160 but being there, the impact it made, the difference it 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:39.960 made in my life, I learned a lot about China. 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:43.040 Governor. Just to follow up on that, the question was, 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.600 can you explain the dipancy? 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:47.400 All I said on this was is I got there 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.360 that summer and misspoke on this. So I will just 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:52.160 that's what I've said. 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:55.040 What a slee's ball, But there it is. He called 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:59.600 himself a knucklehead, and no truer words wherever spoken the 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:03.760 guy as a buffoon. He's an incompetent governor of Minnesota, 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:08.439 and he's running for reelection amid all of the fraud, 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:14.760 which may roughly be two billion dollars of your taxpayer money. 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.679 Coming up later, I'll talk to Peter Schweizer about it. 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.960 He knows all about the fraud in Minnesota. But I 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:27.120 also want to talk to Peter about how the Department 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:33.840 of Justice under Barack Obama, probably under the President's orders, 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:41.960 decided to kill and bury the growing corruption investigation into 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:48.680 Hillary Clinton's foreign pay to play schemes which enriched the 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:54.400 Clinton Foundation, and of course they use that foundation as 0:14:54.480 --> 0:15:00.960 their personal piggy bank. There's considerable evidence. Bill and Hillary 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:06.640 got rich from foreign donations made to their Clinton Foundation, which, 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:11.800 as I say, was really their own bank account. We're 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:15.320 talking about hundreds of millions of dollars, and as I 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.320 wrote in my book The Russia Hoaks back in twenty eighteen, 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:23.920 many of the largest contributions were made by people and 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:29.840 shell companies. There's a red alert connected to a Russian 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:36.000 controlled business called Uranium One, which managed, through a series 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:42.400 of clever maneuvers, to seize control of a sizeable percentage 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:48.400 of America's prized uranium assets. I'm reading directly out of 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:53.280 my book. All of this happened as Hillary was serving 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:58.360 as Secretary of State, and of course the inevitable allegations 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:04.200 of corruption followed, and the FBI became so concerned that 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:08.960 it opened a criminal investigation into a pay to play 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:15.640 scheme involving Hillary and her foundation. The bureau gathered evidence 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:20.280 that the foreign cash may have illegally influenced US foreign 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:24.880 policy under Hillary Clinton. Peter wrote about it. I wrote 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.320 about it. We'll be talking with him coming up on 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:56.600 the Sean Hannity Show. Solid as a rock, honest, truthful. 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:59.600 This is the Sean Hannity Show. 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:03.360 Hey, Welcome back to the Sean Hennity Show on Greg Jarrett. 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:10.040 Of course, Donald Trump and his administration has been going 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:16.640 after drug cartels smuggling deadly fentanyl, cocaine, synthetic opolioids into 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.879 the United States that have killed more than three hundred 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:24.919 thousand young people since twenty twenty one. So you know, 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:30.000 they've carried out strikes against suspected drug vessels in the region. 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:33.840 In the Caribbean, they've seized a sanctioned oil tanker off 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:38.399 the coast of Venezuela, declared a blockade of all sanctioned 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:43.800 oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela. And Trump has said 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:46.919 on more than one occasion that strikes on land in 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:53.000 Venezuela could be coming sometime soon. Secretary of State Marco 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:56.439 Rubio had this to say on that subject today. 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:58.840 At the core, foreign policy needs to be the national 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:01.000 interest of the United States. So you have to first 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.000 of all define what is the national interest, and then 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:05.800 you have to apply it. We defined it as we 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.640 are in favor of foreign policies that make America safer, 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:11.639 or stronger, or more prosperous, hopefully all three, but at 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:14.000 least one of those three, and then it requires you 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:17.879 to prioritize. Even the richest, most powerful and influential country 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:21.520 on Earth has limited resources, has limited time, and it 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:23.800 has to be able to dedicate those resources in time 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:28.639 through a process of prioritization that includes geographic prioritization. It 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:31.840 also cludes issue prioritization. When it comes to the Western Hemisphere, 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.240 the single most serious threat to the United States and 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:38.400 the Western Hemisphere is from transnational terrorist criminal groups primarily 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:41.040 focused on narco trafficking, but they're in all sized businesses 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.800 as well. So the good news is we have a 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:46.040 lot of countries in the region that openly cooperate and 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:48.000 work with us to confront these challenges. 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:51.679 All right, that was Marco Rubio. Let's bring into the 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:55.479 conversation now our guest today Brian Finch, who is a 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:59.159 top notch lawyer. He's a partner with Pillsbury Winthrop. He 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:03.760 co chairs the firm's Global security practice, and Brian has 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:08.280 been covering the ongoing Venezuela narco terrorism and the dictatorship 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:12.600 under Maduro. As I say, the President and Secretary of 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:16.000 War have been doing everything they can to prevent these 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:21.879 boats from onboarding their drugs to American Shores. Brian, thanks 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:24.840 so much for being with us. You and I've talked 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:30.760 about this before, But in your legal opinion, does this 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:37.440 administration have every legal right to defend its citizens from 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:42.159 the lethal poison by using lethal military force. 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:47.720 Of course, it's a basic constitutional tenant that the president 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:50.400 has the authority to do that. I mean, that's he's 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:53.720 the commander in chief of the military. There are dozens 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:57.400 upon dozens of examples throughout American history where the president 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:01.840 has acted unilaterally to defend the name from any type 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:05.520 of threat, and this falls squarely into that category once again. 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:10.480 And folks who are protesting this, you know, this is 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:14.600 about being anti Trump. It's not about the president actually 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:17.840 exceeding his authority. So it's a policy complaint, it's not 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:18.840 a legal complaint. 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:22.560 Is there any doubt in your mind that Maduro himself 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:31.800 and his murderous regime in Venezuela are behind the smuggling, Well, I. 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:36.040 Mean, it's like any other narco state klyptocracy where of 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:39.840 course he exerts control with an iron fist. So why 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:43.080 you've had people trying to flee the country by millions 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:47.600 over the past decade or so he runs it. Anything 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:51.440 that happens in the country, happens at his direction or 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:55.120 at least with his awareness, and whether explicitly or implicitly, 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:58.359 this is all happening at his direction, more than likely 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:02.800 his profit as well. Can easily imagine that. So, of 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:06.800 course this is all happening, you know, with his understanding, 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:09.000 with his knowledge. It's not his direction at this point, 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:12.199 So it's his responsibility, and the president is right to 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:15.840 direct actions against him personally and against his regime to 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:16.840 protect Americans. 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:20.920 Back to the legality of it all, the cartels are 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:27.600 officially designated by our government as armed terror organizations, and 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:32.399 as such they are are they not enemy combatants and 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:37.239 can be legally targeted by Trump under the president's constitutional 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:41.359 war powers. And no, you do not need consent from Congress. 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:45.520 Wasn't it long ago given by Congress when they approve 0:21:45.640 --> 0:21:49.280 the authorization for use of military force? 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:55.679 It absolutely was. And even if people will point to 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:58.639 the War Powers Act, for example, to say that the 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:01.640 president has to go to Congress to explain what he's 0:22:01.680 --> 0:22:04.760 doing and seek their consent, very good argument that the 0:22:04.840 --> 0:22:10.000 War Powers Act is itself unconstitutional. Yes, and so as 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:14.199 the president, he can certainly consult with Congress if Congress 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:16.399 wants to weigh in, they can do so. They have 0:22:16.480 --> 0:22:18.480 in fact been doing so. The chairman of the Armed 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:23.560 Services Committee, Mike Rogers from Alabama, he looked into the questionable, 0:22:24.280 --> 0:22:29.119 you know, the questionable complaints about the one strike and 0:22:29.160 --> 0:22:31.120 whether that was a violation of the law of war, 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:33.960 and the chairman walked away saying, I'm perfectly satisfied. The 0:22:34.000 --> 0:22:37.720 president's been doing everything by the book, by the law, 0:22:38.840 --> 0:22:44.480 and so he's acting fully within his constitutional authority. And oh, 0:22:44.560 --> 0:22:47.399 by the way, enemy comments, there's also a good argument 0:22:47.480 --> 0:22:50.320 that these are illegal combatants, much like we've said with 0:22:50.440 --> 0:22:54.159 al Qaeda and ISIS in the Taliban back in the 0:22:54.200 --> 0:22:57.400 early two thousands, and they don't necessarily get the protections 0:22:57.440 --> 0:22:58.920 of law war in those cases. 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:05.159 Right that legal scholars, many of them, have said that 0:23:05.200 --> 0:23:10.520 the War Powers Act, passed by Congress it was a resolution, 0:23:13.359 --> 0:23:21.399 is unconstitutional, and in fact past presidents have ignored it, 0:23:21.440 --> 0:23:27.879 including Barack Obama. And of course he used the so 0:23:28.040 --> 0:23:33.240 called wall run Terrorism Statutes to take similar actions as 0:23:33.480 --> 0:23:34.600 President Trump. Didn't he. 0:23:35.440 --> 0:23:39.480 Oh, President Obama actually went further than anything that President 0:23:39.520 --> 0:23:43.639 Trump is doing. President Obama issued a very length or 0:23:43.680 --> 0:23:47.840 had a very lengthy memorandum written that justified him killing 0:23:47.840 --> 0:23:52.879 American citizens overseas without any sort of due process as 0:23:52.960 --> 0:23:56.520 long as they were suspected of being associated with terrorists 0:23:56.600 --> 0:24:00.000 or presenting a potentially eminent threat to the United States. 0:24:00.080 --> 0:24:03.920 It's the President Obama's legal team, and he agreed said 0:24:03.960 --> 0:24:08.639 that he could order lefold drone strikes against American citizens 0:24:09.040 --> 0:24:12.720 anywhere in the world as long as it met those conditions, 0:24:12.760 --> 0:24:15.240 and he did so. He did so hundreds of times. 0:24:15.960 --> 0:24:20.000 So you look at the complaints that are being lodged 0:24:20.040 --> 0:24:23.239 against the president and his team about violations of the 0:24:23.320 --> 0:24:25.960 law of work. It's silly. And you know, I've been 0:24:25.960 --> 0:24:29.400 thinking a lot about this, greg and it it's remarkable 0:24:29.440 --> 0:24:34.479 but also predictably pathetic that you see such unanimity about 0:24:34.760 --> 0:24:38.280 violations with the president with lav War, those alleged violations 0:24:38.280 --> 0:24:41.320 of lah War. You couldn't get that same unanimity about 0:24:41.359 --> 0:24:47.920 Hamas going out and killing women, children, babies on October seventh, 0:24:48.320 --> 0:24:51.320 clearly in violation of every law in the world. But 0:24:52.040 --> 0:24:54.520 in those cases they said, well that's you know, there 0:24:54.560 --> 0:24:57.560 were some justifications there, so call that any sort of 0:24:58.280 --> 0:25:01.959 illegal acts that are are so evil. So it just 0:25:02.000 --> 0:25:05.399 goes to show the hypocrisy and the lengths that the 0:25:05.440 --> 0:25:09.360 president's opponents will go to in order to claim that 0:25:09.440 --> 0:25:11.840 he is just the worst man in the history of 0:25:11.840 --> 0:25:14.959 the United States. And you and I in the listeners, now, 0:25:15.119 --> 0:25:19.399 it's just not true. It's just sad rhetoric that is 0:25:19.960 --> 0:25:23.439 cloaked and illegal vernacular when all in reality is is 0:25:23.480 --> 0:25:24.760 Trump arrangement syndrome. 0:25:25.000 --> 0:25:29.200 Yeah, it really is. And you know, Democrats and their 0:25:29.320 --> 0:25:35.320 media handmaidens or you know, raging still against TROMP. But again, 0:25:35.359 --> 0:25:37.840 they didn't seem to care when Barack Obama went after 0:25:38.000 --> 0:25:42.760 terrorism targets with deadly drone strikes. In fact, he approved 0:25:42.760 --> 0:25:47.720 five hundred and forty plus strikes, killing roughly three four 0:25:47.760 --> 0:25:51.680 hundred people. Joe Biden did pretty much the same thing 0:25:51.720 --> 0:25:55.879 in Yemen, in Syria and Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. But 0:25:56.040 --> 0:25:59.240 you know, when Obama and Biden to it, it's perfectly lawful, 0:25:59.359 --> 0:26:02.480 according to Democrats in the media. When Trump does it, 0:26:02.480 --> 0:26:07.560 it's somehow war crimes that's legally absurd, isn't it. 0:26:07.560 --> 0:26:10.879 It absolutely is. And by the way, you know, to 0:26:11.280 --> 0:26:15.560 paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, you know who find somebody who want 0:26:15.600 --> 0:26:18.399 to shoot shoot him? And I think that's that's the 0:26:18.440 --> 0:26:20.480 case here. If we find keros, whether they're in the 0:26:20.480 --> 0:26:24.000 Middle East or they're in Latin America, South America, or 0:26:24.000 --> 0:26:27.080 wherever they are, and they are threatening America's lives, they 0:26:27.080 --> 0:26:32.080 are actively participating in killing Americans. Yeah, they need to 0:26:32.080 --> 0:26:35.919 be subject to the military force. And again it's you know, 0:26:36.000 --> 0:26:39.480 the hypocrisy and the irony. You know, there was incredible 0:26:39.560 --> 0:26:43.840 glee going after the manufacturer of opioids and oscar winning 0:26:43.880 --> 0:26:46.360 movies about the crusades against them. But then you go 0:26:46.400 --> 0:26:49.600 after the makers of cocaine, seanel and all these other drugs, 0:26:49.640 --> 0:26:52.720 and oh, my goodness, we violated the Geneva Convention. It's 0:26:52.800 --> 0:26:56.320 just it's just a sad playbook that shows the desperation 0:26:56.800 --> 0:27:00.200 of striking out against someone who doesn't fit in this 0:27:00.400 --> 0:27:04.000 politically correct mold, doesn't use the language they like, and 0:27:04.119 --> 0:27:08.320 isn't pursuing the priorities they want. And so again, it's 0:27:08.440 --> 0:27:11.560 just sad, honestly at the end of the day. And 0:27:12.560 --> 0:27:16.720 the legal arguments are just smoke and mirrors to make 0:27:16.760 --> 0:27:20.320 it sound legitimate, but in reality there's nothing to it. 0:27:20.520 --> 0:27:24.400 Yeah, you know, and I keep reading and hearing from 0:27:24.440 --> 0:27:27.119 so called experts. Oh, this is a violation of the 0:27:27.320 --> 0:27:33.160 law of armed conflict, embedded in international law and established 0:27:33.200 --> 0:27:37.119 by the Geneva Conventions in nineteen forty nine. Wait a minute, 0:27:37.119 --> 0:27:41.800 did you guys read that? Because enemy combatants under international 0:27:41.880 --> 0:27:47.320 law can be lawfully targeted with deadly force in any hostilities. 0:27:49.000 --> 0:27:54.320 Those who are protected by that law are civilians and 0:27:54.400 --> 0:27:59.000 medical workers and religious personnel and wounded in six soldiers 0:27:59.040 --> 0:28:03.280 and prisoner of war. But that's not happening here, is it. 0:28:04.080 --> 0:28:06.199 No, No, not at all. It's funny. I'm a bit 0:28:06.240 --> 0:28:08.679 of a history buff and I was reading up on 0:28:08.720 --> 0:28:12.080 some World War II battles where the exact type of 0:28:12.240 --> 0:28:15.960 orders that people are or alleged orders with no quarter, 0:28:16.000 --> 0:28:18.520 et cetera, that you know, supposedly our violation of all this. 0:28:18.680 --> 0:28:21.159 Americans were pursuing it and getting medals for it in 0:28:21.240 --> 0:28:25.080 World War Two, showing no quarter to the Japanese soldiers 0:28:25.080 --> 0:28:28.960 who were on convoys. And again, there are certain rules 0:28:28.960 --> 0:28:31.400 when it comes to the law of war. But anytime 0:28:31.480 --> 0:28:35.920 someone declares that, especially President Trump, has committed an open 0:28:35.960 --> 0:28:41.320 and shut violation of something, particularly something as nebulous and 0:28:41.680 --> 0:28:44.880 in some ways you know, complicated, as a law of war, 0:28:44.920 --> 0:28:47.080 and they say, oh, it's clear violation. You know it's not. 0:28:47.840 --> 0:28:52.080 It is cherry picking facts, cherry picking scenarios and creating 0:28:52.560 --> 0:28:56.880 a fantasy situation and a fantasy case to convict him 0:28:56.960 --> 0:28:59.840 right away. But once you pull it apart, as you 0:29:00.120 --> 0:29:04.440 recognized and our listeners have recognized, this is not a violation. 0:29:04.560 --> 0:29:09.600 This is a president authorizing and executing exactly what he's 0:29:09.640 --> 0:29:13.040 been granted under the Constitution by the founders, and good. 0:29:12.840 --> 0:29:16.120 For him for doing it, all right, Brian Finch, many thanks. 0:29:16.160 --> 0:29:18.800 You're a terrific lawyer. You certainly know the subject matter 0:29:18.920 --> 0:29:21.120