WEBVTT - Can Biden Drone Strike Trump? SCOTUS Immunity Decision Fully Explained 0:00:01.240 --> 0:00:01.680 Welcome. 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:05.600 It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you, Senator. 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:09.000 It was a massive ruling from the Supreme Court on 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:13.520 trump immunity and there are a lot of questions now 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:15.560 that people have about this ruling. 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:18.439 Well, this was a major victory for President Trump in 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:20.560 the Supreme Court. It was a vote of six to three. 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:24.240 Chief Justice Roberts wrote the majority opinion and concluded that 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:28.400 Trump has very broad immunity for official acts. We'll break 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:31.040 down exactly what that means, but one of the things 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:35.040 it means is that Jack Smith's prosecution is in serious, 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:38.519 serious trouble and likely won't be able to proceed at all. 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:39.400 We'll explain it all. 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:41.440 Yeah, And there's a lot of people that have so 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:44.920 many questions about presidential power now and what that means, 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.920 the extreme left going crazy on that. Will break it down. 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:50.360 Let me tell you real quick about Blackout Coffee. 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But the Supreme Court overwhelmingly said 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:32.560 that ex presidents have substantial protection from prosecution. 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:35.480 Well, that's right, and let me just explain a little 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.600 bit of the ruling. So the Supreme Court laid out 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:43.880 three categories of presidential action. It said, Number one, presidential 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:50.880 action that is within the president's exclusive constitutional authority. There 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.960 is absolute immunity. So what does that mean. That means 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:58.919 powers that the Constitution gives directly to the president. Things 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:01.200 like being the commander in chief of the armed forces, 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:06.359 things like granting a pardon, things like nominating a judge, 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:09.200 things like firing a cabinet member. All of those are 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:12.239 matters that are given to the exclusive authority of the 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.760 President of the United States and the second category of 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:19.440 the court laid out are presidential powers that are shared 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:25.320 with Congress, and in that instance, the court says the 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:28.800 president has immunity there also, but it did not decide 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:33.880 whether the immunity is absolute or presumptive, and presumptive beings. 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:38.280 You presume that there's immunity, but the prosecution could lay 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:40.520 out a strong enough case to overcome that immunity, and 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.600 it leaves that question open, so that's not decided. The 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:50.600 third category are unofficial actions and unofficial actions not exercising 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.600 the power of the presidency. Those have no immunity whatsoever. 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:55.400 And what the. 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:59.640 Court then did is remanded the case all the way 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:02.720 back to the trial court for the trial court to 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:06.480 figure out which of the actions that are alleged in 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:09.520 the indictment fall into which category. 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:13.480 That is, to break us down Layman's terms means they 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:15.680 they basically said, you guys didn't do it right. You 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.279 didn't even categorize it correctly. We're sending it back to 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:21.440 you do your paperwork the right way, in essence, and 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:22.839 then start all over. 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.160 Yes, but but it's not quite as harsh as that. 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:28.560 This is something courts do all the time, and in particular, 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:30.520 look the court is laying out a new test here. 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.880 So anytime the court is laying out new rules, it 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.960 is commonplace to send the case back to the lower 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:42.680 court to apply those rules, to figure out what those 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:46.120 rules mean with respect to the specific case. And part 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.880 of the reason is the way our appellate system works 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:53.640 is courts of appeals review decisions and judgments made by 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.919 the lower courts, and so it is an exercise of 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.359 judicial restraint to say, let's let the lower court figure 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:03.279 this out first and then will review any arguments of 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:04.400 error on appeal. 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:08.719 So this is why the timeline is significant, right with 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:09.920 the election coming up. 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:14.440 Yes, and so one almost certain outcome is there will 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:18.080 be no trial on Jack Smith's case on January sixth, 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:21.400 before election day? Did that there simply isn't time. It's 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:24.000 before the district judge. She's going to have to go through. 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:27.400 This is going to be very complicated legal analysis. Both 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:29.640 sides are going to present arguments as to what is 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:33.320 what is an exclusive official act which is absolutely immune, 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:36.320 What is an official act whether that is entitled to 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:39.840 presumptive immunity or absolute immunity, and what is not an 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.080 official act that is entitled to no immunity, and that 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:46.880 is going to be action by action, and it will 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.320 be I think Jack Smith is going to have a 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:51.680 very difficult time having any of us case survive. 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:55.680 When you look at Jack Smith and you mentioned any 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.599 of his case surviving, this case was clearly brought to 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:01.640 either put Trump in jail, tie him up in court, 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:05.280 interfere with the election. Could they even go forward with 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:08.880 this case if hypothetically Donald Trump does win the presidency 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:12.200 all over again, would that affect the case or basically 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.240 kill the case? And if he loses, what's the point 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.160 of moving forward because he's no longer in theory of 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:19.400 threats to the Democratic Party being the president? Is that 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:21.600 another reason just to say, all right, well, we did 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:23.160 what we need to do. We wanted to accuse him 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:24.800 of a bunch of things and throw jell ou at 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:25.640 a wall. 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:31.320 So theoretically the case could proceed in either instance. However, 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:36.760 if Trump loses, You're right, the urgency of the case 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:41.240 from the perspective of the Democrat partisans is reduced. If 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.840 Trump wins, this case is over and it doesn't have 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.320 to be over, by the way, But when Trump is 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:50.600 sworn in on January twentieth, twenty twenty five. The instant 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:52.960 he's sworn in, he has the authority to direct the 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:56.960 Department of Justice dismiss the case. The Attorney General works 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:03.120 for him, and I fully expect at twelve oh one 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:07.400 on January twentieth, new President Trump will instruct the Department 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:12.320 of Justice dismiss both of these prosecutions. They were political prosecutions. 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.320 They should not have been brought, and you are to 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:17.400 go to court as the prosecutor and say we're dismissing 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:17.920 our claims. 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:22.360 Bill Barr, who has been very critical of the president, 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:25.600 he even came out and said this former US Attorney 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:28.040 General obviously about the immunity decision. 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:29.320 I want to get your reaction to that. 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.559 Let me ask you first off about what this case 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:37.560 comes down to. The Donald Trump has absolute immunity from 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:42.200 criminal prosecution, but only for official acts. Is it going 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:44.520 to be up to a lower court than the determined 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:45.160 the difference. 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:46.360 That's right. 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.720 I think this was a very sensible decision that I 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:53.000 think most lawyers familiar with this area expected, which is 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.080 this went up to the court in a very abstract posture, 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:59.280 which was the government's very broad assertion there was no 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:03.200 immunity whatsoever, what the Court saying here is no, there's 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:07.400 absolute immunity when he's acting directly under the Constitution, carrying 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:11.400 out a function under the Constitution. There is presumptive immunity 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:14.520 when he performs an official act, and the government has 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:16.760 the burden of showing that it can prosecute him for 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:20.360 that without impairing the executive function. And finally, there's no 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:26.000 immunity for unofficial or private acts, I think. And the 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:29.480 practical effect of this is that the District Court is 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:30.760 going to do what it really should have done at 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.160 the beginning, which the government really should have had it due, 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:36.240 which is due the analysis. So the facts are going 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:39.120 up to the Supreme Court. So as a practical matter, 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:40.920 there's not going to be a trial of this case 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:41.840 before the election. 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.400 That's the ballgame, right, I mean, this is another massive 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:46.360 victory for Trump. 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:50.080 It is a massive victory for Trump, and now the 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:51.880 District Court is going to have to sort it out. 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.679 But let's talk a little bit about what those categories 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.760 mean and why the court drew that distinction. And let's 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:01.160 start with Category three. Private acts. There are all sorts 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:05.200 of things that are private accident for which there is 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:10.560 no immunity. If Joe Biden wandered outside the White House 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.880 and saw a man walking on the street and pulled 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.320 out a gun and shot him. That would have no 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:20.120 immunity because that's a private act. That's not exercising an authority, 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.400 a power of the president. That's just committing murder. If 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:31.200 a president sexually assaulted an inturn, say, that would have 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:34.240 no immunity because that's also not a presidential power. That's 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:39.520 not exercising presidential authority. That's committing a private wrong. If 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:44.760 a president committed, say, perjury or obstruction of justice. Let's say, hypothetically, 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.720 a president named William Jefferson Clinton, who was facing a 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.320 civil lawsuit went into the civil lawsuit. 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:50.720 And lied. 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:58.080 That lie under oath about his sexual activities. That is 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.000 in no way of shape or form an official act. 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:04.320 That is a private act. Under this decision, that president 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:08.600 could be prosecuted for perjury or obstruction of justice if 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:12.560 he goes and hides the dress with evidence of his 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:17.959 sexual activity and obstructs an investigation into it, that could 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:21.200 likewise be prosecuted. All of those are private acts. 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:21.760 There's no. 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:29.360 There's no presidential power being carried out there. The court's reasoning, 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:33.800 so that's category three. But there's very little, if anything 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:38.040 in jack Smith's indictment that arguably falls into that category. 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:43.240 This is not private misconduct. Category one, the category that 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:46.720 the Court says is absolutely immune. The Court focuses on 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:49.760 the text of the Constitution, and actually it draws it 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:53.800 draws this model from a landmark decision of the Court 0:10:53.920 --> 0:11:00.400 called Youngstown Steel and Youngstown Steel dealt with when Harry 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:08.640 Truman seized steel mills and Justice Robert Jackson, one of 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:11.240 the greatest Supreme Court justices ever to serve on the Court, 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:20.040 described different levels of presidential power. And he described presidential 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:25.960 power when the president was acting in concert with Congress, 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:31.160 and congressional authority said, their presidential power is at its highest. 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:34.160 And then he said, a second category is when the 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.000 president is acting in an area where Congress has been silent, 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.440 their presidential power is at a middle level. And a 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:44.160 third category is what a president is acting directly contrary 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:47.199 to what Congress has said, and there he says presidential 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.920 power is at its lowest because you've got two branches 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:53.600 in conflict. That was a model the Court drew upon 0:11:53.800 --> 0:12:01.560 here and what the Court concluded through its reasoning from 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:06.280 Article two of the Constitution, which vests quote, executive power 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:10.320 in a president of the United States of America, which 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:15.760 grants the president duties of quote unrivaled gravity and breadth. 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.160 And it reason that the president's authority to act if 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:22.720 it stems from either an Act of Congress or from 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:28.640 the Constitution itself, and when acting within the constitutional authority, 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:32.439 the president's actions are beyond the scope of congressional or 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:37.200 judicial review. And the Court further held that an Act 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:42.719 of Congress cannot criminalize the president's actions within his exclusive 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:48.280 constitutional power, and that courts cannot adjudicate a criminal prosecution 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:52.760 examining such actions. And so the reasoning there is, listen, 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:58.680 if the president is exercising a power that the source 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:02.880 of the power is the Constitution. Congress doesn't have the 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.760 power to step in and say we're going to take 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:10.040 away the power that the Constitution gave you, because the 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:11.960 Constitution is the supreme law of the land. 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:16.200 So I've got like fifteen different questions, and I want 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:17.959 to go through these because it's the question I think 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:22.680 everybody's asking. Democrats when this came out, the first thing 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:26.920 they started fantasizing over was, fine, well, we've just gotten 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:29.880 a dictator and a tyrant in the White House if 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:31.800 Trump gets back in and do whatever he wants to 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:34.560 and they say, well, then you know what, if he's 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:36.240 going to do it, then maybe we should do it. 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:39.760 Let's just send sealed seam to six is a official 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:42.600 act to go after and just take out Donald Trump. 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:46.160 That was what they were talking about online. That would 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:50.480 not be covered under an official act. Correct, Well, it's 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:53.280 actually more complicated than that. And this is a hypothetical 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:56.680 that's been asked at several stages in the litigation. In 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.920 the Federal Court of Appeals. They asked that hypothetical to 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:04.200 Trump's lawyers at the Supreme Court. That example is used 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:10.520 by one of the descents in the Supreme Court. And look, 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:16.719 the reason it's complicated is because the presidency has vast authorities, 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.640 and one of those authorities is being commander in chief 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:22.840 of the armed forces. The president does have the power 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.720 to kill people and has always had the power to 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.320 kill people. And to be clear, every president who's ever 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.400 served has killed people. That is part of the power 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.320 commander in chief. Now you have responsibilities in terms of 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:36.920 how to do it. But I'll give an example. Barack 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:44.080 Obama order the drone killings of US citizens abroad who 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:47.120 were believed to be terrorists. He ordered the military said 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:50.520 a drone over there and blow that guy up. Now, 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:52.280 to be clear, Ben, if you or I did that, 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:56.240 we'd be prosecuted for murder. We don't have the ability 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:59.320 to order the drone killings of an American citizen. Barack 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:03.480 Obama was now charged with murder, and so part of 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:07.120 the reason why that hypothetical. Look, it sounds absurd, but 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:13.240 remember presidents are given massive authority, including literally the authority 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:17.920 to push a button and launch nuclear weapons that could 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:19.360 annihilate humanity. 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:21.920 It is terrified. 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:24.720 It's one of the reasons why Joe Biden being non 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:28.440 compassmentus but not being utterly unaware of what's around him 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.560 is so damn dangerous because he's the one person in 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:35.880 America that has the power to exterminate our species. 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:40.280 In the three that dissented in this ruling, one of 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:42.040 the examples, I want to go back to it because 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:45.920 the Justice Claim immunity ruling allowed Presence to poison staff 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:49.960 and again their example, I have Navy sealed team members 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:55.360 kill political rivals. The Chief Justice Roberts really pushed back hard, 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:59.360 saying that was nothing but fear mongering. So to be clear, 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:02.880 this does not give the present power to poison their staff, right. 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:04.600 It does not. 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:09.280 But all right, what are the checks that would stop 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:13.360 a president from ordering Seal Team six to kill a 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:14.160 political rival. 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:14.920 One of the most. 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:19.640 Important checks is Seal Team six could and should refuse 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:23.840 that order. That the military has an obligation. If there 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:27.680 is an order that is plainly unlawful, the military should 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:30.680 refuse to carry it out. And so if Joe Biden 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:34.400 told Seal Team six, go kill Donald Trump, which by 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.760 the way, lefties on Twitter are calling for every two minutes, 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:41.120 which shows you listen when you're a ttalitarian that wants 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:45.480 to hold power at any time. It is interesting how 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.480 revealing it is that they're immediately calling for murder. 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:52.640 That that says a lot. But the first check. 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:57.000 Would be that a blatantly unlawful order would be refused 0:16:57.000 --> 0:17:03.080 to be carried out by the military. Secondly, if God forbid, 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:07.320 we had truly an abusive tyrant as president, and if 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:12.560 the military refused to carry it out, the next immediate 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:17.720 step would be impeachment. And it you would have to 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:23.000 assume if a president murdered his rival, that you would 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:24.600 see Congress and peach him immediately. 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:28.800 Well, even on MSNBC, they were having this conversation on 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:32.200 this scot of immunity ruling, and they said, in their words, 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.919 Trump could target like journalists could target. 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:36.920 Quote me, That's what Wallace said. 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.000 And then he said people, if he wins, will be 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:41.480 forced to flee the country. 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:45.959 Listen, frame court in Russia exists, but none of us 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:47.560 think that there's a rule of law there. 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:50.879 When you look at this hands, it just doesn't know it. 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:55.360 Yeah, exactly, Mark Elias. We should pull the curtain back 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:57.280 on what's actually happening, shouldn't we. 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:00.040 People are exploring. 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:02.639 Options to live in other countries if they think they 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:06.199 could be targeted for prosecution by Donald Trump, because targeting you, 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:08.520 or targeting me, or targeting Andrew would be an official 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:10.160 act based on today's decision. 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:15.920 Yeah, I mean they could target for criminal prosecution, they 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:22.000 could target or administrative investigation, the IRS, the SEC, the EPA. 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:24.720 I mean they're not just talking about death, they're talking 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.360 about using the president saying I'm going to target everybody 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:28.919 I want to and use all of the things by 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:31.200 the way which Democrats have done. They've used the justice system, 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:33.280 they use the irs of the Tea Party, for example, 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:36.480 They've gone after people and raid their homes. Steve Bannon's 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:38.240 in jail right now. The list goes on and on 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:42.199 and on of all the things that they're doing actually 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:44.639 right now before this ruling that had nothing to do 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:46.359 with this ruling. Now they're like, well, we're going to 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:48.200 have to leave the country because he's just going to 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:49.080 target all of us. 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:54.440 So I got to say, what utter garbage the two 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:56.639 of them. Oh, they're going to target us, the going 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:59.320 to targets. That's what Joe Biden is doing right now, 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:03.399 Joe Biden. This Justice Department is the most lawless, partisan, 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:09.680 weaponized abuse system of justice ever seen. The absolute irony 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:12.040 of those people saying, oh, Trump's gonna do that. You 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:14.120 know what, when he was president before, he didn't do that. 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:19.600 It is you, you dishonest partisan hacks that are going after 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:22.040 that have the four indicement against Trump. As you noted, 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:27.040 Steve Bannon is in jail right now. They are, Peter 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:30.000 Navarro is in jail right now. You're going after pro 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:34.280 life protesters, you're attacking, you're refusing to go after people, 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:41.320 are firebombing pregnancy resource centers. The absolute hypocrisy. The people 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:45.320 who invented weaponization are now saying, well, we're scared we'll 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:49.280 be targeted. It's utter garbage. You know, I got to say, 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:52.399 you're and my friend Jesse Kelly, he tweeted it in 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:55.880 response to this. I think his tweet was very insightful. 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:58.800 He said, you know what you call it when Scotus 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:02.200 reveals the president has an community and the first thought 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:05.320 the communists have is about using the military to execute 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:12.120 political opponents. In poker, that's known as a tell. For instance, 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:14.560 if you told me that the president could do whatever 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:18.119 he wanted without restriction, my very first thought would be 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:23.560 about firing government employees and eliminating entire federal agencies. For communists, 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:28.000 their thoughts go directly to murder. Again a tell. 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:32.119 It's a great point, and it goes back to the 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:36.040 insanity of all of them. They do this, and then 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:38.200 you know, you look at the Supreme Court and again 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:41.240 I go back to listen to Norm Essen on CNN 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:43.240 immediately after this happens. 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:45.560 Listen to what he says, when. 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:48.480 The president does it, that means it is not illegal. 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:51.720 So in this context, with what the court has decided, 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:56.439 norm does this mean that Nixon basically would have been 0:20:56.480 --> 0:20:59.840 able to do what he did completely legally without any recourse. 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:02.960 You could have had. 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:10.359 Substantial portions of Richard Nixon's wrongdoing that drove him from 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:15.679 office because it was conducted from the Oval office, using 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:21.440 his official advisors to engage in break ins. A wide 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:27.320 variety of other illegal activity would have been impossible to prosecute. Essentially, 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:32.840 what the Supreme Court majority, again including terribly conflicted justices 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:36.600 who have no business sitting on this case under any 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:41.000 standard of judicial ethics, what they've done, Sarah, is rewrite 0:21:41.119 --> 0:21:44.639 American history. It goes all the way back to the 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:48.439 founding American idea. We overthrew King George the Third because 0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:51.760 we did not want a ruler to have this kind 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:57.800 of absolute immunity, and the Supreme Court has now altered that. 0:21:58.960 --> 0:22:02.159 And we have to be honest that we're facing a 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:06.040 major party political candidate who has said he wants to 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:09.040 be a dictator on day one, he wants to assert 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:14.760 autocratic powers. They've just given him a license for dictatorship 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:20.800 within the purview of official acts. That should be extremely alarming, 0:22:21.240 --> 0:22:26.280 and it makes this momentous election really a referendum on 0:22:26.359 --> 0:22:28.959 the future of American democracy. 0:22:28.560 --> 0:22:33.000 A license for dictatorship, like, come on, CNN. 0:22:33.320 --> 0:22:38.959 What utter garbage, and again that the Freudian projection is 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:43.600 so utterly rich. It is Joe Biden whose Department of 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:47.360 Justice is targeting its political enemies. It is Joe Biden 0:22:48.000 --> 0:22:51.159 who is engaged in rampant censorship of the free speech 0:22:51.880 --> 0:22:56.200 of American citizens. It is Joe Biden who issued a 0:22:56.240 --> 0:22:59.880 blatantly illegal vaccine mandate that was thrown out by the courts, 0:23:00.480 --> 0:23:04.600 but fired thousands and thousands of active duty service men 0:23:04.640 --> 0:23:08.879 and women, fired FBI agents, fired Border patrol agents because 0:23:08.880 --> 0:23:11.760 they refuse to comply with his illegal vaccine mandate. And 0:23:11.760 --> 0:23:13.919 to be clear, the court struck down his vaccine mandate, 0:23:15.240 --> 0:23:18.240 but he had already gotten rid of the people he 0:23:18.280 --> 0:23:21.359 wanted to get rid of. It is Joe Biden who 0:23:21.760 --> 0:23:25.280 repeatedly issues lawless orders trying to give away a trillion 0:23:25.320 --> 0:23:28.480 dollars in student loans that he has no legal authority 0:23:28.520 --> 0:23:30.400 to do. He knows they'll get struck down in court, 0:23:30.440 --> 0:23:33.160