1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,440 Speaker 1: Welcome everybody to the Friday edition of the Clay, Travis 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: and Buck Sexton Show. It is a great Friday. Appreciate 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,960 Speaker 1: you being with us. Clay last day of vacation for 4 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:12,959 Speaker 1: him this week. He'll be back Monday. He's had a 5 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:17,760 Speaker 1: great time out in Steamboat Steamboat Springs also known as 6 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:21,280 Speaker 1: Steamboat I think in Colorado, and they'll be back Monday. 7 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:24,600 Speaker 1: So next week we'll be all fired up. The Dynamic 8 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 1: Duo back in action. Speaking of action this week and 9 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 1: I'll be out training in undisclosed location. There's some firearms 10 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 1: trading with a former SILKEAM six operator, so looking forward 11 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:39,479 Speaker 1: to that. I'll tell you all about it when I 12 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:42,400 Speaker 1: get back. I'm going with my brothers, kind of a 13 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: guy's training trip. Before I am being trained to burp 14 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 1: a tiny baby and put diapers on. So this weekend 15 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 1: running around in the shoot house clearing rooms. In a 16 00:00:55,680 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: few weekends, I'm on diaper change duty for a long time. 17 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: So there we go. Exciting things happening in my world, 18 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 1: Exciting things happening across the country and around the world too. 19 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 1: I want to dive into it. Speak you know what, 20 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 1: Let's have some funks. It's Friday, speaking of the world. 21 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:16,400 Speaker 1: There's a little place, it's actually giant, not little, a 22 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:21,040 Speaker 1: place called Greenland. Now, you may have not heard very 23 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:24,119 Speaker 1: much about it until Donald Trump came along. Perhaps you've 24 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 1: been told the old story that they called it Iceland 25 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 1: even though it had far less ice, and Greenland, even 26 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:33,040 Speaker 1: though it had far less green, kind of mixing things 27 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 1: up for people. I don't even I think that's an 28 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 1: urban legend. But whatever that, people say that about it. 29 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 1: And Trump is not backing away from this one on Greenland. 30 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 1: He's happened quite a week. This has cut one talking 31 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 1: about this large island that he thinks should be our island. 32 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 1: Play it. 33 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 2: We really need Greenland for national security. It's very important. 34 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 3: You know. 35 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 2: We have a couple of bases on Greenland already, and 36 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 2: we have quite a few soldiers, and maybe you'll see 37 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 2: more and more soldiers go there. I don't know, what 38 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 2: do you think about that beat? 39 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 1: So don't answer that piece. 40 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 2: Don't But we have we have bases that we have 41 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:13,640 Speaker 2: quite a few soldiers in Greenlands. 42 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: Look, it's not a crazy idea. We're not going We're 43 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:21,800 Speaker 1: not going to invade. And people say stuff like that, 44 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:23,640 Speaker 1: Give me a break. It's you know, get a sense 45 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 1: of humor, But why shouldn't we think more about this? 46 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:32,080 Speaker 1: You know, if Guam can be accepted by everybody as 47 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 1: a US territory in the middle of nowhere in the 48 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:38,320 Speaker 1: South Pacific, and it's a it's an important US territory 49 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 1: by the way, for strategic reasons, we all know, why 50 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 1: why can't Greenland possibly be in the mix if they 51 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:52,359 Speaker 1: agree to it. Trump pointed this one out. He said, look, Denmark, 52 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 1: which is currently administering Greenland, what does that even really mean? 53 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: Denmark is not exactly next door, So maybe this makes 54 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:04,639 Speaker 1: more sense than people are willing to think the first 55 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: time around. Plate two. 56 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, ships all over the place, and we have to 57 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 2: have protection. So we're gonna have to make a deal 58 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 2: on that, and Denmark is not able to do that. 59 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 2: You know, Denmark's very far away and really has nothing 60 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 2: to do. What happens a boat landed that two hundred 61 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:22,240 Speaker 2: years ago or something, and they say they have rights 62 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 2: to it. 63 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true. 64 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 2: I don't think it is actually, But we've been dealing 65 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:28,920 Speaker 2: with Denmark, we've been dealing with Greenland, and we have 66 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 2: to do it. 67 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:30,959 Speaker 1: We really needed. 68 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 2: Financial security, and I think that's why NATO might be 69 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:34,679 Speaker 2: have to get involved. 70 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: He said, Look, it's an important strategic location. There are 71 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: very few people who live there on this giant land mass, 72 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 1: which is a lot of glaciers and ice, but there's 73 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 1: land too, and there's a lot of minerals and resources 74 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 1: when you get under that ice. But also given the 75 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 1: increasing focus on the race to the Arctic that has 76 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 1: been underway for a long time but is heating up 77 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: more these days, it makes some sense. So this is 78 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: not a crazy idea. Canada the fifty first state. That's 79 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 1: not going to happen. He's trolling you, and I know 80 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 1: we speak Trump, we know when he's serious. The Greenland thing, 81 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: I don't think is likely, but it is not impossible. 82 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 1: And we'll see how much time and focus he wants 83 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 1: to put on this. If you look at I just 84 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: take a little step back for some historical perspective, If 85 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:32,159 Speaker 1: you look at some of the best moves made by 86 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 1: any American statesman in the history of our country, really 87 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 1: they were land purchases, and you know, bringing land into 88 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 1: these United States. Louisiana purchased greatest land deal I think 89 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 1: of all time. Even Trump would be like better than 90 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 1: any of my land deals is the greatest land deal 91 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 1: of all time. And then of course other things Alaska 92 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:02,599 Speaker 1: Seward Icebox they called it turned out he was pretty smart, 93 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 1: and other places, other territories that we've picked up along 94 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: the way. You know, this is it's something to think 95 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:10,279 Speaker 1: about it. It's just we're having a little fun on 96 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 1: our Friday, all right. You want to get into the 97 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: really important stuff. You joined me for the really important stuff. 98 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:16,920 Speaker 1: Lets get into the really importance. So first of all, 99 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 1: Senate Majority, I'm sorry, Senate Democrat leader, not majority leader. 100 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 1: Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer is saying that he is 101 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:30,720 Speaker 1: going to vote to keep the government open. And he's 102 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:33,359 Speaker 1: he's getting a lot of heat from his own side 103 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:37,839 Speaker 1: on this one, but he understands the direction the wind 104 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:40,840 Speaker 1: is blowing in right now. Politically. Let's hear cut ten. 105 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:44,600 Speaker 1: Here's Chuck Schumer telling everybody that, look, we got to 106 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 1: avoid the shutdown place. 107 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 4: I supported what the House did to vote against this 108 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 4: bill universally, but that didn't cause a shutdown. It's a 109 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 4: different it's different in the Senate, and I knew people 110 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:56,359 Speaker 4: were going to disagree with me, but I felt so 111 00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:00,159 Speaker 4: strongly that the shutdown would be the greatest disaster do 112 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:04,920 Speaker 4: we face with these arrogant, arrogant autocrats that we had 113 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 4: to avoid the shutdown and fight on many of the 114 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 4: other things, every other issue that we have. 115 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 1: He's saying, look, this is the thing we got to 116 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:17,480 Speaker 1: do here. I don't like it, but this is where 117 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:19,279 Speaker 1: we are. We got to keep the government open, because 118 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 1: he knows that the American people have seen enough of 119 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 1: Democrats saying, how dare you even consider shutting down the government. 120 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 1: You can't do that, you can't do that, And now 121 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 1: they're going to try to turn around and play it 122 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: on the other side. AOC who has the advantage of 123 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 1: not having to to do politics but really to do 124 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 1: social media. 125 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:43,680 Speaker 5: Right. 126 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:46,039 Speaker 1: She doesn't have to pass legislation, she doesn't have to 127 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:49,360 Speaker 1: think about bills and laws. She just has to do 128 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 1: like Instagram videos and like tweet and go on MSNBC 129 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:57,239 Speaker 1: even though no one's watching. And she is very upset 130 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 1: about humor backing down and being willing to back the 131 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 1: GOP bill. This is eleven hit it. 132 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 5: This Republican extreme spending bill removes all of the guardrails 133 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 5: and all of the accountability measures to ensure that money 134 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 5: is being spent in the way that Congress has directed 135 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 5: for it to be spent. This turns the federal government 136 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 5: into a slush fund for Donald Trump and Elon Musk. 137 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 5: It sacrifices congressional authority, and it is deeply partisan, and 138 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 5: so to me, it is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats 139 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 5: would vote to hand the few pieces of leverage that 140 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 5: we have away for free when we've been sent here 141 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:42,120 Speaker 5: to protect Social Security, protect Medicaid, and protect Medicare. 142 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 1: Elections have consequences, AOC. That's really the problem here in 143 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 1: the minority. The last election, the American people spoke loudly 144 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 1: and clearly about which party they want to be in control, 145 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:01,600 Speaker 1: and the GOP is going forward with the agenda. So 146 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 1: I think this is a very good thing. I think 147 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 1: this is something well. If there had been a shutdown, 148 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: Tchumor would have gotten the blame for it. The Democrats 149 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 1: would have been even more messed up than they are. 150 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 1: Is that even really possible? My old this cut seventeen, 151 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 1: My old table mate at Real News, se cup, old 152 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 1: friend of mine. She's even to saying on CNN and 153 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 1: she like the Democrats total mess right now play it. 154 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:37,840 Speaker 6: It is shocking how Democrats have not figured out what 155 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:40,560 Speaker 6: is coming down the pike. It is March, you know 156 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 6: the spending fight is coming, and you know Republicans have 157 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:46,079 Speaker 6: a majority. I don't understand for all the chaos on 158 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 6: the right. Democrats are a mess. They haven't figured out. 159 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:52,040 Speaker 6: It's not how they're gonna fight Donald Trump yet, they 160 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 6: haven't even figured out if they're gonna fight Donald Trump's agenda. 161 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:57,199 Speaker 6: They've got to get it together and get on the 162 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:00,280 Speaker 6: same page and figure out a roadmap going forward because 163 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 6: the chaos is going to be daily, there's going to 164 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:06,280 Speaker 6: be incoming for months, and they are not on the 165 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 6: same page at all. 166 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:07,440 Speaker 5: That's clear. 167 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, they got nothing right. I mean, I don't think 168 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:13,480 Speaker 1: the Republicans are in chaos at all. Really. I think 169 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:17,560 Speaker 1: that this administration is operating as close to a Swiss 170 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 1: watch as anyone could imagine, given the scope of what 171 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:25,680 Speaker 1: they're trying to accomplish. And part of the strategy is 172 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 1: everything everywhere, all at once, and it's working because Democrats 173 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 1: are in complete disarray, a total mess. They don't know 174 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:37,080 Speaker 1: what to do, so much so that some of them 175 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:40,960 Speaker 1: are calling in sick and I'm not exaggerating, or maybe 176 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:45,559 Speaker 1: they're calling in for a vacation. Here is MSNBC's This 177 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 1: is twenty four MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell. He just can't handle 178 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 1: it anymore. Democrats are getting the butts kicked so badly. 179 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 1: He's taking a vacation because he just they we've broken 180 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 1: and play it. 181 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:58,680 Speaker 7: Well, here's the thing. This is day fifty two. I 182 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 7: thought it was day ninety two. It turns out it's 183 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 7: day fifty two, Rachel. And I'm exhausted at day fifty two. 184 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 7: And so I'm going to take next week off. And 185 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 7: I'm telling you that now because I know you don't 186 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:14,520 Speaker 7: like it when I just drift away and I don't 187 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:18,040 Speaker 7: just taking next week off, then then I could come back. 188 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:23,679 Speaker 1: Honestly, the smart Democrat pundits right now should probably all 189 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: take a vacation for a week or five or more 190 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: because they just have absolutely no way of opposing, slowing down, 191 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:39,600 Speaker 1: or doing anything to stop the Trump agenda, with the 192 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:43,840 Speaker 1: exception of we're going to get into this. These judges, 193 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 1: the judges are a big problem right now, these universal injunctions. 194 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:54,559 Speaker 1: It is unconstitutional, it is overreach, it is madness. So 195 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:58,440 Speaker 1: that's MSNBC, the pundits, the media apparatus of the Democrats 196 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 1: all completely I would say, largely irrelevant at this point. 197 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:05,600 Speaker 1: That don't really they'll come back, I know, but right 198 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 1: now they are. It's like they're all on vacation, or 199 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 1: they'd be better off if they were all on vacation 200 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 1: because they can't make sound arguments. They look like deer 201 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:18,079 Speaker 1: in the headlights. But they're relying a lot. The Democrats 202 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 1: are relying almost entirely on the activist judges, all Obama 203 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:28,280 Speaker 1: and Biden appointees, these activist federal judges who are just 204 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 1: overriding and overruling presidential prerogative on a regular basis. Now 205 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:38,679 Speaker 1: this is a central fight for the Trump administration and 206 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:42,960 Speaker 1: really for the country, because you're seeing this tested in 207 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,960 Speaker 1: a variety of ways. If the President of the United 208 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 1: States isn't really the CEO of the executive branch, meaning 209 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:56,640 Speaker 1: that he can fire people, he can make changes to personnel, 210 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 1: then where is what's the point of the election? If 211 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 1: they're on autopilot. If Congress gets to say, here's this thing, 212 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 1: no one's in charge of it, but we funded it, 213 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 1: and no one can make any changes to it in 214 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:13,960 Speaker 1: the executive branch, it's on some weird autopilot swamp tour. 215 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:18,560 Speaker 1: Why do we have elections? What is the purpose of 216 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 1: going through the billions of dollars spent for this last 217 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:28,320 Speaker 1: election cycle? If DC runs itself, essentially, it's just endless 218 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:33,160 Speaker 1: funding from Congress, hurtling us over the cliff of fiscal insanity, 219 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 1: and anyone who tries to stop it is told, no, 220 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:38,480 Speaker 1: you're not allowed to stop it. The system is self aware. 221 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 1: The system is Skynet from terminator, and it will destroy 222 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:43,840 Speaker 1: us all before you're allowed to do anything to it. 223 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 1: This is a big deal, and I'll get it to 224 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 1: some of the specifics of this here coming up in 225 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:52,760 Speaker 1: just a moment. While violence against the Jewish people continues 226 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:54,480 Speaker 1: in Israel and the rest of the Middle East, our 227 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:57,520 Speaker 1: Christian brothers and sisters in the region are also under attack. 228 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:00,520 Speaker 1: Hundreds of Syrian Christians have been brutally killed in the 229 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:03,880 Speaker 1: past week. 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First off, I want 249 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:09,239 Speaker 1: to tell you who the guests will be on the program. 250 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 1: Our friend Tutor Dixon will be in the mix in 251 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 1: the third hour. She is in Michigan. Jd Vance, the 252 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:18,200 Speaker 1: Vice President's there. They're going to be together at an 253 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 1: event looking at Trump's plans for manufacturing, increasing domestic production, 254 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 1: boosting the economy with it, jobs, wages, all that good stuff. 255 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 1: So we'll talk to Tutor about that her event with 256 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 1: the Vice President, and then we've also we've also got 257 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: joining us for the first time on the program, the 258 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 1: Deputy White House Press Secretary, which will also be quite 259 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 1: a discussion looking forward to that. So we've got a 260 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 1: lot going on, my friends, And yeah, it was really 261 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:56,880 Speaker 1: funny some of you are just noting now that. Yeah, 262 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 1: Anna Kelly, by the way, will we join us, wis 263 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:04,120 Speaker 1: press secon or the the The attitude over at MSNBC 264 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 1: is more or less what you would expect given how 265 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 1: things have have been unfolding for Democrats lately. And honestly, 266 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:16,400 Speaker 1: I can't really I can't really blame them. They've they've 267 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:20,840 Speaker 1: got nothing right now and all of their usual moves 268 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 1: aren't actually working. This is something that has been coming 269 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 1: for a long time. I think the Democrats have gotten 270 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:32,360 Speaker 1: so used to just being able to shout that it's 271 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 1: all going to be. You know, it's terrible. Trump is Hitler, 272 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 1: he's a fascist, all that stuff, and it used to 273 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:40,760 Speaker 1: kind of work with their own people, but now it's 274 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 1: just it all rings hollow. You sound it sound pathetic, 275 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:46,760 Speaker 1: even if the audience of MSNBC believes it. They know 276 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 1: it's not going to do anything. And and there's also 277 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:55,480 Speaker 1: the the prospect here. I think of some major Trump wins. Uh, 278 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:59,000 Speaker 1: the price of eggs, which a couple of weeks ago, 279 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 1: price of eggs were high, we're hearing about a lot now. 280 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:02,960 Speaker 1: Price of eggs started to go down substantially, and we're 281 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 1: not hearing about the price of eggs so much anymore. 282 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:07,880 Speaker 1: So you say to yourself, Oh, that's the game, right, 283 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:10,920 Speaker 1: So it it matters when it's anti Trump, when it's 284 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 1: pro Trump, though we can't or when it's good for 285 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:15,560 Speaker 1: the Trump administration, we're not supposed to hear about it. 286 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:19,360 Speaker 1: They're not really going to talk about it. So that's 287 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 1: something that is underway. Also on the economy, I think 288 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 1: you're likely to see things start to stabilize a bit more. 289 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:28,520 Speaker 1: It might take a little bit of time. All the 290 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 1: freak out on tariffs. Oh, I'm just seeing this the 291 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 1: breaking news justin Trudeau has officially stepped down, speaking of tariffs, 292 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 1: has officially stepped down as the Prime Minister of Canada. 293 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 1: For a generally great country, they've got some problems in Canada. 294 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:54,240 Speaker 1: All countries have got problems. We're a generally great country. 295 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 1: With a great people, with great people. Trudeau is the 296 00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 1: worst leader of his era. I think now you could say, 297 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 1: buck buck, that's crazy. Biden's so much worse to that, 298 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 1: I would point out, but Trudeau doesn't have dementia. Trudeau 299 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:15,359 Speaker 1: is in his political prime. You could say, and look 300 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 1: at how ineffectual, destructive, idiotic, sophomoric and sanctimonious he is. 301 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:26,400 Speaker 1: I mean, I could just go on and on and on. 302 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:30,800 Speaker 1: You could tell that Trump has nothing but contempt for 303 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:33,560 Speaker 1: Trudeau as a leader and as a man. And Trump 304 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 1: is absolutely right. So that's a good thing, and you 305 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 1: can tell that there may be an opening here for 306 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:45,520 Speaker 1: better leadership for Canada. I know it didn't the election, 307 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 1: it didn't really go exactly as we want to, But 308 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 1: I don't know how it could be much worse than 309 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:52,080 Speaker 1: what you've got with Trudeau. I don't see how this 310 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:56,800 Speaker 1: could go anywhere. But up maybe I'm being a little 311 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:59,200 Speaker 1: too optimistic about it. And what are they going to 312 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 1: say if Trump manages to get Canada to back off 313 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:05,800 Speaker 1: on some of its tariffs, and then we have that 314 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 1: boost for American producers and we don't even have to 315 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:12,119 Speaker 1: go through the process of keeping tariffs on Canada in 316 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:16,159 Speaker 1: any long term sense. Are the people who are currently 317 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: saying it's crazy. I'll be up even the Wall Street 318 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:21,280 Speaker 1: Journal front page. You know, a lot of concern about 319 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 1: stock prices over the Wall Street Journal, No surprise. They're 320 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:29,120 Speaker 1: very critical of Trump on this terriff issue, very critical 321 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:32,879 Speaker 1: of him, And I'm just wondering if if he manages 322 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:37,600 Speaker 1: to prove the haters wrong once again, will people say, 323 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 1: you know what he actually there was a method to 324 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:42,280 Speaker 1: the madness. 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Let's get into the central challenge right now, 351 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:09,000 Speaker 1: facing the Trump agenda and the effort to cut the 352 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 1: waste and rein in the government, the madness from DC 353 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:21,639 Speaker 1: the Leviathan to constrain the Leviathan finally, and that is 354 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 1: now getting jammed up in the courts because there are 355 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:34,600 Speaker 1: judges in Maryland and California who are ordering the reinstatement 356 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:37,080 Speaker 1: of tens of thousands of federal workers. Think about this. 357 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:41,480 Speaker 1: A federal judge can just say now to the administration, Hey, 358 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:44,919 Speaker 1: you have to hire back thousands and thousands of people 359 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:48,080 Speaker 1: that you, the commander chief and the head of the 360 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:53,159 Speaker 1: executive branch have fired. Does the federal judge run the 361 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:56,919 Speaker 1: country or does the president run the country? Isn't that 362 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:59,159 Speaker 1: worth asking? This is what I was getting to before 363 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 1: you got this judge and Maryland judge in California. Oh wait, 364 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:10,159 Speaker 1: you mean judges in versal injunction is madness because it 365 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 1: means that any one federal judge anywhere in the country 366 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:16,720 Speaker 1: can stop any federal policy that he or she chooses 367 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:20,359 Speaker 1: at any point in time. Think about the power that 368 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:23,639 Speaker 1: gives any judge. There's a lot of federal judges running around. 369 00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:28,360 Speaker 1: Any federal judge who is an activist sad sad kamala voter, 370 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:33,160 Speaker 1: because we all know that's what really happens here, they 371 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:36,119 Speaker 1: can decide that the whole system has to come to 372 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:39,800 Speaker 1: a screeching halt out of the executive branch because they 373 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:42,760 Speaker 1: say so, or even more than that, they can give 374 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 1: an order and they can say you have to do 375 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 1: the following because I say so. Really, so you have. 376 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:56,040 Speaker 1: For example, the Trump administration now asking going to the 377 00:21:56,080 --> 00:22:00,199 Speaker 1: Supreme Court to say, look, you've got to you got 378 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:04,879 Speaker 1: to stop this. This is this I know it sounds like, oh, judges, 379 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,440 Speaker 1: you know in the courts, this will get figured out. 380 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:11,359 Speaker 1: This is critical. They did this. Really, the most effective 381 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:14,720 Speaker 1: tools they used to slow down Trump in the first 382 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:19,639 Speaker 1: term were the Russia collusion hoax, which was disgraceful, but 383 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:21,679 Speaker 1: they were able to put them on defense with that, 384 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:27,199 Speaker 1: and then also these hashtag resistance judges, so many of 385 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 1: whom were slapped down eventually by the Supreme Court. But remember, 386 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 1: delay is the point, the punishment is the process. If 387 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:38,720 Speaker 1: they can make everything go much more slowly, then they 388 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 1: get their way, even if eventually they are overturned, because 389 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:47,920 Speaker 1: they're just they're sabotaging the administration right. Time is money 390 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:52,440 Speaker 1: when you're in politics too. Time is incredibly meaningful, especially 391 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,480 Speaker 1: early in an administration. So they're just trying to slow 392 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 1: everything down as fast as they can. The Trump administration 393 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:04,560 Speaker 1: wants the Supreme Court to put aside some of these 394 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 1: nationwide injunctions that these lower court judges have issued. Now 395 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:13,600 Speaker 1: this has to do with birthright citizen citizenships specifically, but 396 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 1: depending on how the Supreme Court rule is on this, 397 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:20,679 Speaker 1: it could go far far beyond that, because they've got 398 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:22,960 Speaker 1: to stop these judges from thinking that they're they're the 399 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 1: president basically, or that they can just override the president 400 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:29,280 Speaker 1: because they think so. I mean, when you start to 401 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 1: look at this, how many federal judges are there? There 402 00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:39,639 Speaker 1: are one thousand, seven hundred and seventy authorized federal judge 403 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:42,119 Speaker 1: ships across the two hundred and nine courts in the 404 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:48,600 Speaker 1: federal court system. So if the hashtag lib judiciary is 405 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:53,760 Speaker 1: to be believed, any one of seventeen hundred and changed 406 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 1: judges can just say President can't do that, and the 407 00:23:56,600 --> 00:24:00,119 Speaker 1: whole system is supposed to come to a screeching halt. Yes, 408 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:06,320 Speaker 1: why isn't this only for the jurisdiction of that federal 409 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:10,760 Speaker 1: judge in that court? Right, meaning that, yeah, if you 410 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 1: want to do this in Maryland, okay, but you can 411 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:15,160 Speaker 1: tell all the rest of the fifty states. No, No, 412 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:20,920 Speaker 1: this stops everywhere, because I say so, It's pretty insane 413 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:23,399 Speaker 1: when you start to see it this way, right, Supreme 414 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:25,879 Speaker 1: Court has nine justices, Court of Appeals, one hundred and 415 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:29,359 Speaker 1: seventy nine judges. District courts Okay, sorry, the district courts 416 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:33,840 Speaker 1: have six hundred and seventy seven judges. Okay, six hundred 417 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: and seventy seven judges, and yeah, that's a lot. Still, 418 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:43,359 Speaker 1: any of the six hundred and seventy judges can say, 419 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 1: you're not allowed to do this. We need the Supreme 420 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 1: Court to give clarity on this, and come what may. 421 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:53,680 Speaker 1: We just need to know because if the Democrats get 422 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 1: their way on this, it just means that control. You 423 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 1: don't have to control the judiciary or have even more judge. 424 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 1: All you need are a couple of wack of do 425 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 1: left wing activists in judicial robes, and they are your 426 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:11,240 Speaker 1: most effective means of preventing policy change from going into 427 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:15,120 Speaker 1: effect in the executive branch. They are the ones who 428 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:17,359 Speaker 1: can more than anybody else, more than the media, more 429 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,480 Speaker 1: than Democrats in Congress. They can just stop the whole 430 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:24,040 Speaker 1: thing unless the Supreme Court overrides them, and unless the 431 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:27,119 Speaker 1: Supreme Court even better reigns in the fact that this 432 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 1: notion of the universal injunction is just it makes no sense, 433 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 1: This makes no sense. So one judge can say the 434 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 1: policy stops everywhere, But what about the fact that there 435 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:42,560 Speaker 1: are judges who will disagree, But one judge can stop 436 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:46,840 Speaker 1: it everywhere. That's way more power than they are constitutionally afforded. 437 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,800 Speaker 1: It's nuts and the fact that they want to stop 438 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:53,159 Speaker 1: all this stuff that's going on too is remarkable, but 439 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:55,159 Speaker 1: it really does show you the Democrats just assume that 440 00:25:55,240 --> 00:26:00,480 Speaker 1: the federal bureaucracy is a fiefdom of their It is 441 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:05,600 Speaker 1: a province of the DNC. They just assume that anybody 442 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 1: who's fired from the federal government or loses their role 443 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,399 Speaker 1: in the federal government is probably a kamalast slash Biden 444 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:14,199 Speaker 1: slash maybe Gavin Newsom voter. So they go to the 445 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:17,840 Speaker 1: mat on this. I mean, isn't that quite clear? And 446 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 1: they want the government to be as large and bloated 447 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:26,040 Speaker 1: and cumbersome and burdensome as possible, Which is interesting because 448 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:31,480 Speaker 1: back in twenty eleven, remember President Barack Obama, I do. 449 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,760 Speaker 1: This is a throwback that has been making the rounds 450 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,960 Speaker 1: the last day or so. Back in twenty eleven, Obama 451 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:43,520 Speaker 1: told everybody that he was putting Joe Biden in charge 452 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:48,200 Speaker 1: of cutting waste in the government. This is twenty five 453 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:48,560 Speaker 1: play it. 454 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 8: Everyone knows that getting rid of the deficit will require 455 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,399 Speaker 8: some tough decisions and that includes cutting back on billions 456 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 8: of dollars in programs that a lot of people care about. 457 00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:59,480 Speaker 8: But what should be easy is getting rid of the 458 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:03,879 Speaker 8: pointless waste and stupid spending that doesn't benefit anybody. Waste 459 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:05,960 Speaker 8: we should be getting rid of even if we didn't 460 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 8: have a deficit. We need to step up our game. 461 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 8: We need to go after every dime. We need to 462 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:13,280 Speaker 8: make government work for you. That's why, starting today, I've 463 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:16,040 Speaker 8: asked the Vice President to lead a renewed effort to 464 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 8: hunt down misspent tax dollars in every agency and department 465 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 8: of this government. We're calling it the Campaign to Cut Waste, 466 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:24,639 Speaker 8: and I know Joe's the right man to lead it 467 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,119 Speaker 8: because nobody messes with Joe. 468 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,359 Speaker 1: Okay, put it aside that Joe Biden's more on We 469 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 1: all know that Obama should. This is like an answered 470 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:39,200 Speaker 1: prayer to have Doge coming forward and doing what Obama 471 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:41,360 Speaker 1: when he was president said he wanted to do. Now 472 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 1: they didn't do it. Isn't that so classic? You'll notice 473 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:48,560 Speaker 1: that with Democrats with Republicans, they say they want to 474 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 1: do things and they try, and they sometimes will fail, 475 00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:55,439 Speaker 1: and sometimes they're incapable of doing it because they're stopped 476 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:59,159 Speaker 1: by Democrats. Democrats say they want to do things to 477 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:02,360 Speaker 1: fool people because they don't actually want to do them. 478 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,119 Speaker 1: Secure the border, they don't actually want to do that, 479 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,400 Speaker 1: cut fraud, waste and abuse in government, They don't actually 480 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 1: want to do that. They just say it. They say 481 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 1: it because it's politically effective for them. And what could 482 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,520 Speaker 1: be more obvious than this Obama back in twenty eleven 483 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:23,200 Speaker 1: all about he said, what every dime, every dime, we 484 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,320 Speaker 1: got to track down every bit of misspent up And 485 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:29,240 Speaker 1: then Elon is doing that with those and what are 486 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,320 Speaker 1: we being told that's horrible? We need him to stop. 487 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:41,000 Speaker 1: This is crazy? Why? Because you cannot allow Trump and 488 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:44,640 Speaker 1: his team to get a win or even just get 489 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:49,239 Speaker 1: their way. There is something just so fundamentally bitter and 490 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:53,200 Speaker 1: childish about the position of the Democrats on all of this. 491 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,000 Speaker 1: And the judge, I mean, I was looking through some 492 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 1: of this judge that wants the reinstatement of all these 493 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 1: federal employees saying, oh, but there's more process, you have 494 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:06,560 Speaker 1: to go through more process. You have to fundamentally, can 495 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,680 Speaker 1: the president fire people from the federal government or not 496 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,160 Speaker 1: if it takes years to do it. The answer is no. 497 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,239 Speaker 1: The answer is no. If you can't fire people from 498 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:20,120 Speaker 1: the federal government, if you cannot remove people from agencies 499 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,480 Speaker 1: who aren't doing anything, then they don't work for the 500 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 1: executive branch. They really work for themselves. They're an entity 501 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:30,240 Speaker 1: under themselves. They work for the fourth unelected branch of government, 502 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:34,760 Speaker 1: which is the bureaucracy. And just like we've seen Democrats 503 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 1: on college campuses across the country completely take over the 504 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:43,280 Speaker 1: faculty lounge. That's been going on for sixty seventy years now, 505 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 1: but they completely have taken over faculty lounges at most 506 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:49,440 Speaker 1: of the universities. There's no room for conservatism on campus. 507 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,160 Speaker 1: They have largely done that in the federal bureaucracy as well. 508 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:58,040 Speaker 1: Do you think if you're an ardent capitalist and a 509 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:01,760 Speaker 1: right winger, a Trump voter, would you ever go work 510 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:06,640 Speaker 1: at the Department of Education? Probably not. Would you ever 511 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:08,040 Speaker 1: go work at USAID? 512 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:08,240 Speaker 8: No? 513 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:11,440 Speaker 1: Would you work at the State Department maybe as an 514 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:16,280 Speaker 1: appointee but rank and file, probably not. Would you be 515 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 1: a CIA analyst? There were a few of US, but 516 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:24,280 Speaker 1: not very many, mostly communists. So what's going on here? 517 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,680 Speaker 1: You know, I don't know what the stats were for 518 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,720 Speaker 1: Kamala in this last election. But I do know that 519 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:34,719 Speaker 1: I think, if I remember correctly, Hillary Clinton got of 520 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:38,960 Speaker 1: donations from federal civil servants, over ninety percent of the donations. 521 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:44,160 Speaker 1: It's like the DC area voting pattern as well, which 522 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,800 Speaker 1: is that the swamp, the people who actually live in 523 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:50,960 Speaker 1: the swamp in DC vote Democrat ninety four to ninety 524 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:55,320 Speaker 1: five percent of them. Say well, something's going on here. 525 00:30:55,360 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 1: There has been institutional capture of the federal bureaucracy by 526 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:05,200 Speaker 1: a political party, and that federal bureaucracy has become far 527 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,960 Speaker 1: too powerful, far too expensive, and just far too much 528 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,400 Speaker 1: a presence in all of our lives. And this is 529 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:13,840 Speaker 1: this is a critical fight. I've said it all along, 530 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:19,760 Speaker 1: immigration and reigning in the government, the spending, the scope, 531 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:24,040 Speaker 1: the regulations, all of it. This is the first stuff 532 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,800 Speaker 1: that Trump has and his team have been addressing, the 533 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:30,360 Speaker 1: most critical stuff. So I'm happy to see that that's well, 534 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,560 Speaker 1: that's where they're putting most of their attention right out 535 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:38,320 Speaker 1: of the gates. But this stuff, the lower court injunctions, 536 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:44,760 Speaker 1: let me tell you, there have been fifteen national injunctions 537 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:51,840 Speaker 1: or universal injunctions against the Trump administration. And there were 538 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:55,520 Speaker 1: in the first month. Okay, in the first month of 539 00:31:55,560 --> 00:32:01,240 Speaker 1: Trump's presidency, there have been fifteen. There were fourteen injunctions 540 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:09,200 Speaker 1: against Joe Biden in and see you're noticing a pattern here. 541 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:16,440 Speaker 1: More right leaning and constitutionally serious judges on our side 542 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:20,400 Speaker 1: of the ideological spectrum are far less like and Biden 543 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,920 Speaker 1: just did wildly unconstitutional stuff like you cannot you know, 544 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,640 Speaker 1: you can't evict people because of COVID and I'm gonna 545 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,680 Speaker 1: pay for your your student loans because I say so, 546 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:34,280 Speaker 1: Like he did things that were completely beyond the pale. 547 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:38,560 Speaker 1: But over three years he had fourteen of these injunctions. 548 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:41,760 Speaker 1: So three years, twelve months, a year, thirty six months, 549 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:45,400 Speaker 1: thirty six months versus one month. Trump has more in 550 00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:50,080 Speaker 1: one month than Biden had in thirty six That gives 551 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:53,720 Speaker 1: you a sense of how real this and how immediate 552 00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,520 Speaker 1: this problem is. These judges are just trying to stop 553 00:32:56,560 --> 00:33:04,960 Speaker 1: Trump in the most unilateral, anti democratic, anti republic possible way, 554 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:08,760 Speaker 1: which is taking it upon themselves to act like little 555 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:12,280 Speaker 1: tyrants in judicial robes. And I just hope that the 556 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:14,920 Speaker 1: Supreme Court. I don't trust this Supreme Court as much 557 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,720 Speaker 1: the Libs love to cry about it, but Amy Coney 558 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:23,440 Speaker 1: Barrett huge disappointment, huge disappointment. Good on uh on the 559 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:26,200 Speaker 1: you know, the Roe v. Wade. So maybe this was 560 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:27,960 Speaker 1: the price we had to pay for Roe v. Wade 561 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,480 Speaker 1: as having amy Cony Barrett for thirty some odd years 562 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:34,120 Speaker 1: or forty years on the bench. But she is not good. 563 00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:38,080 Speaker 1: She defers to the authoritarian left far too much. And 564 00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:42,000 Speaker 1: then there's Roberts who just lacks backbone entirely and is 565 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,200 Speaker 1: an institutionalist for the court, which is its own problem. 566 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,680 Speaker 1: Now I just spoke to you about Roe v. 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We've got a Tutor Dixon Third Hour doing 595 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:24,080 Speaker 1: an event up in Michigan with jd Vance, the Vice President, 596 00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,880 Speaker 1: so that's fantastic. And we've got Anna Kelly, who is 597 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,040 Speaker 1: the White House Deputy Press Secretary. I want to bring 598 00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:33,000 Speaker 1: her on the program, ask her about what this White 599 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,080 Speaker 1: House is up to, how things are going along, and 600 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:39,080 Speaker 1: what else we can expect in the days ahead. Want 601 00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,920 Speaker 1: to get to some of your calls and some of 602 00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:45,400 Speaker 1: your talkbacks and all that good stuff. Let's start with 603 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,360 Speaker 1: Steve in Kentucky. What's going on? Steve? 604 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,160 Speaker 10: Yes, sir, It's an honor to talk to you. I'm 605 00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,320 Speaker 10: sitting on YouTube back on a glorious Kentucky day and 606 00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,080 Speaker 10: the sun is out, the wind is blowing. 607 00:35:58,120 --> 00:35:59,680 Speaker 1: It's beautiful, lovely. 608 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:06,120 Speaker 10: Why doesn't the Trump administration defy the federal judge? And 609 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:10,200 Speaker 10: why aren't they as articulate as you just were when 610 00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:14,160 Speaker 10: you spoke of the reason they should defy, or you 611 00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:18,640 Speaker 10: didn't say they should defy. But doesn't the executive branch 612 00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:21,560 Speaker 10: have the power to do this? Why not just defy it? 613 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:27,120 Speaker 10: And why don't they reference the Biden administration that defied 614 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:31,000 Speaker 10: the Supreme Court when it said he did not have 615 00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:33,840 Speaker 10: the right to forgive student loans. 616 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:38,359 Speaker 1: I think that we're getting to a breaking point in this, 617 00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:40,680 Speaker 1: to be honest with you. I think that they want 618 00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:44,120 Speaker 1: to see what the Supreme Court does with this first 619 00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:48,640 Speaker 1: appeal to them, and then we'll have to see. But 620 00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:51,640 Speaker 1: the Democrats are forcing and I should say the Democrat 621 00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:56,560 Speaker 1: activists in these different courts are forcing a constitutional crisis. 622 00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:58,880 Speaker 1: They are the ones who are pushing this. They're the 623 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:02,440 Speaker 1: ones who are making this so difficult. Richie in Florida, 624 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:10,320 Speaker 1: fellow Floridy and what's up, Richie, oh Ritchie question, Yes, sir, Yes, 625 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,240 Speaker 1: go for it. Yeah. 626 00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:17,680 Speaker 11: My question was why can't we get a Republican federal 627 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:22,880 Speaker 11: judge to just say no, I overrule that Democratic judge 628 00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:27,520 Speaker 11: and we can keep these people from coming back. 629 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,640 Speaker 1: Well, it's interesting, right, because it's like a jump ball. 630 00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:34,399 Speaker 1: Whoever comes up first with the injunction, then it has 631 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:36,520 Speaker 1: to go to a Court of Appeals, then it has 632 00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:38,359 Speaker 1: to go to the Supreme Court, unless the Supreme Court 633 00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:42,520 Speaker 1: steps in early. So there's no preventative measure that a 634 00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:45,719 Speaker 1: judge who disagrees can do on the other judge. If 635 00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:47,759 Speaker 1: a judge steps in and says, you can't do what 636 00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:50,480 Speaker 1: you just did, Trump, we got to go through this process, 637 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:52,120 Speaker 1: or at least that's what they're doing for now. We'll 638 00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:53,480 Speaker 1: get into more of this stick around