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If you want to 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:20.280 be a part of the program, let me just break 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:22.640 down where the week is headed and some of the 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:24.440 things that we know are coming up and some of 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:27.880 the things that we will be active and involved in 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:30.600 that I think you're gonna want to be following. First 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:34.720 of all, at nine oh one thirty Eastern Standard time tonight, 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:39.560 the President will announce his decision to replace Justice Anthony 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.720 Kennedy on the U. S. Supreme Court. UH. In other words, 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:45.160 right as we kick off Hannity tonight, we will have 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:50.920 full complete coverage analysis of the President's comments, and of course, 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:56.400 the Democrats predictable, It does not matter who the President picks, 0:01:56.880 --> 0:02:01.080 It just doesn't matter if the president cured cancer. Now, 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:04.200 I am certain if he was able to find a cure, 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:07.120 if he was willing to give a million dollars to 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:10.720 every man, woman and child in this country, I am 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:14.640 convinced the left would hate him. I'm just there's nothing 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.880 he can do in their eyes that they're not going 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.280 to oppose. And the media, of course is right there 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:24.840 with them. Um, But that's gonna happen six o one 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:29.760 thirty pm East Pacific Standard time on the West Coast tonight. 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.760 We're gonna have that. That's on Hannity. Let me tell 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:34.760 you the other things that are happening this week. So 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:40.600 Lisa Page will be testifying on Wednesday. That will be 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:44.920 behind closed doors, but I'm pretty certain that there's gonna 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:47.840 be a lot of information from what I'm hearing. She 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:52.280 probably is scared to death about her involvement as the 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:57.240 lead counsel for Andrew McCabe and the boyfriend of Peter Struck. 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:00.680 And I'm just assuming she's gonna have an awful lot 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.840 to say because there's a lot on the line as 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:07.760 it relates to her life and her future here. So 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:12.600 then the other half of this dynamic Trump hating duo 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:17.280 Peter Struck. He will be testifying publicly on Thursday of 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:21.520 this week and we will have that coverage as well. 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.600 And my sources in DC are telling me that he's 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:28.920 getting very nervous at the idea of the jeopardy he 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.640 now finds himself in, which is, you know, the heart 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:35.880 of this is all very simple. Greg Garald will join 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:37.800 us later. He his book is out in two weeks, 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:42.200 The Russia Hoax, the illicit scheme to clear Hillary Clinton 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:45.360 and frame Donald Trump. And at the heart of all 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:49.720 of this is Peter Struck. He's the one that changed. 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:53.880 Remember he was writing the Exoneration of Hillary Clinton in 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:57.760 May early May with James Comey. He's the one that 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:02.120 changed the original draft from gross negligence, which is the 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:06.600 legal standard that would have mandated that Hillary be charged 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:10.120 with the Espionage Act, because well, she did commit felonies 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.920 to extreme carelessness, and that was all in an effort 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:17.480 to help preserve her candidacy with the belief that she 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:21.159 had to beat Donald Trump, because Donald Trump, you know, 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:25.000 we need was loathsome to them, and they needed an 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:30.560 insurance policy and they they even said they would stop him. 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:32.960 So they've got a lot of questions to be answered, 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:37.080 and that's all coming up this week. Also, the President 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:40.080 will be taking on NATO this week. In other words, 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:43.680 we can't as Americans be the piggy bank for the 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:47.000 entire world, and that goes for the U n that 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:51.640 goes for NATO, and that our NATO allies are going 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:55.120 to have to now begin the process of paying their 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:58.200 fair share. Which a lot of this a little overlapping 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.159 as it relates to these trade de els, which to 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:06.000 me is just the President negotiating with our allies saying, um, 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:09.520 I'm sorry, but the idea that you're charging tariffs on 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:14.480 our steel, on our dairy are farmers, and on you know, 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.599 our automobiles, which basically charge so much in teriffs we 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:21.200 can't even we can't even import vehicles to other countries 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.599 because it becomes so cost prohibited to the people, they're 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.279 never gonna buy them. And he's saying, no, we believe 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.960 in free trade, but fair trade. And I'm pretty certain 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:33.720 that there are gonna be some significant developments in terms 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:36.600 of these countries realizing how much and how badly they 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:40.479 need the United States and every United States consumer and 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.040 access to our markets. That I think there will be 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:45.120 better deals that will be struck over time. I don't 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:48.400 think this is about launching a trade war um, because 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:50.479 that wouldn't be good for anybody in the process. But 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.440 fighting for free and fair trade, I think is of 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:56.560 a battle worth having, just like I think it's it's 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.000 not unreasonable to ask the rest of the world to 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:01.360 step up and pay their fair share of the United 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:05.320 Nations and pay their fair share of the billions and 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.880 billions of dollars we spend on protecting our friends and 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.159 our allies. We have no problem helping, We have no 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:14.480 problem in defending. We have already proven to the world 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:18.840 that we are willing to shed American blood, American treasure, 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:23.040 spend American billions to help keep the world a better 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.760 and safer place, and and in the end, we're not 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:29.039 looking to conquer anybody. Although we might ask for a 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:33.839 little plot of land visa the Normandy UH to bury 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:37.479 our debt. That might we might request that, but short 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.000 of that, America should not bear the burden of defending 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:43.320 the entire world when these countries do have the means 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:46.599 and the ability to step up to a much greater 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:50.240 extent than they have been. Also, later this week, well 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.400 brus the President will be discussing and talking with his 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.640 NATO allies. That's happening in Brussels, and then he's headed 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:58.839 to London, where we will be later in the week, 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:03.760 and we are expected they're to have massive protests anti 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:07.800 Trump protesting. The left is gonna love this. The left is, Oh, 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:11.040 they're gonna, They're absolutely gonna, They're gonna. This is like 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:17.080 manna from heaven for them to have leftists in Europe protesting, 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:23.480 socialists in Europe protesting open borders, people in Europe protesting 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:27.720 Donald Trump's agenda and policies that have only proven to 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.600 be a great success for the people of the United 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.880 States of America. Uh. In many ways, to me, it's 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:38.320 somewhat laughable. Um, but let me begin. So we're less now, 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:41.680 less than six hours away from the president's announcement. I'm 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.960 not gonna spend the rest of the show speculating who 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:48.080 it might be. I don't know who it's going to be. 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:53.760 I believe it's probably down likely to four people, maybe 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.640 a fifth whose name is kind of just been thrown 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:59.480 in the mix a little bit. The President is no 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:03.520 tor orious for keeping people guessing. I mean, he loves 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.360 to troll and I would have no doubt at all 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:09.520 that he's doing so in this case, UM, giving you 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:13.680 the short bio and names of everybody you have, I 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.760 think she's probably the most interesting of all the candidates. 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:21.120 And it is fascinating how the left is just they 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:26.480 almost melt at the thought that that Amy Coney Barrett 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:30.000 is her name of Indiana, UH would in fact be picked. 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:32.960 She was a recent choice for the US Court of 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:37.120 Appeals in the seventh District, and she's forty six years old, 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.920 and of course she previously clerked for Anton and Scalia. 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:44.520 She was appointed by Trump and confirmed for the seventh 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:49.040 UH District Court of Appeals in October, had a big showdown. 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:52.040 I'll get to more details in this in October seventeen 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:56.240 with Diane Feinstein. Barrett is UH. She seems to be 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.000 a top contender. If I would have put them in 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:02.760 order and probably say that Brett Kavanaugh has probably one 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:06.959 if just I'm guessing based on what I'm hearing, and 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:11.600 probably Barrett right there next to him, and Thomas Hardeman 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:15.160 not far away, and and Raymond Catholics is there as well, 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.600 and um, Partaman is an interesting choice. I know that 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.199 Senator Rick santorm happens to be a big fan of him. 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:24.040 He's out of Pennsylvania. He's on the US Court of 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:27.480 Appeals for the Third Circuit. He's fifty two years old. 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:31.080 By the way, that's the same circuit that that the 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:34.600 President's sister works on and happens to be a fan 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:37.920 of Harteman. So that's interesting in terms of what the 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:41.199 President might be thinking about in terms of his decision. Uh. 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.839 He's spent now about three years as a federal judge 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:47.480 in Pittsburgh before being nominated for the Third Circuit, and 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:49.280 that was back in two thousand and six. He has 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:53.560 a lot of judicial experience. He graduated as well Notre 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:57.400 Dame and went to law school at Georgetown. There's a 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.520 two thousand and seven ruling Hardaman wrote that upheld the 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:04.400 constitutionality of strip searches of jail prisoners, regardless of how 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.360 minor and offense they might have been accused of, and 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:10.160 the Supreme Court upheld that and endorsed his decision. That 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.680 was a five forward decision. Uh. Then there's Brett Kavanaugh. 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.160 I would say, probably through the end of last week, 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:19.840 was the leading contender. If you're watching the news, UM, 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.360 not sure if that is a head fake or not, 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:25.800 I honestly don't know. And the US Court of Appeals 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.920 for the District of Columbia, he has probably the most 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:32.120 experience in terms of judicial writings, and I know that 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:36.640 there are some cenotas that are that are probably Oh 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.560 the amount of work we have to read twelve years 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:43.440 of opinions, how difficult, which could be done very expeditiously 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.360 and quickly if they really cared. Uh. He was appointed 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:48.800 to the powerful D. C. Circuit Court of Appeals in 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:52.520 two thousand and six by George W. Bush, for whom 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:56.240 he had previously served as assistant to the President and 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:59.840 staff secretary, graduate of Yale Law School, clerk for Justice Kennedy, 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:05.160 and part of the He was an associate council for 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:08.680 ken Starr that investigated Clinton, and that became a big 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:12.160 issue last week as it results for him Um in 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:15.760 his choice and his belief that Clinton could have obstructed 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:19.480 justice by sending out surrogates to defend him, knowing that 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:23.000 the surrogates were lying, And then he made a big 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.920 deal in two thousand and nine. About nine years later 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:29.880 um in a lower review. I believe it was a 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:32.280 speech in Michigan. If I'm my memory serves me right, 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:35.320 and read it over the weekend where he just basically said, no, 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:37.400 I was wrong in what I was saying back in 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:39.800 probably he was in his twenties at the time. He 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:43.360 had to be in his twenties or late twenties. UM. 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.800 So that is interesting, and at least it was at 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.240 one point thought of wow that he believed this, this 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.160 is a problem, and then it was discovered that he 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.200 had said, no, I don't believe that at all. Uh. 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:57.240 Raymond Cathledge a little bit about him. He's from Michigan 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:01.160 U s. Court of Appeals for the same circuit and 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:04.440 Keitholics who joined the six Circuit in two thousand and eight. Again, 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:08.640 pretty long history, long resume, uh, something rarely seen on 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.040 the president Supreme Court list. Now. One of the things 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.720 you've got to keep in mind, the President has given 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:18.560 us this list and has expanded this list since before 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:22.200 he was running. There's nobody on this list or any 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:26.160 of the names we're hearing that the President hasn't foretold 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:28.880 of before he ever got elected. In other words, he 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:32.120 just he's been very forthright about the type of justices 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.720 he's looking for and that these are the type of 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:38.439 people he would be examining anyway. Keitholic trode an opinion 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:42.160 rejecting the uh uh e e O C in the 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:46.240 case seeking to limit private employer's use of credit checks 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:49.320 for job applicants, and the e O C arguing that 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:52.720 the practice amount of a racial discrimination rate. Keitholics accused 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:56.559 the agency of hypocrisy, and Keitholish also issued a politically 0:12:56.640 --> 0:13:00.599 charged ruling blasting the Obama administration for continuous existence to 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.920 efforts to discover what actions the I R S took 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:07.600 against tea party groups nonprofit groups. Uh. Then another name 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.840 that's come up pretty last minute is Joan Larson. Judge Larson, 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.280 confirmed by to the six Circuit Court of Appeals, previously 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:17.560 served on the Michigan Supreme Court from fifteen until earlier 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:20.520 this year, and before serving as a judge, was on 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.160 the University of Michigan Law School faculty for more than 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.760 a decade. Well, you know, one of the things you've 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:27.760 got to remember, why is this not? Why is it 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:31.839 that Democrats always get the judicial activists that they want, 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:37.480 and sometimes Republican presidents how comes sometimes they get it wrong. Well, 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:42.079 it's because Judge Ginsberg once said that you know, I'm 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:44.840 not going to comment on a particular case. And that's 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.080 sort of like the standard that they now use for 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:51.280 every judge or or antonin Scalia, saying that I have 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:54.680 to may maybe make decisions that the law demands that 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:59.000 I personally don't even like. So the big battle here 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.880 is over judicial philosophy, and that is and again, and 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:09.280 they're all intellectuals, they're all constitutional scholars, and so sometimes 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:12.840 far more complicated and nuance than anybody really knows. And 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:15.320 I don't know if there's anybody of certainty, but there's 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:16.880 been a lot of time for everybody to look to 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.880 the background of these individuals. I'm just gonna give you 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:22.720 the information. I don't know who the President's deciding, and 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.120 you know, I just it's gonna be interesting. But I 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.840 do believe the president has been very clear and believes 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:35.080 in originalism, constitutionalism, and he is against judicial activism. So 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.800 he was not going to be looking for somebody wants 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:41.440 to legislate from the bench or use foreign law as 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:45.360 a basis and a decision, like some of our liberal 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:50.040 justices have done in the past. You cannot get if 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:55.080 you like interesting times, you can't get better than this. 0:14:56.080 --> 0:15:00.680 It's I was explaining to a liberal over my fourth 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.200 of July vacation. I'm trying to explain to them, Okay, 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:05.880 Donald Trump believes, what are you going to do every day? 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.680 I said, it's never gonna get that interesting for you 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.640 because liberals wake up every day. And then just how 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:14.640 do I hate him? How do I hate Donald Trump? Today? 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:19.040 There's the latest tweet, the latest, latest, latest tweet, the 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:22.240 biggest outrage. And I keep telling people if they listen, 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.640 if you go on Twitter, all you have to do 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:28.920 is follow one liberal journalist, just one. And what they 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.160 do is they live in this little bubble world that's 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:34.000 sort of like the liberal Joe Meeka, you know, Humpty 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:38.240 Dumpty world and the Nicole Wallace world, where they try 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:43.840 to feign moral outrage, more moral outrage than the other one. 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:47.840 If they say no, Donald Trump's the liar liar, the 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:51.520 next one will say, no, you're wrong, He's a liar, liar, liar, 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:55.080 pants on fire. And then the next one's gonna say no, liar, liar, 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:59.160 liar pants on fire. And he's stupid, he's dumb, he's uh, 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:04.600 he's whatever. And it's like if you take Alca Sultzer. 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.200 I've used this analogy many times. Do you ever have 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:10.880 alka seltzer alka Seltzer plus cold medicine, which I use 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:15.360 when I get a cold. You just go PLoP, PLoP, 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:22.320 fizz fizz, and they bubble and fizz predictably and outcomes 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:28.760 the venom, the vitriol, the hatred. If you don't believe it, 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:35.480 just watch what happens the second that Donald Trump announces 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:43.119 either Barrett or or uh who else, Hardeman or Kavanaugh 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:48.360 or Catheridge or anybody, it doesn't matter. The borking will 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:54.440 begin instantaneously and it will be universal stupidity. Quick break 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:57.880 right back right as we roll along, Sean Hannity Show 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:01.200 one sewn. You want to be a part of the program. Alright, 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:04.840 five and a half hours now, the President five hours 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:09.600 twenty five minutes will be announcing his choice to replace 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.679 Anthony Kennedy on the U. S. Supreme Court. It comes 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:16.280 down to it looks like five people. Amy Barrett, Indiana, 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:21.359 Thomas Hardeman of Pennsylvania, Brett Havanaugh, who seemingly was the 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.920 front runner all last week of Maryland, not sure if 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:28.520 his stock has risen or fallen or remains the same, 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:33.119 Raymond Catheridge of Michigan, and Judge Larson, who I mentioned 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:35.639 just only in the last day or two, seems so 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:37.640 her name has come up a little bit. Not sure 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:41.119 whether that's going or if that means anything. Let me 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:45.800 just back up here a second, and I just want 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:49.440 to tell you what's going to happen. The President will 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:55.760 make the announcement tonight. This is about the and the 0:17:55.800 --> 0:18:00.159 president tweeted this. President said, I have long heard the 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:04.439 most important decision that a US president can make is 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:10.240 the selection of a Supreme Court justice. He's right. We'll 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:13.840 be announced tonight at nine pm. I kind of like it. 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:16.480 It's right during the start of Hannity. Perfect, and we 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:20.040 get to talk about it first. Um. And it is 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:24.479 the most important decision. This is a lifelong appointment. Now, 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:28.520 remember this was a massive issue during the campaign. You know, 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:31.600 it's a little frustrating to me is that all of 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:35.560 the never Trumpers, all the people that have really just 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:40.840 have done everything they could do short of you know, 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.639 going out there with Hillary signs at a Trump rally, 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:47.320 most of them, and how all of them were told, 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:50.120 wait a minute, this is about the Supreme Court. Look 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:53.919 at who the president. Then candidate Trump was saying that 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:56.280 he would like to put on the Supreme Court, people 0:18:56.400 --> 0:19:02.639 like Anton and Scalia who recently passed away, like Clarence Thomas, 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:05.720 like Sam Alito, who has been a very strong conservative, 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:11.560 originalist constitutional voice on the Supreme Court. And that that 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:14.120 that is the type of justice that the president will 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:16.600 be looking for, and that list is who he would 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:21.000 choose from, which, by the way, gives the the opposition 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:24.520 plenty of time to do their research. There's not gonna 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:29.080 be a single person that the Left is going to say, 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:33.760 great choice, Mr. President, because they lost the election. They 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:39.200 only want people like Judge Sodamajor or Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:43.000 etcetera on the court. That's the type of justice they're 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:45.680 looking for. People that are and I guess it comes 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:49.359 down to a battle between originalism and a judicial activists. 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:53.280 They are looking for judicial activists. What is a judicial activist? 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:58.760 That is somebody that believes that they can legislate from 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:01.879 the bench and other words, they don't really strongly believe 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:05.080 in the Constitution. They don't seem to believe in co 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:09.199 equal branches of government, they don't seem to believe in 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:14.760 separation of powers. They're perfectly comfortable with judges on the 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:18.959 bench writing laws which is their job. And the reason 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:25.199 they want to punt these, especially these controversial decisions to 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:30.520 the court is there's no political retribution for a judge. 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:34.720 This is a lifetime appointment. So there so they would 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:38.240 the things that they cannot get done at the ballot box, 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:42.560 the things that they could never pass legislatively, that you 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:46.199 the people would stop, or that there would be a 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:50.240 huge political price if they ever did try to pass 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:53.960 a lot of the legislation. They would prefer to use 0:20:54.240 --> 0:21:00.679 a left wing judicial activists, even if that justice site 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:05.760 foreign law as a basis for a decision which has 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:10.040 actually happened, which kind of blows my mind, because we 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:14.560 are a constitutional republic and that judges, and as the 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:18.960 Great antonin Scalia once said, a good judge will do 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:24.679 and must consider what the law demands, and that is 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:29.680 they the judicial philosophy of the original intent. In other words, 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:33.199 it is deep respect for the fact that we have 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:37.159 an executive branch, a judicial branch, but also a legislative branch. 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:41.280 And why Congress would want to see their authority or 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:45.280 allow a judiciary to assert their authority is because they 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:47.600 know that that's what they really want America to be, 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:50.840 and America to turn into but they wouldn't dare ever 0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:54.560 say it because they know politically that they would never survive. 0:21:55.640 --> 0:21:58.919 So this is a big, big battle. It now seems. 0:21:58.920 --> 0:22:01.760 With Neil Gorsuch emly placed in the Supreme Court, it 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:06.119 looks like that this could be a This could be 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:12.160 a turning point because Justice Kennedy was a very unpredictable vote. 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:14.040 We know that he was the swing vote on the 0:22:14.080 --> 0:22:17.920 Supreme Court. That's why this choice matters so much. One 0:22:17.960 --> 0:22:20.679 of the things that I've been watching, I really have 0:22:20.800 --> 0:22:23.680 not I've not gone to Twitter, i have not been 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:26.359 commenting on it, but I've been reading a lot. And 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:29.320 the reason is there's so much lobbying going on behind 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:33.159 the scenes. It actually is somewhat nauseating. It seems that 0:22:33.200 --> 0:22:36.760 if someone's friends with has known or is an acquaintance 0:22:36.920 --> 0:22:42.280 of a particular candidate, that hey, they would they want 0:22:42.280 --> 0:22:46.040 to tell everyone, no, this is the choice. And maybe 0:22:46.040 --> 0:22:48.480 they're making valid arguments. Maybe they really believe that the 0:22:48.520 --> 0:22:50.640 people that they know or have known for a long 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:56.240 time would would live up to the The philosophy again, 0:22:56.320 --> 0:22:59.320 this is judicial philosophy that we're really looking at here 0:23:00.320 --> 0:23:03.640 that they believe is important for the Court. I shouldn't 0:23:03.680 --> 0:23:07.280 question their motives in any way. I know that Mike Lee, 0:23:07.359 --> 0:23:09.040 I think he got a call from the President, he 0:23:09.160 --> 0:23:11.640 was interviewed. I think one of the first things that 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:13.440 the left would do. And I think Mike Lee would 0:23:13.480 --> 0:23:18.439 be an incredible originalist and constitutionalist, and I believe that 0:23:18.880 --> 0:23:20.720 he would do a great job on the Supreme Court. 0:23:20.720 --> 0:23:23.639 I put him on my list in a heartbeat. I 0:23:23.680 --> 0:23:26.359 find the most interesting person on the list that seems 0:23:26.400 --> 0:23:29.800 to be hated the most is Amy Barrett of Indiana 0:23:29.960 --> 0:23:32.679 because she happens to be Catholic, and she happens to 0:23:32.680 --> 0:23:35.560 be very religious, and she has happens to have written 0:23:35.600 --> 0:23:39.280 about originalism. And the Left, for whatever reason, is kind 0:23:39.280 --> 0:23:43.119 of glomed onto this that. I mean, it's almost like 0:23:43.160 --> 0:23:47.240 they feel this is a a battle of religion, you know. 0:23:47.760 --> 0:23:49.879 You know, I would argue that the left war against 0:23:49.920 --> 0:23:53.480 women continues. Remember before I went on vacation, there were 0:23:53.480 --> 0:23:57.240 the attacks on Sarah Sanders, the attacks um Pam Bondi, 0:23:57.320 --> 0:24:01.359 the attacks on Secretary Nielsen, the attacks on Avanka, the 0:24:01.400 --> 0:24:05.320 attacks on Milania, the attacks on Baron Trump, the attacks 0:24:05.359 --> 0:24:08.440 on Chloe Trump, the four year old daughter of Donald 0:24:08.440 --> 0:24:11.560 Trump Jr. The granddaughter of the president. I mean, we've 0:24:11.560 --> 0:24:16.040