00:02:27.000A fog sets in and cloaks and screens the movement and allows the rest of the army to escape in the great American Dunkirk.
00:02:36.000And this is a story, you know, the weather and the hand of God plays a role in all of the, you know, the books that I've written.
00:02:43.000In one way or another, the unvanquished is no exception.
00:02:46.000The summer of 1774, 176, I'm sorry, 1864, all was looked to be lost.
00:02:55.000The nation's capital was under assault by Jubal Early.
00:02:58.000And, you know, the Seventh Corps comes in at exactly the right time at the right place.
00:03:03.000General and President Lincoln is at the parapets of the fort.
00:03:07.000One of my relatives is actually thrown out in front of the Confederate Army.
00:03:12.000But, I mean, this is a case where over and over a small group of individuals through their agency are able to change the course of history.
00:03:22.000And, you know, you mentioned where I can be found at combat historian on Twitter and get her.
00:03:29.000And I have a you know, we talked about those those men that were my friends.
00:03:33.000My first book signing day was a reunion of D-Day heroes.
00:03:38.000And I had hundreds of these men that I'm that I talk about, rangers, paratroopers.
00:03:44.000We had one of the men receive his bronze star medal, a pathfinder with the 82nd that were the first in by his commanding officer.
00:04:52.000But the context now is becoming clearer and clearer and clearer.
00:04:56.000It looks like Putin's coming over to the Caribbean to play the golden rule on the United States foreign policy.
00:05:04.000That if we want to play around with their buffer zone, they're going to play around with our buffer zone.
00:05:09.000And so you want to give us a minute highlight on that and then give us what you have on the president and the NATO language and maybe some of how many press conferences he's given on these issues in totality.
00:05:28.000Well, look, the golden rule, as we are more or less now defining the concepts and the principles behind Christian nationalism.
00:05:37.000I think it's absolutely fair to say that the golden rule, which, by the way, by the way, I think it's called the golden rule because it transcends Christianity.
00:05:47.000This is, of course, one of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ's most luminous teachings.
00:05:52.000But it exists in one form or another in a whole number of religions.
00:05:57.000Do unto others as you would have done unto you.
00:05:59.000And, of course, his negative form as well.
00:06:01.000Do not do unto others as you would not have done unto you.
00:06:04.000And I think it's absolutely, look, it's absolutely reasonable for Putin to say this to the United States.
00:06:13.000If the United States expects to have a Monroe Doctrine, then it's perfectly fair for Russia to have an equivalent version of it, I would suggest.
00:06:23.000So as we are trying to move forward towards sort of implementing our idea of Christian nationalism, one thing that that could absolutely mean as a point of national priority is that we will treat other countries, America, the UK, the European Union eventually, Russia itself.
00:06:43.340Countries should treat other countries in exactly the way that they would expect to be treated themselves.
00:06:53.340And they would not do to other countries as they would not have done unto them.
00:06:57.440And I think that would create a lot of global peace, Dave, a lot of global peace.
00:07:03.800And it would do a lot to diffuse tensions around the world because a lot of these tensions that we see, a lot of these forever wars,
00:07:13.340are basically one country, the stronger country, just sort of forcing itself and its own interpretation of events on other countries.
00:07:22.160And, of course, when you do that for decades, it's not going to go down too well.
00:07:27.860Hey, Ben, let me stop you right there.
00:07:30.500This I just saw the headlines and did the math in my head this morning.
00:07:37.760It's implicit as has Putin or Russia made this message explicit, that this is reciprocal, that if we're going to be messing around with their buffers,
00:07:49.100as John Mearsheimer taught us back in 2008 and then 14 and currently the primrose path and all that.
00:07:58.800Has Russia made this this principle explicit yet?
00:08:03.200Is there anything for us to read there yet?
00:08:06.080I think this is going to become more and more explicit as we have the formal peace negotiations, presumably, presumably after November.
00:08:15.800And I say presumably after November because it's becoming apparent now, I think, certainly from from the United States maneuvers,
00:08:23.280that it's that it's the permission granted to Ukraine to use long range missiles inside the Russian border is explicitly confined to defending Harkiv.
00:08:36.680So the point, you know, I've made this on the show before, that the point, I think, is that Biden now realizes that it would be electoral suicide or suicidal for whatever electoral hopes he might still nurture in November.
00:08:51.620Firstly, to have full blown engagement between the United States and Ukraine, full blown, explicit connected engagement on the one hand,
00:09:04.560but also the fall of Harkiv would also be equally suicidal, having invested so much of the United States credibility into defending Ukraine beyond the Donbass.
00:09:17.000So I've suggested that the point here is that what the United States is trying to do is to maintain the territorial status quo until November.
00:09:26.620So to circle back and answer your question, I think Putin's interests here and his policy positions will become more and more explicit when it comes around post November to defining what long term peace negotiations in Ukraine are going to look like.
00:09:46.180And I think you also wanted to get at President Biden's press conferences, the lack of availability, the lack of commentary, the lack of strategy on the U.S. part.
00:10:28.840Well, because here is something that I think illustrates the Wall Street Journal's analysis there.
00:10:36.520Now, we did touch on this briefly yesterday.
00:10:40.240President Biden gave, President Biden, excuse me, gave an interview to Time magazine, which we discussed very briefly on the show yesterday.
00:10:49.720That's only his third interview to print journalists during his residency.
00:10:57.160And the question is, why has he given so few talks?
00:11:01.620It's because his aides realise how easy it will be for him to make a gaffe and to say something he shouldn't say.
00:11:11.180And I believe he has actually done that in his Time magazine interview.
00:11:17.300But you won't know that by reading the interview itself, which I have done, and it's long and it's tedious.
00:11:23.140You have to read the actual official transcript.
00:11:26.420I say official, but the published transcript of that interview, which Time magazine have also published.
00:11:33.240Now, buried in that document is a line.
00:11:35.340Now, I'm going to have to read this out.
00:11:52.360And Biden says, and this is the quote that you will have seen in the published version of the interview, but also it's been picked up quite widely elsewhere.
00:11:59.860Biden says, peace looks like making sure Russia never, never, never, never occupies Ukraine.
00:12:14.100It means we have a relationship with them, like we do with other countries, where we supply weapons so that they can defend themselves in the future.
00:12:22.440And that's more or less what Biden was saying a year ago in Vilnius, when NATO had its annual conference.
00:12:28.900And they declined to extend to Ukraine a formal invitation to join.
00:12:35.080Then he says something, vice provost, which is astonishing, really is absolutely astonishing.
00:12:42.820It's all mangled up in the Biden syntax.
00:13:13.020And because it's a mangled, you know he's not reading or recalling from his notes a prepared statement that's been worked out with his advisors.
00:13:22.560No, this is just from his memory, he's saying this.
00:13:27.660The thing is, actually, at the time, that was not his position, right?
00:16:58.480But here he has released a point of what I would suggest is national security obliviously.
00:17:05.660And I don't know if Denver has had time to pick this out.
00:17:12.480But I've gone back in time, back to 2017, when Donald Trump said a few things in a meeting with Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister.
00:17:25.320And, you know, there was a minor Armageddon because the security establishment, the intelligence establishment, said that Trump had revealed areas of vital national interest.
00:17:39.200So the headline of this Washington posting, which I will put for reference – I will post that – Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador.
00:17:50.800What Biden has done, saying publicly that he has already vetoed Ukraine's membership of NATO, is so many factors above and beyond whatever Trump, Donald Trump, President Donald Trump was accused of doing back in the Oval Office.
00:18:07.480And I think it's time for the world's media to apply the same standards impartially.
00:18:16.380Okay, so look, Vice Provost, thank you very much.
00:18:19.620Can I just say, before I recite my socials, what a pleasure it's been for me to have you host me on the show today.
00:18:26.940I could get used to this rather more leisurely opportunity to –
00:19:34.360And a lot of interest in the question of whether the Supreme Court can step in on any of these Trump court cases, other court cases going on.
00:19:45.240Does the Supreme Court have the authority, if they see fit, that justice has been overridden to step in?
00:19:50.760Do they have the authority formally to do so?
00:19:55.040Yeah, I mean, of course, they're the highest court in the land.
00:19:58.180It just depends on the case and the vehicle that you're trying to use to get to the Supreme Court.
00:20:04.580The Supreme Court's already heard oral arguments on President Trump's claim of constitutional presidential immunity going back 250 years.
00:20:15.280You know, where we have the separation of powers between the branches of the Nixon case from 40 years ago held that presidents are immune from civil prosecution for their official acts, not their personal acts, their official acts.
00:20:30.920You have members of Congress who are immune from both civil and criminal prosecution for their official acts.
00:20:38.060You have federal judges who are immune from criminal prosecution for their personal or for their official, not their personal acts.
00:20:45.580Why wouldn't the president of the United States also be immune from criminal prosecution for his official acts, not his personal acts?
00:20:52.660And so the Supreme Court is going to decide that by the end of June.
00:20:56.780And then there's also the issue of the New York case with this Soros-funded Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and this former Obama-Biden senior political appointee Matthew Colangelo, along with this corrupt Democrat Judge Juan Mershon who made an illegal campaign contribution to Biden and another anti-Trump cause and whose daughter is raising millions of dollars off this case.
00:21:22.220They ran a rigged, corrupt partisan process in New York, and where I think this is heading is on July 11th, I think, is the date that Judge Mershon is going to sentence President Trump.
00:21:37.340And if he tries to impose incarceration on President Trump or even home confinement or anything that restricts President Trump's ability to run for the presidency, anything that puts these restrictions on his liberties as part of a sentence, President Trump can go two different routes.
00:21:59.660He can file an immediate appeal through the New York system.
00:22:03.640The problem is the New York Appellate Division, which is their intermediate court, is full of a bunch of left-wing hacks.
00:22:11.100Their New York Court of Appeals is less so, but it's still you have these Democrat judges on the New York Court of Appeals, which is their state Supreme Court.
00:22:21.080The other route that you can go is you file what's called a 2241, a habeas petition in the Southern District of New York, the federal court in New York City.
00:22:31.500And then that judge would rule on an expedited basis.
00:22:35.420If that judge doesn't rule, you can go either to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and get a ruling, or you can seek what's called cert before judgment in the Supreme Court of the United States.
00:22:48.360I know that some have advocated that you can go directly to the Supreme Court of the United States.
00:22:54.160That is a very high hurdle to go directly to the Supreme Court.
00:22:58.820You have to start generally with a lower appellate court.
00:23:02.700Yeah, that's why the thing that got a lot of people's attention was the speaker, Mike Johnson, made a reference, right?
00:23:12.800Many in the Congress are finally starting to push back, right?
00:23:21.780A former president of the United States being overrun by the Justice Department.
00:23:26.660So a couple quick questions, rapid fire.
00:23:30.740But one, do you see any connection between Speaker Mike Johnson's comments and a link to possible Supreme Court action?
00:23:41.040Like I said, it would be very hard to go directly to the Supreme Court.
00:23:48.980To go directly to the Supreme Court, you have to show that there's no other relief available.
00:23:54.220I think that the more – I don't know if it's the better move.
00:23:58.680The more realistic move is to go to the Southern District of New York, the federal court in New York, seek a 2241 habeas relief.
00:24:05.940And it's not – you're not going to get the appeal resolved on the merits right away.
00:24:09.960It's just to stop the execution of the sentence, to stop the execution of the judgment, to make it where Trump is not going to jail or home confinement or having his ability to campaign restricted by this corrupt partisan hack judge who should be in prison himself for his corruption.
00:24:35.460But I also want to ask you – there seems to be widespread commentary across the country now at every level of government after seeing what can be construed as a conspiracy.
00:24:47.320But let's first off, just give us 30 seconds on what we would have to believe for there to be four court cases with bypassing seven- to ten-year evidence way back.
00:25:03.820All these court cases could have been brought up many years ago with several judges just randomly being selected on the Trump cases.
00:25:12.080Give us just three or four bullet points of what we would have to believe for there not to be a conspiracy or a grand plan to have all this drop just miraculously six months before a presidential election.
00:25:23.720Well, I think what we need to do is open a criminal probe on January 20th, 2025, by Trump's acting attorney general on day one, a criminal probe on this obvious criminal conspiracy by President Biden, Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, Jack Smith, Jay Bratt at the Justice Department, Gary Stern, the General Counsel of the National Archives,
00:25:49.820Alvin Bragg, Matthew Colangelo, Tish James, Nathan Wade, Fannie Willis, Judge Juan Mershon, Lauren Mershon, Judge Tanya Chuckin in D.C. who put an unconstitutional gag order on President Trump.
00:26:06.560There are so many potential fact witnesses at a minimum for this obvious criminal conspiracy against President Trump, his top aides like Peter Navarro, who's in prison right now, for Steve Bannon, who they're trying to send to prison, for their attorneys, Jeff Eastman, Jeffrey Clark, John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark, and these January 6th supporters.
00:26:33.740This is a criminal conspiracy to violate their civil rights under 18 U.S.C. 241 and 242, and there needs to be a criminal probe.
00:26:40.860And then we'll find out what the evidence shows.
00:26:43.940But I would always say let's let's remember what the Democrats always say to us.
00:26:55.980And we're going to break in about a minute, Mike.
00:26:58.660But T.S. up, the other side of the break, there's a lot more attention now going down to state and localities, right?
00:27:06.260We have over 10 million illegal immigrants, all economic piece I got coming up later.
00:27:11.780All new jobs for the past four years have gone to illegal immigrants.
00:27:15.540The country is besieged with lawfare at every level, federal, state, local.
00:27:21.560Give us a few ideas of how local and state officials who believe in this country and who believe in the rule of law can go about effecting real justice in everyday life, right?
00:27:34.460I mean, it seems to me we ought to be putting pressure on everybody who steals one dollar worth of merchandise, not a thousand.
00:27:41.300It seems to me we ought to be handing out tickets if you break the law traffic laws and bring this country back into reality.
00:27:47.880What kind of strategy could we put forward?
00:27:51.560And I'm going to hold you over into the break, Mike, because we're getting ready to go.