Riley Gage joins the show to recap the amazing executive order signed by President Trump, and also to go through the constitutional question that is in front of us. We are heading towards the most high stakes, constitutional battle of our lifetime.
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00:01:32.000We have Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk and his platoon of geniuses, going department by department, starting to audit your taxpayer money and how it is being spent.
00:01:45.000And what is being revealed is just shocking.
00:01:47.000We're finding out that we are sending tens of millions of dollars to transgender parades in third world countries.
00:01:53.000We are teaching Sri Lankans about gender therapy.
00:02:44.000USAID is a microcosm, is a perfect example of whether or not the U.S. Constitution still exists.
00:02:54.000As the law of the land, over the last 100 years, we have seen this slow but steady march that has weakened Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution, that has dulled the capacity and the impact for a president.
00:03:23.000He was a professor at Princeton University, governor of New Jersey, became president in 1913 after the 1912 election because Teddy Roosevelt ran in the Bull Moose Party against William Howard Taft, three-way race.
00:03:37.000He was an academic, and he ushered in a new view of governance, that we're going to have these supposed independent agencies that exist regardless of political pressure.
00:03:52.000He wrote this explicitly, Woodrow Wilson did.
00:03:56.000He wanted to have these agencies be permanent, a technocratic class, untouchable by the sovereign, untouchable by we the people.
00:04:10.000An outgrowth of that was FDR, and the modern administrative state, otherwise known as the deep state, Or the fourth branch of government that comprises unelected, unknown, and unchecked bureaucrats has grown wildly out of control.
00:04:27.000In the administrative state, you find the Department of Education.
00:04:30.000You find USAID. You find the EPA. You find the Central Intelligence Agency.
00:04:36.000You find the FBI. You find the Department of Justice.
00:04:39.000And the perfect example of this is in media coverage around Pam Bondi or Kash Patel.
00:04:44.000They say, oh, how will the DOJ and the FBI be independent?
00:04:48.000Who's ever to say they should be independent?
00:04:51.000The Department of Justice and the FBI serves at the pleasure of the president.
00:04:56.000That is Article 2. We have been propagandized and hypnotized over the last 100 years to believe that the executive branch has no power over the bureaucracies that, oh, it's an independent agency.
00:05:20.000The executive branch is more powerful than ever, yet the president is weaker.
00:05:28.000This is what the left has engineered, is they've engineered this shadow fourth branch of a permanent standing army that doesn't have to listen to a president.
00:05:37.000And we are bringing the constitutional issue front and center.
00:05:49.000What Elon is doing with the President Trump's blessing is forcing the most consequential, high-stakes question of who is in charge that we have seen over the last 100 years.
00:06:02.000This is all an outgrowth of Woodrow Wilson from 1913 to 2025. It's been 112 years.
00:06:09.000And as specified in the U.S. Constitution, the President Section 1 of Article 2. The executive power shall be vested in a president of the United States of America.
00:07:34.000President Trump right now if he wishes.
00:07:36.000Could call Pam Bondi and say, I want to see every single case you're working on.
00:07:41.000The president could even say, stop working on this case and start working on that case.
00:07:46.000And if that makes you a little uncomfortable, that means you are victim to the hypnosis that the DOJ and the FBI are their own chartered portion of government.
00:07:58.000No different than President Trump can tell Marco Rubio to go down to Nicaragua, President Donald Trump can tell USAID, stop sending money there.
00:08:06.000But all of the outpour, all the rancor that you are seeing is because they don't actually want the representative of the people to have that kind of power because they don't trust the people.
00:08:18.000That's the core issue, is that they don't trust the wisdom of elections to be played out in full during a presidential term.
00:08:58.000It says the executive power shall be vested in a president singular not in the bureaucracy Not an unelected lifetime tenured career civil servants.
00:09:07.000Americans voted for one man Donald J. Trump they didn't vote for a single bureaucrat at USAID They voted for Donald Trump to make government accountable to the taxpayer to make government accountable for them This is the whole ballgame This is everything you are seeing right now culminates around this core first principle question.
00:09:31.000The dialogue and the discussion and why they are losing their mind in the media right now.
00:09:35.000In Federalist 70, Alexander Hamilton argued passionately for a strong executive.
00:09:41.000Energy and the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government.
00:09:46.000It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks.
00:09:49.000it is not less essential to steady the administration of the laws, to the protection of property, to the security of liberty, and to the protection of its citizens against those irregular and high handed combinations, which sometimes interrupt the ordinary course of which sometimes interrupt the ordinary course of justice.
00:10:09.000Hamilton argued for a strong singular executive that can act decisively, unlike a weak executive held hostage by his or her own bureaucracies.
00:10:20.000The president must have the ability to move quickly and act quickly.
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00:11:55.000So this clip got some play, but for a separate reason.
00:14:05.000And did you know that it's nearly impossible to fire a government worker?
00:14:12.000Which, by the way, is a very serious constitutional question.
00:14:15.000How can it be so hard to fire a government worker if the Constitution says, Executive power shall be vested in a president.
00:14:27.000Shouldn't the president just have the ability to fire anybody he wants at any time?
00:14:31.000Do not be surprised if all of this Doge controversy, if all of this USAID controversy is a forcing function to eventually get a decisive case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:14:49.000To get a case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court where the justices can finally decide, yes, the president can fire at will, which of course he should be able to.
00:14:59.000Article 2 of the Constitution continues by saying this.
00:15:05.000Section 2 says he has the power to advise and consent of the Senate to make treaties.
00:15:09.000He has the power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States.
00:15:13.000The president should have the power to fill up vacancies that happen during his term.
00:15:18.000Article 2 says that the President of the United States has full authority.
00:15:26.000The most important power, though, is a single eight-word clause.
00:15:30.000Decreeing the President, quote, he shall take care and the laws shall be faithfully executed.
00:16:34.000The framers anticipated this pushback.
00:16:37.000The framers never granted or designed an unelected, unchosen, unknown, unaccountable, standing army of millions of career officials that can't be fired or held accountable regardless of what they do.
00:16:50.000That is never within the founders' intent.
00:16:52.000And if you think that's okay, then you don't want the U.S. Constitution.
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00:18:24.000What we saw yesterday was a total vindication.
00:18:30.000I think that's the best way to put it.
00:18:32.000It is something, this fight that I've been fighting, of course, me personally for about three years, many others far, far longer than I have.
00:18:42.000We were stonewalled by the previous administration, not even just stonewalled.
00:18:52.000And even worse, I would go as far as to say the Biden administration and even current elected Democrats, they worked against us by requiring these men to be in our sports and in our spaces, like locker rooms.
00:19:03.000So to have a president who displayed such moral clarity on an issue that...
00:19:19.000I cannot believe we have to have a president issue an executive order saying those are the only two sexes and, of course, declaring that men cannot compete in women's sports.
00:19:29.000But that's the level of moral decay to which we reached and certainly could have been...
00:19:38.000I think this issue as a whole, the gender ideology movement, more specifically even the issue of men and women's sports, that's what turned a lot of people off from the Democratic Party.
00:19:49.000As you know, as I know, I think people turned out to the polls on November 5th to embrace Donald Trump, and of course his America First agenda, his cabinet picks, but more so I believe people turned out to the polls to reject this kind of absurdity.
00:20:05.000What exactly was in this executive order?
00:20:08.000What are the details of this no men in women's sports executive order?
00:20:17.000Major shout out to Mae Mailman, who has, she's a policy director at the White House.
00:20:22.000She wrote the executive order of the two sexes, declaring there are only two sexes.
00:20:27.000She helped with the chemical and surgical mutilation of children executive order really, really beautifully and thoroughly written.
00:20:35.000What this executive order does is it withholds federal funding from any educational program that allows or requires men into women's sports, into women's spaces, again, like locker rooms.
00:21:09.000But again, that's what's needed because of the radical rewrite that Joe Biden and his administration pursued, the most anti-woman, anti-reality pursuit that we saw from that administration.
00:21:23.000We've even seen the NCAA come out with a statement this morning saying, hey, we are looking over this executive order now and we are doing everything we can to comply and follow federal law.
00:21:36.000I believe the NCAA has been desperate for an executive order like this or for some sort of action from someone other than themselves because what they've done for years on this issue and not just this issue.
00:21:51.000they've kind of sat on the fence and winked at both sides wanting to do the right thing and they know what the right thing is but not having the courage not having the the backbone to be willing to do it so now this allows them the the opportunity to do the right thing but kind of continue to say look we're just following the law here yeah so the the elements of the executive order give it really real teeth and real ability to be enforced and
00:22:18.000The counter-argument that some people in the media are making is, oh, this isn't happening very much.
00:22:23.000However, even CNN agrees that this is overwhelmingly supported by the American people.
00:22:29.000Playcut 134. I think these numbers are really illuminating on this topic because I just think there's such a clear trend among the American public.
00:22:38.000So transgender female athletes in women's sports, only 18 percent of the country says that they should be, in fact, allowed to participate in women's sports.
00:23:23.000So to see the way that women's rights to privacy, again in areas of undressing, to safety, to equal opportunity, to see how that has been politicized in the way that it has with the Democrats resoundingly being on the wrong side of history here.
00:23:45.000We have people like Joy Reid or even ESPN yesterday, a major sports outlet who certainly understands the difference between men's sports and women's sports.
00:23:57.000It said, you know, President Trump to issue an executive order that prevents people who are biologically assigned male at birth from competing in women's sports.
00:25:41.000Riley, but in the audience yesterday with Speaker Mike Johnson and several senators, if we are serious about this sticking, we need congressional action as well.
00:25:52.000What is the status of the legislation that would prohibit men from being in female sports?
00:26:02.000Yeah, I love that you asked this because a lot of people see what happened yesterday and they want to wipe their hands and think that we're done.
00:26:07.000Oh my gosh, we are absolutely not done.
00:26:09.000This does not absolve the states from doing what they need to do and it certainly does not prevent this from being overturned as quickly as it was implemented potentially in four years.
00:26:21.000So where this stands at the federal level, just a few weeks ago Congress passed H.R. 28, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.
00:26:29.000Sponsored by Representative Greg Stubbe.
00:26:32.000They're able to say it passed with bipartisan support because two Texas Democrats voted in support, the rest of them.
00:26:39.000Over 200 of them, 200 Democrats, mothers and fathers of their own young daughters, voted in opposition of protecting women and girls in sports.
00:26:49.000But the problem that we're having now and where we need the pressure applied, from what I understand...
00:26:56.000The Senate does not want to take this bill up.
00:26:58.000They believe that it won't pass, which is certainly a fair assumption to make.
00:27:05.000But nonetheless, because of Chuck Schumer and his strategy and lack of leadership, lack of courage in the 118th Congress, they did not hear this on the Senate floor.
00:27:14.000Therefore, they got out of voting for it.
00:27:16.000It couldn't really be this big hot-button topic for a lot of these senators who were running for re-election.
00:27:26.000Just last year, because they didn't vote on it.
00:28:07.000What you guys have been able to do on college campuses among the youth is pivotal.
00:28:13.000I know your listeners know that, how that shaped the election, how that shaped what we saw yesterday, those little girls surrounding President Trump.
00:28:20.000Had you guys not been doing what you do?
00:28:22.000That visual, that picture would not exist.
00:28:25.000I think we're going to be on about maybe 30 different college campuses this semester, so very excited for that.
00:28:31.000Headed to a Turning Point event right now, actually, so just thrilled to be a contributor, what you guys are doing.
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00:29:48.000So USAID, 15,000 people put on administrative leave.
00:30:32.000It's time to send it back to the states.
00:30:35.000It is time to say that it never should have been a role of the federal government.
00:30:40.000Since the Department of Education was started under Jimmy Carter, America's education system has only grown more costly, more bloated, and less effective.
00:30:51.000Republicans have been promising to get rid of it for decades.
00:30:53.000But when given power, they did nothing.
00:30:56.000Washington, D.C. insiders assumed this administration would just pull the same bait and switch.
00:31:01.000But oh, the Department of Education is next.
00:31:05.000Senator Kennedy from Louisiana has this to say.
00:31:09.000Playcut 76. To my friends who are upset, I would say with respect, you know, call somebody who cares.
00:31:25.000For the better part of our country, we never had a Department of Education.
00:31:30.000Education was done by the local church, the local school, local parents.
00:31:34.000We were a smarter, wiser, better prepared, better equipped nation when we did not have this federal bureaucracy of the Department of Education.
00:31:45.000The U.S. government in 1958 passed the National Defense Education Act, which provided funding for science, math, and foreign language learning.
00:31:55.000And passed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, ESEA of 1965, and then the Higher Education Act of 1965. There was a new office that was created of the Department of Health Education Welfare, and then Jimmy Carter, another master class from him, in 1979, put on the Department of Education Organization Act.
00:32:15.000The creation of the Department of Education was official on May 4th, 1980. And we have slid ever since.
00:33:21.000It is a journey that every student must take on their own to read the great books and to discover truth and understand beauty and define goodness and fight for the good.
00:33:32.000Here's President Donald Trump on the Department of Education, Playcut 154. And on the Education Department, why nominate Linda McMahon to be the Education Department Secretary if you're going to get rid of the Education Department?
00:33:45.000Because I told Linda, Linda, I hope you do a great job and put yourself out of a job.
00:33:51.000I want her to put herself out of a job.