Special Counsel Robert Mueller is on the brink of a Supreme Court ruling on the impeachment of President Donald Trump. What will he do if he loses? Will he appeal to the Supreme Court? And what will the rest of the country do about it?
00:00:00.000What he is forecasting is a situation where the floodgates will be open.
00:00:04.000We are in a situation where we have the prosecution of the chief political opponent who is winning in every poll.
00:00:11.480Venture election upcoming next year and is being prosecuted by the administration that he's seeking to replace.
00:00:17.140That is the frightening future that is tailor made to launch cycles of recrimination that will shake our republic for the future.
00:00:23.120Say that does happen. Say the prosecutions are attempted against President Biden or maybe someone will try to prosecute President Obama for actions that he took in office or President Bush.
00:00:33.160Is that a real concern? What happens if those cases are tried, attempted?
00:00:38.660I think it's a real concern if former President Trump becomes president again.
00:00:42.260And this is where you see the difference between his political or maybe actual threats converge with legal argument.
00:00:49.760Just because he says he's going to do something does not make it predictive in the general world outside of him.
00:00:58.220And what he's trying to do is sort of transmute the things he intends to do into some larger argument about what's going to happen for all time.
00:01:06.700I don't think anybody thinks but for him those floodgates will open.
00:01:11.560Is it a reasonable fear, though, that if he is returned to the Oval Office, he will use the Department of Justice retributively?
00:02:28.860Laura is right that politically this is all about delay.
00:02:31.820Legally, they have so few options that we are all learning a new vocabulary together as he searches for text in the Constitution that has never been litigated before
00:02:42.660and has never even really been a part of our foundational law school curriculum before.
00:02:47.900I don't think I'm going out of bounds to say the impeachment judgment clause is not part of the first constitutional law curriculum.
00:02:53.940And that's why I think you hear the special counsel saying, if you want to break new ground, if you want to set a new precedent, maybe this isn't the case to do.
00:02:59.640This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:08:22.980Doesn't he have to follow the Hastert rule?
00:08:24.740And I've heard, you know, Chip Royce talking about he'll never get out of the rules.
00:08:28.380I'm hearing nasty rumors that he's going to do another thing of get two thirds, get all the Democrats and some of the moderates in to vote and actually take it, I guess, around the rules.
00:08:37.440He understands that that that will come after a speakership.
00:08:40.760If he does that, he doesn't get allowed that again.
00:08:43.140And plus, Dune on top of it, Dune just came and says, hey, even with all that Johnson's doing, we need a CR to the end of March.
00:09:52.240But I've actually heard – believe it or not, I've heard a couple of people say, well, we don't want to say no right away because we want to see if we can leverage some good policy in there.
00:10:00.780And I'm like, how can you get any policy in there that's going to be leverageable to a massive, ridiculous spending bill?
00:11:01.200And I suspect he's going to have to go into suspension of rules because how are you going to get the majority Republicans in the rules committee to support this?
00:11:10.680If he suspends the rules, is his speakership in jeopardy?
00:11:18.400I'm hearing from a number of people that, yes, his speakership could be in jeopardy.
00:11:23.260The question, of course, is who do you get to follow him?
00:12:12.420I've never seen this audience more furious.
00:12:14.380And I heard that the donors, not exactly the war room posse, but the biggest donors, ripped his face off the other night on the child tax year.
00:12:45.820Because this fight is going to be as nasty as anything we had during the McCarthy era, probably even nastier because it's – like I said, he is a movement conservative.
00:13:15.720Greg Price, I've got about a minute here, Greg.
00:13:17.680I'm going to hold you over through the break, but I want to get this out through your tweet because I've got the great Julie Kelly coming up.
00:18:14.620But – and yeah, as you said, the average sentence that a J6 defendant has gotten for, in many cases, nonviolent crimes are like three years.
00:18:24.140And yet this guy gets a plea deal on a misdemeanor and escapes jail time.
00:18:29.100And, you know, and again, he walked free for two years, never in pretrial detention.
00:18:33.540And, you know, the reason that they did this, the reason that they let this guy go for so long and only, you know, gave him this minor little charge that only resulted in probation, I think, Steve, is because, you know, they've obviously refused to say the federal informants that were involved in January 6th.
00:18:51.640And so now when people ask, you know, anybody connected to the intelligence community about Ray Epps, the response is going to be, oh, look, you know, we prosecuted him.
00:18:58.980He got charges for this when in reality we know they're completely full of crap and there's something that they're not telling us.
00:19:06.340And, you know, credit to reporters like Julie Kelly, who you're going to have on next, as well as Darren Beattie, who, you know, were on top of this from the beginning and reported everything about January 6th that went against the prevailing media narrative.
00:19:20.660Greg, how do people follow you on Twitter, social media, and how they find out about the state-level Freedom Caucus?
00:19:26.080Because you guys are the tip of the tip of the spear.
00:19:28.600It's the equivalent of school boards, precinct committee men, the state legislatures that become a Freedom Caucus.
00:19:35.460This is the foundation of how we're going to turn the country around.
00:19:40.240Yeah, really, it starts with your own backyard and ensuring that red states and your state legislatures have leadership that the conservative base supports.
00:19:50.160So go to statefreedomcaucus.org and you can subscribe to our newsletter there.
00:19:55.340I'm really proud to be a part of this project.
00:19:57.500As you mentioned, we just launched the Missouri Freedom Caucus, which is really exciting, and we've got a lot more to come.
00:20:43.160Well, look, there's something very fishy going on, and this is just the latest example why.
00:20:49.840To Greg's point, Ray Epps allowed to phone in his presence for his sentencing hearing.
00:20:56.840Some defendants are allowed to do that.
00:20:58.620Most are required to travel to D.C. with their family in tow, stand before a D.C. judge, get a tongue lashing, humiliated, hear from the government how awful they are, and then wait to get their sentencing.
00:21:12.260Furthermore, Judge Bosberg, the now chief judge, Obama appointee, sympathized with Ray Epps and apparently told him,
00:21:20.560you're the only January 6th defendant who has been demonized for things you didn't do, demonized by people, powerful people in the media and government authorities.
00:22:07.840And today's result, the comments by the judge, 12 months of probation, Steve, I went through quickly the DOJ sentencing chart for January 6th.
00:22:16.520I could find about two other examples out of hundreds of defendants who have been sentenced already with such a slap on the wrist, 12 months probation.
00:22:28.080Usually for this charge, 1752, defendants get longer probation or a combination of prison time and supervised release.
00:22:38.380Ray Epps off the hook, doesn't have to show up, doesn't have to face the media, nothing.
00:22:43.380And gets a little pat on the back from the judge feeling sorry for him.
00:22:58.460Some of the comments from the judges I heard were over the top, but I want you to lay it out for us.
00:23:02.360So, you had Judge Florence Pan, a Biden appointee, Judge Michelle Childs, also a Biden appointee, and Karen Henderson, a George W. Bush appointee, three women judge panel.
00:23:17.920So, obviously, Judge Florence Pan, who has been a D.C. fixture for a long time, she is married to a man named Max Steyer.
00:23:25.920That name might be familiar to you, certainly to your viewers, a long time Democratic activist in D.C.
00:23:31.860He was one of Brett Kavanaugh's chief antagonists, claimed that he saw Brett Kavanaugh involved or engaged in lewd behavior when they were both freshmen at Yale.
00:23:46.380He is just in a new movie at Sundance talking about Kavanaugh.
00:23:49.840And here is his wife now today, clearly with her marching orders, preposterous hypothetical that she asked Trump's lawyer, what if the president used SEAL Team 6 to assassinate his political rival?
00:24:06.420Would he be protected from criminal prosecution under the immunity argument that Donald Trump's team is making?
00:24:17.240If they did do that and the public found out about it, he would be immediately impeached and convicted, which is the process for dealing with criminal conduct by a president in office.
00:24:30.000So, she made that hypothetical, forced him repeatedly, yes or no question, yes or no, I want a yes or no answer.
00:24:39.100And then, of course, that produced all the headlines we're seeing on the left.
00:24:42.140Donald Trump's lawyer says, if a president assassinated his political rival, he wouldn't be prosecuted.
00:27:52.720And for Katie Touring, the guys at the top of it, could they go after Obama for his summary execution of U.S. citizens during the war on terror?
00:28:03.100Or others, the war crimes of Cheney and Bush?
00:31:40.560And I want people to know where to go to get all this ready, in particular tweets you had up today.
00:31:44.780So Declassified with Julie Kelly is my sub stack.
00:31:49.160Twitter X, Julie underscore Kelly, too, where I have that long form post talking about Judge Pan and her husband and all the rulings that she's been involved in.
00:31:57.460But let's take a moment to laugh at Katie Turr, who doesn't understand the legal process, but at the same time claiming that Donald Trump is trying to, what, delay his rights, his due process rights, about how the appellate court system works.
00:32:14.580If you're going to have someone on MSNBC talk about these unprecedented cases, she should know what unbunk is, the full court circuit court.
00:33:27.540Brother Rosendale, it's not just a war room posse that's absolutely furious, right?
00:33:32.440And they've taken your kind of guidance on this about the border and training on the border with this debacle that Johnson put up.
00:33:38.300But last night, Heritage, Jake Sherman's reporting that Johnson got on a call with the Heritage donors thinking they would say high five and this is fantastic.
00:34:07.920I truly believe, as I know you do, that the southern border is an imminent national security threat.
00:34:14.880There are millions of people that have come in.
00:34:17.400Several million have come in undetected.
00:34:20.480No law enforcement encounter whatsoever.
00:34:23.520Who knows what countries they came from and what their intentions are.
00:34:26.780We're going to hold a press conference tomorrow.
00:34:29.280I have got some of the members of the Senate that are willing to stand up with us.
00:34:33.600Some of the guys that went down to the border with me as I spoke to you while I was still down there in Eagle Pass.
00:34:39.900Eli Crane, Andy Biggs, Bob Good, Matt Gaetz, you know, the warriors up here.
00:34:45.240And we're going to say that we are willing to shut down the government or shut down the border.
00:34:50.960Steve, you and I both know what policies need to be implemented in order for us to stop this flow of humanity across the border.
00:35:00.540We need to have ICE doing their job again, conducting raids, deporting people.
00:35:04.840We need to stop the asylum process with which, as soon as you claim it, you're allowed to be released into our country.
00:35:12.060The remain in Mexico policy and then take some of the funds that we certainly have available to us and complete the border wall system, the fiber optics in the ground for detection, cameras, lights and the road system.
00:35:25.900If we do that, then we will begin to stop this flow and we will stop the chain of migration that begins around the globe.
00:35:34.960Let me ask you, but in his – the first cut of this budget where he's actually giving them more money and giving them a Keynesian stimulus with the child tax credit and the side pocket deals McCarthy had,
00:35:49.160he's fully funding DHS for all the madness going on and not talking anything about sharing – is he avoiding that and hope that's where he's going to get this side pocket deal to give them $100 billion for Ukraine with some border optics?
00:36:04.420I mean, what is Johnson trying to accomplish because he doesn't mention anything about the border here at all except to give Biden and Mallorca's all the money they asked for, sir?
00:36:19.880I would like to think that Mike Johnson understands what we need to do.
00:36:24.940However, when he opens up his door to counsel from his staff, they start whispering these sweet nothings in his ear that they're getting from Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer that are undermining what we are trying to accomplish.
00:36:39.920We cannot spend $1.6 trillion on undisclosed amounts to keep the federal government going, to weaponize it against American citizens, to keep transgender surgeries being paid for, to keep abortions being paid for, to keep this huge New Green Deal being paid for that's enriching the very contributors that are putting Democrats back in office.
00:37:08.380And we're making it very clear, a small group of us making it very clear.
00:37:14.020We're not going to accept this status quo of moving forward with some – it's another continuing resolution.
00:37:26.520It is an imminent national security threat.
00:37:29.120There's going to be something major, that catastrophe that happens, and we're going to lose American citizens over it.
00:37:38.780Is there any doubt in your mind as you sit here today getting ready for the press conference tomorrow, really a throwdown to the Speaker of the House, that the folks in the great state of Montana have your back on this?
00:37:49.760I spent most of the time through the Christmas holiday actually spending it with my sons and my grandchildren in Great Falls.
00:37:56.780But I did do several events, Steve, and I can tell you, just as soon as – or as recent as Sunday afternoon, I was in Mile City.
00:38:05.920There were several hundred patriots there, the Patriot Roundtable, and they cheered when I said we need to shut down the border or shut down the government.
00:38:15.960I went out on the mainstream media a couple of times.
00:38:19.840I hope nobody will hold it against me.
00:38:21.880Earlier today, talking about the impeachment resolution for Lloyd Austin, and they started talking about this being the least productive Congress ever.
00:38:31.060And I said the people of Montana are thanking us for that because every time something gets passed up here, it either takes away their liberties or takes away money from their bank account.
00:38:43.280And so they are more than glad to see fewer bills passed.
00:38:47.400We've got – and we know you've got to bounce.
00:38:51.060We've got cash filing up here by General Austin.
00:38:53.040Give us a minute on your impeachment of Austin.
00:39:00.840This starts way back of the pattern of misinformation and lies that he has shared with the American people, going back to the Chinese spy balloon.
00:39:13.040It flew over Montana and collected very sensitive information about the 140 ICBMs that we have located up there.
00:39:21.980And Lloyd Austin lied about the balloon, first of all, that it even existed, then about the ability for it to collect information and data and images, and then the fact that it was actually able to transmit that information back to China.
00:39:39.040We have cellular information about it.
00:39:40.720And then when you compound that with the withdrawal from Afghanistan where 13 of our troops were killed, that was negligence, and now to be admitted into a hospital, ICU, not even disclosing to the president about what was going on, how long he was going to be in there.
00:39:59.440He has put national security at risk, and the man needs to be impeached.
00:40:04.960Where do people go on social media and where they go to find out about you, your website, campaign, all of it?
00:41:07.140This is about the national command authority of the United States of America, delegated by the Constitution of the United States Congress.
00:41:13.200And what that means is the law requires an unbroken chain of command from the president of the United States to his secretary of defense, because the no-fail mission of the United States is the single most important mission on God's green earth.
00:41:25.500And when the secretary of defense is absent from his duties, which is permissible, he must notify the White House and the commander in chief and the chain of command authority at the Department of Defense so they can execute and implement the gaps necessary to strategically defend this nation.
00:41:44.200What if President Biden picked up the phone and says, hey, we got an American hostage in Africa?
00:41:49.480What if he picks up the phone and said, hey, we got a two-front war in Ukraine and Israel?
00:41:53.160How about a terrorist situation in Southeast Asia?
00:41:56.660No one is saying the secretary of defense can't treat to his illness or get better.
00:42:00.920What we are saying is he lied to the American people, withheld his illness, did not inform the chain of command, and most importantly, jeopardized the safety of the men and women who wear our uniform to protect this nation and the world, because he thought in his egotistical mind that he could hide his illness from the world and not have anyone cover it.
00:42:20.940Then he lied about it, and after that, he failed to inform his number two, the deputy secretary of defense, who was on vacation, that he was even out of the office, ill and unable to complete the command authority mission of the Constitution of the United States.
00:42:36.760For those reasons and those reasons alone, he must resign.
00:42:40.200I put out a powerful op-ed on the Gateway Pundit on this very issue.
00:42:44.680This is one of the most grotesque failures of national security by any secretary of defense in the United States history.
00:42:50.940And all you have to do is ask yourself this, Steve.
00:42:53.600The United States military isn't ready 97 percent of the time for 97 percent of the time.
00:42:58.260We do reps and sets for 100 percent of the time for every day, 24-7, 365.
00:43:03.240What if one of President Trump's secretaries of defense took four days off and didn't tell him and then blamed the chief of staff for not passing the note at a study hall?
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00:46:04.580Matt Rosendale is leading a contingent of the hard eight that were able to remove McCarthy.
00:46:10.600To a press conference, say, you don't shut down the border.
00:47:46.380The chairman of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the chief of staff of the Department of Defense, and a slew of other defense officials knew for a week before the White House that Lloyd Austin, the Secretary of Defense, was sidelined and in bed and hospitalized.
00:47:58.040And the president of the United States and the national security advisor had no idea.
00:48:02.060The nuclear deterrent, the largest arsenal and largest retrograde force we have in the world, rest with the president of the United States and the secretary of defense.
00:48:10.780And the president of the United States, had he picked up the call to order any strike or counteroffensive, would have found his secretary of defense absent because he intentionally decided to lie to him and take a break to tend to his illness, which is fine, except he violated the law.
00:48:26.980And he jeopardized our national security.
00:48:38.580The second part, which is around the New Year's and what we're talking about right here, they leaked information today because they're leaking on him now, is that on the 23rd when he went in, and it's not elective surgery, it's prostate surgery for potential cancer.
00:48:51.480When they went on the 23rd, he had a general.
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00:49:29.480And you've got kids, young men and women, taking incoming in Iraq from Persian militia.
00:49:35.440What is she doing in Puerto Rico with a drink, with an umbrella in it?
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