Law firm Paul Weiss drops out of the Perkins Coie case against the Trump administration. Is this a good or bad move? What does it mean for the future of the case, and why did it happen? And what will the White House have to say about it?
00:00:00.000A story I just told our viewers about Columbia University makes concessions to Trump and they bid to reclaim federal funds.
00:00:07.580I mean, just that shows that Columbia University is for sale in the time of Trump, just as the law firm Paul Weiss seems to be.
00:00:14.200Quote, Columbia University agreed on Friday to make changes to its protest rules, campus security policies and Middle Eastern Studies Department
00:00:21.680in a remarkable concession to the Trump administration, which had refused to consider restoring $400 million in federal funding without an overhaul.
00:00:29.080What's interesting is if they if they embarked on their own to do those things, they could.
00:00:34.520I mean, and I'm not at Columbia. It sounds like like there was an appetite for that among its own student body.
00:00:40.720But to do it under duress makes them look so weak.
00:00:44.380Well, and it seems to come back to the same thing. It's about money. Oh, you're going to withhold funding.
00:00:48.840OK, well, then we'll back down. Oh, Paul Weiss is going to lose clients and it will affect our business.
00:00:53.940OK, well, why not just end DEI without Trump, you know, holding you to it in the Oval Office?
00:01:00.340Right. It's one thing if the law firm and if the university, if they actually believe that these are the proper actions to take and those are principled, that would be one thing.
00:01:09.440And it's not to say that there shouldn't be changes necessarily to how those protests were handled and that there were some Jewish students who were on campus who felt unsafe.
00:01:17.400It's not to say that they shouldn't be addressing these things, but it's the circumstances under which they're doing it where, yeah, oh, you're only when you're going to withhold our funding.
00:01:25.700Are we then willing to come to the table and concede everything?
00:01:29.380At some point, you have to stand for something. And it seems that these that the university here and the law firm did not.
00:01:35.180As the story is sort of reverberated around the legal community about concerns that a law firm went in and buckled so quickly after Perkins Coie was, you know, in their fighting and and again meeting some receptive legal ears in the judge that reviewed that.
00:01:55.640Yeah. So I think this will be not just the first law firm to cower and surrender.
00:02:01.820I mean, they're the first, but they will not be the last. Paul Weiss is a Goliath of law firms like this is one of the top law firms in the country.
00:02:11.240And when when a law firm that is that powerful and has those kinds of resources at their disposal, when they say, no, we're not up for the fight,
00:02:21.120even though it's a slam dunk case and you already have another judge in it with the essentially same executive order saying this violates the First Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, the Sixth Amendment.
00:02:31.860This is totally unconstitutional. It's blatant on its face when you have that kind of a record.
00:02:36.260And this law firm says, no, we're still going to cower. We're still going to surrender.
00:02:41.400That sends a message to all the other Goliaths and all the Davids that you do not want to fight this.
00:02:47.180And what I found particularly troubling, there was a piece in Mike's article in his reporting where the White House made a statement saying that when Paul Weiss's chairman went in to talk to Donald Trump,
00:03:01.200that he acknowledged wrongdoing from the prosecutor, their former law firm partner, who then went on to investigate with the D.A., Manhattan D.A.'s office,
00:03:12.580went on to investigate Donald Trump and recommend charges against Donald Trump, that that chairman that he acknowledged wrongdoing on behalf of that prosecutor
00:03:21.580and then said that he also acknowledged the grave dangers of weaponization and the need to restore our system of justice.
00:03:30.340Now, I don't know. It wasn't clear to me whether or not that actually happened, but I have not seen a statement disavowing that White House statement from Paul Weiss.
00:03:42.040That should have been disavowed immediately if it didn't happen, because that is outrageous.
00:03:47.040What did Mark Pomerantz do that was so bad?
00:03:49.540He left the law firm to go and investigate the former president for crimes and recommended that he be charged with crimes.
00:03:57.400And by the way, he ended up being convicted of 34 counts in that in that case that ultimately went to trial.
00:04:04.440So where is the wrongdoing here that I found troubling because, look, Paul Weiss can say, look, this is pretty innocuous.
00:04:12.160We're agreeing to do things in pro bono work that we already do.
00:04:17.780It is a big deal because the reason they were targeted is because of these actions from a former partner and also another lawyer from that law firm who took on a case representing others against January 6th rioters.
00:04:33.480They're being punished for those Democratic causes.
00:04:35.860So when you then take a step back and you don't fight the slam dunk case, you are essentially neutralizing yourself and you're telling others, we're not going to take on these potentially illegal actions that this administration is going to take on.
00:04:51.440We're going to we're going to step back from that.
00:04:53.380We're not going to defend against that.
00:04:55.040And we are not going to defend others who may need help.
00:04:58.020I mean, that is the message that you are sending.
00:05:00.380And not only that, you're taking it a step further and you're saying we're actually going to now align ourselves with causes that Donald Trump finds acceptable that are mutually agreed upon.
00:05:17.640You know, it kind of raises the question when you see these law firms, big, powerful law firms backing down, when you see universities seeming to back down, you know, members of the media.
00:05:27.400You know, it's like who is going to meet this moment?
00:05:34.800The White House put out a statement yesterday revoking security clearances for a number of individuals saying it is not in the no longer in the national interest.
00:07:54.720President Trump, with this judicial insurrection that's becoming, quickly becoming a judicial coup,
00:08:01.920we update you every day on activities related to this, because that's really the main front of battle.
00:08:07.800As AOC and Bernie Sanders run around with a cosplay populist theater.
00:08:16.620And of course, the Democratic Party is feeling the wrath of what we went through in the Civil War in the Republican Party 14, 15, 16 years ago with the Tea Party revolt.
00:08:28.020They're now getting it from their constituents who are even more angry than the people in Congress.
00:08:32.560But you talk about significant wins and people being very focused at the White House and outside advisors for President Trump.
00:08:40.560Three last night, and I'll start with two of them.
00:08:46.860Number one, Columbia University cratered.
00:08:52.180To go after this credentialed class that has been the hoplites to destroy the country, destroy this republic, you have to get to the taproot, the source of it.
00:09:05.100And that is these out of control Marxist universities that with state money and donor money and alumni money have taken these great institutions that have been built in the United States to world class nature and turned them into Marxist hell holes, essentially.
00:09:21.620And many times a combination of what I call the red green alliance, the neo-Marxism of these left radicals with radical jihad, Columbia being the perfect example, 60% of the student body are foreign students, which is unacceptable, just unacceptable for any institution taking taxpayer money from U.S. citizens and being an American institution and really there to serve American citizens and this country.
00:09:49.060Columbia, Columbia, yesterday, President Trump went after Columbia, withheld $400 million.
00:10:31.880The White House and Donald Trump broke them, as they should and they have to.
00:10:35.580And there are many more out there that have to be like this.
00:10:37.380I would actually say this is a call to arms to withhold all federal money from these institutions until they get focused, until they clean out the rat's nest of these faculty senators, until they clean out the rat's nest and these administrators, get all the neo-Marxists out, clear it out.
00:10:55.520American taxpayers are not going to pay for this anymore.
00:10:59.320Columbia University talked tough and collapsed immediately.
00:11:02.460If you want to change the direction of this country, the one thing you have to do is take on the credentialed class.
00:11:25.400Washington, D.C. is absolutely and totally controlled by these big powerhouse law firms.
00:11:30.880New York City, because that's the political capital of the empire and rules over the country, as you know, as an imperial master.
00:11:43.020New York City, the financial capital of the world, is essentially run by the investment banks, the hedge funds, where all the hedge fund guys came out of the investment banks, and the law firms.
00:11:56.020And the law firms have started to transition to almost being private equity.
00:12:01.680They've merged with private equity and become these entities that are lethal to this nation and this republic.
00:12:08.040The combination of this private equity combined with these powerhouse massive law firms.
00:12:16.000And this is a renowned liberal law firm.
00:12:22.500I think it's the first law firm historically, traditionally, to have a Jewish partner work with a non-Jewish partner.
00:12:27.100Because back in the post-war, pre-war, but post-war era, it was quite segregated.
00:12:32.080It had the Jewish law firms and the white shoe law firms, the Brahmin law firms.
00:12:36.940The mix being too dumb to get into the good law schools, so they were working the low-end, the trading, the bucket shop trading desk.
00:12:47.940Paul Weiss, though, was the leader, the leader in coordinating, and the partner, I think his head name is Karp, was the leader among powerhouse law firms of organizing against Trump.
00:13:03.980And these aren't out-front guys like Mark Elias or Bob Bauer.
00:13:10.200And Elias, and when you see people like that, it's that they're powerful in that they get out in front and fight and they can get grassroots and organizations.
00:13:19.980The real power, as you always know, is behind the scenes.
00:13:22.680Paul Weiss was the railhead in the legal profession of the heavy-duty Wall Street bringing the heat against Trump and everybody associated with Trump.
00:13:38.780Number one, to organize that no law firms are going to work for Trump people.
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00:17:19.340And you move quicker in the system because you've already proven yourself through those years when you were a young kid to get into those places.
00:19:38.280That is a total and complete humiliation for the partners of Paul Weiss and Bill Burke and all the guys that work with them that tried to last week, try to get Covington and Burley.
00:19:48.440Because this all came because they went after the law firms.
00:23:35.240To put together a pickup team in those years of 21 and 22 and to be ready for the onslaught of 22 and 23, it will go down in history in the legal profession of a change in this country.
00:23:54.640When Trump had him in the Oval, he said, you, CARP, made sure that no law firm, I could retain a law firm, the president of the United States of America, a man that had brought peace and prosperity to this country in his first term.
00:25:05.980This is the public version of what they're doing in the Justice Department to redo it because the lawyers do control the country.
00:25:12.920They're the most ill-equipped people to do it.
00:25:15.020If you gave me a choice between being governed by the first hundred people that walked into these rallies, one of these rallies or one of these, you know, a super ballot chase that Scott Pressler and the people in Wisconsin bring on this weekend.
00:25:35.160The first hundred people, the first hundred hammerheads that walked in with a red MAGA ball cap versus the top hundred partners in Paul Weiss to run the country.
00:32:01.880I actually just spoke at a national deployment of young Republicans that have come together here at our office in the Waukesha area, in the suburbs.
00:32:35.580And we had, as you know, Steve, a major development literally in the last several hours because President Trump came out and officially endorsed Brad Schimmel, the conservative in this race,
00:32:45.960who's running against the liberal, Susan Crawford, out of Dane County.
00:32:51.180We get Trump voters from last November to turn out, and the conservatives will take over the court.
00:32:58.180We have a 4-3 liberal court right now, one of the liberals retiring.
00:33:03.120So it's a race for one of the liberal seats.
00:33:05.700We flip the court in 10 days if we win.
00:33:09.380Let me ask you just to make sure the audience understands this because people are going to want to do phone banks, et cetera, and maybe even go to help canvass.
00:33:20.100450,000 ballots were out because what's happening between now and April 1st, Election Day, is early in-person voting.
00:33:27.280But to do that, can you just show up at a polling place and get a ballot, or do you have to have something mailed to you absentee that you fill out and actually take and drop off?
00:34:28.540The truth of the matter is we have to get two Trump voters out there and say the truth, which you said before, which is this election will decide the success of the second two years of Donald Trump's term.
00:34:44.460And because it may, if we lose here, it may flip.
00:34:51.640I mean, as you know, I'm an actual Republican from Madison, Wisconsin, and this election will decide two seats in the House of Representatives because this court, on a liberal court, if they stay in control, they will throw out the congressional district maps here in Wisconsin, make it impossible for two Republicans that we do have two of our six Republicans to win.
00:35:16.720So literally, it will help flip, for the liberals, it would help flip the House of Representatives against the president.
00:35:32.500So if you're a Trump voter in Wisconsin, if you want to help President Trump vote in the next 10 days, it's getting a little late to request an absentee ballot, but you can still do it.
00:35:44.520But if you want to make absolutely sure your vote counts, either vote on Election Day or vote early at your local clerk's office, which you can do through next Friday, plenty of time.
00:36:02.900Right now, the congressional delegation from Wisconsin is 6-2, folks, Republican.
00:36:09.440If they win this seat, it stays as a liberal court, they'll redistrict, it'll be 4-4, on all likelihood to be 4-4.
00:36:20.300Losing those two seats are going to put so much pressure in 26 on California and New York for us to hold those seats, which are always tough.
00:36:29.720Now, I know we're going to go on offense and we're going to have a better economy, all that, but just mathematically, these two seats absolutely could be the key to Hakeem Jeffries.
00:36:40.560And Hakeem Jeffries is going to impeach the president the first day he's on the job.
00:36:51.580But 449,000 requests compared to – isn't this an extraordinary – is this a pretty big number of early requests?
00:37:01.700And you're saying 193,000 have already been returned, have essentially voted, almost 200,000, so you're close to almost half.
00:37:09.700When people tell me, well, one of the problems here, it's a low turnout, that doesn't feel like a low turnout for a super off-year election for a Supreme Court judge.
00:37:22.960Yeah, traditionally, the total vote is – can be as – I mean, we're anticipating about 2 million in this one, which will be higher than what it was in the last two years ago when the court flipped liberal.
00:37:35.540So we are expecting a higher turnout here, but it's certainly not the level of turnout that you would have in a presidential year.
00:37:42.840Well, hence the importance of President Trump's endorsement.
00:37:46.400As you know, Steve, he got about 1.7 million votes here in Wisconsin, in winning Wisconsin and turning it red.
00:37:54.320I don't want it to turn back blue or pink.
00:37:57.420I don't want it to turn back, and it shouldn't have to.
00:38:00.820Your point about the House seats is important because – I mean, we've – I always say – in fact, I was saying to a crowd last night, a rally I spoke at, look, we've had two members of the House – regrettably, we've had two members of the House pass away just in the last couple of weeks.
00:38:16.500I mean, that's two members, and right there, and you could lose two members out of Wisconsin separately.
00:38:23.400So the importance of this – the point – this is not some fire in the hills somewhere.
00:38:31.160It's very, very important for the president to be able to finish his agenda.
00:38:35.100If people watching us right now want the president to be able to finish his agenda, this race in Wisconsin is critical, literally maybe half the margin to the Democrats taking over the House.
00:38:48.920So this opportunity to vote early, even in an off-year election, we do – to your point, we do drop off quite a bit in off years.
00:38:56.840But I'll tell you what, Steve, you can't turn on the television in this state without a massive amount of advertising from both sides right now.
00:39:06.940You can't turn on the television right now and not have some awareness of this race.
00:39:12.780But just like in the 24 race because we were outspent so much, that kind of turns to white noise.
00:39:18.880CNN picked it up because they're trying to jack people up on the left.
00:39:21.700This is old-school door-to-door canvassing, correct?
00:39:24.540The way this vote gets turned out is you've got to go and get them.
00:39:31.100If you're thinking it's going to be close to 2 million and you've got 500,000, let's say, that potential early vote, you're expecting a million to a million and a half on game day on April 1st.
00:39:43.600Do you have the – is the party apparatus – I know you're working with some of the Trump organization and other people outside groups.
00:39:49.960But do you have an apparatus left over from 24 that can turn out a million people on game day?
00:39:58.520I think between ourselves and a lot of the third-party groups that have come in, I mean, we've – I held over field people.
00:40:04.300I mean, usually, like most state parties, after the November of a presidential year, you burn the furniture to keep the building warm.
00:40:12.820You lay off anyone who hasn't drawn a breath in five seconds.
00:40:16.300But we kept several of our field people on it, kept six field offices across the state on, kept two offices, Hispanic and African-American offices, open in Milwaukee.
00:40:25.460We have hundreds of volunteers pounding on doors.
00:40:29.220We're doing additional ID and early vote push.
00:40:33.140We've been doing – we're at the highest level we've ever been in an off year.
00:41:15.760Brian, where do people go to find out more information about you, your effort, how they volunteer, how maybe they throw your $5 bill or whatever?
00:41:24.700Where do people go right now to get – people want to get engaged in this.
00:41:27.680They understand that it's all on the line in Wisconsin.
00:41:31.060And they've seen the furor of this phony AOC, you know, Bernie Sanders cosplay populist roadshow.
00:41:37.500So they want to get involved in Wisconsin.
00:41:56.940And then they can also contact us at WISGOP, W-I-S-G-O-P.org, or the Schimmel campaign directly at Schimmel for Justice, S-C-H-I-M-E-L for Justice, Schimmel for Justice.com.
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00:45:09.580I'm going to have Philip Patrick is going to be here at the bottom of the 11 o'clock hour.
00:45:16.260We're going to talk some about the economy and capital markets.
00:45:18.620The reason we're going to do that is the Fed came out the other day and the announcement saying they weren't going to do – they weren't going to jack – or they weren't going to cut interest rates further.
00:45:28.000But they did say they're going to have two cuts the rest of the year.
00:45:32.660Buried in that that didn't get a lot of attention was the fact of – that they had 1.7 percent growth in forecasts instead of over 2 percent.
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00:47:21.580It is incredibly important to voters in Wisconsin.
00:47:25.140They don't have a high tolerance level for sexual predators, and they definitely don't have a high tolerance level for people that get these guys lenient sentences.
00:47:33.240This whole record that Susan Crawford has on protecting our kids, protecting our communities is atrocious.
00:47:40.180It's not just embarrassing, it's atrocious, and we need to make sure that as many voters as possible know about her record here.
00:47:48.460And to get her on record, when I watched that clip in the debate of her saying that she had no regrets about those light sentences that she gave to these people, it reminded me of 2021 when Terry McAuliffe had that moment where he said, parents shouldn't be telling schools what to teach.
00:48:03.820This was a very big moment, I think, in Wisconsin, and I think now the momentum's starting to shift to Schimmel.
00:48:10.040I think we have a great shot at this, and Chairman Schimmel is exactly right.
00:48:16.000There is a lot of money being pumped in here.
00:48:20.220There are tons of people out there knocking doors.
00:48:22.580So we've got a real shot, but what I'm so worried about here, Steve, is it's April 1st, April Fool's Day.
00:48:28.760I mean, you couldn't have picked a worse day to have an election, but we've got to get people to the polls, and we've just got to bring our family and friends.
00:48:36.660There's a great site, 10X the vote that people can go to, and you can actually refer your family and friends.
00:48:42.900You upload your contacts, they can help you get your family and friends to the polls.
00:48:45.940So if you're in Wisconsin, you've got to go to this stuff.
00:48:48.200You've got to get out there, bring your family and friends.
00:48:50.400This is going to determine the future of our country and whether or not we control the House of Representatives, Steve.
00:48:55.880I don't need to go into it, but this is such an important race.
00:49:00.680Talk to us about the canvassing itself.
00:49:03.020I mean, obviously on April 1st, you have to have a huge game day vote, but with these number of ballots out, almost 450,000 early vote ballots have already been sent out.
00:49:29.380We have to get those low-propensity voters who traditionally just don't vote if President Trump's not actually on the ballot with making the case that he actually is on the ballot, correct?
00:49:45.880And that's why the Democrats are investing so much money here is because they know that this is their way to get rid of our House majority by gerrymandering these seats out so that they can just run up the impeachment and hold up Trump's agenda.
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