00:04:33.300Hopefully, Sheila Matthews is going to try to juggle and get some other things in as we talk about the war and the global economy.
00:04:38.800Let's go ahead now and play our cold open for the afternoon.
00:04:42.000President Trump's past emissaries, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, are reportedly hitting a diplomatic wall,
00:04:49.960with CNN and The Guardian now reporting that Tehran has indicated it would prefer talks with Vice President J.D. Vance.
00:04:58.980You'll recall it was Witkoff and Kushner who met with Iran in February, right before the U.S. and Israel launched strikes.
00:05:05.160President Trump issued a 10-day pause to postpone planned strikes on Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure.
00:05:12.440This remains a truly once-in-a-generation opportunity for the regime to make a good deal with the United States,
00:05:18.980permanently abandon their nuclear ambitions, and stop acting as the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism.
00:05:25.940If the Iranians reject this golden opportunity, the greatest military in the history of the world
00:05:30.960continues to stand by to provide President Trump with every option available
00:05:35.440to ensure this regime continues to pay a grave price.
00:05:40.080One way or another, Iran will no longer have the credible ability to threaten the United States or our allies,
00:05:47.020which is, of course, the overall objective admission the president set out when he launched Operation Epic Fury.
00:07:51.480How do you explain that discrepancy between the two?
00:07:54.120I think the American people are smart enough not to take the word of a terrorist regime
00:07:58.740that has chanted death to America for 47 years at their word.
00:08:03.220And I hope the journalists in this room are wise enough not to take an Iranian regime
00:08:07.440that has repeatedly lied about our country, about our values,
00:08:11.660about everyone in this room, frankly, for nearly five decades.
00:08:15.520So I think the American public are smart enough to understand that present posted this morning about, you know, his threat
00:08:22.060that on leaving Iran, he said we might be blowing up and completely obliterating all of their electric generating plants, oil wells,
00:08:28.620Harg Island and possibly all desalinization plans. Under international laws, striking civilian infrastructure like that is generally prohibited.
00:08:36.920Why is the president threatening what would amount to potentially a war crime with the U.S. military?
00:08:41.800And how do you square that with the administration repeatedly saying that the U.S. does not target civilians?
00:08:46.740Look, the president has made it quite clear to the Iranian regime at this moment in time,
00:08:51.200as evidenced by the statement that you just read, that their best move is to make a deal.
00:08:56.380Or else the United States Armed Forces has capabilities beyond their wildest imagination,
00:09:01.640and the president is not afraid to use them.
00:09:06.160And you're saying the word potential for a reason,
00:09:08.540because I'm sure some experts are telling you that in your ear to try to ask me that question.
00:09:14.380Of course, this administration and the United States Armed Forces will always act within the confines of the law.
00:09:20.180But with respect to achieving the full objectives of Operation Epic Fury,
00:09:24.200President Trump is going to move forward unabated,
00:09:26.720and he expects the Iranian regime to make a deal with the administration.
00:09:30.500Which of those objectives would destroying a desalurization plant most help?
00:09:36.160Every time the president says something that seems completely contradictory, it's Caroline Levis' job to go out there and pretend that it's somehow consistent.
00:09:43.840And this is the trick for this war, right?
00:09:46.120He says one thing, as you rightly point out, one minute and another thing, another.
00:09:49.700It wasn't that long ago we were talking about unconditional surrender.
00:09:51.980Now we're talking about negotiations, which are, of course, conditional.
00:09:56.020And in some ways, it's the uncertainty, which they say is intentional, may have some strategic purpose.
00:10:04.160nobody can be 100 percent sure what Donald Trump might do next. That's, you know, there's an
00:10:09.480advantage to that in some way. But it also means that, you know, even he doesn't seem to know what
00:10:14.660he's doing or what he's going to do next. And because it seems to be so conditioned on the
00:10:19.340impulse of the moment, the thing he happens to see on TV, the thing somebody happens to tell him
00:10:24.700most recently. And I think that that's the kind of thing that is, you know, really concerned both
00:10:30.860the allies and a lot of American officials who are not certain where this war is going.
00:10:36.840Thanks a lot, Caroline. Two questions regarding the financial cost of the war.
00:10:40.980Back during the Persian Gulf War, 1990-1991, Arab countries paid for the vast majority of the cost
00:10:47.660of the war, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UAE. Who's paying for the cost of this war? Will those Arab
00:10:54.760countries step up to do just that? Well, I think it's something the president would be quite
00:10:59.460interested in calling them to do. I won't get ahead of him on that, but certainly it's an idea
00:11:04.780that I know that he has and something that I think you'll hear more from him on.
00:11:10.680Okay, we've been pressing those two points in this total war. Number one, you have to seize
00:11:15.680the financial assets of the Persians. And a lot of those financial assets, the ones not sitting
00:11:22.880in switzerland are sitting the bulk of them we are told are sitting in dubai think about that
00:11:29.680for a second a nation that we defend uae uh and they can make that decision now there is all types
00:11:36.520of chatter in arab media that this is being done because that that would be a big move the pirate
00:11:42.440code they're used to having the pirate code is the double deal everybody even double deal themselves
00:11:48.060And I think even some of the Arab nations are a little surprised
00:11:50.600about the level of assets they have, but this should be seized immediately.
00:11:55.900Also, they're absolutely correct in the Gulf War.
00:11:59.860I think the vast amount was paid by the Arab nations.
00:12:17.640And one of the reasons you've seen some folks go wobbly is that they've hit the Arab nations, the desalination plants, the some of the oil refineries.
00:12:27.160Of course, the Israelis hit the gas plant, which I say the inflection point.
00:12:32.560But the point is that the Arab nations got to write checks.
00:12:35.920First off, their value of their oil has over doubled already just off the profits, just off the wealth increase.
00:12:43.800and they're all jumping on force majeure the air the saudis the other day force majeure they want
00:12:48.680to break the contracts with the west they want to break the contracts of all that's at 50 52 55
00:12:54.300dollars a barrel and and and the qatar already already i think invoked on the five-year contracts
00:13:01.140uh for for gas or liquefied natural gas if they liquefy it these guys are making a fortune it's
00:13:06.520time to get the checkbooks out and stroke the checks i don't know why we would go to capitol
00:13:10.600he'll ask for 200 billion until we go around and pass the hat there and say, hey, you in for that,
00:13:14.980you in for that, you in for get your checkbook out. I want to see a bunch of zeros at the end
00:13:19.380of this. Then whatever the net is, maybe you have to throw something at it. I don't even know why
00:13:25.400you would throw something in it. You know, maybe you got to go to Jerusalem too and say, hey, get
00:13:29.640the checkbook out. Let's write a check here, guys. A little something for the effort, as they said in
00:13:34.360Caddyshack. A little something for the effort. I think it's what Bill Murray, you know, told the
00:13:40.500Dalai Lama after he uh after he caddied for him he was about to get stiffed we can't get stiffed
00:13:45.980over there you get Scott Besson's up he's giving a talk about you know families what President
00:13:50.640Trump's doing for tax cuts and what uh refund checks are coming and uh about Trump accounts
00:13:55.880all these great things that President Trump's doing for the economy well this pressure of
00:14:00.580paying for this Gulf War could wipe out a bunch of that it shouldn't have to happen
00:14:03.400we're saving people it it's completely indifferent to us
00:14:08.100they get the NATO Navy get the Royal Navy down keep Hormuz let's see their big plans keeping
00:14:14.060Hormuz and the Red Sea open we talked about this last summer why are we if we're gonna if we're
00:14:19.160gonna do this which I don't understand why we're doing it why are they not down stroking checks
00:14:23.780and what they should do is just replace us you know all these guys all the they're all great
00:14:28.900allies until it comes to actually either writing
00:16:28.200So from the turnover I did with Eric Bolling, just remember today, right in your number two principle, that it was the first time that President Trump had talked about it.
00:16:40.160And it was some specificity backed up by the Secretary of State or the National Security Advisor.
00:17:00.740It's kind of the pattern recognition trend did not back off.
00:17:04.060I think the markets need to see a little more information because the Iranians are coming out and pretty much saying, well, first off, nobody can figure out who's negotiating.
00:17:12.840Actually, we're doing it directly, but a lot of different elements.
00:17:15.800Remember, they're probably shattered into several different elements or denying it.
00:17:19.880Of course, the entry room also reports that, you know, I keep talking about Aryan's land, this history of the of the retreat back from India of Alexander the Great and his army.
00:17:34.480They took the they took the land route right on the rim, right there in the north on the North Arabian Sea and then into the Persian Gulf as he put 50 percent of his troops on the ships and had them go through Hormuz.
00:17:46.980And it's just horrific. You got to read about this expedition.
00:17:49.880But they said, hey, Arian in the morning and Caddyshack in the afternoon.
00:17:53.260That's range. That's what you come to the war room for.
00:17:56.240Mike Davis, I got two things for you. One is very disturbing.
00:17:59.960I don't. And there's some good guys over there, too. And I think they went along with this.
00:18:04.760The Senate, you agree to a deal that carves out ice and and customs of the border.
00:18:13.740Now, there is some theory. Of course, Rosemary Jenks says she's talked to appropriations and she says this theory doesn't work.
00:18:19.880that somehow in the big, beautiful bill, they got loaded in there somehow.
00:18:38.700I hope it's because ICE agents that were there not getting paid were arresting illegal aliens.
00:18:43.740I don't know, but they're breezing through.
00:18:46.420Tell me about that. That's bad enough.
00:18:47.860Also, you know, we spent all this time, I could tell, and the Warren Posse understood it.
00:18:53.120Mike Lee is up there being a hero on the Save America Act and try to seize the floor and force this.
00:18:58.020But besides him and Eric Schmidt and a couple of good guys, you just didn't feel the heat.
00:19:03.100The Save America Act, the trying to go and get it and do the, and break the filibuster, do a standing filibuster, seemed like a couple of people trying to force it.
00:19:12.500And then the Senate just, they took off in two weeks.
00:19:17.220So make this make sense for the audience, exactly what happened and who's accountable. Even Johnson, the speaker, said, I can't do this. They passed something totally different. So people are kind of outraged about this. Explain to us what happened.
00:19:31.380Well, the senators have two crucial tasks that they have to accomplish. They need to fund
00:19:40.040our homeland security so our DHS workers are not going for more than 40 days
00:19:47.580without their paychecks. They also need to pass the Save America Act in the Senate that has 80%
00:19:56.160support among American voters, including a supermajority of Democrats and even a supermajority
00:20:02.640of minorities. These Senate Republicans failed those two crucial tests. They are on their second
00:20:11.700paid vacation in just about 40 days, while at this same time, these DHS workers were not getting
00:20:21.440paid. We have DHS workers going to food banks. These families are working paycheck to paycheck,
00:20:29.640and these senators thought it was a good idea to take their second paid vacation in 40 days while
00:20:37.920DHS workers are going unpaid. What the hell is going on in the Senate? I want to say this
00:20:44.220To these Senate Republicans, do your jobs. Your job is to protect our homeland. Your job is to make sure that only American citizens are voting in American elections. These have brought bipartisan support. And you want to go on your second paid vacation?
00:21:03.600They know all that. Hang on. You work for a guy you revere, Grassley, right? You know the Senate as well as anybody. Hell, you've led confirmations and some of the hardest confirmations in American history. See what's going on here. Correct me if I'm wrong. By somehow they're treating President Trump as a lame duck. They go on recess and they don't actually go on a technical recess so he can't do recess appointments.
00:21:25.880Grassley and these guys still abiding by the rules.
00:21:28.420So there's not breaking the filibuster.
00:21:30.160We're still blue slipping people like crazy.
00:21:33.240President Trump still only got 14, I think, U.S. attorneys, which, you know, the shock troops over at DOJ.
00:21:39.060You've got a handful of great people, but they're barely hanging on.
00:21:42.200They've got cases, you know, every day they're going into federal court.
00:21:44.880They were down in Georgia the other day.
00:21:47.200You've got this situation with the Save America where they have no, you know, and I know, they have no intention of ever passing that.
00:21:53.600In fact, Tuberville said, hey, you couldn't even get if we get if there's no filibuster, we couldn't get 50 votes to make J.D. the 51st.
00:22:02.060He says you wouldn't come closer. A couple of short there.
00:22:05.200So what is President Trump to do that? The Senate is basically said, hey, sorry, not sorry.
00:22:11.460John Thune, isn't it time that we actually get Article three in the war room posse and get up because you only need 27 votes to change the leader?
00:22:20.080And John Thune is a good guy. He's a nice guy. But clearly, you know, in wartime, you need a wartime consigliere. You need people prepared to take it to the mat. And he's just not going to do it. So shouldn't our focus be on instead of things are clearly going to be performative.
00:22:36.900We just go back and say, let's change the leader and let's get somebody in there that's prepared to have President Trump's back and go all in, even if we lose.
00:22:45.840I think with the Warren Posse and the people at Article 3 that support it, they want to see a fight and a real fight.
00:22:51.680As Mike Lee said, it was going to take a fistfight on the Senate floor to get the Save America Act to make it real.
00:22:57.720And we didn't even come close as great as Mike Lee and Eric Schmidt and a handful of others were.
00:23:04.660We didn't come close to a fistfight, sir.
00:23:06.900Yeah, I would say this. The Senate Democrats are fighting like hell for their key constituency, illegal aliens, right? Senate Democrats want to defund ICE, defund Homeland Security, make it easy for their illegal aliens to rig and steal elections.
00:23:26.000And how do Senate Republicans respond like giant ****? Because that's what they are. And I would say this to John Thune, nice guys, finish last. You need to get these Senate Republicans back in the Senate and grind these Senate Democrats to a halt.
00:23:47.040If they want to filibuster the Save America Act, make them stand on their feet and talk until they run out of gas, and then you can pass the Save America Act with a simple majority.
00:23:59.800And on DHS funding, you really can't get the support to pay our TSA workers.
00:24:07.620You can't get the support to pay our ICE agents.
00:24:11.260What the hell are Senate Republicans doing if they can't lean in on these two crucial issues that deal directly with our sovereignty with the Save America Act and our national security with the funding of DHS?
00:27:06.500Do you think that, by the way, I'm asking you to stay through the break because we're going to talk about the Wednesday 14th Amendment debate at the Supreme Court on birthright citizenship.
00:27:17.960Do you think you could do that, Mike, unless Dune thinks his job's in jeopardy?
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00:29:54.380Court is set to consider President Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship, excuse me, a centerpiece of his agenda.
00:30:02.200In a post this morning, the president repeated a claim that he's made before, calling the constitutional amendment establishing birthright citizenship having more to do with slavery than equality, he said.
00:30:15.340He also seemed to take a swipe at the justices themselves, saying dumb judges and justices will not make a great country.
00:30:23.560Well, not a great country make, he inverted that.
00:30:26.560Donald Trump and his solicitor general and a few conservative scholars are bringing to the court are some fringe arguments that have been rejected for more than a century.
00:30:34.520As you said, the 14th Amendment clearly says all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States.
00:30:44.360And that term subject to the jurisdiction has been held not to include diplomats and invading armies and initially Native Americans, although that was changed later.
00:30:54.140But now Donald Trump and his allies are trying to say that that should also not include people who are here illegally.
00:31:00.940And look, he's already predicting he's going to lose.
00:31:03.520Most legal scholars think he's going to lose this.
00:31:05.300And this will be the second major defeat after tariffs.
00:31:08.620And politically, it will allow him to blame the court and say that he tried to fight the good fight and he lost.
00:31:15.620And it's going to further poison his relationship with this court, which is one of the most conservative courts in decades.
00:31:21.180Again, most people do not think he has a prayer here, but there are there are an increasing number of fringy legal scholars who have come to adopt the idea that maybe there is it is time to take another look at this, that maybe that initial decision was wrong.
00:31:37.260So I don't think you can completely rule it out. But some conservative justices have hinted in previous arguments that they have very little patience for this argument and that they're you know, it would just it would just throw 100 years of jurisprudence into chaos.
00:31:52.680For one thing, Katie, because you're supposed to be able to rely on decades and decades of settled precedent.
00:31:59.980OK, I've heard our viceroy referred to as a ballroom, a ballroom brawler.
00:32:23.260Well, I'm glad that Jack Smith's spokesperson is weighing in on this important Supreme Court case.
00:32:30.200I would just point to Ken to look at the Wong Kim Ark case from 1898,
00:32:36.940where the Supreme Court very clearly ruled on the 14th Amendment's birthright citizenship clause.
00:32:46.080And the Supreme Court said that in order for you to have birthright citizenship in this country
00:32:52.520under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, you have to be subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
00:32:59.980And in the Wong Kim Ark case, the Supreme Court said that lawful permanent residents are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
00:33:11.060But American Indians, in a separate case, were not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
00:33:18.380So you have to ask this dispositive question. If American Indians are not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States under the 14th Amendment, how the hell would illegal aliens be subject to the jurisdiction of the United States? They're clearly not.
00:33:34.380If you follow the plain text, textualism, or the original public meaning of the 14th Amendment's birthright citizenship clause, originalism, these constitutionalist justices on the Supreme Court should find this to be a very easy case.
00:33:51.140There is clearly no birthright citizenship for illegal aliens, for Chinese birth tourists, for example, should not have birthright citizenship.
00:34:07.040Schweitzer's found 1.4 million Manchurian voters, Chinese nationals living in China that are U.S. citizens and can vote when they're of age.
00:34:16.640I mean, this is one of the reasons the book spent five weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
00:34:22.420Mike, does it behoove President Trump, who selected a lot of these folks and is very close, is it behoove him?
00:34:29.180He's like a college basketball coach working the refs.
00:34:38.720I would just say this to these six Republican appointed Supreme Court justices.
00:34:43.920If you're actually going to follow the law, this is a very easy case.
00:34:48.860There is no birthright citizenship for illegal aliens.
00:34:53.080They're not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
00:34:56.520They're subject to the jurisdiction from the country from which they came, right?
00:35:01.740And so if Ambassador's kids do not have birthright citizenship of invading armies, do not have birthright citizenship of American Indians, do not have birthright citizenship, this is such an easy legal decision for them to make.
00:35:18.040Clearly, illegal aliens do not have birthright citizenship.
00:35:21.860That is if they have the courage to follow the plain text and the original public meaning of the 14th Amendment.
00:35:28.540You know, who knows who knows how these justices will rule. Courage is in very short supply in Washington, D.C. right now.
00:35:36.300And I mean, OK, so we're going to be covering all of that live. It's on Wednesday.
00:35:40.760Of course, we'll have a whole team is there. Rosemary Jenks, Mike, how the entire team will be there right before I let you go, because the process is, you know, Mike Lee puts out some President Trump puts it up on true social.
00:35:51.240Just explain the audience. Just take a minute. How do we actually get him back here?
00:35:55.320Is President Trump calling back? Has Mike Lee put some resolution up? What has to happen to get them out of their vacations, get them back here on Easter weekend to set things right here, sir, the United States Senate?
00:36:09.960At the Senate Republicans, I realize that you're in the most exclusive nursing home on the planet, but I would just like to remind you that recess is for kids.
00:36:22.400You need to get back to work and pass the Save America Act and funds DHS workers who are living paycheck to paycheck and have to go to food banks so they don't have the same luxuries that you have with these two paid vacations in 40 days.
00:36:40.260If you're not willing to do that, President Trump should invoke a provision of the Constitution that allows him to call the Senate back into session during extraordinary times.
00:36:50.360I think this is an extraordinary time when DHS workers are at food banks because they're not getting paid.
00:36:57.860Unbelievable. Mike, Article 3 in your social media, where do people go?
00:37:03.700Article3project.org, article3project.org. Donate. Follow us on social media. Take action.
00:37:11.120The most important action item is the Save America Act. Keep illegals from voting in American elections.
00:37:16.260thank you brother appreciate you appreciate you at cpac also mike davis there are three people
00:37:24.580kicked off with a party and of course the traditional war room closed it on saturday night
00:37:30.500with a party um her it was fantastic we were back here grinding but the parties are for the younger
00:37:36.820people uh sheila matthew sheila you are in uh and you join us by phone i think you're in atlanta
00:37:43.140have just landed. Why is ABLE Child, why are you going to Atlanta? What's going to happen tomorrow?
00:37:49.420We have an amazing exhibit in the Capitol. It's the first of its kind, and we're hoping for more
00:37:56.220throughout the country, but it's basically on Eisenhower's ABLE Child, and we have the
00:38:03.700checklists of the ADHD child and how it mirrors that of the gifted child. So our presentation
00:38:11.480is going to be to educate lawmakers. It's open to the public. It's from 8 a.m. to 12 noon
00:38:18.680in the south wing of the Capitol building. And people can find information on Fulton
00:38:25.580County Speaks dot com in the event section. It is going to be wonderful. I mean, basically,
00:38:33.380we are working to help support a bill, HR 1007, sponsored by Todd Jones, a House representative
00:38:43.600regarding arts for health initiatives for improving mental health outcomes. So basically,
00:38:50.780it is to work on alternatives instead of psychiatric drugs for children. It's to really
00:38:57.560look at the validity of the label itself, because President Eisenhower wanted the children,
00:39:05.480the able child, to flourish. And where the ADHD child is a disease model, President Eisenhower's
00:39:14.480child is a gifted child. And when you lift up the child, the entire country flourishes.
00:39:21.620This disease model of ADHD isn't real.
00:39:42.100So these it's really looking at this label and saying, why are we putting an ADHD disease label on these children when, in fact, they're gifted and they're able?
00:39:56.320We need to flourish through President Eisenhower's National Defense Education Act.
00:40:02.460A lot a lot of this is just little boys being little boys.
00:40:05.840Next thing you know, they got thrown on drugs.