00:02:36.660Our joint force continues to focus on our military objectives as we systematically continue to degrade and destroy Iran's ability to project power and threaten stability beyond its borders.
00:02:49.620First, the joint force continues to destroy Iran's ballistic missile and UAS capabilities.
00:02:55.780We remain focused on interdicting and destroying the logistical and supply chains that feed these programs.
00:03:02.620And this remains a truly joint effort prosecuted around the clock from air, land, sea, space, and cyberspace.
00:03:11.060Long-range bombers from U.S. Strategic Command are coordinating with tactical fighter aircraft from our joint force
00:03:17.260launched from bases around the region and the continental United States.
00:03:21.360While simultaneously Navy fighters from the sea and sailors continue to project power from the sea,
00:03:27.920Army and Marine artillery units continue to execute long-range precision fires deep into enemy territory against high-value targets.
00:03:37.440Meanwhile, on the defense side, our Army and Air Defenders and Aviators, as the Secretary talked about,
00:03:43.420remain vigilant, forming a shield to protect our forces and our partners, intercepting missiles and drones.
00:03:50.080Together, we continue to deliver precision strikes against key manufacturing nodes,
00:03:54.860component storage sites, research facilities deep within Iranian territory.
00:04:01.040And over the past 29, I'm sorry, 30 days, we've struck more than 11,000 targets.
00:04:07.020Given the increase in air superiority, we've successfully started to conduct the first
00:04:12.700overland B-52 missions, which allow us, as we've said before, to continue to get on top
00:04:19.360of the enemy, and as the Secretary talked about, switch towards more and more dynamic targets,
00:04:27.000servicing mobile targets around the battle space. We've continued to do the work against Iran's
00:04:34.680missile, drone, and naval production facilities, and we continue the multi-domain pressure that
00:04:40.000we've talked about. Second, on the Navy front, we continue to assert dominance over the Iranian
00:04:45.680and Navy. We remain focused on targeting their mine lane capability, their naval assets, and we've
00:04:52.000now, as I mentioned briefly last time, started to work attack helicopters and other close air
00:04:56.960support assets into the naval domain. CENTCOM continues to identify and work against naval
00:05:03.920depots and storage areas, and we've taken out, again, more than 150 ships, including all Jameran
00:05:11.200class frigates inside their Navy. Third, we continue to prosecute our campaign
00:05:16.240against our defense industrial base at scale. This includes factories,
00:05:20.860warehouses, nuclear weapons, research and development labs, and the associated
00:05:25.900infrastructure required for Iran to reconstitute its combat capability.
00:05:31.180As far as President Trump and boots on the ground, I don't understand why the
00:05:37.600base, which they have already, they understand wouldn't have faith in his
00:06:09.940So if we needed to, we could execute those options on behalf of the president of the United States and this department.
00:06:15.640Or maybe we don't have to use them at all.
00:06:18.100Maybe negotiations work, or maybe there's a different approach.
00:06:21.220The point is to be unpredictable in that.
00:06:23.680Certainly not let anybody know what you're willing to do or not do.
00:06:26.240But if anybody has internalized the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan as the first one, President Trump, to call them out for what they are, he's not going to repeat those lessons.
00:06:35.420And I think I've been very clear about that from the podium.
00:06:37.520about removing iran's enriched uranium so has the strait which was not initially one of the
00:06:44.300objectives of the war do you feel that the hormuz strait has become the top military objective for
00:06:49.400the administration john it's hard to see how this ends if iran is controlling the strait of hormuz
00:06:55.320and to say that that's been a strategic gain for the united states i think it's good if we're
00:06:59.780taking out their missiles their drones their air force their navy their power projection
00:07:02.940But the Strait of Hormuz is the artery of the global economy.
00:07:07.340And here, Iran is demonstrating that it can basically control it.
00:07:11.080And if you step back even further, John, and connect this to Russia and Ukraine and these Shahid drones, which we dealt with against our forces for years, they can travel about 1,000.
00:07:22.140Some of them can travel longer than 1,000 miles.
00:08:50.920The president's been clear to Iran, open it for business, or we have options, and we certainly do.
00:08:55.840And when you look at what the chairman laid out with the Navy, with the Navy industrial base, with coastal cruise missiles, with UAVs, with countermine capabilities, we've been focused from the beginning on a trading and defeating those capabilities and limiting their options.
00:09:08.440There's lots we're doing as well, some of which is known, some of which is not known to set the conditions.
00:09:14.260And I think the president was clear this morning in his truth that there are countries around the world who ought be prepared to step up on this critical waterway as well.
00:09:24.920It's not just the United States Navy. Last time I checked, there was supposed to be a big, bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to do things like that as well.
00:09:32.740So he's pointing out this is an international waterway that we use less than most, in fact, dramatically less than most.
00:09:38.260So the world ought to pay attention to be prepared to stand up.
00:09:40.920President Trump's been willing to do the heavy lifting on behalf of the free world to address this threat of Iran.
00:09:45.960It's not just our problem set going forward, even though we have done the lion's share of preparation to ensure that that strait will be will be open,
00:09:53.580which is an outcome the president's been very clear on.
00:09:56.960As far as Russia and China, we know exactly what they're doing, what they are or are not doing.
00:10:01.000We don't have to air publicly what all of that is.
00:10:04.160But where necessary, we're addressing it, we're mitigating it, or we're confronting it head on.
00:10:10.140The trend is that they are doubling down in Iran, which is unfortunate,
00:10:14.200because if they start to deploy troops and they put troops on Iranian soil, it's just going to get worse.
00:10:18.720And so it seems as though they're digging more and more as a way to justify and validate their initial decision to go in there.
00:10:24.660And another trend I see, unfortunately, is with Israel.
00:10:28.040Israel, they're going forward more and more in Lebanon.
00:10:31.560They passed a law today in the Knesset that they're going to hang Palestinians, you know, who are found guilty, but they're not of murder.
00:10:39.940But they're not going to hold Israelis to that same requirement.
00:10:44.340A question for you and then a question for General Cain.
00:10:46.960you said we're a month into the operation epic fury how long until the objectives are achieved
00:10:53.280and is there a scenario where a deal is struck before the objectives have been achieved and then
00:10:58.720for general kane there's been lots of media coverage that suggested a ground invasion is
00:11:04.320imminent what other purposes might the soldiers and the marines who have been deployed over to
00:11:10.100the middle east serve in this conflict well just like the previous question is sort of
00:11:15.660military 101. Don't tell your enemy what you're willing to do or not do. And don't tell your
00:11:22.820enemy when you're willing to stop, especially an enemy that likes to hide in bunkers and try to
00:11:26.980hoard their missiles and hope he'll wait you out. So that's not a question I'm going to answer or
00:11:32.040the president has said definitively, we have our own goals and guidance and things were military
00:11:37.040objectives that we're moving toward and things that we look at. And as he's articulated, you
00:11:41.560know he said four to six weeks six to eight weeks three it could be any any
00:11:46.120particular number but we would never reveal precisely what it is because our
00:11:50.680goal is to finish those objectives and we're well on our way and the chairman
00:11:54.760I look at this every single day it will be the president's determination and the
00:11:58.180president's determination alone when those objectives are complete and when
00:12:02.680it serves the interest of the American people to cut that deal to make sure
00:12:06.840that Iran doesn't have a nuclear capability and and ultimately that our
00:12:11.380objectives are our interests are advanced i don't know if you want to add anything no just to answer
00:12:16.180your question reagan you know the the range of military options that those forces can offer
00:12:22.420are extensive not just limited to what you you mentioned in terms of forces on the ground and
00:12:27.620i wouldn't want to take away the president's decision space but there are a multitude of things
00:12:33.460not the least of which is iran should note that they're out there and that they they are a pressure
00:12:39.620point and so they should carefully consider i think at the diplomatic level not not my job as
00:12:45.940a chairman but at the diplomatic level to consider what's in front of them i did the same with his
00:12:50.420boss a colonel with a heart the size of texas and a beautiful deployment mustache to match
00:13:01.380i witnessed lethality i met a junior airman as the sun was going down and a chill was setting
00:13:08.500on the tarmac, who, when asked what they needed, she simply looked up at me with a sly smile on
00:13:16.360her face and said, more bombs, sir, and bigger bombs. We will happily oblige her.
00:13:28.280It's Tuesday, 31 March, in the year of our Lord, 2026. We're into this thing about a month now,
00:13:33.780press conference this morning at the Pentagon. We're going to have Neil McCabe at the White
00:13:38.220House, David Zier back over at the Pentagon. Ben Harnwell is going to join us from Rome. Eric
00:13:42.560Bolling is going to talk about markets. We're going to break all of this down because President
00:13:47.140Trump, last night, severe bombing by the American and Israeli forces on military targets
00:13:56.260of the Iranians. And then this morning, President Trump dropped another bombshell saying, hey, look,
00:14:01.720if people won't step up here, we're just going to toss the keys to maybe the NATO allies and see
00:14:06.760what they do in keeping the Strait of Hormuz open. We're going to break all of that down.
00:14:11.180First, Politico has a major story this morning about our own John Eastman. John Eastman,
00:14:19.040his long journey to get to the Supreme Court on the 14th Amendment, birthright citizenship.
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00:16:28.480For those viewers and listeners that have been with us for many, many years who've been doing this show, one of the great patriots and heroes you're familiar with is John Eastman.
00:16:38.400John Eastman not only stepped into the breach about the stolen 2020 election, which now we know in Georgia and all these other places are, they're having dogfights about getting the evidence back of the steal.
00:16:50.020John Eastman has been with the president and the MAGA movement fighting on every different front.
00:16:53.860we covered it i think we were the only channel but definitely the show were me covered uh play
00:16:59.940by play when they try to take john eastman's law license away and they've tried to bankrupt him
00:17:05.340and other him more than any other i think individual a lawyer in this movement uh today
00:17:12.400john eastman joins us john uh you're heading back to washington dc for this uh uh for this argument
00:17:18.560in front of the supreme court tomorrow on the 14th amendment birthright citizenship and politico
00:17:23.480had as it leads story this morning the journey of john eastman in in making this what they called
00:17:29.700from a fringe theory to actually being argued at the supreme court and the federalists and some
00:17:36.340of the smartest public intellectuals over the last week have basically said what eastman has
00:17:41.380done is monumental because if you don't get this right you're not going to have a country and of
00:17:46.020course peter schweitzer in that magnificent book uh that was a new york times bestseller
00:17:50.640for five straight weeks. It was essential about these Chinese. He called them the Manchurian
00:17:55.380voters. I think it's 1.4 million Chinese living in China that came over here for the birthright
00:18:01.700tourism. So first off, John, tell us about your journey on this, and then let's get to the details
00:18:06.380of the case. Well, it started, Steve, in one of the 9-11 terrorism cases, Yasser Issam Hamdi.
00:18:14.900He was captured in Afghanistan, sent to Gitmo. And when they realized he'd been born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, they started treating him as a citizen. And former Attorney General of the United States Ed Meese and I filed a brief in that case saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, just because he was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, while his parents, Saudi nationals, were here on a temporary work visa, the dad was working on an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana, doesn't make him a citizen.
00:18:43.340The 14th Amendment says you've got to be born here. That's requirement one. But you've got to be subject to the jurisdiction here as well and reside in a state. That means temporary visitors and certainly those who are here illegally are not covered by the automatic citizenship of the citizenship clause.
00:19:00.900And that was the way we understood it for about a century and kind of gradually beginning in the 1950s or 60s, we moved away from that position. But President Trump's executive order restores the original meaning of the citizenship clause.
00:19:14.900If you're here illegally, then you're not subject to the complete jurisdiction. You're not part of our political community. If you're here just temporarily, you're here by our grace. You have not joined our political community. You're a visitor. And that's what the original meaning meant, and that's what the original court decisions were.
00:19:32.460That's what the original leading treatise writers of the 1870s said. That's what the secretaries of state said in the 1880s. So it's only more recently that we've adopted this more radical view that anybody born here, no matter the circumstances, are citizens.
00:19:48.500talk to me about that how did this start shifting in the 50s and 60s since it was already pretty
00:19:55.580established like what groups started to say oh no and and why did republicans or why particularly
00:20:01.220conservatives and conservative legal scholars jurists etc congress why did they just continue
00:20:07.900to look the other way well you know it started a bit under franklin roosevelt in the 1930s they
00:20:14.600The Office of Legal Counsel produced a memo saying that anybody born here, no matter what, was a citizen. But that memo never got the force of law. When Congress updated the Immigration Act in 1938 and again in 1952, it just mirrored the language of the 14th Amendment.
00:20:32.120So they clearly intended not to go any further than the 14th Amendment required them to go.
00:20:38.080But beginning in the 19th, I've traced it to a change in the passport rules in 1966.
00:20:45.300After a 1965 amendment to the passport requirements, somebody had to add some language to the passport application form.
00:20:55.720And it used to say, if you were born here, then they had several questions about the status of your parents.
00:21:01.200And I think some bureaucrat looked at it and said, well, I've got to get this back down to one page, and I don't know what relevance those questions have. So they just dropped it. And so now it's just if you're born here, you're treated as a citizen. That was 1966.
00:21:14.500So before that, look, people say that Wong Kim Ark, a very important case in 1898, settled the question. But Wong Kim Ark's parents were permanently and lawfully domiciled in this country. And the court goes out of its way 28 different times it references the fact that they're domiciled here, that they're legally and permanently here.
00:21:36.580But there's broader language in it. Most scholars, until Trump came on the scene pressing this issue in 2015, most scholars had agreed that the Wong Kim Ark decision didn't settle the question or even address the question of the children of illegal immigrants.
00:21:51.920But the Trump derangement syndrome by most legal scholars is so strong that they started saying, oh, no, this has been settled for over 100 years, when in fact it hasn't been.
00:22:01.360no msnbc and cnn every night and you can tell they're quite worried about this
00:22:08.860from the time you and ed meese filed that walk me through what's happened because
00:22:13.620in even in the political article they said this is another eastman was a fringe you know he was
00:22:18.580a main guy on this uh on on the big steel uh but he always comes up with these fringe theories and
00:22:25.000this is eastman at his best on on some french theory what have you had to go through uh from
00:22:30.220the time of Ed Meese until it's argued tomorrow morning at the Supreme Court? Well, I've debated,
00:22:35.660as the political article points out, I've debated the issue all over the country, law schools all
00:22:39.620over the country, at judicial conferences with some other prominent scholars. And like I said,
00:22:45.700up until Trump came on the scene and started pressing the issue, they all agreed with me
00:22:50.620that 1KMR didn't settle this issue, but they disagreed with me that my views were right.
00:22:56.320Although, look, I'm not the only scholar or even the first scholar that started looking at this. A very important book by Yale professors Roger Smith and Peter Shuck in the late 1980s did a thorough assessment of the original debates and came to the same conclusion that I did.
00:23:12.840My colleagues at the Claremont Institute, Ed Erler and Tom West, very prominent 14th Amendment scholars, have come to the same conclusion. University of Texas law professor Lino Graglia, the late Lino Graglia, independently came to the same conclusion.
00:23:29.440And more recently, as Trump's executive order has forced the issue to the front of academic discussion, very prominent scholars like Richard Epstein at University of Chicago and New York University have come to the same conclusion.
00:23:43.320In fact, in my view, anybody that takes seriously the original arguments that were had over the development of the 14th Amendment in 1868 will come to the same conclusion that the Supreme Court did when it first confronted the issue, that leading scholars of that day came to, that the Secretary of State came to.
00:24:01.900Look, in the 1880s, there were a couple of kids born to German parents or Scottish parents
00:24:06.860visiting here, just to take this notion that this is somehow a racist position off the
00:24:36.880Most scholars disagreed with me on the view that the power over interstate commerce did not extend to let the federal government regulate the entire economy.
00:24:48.380Or that the 14th, the First Amendment doesn't prohibit states from giving school vouchers to religious schools.
00:24:55.800Most scholars said that's silly. It's a violation of the Constitution. And we won that argument as well. And right now I've got teed up an issue about whether the spending clause lets Congress spend on whatever it wants or whether it's limited to the common defense and the national, the general welfare as the Constitution requires.
00:25:13.420Most scholars disagree with me on that as well, but most of them aren't originalists, and they don't take seriously what the Constitution originally meant, as I do, and we tend to win on these things when we present the originalist arguments to a court that understands that the original understanding of the Constitution is actually, it's not a guidance, it's not a suggestion, it's actually mandatory on us.
00:25:35.540is it just serendipity that peter schweitzer's book one of the central parts of it they're
00:25:42.520talking about how immigration has been used as a weapon against the united states one of their
00:25:46.560one of the most explosive things was this over a million uh chinese that have been born here for
00:25:52.680this birth tourism to actually live in china today and potentially could vote also these great
00:25:57.780journals uh like the federalists coming out and saying uh if you don't have talking about your
00:26:02.940argument in making the case at the Supreme Court tomorrow, if you don't sort this out and you don't
00:26:08.060get this right on the 14th Amendment, you're not going to have a country. Does that help make this
00:26:13.620such a big deal tomorrow at the Supreme Court? I think it does, although it's not argued in that
00:26:19.720way by either my brief or the Solicitor General's brief, which, by the way,
00:26:25.720Solicitor General John Sauer and his team have done a fabulous job making the originalist case
00:26:30.940here. But even beyond what Peter Schweitzer has published, and I think it's very opportune that
00:26:35.660it's coming out, is I saw a report last week that of those one point some million Chinese
00:26:41.520nationals that were born here and are treated as citizens, 200,000 of them of military-age young
00:26:48.080men are back here in this country asserting their citizenship. That's an army. Our major enemy on
00:26:55.260the world stage has an army of young military-aged men here claiming they're citizens because of this
00:27:01.380ridiculous notion that we back into of birthright citizenship.
00:27:08.760John, do we have a few minutes? I want to hold you through the break, or do you have to jump on
00:27:12.160the plane right now? Do we have a few more minutes? They're starting to board, I'm afraid. I got to run.
00:27:18.320Okay, okay, go ahead. Just give us your, we'll try to grab you tonight or tomorrow, just give us
00:27:22.580your coordinates? Where do people follow you on social media? So Dr. John Eastman on Twitter is
00:27:29.980the best place. They can also go to my legal defense fund site, give, send, go.com slash
00:27:35.220Eastman. And I'll try and do some updates there as well. Perfect. We'll get you back on. John,
00:27:42.580you're a patriot and a hero. I don't think anybody, you know, maybe Rudy and Mike Lindell,
00:27:48.460but no one's they've tried to destroy so many people but they really focused on you and one
00:27:53.500of the reasons they knew the kind of intellectual firepower you bring on these topics to mar the
00:27:59.260supreme court the long journey of john eastman brother love you we'll talk to you later thank
00:28:03.980you sir all right take these are the heroes that step into the breach like the folks in
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00:29:57.380okay just to um set the stage here tomorrow we are going to have special coverage
00:30:04.860of this uh argument in the supreme court on the 14th amendment birthright citizenship
00:30:11.360we know rosemary jinx is going to be there some other folks going to be there hopefully we've
00:30:15.180got our own neil mccabe will be there outside the uh the supreme court we'll be uh talking to people
00:30:21.040and of course listening to the some of the arguments is going to dip in and out of it
00:30:24.720john sour representing the solicitor general of the united states and a guy just doing an
00:30:28.920incredible job representing the government very very very important uh tomorrow on the 14th
00:30:34.920amendment um also tomorrow the mass deportation coalition is as you remember on april they're
00:30:41.280going to release their action plan i've had the honor of seeing a draft of that in the last 48
00:30:47.880hours it is very powerful and tomorrow we're going to have members of the mass deportation
00:30:52.900coalition on to discuss that mike hal and uh and many many more eric prince hopefully grab eric
00:31:00.900there's so many members of this coalition it's kind of the coming together of some of the most
00:31:05.160prominent names in this immigration fight and particularly we cannot take our eye off the ball
00:31:10.560of mass deportations even if the lobbyist that continued to hammer the white house want us to
00:31:18.080stop doing it you saw the poll yesterday we had rosemary jinx on from um punch bowl which k street
00:31:24.320wants us to talk about anything else but mass deportation but thank god we got a mass deportation
00:31:28.780coalition they put together an action plan that's pretty amazing so that's all tomorrow
00:31:33.540because i realize sometimes in the war here in the last 30 days it's like that opening scene
00:31:38.920and gone with the wind with scarlet her i think talking to the terror the tarlington twins war
00:31:44.360war war all you boys talk about is war well we're going to talk about a lot more than that because
00:31:49.400we've got so many things to cover but however first things first eric bowling we're going to
00:31:54.200talk war and markets the press so the president and i've got harnwell in rome because i got to
00:31:58.640talk about this nato situation which is quite disturbing mccabe's at the white house he's
00:32:04.580going to give us assessment of this of this press briefing today it was a little light on specifics
00:32:10.160but it had some very important things about overall but eric the president after lighting
00:32:16.360up and he told guys i said hey if you start hitting oil uh facilities of the arabs i'm
00:32:24.080going to have a reply and of course last night they they hit a tanker in kuwait and lit it up
00:32:31.060the president's reply was quite stunning with i think 2 000 pound bombs uh and we played that
00:32:38.280in the cold open. But he came back this morning and said, look, our work's about done. We're
00:32:44.680hitting our objectives. And the Strait of Hormuz, you know, services Asia and services Europe.
00:32:51.380And maybe it's time I toss the keys to guys because we're just not going to hang around here
00:32:55.300forever if nobody's prepared to do any heavy lifting. And the Israelis said they're not
00:33:00.200going to do boots on the ground. They're tied up in Lebanon. The Arab nations have just put out,
00:33:05.100I think a communique saying we need the United States to take this to its ultimate conclusion against Iran, yet they're not prepared to commit militarily.
00:33:16.100Your thoughts, and particularly what the markets are telling us about what has gone on in the last 12 hours.
00:33:22.860Great assessment of bringing us up to speed.
00:33:25.320One other thing in those last, I'd say, 15 hours, maybe 12, Bahrain has declared a force majeure, which we know is really a trigger word for traders around the world.
00:33:36.460There's a problem with supply, and that drives prices up.
00:33:39.140Russia has threatened a force majeure for whatever reason, also driving prices up.
00:33:43.440So what happened was yesterday, Trump said, open the Strait of Hormuz and come to the market.
00:33:49.420Hang on, hang on, hang on for a second.
00:33:51.380I just want the audience, I just want the understanding.
00:33:54.560I want the audience to understand, when you say force majeure, that is them telling the world that contracts we signed at much lower prices, we're going to walk away from those contracts because of act of God, act of war, act of nature.
00:34:10.620It means we're tearing up the contract, and when we re-sign the contract with you, it'll be at these much higher prices for oil and gas.
00:34:17.520is that the force majeure is a weapon that can be used and here it's being used by our allies in the
00:34:23.980gulf who refuse to support us militarily want our defense or whining about why we're not doing a
00:34:29.700better job of defending them they're now starting to tear up these contracts to get higher prices
00:34:35.360is that is is that the takeaway the audience should have about the the importance and power
00:34:40.840of uh this concept of force majeure exactly right steven we you know we brought this out before
00:34:47.040anyone declared a force majeure that I said we talked about the likelihood is they would be
00:34:51.820declaring force majeure whether they need to or not because it's literally a paragraph in almost
00:34:56.560every single business contract whether it's oil or not you can see it we probably see a force majeure
00:35:01.560in any sort of other types of deals contracts as well and you're right it's it's act of god
00:35:06.960act of nature act of war it basically covers it but so it gave these folks these arab countries
00:35:12.920Now Russia's joining the party to rip up the contracts that they settle at, who knows, $50, $60 a barrel, $65, and reinstitute them in the case of Brent, which is now trading $118 a barrel today, up $5 more, even on the heels of what would some, I'll tell you, the equity markets, the stock market, thought what Trump said this morning was a positive thing, relieving the pressure.
00:41:27.220The reality is, Steve, we use West Texas Intermediate.
00:41:29.980We produce most of the oil we need right here.
00:41:32.800We don't need Middle Eastern oil if we don't have to, especially with that deal.
00:41:36.760We can actually even work on Venezuela, Canada, and Mexico to increase our purchases there.
00:41:42.080So the reason why West Texas Intermediate, our oil is $1.04 today, and Brent is $1.18 today, and Middle Eastern Omani crude, others are $1.50 today, is because it's a regional issue.
00:42:09.960Why are we fighting, risking our young people's lives is really the only way to truly, truly take over Iran and regime change and get that oil.
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00:50:30.500Neil, what's the what's the feeling over at the at the White House?
00:50:33.920I know people are hunkered down. I think they've put I think they've canceled tours.
00:50:38.080It's it's it's very, you know, it's kind of general quarters over there, 24 hours a day.
00:50:43.000I realize that gets, you know, people's nerves get frayed.
00:50:46.400What's your sense of the White House? How are things hanging together over there?
00:50:52.400There's like two realities. About half an hour ago, J.D. Vance's motorcade rolled in.
00:50:58.780he walked into the West Wing. The president right now is in what they call executive time. So he's
00:51:04.060in meetings, all that's closed to the press. And then tonight, the president and Melania are going
00:51:09.700to go to the Trump Kennedy Center for the opening night of Chicago. And so there's, you know,
00:51:15.600there's two different realities going on. There's the war track, and then everything is fine track,
00:51:19.860Steve. Yeah, this is as usual. Neil, where do people get you reporting 24-7? Tomorrow,
00:51:26.560We're going to I'll talk to you after the show. Want to deploy you if it if the war can spare you, deploy you over to the Supreme Court for this historic argument of the U.S. government about getting rid of the birthright citizenship.