Declassified Liveļ¼ Trump nominates Brett Kavanaugh
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Trump picks Brett Kavanagh to fill the seat of Justice Anthony Kennedy, who retired on the United States Supreme Court. This is big, and it has the left absolutely hysterical. Declassified Live is the best live streaming show on the internet, as voted by you, the listeners.
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Welcome to Declassified Live, the best live streaming show on the internet, as voted by,
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All right, we're going to have a really, really, you know, I already like how this show is starting
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off today. John Space already has what looks like a scotch on the rocks or a bourbon on the rocks
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for me. That is awesome. That is absolutely, absolutely awesome. I love this. I love starting
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a show with somebody who's got a bourbon on the rocks for me. How can you beat that? Well, big day,
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big, big day yesterday here in the United States, because I know we have a lot of international
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people tuning in every day. President Trump picks Brett Kavanaugh from the D.C. Circuit Court of
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Appeals, nominates him to fill the seat of Justice Anthony Kennedy, who retired on the United States
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Supreme Court. This is big. This is big, and it has the left absolutely hysterical.
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Hysterical. Hello, say my name, cat of the year. Thanks for watching. I bet you are the cat of the
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year. Bet you are. Native Indian says, good morning, brothers and sisters in Canada.
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Peace and love from the south of you. Yeah, good morning to the world. We had yesterday, we had
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Australia, New Zealand, the UK, France, Canada, the United States. We had one other. I can't remember
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where, but I know we had a pretty good international audience, and we had South Africa last week as
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well. So Kavanaugh is nominated to the Supreme Court, has liberals absolutely hysterical. And this
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is pretty priceless because Kavanaugh was about the most moderate. Trump had that list, if you remember,
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from the Federalist Society. Heritage Foundation also chimed in on that early on. This goes back
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to the 2016 campaign. And the list was the brainchild of White House counsel Don McGahn. He was then
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senior counsel to the Trump campaign. Now, I haven't always been a Don McGahn fan, but I think on this
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one, he knocked it out of the park with proposing this list because there were a lot of people who were
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concerned about Donald Trump's conservative bona fides and whether or not he would have appointed
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true conservatives to the Supreme Court. Well, to put that to bed, to alleviate those concerns,
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McGahn and Trump came up with a strategy whereby the Federalist Society, Heritage, and other
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conservatives, people like Senator Mike Lee from Utah, Senator Ted Cruz from Texas, would all be able
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to chime in and give their input on who should be on the list of those Trump would nominate to the
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Supreme Court should there be a vacancy. Well, Trump had two vacancies. Of course, the tragic
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vacancy when Anthony Scalia died, a conservative legal giant, and now Anthony Kennedy retiring just
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as a matter of course. An older guy. It was just he'd been on the court decades. Just time to go.
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It appears Trump appointed two very conservative people. Now, Gorsuch has been called Scalia 2.0.
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People like Hugh Hewitt are calling Kavanaugh Roberts 2.0. That concerns me. Kavanaugh does seem like
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the most moderate of the bunch. However, Dr. Slappy says, good morning, John and company. Good
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morning, John Zeeland. Good morning. And Kavanaugh seems like the most moderate strategies and
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communications for Donald Trump Jr. And he's a good buddy of mine. And he put out a tweet this morning
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that I thought was outstanding. Let me find it and I will read it to you if I could find it. But
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he really was. He said, Kavanaugh is Gorsuch part two. Great SCOTUS pick. He's an originalist and a
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textualist. He's a super superstar on deconstructing the administrative state. And I hate to break it to
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Democrats and their friends in the media. No matter what you do, he will be our next Supreme Court
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justice. That from Andy Sarabian, who left the White House political shop only about a year or so ago.
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So this is what he did for a living. He studied these people. He worked on these issues. Now,
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the pick of Kavanaugh has conservatives well excited. They know they're getting somebody that
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will protect the Second Amendment. They know they're getting somebody that will protect the
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sanctity of life. He's going to be an ardent supporter of religious liberty if his prior decisions
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are indicative of his future decisions. He's been a pretty conservative guy.
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The concerns to many are that he clerked for Kennedy. Kennedy was appointed by Ronald Reagan
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as a conservative, but really became a centrist judge, became the, well, the dependable swing vote
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on the court. I know many conservatives were a little bit concerned when last night, if you didn't
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watch the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh last night when Trump announced him, really not the nomination,
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but if you didn't watch the press conference, the event, you should watch it because Trump is a
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master showman, better than P.T. Barnum. He built the suspense and built the suspense and built the
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suspense. And about five minutes before the 9 p.m. Eastern announcement last night, we pretty much knew
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it was Kavanaugh. His parents were in the audience, whereas the families of none of the others that were
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mentioned were. The Associated Press began to report Kavanaugh. NBC Nightly News said they've got somebody
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inside the White House. It's Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh's in the White House. Many, many people out there who
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were hooked in the know in D.C. were saying they saw Kavanaugh go in and his parents were there and
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the same stuff. So we knew about five, 10 minutes before that it was definitively Kavanaugh. But Trump
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still kept the suspense going. And then Kavanaugh and his family kind of popped out a side door. I don't
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even know where they came from. But in Kavanaugh's remarks, he seemed tepid. He seemed moderate.
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Now, many on the right took that as a matter of concern. He especially thanked Elena Kagan,
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a far left member of the Supreme Court, because she was the dean who hired him at Harvard University.
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I read it differently. I read it much differently. Kavanaugh's a guy with a young family. He's 53
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years old, very young in judicial terms. His wife appears to be his age, a couple of years younger.
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He's got two young daughters. They're little kids, his girls. He wants to be confirmed. He wants
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to present himself as confirmable. Look, he's got 12 years on the D.C., 11 or 12 years on the D.C.
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Circuit Court of Appeals. He has a lot the Democrats can use against him. He wrote, he authored something
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like, I think the president said last night, 300 opinions while sitting on that bench. And so the
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Democrats now have a lot of ammunition against him. That was, but to me, that's a plus. Somebody
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who has a long judicial track record has a plus. And wow, E. Bronder just logged in from Holland.
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So we've got Holland today. We've got Canada. We've got Holland. Our friends from Australia,
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New Zealand, I'm sure are going to pop on soon enough. We had France, the UK yesterday. I'm sure
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we'll have those as well. But back to the judge. So authoring 300 opinions means you've got a long
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history. You can bet your bottom dollar that the Democrats are going to pour through. Their
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staffers, last night, about 11 seconds after Kavanaugh was nominated, their staffers, Democrat
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staffers, went to work. They went to work trying to find something wrong with him, something to knock
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him out. The Democrats will be spending millions on negative ads. They'll be spending millions,
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some of those millions, on private investigators, digging into every aspect of his life. Now,
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the FBI, I'm sure, has already done that on behalf of the Trump administration. U.S. Marshals have
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helped. They provide security. They were providing security yesterday to the four finalists. And
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the vetting process has been going on for quite a while. So it's highly doubtful the Democrats are
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going to find anything. Plus, Kavanaugh appears to have lived a pretty simple and very clean life.
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He and his wife went on their first date, he said, September 10th, 2001. They both worked in the
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White House. The next morning after their first date, experienced, of course, the 9-11 attacks.
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He coaches basketball for his two young daughters. How long CYO basketball, Catholic youth organization.
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I played in those games as a kid in Catholic school. How long until the Democrats start
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falling on the CYO to eliminate him as a coach? Cat of the year is from Australia. Great to have you.
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Great to have you. What time is it in Australia, Cat? I always get confused with that whole thing.
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Oh, our old friend, Tammy. Tammy, do I say your name right? Budinsk Zandel. Hi, Tammy.
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Frank Pizikala. Good morning, Frank. But how long until the attacks on Kavanaugh start? How long until
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liberal parents in CYO basketball start pulling their kids out? Because it's 9.38 in Australia,
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PM. Thank you very much. We've gotten to a point where someone isn't allowed to have political views.
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They have political views. They have to be attacked personally. Enoch, greetings again from the sunny
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Golan Heights. I love it. I love the internationalism of our audience. It's awesome. And so we've got this
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guy who appears by all rights and accounts to be a really good guy. Let's put his legal opinions aside
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for a moment. You've got a guy who is a dad, a husband, by all accounts, a really good one. You've
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got a guy who is 9.08 PM. I'm sorry. Frank is from Canada. Hey, Frank. And all my friends in Canada,
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good morning. You've got a guy who by all rights and accounts is a coach. He mentors kids. He feeds
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the homeless. That's not enough for the left. No. The left has to viciously attack this guy and watch
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what's coming. Now, the New York Post editorial board really liked the pick. And they said,
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Brett Kavanaugh is an excellent pick for the Supreme Court. I thought they did a great job. So I'm going
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to read you some of the excerpts. They start by saying something that's very true. Donald Trump is
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once again keeping his campaign promises. He floated names on a list as to who he would pick for the
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Supreme Court. He's so far picked two names off that list. Gorsuch and now, of course, Kavanaugh.
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Post writes, Judge Kavanaugh, 53, is widely seen as one of the top legal minds of his generation,
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so much so that now Justice Elena Kagan recruited him to teach at Harvard Law, where students across
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the spectrum rave about him. Though firmly committed to interpreting the Constitution as written, he's no
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ideologue, which is why Senator Ted Cruz and other hard rightists had been urging Trump to pick someone
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else. But now Democrats will proceed with their preset strategy for fighting any Trump picks,
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charging that confirmation of Kavanaugh, they mean, guarantees the end of Roe v. Wade and Obamacare.
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Demi says, I watched President Trump's announcement last night, and it looks like a very normal family,
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the Kavanaugh family. Yeah, it does. I mean, they do. These are just regular people.
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Anthony Emmerich says he's a devoted constitutionalist, right?
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People I trust say yes. They say, Anthony, it's a great question. They say, despite his appearing to be
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conciliatory and moderate, that's just his temperament. He's a nice guy. He's a mild guy.
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But they said he is an obstructionist. I'm sorry, a constructionist and a textualist.
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He's a constitutionalist. He interprets the words as written, much like Scalia, much like Clarence
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Thomas, much like Alito. And so, and Hill's a VA, says 53. He'll be there a lifetime. Look, yeah. I
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mean, he could conceivably have 35 to 40 years on the court. Medical science getting better. It looks
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like he's a guy in good shape. He plays basketball with his kids. I think we've got him for at least
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30 years. Got him for at least 30 years. And so, I feel pretty comfortable that he'll
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shake out to be a good judge. Hill's a VA to see a Rhino. I don't think he is. I don't think
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he is. I've been out. Now, granted, the man wrote 300 opinions. I was doing a lot of research last
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night insofar as I could. I got to be up early to get the show ready for you guys. But I'm comfortable
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with what I see so far. Now, the left is losing their mind. And the only way Trump could make the
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left lose their minds even more is if he renames the Department of Defense to War Department and
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forget about it. Well, Tammy even just mentioned it when he replaces Ruth Bader Ginsburg, because
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I believe that's going to happen. She's 85 years old. The woman's been on the bench a long time. It's
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just maybe she wants to relax. She seems to be in pretty good shape. She falls asleep a lot on the
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bench and congressional and State of the Union speeches. But for an 85-year-old, she appears to
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be really sharp and in good shape. But don't you just want to retire and take a breather and go
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relax at 85? And so, I think that's what's going to throw the left over the edge. Now, a couple of
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things happened last night that are very unsettling. Outlets like ABC News were calling the pick
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controversial before they knew who Trump picked. They were doing that about an hour and a half
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before. Senator Bob Casey, a Democrat, said he was going to vote against the nominee before he knew
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who the nominee was. Very troubling when you have the Democratic Party more interested in politics than
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it was good for the country. Shannon Bream from Fox News, after the announcement, was going to do a live
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shot from the steps of the Supreme Court where people had gathered. He was going to talk to the
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crowd and do a live event. However, when she got there, she said the mood was so volatile. The
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aggressive leftist protesters were so volatile. She had to cancel. She had to cancel. Let me see if I
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can find Shannon's tweets from last night without getting too sidetracked here. Because I found that
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to be. Yeah, she said the Democratic activist became so volatile after Trump's nomination, she had
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to cancel the live shot. And then she said she had to go back to, in a subsequent tweet, she had to go
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back to the safety of her studio. And it was the same mobs of leftist protesters, illegal, illegal
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immigration activists. Same story, same crazies. Same stories, same crazy. And Anthony Emmerich says,
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for those willing to sacrifice freedom, security, deserve neither one. Ben Franklin, the actual quote was
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closer to those who are willing to sacrifice essential liberty for a bit of temporary safety,
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deserve neither liberty nor safety. There are a couple of iterations. The gist of it, though, is
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if you're going to tell government, protect me, don't cry foul when government takes away your rights.
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Don't cry foul. Now, the the left, like I said, we knew they were going to be unhinged. We knew that.
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We knew that. But it's a sad day when you've got sitting Democratic senators who are losing their
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minds before before they even know who they're voting against. Now, you can thank Harry Reid, the
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former Democratic majority leader in the U.S. Senate, for Kavanaugh's confirmation. And I say that to
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Democrats. Harry Reid is the one who went nuclear with confirmations. That was all him. Wasn't Republicans
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who did that. Right. Was Democrats who did that when they wanted to ram through Democrat appointees
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for Barack Obama. Don't cry foul now. Kavanaugh is going to be approved. He's going to be confirmed.
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That's there's nothing, nothing that's going to stop that. We have the majority. Even John McCain,
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who's on his deathbed at this point, even John McCain is calling him an impeccable choice, impeccable
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credentials. Look, you can't argue with the guy's background. Yale College, Yale Law School,
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teaches at Harvard, Yale, and I think it was Princeton Law Schools or another. I could be Princeton or
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Stanford. I forget. The guy has impeccable, impeccable credentials. You can't attack him on that.
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But what are the Democrats doing? Well, they're parading out the furthest left faction of the party.
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Now, on my former show, Off the Cuff Declassified here on The Rebel, I had a guy on, Christopher Reid.
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Chris is an attorney down in Birmingham, Alabama, who worked for Heritage. Chris is a guy who worked on these
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lists early on in the Trump campaign. He was one of the people who was tasked with doing the
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research on the judges to put on the list. And Chris told me several weeks ago that it was going
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to be Kavanaugh. Well, last night I spoke to Chris and he has very, very well-placed sources
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in Democratic Senator Doug Jones's office down in Alabama. And Chris told me that Doug Jones is going
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to vote for Kavanaugh. Chris also had information that said that Joe Manchin was going to vote to
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confirm Kavanaugh. The more moderate Democrats, the ones from red states like Alabama and West
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Virginia now as a red state, they're going to break ranks with Chuck Schumer and the crazies in the party.
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And they're going to vote to confirm Kavanaugh because they know if they don't,
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they're very religious. They're evangelical voters in West Virginia and in Alabama will rebel against
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them. They'll rebel against them. And what's very interesting is we have an overwhelmingly
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Catholic Supreme Court. Now you've got Kavanaugh, Sotomayor, Alito. There was a list put out this
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morning. I'm going to try to find that list. It was very, very interesting. And I want to find that
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I believe it was Ryan Saavedra over at the Daily Caller who put out a list of who was, let me find
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it. It's very, very interesting. And it listed all of the Catholic justices, but I'll dig it up.
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I'll find it. I don't want to waste too much time scrolling Twitter. Could have been Ryan. It could
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have been Josh Kaplan over at Breitbart. I read both of them pretty often. And the court is now
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overwhelmingly Catholic. And I think that means very good things for religious liberties. Now,
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the liberal factions, the Sotomayors, the Kagans and the Ginsburgs, they're going to, the Breyers,
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they're always going to vote on a long liberal political line. They're not going to vote.
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They're not going to cast their votes, their decisions in line with the Constitution.
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Now, Anthony Emmerich says, this is an interesting point. I will admit that I felt it was wrong to
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stall on Obama's pick. Not that I wanted him to choose. So I still feel it is wrong that the Dems
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are trying to do the same thing now. But it wasn't. Obama was a lame duck president. Historically,
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lame duck presidents don't get to nominate far leftists in their last few months in office. It was
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the absolutely appropriate thing for the Senate to do. This is different. This is the first year
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and a half of Trump's first term. Democrats should not be stalling the way the right didn't stall
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on Kagan and Sotomayor. They simply didn't. And you have to look at this in that context,
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not in the context of Merrick Garland. Now, interestingly, I believe, I believe that
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Merrick Garland, I had an item here, is Kavanaugh's boss over at the, over at the D.C. Circuit,
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over in the D.C. Circuit. So Senator Susan Collins is also one of the Republicans we've got to be
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careful of. We've got to be really careful of. Because Senator Susan Collins,
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Senator Susan Collins is one of those Republicans that might as well have a D behind her name.
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She might as well have a D. She's saying she's going to do a very careful and thorough review.
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Here's the problem for Senator Collins from Maine. She voted to confirm him for the D.C. Circuit.
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Now, Kavanaugh, one of the places I really like him, is on the Second Amendment. He said,
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quote, gun bans and gun regulations that are not longstanding or sufficiently rooted in text,
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history, and tradition are not consistent with the Second Amendment individual right. That is a
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pretty definitive statement and makes me very, very comfortable with Judge Kavanaugh on an issue I care
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deeply about, the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment. It's a sad day, but let's look at what
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the liberals are doing. So from the Associated Press, liberals rally on court steps against
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Kavanaugh. Now, here are the Democratic lawmakers who addressed this crowd of lunatics who scared
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off Fox News' Shannon Breen. First in Gillibrand of New York, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Jeff
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Berkeley of Oregon, and Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Four of the furthest left morons.
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I think Manchin, Joe Manchin will vote for him. North Dakota and Heidi Heitkamp said she's going to
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thoroughly review and vet Kavanaugh's record. Joe Donnelly of Indiana is going to review his record
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and qualifications. That's code for their Democrats who are going to break ranks with the far left and
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vote to confirm Kavanaugh. Now, Mike Pence is supposed to meet with Kavanaugh today. You know,
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the Vice President of the United States is also the President of the Senate. But I don't see any
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problem with Kavanaugh's confirmation. None whatsoever. The Democrat hysterics are only going
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to get worse. I think Trump administration appointees are going to be harassed more. I think
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Judge Kavanaugh and his family are probably going to be harassed. It's pretty tragic, but this is just
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the way the new left acts, right? They don't act like human beings. They act like savages.
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And I got so many comments this morning. So many comments. Let me run through some of them.
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We're going to start going to comments in a few minutes here. You know, Matt MacuKid12 says Mike
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Lee would have been better. No, he wouldn't have. I want him in the Senate. I want Mike Lee in the
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U.S. Senate. I want Ted Cruz in the U.S. Senate. I want a judge whose track record I can see.
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I don't like these wild cards because they're conservative in the Senate. They're going to
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be conservative as judges. Doesn't work that way. Jeff Sessions was a pretty
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damn good senator. He has been an absolute disaster as attorney general. I want people
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in these critically important jobs who have a track record, a track record we can see,
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we can vet, we can review. Now, let me see. Let me see some of these comments here. They're
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coming fast and furiously. Somebody asked a question. I'm going to go a little off topic.
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Anthony Emmerich said, I know it's off topic, but how do you feel about Hillary Rodham Clinton
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supposedly claiming she's going to run? I think Hillary is like that guest at the party who's
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still cracking beers when everyone else has left and the guests are exhausted and just want her to
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leave. And she doesn't realize she's not wanted there anymore. She thinks they still want to hang
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out with her. They don't. Nobody wants Hillary. The Democrats don't want her. America doesn't want
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her. She's a two-time loser. She lost to Obama. She lost to Trump. She needs to go away. She probably
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won't. But I hope she doesn't. She spells death for the Democrats in 18 and 22. And 20. And hopefully
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in 22 as well in those midterms. She is disastrous. But for them, great for us. Now, we've got this
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situation where Ruth Bader Ginsburg, like I said, is 85. She may very well retire. And that's why
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many, many people are speculating that Trump didn't nominate Amy Coney Barrett. A lot of people
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love Barrett. She's a staunch Catholic. She's that. I don't know where Barrett stands on anything.
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I don't know. She might have been good. I don't know. She's been a judge for like 17 months.
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Before that, she was a law professor at Notre Dame Law in a Notre Dame conservative school,
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but the faculty is pretty liberal. Student body is more conservative than the faculty,
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but it's moving left. I don't know where she stands. Sure, Coney was strong on abortion, we think.
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But how about everything else? I don't like one issue anything. One issue anything.
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And I didn't know where Coney Barrett stood because he didn't really render that many opinions
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and decisions. However, if Ginsburg sticks around another three or four years, we'll have a much
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better picture of who Barrett is. She's still young. She's 46. She'll be 49, 50 at that point. Still
00:24:21.060
very young for Supreme Court appointing. Barrett has time. She has time. And I think the president
00:24:28.060
did the right thing in not appointing her. Tammy says, the Clintons are now flying commercial.
00:24:34.040
Didn't see security detail on the video. Yeah, they were on a Delta flight. Apparently,
00:24:37.340
Bill Clinton was friendly talking to people. They said Hillary was miserable in a corner off to the
00:24:42.020
side. But really, really, the Clintons are just caricatures of themselves at this point.
00:24:50.360
But thank the Lord. I mean, imagine, imagine if we had Hillary Clinton. Imagine if we had Hillary
00:24:58.740
Clinton. Imagine if Hillary Clinton just nominated two Supreme Court justices. There go your gun rights.
00:25:05.740
I mean, imagine a court. Imagine a court led by Kagan, Sotomayor, Breyer, Ginsburg, and two of Hillary's
00:25:17.160
appointees. Ginsburg, six. Six. Two Alito, Roberts, Torsick. Would have been five, actually. Five,
00:25:28.320
we would have had Roberts, Alito, Torsick, and Thomas. And we would have had Sotomayor,
00:25:33.520
Ginsburg, Kagan, and two of Hillary's. It would have been a five, four court left, irreversibly
00:25:40.520
left. I don't think Hillary would have gotten an appointment on the right beyond that. She'd
00:25:46.220
have replaced Ginsburg. I think Ginsburg would have retired much sooner. We would have had a
00:25:50.660
hardcore liberal on the court for much longer. And then we risked a Democratic president after
00:25:56.260
Trump's second term when Alito and Thomas probably would have retired. And then the court would have
00:26:01.680
gone irreversibly left. Now, the two oldest are, I believe, Breyer and Ginsburg. So we might,
00:26:09.680
we might very well have, we might very well have our own super majority on the court.
00:26:17.020
Got to play these long games. You got to play the math. You have to. Don't tread on me like my
00:26:22.700
analogy of Hillary at a party. But I mean, that's really, that's really who she is. That's who she is.
00:26:28.180
She's that annoying guy with his feet up on your couch, eating Doritos at four o'clock in the
00:26:31.320
morning when all you want to do is clean up. Nobody even wanted him at the party. Nobody
00:26:36.000
wanted him there. He'd come to like two other parties. He completely screwed him up. It was
00:26:40.120
terrible. It was annoying. It was all about him. He made it a disaster. He talked about stuff you
00:26:46.160
didn't care about. He hangs out with a bunch of people you don't like. And then he's got his face
00:26:50.380
stuffed with Doritos, cracking beers, and you just want to clean your house up and go to sleep.
00:26:53.260
And that is who Hillary Clinton has become. And the sad part is, or the glorious part,
00:26:57.540
I don't know, is, does she really not get it? I mean, does she really not get it? I don't know.
00:27:06.400
Anthony Emmerich says, let's go to some of your questions now. Why does Trump
00:27:09.320
keep surrounding himself with the same never-Trumpers? Bad enough he has Bolton and Pompeo,
00:27:13.820
the Warhawks. I like Bolton and Pompeo. I think you need guys like that in a world like this.
00:27:17.300
Libertarianism is a great philosophy until it hits the non-interventionist. Non-interventionism
00:27:26.020
is a wonderful concept, but in reality, impractical. We live in a very dangerous and
00:27:31.960
technological world. There are bad actors out there. You got to do it to them before they do
00:27:35.440
it to us because they're going to do it to us. And non-interventionism is almost liberal in its
00:27:43.160
naivety. Ideologically liberal in its naivety. The belief that if we just leave the terrorists
00:27:48.500
alone, they're going to leave us alone. They're not. They're not. If we don't hack Russia, they
00:27:53.740
won't hack us. If we don't hack China, they won't hack us. If we don't saber-rattle with North Korea,
00:27:58.160
they'll leave us alone. It's not the way the world works. It's just not the way the world works.
00:28:04.260
Yeah, Tammy, I think Hillary would steal your Doritos and all your booze. I think she'd be more
00:28:10.200
interested in the booze. Peter Howe says the court could eventually be seven to two in the
00:28:16.040
conservatives' favor. I agree. I agree. I think if we look at Breyer and Ginsburg, right? So now
00:28:22.520
we'll have Gorsuch, we have Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh. If we get Breyer and
00:28:31.060
Ginsburg, if Trump's able to replace them, then we've got our seven to two. We've got our seven to
00:28:35.820
two. With all relatively young justices, we might lose two on the right. It'll still keep us at five
00:28:40.820
four. And if that were the case, then let's hope Clarence Thomas, who's in his 70s, might step down
00:28:48.540
before the end of Trump's second term and give us somebody younger so that we at least keep it six
00:28:54.100
three. There's a lot of math. A lot of math goes into this. But I think that right now the math is on
00:29:02.320
our side. Anthony Emmerich says, it concerns you that Soros is close to, do you mean Kushner,
00:29:08.840
Jared Kushner? If that's who you mean, yeah. But you know, here's the problem. In New York money
00:29:16.360
circles, you can't help but cross paths with Soros. You just can't help but do it. He's got big hedge
00:29:24.040
funds and money is agnostic to political parties. Money is agnostic to political parties.
00:29:32.320
Well, do I see any other, Nasdaq III says, do I see any other justices retiring over the next few
00:29:36.400
years? Yeah. With Brady Ginsburg, I see retiring. I think Trump will easily win a second term.
00:29:41.840
And I see Ginsburg leaving before the end of that second term. Yeah. Enoch says, yep,
00:29:49.900
libertarianism is an ideal like classic liberalism. I mean, it really is. You know, it's wonderful,
00:29:54.580
but you also have to live in reality. I remember on my radio show a couple of years back during the
00:30:02.300
election, I was talking to Austin Peterson when he was a libertarian presidential candidate. Now
00:30:07.460
he's running for Senate as a Republican in the state of Missouri. And Austin's a nice guy and he's a
00:30:14.640
pretty smart guy. But he told me he doesn't believe in the concept of borders. He doesn't believe in the
00:30:19.820
concept of controlling immigration, that everyone is a free man and you should be able to move across
00:30:24.980
borders on the earth freely. And and we shouldn't have a military. We should go after terrorists with
00:30:31.020
letters of mark and reprisal with privateers and mercenaries. And a lot of their their theories,
00:30:38.340
well, they sound cool, but they're not practical. And frankly, the lack of sovereignty,
00:30:43.600
the abolition, the nullification of sovereignty and borders to me sounds terrifying.
00:30:49.820
Terrifying. Eldorado says Netflix is now stopping reviews because of Obama and his liberal agenda.
00:30:55.920
I will tell you one thing. I thought Netflix hit a new low with that unfunny comedian Michelle
00:31:02.120
Wolf's salute to abortion centered around Independence Day. I thought it was one of the most
00:31:07.080
disgusting things I've ever heard of. It was absolutely terrible. So Jimmy Johnny Colt says this
00:31:15.120
is the most censored live chat ever. Why? What's being censored? I'm not being censored. I'm not
00:31:21.100
censoring myself. The rebels not censoring me. Let's see. Special K says we should all be thankful
00:31:28.420
because imagine if it was crooked Hillary picking a judge for the Supreme Court. Absolutely. Don't tread
00:31:33.560
on me. Well, liberalism is what's causing the downfall of our country. Survival of the fittest works
00:31:39.100
in society as well. If you give people things they didn't work for, no reason to work. No,
00:31:45.160
there isn't. There isn't. Right. And that, but I talk about it every day. That's exactly what the
00:31:49.440
left wants. They want to give you things. They want to be responsible for your, and they want you
00:31:54.520
really dependent upon them for food, clothing, and shelter. I want to take your guns. So you're
00:31:58.940
dependent upon them for your safety. And then they own you. Then they own you. Wayne Marion says,
00:32:06.680
Europe is finding out what countries without borders are like. Yeah, they are. And it's not
00:32:12.420
going well for them. And the citizens don't like it, do they? No, they don't.
00:32:19.120
And why would they? Trump just tweeted new poll over 90%, most popular Republican in the history of
00:32:25.740
the party. Wow. Among Republicans. I didn't see that. I'm going to check that tweet right now. I figured
00:32:30.860
Trump would be tweeting like a maniac this morning. Let's see what he said. Where is our president?
00:32:36.680
There he is. He said, thank you to all of my great supporters. Really big progress being made.
00:32:43.860
Other countries wanting to fix crazy trade deals. Economy is roaring. Supreme Court pick getting
00:32:48.460
great reviews. New poll says Trump at over 90% is the most popular Republican in the history of
00:32:55.880
the party. Yeah. Yeah, I believe that. And he's the most popular Republican in the history of the
00:33:05.200
party for the simple reason that he's actually doing what he said he would do when he got elected.
00:33:11.080
That's it. Really not a difficult concept. I'm going to do this and I'm doing it. Yeah,
00:33:15.620
we've got to build a wall. But now we're starting to see that more and more ranchers along the border,
00:33:20.000
Texas and Arizona, are getting letters telling them the border wall construction is coming.
00:33:24.340
It's coming. It's a process. You can't just start putting fence poles. There's got to be
00:33:28.020
environmental impact studies and permitting and requests for proposals and contractors picked.
00:33:33.480
All that fun stuff. Easton Guy says, should Roe v. Wade be overturned in my opinion? Well,
00:33:40.460
here's the thing. I think Roe v. Wade needs to be reexamined. There have been tremendous advances in
00:33:46.780
medical science since Roe v. Wade came down. Roe v. Wade, on its face, I feel is unconstitutional.
00:33:54.640
The Constitution doesn't discuss abortion. The founding fathers, I don't believe,
00:33:59.540
wanted abortion to be the law of the land. They didn't even think about it.
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It was created out of thin air by activist liberal judges on the Supreme Court. And so, yes,
00:34:09.940
I think the constitutionality of Roe v. Wade, the foundation of Roe v. Wade, all need to be looked
00:34:18.200
at. And yes, I believe it should be overturned. I believe it should be overturned. And I think it
00:34:24.520
should, as El Dorado asked, go back to the states. It should be a states' rights issue.
00:34:29.780
Lulubob's donated. And remember, you could super chat. I forgot to mention that.
00:34:33.460
With that little dollar sign there, you can super chat and donate. Your question will pop up.
00:34:39.700
Lulubibb says, why do you guys have a midterm election? Who votes? A midterm election? Who votes?
00:34:44.000
Is it just an indicator as to who will win at the end of the term? No. The reason we have midterm
00:34:48.380
elections is because our Congress members, members of the House of Representatives and
00:34:53.320
members of the Senate have two and six year terms. So often they come up for re-election midterms.
00:35:00.220
So think of it as a 2000, in the year 2000, the president's elected for four years,
00:35:05.180
Congress people for two, senators for six. And so when you got to 2004, when you got 2002,
00:35:12.460
you had your House of Representatives folks up for re-election. When you got to 2004,
00:35:17.120
your president and your House of Representatives up for re-election again. And then when you got
00:35:21.980
to 2006, you had your senators up for re-election. But that's why we have midterms because certain
00:35:26.560
elections fall in those two years and that second year between the general presidential elections.
00:35:33.220
And that's why we have midterm elections here. It's just the nature of Congress having two year
00:35:37.560
and six year terms that overlap the four year terms of presidents, the general election being
00:35:43.180
four year. That's why we call it the midterm, that two years in the middle, that second year
00:35:48.040
in the middle for congressional elections. And it's a great question, actually. I'm sure there
00:35:53.000
are a lot of people around the world that didn't understand that many do. But thanks for that
00:35:56.420
question. It was a great question. Let's see. Enoch is a bit confused about whether Trump is an
00:36:02.180
independent or a Republican. I think I think you and the rest of the country are a bit confused
00:36:06.360
about that. But whatever we whatever he's doing is working. Let's leave it alone. Don't tread on
00:36:12.940
me, says rebel media should be on national TV. I agree. Call your cable provider. Tell him to give
00:36:17.960
us some free time there. That would be awesome. And don't tread on me. Thank you very much for your
00:36:22.840
donation as well. I appreciate that. Do I think Trudeau's Gropergate scandal, Tammy asked,
00:36:29.100
has reached the ears of the president? I'm sure it has. But the president of the United States
00:36:33.240
has no control over what happens in Canada or with the president of Canada, the prime minister of
00:36:38.460
Canada. Let's see. Special K, Trump is a president for all Americans. He's in the middle,
00:36:45.040
neither left or right, in my opinion. And Easton says, Easton guy, I don't even think Trump has a
00:36:50.420
philosophy or belief. Look, I don't think Trump is a political ideologue. I think the guy's a doer.
00:36:55.460
He's results oriented. And what's shaking out is very interesting. What's happening is that you
00:37:03.180
realize when somebody is not a political ideologue, when they're just results oriented and those
00:37:08.580
results are doing what's best for the country, what's best for the bottom line and for national
00:37:11.500
security. Well, those results tend to skew conservative. That to me is the most interesting
00:37:17.000
part of Trump's presidency. He's not a political ideologue. He's not a rightist. He's not a leftist.
00:37:22.980
But he looks at what's best for the country. What's going to give me the best ROI, the best
00:37:28.320
return on investment? And when those policies are enacted, they seem to be the more conservative
00:37:33.600
policies. They really do seem to be. MB says, sorry, I'm late, John. I hope I didn't miss anything
00:37:39.460
on Project Cassandra, Operation Reciprocity of the Scott Israel. You did it. I'm going to do those
00:37:44.380
this week because we're talking about Supreme Court pick today. That's the big news. We're going to be
00:37:48.660
talking about that. With regards to Scott Israel in Broward County, quick update. There is a Florida
00:37:54.740
Department of Law Enforcement commission meeting at the end of this week, the topic being the Parkland
00:38:01.700
school shooting. So a lot of speculation. We're going to have some news on Scott Israel. Actually,
00:38:06.660
it's starting today and it's running for the next three days, today, tomorrow and Thursday. It starts
00:38:13.240
today. So we could hear. I'm sorry. I thought it started tomorrow. We could have information on
00:38:19.120
Scott Israel in the next couple of days, if not today. I will keep you posted, MD, on that.
00:38:25.220
I will keep you posted. Robert Jackson says, I like your show. Robert, I like you watching my show.
00:38:31.940
Actually, Robert, I go live at 730 a.m., not 8 a.m. Even earlier, I want to get you guys from morning
00:38:37.320
drive or early work time. Anthony Emmerich, do I think NATO will be abolished or at least
00:38:42.720
renegotiated? No, I think Europe's going to start paying their fair share. That's what I think. I
00:38:47.280
think Europe's going to start paying their fair share because they need us far more than we need
00:38:51.660
them in NATO. They need U.S. troops keeping Russia at bay. And they know that we'll go to bat for Poland
00:38:58.880
before we go to bat for Germany at this point because of Angela Merkel and her leftist leanings.
00:39:04.280
Let's say. Tammy asks me, what is taking the governor so long, Scott Israel? Governor's waiting
00:39:10.640
for the report from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Tammy. There's also a commission
00:39:14.780
convened of sheriffs from other counties who are independently giving their input to the governor
00:39:21.020
and FDLE and the state senate that would ultimately remove Scott Israel. They're giving their input on
00:39:27.080
his performance. It's being done right. It's being done properly because at the end of the day,
00:39:32.860
he is an elected official. And when you remove somebody put into office by the voters, you've
00:39:38.300
got to really cross all your T's and dot all your I's. So I'm a fan of the way they're going about
00:39:43.720
his removal. And I do feel, I'm being told by sources, but my opinion, I do feel Scott Israel
00:39:50.480
will be removed from office very, very soon. The way it works here in Florida, again, I've explained it,
00:39:55.520
the governor suspends him. The state senate then votes to remove him. I was told by two state senators
00:40:01.520
on background. They're expecting a special session to be convened this summer. They end in early
00:40:08.660
spring, the session. They're expecting a special session to be convened this summer up in Tallahassee
00:40:14.720
to remove Scott Israel. And nothing's changed. I was told that last month. I think Enoch says,
00:40:20.900
I think the best representation of the political spectrum is an axis, is an x-axis from conservative
00:40:25.980
to progressive and a y-axis with authoritarian anarchy. I've seen that graph. It's pretty accurate.
00:40:30.340
Pretty good. I like it. Now that Trump and Putin will team, have teamed up in the space race,
00:40:36.680
will Trump still keep his word to arm Ukraine? Yeah, I believe he will. I believe he will.
00:40:42.060
Do you guys think the Space Force will accept my application? I want to join the Space Force
00:40:46.640
because it just sounds so cool. John Zeland says, Trump has got Mama Merkel to drop tariffs on cars,
00:40:54.420
winning on NAFTA. Well, not yet, but I think that's going to happen. I think that's going to happen.
00:40:59.280
Wayne Marion says, Sheriff Scott Israel's arrogance is enough to remove him, in my opinion. And mine
00:41:03.540
too, Wayne. And mine too, but he is elected, so there is a process. Believe me, he has no fans
00:41:09.460
anymore. Even Democrats, where I live, in Broward County, I only live about, oh geez, seven minutes
00:41:16.140
from the sheriff's office, about 25 minutes from Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. I work
00:41:21.300
very closely with many of the political people there, just because I'm active in politics.
00:41:28.100
Even Democrats, my neighbor, very, very nice woman, good friend of mine. She's a very prominent
00:41:32.300
Democratic political strategist who helped get Scott Israel elected. It's the worst, she tells me,
00:41:38.960
it's the biggest regret of her career. He's a terrible guy. She can't stand him. Even the Democrats
00:41:43.780
want him gone. Even the Democrats want him gone. Tammy, base force does sound cool as a profession,
00:41:49.980
but I don't think they'll take me. MD asks, any thoughts on Theresa May's Brexit fiasco and her
00:41:55.500
cabinet melting out from under her in protest? Yeah, I think Theresa May is really botting it.
00:41:59.260
Yesterday, I said I didn't know if she'd survive. Not looking too good. And now, there are whispers of
00:42:04.820
what a great Prime Minister Boris Johnson would make. So things are getting very interesting
00:42:08.980
politically over in the UK. Very interesting politically. Roger Stone called, Robert Jackson
00:42:16.420
says, Roger Stone called the new Supreme Court pick a globalist. Do you think he's correct?
00:42:19.980
I think Roger Stone, I know Roger, he's a nice guy. He's a local. Roger lives in South Florida. We
00:42:26.360
have a lot of mutual friends. I think Roger will say whatever Roger has to say to keep himself relevant
00:42:32.540
in the media. I think Roger is a very smart guy, but I do think Roger steps in it sometimes.
00:42:41.980
But I will say this about Roger Stone. He's colorful. He keeps everybody talking. He knows
00:42:47.900
how to generate buzz. But do I think Kavanaugh is a globalist? No, I don't. I don't. Not when I look at
00:42:54.040
his decisions and his rulings. And quite frankly, even if he is, not going to have much bearing on the
00:42:59.600
Supreme Court because he seems to be a constitutional originalist. Anthony Emmerich. I think people with
00:43:06.520
dual citizenship should not be allowed to hold office elected or appointed. Why? Why? I have
00:43:12.120
no problem with that. If you're a citizen, you're a citizen. And if both nations allow dual citizenship,
00:43:18.400
you're legal. You're legal. Enoch says, progressives almost always regret their uninformed
00:43:26.080
decisions. Yep, they do. Rogue One says Roger Stone is dead on the money. Well, not really,
00:43:30.960
because it was Roger Stone who pushed Donald Trump to hire Paul Manafort as campaign manager
00:43:36.320
for like 50 days. Forget all Manafort's problems. He almost lost Trump the election because he wanted
00:43:41.920
Trump to be more establishment. So Roger Stone, remember something about Roger Stone. He's also
00:43:48.160
been a consultant for Democrats and for establishment candidates. Research Roger Stone's whole history
00:43:54.620
before you think he's this hardcore right winger. He's really not. He's really not. Roger says what
00:44:00.860
he has to say to appease his audience and the candidates he's working with. I think he's a nice
00:44:07.080
guy. I think he's colorful. I think he's interesting. But Roger Stone is not an ideologue. Roger Stone is a
00:44:13.380
an entertainer and a strategist in many regards. Let's see. MD asks locally, have I been watching the
00:44:22.220
Broward school board elections coming up? And following Andrew Pollack and his support for
00:44:26.720
Mendelsohn? I have been. And I've been interacting with Andrew Pollack through a mutual friend. I
00:44:34.520
haven't had a chance for both of us have been very busy. We're supposed to speak. I am not a fan of
00:44:38.400
Robert Runcie. Robert Runcie, remember, the current Broward schools chief, who is just as guilty as
00:44:43.300
Scott Israel in all this. He was a good friend of Arnie Duncan. He comes out of the Rahm Emanuel.
00:44:47.960
Arnie Duncan, Obama's education secretary, missing in Broward County. Nobody knows where
00:44:52.520
that money went. Rogue One says, I was talking about what Stone said about the new SCOTUS pick.
00:44:59.100
I didn't say he was dead on the money about everything. Jeez. Okay. And I don't know if
00:45:03.300
he's right about that. Because he also thought Paul Manafort was a great choice for campaign
00:45:08.620
manager. But Roger Stone is not infallible. He's not infallible. I'm going to trust Heritage
00:45:14.460
and Federalist and many conservatives I know, real conservatives I know, who like
00:45:19.360
Kavanaugh, who have dealt with him, who have dug far deeper into him than I have.
00:45:25.340
Keith Allen says, dual citizenship could cause conflict of interest, real or perceived in
00:45:29.800
making decisions. Not really. Look, I've got a very good friend who holds dual citizenship,
00:45:34.040
U.S. and Poland. He was born here. His parents were born in Poland. Therefore, he's entitled to
00:45:38.440
dual. He is the most rabidly hardcore conservative patriotic American you would ever meet.
00:45:45.320
But it helps him do business in Poland. His alliances are to the U.S. So I have to disagree
00:45:49.820
with you on that one. I have to disagree with you on that one. Holding dual citizenship does
00:45:55.520
not mean people have dual alliances. Declan Black says, you should only have allegiance to
00:45:59.320
the country that you are serving. It simply means they took advantage of the ability to travel a bit
00:46:04.300
more easily because a parent or grandparent was born in another country. Very few people I know
00:46:09.340
who hold dual citizenship have allegiance to the European countries. They typically have allegiance
00:46:15.180
to the U.S. and it just makes it easier to travel there back and forth. Let's see. Not sure
00:46:21.620
anyone outside of Hardin. Oh, you're talking about county politics, MD. Yeah, we're going to get into
00:46:26.420
that in another show. I don't want to get too sidetracked because I want to stay on the national
00:46:30.360
issues. And Rogue One says, I don't trust Roger Stone or Alex Jones much in general. Roger is right
00:46:37.720
sometimes. I have zero respect for Alex Jones. I think he's a reprehensible guy because of his
00:46:43.840
Sandy Hook and his 9-11 conspiracy theories. That lost me forever.
00:46:48.140
When you insult dead heroes and dead children, to me, you're trash. And I don't care how many people
00:46:57.160
love Alex Jones, I won't watch him. I won't entertain him. I won't retweet him. Maybe he's
00:47:03.020
gotten a couple of things right when he realized that you can't be a lunatic your whole life.
00:47:07.060
But what he did with real tragedies to garner views for himself was disgusting. And I find that
00:47:13.420
only a reprehensible human being would do something like that.
00:47:18.300
Ed Cole, 54, Colt 54, says, who do I think will be the next Scottish judge to retire? My money's on
00:47:22.980
my money's on Ginsburg. My money's on Ginsburg. So it's, you know.
00:47:34.440
Well, Declan Black says, I'm wrong on the issue because my opinions don't mean anything and my
00:47:38.400
experiences don't mean anything. Well, Declan, neither do yours by using that logic, do they?
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So, you know, that's a pretty sharp knife that cuts both ways. And if we don't look at life through
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the lens of our experiences, then we're going to be doomed to rely on other people, which is the core
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tenet of liberalism. And as a conservative, I like to make my own decisions based on my own
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research and my own experiences. Yours, with respect, is a, well, it's a pretty liberal position.
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But Ginsburg is not long for this mortal guy. Actually, Ginsburg is, Anthony Emmerich said,
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Ginsburg's in pretty good shape. In pretty good shape. I think she should just go and retire.
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Poor lady's been working for a lot, a lot of years. And she's on the wrong side of things.
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Frank Pisacalos is Alex Jones, a fruitcake. Yeah, that's a nice way to describe him. I think he's
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just a pretty disgraceful guy. I think he's a guy who will step on the bodies of murdered children
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to create a conspiracy theory for views and revenue. Terrible. Terrible. Classless.
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Ethics and morals. Not a, uh, not a way I'd ever want to ever, ever want to handle my career.
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Tammy says, Ginsburg sleeps at work. Time to retire. Exactly. I, uh, great. I agree.
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I couldn't, uh, agree more. I couldn't agree more. That's the problem too. You know, she's,
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she's a much older woman who clearly, despite there was a moronic, I suggest you go research
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Politico's Twitter feed. They were saying how one of their 27 year old reporters couldn't do
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Ginsburg, 85 year old Ginsburg's workout. That's what great shape she's in. In addition to being a
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chill-inducing embarrassment of a piece, that 27 year old needs to get to a doctor very quickly
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if he can't compete with an 85 year old in the gym. Yeah.
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Declan Black is very angry at me. Declan, I look at life through my own experiences.
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If you choose to be guided by what others tell you, that's perfectly fine. That's your right.
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But it's also the way liberals live their lives. The state tells them what's good and what's bad.
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Academia tells them what's good and what's bad. And they listen. They don't look at their own
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experiences. They don't look at it. And you're anecdotally picking one Chinese dual citizen.
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And if that person's first citizenship was Chinese, then that's where their loyalties lie.
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I doubt Poland would ever elect my friend president, knowing he was born here and has a long history
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of being a red-blooded patriotic Trump supporting American. You're looking at the reverse.
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It seems special case as it seems the left has lost its mind. They were resisting Trump's SCOTUS
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pick before he made it. Yeah, I was talking about that earlier. I was talking about that earlier.
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They were resisting his SCOTUS pick before they knew who it was. They were calling the pick
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controversial before they knew who it was. I wish Trump would have just screwed with them and said,
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okay, I'm going to pick Merrick Garland. And then watch the left go, oh my God, the pick is great. No,
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psych. Just wanted to see if you were still resisting. I'm going to go with Kavanaugh.
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That would have been epic trolling. That would have been epic trolling. Trump would have done that.
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But what's most scary to me, Matthew Mallon says, politicians think now what I thought when I was
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12. That's a great, great comment. They really do. Especially the liberals. Bush hog is mad at me
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too about dual citizenship. If you are going to hold off, your alliance should only be in the country
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you are serving. Look, there is a big difference between holding a document and having allegiance.
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Big difference. Plenty of Americans, all dual citizenship that travel to Europe more easily.
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They would never, never, never give allegiance to those nations over the United States.
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Looking at life so myopically is what the left wants you to do. They give you a broad sword,
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a very broad concept and tell you to subscribe to it. Tell you that's the way things are. And like
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lemmings, people follow. I don't do that. I do my own research. And I look at life through my
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own experiences, through the own conclusions I draw through the research. And that's how I make
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decisions. Tammy says the woman's marchers complaint letter left space for the nominee. They sent it
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without adding the name. Yeah, they did. They put two little X's. They put two little X's.
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It was awesome. Declan Black is telling me my arguments are completely anecdotal. And I'm
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telling you they're not because I can give you instance upon instance of elected official down
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here in Florida. Who also happen to get dual citizenship to travel to other countries and who
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are some of the most patriotic conservative people you will ever meet. I know two federal agents who have
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it. They are rock solid. Patriotic Americans putting themselves in the line of fire daily.
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Many members of our military have it. So no, it's not anecdotal. It's not anecdotal.
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You've taken two or three anecdotal incidents from Australia and are trying to paint them as global fact.
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You're accusing me of that which you're doing, Declan. Do some more research.
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Let's see. I just don't trust globalists in general, Anthony says. Now, neither do I.
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Neither do I. But I'm not. Well, I don't like what you say, especially Zionist, because let's face it.
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Somebody wanting the state of Israel to persevere and survive.
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Well, they're right. They're right. They're a strategic, excuse me, a strategic ally in the region.
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Yes, Declan was very upset with me today, but that's okay.
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This show wouldn't be fun if we didn't disagree a little bit.
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Matthew Mallon gave me a fist bump from Wales on Trump's popularity numbers.
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A fist bump from Wales and the Trump fist pump from Wales. I'm sorry.
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Yeah, the 90 percent among Republicans is pretty substantial.
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Easton guy says he's I'm on the losing side in regards to dual citizenship on the right.
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Look, you got to. You're not going to agree on everything.
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We're not going to agree on everything. I just personally don't have a problem.
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Now, look, if somebody was Chinese and got U.S. citizenship, remember, they wouldn't be natural born.
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They couldn't run here because we don't just have a citizenship requirement for president in the United States.
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We have a natural born requirement, not for anything other than the presidency.
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But we have a natural birth requirement for the presidency.
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So in the United States, with regards to our executive office, we already have an insurance policy in place.
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We already have one in place and members of Congress in the House.
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Well, you know, they don't they they're one of 400 and some odd in the House and one of 100 in the Senate and in state legislatures, depending on the size of the state, those numbers become pretty similar.
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Declan, Declan, well, your premise, you're telling me that my premise that having dual citizens causes no problems is wrong.
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Declan, you took two examples from nations of millions and millions of people.
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Scientifically speaking, that's not indicative of a problem.
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If you show me, you show me scientific research that says 15,000 dual citizenship holders were were acting subversively toward the nation in which they live, you might have something.
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One Chinese guy, you know, that's the epitome of anecdotal.
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Oh, Bushhog 63 says, I sound a lot like controlled opposition.
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The reality is, in America, we, dual citizenship's allowed.
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You can't be elected president if you were born there and were naturalized here.
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But if you're born here and you had a grandparent over there in Italy and you get an Italian passport, I can't even do that.
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And you get an Italian passport because you like to travel to and from easier.
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I'm not worried that you're going to be subversive to the United States if you're ever elected to office.
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And I'm sure the new Supreme Court, the conservative Supreme Court would uphold that.
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Yeah, Robert Jackson says, controlled opposition wouldn't read the comments and try to answer them the best they could.
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If I were controlled opposition, would I read the opposition's comments and debate them openly on a live stream?
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But we're going to move on from the, we're going to move on from Declan not liking dual citizens.
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I think Kavanaugh's a good choice for Supreme Court.
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He seems to be an absolutist on individual firearms rights, which to me, says a lot about where he stands on everything else.
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So I'm optimistic more than cautiously optimistic.
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I am, however, enthusiastically optimistic that he will be confirmed by the Senate.
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And watching their tantrums for the rest of the day are going to be glorious.
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And I really suggest you join me back here tomorrow morning, 7.30 a.m. for another Declassified Live.