00:00:00.000We are witnessing coup d'etat. They reportedly took 50 kilograms of documents and tried to depose the lawful chairman of this body, the body that has a final say on whether the law is constitutional or not.
00:00:18.600The Poland coup is slightly complicated, yet equally simple.
00:00:23.360The Polish people elected conservative Nauraki as president.
00:00:27.140However, the country is now run by a left-liberal Tusk government that still lacks control of the courts.
00:00:33.940This outcome really leaves Poland bitterly divided, with the two power centers, the government and the presidency,
00:00:40.840basically pulling in completely opposite directions.
00:00:43.700aware that he faces defeat in the 2027 elections tusk is blatantly undermining the constitutional
00:00:50.180order i want to be very clear about this the election next year the one in 2027 will be the
00:00:58.100prelude to a referendum on whether poland stays in the european union or leaves it
00:01:04.660if they take power and they can only take power together because on their own they're too weak
00:01:10.420Pro-exit advocates, pro-Russian parties, and openly pro-Russian politicians will gain the
00:03:15.560Without control of this court, those changes can be blocked.
00:03:19.260With control, the government can lock them in
00:03:21.780and make it hard for anyone else to reverse them after the next election.
00:03:25.520Why does this matter in the grand scheme of things?
00:03:29.060The Polish coup is a perfect example of what the Democrats aim to do with the Supreme Court
00:03:34.740if they are allowed to regain power in the United States.
00:03:38.000So I went to visit Poland and Hungary this past, you know, September, this month.
00:03:44.400And I think for me, it really crystallized a number of things
00:03:49.440and brought home here in the United States a number of things.
00:03:52.920I think the lessons of how both countries in their different ways kind of came out of authoritarian government was really important.
00:04:03.000There's a playbook for these authoritarians, but there's also a playbook to get out of it.
00:04:06.700This is an unprecedented power grab, I have to tell you. Never in Poland, post-1989 history, or in the history of any other European country indeed, has a government attempted to seize control of the constitutional tribunal using police force.
00:04:29.640The situation could escalate, Mario, towards civil war, and this is why I'm so much upset.