The Supreme Court rules 9-0 in favor of Donald Trump in the case of Trump v. Colorado and the question of whether or not he should be allowed to run for President in 2020. The Supreme Court says that only Congress can define who is an insurrectionist and who is not, and that Congress has the power to enforce Section 3 of the Constitution regarding disqualification of candidates who are deemed "insurrectionists" and those who are not "insurgentists." This is a big win for Donald Trump and his supporters, who have been fighting for years to keep Donald Trump off the ballot for the presidency of the United States. Today s ruling is a huge victory for the President and the supporters of his campaign, and will have long-term implications for the future of the 2020 election process and the 2020 presidential election. The case was heard by Chief Justice William Rehn and Justice Thurgood Marshall, who were both appointed by Democratic appointees of the Colorado Supreme Court, and Chief Justice Neil A. Souter, who was appointed by a Democratic appointee of the Court of Appeal, and all three Democratic appointed Justices, including Chief Justice Thakur and Ginsburg, who served as the Chief Justice Chase s concurrence. The case will be heard by Justice Scalia, Ginsburg and Justice Scalia's replacement, as well as Justice Kennedy, and Justice Breyer, who wrote the opinion in the majority opinion, and concurring in the opinion, with the majority's decision, and the dissent, and dissent from Chief Justice Scalia and Justice Ginsburg's concurrence, and concludes with a brief by Justice Kennedy's explanation of the case, and provides further explanation of what happened. . Thank you for listening to this episode, and tweet us your thoughts and reactions to it! Tweet us if you liked it in the comments section and your thoughts on the post you have any thoughts or thoughts or reactions or your thoughts/tweets on the episode of the post? tweet us in the post on this episode! or any other podcast you would like us to us to tweet us about it or about it :) we'll be listening to the episode in the next episode of the podcast - Timestamps: & , : <3 - Tom (tweet us on Insta: (linktr. ) ( )
00:00:06.000You can't just toss Donald Trump off a ballot for the presidency of the United States in a state like Colorado.
00:00:11.000You'll recall that just a couple of months ago, the Supreme Court in Colorado decided that it was perfectly acceptable to invalidate Donald Trump on the ballot in Colorado in the primaries and the general because he was quote-unquote an insurrectionist.
00:00:24.000The basic premise of their argument was really stupid.
00:00:27.000It was that because the Constitution of the United States bars from office insurrectionists, this means that the state government of Colorado can simply declare Trump an insurrectionist and then toss him off the ballot.
00:00:39.000That had a bunch of legal problems with it.
00:00:41.000Problem number one, how do you define insurrectionist?
00:00:43.000Problem number two, even if you were going to define insurrectionist, that would theoretically have to be done at the federal level, not the state level, because it's a federal piece of legislation.
00:00:51.000Problem number three, how do you even define it?
00:00:53.000In terms of which party defines it in the federal government.
00:00:57.000Is that done by some sort of elections board?
00:01:00.000How does it distinguish itself, the insurrectionist clause, from say issues with age?
00:01:05.000Because the state could theoretically throw someone off the ballot if they were not say 35 years old and running for president.
00:01:10.000They could say this person is not eligible, they don't get listed on the ballot, but that would be Pretty obvious from the federal language that person's not allowed.
00:01:16.000Insurrectionist is a vague term of art.
00:01:18.000Bottom line is the court rules 9-0 in favor of Donald Trump.
00:01:21.000He has to be put back on the ballot in Colorado.
00:01:24.000There is some minor controversy between the justices over exactly how in the future these sorts of issues are going to be adjudicated.
00:01:30.000But again, the big takeaway is that 9-0, including all the Democratic appointed justices, they say the Colorado State Supreme Court cannot simply declare That Donald Trump is an insurrectionist and therefore he can't be on the ballot according to the court.
00:01:45.000Proposed by Congress in 1866 and ratified by the states in 1868, the 14th Amendment, which is the section of the Constitution that has the Insurrectionist Clause, expanded federal power at the expense of state autonomy and thus fundamentally altered the balance of state and federal power struck by the Constitution.
00:02:01.000Section 3 of the Amendment restricts state autonomy, but through a different means.
00:02:04.000It was designed to help ensure an enduring union by preventing former Confederates from returning to power in the aftermath of the Civil War.
00:02:10.000Section 3 works by imposing on certain individuals a preventive and severe penalty, disqualification from holding a wide array of offices, rather than by granting rights to all.
00:02:19.000It's therefore necessary, as Chief Justice Chase concluded and the Colorado Supreme Court itself recognized, to ascertain what particular individuals are embraced by the provision.
00:02:28.000The Constitution empowers Congress to prescribe how those determinations should be made.
00:02:32.000So they say that under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, it should be Congress defining who is an insurrectionist and who is not.
00:02:40.000They say Congress's Section 5 power is critical when it comes to Section 3.
00:02:45.000The case raises the question of whether states, in addition to Congress, can also enforce Section 3.
00:02:49.000We conclude states may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office, but states have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal officials, especially the presidency.
00:03:00.000So, the court is making two separate arguments.
00:03:02.000Argument number one is that only Congress can define the word insurrectionist for purposes of who gets on the ballot and who does not.
00:03:09.000Argument number two is that even if that were not the case, the states do not have the ability to do that.
00:03:14.000So theoretically, you could have a different part of the federal government that actually created an enforcement mechanism that wasn't the legislature, but states don't have any power to enforce Section 3 with regard to federal offices, especially the presidency.
00:03:27.000According to the court, power over governance does not extend to federal office holders and candidates.
00:03:32.000Because federal officers owe their entire existence and function to the united voice of the whole, not a portion of the people, power over their election and qualifications must be specially delegated to, rather than reserved by, the states.
00:03:47.000That doesn't mean there's not any controversy with regard to the opinion.
00:03:51.000So, basically again, there were two arguments that were made.
00:03:55.000The argument that's made about that it can only be Congress that determines who's an insurrectionist and who is not, that argument was not 9-0.
00:04:02.000The second argument that was made, which is that states cannot simply toss people out for federal office because that's the federal government's job, that particular argument they agreed with.
00:04:13.000As the court says, all nine members of the court agree with the result.
00:04:16.000Our colleagues reading separately further agree with many of the reasons this opinion provides for reaching it.
00:04:21.000So far as we can tell, they object only to our taking into account the distinctive way Section 3 works and the fact that Section 5 vests in Congress the power to enforce it.
00:05:09.000They actually tried to go out of their way to say this.
00:05:10.000So the dissenters, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Justice Jackson, again, they concur, but they're dissenting on this one part of the opinion.
00:05:17.000They say that allowing Colorado to simply declare who can and can't be on the ballot would violate the Constitution of the United States.
00:05:24.000But they say, quote, the majority goes further, even though all nine members of the court agree this independent and sufficient rationale resolves the case.
00:05:31.000They decide novel constitutional questions to insulate this court and petitioner from future controversy.
00:05:36.000Although only an individual state action is at issue here, the majority opines on which federal actors can enforce Section 3 and how they must do so.
00:05:42.000The majority announces that a disqualification for insurrection can only occur when Congress enacts a particular kind of legislation pursuant to Section 5 of the 14th Amendment.
00:06:48.000The men who drafted and ratified the 14th Amendment had witnessed an insurrection and rebellion to defend slavery.
00:06:52.000They wanted to ensure that those who had participated in that insurrection and in possible future insurrections could not return to prominent roles.
00:06:58.000Today, the majority goes beyond the necessities of this case to limit how Section 3 can bar an oath-breaking insurrectionist from becoming president.
00:07:04.000Although we agree that Colorado cannot enforce Section 3, we protest the majority's effort to use this case to define the limits of federal enforcement of that provision.
00:07:14.000They say the court quote reaches out to decide Section 3 questions not before us and to foreclose future efforts to disqualify a presidential candidate under that provision.
00:07:22.000And basically, what they're saying is they did this for Trump.
00:07:25.000Now, what's weird is that they're claiming that the Supreme Court majority went beyond its remit in order to help Trump, presumably because they think that if, say, Congress were run by Democrats, a simple piece of legislation not defining insurrection, but just saying Donald Trump cannot run because he is an insurrectionist might be sufficient.
00:07:42.000Which, yeah, again, very, very doubtful that that's the case.
00:07:47.000Bottom line, though, in the end, is what Amy Coney Barrett says.
00:07:53.000Again, the attempt to bar Trump from the ballot failing only helps Trump.
00:07:57.000And again, that's not the only factor Trump has going for him.
00:08:00.000The polling data that came out over the course of the last three days is devastating for Joe Biden's campaign.
00:08:04.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:11:25.000Up to 10 points margins of error for some of these crosstabs because, again, when you do a poll, the accuracy of the poll depends on the number of people that you poll.
00:11:33.000The larger, generally, the poll sample size, the more accurate the poll.
00:11:36.000When you're looking at a poll like this one where you might have 90 people who are Hispanic responding, there's a lot of margin for error.
00:11:41.000However, if this poll is even remotely close, Joe Biden is basically toast at this point.
00:11:47.000Donald Trump is winning white voters outright 53 to 40.
00:11:52.000In terms of age demographic, this is kind of a shocking one.
00:11:55.000Joe Biden is winning people 65 and over, which is kind of surprising because very often the older votes tend to skew Republican.
00:12:02.000But in this particular poll, and in this election cycle, voters aged 30 to 64 broadly favored Donald Trump over Joe Biden in this election, particularly people aged 45 to 64.
00:12:13.000In other words, the people who are just above the millennials.
00:12:18.000Those people are voting 54 to 36 for Donald Trump according to this poll.
00:12:25.000Women are split evenly between Biden and Trump.
00:12:27.000There's not one good piece of data for Joe Biden in this poll.
00:12:32.000And the most important thing about this poll is that what it does not show is that Joe Biden is wildly unpopular among Democrats, for example.
00:12:41.000It shows there's a lack of enthusiasm for Joe Biden among Democratic base voters.
00:12:45.000They're not quite as enthused to vote as Republican base voters would be.
00:12:48.000The real problem for Joe Biden is not with his base.
00:12:52.000The real problem for Joe Biden is not with the Hamasniks in Dearborn, Michigan.
00:12:56.000The real problem for Joe Biden is not with radical BLM types inside the Democratic Party.
00:13:02.000The problem for Joe Biden is that he governed as a radical Bernie Sanders type.
00:13:06.000He got into office and he decided he was going to govern far to the left.
00:13:09.000Instead of entering with the coalition that brought him and then dancing with them, he decided to jettison the entire center of the political spectrum And Donald Trump is gradually taking over the center of the political spectrum as we discussed last week on the show.
00:13:22.000You cannot name a position in modern American politics where Joe Biden now occupies the center and Donald Trump occupies the periphery.
00:13:29.000It's virtually always the other way around, including Mainstream Democrat issues like abortion.
00:13:34.000It is Joe Biden who is saying things like abortion up until birth.
00:13:36.000And it is Donald Trump who's not saying we ban abortion all the way from inception and conception.
00:13:41.000He says we should ban abortion federally maybe at 16 weeks, which is a pretty broad consensus position in the American populace.
00:13:48.000Joe Biden has abandoned the moderates.
00:13:58.000This is a disaster area for— Nate Silver points this out.
00:14:01.000Nate Silver, excellent poll analyst, who, again, has fallen out of grace with a bunch of left-wingers because he suggested Hillary Clinton was likely to win the 2016 election and then she didn't.
00:14:11.000And then they got mad at the messenger.
00:14:14.000And then because Nate Silver tried to explain why that had happened, they got very angry at him.
00:14:17.000We'll get to more on this in just one moment.
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00:16:16.000He said Mitt Romney, in the 2012 election, actually won independent voters.
00:16:19.000But because Democrats had a bigger base, with 38% of voters in the national exit identifying as Democrats compared to 32% Republicans, Barack Obama won comfortably.
00:16:29.000But as Nate Silver points out, Barack Obama's coalition cannot be updated for Joe Biden.
00:16:34.000Barack Obama was a charismatic figure.
00:16:36.000Barack Obama was the first black president.
00:16:37.000Joe Biden is an old white man who can't speak English anymore.
00:16:41.000And so what's actually happening with Joe Biden is that he, like Barack Obama in 2012, has given away the moderates.
00:16:50.000As Nate Silver points out, when it comes to independent voters, it's a great thing to think about.
00:16:56.000If you are an independent voter and you switch your vote, let's say you voted Biden in 2020 and now you're voting for Trump, what you just did is actually worth twice what a base voter showing up did.
00:17:06.000A base voter showing up means that the base voter, let's say their marginal voter didn't vote in 2020, did vote in 2024.
00:17:13.000So let's say that you have 20 people who are voting and then a marginalized voter shows up and votes for you.
00:17:28.000That voter takes a vote away from one side and gives it to the other, creating a two-vote margin.
00:17:34.000Instead of it now being 11 to 10, it shifts to 11 to 9.
00:17:37.000So an independent voter is actually worth more in terms of margin of victory than just any person who is going to vote for the Democratic side and didn't show up in 2020.
00:17:49.000Ray says, the underlying arithmetic of how votes are tallied means that flipping a voter is worth twice as much as turning a non-voter out.
00:17:56.000Plus, the composition of the electorate has changed.
00:17:58.000Democrats have lost their edge on party ID in a lot of polls.
00:18:02.000This is what happened, by the way, in the state of Florida, which has now turned bright red.
00:18:05.000That's because Republicans did the on-the-ground work of going and registering Republican voters, which means that Democrats do not have a base turnout advantage in the state of Florida, plus independents tend to vote Republican in the state of Florida.
00:18:15.000So it shifted from a purple state to a very red state.
00:18:19.000So, as Nate Silver points out, in Gallup polling throughout 2023, the same percentage of Americans identify now as Democratic and Republican.
00:18:28.00043% now ID as independent, which means independent voters should be more important to Joe Biden, but that's who he's forgotten about.
00:18:35.000So it's one thing to say, I'm going to appeal to the base when 38% of voters say they're Democrats and 32% say they're Republicans.
00:18:41.000It's a whole other thing when 27% of people say they are Republicans and 27% of people say they're Democrats and 43% say neither.
00:18:49.000Which means they hate both candidates.
00:18:54.000Now, as Nate Silver points out, the reality is that Donald Trump is winning those people going away.
00:19:02.000The poll from the New York Times-Siena asked voters who they voted for in 2020, and then asked them who they plan to vote for in 2024.
00:19:11.000So, bizarrely, the poll showed that the recalled vote, you know, people who said they voted in 2020, what they said was that they voted by Biden by a 12-point margin.
00:19:20.000Now, again, that demonstrates this is actually a Democrat-heavy poll because the reality is that Joe Biden did not win by 12 points.
00:19:27.000Joe Biden won by 4.5 percentage points.
00:19:29.000But they say that they voted in 2020, this voting base, 53-41 for Joe Biden.
00:19:38.000Now, all those same voters asked, who are you gonna vote for in 2024?
00:19:41.000Said Trump, 48 to 43, which means Biden lost 10 points off of the 2020 vote among these voters.
00:19:48.000And Donald Trump gained seven points, which makes sense, right?
00:19:51.000Not everybody who shifted from Biden loves Donald Trump, but most of them are willing to vote for Donald Trump.
00:19:56.000So what he says is that in the poll, only 83% of voters who say they chose Biden in 2020 plan to vote for him this year.
00:20:03.00097% of those who voted for Trump plan to vote for Trump again.
00:20:06.000Those are swing voters, people who are willing to move from one party to the other, and there are many of them.
00:20:13.000And the point that Nate Silver makes is that for every 10 voters who are voting to Donald Trump, fewer than one are switching over to Joe Biden from the Trump camp.
00:20:22.000In other words, Donald Trump is winning independence right now, and that means that he is likely to win the election.
00:20:28.000This poll data, by the way, is supported by further polling over the weekend from both the Wall Street Journal and CBS News.
00:20:35.000According to a brand new CBS News poll, when asked how they would rate the presidencies of Donald Trump and Joe Biden, when they say, Donald Trump, looking back, was it excellent or good or fair or poor?
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00:26:11.000And every time he's not on camera, he hurts himself because we know that he's hiding.
00:26:14.000You can play a basement strategy when you're not the president of the United States.
00:26:17.000And in fact, that's what Donald Trump should do in this campaign.
00:26:19.000Joe Biden cannot play the basement strategy.
00:26:21.000He's the current president of the United States.
00:26:24.000And so the guns are starting to open up, even from the left, on Joe Biden.
00:26:29.000So you can see, it's every day, every single day, the Biden administration has to trot out people who are not Joe Biden to convince everybody that Bernie is alive, that the corpse is actually alive.
00:26:40.000Because first rule of politics, if you have to explain that you are not the thing, you're definitely the thing.
00:26:46.000So when you send out Alejandro Mayorkas to talk about how bright and with it you are behind closed doors, but then you walk out and you basically are stumbling around, bumbling around.
00:26:55.000Well, it makes your people look like both liars and also political hacks.
00:27:25.000I prepare a lot for meetings with him and engagements with him because he's remarkably detail-oriented, probing, and operationally focused.
00:28:59.000Then he parkoured up to the top of the border wall.
00:29:03.000He front-flipped into the Rio Grande and came back up with a fish in his mouth.
00:29:09.000When SNL is going after a Democrat, you know that Democrat is in serious trouble.
00:29:12.000Bill Maher also going after Joe Biden because Bill will say the truth about Joe Biden, which is that he is no longer with us, the late lamented President of the United States.
00:29:20.000Instead of trying to refute all the too-old-to-be-president slams, Joe must embrace them.
00:30:56.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:32:28.000Make a movie no one likes and then yell at the audience about how intolerant they are when the movie fails.
00:32:32.000So you make a movie like The Last Jedi, and you make an absolutely, interminably awful character like Rose.
00:32:38.000And then, when the audience doesn't like the movie, you say, well, it's because you just don't like Asian people in Star Wars.
00:32:45.000That obviously has been a giant fail for Hollywood, because it turns out that ripping the audience is a terrible way to get people to come see your movies.
00:32:52.000And actually, it doesn't win you friends, it doesn't win you admi- and it doesn't make your movies better.
00:32:56.000And it also blinds you to the reality, which is that you need to course-correct when it comes to your own movies.
00:33:02.000Because you end up just doubling down on stupid.
00:33:04.000If you keep blaming the audience over and over and over, then you're just gonna keep making the same crappy movie 87 times in a row, and every time it fails, you're gonna say, it's not me, it's the audience.
00:33:12.000Okay, well, Joe Biden is doing that right now, and his entire team is doing that right now.
00:33:16.000Democrats have decided that it's not Joe, it's you.
00:33:41.000So, for example, MSNBC, which is the repository of this entire strategy, had on a University of Maryland political science professor named Thomas Schaller who promptly explained that white rural voters are a threat to democracy.
00:33:52.000Now, what a normal political party would do is say, why aren't we winning white rural voters?
00:34:00.000Maybe their agenda doesn't cross over with ours at all and we're just going to forego their votes.
00:34:04.000That's what a normal political party would do.
00:34:06.000This Democratic Party has decided if white rural voters will not vote for Joe Biden, which by the way is the reason he was nominated, is because the idea was he was going to cut into Donald Trump's white rural voting base.
00:34:24.000Then he promptly abandoned those people and now They're relegated to saying that all those people are racist, fascist Nazis out in the sticks.
00:34:33.000Why are white rural voters a threat to democracy at this point?
00:34:36.000You would think, as we pointed out, looking at Joe Biden's background and Donald Trump's, that the opposite would be true.
00:34:43.000I mean, we lay out the fourfold interconnected threat that white rural voters pose to the country, first of all.
00:34:49.000And we show 30 polls and national studies to demonstrate this.
00:34:52.000We provide the receipts in Chapter six.
00:34:54.000They're the most racist, Xenophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-gay, geodemographic group in the country.
00:35:00.000Second, they're the most conspiracist group.
00:35:02.000QAnon support and subscribers, election denialism, COVID denialism and scientific skepticism, Obama birtherism.
00:35:12.000They don't believe in an independent press, free speech.
00:35:14.000They're most likely to say the president should be able to act unilaterally without any checks from Congress or the courts or the bureaucracy.
00:35:20.000They're also the most strongly white nationalists and white Christian nationalists.
00:35:24.000And fourth, they are most likely to excuse or justify violence as an acceptable alternative to peaceful public discourse.
00:35:33.000So again, if you actually were to look at the data on this, what you would see is that the data tends to suggest that a fairly small minority of people actually believe all the things that this person just said.
00:35:43.000He says they're the most likely subgroup in the United States to believe this.
00:35:46.000It doesn't mean the vast majority of white rural voters are all Nazis.
00:35:49.000But even if that were true, the reality is that if you want to win an election, presumably, you're going to have to figure out some commonality.
00:35:56.000Like, if you just yell at them, You're not going to win their votes.
00:36:18.000But Democrats have decided that since 2012, they're just going to abandon that voting base.
00:36:21.000And then, if they lose, they're just going to call everyone they disagree with Nazis, which, of course, reinforces the entire reactionary swing the country is experiencing right now.
00:36:29.000Batja Ungersargen, who is not a member of the right wing.
00:37:05.000I think that the media really, really wants to put this narrative out there that Biden is going to lose Michigan over Gaza when the truth is he's going to lose Michigan over 600,000 autoworkers because his EV market was extremely punishing to autoworkers.
00:37:24.000And like we said earlier, There's been this big realignment where working class Americans are very, very, very much on the Trump train.
00:37:32.000people who used to be Democrats and used to vote for Democrats and rather than admit that,
00:37:36.000this outrage that Democrats lost the working class vote and try to figure out how we can
00:37:40.000appeal to them again, they're looking for excuses and other things to blame like, oh,
00:37:44.000this war in Gaza, or they'll call them deplorables, or they'll call them racist, you know, because
00:37:48.000they don't want to admit that Trump has picked up a lot of the policies that used to be Democratic
00:37:54.000policies in the 90s, like controlling the border, for example, the idea that an open
00:37:59.000border and mass migration is extremely punishing to the working class.
00:38:04.000It's class warfare against the working class.
00:38:07.000It is an upward transfer of wealth from the working class who end up competing with immigrants to the elites who end up employing them and now they can employ cheap immigrants instead of having to pay working class Americans a living wage.
00:39:19.000You could be watching an actual realignment, not caused again by Donald Trump, a realignment caused by the failures of Joe Biden because he decided that he was going to be a historic president and his ego overtook him.
00:39:31.000His ego made him think he was going to be LBJ or FDR.
00:39:35.000But the dirty secret about LBJ and FDR is they had the white working class on their side.
00:39:39.000You know who the Democrats currently do not have?
00:39:41.000Because they've separated them off from the priorities of their party, the white working class.
00:39:46.000It's a real problem for them, and it's not going to stop.
00:39:49.000And everybody who's looking at the economy can see this happening.
00:39:53.000For example, Fascinating article in the UK Daily Mail today says taxpayer-funded guaranteed income programs that hand struggling families up to $36,000 with no strings attached are being rolled out across the country, according to the UK Daily Mail.
00:40:05.000The schemes, whose total value exceeds $125 million, have surged in popularity since the pandemic as progressive leaders embrace cash handouts to support Americans below the poverty line.
00:40:15.000But the radical projects have been criticized after it emerged that one mother of three in Washington, D.C.
00:40:19.000spent more than half of a $10,800 lump sum payment on a luxury holiday to Miami along with a new wardrobe for her kids and a glow up for herself.
00:40:28.000This sort of stuff is quite reminiscent of the sort of welfare queen rhetoric of the 1980s.
00:40:34.000You could be watching the remaking of the Reagan coalition in real time because Democrats are terrible at this.
00:40:41.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden is racking up debt at such an exorbitant pace at this point that there is no way out but through.
00:40:47.000The American government is going to have to do two things simultaneously.
00:40:49.000One, cut spending and figure out what the hell to do with entitlements.
00:40:52.000And two, grow the economy like gangbusters.
00:40:54.000Nobody believes that Joe Biden is going to do either of those things.
00:40:58.000And so what you're looking at is the possibility of a fairly serious long-term secular stagnation.
00:41:03.000Secular just meaning across the entire economy, not in any one industry.
00:41:09.000According to a Wharton professor named Hao Gomez, he says that the $34 trillion debt burden of the United States could upset the world's financial markets as early as next year.
00:41:22.000Especially if a president-elect announces a raft of expensive policies.
00:41:26.000Well, you know that that's exactly what Joe Biden is going to do.
00:41:28.000He keeps saying it over and over that he wants more expensive policies, which of course would make it difficult for America to raise more debt.
00:41:36.000Meanwhile, the Biden administration is pursuing the world's worst immigration policies.
00:41:39.000What Batya said right there about the fact that you are now having a Democratic Party that is importing cheap labor in order to help business allies.
00:42:20.000You actually have to bring in a sub-wage labor base.
00:42:25.000You have to bring them in and have them work illegally.
00:42:28.000So at the same time that you're pushing the unions, who are your political allies, so they can make their money and then spend that money on you getting elected, you have to bring in a labor base that's actually going to lower prices for the vast majority of American consumers, which is what cheap labor does from illegal immigration.
00:42:40.000The problem is that Americans can see what's happening in real time and they do not like it.
00:42:46.000The Biden administration is now starting to openly admit how many people they brought into the country.
00:42:50.000According to Axios, more than 8 million asylum seekers and other migrants will be living inside the United States in legal limbo by the end of September.
00:42:58.000That is a 167% increase in five years alone.
00:43:03.000There are only 3 million people who are living inside the United States in legal limbo who had not had a hearing or whatever.
00:43:09.000As of 2019, it is now up to 8 million.
00:43:13.000The backlog has absolutely exploded under Joe Biden.
00:43:18.000And that is not just because we don't have enough funding for the border courts.
00:43:22.000It is because Joe Biden has opened the border wide and given everybody a date certain to come back by and no one shows up again.
00:43:30.000And as the Wall Street Journal points out, businesses are relying more on migrant workers as labor shortages persist.
00:43:36.000According to the Wall Street Journal, dependence on imported workers is approaching unhealthy levels in some places, stifling productivity growth, helping businesses delay the search for more sustainable solutions to labor shortages.
00:43:48.000So again, Joe Biden has made this entire problem.
00:43:50.000And as we continue, we're gonna talk about the fact that he never even took a call from his border chief for like three years.
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00:44:41.000So, the Biden administration is trying to make the claim that they actually are not at fault for what's going on at the border, but they have a rather large problem with that.
00:44:49.000That, of course, is that they are clearly responsible for what is happening at the border.
00:44:52.000So, former Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz was on 60 Minutes.
00:46:02.000Lakin Riley, of course, was murdered just last week at University of Georgia.
00:46:07.000And the response of the local mayor was to claim that this was the fault of Donald Trump.
00:46:15.000She was murdered on February 22nd, 2024.
00:46:18.000She was jogging, and her body was found near a lake of a wooded area.
00:46:23.000Her death was caused by blunt force trauma.
00:46:25.000The person arrested was, of course, an illegal immigrant.
00:46:29.000Alejandro Mayorkas was asked directly about this.
00:46:31.000Look at the way that he deals with this.
00:46:33.000This is a disaster for the Biden administration.
00:46:37.000A 22-year-old nursing student, I know you've been following this, Lakin Riley, in the state of Georgia, was murdered, allegedly, by an undocumented Venezuelan migrant.
00:46:47.000The suspect had been detained by Porter Patrol upon crossing, released with temporary permission to stay in the country.
00:46:53.000He then went on, allegedly, to commit crimes twice.
00:46:58.000Once in New York for driving a scooter without a license, and once in connection with a shoplifting case in Georgia.
00:47:05.000Did those states and their law enforcement communicate to the federal government that this had happened?
00:47:16.000First, Margaret, first and foremost, an absolute tragedy, and our hearts break for and our prayers are with the family, number one.
00:47:25.000Number two, and importantly, as a prosecutor, having prosecuted violent crime and other crimes for 12 years, one individual is responsible for the murder, and that is the murderer.
00:47:37.000And we work very closely with state and local law enforcement to ensure that individuals who pose a threat to public safety are indeed our highest priority for detention and removal.
00:47:50.000Okay, there's only one problem with that, which of course it's not true.
00:47:53.000The person shouldn't have been in the country in the first place.
00:47:56.000Sanctuary City policies all over the United States have allowed career criminals to stay in play.
00:48:01.000This administration has been incredibly soft on crime.
00:48:05.000And so they've got a real problem on their hands.
00:48:08.000America's also suggested that executive orders aren't going to solve anything, which of course is not true, because it is Joe Biden's executive orders upon coming into office that opened up the border wide.
00:48:18.000Given that, CNN is reporting last week that the administration is considering executive action that would block migrants claiming asylum if they illegally cross into the United States.
00:48:29.000Can you tell us exactly what's on the table?
00:48:32.000Dana, we consider options at all times.
00:48:36.000That's the responsibility of good government.
00:48:39.000But an administrative action is no substitute for an enduring solution.
00:48:43.000When we take administrative actions, as we have done a number of times, we are challenged in court.
00:48:53.000And by the way, we cannot, through administrative action, Plus up the United States Border Patrol, Customs and Border Protection by 1,500 personnel like this legislation proposes.
00:49:05.000We cannot, through administrative action, add 4,300 asylum officers so that we can work through the backlog and turn the system into an efficient and well-working one, which it hasn't been for more than three decades.
00:49:23.000You could put back in place Donald Trump's Remain in Mexico policy in which everybody who applies for asylum has to not be entered into the United States and they remain in Mexico to await their asylum determination, which would stop the vast onslaught on the border.
00:49:36.000And then you could also redefine the interpretation of asylum law such that you actually have to show that you deserve asylum to be let into the country, not merely say things like, I fear to go back to my home country.
00:52:31.000He's running at best dead even with Donald Trump in the state of Pennsylvania.
00:52:36.000It turns out that Americans don't really like it very much when, say, you appease terrorists.
00:52:39.000Your base may, but it turns out that most Americans, including independents, do not.
00:52:43.000Okay, so the Biden administration continues to send all the wrong signals in the Middle East again in an attempt desperately to win Dearborn, Michigan, and it ain't going to help.
00:52:51.000There are not enough votes in Dearborn, Michigan to make up for the fact that he's losing the white working class in states like Michigan.
00:52:59.000But again, the Democrats have been totally captured by the editorial board at the New York Times.
00:53:03.000The editorial board of the New York Times got captured by the woke interns.
00:53:05.000And then they in turn have captured the Biden administration, who seems to believe that if they just repeat January 6th on broader and louder volume, that magically they're going to win this election.
00:53:15.000And so they are just catering to the Hamasniks in Dearborn, Michigan.
00:53:18.000So, over the weekend, for example, Kamala Harris, the Vice President of the United States, suggested there needed to be an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
00:53:24.000Now, the White House immediately tried to walk this back a little bit.
00:53:27.000They tried to say what she means, that Hamas should agree to a ceasefire, because it turns out, awkwardly, over the weekend, Israel agreed to many of the preconditions for a ceasefire and Hamas turned it down.
00:53:35.000The reason Hamas turned down a ceasefire is because they believe that the West is going to force Israel to stop without Hamas giving up hostages, without Hamas going into exile, with Hamas retaining control in the Gaza Strip, with the possibility that Hamas even gains control of the West Bank.
00:53:48.000Hamas may not be wrong considering the pathetic leftism of our current crop of Western leadership.
00:53:53.000But here is Kamala Harris making a fool of herself on this issue just yesterday.
00:54:00.000The immense scale of suffering in Gaza.
00:55:55.000Issue relative to America's national security and the security of the Middle East.
00:55:59.000I would hope that the president doesn't make decisions about what to do in Gaza or the Middle East based upon how the votes line up.
00:56:07.000Listen, I think it is time for the president to use all the leverage that he has to get a long-term ceasefire.
00:56:14.000I think if that ceasefire doesn't come, it's in Israel's interest for them to pause military activity to solve the humanitarian crisis.
00:56:21.000But to the extent the president is using additional leverage on Israel, he should do that for national security reasons, not for political reasons.
00:56:29.000These issues are too important to be dictated by the polls.
00:56:32.000Except that they are being dictated by the polls.
00:56:34.000Because, again, Joe Biden caved rhetorically on a lot of this stuff.
00:56:38.000The Democratic Party then pushed way to the left, and now he is following, as he always does, the center of the Democratic Party.
00:56:43.000According to this brand new Wall Street Journal poll, 16% of Republicans only say that Israel has gone too far in responding to Hamas.
00:56:54.00040% of Democrats under the age of 40 said the United States was doing too much to help Israelis, compared with 33% of Democrats aged 40 and older.
00:57:01.000The same poll shows, by the way, that overall 57% of the American people believe that the United States is giving about the right amount or too little support to the Israelis.
00:57:11.000Only 30% think that too much support is being given to the Israelis.
00:57:16.000And that overall, Some 43% of Americans believe that Israel has either been about right or not gone far enough.
00:57:24.000So a plurality actually believe the opposite.
00:57:26.000But Democrats are on the wrong side of the American public on this, and they are attempting to flip the American public on this, even as Hamas exacerbates the problem.
00:58:36.000As for the specific question of humanitarian aid, we want to see as much humanitarian aid get into Gaza to the people who need it, while making sure that Hamas cannot steal it.
00:58:46.000Now that's why we've done, on the one hand, expanded capacity at the Israeli crossings.
00:58:50.000There is now more than double the excess capacity at Israel's crossings to get more aid in.
00:58:56.000As we speak right now, There are 300 trucks worth of humanitarian aid sitting on the Gazan side of the Kerem Shalom crossing, waiting for the UN to pick it up and distribute it.
00:59:17.000But because there's no one to actually distribute the aid, the bottom line is that the West, the United States, places that are in the Arab world, are working with the Israeli government to airdrop aid into the middle.
00:59:28.000That is not because Israel won't distribute the aid.
00:59:30.000It's because there is no one to distribute the aid because Hamas will not surrender and they are trying to kill people and hijack the aid.
00:59:37.000Meanwhile, the media are blaming Israel for all of that.
00:59:39.000At the same exact time all this is happening, the Houthis actually sank another ship.
00:59:42.000This is the first ship that the Houthis have successfully sunk at this point.
00:59:52.000A cargo ship sank in the Red Sea after an attack by Houthi militants, taking about 21,000 metric tons of fertilizer down with it, posing a significant environmental risk to one of the world's busiest waterways and the home of many coral reefs.
01:00:02.000The Rubimar was struck by an anti-ballistic missile fired by the Houthis on February 18th.
01:00:06.000It sank early on Saturday after slowly taking on water since the attack.
01:00:11.000It will cause an environmental disaster, apparently.
01:00:15.000The Houthi attack last month caused an 18-mile oil slick and forced the crew to abandon the ship.
01:00:20.000Again, the West has been unable to curb the lashings out of a primitive terrorist group.
01:00:31.000A terrorist group that, again, the Biden administration delisted as a terrorist group early on in their administration.
01:00:35.000Meanwhile, antisemitism all over the world continues to percolate.
01:00:40.000The Washington Free Beacon reports that when Israeli lawyer Ron Bar-Yoshafat was speaking at University of California, Berkeley, his speech was canceled after violent protesters choked a female student attendee, spit in another attendee's face, broke into the auditorium, where Bar-Yoshafat waited on stage.
01:00:56.000The administration had no apology to offer.
01:01:19.000And yet, the pressure on the Democratic side is for them to cave to Hamas.
01:01:24.000Is that going to make them more popular with the American people?
01:01:27.000The American people don't like Hamas very much.
01:01:30.000Do they really think that it's going to buy them a ton of goodwill and votes to pressure Israel into stopping early and leaving Hamas in place?
01:01:37.000Democrats also have another force coming down the railway tracks for them that's going to be very ugly.
01:01:42.000And that force is the backlash that is coming from these Trump lawsuits.
01:01:46.000So, Letitia James, and she is the person who's been going after Donald Trump in New York.
01:01:51.000She literally came into office pledging to get Donald Trump, which is not exactly how law enforcement is supposed to work.
01:01:56.000Typically, you identify the crime and then you prosecute the criminal.
01:01:59.000You don't identify the person and then seek to uncover the crime.
01:02:05.000And it turns out that most people, I don't think, are gonna like the fact that she went after Donald Trump on a bunch of civil charges that are absolutely absurd.
01:02:12.000As the Wall Street Journal editorial page points out, Because Letitia James could not demonstrate that banks relied on Trump's misrepresentation, she rested her case on a sweeping state civil fraud law known as Executive Law Section 6312.
01:02:24.000That statute substantially mirrors federal criminal fraud statutes, but typically, federal courts require proof of property loss or damage to prove fraud.
01:02:34.000So Judge Engeron, in that particular case, along with Letitia James, have now fined him $400 million.
01:02:41.000Now James is tweeting out that Trump owes an additional $114,000 in interest to the state every day that he doesn't cough up the money.
01:02:47.000Is that going to make Trump less popular or more popular?
01:02:50.000Meanwhile, Fannie Willis and her ridiculous case against Donald Trump in Georgia, this RICO case that is a legal joke.
01:02:57.000Well, Fannie Willis, it turns out, again, was stooping the guy she hired to be one of her cheap prosecutors and then moving money around in particularly corrupt ways.
01:03:05.000Is that case going to somehow redound against Trump?
01:03:10.000Here, for example, is a lawyer for one of the other defendants in Fannie Willis' prosecution on January 6th, going after Fannie Willis and pointing out her corruption.
01:03:19.000The general rule on conflicts of interest for lawyers is in Rule of Professional Conduct 1.7.
01:03:24.000And we all know, it's all drummed into us, that we cannot have a conflict of interest.
01:03:29.000And if we do, we have to withdraw or we will be disqualified.
01:03:33.000The basic idea is that a conflict of interest impairs the lawyer's independent professional judgment.
01:03:40.000That's the test of a conflict and whether it can be waived and whether it's disqualifying.
01:03:45.000And that conflict is not just financial.
01:03:49.000It can be any conflict that impairs your independent professional judgment.
01:03:53.000And you see that in McLaughlin v. Payne.
01:03:55.000There are six different actual conflicts of interest in this case, any one of which warrants disqualification, but collectively, practically compelling.
01:04:03.000First, the financial conflict that's already been covered.
01:04:06.000Second, the personal ambition, political ambition.
01:04:11.000Third, there's a dovetailed or complementary pattern of deceit and concealment of the relationship and the money.