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00:01:25.000I want to begin today, Blake and the audience, about something Kamala Harris said yesterday.
00:01:32.000Now there's been a fair amount of apprehension amongst those of us that are pro-life that Donald Trump is insufficiently pro-life, therefore I'm going to stay at home and I'm going to protest vote him.
00:01:42.000Meaning I'm not going to vote and just so you know there are, at least in my circle, I know of a lot of pro-life people that refuse to vote for Trump.
00:01:51.000Now they're getting there because they say that Trump is not as pro-life as they would like to be.
00:01:55.000I think this is silly and foolish and I say this as somebody who's very very pro-life.
00:01:59.000But recent developments by Kamala Harris shows that he is far more pro-life.
00:02:05.000Vastly more pro-life, and more to the point, pro-life in the ways that politically matter right now.
00:02:13.000And I think that is the most important framing to put on it.
00:02:16.000Yeah, and so so what Kamala Harris announced yesterday for the first time is that she is willing to nuke the filibuster, which is a tactic that is used in the Senate.
00:02:27.000It's not constitutional that slows down pieces of legislation effectively saying that we're going to gut the filibuster.
00:02:38.000Now, this might sound like something you've seen on a television commercial from Kamala Harris, but it's something completely different.
00:02:46.000What she is saying is that she will overturn any state that might have pro-life legislation.
00:02:55.000So what is so remarkable about this tape that we're about to play, this is Kamala Harris in a phone interview, I imagine a radio interview of some sort, and she does this unprompted.
00:03:07.000Nobody asked a question of Kamala Harris about the filibuster, at least to my knowledge.
00:03:13.000I don't know what the question was asked.
00:03:14.000It seemed as if Kamala Harris just meandered right into it and said it, and her team had it prepared for her to make this announcement.
00:03:21.000Kamala Harris wants to tell states like Tennessee what they can do with their pro-life legislation.
00:03:31.000The brilliance and the moderate ground that President Trump has been saying is this is a state's rights issue.
00:04:02.000And so I would also emphasize that while the presidential election is extremely important and dispositive of where we go moving forward, it also is about what we need to do to hold on to the Senate and win seats in the House.
00:04:16.000That being said, I've been very clear.
00:04:18.000I think we should eliminate the filibuster for real.
00:04:21.000And get us to the point where 51 votes would be what we need to actually put back in law the protections for reproductive freedom and for the ability of every person and every woman to make decisions about their own body and not have their government tell them what to do.
00:04:40.000So Blake, what does this mean for a state like Tennessee?
00:04:43.000So what she's saying is that she will nuke the filibuster, have the Senate get rid of the filibuster, you don't need 60 votes to close debate anymore, to basically, she says, bring back Roe.
00:04:55.000So what that would literally mean is they would pass a federal law that says The original Roe v. Wade ruling is now the National Abortion Law, which basically means you can have no restrictions whatsoever on abortion in the first trimester.
00:05:09.000You can't really have that many restrictions in the second trimester.
00:05:14.000And then, like, in the third, you're kind of allowed to ban it, maybe.
00:05:18.000But that might even just—they just say Roe because they know it's popular.
00:05:20.000So they could easily say, we're passing Roe, and it'll just be nationwide, you know, New York legal throughout pregnancy for basically any reason.
00:05:33.000Now, we've often had some, like, dooming stuff on the right, because pro-life stuff hasn't always done great when it's an up or down vote at the ballot box.
00:05:41.000So you actually mentioned Kansas, but Kansas is an example where their Supreme Court said it's a constitutional right, and so they actually have very liberal abortion laws because they didn't amend it successfully, get rid of it.
00:06:39.000So, you basically have about 20 states here that have vastly more restrictive abortion laws, thanks to the Dobbs decision, that have so far not been overturned in any vote.
00:06:51.000And, you know, it's actually been over two years at this point.
00:06:57.000They've gotten through an election cycle.
00:06:59.000And if you have pro-lifers deciding to stay home because Trump doesn't want a national abortion ban like what you are effectively doing is you are you're mad at Trump over something that won't happen because I'm just going to tell you they're not going to pass the national abortion ban and if they do we will lose the following election.
00:08:11.000And, you know, four Democrat senators, more safe electoral votes, and so on.
00:08:15.000stacking the supreme court back to supreme court pack the supreme court all
00:08:18.000those gun rights decisions you like they can get rid of religious liberty religious liberty
00:08:22.000done choice choice got yet they speech gone they just rewrite
00:08:25.000everything they want and their they have a long list of packages that they want
00:08:30.000to do like you know how we got in trouble for like project 2025 there
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00:08:44.000can do if they get rid of the filibuster.
00:08:46.000And if you're pro-life out there, if you're a Christian or a Catholic, and you say, I'm not voting for Trump because he's insufficiently pro-life.
00:09:20.000And look, I'll be honest, I was talking to some pro-life leaders last night, and they said, yeah, we're organizing people to protest against Donald Trump, and I said, you're being immature children, throwing the country out.
00:09:30.000Not only is your protest point stupid, but if Donald Trump wins, the pro-life movement stays alive.
00:09:37.000If Kamala wins, it could be obliterated for a generation.
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00:11:06.000I'm going to play more tape here of the push to get rid of the filibuster.
00:11:25.000Blake, explain to our audience again the significance of the filibuster, because this is being met with massive opposition from Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema... Both leaving, though.
00:11:35.000Yeah, so what is the... Tell us, what are the components of the filibuster?
00:12:13.000And if you are not able to end debate, there's no time limit on it, so they can just perpetuate it indefinitely.
00:12:20.000And so, this used to be a pretty rare thing, and it used to be, like, to filibuster, you'd have to physically keep talking, so you occasionally had— Like Strom Thurman?
00:12:29.000Yeah, Strom Thurman did it for, I think, 24 hours to impose— I think it was 27.
00:13:59.000Yeah, because of Scott Brown winning in Massachusetts.
00:14:02.000And so there's all these complexities to it.
00:14:04.000And what is ultimately the case is you can just get rid of the filibuster by majority vote.
00:14:09.000So what's funny about the filibuster is it actually It doesn't quite protect the minority the way people say it does.
00:14:16.000What it actually does is it protects the majority from votes they, like, don't really want to take, and they need a political excuse for not doing.
00:14:26.000That's why Republicans loved it so much.
00:15:03.000Secondly, this is Let's Go Hear Cut 56 on CNN about the filibuster.
00:15:09.000Now that she has said that she would gut the Senate filibuster rules in her past measure, Manchin tells us this morning he will not endorse Harris for president.
00:15:16.000He's one of the staunchest supporters of the filibuster.
00:15:19.000Now that she has said that she would gut the Senate's filibuster rules in order to pass a measure to preserve abortion rights, Manchin tells us this morning that he will not endorse Harris for president.
00:15:34.000He is one of the staunchest supporters of the filibuster in the Senate.
00:15:39.000He argues that it is essential to forcing bipartisan consensus and compromise in the
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00:18:23.000Is there any evidence that she's ever prosecuted a case from start to finish?
00:18:28.000So I have been looking and the only thing I can identify as a political argument, article, I'm sorry, let me put that off to the side for a second.
00:18:37.000So I ran searches on Westlaw, which I'm particularly expert at using.
00:18:41.000It's a very large, the largest and most comprehensive computerized legal research database.
00:18:48.000And I can't find any evidence of any cases that she prosecuted.
00:18:53.000And I searched for habeas cases where the transcripts might have wound up there.
00:18:57.000I also looked for whether she'd argued appeals.
00:19:05.000And I challenged her and her campaign weeks ago to please post up on some kind of, you know, logging website Her past trial transcripts so that other lawyers like me can look at them and see if they show any signs of an impressive lawyer or if she's, you know, being puffed up and overblown like an empty pantsuit.
00:19:26.000And, you know, I'm sad to say I really don't find any evidence like that.
00:20:54.000Is it frequent that people rarely have any courtroom experience as a prosecutor?
00:20:59.000In my experience, someone who becomes a local D.A.
00:21:03.000usually has significant trial practice behind them.
00:21:07.000You know, it is a politically elected job, so it is possible to come in from the outside.
00:21:12.000But usually if someone runs for a D.A.
00:21:13.000from the outside, It's someone putting aside these Soros prosecutors who, you know, was in private practice.
00:21:20.000They might've been in the criminal defense bar, for instance, or they might've, you know, held other government posts.
00:21:25.000But, you know, for her to become the DA and to win and to, you know, beat people like Mr. Fazio, who was really a veteran prosecutor, you know, she's an empty suit, as I've said.
00:21:36.000And I think it's because they just propped her up.
00:21:38.000They portray her as attractive and dynamic and younger.
00:21:43.000And that's kind of been the press clippings that she's been running on ever since.
00:21:48.000And once she got the DA job, then she got some special patronage jobs that Willie Brown gave her.
00:21:54.000on state boards in California. And then, you know, she became attorney general of California. And
00:21:59.000then she parlayed that into a Senate seat. But so far, we're not finding that she actually has much
00:22:04.000of a record as an actual real lawyer, Charlie. It seems as if this is a pattern, right, Jeffrey,
00:22:10.000that it seems as if she says one thing and then does another. And this is significant because
00:22:15.000in an attempt to win over center right, moderate Midwestern swing voters, she's making herself seem
00:22:24.000as if she is this, you know, amazing prosecutor that she's able to come in and lock up the cartels
00:22:34.000I'm just kind of wondering, like, you know, she never gives interviews, of course, and if she does, a lot of them will be softballs, but it'd be really fun to just... if the press would actually put her on the spot and ask her, like, relatively basic legal questions, because, I mean, she failed the bar the first time, like, I do wonder how... What is a motion to dismiss?
00:22:53.000Yeah, like, you know, how does it work?
00:23:21.000And so of course, she's never going to do that.
00:23:23.000And of course, the press is never, the mainstream press is never going to put her through that.
00:23:27.000And she's not going to agree to do something like come on your show, Charlie, and have you quiz her about any legal topics or put, you know, have you pair up with a lawyer guest to ask her questions?
00:23:38.000She's going to dodge all that and the mainstream media is going to cover for her.
00:23:44.000On that point, her campaign is largely centered on trying to be tough on crime.
00:24:12.000And I also think, right, that the whole framing of her versus Trump, you know, the geniuses on the Democratic Party, their political consultants, they decided the framing would be excellent for her if Trump is a criminal defendant and she's the tough on crime prosecutor.
00:24:42.000You know, she was focused in the sex crimes unit.
00:24:45.000And, you know, there are many people who know the California legal system well, and they're skeptical that given how many years she spent as a line prosecutor that she possibly could have you know done much in terms of really being a first chair
00:24:59.000in a sex crimes case because those could be complicated and You know very fraught. So, you know, I just think her
00:25:06.000record is exploding. Her record is You know phony and you know, I I don't I think she's gonna
00:25:12.000run from this That's why she hasn't answered my challenge online. So so
00:25:16.000yeah Jeff. I also want to talk about lawfare here and And there was another segment last evening on CNN where they said Donald Trump threatens to use the legal system against his political opponents.
00:25:26.000I mean, it's so Orwellian, it's hard to even grasp here.
00:25:30.000You have been a victim and a target of lawfare.
00:25:33.000I don't think we're talking about this enough.
00:25:36.000Bring us up to speed on how your situation is and what Kamala Harris would do if she's president.
00:25:41.000She would turn the Department of Justice into her own private secret police.
00:25:46.000Look, I think, you know, it's a laugh out loud moment when you hear the left try to say that Trump's going to be an autocratic dictator who's going to turn the Department of Justice into a weaponized system going after Democrats that he doesn't like.
00:26:00.000What have we been experiencing for the last three plus years under Joe Biden and Merrick Garland?
00:26:05.000We've been experiencing a weaponized justice system.
00:26:08.000And, you know, that's why they use special counsel Jack Smith.
00:26:12.000Because they think that that's an accountability-defeating mechanism.
00:26:15.000It fuzzes up who's really responsible.
00:26:17.000We know that Joe Biden and Merrick Garland are responsible for that.
00:26:22.000We know from FOIA information that America First Legal got that Joe Biden actually authorized The idea that there's some independent guy who's not a Democrat, he's just an independent Jack Smith, and he's responsible for all of this, and it doesn't fall on the Justice Department's political head, or on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's head, is ludicrous.
00:26:53.000They've weaponized the justice system, And, you know, there needs to be accountability for that, Charlie.
00:27:00.000And I think President Trump is going to bring that.
00:27:03.000And for them to try to call that, you know, accountability, weaponization is ludicrous.
00:27:08.000They're the ones who launched these political attacks.
00:27:11.000They're the ones who are bringing Marxism into the justice system and violating equal protection up and down the various states and in the federal system.
00:27:21.000They should actually be put on the spot about that.
00:27:24.000I'd like to see Congress put them on the spot more about that too.
00:27:30.000Jeffrey, please plug your information.
00:27:32.000And finally, just really quickly, can you talk about Judge Chutkan has allowed Jack Smith to file a 180-page legal brief that the Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity doesn't preclude his prosecution of President Trump.
00:27:45.000Comment on that, and how can people support you?
00:27:51.000Jack Smith's going to drop a 180-page brief, which is, you know, 135 pages in excess of the normal 45-page limit.
00:27:58.000And it violates normal procedures, the federal rules of criminal procedure, because President Trump should get to file a motion to dismiss against his superseding indictment.
00:28:07.000Instead, that's going to wait, and you're going to get Jack Smith Using anticipation to defend what Trump might say and defend his indictment.
00:28:15.000So he gets to move twice in the chess game, which is totally wrong and I think violates due process.
00:28:21.000And then that's not going to be public immediately.
00:28:24.000Eventually, there'll be a redacted version that's issued.
00:28:27.000And that's going to inherently be in October.
00:28:30.000And that's their October surprise against President Trump to try to convince the center of the electorate not to vote for him.
00:28:36.000And Charlie, thanks for mentioning me and my fight, which continues against the D.C.
00:28:41.000Bar especially and against Fonny Willis.
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00:29:56.000Really quickly, Virginia early voting numbers are coming in.
00:31:33.000He was definitely the analyst who gave Trump the best shot in 2016.
00:31:40.000He thought it was unlikely Trump would win, but he was like one-third shot.
00:31:44.000When you had professional analysts, people at universities, who said zero percent shot, one said, I'll eat a bug if Trump wins, and I think he actually did in fact eat the bug, which liberals like doing anyway, so it probably wasn't a big deal.
00:31:57.000But anyway, so this is what Nate Silver said just the other day.
00:32:01.000Quote, in 16 years of running election forecasts, I have never seen such a close election.
00:32:08.000Our polling averages in seven swing states, as of when he wrote this, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
00:32:16.000Seven states were within two percentage points when he wrote that.
00:32:20.000So that could mean if you have a very tiny shift one direction, Trump blowout.
00:32:24.000Tiny shift the other direction, Kamala blowout.
00:32:28.000And that's what's really so crazy is you have a lot of swing states every election, but what really stands out is how there's seven or eight states that could be the state that decides the election this time.
00:32:42.000Whereas, you know, last time it turned out, oh, there was a pretty big range in the outcomes of, so only one or two states were really like the tipping point.
00:32:50.000But this time it's just, it's all over.
00:33:13.000Look at this, think his presidency was a success.
00:33:16.000Donald Trump, 51%, the majority think his presidency was a success, despite his personal popularity being meh.
00:33:24.000Look at this for Joe Biden, way down at 37%.
00:33:27.000I think that this is a real drag on Kamala Harris, despite her own personal popularity, while Donald Trump, with thinking his presidency is a success, I think the net favorability ratings don't actually get into the fact that there are a lot of folks who like the job he did as president, but don't necessarily like him personally.
00:33:44.000That right there means that Donald Trump should be successful.