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00:02:25.000So, Judge Tanya Chutkin is presiding over Jack Smith's four-count indictment against Donald Trump for the events of January 6th and attempts to allegedly overturn the 2020 election.
00:02:37.000That trial had originally been set to begin on March 4th.
00:02:42.000It is indefinitely postponed, Charlie, as you know, awaiting oral arguments from the Supreme Court on the matter of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution.
00:02:52.000Oral arguments are set for April 25th.
00:02:54.000It will be at least a month, six weeks, maybe two months before the Supreme Court renders an opinion on that.
00:03:01.000If they come down and decide the lower courts were correct in Washington, D.C., Democrat judges deciding that a president can face criminal prosecution for the first time, then all the proceedings in Washington will restart.
00:03:15.000But, Charlie, they're already three months behind the original trial date schedule.
00:03:20.000Those three months will have to be made up essentially.
00:03:23.000So, really, the earliest it looks like Donald Trump could go to trial in Washington if he does would be perhaps late September.
00:03:31.000So, that's what's happening in Jack Smith's.
00:03:34.000Are they really that brazen, Julie, that as ballots go out, as ballots go out, and we are a month out from Counting Day, otherwise known as Election Day, that they would have Donald Trump in a federal courthouse?
00:03:49.000While we are in the heat of the election season, where Donald Trump is contemplating whether or not to debate Joe Biden and do the final swing state tour, they want him in a federal courthouse.
00:04:03.000Tanya Chutkin, an Obama appointee, who has a long record of making anti-Trump statements in her courtroom in January 6th court proceedings, and I have a piece on Real Clear Investigations on that.
00:04:16.000She has made it clear that politics plays no part in her courtroom.
00:04:21.000She doesn't care when election day is.
00:04:23.000She didn't care when the convention was.
00:04:26.000The only thing she cared about, she said, was protecting the integrity of the judicial proceedings.
00:04:33.000Now, add on to that, Charlie, that Attorney General Merritt Garland, in an interview a few months ago, said that both this trial in Washington and the other federal criminal trial in southern Florida are out of the Department of Justice's hands.
00:04:49.000As you know, there's typically the 60-90-day reprieve.
00:04:54.000The Department of Justice can't bring criminal indictments that could impact the election.
00:04:59.000What Merritt Garland has said is because those indictments were already handed down in 2023, they're in the hands of these two judges, Judge Chutkin in Washington, Judge Cannon in Southern Florida, that DOJ has nothing more to do with it, that it would be up to the judges to decide to prolong those trials until after the election.
00:05:20.000So, to your point, could Donald Trump, if the Supreme Court comes back, issues a ruling favorable to the government, could he be sitting in a Washington, D.C. courtroom on, as you call it, counting day?
00:05:34.000Absolutely, because Tanya Chutkin, nor Jack Smith, nor Merritt Garland would do anything to stop that.
00:05:40.000In fact, I think that they believe that that's an ideal situation.
00:05:44.000I mean, this is my one, I mean, not my one, but one of my primary complaints of this House Republican conference, which is they could have said, hey, we're going to shut down the government other than no trials of candidates or their families in an election year, which, by the way, would impact the Hunter Biden.
00:06:04.000I don't care if Hunter Biden, it's just not even anything that is consequential to his actual crimes.
00:06:10.000They could have kicked it to February or the year after.
00:06:14.000Congress would have been the only one that could have intervened here because you have a rogue administrative state that I hope everybody is processing this.
00:06:23.000Think about how wild election season is.
00:06:26.000You got candidates traveling all over.
00:06:29.000You could potentially be in a non-televised federal courthouse, Julie, and he would have to stand trial, right?
00:06:35.000I mean, this means that he could have to like sit in a trial between 10 and 3 p.m., get on a plane campaign and go back to D.C.
00:06:43.000I mean, you can waive your rights, I think, not have to be there, but that's very unusual, right?
00:07:07.000You are deciding to shred the United States Constitution and our traditions just to try to win an election.
00:07:13.000And to your point, there will be no television access as of right now or even audio access, public audio line to the trial in Washington, D.C. Donald Trump's team and actually a coalition of major news organizations have petitioned Judge Chutkin to allow at least one pool camera in the courtroom.
00:07:36.000And if not that, then audio access, which at the very least, Charlie, they should allow audio access.
00:07:51.000But furthermore, Charlie, think of the jury in Washington, D.C., that will be in judgment of not just the former president, but the president who wants to unseat the president that Washington, D.C. voted 92% for, Joe Biden, which by the way, DOJ has a 100% conviction rate.
00:08:13.000A perfect conviction rate for January 6th defendants in jury trials.
00:08:17.000Not a single January 6th defendant, over 100 trials now, more than 130 or 40 defendants, because some of the trials have more than one defendant.
00:08:27.000Not one has walked out of a federal courtroom in the nation's capital after going before a D.C. jury, fully exonerated from government charges.
00:08:39.000That's what's coming for Donald Trump if the Supreme Court comes back and says, yes, an American president is subjected to criminal prosecution for conduct committed during his presidency.
00:08:53.000Do you think there's any chance whatsoever of a venue change or that that is dead on arrival right now?
00:08:59.000Well, of course, they will file a change of venue motion.
00:09:02.000Usually, Charlie, that comes just within a few weeks of the trial.
00:09:05.000I'm sure it's something that his defense attorneys have already been preparing.
00:09:10.000But also, again, after covering all these trials, not a single judge in Washington, D.C., a Trump-appointed judge, Reagan-appointed judge, Clinton, Obama, it doesn't matter.
00:09:20.000Not a single judge in Washington has granted a change of venue motion now two plus years after jury trials began.
00:09:28.000They know that DOJ, they've been part of helping DOJ win this perfect conviction record in January 6th prosecutions, but yet they refuse to move a single trial to, say, parts of Maryland or Virginia, where at least these J-Sixers have a tiny chance of a fair trial.
00:09:49.000There is no way Judge Chutkin, and she's already signaled this, that she will not grant a change of venue motion.
00:09:56.000She will argue that Donald Trump is responsible for influencing the jury pool in Washington with his out-of-court statements.
00:10:08.000You all know how your tax dollars have been used to push progressive politics in public schools while math and English scores decline.
00:10:15.000For years, America's biggest asset managers have been doing the same thing, using your retirement savings to push their politics, their DEI and ESG agenda, without your consent and at your expense.
00:10:53.000So, Charlie, I will have a piece up this afternoon on my Substack Declassified with Julie Kelly talking about Judge Reggie Walton, the dishonorable Judge Reggie Walton, U.S. District Court judge in Washington appointed by George W. Bush, who has a history also, just like Judge Chutkin, of making inflammatory, untrue, and anti-Trump statements in his courtroom.
00:11:21.000He actually just got reversed by the D.C. appellate court last week, who ordered him to vacate what he had imposed on a January 6th defendant, which was probation officers scouring this man's computer for what he called disinformation about the 2020 election and the events of January 6th.
00:11:42.000Reggie Walton took the extremely rare, I think unprecedented move last week of going on CNN, giving an interview to Caitlin Collins, where Reggie Walton weighed in on the gag order imposed by Judge Juan Mershon in the Manhattan trial and suggested that Donald Trump is responsible for accelerating threats against sitting judges and their family members.
00:12:12.000He's been on the bench now for 40 years.
00:12:15.000He said a senior judge, 75 years old in Washington, refuses to retire because, Charlie, he doesn't want to step away from what gratifies him the most, which is now sentencing and ordering more than 22 January 6th defendants to federal prison, mostly on nonviolent offenses, including misdemeanor charges.
00:12:35.000He has sent at least 22 to federal prison while at the same time using his courtroom to berate these individuals for supporting Donald Trump, who he called a charlatan, who he has called a demagogue.
00:12:48.000He claims that the 2020 election was on the up and up, and he has shouted at American citizens in his courtroom for what he, in one instance, called falling for election lies, hook line, and sinker, putting people on probation for five years so the government can spy on them into the 2024 election cycle.
00:13:12.000This is just one example of a judge, partisan, corrupt, out-of-control, unaccountable judge, who these January 6th defendants must deal with and face in court.
00:13:24.000So again, reversed by the D.C. appellate court last week, Mike Davis with the Article 3 Project has filed an ethics complaint against Reggie Walton for doing that CNN interview.
00:13:36.000And I will have a whole piece up later today explaining just some of the comments he's made in court about Donald Trump, American citizens who support him.
00:13:56.000So the witness list, I believe will still be coming together.
00:13:59.000That trial date is set for Monday, April 15th.
00:14:02.000Donald Trump has not only, it looks like today, just filed for or is going to file a venue motion change.
00:14:09.000He is also seeking to reverse or vacate Judge Mershon's gag order on him, which includes, as you know, prohibiting Donald Trump from talking about the political, lucrative political consulting business that Juan Mershon's daughter has with top Democrats, including Representative Adam Schiff.
00:14:28.000So still a lot to watch in that trial this week in advance of what is supposed to be the start of the trial on April 15th.
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00:16:50.000Kristen, I think it's fair to say ahead of this announcement, you were a little nervous, but you were pleased generally by what you saw this morning.
00:17:02.000Thank you for all of your work on this very important issue.
00:17:05.000As you know, there was a New York Times article a couple of months ago saying that President Trump is considering choosing a divisive late-term abortion limit as his federal line.
00:17:15.000And this would have been a mistake for the pro-life movement for decades to come to set this like European like stalemate on abortion that would have allowed the Democrats to fundraise and try to mobilize their radical base that would have only, even if it's passed, you know, prevents maybe 4% to 6% of abortions.
00:17:35.000We need to be very clear with our state elected officials who we've been on the ground, Students for Life Action campaign for weeks now as we're in primary season, that we expect them to act and we expect them to act with courage.
00:17:48.000And so we didn't want to see a 15 or 16 week line, which is this late term limit that the pro-life movement is, quite frankly, Charlie, has never been wanting and been working for.
00:17:58.000I mean, you all know what our goal is in the pro-life movement to see federal protection of pre-born human life from the moment of conception.
00:18:09.000And I think President Trump made the smart and sound decision today to say, look, states, this is your time.
00:18:16.000This is your time to protect children, protect children, as many children as you possibly can.
00:18:22.000And this certainly doesn't say that President Trump doesn't have a lot of work to do.
00:18:26.000We were thinking about his appointment for vice president, cabinet secretaries.
00:18:30.000You know, one of the things the president needs to do swiftly as soon as he's reelected is stop the persecution against 80-year-old grandmas who are sitting in prisons right now waiting what we believe will be a 10 to 11 year federal prison sentence for having the audacity to pray in front of planned parenthood while squatters take over homes in places like new york city and their homeowners owners are being arrested.
00:18:54.000It's absolutely insane what the Biden administration has done to pro-lifers.
00:19:00.000And that's exactly what he can get started doing day one in eliminating these pro-abortion swamp.
00:19:06.000Kristen, that was a phenomenal answer.
00:19:11.000I want to walk through this because there are some very loud voices right now that are saying Donald Trump surrendered on the issue because he didn't put a weak ban.
00:19:22.000And there was a huge lobbying campaign to say, draw this line, draw this line, but it almost would have turned it into like the Canadian European model where the fight for life would have just been completely derailed, especially where we're starting to try to make movement in states.
00:19:41.000Because I think that's incredibly important.
00:19:44.000Yeah, when you look, Charlie, at Europe and the European pro-life laws, the pro-life movement there has been decimated.
00:19:49.000They have claimed a false consensus on abortion for decades in Europe, that they allow abortions in the first trimester, which we all know where the majority of abortions are committed.
00:20:00.000And they prevent largely abortions in the second and third trimester.
00:20:04.000We did not fight the 49 years of tyranny under Roe versus Wade to establish a European line like that.
00:20:12.000A 15-16 week limit on abortion fairly would prevent 4 to 6% of children from being aborted.
00:20:19.000When we're talking about making strides in the pro-life movement to protect women and children from the predatory abortion industry, we need to be talking, Charlie, about chemical abortions, which are now 63% plus of all abortions.
00:20:32.000President Trump did not exclude states.
00:20:35.000And in fact, what he said today in his statement was that states should and must continue to act to protect human life.
00:20:42.000And I think there's so much that he needs to do.
00:20:46.000I think this statement today keeps the position and keeps the pressure on Democrats who can't name one abortion they disagree with.
00:20:55.000You know, you think about when the New York Times article came out in February, that rumor that President Trump is going to take a 15-16 week position, my inbox was immediately flooded with fundraising emails from Planned Parenthood, NARAL, all of the left capitalizing on this, saying Donald Trump's going to ban all abortions, even though a late-term limit would only ban 4% to 6% of abortions, fundraising, using it to build up money to build up their base.
00:21:22.000Today, Planned Parenthood has been radio side.
00:21:27.000My inbox is largely just filled with pro-lifers today.
00:21:31.000So that tells you he very smartly did not play into what they wanted him to do.
00:21:36.000Now they are going to have to go on defense and prove to Americans why they supported abortion up until the moment of birth with taxpayer funding for any reason while we do the hard work in the states of protecting human life.
00:21:49.000And if he would have said a 16-week ban, it almost tacitly says like, I'm okay with abortion up to that limit, right?
00:22:35.000They've destroyed our economy and they just destroy our national border security, our national defense.
00:22:42.000And now they want to destroy, and they've been very clear, they're out to destroy the family, particularly the nuclear family, and destroying babies while they're at it.
00:22:50.000There is so much the president can do.
00:22:52.000And I actually appreciate some of the positive, affirming statements he made in his statement today.
00:22:59.000Because the op-ed I had yesterday in the town hall, I literally listed out in detail what the president can do beyond just the appointments.
00:23:07.000We're talking about so much we need to do policy-wise.
00:23:10.000And you and I talked about this, Charlie, before.
00:23:12.00073 to 75% of Americans don't know pregnancy centers exist.
00:23:17.000They don't know all of the good the pro-life movement does and all the resources that are available.
00:23:23.000So abortion truly should be an unthinkable option.
00:23:26.000Ending abortion is a very, very complex question.
00:23:30.000It is not going to be ended just with our laws.
00:23:33.000It also has to be ended with our culture.
00:23:36.000And that starts with transforming the way families and mothers in crisis think about an unplanned pregnancy and know that they have support and options for them.
00:23:47.000So I thought there was a lot of good to come out of the statement.
00:23:50.000Of course, the pro-life movement is uniformly in agreement that ending abortion is a federal issue because your state lines should not determine when your human rights begin or end.
00:24:03.000That is what we are working towards, either a 14th Amendment protection or another human life amendment approach where we see all children protected.
00:24:12.000But in the meantime, we can work with this.
00:24:15.000With the math I've got in the U.S. Senate, I mean, most of pro-lifers are homeschoolers.
00:24:32.000And look, if we do not act now to donate, to get involved, to sign up to volunteer, to stop the Biden administration, we are going to have four more years of the most pro-abortion, radical administration we've ever seen in the history of America.
00:24:50.000And it's where it's also the other part of the statement that I want to emphasize is he didn't apologize for putting the justices to get rid of Roe, is that he leaned into it.
00:25:22.000He absolutely should be proud of that, Charlie.
00:25:24.000And I think that, to me, that statement where he reaffirmed his victory in reversing Roe, I think what that proves is that we're going to see more pro-life judicial appointments from a second Trump administration.
00:25:39.000And that's what the pro-lifers need to hear.
00:25:41.000Because to be honest with you, and you know this, we have been betrayed by GO peers before.
00:25:45.000And that's exactly what was happening here.
00:25:47.000And what he was being told by a lot of those GOP insiders to tell him to backtrack on his pro-life statements.
00:25:54.000And I think that was him very clearly telling us he is still going to be appointing pro-life Supreme Court justices, pro-life justices to the federal bench, which is exactly what we need to see happen.
00:26:05.000And he's not backing away from his pro-life views.
00:26:09.000When politicians and any elected official put their head in their stand or try to back away from their pro-life views, it always spells disaster for them because the abortion industry is a bully and they will bully you.
00:26:35.000And I was excited by his statement today.
00:26:37.000And what my thought after I watched it was: game on, let's go.
00:26:42.000Now is the time to recruit and mobilize as many young people as we can across the country to get out to knock doors and to show America what President Trump is standing for, which is life and families, and what Joe Biden and his administration is standing for, which is more abortion up until the moment of birth, no limits, and taxpayer funded.
00:28:02.000I tell you, she is one of the most important pro-life voices in the country.
00:28:06.000And I agree complete with her commentary.
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00:29:27.000Trump is calling it the biggest night in fundraising history.
00:29:31.000The fundraiser at hedge fund billionaire John Paulson's home raked in over $50 million according to the RNC.
00:29:39.000That's up from early estimates of $43 million and nearly double what President Biden raised at his New York City fundraiser with former presidents Obama and Clinton.
00:29:50.000This was the first major fundraiser for Trump and the RNC since he became the party's presumptive presidential nominee.
00:30:19.000We're laughing stock all over the world.
00:30:21.000We're going to get that changed very quickly.
00:30:24.000And this has been some incredible evening before it even starts because people wanted to contribute to a cause of making America great again.
00:30:38.000The election's going to be in now a little more than six months, and it's going to be the most important, I believe, election we've ever had.
00:30:45.000I think it's going to go down as the most important date in the history of our country.
00:30:50.000That's November 5th will be the most important date in the history of our country.
00:31:43.000In fact, last week it was announced that major Democrat groups are now running advertisements in Omaha media trying to stop Nebraska from going to winner-take-all.
00:31:54.000Now, I want you to imagine, and it's not totally fruitful to do this, but it's important because it proves a point that we were successful and part of a group that got rid of Ronna McRomney.
00:32:03.000Imagine if Rana back in August made this her primary mission.
00:32:09.000Imagine if her as RNC chair would have said, you know, I'm under a lot of fire.
00:32:12.000I'm going to try to get us another electoral vote in Nebraska.
00:32:16.000She blew off Eric Underwood, who was the chair of Nebraska.