00:00:46.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:52.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:04.000We simply gave away our revenue for that month to the people of East Palestine because, well, it's really evil to monopolize and monetize someone's pain and then do nothing for them, I think.
00:02:15.000And so based on the teachings of Jesus Christ and based on being just a simple Christian, not trying to start a movement or a church here or anything, just trying to do what God asked us to do, which is to be light unto the world, to be salt and light.
00:02:28.000And those people, man, they've gotten plenty of salt.
00:03:52.000Why is it okay for the children of East Palestine to play inside of these putrid springs?
00:03:58.000Why does it take President Trump to come there and deliver Trump water, tens of thousands of pounds of goods, and the federal government can't spend a dime there?
00:05:44.000That little Keebler elf had his feet held to the fire and not just the fires that cooked the cookies inside of the tree that he lives in making cookies.
00:06:09.000The Supreme Court justices being threatened.
00:06:11.000A man wandering through Brett Kavanaugh's neighborhood with full tactical gear on, ready to kill him, admittedly.
00:06:18.000And the Justice Department doing absolutely nothing.
00:06:20.000So if you're a Mima and you have a 25 cent American flag and the Capitol police usher you into the U.S. Capitol, you get put on the terrorist watch list and you spend the rest of your life in jail.
00:06:29.000But if you are a man kitted out in tactical gear with deadly weapons and you go up to kill a Supreme Court justice that was appointed by President Trump, you get a ticket to the chocolate factory.
00:07:18.000So as the committee well knows from my confirmation hearing, I promised to leave the matter of Hunter Biden in the hands of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, who was appointed in the previous administration.
00:07:32.000So any information like that should have gone or should or should have gone to that U.S. attorney's offices and the FBI squad that's working with him.
00:07:42.000I have pledged not to interfere with that investigation, and I have carried through on my pledge.
00:07:49.000I mean, Benny, I want to play another piece of tape here between Chuck Grassley, who I like, even though he's not right on everything.
00:08:01.000If the Justice Department received information that foreign persons had evidence of improper or unlawful financial payment paid to elected officials or other politically exposed persons, and those payments may have influenced policy decisions, would that pose a national security concern and demand a full investigation?
00:08:27.000If I follow the question exactly right, if it's an agent of a foreign government asking someone and paying someone to do things to support that foreign government in secret, yes, I definitely think that would be a national security problem.
00:09:25.000In the next segment that we have together, I want to play the pieces of tape where Merrick Garland was asked, I was mocked, I was ridiculed, Benny, when I just kind of said on our program a couple weeks ago, I said the feds probably have informants going to mass and the left went crazy.
00:09:56.000So, Benny Show, everybody subscribe to his podcast.
00:09:59.000Benny Johnson is one of the great talents of the conservative movement, and he's in it for the right reasons.
00:10:03.000I could say that from many years of being in the trenches and the foxholes with Benny.
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00:11:31.000The FBI field office in Richmond on the 23rd of January of this year issued a memorandum in which they advocated for, and I quote, the exploration of new avenues for tripwire and source development against traditionalist Catholics, it's their language, including those who favor the Latin Mass.
00:11:52.000Attorney General, are you cultivating sources and spies in Latin Mass parishes and other Catholic parishes around the country?
00:11:59.000The Justice Department does not do that.
00:12:01.000It does not do investigations based on religion.
00:12:19.000You were judged for a very long time, Merrick Garland.
00:12:22.000So you know the power of the English language.
00:12:24.000If it's actually appalling, well, then why don't you deliver some crusades level justice here and heads rolling?
00:12:30.000Yeah, how many people have been fired for the racist against somebody or if you misgendered somebody, well, damn it, they would be out on a street corner singing a tune, busking.
00:13:02.000Let the blood, like, like, like, let the blood, let the blood flow, right, metaphorically, in the Justice Department for the people who did this.
00:13:39.000Stories about how you could get COVID by choirs singing in the church.
00:13:42.000That was the first thing to hit the presses.
00:13:44.000And now, under the Biden administration, they are going after Latin Mass so that Christians can have connections to our ancestors and Christendom.
00:13:54.000That's why they're attacking Latin Mass.
00:13:56.000And just a final note here, just a final note here.
00:13:58.000The Pope died just a couple weeks ago, Pope Ratzinger.
00:14:01.000And his only request was that Joe Biden didn't come to his funeral.
00:15:06.000She is without a doubt the worst press secretary in American history because she was chosen for characteristics that aren't competency or merit.
00:15:50.000They're not only in favor of abortion up to the point of birth, they're in favor of abortion after birth, if you're to believe Ralph Northam.
00:15:57.000So, no, the answer is no, you know, and we're not, I'm not going to let you sit here and desecrate my church and my cross and my faith if you can't even hold up the simple tenets of life has value and men are created equal.
00:16:13.000If you can't say that, and the left cannot say that, they cannot say those things, then you have to call it out for what it is.
00:16:21.000You have to call out Satanists, you have to call out demons, and you have to call out the agents against the church and call them out by name.
00:16:28.000Christ asks us to do this and to be bold.
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00:17:40.000There's a lot of confusion about what's happening in Israel right now.
00:17:45.000And joining us is a member of the Knesset, chairman of the Law and Justice Committee, Simka Rothman, joins us to help explain what is going on in Israel.
00:17:55.000Simka, thank you so much for joining the program and educate our audience of what is happening in the Knesset.
00:18:02.000What is the issue you're trying to address?
00:18:52.000They have a veto power who will get into the Supreme Court that create ever-growing distance between where the public is and where the court is.
00:19:04.000It creates a self-appointing, self-perpetuating court.
00:19:22.000I can get into details if it's more of an interest.
00:19:25.000But the goal is that in Israel, like basically almost any other democratic country in the world, the judges will be selected by the people or by the people representatives.
00:19:40.000And I think that's the easiest part to explain to people in the US because that's the way it works all over.
00:19:47.000More complicated is what we are talking about.
00:19:52.000When you mentioned my title, you said that I am the chair of the law and justice committee in the Knesset.
00:20:03.000But another part of the name of the committee I'm the chair of is the Constitution Committee.
00:20:08.000This committee is supposed to create the Constitution for Israel, but in Israel, we don't have a constitution, even though it's a work in progress for the last, basically since the founding of the state of Israel.
00:20:25.000The Knesset, our parliament, never created a constitution, never brought it to the public for a referendum or something.
00:20:34.000So basically, what we have is a constitution, a quasi-constitution that was created by the court, whatever in it decided by the court, and the court, based on his own jurisprudence, basically say this law is unconstitutional.
00:20:52.000And when you have this and combine it with the way we appoint our judges, you basically have what Justice Posner said, you have a judicial boutian, you have a court that rules the country without ever being elected.
00:21:09.000So we need the second parties to address this and to create that the court will only be able to cancel laws in a very special majority, only based on something that is written in the basic laws, not about some vague jurisprudence.
00:21:24.000And the Knesset, which has the power to create the basic laws to begin with, will have the ability to override court and tell the court, listen, you try to explain to us what the basic law means.
00:21:39.000We know better than you what it means and we want to make it clear in the legislation.
00:21:45.000It's not the system that is so easy to understand when you don't have a constitution, but countries without the constitution, like the Great Britain or New Zealand, or in some parts, even Canada has kind of this override mechanism where the court cannot cancel laws.
00:22:18.000So it's basically a matter of the power balance.
00:22:23.000Just imagine, I'll try to make it again for American audience.
00:22:29.000Just imagine you would have a court that was appointed by the Democrats.
00:22:37.000And even though the Republicans are in power for 30 years or for 40 years, the judges are still electing themselves.
00:22:46.000So you have a country that goes very much to one side and the court, you cannot change it.
00:22:54.000So of course, the Democrats, the minority, will be very happy with this because they will have a court that makes sure that whatever, doesn't matter what the public choose, their view stays in power.
00:23:18.000So in Israel, some parts, namely the left in Israel, which is a small part, Israel is compared to the world, is a very conservative country, very strong family values, national security values.
00:23:35.000In the public, the right is very strong in Israel.
00:23:42.000But the court was appointed way before and is appointing himself.
00:23:48.000So the people you see demonstrating, most of them are people who voted for the left, some of them even to parties that never passed the threshold.
00:23:58.000So they're not represented in the net.
00:24:01.000And they say for many years we thought that even if we lose elections, we stay in power.
00:24:06.000Now we're actually going to lose the extra, the excessive power that our views had.
00:24:14.000But the majority of the public in Israel, in amazing numbers, supports the reform.
00:24:20.000Of course, some of them, me included, say it's better to pass it with members from both sides of the aisle, members from the coalition and the opposition in Israel.
00:24:31.000That's the reason why when I put the legislation forward, I did not choose my dreams.
00:24:39.000I chose exactly some legislation that was supported and voted on by members of the opposition just a year ago.
00:24:48.000So I said, I want exactly what you proposed a year ago so we can get to some middle ground.
00:25:53.000But if not, we will pass it with the majorities that the government have.
00:25:57.000And the support in the streets, there was the riots or the demonstrations, but the support, when I walk the street, the majority of the public supports it.
00:26:09.000You see it, we saw it on the election, so it will pass.
00:26:13.000And I hope Israel will be closer to other democracies in the world.
00:26:18.000And we want to be a country ruled by its justices.
00:26:22.000Well, you did a wonderful job explaining this.
00:26:24.000Simca, I hope to meet you soon in Israel.
00:26:27.000And if you ever in the States, let us know.
00:26:29.000And it seems you are fighting for something that is very reasonable and popular.
00:26:34.000And so don't let the activists get to you.
00:27:14.000And there were some really powerful quotes where when they set up the structure of the United States Constitution, they kept in mind that the judicial branch cannot be superior to the executive or the legislative.
00:27:26.000They must be in harmony with one another, equal branches.
00:27:31.000Otherwise, it can go completely off the rails.
00:27:33.000And that's what's happening in Israel, happening in Brazil.
00:27:35.000And the left, they're able to infiltrate that.
00:27:38.000If we're able to find Scalia's quote on the structure of the Constitution, and for Simka to say that they don't even have a Constitution in Israel, that's eye-opening for me.
00:27:48.000Hamilton talked about it in Federalist 78 and Federalist 81.
00:27:52.000The Federalist Papers were at the time anonymously written newspaper articles in New York defending the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
00:27:59.000They were the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers, published under the name of Publius.
00:28:03.000But later we learned, obviously, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, we have a picture of James Madison here, who is really the father of the U.S. Constitution, and John Jay were the three co-authors of the Federalist Paper.
00:28:13.000I think there's 108 of them or 115, something like that.
00:28:16.000But they talk about basically why they need a judicial branch, and they talk, it's really interesting.
00:28:21.000In Federalist 81, Alexander Hamilton pushes back against this argument where some people say, well, why do we need a judicial branch at all?
00:28:28.000Why don't you just let the legislature check themselves?
00:28:32.000He says, no, no, no, that's not enough.
00:28:36.000But at the same time, you cannot allow them to be extrajudicial.
00:28:40.000Publius then made the famous claim that the judiciary will, quote, always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution.
00:28:46.000It may truly be said to have neither force nor will, but merely judgment, as quote, the weakest of the three departments of power, it needs to be fortified, needs to be for had fortification.
00:28:56.000And the reason that it's the weakest of all the branches because of the structure it set up.
00:29:01.000This is not the case in Israel, Brazil.
00:29:04.000It's the most powerful of all the branches.
00:29:06.000God bless our founding fathers for seeing that problem before it ever manifested.
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00:30:20.000The students there, they knew their stuff to their credit, but they were very, very pro sending weapons, support to Ukraine, like extraordinarily.
00:30:31.000And I did ask them at some point, I said, are you guys getting this from your professor?
00:30:34.000He said, oh, no, independent research, you know, just looking at things like, wow.
00:30:38.000And I mean, the arguments were all the same sort of arguments that we hear, but the essence was: look, Ukraine is basically a great partner of ours.
00:30:48.000We need to send aim and support and weapons, and we can't allow autocratic, terrible people like Vladimir Putin to invade countries without some sort of recourse.
00:30:56.000I said, well, does $200 billion bother you?
00:30:58.000They said, oh, that's just a drop in the bucket.
00:31:35.000The U.S. will have to send their sons and daughters exactly the same way as we are sending their sons and daughters to war.
00:31:44.000And they will have to fight because it's nature that we're talking about and they will be dying.
00:31:51.000And you could disagree whether or not that's a threat.
00:31:53.000What I mean by a threat is that he's basically saying if you don't give me enough weapons and give me enough support, your kids might have to end up fighting this war.
00:32:52.000You're talking about supporting Ukraine, and you're talking about them taking the lead on how they define victory, which is understandable.
00:33:01.000But the administration is also promising them that America will support them as long as it takes.
00:33:07.000Can you level with the American people about what expectations should be?
00:33:11.000I cannot predict the future, and nor can anyone else.
00:33:14.000And anyone who is suggesting they can define for you how and when this war will end is not leveling with the American people or anyone else.
00:33:22.000He's an unbelievably irresponsible person.
00:33:24.000He also was intimately involved in a lot of the Trump-Russia hoax, steel dossier nonsense with Hillary Clinton.
00:33:32.000All right, it's time for Republicans to draw a line in the sand and say, regardless of your feelings on this, we need a congressional war authorization.
00:33:40.000We need to get every single member right now to vote.
00:33:43.000No more proxy wars, no more bombing Nord Stream 2, sending weapons.
00:33:48.000Yes, they have appropriated weapons in funding bills, but it is now time to get a line-by-line, member-by-member vote, a roll call vote of do you are you ready to say that we are officially at war with Russia?
00:34:02.000The U.S. Constitution, which we just spent time celebrating, is being shredded by the national security and national defense apparatus.
00:34:11.000Congress is the only branch of government that has the long-term power to authorize and go to war.
00:34:19.000Now, that has been broken because of the War Powers Act of 1973, and you could declare war for 90 days, and you could have troops and you could have reconnaissance, and there's all these workarounds.
00:34:28.000If we as conservatives love the Constitution as much as we say we do and love America, regardless of your feelings on the Ukrainian dispute and what's happening there, we need to slow this down and we need to use the Constitution as our guide.
00:34:42.000It is there to be able to temper our emotions, focus on actual results.
00:34:48.000The Constitution has a process for this.
00:35:14.000Stop being cowards and allowing the executive branch to go rogue and get us closer into a hot kinetic war with one of the largest countries in the world.