00:00:48.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:57.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:54.000Well, I think it's important that, as you said, the American people decide who our next president is going to be and not the deep state, not a weaponized government.
00:02:05.000And we are seeing time after time where the federal government is being used to prosecute a political candidate.
00:02:15.000That's kind of the conduct that you see in banana republics, where the sitting, those in power use their power to prosecute and try and throw in jail their political opponent.
00:02:26.000So these two amendments, one would defund from the federal level any funds going to the prosecution of a presidential candidate between now and the November 24 elections.
00:02:40.000And then the other amendment would do the same thing.
00:02:42.000It would deny federal funding to any state entity that does the same thing, that prosecutes a presidential candidate.
00:02:49.000You know, it's very even-handed, both Republican or Democrat.
00:02:53.000So what I'm trying to do is prevent the process from becoming the penalty here, because that's exactly what the left, the weaponized left is trying to do, because you can't recover from the process.
00:03:06.000So how is this being met by, and I was talking about actually when you tried to defund the FBI headquarters.
00:03:30.000So I'm calling on all of my Republican colleagues to support these amendments.
00:03:35.000It's going to have to go into the Commerce Justice Science Appropriation, which has not yet been marked up in our appropriations committee.
00:03:43.000And so I'll be offering both of those amendments.
00:03:45.000And I expect that they will be approved and go into the base text of the bill.
00:03:50.000But then if we do a CR as well, you know, there's some qualifications for any CR to go forward, in my opinion, then it would have to be part of the CR as well.
00:04:01.000So I think it's very, very important that all the Republicans get on board and support these amendments.
00:04:07.000So there was also a question about blocking the FBI's new headquarters.
00:04:12.000And is it true that 16 Republicans got in the way of that, Congressman, when you were attempting to do that?
00:04:42.000So I introduced an amendment to defund that $670 million and to apply that to our national debt to pay off that portion of our national debt.
00:04:52.000And it did not pass in the appropriations process.
00:04:57.000We had 16 Republicans that voted against it.
00:04:59.000Now, I'll tell you that after that vote, there were some that came to me and said, hey, I think I made the wrong vote.
00:05:05.000And we're going to give them another opportunity when that actual appropriation comes to the House floor.
00:05:10.000I'm going to introduce the same amendment again.
00:05:12.000And I think there will be some change of heart, I believe, when it comes to their vote on that amendment on the House floor.
00:05:21.000So, yeah, there was a list of 16 Republicans that resisted it.
00:05:29.000And if I have the wrong list, correct me.
00:05:31.000But it looks as if it's Steve Womack, David Voladeo, Mike Simpson, Hal Rogers, Daniel Newhouse, Julia Latau, David Joyce, Ashley Henson, Kay Granger, Scott Franklin, Jake Elzey, Mario Diaz-Ballart, Juan Siscamani, Jerry Carl, Ken Calvert, Mark Ahmadi, and Robert Alderhalt.
00:05:53.000What possible reason could they give you for opposing that?
00:05:57.000Well, not a lot of them gave me a reason at all.
00:06:01.000But mind you, some of them came to me after the fact and said, hey, I think I made the wrong choice.
00:06:12.000I mean, they've got $1.2 billion set aside, $670 or so million in financial services general government appropriation and another $500-some million in the Commerce, Justice, Science appropriation.
00:06:26.000So I think these folks will probably take a strong second look when the amendment comes onto the House floor for the FBI building.
00:06:37.000And I believe that there will be some change of votes.
00:06:43.000And I hope so, because that's the right thing to do.
00:06:46.000The FBI have been so weaponized as of in the last couple of years under this current administration.
00:06:52.000There is truly a two-tiered system of justice here.
00:06:56.000We are seeing it time and time again when you have the treatment of Hunter Biden, and then you have the treatment of President Trump and all of those who support the conservative voices that are crying out.
00:07:10.000So I think we're going to see some different votes here.
00:08:05.000I'm certainly willing to be there from today until the very end of September so that we can get all these, the rest of the appropriation bills across the finish line.
00:08:15.00010 of them have come out of committee already.
00:08:17.000We've got two left to deal with in committee.
00:08:21.000Both the Labor Health Human Services Education Appropriation and the Commerce Justice Science Appropriation.
00:08:27.000Those are the two we have left in committee.
00:08:29.000But we've got 10 that are available to go to the House floor.
00:08:32.000Actually, one already has the MILCON VA passed in July.
00:08:37.000So we've got nine that can go immediately to the House floor and get a vote.
00:08:41.000We need to be doing that to keep our word.
00:08:46.000Any short-term continuing resolution, though, cannot be an unqualified or blind or what they call clean CR.
00:08:54.000Otherwise, we are simply promoting the policies of the policy and the spending levels of Nancy Pelosi.
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00:11:47.000Do you remember the story about a young lady who was sexually assaulted by a transgender student in a restroom?
00:11:57.000This story was covered up by the Loudoun County School District.
00:12:00.000This story was so egregious, so terrible, that it very well might have triggered Glenn Young to become governor of Virginia.
00:12:11.000And I do not want Glenn Young to run for the presidency.
00:12:14.000He's a little too moderate for my liking on certain issues, but he's a very successful governor in a traditionally what's become a blue state.
00:12:23.000So he also has my respect over what he did a couple of days ago, kind of bucking a more normy trend of what some Republican governors would do.
00:12:32.000He went all in and did the right thing here.
00:12:34.000So a father, Scott Thomas Smith, shows up at the school board and was trying to get the school board's attention that his daughter was raped and or sexually assaulted.
00:12:48.000We don't know the details, but raped is not incorrect by a trans student.
00:12:54.000And the school board covered it up because of course, the major institutions of power in this country will go to great lengths to pander to the trans lobby, the alphabet mafia, and the purple-haired jihadis.
00:13:06.000The NCAA did this against Riley Gaines.
00:13:08.000They'll do whatever, anything they have to do to pander to the trans.
00:14:28.000Not to mention the school board covered it up.
00:14:30.000They sent the trans rapists to another school, where I believe the trans rapists raped again, if I'm not mistaken, if my memory serves me correctly.
00:14:39.000They just sent him to another school and they covered it up, criminally covered it up.
00:14:43.000So now this man, Scott Smith, was facing criminal charges and was convicted.
00:14:50.000Governor Glenn Young, to his great credit, yesterday, issued a full and complete and absolute pardon for Scott Smith.
00:15:22.000The 15-year-old attacker, the rapist, was found guilty of sexually assaulting his daughter and then did it again at a different school.
00:15:29.000But of course, if you're trans, you get all the privileges.
00:15:33.000The whole society will reconfigure itself because of your mental delusion and your mental illness, even though his daughter was raped.
00:15:42.000This is the same state where a girl was basically transitioning by her transition by her school while keeping it secret from her parents, and this led to her getting sex trafficked.
00:15:52.000Virginia schools are largely demented right now.
00:16:21.000Because you have white liberals that, the wine moms, if you will, with these massive existential voids, and they try to fill it with something and they fill it with 1619 Project queer theory, and their kids become basically a petri dish for wokeism.
00:16:41.000Very similar, by the way, to the Highland Park, Illinois Country Club story of the poverty simulation.
00:16:46.000And a story where we get almost nothing but negative news in this news cycle.
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00:18:08.000Joining us now is John Eastman, who is under attack in basically every possible and conceivable direction.
00:18:14.000You guys can support him at givesendgo.com/slash Eastman.
00:18:19.000John, thank you so much for taking the time.
00:18:21.000John, give us the update, not just the indictments of what's happening in Georgia, but there's this disbarment saga that's that's playing out.
00:18:32.000Well, the disbarment proceedings have been going on since June.
00:18:36.000We had to stop for a bit over the summer due to conflicts and lawyer schedules, but we're now entering week five, and there will be at least another week, six weeks of full trial addressing claims against me that were initiated by this A radical left-wing group called States United Democracy Center.
00:18:57.000And this is part of the overall effort to disbar every attorney that had any involvement with the Trump legal challenges in 2020.
00:19:06.000But more importantly, as its sister-in-arms cohort, the 65 Project founders said, our goal is not just to disbar these attorneys, but to make them so toxic in their firms and in their communities that right-wing legal talent will never want to take on these election challenges again.
00:19:23.000In other words, they want to destroy our adversarial system of justice in the election context, and quite frankly, elsewhere as well, whether it's any conservative cause, whether it's vaccine issues, whether it's transgender men in your daughter's locker rooms or competing against them in the swim meets or what have you.
00:19:43.000They want to scare conservative lawyers away from taking on those representations.
00:19:48.000And the cost they're trying to impose on me and my family, millions of dollars in legal fees, is having its effect.
00:19:59.000Well, I wish maybe I was more scared, but I'm taking it on and fighting it with everything we got because our ability to be a free people is at stake here, in my view.
00:20:13.000Yeah, it's the entire constitutional republic that's at stake.
00:20:39.000And their tenuous hook on that is: well, you know, lawyers aren't allowed to work with clients to commit crimes.
00:20:47.000And the crime, supposedly, is that we continued to challenge the results of the election after some government officials said there wasn't anything to see here.
00:20:57.000Bill Barr famously said, without having ever done any investigations of substance, that, well, I find no evidence of significant enough fraud to have altered the election.
00:21:07.000Well, he didn't talk about the illegality, which is acknowledged.
00:21:10.000He didn't talk about the fact that he didn't really do any investigations.
00:21:13.000He didn't talk about the fact that when the investigations were getting started, he personally called to shut them down.
00:21:20.000And we're just supposed to bend our knee because somebody in the establishment wing of the Republican Party or leading Democrats in state offices have said there's nothing to see here.
00:21:41.000It's called the right to petition our government for redress of grievances.
00:21:45.000And if they succeed in criminalizing that with creative and expansive, clever interpretations of federal or state criminal law, we're done.
00:21:56.000And that's why I'm fighting with everything I got.
00:24:07.000Look, the fact that they published the indictment on the court's website before the grand jury even met to hand down the indictment raises serious constitutional questions on whether a grand jury composed of citizens rather than the prosecutor herself is the one that brought this indictment.
00:24:26.000Two of the co-defendants, Ken Chisbrow and Sidney Powell, filed notices of speedy trial, as is their constitutional right.
00:24:35.000And the judge has ordered that those trials proceed beginning October 23rd.
00:24:41.000The rest of the co-defendants, I think all the other 17, myself included, President Trump included, Rudy Giuliani included, among others, have filed a notice motion to sever from that speedy trial because they're going to hand over next Friday two terabytes of discovery materials and expect us to go through all that in a couple of weeks in preparation of trial.
00:25:22.000And she's doing it using creative interpretations to put the most neutral gloss on it one can of Georgia racketeering law.
00:25:35.000That somehow the political campaign itself was a racketeering enterprise.
00:25:40.000She's got a charge against me for soliciting elected officials to violate their oath of office because I testified before the Georgia legislature was called to testify at their request about the legal authority the legislature had if it determined the election had been conducted illegally.
00:26:01.000And it's certainly not soliciting them to violate their oath of office.
00:26:05.000It's soliciting them, petitioning them to do the investigation that's necessary to determine what, if anything, they needed to do in order to uphold their oath of office.
00:26:16.000And yet it's scoring political points with a hallelujah chorus in the mainstream media that supports every chink that can be brought against President Trump.
00:26:27.000It's Newt Gingrich playing into this idea that Fulton County is a proxy of the wishes and wants of Washington, D.C., play cut 25.
00:26:36.000That I am told, this is hearsay, but I am told by a reliable source that Friday evening, somebody from Washington called the District Attorney in Atlanta and said, you have to indict on Monday.
00:26:48.000We have to cover up all of the mistakes we just made with Weiss.
00:26:52.000And she said, apparently, my jurors aren't coming back till Tuesday.
00:27:15.000And I'm telling you up front, this is hearsay, but it's from a person who has remarkably totally believe it, though, because that would explain why they leaked and they messed up on the clerk document, why she was exhausted and why they had the 11 p.m. press conference, Mr. Speaker.
00:27:31.000Well, I saw that, Charlie, when it came out, and it's explosive.
00:27:36.000I hope eventually we get to the bottom of that because it shows not just a corruption in the abuse of the Georgia criminal statutes, but a corruption in the very notion of the grand jury process.
00:27:47.000Grand juries are there to serve as a check against political prosecutions.
00:27:52.000And if the grand jury was kind of an afterthought in this, that the indictment had already been drafted, that they were not really the ones that made the indictment decisions, then that's a huge constitutional problem.
00:28:04.000And I suspect during the course of the trial and the discovery back and forth, we will get to the bottom of it because that's a huge expose.
00:28:11.000Can you say the link again, John, how people can support you?
00:28:29.000People are able to send prayers, which my wife and I read, and they're heartwarming, and they help in our darker moments.
00:28:38.000John, walk us through the legal technicalities of appealing to have this in federal court versus state court.
00:28:46.000I'm still just shocked that we're putting up with a local DA indicting a former president for activities he did while his president and then indicting his lawyers for advice he gave the president while president, John Eastman.
00:28:59.000And indicting other federal officials like Jeff Clark, who was assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice, and electors who are federal officials as well.
00:29:09.000So there's a federal statute that says if you've got a criminal charge brought against federal officers for work they did while they were federal officials within the scope of their federal duties, that they can remove that to federal court.
00:29:23.000This is a function of the supremacy clause of the Constitution.
00:29:26.000I mean, think about every county, every local DA, if they could prosecute federal officials, it would shut the federal government down for anything the states didn't want the federal government doing in the valid exercise of its powers.
00:29:42.000Mark Meadows brought the first one of those.
00:29:44.000His hearing was held last week, and unfortunately, the judge denied his request for removal, but that was immediately appealed to the 11th federal U.S. Circuit Court.
00:29:56.000Several others, the electors, Jeff Clark, and I think President Trump likely are filing motions to remove as well.
00:30:03.000And then the big question is: if any one of those gets granted, does it take the whole case with them, as some case law suggests it must?
00:30:11.000We may not be in the Fulton County state courtroom.
00:30:14.000We may be in the federal U.S. District Court in Northern District of Georgia.
00:30:18.000Yeah, the jurisdiction issues are remarkable.
00:30:22.000And so have they notified you whether or not you're going to be tried with another defendant?
00:30:27.000Because they're trying to do that with some of the other people they've indicted.
00:30:31.000So all we know so far is that Sidney Powell and Ken Cheeseborough will be tried together on a speedy trial, very quick timeframe beginning October 23rd.
00:30:42.000The judge has not ruled on whether all other co-defendants will be tried at the same time, but he sent a very strong signal last week that that was not going to be the case.
00:30:51.000We expect to learn more today or tomorrow on that.
00:30:56.000Ms. Willis is, of course, pushing hard to have this thing tried early in the spring, right in the middle of the primary season for the election for president.
00:31:07.000Just like the judge up in D.C. has scheduled the trial to begin the day before Super Tuesday on the Washington, D.C. charges against President Trump.
00:31:17.000Anybody that doesn't think that this is political should watch that timeline because it's overtly political and they're stretching the law in order to interfere with the presidential election.
00:32:45.000You don't have a courtroom big enough to handle all the 19 teams of lawyers that are going to be involved or the 19 defendants.
00:32:52.000So, you know, this judge, though new, seems to understand the terrible impracticalities of doing what DA Fanny Willis has requested.
00:33:03.000We don't know yet what the order is going to come down, but so far, he looked like he was a very strong judge and kind of knew the dynamics at play here.