Deportation Of Mahmoud Khalil, Is Trump VIOLATING The Constitution w⧸ PiscoLitty & GoodLawgic
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In this episode, Pisco and Joe Nierman join me to debate the deportation of Palestinian-American activist and human rights advocate, Mahmoud Khalil, and how it affects the First Amendment rights of other immigrants in the United States.
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Donald Trump has been in office and he is flooding the zone.
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On the left and the right, the strategy appears to be do as much as you can as fast as you can
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to overwhelm activists, opposition, and the courts.
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So there are a lot of things that the Trump administration has done so far for which he
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has drawn the ire of liberals, Democrats, and the left.
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And we are going to debate these issues largely from a legal context.
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And to kick it off, I think one of the biggest stories we've seen in the past couple of weeks
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has been the deportation or the revocation of visas from students, from activists, protesters,
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and people with actual legal status in this country.
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Notably, Trump revoked the legal status of 530,000 immigrants who actually came here legally
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We've got a couple of gentlemen joining us to engage in this debate.
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I think that Trump is doing an awful thing to the Constitution.
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But in this case specifically, I think that there are a lot of conservatives that care
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about the First Amendment or at least purport to care about the First Amendment.
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And there is on point precedent from the Supreme Court that resident aliens,
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So why is Donald Trump doing the bidding of Israel and attacking the First Amendment rights
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of, for example, a green card holder who did nothing more than just indicate their view
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Sir, do you want to grab that mic and pull it up?
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I host a YouTube channel and Rumble channel called Good Logic.
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I'm a New York litigator who turned podcaster after COVID.
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I'm a massive free speech advocate, so much so that I actually sued Judge Mershan for his
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unconstitutional gag order of President Trump in pro se, in my own name, because I felt that
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the violation of his First Amendment right to speak was harming my First Amendment right
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And I took that all the way up in applying to the Supreme Court.
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But on this particular issue, we're talking about Mamou Khalil, this is not a First Amendment
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Sometimes a free speech issue is a First Amendment issue.
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Often it is, but this is not a situation like that.
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Share the show if you do want to hear this debate, or if you think people should hear this
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debate, because it'll get particularly interesting.
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Not just the immigration issue, but of course, there's a whole bunch of other issues, as
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you already brought up, with the courts and how it affects Trump in this country.
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So Mahmoud Khalil, he was one of the organizers of the protests we saw at Columbia.
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He had a, I believe it was a two-year conditional green card, which got revoked by the State
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These are individuals who are here on legal status, with legal visas, who are now having
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The Trump administration says that Mahmoud was engaged in activities aligned with Hamas,
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So there's a lot more to the story, but why don't you tell us what you think first?
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Yeah, let's first start with what this is not about.
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I think both of you can agree that we have to take the allegations of the government.
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We can't invent new rationales for why Mahmoud Khalil is deportable.
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So I don't want to hear anything from people in the comments saying he occupied, he helped
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occupied, or that he's giving material support to Hamas.
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If the government does not allege that he's giving material support to Hamas, why should
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we at all assume that he is and invent new rationales for deporting him?
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And obviously there's no evidence that he's in connection with Hamas or giving any material
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So I think that the first point is some agreement that we only discuss the allegations and the
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actual basis of removability for Mahmoud Khalil.
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I want to be clear before we begin this, so we frame our discussion in a healthy way.
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Whether we're talking about this from a legal perspective or from a moral perspective or
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philosophical American culture type of perspective, we can attack this as attorneys and talk about
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whether or not what's happening here and who's in the right and who's in the wrong.
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Or we can attack this as far as from a moral and philosophical perspective, and I want to
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make sure that we're both on the same page, that we don't jump back and forth, that I'll
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make a point about the law and you'll say philosophically that's wrong, or I'll make
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a point about philosophically and you'll come back to the law.
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Because I'm sure that Khalil loses on any of those, any way you look at it, philosophically,
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legally, or as far as American constitutional perspective.
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Like what's a healthy philosophy of our constitution, he loses every way.
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So you pick the direction you want to go and let's go there.
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So to be clear, you're not willing to concede the legal argument here.
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You're not going to concede that Trump is violating the First Amendment by...
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Okay, so let's deal with that first because I think you would agree that if you thought
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that the First Amendment was being violated by Trump, you would have to condemn him, wouldn't
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Yeah, because the First Amendment's important to you.
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You just said that you went through all this litigation.
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I went all the way to the Supreme Court personally.
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And I think that that would get into some, you know, perhaps in philosophical territory.
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I think it's also, you know, a good idea morally, practically to have the First Amendment.
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And so I guess my first question for you is, do you think Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent
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resident, let's take the strongest case, do they have First Amendment rights?
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Sure, but do you want to assume for the purpose of the hypothetical that he is a permanent
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Because you're saying he's acting unconstitutionally to change the nature of as far as what the
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He has a conditional green card, which basically means you have to, you know, reapply after
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two years to get like the 10-year green card visa.
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But for all intents and purposes, he is an LPR.
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And he has a, you know, the government has cleared him to stay in this country.
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He just needs to go through, you know, a couple extra procedures to make sure that it's not
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Are you willing to concede the fact that he obtained that green card through deceitful and
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But why don't we stick to the initial issue, which is, does he even have First Amendment
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So I would say is the First Amendment rights that he enjoys, like any illegal alien, do
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exist and are not nearly the same level as the rights an American citizen has.
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So to be clear, and I want to see what you think, you agree that LPRs, lawful permanent
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residents, even though it's conditional status, I understand that, have First Amendment rights.
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I agree that the Supreme Court has said that there is some level of First Amendment rights.
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Why has the Supreme Court granted them those liberties, which were created for the protection
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So why is it, and for the benefit of American, right?
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Because you recognize our government was created by, for, and by, for, and of the people.
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The Constitution is clear where it wants to refer to persons and people and where it
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For example, in the 14th Amendment, there's a privileges or immunities clause.
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It speaks about the privileges or immunities of citizens.
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When it's talking about the requirements for who's the president or for who is the senator,
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When it says, you know, the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
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Or, for example, you know, the right of the people to be free from, in their papers, persons
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in effect, from unreasonable searches and seizures.
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And there was a concept of personhood that was broader than citizenship from the attorneys
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who founded this country and made the Constitution.
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The 40th Amendment says, all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject
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to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein
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No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities
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of citizens of the United States, semicolon, nor shall any state deprive any person of
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life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor deny any person within its jurisdiction
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So what we've highlighted often is that it draws a distinction between persons and citizens,
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specifically identifying initially all persons born later on, the clarification of what makes
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The reason this has come up is actually the pro-life, pro-choice abortion debate in the
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question of whether or not an unborn child is a person.
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Interestingly, and I don't mean to be hyper-partisan on this one, but when it comes to the liberal
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faction, they actually disagree with my assessment on this, arguing that, no, no, it's referring
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to citizens, and if you're not born, you're not a citizen, because when you get to the
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question of, is the unborn a person, this clearly would protect the life of that person
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I think that the courts ultimately will have to determine as a legal matter, what is a
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person, what does that mean, purposes of constitutionality.
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Now, it could be that the originalist interpretation of person, as understood at the time that the
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constitution was framed, only involved born-alive persons.
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Or it could be the case that the people who founded this country would have considered
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So I don't pretend to know the actual legal analysis here, but I'm glad, Tim, that you
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agree that, you know, even the First Amendment, let's take a look at the First Amendment, doesn't
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It says, Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech.
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Respecting an establishment, I think, of religion.
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If we could just look for a moment, if we could just look in a moment at what Tim just read
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with respect to the 14th Amendment, and the language there is important, and you read it
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quickly, and I understand why, but there's a distinction there as far as between citizens
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And what is promised to persons, those who are not citizens?
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What's promised them is life, liberty, and due process, not the civil rights in general.
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So to say that, that applies, it actually is implicitly against your position.
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It's actually going to the point that citizens specifically are the ones who have crafted
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Canada, it's time for more us, because we're more than just a place on a map.
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We're an attitude, one with more empathy than ego, more unity than division, more grit,
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The more we choose to stand up as our most flag-flying, maple-y-fying, local-adventuring
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selves, the more we are the true north, unbreakable, strong, and free.
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Our civil liberties, and the only protections that America is willing to afford to those
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people who are not citizens of this country is life, liberty, and due process.
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Well, clearly the Supreme Court disagrees with you.
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You acknowledge that the Supreme Court disagrees with you.
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The Wixing case that you're thinking of recognizes that there are some civil liberties that are
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Including in that case, specifically the First Amendment.
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There's procedural due process cases that aliens have access to.
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I'm using the term alien here because that's the term used in the-
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I don't think it's a nice thing to call someone an alien.
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It says that aliens have access to, for example, you can't just throw them out of the country
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There are procedural due process issues even for people here-
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Well, even in the absence of the Administrative Procedures Act, there's a constitutional notion
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of procedural due process that has purchase on persons.
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And in the Fifth Amendment against the federal government, which is what is at issue here,
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what you just said and what you acknowledge is, despite what you might think about why the
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country was formed, the consistent case law has been that persons in this country have
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I don't know why we wouldn't extend it to the First Amendment if you acknowledge there's
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And specifically, when the First Amendment says, Congress shall make no law abridging the
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And the Supreme Court has recognized, while they recognize the First Amendment right,
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they also have equally recognized that the First Amendment right of someone who's
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visiting this country are not as robust as the protections that American citizens
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So there's a difference that I acknowledge that the country makes between exclusion matters
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The key example of this, by the way, are the Chinese exclusion cases.
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I'm sure that you guys, maybe your audience is not familiar, but there was a point, the
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first restrictive immigration laws in this country, up until 1870 thereabout, we had open
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Complete open borders, except for the Alien Enemies Act and the Alien Friends Act, which maybe we'll
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This is actually pretty interesting because it actually functioned this way well after
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I went to San Diego and was talking with people on both sides of the border.
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And it's actually, I think, in the past, I don't know, what, 50, 60 years where the border
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And it used to be, even up to like the early 1900s, you could just walk into San Diego back
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and forth, only recently, I guess, with national security concerns, communications, and population
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And the first restrictive immigration laws were against Chinese people.
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It said, well, the first there was about, it was vagrants and stuff, but ultimately it
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said Chinese people, if you're of Chinese or Asian descent, you can't enter the country.
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I'm not sure where your point is as far as that case not being overturned, as if that's
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So the point is, I recognize, even though I may disagree, that, and it's interesting,
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I think, that Trump did not argue that it actually was a Muslim ban and seemed to assume
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that a Muslim ban, when he interested in a travel ban, would be unconstitutional.
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But in the Chinese exclusion cases, that there is a difference in the law between an exclusion
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So no, I actually don't recognize, and I don't know that to be the case, that individuals
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in this country, even if they're not permanent residents, don't have First Amendment rights.
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There have been a myriad of Supreme Court cases which have recognized the fact that those
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who are visiting this country, not simply when they're abroad, that we're going to give-
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I don't know what type of free speech limitations you think that they would be, that, oh, we're
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not going to promise free speech to some foreigner who's out in Greenland or, well, Greenland
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soon to be America, but who's out in the U.K. and say that, oh, we recognize that they
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If Trump issued an order tomorrow and said, if you're a Jew, your student visa is being
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revoked, would that be constitutional or not, yes or no?
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Because the threshold minimum, the threshold minimum, and here's the thing.
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I've allowed you to engage this conversation in good faith as if this is about First Amendment
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rights when this is not at all a First Amendment issue.
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And this is what I was saying with respect to the fact that while I'm a free speech advocate,
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I don't think that this in any way touches on free speech and the concept of First Amendment
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And the reason it doesn't is because when you're talking about immigration law, that is where
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As opposed to when you're talking about the First Amendment rights of individuals, the
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First Amendment rights of someone who's merely visiting this country are at their nadir.
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So what you are trying to postulate here is that this individual whose rights are lower
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than yours or mine, whose rights are not as robust with respect to his First Amendment
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rights, is now challenging the decision-making powers of the President of the United States with
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respect to international affairs and national security, which is where the Constitution carves
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out the strongest powers and protections and says this is the exclusive domain of the executive
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That is what you're in conflict here and saying this is unconstitutional.
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If it's true for free speech, it's true of the religion clauses.
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The immigration plenary power framework that you've just laid out would apply just as strongly
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to an argument from free speech, which is in the First Amendment, as to the religion clauses
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Here's why he's wrong, if I could just correct that.
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Now, the reason you're mistaken about that is because the Supreme Court in its insight
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has pointed out that the threshold that you have to meet on an immigration issue is that
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it has to be facially legitimate and bona fide.
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So if you talk about some law that the President would throw out there saying, I don't want any
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more black people coming into this country or Muslims or Jews or red-headed Irish people,
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that is not facially legitimate and bona fide and it wouldn't pass that threshold.
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What if he says Muslims are more likely to do terrorist acts?
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If he says Muslims, if he says terrorists, that's a problem.
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No, he says Muslims are more likely to commit terrorist acts and it's facially legitimate.
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Because to say that everyone who's a member of this religion, which is being practiced
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by over a billion people, is a terror threat, is not facially legitimate and bona fide.
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Why is it facially legitimate to say anyone who advocates in support of, even just assume,
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I do not take it for granted, I just want to be clear, I don't take it as a fact that
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Why is it facially legitimate to say that what would be, I think you would agree, free speech
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for citizens, I think you've agreed that LPRs have First Amendment rights, what's the
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legitimacy in targeting what otherwise would be clearly protected speech?
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Right, so the difference, I would definitely agree that all the actions that we know of
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that Mahmoud Khalil has taken, if it was taken by an American citizen, that the government
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would be completely out of bounds and wrong for in any way infringing on that.
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Well, I got to ask you, does the First Amendment pertain to illegal activities?
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Well, it defines the scope of what is and what's not legal sometimes, for example.
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So the First Amendment, if there were a law that said it's illegal to talk to your neighbor,
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it's illegal to hand out pamphlets in support of Donald Trump, even though there's a law
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that says it's illegal to do criminality, the Constitution supersedes.
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And so to the extent that there's an application of law, for example, in the INA that purports
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to make something illegal or, you know, it would have of no purchase if it conflicted
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Did Mahmoud Khalil occupy any buildings illegally?
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In fact, there's reporting that says that he purposely did not attend any of these sit-ins
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for the reason of that he's worried about the status of his green card.
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I could be wrong, but there were conversations and videos, I believe, that showed Mahmoud
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Khalil inside buildings that had been under, quote-unquote, student occupation.
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At the time they were occupied or any time that...
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I read reporting that said that effectively that he was keeping away from those areas.
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But even if it were true, don't you agree that Trump, if he wants to do that, he should
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Or he should get someone to charge him with a crime, because in this country, there's
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a line between admissibility, basis of removal, and deportable basis of removal.
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And in order to be deportable on the basis of something like, for example, occupying a
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building, I assume he would need a conviction under that...
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It would be much worse if Trump had charged him with a crime.
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If his DOJ went out and charged him with a crime, I would be much more bothered by the
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Because that would be punishing him for his free speech.
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The Supreme Court has said definitively that deportation and removal is not considered
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The case is Reno v. Anti-American Discrimination Committee or Commission.
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You cannot pretend, first and foremost, that it is considered criminal punishment.
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I agree that immigration is not a criminal punishment.
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I totally agree that that's the precedent of the court.
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How is it a First Amendment violation at all if it's not criminal punishment?
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First Amendment is not just a rise under criminal actions.
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For example, if the government said that you can't get a liquor license if you're a Jew,
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or you can't get a liquor license if you support Trump, I think that you would agree
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that's not a criminal action, but the First Amendment still has purchase.
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You're trying to, like, catch me on a gotcha moment, and what I'm saying...
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You just said it was only for criminal matters, and I just want to be clear to the audience.
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What I'm saying is that with respect to someone who's an illegal alien, we are talking about
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What I'm saying is someone who's a non-American citizen.
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Let me ask you guys for clarification, because the Immigration and Nationality Act, section
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After the issuance of a visa or other documentation to any alien, the consular officer or the Secretary
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of State may at any time, in his discretion, revoke such visa or other documentation.
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I don't know that I need to read the whole thing.
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There's wide deference in this country for the Secretary of State, for the Attorney General,
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for the Department of Homeland Security, for the President himself, to make all kinds
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of decisions that would prejudice his right to be in this country.
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The case law is that there's no substantive right for non-citizens to be in this country,
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that Congress tomorrow could pass a law that says everyone who's not a citizen needs to
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Can you do it for an illegitimate purpose that's reprehensible under the Constitution?
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Using the statute, not saying that the statute itself is unconstitutional facially, but as
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applied, could you say, for example, in my discretion, because you are a Jew, I am taking
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So far, what I've gotten from what you're saying is that it sounds like the reason the
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Trump administration has not accused him of a crime pertaining to those protests, and
00:24:21.420
has simply cited national security concerns, is to avoid a hearing based on the arguments
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If it's true, would it be reprehensible to, you know, we're really doing this for the
00:24:36.700
I don't know that they're actually doing it for the crime.
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I'm saying, if Donald Trump said, we don't want people who are not citizens to try and
00:24:49.260
So if it were true that he wants to punish Mahmoud Khalil for actual criminal acts, but
00:24:54.620
he's just trying to do it faster through this other method...
00:24:59.800
I don't want to ascribe anything, and what I'm trying to get at is, if Donald Trump were
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to say, we need pretexts to remove this man, he's going to find himself in 1A hearings.
00:25:13.140
Or would you condemn him for coming up with pretexts to remove people or to punish people?
00:25:17.480
But again, just to clarify, because I want to make sure we get the full point before
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The issue appears to be that the Secretary of State has the legal right, for any reason
00:25:26.120
in his own discretion at any time, to revoke an alien's visa.
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Under the law, but as applied, could they violate the Constitution?
00:25:35.280
If he said, in my discretion, I'm going to revoke the visa because he's a Jew, you think
00:25:43.260
In the actions of discretion, would you say, for example, well, it says he can revoke it
00:25:53.440
I do want to address it real quick, because my answer is I don't know, because you have two
00:25:56.700
One, where the law literally says for any reason, but then you run into the constitutional
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argument where that law can't be applied as it goes to the First Amendment.
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Doesn't the threshold the Supreme Court laid out, that for some reason you just want to
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A crazy example of let's ban all Jews, let's ban all Muslims, let's ban all redheads, is
00:27:36.620
You seem to keep just walking, like dancing right past that.
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I started that entire conversation by saying the Chinese exclusion laws are still good law.
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And even though I don't necessarily agree with them.
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Wait, you think that Chinese exclusion laws are not good law?
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What I'm saying is that as of today, you think...
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Oh, so you think it's legal today to exclude Chinese...
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Immigration lawyers cite that case repeatedly, all the time with respect to these kind of
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Xi Jinping, Fang Weiting, these are cases that the Supreme Court is...
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They have not developed anti-precedent status yet.
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Because you accused me of dancing around that issue.
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And recognizing the law, which says that by the law, those cases...
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That's an exclusion decision that's different than when you're in the interior of the country.
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If a black man walked into a bakery and they said, we don't serve black people, that is illegal.
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That's illegal under the anti-civil rights framework.
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So in the instance where the individual walks into the store and the owner says, sir, we
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reserve the right to refuse service to anybody.
00:29:02.680
Well, that's not an issue of racism or a violation of the Civil Rights Act.
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And I really appreciate it because that goes to show you the extent to which the government
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They could have said, we're doing it because there's bullshit about the lie, which we can
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They could have charged them with a crime with a neutral ground, but they didn't.
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The reason they didn't, the reason they said it's because you support Hamas is because
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they're trying to signal, they're trying to bully private actors, just like they're
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doing with the universities, just like they're doing with the firms, just like we're doing
00:29:37.640
They're trying to put a signal and say, hey, if you disagree with us on policy on Israel,
00:29:43.960
If they actually thought it was a security threat, why not go through the other methods
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Donald Trump doesn't give a fuck about the First Amendment.
00:30:06.560
I'm so tired of leftists just coming to these conclusions as far as I can look inside his
00:30:11.100
head and I know better than anyone exactly what Trump is really thinking.
00:30:14.500
Even though I've seen policy after policy that is issued, that has had nothing to do whatsoever
00:30:18.460
with, with reaching the conclusions I've reached, I'm still going to come out here and tell
00:30:28.160
You can see one piece of evidence after another about this and you're going to come out there
00:30:31.760
and you're going to say to yourself, oh no, I know better than you.
00:30:36.840
Even though I've been tilted and I've come across him every single way, I'm going to look
00:30:40.060
at any way I possibly can to frame it against him.
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If they thought it was because of his criminal conduct, they would say so.
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If they thought it was, and now they have this bullshit pretext about after the fact that
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The thing was, let's look at what they did say.
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What they said was that we consider him a national security issue.
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What is this proper procedure to do under that issue, under that setting?
00:31:02.120
The proper procedure is laid out in the APA that I started with that you wanted to just
00:31:06.800
The APA and the steps that they were actually taking was saying, we're going to process him
00:31:10.980
through an administrative immigration judge, and he's going to examine this to make sure
00:31:16.020
that we are not just capturing him, throwing a bag over his head.
00:31:24.260
Like they're doing with the Venezuelans, not even giving them the opportunity to file
00:31:30.300
Habeas petitions, you're not entitled to a habeas petition the moment you get arrested.
00:31:39.480
Supreme Court does not allow you to just automatically get a habeas petition.
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You cannot go to the federal district court until such time as you've exhausted all your
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They said we didn't even need to send these people that were throwing bags over their
00:31:55.700
heads, going to the tarmac and trying to get them off the plane before the court opens.
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They said we don't even need to, in court, by the way, in court, they said we don't even
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You don't even need to give them notice of the basis of their removal.
00:32:08.060
The fact that you would defend this criminal regime and say Trump cares about rights, it's
00:32:15.400
So you agree that Mahmoud, Kalula, everything's fine.
00:32:19.520
I just want to be clear because what I'm telling Tim, I saw some nodding there from Tim.
00:32:28.540
Well, it seems like that is what he's trying to do.
00:32:32.260
But I'll clarify too, because one thing that frustrates me is there are, I call them the
00:32:39.200
Jews people, where they think everything's the Jews all the time.
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I think this is purely related to American foreign policy.
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I think this country wants to fund its foreign military operations.
00:32:51.040
The US wants to give them money, wants to be involved, wants military there.
00:32:55.280
I think it's a strategic location for US Middle Eastern operations.
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And you've got these protests that are emerging and influence spreading across universities,
00:33:02.660
which are counter to American foreign policy interests, largely that I disagree with.
00:33:08.120
So I do think Trump is trying to send a message.
00:33:10.660
That's why Romesa, I believe her name was, Ozturk, she had her visa revoked.
00:33:16.340
I believe it was presumably based on a pro-Palestinian paper that was written.
00:33:19.940
Now, that doesn't go to the question of whether or not they have the legal right to do it.
00:33:23.040
But I think the motivation strongly has to do with support of American foreign policy.
00:33:25.220
I mean, they're posting the Studio Ghibli of them deporting people.
00:33:30.960
I know that's a little different because it's not the Israeli issue.
00:33:32.800
I just want to say, because we talked about this last night, that's a fentanyl dealer.
00:33:37.420
I understand, but the whole purpose is to send signals.
00:33:40.080
I think Trump is trying to trick the left by doing that into defending one of the most...
00:33:45.400
Well, I'll defend reprehensible people if it means defending our rights.
00:33:56.040
Unless you're here via a green card or visa, you're not defending our rights.
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You are defending the rights that America decides to confer on people who are not citizens of her nation.
00:34:04.660
But you just agreed that Mahmoud Khalil has First Amendment rights.
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I said there are limited First Amendment rights.
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What kind of rights would it be that, okay, you have rights, but you can't say what we want you to say, otherwise we'll throw you out of the country.
00:34:23.360
It's a right in that he's not sitting in a prison.
00:34:27.580
No, what I'm saying is that's a detention awaiting for processing...
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Cold comfort for his wife, who is now eight months pregnant and didn't even know where he was.
00:34:39.840
And obviously has a kid on the way and is trying to get information from the administration on where he is.
00:34:53.840
I think the Second Amendment, as interpreted by this court, I don't necessarily agree that the second...
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Listen, and I don't necessarily agree with the court's interpretation as applied in Heller and in the follow-on case McDonald.
00:35:14.240
But that is the precedent of the Supreme Court.
00:35:16.780
And it says the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
00:35:22.540
And the same logic that would protect non-citizens with respect to searches and seizures, which would protect them for torture, right?
00:35:30.360
You agree that the government can't inflict cruel and unusual punishment to illegal immigrants.
00:35:41.160
And so you also agree that they can't be subject to unreasonable searches and seizures, right?
00:35:46.380
So why would they not be protected by the Second Amendment?
00:35:49.700
I mean, we've bumped into this one quite a bit because, you know, I've known for some time that the Constitution applies to all people here.
00:35:57.120
And the reason that it does, and you guys correct me if I'm wrong, is that if the Fourth Amendment didn't, there'd be no Fourth Amendment.
00:36:02.900
They'd be able to say, we just think you're not a citizen, so now we're going to raid your house.
00:36:07.200
You can't raid someone's house just because you're not a citizen.
00:36:10.400
Yeah, because the protection is for an individual, not the interpretation of whether they're here legally or not.
00:36:16.000
And so the question then comes to guns, because the Second Amendment says the people.
00:36:20.060
So I'm like, can illegal immigrants buy guns in this country?
00:36:24.140
So you're saying when it says the people, that's a limitation that carves out.
00:36:29.200
So you're saying because the Second Amendment says, I never really considered Tim's question before.
00:36:37.660
I need to explain to you where I'm coming from with respect to illegal aliens, because I do believe very firmly that our Constitution, when we're first forming our government, our founders have in mind, why do we have a government in the first place?
00:36:50.480
It's in order to help facilitate and secure the safety of our people.
00:36:53.380
But we have this grave concern, and that concern is very obvious based on history, that once you put a government in power, however that government is run, whether it's democracy or something else, that invariably they're going to crush the people.
00:37:04.360
So we're going to set up not a democracy, which we're not at all a democracy, we're a constitutional republic, and that Constitution will safeguard the individual from the powers that this group of individuals has given the government.
00:37:14.700
And the reason we have this government here is to basically keep those citizens safe from outsiders, so we don't have room only bands.
00:37:21.320
Sounds like a liberal justice, because what you're saying is there's a general purpose for general welfare, so I'm going to interpret these words however I want.
00:37:27.900
I'm switching into the constitutional theory, not based on this case here or that statute there.
00:37:34.720
I'm looking, I'm just analyzing now, I asked in the beginning, let's talk about the law, we explored that for 30 minutes.
00:37:41.140
Now at this point, I'm talking to you as far as constitutional theory.
00:37:43.380
We haven't run to ground, we haven't run to ground.
00:37:46.220
I want to know if Tim Pool agrees that this deportation is legitimate, or whether you're going to say you're agnostic about it.
00:37:51.820
I want to know whether you think that this attempt at deportation is okay to do or not.
00:37:59.140
I think that, this is the next question I was getting into as it pertains to the Constitution.
00:38:03.800
The idea that we're going to try and interpret the Constitution, to me, has become largely meaningless outside of the initial seven articles.
00:38:11.420
The construction of government makes a lot of sense.
00:38:14.000
People often say, they'll say what Trump is doing or what Biden is doing is unconstitutional.
00:38:18.760
They're usually referring to the Bill of Rights, which have never been universally understood ever.
00:38:23.640
For instance, blasphemy and obscenity were illegal, where literally after they ratified the Constitution, you walked outside and screamed obscenities, you'd be arrested.
00:38:32.860
George Carlin was arrested in the 70s for swearing.
00:38:37.760
There have been bad times in our history where we have not been true to the Constitution.
00:38:41.700
John Adams passed the Sedition Act, where it literally was a crime to insult the president.
00:38:48.640
So my point is, as it pertains to the Second Amendment, our current understanding is a complete inversion from every different period throughout various generations of different moral worldviews.
00:39:00.240
Notably with D.C. versus Heller and then McDonald v. Chicago is when we started to get the actual—you can actually have guns.
00:39:06.220
So it was surprising to me to actually learn this in the past few years because I didn't really pay attention to the gun stuff.
00:39:11.780
But I looked at the map of the right to keep and bear arms pre-Heller didn't exist in this country despite a Second Amendment.
00:39:20.020
You could have a dismantled, broken-up piece of guns throughout your house, but it was actually legal for a state to deny you a permit to carry, deny you a permit to own, and require you to dismantle it in your own house.
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Because initially the Bill of Rights did not apply as to the states.
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The Bill of Rights were a framework to apply to the federal government.
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And so for the longest time, there was no incorporation, is the term called, of the Second Amendment.
00:39:43.640
That's why McDonald's is a case that incorporates it through the new process.
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But I want to push you a little bit there because it sounds like what you're suggesting is there's nothing Trump could do.
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There have been times where we disrespected that there's nothing Trump could do where you would say, I don't like that because of the First Amendment.
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I asked you, you were kind of like saying, yeah, the First Amendment, it's all, you know, we never respected it anyway.
00:41:38.620
What would it take for Trump to do where you would say, okay, because of the First Amendment, this shit is fucked up and I'm going to call him out for it on the First Amendment grounds.
00:41:46.920
Is there anything he could do where you would call him out for First Amendment grounds?
00:41:49.760
So the presupposition there that I have an issue with is First Amendment grounds.
00:41:56.760
So even if the Constitution allows him to be evil, I'm going to call him out for being evil, if it's Trump, Biden, or otherwise.
00:42:02.120
And if the Constitution says something, for example, that says, for example, because you don't care about the Constitution.
00:42:07.680
But you only care about the non-rights portions of the Constitution?
00:42:10.320
Okay, my point was the Bill of Rights have been applied by those in whatever way they interpret.
00:42:16.400
And then when it gets challenged to the courts, the courts reinterpret or interpret in whatever way they say.
00:42:20.200
Do you care about the constitutional rights or not?
00:42:22.340
So if you care about the constitutional rights, don't you care?
00:42:29.160
For example, is it cruel and unusual punishment to put a male person in a female prison?
00:42:44.100
So it depends because you're going to need to do research on these constitutional principles to see, you know, to what extent is it the danger to the person that you're putting in the female prison?
00:42:51.620
As I understand it, there's not an epidemic of abuse from trans people in male, sorry, in female prisons to the female individuals.
00:43:07.700
And we actually don't know how to apply it to certain issues affecting us today.
00:43:13.940
Do you think if an American citizen did what Mahmoud Khalil did, do you think that he should be able to go to jail under the First Amendment?
00:43:22.080
Put that aside because we have to put that aside because the government's not alleging that.
00:43:34.020
And if Trump threw an American citizen in jail or said that you can't get, you know, a liquor license because you did that, something that's perfectly constitutional, would you call him out for First Amendment violations?
00:43:42.980
So the only difference here is whether or not he's a resident alien or whether he's an American.
00:43:48.500
But you just agreed, didn't you, that resident aliens have First Amendment rights?
00:43:54.460
And that's why I asked the question about guns and cruel, unusual punishment.
00:43:58.240
You said, of course, it's natural that you have gun rights.
00:44:00.100
And so it seems like you're granted in the guns, right?
00:44:04.500
But why weren't you granted in the First Amendment context?
00:44:06.780
Like I already mentioned, we could not sit here and define what cruel and unusual punishment is as per the Eighth Amendment.
00:44:11.720
So you're going to assert there are certain—so the argument really just boils down to my moral worldview.
00:44:18.220
That's the issue I take with the Bill of Rights and how we interpret them.
00:44:22.020
As you guys are all citing legal precedent, saying the court said this and the court said that,
00:44:25.860
I'm sitting here being like, the only thing that really matters is whether the majority body politic determines it to be moral or not.
00:44:30.940
So, for instance, when it was a predominantly Christian nation, if you blasphemed, you'd find yourself in jail.
00:44:37.800
If you went in public and started cussing and swearing, you'd find yourself in jail.
00:44:42.120
But as we've shifted away from that moral worldview, you can now go on television and cuss up a storm like South Park did, counting how many times they swore on TV.
00:44:54.200
You've got the conservatives saying—and I use this because it's obviously a hot-button issue.
00:44:58.620
A judge just ruled that Trump must return two biological male individuals to a woman's prison.
00:45:06.580
And liberal activists say putting transgender individuals who are undergoing—who are affirmed—HRT—in a male prison is cruel and unusual to them.
00:45:17.600
There's not going to be an accepted moral worldview between the two political factions in this country on that issue.
00:45:25.800
But I just want to take an issue with the premise there because you said what ultimately is going to be protected by these rights is going to be determined by the body politic.
00:45:31.460
I think that's crucially misunderstanding the purpose of the rights.
00:45:34.800
These rights are meant to be applied as to the majority.
00:45:37.200
The reason that they're so difficult to get rid of is because it's supposed to be protection against the excesses of a majority.
00:45:42.000
And there's some ANCAPs or anarcho-style people here that I met who are really nice people.
00:45:49.160
If you're an anarcho-capitalist, you understand this, that there are abuses that the majority of the public can do.
00:45:53.520
And the rights are to stand in contradiction to what general sentiment is and to say, no, even if Congress wants to, right?
00:46:00.960
So even if Congress would like to violate the First Amendment rights of Mahmoud Khalil, they can't.
00:46:06.100
That's what the First Amendment has to protect.
00:46:10.660
Don't we have a requirement, just like in the Second Amendment context, and you think the Second Amendment is important.
00:46:16.060
Wasn't it important for the Supreme Court to say, in your view, that there is an individual right here associated with gun?
00:46:26.580
It's going to be different depending on who's—
00:46:28.240
The right to keep and bear arms has been infringed every possible way, and we're supposed to sit here and say, we have a Second Amendment.
00:46:34.960
The First Amendment, they've made—how many laws are on the books pertaining to speech, religion, or otherwise?
00:46:40.480
But is that just an excuse not to ever think about the First Amendment?
00:46:43.740
It's a moral philosophical point that this country tolerates what violates the Constitution if it applies to the majority, and that's not correct.
00:46:51.420
There are clear cases, and there are unclear cases, right?
00:46:53.540
There's a clear case of Second Amendment violation that says, no, every gun ownership, that's a crime.
00:46:57.340
You would say, that's a clear case that reasonable minds can't disagree about.
00:47:01.380
Well, you're arguing extremes instead of what we're actually—
00:47:03.360
No, no, but what I'm—but your framework where you're saying, well, who knows, because the Congress has always violated, that's an excuse to never apply the principle, even in clear cases.
00:47:11.020
And here we have a clear case where you acknowledge that the First Amendment, as to citizens, would protect this conduct.
00:47:15.540
And in fact, you would criticize Trump if he went after citizens for doing this conduct.
00:47:18.900
You've also accepted, I think, as a maxim or as a general principle, that resident aliens do have First Amendment rights.
00:47:32.180
The reason I ask the question about a black man going into a bakery, the baker can say to him, I'm sorry, look, we reserve the right to refuse service to anybody, goodbye.
00:47:41.820
Often in these circumstances, individuals who feel aggrieved will sue anyway, and they'll often win, even if it actually isn't the case that the person was discriminated against based on race.
00:47:51.100
The issue then becomes, to be racist, simply just don't admit you are.
00:47:57.740
So what we have here is the INA allows them to deport Mahmoud Khalil.
00:48:03.360
And so I shrug and say, change the law if you have an issue with it.
00:48:06.760
But for the time being, there's nothing else to be done.
00:48:09.460
So if they said national security threat because he's a Muslim or deporting him, would you say the same thing?
00:48:18.000
So this is the problem with the law as it is written.
00:48:20.560
I completely think it is screwed up and makes no sense.
00:48:23.260
It results in people who are not racist being accused of racist and racist actually getting away with things they're not supposed to be able to get away with.
00:48:31.080
So this is the – okay, New York City has human rights law that protects 31 identifiable genders.
00:48:37.860
It defines in their human rights code gender identity is self-expression.
00:48:42.640
So I called a human rights lawyer, three of them actually, in New York.
00:48:47.280
And I said, I'm trying to get an understanding of how this law would actually be applied.
00:48:51.540
It says that the clothing you wear, the name you call yourself, you cannot be discriminated against in public accommodation based on these characteristics.
00:49:01.460
I said, so if there is a clearly identifiable biological male wearing a dress with lipstick on who calls himself Susan and says he's a her, they cannot discriminate.
00:49:14.520
I said, okay, what if someone dresses up in a fursuit, a furry, and they refer to themselves as Volsiferon, Herald of the Winter Mists.
00:49:23.880
They all said the courts would laugh that out of the courtroom.
00:49:30.620
I said, why is a judge allowed to laugh at an individual's identity that the law supposedly protects?
00:49:35.600
And they said because the judges can interpret as they see fit.
00:49:38.260
And I said, then there may as well be no law at all.
00:49:43.560
Because what you're saying is then judges can't interpret the provision of the eye.
00:49:48.100
Okay, but then you're not stating your position.
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You're just stating basically it's a real fact that judges are going to do what judges are going to do.
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Indeed, my position is this will go to a hearing, and the INA gives Secretary of State the right to deport, and I don't see any reason why they can't do that.
00:50:02.640
Okay, but my question for you, which you dodge, and I'm going to ask it again, is if Trump said we're deporting him because of the Muslim, you would say –
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You asked me if Donald Trump said we're deporting him for being a Muslim, would you object to it?
00:50:26.500
Because he's not saying it's because he's a Muslim.
00:50:30.140
The First Amendment says Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
00:50:34.200
Presumably, you would condemn him for violating the First Amendment, for violating the religion clauses of the Constitution.
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The First Amendment also says do not abridge the freedom of speech, Congress.
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So by the same provision, the INA, that you cited that says he gives them the right to do it, you would condemn Trump if he cited that provision.
00:50:50.040
And in part of his rationale, he said, well, because he's Muslim.
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But if another part of the First Amendment is invoked as a rationale, now it's different.
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And my position is and has been on the Mahmoud Khalil case is that claiming he's aligned with Hamas is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
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However, the INA says they can deport non-citizens.
00:51:08.300
But it also says that if they were to put up the rationale of Muslim.
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I said claiming that he's aligned with Hamas is stupid and wrong.
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So if Trump actually initiated deporting proceedings—
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So what I understand is you have not condemned this deportation proceeding.
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But you would condemn a hypothetical deportation proceeding because he's a Muslim.
00:51:43.600
I'm sure there's some rationale where I'm going to be like, a guy discovered that Trump punched a baby so they deported him quickly.
00:51:50.180
So would you condemn a deportation proceeding that was based on religion, even notwithstanding the fact that you wouldn't condemn that?
00:52:00.280
If he said, I don't want a Muslim, get him out of here.
00:52:09.640
And then we go to the INA and I say, oh, Congress passed a law saying they can deport anybody they want for any reason at any time.
00:52:15.880
I don't agree with your reading of the INA, but I just want to be—
00:52:19.180
Well, if I'm wrong, it says at his own discretion.
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It says every alien—oh, so this is—you're looking at section 222?
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After the issuance of a visa or other documentation to any alien, the consular officer or the secretary of state may at any time, in his discretion, revoke such visa or other documentation.
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Notice of such rectification shall be communicated to the attorney general, and such rectification shall invalidate the visa or other document from the date of issuance, provided that carriers or transportation companies—
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It's that he's held—the same way that he can be denied a visa, they're held in the Supreme Court.
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It says you can hold them to the same standard with respect to maintaining that visa or green card.
00:54:33.400
You cannot lie on – you cannot say on a forum, I'm not going to do this, and then if it turns out that they change the status or in the case of Mahmoud Khalil where they actually lie on their application for one reason or another.
00:54:46.560
I don't know if that lie was because they were afraid of further investigations, which would clearly throw them out.
00:54:51.460
But at the end of the day, you held to the same standard while you're residing here until such time as you are fully naturalized.
00:54:58.960
Once someone is naturalized, and I believe this in my heart of hearts to be both constitutionally correct, morally correct, and legally correct.
00:55:05.480
Once someone is fully naturalized and becomes an American citizen, that blessing of that work to attain that is conferred upon them the very special status that America affords her own citizens.
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And that status does not get afforded simply because they filled out a form and managed to get a visa or even a green card.
00:55:31.600
What Tim just said is that legally, the Secretary of State or any member of the administration, I'll even assume the law says what it says and it applies to green cards.
00:55:46.300
I think the threshold is literally what a threshold I've said now four times, which is facially legitimate and bona fide.
00:56:01.700
What's crazy about me saying America is for American citizens?
00:56:05.040
What about for – I'm not saying that that is crazy for you to say America is for American citizens.
00:56:09.980
But I think that what America is is defined largely by the Constitution, right?
00:56:15.240
America is not just a geographical space, right?
00:56:18.360
It's also – this pronouncement says we, the people of the United States, are enacting, right?
00:56:22.340
We are actually doing something here with the Constitution.
00:56:26.600
So for you to say something like, yeah, America is for American citizens, well, part of what America is is the First Amendment.
00:56:32.200
And so I respect what America is in its highest ideals.
00:56:34.880
And that would be – even if I think that America in principle should cater to citizens more, if America does something that violates its principles like discriminating on the base of religion, I would call it out.
00:56:45.900
I actually think when you map the political conflict we've had over the last 15 years, you come to realize that none of this is actually true.
00:56:58.740
Neither faction really cares about any of the constitutions, the Bill of Rights, the laws.
00:57:02.240
It is simply a moral worldview in battle with another moral worldview.
00:57:06.040
A few examples being the liberal faction consistently trying to take away our right to keep and bear arms in various degrees, arguing that only militias can have them, that supporting assault weapons bans and calling for them more and more.
00:57:20.400
Then you've got the First Amendment as it applies to – you know, we have a right to free speech.
00:57:24.980
It's interpreted a bit beyond government passing a law with respect to an establishment of speech because it actually restricts the government from using existing law to enforce against speech.
00:57:34.340
But then you have, again, for the past 10 years, the liberal faction trying to use private equity and private resources to shut down the politics of their political opponents.
00:57:46.940
So when I say people have a right to express their political worldviews without fear of violence and harm, what are we dealing with right now?
00:57:53.580
There is no fucking reality where I am going to stand in defense of the moral worldview of the left that are firebombing Tesla dealerships in wanton destruction of vehicles.
00:58:03.440
And then they come to me and say, how could you not support Mahmoud Khalil?
00:58:06.620
I'll be like, listen, the moral worldview you guys live in is might makes right like the fucking Nazis.
00:58:11.200
OK, so you can make any argument you want to try to appeal to my view of the Constitution.
00:58:17.200
You're not going to stand on business because you hate the left.
00:58:31.940
Why would you say I think that MAGA and what Trump has done to this country is a fucking disaster?
00:58:37.760
Is it unconstitutional to arrest a person's lawyers when they're facing criminal charges?
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So if a person is a person is criminally charged, right?
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And then the Fed, then the AG of New York goes and arrests his lawyers.
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If the lawyer fucking shot someone, you know, no, no, no.
00:58:59.520
OK, so let me let me go to the lawyer and say, you're with the fucking mobster.
00:59:06.340
So there you have a question of interpretation of Rico.
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OK, in that case, I'm going to have an issue with criminalizing conduct that amounts to
00:59:17.020
Like when they arrested Trump's lawyers in Wisconsin and Georgia.
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I thought you were so I just I just want to be I just want to be clear.
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There can be in the course of pretending to give legal advice.
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If you are in a conspiracy to do some other crime, you would agree with this, right?
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If a lawyer says I'm giving you legal advice because I actually want you to do this crime.
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OK, so when Jenna Ellis got arrested on two Rico counts, she's part of a conspiracy to steal
00:59:47.860
You decided to interpret legal advice as a crime.
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So you're you're taking the view that nothing with a lawyer drafts a letter for a client
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What if that letter says it with respect to hiring a mobster to hit someone?
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If the lawyer drafts a letter to a mobster to get someone assassinated, would that be protected
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You're saying the letter would instruct or attempt to bring a person into?
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One is it gives advice for how to get away with hiring a mobster.
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Or it says these are instructions for hiring this particular mobster.
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Wait, I'm going to get an answer to this question.
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I'm just telling you this is why this is the disingenuousness with which you're addressing
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Because when we're talking about Mamou Khalil, you talk about things that he likely has
01:00:53.000
And you say we can't bring those facts up because he's not charged by the government.
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So we have to pretend that those facts have not happened and say that even if he's engaged
01:01:01.440
in those, well, that doesn't count because after all, he's not charged with it.
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We have to pretend that these things never happen.
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And that's when we're talking about addressing wrongs committed by someone who's associated
01:01:11.440
When you're talking about Jenna Ellis, you're saying and you're trying to theorize how her
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legal advice could somehow morph into being something that's illegal and would deserve
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for her to be charged as a conspirator and a RICO charge.
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Not that any – you're not following the conversation, Joe.
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What I'm saying is it's disingenuous – the disingenuousness comes from the fact
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that when it comes to analyzing the left, you refuse to deal with facts that exist as
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they are and says because that's not charged, we can't talk about it.
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When it comes to analyzing the right, however, you think it's totally fair to try and impugn
01:01:48.740
their behavior, their conduct and saying, well, it could be if they would have done this
01:01:53.620
and start inventing brand new hypotheticals as a way of trying to now attach some possible
01:02:01.580
In essence, he's saying these rights are ephemeral.
01:02:06.960
Well, if I were to cite Supreme Court precedent, would you say they're ephemeral?
01:02:14.620
That says that resident aliens have First Amendment rights.
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That was a case – now it's a pre-INA case, but it would be no different.
01:02:27.520
We need the Supreme Court to rule on this as it applies because it came after the fact.
01:02:32.860
These particular facts and circumstances, there's no on-point case that specifically
01:02:39.160
And any lawyer worth their salt can find some way to distinguish a case and say this
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But I want to defend – because he's attacked me and saying I'm dodging things or I'm okay
01:02:53.540
Yeah, so she conspired to get these false slates of electors by being part of a conspiracy,
01:03:08.920
There was a criminal meeting of the minds, an agreement.
01:03:11.720
Okay, so do you agree that conspiracy is a thing?
01:03:23.100
So she had an agreement with Donald Trump and other co-conspirators to steal the 2020
01:03:35.380
You're saying she was charged with conspiracy because she had a conspiracy?
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I'm asking what actions she took that violated the law.
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Yeah, so the action of the overt acts of communicating with other members of the conspiracy,
01:03:50.180
She was charged with conduct related to the attempted theft of the election.
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And I don't, as I sit here, I don't know the statement of facts.
01:04:00.400
So requesting like legal documents from the state requesting documents to get fake slates
01:04:09.180
You see, again, yes or no, there's this is this is where the the debate usually stops.
01:04:15.300
In the 1960 election, we already I've had this debate 800 million times.
01:04:20.340
JFK, Nixon, the the uncertified slate was sent for JFK, even though the election had already
01:04:27.940
They did not resolve the case until after the counted art, the safe harbor provisions.
01:04:32.500
But they decided we're going to send an uncertified slate anyway.
01:04:37.940
Now, if there was Supreme Court precedent set after the fact that uncertified slates of electors,
01:04:42.540
meaning electors that were not duly elected, but were submitted anyway, if they set precedent
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saying you cannot do this and Congress passed a law saying this is expressly illegal, I'd
01:04:53.160
So the legal theory that emerges in the 2020 case, though I disagree.
01:04:57.300
I disagree with the people who think Trump won was they've done this in the past.
01:05:02.160
Why don't we have our electors submit before the safe harbor provisions, just like they
01:05:07.540
Then Pence can choose to count or otherwise depend based upon what the judges rule.
01:05:12.540
Now, if Donald Trump takes issue with an election or anybody, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris,
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whoever, and they say, one, we are required legally to submit any formal paperwork before
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Because no one has been charged with it before?
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Because there's no codified law saying it's illegal.
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Hang on, there's laws against criminal rackets.
01:05:46.720
That you've decided to interpret legal advice as a crime to use power against a political
01:05:54.800
And you objected and you said, he doesn't need to answer it.
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Do you agree that legal advice can't be a crime?
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If someone comes to me and says, hey, this is a crime I want to commit, right?
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If someone calls me up and says, hey, this is a crime I want to commit, I cannot further
01:06:42.720
It would be wrong for me to, at that point, say, this is how you can-
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But I can tell him, this is how you can get the same thing done legally.
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What I'm saying is, if you're giving it ethically, it cannot be.
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Colloquially, any person who has asked, do you have a legal right to legal advice?
01:07:22.640
When you use the phrase legal advice, you are playing a semantic game as to the definition
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We want to actually give our members at TimCast.com, once a month, we choose someone $10,000.
01:07:41.140
If the lawyer then says, that's illegal, you can't do that.
01:07:46.200
Now, what if they say, ooh, there's legalities which could make that illegal.
01:07:50.400
Here's how you avoid breaking the law and actually make this work.
01:07:53.940
So I'm asking you, as a definitional term, are you willing to provide a definition in
01:08:00.580
Legal advice is instruction and knowledge applied to an individual to better help them
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understand the law and how it applies to their circumstances.
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In using that definition, can legal advice be a crime?
01:08:12.500
Helping them with the purpose of – so I'll just be clear.
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Using that definition, providing legal advice for the purpose of helping someone carry out
01:08:29.720
So a guy calls his lawyer and says, hey, man, there's – I need money, and I'm trying
01:08:38.040
But if I were to go to a guy and point a weapon at him and say, can I borrow 50 bucks?
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And the lawyer's going to go, yeah, that's illegal.
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What if I just like put my hand in my pocket so it looked like I had a gun?
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And if you do something like that, you'll go to jail.
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I'm going to construct my actions now in a way that applies to the legal advice you gave
01:09:09.600
So what if the intention of a lawyer was to further that crime and make it more likely?
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I'll ask you, what if the purpose of the lawyer was to actually get him to commit the
01:11:00.520
So, wait, but I'm going to get some answers from you guys one of these days.
01:11:06.520
If somebody dodged a question, I answered yes directly.
01:11:08.060
If the purpose of the advice is to further the crime, to make it happen, to have the
01:11:20.660
So, what you've done is you've put in your definition of legal advice.
01:11:24.560
You're saying legal advice, by definition, can't be illegal.
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And if your definition of legal advice says it can't be illegal, then I guess you're by
01:11:33.500
The definition of legal advice doesn't include, you know, it has to be legal, legal advice.
01:11:37.460
Do people have a constitutional right to counsel?
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But that means they could be providing illegal activities to a defendant.
01:11:46.180
Do people have a constitutional right to some illegal activities?
01:11:48.800
So, they have a constitutional right to legal advice, but it doesn't mean that it's...
01:11:54.880
They have a legal right to legal advice, 100%, to access and retrieve that legal advice.
01:11:58.980
That doesn't mean that the advice they receive can also be a crime.
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When we refer to legal advice, we are not referring to engagement in criminal activity.
01:12:12.040
And if you have two guys, and they're not lawyers, and one guy is advising the other
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guy on how to rob a bank, that's not legal advice.
01:12:17.480
Just because you have a law degree doesn't make it legal advice.
01:12:20.480
So, your definition of legal advice, that would be legal advice.
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I mean, you gave a definition that didn't say, oh, and by the way, the legal advice can't
01:12:28.220
You're carving out the thing that would be a criminality legal advice.
01:12:30.860
To definitely understand what is our constitutional right to counsel versus what is an illegal
01:12:35.240
So, the right to counsel doesn't mean that the counsel you're receiving is legal itself.
01:12:39.820
So, there are different things, and there's no contradiction in what I'm saying.
01:12:43.940
Because the interpretation of the actions of Jenna Ellis and Trump's other lawyers, I
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forgot their names, based in Wisconsin, was that Donald Trump approached them and said,
01:12:53.060
And they said, here's how you do it, and we'll draft it for you.
01:12:57.840
We think that's a crime, so you're under arrest.
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It's only hypothetical, just to make sure that this principle is being applied consistently.
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Let's say that Jenna Ellis said, okay, this won't work, this won't work.
01:13:06.680
What you have to do is you have to order the military to seize the halls of Congress and
01:13:13.760
hold at gunpoint all the Congress people, and that will be, you know, that way, it'll
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It's called a hypothetical, and you provide, wait, you provide hypotheticals to people,
01:13:24.600
are you going to say you're not going to answer it?
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It's an unprecedented absurdity without codified law.
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Wait, are you going to answer it, or are you going to say it's an illegitimate, I don't
01:13:34.560
If the marshmallow man showed up, should Trump call in the Ghostbusters next?
01:13:38.600
So, if Jenna Ellis had something to the effect of, the best way to do this, Donald Trump,
01:13:43.320
is for, and she wanted this to happen, right, is for you to actually go with tanks into Congress,
01:13:48.200
hold up some Congress people, kill them if you don't want, if they're challenging you,
01:13:51.660
that way you'd head off any kind of impeachment.
01:13:53.780
So, you're saying she instructed them to murder people?
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To arrest people, to seize it, and murder if necessary.
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In what prospect of law can you go to a court and murder someone in the middle of a hearing
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No, you're saying the best, so this is why it's legal advice, she says, one thing that
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could stop you from stealing the election would be if they held impeachment proceedings
01:14:11.200
So, one way to head that off, from a legal perspective, would be if those people could
01:14:14.580
not attend their sit-ins, and I'm just letting you know, it would be really convenient if
01:14:19.680
So, instructing someone to commit murder is legal advice.
01:14:24.140
If you said, for example, in order to prevent this bad outcome, this bad judgment, you should
01:14:33.920
But there's no function of law where you're allowed to do that.
01:14:45.320
It is not legal advice to instruct your client to murder someone, no.
01:14:47.560
Okay, so if your definition of legal advice excludes any illegal conspiracy, then by definition
01:14:55.660
No, you're trying to justify that Trump, under a circumstance with no codified law making
01:15:03.220
We're in very specific territory right here, Tim.
01:15:06.380
Where in the law does it say you cannot send in your slate of electors before the Safe Harbor
01:15:14.780
Because in this country, you can't be arrested for things the state makes up.
01:15:18.860
So there's the laws against, for example, lying to Congress, fair?
01:15:22.080
So do they have to list out all the possible lies you could tell to Congress in order for
01:15:26.120
So lying to Congress about how much money you have in the bank, lying to Congress about
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the effects of a law, they have to list out every single specific potential iteration
01:15:36.600
So you're saying, based on the interpretation of the state of Georgia, that they felt Jenna
01:15:40.220
Ellis drafting a letter for Donald Trump was part of a criminal conspiracy,
01:15:46.780
So I guess my view is then, if Donald Trump wants to interpret the actions of Mahmoud Khalil
01:15:50.860
as threats to state secrets or state foreign policy, he should be deported to.
01:15:54.520
Wait, wait, but you would condemn things that you feel went beyond the pale, right?
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So, and people can argue about whether it's legal or illegal, and that's what you're doing
01:16:05.420
And you're willing to condemn the prosecution of Jenna Ellis, fair?
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Why aren't you willing to condemn the potential deportation of Mahmoud Khalil?
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For the exact reason you have said Jenna Ellis, as a lawyer, should be charged, is why I'm
01:16:19.200
To test the legality of it, because there's no specific law?
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No, no, no, no, because your arguments aren't based in law, it's your interpretation of
01:16:27.180
Well, I mean, it's based on the Supreme Court precedent that you seem to accept that these
01:16:32.580
If they have First Amendment rights, what kind of First Amendment wouldn't protect someone
01:16:35.780
who has that right from deportation based on protected activities?
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You seem to grant that they had that right, but now you're saying, oh, I don't really
01:16:43.300
So my point is, the INA says they can have their visas revoked for whatever reason,
01:16:54.280
There's an inherent, like, because you guys know.
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Just like circling around and around the same dead carcass.
01:16:59.140
And then you guess, like, that we haven't answered your questions.
01:17:02.500
Which is very, very frustrating, because we answer your question over and over and over
01:17:05.600
again, and then you're like, you'll never answer this question.
01:17:09.100
Two seconds after we answer your question, we've said, how many times?
01:17:15.840
They're not the same level as what American citizen rights are, which is one reason, by
01:17:22.100
So if they're not the same level, wait, wait, wait, Joe.
01:17:25.820
I mean, Tim is saying that based on anything, they could throw them out.
01:17:29.360
So if Mamou Khalil said something like this, I'd like a French toast and some eggs, please.
01:17:36.260
And they said, on the basis of that, you're going to be deported from the country.
01:17:39.480
Would the First Amendment protect them in that instance?
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I think that that would not meet that low threshold that I've said over and over.
01:18:00.840
I think legally, you could not just throw someone out for ordering French bread.
01:18:05.040
But you cannot say, because he ordered French bread, I'm throwing him out.
01:18:10.400
You can go, hey, this guy just fucking ordered French bread.
01:18:14.180
You're being deported under Section 221I of the Immigration and National Association.
01:18:44.020
If you actually read the notice to appear, 222 is not the basis.
01:18:50.140
And it starts, you know, basis of deportable aliens should be the name of the statute.
01:19:09.220
I see 236, and then all of a sudden it says 237.
01:19:14.400
You see how they do that with like one sentence at the bottom, and it makes the whole page 237?
01:19:32.820
Inadmissible aliens, present in violation of law, violated non-immigrant status, or condition
01:19:51.680
It's down in four under terrorism and national security.
01:20:02.840
Any alien whose presence or activity in the United States, the Secretary of State, has reasonable
01:20:06.220
ground to believe, would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences
01:20:11.140
So Secretary of State Marco Rubio didn't cite the provision that you cited.
01:20:16.840
And he said in his determination why he's adverse to the interests is because he supports
01:20:23.680
And Joe seemed to accept that if you ordered French bread, it wouldn't be a basis of
01:20:28.140
removability, presumably because the First Amendment protects resident aliens.
01:20:31.040
Why would it be if you support French bread, it's not a base of removability.
01:20:35.140
No, I think the bare minimum threshold is he has to establish that he's legitimately
01:20:39.980
considered a national security threat, that those national security threats are not supposed
01:20:47.020
In fact, I think that that would be stupid to believe that a policy is supposed to be
01:20:54.640
Do you believe that support of Israel is in alignment with American foreign policy?
01:21:00.800
I think that support for Israel probably is, yeah.
01:21:06.140
Do you believe that the protests are a threat to that American foreign policy?
01:21:11.980
Well, I don't really think that, but I think it's a good...
01:21:23.460
I actually don't think that the protests would probably get under that rationale, except
01:21:28.600
to the extent that they're worried about people being critical of Israel.
01:21:31.660
But it doesn't matter what it says, because the First Amendment...
01:21:34.380
I think then the way the procedure would go is that we're going to get a Supreme Court
01:21:37.900
hearing on whether it goes one way or the other.
01:21:45.900
He has procedural problems, first and foremost.
01:21:47.680
He has procedural problems, first and foremost, because you have to exhaust the administrative
01:21:55.540
procedure before he's able to go into the federal court.
01:21:58.240
But even beyond that, as I said a while ago, probably an hour ago at this point, we're at
01:22:03.640
a juncture here when it comes to national security that this is the one area that the
01:22:08.460
Supreme Court has refused to intercede on executive exclusive authority.
01:22:13.460
And that's why for you to think that when we're talking about someone whose First Amendment
01:22:18.120
rights are already lessened compared to American citizens, this has no potential ramification
01:22:25.660
When we're talking about the fact that he's failed to abide by the same terms that enabled
01:22:33.380
him to obtain a visa and that he committed fraud in obtaining a green card, which throws
01:22:40.200
into question his entire legitimacy of the green card whatsoever, and would be a basis
01:22:46.460
So when we're looking at it from that perspective, I think that there is such that I've debated
01:22:53.860
you in the past about what the Supreme Court would do.
01:22:56.780
And I'll tell you right now, I was correct last time on the 14th Amendment issue when I
01:23:01.280
told you it would be 7-2, if not 8-1, that Trump would win on the 14th Amendment issue.
01:23:09.200
We're talking about his eligibility to run for the president.
01:23:15.580
No, I have a clip of it of me saying he's going to lose or he's going to win.
01:23:22.220
I said even the liberal justices will recognize that this is so far out of bounds.
01:23:31.120
And I'm telling you now, Mahmoud Khalil is not going to win at the Supreme Court level.
01:23:36.800
I'll tell you, there's no chance that he does because this is the one area where the executive
01:23:44.020
And unless you can show that they specifically hated this guy for one reason that had nothing
01:23:59.600
You realize how out of touch you sound to normal Americans?
01:24:02.620
Everyone understands that the reason they're going after these people is because they don't
01:24:08.180
You look at Mark Ruby, he says his support for Hamas...
01:24:10.220
Not liking his speech affects foreign policy and national security, which is the whole point
01:24:16.200
I want to add, the speech is particularly that it's anti-Israel.
01:24:23.240
And I think the reason why I would agree with you on the court siding with the Trump administration
01:24:29.980
The Supreme Court tends to be deferential on issues of national security.
01:24:33.740
So even if there's rights, they allow for Barack Obama to pass the indefinite detention
01:24:38.360
provision, things in the Patriot Act, torture of foreign nationals.
01:24:43.080
Barack Obama murdered American citizens, multiple, I think, four or five individuals.
01:24:48.080
So when it comes to the Trump administration saying,
01:24:50.300
we want to support Israel, this guy came to our country and he's rallying people against
01:24:56.020
I imagine the Supreme Court's going to go, well, we don't care about rights when it comes
01:25:00.260
Then you have the issue of American support for Israel is very high.
01:25:04.160
And so even if there was a principled issue of this person has a right to speech, everyone's
01:25:11.660
But I'm not trying to pull the nation here, Tim.
01:25:15.560
I'm not trying to read Teeley's about the Supreme Court tomorrow.
01:25:20.940
And the reason I'm trying to push you guys is because you both have platforms.
01:25:23.000
Because if he was Tommy Robinson expressing racist views, you would not be coming here
01:25:32.360
By the way, I condemned a lot of these protests.
01:25:36.660
Just to be clear about my consistency there, I generally have not seen as a crazy person
01:25:44.280
I'm calling balls and shots and I'm pushing you guys.
01:25:46.580
I'm pushing you guys because I know if someone came up with a rationale, Johnny Come Lately
01:25:51.140
rationale that said something like, we believe having Muslims in this country at all, having
01:25:56.440
Muslims in this country at all, is bad for our foreign policy vis-a-vis Israel.
01:26:00.200
Israel wants us to have Muslims be out of this country.
01:26:03.480
And so we're going to deport all these aliens because we can and it's our foreign policy
01:26:08.340
I think that you- wouldn't you stand up and say that's wrong?
01:26:13.680
Would you say- would you stand here and be like, well, the Supreme Court often defers to
01:26:17.740
the Secretary of State's determinations about who is and who's not a threat?
01:26:21.160
And so because the Secretary of State said the Muslims are all threats-
01:26:25.500
You're combining a moral question with a legal question.
01:26:31.160
So on the law, wouldn't you come and say, this is clearly illegal?
01:26:34.120
Of course the Supreme Court should not, should not.
01:26:38.760
In the scenario where the Secretary of State says it's in the foreign policy interest of
01:26:42.380
the United States not to have Muslim aliens in this country.
01:26:45.640
And that determination is made based on our long friendship with Israel and our long relationship
01:26:50.260
with Israel and they don't want it there and we don't want to undermine that relationship.
01:27:00.120
Because every time you keep putting this crazy, this extreme hypothetical of banning all Muslims
01:27:05.400
and I keep coming back to you and saying, I've never taken that position.
01:27:08.300
I don't know anyone who's ever taken that position.
01:27:12.440
You're giving that crazy, ridiculous hypothetical and then I come back to you and I say, why
01:27:20.240
That language comes from Kleindens versus Mendel as cited in Trump versus the United States.
01:27:24.360
Trump versus Hawaii in the section on the establishment clause.
01:27:33.440
And then after that, the Supreme Court has said that you have to abide by the same terms
01:27:44.280
I need to ask you this question because you keep talking and trying to frame this as a
01:27:49.040
It's not at all a First Amendment issue because from the perspective of the Supreme Court
01:27:55.080
And when you know that to get in here, you can't be expressing terrorist supportive perspectives.
01:28:00.500
You cannot do that when you're trying to get in here.
01:28:06.820
Do you think that the United States of America has a right to keep people out for saying,
01:28:12.280
You express terrorist activity, support for terrorism.
01:28:17.640
Under binding precedent of the Supreme Court, because there is a distinction between admission
01:28:21.600
decisions and non-admission decisions, I'm telling you what the law says.
01:28:26.100
And what the law says is you can ban people from in this country if they're Chinese,
01:28:41.000
It's a famous case, the Chinese exclusion cases.
01:28:45.340
They said you could ban Chinese people from entering the country.
01:28:48.820
So I'm acknowledging the reality that the courts treat admission decisions very differently.
01:28:53.600
And so I acknowledge that, whether I agree or not.
01:28:55.680
Well, so you're recognizing that they can keep someone out on that basis.
01:29:00.700
Now the Supreme Court has also said that you're kept to the same standard while you're here.
01:29:04.700
If you're kept to the same standard while you're here, that means you could be deported.
01:29:09.660
And there are different rights at admission versus when you're in the country.
01:29:11.800
For example, you have no procedural due process rights when you're outside of the country seeking admission.
01:29:16.880
You do have procedural due process rights when you're in the country, and they're trying to force you out.
01:29:20.660
Specifically set forth in the 14th Amendment that you'll have those due process rights, as Tim read 45 minutes ago.
01:29:27.360
The 14th Amendment says that states shall not deprive individuals of due process.
01:29:30.040
The point is that Congress has, and through constitutional amendment even, has recognized that when it comes to due process specifically,
01:29:40.840
we're going to confer upon non-citizens that express protection that's much more akin to...
01:29:48.260
They've also said that about the First Amendment, but your version of...
01:29:54.580
The courts have said the same thing about the First Amendment.
01:29:59.520
What kind of First Amendment would protect the speech of someone saying, I want French bread?
01:30:09.580
So what kind of First Amendment, where at its maximum it's protecting political speech, would protect that kind of speech, but not core political speech?
01:30:23.060
From a legal perspective, I'm walking through it.
01:30:27.440
Can a person contract away their rights to free speech?
01:30:35.120
Let's say a person is charged with some sort of crime.
01:30:42.400
The DA says, I want you to promise that for the next five years, you're not going to drink any alcohol.
01:30:48.920
You're not going to go to any of these meetings where they have lots of drinking.
01:30:56.700
And you can waive his right to free speech also.
01:31:00.780
Inherent in coming in here and signing the visa thing and filling out and saying, I'm not a terrorist and I don't support...
01:31:06.220
Where do you waive your First Amendment rights on your visa application?
01:31:09.040
Inherent in that is a right for them to pull you out of this country if, in fact, you change that position.
01:31:15.560
Because either you lied when you got in here or you changed the position and now...
01:31:19.120
So could you waive away your right to protection against torture?
01:31:31.960
Would the government say, as a condition of your green card, you accept that if we want to torture you, you get tortured?
01:31:38.520
Why are you going to a different civil liberty?
01:31:43.020
I'm sitting here and trying to figure out, as Tim pointed out earlier, it comes specifically to cruel and unusual punishment.
01:31:48.480
And it's difficult to say that's a very subjective perspective.
01:31:58.620
Is it legal for you to make a contract that you'll let Tim cut your finger off?
01:32:02.520
Is it okay for you to actually make a contract that you'll let Tim cut your finger off if he gives you a million dollars?
01:32:08.220
I think it would be legal for the government to regulate that, for sure.
01:32:12.120
I think it would be legal for the government to regulate that conduct as between private parties.
01:32:17.920
We're talking about the government as a condition of your green card saying, you sign away all due process.
01:32:25.240
You sign away your right against unreasonable searches and seizures.
01:32:27.360
You think the government could do that and go, you know, every one of your rights and you can just sign...
01:32:38.380
People enlist in the military all the time and they waive their rights.
01:32:42.240
They don't waive their fundamental rights as Americans.
01:32:48.420
Every time you sign an arbitration clause, you're signing away your right to due process.
01:32:53.040
But my understanding is that for a lot of people who join the military, for instance, they're subject to laws that, yes, that your freedom of movement is gone.
01:33:00.660
You are legally not required to be in certain places.
01:33:10.700
I could be totally wrong about this, but I've heard stories from my veteran friends that they engaged in a sporting activity, got injured, and got in trouble for it.
01:33:19.160
Not like they went to jail, but it was considered damage to government property or something to that regard.
01:33:22.400
I think in instances of military and in certain cases of employment, that makes sense.
01:33:33.880
Sign away your rights as a condition of employment, perhaps, but not as a condition for just, you know, as a member of the community that the country has deemed you fit to enter the country as a permanent resident.
01:33:47.600
Because he had to deceive the government in order to take that mean part.
01:33:51.840
I want to analyze your waiver theory about how shocking it is.
01:33:54.860
Under your waiver theory, could the government condition Social Security checks?
01:34:01.540
How many different hypotheticals are you going to ask me about?
01:34:06.160
Where is the relevance to talking about Social Security when we're having a discussion about the right of the government to deport illegal aliens?
01:34:13.500
You said that people have First Amendment rights, that resident aliens have First Amendment rights.
01:34:18.840
But that right is so ephemeral that it could be waved away as a condition of entering the country at all.
01:34:24.380
I think your First Amendment rights could, in theory, be waved away even if you're an American citizen.
01:34:31.180
Even for getting any government benefit at all?
01:34:39.420
I don't know the answer to a question as far as...
01:34:51.640
So real quick, if someone were enlisted and they organized a protest, I'm trying to use
01:34:59.700
this specifically as Mahmoud Khalil, it is a criminal offense.
01:35:02.840
So you can actually sign away your right to engage in protest.
01:35:09.740
Listen, there can be specific cases for military service that...
01:35:12.920
But real quick, you're arguing the government can...
01:35:15.080
So if I were to go to Best Buy and they said, so long as you're an employee here, we expect
01:35:23.620
Like the Snow White controversy, the producer's son went and reprimanded Rachel Zegler.
01:35:27.980
But to go to the government and they'll say, no, no, we won't just fire you.
01:35:31.940
We will put you in prison if you speak out against us.
01:35:34.240
The difference is based on private versus public, just to be clear.
01:35:37.080
So New York City human rights law that you cited before actually does protect certain
01:35:39.980
kinds of expressions and off-job political activity.
01:35:44.480
So some states do impose those statutory frameworks that protect that kind of activity.
01:35:48.440
And I think that you'd probably agree with a lot of those laws that say that, for example,
01:35:58.560
But regardless, like what we're talking about, usually the Bill of Rights does not apply
01:36:06.400
And so we're engaging in First Amendment analysis for people who you acknowledge have these rights.
01:36:12.160
And what you're suggesting is beyond military, which can be a category of its own, and fine,
01:36:15.760
I'll even accept that it's a category of its own because military is so particular or something.
01:36:19.540
What you're suggesting is that even American citizens can be deprived of their rights by
01:36:25.360
the government just choosing to condition certain benefits on that.
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And that is what I mean when I say these are our rights.
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When you accept certain frameworks, such as his, of this wide...
01:36:37.500
When you accept this framework of wide-reaching waiver, or you say, you know, rights don't
01:36:41.360
really matter that much because they're just going to be interpreted, you are signing
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...slippery slope that I'm talking about the rights that attach to a foreign national
01:38:21.260
or a foreign visitor or someone holding a green card to an American citizen, when over and
01:38:25.800
over again, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off.
01:38:28.780
When you're trying to engage in fear porn of trying to say, if we limit his rights, which
01:38:39.180
the Supreme Court has already limited his rights in saying he doesn't have the same level of
01:38:42.960
rights, and that that's somehow some threat to American democracy or constitutional rights
01:38:47.680
or your First Amendment rights are going to be taken away, that is utter hogwash, and
01:38:53.700
Literally nobody cares about anyone's constitutional rights.
01:38:56.160
If I want to go buy a gun, I have to waive my right against self-incrimination.
01:39:01.840
The government has a requirement unto me that I waive my right, and poor Hunter Biden actually
01:39:07.880
faced criminal charges because he did not want to self-incriminate as an illegal drug user,
01:39:20.140
I want him to go to the Supreme Court and say, the government has no right to, as a condition
01:39:24.560
of my right to keep and bear arms to self-incriminate, violation of the Fifth Amendment to enforce
01:39:33.500
The courts say, or the government says, let's not let that one get to precedent because then
01:39:38.100
it'll actually screw over the abuses that we have.
01:39:40.200
But tell me, where is anyone ever to point out the condition set upon all the time on all
01:39:50.440
It's literally everybody just arguing one thing.
01:39:57.760
Liberals are saying, we think Jenelle's committed a crime.
01:40:00.600
The right is saying, she was just providing legal advice.
01:40:02.860
Your interpretation determines whether or not a lawyer goes to prison and whether or not
01:40:05.760
someone will actually seek legal counsel or lawyers will be terrified because they're
01:40:09.560
like, if I try and actually assist a politician in this case, they're going to accuse
01:40:13.680
It happens every day that someone's going to say, in 1948, the government said it's
01:40:19.600
And then what's going to happen is they're going to get sued.
01:40:21.600
The new Supreme Court's going to say, actually, we're erasing that and changing the precedent.
01:40:25.000
So all that's really happening is people are playing this funny word game of, I can make
01:40:33.920
If you look at all of the Bill of Rights and you look at everything you're arguing, I can
01:40:37.480
point to 50 for every amendment and be like, here's where the liberals have argued
01:40:44.180
They think it's right when they do it this way and wrong with it is here's where's the
01:40:47.960
All that's really happening is can you win an election?
01:40:50.360
And what it really boils down to is how many sad moms can we show on TV?
01:40:58.120
I don't believe it because it's a kind of form of nihilism.
01:41:04.620
And in some sense, I agree in the sense that, you know, rights are what humans invent them
01:41:08.600
and they mean different things to different people.
01:41:11.420
But your interpretation of the second amendment has perches on you.
01:41:14.220
I just saw you get very fiery and passionate about an issue that you care a lot about.
01:41:18.320
It's when you said, can the government condition you to waive your rights?
01:41:25.780
It's the existence of a form that says, if you want to exercise your right, waive your
01:41:31.780
But the scope exists right now and is protected by Democrats.
01:41:36.420
The scope of a right is always going to be subject to interpretation.
01:41:40.760
And the First Amendment has never been thought of to be this thing, anything anyone ever
01:41:52.940
These are well-known exceptions to First Amendment.
01:42:02.380
Now, well, so the issue is now we're dealing with obscenity as like a blue law in that no
01:42:13.860
But also obscenity itself is dependent on certain artistic value and national standards.
01:42:19.460
This is actually another good point of the question of rights.
01:42:22.680
There are a lot of laws in the books we never enforce anymore.
01:42:25.300
Famously, there was this story about skydiving on Sunday was illegal for women in Florida.
01:42:29.320
And they say it's not true, but there are a lot of laws like this.
01:42:35.560
There was a law, I think it was in Boston, that you can't cool pies on your windowsill.
01:42:40.760
But the reason why is because back when it was a very small community, cooling pies on
01:42:44.320
your windowsill attracted animals and then caused problems.
01:42:48.920
They had laws saying you can't take baths on Tuesday because the aquifer was strained.
01:42:56.600
So we're just in a society where it really is the whim of law enforcement and the body
01:43:02.780
For example, in a much better example, in San Francisco, two men gave each other blowjobs
01:43:08.100
This was during Pride, in full view of children and everyone else.
01:43:14.220
I mean, it's obscenity laws across the books in every facet.
01:43:18.700
Because all that really matters is if the public is willing to tolerate and accept it or not.
01:43:23.640
And if the people would—so this is why we get leftist terrorism.
01:43:27.800
The reason why we see Tesla's being firebombed is because what's the end result?
01:43:32.340
You're going to see—Vancouver, for instance, booted Tesla from their auto show saying,
01:43:39.740
This is the purpose of the might-make-right ethos, which we see dominant right now in—I'm
01:43:47.940
They're enacting that, and it is used to amplify their power and the moral worldview they have.
01:43:55.400
Thus, as it pertains to the Columbia protests, what did we see?
01:44:01.580
Whether you want to blame them for it, physical occupation occurred.
01:44:07.440
Faculty complained of physical threats and violence against them.
01:44:09.900
You know, I look at this, and I'm just like, how do we prevent things like this from happening?
01:44:16.120
Well, we've got people having sex in the street in San Francisco, and the police won't enforce it.
01:44:21.180
We have buildings being taken over, and it's allowed to happen for an extended period of time.
01:44:24.760
Donald Trump says, the guy who helped organize this is getting kicked out of the country,
01:44:27.840
and every legal liberal comes out and says, we can't allow that to happen.
01:44:35.000
And so the question really becomes, are you willing to enforce against things that cause damage to your moral worldview?
01:44:47.020
So long as you've got pride events across the country where they violate every law with gay sex in public.
01:44:54.160
Then I'm going to sit here and be like, guys, you had a violent protest.
01:45:01.120
You're trying to cite precedence to win political power.
01:45:08.160
It's what they say about all the people that the public hates.
01:45:16.020
Did the Republicans have a committee for May 29th?
01:45:18.180
Did they go and set up a national commission to go and hunt down—
01:45:30.680
You're asking me if Trump's opinion is a correct statement?
01:45:36.620
Is he—I think Trump thinks it's not a big deal.
01:45:39.620
Like I said, Republicans don't enforce against this stuff.
01:45:41.700
Is Trump wrong about whether it was a big deal or not?
01:45:50.640
So he's deluded for thinking that it wasn't a danger.
01:45:58.320
They brought him into an emergency bunker because 1,000-plus far leftists tore the barricades
01:46:02.060
and were throwing firebombs at the White House.
01:46:05.320
Prove they were throwing firebombs at the White House right now.
01:46:16.360
This view—while you look it up—this view about rights and that it's all whatever
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because the gays are doing this, the left is doing this, it's all bullshit.
01:46:28.020
No, you guys actually—I believe that you're supposed to have values, right?
01:46:33.100
You're not just going to say that only the people that I like get the rights.
01:46:38.920
You're asking me if one photo from an entire article as I'm seeking to pull up the photos?
01:46:43.340
You've asked me if one image of a Lafayette building being torched by arsonists during the George Floyd rights?
01:46:50.720
Would you like me to pull up the photo of the guard post on the White House grounds being set on fire?
01:46:54.000
Listen, those are videos that purport to be a guard station, but you said that they were throwing Molotov cocktails at the White House.
01:47:01.920
The White House includes the grounds and the guard posts?
01:47:03.680
Oh, so torching this would include throwing it at the White House, right?
01:47:08.160
Would torching this building in Lafayette Square—
01:47:14.060
I'm specifically referring to them throwing a firebomb at the White House grounds.
01:47:18.620
So they weren't throwing at the White House building or fence, fair?
01:47:22.540
You said that they were throwing firebombs at the White House?
01:47:26.820
You're representing that they were attacking the White House—the White House itself—
01:47:31.580
And now you're pointing to a maintenance station that was burned down.
01:47:35.600
Well, where's the evidence of attacking the White House?
01:47:41.780
Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
01:47:46.500
you're playing games, you're playing games, you're playing games.
01:47:48.020
We're not—you did not come prepared for this.
01:47:52.900
As I'm scrolling through an article, you asked me to stop and address an image you decided
01:48:02.400
Yeah, it's one tweet, one guy that says a guard post is burned down.
01:48:11.100
Wait, wait, have you read the Parks Department post that says that it was a maintenance
01:48:18.200
No, no, the report about May 29th and May 30th.
01:48:24.120
Have you read the report about the May 29th, May 30th protests at the White House?
01:48:31.560
Let's go back to, on May 29th, a thousand-plus far leftists tore the barricades down, injured over
01:48:36.960
a hundred law enforcement officers, set fire to St. John's Church,
01:48:39.840
torched several other buildings, flipped over cars.
01:48:42.240
Who's changing the—we were talking about whether they had thrown Molotov cocktails
01:48:45.380
You interrupted me as I was addressing May 29th and asked me to pull up the photo, and
01:48:50.720
You said that they were attacking the White House with Molotov cocktails.
01:48:54.600
Is there an image of—you said you saw an image of a guard post on fire?
01:48:58.920
What someone, one Twitter account said was a guard post.
01:49:03.840
So, let's not get carried away on me—I'll say, you know what, you're right.
01:49:10.100
The fire may or may not have happened, but there is a post online that purports a guard
01:49:14.880
post on the White House grounds was set on fire.
01:49:22.740
They did tear down the barricades, attack law enforcement, a thousand-plus, over a hundred
01:49:26.120
law enforcement officers were injured, and they set fire to St. John's Church.
01:49:29.020
They set fire to several buildings outside of the White House complex.
01:49:33.920
And we never got a national commission or a committee from Congress.
01:49:38.060
We did not get national raids in the thousand-plus.
01:49:44.160
For 90-plus days, over a hundred days, far-left extremists were lobbing explosives, mortars,
01:49:50.140
They took over locations in Seattle, Portland, Minnesota, and Atlanta.
01:49:59.860
You did call the Black Lives Matter situations insurrections, right?
01:50:07.400
I referred to Seattle, Portland, Minnesota, and Atlanta, and then asked me if those were
01:50:14.660
The May 29th insurrection was in front of the White House when they ripped the barricades
01:50:22.320
Whose fault is it that we don't have a report on that and a committee on that?
01:50:27.860
And also to be clear, since you said this was an insurrection, you agree Jan 6th was
01:50:33.900
Jan 6th is an insurrection insofar as May 29th is yes.
01:50:41.700
So the point being made at the time in the video you're referencing is that if the Democrats
01:50:46.580
are going to form a committee, accuse the rioters at the Capitol building of being engaged in
01:50:50.440
insurrection, my response is, okay, then May 29th was also an insurrection.
01:50:54.360
Tim, you and Dan Bongino, you, Dan Bongino, other commentators on the right, I have clips
01:50:59.020
of them all called the George Floyd situation insurrections.
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I'll produce the video of you calling them insurrections.
01:51:18.580
Not only did you do that, you have tweets about it.
01:51:21.300
You're saying that before January 6th happened, I referred to the George Floyd advice as an
01:51:29.320
If you did do that, Tim, if you did do that, wouldn't you be duty bound to also call January
01:51:32.980
6th insurrection under your then existing standard?
01:51:36.420
If you were willing to call it out before Jan 6th, why wouldn't you call Jan 6th an insurrection?
01:51:40.160
We're talking about two different circumstances.
01:51:42.280
I know we're talking about two different circumstances.
01:51:43.540
We're comparing them in your standard for one, where you were before Jan 6th, willing to call
01:51:51.040
If you did call those things insurrections, were you wrong then?
01:51:56.000
If before January 6th, I referred to people taking over city blocks as insurrections.
01:52:06.860
At the time, were you wrong and would you disavow your statements?
01:52:10.840
So given that you assume you did, when under the standard that you applied to these individuals
01:52:17.220
in Seattle, Portland, all that situation, wouldn't Jan 6th also be an insurrection under your
01:52:25.920
So what's more insurrection-y about the Portland situation or the courthouse in Portland versus
01:52:31.660
How long were the city blocks in various cities occupied?
01:52:41.740
Well, first, you're presupposing that I used the word insurrection.
01:52:51.000
The term insurrection as applied from January 6th on was very specific.
01:52:55.660
The intention of individuals to stop an official proceeding to keep a president in power.
01:53:00.760
That was the definition of what insurrection was.
01:53:03.400
My argument after that is, if you're going to argue that January 6th, which included a large
01:53:08.820
group of writers and a large group of peaceful protesters all wrapped up in the same thing,
01:53:12.340
then I would argue, let's also get a commission on May 29th.
01:53:15.160
And I met Republicans for continually avoiding it and doing nothing about it.
01:53:21.000
I think Trump's strategy was let the left burn it down so I can win an election.
01:53:25.620
I think he should have invoked the insurrection act and crushed these motherfuckers and locked
01:53:31.080
So, and, but assuming that you did call it an insurrection beforehand.
01:53:37.220
So I understand the insurrection is, the insurrection act could apply to non-insurrections.
01:53:46.220
And listen, when I use the term insurrection, I have these, I'm going to say, you know,
01:53:48.960
very in the weeds debates about the term insurrection and what it means.
01:53:53.040
And so I try to look and use an originalist lens on what insurrection means.
01:53:59.720
You called certain Black Lives Matter riots and absolutely out of control.
01:54:03.280
And I also would call some of these things insurrections.
01:54:06.260
If insurrection is, as defined by the Insurrection Act, as applied to the BLM riots, it is when
01:54:11.420
local law enforcement is not upholding the law, the president has the right to bring in
01:54:16.240
They don't define insurrection in the Insurrection Act.
01:54:18.400
But there are a lot of circumstances, including what you just outlined.
01:54:21.300
Let's clarify for the purpose of what we're actually trying to discuss.
01:54:24.020
This word can be applied in different contexts.
01:54:27.820
In the context of the BLM riots, were this to be an insurrection, it applies to the Insurrection
01:54:33.080
And the Insurrection Act is when local law enforcement is not enforcing the law, the president has
01:54:36.980
a right to call in the National Guard to enforce local law.
01:54:40.060
I believe that Donald Trump should have invoked the Insurrection Act.
01:54:43.360
And in that context, what they engaged in was insurrection.
01:54:46.300
Local law enforcement was not enforcing the law and was allowing far left extremists to use
01:54:50.600
violence, firebombs and physical assault against individuals, government buildings and otherwise.
01:54:55.600
In the context of January 6th, they said, these are people trying to overthrow the government
01:55:06.620
If the argument is that, if you want to use the insurrection as defined by the Insurrection
01:55:13.800
So we can only apply the context of what the law does.
01:55:16.560
If Donald Trump were to have called in the National Guard on January 6th because he deemed an
01:55:21.800
In that regard, I would say, in that context, yes.
01:55:25.140
So understanding what we're talking about is a core element of what these debates always
01:55:29.820
So again, in the context of the Insurrection Act, it specifically refers to when local law
01:55:36.720
In reference to January 6th, it is a group of people trying to overthrow the government.
01:55:40.480
And that's how it's applied to the 14th Amendment.
01:55:42.360
So I would not say that the individuals in Portland were trying to overthrow the government
01:55:54.400
In Oregon, they were trying to tear down the courthouses.
01:55:57.980
And it was in Washington that they took over for weeks, and they called it the Chaz, and
01:56:10.800
If you take over a police station, that's an insurrection.
01:56:14.100
If you take over the police station as an insurrection, what about the Capitol?
01:56:22.740
It has to be a permanent takeover of the police?
01:56:24.560
What I'm saying is, when they come marching in there, the same way people come...
01:56:29.100
People in the six previous elections, or at least three or four, going back to Gore v. Bush,
01:56:37.240
there have been people who have been coming in there and screamed that they were unhappy
01:56:40.980
with the way things were happening, and were removed by the Capitol Police.
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So I have a definition of insurrection that would include some things and exclude other things.
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It doesn't become insurrection simply because there's thousands of you who are like that
01:58:16.860
There was no plan that we're taking over the government.
01:58:18.980
There's no plan that we're going to remove Mike Pence.
01:58:27.020
But I think we should step back because I know it's fun to talk about the term insurrection.
01:58:31.460
But really what Tim is getting at is what his perceived inconsistency on the left wing
01:58:38.540
And I don't think, and I think that you agree, that rights mean more to you than just what
01:58:43.140
the majority of the population thinks or the power.
01:58:46.140
I don't think that it's like if I'm sitting here, I'm like, now because I'm in power,
01:58:52.380
I do everything I can to remain as consistent as possible.
01:58:56.220
There are times that I've seen Trump do things that I say, this is wrong.
01:58:59.640
He did one of the, this week, this week, he endorsed Lindsey Graham as senator.
01:59:04.720
To me, that should have been a violation of his First Amendment rights right there, just
01:59:15.500
You assume because I'm Jewish that I must be pro-Israel?
01:59:26.940
Actually, what I'm saying is you're just coming out there and saying because someone is pro-Israel,
01:59:36.580
No, what I'm saying is you're just drawing these conclusions about it.
01:59:40.400
Left in general, I've never been racist enough to be a Democrat.
01:59:45.260
How do we reconcile that problem I already mentioned?
01:59:48.240
The NICS forms requires you to waive your Fifth Amendment rights.
01:59:53.820
This is anyone in the United States who wants to buy a gun must waive their Fifth Amendment
01:59:58.720
Yeah, so what the court tells us to look at, because I'm going to take the Supreme Court
02:00:02.260
and their precedent, it says you look at the time of the founding and the enactment of
02:00:07.080
the Second Amendment, what were the kinds of regulations that were in place there that
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the framers would have considered part of their Second Amendment rights?
02:00:13.160
No one thinks that these rights are absolute in all circumstances.
02:00:15.620
For example, no one thinks that the Second Amendment prevents us from having laws that
02:00:19.180
prevent access to felons or laws that prevent access of guns to the mentally incompetent.
02:00:28.200
So you think that felons and mentally incompetent people have a right to possess weapons?
02:00:36.060
Because it clearly states the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
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It doesn't say unless we at some point deem them to be...
02:00:42.800
Now, to be fair, to be fair, there is the argument of due process.
02:00:45.740
The reason why felons can't have guns is because the Constitution guarantees a due process.
02:00:48.780
All rights can be curtailed following due process.
02:00:51.160
So you think that felons should have the right to have guns, but that green card holders don't
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I just literally said due process can strip you of your rights.
02:00:58.900
You can have your right to freedom, freedom of movement, freedom of speech, everything
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The 13th Amendment explicitly allows you to be a slave if you jaywalk.
02:01:12.640
The 13th Amendment says any crime, it doesn't specify felonies or misdemeanors, meaning
02:01:15.960
you can commit a petty offense by not returning a library book, and that gives the government
02:01:20.340
Granted, those things don't get enforced that way.
02:01:26.540
Do you think that someone who gets a green card has more rights, should have more rights
02:01:32.360
Because I actually think that's such an immoral position.
02:01:34.840
To me, I look at it as someone coming from the right, and I say to myself, look, the same
02:01:41.080
way I have someone in my house, and if someone's in my house and I invite them into my house,
02:01:46.380
there's an expectation they're going to comport themselves with a certain level of conduct.
02:01:49.660
I came in here before and I said, what is accepted protocol during the show here?
02:01:54.180
Because I'm a visitor here in Tim Pool's studio.
02:01:57.000
If I'm Tim Pool's kid, there's a different standard where even if I violate that, if I
02:02:01.520
violate it here, he's going to throw me out of here.
02:02:06.180
If his kid, though, in that case, if his kid is now, he grows up and is 12 years old,
02:02:12.540
10 years old, and he says, I'm going to no longer support you any longer, we would say
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American citizens have more rights than green card.
02:02:33.520
So I think felons have some rights that green card holders don't have, and I think green
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card holders have some rights that felons don't have.
02:02:39.180
For example, felons don't necessarily have free speech rights to go and protest and stuff,
02:02:43.640
So just to be clear, I think they're not overlapping.
02:02:46.280
But these are ways in which, importantly and critically, green card holders and aliens
02:02:51.600
For example, you can't exile a U.S. citizen if they commit a crime.
02:02:56.800
You think that you should be able to exile American citizens out of the country?
02:02:59.380
I would prefer it instead of capital punishment.
02:03:01.300
So I think capital punishment is worse than exile.
02:03:08.780
The example I like to give to conservatives who tend to be pro-death penalty is imagine
02:03:11.880
Kamala Harris pointing at someone saying, trust me, that guy should die.
02:03:16.160
I would prefer it if when it came to capital offenses, we just said, we're going to put
02:03:30.980
So here's me looking at a group of people and they say, that person raped and murdered
02:03:51.260
Wait, do you want to release like child rapists into Cuba?
02:03:53.460
So the argument would be that presupposition is that you trust the government explicitly
02:04:02.180
So if Donald Trump came to you and said, Mahmoud Khalil is a rapist and a child murderer,
02:04:06.900
would you, would you say, okay, Trump, you're right.
02:04:10.380
And now what if he said, we have circumstantial evidence that I believe proves it been a reasonable
02:04:14.940
doubt, but nothing definitive, no video, but enough to where a jury of Americans say,
02:04:20.080
Wait, no proof beyond a reasonable doubt we have.
02:04:22.700
Then put it, yeah, put it in front of a jury and it'll be a conviction.
02:04:26.300
So if, so my point is, I don't believe the state should be able to murder people.
02:04:37.160
That is, a police officer literally watching someone about to rape and murder a child uses
02:04:41.980
Yeah, but that's self-defense and that's imminent requirement.
02:04:44.180
The issue I take largely is, in many circumstances, we see that, I don't want to get into a death
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Why do you want to send child rapists to other countries?
02:04:55.840
Because I'm trying to choose the most evil thing imaginable, but the, the, the, what
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you're putting there is, you trust the government implicitly when they accuse someone of a
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I don't, but I also don't want them to send child rapists to fucking Cuba.
02:05:06.980
So then why do you want to send exile, you know, a bunch of fucking hardened criminals
02:05:10.620
Because you're assuming they're hardened criminals and that's not my point.
02:05:21.740
So what, so you would ask other people to pay the bill for child rapists?
02:05:27.160
And what if they say, we refuse to that, we're going to kill them?
02:05:30.680
What if they vote, outvote you and they do it anyway?
02:05:32.380
I guess they would outvote me and they would kill them.
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I feel, I feel like the, the issue I take is not of course in the defense of evil.
02:05:38.900
It is obviously if someone is about to engage in an act of great bodily harm or death against
02:05:42.740
another person, we actually reserve universally the right to stop that person.
02:05:46.600
Well, actually I would say the left largely doesn't.
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But, uh, a lot of people on the left, the liberals and almost all of conservatives do
02:05:54.240
If someone's about to engage in great bodily harm, you have the right to-
02:05:57.920
But here we're talking about someone who's been duly convicted, uh, whether it's murder,
02:06:04.860
I don't want to exile them and make it that they're free.
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So you're killing them by banishing them to a place where there's no-
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Okay, then you're in favor of the death penalty, just five-year-old death penalty by starvation
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I can't believe I got the liberal arguing for the death penalty.
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I'm against both exile and I'm against a U.S. citizen and I'm against, um-
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Exile is much more difficult in today's day and age because there's national boundaries everywhere.
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But my argument would be penal colony is preferable to-
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Perhaps we actually would agree largely that we want life imprisonment.
02:06:56.260
We just disagree on the extent of how we actually implement it.
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Should it be in America or should it be in a penal colony in some horrible place?
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Maybe it's just you don't get the luxuries of society.
02:07:08.440
But I got to be honest, like, an island with a 20-miles circumference-
02:07:14.020
I don't trust the government and I don't like the idea that innocent people are killed.
02:07:18.020
And there is a high percentage, I think it's over 1% of death penalty cases end up being innocent people.
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And I appreciate that about you and I respect that.
02:07:29.440
If you care about due process and you care about the innocent being faced with consequences they don't deserve, can't you condemn the alien enemies' act deportations where these guys, they're not even given a hearing.
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They're just being thrown into a slave colony in El Salvador.
02:07:45.040
You want to make sure that we have this robust process where some of these people are claiming they're trying to flee Trenaragua.
02:07:52.200
So the issue I see largely is you and I completely disagree as to the constitutionality of the arrest of Jenna Ellis.
02:07:59.720
But is that irreconcilable on every single issue?
02:08:03.880
This is the easiest and one example I can cite, though there are many others, in which I feel the establishment state, which includes neocons, although the neocons have now joined the Democratic Party, have waged war on the American people for the purpose of power.
02:08:22.640
Donald Trump is responding with commensurate force against forces that were enacted against him and his movement.
02:08:37.160
There has been no argument presented and all information released by the administration as to those he deported.
02:08:44.120
We don't have a full accounting of everyone on there.
02:08:48.440
And I've since this started agreed Trump needs to release a list of every person he's deporting to prove to the public these are noncitizens.
02:08:55.080
But even illegal immigrants under the INA have rights even to expedited removal procedures.
02:08:59.960
One thing that Trump is doing that Joe Biden didn't do is he extended expedited removal to its maximal scope.
02:09:06.920
Joe Biden created, and so did Obama, paths to legality in the United States that some would argue are extra legal, notably DACA.
02:09:19.020
So the view on the right would be during the Obama administration and during the Biden administration, they created special provisions that seemingly violate the moral foundation of this country and our laws to bring in as many immigrants as possible.
02:09:32.120
Claiming that everybody who came here was an asylee is an affront to reality in that many of these people, some of them came from Africa.
02:09:38.100
Certainly you can want to flee Africa, but Brazil is awesome.
02:09:43.620
But asylee status is based on whether you're persecuted.
02:09:48.480
But if you're from Africa and you come to Brazil, where you're no longer persecuted, and then you have to go through every single country, and none of those countries do you stop.
02:09:55.180
Or more importantly, when the caravans were passing through Mexico, and Mexico offered all of them asylum, and they all said no, that is an affront to the goodwill of the American people.
02:10:04.400
It's also not compliant with asylee law, where you have to stop at the first safe harbor state.
02:10:10.220
And so they no longer are asylee when they get here.
02:10:13.540
But real quick, my point is that you asked me about Donald Trump's deportation of Trinidad Aragua and—
02:10:20.500
My argument is we need transparency on the issue, so long as the Trump administration does.
02:10:26.560
My criticism of Mahmoud Khalil and the other protesters is saying they align with Hamas for having opinions that are critical of Israel is ridiculous.
02:10:34.080
Just because you don't like what Israel is doing doesn't mean you support Hamas.
02:10:37.320
That being said, if he did support Hamas, you can argue that, but still—
02:10:39.940
Wait, so if he didn't support Hamas, you would be against his deportation?
02:10:43.620
So if he didn't support Hamas, and by your lights, he just supported Hamas?
02:10:49.500
So assume that he didn't support Hamas under your lights, whatever that is.
02:10:52.000
I'm in favor of deportation because what I'm saying of Donald Trump is he's using commensurate force in deportation that Biden and Obama used for importation.
02:10:59.980
So green card holder, where you said there is a difference between Hamas support and Palestinian support.
02:11:10.700
Obama and Biden used special provisions, executive order, and outright violations of the law to bring in millions of people.
02:11:18.800
And Donald Trump isn't even going that far in the deportations.
02:11:22.480
There are questions and criticisms of the Trendy Aragua deportations.
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I demand transparency from the Trump administration.
02:11:35.140
But they're in court saying we don't even need to tell the court.
02:11:39.520
But they wouldn't need to tell an administrative procedure act.
02:11:45.240
Well, that's an APA claim, the one in the D.C. circuit system.
02:11:50.160
They're saying in court, we don't have to even tell you when the flights took off.
02:11:53.600
Even though they're parading, they're tweeting, Marco Rubio is retweeting this, oops.
02:12:00.740
So what's good for the goose, good for the gander.
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It's not good for the goose, good for the gander.
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It's remedying the problem that they illegally made.
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And the problem is Obama and Biden's fault that we are in a conflict situation with seemingly no resolution that will satisfy anybody.
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If you want to rescind asylee status or say that we have no procedures or whatever, pass a law.
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It's very clear under established Supreme Court precedent they have no right to be here.
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I say the same thing to what Obama and Biden did.
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Instead of opening the southern border and saying, just claim you're an asylum seeker and we'll let it go.
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Donald Trump deporting alleged trend to Aragua.
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I am still sitting here being like, I want transparency on this issue, and I will tell them to their faces when I see them, and I will say it.
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Give the public a list and prove it because we want to believe you're doing something that's right, but as long as you pretend it's going to be in secret and you refuse to tell us who's actually being deported, we have problems here.
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But when the news report comes out about a barber or this runner being deported because of criminals, do not care.
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Do not lie to our faces that you need asylum when you're coming here for economic status.
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But more importantly, I would prefer it didn't happen.
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I don't want to see a gay barber in El Salvador.
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Yeah, but that's a substantive claim because there could be reasons why it doesn't count as a safe country under the law, but even if it does, because that would be an argument that says his asylum claim is a loser.
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Even if his asylum claim is a loser, doesn't he have a right under your very same framework that says that you want to protect people who are improperly accused, you want to protect even people who do child rape from the death penalty?
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The death penalty is that evil people get what's coming to them, but the state can be included among evil people.
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It's that I am concerned the innocent will die because the state wants innocent people to die.
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Right, and in order to protect the innocent, you're protecting bad people.
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As Benjamin Franklin and Blackstone said, it is better that the guilty go free than the innocent suffer.
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You are not innocent when you illegally enter this country.
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But this guy is not alleged to have illegally entered the country.
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He's alleged to have presented himself at a border for inspection and mission and claimed asylum.
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Joe Biden opened the border to tens of millions of people and just said,
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Well, you take a look at these two administrations, how different they are.
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Within a month of Trump getting in border crossings dropped to a few thousand.
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They've got MRAPs and tanks now patrolling the border.
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They don't need asylum anymore now that Trump's saying you got to go through the port legally.
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They're not going to the border in Mexicali and Clexico and saying,
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You're alleging that Joe Biden did not enforce immigration law.
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children were coming across the border with numbers on their arms to be sold into sex slavery.
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And the CBP under Biden were instructed to facilitate that.
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And there were people driving vans who knew what was happening.
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So first of all, Dr. Phil is a fucking, well, I have people in my life who like Dr. Phil's content.
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Listen, there's very different, big differences in immigration policy, no doubt.
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But something I would hope that we would have agreement on, regardless of how bad you think,
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even assume Joe Biden opened the doors to illegal immigration.
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Things should be done the right way, not the wrong way.
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If you want to have summary removals, then pass a law that allows for that.
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Or, right, because you took issue with DACA, right?
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So shouldn't you be consistent and say, well, I don't, you know, I don't support excesses of executive power
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when it's done in favor of immigration or against it.
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The issue is, and the point I'm bringing up, the reason why Trump is doing the things he's doing
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and the difficult moral position I find myself in is,
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Biden did many things which were destructive to this country, and Trump is reversing those things.
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Biden did a whole, so, you know, even it is, imagine it this way.
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There's a great tower that every administration puts blocks on top of.
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We add laws, we add executive orders, we rarely rescind them.
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The more that gets added to it, the greater the instability begins to wobble far to the right,
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then far to the left, and eventually the whole thing goes crumbling down.
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How do we deal with a mass influx of 10, I'm going to use the low number, 10 million non-citizens.
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A lot of these are re-catches, and they're not, it's, we don't think that 10 million over four years actually.
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Here we're calculating like estimated border crossings aren't necessarily co-extensive with individuals
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Because apprehensions and interactions don't mean some people got through.
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With the ramifications of this, both in the census, which means congressionally, in the Electoral College, how it structures our government, how we deal with...
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On the front of the census, Republicans are doing fantastic.
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It's not going to be enough if Kamala wins Michigan.
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It's not a big threat to the allocation, the representation.
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Saying that Republicans may win does not change the fact that California gets an extra vote for the president through non-citizenship.
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I don't care if you're a Republican or Democrat.
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It's not really distorting our democracy in that way based on...
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Is it really the case that Democrat states have more illegal immigrants than Republican?
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They're called sanctuary states and they don't enforce...
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I thought the argument was always that Republicans are bearing a bigger brunt.
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You know, the border states, Texas, you know...
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California has more illegal immigrants than other states.
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Blue states are sanctuary states that don't enforce immigration law.
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And that's why Greg Abbott was sending them there.
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And that's why I said it was a stupid thing to do.
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You were saying it was a brilliant thing to do.
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If these people want to be a sanctuary, then we will transport them and they can provide aid and assistance.
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The problem is, as I've said, all this does is bolster their numbers in the census and give them extra votes for president.
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We have gone over and we do have to go because I've got to give a shout out to Jeremy Hambly because we're going to be raiding Jeremy Hambly's show right now.
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But my point ultimately is, I think I've made it a million times, Donald Trump is going to do things that are seemingly drastic the left will be angry about.
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So what we're getting is two sides arguing God is on my side effectively.
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The left says we are morally right in how we've done this.
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The question is, who will muster up the political might to actually succeed?
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Abraham Lincoln arrested the Maryland legislature, large portions of it, for being sympathetic to the Confederates.
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No one calls him a dictator except for the Confederates.
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I think Abraham Lincoln was one of the worst presidents we ever had.
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He ended up being in the perfect place to do a necessary thing, which was ultimately free the slaves.
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So if Trump violates a court order, like Lincoln is alleged to have done with respect to habeas corpus.
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I just want commitments, because I think if we're being consistent, if you're calling him a tyrant.
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If he violates a court order from a federal appellate court.
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Not every court order from a federal appellate court.
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Even the Supreme Court could, in theory, issue an illegal order.
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Because if, in fact, the Constitution says that they don't have a certain right to something.
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And a federal judge, district court judge, completely disregards what's written in the statute.
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That this black letter statute, which says something, and a federal judge, completely disregards that.
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And he issues an order in complete opposition to what is expressly written word for word.
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I agree with Marbury v. Madison, which it's emphatically the providence and duty of the judicial department to say what it was.
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It has to be a reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous term.
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Marbury v. Madison just gives the power to the court to overturn the statute.
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If they read a statute as the inverse of what the written words of the statute means, and the district court judge were to do that.
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I'm going to, you know what, I don't care that it says this.
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If that illegal order got affirmed at the circuit level, that would still be an illegal order.
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And if the Supreme Court orders Trump, if the Supreme Court, in fact, did it, that still would be an illegal order.
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And so, you're telling us right now that if the Supreme Court orders Trump to do something and he defies it, you're not going to commit to condemning that action of him defying the Supreme Court.
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Oh, on a political level or as far as a legal level?
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What I will tell you is this, as far as on a political level, I think that it's probably very foolish for him to disregard that.
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There are many scenarios where I could see condemning Trump.
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I have condemned him in certain scenarios where I thought what he's doing was politically wrong or was unethical or illegal.
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I think that he happens to have done phenomenal work as our president.
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He is the most efficient president, which in the first hundred days of this presidency, we're only 75 days in, and he's been exceptional.
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But I still can condemn him if he makes a mistake.
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The same way I made a joke about Lindsey Graham, I'll condemn him if he does something wrong.
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I just want to say, because you called Trump a degenerate, you know, when you look at Donald Trump, he's had multiple wives.
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He's had different children from different wives.
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It's for his violence on the Constitution and the rule of law and authoritarianism.
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I mean, I feel like it's a bit of a stretch to use the word degenerate.
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I don't mind if you want to criticize him for your view on that.
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It's degenerating the Constitution and the rule of law in the country.
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This constitutional crisis we have right now is 100% the exclusive fault of the judiciary.
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When the judiciary steps out of its bounds and says, hey, I'm going to start implementing national policy on this thing over here because, you know what?
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I'm some judge from Rhode Island, and there's a national order, there's a universal order which is affecting the entire country.
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And even though it's really only affecting, I don't know, 1% of the national population here in my domain, I'm going to be impacting this executive order that's nationwide throughout the country.
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If you think that that is something that should be empowered to district court judges and that's something that's completely legal, what has Trump done?
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No, instead of doing that, instead of doing that, he very artfully gave deference to the court by saying, you know what?
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I'm going to not tell you how stupid you are, how illegal your order is, and how ridiculous and asinine you are that you think that you're the president of the United States and there's 3,700 other district judges who are all president and have executive power.
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Instead, he very artfully avoids a constitutional crisis by saying, you know what?
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I'm going to pretend that this court order has deference and find some way that my actions are not going to be impeded by any stupid judge who happened to get a sign and at the same time not embarrass the court by saying I'm disregarding the order.
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That is something he should be applauded for over and over again because he has saved us from a constitutional crisis that these judges are trying to insure to.
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I think this is time flu and I'd love to keep going.
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So, you know, my final thoughts as sort of the, you know, although people don't really call me a fence sitter at this point in my career, I'd simply say, for me, what I just end up hearing is in this instance, we were right to rule the way we did.
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And I would only say that when I get asked this question over and over again about what should Trump do or why should he do it, my response is any leader should enforce a moral and just society.
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The difference is everybody's view of what moral and just is dramatically different.
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So there are large factions of a moral worldview.
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They're fighting for what they want and they're going to do whatever they have to do to get it.
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I don't know what that turns into, but that's where we're at.
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So I don't know if you want to give a final thought and shout something out before we wrap.
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