The Great America Show - BIDEN’S CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS

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00:00:33.600 Hello, everybody. Welcome to The Great America Show. It's great to have you with us.

00:00:38.380 Marxist Attorney General Merrick Garland was on Capitol Hill yesterday testifying, and man, oh, man, did he have a tough time.

00:00:47.140 But Garland telling members of Congress that it's a dangerous conspiracy theory, to put it in his words, to allege that the Department of Justice is communicating with state and local prosecutions against Trump.

00:01:00.560 A dangerous conspiracy. That's the best he could come up with.

00:01:04.520 The man can't speak without lying.

00:01:07.200 And if this is not a dangerous conspiracy on the part of the Marxist Dems, I don't know what one would be.

00:01:13.480 Congressman Matt Gaetz was among the members of Congress seeking answers from Garland.

00:01:19.760 And Gaetz wants to know how much collusion the Department of Justice was in with the offices of Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, and Fannie Willis.

00:01:29.480 Attorney General, you've told us that it's a dangerous conspiracy theory to allege that the Department of Justice is communicating with these state and local prosecutions against Trump.

00:01:40.360 You can clear it all up for us right now. Will the Department of Justice provide to the committee all documents, all correspondence between the Department and Alvin Bragg's office and Fannie Willis' office and Letitia James' office?

00:01:54.280 The offices you're referring to are independent offices of state.

00:01:59.280 I get that. I get that.

00:02:00.520 The question is whether or not you will provide all of your documents and correspondence. That's the question.

00:02:04.820 I don't need a history lesson.

00:02:06.380 Well, I'm going to say again, we do not control those offices. They make their own decisions.

00:02:12.960 The question is whether you communicate with them, not whether you control them. Do you communicate with them and will you provide those communications?

00:02:17.540 If you make a request, we'll refer it to our Office of Legislative Affairs.

00:02:21.000 But see, here's the thing. You come in here and you lodge this attack that it's a conspiracy theory that there is coordinated lawfare against Trump.

00:02:28.640 And then when we say, fine, just give us the documents, give us the correspondence, and then if it's a conspiracy theory, that will be evident.

00:02:35.400 But when you say, well, we'll take your request and then we'll sort of work it through the DOJ's accommodation process, then you're actually advancing the very dangerous conspiracy theory that you're concerned about.

00:02:47.620 Gates wasn't the only one giving Garland hell for the DOJ witch hunt of President Trump.

00:02:54.300 Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan also grilling Garland over Jack Smith's tampering of evidence in the Mar-a-Lago documents case.

00:03:02.440 Garland, when confronted, of course, had no explanations, or at least none that he wanted to share.

00:03:11.160 Prosecutors aren't supposed to tamper with evidence, and it looks like that's what he did.

00:03:15.300 He changed the sequence of the documents that he sees from Mar-a-Lago.

00:03:19.520 I'm sorry, that's a false characterization, but that is ongoing.

00:03:23.020 Here's what he said to the court, Mr. Attorney General.

00:03:25.120 There are some boxes where the order of items within the box is not the same as in the associated scans.

00:03:29.740 I mean, he said it. I didn't say it. He told the court that.

00:03:32.340 Now you're asking me to comment on a discovery dispute that's going ongoing in a court.

00:03:37.460 I don't know the facts of it, and I'm not going to comment on it.

00:03:38.960 No, this is from Jack Smith filing with the court.

00:03:41.640 He admitted to the court that they tampered with the evidence.

00:03:44.820 He mishandled the very documents he's charging President Trump with mishandling.

00:03:47.600 And I'm just asking, do you regret picking this guy as the special counsel and the most important special counsel investigation probably in American history?

00:03:54.360 I'm sorry. I did not hear the words tamper in the statement that Mr. Smith filed.

00:03:59.240 He did not use those words.

00:04:00.400 Well, let me ask it this way. Are you supposed to change the order of the documents that you seized, and the physical documents don't match up with the scanned documents?

00:04:07.560 Are you supposed to do that as a prosecutor?

00:04:09.260 This is a matter in dispute, in discovery, in that court, and I'm going to leave it for the district court to make a determination after.

00:04:15.480 I would just say one last thing. It's not in dispute.

00:04:17.500 Dude, this is what he said in the court filing.

00:04:20.580 Jack Smith's team said that to the judge in the court.

00:04:23.880 By the way, this case is now basically on hold because they've screwed up so many things.

00:04:27.460 A federal judge in Missouri this week is considering whether the Biden regime went too far in canceling student loan debt without the approval of Congress.

00:04:36.960 Missouri's Attorney General, Andrew Bailey, is suing the regime.

00:04:41.800 The Attorney General says Biden is sidestepping the Constitution by saddling millions of Americans with a bill.

00:04:48.220 The Supreme Court has already struck down one of Biden's efforts to forgive student loan debt.

00:04:55.000 And our guest today is the man leading that fight, Missouri's Attorney General, Andrew Bailey.

00:05:01.180 And Mr. Attorney General, great to have you back with us here on the Great America Show.

00:05:06.640 Let me turn first to what this administration, which never surprises when it comes to corruption, perversion, this business about just unilateral, dismissing and forgiving loans that he had nothing to do with generating.

00:05:29.340 Yeah, Lou, this is personal for me.

00:05:31.280 I paid for my school in blood, sweat, and tears in service to the United States Army.

00:05:35.200 I mean, I have friends that didn't come back from Iraq who did the same thing.

00:05:37.960 And so this is personal.

00:05:39.300 At the end of the day, it's also an illegal, unconstitutional attempt by President Biden to buy votes.

00:05:44.800 He's losing ground in a key demographic.

00:05:47.280 The timing of this is not coincidental.

00:05:49.300 He knows he's wrong and he's doing it anyway.

00:05:51.500 He's out on the stump bragging about the fact that the Supreme Court already struck down his plan once before, and yet he's not going to let them stop him.

00:05:58.760 At what point do we call this what it is, a constitutional crisis?

00:06:02.700 It is all bad.

00:06:03.840 But it is also, sure and simple, buying votes with taxpayer money.

00:06:10.200 Yeah, that's right.

00:06:10.940 And it's going to redistribute north of a half trillion dollars.

00:06:15.460 It's going to cost Missouri taxpayers well over $50 million.

00:06:19.320 And so the harm to Missourians is very real.

00:06:21.420 And I have to fight back to prevent Joe Biden from saddling working Missouri families with Ivy League debt.

00:06:26.360 At the end of the day, we've won this issue before.

00:06:28.480 And in the previous case that was handed down about this time last year, the court found that if Congress wants to redistribute a half trillion dollars and allow President Biden to, quote, unquote, cancel student loans, which, by the way, any working family or small business owner will tell you there's no such thing as debt cancellation.

00:06:44.320 Somebody is paying it off. But if Congress intends to authorize the president that authority on that order of magnitude, Congress has to be explicit.

00:06:53.880 Congress has twice rejected such a bill once in twenty nineteen and then again in twenty twenty one.

00:06:59.460 And so Congress has has not approved this sort of authority to the president in in the form of law.

00:07:05.900 And he's what he's doing is he's looking back in time and using the Higher Education Act of 1965 as his fount of legal authority.

00:07:12.080 The text of that statute provides that the Department of Education can amend the terms of repayment.

00:07:18.080 But that's different than canceling debt.

00:07:20.520 And this plan costs more than the last plan.

00:07:23.820 So the holding in this case should be the same as in the prior case.

00:07:26.700 The Supreme Court has spoken and shame on the president for provoking this kind of constitutional crisis and willfully defying the authority of the United States Supreme Court.

00:07:36.240 And by the way, he does it day in and day out, whether it's a student loan debts, you name it.

00:07:42.220 They're trying to work out a way around the law.

00:07:44.620 And if they can get away with it, absolutely break the law.

00:07:48.520 It's to me, I think the American people are pretty confused right now about this because the Supreme Court said in one in the first trial,

00:07:56.700 a bunch of forgiveness and generosity on the part of Joe Biden, no deal.

00:08:04.140 And they ruled against it.

00:08:06.260 But at the same time, they laid out a pathway where he could get around it.

00:08:12.000 Have you ever seen that kind of ruling from the Supreme Court?

00:08:17.640 It's very unique.

00:08:18.500 You know, the good part of the ruling, though, is that it reinvigorates the major questions doctrine.

00:08:24.560 And really, that doctrine stands for the proposition that Congress doesn't hide an elephant in a mouse hole.

00:08:29.600 In other words, just like I said, if Congress intends to authorize a program of enormous social or economic magnitude, they have to speak explicitly.

00:08:38.260 It really is upon and coming upon the drafters in Congress to ensure that they get the language right.

00:08:44.880 And what the president can't do is rely on vague references or misinterpret or overinterpret words to grant himself that authority on that order of magnitude.

00:08:54.940 It's a separation of powers issue.

00:08:56.840 Not only the power of the purse belongs to Congress, but Congress writes the law.

00:08:59.820 The president enforces and executes those laws.

00:09:03.080 And so the court kind of reining in this overarching, overreaching federal authority where the president can just say, well, here's a vague statutory reference.

00:09:10.920 Now I get to do whatever I want.

00:09:12.040 The court reining that in at the ultimate analysis is a good thing.

00:09:15.960 It's it's really stunning.

00:09:18.140 So what are next steps and where does this lead?

00:09:21.700 Well, we filed suit to put a stop to it.

00:09:23.660 We just were in court yesterday in the Eastern Court, federal court at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.

00:09:29.520 And argued for an injunction against Biden's unlawful, unconstitutional attempt to buy votes.

00:09:35.260 I think we'll be successful.

00:09:36.300 I think the court is going to take a week or two to issue its decision.

00:09:39.780 And then each side has the opportunity to appeal if they so choose.

00:09:43.960 At the ultimate at the end of the day, though, I do think that the prior Supreme Court precedent applies.

00:09:49.920 Again, the court struck this down once before, saying that it's too big of a package to squeeze into a vague statutory reference.

00:09:57.560 And the current package, Plan B, is even larger.

00:10:01.100 So that's why I submit to you that the prior precedent should apply here.

00:10:05.820 Right.

00:10:06.780 Well, God bless and good luck.

00:10:10.880 This is an important case.

00:10:13.840 And will we have, do you think, any kind of instinct as to where it's going by Election Day?

00:10:19.880 Yeah, again, I think that within the next two weeks, I think by the middle of June, end of June, we will have a decision from the United States District Court.

00:10:28.080 And then each side will have some time to decide whether or not they want to appeal.

00:10:32.000 You know, here's the problem.

00:10:33.080 President Biden had a Plan B and a Plan C within hours of the United States Supreme Court striking down his Plan A.

00:10:39.720 So it's almost a game of whack-a-mole.

00:10:41.700 Again, when you have a United States president as the chief executive officer of this nation who is so willing to not only undermine the rule of law, but defy the authority of the United States Supreme Court, the co-equal third branch of government, that's problematic on a rule of law level that's never been seen before in this country.

00:11:01.700 Imagine if President Trump had tried to do the same thing.

00:11:04.140 The left would have been apoplectic.

00:11:05.660 And yet somehow President Biden gets a pass on these things, despite the fact that he is knowingly and willfully undermining the rule of law repeatedly.

00:11:14.060 It's, as you say, this is an administration hell-bent on destroying the country.

00:11:20.620 It's, to me, it's that straightforward.

00:11:23.000 Let's go to, I'd like your interpretation of a number of issues.

00:11:27.380 And one of them, speaking of the Supreme Court, is the immunity for President Trump.

00:11:34.600 We know we're going to get that answer.

00:11:37.460 Actually, it could be very soon because we're in the final days of the term.

00:11:44.380 What do you think the, what do you hope it will be and what do you think it'll be?

00:11:49.720 Well, I both hope and think that the court's going to find that the president has immunity for his time in office.

00:11:54.400 He has to have immunity.

00:11:55.480 There's a constitutional way to sanction a United States president, and it's impeachment.

00:12:00.460 The founders certainly understood, foresaw this problem and built a mechanism.

00:12:05.040 It's just that the left is unwilling to use the mechanism because, again, they don't care about the rule of law.

00:12:10.200 They don't care about the fact that the Constitution exists to protect us from the government and the government exists to protect our rights.

00:12:15.160 They're willing to pervert all of that to achieve a political objective.

00:12:18.380 But I think it's also important that we begin to look at all of these cases against President Trump, not in isolation, but rather as a coordinated strategic effort to undermine the 2024 election before it begins.

00:12:30.940 Look at the censorship that goes on on big tech social media companies that we've exposed.

00:12:34.860 In my case, Missouri v. Biden, it's also going to be handed down within the next few weeks.

00:12:37.940 Look at the lawfare, both in civil law terms and in criminal prosecution against President Trump, where they have to bend the law and the facts to achieve a political objective.

00:12:46.880 And the objective was never a legally valid conviction.

00:12:50.040 The objective was always to take President Trump off the campaign trail and to look further out and drop a poison pill into a well from which we will be drawing water for the next two years.

00:12:58.700 So when President Trump is reelected and begins his second term, he'll be fighting this for for years on appeal, just like the Russia collusion hoax undermined the first two years of his first term.

00:13:10.060 So the left's objective here, again, it's to pervert the rule of law to achieve a political end.

00:13:14.260 That's lawfare at its worst.

00:13:15.520 It's time we stop looking at individual trees and see the forest for what it is.

00:13:19.060 Absolutely. We're talking with Attorney General Andrew Bailey.

00:13:23.300 We're coming right back with him after a few quick words.

00:13:26.160 And have we got a lot to talk about, whether it's the Supreme Court, the president's continued persecution by the Marxist Dems and much more.

00:13:37.080 Stay with us. We'll be right back.

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00:15:16.080 We're talking with Attorney General Andrew Bailey of the great state of Missouri.

00:15:20.840 It's you brought up the issue of this of the Supreme Court, I guess, agenda here in the final term and the wrap up.

00:15:29.500 What is the most important case, aside from immunity, that you think the Supreme Court will hand down a ruling?

00:15:36.460 Well, we're anxiously awaiting a ruling in Missouri v. Biden.

00:15:39.460 Again, that's the lawsuit in which we uncovered a relationship of both coercion and collusion between federal officials, unelected federal bureaucrats from the very top levels of the White House, across a spectrum of bureaucratic agencies, silencing conservative voices on big tech social media platforms using censorship.

00:15:57.720 The government outsourced its censorship to big tech.

00:16:00.620 It coerced big tech into performing that censorship.

00:16:03.340 And the idea here was to stifle any voice in opposition to Joe Biden.

00:16:08.020 We know that was an election interference in 2020 when the deep state suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story.

00:16:13.600 We know that that was, again, that the government is committed to future censorship.

00:16:19.480 Essentially, their argument in court was that they can't survive unless they're able to silence any voice in opposition on big tech.

00:16:25.240 We've got to build a wall of separation between tech and state.

00:16:28.680 The big tech marketplace operates differently because of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

00:16:34.120 Those normal open market impulses that would prohibit or prevent government censorship aren't present because it's a government sanctioned oligarchy of big tech social media giants.

00:16:44.080 And so they were very susceptible to President Biden's coercion when he took office and demanded censorship.

00:16:49.640 We exposed it. We got a preliminary injunction based on preliminary discovery at the trial court level.

00:16:55.860 We successfully defended that twice at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

00:16:58.760 We argued the case at the United States Supreme Court in March.

00:17:02.040 And this is going to be the biggest First Amendment case in this nation's history.

00:17:04.840 It should be handed down any day now.

00:17:06.020 I'm encouraged by what the United States Supreme Court did in VULO, NRAV VULO, which was also a First Amendment case that we had filed an amicus brief on and that I had written op-eds on extensively.

00:17:18.740 Because I do believe that it is unlawful for the government to pressure, apply these corporate pressure campaigns to businesses when those businesses are doing dealings with political entities of which the government disagrees.

00:17:31.860 I mean, again, the whole idea here behind the First Amendment is to limit the government and maximize individual liberty as to free speech.

00:17:39.400 You know, you said something that I want to understand better.

00:17:43.620 You said that big tech was susceptible to government pressure because, if I heard you right, of Section 230.

00:17:52.680 You would think that 230 would be something of a protection, at least an immunity, perhaps, even, if you would, edify us.

00:18:04.960 Yeah, well, first of all, I would submit to you that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has been misinterpreted by the courts.

00:18:10.460 And it's absolutely time for the Congress to amend that statute.

00:18:15.680 But the problem with it is, is it consolidates power in the hands of very few number of tech oligarchs.

00:18:22.020 And so when you have that kind of concentration of authority and power, it's easier for the government to manipulate so few actors within a marketplace.

00:18:30.460 But also, consumers don't have options.

00:18:32.860 I can't choose to go use a different big tech social media platform that maybe has open, is open and transparent and protects free speech when there are so few options.

00:18:42.880 And so, again, the section, the misinterpretation of Section 230 has allowed for this problem to occur,

00:18:48.840 consolidated the targets for censorship by the government and given the government leverage over that marketplace.

00:18:53.880 Thank you for that clarification, for those who have to struggle sometimes with the legal interpretation.

00:19:02.360 We've just gotten word that Merrick Garland, testifying before Congress on weaponizing the DOJ,

00:19:10.040 he has refused to say whether he is coordinating with Bragg, Willis and Letitia James.

00:19:17.740 What do you make of it?

00:19:19.540 Well, first of all, this is shameful.

00:19:21.520 He is absolutely coordinating and colluding with state prosecutors in blue states in targeted lawfare against President Trump.

00:19:29.700 And again, the objective here is to help President Biden unlawfully obtain re-election.

00:19:35.180 The objective here is to hurt President Trump and to deny voters of access to their preferred presidential candidate

00:19:41.580 because they see President Biden failing in the polls.

00:19:44.440 And so this is an egregious act of lawfare.

00:19:46.780 You know, we haven't really seen this kind of political warfare and attempts to silence and criminalize behavior of the opponent

00:19:52.920 since the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1790 when John Adams and the Federalists tried to eliminate the Anti-Federalists

00:19:59.700 and it backfired on the Federalists.

00:20:01.440 And it certainly undermines the structure of our government and the constitutional protections afforded to us under our founding document.

00:20:09.220 So it's shameful. That's why my office has launched an investigation into the Department of Justice.

00:20:13.700 We've demanded certain records. We want to see all the communications between Biden's crooked Department of Justice

00:20:19.140 and concerning Matthew Colangelo, Fonnie Willis and also Alvin Bragg there in New York.

00:20:25.920 We know that Matthew Colangelo was deployed from Biden's Department of Justice,

00:20:29.820 formerly the third ranking official at Biden's DOJ, to assist Alvin Bragg in trial against President Trump.

00:20:35.680 So that alone creates an impropriety that should have disqualified both of those prosecutors from that case

00:20:40.760 and, again, undermines the credibility of the illegal conviction that they've obtained.

00:20:44.680 Yeah, it's incredible of what this regime, this corrupt Obama-Biden regime, has stooped to

00:20:54.480 to preserve power and to try to negate President Trump's candidacy.

00:21:04.100 Let's turn to, if we may, too, the House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith

00:21:10.700 referring a criminal referral of Hunter Biden for lying to Congress.

00:21:16.220 Today the opening arguments began.

00:21:18.300 It's hard to get a criminal referral that means anything when you have the opposing party in control of the Justice Department, is it not?

00:21:27.900 Oh, that's absolutely true.

00:21:29.060 Look, the deep state was dead set against any kind of conservative movement before President Trump took office.

00:21:34.300 Remember how Hillary Clinton was treated?

00:21:36.400 You know, she gets a pass on destroying government property in which she had, you know, illegally retained classified information. 0.68

00:21:43.300 And yet President Trump is hounded with this Russia collusion hoax throughout the first few years of his presidency.

00:21:49.200 And then President Biden has classified documents sitting in his garage where anyone can have access to them.

00:21:55.060 And yet President Trump, who had the authority to possess documents, had them locked in a safe.

00:21:59.440 And his home is raided by a SWAT team.

00:22:01.200 I mean, it is unimaginable the level to which the left will go to weaponize the criminal justice system,

00:22:06.940 give their friends and colleagues on the left a pass, and then target conservatives.

00:22:10.600 And the left should be concerned.

00:22:12.400 But you're right.

00:22:13.240 I mean, at the end of the day, with Merrick Garland in office, they're leading the Department of Justice.

00:22:18.980 It is going to be hard to get a conviction against anyone on that side of the aisle.

00:22:25.020 We're talking with Attorney General Andrew Bailey of the great state of Missouri.

00:22:29.940 We're going to take up further what another important case before, we hope, before the Supreme Court, that is, President Trump's seeking the intervention of the court after his conviction.

00:22:45.240 We'll take that up with Andrew Bailey, the Attorney General of Missouri.

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00:23:21.500 We're back with Missouri's Attorney General, Andrew Bailey.

00:23:29.640 I want to turn now to President Trump's call for the Supreme Court to intervene after that incredibly corrupt court of prosecutors, you name it.

00:23:43.900 It's the biggest mess I've ever seen, the one merchant judge over that corrupt Stalinist-like show trial. 0.96

00:23:55.100 Is there any, in your judgment, is there a good chance that the Supreme Court will intervene?

00:24:01.120 Well, here's what gives me hope.

00:24:02.720 The fact that there are constitutional implications in that illicit witch hunt conviction from the state of New York.

00:24:09.020 I mean, you've got a federalism problem where typically the United States Supreme Court is not going to review state-level convictions unless there's a federal hook.

00:24:16.640 But the federal hook here is the deprivation of President Trump's constitutional rights.

00:24:20.520 Let's start with the gag order. 0.78

00:24:22.060 You know, the First Amendment presumption is that people can speak freely.

00:24:24.700 And so when the judge imposes a gag order, of which my office litigated against, because the American people and certainly Missourians deserve to hear from a presidential candidate.

00:24:33.060 But that judge in New York issued a gag order in violation of President Trump's First Amendment rights and in violation of anyone in Missouri who wants to hear from President Trump's First Amendment rights to hear that speech.

00:24:43.580 There's a presumption against them.

00:24:44.740 That presumption should be heightened when you're talking about a presidential candidate in the middle of a presidential campaign.

00:24:50.320 And the other point I would make here is that gag orders are intended to protect the defendant's right to a fair trial.

00:24:56.160 Well, if the defendant is OK accepting the liability that comes with pretrial publicity, that's the defendant's right to waive.

00:25:02.160 So the gag order was absolutely illegal.

00:25:04.220 That's a constitutional issue.

00:25:05.700 Number two, you've got due process deprivation and the kind of the ambiguity in the charging document.

00:25:12.240 When it comes to the predicate offense, you know, the judge kind of saying, hey, look, there's a grab bag here.

00:25:16.200 Any of these four predicate offenses will work.

00:25:18.260 That makes it very difficult for the defense to put on, you know, to be able to prepare and defend.

00:25:23.380 And it doesn't give you proper notice or an adequate hearing when it's a grab bag of predicate offenses like that.

00:25:29.180 The other point I would make is the lack of jury unanimity is a Sixth Amendment problem.

00:25:33.480 Since 2020, in the case of Ramos v.

00:25:35.700 Louisiana, the United States Supreme Court has held that the Sixth Amendment requires unanimity when it comes to the guilty finding by a jury as to the elements of the offense.

00:25:45.600 Again, when the judge instructed the jury that any old predicate offense will do, that creates a roving commission where the jury is free to roam through the facts and attach liability where it sees fit.

00:25:56.860 That undermines the Sixth Amendment requirement of jury unanimity.

00:26:00.320 So there are sufficient constitutional grounds to undermine the credibility of that conviction.

00:26:04.920 And that should give us all hope that the United States Supreme Court can step in and correct this legal error.

00:26:12.480 They're going to have to, though, reverse.

00:26:14.900 Well, there's a recent exception here, perhaps two, but certainly one, a unanimous decision in support of the First Amendment rights of the National Rifle Association.

00:26:28.360 Sotomayor, Kagan, you name it, they were there.

00:26:34.340 That had that shocked me.

00:26:36.240 What about you?

00:26:36.900 Yeah, it definitely shocked me, especially so I was actually at the United States Supreme Court in the case of Missouri v.

00:26:43.260 Biden. We were a council table representing the state of Missouri in Missouri v.

00:26:46.600 Biden, the most important First Amendment case in this nation's history.

00:26:49.940 And then Vulo was the very next case, NRA v.

00:26:52.340 Vulo.

00:26:52.660 And so we got up, traded seats with the attorneys that argued the case on behalf of the NRA.

00:26:57.080 And again, the issues are very similar.

00:26:58.960 Can the government coerce individuals into suppressing speech?

00:27:03.800 And the answer has been no and has been a unanimous decision from the United States Supreme Court in NRA v.

00:27:09.680 Vulo, which that's a huge win and I think, you know, an appropriate win.

00:27:13.520 We're hoping that same rationale applies in Missouri v.

00:27:15.920 Biden.

00:27:16.960 Well, it looks like we're going to find out.

00:27:21.220 What is your sense of that?

00:27:22.520 Will we get a ruler?

00:27:23.780 I think we will.

00:27:24.660 And at the end of the day, again, we obtained a preliminary injunction, that first brick in the wall of separation between tech and state back on the 4th of July last year.

00:27:32.540 I think we're within 10 to 15 days of the court handing down its decision on reviewing the preliminary injunction.

00:27:38.540 But regardless, this is a preliminary injunction because of preliminary discovery at the early phases of litigation.

00:27:44.560 Regardless of what the Supreme Court does, we're likely to end up back at the trial court level and continue building that brick by brick wall of separation between tech and state using marriage discovery.

00:27:54.100 So the case isn't going to end.

00:27:55.400 This is really just Supreme Court review about the opening phase of the litigation.

00:27:59.180 And we're we're confident in our ultimate success on the merits.

00:28:02.580 The court, as I said, has been timid in too many places to suit.

00:28:07.380 I think most conservatives and certainly people who believe that Donald Trump is our Churchill for this this period that is our 30 1939.

00:28:17.140 I I I I'm very hopeful, though, I I believe President Trump is actually rising in the midst of all of this.

00:28:25.940 He he he he's make two, three hundred million dollars in fundraising in a short order.

00:28:32.380 He has immense support among minorities that exceed anything that he had experienced in either 2016 or 2020.

00:28:40.400 There are a lot of good reasons to believe that we have a reversal in a circumstance awaiting the Joe Biden and Barack Obama.

00:28:53.600 I happen to also think that with the court is taking a tone, having surprised me a couple of times in this term.

00:29:00.600 I really believe that they they see before them immense evidence you all you have to do is read the stories on one merchant and the and the the persecution of Donald Trump in New York.

00:29:14.560 Fanny Willis in Fulton County, Jack Smith on the documents case.

00:29:21.640 He has violated more laws of decency and law than anybody I could have imagined as a special counsel.

00:29:31.280 Yeah. Are you hopeful in the same way?

00:29:33.600 Yeah. Let me start by saying this. You know, again, that's why my investigation in that collusion between the Biden Department of Justice with Matthew Colangelo and Alvin Bragg and and the Fulton County District Attorney there in Georgia is so important.

00:29:45.500 I think at some point these individuals have certainly, you know, accepted liability on their professional licensure.

00:29:51.320 I think they've accepted civil liability for exceeding the scope of their statutory authority and thereby waiving sovereign immunity.

00:29:56.860 I think ultimately they're the laws were broken. They've accepted criminal liability.

00:30:00.900 It's going to be time to prosecute the prosecutors. We can no longer stand idly by while the left engages in this level of warfare and destroys this country.

00:30:08.140 President Trump started a move, a movement to put America first.

00:30:12.200 And people still love this country. They still love America. It's the greatest nation on earth.

00:30:16.520 And so it's worth fighting for. And America will prevail. And I think, again, that you're seeing that in spite of government censorship, in spite of lawfare and the rule of law still matters.

00:30:26.460 The Constitution is this nation's founding document and informs our national identity. And those rules matter.

00:30:32.620 And I'm proud to see the United States Supreme Court standing up and saying, yeah, the words have meaning at the time they were written down and are intended to protect us.

00:30:39.940 And those are timeless principles that are worth fighting for.

00:30:43.720 Andrew Bailey, Attorney General of Missouri. Thanks for being with us. We appreciate it.

00:30:48.940 I wish you all of the very best. Godspeed and God bless.

00:30:53.340 Thank you, sir. Always appreciate getting to speak with you.

00:30:55.080 Thanks, everybody, for being here. Be sure to join us here tomorrow for The Great America Show.

00:31:00.000 Our guest will be Scott Walter. He's the president of the Capital Research Center, America's investigative think tank.

00:31:07.540 And Scott has been investigating foreign money in federal and state elections.

00:31:12.460 He's with us tomorrow to break it all down.

00:31:15.400 And be sure to join us tonight for Lou Dobbs tonight, 7 p.m. Eastern, 6 Central on Frank Speech, Rumble and X and Roku.

00:31:24.080 Thanks, everybody. God bless you. And may God bless America.

The Great America Show - June 05, 2024

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