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00:00:33.600Hello, everybody. Welcome to The Great America Show. It's great to have you with us.
00:00:38.380Marxist Attorney General Merrick Garland was on Capitol Hill yesterday testifying, and man, oh, man, did he have a tough time.
00:00:47.140But 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.
00:01:00.560A dangerous conspiracy. That's the best he could come up with.
00:01:07.200And if this is not a dangerous conspiracy on the part of the Marxist Dems, I don't know what one would be.
00:01:13.480Congressman Matt Gaetz was among the members of Congress seeking answers from Garland.
00:01:19.760And Gaetz wants to know how much collusion the Department of Justice was in with the offices of Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, and Fannie Willis.
00:01:29.480Attorney 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.
00:01:40.360You 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?
00:01:54.280The offices you're referring to are independent offices of state.
00:02:06.380Well, I'm going to say again, we do not control those offices. They make their own decisions.
00:02:12.960The question is whether you communicate with them, not whether you control them. Do you communicate with them and will you provide those communications?
00:02:17.540If you make a request, we'll refer it to our Office of Legislative Affairs.
00:02:21.000But 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.
00:02:28.640And 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.
00:02:35.400But 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.
00:02:47.620Gates wasn't the only one giving Garland hell for the DOJ witch hunt of President Trump.
00:02:54.300Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan also grilling Garland over Jack Smith's tampering of evidence in the Mar-a-Lago documents case.
00:03:02.440Garland, when confronted, of course, had no explanations, or at least none that he wanted to share.
00:03:11.160Prosecutors aren't supposed to tamper with evidence, and it looks like that's what he did.
00:03:15.300He changed the sequence of the documents that he sees from Mar-a-Lago.
00:03:19.520I'm sorry, that's a false characterization, but that is ongoing.
00:03:23.020Here's what he said to the court, Mr. Attorney General.
00:03:25.120There are some boxes where the order of items within the box is not the same as in the associated scans.
00:03:29.740I mean, he said it. I didn't say it. He told the court that.
00:03:32.340Now you're asking me to comment on a discovery dispute that's going ongoing in a court.
00:03:37.460I don't know the facts of it, and I'm not going to comment on it.
00:03:38.960No, this is from Jack Smith filing with the court.
00:03:41.640He admitted to the court that they tampered with the evidence.
00:03:44.820He mishandled the very documents he's charging President Trump with mishandling.
00:03:47.600And 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?
00:03:54.360I'm sorry. I did not hear the words tamper in the statement that Mr. Smith filed.
00:04:00.400Well, 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?
00:04:07.560Are you supposed to do that as a prosecutor?
00:04:09.260This 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.
00:04:15.480I would just say one last thing. It's not in dispute.
00:04:17.500Dude, this is what he said in the court filing.
00:04:20.580Jack Smith's team said that to the judge in the court.
00:04:23.880By the way, this case is now basically on hold because they've screwed up so many things.
00:04:27.460A 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.
00:04:36.960Missouri's Attorney General, Andrew Bailey, is suing the regime.
00:04:41.800The Attorney General says Biden is sidestepping the Constitution by saddling millions of Americans with a bill.
00:04:48.220The Supreme Court has already struck down one of Biden's efforts to forgive student loan debt.
00:04:55.000And our guest today is the man leading that fight, Missouri's Attorney General, Andrew Bailey.
00:05:01.180And Mr. Attorney General, great to have you back with us here on the Great America Show.
00:05:06.640Let 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.
00:05:39.300At the end of the day, it's also an illegal, unconstitutional attempt by President Biden to buy votes.
00:05:44.800He's losing ground in a key demographic.
00:05:47.280The timing of this is not coincidental.
00:05:49.300He knows he's wrong and he's doing it anyway.
00:05:51.500He'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.
00:05:58.760At what point do we call this what it is, a constitutional crisis?
00:06:10.940And it's going to redistribute north of a half trillion dollars.
00:06:15.460It's going to cost Missouri taxpayers well over $50 million.
00:06:19.320And so the harm to Missourians is very real.
00:06:21.420And I have to fight back to prevent Joe Biden from saddling working Missouri families with Ivy League debt.
00:06:26.360At the end of the day, we've won this issue before.
00:06:28.480And 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.
00:06:44.320Somebody is paying it off. But if Congress intends to authorize the president that authority on that order of magnitude, Congress has to be explicit.
00:06:53.880Congress has twice rejected such a bill once in twenty nineteen and then again in twenty twenty one.
00:06:59.460And so Congress has has not approved this sort of authority to the president in in the form of law.
00:07:05.900And 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.
00:07:12.080The text of that statute provides that the Department of Education can amend the terms of repayment.
00:07:18.080But that's different than canceling debt.
00:07:20.520And this plan costs more than the last plan.
00:07:23.820So the holding in this case should be the same as in the prior case.
00:07:26.700The 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.
00:07:36.240And by the way, he does it day in and day out, whether it's a student loan debts, you name it.
00:07:42.220They're trying to work out a way around the law.
00:07:44.620And if they can get away with it, absolutely break the law.
00:07:48.520It'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,
00:07:56.700a bunch of forgiveness and generosity on the part of Joe Biden, no deal.
00:08:18.500You know, the good part of the ruling, though, is that it reinvigorates the major questions doctrine.
00:08:24.560And really, that doctrine stands for the proposition that Congress doesn't hide an elephant in a mouse hole.
00:08:29.600In other words, just like I said, if Congress intends to authorize a program of enormous social or economic magnitude, they have to speak explicitly.
00:08:38.260It really is upon and coming upon the drafters in Congress to ensure that they get the language right.
00:08:44.880And 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.
00:08:56.840Not only the power of the purse belongs to Congress, but Congress writes the law.
00:08:59.820The president enforces and executes those laws.
00:09:03.080And 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.
00:09:18.140So what are next steps and where does this lead?
00:09:21.700Well, we filed suit to put a stop to it.
00:09:23.660We just were in court yesterday in the Eastern Court, federal court at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.
00:09:29.520And argued for an injunction against Biden's unlawful, unconstitutional attempt to buy votes.
00:10:13.840And will we have, do you think, any kind of instinct as to where it's going by Election Day?
00:10:19.880Yeah, 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.
00:10:28.080And then each side will have some time to decide whether or not they want to appeal.
00:10:33.080President Biden had a Plan B and a Plan C within hours of the United States Supreme Court striking down his Plan A.
00:10:39.720So it's almost a game of whack-a-mole.
00:10:41.700Again, 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.
00:11:01.700Imagine if President Trump had tried to do the same thing.
00:11:05.660And 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.
00:11:14.060It's, as you say, this is an administration hell-bent on destroying the country.
00:11:20.620It's, to me, it's that straightforward.
00:11:23.000Let's go to, I'd like your interpretation of a number of issues.
00:11:27.380And one of them, speaking of the Supreme Court, is the immunity for President Trump.
00:11:34.600We know we're going to get that answer.
00:11:37.460Actually, it could be very soon because we're in the final days of the term.
00:11:44.380What do you think the, what do you hope it will be and what do you think it'll be?
00:11:49.720Well, I both hope and think that the court's going to find that the president has immunity for his time in office.
00:11:55.480There's a constitutional way to sanction a United States president, and it's impeachment.
00:12:00.460The founders certainly understood, foresaw this problem and built a mechanism.
00:12:05.040It's just that the left is unwilling to use the mechanism because, again, they don't care about the rule of law.
00:12:10.200They don't care about the fact that the Constitution exists to protect us from the government and the government exists to protect our rights.
00:12:15.160They're willing to pervert all of that to achieve a political objective.
00:12:18.380But 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.
00:12:30.940Look at the censorship that goes on on big tech social media companies that we've exposed.
00:12:34.860In my case, Missouri v. Biden, it's also going to be handed down within the next few weeks.
00:12:37.940Look 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.
00:12:46.880And the objective was never a legally valid conviction.
00:12:50.040The 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.
00:12:58.700So 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.
00:13:10.060So the left's objective here, again, it's to pervert the rule of law to achieve a political end.
00:13:15.520It's time we stop looking at individual trees and see the forest for what it is.
00:13:19.060Absolutely. We're talking with Attorney General Andrew Bailey.
00:13:23.300We're coming right back with him after a few quick words.
00:13:26.160And 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.
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00:15:16.080We're talking with Attorney General Andrew Bailey of the great state of Missouri.
00:15:20.840It's you brought up the issue of this of the Supreme Court, I guess, agenda here in the final term and the wrap up.
00:15:29.500What is the most important case, aside from immunity, that you think the Supreme Court will hand down a ruling?
00:15:36.460Well, we're anxiously awaiting a ruling in Missouri v. Biden.
00:15:39.460Again, 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.
00:15:57.720The government outsourced its censorship to big tech.
00:16:00.620It coerced big tech into performing that censorship.
00:16:03.340And the idea here was to stifle any voice in opposition to Joe Biden.
00:16:08.020We know that was an election interference in 2020 when the deep state suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story.
00:16:13.600We know that that was, again, that the government is committed to future censorship.
00:16:19.480Essentially, their argument in court was that they can't survive unless they're able to silence any voice in opposition on big tech.
00:16:25.240We've got to build a wall of separation between tech and state.
00:16:28.680The big tech marketplace operates differently because of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
00:16:34.120Those 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.
00:16:44.080And so they were very susceptible to President Biden's coercion when he took office and demanded censorship.
00:16:49.640We exposed it. We got a preliminary injunction based on preliminary discovery at the trial court level.
00:16:55.860We successfully defended that twice at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
00:16:58.760We argued the case at the United States Supreme Court in March.
00:17:02.040And this is going to be the biggest First Amendment case in this nation's history.
00:17:06.020I'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.
00:17:18.740Because 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.
00:17:31.860I mean, again, the whole idea here behind the First Amendment is to limit the government and maximize individual liberty as to free speech.
00:17:39.400You know, you said something that I want to understand better.
00:17:43.620You said that big tech was susceptible to government pressure because, if I heard you right, of Section 230.
00:17:52.680You would think that 230 would be something of a protection, at least an immunity, perhaps, even, if you would, edify us.
00:18:04.960Yeah, well, first of all, I would submit to you that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has been misinterpreted by the courts.
00:18:10.460And it's absolutely time for the Congress to amend that statute.
00:18:15.680But the problem with it is, is it consolidates power in the hands of very few number of tech oligarchs.
00:18:22.020And 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.
00:18:30.460But also, consumers don't have options.
00:18:32.860I 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.
00:18:42.880And so, again, the section, the misinterpretation of Section 230 has allowed for this problem to occur,
00:18:48.840consolidated the targets for censorship by the government and given the government leverage over that marketplace.
00:18:53.880Thank you for that clarification, for those who have to struggle sometimes with the legal interpretation.
00:19:02.360We've just gotten word that Merrick Garland, testifying before Congress on weaponizing the DOJ,
00:19:10.040he has refused to say whether he is coordinating with Bragg, Willis and Letitia James.
00:22:13.240I mean, at the end of the day, with Merrick Garland in office, they're leading the Department of Justice.
00:22:18.980It is going to be hard to get a conviction against anyone on that side of the aisle.
00:22:25.020We're talking with Attorney General Andrew Bailey of the great state of Missouri.
00:22:29.940We'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.
00:22:45.240We'll take that up with Andrew Bailey, the Attorney General of Missouri.
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00:23:21.500We're back with Missouri's Attorney General, Andrew Bailey.
00:23:29.640I 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.
00:23:43.900It's the biggest mess I've ever seen, the one merchant judge over that corrupt Stalinist-like show trial.
00:23:55.100Is there any, in your judgment, is there a good chance that the Supreme Court will intervene?
00:24:02.720The fact that there are constitutional implications in that illicit witch hunt conviction from the state of New York.
00:24:09.020I 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.
00:24:16.640But the federal hook here is the deprivation of President Trump's constitutional rights.
00:24:22.060You know, the First Amendment presumption is that people can speak freely.
00:24:24.700And 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.
00:24:33.060But 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.
00:25:35.700Louisiana, 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.
00:25:45.600Again, 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.
00:25:56.860That undermines the Sixth Amendment requirement of jury unanimity.
00:26:00.320So there are sufficient constitutional grounds to undermine the credibility of that conviction.
00:26:04.920And that should give us all hope that the United States Supreme Court can step in and correct this legal error.
00:26:12.480They're going to have to, though, reverse.
00:26:14.900Well, 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.
00:26:28.360Sotomayor, Kagan, you name it, they were there.
00:27:24.660And 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.
00:27:32.540I think we're within 10 to 15 days of the court handing down its decision on reviewing the preliminary injunction.
00:27:38.540But regardless, this is a preliminary injunction because of preliminary discovery at the early phases of litigation.
00:27:44.560Regardless 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.
00:27:55.400This is really just Supreme Court review about the opening phase of the litigation.
00:27:59.180And we're we're confident in our ultimate success on the merits.
00:28:02.580The court, as I said, has been timid in too many places to suit.
00:28:07.380I think most conservatives and certainly people who believe that Donald Trump is our Churchill for this this period that is our 30 1939.
00:28:17.140I I I I'm very hopeful, though, I I believe President Trump is actually rising in the midst of all of this.
00:28:25.940He he he he's make two, three hundred million dollars in fundraising in a short order.
00:28:32.380He has immense support among minorities that exceed anything that he had experienced in either 2016 or 2020.
00:28:40.400There are a lot of good reasons to believe that we have a reversal in a circumstance awaiting the Joe Biden and Barack Obama.
00:28:53.600I happen to also think that with the court is taking a tone, having surprised me a couple of times in this term.
00:29:00.600I 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.
00:29:14.560Fanny Willis in Fulton County, Jack Smith on the documents case.
00:29:21.640He has violated more laws of decency and law than anybody I could have imagined as a special counsel.
00:29:31.280Yeah. Are you hopeful in the same way?
00:29:33.600Yeah. 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.
00:29:45.500I think at some point these individuals have certainly, you know, accepted liability on their professional licensure.
00:29:51.320I think they've accepted civil liability for exceeding the scope of their statutory authority and thereby waiving sovereign immunity.
00:29:56.860I think ultimately they're the laws were broken. They've accepted criminal liability.
00:30:00.900It'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.
00:30:08.140President Trump started a move, a movement to put America first.
00:30:12.200And people still love this country. They still love America. It's the greatest nation on earth.
00:30:16.520And 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.
00:30:26.460The Constitution is this nation's founding document and informs our national identity. And those rules matter.
00:30:32.620And 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.
00:30:39.940And those are timeless principles that are worth fighting for.
00:30:43.720Andrew Bailey, Attorney General of Missouri. Thanks for being with us. We appreciate it.
00:30:48.940I wish you all of the very best. Godspeed and God bless.
00:30:53.340Thank you, sir. Always appreciate getting to speak with you.
00:30:55.080Thanks, everybody, for being here. Be sure to join us here tomorrow for The Great America Show.
00:31:00.000Our guest will be Scott Walter. He's the president of the Capital Research Center, America's investigative think tank.
00:31:07.540And Scott has been investigating foreign money in federal and state elections.
00:31:12.460He's with us tomorrow to break it all down.
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00:31:24.080Thanks, everybody. God bless you. And may God bless America.