Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett talks about threats to her and other Justices, and why she wears a bulletproof vest to protect herself and her family. Also, Justice Elena Kagan says she has received anonymous threats in the name of her own son.
00:01:24.980My security details sent me home with a bulletproof vest and I carried it into my house, put it
00:01:29.460into my bedroom, dropped it down on a table, turned around and my 12-year-old son was standing
00:01:34.660in the doorway of my bedroom and he wanted to know what it was and why I had it.
00:01:39.540And I didn't know how to respond because maybe I lack imagination, but I didn't expect
00:01:44.300that performing this service was going to put me in the position of explaining to my
00:01:48.400children what a bulletproof vest was and why I had to wear one.
00:01:52.720It's also been reported in the news that roughly six weeks ago, I was the victim of
00:01:56.580a swatting incident. At that point, my teenage son, one of my teenage sons, opened the door
00:02:03.500to go out with friends and saw in our street, it was full of police cars, who had responded
00:02:11.600to a false report of gunshots and raised voices in my home. I was very, very grateful that
00:02:17.560I had Supreme Court police outside my home because they were able to stop and meet with
00:02:22.540and explain to the county police that it had been a false alarm, and so the police did
00:02:27.460not actually attempt to enter our home. Many of us, me included, have received threatening
00:02:34.720anonymous deliveries designed to intimidate and harass us.
00:02:39.320They are often sent in the name of Judge Salas' son, who I think, as you mentioned
00:02:44.420in the beginning, Mr. Chairman, is deceased because he was killed by a disgruntled lawyer
00:02:50.180who showed up at Judge Salas' home intending to kill her, but her son, 20 years old at
00:02:55.560the time, opened the door and took the bullet.
00:02:58.060Instead, her husband, standing behind, was seriously injured.
00:03:01.260So I think the message on these deliveries being sent in his name is clear.
00:03:08.240As Justice Kagan said, federal judges across the country throughout the judiciary, including the Supreme Court, continue to do their jobs without fear or favor.
00:03:29.640I know people like Charlie Kirk had targets on them.
00:03:32.280I know people like Donald Trump have targets on them, but each and every one of us know when we got into this business, what we're fighting for and what it entails.
00:03:43.140So I think I speak for everybody that listens to you.
00:03:47.200We were disappointed when they didn't rule the way we wanted on mail-in ballots being counted after.
00:03:53.480I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that we were disappointed in the birthright citizenship ruling.
00:03:58.880But notice the threats that she talked about. Those were when the Democrats were trying to kill Kavanaugh and the Democrat.
00:04:07.920I mean, you had literally the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer of New York, saying you will reap the whirlwind.
00:04:16.520And so that's what she's talking about. And I do think that these judges are in danger.
00:04:20.880The difference between Republicans and Democrats is we're angry and then we go try to find other solutions.
00:04:26.580they get angry. They get violent. They get threatening. The police get involved. People
00:04:32.420get killed. I mean, even I know we're going to talk later in the show, this person that tries
00:04:37.020to run over an ICE agent and ends up getting shot. And then people go, why would you shoot
00:04:41.920someone trying to run you over with a car? Right. So she might be a little bit hyperbolic, but I
00:04:47.020mean, she's talking about when somebody leaked the abortion ruling and they literally tried to kill
00:04:52.240some of the conservative judges and i think that that's really wrong 100 it's wrong i think it's
00:04:57.820totally wrong but i i was just surprised that she was surprised that the marxist left would go this
00:05:03.460far i mean we've watched what they've done we watched on camera in 4k what they did to charlie
00:05:08.740kirk all of us have seen the video i wish i didn't see the video all of us watched in 4k in 1080
00:05:14.820uh a bullet blazing towards president trump's head hitting him on the side of the head proceeding
00:05:20.340then to kill somebody else sitting behind him we've all seen this in four time in 4k we all0.89
00:05:25.500you know what it is and uh it's sad but this is what it is now the thing that kind of irks me a
00:05:33.400little bit and upsets me a little bit is that it seems that she's intimidated by this and and these
00:05:38.740are people regardless of what it is steven i don't think you you can rule fairly if you're
00:05:44.660intimidated in doing your job. Do you agree or disagree? No, it takes a spine. It takes a real
00:05:51.660fortitude to do. You know, I go to church with a federal judge and he's saying, listen, it's really
00:05:57.260hard to make these decisions. And sometimes you get wackadoos that try to come back into the
00:06:01.760courtroom. And so it is a dangerous job. But yeah, she's got to stand on principle. Her job is to
00:06:08.380interpret the law from a conservative lens and then tell us what it is. And sadly with her,
00:06:14.320I've been very disappointed. If I could go back in time and somehow tell Trump, don't put her on
00:06:20.500the bench. That's what I would do. But I don't obviously don't want harm to her life. But it
00:06:24.920seems some Democrats do. Yeah, of course they do. They're sick, sick, sick, demented people.
00:06:29.660We don't condone that. We don't support that, you know, and are going to pretend to. But I just I1.00
00:06:35.420don't know. I'm watching her in that video saying, oh, my son, I had to tell my 11 year old son,
00:06:39.360you know, what a bulletproof vest was. I have a bulletproof vest sitting right across from me here
00:06:43.780in my studio. I've known what guns were since I was a little kid. I mean, you go out to like
00:06:48.920anywhere outside of like New York and California, there's kids out there shooting guns at 10,
00:06:54.94011 years old. So I didn't think that was necessarily a good example to show
00:06:58.340she's being intimidated, especially when we have kids who are being brainwashed with
00:07:02.040all types of hormonal things at very young ages being told that they could be transgender.
00:07:08.740Listen, Clarence Thomas has been there for quite some time. He's been intimidated. They've went
00:07:13.000after him many times and guess what Clarence Thomas doesn't give a damn what they say what
00:07:17.840they do the fake rape accusations they hit him with from the beginning and continued on and he's
00:07:23.260continued to live his life I think if this is a job where Amy Coney Barrett seems it feels that
00:07:28.460she's being targeted what she is we're not denying that I don't think it's a job that she should
00:07:33.400continue to do I think it's in her best interest that you know she move on to do bigger and better
00:07:38.840things, not that there are bigger and better things, but something that she's not going to
00:07:43.000have to worry about feeling intimidated. It comes with the job. You know, it is what it is. It sucks
00:07:48.080that this is the world that we have to live in. You think that she should move on and do something0.96
00:07:54.180else if she can't rule clear of intimidation? You know, I don't know what the right move for1.00
00:08:01.360her is. Again, in a magic world, I would wave a wand and she would be replaced with somebody who0.95
00:08:06.820seems to rule more in the favor of, you know, my thinking, but I don't think, yeah, I don't,
00:08:13.220I don't think she's going to step down. And so she's just going to have to say I'm comfortable
00:08:17.520with these threats or she's going to have to move on. Yeah. There's, there's no other way to put it.
00:08:23.420Let's turn Steven to another story that's making the news headlines of late. And it's this story
00:08:30.120out of maine where this illegal migrant who was not the subject by the way of the chase
00:08:37.520got involved in in in somebody else's business when ice agents were out looking for
00:08:43.280a bad person a bad hombre and uh this guy gets involved tries to run over ice agents they shoot
00:08:51.860it's like the the cause and effect you know don't touch the hot stove you're going to burn yourself
00:08:56.040So as a result of that, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been told to immediately halt vehicle stops nationwide.
00:09:05.960The suspension will apply to most circumstances except for cases involving serial and serious criminal targets, according to the unnamed law enforcement sources.
00:09:16.500So, in other words, these people try to run over our ICE agents, try to kill our ICE agents who are just doing their job, and we cave to the pressure that we're not going to go out and arrest illegal criminals because of a few people who want to get themselves killed.
00:09:35.500Yeah, my understanding is that Senator Collins up in Maine, she personally called Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen and said, listen, my people are very upset.
00:09:51.680I think we should put a pause on this.
00:09:53.480At the same time, I think maybe you guys should do a moratorium and ask yourself, do we really need to do non-emergency vehicle stops?
00:10:02.820and and so i don't fully agree with it i'm just telling you what i read in the news
00:10:07.640um you know we don't we don't want to let uh the crazies out there dictate the rule of law if we're
00:10:16.520going to be a nation that is a rule of law nation these people are here illegally this guy was here
00:10:22.740illegally from columbia as you mentioned they weren't they weren't officially going after him
00:10:26.940they were going after somebody much worse yeah but if you're going to try to block any kind of
00:10:32.160police investigation, you're breaking the law. If you're going to try to intimidate the police,
00:10:36.720you're breaking the law. If you're going to try to kill one or run one over with your car,0.97
00:10:41.880you're definitely breaking the law. So again, this was a cause and effect. Unfortunately,
00:10:47.140the man is dead, but I don't agree with just, oh my gosh, one person died. We should stop
00:10:54.400everything that we're doing. No, there's still murderers and rapists that we need to get out
00:10:59.300of this country. So President Trump runs on this agenda, and I spoke to Mark Mitchell last night
00:11:09.820for probably three hours on the phone. We're working and getting him on this week. He's on
00:11:14.640a little bit of a media hiatus, but I spoke to Mark about this for three hours on the phone last
00:11:19.740night, and it's like Trump ran on running the biggest deportation operation in the history of
00:11:26.200this country we have not got that so far uh you know he ran on on securing the border that we you
00:11:32.960know we have a little bit of that but deportation numbers are slowly starting to dwindle we're not
00:11:38.020getting the numbers that we were promised and that was one of the biggest campaign that in the
00:11:42.460economy were two of the biggest campaign issues for president trump in which he ran on in which
00:11:46.840he won resoundingly with record numbers with how does this appeal to the base how do you explain
00:11:53.500to the base that, listen, you know, we wanted to do mass deportations at record levels, but
00:11:58.520you know, people started running over our agents and instead of fighting back against them,
00:12:04.020we're just going to cave to the woke pressure and, you know, we'll see you next time.
00:12:09.060Yeah, I think two things might be going on. And I just read about this this morning,
00:12:13.580but Tom Homan, the border czar, he was saying, listen, President Trump wants deportations to
00:12:20.580go faster. I, as the borders are, want them to go faster. But we also just set a record in the
00:12:27.180month of June for the most deportations from inland America in our country's history.
00:12:33.060And so he said, we are making progress under Secretary Mullen. We are getting those numbers0.69
00:12:39.620up. I think last week they had two or three thousand in a single day from the inland.
00:12:45.300I think what a lot of people are doing is they're comparing President Trump to the deporter-in-chief Obama.
00:12:51.980But when you really start to dig into the numbers, Obama was counting deportations, anybody that he turned away at the border.
00:12:59.460And Trump doesn't have that luxury because nobody's coming to the border, right?
00:13:03.180And so they're having to go inland, into Maine, into Chicago, into these places.
00:13:09.360But again, the president and Tom Homan, according to their own words, they both want it to go faster, but they did just set a record for the month of June.
00:13:18.760Yeah, but we need the numbers that we were promised.
00:13:22.260That's like I said, that's what the American people want.
00:13:24.300And Stephen, I don't think that we should settle for anything short of it, especially when it comes at the hands of the Marxist Dems thinking they're going to be the ones to call the shots.
00:13:35.380And if that's what, you know, President Trump is going to do when he's going to listen to these Marxist woke leftists, that's not what we voted for.
00:13:44.900That's not the President Trump that I think we all voted for.
00:13:49.320We got some inflation numbers out today, inflation dropping.
00:13:52.660I think it was like three and a half percent annually, the biggest drop in six years.
00:14:00.380I, you know, I just gassed up my car today. Gas is down below where I've seen it, you know, in the past, you know, at the height of this thing, it was over four bucks a gallon.
00:14:09.520It's now down to the mid threes by where I live. Do you think this is now the start of the turn when things start to get a little bit better for the American people?
00:14:18.220I hope so. I really do. Let me say one thing. So President Trump, you know, he calls this thing with Iran a little detour, right?
00:14:30.380It's a big detour. And it's the reason that inflation has gone up and it's come back down.
00:14:36.700And he knows that you and I know that. But things are trending in a better way.
00:14:41.920But I do think, you know, you can say in Washington, hey, can't we walk and chew gum?
00:14:45.960And you can. But the reality is he's been dealing with a very big war.
00:14:50.360And so I think we want him focused on domestic issues.
00:14:54.540He's brilliant when it comes to foreign policy. He's brilliant with domestic.
00:14:57.940But I do believe he's a little bit split. And I think up until last week, he was really focused on keeping the ceasefire in place. He was not attacking. He was not breaking. They were breaking. He was counter striking. Now he's striking again. Gas has gone up a little bit, but not like it. I thought it would go right back to where it was and it hasn't. But I also filled up today and I was like, wow, that was like 15 bucks less a gallon. That's awesome.
00:15:22.700So I do think that we are trending in the right direction.
00:15:25.280At the same time, Iran does not want this war to end.0.74
00:18:10.800Yeah. John Thune's been the one to obfuscate. John Thune's been the one to to dip, dodge and do everything he can to get out of passing this thing. When when asked about the filibuster and getting rid of the filibuster, he doesn't want to talk about that. He runs away from it, says we don't have the votes for that. Don't have the votes for this. Don't have the. Well, if that's the case and you don't have the votes, then what the hell are you doing?
00:18:32.220john thune isn't it your job to get the votes isn't it your job for your whip to whip up the
00:18:37.800votes and get this this caucus united instead of uh you know running around like chickens with no
00:18:43.620head how much more time are we supposed to give john thune before we say like enough is enough
00:18:49.560you're not doing your job john i mean if it were up to me i would have already had you know people
00:18:55.340come forward in the senate and call for him to be removed as leader uh i don't i do not believe
00:19:00.660that Trump will want him to be the leader in the next Congress, but that's too far in the future.
00:19:05.500We want it done now. And, you know, I've been asking members of my audience to call and politely
00:19:10.660pressure him over and over again. And I think we've had hundreds, maybe even thousands of people
00:19:15.360contacting his office to the point where the voicemail said it was full. But, you know,
00:19:19.540there's only so much we the people can do. We need we we need they the the people in Congress