The Great America Show - September 22, 2022


HAS JOE BIDEN PUT US INTO A COLD CIVIL WAR AND WILL ZUCKERBERG PAY THE PRICE FOR INTERVENING IN 2020 ELECTION？


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Letitia James has finally filed a lawsuit against the former president. She has spent years trying to get him in jail and now she s suing him for fraud, tax evasion and embezzlement. Is this a political hit job?

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00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and this is The Great America Show.
00:00:05.380 There's more than a little wrong in America these days, don't you think? I'm sorry to say.
00:00:11.020 We now know that the foreign-born population in this country has risen to record levels,
00:00:18.320 growing almost, get ready for this, growing almost 150% over the past 30 years.
00:00:26.220 Our population, our foreign-born population, going from 20 million to almost 47 million people.
00:00:34.500 And the political persecution by the Marxist Dems continues.
00:00:39.340 And as expected, the Marxist Dem Attorney General of New York, Letitia James,
00:00:44.360 has hounded, harassed, and threatened Donald Trump for years.
00:00:48.000 She actually campaigned for the AG office in Deep Blue, New York, basically promising to throw him in jail.
00:00:55.000 She has finally filed a lawsuit against the former president, who said she's a racist and wouldn't have filed that lawsuit,
00:01:02.880 except she's way down in the polls. 1.00
00:01:05.540 James' lawsuit doesn't amount to much after her three-year investigation into President Trump and his organization.
00:01:13.880 That investigation resulted in no criminal charges whatsoever for the president or his family,
00:01:19.400 bringing what is clearly a politically motivated civil suit against the former president.
00:01:25.860 The lawsuit does go after three of his kids, Eric, Don Jr., and Ivanka.
00:01:32.400 The lawsuit alleges President Trump inflated his net worth by billions of dollars,
00:01:37.660 inflated his property's worth to increase borrowing power against those assets.
00:01:42.180 These are among the ridiculous allegations.
00:01:46.320 And I want to note, all of the loans, all of the loans taken against his properties were paid off.
00:01:52.800 Once again, I want to reiterate this, all of those allegations that she's laid out after a three-year-long investigation
00:02:00.080 and no criminal charges amount to, well, I'll let you finish that sentence.
00:02:05.580 Let's not forget the numerous times James campaigned on getting Trump and continued that rhetoric once she was elected.
00:02:13.440 Take a listen to the crazed, venomous James campaigning for A.G.
00:02:19.320 I'm running for attorney general because I will never be afraid to challenge this illegitimate president
00:02:25.000 when our fundamental rights are at stake.
00:02:28.020 I believe that the president of these United States can be indicted for criminal offenses.
00:02:32.540 It's important that everyone understand that the days of Donald Trump are coming to an end.
00:02:36.760 He built his wealth off the backs of New Yorkers.
00:02:40.400 We need to focus on Donald Trump and his abuses.
00:02:42.620 We need to follow his money.
00:02:44.740 We need to find out where he's laundered money.
00:02:47.080 All of those transactions have happened here in New York City.
00:02:49.880 Tell this president and every other individual that no one is above the law.
00:02:53.460 We must do our job to ensure that the man currently occupying the Oval Office
00:02:59.800 is held accountable to any and everything he has done.
00:03:03.680 A legal system where even the most powerful in the country cannot use a loophole to evade justice.
00:03:10.580 And what would you say to people who say,
00:03:13.020 oh, I'm not going to bother to register to vote because my voice doesn't make a difference.
00:03:17.960 Or I'm just one person.
00:03:19.260 I say one, I say one name, Donald Trump.
00:03:23.820 That should motivate you.
00:03:25.560 Get off your ass and vote.
00:03:26.640 Will you sue him for us?
00:03:29.060 Oh, we're going to definitely sue him.
00:03:30.160 We're going to be a real pain in the ass.
00:03:32.040 He said, I know my name personally.
00:03:33.660 I love it.
00:03:34.540 No one is above the law, including this illegitimate president.
00:03:38.960 And so, I look forward, I look forward to going into the office of Attorney General every day,
00:03:48.920 suing him, defending your rights, and then going home.
00:03:54.700 Illegitimate president.
00:03:56.040 You heard that right.
00:03:57.320 Letitia James, a full-on election denier.
00:04:01.380 She'll probably be brought up on insurrection charges any day. 1.00
00:04:05.120 Someone who certainly hasn't been a fan of former President Trump lately is the former Attorney General William Barr.
00:04:12.680 But even Barr, talking with Fox News, backed the former president.
00:04:17.420 Here's what he had to say about Letitia James' charges against the former president.
00:04:22.760 It's hard for me not to conclude it's a political hit job.
00:04:27.480 This is a woman who campaigned for office, promising she was going to go after Trump,
00:04:32.780 which I think is a tremendous abuse of office to go headhunting and targeting individuals.
00:04:37.680 So, I think she was targeting Trump.
00:04:39.800 And this is, after three years, a civil lawsuit.
00:04:42.380 The gist of which is that when the Trump organization borrowed money, Trump personally guaranteed those loans.
00:04:48.640 And to support that, she's claiming that he inflated his assets on his financial statements.
00:04:53.640 The loans were paid back.
00:04:54.740 These were successful investments.
00:04:56.660 And the banks were paid back.
00:04:58.560 So, to have spent three years on this seems to me her trying to make good on a campaign promise that she was going to bring Trump down. 0.93
00:05:06.380 So, are you suggesting no harm, no foul here?
00:05:10.140 Well, I'm suggesting this is not the kind of case you would want to sink a lot of effort into.
00:05:14.440 And I'm also saying that I think the proof is probably fairly paltry when it comes to Trump.
00:05:24.360 But what persuades me that this is overreach is that she went after the children.
00:05:28.440 She just says, you know, they conspired.
00:05:30.580 She has no evidence that they played a role in this.
00:05:32.900 If your parents were going to help you buy a car and they were going to guarantee it and submitted their financial statements and they had as complicated a financial situation as Trump, would you feel you had to go out and fly speck it and so forth?
00:05:49.680 No.
00:05:50.500 No.
00:05:50.900 She's entitled to rely on the CFO and the accountants who prepared her father's statement.
00:05:56.680 Now, I'm not even sure she has a good case against Trump himself, but what ultimately persuades me that this is a political hit job is she grossly overreaches when she tries to drag the children into this. 1.00
00:06:10.400 Yes, they had roles in the business, but this was his personal financial statement.
00:06:15.400 It was prepared by the CFO.
00:06:18.420 Accounting firms were involved in it.
00:06:20.300 But the children aren't going to know the details of that and be able and nor are they expected in the real world to do their own due diligence and have it reviewed independently.
00:06:30.200 And so this this to me looks like gross overreach, which I think is going to end up backfiring on them because I think it will make people sympathetic for Trump, that this is another example of people piling on because of Trump derangement syndrome.
00:06:44.400 This, you know, this strong desire to, you know, to punish him.
00:06:48.300 So once again, President Trump left to fight on.
00:06:53.400 He's fought for six long years through hoax after hoax, frame up after frame up, false allegation after false allegation.
00:07:02.140 But you and I know the persecutions of the past six years have only proved wrongdoing on the part of the Marxist Dems and the deep state.
00:07:10.720 And produced never even one act of wrongdoing by President Trump in their six years of trying very hard.
00:07:19.400 Joining us today is a man who spent four years working alongside President Trump.
00:07:24.680 Our guest today is Russ Vogt.
00:07:26.620 He was initially the deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget.
00:07:31.840 He finished his tenure in the Trump administration as the 42nd director of the Office of Management and Budget.
00:07:38.800 Russ is now the president of the Center for Renewing America.
00:07:42.940 Russ, it's great to have you back with us here on The Great America Show.
00:07:46.160 Let's start with, if I may, the overall political atmospherics in the country right now.
00:07:51.800 We're watching the president of the United States declare that we will intervene on behalf of Taiwan.
00:07:57.360 We're China to invade. 0.99
00:07:59.560 There seem to be a lot of Biden staff members who apparently outrank the president because they follow each set of his remarks,
00:08:07.160 whether on 60 Minutes or a speech at the U.N. with denials, contradictions of the clearly now puppet president's remarks.
00:08:16.680 And somehow the national corporate media listens to them and not the president.
00:08:21.760 Strange, don't you think?
00:08:23.380 And as usual, there's confusion all around.
00:08:26.820 These are very peculiar happenings at the White House and throughout the Biden administration.
00:08:32.400 Your thoughts, Russ?
00:08:34.700 It's a pretty dangerous time in our country.
00:08:36.860 I can't remember a more dangerous time.
00:08:39.740 The country is incredibly divided.
00:08:42.620 We're really in the midst of a cold civil war.
00:08:45.360 And one of the reasons we are so divided is that we are facing, 75 million of us are facing the reality that the national security apparatus is,
00:08:54.520 quite frankly, weaponized against us and considering us domestic terrorists.
00:08:59.540 And that is done on behalf of this regime, of which Joe Biden is essentially in charge of it.
00:09:06.400 But we have a hard time believing that he is fully in charge of it based on every public appearance that he makes and based on everything that he states with some degree of clarity seemingly being walked back by his staff.
00:09:18.600 And so, you know, you can also get to the border, you can get to inflation, you can get to gas prices.
00:09:24.640 But we are in a very rough situation headed into an election that I hope the American people are able to speak clearly and send the cavalry our way.
00:09:33.280 And in that recent interview with, if you call it an interview with Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes, the president saying he would tell Putin that there will be consequences.
00:09:46.840 It was a very threatening response to Pelley's question.
00:09:50.600 The president did not bring it up, but Pelley did.
00:09:52.860 And I have to say, with a man with his impairments, his obvious he's obviously compromised in a number of ways in countries, important countries on the globe.
00:10:06.800 I just can't imagine him being a wartime president and the entire nation not diving for bunkers.
00:10:15.680 Yeah, he is not prepared to do that.
00:10:18.780 No foreign leader can take him seriously.
00:10:21.180 Obviously, our allies would not be confident in any sort of alliance in which we were leading that.
00:10:28.080 And this president largely needs to take the strategy of speaking less to the American people because it just creates confusion every time he opens his mouth.
00:10:38.680 And it's unfortunately something that he's just not fit for the presidency.
00:10:42.560 And as we look at the legislation that he has pushed through, this is the national debt has risen to $31 trillion, now well in excess of the size of the annual GDP.
00:10:55.500 He has been spending money left and right without seemingly any constraint whatsoever from the Congress or either party, really.
00:11:08.260 And we are looking at very difficult times ahead with fiscal policy, if you can call it a policy, but fiscal actions that he's taken.
00:11:20.220 Talk about a high inflationary environment.
00:11:22.960 We're about to find out what one really looks like at this rate, don't you think?
00:11:27.620 I do believe that, and I think that's another aspect of the interview that you mentioned, is that he tried to make it sound as if it's a status quo and they're not heaping on additional spending.
00:11:37.720 But the reality is they cancel student loans to the tune of $1 trillion, and that alone is equal to about 75 basis points that the Fed has to then raise rates or do something in terms of their balance sheet to counteract.
00:11:54.160 And the Biden administration is trying to say, hey, you know, Fed, you guys are independent, but they're just making life harder, and they're doing nothing to have a fiscal policy that would actually attempt to deal with the inflation, where we get back to balancing our books and being able to make wise decisions with the people's money.
00:12:13.880 You know, we've had, it's been a long time since, you know, we had that kind of bipartisan consensus by Congress to come along and actually cut spending.
00:12:24.380 It was, we tried to do it in the Trump administration, and Congress just resisted as every turn.
00:12:29.480 But Biden has done the opposite.
00:12:31.700 He's led in the wrong direction, unilaterally and with his budgets, and we have inflation as a result of that.
00:12:38.120 But any thoughts about why the Republican Party, and I'm not saying that they could have prevented or even slowed him down because of their, they're in the minority in both bodies, but there have not been even vocal on the issue to my way of thinking.
00:12:58.540 Your thoughts?
00:12:59.840 My thoughts are a little complicated on this.
00:13:02.160 In one sense, I think that the strongest fiscal conservatives for the last several years, when Trump was in charge, spent every waking moment rightfully trying to prevent a coup happening at the Department of Justice.
00:13:15.220 And so the people most likely to pick a spending fight were, had higher priorities at that moment.
00:13:22.020 The larger issue is that D.C. is basically a political cartel that likes to spend money on the bureaucracy that they are really a good part of directing on their behalf.
00:13:35.520 So they don't pass real laws anymore.
00:13:37.660 They just give authority to agencies to pass laws, and then they use the spending process to keep them in check.
00:13:44.280 And they've largely created this issue that all of us fiscal conservatives have to deal with, where they say it's not a good spending cut unless it's coming from entitlements.
00:13:54.240 Well, entitlements need to be reformed over time.
00:13:57.740 President Trump had a particularly good strategy of doing that.
00:14:01.000 But we can't actually ever discuss cutting the spending that happens on an annual basis that members actually vote on.
00:14:08.100 I mean, what craziness is that?
00:14:11.520 And yet that's the consensus that governs even people who want to deal with our fiscal imbalances.
00:14:20.320 And so we've got a lot of work to do, Lou.
00:14:22.100 I'm going to actually be doing a budget myself.
00:14:25.240 The Center for Renewing America will put it out right in November, mid-November.
00:14:29.120 We're going to show in a MAGA way, an America first way, how you balance the budget in 10 years with the right set of priorities that the American people would actually support.
00:14:41.640 Outstanding.
00:14:42.260 Now, that's an exciting announcement that you're making.
00:14:46.720 I just think that's terrific.
00:14:49.200 And I wish that I can't wait to see your work product on that, because to me, it's one of the most important issues facing the nation, certainly.
00:14:59.120 No, I agree.
00:15:00.260 And I think that's, you know, we want to prove to the political class it can be done.
00:15:04.680 If you don't want to do it, have the hard conversations about why you don't want to do it.
00:15:08.780 But one of those reasons will not be that you can't.
00:15:11.900 Yeah.
00:15:12.980 And, of course, one of the other part of this is the politics of it all.
00:15:18.000 While this president is sending out checks to just about everyone in advance of the election, $1,000 checks, $800 checks.
00:15:26.860 For giving student loans to the tune, as you pointed out, of almost a trillion dollars, it's very hard to tell your campaign committees and your colleagues in Congress, if you're a Republican, that, all right, guys, we're going to balance the budget when we're going to be the responsible adults and leaders of this party and do that.
00:15:52.280 But that is obviously exactly what the nation requires.
00:15:56.700 It does, and their strategy seems to be, and I talk about this a lot, their strategy seems to just be to continue to lie to the American people and say that they are not the reason that inflation is where it is, that the war in Ukraine is, or gas prices.
00:16:12.960 And I think they just, they're not being honest with the American people, nor have a healthy respect for, the American people are very bright.
00:16:23.780 They have a great intuitive sense to them, and they know that when they're being lied to, and that does not cause them to have greater credibility for their government.
00:16:32.960 That caused them to have increased resentment and bitterness, and that only leads to the further divisions in our country.
00:16:39.180 Well, for example, when you accuse the Biden administration of lying, we really should look at the Deficit Reduction Act, the, excuse me, the Inflation Reduction Act.
00:16:53.000 I guess they can use those terms interchangeably depending on the subject.
00:16:57.580 But it's amazing to me that they have the gall, the temerity, to call that legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act, even as they're spending $80 billion on 87,000 new IRS agents.
00:17:16.800 It's really breathtaking stuff, isn't it?
00:17:20.760 It is.
00:17:21.600 You know, it certainly did not deserve to be called the Inflation Reduction Act, nor do they have any track record of reducing the deficit.
00:17:31.040 This was a spending bill.
00:17:33.500 This was a Green New Deal down payment bill.
00:17:36.640 And they are starting to articulate now, now that they are past the couple of news cycles beyond the Inflation Reduction Act being signed into law.
00:17:44.820 But it also put into place more apparatus that's really what I would call woke and weaponized.
00:17:52.440 And so you've got the IRS.
00:17:55.380 You know, just think about the Treasury Department itself, which the IRS is within, is a $15 billion agency department.
00:18:01.720 Now, you're going to give $80 billion to the IRS?
00:18:07.240 I mean, I understand the need to supercharge it if that's your policy.
00:18:12.320 But, I mean, they just come up with these numbers on napkins and put them into bills.
00:18:18.280 And then what the reality is, that's going to be audits as far as the eye can see.
00:18:24.340 Small businesses owners aren't going to have the accountants.
00:18:26.820 There's not enough accountants out there to go work for the IRS.
00:18:29.440 So the small businesses that are making tough play calls in their LLCs are not going to have accountants to defend them.
00:18:36.180 And they're going to be paying a lot more.
00:18:38.380 And they're probably just going to make altogether different decisions that are less inclined to grow the economy and provide jobs.
00:18:45.560 And we're going to be facing a host of issues.
00:18:47.440 But that's just the start.
00:18:48.880 There's a host of other programs within that bill that they misnamed intentionally, the Inflation Reduction Act.
00:18:55.880 Russ.
00:18:56.820 Tell us about the lawsuit that you've brought against the Biden administration.
00:19:01.440 Sure.
00:19:02.020 We have filed two complaints to the IRS to raise the level of awareness and to get some new precedent and investigations on the books at the IRS.
00:19:13.700 Hopefully they do their job against Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, who donated $400 million to intervene in the last election.
00:19:24.040 But here's the issue.
00:19:25.080 They gave money to C3, which are tax-deductible nonprofits for the purpose of educational, which are barred from participating or intervening in elections.
00:19:35.860 And so they didn't just go out and create a PAC.
00:19:38.500 They spent money, donated it, took the deduction, and was able to put money into these.
00:19:48.160 And what do these organizations do?
00:19:50.220 The Center for Tech and Civic Life, Center for Election Innovation Research.
00:19:54.180 They literally privatized the election apparatus into the hands of Democratic partisan operatives.
00:20:04.860 And there's horror stories all over the place.
00:20:07.800 They didn't just set up a program that says, hey, anyone that might have a hard time and need help in COVID to make sure the elections were safe and clean.
00:20:15.720 No, they didn't do that.
00:20:16.960 They looked at the map and they said, these are the counties and these are the states where we need to hypercharge voter registration and create systematic voter fraud, really largely around mail-in voting.
00:20:28.060 And they gave grants and they had very, very restrictive contract agreements with the grant recipients that said they had to be involved.
00:20:38.420 They need to, on an ongoing basis, have the data.
00:20:41.060 Their staff needs to be consultants.
00:20:43.740 In one case, they had four out of five keys to all of the ballots being stored from absentee ballots.
00:20:50.080 So this is a huge aspect of how the left rigged the last election, and we believe they did it illegally through the donations of Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan that we have as a movement called Zuckerbucks.
00:21:05.480 And it's a major problem.
00:21:07.000 We think the IRS should speak to it.
00:21:08.640 If the IRS is not willing to on this administration, the complaint will still be there for a future administration.
00:21:14.260 And on that issue, when we talk about all that transpired in the 2020 election, also great suspicions about and charges about the president himself charging the electronic voting companies were part of a conspiracy and an operation to switch votes from him.
00:21:34.600 At one point, he put it as algorithms that would drive those votes, and his attorneys put it that way.
00:21:44.680 Your thoughts about the role of the electronic voting systems and why we've never had in, what, two years, we haven't had a real investigation of what transpired in that election, whether it's electronic voting, whether it's mail-in voting.
00:22:01.880 We've had superficial and very spotty reports, but nothing holistic in the way of an investigation or a conclusion.
00:22:13.960 Yeah, I mean, it's something that we definitely need more information about.
00:22:17.060 I think we know enough that we've got to get back to mail-in voting, or away from mail-in voting, and we've got to get back to in-person voting and paper ballots.
00:22:26.180 Those are the things that we can have greater confidence as an American people about being able to go to the polls and having every vote counted.
00:22:37.540 And our view, and I think the President Trump's view, is that we need to have more audits.
00:22:42.920 We need to have more investigations.
00:22:44.360 And how are we going to be able to fix this stuff if we don't continue to mine into the last election?
00:22:52.300 And so that's what we really have done in our sister organization, the Election Integrity Network by Cleta Mitchell.
00:22:58.460 What we really do is we try to keep mining.
00:23:01.680 And then as we find things, we make these issues national issues.
00:23:05.640 So we discovered ongoing systemic voter fraud in North Carolina, where they were pre-populating the driver's license for people to be able to, when you come to get applications for a driver's license, pre-populating them to be as citizens to go vote in North Carolina elections.
00:23:22.800 And they said, well, we solved the problem.
00:23:24.880 And we said, no, we don't believe that you've actually looked at the problem statewide.
00:23:28.660 And so those are the kinds of things that we've got to get a handle on.
00:23:31.820 And I would include, like your question, one of those has to be the machines over time to really be able to connect all of the dots in the way that we've had a lot of anecdotal evidence, according to.
00:23:42.680 I've been covering electronic voting skeptically, to put it kindly, skeptically, for almost two decades now.
00:23:51.200 And we are sitting here now with the Department of Homeland Security and its agency, the election assistance group.
00:24:02.220 Homeland Security really is nothing more than a outsourcer and a functionary of some sort of hub, if you will, for surveillance of the electronic voting machines themselves.
00:24:16.760 But there's no actual understanding of what's happening in each jurisdiction, standards that have to be complied with.
00:24:26.400 It's all advisory.
00:24:28.360 And the voting public never gets to look into what are, in point of fact, black boxes.
00:24:34.900 We don't see the contents, neither do the secretaries of state nor the county clerks or the election commissions that run our elections.
00:24:43.100 And that in and of itself cries out for oversight.
00:24:49.640 No question.
00:24:50.720 I mean, we've got, we've had kind of a, it's unfortunate, I'm going to say once in generation, but we know if you've been following elections historically, there's voter fraud, systemic fraud that goes back generations.
00:25:04.960 And we saw a tsunami of it in this last election, and there's so many threads that we got to run down.
00:25:12.340 And the answer is not, let's stop talking about it.
00:25:15.020 The answer is continue to refine and investigate, smoke out and fix so that we can have confidence when we go to the polls.
00:25:23.120 And it's, it's interesting that the Democrats were screaming about voter fraud in 2016.
00:25:33.380 But in 2020, they want to say that everything is just fine, and let's move all, move along here.
00:25:41.860 It's quite a change in attitude when the Democrats, in terms of electronic voting, I will say this, the Democrats were the greater critics of electronic voting over the course of most of that 20 years, right up to 2020.
00:25:55.840 In 2019, they were still leading senators, Democratic senators, were complaining about the failure to replace old machines and to assure the integrity of those machines.
00:26:10.000 And suddenly, in 2020, oh, everything is fine here, and again, just move along.
00:26:16.300 Our side is the complete reverse.
00:26:18.480 And so, as a result, we are always, the conservatives, the Republicans, are always behind the eight ball, because there is a fear to be able to do what is, what's necessary from a public policy standpoint or an oversight perspective, to do what's necessary in that moment to save the country, as opposed to making sure that you're 100% in line with everything you've ever said before.
00:26:44.360 The left doesn't think that way, they get away with it from the media, but until we get that approach, we're going to have a hard time beating them back.
00:26:52.340 You know, that's a terrific way to say that, Russ, and I have not heard anyone else put it that way.
00:26:58.060 Could you repeat that for the audience?
00:27:00.100 Because I think that is a profound statement for what is a complete differentiating element between the two parties.
00:27:11.440 Sure. You know, if my interest is to get a raise, what's the reason I want to get that raise?
00:27:17.520 If my position is I want to get a raise, well, I want that raise because I want to spend more time with my family and go on vacations and spend time with them.
00:27:25.120 And if I get the raise, but I have to work a lot longer, I've gotten my position, but I've hurt my interests.
00:27:31.660 And so those two things have been separated.
00:27:34.180 The left never is away or separated from their interests.
00:27:39.080 They always make sure that their positions are aligned with their interests so that if they get what they want, they have actually served their strategic purpose.
00:27:48.480 And I think that's the thing that our guys are just not savvy enough and or is part of the way they play the game is that they can actually get what they've said that they were going to try to do for their voters.
00:28:00.580 But at the end of the day, they are not really here to actually save the country, which is what we all put them in office to do.
00:28:08.980 Exactly. And again, well said.
00:28:13.480 As I said, I've never heard anybody put it the way you just did.
00:28:16.560 And I think you're 100 percent right.
00:28:19.760 The question of IQ in the party, the party leadership, I'm not going to, I'll ask you, I know you have to live and work in Washington, D.C., but I've got to put it this way.
00:28:31.980 You obviously have the courage of your principles and your and your philosophy.
00:28:37.340 You're not going to be too worried about what I'm going to ask here.
00:28:41.220 But the IQs, there just seems to be an IQ differential again between the leadership of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.
00:28:51.460 Is that just a just a superficial appearance or is there something to it?
00:28:58.780 Well, I think about it a little more institutionally and I think about it that from the standpoint of that Washington, D.C.
00:29:05.820 is essentially a political cartel where the uniparty establishment is what we typically would call them basically leaves policy points on the board
00:29:15.500 intentionally because it involves risk and that risk means that they are less likely to have the same amount of status quo.
00:29:23.840 So they would rather say, no, we are not going to have a debate about what's actually happening with the invasion along the border and use the word invasion.
00:29:32.920 They don't want to have a conversation about what Planned Parenthood was doing with the federal funding that they were receiving because there's risk involved in that.
00:29:42.760 And unfortunately, it's politics. There's risk involved.
00:29:46.020 And to be able to articulate to the American people, you can you have to do that to accomplish your objectives.
00:29:52.040 But here's the thing. There's a vast supermajority out there for the America first objective America first agenda, the cultural issues that Donald Trump ran on.
00:30:00.280 There's a supermajority out there that he was just beginning to crack and that involves risk.
00:30:05.860 But it's such high reward and it's the only thing that's going to save the country.
00:30:08.980 So to your question, I look at it institutionally to say it's intended.
00:30:15.100 It's intended to be able to keep people away from the issues that are also the cartel busting issues.
00:30:23.020 They can't go back and explain why they're not willing to use the word invasion and invoke it to their voters.
00:30:28.960 So they've got to come up with shiny objects that distract from those cartel busting issues because those are most critical to preserving their power.
00:30:37.480 And again, that power is rising dramatically in Washington, D.C.
00:30:44.360 for the what I call the Marxist Dems who control the Democrat Party and the Marxist Dems who are the masters of what I consider to be the first puppet president in this country's history.
00:30:56.620 It is it's it's an extraordinary time.
00:30:59.540 And I really don't know how to get at it.
00:31:02.480 We have very few, very few.
00:31:06.260 We have no corporate legacy media willing to investigate anything.
00:31:12.820 They're not going to follow even the most apparent transgressions of the party.
00:31:20.300 And so without oversight of either the government or the oversight of our what used to be the fourth estate, we're we're just in real trouble here, aren't we?
00:31:33.740 We are. And I think that's one of the reasons why I think it's so important to create new institutions that are not kind of warped by last 40, 50 years of kind of the incoherencies of of a particular view of conservatism.
00:31:47.760 I think you need new legal paradigms that be that go back to the reality of what the founders, not just the words that they use in their original meaning, but their original understandings of what those of the separation of powers, if they were in these positions, how would they respond?
00:32:04.660 They would respond fundamentally differently than our our our two sides, because they they had they they meant for titanic struggles between the branches, between the feds and the states.
00:32:17.680 And that's what we need to get back to. And we need new legal paradigms to do that. 0.79
00:32:21.940 And that's one of the reasons that we've started our center is to help them think through that and not just be scared by, oh, there's four circuit opinions, none of which have been opined by the Supreme Court.
00:32:32.720 And they would suggest that you don't have this ability, even though the plain words of the Constitution would allow you to think in these terms.
00:32:40.620 So that's how we think about it. And the beauty of it is that they've never the left has only just done incremental reform for the last hundred years.
00:32:49.100 And there's no reason that we can't just adopt fundamentally radically new paradigms that are fundamentally consistent with the our American founding.
00:32:57.220 On a somewhat more granular level, what does that mean for the judiciary that is now peopled to a quickly rising ratio of Dems to Republican appointed judges?
00:33:16.380 What does it mean for the the attitude of the D.C. courts sitting in D.C. rather than Omaha, Nebraska?
00:33:26.800 It's very hard to find a jury that is even remotely, remotely tolerant of Republican or conservative views.
00:33:36.340 Well, you know, part of my last comment was getting at the notion that the branches have lost their fear of each other.
00:33:42.400 And the main culprit has been the judiciary branch.
00:33:45.140 I mean, they they don't fear the other two bodies because the other two bodies have not used their constitutional authorities to give pause to their other their other branch.
00:33:57.480 And so that's, you know, when was the last time Congress even had a debate about taking away the jurisdiction or reforming the courts to be able to deal with certain issues that where they have been out of bounds?
00:34:09.920 Or take the just rampant abuse of national injunctions that we saw in the Trump administration, how ludicrous is that you can have a judge in California put an entire national injunction on everyone impacting flyover country and North Carolina and everywhere else?
00:34:28.640 And so those are the kinds of debates that we need to have that a lot that allows there to be some some pause by the court system to say, you know what, we need to rein it in here and not be so flagrant across the board.
00:34:42.720 I mean, you see that on the policy issues, but you also see with it with how they're dealing with the J6 prisoners and some of the procedural decisions there.
00:34:52.240 I mean, everywhere you look, you have the justice system outside the bounds in temperament and aggressiveness than I think their founders would have ever expected.
00:35:03.540 Let me ask you again, one more question on that issue, and that is the lawfare group that supports the Marxist Dems in every way and from whom they draw immense talent and huge numbers to people, their tactical squads in an election.
00:35:24.600 It's the Republicans, Ronald McDaniel, the chair of the Republican National Committee, coming out talking about hallmarks of progress and 30,000 of this and 34.
00:35:38.020 And meanwhile, we find out a bunch of people don't have anybody peopling their precincts right now in jurisdictions all over the country.
00:35:46.500 We've got to square up lawfare elections and support, and it seems madness to me that here we are in 2022 with what looks to be a red wave.
00:35:59.120 Every poll, well, not every poll, but the polls I respect showing that still.
00:36:05.060 And I'm not sure because I don't think the Republicans have done enough to assure the integrity of this election.
00:36:12.180 Your thoughts?
00:36:12.660 Well, we have taken it upon ourselves and our sister organization, Election Integrity Network, to make sure that we're creating the same kind of networks of poll watchers in key states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Florida.
00:36:28.800 And this is all done through our C4, the Citizens for Renewing America.
00:36:33.260 And what we're doing is taking the model of the Virginia election.
00:36:37.460 And the Virginia election, which I honestly didn't think we were going to win, Lou.
00:36:42.520 I didn't either.
00:36:43.340 I didn't either.
00:36:43.900 Because I thought that their systemic voter fraud would get them across the finish line.
00:36:48.140 But the reality is that there had been this coalition stood up of just nonpartisan poll watchers that were able to keep it in check.
00:36:56.880 And that same model is being exported to states across the country.
00:37:01.400 And we won't get it all the way there for this next election, but it's meant to be a permanent infrastructure that doesn't rely on parties that come and go with different leadership, different interests, and to make sure the American people have something that is a little more permanent and to make sure that this is here to stay with people who know their precincts and know what is the games that are played at the county level across the country.
00:37:27.640 Your thoughts, as we're wrapping up here, Russ, your thoughts about your confidence in this election being fair and square?
00:37:40.820 I don't think that they can pull off what they pulled in 2020 again.
00:37:48.800 But they will try.
00:37:50.520 And they've got big tech.
00:37:52.220 And they are trying to innovate.
00:37:54.540 They're trying to, instead of having Zuckerberg, they're trying to spend billions in voter registration at federal agencies.
00:38:00.500 We have a strategy in place to prevent them.
00:38:02.620 But at the end of the day, I think that people need to get out there and vote because I don't think that they will be able to get away with it given the amount of increased eyes that the conservative movement is flooding the zone to make sure is everywhere and the amount of eyes and attention.
00:38:21.880 I mean, think about it.
00:38:22.660 It took us ever since the last election to figure out what was going on in that.
00:38:27.780 Now, we know, headed into it, here are their strategies, and we actually have a game plan to prevent it.
00:38:33.680 So the enemy has a vote, and we've got to be able to keep running our routes.
00:38:39.140 But great progress, I think, is being made.
00:38:42.520 Well, good.
00:38:43.080 That's reassuring.
00:38:44.200 And Russ has made a reference, an allusion to the Biden White House and its efforts to replace Zuckerberg, private capital, high-tech, big tech, big social media with its own get-out-the-vote initiatives that are well-funded, have a natural infrastructure, and doing so with taxpayer dollars.
00:39:12.380 Is there no way that a successful emergency lawsuit couldn't try to stop these folks doing exactly what they clearly now plan?
00:39:25.740 And I say clearly, they are not being transparent at all, but it's clear that they mean to use federal money, federal resources, and federal taxpayer money and federal employees to get out the Democrat vote.
00:39:42.760 We're certainly looking to all options being on the table.
00:39:47.620 Right now, we've focused on letting them know, letting all the bureaucrats know that they don't have the appropriations, the spending authority from Congress to do what they're being told to do, and that there's criminal penalties associated with them.
00:40:00.940 And if they don't think those will be enforced by a future conservative administration, they should think twice and go and check with their general counsel.
00:40:07.240 So we want that to have a chilling impact.
00:40:09.720 Secondly, a lot of these strategies by the left are based on the foundation of the motor voter law, which, yes, provided a mandate as to the departments of motor vehicle, but did not provide a mandate with regard to the other partnerships that state job centers could have with job poor centers at the Department of Labor or the housing authorities.
00:40:30.680 And so we're asking governors and state secretaries to say, we revoke that discretionary authority, and we are not going to participate in your scheme to have partisan activity done with federal taxpayer dollars.
00:40:45.780 So we believe those two things right now can have an immediate impact to stop this in its tracks while we pursue any and all legal strategies.
00:40:53.900 Russ Vogt, Center for Renewing America, doing amazing things, thinking about issues that are critically important to the nation's future and, in point of fact, the nation's present.
00:41:09.860 Russ, we always give our guests the last word here.
00:41:13.920 So if you would, your concluding thoughts.
00:41:17.160 No, I appreciate the time to talk about where we are on America First perspective.
00:41:22.220 Lou, you have been a hero and a leading thought leader in that movement, and so it's a real privilege to be back on your show and to talk through to your audience all the things that we're working on.
00:41:33.540 So I appreciate it.
00:41:35.620 Thanks so much, Russ.
00:41:36.900 Russ Vogt, the head of the Center for Renewing America.
00:41:39.820 Thanks, everybody, for being with us here today.
00:41:42.300 And please join us tomorrow when our guest will be Kurt Olson, outstanding attorney, former Navy SEAL, who's represented President Trump.
00:41:50.600 He's representing Mike Lindell.
00:41:52.640 We'll be talking with him about, among other things, the Mike Lindell lawsuits against the FBI and the U.S. government.
00:42:01.180 Please be with us.
00:42:02.420 Thanks, everybody.
00:42:03.720 Till then, God bless you, and may God bless America.
00:42:07.240 God bless you, and may God bless you, and may God bless you.