The Great America Show - Law and Order： The Fight Against Crime in America’s Cities

00:00:00.000 Hello, America, and happy Friday.

00:00:08.740 We've got a great show for you today, but also a bombshell of new revelations about

00:00:13.860 the Joe Biden auto pen scandal.

00:00:16.840 New documents obtained by Just the News, internal White House documents from the Biden era.

00:00:22.860 These are Biden's own aides.

00:00:24.340 They were at the National Archives.

00:00:26.420 The Trump White House counsel's office recently got them.

00:00:31.120 They show that President Joe Biden's aides believed at the beginning of his administration

00:00:34.900 he had a legal obligation to personally hand sign official presidential actions, including

00:00:40.640 pardons and commutations.

00:00:42.240 But by the end of his presidency, Joe Biden was so disinterested in that sort of behavior

00:00:47.620 that he was outsourcing clemency decisions to then Vice President Kamala Harris, who, by

00:00:53.260 the way, doesn't have clemency powers.

00:00:56.420 These are bombshells.

00:00:57.560 Why?

00:00:57.980 Because they now raise new questions about whether President Biden actually attended

00:01:03.700 meetings, actually gave personal approval to clemency decisions.

00:01:08.760 These include commuting the death row sentences of many federal death row inmates, as well as

00:01:15.280 some whole categories of people who got mass pardons.

00:01:20.160 These are a really, really big, big investigation.

00:01:24.540 We're really excited about it.

00:01:26.380 The documents are up on justthenews.com.

00:01:29.760 You can read them yourselves.

00:01:30.760 Come to your own conclusion.

00:01:32.580 One of the most important, I think, is the one from the 2021 White House staff secretary.

00:01:38.860 The name is Jess Hertz.

00:01:40.340 And there was a draft memo.

00:01:42.280 And it basically said, these are the official policies that will govern whether certain presidential

00:01:46.060 actions would require a handwritten signature.

00:01:48.840 And it was from February 2021.

00:01:50.620 And it's very clear that pardon letters must have an original hand signature.

00:01:56.580 That's what the memo states.

00:01:58.820 And they said the reason for this is it was a long history of the White House to do it this

00:02:02.300 way, starting including the Obama-Biden administration when Joe Biden was the vice president and Barack

00:02:07.280 Obama was the president.

00:02:09.160 Hand-signed signatures were required for things like executive orders and pardon letters.

00:02:16.780 So that's one.

00:02:17.960 And then you see, as the time went on, Joe Biden became so disinterested in hand-signing things

00:02:24.560 that he was outsourcing it.

00:02:25.740 There's one instance in February 24 where the president was increasingly showing he was increasingly

00:02:30.900 relying on Vice President Kamala Harris's assessment rather than his own to approve pardons.

00:02:37.200 Quote, given the president's schedule, it often can take days or weeks for the president

00:02:41.280 to review and approve the clemency packets.

00:02:43.860 The chief of staff's office has been helpful in getting the paper in front of him for his

00:02:47.320 review.

00:02:48.340 He previously asked the White House counsel to discuss the candidates with him, although

00:02:51.560 in the last round, the vice president's approval was sufficient to obtain his approval.

00:02:57.620 That's what these memos show.

00:02:59.300 One of the most extraordinary powers that a president has, the power of clemency, the power

00:03:06.480 of pardon, the pardon of commutation.

00:03:08.600 And he was outsourcing it to someone who didn't have that power under the Constitution, Kamala

00:03:14.520 Harris.

00:03:15.540 All of these documents available for everybody to see up at justinnews.com.

00:03:19.520 My colleague and I, Stephen Richards, broke this story overnight.

00:03:22.620 It's been the number one trending story.

00:03:24.180 You can read it.

00:03:24.900 And we're going to dive deeper into this in the second block of the show with Sam Dewey,

00:03:30.440 a lawyer with the Oversight Project.

00:03:32.120 The Oversight Project began this scandal.

00:03:35.040 They were the ones who found the first auto pen signatures and began raising the legal and

00:03:39.460 constitutional arguments.

00:03:41.200 Sam Dewey is going to react to the new documents that we got in the second block of the show.

00:03:45.500 Now, on the first block of the show, Congresswoman Beth Van Dyne from Texas, former mayor of Irving,

00:03:51.560 Texas.

00:03:52.140 She's going to weigh in on all that has happened on the crime cleanup front.

00:03:56.960 I call it cleanup on aisle crime.

00:04:00.200 President Trump helping D.C.

00:04:02.380 clean up its crime problem in a big way.

00:04:04.680 It's violent crime problem.

00:04:05.680 Now other cities in the crosshairs, Chicago, Baltimore among them.

00:04:09.440 A really powerful dynamic has been at work, and Congresswoman Beth Van Dyne will react to 0.97

00:04:15.540 that in the opening segment of the show.

00:04:17.480 And then we'll wrap things up with Adam Weiss.

00:04:19.640 He's a great PR executive out in New York.

00:04:22.140 He's host of a show on Real America's Voice, one of our colleagues at RAV.

00:04:26.140 It's called Real Media Exposed.

00:04:28.980 It's a great media show.

00:04:30.400 Adam Weiss will join us in the third block of the show to talk about the mayoral's race.

00:04:35.500 And whether Zoran Mondami's election could be a liability, should he be elected as the

00:04:42.240 next mayor of New York City, is it a liability for future Democrats?

00:04:46.980 We'll see.

00:04:47.860 But certainly that is some of the questions we're going to ask Adam in the third block

00:04:52.720 of the show.

00:04:53.660 So that's our lineup for today.

00:04:55.660 Congresswoman Beth Van Dyne, Oversight Project lawyer Sam Dewey talking about our big scoop.

00:05:01.080 And of course, Adam Weiss on the Mondami race up in New York City. 0.66

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00:06:53.840 Somebody who knows what's relevant and is always a great way to kick off our show.

00:06:57.460 She's a world traveler, a extraordinary member of Congress,

00:07:01.740 working on some of the most important issues that really matter to American people.

00:07:05.480 She represents the great state of Texas, Congresswoman Beth Van Dyne. 0.93

00:07:09.880 Oh, I think we may have lost her.

00:07:12.020 I was going to introduce her, but I guess we're right here.

00:07:14.920 There we are.

00:07:15.480 OK, we got her back.

00:07:16.500 I'm sorry, guys.

00:07:17.240 All right.

00:07:18.320 All right.

00:07:19.240 Congresswoman Beth Van Dyne, good to have you here.

00:07:21.380 Sorry about that little mix up on the mic here.

00:07:24.800 All right.

00:07:25.280 I want to turn to something that has befuddled me for the last few months.

00:07:28.360 And I know you've been watching it closely.

00:07:30.580 Democrats trying to describe crime ridden cities as a success,

00:07:35.080 as not needing the help that President Trump and the Republican Congress wants to give them

00:07:39.440 to get back to law and order.

00:07:41.540 What polls are they reading?

00:07:42.980 What streets are they walking?

00:07:45.220 That's a great question.

00:07:46.440 And, you know, if you listen to the governor of Illinois, he admits, you know, he's like,

00:07:50.580 oh, cities have crime.

00:07:52.020 Yes, cities have crime.

00:07:53.120 And when you don't prosecute criminals,

00:07:54.700 all you do is incentivize them to commit more crime.

00:07:58.680 You have an offer from a president to help you get control over your city,

00:08:03.320 to stop the number of deaths, to stop the number of gunfights,

00:08:07.620 to help you actually make your communities feel safer.

00:08:10.840 And they're rejecting it.

00:08:11.960 They're making fun of him.

00:08:12.780 And they're in denial.

00:08:14.240 You had, what, 58 people who got shot over the Labor Day weekend in Chicago alone this past weekend?

00:08:21.120 You can't deny it.

00:08:22.180 And I think it's really a tragedy to the families of those affected to say that,

00:08:28.340 oh, it's Trump is making this up.

00:08:30.260 Why don't you talk to some of the victims before you start saying that?

00:08:33.160 I was a former mayor.

00:08:34.120 I take this personally.

00:08:35.520 We worked very well with our police to make sure that we were enforcing, you know, our laws

00:08:40.060 and that we were adding disincentives to commit crime.

00:08:43.780 And guess what?

00:08:44.420 It works.

00:08:45.400 Yeah, it does.

00:08:46.860 Congresswoman, you look at someone like the case of Chicago's Mayor Brandon Johnson,

00:08:50.260 who has a 79.9 unfavorability rating.

00:08:54.900 So he's obviously in a situation where he's got to do something to make things better for the people in the city.

00:09:00.900 But also at the same time, as we were talking about before we came to air and we were laughing about with you,

00:09:05.860 Democrats have been yanked so far to the left and there's not hardly a middle ground for them.

00:09:10.340 So about three months ago, we had Tom Homan on this show and he said that he was willing to provide cover as the bad cop for any blue city mayors

00:09:18.280 who wanted to be the good cops and, you know, resist the Trump administration.

00:09:22.480 But, hey, guys, come in and kind of help us clean this up.

00:09:24.960 Is there an opportunity here for blue city mayors to maybe face forward, act like they are, you know, opposing what the administration is doing?

00:09:34.540 But meanwhile, letting them actually come in and make things better for their constituents to help boost their numbers so they can win again.

00:09:40.140 Well, look, I think looking at what's happening in Washington, D.C. with Mayor Muriel Bowser, right, she's done that.

00:09:47.580 You know, she's she's publicly spoken and she said, you know, initially, we don't want it.

00:09:52.200 We don't need it. But then it came in and the proof is in the pudding.

00:09:55.980 You know, the fact that crime is down 50 percent since Trump got our National Guards involved.

00:10:02.900 This can happen in other cities. Get control of your city.

00:10:07.400 They're not they're not saying they want to permanent permanently be there.

00:10:10.540 We can't afford to have all of our National Guards all over our cities permanently.

00:10:14.380 But if you can come in and at least help them, I'm shocked that these city mayors don't want that help.

00:10:20.140 It's amazing how all they want is the cash.

00:10:22.640 You know, they come in and out of our offices all the time asking for more money, asking for more appropriations, asking for more CDBG funds.

00:10:29.940 And so here you have a president who is offering to do it, allowing them to save face.

00:10:35.780 And yet you still have them in denial.

00:10:37.520 And it's as if they actually are protecting the criminals or fine with that happening in their cities.

00:10:43.020 And they are doubling down. Think about what would happen if you actually had a mayor who said, you know what?

00:10:48.080 I've talked to one too many victims today of violence in my city.

00:10:52.200 One too many kids who've died from fentanyl.

00:10:54.360 We are going to accept that help because it could because crime should not be a partisan issue.

00:10:59.100 Can you imagine that? I think that mayor is saving face, but also protecting their community.

00:11:03.960 And that is exactly what they get elected to do.

00:11:06.480 Yeah, that is remarkable.

00:11:08.020 You mentioned the money, and I'm wondering whether there is a growing trend in Congress to consider tying future federal funds to a city's willingness to abide by common sense law and order measures.

00:11:18.980 Like, if someone's a bad guy, don't let them out the next day after they've committed a bad crime.

00:11:23.200 Is there some conversation behind the scenes of Congress using the power of the purse to start to crack down on these wayward cities?

00:11:30.700 I have introduced legislation to do that.

00:11:33.120 I am on and I've co-sponsored a number of my colleagues who also have bills to do that.

00:11:38.560 Mine basically says if you are a sanctuary city, you're not going to get federal dollars.

00:11:42.140 And we're going to actually claw back unspent federal dollars for the last five years if you are a sanctuary city.

00:11:48.020 So if you have actually had a – you pass a bill that says this is your sanctuary city, if these are the policies that you are carrying out,

00:11:57.420 if you're preventing police from doing their job and working with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, then, yes, you're going to get your federal dollars clawed back.

00:12:04.780 Now, will it pass in the Senate?

00:12:06.540 I don't know.

00:12:07.560 But we're going to continue to work on legislation that would prevent these cities from putting all of their citizens in harm's way.

00:12:14.200 Yeah, makes sense.

00:12:15.300 Congresswoman, a lot of these blue cities have been plagued with crime for decades.

00:12:19.000 But a lot of them also saw spikes, especially like the ones that we saw surrounding the George Floyd riots.

00:12:23.840 And you also have legislation called the Stop Funders Act, which I think is absolutely brilliant.

00:12:29.640 Tell us about it.

00:12:31.080 Thank you.

00:12:31.480 Well, what we're saying is when we see these rioters that have been just taking over cities, taking over campuses around the country, they are organized riots.

00:12:40.920 These are organized violent riots where you're seeing people in the same kind of military black gear with assault weapons, having the same literature.

00:12:51.100 This is obviously organized.

00:12:53.020 It's being paid for.

00:12:54.400 It's being funded.

00:12:55.140 So what this would do is it would expand the RICO definitions to include these organizers of riots.

00:13:02.840 It would give the federal government power to be able to go into some of these jurisdictions like we were just talking about that aren't enforcing their laws.

00:13:10.360 And it would allow the federal government to come in and do that.

00:13:12.420 But we are going to find out who is behind them, who is organizing them, and who is paying for it.

00:13:18.060 Because the people who are actually committing the riots right now are the only ones that we can hold responsible.

00:13:23.560 And you've got cities who aren't doing that.

00:13:24.920 You've got DAs who aren't doing that.

00:13:26.760 So this actually allows us to get and find rioters who are showing up in cities over and over again, in different cities around the country.

00:13:34.140 It expands it to allow us to find out who is committing this crime, who is paying for it.

00:13:41.660 And I think we're going to try to figure out any way that we can to get down to the bottom of the problem.

00:13:49.560 And it allows other jurisdictions to actually connect the dots.

00:13:54.260 So cities can talk to one another, but federal law enforcement can actually investigate it and put the dots together.

00:14:02.000 Yeah, that would be huge.

00:14:03.060 Somewhere there's a racketeering conspiracy waiting to be discovered in that evidence.

00:14:07.180 And it's going to be important, I think, for us to all watch how that develops in the next few months.

00:14:11.860 Congresswoman, there is a signal that the president will soon unleash a new blueprint for helping make housing affordable again in America.

00:14:22.580 J.D. Vance said something profound the other day.

00:14:24.300 I saw you react.

00:14:25.160 I love the reaction you gave.

00:14:26.200 He said that part of the reason is that when we let those millions of Americans, millions of illegal aliens into America a few months, years ago, over the Biden years, we actually put enormous pressure on the housing market that drew prices up.

00:14:39.120 A lot of people didn't put that together.

00:14:41.060 You have.

00:14:41.560 You've been talking about this.

00:14:42.700 What are some of the ideas on the table now in Congress to get behind what the president does and maybe make housing more affordable again in America?

00:14:50.820 Well, look, you're absolutely right.

00:14:53.400 When you have got the federal government that's paying on market rate and above, basically cash money and kicking out people who are already living there to be able to house illegal aliens, yes, it absolutely increased the cost because it also made the demand higher, which made the costs higher.

00:15:10.320 But we've got to get down to the bottom line, whether or not that is looking at a total revamp of HUD policies, which that's the first agency that they went into.

00:15:19.420 And as you know, I used to work with Ben Carson at HUD under the first Trump administration.

00:15:24.020 But they have they have a strategy of being able to allow get the federal government out of people's lives.

00:15:30.120 The overregulation is one of the key factors in the cost of housing.

00:15:34.220 And we find that in areas like California, where the housing is the most the most expensive.

00:15:41.300 The reason why a lot of the times is the additional burdens that the federal government, state government and local governments put on these these home builders to be able to actually build new houses.

00:15:53.040 So I think we're looking at totally going revamping a regulatory reforms.

00:15:57.900 And that is something that's happening at HUD right now.

00:16:00.120 They've already figured out how to kick out like over a thousand either duplicative or illegal regulations that right now are being forced on home builders.

00:16:11.200 And when you're talking about literally trillions of dollars, when we start looking at regulatory reform, that could be that could be saved.

00:16:17.700 And that will definitely help people who are trying to buy and build new homes.

00:16:22.280 The other thing that we're trying to do is look at it from a tax perspective and allowing people to use more of their earned income that's that's pre-taxed to be able to put down down payments on homes.

00:16:33.160 But there's a whole host of of options at the table.

00:16:37.180 We're just trying to put together a very thoughtful strategy.

00:16:39.940 All right, folks, don't go anywhere.

00:16:40.880 When we come back, we'll address that big scoop.

00:16:42.640 We had overnight big exclusive on Joe Biden, the auto pen in the possibility that some of those pardons and commutations may be voidable.

00:16:51.360 We'll discuss that next with the Oversight Project's great lawyer, Sam Dewey.

00:17:01.580 All right, folks, welcome back from the commercial break.

00:17:03.740 At the top of the show, I told you about those new documents we got from the National Archives dug up by the Trump White House Counsel's Office as part of their review of what we call auto pen gate.

00:17:14.900 Joe Biden's unwillingness to take the time to sign official documents like clemency orders, pardons, sometimes legislation, executive orders.

00:17:26.260 Now, while that was a big development and while there's more big developments on the horizon, none of this would have been known.

00:17:32.900 None of this controversy, none of the important public issues that this raises about the Biden era of government would have been known if it weren't for the great work of my friends at the Oversight Project.

00:17:43.640 They have done amazing work.

00:17:45.300 We had Mike Howell on a couple of weeks ago.

00:17:47.180 You get a sense of everything that they're doing that makes a difference to a better, smarter government.

00:17:53.480 And right now, I want to bring in another one of their great lawyers.

00:17:56.400 He has served in so many different roles across the time, but he used to be a senior advisor at the U.S. Agency for Global Media, a place that I did a lot of work at back about four or five years ago exposing things.

00:18:07.140 Today, he's one of the top lawyers at the Oversight Project.

00:18:09.820 He is Sam Dewey.

00:18:11.280 He joins us right now.

00:18:12.060 Sam, great to have you on the show.

00:18:13.960 Thanks for having me.

00:18:14.880 I really appreciate your work, and this is just a bombshell you dropped.

00:18:19.600 In fairness, I'm just catching up to you guys.

00:18:21.620 You guys started this.

00:18:22.660 You had the instinct.

00:18:23.680 You knew something wasn't right here.

00:18:25.780 And I think every time we peel a little bit more of the onion back, we see just how bad it is.

00:18:31.320 When you look at these new documents, you've got sort of two points.

00:18:34.000 At the beginning of the Biden presidency, it's clear his inner circle team believes he has a legal obligation to sign personally on things like clemency or executive orders.

00:18:44.660 Or legislation, because that's what the precedent was in the Obama administration.

00:18:51.100 But by the end of it, Joe Biden seems to be so disinterested in his job.

00:18:55.360 He's like, I'll let Kamala Harris do that. 0.98

00:18:57.140 When you see those two bookends, and now we have paper for it, what's your analysis now?

00:19:03.240 What does this do to the legal analysis about the possibility that what Joe Biden did was illegal and possibly even voidable?

00:19:09.500 So a couple of points on that.

00:19:13.260 At the top, we'll answer your legal question at the highest level.

00:19:17.320 There is law going back to the 1300s that says if a pardon is not properly executed, there is no pardon.

00:19:29.160 It's void.

00:19:30.420 It's as if it never happened.

00:19:32.340 So that goes back to English law, right?

00:19:33.720 That's going all the way back to...

00:19:35.080 The Supreme Court has said five or six times, look to British law as it existed at the time of independence when determining how to deal with a pardon, construe it, see whether it's valid.

00:19:50.860 And there are a bunch of state cases from the 1900s where some weird issues arose.

00:19:57.540 There were ones in Oklahoma where there was a disputed election.

00:20:02.960 The secretary of state refused to seal a pardon that the governor, who may not have been the governor, issued.

00:20:08.480 And in all those cases, the court said, it's got to be sealed under the law.

00:20:13.780 It's void.

00:20:15.200 It was as if no pardon issued.

00:20:17.160 So at the highest level, people, a lot of people don't get that because a lot of legal acts, you know, you can ratify, you can repair, not pardon.

00:20:28.060 If you screwed up issuing it, there was no pardon.

00:20:31.640 It's void.

00:20:32.860 So that's hugely important.

00:20:34.780 And then drilling down from your broader thing, I mean, this confirms all of our suspicions.

00:20:41.300 If you stipulate to the broadest use of the auto pen, let's say we don't get into the legality, we stipulate to the broadest legal version of how much you can auto pen.

00:20:52.580 The one thing every one of those DOJ opinions says is you've got to have documentation somewhere.

00:21:00.320 If you use the auto pen, make sure it's documented.

00:21:03.340 And I'm looking at a decision memo, essentially nullifying the death penalty statute in most cases that isn't even signed.

00:21:14.120 And the only indication is some random memo claiming Jeff Sents had an oral conversation.

00:21:23.460 And that's insane because under the broadest view of the legality of the auto pen, they did exactly what DOJ said not to do, which is they didn't document anything.

00:21:35.400 So I know that they're looking very closely at this, and I do think there are some real legal questions on some of the pardons.

00:21:47.760 And I can put that in two buckets if that's of interest to you.

00:21:52.240 Please, yeah.

00:21:52.720 Let's break it down.

00:21:53.440 Listen, nobody knows this better than you guys.

00:21:55.080 You guys have been at the forefront from the beginning.

00:21:57.340 The two things I would look at are the death row commutations because they were the worst of the worst.

00:22:03.480 I mean, there was a case where the guy on appeal, where the guy was pardoned, and there was a circuit judge, very, very prominent circuit judge in Texas, Oldham, who wrote a concurrence saying, this guy literally murdered a mother, kidnapped her minor daughter, murdered the minor daughter.

00:22:23.580 The jury convicted him.

00:22:24.880 The evidence was overwhelming.

00:22:26.580 And Biden pardoned him because he doesn't like the death penalty statute.

00:22:29.660 The president can't do that.

00:22:30.780 So those are the people that we're talking about in this bucket of 37.

00:22:36.180 And it wasn't a pardon.

00:22:37.240 It was a nullification, which the president can't do.

00:22:40.460 There's another case from Oklahoma, actually, early 1900s, where I believe it was Oklahoma.

00:22:48.160 It was somewhere in there, early 1900s, where the governor said, I don't like the death penalty.

00:22:52.060 I'm commuting every sentence.

00:22:53.220 And the Supreme Court of Oklahoma said, you can't do that.

00:22:58.140 That is an illegal suspension of the law.

00:23:02.320 Those are void.

00:23:03.900 So there is case law.

00:23:06.980 Yeah.

00:23:07.160 Oh, yeah.

00:23:08.420 And in the in the UK, when they were dealing with their abolition, the home secretary said, I'm just going to commute every sentence while the bill is pending.

00:23:19.580 And all the judges got up in the House of Lords and says, that's an illegal suspension.

00:23:23.840 You can't do that.

00:23:24.980 And gave a two hour speech going with all the common law going back to, you know, 13, 1400 and the glorious revolution.

00:23:32.660 So I think they're looking very hard at that because these are just I mean, look at the case I just described.

00:23:38.620 The guy murders a mother.

00:23:41.460 Kidnaps the girl. 0.54

00:23:43.320 Murders the little girl days later. 0.52

00:23:45.820 A jury looks at it, says he gets the death penalty.

00:23:49.100 And the evidence was overwhelming.

00:23:51.740 And that's who Biden purported to commute and they can't document it.

00:23:55.620 So I think those cases are probably the best legally to test.

00:24:01.160 Was this a valid pardon?

00:24:02.500 If that's where the White House goes, if they decide, look.

00:24:06.460 We don't think these were valid.

00:24:08.160 We are notifying you that no pardon was issued.

00:24:10.520 Your death sentence is still on.

00:24:12.840 Then that'll be litigated in a hideous proceeding.

00:24:15.540 But I think that's the best way to proceed.

00:24:17.540 And the other group is going to the Supreme Court then.

00:24:20.440 Yeah.

00:24:20.880 Yeah.

00:24:21.320 I mean, it's going to have to be litigated if they decide to go that way.

00:24:23.840 The other group that's very interesting is these last minute pardons allegedly about the crack cocaine disparity.

00:24:34.600 And we got very clear evidence in a memo we released from the most senior person at DOJ saying, we don't know how to execute this.

00:24:46.080 If you pardon people for offenses described to the United States, we don't know what that means.

00:24:52.180 How could the president possibly have personally approved that?

00:24:56.640 Like, literally, no one knows what it means.

00:24:59.880 If DOJ can't understand it, how did the president understand it?

00:25:03.780 And those people were all relieved.

00:25:05.220 Yeah, we can't find a memo that ever answers the question, right?

00:25:08.720 So it seems like they executed it without any further guidance, maybe.

00:25:12.760 That's what happened.

00:25:13.760 I mean, that's what Wensheimer said.

00:25:15.040 He, senior most career, wrote a memo that wasn't a cover yourself memo.

00:25:20.600 It was a full on, this is a drug deal.

00:25:23.420 I'm having nothing to do with it memo.

00:25:25.240 And these people were released, seems like by the careers, just, you know, a couple of days into Trump's term.

00:25:34.840 And I think the thing to look at there is, with that particular warrant, and given the Wensheimer email, is that pardon valid?

00:25:43.800 And do you notify people, hey, the 15 years you thought were shaved off your sentence are not shaved, please report back to federal prison.

00:25:51.940 So that's really what I think we should be looking to are those two issues.

00:25:57.760 There's another part of this that has struck me now that we've seen the great documents that you guys have been able to uncover, and then these new ones that the archives turned over.

00:26:08.320 And that is an utter lack of attention, an utter lack of care or concern.

00:26:15.620 The president, this is one of the most awesome powers that a president can exercise, the power of the pardon.

00:26:22.620 This is like really important stuff that, you know, presidents take really seriously.

00:26:26.120 They weigh these things before they execute them.

00:26:29.480 And it seems as though Joe Biden was so disinterested that he's like offshoring it to someone else or to Kamala Harris, who doesn't, by the way, have the pardon of the power, only the president does.

00:26:39.340 Because the mentality that Joe Biden seemed to be so disinterested in how this power got exercised is perhaps the most stunning thing when I look at these documents.

00:26:49.320 What is one to make of a president who allows one of his most awesome powers to be treated as though it's, you know, third-hand job?

00:26:59.940 It's an abdication of his duty.

00:27:02.920 And given the other context and everything we know, you have to wonder, was it a deliberate abdication or was it that he just wasn't competent?

00:27:12.300 And I think it was the later.

00:27:13.640 I think you have the vice president interjecting because the president just wasn't up to it.

00:27:17.920 You know, it's a reference to the difficulty of this schedule.

00:27:20.460 Right, right.

00:27:21.300 In 2024.

00:27:22.500 And we looked at when things were auto-penned.

00:27:24.840 Right.

00:27:25.220 And they were occurring on days where the president was in the Oval at 10 and there was a full lid at 4.

00:27:29.600 Yeah.

00:27:30.440 He wasn't working too hard.

00:27:31.760 No, no, that's not.

00:27:33.100 I mean, I'll tell you this.

00:27:34.480 The president who dealt with the most commutations was Abraham Lincoln because of the Civil War.

00:27:38.780 And he had to approve death sentences personally under the military code of justice.

00:27:43.040 And he would not approve a death sentence until he read the entire trial record.

00:27:47.660 And there are stories of him being up at 3, 4 a.m.

00:27:50.640 That's amazing.

00:27:51.300 Working 18, 20-hour days where he would literally say, bring me the transcript.

00:27:56.880 I will read this record before I approve the death sentence.

00:27:59.860 And he was a, I mean, he could have been on the Supreme Court.

00:28:02.780 He was that good a lawyer.

00:28:03.840 He was one of the finest lawyers of all time.

00:28:06.220 And that's how seriously he took that responsibility.

00:28:09.640 So I think comparing it to Biden and just the complete delegation, it's, you just don't see this.

00:28:21.860 You don't see this.

00:28:22.960 The only comparator that I can think of is Woodrow Wilson.

00:28:29.540 But there, government was downsized.

00:28:31.540 They tried to do as little as possible.

00:28:33.100 But on the stuff they had to do, it was the same type of thing, where it was completely delegated out.

00:28:39.140 I mean, this is, to me, yes, again, you ask the question.

00:28:45.620 Why was he checked out?

00:28:47.220 Why was he not executed?

00:28:48.500 Why did he abdicate his duty?

00:28:49.880 Was it deliberate?

00:28:50.880 Or was it because he couldn't do it?

00:28:53.100 And we know the answer.

00:28:54.120 He couldn't do it.

00:28:54.840 And by the way, Harris has a duty under the 25th Amendment.

00:29:01.040 And she knew the president was abdicating stuff to her.

00:29:04.500 She was on the paper.

00:29:06.200 So why didn't she do anything?

00:29:08.420 She has no power of the pardon, right?

00:29:09.640 You can't transfer the power of the pardon downstream.

00:29:12.060 You can't, right?

00:29:12.780 You can't.

00:29:13.400 But she has a duty under the 25th Amendment to make sure he's competent.

00:29:16.400 And if he's effectively delegating the pardon power to her because he can't handle it, he's too busy.

00:29:22.140 She should have gone to Garland and said, do we have a problem here?

00:29:28.320 Give me a memo.

00:29:29.720 Give me advice.

00:29:31.140 How do we deal with this?

00:29:32.660 We know there is no memo because we floated it.

00:29:34.580 And they came back and said, we don't have a memo.

00:29:36.040 It doesn't exist.

00:29:36.800 Yeah, that's right.

00:29:37.500 We know that for sure.

00:29:38.220 It doesn't exist.

00:29:39.260 She should have had a conversation.

00:29:43.120 And it should have been, and Biden should have had, you know, obviously he didn't have the honor.

00:29:49.940 But another thing that comes to mind is when Eisenhower had a heart attack.

00:29:55.900 And his staff, when he was in critical condition, covered it up for two days.

00:30:00.720 Press secretary blatantly lied. 1.00

00:30:03.440 He didn't fire the press secretary because he said you were dealing with a crisis.

00:30:06.720 But he said, you ever do it again, I will fire you.

00:30:09.540 You're gone. 0.87

00:30:10.100 You're out of here.

00:30:10.940 And two, you will release the full doctor's notes every day.

00:30:14.320 And there are literally reports.

00:30:16.880 The president had a satisfactory bowel movement today.

00:30:19.580 His temperature was da-da-da-da.

00:30:20.800 His pulse was da-da-da-da-da-da.

00:30:22.540 The doctors observed his blood pressure was da-da-da-da-da-da.

00:30:25.800 There are reports every day on the president's bowel movement, on Eisenhower's express orders.

00:30:31.920 And you just look at this history and it's, we had a coup.

00:30:35.840 I mean, there's no other way to put this.

00:30:37.060 We had a coup.

00:30:37.500 And no one had the guts to say, we can't do this.

00:30:43.480 We have to stop this.

00:30:45.160 So walk us through the likely steps here.

00:30:47.980 So we know that the White House is putting the finishing touches on its review report.

00:30:51.700 That's why we reported on the documents we got overnight.

00:30:54.580 That could come out as early as this weekend.

00:30:57.320 And then I assume that the White House and the Justice Department work together because the notifications would probably have to come from the Justice Department in most places.

00:31:06.480 Is that what we should be looking for over the next several days?

00:31:09.940 I think we should.

00:31:10.840 I mean, I think that, you know, we don't know exactly what's going to happen.

00:31:15.600 But I think that either the White House will issue a direction or they will ask ODAG, where the pardons are handled, the deputy attorney general, to evaluate a set of criteria.

00:31:27.640 But in terms of how this will play out, how this will play out, the court, it may be, OK, you've been on death row for 20 years.

00:31:35.840 You committed a heinous crime.

00:31:37.120 You were convicted.

00:31:37.960 You've had nine different courts uphold your death sentence.

00:31:42.280 You were notified the pardon was invalid.

00:31:44.520 Your execution date is scheduled in three months.

00:31:46.700 And at that point, that prisoner would petition for – go to court, petition for habeas corpus and say, I have a valid pardon, and it will be litigated.

00:32:00.360 And it will all be litigated in Terre Haute or where the prisoner is located.

00:32:07.360 Most of them are still in Terre Haute in Indiana, so it actually won't be in D.C.

00:32:11.140 That's the funny part.

00:32:12.300 That's right.

00:32:12.980 Yeah, it'll be Fifth Circuit most likely, right?

00:32:14.680 Uh, Indiana – yeah, it could be summer in the Fifth Circuit, summer in the 6th or the 7th.

00:32:20.320 It's going to be outside of the traditional lane.

00:32:23.980 And DOJ controls the timing because if the attorney general issues a death warrant in two months, it's got to be on the rocket docket.

00:32:32.960 So it's an odd reversal.

00:32:35.000 We've seen all these people beating up the president and coming into court with emergency claims.

00:32:39.400 He controls the timing here, so he can make this go very fast.

00:32:42.720 And, I mean, this is extraordinary.

00:32:47.480 I would watch the death row pardons just because they were so legally flawed and offensive.

00:32:52.180 And I would watch the offenses described pardon that literally no one can figure out.

00:32:58.460 I think those two are going to be where we see the most movement.

00:33:05.360 Big, big stuff.

00:33:06.560 All right, before we let you go –

00:33:07.820 Yeah, I'm excited.

00:33:10.180 You know, we will obviously, when we see what they do, as you know, we'll deep in the law.

00:33:16.520 We'll analyze it.

00:33:17.680 I'm sure if there's litigation, we're going to be filing an amicus brief, strongly supporting the Department of Justice

00:33:23.860 and using our ability to just show the analysis, show all the historical review we've done,

00:33:30.240 if the department does decide some of these are void, because it's going to be an important case.

00:33:36.760 And, again, there was a coup.

00:33:38.340 There was a coup.

00:33:39.320 And we have to come to that recognition.

00:33:41.240 And we thought it would never happen again after Wilson and the 25th Amendment, and it happened.

00:33:51.060 That's just the sad and fundamentally depressing part.

00:33:54.040 There was a coup.

00:33:54.740 Yeah.

00:33:55.200 There is an extraordinary moment ahead of us, and we're going to see a lot of history play out in the next few months.

00:34:01.100 Sam, for folks who want to stay in touch with all the great workers, you guys are doing stuff on weaponization,

00:34:06.060 on corruption, on far-left extremists.

00:34:09.320 It's an amazing, rich investigative unit that you have at Oversight Project.

00:34:14.580 What's the easiest way for people to stay in touch?

00:34:17.400 It's Your Gov on Twitter, Oversight Project at It's Your Gov.

00:34:23.400 We try to post everything on there because we're big believers in we'll give analysis,

00:34:29.040 but we also want people to have the primary document.

00:34:31.380 Let them look to themselves.

00:34:32.480 Yeah.

00:34:32.620 A lot of the legacy media, they report on the story.

00:34:36.400 They don't post the documents.

00:34:37.600 And our view is, well, we're going to give us your analysis, but you've got to see the docs.

00:34:41.980 And, you know, you do that too, and that's what we do.

00:34:45.620 We just push the content out on all the areas we're looking on and read it yourself.

00:34:51.480 And if you agree, you agree.

00:34:52.700 If not, that's the great thing about America and free speech.

00:34:55.480 Yeah.

00:34:56.060 Yeah.

00:34:56.340 We can agree to disagree if we have to.

00:34:58.100 Yeah.

00:34:58.920 Great stuff.

00:34:59.700 Folks, go check out everything that the Oversight Project is doing.

00:35:04.780 I have their website, itsyourgov.org, bookmarked.

00:35:08.400 I check it regularly because I can't wait to see their next project.

00:35:11.540 Sam, great stuff.

00:35:12.780 We're so proud of the work you've done.

00:35:14.040 You got this ball rolling for the country and now a big consequential moment's on the horizon.

00:35:18.620 Can't wait to see how it plays out.

00:35:20.160 Good to have you on, my friend.

00:35:21.760 All right.

00:35:22.140 Thank you.

00:35:22.700 And we'll stay tuned.

00:35:23.780 And I'm looking forward to keep working on this.

00:35:25.680 Sounds great.

00:35:26.760 That sounds great.

00:35:27.400 We will be, too.

00:35:28.660 All right.

00:35:28.960 One more good one to go.

00:35:29.960 Adam Weiss from New York live on Mondami and what it could mean to have a socialist,

00:35:35.040 communist-loving mayor in the capitalist city of the world, New York City.

00:35:39.360 Adam Weiss will weigh in that next after these messages.

00:35:45.280 All right, folks.

00:35:48.360 Welcome back from the commercial break.

00:35:49.700 As I've been saying on both the TV show and here on the podcast, there is a lot of concern

00:35:55.720 in the Democratic Party about what happens if Mr. Mondani wins the mayor's race in New

00:36:01.380 York City and a socialist who embraces the Communist Party, who reviles America and capitalist

00:36:07.800 principles, becomes the mayor of America's largest city.

00:36:11.980 And not only its largest city, it's the home of capitalism for the world, New York City.

00:36:16.320 Joining me right now, a man who watches the media and politics so closely.

00:36:21.200 He's the CEO of AMWPR and the host of a great show on Real America's Voice, one of my colleagues

00:36:26.420 here, Real Media Exposed, a great media show.

00:36:29.340 You should check it out every weekend on Real America's Voice.

00:36:32.220 Adam, great to have you on the show, my friend.

00:36:34.100 John, thanks for having me.

00:36:35.340 It's a great honor.

00:36:36.280 All right, it's hard for two guys who grew up in the New York area to imagine that we

00:36:42.540 might soon have a communist-loving socialist-acknowledged mayor of the world's capitalist city.

00:36:51.100 You know, it's like, you know, President Trump, he rise to the level of his big tech summit

00:36:56.420 last night that a question was asked about the mayor's race.

00:36:59.580 And he flat out played politics and said, you know, he wants a one-on-one race.

00:37:07.500 I mean, but is that really true?

00:37:09.240 I'm stuck here because is that true democracy?

00:37:12.260 We have a Republican candidate who's won the Republican nomination.

00:37:15.660 We have a city mayor who's decided to run as independent.

00:37:18.620 And we have also another independent, former Governor Cuomo.

00:37:22.600 And now we have the Democratic nominee, Mamdani, who won the Democratic nominee.

00:37:27.000 I don't like that ranked choice voting, but he did win.

00:37:30.480 And, you know, Donald Trump has this video on Instagram.

00:37:33.960 He gives 11 lessons in life.

00:37:35.740 And one of a couple of those lessons on Donnie Fowles, think big.

00:37:39.480 Don't think you're too young.

00:37:40.920 The guy's 34 years old, two-term assemblyman.

00:37:43.820 And now he's, you know, the front-runner to be the mayor of New York City.

00:37:48.020 Another lesson is have momentum and don't give that momentum up.

00:37:51.580 So, Mamdani has momentum right now.

00:37:54.720 And sometimes momentum you just can't stop at the moment.

00:37:57.760 So, it's a tough thing to ask people to drop out when they've worked so hard

00:38:02.400 and they're running the race that they're running, especially like a Curtis Sliwa.

00:38:07.600 Yeah.

00:38:08.320 No, it's a tricky dynamic.

00:38:10.580 And, listen, I don't think there's any scenario where he probably doesn't win at this point

00:38:13.580 unless one of the candidates breaks in the last few weeks of the race.

00:38:18.140 And that's always possible.

00:38:18.920 You never know.

00:38:19.460 People get a second thought and they make up their mind closer to the election.

00:38:26.060 Like, I don't know if I want this here.

00:38:27.540 Even if Cuomo wins or Adam wins, there's not that much of a difference.

00:38:32.940 The Democratic Party has shifted so far to the right.

00:38:36.040 I went to the gym earlier.

00:38:37.760 I live in Trump Park on Central Park South.

00:38:40.340 Homeless guy in the subway.

00:38:42.380 Get out in front of, on Central Park South and 6th and 573.

00:38:45.940 Homeless guy in front of Pret, you know, the coffee shop. 0.70

00:38:49.860 So, the city is kind of in a bad shape, you know, and Edward Adams likes to run around and say he's doing so much.

00:38:56.860 He's not really at all.

00:38:58.320 Yeah.

00:38:58.780 No, it's really, really remarkable.

00:39:01.040 All right.

00:39:01.340 I want to tackle something that I think a lot of Americans don't know.

00:39:04.940 They see this young man and he has this sort of socialist, populist rhetoric.

00:39:09.500 And you think, well, maybe he grew up, you know, working class or working poor or maybe, maybe middle class.

00:39:17.020 But he comes from a very well-to-do family.

00:39:20.580 He went to a $72,000 a year college in Maine called Bledoyne College.

00:39:26.680 How does Americans get to know who he really is?

00:39:29.780 Because I think some of the rhetoric masks the fact that this guy lived the ultimate capitalist life in America before he played this game.

00:39:36.880 Well, maybe he's just a great actor like our friend Zelensky over in Ukraine because his mom is a big film director in the movie business, right?

00:39:46.480 So, he's grown up in the movie business.

00:39:48.480 His dad is a professor, teaches classes.

00:39:52.000 Mondani's skated through.

00:39:54.520 And he's not running as a typical sort of a socialist, but almost like a populist socialist, right?

00:40:00.500 So, almost like Bernie 15, 12 years ago when Bernie was captured by the Democratic Party.

00:40:05.840 Very similar.

00:40:06.880 Bernie, you know, attracted those crowds that were unbelievable, that were amazing.

00:40:10.900 They kind of, I still think the Democratic Party, the elite, stole it from Bernie, but that's for a whole different segment.

00:40:16.660 But, so, he's very in the know.

00:40:19.540 He's doing well with social media.

00:40:20.920 He's doing well with young people.

00:40:21.800 And he's speaking issues that are common sense that Trump speaks to almost the conservative base.

00:40:26.960 Can't afford housing.

00:40:28.020 Can't afford paying our bills.

00:40:29.440 Can't afford, you know, we need.

00:40:31.000 But, the solutions and the proposals aren't good.

00:40:34.360 Like, we can't afford groceries, so let's just have a city grocery store.

00:40:38.220 Doesn't really, you know, let's just, you know, rent-freeze everything.

00:40:41.820 You can't rent-freeze everything.

00:40:43.220 The landlords don't.

00:40:44.400 You know, most of the landlords in New York City and New York City are small little landlords.

00:40:48.220 They own a four-story building.

00:40:49.400 A couple of them here and there.

00:40:50.280 They're not making, they're not super wealthy when you denigrate people because they own property.

00:40:55.740 Those are the people that make society run.

00:40:57.340 Those are the people that make the economy run.

00:40:59.160 They, you know, go.

00:41:01.280 Yeah, it's really remarkable.

00:41:02.520 Now, he's, you know, Mom Downey was naturalized later in life.

00:41:07.840 There are some requirements that when you swear your oath to the country to get your citizenship,

00:41:13.920 that you will, you have to abide by.

00:41:16.960 Is there anyone talking about looking and comparing whether he actually met the standards of citizenship anywhere?

00:41:23.560 Do you see anyone looking at that issue, or is that just probably not going to play in the electorate?

00:41:28.760 I don't know if it's going to play in New York City.

00:41:30.980 There's so many people, rebel rousers here, protesters here.

00:41:35.020 You know, it's just, you know, you'd have to go after like, you'd have to go after tens of thousands of people

00:41:40.040 who cause chaos in New York City on a constant basis.

00:41:43.240 You know, who've been taught, you know, New York has some of the greatest institutions, Sean,

00:41:47.960 some of the greatest colleges, but they teach, they teach anti-capitalism.

00:41:53.840 They teach anti-Western values.

00:41:56.060 So it's a strange thing.

00:41:58.020 It's the greatest city in the world, greatest capitalist, you know, Wall Street we have here,

00:42:01.780 some of the greatest companies here, some of the greatest, all these people.

00:42:04.600 And yet they teach everything opposed to the polar opposite of what we achieve here.

00:42:09.060 Yeah, I think that that's exactly right.

00:42:11.700 It's pretty remarkable.

00:42:14.040 I want to ask, let's assume that Mamdani, as the poll show, wins.

00:42:19.940 What happens to big companies that aren't going to want to have their bottom line affected by his policies?

00:42:27.200 Do you see, do you think there's a potential exodus from New York like we've seen from California

00:42:32.120 because of Mamdani's election?

00:42:34.840 I could see, let's see how it plays out.

00:42:38.060 Can he really, you know, a lot of the stuff is, a lot of his rhetoric is, you know,

00:42:41.540 most of the taxes of state and most of the tax of federal government.

00:42:44.920 Most, most of the things he's proposing, if he goes and opens a city grocery store,

00:42:49.600 probably will fail real quickly.

00:42:50.960 So, you know, I really in this city can, and with the pressures mounting,

00:42:57.220 I don't know how anti-police he's going to be.

00:42:59.760 So we'll see.

00:43:00.280 I don't know.

00:43:00.680 Like I said, I don't know that much of a difference between him and Cuomo.

00:43:03.240 Cuomo's bragging about, let's raise, you know, minimum wage for $30-something an hour.

00:43:07.880 It's a terrible policy.

00:43:09.420 When people are struggling, retail stores are struggling, small business struggling,

00:43:13.680 you can't force that upon them.

00:43:15.280 So let's see how it plays out.

00:43:17.180 I don't know how many people will just bail out of New York so quickly.

00:43:20.400 But in the other sense, it's the greatest recruitment tool for the conservative Republican Party if he wins.

00:43:29.420 So whoever decides to run for governor might have a better chance of taking out Hochul. 1.00

00:43:33.900 When something, remember when Obama won in 08, and by one year later,

00:43:39.840 the Tea Party arose and Congress, they swept 50, was it 62 seats or 58?

00:43:44.960 Somewhere in that ballpark.

00:43:46.000 Yeah, one of the largest changes of seats in the modern history of Congress.

00:43:51.260 Yeah, that is the real potential here, which is the Democratic Party further isolates itself

00:43:57.900 from the center of America by doing this.

00:44:00.640 He gets in, and actually it has a boomerang politically that is felt far outside of even New York, right?

00:44:05.920 Because I think other people say, I don't want that in my city.

00:44:08.700 Wait a second.

00:44:09.780 So there could be, Democrats may have a watch what you wish for moment here, right?

00:44:14.340 Because I had like, okay, so the beginning of Trump's term, first term, I had, you know,

00:44:20.380 I lived in the West Village, probably 95, 98% liberal Democrats.

00:44:24.740 You know, most of them I get along with, you know, respect people's values, old school,

00:44:29.240 you know, we don't, you still become friends.

00:44:31.960 But there were a bunch of people because of Trump's derangements.

00:44:34.360 And people that I spent time with, people I was friends with, would curse me out on Facebook

00:44:38.020 for no reason.

00:44:38.840 Like, would just be the nastiest people during the Trump.

00:44:41.660 But I fast forward some of the, and some of the moms, especially women, I was friends

00:44:46.120 that would, hardcore Democrats, by the end, mid of Biden's term or somewhere in, they were

00:44:51.620 Trump cheerleading.

00:44:52.820 And they were just messaging me, Adam, we love Trump.

00:44:55.680 So, you know, things change.

00:44:57.940 Democrats have changed because of the policies.

00:45:00.060 And I had a lot of New Yorkers that came around to Trump.

00:45:02.360 Yeah, no, you see that.

00:45:05.000 It's, and I think because at the end of the day, people start to think about how does this

00:45:08.660 affect me at my kitchen table, my water cooler, my boardroom, my small business on Main Street.

00:45:14.880 And all of a sudden, the policies become far more important than any

00:45:18.400 personality thing that you may put into the mix of your political decisions.

00:45:24.560 And I think that that's sort of what America's experiencing now, which is they now see, even

00:45:29.140 the mayor of D.C. likes what's happened in D.C. since Donald Trump took over the police.

00:45:33.840 When I saw you, I'm sorry, I saw you the other night, early in the week.

00:45:39.160 And then I went into, but the day before, I went, I got in for a Polish event at the Kennedy

00:45:44.240 Center, the Polish Summit.

00:45:45.260 And I, there was a massive fight downstairs in the Union Station, crazy, and people were

00:45:51.340 running.

00:45:52.320 And, but there were 10 cop cars and security in a matter of seconds.

00:45:56.820 It was like something I'd never seen before.

00:45:59.580 So you stop the fight right away, right?

00:46:02.600 And that's the difference, the discernment of stopping a fight quickly.

00:46:06.900 Before it would have gone on for a half hour, it would be blood, there would be a big brawl,

00:46:11.040 and that's the chaos that soothes.

00:46:12.460 But I just noticed the difference as soon as I got off the train from New York.

00:46:16.780 Isn't that amazing?

00:46:17.960 Yeah.

00:46:18.660 Yeah.

00:46:19.080 No, it's a big, it's a big difference.

00:46:20.900 And, and you're just everyday residents.

00:46:23.140 I bumped in a couple of times to folks and, and you just, you start talking to them, you're

00:46:27.780 like, wow, that is pretty, pretty remarkable.

00:46:32.780 For the media, this is going to be a tricky moment for news media, which often is aligned

00:46:38.520 with those far left thinking of certainly the young people.

00:46:42.460 Um, the far left, um, players, the, in the media, they're, that's their favorites.

00:46:48.460 They've been covering for them for many years.

00:46:50.560 How do they cover the beginning of a Mamdani, um, mayorship should it happen? 0.89

00:46:56.780 Well, I think it would be a bonanza for the press.

00:46:59.720 They're going to like, you know, you know, you have the post digging into everything he's

00:47:03.560 done being, uh, you know, opposite.

00:47:06.340 But I think the progressives, the progressives, the press, you know, you look at most of the

00:47:10.880 major presses, a lot of it's stationed in New York and DC and he would be a bonanza for

00:47:16.540 press.

00:47:17.060 They would love, they'll cover him more.

00:47:18.680 It'll be like the new Trump, but on the left, right?

00:47:20.560 On the left, right.

00:47:21.360 Yeah.

00:47:21.580 And there'll be, and it would, I think it would go to the extent of like, what did

00:47:25.700 Mamdani say about Trump?

00:47:27.040 What did Trump say about Mamdani?

00:47:28.960 What did Trump, and that would be like a news cycle in itself.

00:47:31.600 I think a local, the mayor of New York back and forth about Trump.

00:47:35.380 And we'd spend, instead of Trump, like what did Trump say about a world leader?

00:47:39.140 Be like, what did Trump say about Mamdani?

00:47:41.160 Because think about it, John, last night in the middle of the big wealthiest tech titans in

00:47:45.580 the world, he's talking about Mamdani, the New York Raiders.

00:47:48.540 It's fascinating.

00:47:49.700 You have this great show where I think you do such great work to expose the weaknesses

00:47:54.260 and failures and ignorance and sometimes intentional misreporting of the news media.

00:48:00.880 The last few months have shown most of the big scandals that the media tried to impose

00:48:07.260 on the American public.

00:48:08.220 It was more than just imposing it on Donald Trump.

00:48:10.560 They were imposing it on the American people.

00:48:12.080 That they were completely, not only ruses, but they were literally knowing efforts to

00:48:19.140 use the media to carry out knowing and willful mistruths on the American people.

00:48:24.380 Do you see any remorse, any regret, any rethinking in the legacy media?

00:48:29.800 Or have they just swept that under the rug and tried not to look at it?

00:48:33.200 I think some of them doubled down.

00:48:34.900 I did have a new segment on Terry Moran.

00:48:36.720 He was the legendary reporter for Nightline and ABC News and a White House correspondent.

00:48:41.900 He left.

00:48:42.500 He got booted because he said some nasty, vile things about Stephen Miller, one of the chief

00:48:47.220 of staff, deputy chief staff.

00:48:49.140 And he was on a podcast and he said, I don't regret what I said about Stephen Miller.

00:48:54.000 So after he got fired, he couldn't even apologize at that point.

00:48:57.660 So they doubled down.

00:48:58.560 And he said, the proper media is not doing their job right now.

00:49:01.640 Of course they are.

00:49:03.420 They're covering Trump very hard.

00:49:05.420 His questions are just as negative as they were the first time, I feel, except the response

00:49:10.140 is stronger and there's more alternative media to push back on it.

00:49:14.280 So that's, you know, I saw an interesting quote, John, every demographic Trump is up a little

00:49:19.520 bit in like, but the over 65, I believe he's down negative 14 or so because that group

00:49:26.720 still watches traditional media on the TV.

00:49:29.020 So they're still watching the CNN, the MSNBC, so they see negative, negative, negative.

00:49:36.400 So they're negative Trump.

00:49:37.840 That's a really great point.

00:49:39.000 It really does show you their impact.

00:49:40.420 You're right, though.

00:49:41.480 Future generations, the generations that will settle future elections, there's so much more

00:49:46.780 360 degree reading and consuming of news and they have a better sense of the mistruths

00:49:53.820 quicker.

00:49:54.200 They pick up on them quicker, which is an amazing dynamic.

00:49:56.620 Look at the great news that we've done at RAV in 2016.

00:50:00.540 We weren't there, right?

00:50:01.460 We weren't even there now.

00:50:02.840 Yep.

00:50:03.780 What time we can, the amazing stories you break nonstop.

00:50:08.100 Yeah, we're very lucky.

00:50:09.480 It's a great, one of many great venues now that are informing the American public around

00:50:15.320 the traditional media.

00:50:16.460 It's so, so interesting.

00:50:18.200 All right, my friend.

00:50:19.200 It is great.

00:50:19.700 For folks who want to watch your great show, how best?

00:50:22.420 Tune in to Real and Mayor of His Voice Sunday at six o'clock and you can catch it on our

00:50:27.400 app all the time or you can catch it on the website.

00:50:29.880 Sunday, 6 p.m.

00:50:31.000 Media Exposed with Adam Weiss.

00:50:32.920 And John, thank you for having me.

00:50:34.120 Have a great weekend.

00:50:35.580 You as well, my friend.

00:50:36.520 We love the great work you do.

00:50:37.540 I'm honored to be on the same network as you.

00:50:39.260 Thanks.

00:50:39.480 Thanks for joining us, my friend.

00:50:40.760 Thank you.

00:50:41.140 Thank you, sir.

00:50:41.680 All right, folks.

00:50:42.160 That wraps up our Friday edition of John Solomon Reports podcast from Just the News.

00:50:46.600 A big thank you to Congresswoman Beth Van Dyne of Texas, the Oversight Project's great

00:50:51.400 lawyer, Sam Dewey, and of course, Adam Weiss, a host of the great show on Real America's

00:50:55.700 Voice, Real Media Exposed.

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00:51:11.560 All right, we'll be back tomorrow with our Saturday edition.

00:51:13.780 Congressman Troy Nell is going to be in the house.

00:51:15.420 We'll have that, I'll have an attorney general, and a whole bunch more, so be sure to tune

00:51:19.120 in tomorrow.

00:51:19.660 Until then, God bless you, and have a great night.

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Law and Order： The Fight Against Crime in America’s Cities

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