Mid-Day Update： December 12th, 2023
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Summary
Special Counsel Jack Smith has asked the Supreme Court to rule on whether President Donald Trump is immune from federal prosecution for alleged crimes committed while he was president. Harvard has decided that President Claudine Gay will remain as president, despite all of her controversies. Speaker Mike Johnson is at it again as he withdraws two bills intended to reform Section 702 of the FISA surveillance Act, and the effect is to reauthorize FISA without any reform by including a short-term extension of FISA within the National Defense Authorization Act. Our guest today is the sponsor of that bill that would have ended warrantless wiretapping by the government on American citizens, he s Congressman Andy Biggs.
Transcript
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This is Lou Dobbs with the Great America Show Midday Update for Tuesday, December 12th.
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Special Counsel Jack Smith has asked the Supreme Court to rule
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on whether President Donald Trump is immune from federal prosecution
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for alleged crimes committed while he was president.
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In what appears to be an effort to speed the case along,
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Smith went directly to the Supreme Court for a ruling on the issue
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rather than go to the appellate court for a ruling that would bear on the Special Counsel's
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And it looks like an effort to get a ruling that would keep the trial date at March 4th,
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which is the day before the Super Tuesday primaries.
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That is not a coincidence, folks, and it is without question
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Smith's plan to interfere in the presidential election.
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Jack Smith, it seems to me, is without question obsessive and unconscionable.
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Harvard has decided that President Claudine Gay, despite all of her controversies,
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will remain as president of Harvard with the, quote, support of the board, end quote,
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despite her anti-Semitic answers and a congressional hearing
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that has cost Harvard its reputation and reportedly a billion dollars in donations.
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Gay is also accused of plagiarizing her doctoral thesis,
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ousting a law school professor for representing Harvey Weinstein,
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and she's also accused of infringing on free speech.
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He withdrew two bills intended to reform Section 702 of the FISA Surveillance Act.
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Today, he withdrew those bills, and the effect is to reauthorize FISA without any reform
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by including a short-term extension of FISA within the National Defense Authorization Act.
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Our guest today is the sponsor of that bill that would have ended warrantless wiretapping
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He's Congressman Andy Biggs, and we take up why Speaker Mike Johnson is letting the bad guys win.
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This is Lou Dobbs with A Great America Midday Update.