Trump waives his right to appear in court. Former AG Bill Barr says there is no evidence of election interference. The National Archives asks for Joe Biden and Barack Obama for their permission to release all of his emails. Mike Davis, founder of the Great Work For The Nation Project, joins Lou Dobbs on the Great America Show.
00:00:00.000Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs. Welcome to The Great America Show, and great to have you with us.
00:00:08.880President Trump pleading not guilty in Georgia election case. He's waived his arraignment.
00:00:14.240He is set to face his fourth criminal arraignment tomorrow at the Fulton County Courthouse.
00:00:19.800The president, however, waiving his right to appear in court will have his attorneys enter the not guilty plea.
00:00:25.060The court has said all hearings and trial will be televised and streamed.
00:00:30.980The president's first trial date in his criminal cases begins March 4th in D.C. for his January 6th related charges.
00:00:38.400That's just one day before Super Tuesday, if that date stands.
00:00:42.720Now, people on both sides of the aisle have agreed that this is smack in the middle of an election and shouldn't be tried until after the election.
00:00:50.200And then there's the failed and fired former Attorney General Bill Barr, who says there's no way that this is election interference and President Trump's claims of that are just simply wrong.
00:01:03.980The governor is right. I mean, the basic principle in the criminal justice system is if a prominent person commits a crime and there's an seeking office, that doesn't give him immunity.
00:01:14.540If there's if there's enough time to have it resolved before the election, it should be resolved.
00:01:21.400The idea that, oh, OK, well, I'm sorry, we'll let you get run in the election and then after we'll address it.
00:01:26.860That's not a principle of the criminal. I mean, just think some mayor charge, you know, charged with massive embezzlement.
00:01:33.820And he says, well, you know, it's a year and a half to the election. Let's put that on hold.
00:01:37.660Will I run for reelection? It's silly. It's silly.
00:01:40.320Now, you can argue about whether he should have been charged and so forth, but the idea that this is interfering with the election is simply wrong.
00:01:47.340The truth of the matter is Bill Barr doesn't know what election interference apparently is because he's never investigated election fraud.
00:01:55.280As a matter of fact, he lied about doing so.
00:01:58.000And as a matter of fact, Barr was an election interferer himself when he didn't intervene in the 2020 election.
00:02:04.940Although he knew very well the Hunter Biden laptop was legitimate, not Russian disinformation, and that Joe Biden was a corrupt and lying son of a gun.
00:02:16.460A news exclusive from the Daily Mail this week telling us Bill Barr wasn't the only crooked attorney general over the last decade.
00:02:23.960Mail Online reporting that Merrick Garland's corrupt DOJ meddled in the Hunter Biden investigation at the highest level.
00:02:30.440Attorneys for IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley said his client was contacted by Deputy Attorney General Brad Weinsheimer about the Hunter Biden case in April, immediately after meeting with Shapley.
00:02:44.820Weinheimer went straight to Hunter's then lead attorney, Chris Clark, and top Delaware prosecutor and now special counsel David Weiss,
00:02:53.480and then dropped his inquiry, it wasn't long after this that Hunter Biden was offered that sweetheart plea deal that was ultimately thrown out by the judge in the case.
00:03:04.720The National Archives has formally asked Joe Biden and Barack Obama for their permission to release all of Joe Biden's emails,
00:03:12.760in which he used his alias in particular, Robert Peters.
00:03:16.480The Archives will now wait for Biden and Obama to approve the release of those emails.
00:03:21.280I'm guessing that might be quite a wait.
00:03:24.200After all, Joe Biden has said he's the most transparent president in history.
00:03:28.420I'm sure there will be some considerable difficulty despite his transparency.
00:03:33.520And you'll remember President Obama promised his administration was absolutely scandal-free.
00:03:39.240Except for the Clinton Foundation, the sale of 20% of U.S. uranium reserves to Russia,
00:13:07.260You said you seriously doubt that this is going to be a gentle and rose colored candy rock mountain
00:13:16.140when this confrontation finally is, you know, it comes together in conflict.
00:13:23.920Give us your sense of what it's going to take to to move ahead and to resolve these issues, whether it is with a great amount of conflict and friction.
00:13:39.200Well, legally, how this gets resolved is President Trump is going to win these cases as a matter of law with the Supreme Court.
00:13:46.980Regardless of these Democrats' bogus legal theories on, you know, espionage for the non-crime of a former president having his presidential records,
00:13:56.920which is allowed by the Presidential Records Act, civil fraud for the non-fraud of a businessman paying back sophisticated Wall Street banks in full with interest.
00:14:08.520You know, the campaign finance felony for the non-felony of settling a nuisance claim.
00:14:15.840We've got working men and women who are watching their government come after them.
00:14:22.220They're targeting families because the schools want to transition their children without them being even notified.
00:14:31.780They are watching their jobs go to illegal immigrants.
00:14:35.040They are watching $200,000 a year public servants making $20 million on the side.
00:14:42.080And while they're trying to pay their bills and their taxes, good God, man, how do you resolve that?
00:14:49.320Yeah, I mean, what I think is going to have to happen is the American people need to resolve this by, you know, we need to put, first of all,
00:14:57.660the most important thing that needs to happen is putting President Trump back in the White House after November 5th, 2024.
00:15:05.680But I think the next thing that needs to happen is these Republican politicians across America,
00:15:11.240whether it's House Republicans or these state attorneys general, these state legislatures,
00:15:17.600they need to start using power and hold the left accountable.
00:15:21.100The reason the left is getting away with going after Trump, Trump's top aides, Trump supporters,
00:15:26.920parents protesting at school board meetings,
00:15:29.420is going after the kids behind the parents' backs with this gender-affirming care nonsense.
00:15:35.940The reason this is happening, the reason the left is so emboldened is because no one on the right is fighting them back.
00:15:52.060We need to start hauling them in for aggressive oversight.
00:15:55.840Make them spend $200,000 on attorneys.
00:15:58.680We need to stop unilaterally disarming.
00:16:01.340And that's what we've been doing for the last three years.
00:16:04.400We have to do more than fight with lawyers.
00:16:07.420We have to do more than put more money in the pockets of a different set of lawyers.
00:16:12.960It's outrageous what has happened to our legal profession.
00:16:17.760Why should we have to have a lawyer to adjudicate a case?
00:16:22.360And a left-wing court decides, irrespective of what the evidence presented or how skillful the lawyer,
00:16:30.860that he or she is going to follow their ideology, which is what we're seeing in courtrooms all over the country.
00:16:36.740Yeah, that's the problem is that President Obama was very good at stacking the D.C. District Court along with the D.C. Court of Appeals,
00:16:46.620the second highest court in the lands, with these left-wing radical judges like Judge Tanya Shutkin.
00:16:52.620And how you fight back against this right now is, look, these are unprecedented indictments against a presidential candidate and a former president.
00:17:02.500We have not done this before ever in our nation's history.
00:17:05.460There are actually Justice Department policies against indicting presidential candidates or any candidate.
00:17:12.660And the fact that the Biden Justice Department has done this and done this on many levels with President Biden's full blessing
00:17:19.180and Attorney General Merrick Garland's full blessing, it's time for House Republicans to fight back against this.
00:17:24.900And what they need to do is we have the appropriations process coming up.
00:17:29.660And Congressman Andrew Clyde put forward two appropriations writers that we've been pushing at the Article III project.
00:17:37.700And it's simply this, Lou, and I think it would be very effective.
00:17:41.280Number one, no federal funds may be used to prosecute any major presidential candidate on or before November 5th, 2024.
00:17:49.400Number two, any state or local government that prosecutes any major presidential candidate on or before November 5th, 2024,
00:17:59.180So what would happen is, is that House Republicans include these two appropriation writers and the appropriation bills.
00:18:06.800If the Senate doesn't want to accept that, if President Biden doesn't want to accept that, you know what?
00:18:11.420Shut down the damn government because our government, our country is going off a cliff anyway.
00:18:17.260If the Democrats are successful in convicting and putting in prison President Trump, our country is going to come to an end.
00:18:26.360These are republic ending tactics by the Democrats.
00:18:30.040And maybe the Marxist left, this is what they want.
00:18:32.620But House Republicans need to say this is a red line.
00:18:35.980And I also think that we need to consider a couple of realities here.
00:18:42.020One is, can the House of Representatives and its appropriations process, singularly and without the process of going to the Senate for concurrence and the signature of the president,
00:18:54.260shut down appropriations for these executive departments and individual positions?
00:19:00.880Well, they, what they can say is, is you have to, in order to fund the government, the House has to fund it, the Senate has to fund it, and the president has to agree to it.
00:19:11.340So if the House doesn't fund it, it doesn't get funded.
00:19:14.220And that's, that's what it comes down to.
00:19:16.060You can say, look, we are going to include these appropriation writers, Senate Democrats and President Biden.
00:19:22.620If you do not want to take these writers, then we will shut down the damn government because this is too important.
00:19:28.660These are republic ending tactics by the, these Democrat prosecutors to take out Trump.
00:19:34.980We're not going to let state or state or local governments fund this.
00:19:37.620And if you don't agree to this, we'll just shut down the government.
00:19:40.980And, and have you, have you game played this?
00:19:44.280I mean, do you know what that would look like when we shut down the government?
00:19:49.240Immediately, there will be a wailing and gnashing of teeth from every quarter of society, irrespective of politics, because this country is so dependent on the federal government for funding.
00:20:01.460I don't know what you say to the elderly who need their Medicare, they need Social Security, they need all sorts of assistance.
00:20:11.340The state governments, which are now completely dependent upon federal funding in so many areas, we have made a devil's bargain with the federal government from the state perspective and created great dependency.
00:20:27.740Very few states would not be in exactly that position.
00:20:31.460Well, I would say this, the entitlements are separate from the appropriations process of the Social Security benefits, which don't go out regardless, because those are entitlements.
00:20:40.780But I would say this, look, our country is going to come to an end anyway.
00:20:46.680If you indict and imprison your political enemies, this is how the Roman Republic fell.
00:20:51.960Remember, Caesar was the populist outsider.
00:20:54.900The Roman insiders waged lawfare against him, right?
00:20:58.420And so he felt that his only resort was to cross the Rubicon from Gaul into Rome, and it led to civil war in the fall of the Roman Republic.
00:21:08.620And what's going to happen with this lawfare against President Trump, it's going to lead, like I said, to the tit-for-tat legally and politically that's going to lead to the end of the American Republic.
00:21:44.620We're back with Mike Davis, and we are talking, Mike, just to reference the fall of the Roman Empire.
00:21:51.420Mike, your thoughts about how likely it is that there is a rational way in which to come together and say, these things will not stand, whether it be the FBI, the Department of Justice, all of those lawyers will be flushed out.
00:22:08.720We will not see their likes again, and the devil take the hindmost.
00:22:13.740We will not tolerate in our military any more of the nonsense that has just bled the lethality and readiness of our military and what has happened to a public education.
00:22:30.360It goes from one thing to the next in this country.
00:22:34.020I mean, I think that there is an element of the Democrat Party, the Marxist left, who are – they are subversive, and they've been trying to destroy our country from within for many years.
00:22:46.520And it's going back to the Obama wing, where you have people who – I just think that these people hate America.
00:22:56.000They're Marxist, and they would like nothing more than to destroy America as we know it and build it back into their Marxist utopia.
00:23:04.060And, you know, we've seen with 100 years of Marxism, 100 million deaths, and it doesn't end well.
00:23:10.440I think that they think that they can turn America into one of these Marxist utopias, and we're going to end up being Zimbabwe, right?
00:23:16.760And I think we're already heading down that path with these political –
00:23:20.580For those who don't know, what is Zimbabwe other than a country in Africa?
00:23:24.940Yeah, Zimbabwe is a failed country in Africa that was a thriving country in Africa.
00:23:31.060Then Marxism took over Zimbabwe, just like it's taken over so many other third-world Marxist hellholes around the world, and it destroys the country.
00:23:39.820You chase out all the wealth creators, and you just have a bunch of freeloaders, and then you have Tragedy of the Commons, and the country fails.
00:23:47.940And you have government corruption, and it turns into war and, you know, prosecuting your political enemies.
00:23:54.660And that's where we're heading in America, and we're heading there a lot faster than people understand.
00:24:00.060I think people are beginning to get the idea that Joe Biden is going after his principal opponent for the 24 presidential election.
00:24:08.720He's going after the leader of the Republican Party that his party hasn't got a chance against now, I believe, because they know and are learning more every day about the pervasive corruption and abuse of power brought to you by the Marxist Dems.
00:24:27.500And you notice there's a word that's being used here lately, that if you listen to all of the airwaves a year ago or go to the newspapers, people weren't talking about the Dems as Marxist.
00:24:37.860That word was, you know, that word just wasn't used in polite circles.
00:24:42.200And now everybody knows that's exactly what we're talking about.
00:24:46.000It's Marxism and with lineage to communists.
00:24:50.980This is an attempt by a lot of forces, I think both external, of course, as well as internal, that mean to turn this country inside, out and upside down.
00:25:55.340And you have to look at how much money is coming from China and how much control that China has.
00:26:00.200And we saw this vividly during COVID, where we have Chinese-style censorship, Chinese-style lockdowns, Chinese crackdowns on misinformation and disinformation, whatever the hell that means, where we're censoring, silencing, canceling doctors and scientists who have differing views on the science, which is the scientific method.
00:26:22.080They end up being right, millions of people end up suffering and even dying, and these scientists are shut down because it doesn't fall within the Chinese government's talking points.
00:26:34.700I think people need to understand that this Marxist left that we're seeing in America derives from the Chinese and the Chinese influence over our country.
00:27:03.220We don't even know all of the capabilities that they have in Cuba, but we do know this.
00:27:08.500They're not operating in the national interest of the United States.
00:27:12.040And we're watching Canada, for God's sake, is, you know, what is happening there?
00:27:18.720That's a country that is, I think, borderline, has fallen to Marxism and to the communist Chinese.
00:27:28.480The economic influence of China and Canada is overwhelming.
00:27:33.000The dependency of the United States, lest any of us forget it, is immense.
00:27:37.520We can talk about what the United States is going to do with China, but we better understand that we depend on China for so much, whether it's pharmaceuticals, whether it's technology, whether it is manufacturing of medical equipment that we rely upon every day.
00:27:53.760We are dependent on communist China and we haven't got, as far as I know, a single plan by anyone in this country, whether it be in business or government, to deal with the shortages and the pressure that can be brought to bear by the communist Chinese if we were to go into even a Cold War.
00:28:15.900Yeah, I mean, President Trump came in and really woke up a lot of people, including me, about the dangers of open borders and the dangers of free trade and how it empowers evil regimes like China.
00:28:29.160Yeah. And, you know, he I think that's the big reason why the Uniparty in D.C. hates President Trump and they they try to do everything they could to prevent him from becoming president.
00:28:39.200And they sabotaged and destroyed his presidency during when he was president and they're trying to take him out through lawfare now.
00:28:46.520And I think it is so important. I really do think President Trump, if he he's going to if he is reelected as the president, as our president on November 5th, 2024, he's going to save our country.
00:28:59.500If he's not reelected, they're going to go after him with with this lawfare and we're going to lose our country.
00:29:04.660I really do think that November 5th, 2024 is the decisive it is the most consequential election in our lifetime is probably the most consequential election ever.
00:29:16.520Because we will lose our country if President Trump does not get back into the White House right now, the president is being assailed by prosecutions he faces.
00:29:27.420If all of the prosecutions brought by the Marxist Dems at the state level, at the local level and at, of course, the four major indictments by the special counsels, Jack Smith, if they succeed.
00:29:43.040Uh, what would be the likelihood that we would have elections?
00:29:48.360I think the answer is we wouldn't. Your thoughts.
00:29:52.600Look, I would not put anything past today's Democrats because the Marxists, we've seen that they are willing to indict a president twice over nothing.
00:30:01.540They're willing to, uh, excuse me, they're willing to impeach a president twice over nothing.
00:30:06.640They're willing to indict him four times with, with their legal free, uh, criminal theories against President Trump.
00:30:16.200This is lawfare they're running against him.
00:30:17.980They, they are organizing these highly dangerous, uh, uh, intimidation campaigns outside of Supreme Court.
00:30:25.000Justice's homes, including after the 1 a.m. assassination attempt against Justice Kavanaugh, his wife, Ashley, their two teenage daughters.
00:30:33.260They ran riots across the country with BLM, $2 billion in damage, dozens killed, destroyed many lives, destroyed American cities.
00:30:42.860They're willing to mutilate kids behind their parents' backs.
00:30:47.340They're willing to kill, uh, unborn babies up to nine months in the womb.
00:30:52.280These are evil people we're dealing with, right?
00:30:54.740This, again, not our parents' or grandparents' Democrat party.
00:30:57.360I would put nothing past these Democrats.
00:31:00.460Do you think there will be elections in 2024?
00:31:04.560I think the Democrats are going to try to disqualify President Trump from the ballot under the Section 3 of the 14th Amendment dealing with civil war, insurrection, and rebellion.
00:31:14.360And it is a completely lawless, bogus legal theory pushed by, uh, many Democrats and even some Trump-deranged Republicans.
00:31:23.200Uh, if, if the Democrats try to disqualify President Trump in key swing states so President Biden wins by default, our country is over.
00:31:31.880Well, now you're talking about keeping him off the ballot, correct?
00:31:36.720And I'm talking about if they proceed against him.
00:31:40.720Uh, because they're, you talked about lawfare, but there's nothing lawful about, or fair about what they're doing.
00:31:46.820Uh, it is, it is blunt force, uh, being applied against a citizen of the United States.
00:31:52.040And meanwhile, it's a battle between good and evil, but only evil is on the field right now, it seems to me.
00:31:58.440Yeah, and that's, and that's the problem, Lou.
00:32:00.620This is where I keep saying to these Republican elected officials, particularly House Republicans, who have subpoena power, who have impeachment power, who have the power of the purse, who have oversight power, who can haul in these people and make them pay a price.
00:32:16.920If they are on defense in the House of Representatives dealing with subpoenas and impeachment and appropriations fights, they're not on offense running a lawfare campaign against the leading presidential candidate.
00:32:28.760It's time for House Republicans to get off their asses and start doing something.
00:32:33.820Mike Davis, it's always great to have you here on The Great America Show.
00:32:37.680Mike is the head of the Article III Project, doing wonderful work for the nation, for the American people.
00:32:42.820Thanks for being with us, and thank you, everybody, for joining us today.
00:32:47.180I want to say as we wrap up here that I know much of what we talk about here on The Great America Show and what you're hearing may be disconcerting to some who are listening to us perhaps for the first time or two.
00:32:58.560I know it's hard for many to realize that our government has turned against us, that the Department of Justice and FBI are actually corrupt, targeting many of our fellow citizens simply because of their political beliefs, their religions, their values, because of their political ideals, and because they simply love this country.
00:33:19.620And the Marxist Dems mean to destroy this America you and I love.
00:33:24.220None of us is happy that our federal government has been taken over, but it's a fact.
00:33:29.060We, the people, are no longer in charge of our government.
00:33:31.980Our federal government no longer requires the consent of the governed.
00:33:36.140The federal government is controlled by the Marxist Dems, all of government, every agency, every department.
00:33:42.860The White House, the Pentagon, you name it, and the Marxist Dems are running it.
00:33:47.220Not you, not me, or the people we vote for, who are supposed to represent us all.
00:33:53.260All this Marxist Dems control government requires now is our quiet obedience, our conformity, our compliance.
00:34:02.900The vast majority of Americans don't want to acknowledge what has happened.
00:34:06.700But we must, even as we're shocked to our timbers by what is unfolding before us right now.
00:34:12.020The reality is we're facing unprecedented threats from within our society.
00:34:17.220The Marxist Dems who not only control our federal government, but most of our public schools, colleges, universities, academia, big tech, social media, news media, Hollywood, and the music industry.
00:34:29.880We have to come to terms with what the Marxist left has done to America.
00:34:34.680And what they mean to do to us as well, and our fellow citizens.
00:34:38.080It's not a time to surrender to fear or to despair or a time for false hope or blind optimism, for that matter.
00:34:47.320It's up to us to fulfill our responsibilities to this nation, to stand up for our constitutional republic for everything our flag represents.
00:34:56.220We need all of us in this fight to take back our government and to straighten out this government that demands no voice of opposition, no dissent, and complete obedience.
00:35:06.580This is the time for truth, and nothing but the truth.
00:35:13.280President Trump is under full assault by the Marxist Dems, and he needs millions of us by his side to prevail in the great battles that we all have before us.
00:35:22.180We have, as Americans, much better, much brighter futures than what the Marxist Dems intend, what they demand, and insist.
00:35:30.560They put America and all of us and our families under their threats.
00:35:37.980We will have to contend with them in the days, weeks, and months ahead.
00:35:42.840And first, we have to assure that there will be an election in November of 2024,
00:35:47.960and that it won't be rigged, that it will be fair and honest and transparently so.
00:35:53.220And then we have to make certain that President Trump wins the White House and his second term that the Marxist Dems stole from him in 2020.