The Great America Saturday Show: November 9, 2024
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Summary
Former U.S. Assistant Attorney General Jeff Clark joins John Rocha to celebrate the election of President Donald J.D. Trump, and to discuss how the DOJ and Special Counsel Jack Smith are looking to wrap up their case against President Trump.
Transcript
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Hello, everybody, and welcome to The Great America Show.
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Thank you so much for joining us on this monumental week.
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Those of you who joined us on election night and into the early morning for our seven-hour
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And once again, I thank you guys for joining us back here today.
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You go down the list, President Trump's hard-fought fight.
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He's been fighting since 2016, but it really ramped up when they raided his home, Mar-a-Lago,
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went through his wife's underwear drawer, and the litany of lists of things goes on and
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on and on of what they've done to this man, two assassination attempts on him.
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It's just a long laundry list of things the Marxist Dems have done and come after him.
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Our guest today, we're going to hear from him in a little bit, Jeff Clark, a former U.S.
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They went after him time and time again, and they just will not leave alone.
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We do have some good news, aside from President Trump absolutely annihilating Kamala Harris
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across the board, the battleground states, an absolute—it's going to look like it's
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a clean sweep of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada.
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I was optimistic, but I wasn't as optimistic as the election results look like they're coming
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I do want to bring in our guest today, as promised.
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He's Jeff Clark, a great American, as I mentioned, one of the folks who's still continuing a fight
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against this government, who's come after him for absolutely no reason other than his
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It's good to be here, and I'm obviously a big supporter of the show, and it's a good
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day to be here after President Trump has been re-elected to become 47.
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Yeah, and Kamala Harris, taking a little bit of time, Jeff, I don't know if she was—I'm
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hearing reports that she may have been hungover or drunk.
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But, you know, taking her sweet time to come out and concede, and I was kind of getting
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Maybe she wasn't going to accept the fact that she lost this election.
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Maybe she was going to start some sort of insurrection.
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You know, usually the Democrats come out and say all the things that they're doing, and
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then they go ahead and blame it on the Republicans.
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But aside from the massive win we have, Jeff, which I will talk about in a little bit, I want
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to talk about the biggest news of the day, and the DOJ and special counsel Jack Smith
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are looking for ways to wind down all those cases against President Trump, which, Jeff,
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to me, makes zero no sense, because if Trump's a criminal, it doesn't matter if he's going
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You're going to go prosecute a criminal, right?
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So, John, look, here's the ways in which they've tied themselves up in knots.
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So, back when they brought the Mar-a-Lago documents case, and I'm looking for the footage
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now because I'm going to put these two things together, I distinctly remember Barr saying
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actually in several media appearances that the documents case was exceedingly strong and
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that President Trump had taken classified information, therefore he had violated the
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Espionage Act, and that, you know, this was very serious.
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I just watched him in an interview with Brett Baier and Martha McCallum on Fox, and he
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says, oh, all the cases were weak, and so, you know, they should go away for that reason
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So, it's just, it's the ultimate in hypocrisy, and he just lies with a straight face to the
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I think that he actually did think that case was strong before because he distinguished it
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from other cases, like the, you know, the case up in New York, which he said was very weak,
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and, you know, but now, like, recognizing, seeing the handwriting on the wall, now it's
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all the cases were weak, and I, Bill Barr, I foresaw this from the very start.
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It's just amazing, and he's trying to do that to get back into President Trump's good graces
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and try to help other people who he will recommend, no doubt, to go back into the Justice Department
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It's really despicable, and like I said, I'm going to put those two clips side by side and
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But, look, here's the rationale that he gave, other than that, which is that you can't prosecute
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This is under a longstanding DOJ opinion from the Office of Legal Counsel, which is, it used
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to be that the Attorney General's produced opinions for the United States, legal opinions
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that would govern the executive branch, but, you know, the Attorney General job became such
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a big one that we created an Assistant Attorney General, which is the level that I occupied
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at the Justice Department, it's just that I ran two litigating divisions.
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This Assistant Attorney General, the one at the Office of Legal Counsel, or OLC, what that
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official does is he produces what the Attorney General used to produce in terms of opinions
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that bind the executive branch, and that, here there's an opinion, longstanding opinion
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that says presidents can't be prosecuted while they're in office.
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So, he says, you know, that, well, okay, Jack Smith's not going to be able to prosecute
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this case once Trump takes office, so it should just be dismissed now.
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But you raised the point of, well, you know, why doesn't he try to get, you know, an emergency
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conviction of Trump or something before January 20th?
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But, you know, I think he realizes that the Supreme Court's not going to allow that to happen.
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So, you know, they're in a tough spot, and I think that's probably why we're hearing this
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news about Jack Smith is ready to fold up his tent and go home.
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And it's unclear to me why Barr thinks that the state cases automatically go away, because
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Now, I think those cases, they're super cheesy cases that never should have been brought in
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the first place, weak from the start, and they should go away.
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So, Barr's legal reasoning doesn't even make any sense, right?
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He's being a direct hypocrite, and then, you know, he's just trying to say, oh, and
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by logical extension, that applies to the states, too.
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And those cases should be pulled because of the fact that we don't want to have state
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prosecutors tying down the president when he's trying to be the chief executive officer
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It would interfere with the operation of the Constitution.
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So, I just wish we'd get better legal commentators sometimes who actually understand the Constitution,
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The first question is, according to, with respect to the OLC ruling that you can't prosecute
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a sitting president, since when do the Democrats, Jeff, you know this better anyway, since when
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do the Democrats follow the law or any sort of opinion?
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First of all, we've seen Joe Biden spit in the Supreme Court's face multiple times with
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You can go down the list of things that he's broken the law, whether it be the border or
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But the other thing you had mentioned, that the OLC ruling doesn't matter for the state
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cases, but what does matter for that state case in New York is the Supreme Court ruling
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and the way they went about getting the evidence to go ahead and get Donald Trump on that,
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She worked for him at the White House at the time.
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So, the Supreme Court ruling definitely covers him under that case.
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I think the Georgia case probably just folds up anyway.
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You see what happened with young thug down there.
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Now, all of a sudden, he takes a 20-year probation.
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The prosecutors say, we want him to admit to these RICO charges, and we'll give him the
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And the judge goes, sorry, we don't need him to admit it.
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I think they're having a really tough time down there in Georgia.
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But, you know, first, for the OLC ruling, since when do the Democrats follow the law, Jeff?
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Yeah, look, you know, I think you're right, John.
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I don't want to just see either leaks to Fox or leaks to other sources that this is what
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the Justice Department under President Biden and Harris are currently intending to do,
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You know, I want to see the cases actually dropped, and then we'll really talk.
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And I also want to see what happens with this 11th Circuit appeal, which is currently going
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And as far as I know, no one from the Justice Department has informed the 11th Circuit that
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This is from the documents case, and it's an appeal that Jack Smith took from Judge Cannon
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dismissing the charges against President Trump because Jack Smith was illegally appointed.
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He can't hold his role under the Appointments Clause, and he can't also hold it under the
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Appropriations Clause because no money was specifically set aside for an office of special
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If they really are going to drop these cases, you know, long before they're leaking anything
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to Fox, there should be a motion to dismiss under the federal rules of the appellate procedure
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And, you know, it's going to be interesting to see whether they actually do that or not
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And this is the kind of thing, knowing the Justice Department the way I know it, John,
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that the Solicitor General's office will be involved.
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I can even think of the precise person in my mind who would be involved in this and what
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And I can imagine him saying, as surely as I sit here with you on StreamYard talking to
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you, that that official might say, you know, why don't we see if we can win this appeal at
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least before Jack Smith pumpkinizes and we dismiss this stuff and then Trump comes into
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Because we have an institutional interest in protecting the idea that the Attorney General
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So let's see if we can get an 11th Circuit opinion confirming that.
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And then, you know, on the other side of a Trump term or the other side of a Trump and
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then advance term one or two, you know, we can resume with this special counsel device
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And hopefully the 11th Circuit won't play ball with that.
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And hopefully as well, Trump's lawyers will point out to the 11th Circuit that, you know,
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And if they've said the cases, you know, against Trump are going to be dismissed, what business,
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what purpose would it serve for the 11th Circuit in a then moot situation, essentially,
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to go ahead and rule on whether Jack Smith lawfully held office?
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I mean, I think the 11th Circuit might wind up saying reversing Judge Cannon in their view
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But my prediction, and this is what I predicted months ago when this first happened, I think
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the Supreme Court affirms what Judge Cannon came to.
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The 11th Circuit is really kind of an intermediary here anyway.
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But I'm going to be watching in terms of the rubber meets the road for what happens
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I don't want to hear cheap talk being leaked to Fox about what's going to happen with Jack
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Why the Supreme Court can't just make a ruling?
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Why it constantly has to be hit back down to the circuit for them to then make some sort
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of Marxist ruling for them to go back up to the Supreme Court?
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It's just a whole merry-go-round that blows my mind.
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But I guess that's the law system in America that we're living in now.
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I want to continue with the New York case and why that isn't just going to be thrown
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Also watching MSNBC today, I don't watch Fox anymore.
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I watch MSNBC because I like to see them wallow in tears from what happened this week.
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They're talking about President Biden maybe pardoning Trump, which I would hate to see
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happen because a pardon would mean he did something wrong and that he needs to be pardoned for.
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Tish James in New York also already starting more problems with Donald Trump.
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We're talking with former United States Assistant Attorney General Jeff Clark.
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Jeff, before we went to break, I had mentioned the issue of constantly sending things up
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to the Supreme Court, then sending them back down to district or certain courts, and then
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Why can't the Supreme Court just make a ruling and say, Jack Smith's appointment is unconstitutional
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I mean, you could go through the list of things.
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The fact that he's being paid and it wasn't approved by Congress.
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Why can't the Supreme Court just come out and say, enough's enough.
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So, John, let me give you two reasons for that.
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One is that the Supreme Court is a court of appellate jurisdiction.
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The only category of cases in which it has so-called original jurisdiction, where a case
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begins with them, is if you have original jurisdiction.
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If there are cases involving ambassadors, if there are fights between states, which typically
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You know, like the – I remember a case that came out about New Jersey and New York fighting
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about the boundary between them, which actually went through water, and it related at some level
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And the Supreme Court doesn't do the fact-finding.
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They assign a special master in that kind of original jurisdiction case to find the facts.
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But in all other cases, you know, we have essentially a three-level court system in America where
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there are district court judges who find facts and reach initial legal conclusions.
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And then from there, it goes up to the Supreme Court.
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The Supreme Court can decide not to take your case.
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The second reason I would give you is this, you know, teach the viewers a little bit of history.
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During the George Washington administration, actually, George Washington was very interested
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And he basically just, you know, he sent over a letter to say to the Supreme Court, like,
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why don't you just tell me what the answer is and I'll abide by it, right?
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And the Supreme Court wrote back, like, we can't answer that.
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It has to actually affect somebody in a concrete way so that you have what the Constitution in
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Article 3 calls a case or a real case or controversy where there's, you know, genuine
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adversariness between someone who disagrees with the president, has the ability to do that,
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And then, you know, eventually we could take that case up.
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So, you know, there are, you know, there's a mechanism for cert before judgment.
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But, you know, the Supreme Court tries to keep that as a relatively narrow case.
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And so you wouldn't want to live in a world in which the Supreme Court was essentially
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like an anticipatory sovereign of they just pronounced like willy-nilly on questions without
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having more development of them by the lower court.
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I'm convinced it's so complex to keep the truly smart people out of the law profession.
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Most lawyers we see these days, I mean, I don't know where they come from or where they – it
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seems, Jeff, that the better the school they went to, the dumber they are.
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I think he's one of the exceptions of the few people who made it out with the brain.
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Like I said, the smarter the person seems, the dumber they are and more corrupt they are.
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I want to look at this New York case because we have sentencing now coming up in just under
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It's unlikely, in my opinion and the opinion of some legal scholars, that he gets sentenced
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to any jail time, but just the fact that it will make it to a sentencing and then he'll
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First, I want to get your opinion on what happens in that case.
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Do we see an indefinite postpone of the sentencing?
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And then after that, I want to go into the Supreme Court ruling on why this case is not even
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I think, you know, it's hard to put a precise number on it because we've never been in a
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situation like this before because the Democrats have brought this tradition upending lawfare
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But let me call it roughly a 75 percent chance that Justice Mershon, so-called, dismisses the
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case based on Trump's pending motion or at the very least holds that he's entitled to a
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new trial, and then he basically takes the November date off the calendar for sentencing.
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If he goes forward on sentencing, I think the play would be something like this.
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He gets a big spectacle out of it to, you know, try to dirty up Trump yet again before he gets
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inaugurated and put his own name in the headlines.
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And then he says, I'm just going to order probation.
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And it's going to be, you know, probation with special conditions that are designed specifically
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not to interfere with the exercise of the presidency.
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And he's going to say that's the best balance of all factors.
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So, you know, we'll see whether I turn out to be right about that.
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If he decides on an out chance to actually try to sentence President Trump to jail before
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the inauguration, that case is going to rock it up to the Supreme Court faster than your
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And they're going to either put a hold on it or they're just going to reverse it outright.
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You and I remember you said actually this exact thing and you're fairly consistent.
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But you said this exact thing that and I had asked you, can you get the Supreme Court to
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I mean, like within an hour and you'd said, you know, it's possible that Supreme Court
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could come down and give you a ruling in such a short period of time.
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So I think here what would happen is it would go to the appellate division in New York.
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And then it would have to go to the Court of Appeals.
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We're in New York like the Supreme Court's like a trial court.
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But I think what the lawyers would do, and this is what you do when you're kind of in
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an emergency situation where you really need to stay, is you say, you know, we need this
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And if we don't get it, we're going up, we're popping up to the next stage, et cetera.
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And I just cannot imagine that the Supreme Court would let moths grow on this one.
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I think they, you know, if there was going to be jail time, they would block that lookity
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But who the hell knows what we have in that court right now?
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But so why is the Supreme Court came down, Jeff?
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We heard from the months ago that he has total immunity and the way they went about getting
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the facts, the facts in this case was not the appropriate way in which they were supposed
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to do it or the way they got the facts coincides with the Supreme Court's ruling of total immunity
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for the president, as an example I gave earlier talking to Hope Hicks, and that was a big part
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You know, why is it up to Judge Juan Merchant to say, OK, this case should be dismissed?
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Why is it not a higher court who can intervene and say, listen, this is what the Supreme Court
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Let's get on and move on with our lives and get these real criminals in New York who are
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So, John, look, let's start with the mistake of Alvin Bragg and Matthew Colangelo, right?
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They could have written an indictment that was free of either issues of federal law or this
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issue that you pointed out that goes to when Trump actually became president.
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Most of the conduct in the indictment actually relates to the pre-election period for, you
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And, you know, then their argument became that Trump was interfering in the 2016 election
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by concealing information about Stormy Daniels from the public.
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And, you know, I think he had a lot of motivations to, you know, try to just get rid of her silly
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And like many, many rich men have to pay nuisance settlements to get rid of things so they don't
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But, you know, that's not what Bragg decided to do.
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So he basically blended together events that straddled Trump actually assuming the presidency.
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And that's what leads to the fact that, you know, hope.
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And I think that's part because they thought Hope Hicks would be a bombshell, salacious witness
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talking about, you know, Trump's illegal activities in the Oval Office because, you know, that's
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where he was thinking about paying Michael Cohen as the intermediary to pay Stormy Cohen,
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And, you know, and that Hope Hicks is going to talk about an Oval Office meeting, right?
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United States July 1st immunity decision, the Supreme Court, you know, creates tiers of immunity.
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Put aside, you know, the applicability of those.
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There's one very clear aspect of the opinion that doesn't get a lot of focus in the external
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world, which is that they created a new exclusionary rule to say that no information about the operation
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of the executive branch can be introduced into court.
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You know, and this just, like, flatly runs afoul of that, right?
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You can't have Hope Hicks being called in and then she tells the jury about what's happening
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And, you know, they tainted the trial by doing that.
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So Brad could have tried to say, hey, I'm just bringing stuff that relates to before Trump
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And then he would have had to contend with an argument of, like, well, but that's inextricably
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linked with conduct that happened after he was president, right?
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And they, you know, but certainly they could have put themselves on a better footing if
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they had tried to just do pre, you know, January 20th, 2017 conduct into the indictment.
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And then, you know, they put this in front of the jury.
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The jury's already ruled based on hearing what Hope Hicks said.
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And I think this is one reason why Judge Mershon, or Justice Mershon, said that he was going
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to put off the sentencing because he still hasn't ruled on this motion.
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And that's part of my prediction of why I think he's going to rule on the motion before and
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He could do other things, as we've also talked about.
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But my money is on the fact that he's going to pull the plug on this one.
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Yeah, I sort of had a very bad opinion of him in the beginning, based on what we've
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seen, his daughter making millions of dollars off the Democratic DNC and Kamala Harris and
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But, you know, as time progressed, obviously, he's not a good man for not dismissing this
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But it seems as time progressed, he got a little bit better with not wanting to interfere with
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And sort of, I think the lights turned on for him that it's probably best to not play politics
00:26:19.900
But let's talk about where this case started in the beginning.
00:26:25.720
Because what Judge Chetkin did with the Jack Smith, D.C.
00:26:28.940
case and what Judge Mershon did with this criminal sentencing under New York state law, they
00:26:42.920
You know, do I basically like put this off or do I do it now?
00:26:46.540
And she's like, no, we're going to we're going to do it now.
00:26:48.820
Whereas Mershon's like, you know, I got to decide this issue of whether the Hope Hicks
00:26:57.220
I'm going to push this until after the election.
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And so, you know, I think he took the more judicious route.
00:27:04.500
And who knows, maybe he has ambitions for higher state court office inside New York, whereas
00:27:10.720
Judge Chetkin may think that, you know, she's just out to get Trump.
00:27:16.580
But anyway, it's very interesting that the two judges went in a different direction on
00:27:22.500
But this issue of what to do about the Trump immunity case hit both of them at roughly the
00:27:27.480
same time, which is why I clarified towards the end.
00:27:30.480
I don't want the audience to get all angry at me that I'm defending Judge Womert-Chan
00:27:34.860
He should have dismissed this case right away when they started going into the whole sexual
00:27:39.360
allegations and all that stuff in a courtroom, which was not supposed to be there.
00:27:42.500
He should have recused himself because his daughter's like a big Democrat.
00:27:46.780
Well, that's part of the reason I think a couple of what you said of why he sort of
00:27:52.120
took the divergence and they went two separate ways.
00:28:00.640
I'm sure often as most of us talk to our parents and your kids often.
00:28:05.880
But where this case first started, Jeff, Michael Cohen, I just pulled up Michael Cohen's Twitter
00:28:10.480
because I wanted to see what he was up to today, if he had anything to say.
00:28:14.340
And the last thing I see on his Twitter, it's a post that says it's a video.
00:28:24.560
But I don't even understand how you start a case from a guy who was a convicted known liar.
00:28:30.820
Jeff, the guy has lied his entire adult career when it came to issues like this,
00:28:36.860
lying about the checks, lying about what Donald Trump told him.
00:28:39.960
The man went to jail, Jeff, for lying under oath.
00:28:43.120
And then they put him in the courtroom, lies again.
00:28:47.360
When Donald Trump's legal team tries to bring in Bob Costello, who was Trump's lawyer and
00:28:51.620
Michael Cohen's lawyer, Judge Merchant says, no dice.
00:29:00.940
I went up one of the days of the trial for President Trump to show support and also to
00:29:07.220
see for myself how things were going because there are no cameras in the courtroom.
00:29:11.780
Like the setup basically was there are people allowed into the main courtroom live, you know,
00:29:16.140
where you're seeing the people physically with your own eyes.
00:29:19.520
And then there was an overflow room that was larger where you could watch
00:29:23.280
closed circuit TV video of what was going on in the court.
00:29:28.600
But that video is not broadcast to the outside world.
00:29:31.420
So I was there actually for the day that that Michael Cohen was cross-examined by Todd Blanche,
00:29:42.080
And I mean, he was just lying all over the place.
00:29:44.240
My favorite example of him lying was Todd Blanche pointing out that he once he had gotten
00:29:50.800
convicted and sent to prison, he was working on legal research to try to help get himself
00:29:57.700
And he wrote some sections of a brief, but he wrote it using AI and produced case citations
00:30:08.740
And Michael Cohen was too dumb to understand that.
00:30:11.800
And I mean, it's just like this guy, you know, he kind of had a taxi cab medallions.
00:30:20.300
And then he would just kind of get into Trump and then, you know, talk to people and pretend
00:30:28.380
But this that's a guy who should be nowhere near writing briefs or appearing in court or
00:30:39.240
Like he's told so many lies and they're all tied up in a mess.
00:30:42.420
You don't know, like when he's telling the truth, even if he's talking about his own
00:30:47.520
I may be incorrect on this, but I remember someone saying, and I think it was him.
00:30:51.260
Didn't he say something along the lines of, I started lying and I kept lying and I couldn't
00:30:55.300
stop lying or something along the lines of, like I couldn't keep myself from lying?
00:31:00.680
Well, Jeff, it's sad that we have to laugh about this because it's Donald Trump's life
00:31:05.640
on the line here with this court and the money that he had to spend.
00:31:09.000
And I think Todd Blanch did a great job representing him.
00:31:11.560
But at the end of the day, Jeff, he was dealt a deck of cards that was sevens and twos while
00:31:17.420
they had a deck of aces and a board full of aces.
00:31:20.220
I mean, there's literally nothing you could do in corrupt New York.
00:31:25.500
Tish James is not letting up on Donald Trump and she's ready to go after him once again
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We're talking with former United States Assistant Attorney General Jeff Clark, one of the great
00:33:12.100
Americans who's been persecuted by a corrupt justice system, which I now think is going
00:33:17.980
to probably take a turn with President Trump returning to the White House in January.
00:33:24.560
One person who's not ready to work with President Trump, or she says she's ready to work with
00:33:28.020
President Trump, but she held a press conference saying she's also ready to not work with President
00:33:32.500
Trump, is none other than New York AG Tish James.
00:33:35.540
Take a listen to her this week, this deranged Marxist.
00:33:39.180
We did not expect this result, but we are prepared to respond to this result.
00:33:46.200
And my office has been preparing for several months because we've been here before.
00:33:53.320
We faced this challenge before, and we used the rule of law to fight back.
00:34:07.880
Because as the Attorney General of this great state, it is my job to protect and defend the
00:34:17.920
And I will not shrink from that responsibility.
00:34:26.140
I mean, President Trump, he has the right to have so much animosity towards these people,
00:34:32.560
And all you hear from Donald Trump time and time again, we saw him at the dinner going up
00:34:37.280
to Kathy Hochul, shaking her hand, Eric Adams, and the only one he wanted nothing to do with
00:34:44.060
Bill de Blasio is hated by people on the right and left.
00:34:47.340
But I think Donald Trump is at a point in his life, Jeff, he's at the age where he doesn't
00:34:53.180
I think he's ready to make amends with some of these people and say, you know, enough's
00:34:58.620
Look, in seeing her, let's go back to the videos that she produced when she was running
00:35:08.540
There was a real swagger to her and a promise that she was going to get Trump.
00:35:13.920
In watching that press conference today, I see a mix of two emotions in the in the body
00:35:20.740
language and her facial expressions, subtle as they are, which is fear and anger.
00:35:27.400
She's really mad that Kamala Harris lost to Trump in a big way.
00:35:32.620
And it also just there are ways in which it looked to me like she's worried and she's
00:35:37.720
decided that her best strategy, given that she brought these cases and went out on that
00:35:43.000
limb, especially a vowing that she was going to do it to like specifically take him out.
00:35:47.640
No, no law enforcement official should be vowing in advance of actually doing an investigation,
00:35:54.220
looking at briefs, looking at, you know, defenses, et cetera, that they're going to take somebody
00:36:03.160
It's not consistent with any kind of oath of office.
00:36:07.800
And I think that's where the fear is coming from.
00:36:09.920
And then in terms of President Trump, I thought last night that his speech was magnanimous and
00:36:15.840
it was, you know, sort of putting an olive branch out.
00:36:25.220
Like there is no more fierce competitor in the business world or in the any kind of world
00:36:33.660
And so, you know, if you're if you try to kick him, he's going to kick back.
00:36:38.000
But there comes a time where he just tries to, you know, to say they'll kind of recognize
00:36:42.860
recognize you lost, you know, kind of go off the field and, you know, then then this will
00:36:52.200
So during the 2016 campaign, you know, he's involved in chants of lock her up.
00:36:58.680
But, you know, he didn't do anything to lock her up.
00:37:01.140
You know, during the time he was in office from 2017 to 2021, he focused on how to try
00:37:08.560
And, you know, it doesn't seem like that's what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris focused on.
00:37:13.780
You know, they maintain the fiction that DOJ is independent and they had nothing to do
00:37:23.220
And and America First Legal actually had found through FOIA the document showing that Biden
00:37:27.640
had specifically authorized special access to Trump's documents before they went after
00:37:36.440
And also this also helps answer the very first topic you started with today, John, which is
00:37:48.140
Then they have this narrow window of independence between now and January 20th, 2025 to try to
00:37:56.680
And then they could even try to keep doing that afterwards.
00:37:59.980
They could issue, you know, they could try to get, you know, advocate for a new LLC opinion
00:38:05.860
But it seems like they realize that that see the handwriting on the wall, none of that's
00:38:10.920
And that's what's really motivating, you know, them leaking that they're going to take this
00:38:15.140
But I again, I'm I'm think that they're going to try to keep one foot in the world of going
00:38:20.460
after Trump and one foot in the world of kind of recognizing that they can't.
00:38:24.680
But I think Tish James has chosen a different strategy.
00:38:28.340
I think her strategy is I'm just going to keep going after this guy because I'm a state
00:38:34.100
He can't, you know, take me out or at least it'll be harder for him to do that.
00:38:38.840
So, you know, the best, you know, protection for me, the best defense is a good offense
00:38:46.740
Speaking about the olive ranch, he spoke about on election night or early morning Wednesday
00:38:52.000
when he came out and spoke to his packed house.
00:38:56.700
Like you said, in 2016, he offered it to Hillary Clinton and he took the high road.
00:39:01.540
You know, everyone comes out and says, well, not everyone, but the Marxist Dems come out
00:39:06.560
If you go look at everybody he's went after, Jeff, they've come after him first.
00:39:10.740
It's very rare you see Donald Trump go out there on Twitter or on Truth Social and attack
00:39:14.540
somebody without going to look and see what they said about him first.
00:39:20.120
It's very rare you see, excuse me, Donald Trump going out there and throwing, flamethrowing
00:39:28.760
We've heard the Marxist Dems come out and say he's going to go after his political opponents.
00:39:32.500
Obviously the same thing they've done for him coming after you, coming after Steve Bannon,
00:39:37.700
The January Sixers, the political pawns that are in jail right now, who will hopefully
00:39:42.140
be out on January 21st, January 20th, when he takes office, who have been there for far
00:39:51.340
And, you know, I'm all for taking the high road, Jeff.
00:39:55.760
But at this point in our lives, Jeff, with what has happened to you, with what has happened
00:40:00.700
to President Trump, what happened to his family, I don't think we could take the high
00:40:07.120
I'm not just talking for the sake of Donald Trump, for the sake of Jeff, Jeff Clark.
00:40:11.260
I'm saying for the sake of our country and every single person who's going to run for
00:40:15.700
office or hold the position for someone who's not a popular candidate to the other side.
00:40:22.980
I think that, look, there, there, there is a sense in which at the margins you should try
00:40:29.720
to be magnanimous and you certainly shouldn't be stretching the law or stretching the facts.
00:40:39.720
But, but so what I'm, what I think is, look, I think what's happened over the last four years
00:40:44.480
with this unprecedented lawfare is something that requires consequences.
00:40:49.820
And it, at the very least, it requires setting up new defensive mechanisms so that that conduct
00:40:58.280
And, you know, I'd like to see that an attorney general is appointed who, who believes in that
00:41:04.520
and for there, you know, to be some accountability for what happened during these periods.
00:41:09.600
Like, it shouldn't be that the Democrats, you know, they do break the law.
00:41:17.700
And they just decide to like willy nilly go after people.
00:41:20.580
And then, you know, they're defeated politically.
00:41:23.380
And then they're like, oh, you know, I just leave us alone.
00:41:26.180
It's much like what happened with, with COVID, right?
00:41:35.240
I think the airline industry is still crippled in many ways because of the Biden vaccine mandate.
00:41:42.160
And then, you know, like once it comes out that this was all based on fake science or
00:41:46.560
non-science or just, you know, oh, we just made up six feet distancing, you know, because
00:41:51.080
we thought it was kind of, you know, it made some sense to us, but there's no real data behind
00:41:56.460
Once all the lies come out, then they're like, oh, we need a kind of, you know, COVID amnesty.
00:42:00.840
Don't come after us for the lies that we're told.
00:42:06.140
Otherwise, you just have an alternate period of the Democrats go after people, they lose,
00:42:12.680
and then they come back into power and then they go after people.
00:42:15.820
You know, we have to put an end to this stuff and we have to incentivize putting an end to
00:42:20.020
that stuff so that we get back to equal enforcement of the laws and benefit of all under our
00:42:28.200
The only way, Jeff, we have that is to hold these people accountable for what they've done.
00:42:35.760
There in no world is Anthony Fauci a victim of anything with what he's done.
00:42:48.640
I mean, the COVID vaccines, no accountability, Jeff, for vaccine makers.
00:42:56.060
And if something happens to you, you cannot sue us because we have no accountability.
00:43:00.660
We have a no accountability waiver that we can do whatever we want.
00:43:07.360
And look, John, this isn't widely known because, you know, for so long as to me, the left and,
00:43:14.560
you know, the January 6th committee is allowed to sort of run rampant with their narrative
00:43:18.780
creation and the fact that they don't observe privilege like an executive privilege, law
00:43:24.360
enforcement privilege, attorney-client privilege, et cetera.
00:43:27.000
These, you know, throw all that aside to get after Trump.
00:43:30.420
But they tried to paint me as some kind of legal idiot.
00:43:33.400
And I'd suggest to you that anyone who watched this interview and listens to me explain how
00:43:39.300
different legal, you know, aspects of our system work and is on top of the facts and
00:43:44.420
the law in particular cases, that's really true.
00:43:47.220
But here's something that's not widely known that relates to COVID.
00:43:50.680
I headed up the civil division, which is 1,000 lawyers.
00:43:54.000
And one of the things the head of the civil division does is he administers the vaccine
00:44:01.400
So I saw, you know, all of the inside information about different vaccines.
00:44:06.780
This was before claims about COVID vaccines hit because you obviously need some, you know,
00:44:11.380
delay period right between the time that people took the vaccine and then the time their
00:44:16.120
So I could see that that was going to be a big strain on the system eventually.
00:44:20.540
And sure enough, the career people working on that program are like, yeah, we're putting
00:44:24.440
aside extra resources to deal with the inevitable COVID claims that are going to come.
00:44:31.060
And you would see the record where the doctors would come in, you know, with the parents, with
00:44:36.480
children who were, you know, those are the most heartbreaking cases, just terribly damaged
00:44:42.700
Like, you know, my son or daughter is like, you know, six months, 18 months, like totally
00:44:48.260
And then like they get this like a whole battery of vaccines and they wind up like almost in
00:44:53.840
a vegetative state or they're paralyzed or they're brain damaged.
00:44:58.220
And then, you know, the government would have experts on the other side.
00:45:02.260
And I got so many of these settlements where I would read the government's experts and they'd
00:45:09.220
We tried to rule out all other causes and we can't find any alternative alternative explanation
00:45:19.220
Like we actually, you know, they oftentimes didn't cross the T, but what they were saying
00:45:24.240
is like, yeah, I must have been caused by the vaccine.
00:45:26.140
And then in those cases, the settlement amount that was recommended to me and that I would
00:45:33.380
So, you know, like there is a serious problem with the liability protection for the pharma
00:45:41.100
We obviously don't want the, you know, a whole bunch of ambulance chasing lawyers to drive
00:45:48.660
But by the same token, we don't want to prevent people from getting full compensation for injuries
00:45:55.520
And you can't, Jeff, you can't put a price on somebody's life.
00:45:57.640
I think if you get in an airline accident and you die in an airline, your body's worth $250,000.
00:46:01.820
If you died in 9-11, you got $250,000 and then another $250,000 if you were sick before,
00:46:07.740
There's no price you could put on someone's life.
00:46:09.420
I think my life's worth a billion dollars, Jeff.
00:46:16.120
But if you put, Jeff, if you put, and I'm going to play a clip in just a second from RFK
00:46:21.100
Jr., who's hopefully going to be part of a Trump administration come January, and he
00:46:28.020
But if you started putting some sort of liability on these vaccines, I guarantee you, Jeff, these
00:46:36.100
30 or so vaccines a kid gets or somewhere in that range when they're born is going to
00:46:43.520
You're giving a kid a hepatitis B shot as soon as they're born, which the only way you get
00:46:46.840
that is through a sexually transmitted disease.
00:46:49.280
Things like that that you're shoving in these babies as soon as they're born, you know, I
00:46:54.600
But I want to play a clip of RFK and the left, Jeff, is melting down about the fact that
00:47:03.380
He's a vaccine denier for all intents and purposes.
00:47:06.820
Take a listen to MSNBC melting down in this interview with RFK.
00:47:10.940
You say clearing out the corruption in your terms.
00:47:13.120
Would that mean clearing out the top level federal service workers that are currently at
00:47:21.440
In some categories of workers, there are entire departments like the nutrition departments
00:47:26.640
at FDA that have to go, that are not doing their job.
00:47:36.100
Why do we have Froot Loops in this country that have 18 or 19 ingredients and you go to
00:47:44.380
To eliminate the agencies, as long as it requires congressional approval, I wouldn't be doing
00:47:59.640
I have a PhD in corporate corruption and that's what I do.
00:48:02.580
And once they're not corrupt, once Americans are getting good science and are allowed to
00:48:07.380
make their own choices, they're going to get a lot healthier.
00:48:09.840
So, Jeff, as somebody who's worked with this, what's your take on RFK and the draining of
00:48:16.920
the swamp that he wants to do inside the FDA when it comes to, we'll talk about vaccines,
00:48:22.940
I completely agree with him and I've agreed with him.
00:48:27.700
There are other issues that I disagree with him about, right?
00:48:30.320
I, this is, you know, even captured last night, this is the second time I saw President Trump
00:48:35.420
do it where he talks about, you know, RFK making America healthy again, completely agree.
00:48:43.940
I have all my vaccine stories that I started, you know, to give you a sense of here.
00:48:49.380
And I, myself, it's not like I started out as some kind of major vaccine skeptic.
00:48:55.700
And I'll tell you that since I stopped taking the flu vaccine and I got a hassle with my
00:48:59.460
doctor every time I go in, I don't get the flu anymore.
00:49:03.840
So, you know, I'm just like, there's a basic, you know, even if it could be the, the before
00:49:10.620
after fallacy in terms of like, just because something happens after something else doesn't
00:49:15.840
mean it necessarily was caused by the thing that occurs after.
00:49:18.720
Yes, but like the fact that I was getting the flu regularly, like a couple of times a
00:49:24.700
year when I took the vaccine and now I no longer get it at all is pretty telling.
00:49:30.580
The thing that, that I disagree with him about, and it's clear President Trump disagrees with
00:49:34.500
him about is, you know, regulation of the oil industry.
00:49:38.540
And, you know, Trump captures that in this, you know, humorous kind of vignette he relates
00:49:44.020
where he says like, you know, don't touch that, that black gold, Bobby, don't, don't
00:49:53.280
Look, the thing is you can get cancer from, you know, products from the oil industry.
00:50:00.100
For instance, like benzene is a leukemogen, right?
00:50:03.740
So we, we know these things, but we also know how to take reasonable precautions and the
00:50:08.260
utility of the product of oil and how it fuels our entire economy literally as well as
00:50:19.880
It's what explains our first world standard of living versus, you know, third world standards
00:50:25.700
And so, you know, I think that, that RFK is a wise man.
00:50:30.640
I think that everything he does is a matter of good faith.
00:50:35.640
And so, you know, he's definitely right about the corruption in our public health industry.
00:50:41.660
And I really want to see him join to run an agency to go root that stuff out and try to
00:50:49.640
So I've become, you know, when he started coming out against the COVID vaccine and all
00:50:53.740
the problems with the fakeness of the COVID pandemic, you know, I became a big fan of
00:50:59.620
And so I want to see him get into the administration.
00:51:04.760
It's funny because the Democrats don't realize, Jeff, these electric cars, what fuels the factories
00:51:10.400
that you're building the batteries in, what fuels the vehicles that these, the 18 wheelers
00:51:18.980
And we're never going to be able to get rid of fossil fuels.
00:51:23.960
And, you know, he is an L.A. Democrat, which is fine.
00:51:34.040
And his wife's, I say this all the time, his wife's a Hollywood actor who's best friends
00:51:38.840
with Larry David, did one of the greatest shows on television, in my opinion, Curb Your
00:51:44.280
So for him to come out here and go on the limb, you know, it did put his wife in a very hard
00:51:51.980
So I don't think he's doing this for his own personal good.
00:51:57.740
And not only did he suffer, you know, slings and arrows from those on the left that previously
00:52:04.440
idolized him, which was, you know, hard enough.
00:52:09.560
Believe me, all kinds of conservative legal luminaries have come out against me based on
00:52:15.400
distortions from The New York Times and not even hearing my side of the story, because
00:52:18.740
my side of the story in large part is privileged.
00:52:24.880
But worse than that, like his whole family came out against him.
00:52:31.200
And also, look, I don't think that on all these issues, his wife, Cheryl Hines, the actress
00:52:36.480
necessarily agrees with him about everything, but she supports him.
00:52:41.200
And, you know, that's a sign of a very good wife and a sign of, you know, I just I have
00:52:48.820
I based on what I'd seen before, I sort of just put her in the standard Hollywood actress
00:52:54.800
But I think that I have a great respect for her now in terms of how she dealt with the
00:53:00.680
attacks on him and the fact that once he made the choice to support Trump as the best way
00:53:05.160
to try to get to advance the make America healthy again agenda, she was totally with
00:53:16.660
How he how he dealt with it on the flip side, you know, is is an object lesson of what not
00:53:26.280
I sit on Twitter all day trolling him, telling him enough with the Ozempic.
00:53:33.960
Before we wrap up, Jeff, I want to talk about a thing that I think we both believe in.
00:53:39.600
There's a statute of limitations, I believe, of five years or something like that on election
00:53:43.780
integrity. I don't think Donald Trump should let the 2020 election go by the wayside for
00:53:49.120
what we saw there, especially after seeing the numbers we saw come in, Jeff.
00:53:53.500
I was looking at a chart that was put out today in 2012.
00:53:57.220
The Democrats got about 65 million votes in the popular vote in 2016, about 65 million
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in the in the popular vote in 2020, Jeff, 81 million votes, obviously.
00:54:08.420
And now as this race wraps up here, it's going to look like about 67 million, 68 million,
00:54:15.500
So two million off of what they're usually two million more than what they're usually
00:54:21.200
Jeff, I think after looking at numbers like that, it makes it proves all of us, quote,
00:54:27.180
election deniers to be true, that there were issues in the 2020 election.
00:54:32.180
You don't go from an average of 65 to 67 million votes to all of a sudden, 81 million votes for
00:54:38.220
the most popular president who's been the most unpopular president, I think, of probably
00:54:46.300
What's your thoughts on how President Trump should proceed before any sort of statute of
00:54:50.500
limitations run out on the 2020 election to ensure that we don't ever see this again
00:55:00.420
And I think that, you know, the statistical points you're making right there, even far
00:55:05.520
more, you know, complicated and sophisticated statistical points that come from econometric
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studies, including one from the great economist John Locke that I introduced in my defense at
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my bar trial, which is still part of the record there.
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And, you know, Bill Barr and Jeff Rosen that, you know, the DAG, the deputy attorney general
00:55:25.360
became acting attorney general, like they didn't want to hear about that stuff at all.
00:55:28.280
But actually, since I have a background in economics and I practiced in that area for
00:55:33.720
three years before I went to law school and then got a special fellowship to do law and
00:55:37.800
economics in law school, I understand statistics.
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I understand, you know, these kinds of studies.
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And that that was very important information to me.
00:55:49.880
I would say at the flip side, though, that we don't want to boil the oceans for it.
00:55:55.060
The entirety of the Justice Department under President Trump should not be focused on reexamining
00:56:00.960
issues from 2020 because we're going to have new issues to deal with.
00:56:04.800
We're going to have the covid investigations to deal with.
00:56:08.520
We're going to have investigations related to people lying to Congress during this Biden
00:56:17.640
And, you know, we're going to have just all the standard mind run of President Trump will
00:56:21.660
be adopting new rulemakings and his agencies will be doing that and they have to be defended.
00:56:27.060
So, you know, it can't be the be all and end all.
00:56:30.440
So there's a kind of natural break point for it.
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But we can't do nothing as well because it's a very serious issue.
00:56:37.460
It takes a serious look to prevent future problems and to reassure the American people that after,
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you know, any accountability is is put in place and after any new fixes are put in place to try to
00:56:52.900
avoid that, that they can trust their elections.
00:56:58.080
Ninety percent of these witch hunts and attacks that came after President Trump after the 2020
00:57:03.340
election were based on the 2020 election that that we believe the election was stolen in one way or
00:57:10.140
another. If you look at ballot stuffing, if you look at ballot harvesting in states where it's not
00:57:14.900
legal, that it was done in. That's the premise I look at it.
00:57:18.660
I'm not looking at it from the premise of we need retribution because we think the election maybe was
00:57:24.000
stolen. The premise I'm looking at is they went after President Trump.
00:57:27.140
They continue to go after President Trump legally and lawfare because of an election that we believe
00:57:34.320
was stolen. At the end of the day, Jeff, he left the White House on January 20th,
00:57:39.640
when he was set to leave. Kamala Harris went out there this week on her concession speech and said,
00:57:44.100
oh, we we're going to do a peaceful transition of power. Well, what part of his transition of
00:57:48.400
power wasn't peaceful? He left the White House early that day. He gave Biden a head start to get
00:57:52.640
in there and move in. What part of it wasn't peaceful? It was entirely. All right. It was
00:57:58.040
entirely peaceful. Right. January 6th, in terms of a riot that President Trump did not order,
00:58:04.380
contrary to what the January 6th committee tried to say or or gin up because he told
00:58:09.500
people to march peacefully and patriotically down to the Capitol. Right. But saying to the
00:58:13.700
contrary, cutting that out is just a set of lies. So, look, I agree with you that this is part of
00:58:21.080
their whole fake mythology and narrative that they created that, you know, President Trump had no
00:58:27.080
basis to contest the election and that indeed this was the one that always gets me about the
00:58:33.060
January 6th committee. He was told that he lost. Right. OK. I don't care what Bill Stepien,
00:58:40.360
the campaign manager, thought he knew and what he told President Trump. Right. Like I'm going off of
00:58:46.660
things like Zuckerberg's perverted the election to the tune of 400 plus million dollars. I'm going off
00:58:53.000
the statistical analysis I was talking to you about by John Lott and by other analyses. I'm going off of
00:58:59.540
the fact that they didn't do signature verification in many areas as a result of COVID. I'm going off
00:59:06.320
the fact that they unconstitutionally changed the election rules. Right. Like Bill Stepien, I don't
00:59:12.080
know him. I just read about him. I have no idea like what is in his head versus out of his head.
00:59:17.800
But, you know, for him not to recognize that any of those things are valid issues and that President
00:59:22.400
Trump could have disagreed with him based on those issues. Like it's just ridiculous. Like,
00:59:27.860
yeah, a bunch of like weak, spineless people who were not particularly knowledgeable in key areas,
00:59:34.340
either legally, factually on the ground or as a matter of expert analysis, like by economists.
00:59:41.360
Yeah, they told President Trump they thought he lost. Big whoop. He disagreed with them. And guess
00:59:46.200
what? You know, Bill Stepien's no one holding no office under the of trust and profit under the
00:59:52.140
United States, whereas Donald Trump held the highest office, the presidency of the United States.
00:59:56.300
I take that a lot more seriously. And I also personally agree with President Trump that the
01:00:01.380
2020 election smells so bad. It's like a combination garbage dump and cesspit.
01:00:07.620
Right. And who the hell, Jeff, who the hell Bill Stepien, one of them. But you see some of these
01:00:12.460
other people, the girl who said that Trump tried to take over the beast and told the guy to get out of
01:00:19.280
the way, Cassidy Hutchinson. We now find out she was talking with Liz Cheney. At the end of the day,
01:00:24.040
he's the president of the United States. And I'm not saying this in a dictator type way, but he doesn't
01:00:28.620
have to listen to anybody, Jeff. He is the commander in chief of this country. He makes the final call
01:00:34.340
on if we blow up a country, if we do this, if we do that. He has advisors around him or, you know,
01:00:40.560
giving him info. But Jeff, as we saw as he's left office and throughout his administration,
01:00:44.960
that was infiltrated by people who had malice towards him from the inception. Whether you look at John
01:00:51.360
Kelly, you look at Reince Priebus, you look at the various amount of people, Stephanie Grisham,
01:00:55.720
the alcoholic. You look at these various people in his administration who meant to do harm. And it
01:01:02.200
happened from day one. Look what they did to Michael Flynn. That was on absolute day one. They
01:01:07.820
set the man up to fail. So Donald Trump had every right, Jeff, to not listen to these people because
01:01:14.980
of the malice they had towards him. You know, that's the way I look at it.
01:01:21.240
Yeah. So look, you know, who just at the level of if you talk to an American citizen, you could
01:01:28.620
choose them randomly. But as long as you had some guarantee that they were open minded. Right.
01:01:34.360
Who would you trust to make a final decision on an important matter? A 25 year old who, as far as I
01:01:40.480
can tell, knows nothing. Cassidy Hutchinson went to the Christopher Newport University or President
01:01:47.960
Trump, who built a multi-billion dollar business empire, who has a star on the Hollywood Walk of
01:01:56.200
Fame, who was a successful president helping the American people, who is a graduate of the Wharton
01:02:04.360
business school, who has in his family other indications of high IQ, like his uncle, who was
01:02:11.260
an MIT professor, an engineer, and his sister, who was a judge on the third circuit. Right. Like
01:02:17.360
there's just no contest. And, you know, I didn't even use Cassidy Hutchinson. Right. I, you know,
01:02:23.260
I, they, they, it's better case for them to use Bill Stepien. He's an expert in campaigns. Well,
01:02:28.920
he might be an expert at sort of some campaign issues and maybe even knows some law around that
01:02:35.260
area, but he doesn't know about election theft and he doesn't know about how to, you know, study
01:02:41.460
an econometric study and conclude whether it, you know, has a good R squared or not in terms of the
01:02:46.620
equations that are built within it. And, you know, President Trump actually does have expertise in
01:02:51.000
that area. Right. Regularly reviewed business reports. It's just, it's laughable to me what kind
01:02:55.960
of pablum and silliness. They try to sell an MSNBC to the American people. And sadly, too many people
01:03:01.800
buy it. You know, President Trump is a very smart man. And, uh, you know, he did not contest the 2020
01:03:08.280
election for no reason. Um, you know, it wasn't like, uh, when he was behind closed doors, he was
01:03:13.460
like, I know I lost, but then to American people, he's like, I completely won. No, what you see is what
01:03:18.760
you get. And, you know, he thought that was a dirty election and many of us agree with him. And, uh,
01:03:25.640
you know, it's, he didn't do anything wrong and it's, uh, you know, entirely possible for someone
01:03:30.620
to disagree with what the left thinks without becoming a criminal. Yeah. You know, the Jeff,
01:03:35.200
the thing, as I walked through the white house, when president Trump was there, the few times we
01:03:38.300
went to go visit him, uh, you exactly what you said, it was a bunch of 25 year old kids who
01:03:42.900
thought they knew it all. They all thought they were hot shit. They thought they were big shots
01:03:46.060
and that they were going to be the next president of the United States. And they all sought to undermine
01:03:49.880
him at every, and that's what I saw personally from my times, uh, going there to visit,
01:03:54.880
uh, and you had them all, you know, thinking that they were the hot, you know, hot stuff.
01:03:59.620
And they were this, they were calling the shots at the end of the day. Uh, you know, Donald Trump
01:04:03.660
probably listened to some of them on some things, but at the end of the day, uh, made the decision
01:04:07.580
on his own. And the things I learned from president Trump, if he knows what he's talking about,
01:04:11.860
there's nobody who can get inside his head. Who's going to tell him otherwise, if he knows something
01:04:16.220
to be a fact, uh, especially from, like you said, a 25 year old kid, uh, I want to wrap up with this
01:04:21.900
here. I'm sorry for keeping you here so long. Um, a new Trump administration. I would love to see
01:04:26.280
more than anything, uh, Jeff Clark in that administration, uh, to write some of these
01:04:30.980
wrongs that had happened to you and so many other people. Do you think, uh, you know, there's no,
01:04:36.380
there's no secret that president Trump, uh, made a few mistakes in his first term and it was none on
01:04:41.840
his, his behalf. It was all on the people he surrounded himself with because he was led by people
01:04:46.440
like Chris Christie on a transition team. Do you think we see president Trump bring in an acting
01:04:51.840
attorney general who's ready to start getting to work on the first day? Not like a Jeff session,
01:04:57.400
who's ready to recuse himself on the first day. Do you think we see a Trump administration this time
01:05:02.340
around that implements these people? He's surrounded now, uh, Jeff by far better people than he was in
01:05:08.340
2016 and 2020. Elon Musk, the smartest and richest man in the world. Um, uh, Grant Cardone,
01:05:14.920
a venture capitalist, a billionaire, uh, you know, you can go down the list of people,
01:05:19.300
Dana White, Joe Rogan, all these smart people. He surrounded himself or logical people. Do you
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think we see him surround himself now with people who have his best interests?
01:05:29.320
So look, I can't, uh, comment on anything about myself except to say that, uh, I would be pleased
01:05:36.260
to serve the president in any role that he selected, uh, me asked me to do, uh, you know,
01:05:43.100
public service involves sacrifice. And believe me, nobody knows more, uh, about that than I do
01:05:48.540
because I stood by the president. Um, you know, I got a call actually the morning, uh, after January
01:05:55.100
6th, you know, basically trying to suggest to me that if I noisily denounced president Trump and
01:06:00.920
tied him to January 6th, you know, I would not face any consequences for having raised the issue of
01:06:07.780
investigating the election. Right. So this is one of the deep state's maneuvers. And I couldn't do that
01:06:12.880
because I do believe that there were problems with the 2020 election and I don't think I did
01:06:16.760
anything wrong. And I also don't think president Trump did anything wrong on, uh, January 6th either.
01:06:22.560
So I couldn't do that in good conscience. Right. But here, here's what I would say about, uh, who
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is selected to run the justice department. I think you're looking for these, uh, things you're looking
01:06:33.920
for someone who has the necessary native brain power. And believe me, the smartest people, uh, in the
01:06:41.900
federal government are lawyers at DOJ, especially ones at, at main justice, especially at some of
01:06:48.260
the key places like OLC that I mentioned and the solicitor general's office. Second, uh, a track
01:06:54.420
record of learning the law and practicing it. Right. You can be very smart, but if you don't have the
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necessary experience, then, you know, it's difficult to translate that into things and to resist the kinds
01:07:07.160
of things that the, the, the career people come at you with. And believe me, they come at you with
01:07:12.100
from every conceivable angle to try to just keep the status quo and get their way. Third, you need
01:07:18.740
to have someone who understands how main justice works and how it interfaces with, uh, the, the field
01:07:24.380
offices, essentially the U S attorney's offices, the 90 plus of those around the country. Uh, and then
01:07:30.240
fourth, you need to have someone who has a lot of integrity and intestinal fortitude and not someone
01:07:36.520
who's just an establishmentarian, who, who is saying to himself, I either want this job as a
01:07:41.760
political stepping stone to run for future office, or I want this job to become, you know, I get a Fox
01:07:49.300
gig where I want this job so that I can, you know, retire to some kind of like cushy consulting role at
01:07:57.260
a think tank or something like that. You want someone who's going to be rock solid. They're going to stand
01:08:02.160
by the president. They're not going to try to soften everything he does. Instead, if what the
01:08:08.460
president wants to do is consistent within the bounds of the law, uh, that that attorney general
01:08:15.060
would put their own brain power and legal expertise and knowledge of the institutions to use in achieving
01:08:21.120
the president's objectives. Because after all, at the end of the day, any lawyer is not a principal by
01:08:26.560
which I mean, they are not the main decision maker, right? They're, uh, an agent. And who in
01:08:32.240
this case, are they an agent of? They're an agent of the president of the United States. He's the one
01:08:36.480
who's elected by the people. He is the one who is the singular head. He is the entire executive branch
01:08:43.300
in one person. And for too long, we've had attorney generals who thought that they're smarter than the
01:08:48.560
president. They're better than the president. Uh, they're independent of the president. All of those
01:08:53.260
things are nonsense. Are you talking about Bill Barr? He was an agent for the president of the United
01:08:57.940
States. Yeah, you're absolutely right. And I think by, by the assessment of the attorney general,
01:09:02.080
it sounded awfully like the definition of Bill Barr. Uh, Jeff Sessions didn't make it long enough. He
01:09:07.160
was far too feckless. You said testicular fortitude. Uh, I think that's definitely something that,
01:09:11.820
uh, that, uh, Jeff Sessions lost when he left Alabama. I think he left them behind. Uh, but it,
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you know, it's truly, it's truly sad. I think you're absolutely right. In this administration,
01:09:21.240
he's going to right those wrongs. And like I said, I hope we do see a Jeff Clark in there.
01:09:25.300
You mentioned earlier about anyone questioning your, uh, you know, your legal mind. I think
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you're a brilliant legal mind, far smarter than some of the idiots that are there right now.
01:09:34.820
And some of the idiots who surrounded president Trump in his first term, who, uh, had malice in
01:09:39.940
their bones, uh, for everyone watching, like I said, please give send go.com forward slash Jeff
01:09:45.060
Clark in this legal fight he's dealing with right now. Um, you know, lawyers aren't cheap,
01:09:50.480
uh, you know, it's, it's draining to these people, millions of dollars down the drain,
01:09:55.020
all because of a, a witch hunt, uh, in which they hate Donald Trump and they, they seek to hurt
01:09:59.740
every single person that he surrounds himself with. But I think this time around, Jeff, we're going to
01:10:04.240
see a far, uh, a different administration and a far different, uh, uh, outcome. So thanks so much
01:10:11.000
for joining us today for a former United States assistant attorney general, Jeff Clark. Uh, once again,
01:10:15.820
give send go.com slash Jeff Clark, thanks so much, Jeff. And we hope to see you, uh, somewhere in
01:10:21.820
Washington, DC, uh, after January 20th. Thank you, John, and pray for president Trump's protection
01:10:28.700
and for, uh, support from God for his prudence. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you so much, Jeff. Thank
01:10:35.540
you. Thanks everybody for being with us today. Once again, that link for Jeff is give send go.com
01:10:40.700
forward slash Jeff Clark, uh, what these Marxist dams and, and, uh, corrupt prosecutors,
01:10:47.220
lifelong criminal career prosecutors due to these people is absolutely sick. And, uh, you
01:10:51.780
know, it falls on us to get these people out of the mess that they're in, uh, for fighting
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for this country. We'll see you back here tomorrow for the great America show where our quest for
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truth, justice, and the American way prevails. We'll see you back here tomorrow. God bless you
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and God bless America and God bless the great Lou Dobbs.