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Trump advisor John McLaughlin joins the Great America Sunday Show host Lou Dobbs to discuss his thoughts on Joe Biden and the 2020 Democratic presidential primary race, and why he thinks it's time to impeach the most corrupt politician in American history.
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Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs and welcome to the Great America Sunday Show. It is great to have
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you with us. A big week ahead for Congress. It's their first week back to work since the middle
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of December. There will be a lot on the congressional agenda that they'll have to deal with in this new
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year. FISA reform, a budget that makes sense for America, and perhaps the most important of all,
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the impeachment of the most corrupt politician in the history of this country, Joseph Robinette
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Biden. On the agenda this week will be a contempt of Congress resolution against Hunter Biden for
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failing to show for a transcribed interview. You recall Hunter Biden showed up outside the Capitol
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to grandstand and put on something of a show of his own. The judiciary and oversight committees will
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hold a markup for the resolution this Wednesday and once voted out of committee, that resolution moves
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to the House floor where, if it passes, will be sent over to the Department of Justice to decide
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whether they bring charges against the president's embattled son. Personally, I don't see any reason to
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expect any adherence to either law or decency by the Justice Department in their response, even though
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the DOJ brought immediate charges against both Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, both held in
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contempt. They even had legitimate immunity claims. A new poll out this week from Suffolk University USA
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Today shows 52 percent of Trump supporters aren't confident their votes will be accurately counted in
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the 2024 election. To the contrary, 81 percent of Dems believe their votes will be counted accurately.
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This is one of those rare moments, in my opinion, where voters of both parties could actually be
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right. Our first guest today is GOP strategist and pollster, Trump advisor John McLaughlin. And John,
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it's great to have you back with us. Let's talk politics, of course. Please give us your assessment
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of where we stand right now, first and foremost, in the political race for president.
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Well, right now, as we enter the new year, we're gazed from the Iowa caucus, which is good,
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because the polls have been good for President Trump, that he's been moving up all year,
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where our last December national poll, we had Donald Trump leading Joe Biden 47-44. We had him
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leading the primary field, but the highest ever that we've had all year. And one-on-one,
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he was beating Nikki Haley 74-26, and he was beating Ron DeSantis, among Republican primary voters,
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74-26 identical margins. But the key thing is, remember January last year, when we started the
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campaign for the Republican primary, you had Trump was only nationally among Republicans, 42%,
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and Ron DeSantis was at 31%. And in this latest national poll, Trump is at 62, with 11 for DeSantis and 10
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for Haley. Now, there is no national primary. It's a sequential primary that we have to win Iowa,
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we have to win New Hampshire, and the real clear politics average of reputable polls
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has us with decisive leads in both those states. And then we got to win in South Carolina, where,
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again, in the real clear politics average, Nikki's home state, but it'll be February 24th.
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We have to win, and we're up two to one in the polls there, where the voters who know her best
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are supporting Donald Trump. And so that's a good start for us to capture the nomination.
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And at the same time, we're leading Joe Biden in the battleground states like we never did before.
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We're leading Joe Biden in the national popular vote like we never did before. And Joe Biden is a
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failed president who's got the country on the wrong track. And most voters are feeling the buyer's
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remorse. In fact, there is a significant Biden 2020 voter who's now voting for Trump in 2024.
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Younger voters, African Americans, Hispanics, who basically want to, you know, they want to see
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inflation go down, food prices go down, mortgage rates come back down, they want to see their 401ks
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go back up if they have savings. And Donald Trump, his economic growth plan is that strength for
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them. Plus, they want the border security over the holidays. You saw such a surge coming into places
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like Texas and Arizona, and they're spreading them throughout the country. And who knows if there's
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Hamas terrorists or Iranians in there. But also, you know, people want to see the, I mean, it's terrible
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when you think of the wars that happened this year, what's going on in Ukraine, what's going on in
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the Middle East would have never happened if Donald Trump was president. So, so people, that's hope.
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That's the bottom. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Go ahead, John.
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Ten months from now, they're hoping Donald Trump beats Joe Biden.
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Yeah, I certainly hope so. And I don't know anyone in their right mind who wouldn't want to have this,
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this president out and President Trump in. There's almost a desperation when you talk to people.
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They have had it with this guy and the press. The Marxist Dems keep ginning up the same
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disinformation campaigns, the same nonsense, and they can't understand why the poll numbers are falling.
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You mentioned the border. You mentioned the economy.
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But the reality is that this is a man who is mismanaging, again, foreign policy,
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actually having the temerity, the audacity to tell Netanyahu how to run a war in Israel.
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I mean, the man looks like a complete idiot. And then he sends Lloyd Austin over,
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who's never done anything right based on his military record except be promoted.
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And he's trying to tell the IDF how to fight in urban warfare and in, of course, the Gaza.
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Right. Having polled for Prime Minister Netanyahu over the last two decades,
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where I polled his recent campaign win in 22, and we haven't done a poll for him there since.
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But I know him very well. And in fact, when we won in 2015, when we won his re-election then,
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I got to go see those tunnels in southern Israel, down by Ashdod, Ashkelon, down across the border
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from Gaza. And they go miles into Israel. And when you go down, and IDF general gave myself,
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Steve Forbes, and another friend, a couple of friends, a tour. Just going into these tunnels,
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you feel evil. They go miles into Israel. They have, you can put a railroad car down the middle
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of them. They have internet, electricity, water, and they're 50 to 100 meters below the surface.
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And they go for miles into Israel. And the reason that they were there was they were built with
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American dollars that was supposed to go to schools and hospitals. And instead, it went to this
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terrorism. And at the same time, in 2014, when they found these tunnels by accident,
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and Bibi was going to get them, Barack Obama forced him into a ceasefire before they got all
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the tunnels. So, you know, Hamas has been allowed to operate. And under Donald Trump,
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they wouldn't have done it. But with Joe Biden allowing Iran to get, you know, tens of billions
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of dollars in oil and them funding Hamas, it's the world is upside down.
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It is. And you know something, you and I've never discussed this. But why is it that American Jews
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vote for the left in this country, for the Democrat Party, the Marxist Dems, instead of Republicans?
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This seems like the most absurd idea that they could possibly hang on to over all these decades.
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Well, philosophically, historically, they're Democrats and liberals. But now they're coming
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around. I mean, I've got polls where 40% of the Jewish voters are now voting for Trump, which is
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double practically what we got the last couple of times around. And at the same time, you've got
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Orthodox communities in the United States that will vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump. And a big
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difference is only among Jewish voters in the United States, only about half of them actually have
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gone to Israel, only about half of them have friends and relatives in Israel. So that group is voting
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overwhelmingly for Donald Trump. The others who are more traditional Democrats, you know, they're in
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denial about Joe Biden, about his corruption. They're like so many other Democrats where they're
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believing propaganda that comes from our enemies, and the liberal media, instead of looking at reality
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and seeing what's going on. So, you know, the coalition in the poll that I'm seeing right now
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is where we are winning a quarter of the African American vote, we're winning the Hispanic vote,
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we're improving among young voters, and there's lots of media polls that say we're winning young
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voters now. Donald Trump is broadening his coalition, while Joe Biden has basically blown apart the old
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Obama coalition that allowed Obama and Joe Biden to win elections. So, you know, the future of America
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is in this election, so much so that the Democrats are doubling down on throwing their leading political
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opponent off the ballot. And my European clients who lived under communism, they said this is what the
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communists did in 1947. They locked up the political opposition, they rigged elections,
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and I'll tell you what, they say, their words to me is, because I work for Prime Minister Orban,
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but people in Europe who saw the communists, what they did say, Biden cannot lecture us on democracy
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anymore, because he's now, his people and Soros are funding the efforts to throw Donald Trump off the
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ballot, because Trump's ahead in the polls. We're talking with John McLaughlin, and as we continue,
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we're going to talk about the upcoming caucuses in Iowa, the New Hampshire primary, and get John
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McLaughlin's view of what will happen in those first two contests. We'll be right back. Stay with us.
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We're back with John McLaughlin, preeminent, prominent pollster for President Trump, Republican
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strategist, I think we'd say Hall of Famer. How does that go, John?
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I've got all the scars to feel old, so it's like...
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It's great to have you with us. As we're looking ahead to this,
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what do you see happening first in Iowa? Well, I think what's going on is a battle for
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second place between Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley. Donald Trump has a decisive lead. He's secured
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his base. He's done so many good things for Iowa, where, you know, the idea of what he's done with
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the tariffs, with China, et cetera, bringing dollars to farmers, protecting the corn growers with their
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ethanol industry, et cetera. So he has done great things for Iowa. Plus, what's more important is
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Iowa voters, anybody who goes out to a caucus on a cold night on January 13th to hang around for a
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little bit and then finally get to vote, those are real patriotic people. And they are... The Trump
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campaign has a great organization. It's driven... Their captains are driving out 10 for Trump.
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They're bringing new people into the caucuses. So while Nikki Haley and DeSantis, you know, battle
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for second, as DeSantis collapses, we're picking up votes from DeSantis. And Nikki Haley's, you know,
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she's pouring in tens of millions of dollars from these American oligarchs that support amnesty,
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free trade with China to send their jobs over there, and basically oppose putting up the wall
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and securing the border. You know, those are her friends. And so Iowa voters are not going to be
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fooled. Donald Trump's going to win in Iowa. And, you know, there's a battle for New Hampshire where,
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you know, Ron DeSantis has collapsed there. And again, Nikki Haley is getting lots of support from
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these billionaire Trumpers to try to basically take away control of the Republican Party
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from Donald Trump and give it back to the rhino establishment, which is scary. And, you know, I mean,
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the New Hampshire voters are realizing they now have a border with Canada where they're getting illegal
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And they've got a governor out, you know, just doing everything he can for the establishment candidate,
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Nikki Haley, who's never obviously seen a wall she wants built on the southern border. She wants more of those
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illegal immigrants as long as the oligarchs are calling for them. And, oh, yeah, why don't we do something
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for the military industrial complex? Let's just bomb the hell out of something, whether it's in Europe or whether it is
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in, you know, somewhere in the Middle East. I mean, she's all in with the oligarchs and she's expecting
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to be considered for a high office. This is scary stuff.
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Yeah, no, I agree with you. And when you and when you think about it, you know, New Hampshire's what's
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great is to live free or die state. It's 250 years ago since the Boston Tea Party and they're close by,
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et cetera. And when you think about it, Nikki Haley, you know, I know that, you know,
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they've gone after on raising gas taxes, too, but she was in favor of the fair tax and fair tax in
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theory might work. But in reality, a 23 percent national sales tax on food, cars, homes, really
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bad idea. But to a lot of these oligarchs, it makes sense because that way you can punish the working
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middle class of America and you'll get a lot of money with like a national bat and they won't,
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you know, they won't cut the income tax to get rid of it. So it's like, again, this is her candidacy
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represents these oligarchs controlling the exploited working men and women of America.
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And that's what Donald Trump stands for. And they are going all out to stop us in New Hampshire and
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Donald Trump, I think he has absolutely the best political messaging in American history.
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He's America first. And if you as a voter won't put America first, just exactly who would do and
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what would you put first? And he's a populist. So he's for the people. So everybody else has to
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explain who they're for, if not the people. And that's a very powerful message. And he put it to
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work for four years and it worked beautifully for the nation and for small business, working men and
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women, their families and our traditions, which are under assault. I want to, without any question
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by this administration, apparently Joe Biden is a little upset about his falling poll numbers.
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Now, this is coming from his aides. I personally don't believe he even could recognize what a poll
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is or the number. But his aides are saying that's what he's doing. Your reaction to his poll numbers
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and how could they be otherwise? They're accurate. They're finally caught up with our polls. But in
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the meantime, I think you underestimate Biden. Now, he is showing his age a lot more than Trump. But
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I'll tell you, it's not age, the corruption from Biden. He's really worried that if he loses the White
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House, you know, right now they can stop, they can stop an impeachment hearing because of the
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briberies and the corruption and scandal. But they won't be able to stop a real investigation that
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would go into his family where they've taken these tens of millions of dollars of bribes
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if Donald Trump is president. And on the other hand, what's more important is the American people
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see through this. In that poll that we just did right before Christmas across the country,
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67% of all voters say that the indictments of Donald Trump was just politics. Another 58%
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say that Joe Biden played a role in this. So the majority of Americans think that Joe Biden,
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and they're accurate, they're right from all the evidence, appointed Jack Smith, basically got Fannie
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Willis, got Alvin Bragg, got Letitia James, all to go after his opponent, Donald Trump. And they think
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this is about stopping Trump from running for president 49 to 38. They think there's a double
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standard of justice among all voters. They say 56% to 34. And they also say, let the voters decide who
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the president's going to be, not the courts, 56 to 36. So the voters want to decide. So that's, by the way,
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my poll has Trump at 47%. But 56% of the voters say, let this decide. There's voters out there that are
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undecided that are thinking of voting for Donald Trump. But if you throw him off the ballot,
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that decision's taken away. And it's, you know, I'm sure you have feelings about it like most
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Americans, but Donald Trump has never been charged with insurrection, never been convicted of
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insurrection. But Joe Biden thinks, and he said it publicly. He said that he firmly believes Donald
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Thanks, John McLaughlin. We'll talk with you soon. And coming up next on The Great America Show,
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attorney Mike Davis. We'll talk with Mike about the Marxist Dems' latest efforts to destroy the
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republic, the Democrat Party is an enemy of the state, and not just simply a rival party. Mike Davis and I
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will take up what we can do to save the republic from the Marxist Dems. Stay with us. We're coming right
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back. Thanks for staying with us. Joining us now, the founder of the Article 3 project and attorney,
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Mike Davis. And I should say, I suppose, Mike, Mike Davis is presumptive attorney general should
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President Trump win the White House. Mike, great to have you with us. And thanks for joining us.
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Thank you, Lou. There's that pesky thing called Senate confirmation. And I would get
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one charity vote from Chuck Grassley, my former boss, and it would end his 16-year political career.
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So I don't think being the attorney general is in the cards, unfortunately.
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Well, think about how many people you've helped win Senate confirmation. I have faith that you would,
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I think you would prevail. That's my projection. And it's great to have you with us. And by the way,
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I want everybody to know, I'm one of those people who would support Mike Davis as attorney general.
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Let's go to someone I wouldn't support ever for almost anything. And that's special counsel,
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Jack Smith, who's now urging an appellate court to reject President Trump's efforts to dismiss the
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Jack Smith's political interference and dismiss President Trump's claims of immunity. Your thoughts?
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Well, I mean, let's look at what happened on January 6th. January 6th was a lawful protest
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permitted by the National Park Service that devolved into a riot. How many insurrectionists
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go unarmed into a nation's capital, walk through velvet ropes, follow police direction,
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take selfies, and don't burn down the damn place? And what President Trump filed with his motion
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to dismiss is this. Either he was acting within his official capacity as the President of the United
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States when he was trying to make sure that the election was certified properly, and so that's
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covered under presidential immunity or under his presidential powers or the outer perimeter of
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his presidential powers under Supreme Court case law. So he's entitled to presidential immunity. If
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it's not presidential immunity, if he's acting within his official capacity, it's protected by the First
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Amendment because what President Trump did on January 6th was perfectly legal. He did not do anything
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illegal on January 6th. It's not illegal to object to presidential elections. That's allowed. Democrats
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did it in 1968, 2000, 2004, and 2016. It's not illegal to twist arms politically. That's allowed by the First
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Amendment. If that were illegal, Democrats would be in prison. You'd have Hillary Clinton. You'd have Al Gore.
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You'd have John Kerry in prison for objecting to presidential elections. If it were illegal to twist arms
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politically, every politician in the world would be in prison. So that's the issue. The only way you can
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charge President Trump for a crime on January 6th is if he incited the riots, and there's zero evidence
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that he incited the riot. There's actually evidence to the contrary. He told his supporters to go
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And as we examine it, as you've laid it out there, we realize, I think all of us now, how clearly
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powerful the corporatist legacy globalist media is because they have driven that narrative that it's
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an insurrection almost from the very beginning of the issue. And it's disinformation. It's misinformation.
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And we were bombarded with it, not only from the Washington Post, the New York Times, all of left-wing
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media, but by the ginning up of the January 6th Committee and Nancy Pelosi regaling us with all of
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this nonsense with almost no Republican voice as a countervailing force. I think that if anybody wants
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to see how important it is for our national media to be brought to heel, this is a prime, if not the
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Yeah, I mean, you have to break apart what happened on January 6th. There were people who were there
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peacefully to protest. And whether you think they're right or wrong, crazy or insane, they have
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an absolute First Amendment right to show up and protest the government. There are a separate group
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of people. There's a separate group of people who trespassed into the Capitol, and those people should be
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charged with trespass if there's not evidence that the police let them in. And then there's a third group of
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people. And that third group of people are the people who were violent. And those are the people
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who are violent should be treated more harshly. But for the Democrats and the Trump-deranged rhinos
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and the corporate media to lump together every one of those people on January 6th and they just
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labeled them insurrectionists and then say that they should be basically thrown in jail and canceled
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from society, that's un-American. Those are the people who are undemocratic. We have a First Amendment
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right to protest our government. And all these people who are complaining about violence on January
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6th, and the violence was bad. But where the hell were they when BLM and Antifa caused a hell of a lot
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more violence, billions of dollars in damage, many more deaths, a lot more destruction. They attacked
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the Portland Federal Courthouse on a nightly basis for more than six months. The abortion industry
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activist organized obstruction of justice campaigns, intimidation campaigns outside of Supreme Court
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justices' homes before the Dobbs decision. Chuck Schumer went to the steps of the Supreme Court and
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threatened essentially violence against the Supreme Court justices if they didn't rule the right way.
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And then, you know, Schumer's Democrat support. Yeah, to reap the world. And those Democrat supporters,
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you know, one of them tried to kill Justice Kavanaugh and his wife Ashley and their two teenage
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daughters at 1 a.m. in their home. Yeah. And to the issue right now before us, and everything you say,
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I agree with. The issue right now is Jack Smith is in his absurd statement that the president doesn't have
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an immunity defense. Jack Smith and others have already stripped this president of executive
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privilege, the privilege between attorney and client. He has been stripped of just about every
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immunity that most Americans took for granted by this left-wing authoritarian—you know, this is a
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totalitarian regime right now that we call the Biden administration.
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Yeah, well, obviously, Lou, there's a Trump derangement syndrome exception to the Constitution,
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to executive privilege, to attorney-client privilege, to presidential immunity. It's amazing
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that these Democrats who pretend like they're saving democracy are destroying democracy, right? They want
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to—they've impeached Trump twice for nonsense. They've indicted him four times for non-crimes.
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They've illegally gagged him twice. They're trying to bankrupt his business for non-fraud.
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And now they're just trying to kick him off the ballot, like in California and Maine. It is insane
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what they're doing. And let's go back to this presidential immunity point. Remember this.
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Can we do this? We're going to take a quick break, Mike. And we will be back with Mike Davis right after
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these quick words. And we are going to get to the issue next. What does Mike Davis think about the
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prospects for this president before the Supreme Court on the issue of presidential immunity?
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And will the court at the same time be invited to take up the criminal political persecution by one
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party of President Trump over a course of eight years? We'll be right back with Mike Davis.
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We're back with Mike Davis and the issue before the Supreme Court and now us. We're going to ask Mike
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Davis, attorney, the founder of the Article III project, to answer the question for the court.
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Does the president have this immunity that he claims or does he not?
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Presidents absolutely have absolute immunity for their official actions and the outer perimeter of
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their official actions. And this has been decided in several contexts. Judges have judicial immunity,
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both civil and criminal, for their official actions. Congress has congressional immunity,
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speech or debate clause, criminal and civil, for their official actions. The Supreme Court has already
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decided that presidents have civil immunity for their official actions. This is the first time ever
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that a former president of the United States has faced an indictment in our history by Joe Biden going
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after, weaponizing his Justice Department to go after his political rival, Donald Trump. And so now
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the Supreme Court will have to decide whether the president has immunity from criminal
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prosecution, prosecution, there's no doubt that he does. If you, if judges have immunity and members
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of Congress have immunity from criminal prosecution for their official actions, why wouldn't the president
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of the United States? And I would just warn people that this is so much bigger than Donald Trump, because
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think about this scenario. If presidents do not have immunity from criminal prosecution for their official
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actions or the outer perimeter of their official actions under Supreme Court precedents, then can the
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Trump 47 Justice Department prosecute President Obama for ordering a drone strike on two American citizens,
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a father at a wedding and a 16-year-old American son? That extrajudicial killing, if President Obama does not
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have presidential immunity for that, does that mean that the Trump 47 Justice Department can prosecute
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President Obama for murdering two American citizens? And of course, on a partisan basis,
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there would be a lot of people who would say, oh, absolutely. But the partisan issue is at the
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foundation of this. If the if the court decides the president doesn't have that immunity, presidential
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immunity, complete, whole and absolute, you could create all sorts of interferences with every presidency,
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just simply by being in the right jurisdiction with the right partisan bent. And
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descend upon the White House with your subpoenas and compel a president to to fall into
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whatever who scow was nearest the you know, the the charging jurisdiction. I just don't understand
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right now why there isn't a counterclaim here on the part of the president while this is before the court
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that of political criminal political persecution by the very same people who are looking to the
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Supreme Court right now. That is the special counsel, Jack Smith, the Department of Justice
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that carried out a raid on his home seeking the papers that were his, as you have documented throughout,
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no pun intended. And it is just disgusting that he has to be in a defensive mode when we know that
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Merrick Garland and Jack Smith and his ilk are the ones who should be prosecuted right now for abuse of power.
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I mean, there's no question that this is a criminal conspiracy by President Biden and his Justice
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Department, including Garland and Jack Smith, to weaponize the Justice Department to go after
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his political enemy, Donald Trump. And this is obvious election interference. Remember,
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it was deputy White House counsel, Jonathan Hsu, who relayed to the National Archives that President
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Biden waived President Trump's claim of executive privilege, which led to the unnecessary,
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unprecedented, unprecedented and unlawful home raid on former President Trump for presidential records
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he's allowed to have in the office of former president under the Presidential Records Act. Those
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documents did not leak until Joe Biden's Justice Department got their hands on them. And then they
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started to leak. And remember, it was it was Matthew Colangelo, a senior Biden Justice Department
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official who went to Alvin Bragg's office, the Manhattan DA's office to resurrect this zombie case
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against President Trump, the first indictment ever against a former president.
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Would you refer to that? Would you refer to Suze going to the to the Manhattan prosecutor's office
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is going to or transferring to from the Justice Department?
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Well, I think he was being sent to redeploy to. And it was it was
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Matthew Colangelo, who got redeployed from the number three office in the Biden Justice Department
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to Alvin Bragg's office to resurrect that zombie case against Trump, the first indictment ever.
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Remember, this was the case that the prior Manhattan DA passed on, the Federal Election Commission passed
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on, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office passed on, and Alvin Bragg himself passed on until
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Matthew Colangelo got deployed, redeployed from the Biden Justice Department to Alvin Bragg's office.
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And voila, this first indictment against a former president in American history appears.
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You're bringing up great points and a great survey of the history. What frustrates me, and I'm sure lots of
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of other people, is that there is no official aggregation of all of the material, the evidence,
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the activities, the conduct, the conspiracy by the Marxist Dems against the president of the United
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States, Donald Trump. And there are record after record after record in existence. No one is subpoenaing
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them. No one has the power at this point to do so, it seems.
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How in the world can we put the facts before the American people, besides those of us in the media,
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doing so, but without, obviously, subpoena authority or color of law or government power
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to actually intervene and say, this has to stop? Why is there not a legal remedy to that right now?
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Yeah, well, there is. And the House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan can issue subpoenas
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to Alvin Bragg and to Matthew Colangelo and to Jack Smith's office on these various bogus
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investigations, these bogus indictments. Fannie Willis down in Georgia, Alvin Bragg in New York,
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Jack Smith in D.C. and Florida. So, and he has, Jim Jordan has sent letters, but I'll tell you what needs to
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happen, Lou. We've been talking about this for a while. The Article III project came up with two
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appropriations writers that House Republicans can force right now. Number one, no federal funds
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can go to the federal prosecution of any major presidential candidate on or before November 5th,
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2024. And number two, any state or local jurisdiction that prosecutes any major presidential candidates on
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or before November 5th, 2024, loses all federal funding. Cut off all federal funding to these
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investigations at the federal level. Cut off all funding to the state and local governments
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if they pursue these. That's how you end the weaponization and the election interference. If
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they want to go after Trump, they waited 30 months to bring these bogus political indictments,
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four political indictments timed to go to trial, back to back to back to obviously interfere in the
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election, right? You have trials, four different trials that are set to go this year before the
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presidential election. And if they want to do this, if they want to go after President Trump,
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wait till after the presidential election. There's no reason they can't do it. They don't
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even have all the evidence produced to Trump in all these cases. These cases are not ready to go to trial.
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And so the Congress needs to step in and say, guess what? We're, we are going to let the American
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people, not these Democrat prosecutors and these Democrat judges and these Democrat juries and
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these Democrat hellholes like New York, D.C. and Atlanta pick our next president. Thanks everybody for
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