SCOTUS Victories for President Trump’s Immigration Agenda, and People Magazine’s RIDICULOUS Profile on the Obamas, with Bevan, Cannon, and Walworth | Ep. 1347
00:04:32.240The high court agreeing with the Department of Justice position that an immigrant does
00:04:36.700not arrive in the United States until he or she is actually in the country. Makes sense, right?0.83
00:04:44.880Samuel Alito writing for the majority here, quote, a guest does not arrive in a house when he knocks
00:04:51.640on the front door. So simple. It's so wonderful to hear a bit of common sense from our, you know,
00:04:57.780our government, which technically the Supreme Court is part of. Sonia Sotomayor writing the
00:05:02.780dissent, joined by fellow libs Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown-Jackson. She argued that the
00:05:08.760majority did not properly consider the context of the law, writing, quote, the majority ignores
00:05:14.720the statutory context and history, not to mention the longstanding position of the executive branch,
00:05:21.460all of which show that any non-citizen arriving at our doorstep and seeking admission must be
00:05:28.560inspected and must be allowed to apply for asylum, regardless of whether her foot has crossed the
00:05:35.860threshold, unquote. I mean, honestly, these libs will do anything to get as many illegals into this0.82
00:05:41.360country as they can. You know, they're all abusing these asylum claims. These are lies. And by the
00:05:46.200way, the vast majority who ask for asylum from Mexico, you know, when they're coming up from
00:05:50.400through Mexico have come from other countries. Why? If you're so scared about what's happening
00:05:54.880in your country. Why wouldn't you seek asylum in the very first country you reached? Why aren't
00:05:59.800you asking for asylum in Mexico? None of them is. This was a Stephen Miller point. It was a very
00:06:04.160good one. None of them is asking for asylum in Mexico. They want to come here because they think
00:06:09.500that there's better opportunity. There is, but you're not an American citizen. So get out.
00:06:15.080That's just how it works. It's I'm sorry, but that's you don't. Asylum is for.
00:06:20.040I like I'm from a war torn country. There's nonstop killing. You're the first country I1.00
00:06:27.640could get to. Please grant me asylum so I can stay here and avoid getting killed.1.00
00:06:32.500You travel up from, you know, Venezuela and you want asylum. You crossed how many countries?
00:06:38.600The answer is no. So Trump has been trying to shut down these asylum claims because they're
00:06:45.980bullshit. 99% of these are total bullshit. They just know that they have a better shot of like1.00
00:06:52.780manipulating the system if they claim, at least under the Biden years, poor dear me, you know,1.00
00:06:58.420I throw myself on your mercy, you chump Americans. So Trump came in and said, no more of asylum.1.00
00:07:05.700We're not doing that. And of course, this lawsuit resulted. So, and by the way, thank God,
00:07:11.500conservatives are now in the majority of the court. It's like the best court I've seen in my
00:07:14.780lifetime. And in a case that's likely to be even more consequential today, the same six to three
00:07:20.300majority siding with the Trump administration in its effort to end temporary protected status
00:07:27.280or TPS for Haitian and Syrian immigrants. Now, this decision clears the way for the admin to
00:07:35.420deport about 350,000 Haitians and over 6,000 Syrians and is likely to have implications for
00:07:42.640approximately 1 million individuals living in the U.S. under TPS from other countries.
00:07:49.320The TPS program passed by Congress in 1990 gives the Department of Homeland Security the power to
00:07:53.740designate a country's citizens as eligible to remain here and to work here because they cannot
00:08:00.900safely return to their homeland due to a natural disaster, war, or other extraordinary and temporary
00:08:07.720conditions. TPS designations are supposed to be for specific periods of time, hence the word
00:08:13.840temporary. But under the law, the designation can be extended before the designation expires,
00:08:20.960before the terms expire. The Obama admin granting Haitians TPS in 2010 due to the country's
00:08:26.640devastating earthquake, Syrians receiving it in 2012 because of the country's civil war.
00:08:31.540I mean, cry me a river. We have our own problems. TPS for both countries extended multiple times.
00:08:39.240And look, this has been going on for over a dozen years. Go home. Get out. We know our
00:08:45.020country's better than yours. That's because we filled it with our work ethic and our culture
00:08:50.460and our values. You being here only dilutes it for us, those who built it and live it.
00:08:56.360And half of you people, more than half, you won't assimilate. We don't want you. We don't care if1.00
00:09:02.020you're offended. Get out. Go home. Go back to fucking Haiti. Sorry. I'm just I'm thinking1.00
00:09:08.080about our friends in Ohio who've been dealing with these TPS Haitians for years now who are drunk1.00
00:09:13.500driving all over their towns and killing people. This is the whole cats and dogs thing like they1.00
00:09:19.360don't want to live like Americans live. And this was supposed to be a temporary it was supposed to0.99
00:09:28.300be temporary help. And it's turned into another backdoor way of allowing someone permanent
00:09:34.640residency here. And they take advantage of all of our public services and our systems. And they're0.93
00:09:40.560not respectful in many cases of their neighbors. It's like it had to end. And the libs held on and
00:09:48.140said, no, they accused the Trump administration of being racist in both cases. And Trump, to his
00:09:56.500credit, dug in. And last year, they sought to end TPS for both countries. No more Syrians.
00:10:02.860Sorry, it's not working out. No more Haitians. It's been 16 years. I'm sorry, but you're going1.00
00:10:10.860to have to go back home now. But those efforts were blocked by the lower courts who found that
00:10:17.100the administration did not follow the proper procedures to end the program for these Haitians
00:10:22.420and Syrians. And in the Haiti case, that the Trump administration was possibly motivated by
00:10:29.100racial animus, racial animus. I'll get to that in a second. But the Trump administration took
00:10:36.120the case to the U.S. Supreme Court and today has won. The high court finding that judges
00:10:42.280are prohibited from reviewing the executive branch's determinations on TPS when constitutional
00:10:49.820issues are not involved. Justice Alito, again, writing the opinion for the court, quote,
00:10:55.920a provision of the TPS statute provides there is no judicial review of any determination
00:11:03.800of or with respect to the designation, termination, or extension of a designation of a foreign state
00:11:11.840under this subsection. Basically, it's, he says the text is clear and his plain meaning is very
00:11:15.680broad. That that's confusing. But the bottom line is there's no judicial review for actions like
00:11:21.500these. All right. It's an executive branch decision. The executive branch has made it
00:11:25.980and the judges don't get to second guess the executive branch here. Justice Alito also
00:11:30.820rejecting the racial arguments, which carried the day with the lower courts, quote, none of
00:11:37.180the cited statements by either the president or the secretary was overtly racial and in substance
00:11:43.240all expressed policy views that could rest on race neutral justifications, unquote. In her
00:11:49.780dissent, Justice Kagan argued judges can review if the admin followed the proper procedure to
00:11:55.560end TPS. So she does think there's a place for judges to second guess the executive and that
00:12:00.860the majority is ignoring evidence, she writes, of the Trump administration's racism. All right,
00:12:07.340here's the exact quote. The majority claims to see no evidence that race played any role in the
00:12:13.360Haiti decision, but the evidence is there plain to see in the president's statements, which the
00:12:18.360majority, and for that matter, his own lawyers, cannot even bear to repeat, unquote. One of the
00:12:26.120comments was Trump's famous comment about Haitians eating the dogs in Springfield, Ohio.
00:12:35.020It turned into like 10,000 memes that were very funny. Like the dogs, like looking, you know,
00:12:44.800like that when they were having this debate at the presidential debate with Kamala Harris.
00:12:50.220Remember this? Remember David Muir tried to fact check President Trump on this,
00:12:53.880but it was a fail. And was it Lindsay Davis? I'm trying to remember who the co-anchor was.
00:13:01.760In any event, they think Trump is racist for having said that. And here's Ketanji Brown-Jackson
00:13:08.880bringing up those and other comments during oral argument.
00:13:12.620What about poisoning the blood of Americans? If you could look at those statements of context,
00:13:18.520again, they're clearly talking about problems. What about bad genes? Bad genes, quote unquote.
00:13:23.200again, also not, not racially. They presented them wrenched from context. You can look at each
00:13:29.160one of those statements. They're talking about problems of crime, poverty, welfare dependency,
00:13:33.460again, problems that have been emphasized again and again by not just President Trump, not just
00:13:37.820the secretary, but many others who favor a tough immigration policy. The white South African
00:13:42.420immigration policy is recent. So that wasn't in Trump against Hawaii. That wasn't the statements
00:13:48.180It's about Haiti and eating pets and the names that were called with respect to these immigrants, even though they are lawfully in the United States, that those are pretty recent.
00:13:59.320So let's separate it out. Then what do you say about those kinds of things?
00:14:03.420Again, by the as the court held in regions, these are statements made in different contexts that are remote in time.
00:14:09.120They are unilluminating. You know, you know what the truth is, the statements that were an issue that Trump made are factual.
00:14:18.180they're not complimentary, but they're factual. You know, I've been saying this on the show for
00:14:24.240years and to people around me and so on. I learned it in therapy many years ago from a
00:14:29.480great woman who helped me through my first, my first, my only divorce. And here's, here's the
00:14:36.400bottom line. It's not mean to say something that is unflattering, but true. Like what's mean is
00:14:45.500to say something for the purpose of hurting another person. That's what meanness is, cruelty.
00:14:50.540But it's not mean to say, you know, I don't like the following thing about you.
00:14:57.060There's a thing about you that is not great, and I'm raising it with you now.
00:15:02.760Trump's statements, I'll go through some of them, that's the category they're in.
00:15:07.480And the left, you know, they're not really calling it mean, but they're calling it
00:15:10.700racist. It's like that is evidence of hatred. Animus is like a kind of hatred, racial hatred.
00:15:17.000And they're saying that his policies are pushed by that as opposed to the fact of that we're sick1.00
00:15:23.200of all these illegals taking over our country. Get out, go home. We don't want you. Sorry,1.00
00:15:33.580but we don't. And you know what? Poll virtually any black American or Hispanic American and they
00:15:42.620agree with me. It's not about race. It's about cultural differences. Americans live a certain
00:15:50.000way. We have certain cultural norms that we abide by. Like when we go to the supermarket,
00:15:57.140we don't open up the jars and start tasting shit as we're walking around with our toddler in the0.99
00:16:02.960cart. We definitely do not look at people's stray cats as possible snacks, nor dogs. We do not think0.98
00:16:11.940it would be a laugh riot to get completely hammered and drive down small roads in towns
00:16:17.540that have welcomed us, endangering the children, who are being killed, by the way. They are being
00:16:22.920killed, not just because they're drunk, but because they don't know how to drive. And they
00:16:27.980get behind the wheel of these cars and they just don't care about the Americans and their children
00:16:33.380pushing about in strollers. And Americans are dying as a result of this. Remember all those
00:16:38.120testimonials from those people in Ohio where they were all, they were all liars. They were all a0.99
00:16:42.860bunch of racists making up shit about the Haitians. Oh, bull. Just stop, okay? And whether it happened1.00
00:16:48.920in that one town in Springfield, Ohio, or the neighboring town, what have you, Chris Rufo went
00:16:53.220out there and put the pictures on his X feed of a cat on the Barbie. All right. So, and the pictures
00:17:01.700of the Haitian immigrants with the cat. Okay. Here's what Kagan says. She's got, these are0.80
00:17:09.080some of the statements that she's upset about. She says, okay. The Haiti plaintiffs have carried
00:17:16.680their burden. The evidence they have offered includes statements by the president so repellent
00:17:20.920and racially inflected that the majority declines to put them into print. She's calling them
00:17:26.420cowards. Indeed, one measure of the president's way of speaking about Haitians is to compare it0.95
00:17:30.660with the majorities, which is unfailingly respectful. So here are some of those statements0.99
00:17:36.640that I'm quoting her. This is her quoting Trump. Haitians are, quote, eating the dogs.
00:17:43.800The accent's not, that's mine. It's my imitation of Trump. They're eating the cats.0.95
00:17:50.920They're eating, they're eating the pets of the people that live in Springfield, Ohio.
00:22:21.360They don't even have to pour their own water.0.97
00:22:22.660because she's not living like this woman listen i was looking at the giant holes in some of our0.76
00:22:28.020buildings i noticed all of the old familiar spots bearing new signs in an unfamiliar language
00:22:33.740i watched as groups of strangers walked around the city like lost tourists and it was like a
00:22:39.780punch in the gut a terrible sadness came over me and i began to cry i immediately started to think
00:22:46.320back to when i was little walking from my grandma's house on south fountain through downtown
00:22:51.080and all the way to Snyder Park, going to Wren's to get new school clothes and shoes,
00:22:56.320the excitement of the mall for lunch at the Blue Fox, or even better to see Santa,
00:23:01.180riding down High Street, admiring the beauty of those stately homes and their amazing architecture,
00:23:06.900dropping pennies in the fountain and making wishes.
00:23:09.680And now all those warm memories are becoming fuel to the fire of anger inside of me.
00:23:15.440I feel like we have been invaded by some sort of pest.
00:23:18.820I'm angry that my friends and family are packing up and moving away.1.00
00:23:22.780I'm angry that foreigners are using up the resources that were set up for the Americans that reside here.0.99
00:23:29.200I'm angry that another country's flag was being flown in our city.1.00
00:23:33.440I'm angry when I see our businesses and recreational areas littered with garbage left by people that do not know or understand our laws and culture and are making no attempt to learn about them.
00:23:44.940And let me be clear, this is not about race.0.94
00:23:48.800This is about people being given the privilege of coming here from another country and having
00:23:53.760no respect for our people, our land, or our life's work.1.00
00:31:33.880And they will be, of course, aided and abetted in all this misinformation about how it's just a cruel Supreme Court and a racist President Trump and a racist Supreme Court, for that matter, because they didn't take issue with the president's quotes, the dogs, by the media, by compliant media.
00:31:52.040As I sometimes as I'm getting ready for the show, I will put on YouTube TV and I'll just check in to see like how big issues that are breaking are being covered.
00:32:02.860I don't even know who this person is, but here's the coverage I was treated to shortly before we came on today.
00:32:10.420The relevant group here is all TPS countries, all of which are non-white.
00:32:15.720And that makes its way into Justice Kagan's dissent, where she says Haitians are black, Norwegians and Swedes, not so much.
00:32:23.320The references of filth, disease and primitiveness are shot through with racial stereotypes and tropes.
00:32:28.160It is hard to imagine the statements being made today of any white community.
00:32:32.860And that just stands in such stark contrast, I think, to the decision that six justices of this Supreme Court today made in saying that none of the statements out of the mouth of Trump or Kristi Noem were overtly racial enough to lend themselves to an equal protection claim on behalf of the Haitian immigrants that were contesting the termination of temporary protected status for their country.
00:32:52.800Lisa Rubin, thank you so much for breaking all that down.
00:32:55.880Some of those quotes, I've heard them all before.
00:32:57.840Sometimes they're heartbreaking to have to listen to again, frankly.
00:33:01.800but thankfully we have more time to talk about all of this. Everyone is staying with me. We have
00:33:06.000another big decision that we have to dig into. Are you an idiot? My team tells me she's named1.00
00:33:12.840Antonia Hilton. I've never heard of this person before ever. And it's obvious why don't get too
00:33:17.620attached. I'm sure she won't be making it. Um, why are you talking about how heartbreaking the
00:33:23.980quotes are? Fuck off when no one's paying you for your opinion in the middle of the day on MSNBC1.00
00:33:28.460over there. They're actually still pretending to be news during the day. Did you know that1.00
00:33:32.220they actually want you to believe that these are news anchor, straight news anchors during the
00:33:36.200daytime on MS. Now. Well, that's your heartbroken. What? Get it together. Antonia. Uh, per, Oh,
00:33:47.200her aunt is Soledad O'Brien. My team just sent me that her aunt is Soledad O'Brien. Yeah. Sensing
00:33:53.620a pattern here. I love that they're zeroing in on Norway and Sweden. How dare, like we would take
00:33:59.940immigrants from there. Have you been to Norway or Sweden? We were there in June of 2024, literally1.00
00:34:06.640two years ago. You could eat off the sidewalks. They are so clean. I mean, Norway in particular
00:34:13.980is like, it's got the fjords, it's got water that you could splash all over your face and immerse
00:34:20.740your newborn baby in on like where I grew up, going to my grandparents' boatyard on the Hudson
00:34:26.040River. But Norway is as clean as clean can get. Everybody spends their time outdoors, even though
00:34:33.680it's zero degrees most of the year there. And it's pristine. Sweden, too. Sweden's had an immigrant
00:34:39.780problem. Most of their crime is attributed to the immigrants, and now they're cracking down on them.
00:34:44.360Now they're deporting. Now they've stopped for a while now importing. But they're suffering some0.96
00:34:50.000of the same problems we are because they tried the same experiments that we did under Joe Biden1.00
00:34:54.700and really just were following Europe's lead on allowing all these Syrian refugees to go in,0.89
00:35:00.140so-called refugees to go in, and suffering the same consequences. So it's not about skin color.
00:35:06.620There are plenty of native whatever, Norwegians and Danes, for that matter, and Swedes who aren't
00:35:16.520white had been immigrated, you know, with different families over the years who have
00:35:22.180grown up in that culture and have the same values as the, as the others do.1.00
00:35:25.740But these whole countries like Haiti is, it is a shithole.1.00
00:45:35.860it was and he was fired okay the case was ultimately dismissed he lawyered up he lost
00:45:48.480his job. I'm going to guess they thought that was sufficient punishment for him. But there you hear
00:45:53.640him in the on that police body cam saying we've got a district attorney out here. I just would
00:45:57.520like to have a supervisor out here because he's threatening us saying I'm going to get you fired
00:46:00.620for arresting me. And the officers can be heard moving more to the back of the squad car as his
00:46:07.020vehicle is towed away and more is heard claiming his arrest comes down to race. Are you guys members
00:46:10.920of the KKK? Are you KKK? He asks. And then he calls an officer and Uncle Tom. They tell him
00:46:17.100you're being recorded. He says, I hope I get fired. I don't want to be a part of the effing
00:46:23.120Dallas County with this blank. And I hope this is on blank and camera too. It was, and he was fired.
00:46:30.080So now we see what the background was that got him hired as Carmelo Anthony's appellate lawyer.
00:46:36.080But his tweet certainly seems a lot more reasonable and less of a race baby than he was in 2015.
00:46:46.120And here's the moment that he's referring to when he says, of course, of course, the jury had no sympathy and no mercy for Carmelo.
00:46:54.740Kind of hard when the defendant's parents had a press conference mocking the dead victim's father right after the incident.
00:47:00.620Remember this? We showed it at the time, SOT 3, with the parents lurking behind their representative, Dominique Alexander, the biggest race hustler in the entire case.
00:47:10.780watch this jeff metcalf had shown up at the presser and he didn't like that
00:47:15.420what we've seen at the beginning of this press conference
00:47:20.000of the father being at this press conference is a disrespect to the dignity of his son
00:47:28.880is that was disrespectful and just shows you all the character
00:54:58.480Thank God, because we had too many years and too many decisions where the people in the robes, unlike Antonin Scalia, who said, what do you mean?
00:57:31.460And I was thinking, well, I'm curious what you think, Megan.
00:57:34.660Would Elaine Kagan even have voted that way?
00:57:36.840Is it is an easy vote for her because she stays out of the crosshairs of the of the progressives because she knows that it's going to pass.
00:57:44.640And so do Moyer. I mean, I don't know if you saw it, Megan, but Haiti just got demolished by Morocco in the World Cup and they had such a bad week.
00:57:54.460Maybe she just felt sorry for them, but it wasn't.
00:57:57.380I'm sure it'll be in their next petition for temporary protected status.
00:58:06.000I feel for the thing, Andrew, this will be spun. This will be spun. It's being spun right now over on MSNBC as like, this is heartbreaking. Trump's racism permitted by this, you know, compliant Supreme Court, as opposed to what Tom said, like temporary, temporary 2010. It's now 2026. And we're not the world's babysitter. We don't have to protect and care for the toddlers forevermore.
00:58:31.960We got them through their difficult period. Now, sadly for them, they're Haitian, so they have to go home.1.00
00:58:38.640It's a brushback to court power, which is always a good thing in my view.1.00
00:58:45.080But, you know, I'm always struck by like Hakeem Jeffries.
00:58:47.940I think he only can say illegitimate Supreme Court.
00:58:51.480He cannot call it just the Supreme Court. And I do think that that's a danger.
00:58:56.360I mean, the one thing that the Democrats are doing is sort of illegitimizing the the one body that Americans, at least for a long time, still had some faith in.
00:59:08.320So, you know, I think that what you'll see is, you know, when they get rid of the filibuster, they will pack the court, like you say.
00:59:17.540And I think that's coming as soon as they gain power.
00:59:21.460And every time one of these things happens, the biggest constitutional crisis we've had.
01:00:47.040And then the filibuster's gone forever.
01:00:48.360I was going to say, is there any doubt in your mind if Democrats take the Senate? And this is Trump's argument. It's like, you guys are being foolish because as soon as the Democrats take the Senate, they're going to do away with the filibuster. I mean, is there any question in your mind that's what they'd do if they win the Senate?
01:01:45.300And so the Democrats are the ones who use legislation way more. And the Republicans are in the minority trying to use their filibuster to stop it. I just think, like, who's going to hurt more as a result of no more filibuster? And I think it's going to be the GOP. So we'll see. OK, let's keep going, because what happened yesterday was fascinating in in New York, alarming, disturbing and fascinating from a political standpoint.
01:02:09.780Here's Van Jones. This is before we had the final results, but he saw it coming and he made a good prediction on it.
01:04:49.140These are very, very liberal people who are challenged by very radical left wing people.
01:04:54.380And what Henry Olson said on our show is that the ripple effects of this are that every Democrat in the House now, all at Hakeem Jeffries Conference, is going to be looking over their shoulder.
01:05:04.840And if they disagree with the progressives on anything, you know, as you said, Andy, some college student will rise up and challenge them.
01:05:13.280And the DSA, which Van Jones correctly says, not just a movement, but also a machine, will mobilize all these young people in their districts to vote against them.
01:05:20.440So the Democratic Party has a, well, it's a real reckoning within the Democratic Party now.
01:05:26.020We've been talking in the mainstream media for 10 years now how Trump wrecked the Republican Party.
01:05:32.140What do they think this is doing to the Democratic Party?
01:05:35.760You know, Tom, I heard you guys talking yesterday about the Israel factor.
01:05:40.500And I mean, if I were a Democrat running for office against one of these DSA candidates,
01:05:43.980I would make perfectly clear that I don't support more aid to Israel and I don't support
01:05:50.460APEC's influence over American politicians. I would not let anybody get to my left
01:05:54.720on that issue because you will lose as a Democrat now. You cannot be in yesterday's
01:06:03.080Democrat party on Israel, or you're going to lose if you're running against one of these
01:06:06.820DSA candidates in one of these districts that's liberal. But you are making the point
01:06:11.900that the post October 7th sympathy from the left is basically gone for Israel. And now it's been
01:06:18.880replaced by hostility from the left and even on the right. And the reason it jumped out at me,
01:06:25.640among others, is because it was a year ago, Tom, it was a year ago, it was last summer,
01:06:30.500when I made that point myself to Piers Morgan on his show. And I said it as an Israel supporter,
01:06:38.680I said they, Israel's lost all the support of the Democrats and the independents are gone.
01:06:43.820The polls were showing it that turned on Israel and the polls are showing that Republicans
01:08:58.460of the Democratic playbook, and it's been effective. And so to your point, I think we've
01:09:03.360also seen, we saw it in the Massey race on the Republican side. There was a lot of talk about
01:09:07.340AIPAC and all that money. And so I don't know exactly where this ends up, but it certainly has,
01:09:17.660it's a development that I think has people concerned because there's, you know, using AIPAC
01:09:24.800is just sort of like a blanket. I mean, what people really, I think what Democrats really
01:09:30.340mean when they talk about AIPAC is they're saying Jews, basically. It's not, they're not making a
01:09:34.740distinction between, listen, I disagree with Bibi Netanyahu. I don't like him. I want to see him gone
01:09:38.360or, you know, the policy necessarily. It's used in a much more broad term that I think
01:09:45.180has a lot of people concerned. I think if you're talking about the Ilhan Omars of the world,
01:09:49.300you're totally right. But I think the anti-Israeli government sentiment is widespread
01:09:55.940and heartfelt and not about Jews. When I think of AIPAC now, I think about a group that's more
01:10:01.460concerned with Israeli interests than American, that's trying to manipulate American politicians
01:10:05.840to vote in a way that's good for Israel, irrespective of whether it's good for the US.
01:10:09.960That's what I think. And I don't want them having any influence over our politicians. And I have0.93
01:10:14.580been an equal opportunity critic. I've spent years railing on care. I'm not I'm not a big fan of them
01:10:19.820either. I I want our politicians to be voting on our concerns, what's in the best interest for us
01:10:25.920Americans. And I'm sick of these politicians doing the bidding of other countries. Go ahead, Andrew.
01:10:31.200Well, in answer to your original question, where will we be a year from now? A lot will depend on
01:10:35.760what happens in november i mean if platner loses if uh abdul lc uh lse loses uh you may
01:10:44.680and they lose the set uh they lose a chance to take over the senate uh because of that there
01:10:50.200may be a rethinking on the democratic side i mean i i would not count the moderates totally out
01:10:55.400right now i do think there's some merit to the argument that hey these are a couple very blue
01:11:01.560districts and uh what happens laughing at you well we have this running joke on our show we're called
01:11:07.640we we want to do a branded segment called carl's naive moments and i'm just laughing because i think
01:11:11.880this is andy's naive moment here wait wait wait you don't think you don't think that if plattner
01:11:17.400loses the crossfire he didn't even say anything go ahead megan i love you too much to engage in
01:11:23.800this conversation. Wait, let's go back to Andy's point. Andy's point is these races are not
01:11:33.840settled yet. Correct. Thank you. Carl and Andy are naive together on this. Well, I'll say it is1.00
01:11:40.340widely considered the weakest nominee in that field. He may get the nomination. It'll be a
01:11:45.220test. He may win anyway. Plattner, the Democrats- It is Michigan. That's right. And the Democrats
01:11:50.000The Democrats are stuck with with Plattner. And he's he said he said so many things that are out there, you know, and he's got this machine behind him. Bernie Sanders behind him. He's he's a socialist. He talks about not just the Iran war, but the Iraq war. So there's not.
01:12:04.460and he wants to pack the Supreme Court. That's right. That's right. He wants to do that. But
01:12:08.240if it comes down, if the Democrats do the impossible and carry, you know, Texas or
01:12:13.840Alaska and they lose because they don't get control of the Senate because they nominated
01:12:18.460one of these lefties in Maine or Michigan, that's what Annie's talking about. We don't know how this
01:12:21.860is going to work out. And so there may be, you know, there may be a middle ground here.
01:12:27.200Kamala Harris ran, in my mind, not a great campaign when she was the presidential nominee.1.00
01:12:32.500She didn't hold a single press conference.
01:12:34.420But one thing she did in Chicago when she talked about this issue was she spoke, I thought, smartly and empathetically about both Palestinians and Israelis.
01:12:44.720And depending on what happens in November, the Democrats, what Andy suggested, and I think this is a possibility, they may move back towards that.
01:12:52.020It doesn't have to be all in on Israel.
01:12:54.360It doesn't have to be this bashing of Zionism.
01:12:57.920they could have a more nuanced position but whether they do will depend i think on whether
01:13:02.860they control the senate or not that's an interesting point i i don't really agree
01:13:08.440because the numbers of democrats like democrats approval of israel and of u.s involvement like
01:13:14.200with the partnership with israel are so they're it's like 80 90 percent against it's not marginal
01:13:20.580it's that their voters do not support israel especially the young the young ones are going
01:13:25.940to respond it's a straight demographic the young ones feel it ardently on the republican side too
01:13:30.880there the a majority of young republicans are opposed to the alliance we have with israel
01:13:36.400don't want any more aid going to israel and are sick of israel getting us involved in what
01:13:39.880they see as its problems but isn't that isn't that isn't that a lot of that because of the war
01:13:44.960right now and we're yes yeah that's what on the republican side yes but the democrats have seen
01:13:51.100gaza as a genocide almost from 10-8 exactly they they turned immediately i'm with megan
01:13:57.380so it's a 2-2 tie we gotta get somebody to break the tie yeah but look i think that um israel is0.87
01:14:05.160no longer avoidable like it's going it is going to be a huge issue in 2026 and beyond and i do
01:14:11.320think that the presidential contest is going to be shaken up by that issue in a way we have never
01:14:16.300seen before in america and i think you're going to see all democrat politicians try to make sure
01:14:21.380no one can get to their left on israel now unfortunately here's my view here's my view
01:14:25.940i don't i don't hate israel i don't hate netanyahu i just i want him to worry about his stuff and let
01:14:31.400us worry about our concerns however unfortunately what's happening is there is such an animus toward
01:14:39.480israel right now or at least its government that we're going full hardcore radical islamist
01:14:46.100in our in our electoral politics which is that's not the solution my friends that's0.71
01:14:52.500we should not be going from like apex everywhere to now we've got the muslim call to prayer three0.99
01:14:57.680times a day whatever times a day it is five and have to deal with women's five thank you like the0.99
01:15:04.180chevalier who not only you mentioned that the hispanic guy who was defeated uh the chairman
01:15:10.120of the hispanic democratic caucus was voting for for a country other than the united states in the
01:15:14.220World Cup. So she she said she's rooting for Senegal. Oh, OK. You're the one. Yeah, that's
01:15:19.680what you said. I mentioned on our show yesterday. You got to see this. This is the woman who just
01:15:24.260won the Chevalier. Rich Lowry did a bit on National Review on their Web site, their YouTube channel
01:15:29.980outlining this exchange that she had with a reporter on what to do with an accused
01:15:35.100murderer. A hypothetical. Watch this. She recently sat down for a session with New York
01:15:40.780journalist who asked her about a murder case. Here's some of it. What should happen to somebody
01:15:46.820who's killed somebody else? I mean, I went to a sentencing last week. A man killed another man,
01:15:50.480didn't know the person just sitting on a stoop, got an 18-year prison sentence. Should that person
01:15:55.360not go to prison? And what should happen instead? So, you know, she replies, for prison abolitionists,
01:16:01.180I think a lot of folks misunderstand what the vision of the world actually is. There's one
01:16:04.920that actually centers this question of harm at the heart of what we're asking is, what? Why is it
01:16:09.340there is so much harm in our society another journalist follows up but what would you do to
01:16:13.180the murderer though but and so i'm trying to answer the question which is that what we do is that we
01:16:17.500then put people behind bars in incredibly traumatizing conditions doesn't answer another
01:16:22.140follow-up but did we answer what happens to the murderer do you not incarcerate the murderer you
01:16:26.860know again i'm talking about this question between the distance between the world we want to see in
01:16:30.700the world that we're at again doesn't answer yet another follow-up but can you get a little less
01:16:35.340abstract, like she was watching a jury vote on the guy's guilty. Should he be sentenced or not?
01:16:40.040Well, this is what I'm saying, is that when that happens, and as someone who has sat in so many
01:16:45.560courtrooms to me, all that's tragic. The fact that the murder happened is tragic. The fact that there
01:16:50.900was a circumstance in which that could even come to pass is tragic. And all that is a reflection
01:16:55.020of systems that allow that circumstance to be possible. And so, you know, I've always focused
01:17:00.300my attention on how do we create systems where that's not even the possibility.
01:17:05.340Oh, well, Megan, I mean, that brings it home.
01:17:31.500That's the most charitable interpretation ever.
01:17:34.060that exchange can you believe that tom why why is there so much harm in our society that's the0.97
01:17:41.560question she wants answered in the wake of a man being accused of murder it's incredibly jails have
01:17:47.780incredibly traumatizing conditions and that's the view of a prison abolitionist that's that's what0.84
01:17:55.480she calls herself this woman is going to be our next congresswoman she's going to win the general1.00
01:17:59.920very clearly. That's so radical. There's got to be a place in between, I take a bunch of AIPAC1.00
01:18:09.340money and I want to do everything that Netanyahu wants me to do, and Muslim call to prayer five0.79
01:18:15.000times a day, prison abolitionist, I'm much more worried about the harm that the murderer suffered
01:18:20.320growing up than the harm he committed to his victim. Yeah, I mean, that's, look, I think
01:18:26.560If we focus too much on just like the Israel thing and the AIPAC thing, we sort of lose sight of the broader picture, which is this woman and the other two folks, or at least one of the other folks, these are Marxists, these are communists.
01:18:41.840They want to tear down Western civilization, sort of writ large, all of the institutions, right?0.52
01:36:24.160And then you go to sort of the fluffier magazines like Vogue and People, and it's just ridiculous and it's over the top.
01:36:35.460I mean, obviously, to the point that you just – the montage you just played, there's a bunch of evidence suggesting that it's not all just butterflies and rainbows and unicorns.
01:36:50.180I gotta say this. I'm starting to like her more and more because it's like a housewife show. It's like she's the housewives of Chicago or something. I mean, that kind of like, you know, in your face, you know, wagging the finger. I mean, come on. It's reality TV.1.00
01:37:07.420Andy. Andy's doing the finger whip. I've never seen that before. Carl, it's as if that were not
01:37:15.100insulting enough that what I just read to you, they have these pictures of the two of them and
01:37:20.440the captions are just as inane as the writing in the piece. So they're a bunch of them sort of,
01:37:26.880you know, fawning on each other, embracing at the Obama center, the formal pose,
01:37:32.480smiling for the camera top of the tower leaning on the rail what is why is this in a caption in
01:37:42.220a magazine in the atrium the cover shot this this is like a photographer's notes to himself
01:37:48.960about what each of these is a candidate for you know like a short form it's the one where they're
01:37:53.980on the rail that somehow made it into people magazine is the official caption leaning on the
01:37:59.260rail, as though we're supposed to appreciate this as like a work of art. They leaned, Carl, they
01:38:04.700leaned, they leaned right after they were in the atrium as they passed through the open change
01:38:11.340lobby, which is the thing. We, you know, I was thinking of that. So these two don't seem to have
01:38:16.940any illusions. I don't know how they con, I don't know how they got this writer to write the way
01:38:21.960she did. But the other day, and she, he was asked Obama in a friendly interview, they're all friendly,
01:38:27.380as Tom pointed out, you know, what do you do, you know, for, for, to relax, to relax and recharge
01:38:32.520and Obama, you know, went, try to think of something profound. And Michelle was down and
01:38:37.220she was, he golfs. That's what he does. And so I think they know who they are. And as you're
01:38:43.500reading that, I had this picture in my mind, Megan, of those two meeting at dinner with,
01:38:47.760they'd been apart all day long and, and she's reading it and they're both laughing. And she
01:38:52.260said, it makes her so amused. She says he can have a cigarette after dinner. It's okay. Because
01:38:57.160he you know how did he get this how did he charm this woman to write this stuff and he says really
01:39:02.880can i have a cigarette and he's smoking and they're laughing about this piece the way we are
01:39:06.500now so maybe i i don't think they have any illusions of what i'm trying to say
01:39:11.140i i know this is like a fun parlor game but honestly tom can you imagine this ever being
01:39:20.420done for donald and melania trump no i mean and it wasn't it wasn't even done for george w bush
01:39:28.540and laura you know i mean it's and they clearly were very much in love and they clearly were a
01:39:33.340very yeah very much in love and and had been married for a long long time but you know i mean
01:39:39.680even joe and jill got despite the fact she's like walking off stage without him you know like all
01:39:45.980this stuff yeah Megan I covered the White House when Bush was president W and one time he was
01:39:52.600like late he would go running and we got this early pool call it was down in Crawford and
01:39:56.840and and Bush um and but we said he was late he wasn't really late and he said he leaned over
01:40:02.560I think it was Ron Forney of AP and he says you know you're late I was having some quality time
01:40:07.840with the first lady and it was good so genuine we all kind of blanched you can see he kind of
01:40:14.020regretted saying it and we went our merry way but hey we'd much rather that they have some
01:40:20.900some quality time with the first lady than with the 16 year old intern like jfk reportedly did
01:40:26.460i think she was 19 gloss right over that stuff to protect camelot uh with the trumps not so much
01:40:34.340we will not be engaging in any of these these fictions which they they clearly are these two