In the wake of a school shooting that left 5 dead and 7 injured, what does the media and political leaders have to say about the shooter's identity? Is he a white male, a female, a gay male, or a transgender male?
00:02:50.780Turning back to government corruption for a moment, though.
00:02:53.500You know that Colorado has kicked Trump off the ballot there.
00:02:58.680That was a court in Colorado that did it.
00:03:01.460The state of Maine also kicked Trump off of the ballot.
00:03:03.960That was just a Democrat secretary of state who did that.
00:03:06.960Now Trump is appealing the Colorado decision.
00:03:11.160Presumably, this will have some effect for all of the blue states that want to kick him off the ballot.
00:03:14.980He's appealing that all the way up to the Supreme Court.
00:03:16.720He filed an appeal yesterday, or rather on Wednesday, to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court decision.
00:03:25.240The appeal says the question of eligibility to serve as president of the United States is properly reserved for Congress, not the state courts, to consider and decide.
00:03:32.680By considering the question of President Trump's eligibility and barring him from the ballot, the Colorado Supreme Court arrogated Congress's authority.
00:03:40.220That's true if this provision of the 14th Amendment is to be considered really at all, it would be considered and interpreted by Congress, not by some court 150 years later because they don't like the mean orange man.
00:03:56.060Obviously, the decision to kick Trump off the ballot is completely indefensible, but the Supreme Court follows public opinion polls sometimes.
00:04:05.520The Supreme Court reads the newspapers too.
00:04:07.400So I don't know that we could count on a Justice Gorsuch or a Justice Kavanaugh, certainly not a Justice Roberts, to do the right thing here.
00:04:16.980So what can we do to increase the odds that Democrat operatives are not able to bar the most popular presidential candidate in the country from the ballot in the defense of democracy to prohibit the people from voting for the popular candidate?
00:04:33.080I've got an idea, and this idea is not actually my idea.
00:04:37.640This is Jeremy's idea, but because someday I would be really tickled if I became the president of Harvard, I'm just going to claim this as my own idea, and we can leave it at that, even though Jeremy came up with it a couple nights ago, and I thought it was pretty smart.
00:04:53.960A red state governor needs to have a red state secretary of state kick Biden off the ballot.
00:05:01.540I guess we could just skip the first step, go right to the red state secretaries of state, but the governors tend to have a little bit more political influence and a little more interest in the presidency.
00:05:10.220So however it gets done, I don't really care, but we need a red state secretary of state to kick Biden off the ballot now, and they can come up with some explanation.
00:05:19.620It will probably be a more credible explanation than the one that the Democrats have come up with for kicking Donald Trump off the ballot, and then you give the Supreme Court.
00:05:31.540The freedom to say, no, no, you guys can't be kicking any presidential candidates off the ballot.
00:05:38.960But you've got to give the Supreme Court some room, some grace, some plausible justification that will appease half of our country, which has completely lost its mind, as to why they're going to let Donald Trump remain on the ballot.
00:05:55.060If the Supreme Court can look as though it is being neutral on partisanship here and is just defending democracy, it's going to be a lot easier for five or six justices or more to say, no, actually, Donald Trump gets to remain on the ballot.
00:06:09.300And the way to do that is to use the left's tactics against them.
00:06:13.200What they've done in Colorado is ridiculous.
00:06:15.320What they've done in Maine is even more ridiculous.
00:06:16.900Yeah, I agree, but in war and in politics, your opponent has a say as to how things go, and the libs are really going there.
00:06:25.820The libs are really trying to prohibit the most popular presidential candidate in the country from appearing on the ballot.
00:06:31.460So we've got to respond in kind, not in a way that's immoral, not in a way that's unjust.
00:06:37.080We've got to respond in a way that will, one, be justifiable in and of itself, and I think as a political operation this is.
00:06:46.380And then, two, give the Supreme Court the opportunity to make a ruling that is just, that is within the American legal tradition, and that actually does defend democracy.
00:07:49.740She herself on her Twitter account said, give us money to bail out the criminals, to bail out the rioters, the people who were sowing civil discord, the people who were, you might say, engaging in an insurrection.
00:08:03.120So, okay, make it Kamala Harris, and then Kamala can't appear on the ticket, and you don't even need to go after Joe Biden.
00:08:08.540But however you're going to do it, give the Supreme Court the opportunity to say, this isn't about partisanship.
00:08:17.660It's about all political candidates of all political parties.
00:08:20.220You don't get to just be some two-bit political hack in some random state and kick the candidate you don't like, the opposition party nominee, off the ballot.
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00:08:58.980Speaking of the radical left, there is a leftist politician in Boston, a new Boston city councillor.
00:09:07.740This woman is an immigrant, and she has become a Boston city councillor.
00:09:12.220Well, she was about to be sworn into office.
00:09:14.800She and her fellow politicians were being sworn into office, but she refused to raise her hand or take the oath.
00:09:20.640I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully and impartially discharge.
00:09:40.420According to the best of my ability and understanding, agreeably to the rules and regulations of the Constitution and the laws of this common law.
00:10:46.680That should be, I think, the minimum threshold.
00:10:50.040There should be many more requirements.
00:10:52.220We have a country that is teeming with a non-native-born population, and that creates all sorts of social problems because you need to assimilate if you want to have a country.
00:11:02.120So there are so many more layers of requirements that we should have for immigration.
00:11:06.060But I think the basic one is, hey, you like the country?
00:11:14.400Her name is Tanya Fernandez Anderson, and she's got a track record of radicalism.
00:11:23.880She's offered resolutions in the past for September 23rd to be Boston's hijab day, which, by the way, this is going to be an unpopular take.
00:13:18.780There are military operations that are just.
00:13:20.860There are military operations that are unjust.
00:13:22.460But something that would distinguish a mere military operation from a terrorist attack would be the targeting of civilians, which Hamas obviously engaged in.
00:13:30.140So anyway, the woman seems like a complete nut, and a just society would not only remove her from the city council, but would deport her.
00:13:37.740Okay, we have a major, major immigration crisis.
00:13:39.560Because I like all sorts of immigrants.
00:13:42.500A lot of us descend, at least in some part of our family, from immigrants.
00:13:46.340So I'm not saying I'm totally anti-immigrant.
00:13:48.740But immigration always, we see this in political philosophy and history going back to antiquity, all the way consistently through up to the present day.
00:13:56.520Immigration creates many, many political problems.
00:13:59.340And so while we will tolerate and sometimes even encourage some degree of immigration, we've got to be very, very careful about it.
00:14:06.800And people who come to your country and demonstrate quite clearly that they hate everything about your country, they've got to go.
00:14:19.280And speaking of not hiring the best, DEI is facing a major credibility crisis.
00:14:25.940It's brought on largely by this Harvard president debacle because the Harvard president, the former Harvard president, was a big promoter of DEI.
00:14:35.820She herself is a DEI or proto-DEI kind of hire.
00:14:40.300She had a ridiculously pathetic academic record.
00:14:45.680She seemed to have copied a lot of it.
00:14:47.220But even if she hadn't plagiarized much of her publication history, to have 11 publications by the time you reach the pinnacle of academia is very sad.
00:14:58.300You should have 11 academic publications when you're in graduate school, okay?
00:15:01.860Forget about throughout your faculty career and then becoming the president of Harvard.
00:15:18.800And Mark Cuban, who is the liberal owner of the Dallas Mavericks, he comes out and he defends DEI.
00:15:27.480So J.D. Vance, the conservative senator from Ohio, he says, hey, Mark, did the Dallas Mavericks reflect the demographics of America as a whole?
00:15:37.600This is one of the lines from the DEI people, including Mark Cuban.
00:15:39.880We need to have racial quotas in our companies and our schools and our organizations because we need these organizations to reflect the diversity of America.
00:15:50.000And by diversity, we mean certain racial and sexual criteria.
00:15:55.600Now, it turns out the Dallas Mavericks do not reflect the racial demographics of America.
00:15:59.740They don't reflect all sorts of demographics of America.
00:16:01.880So Cuban responds to him and he doesn't actually respond to the point.
00:18:53.200DEI policies prioritize leftist social engineering over competitiveness, over productivity, and over, this is the important part, over fairness.
00:19:07.080We all know that this is so deeply unfair.
00:19:11.940Most people have been raised to believe that racial discrimination, that being told you can't do something, you can't get a job, you can't go to a certain school because of the color of your skin, that that is unfair and ugly and not nice.
00:20:48.020And she was conducting an interview on MSNBC.
00:20:51.120But she had to stop because there was breaking news.
00:20:53.180And it was breaking news that she could not really break herself.
00:20:56.040It was already awkward enough as it is.
00:20:58.020She had to hand off the newscast to one of her colleagues because the breaking news was that her father is being brought up on even more corruption charges.
00:21:07.200Thank you so much for your expertise and for spending some time with us.
00:21:10.640We're going to take a quick break and we'll be back with some breaking news right after this.
00:21:14.200Hello, I'm Ari Melber with some breaking legal news.
00:21:20.640New Jersey United States Senator Robert Menendez now facing new allegations in a second superseding indictment,
00:21:26.700which is filed by a federal grand jury from his DOJ prosecution.
00:22:47.020You can't expect her to cover her father's newest corruption allegations.
00:22:50.620But the reason this is a problem for people like CNN and MSNBC is because of the incestuous political environment where the journalists, the so-called fourth estate, and the politician class and the lobbyists, they're all related.
00:23:08.140Sometimes they're literally in bed together because they're sleeping with each other.
00:23:13.780Sometimes they're under the same roof because they're brothers or sisters or fathers or sons or married or whatever.
00:24:06.800The Menendez family, there are many other political families where the big star is a politician, and then a lot of the rest of the family goes into journalism.
00:24:17.000How much can we trust that journalism?
00:25:02.900If you look on any chart of U.S. border encounters, illegal immigration was pretty high under Obama, and then it dropped for a little bit under Trump, and it spiked up again because the libs wouldn't let Trump enforce border policies.
00:25:34.300We're going to dismantle this wall, actually.
00:25:36.780Now he's had to kind of try to reverse course and say, well, maybe we'll build part of the wall, but they have no idea what they want to do.
00:25:43.960And then we hear the real story from the DHS secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, who says that they're not going to implement policies that discourage immigration.
00:25:55.560We need additional asylum officers to really accelerate the asylum adjudication process so people are not waiting six years before they receive their results, which is, in effect, a pull factor.
00:26:09.080The fact that people can stay here for six years before their asylum case is adjudicated is a powerful example of how broken our immigration system is and has been for so long.
00:26:21.600We are focused on the fundamental solution to a long existing problem.
00:26:27.500And that fundamental solution is legislation.
00:26:31.000We have taken actions already to build lawful pathways, to deliver consequences and do what we can.
00:26:37.940We've promulgated regulations to do what we can within the confines of the law.
00:26:42.980But fundamentally, the laws themselves must change.
00:26:48.220And this is something about which everyone agrees.
00:26:51.300And that is quite rare when one is speaking about immigration.
00:26:54.640Hey, did you hear anything practical in that rambling nothingness?
00:27:03.360You know what I heard from Alejandro Mayorkas?
00:27:05.020Because Alejandro Mayorkas was asked, will you re-implement the Remain in Mexico policy?
00:27:11.520There's a policy that Trump reinstituted, which said, hey, if you say that you're fleeing Guatemala or Honduras or Nicaragua or wherever because of political persecution, then, all right, you got to stop in countries where you're free from political persecution.
00:27:29.540You don't need to go through 10 different countries.
00:27:34.200Unless you're an economic migrant, you want to come to the U.S. to make a buck, which is obviously what a lot of this is about.
00:27:38.260But if it's about fleeing persecution, if it's about fleeing disease or whatever it is, then, okay, then stay in Mexico.
00:27:47.700And Mayorkas says, no, we're not going to do that because they want to flood the country with migrants because they think it gives them a political advantage.
00:28:13.440We'd heard while Shia was making this movie about Padre Pio that he was interested in converting to Catholicism.
00:28:20.200He said that the traditional Latin mass is what really attracted him.
00:28:24.500That's true of so many young people and young converts.
00:28:27.020They're not attracted by the church trying to wed herself to the spirit of the age, which leaves – when you wed yourself to the spirit of the age, you become a widow in the next age.
00:28:35.400Shia was attracted to the mass of the ages, the enduring mass that formed the vast majority of saints throughout history.
00:28:42.580And now he's been received into the church, and that's really great news.
00:28:45.680And the reason I mention it, it's not just because I think it's good for Shia or because I'm a mackerel-snapping papist myself,
00:28:50.960but because it's a reminder that the worst times are often the best times.
00:28:55.000We're living through very, very difficult times for the country, for our culture, in the church.
00:28:59.780There's a crisis in the church going on right now.
00:29:01.600And yet, think about this in your own life.
00:29:06.340The worst times, the most stressful times, the most difficult times, you look back on them often.
00:29:10.660You say, well, those were the best times.