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00:09:30.000So, guys, joining me now, your favorite lawyer, MAGA's favorite lawyer, The Swamp's almost certainly least favorite lawyer, I would have to say, Article 3 Project founder.
00:09:47.000Man, there is a lot going on, but Mike, let's start off with what seems like really a judicial coup.
00:09:55.000We've seen it across D.C. Now we're seeing it in Boulder, Colorado.
00:09:59.000What the heck is going on with these judges issuing all these temporary restraining orders and saying essentially the executive branch can't do anything?
00:10:11.000Yeah, President Trump campaigned on the fact that he is going to hire Elon Musk.
00:10:18.000He's going to set up the Department of Government Efficiency.
00:10:20.000He's going to cut government waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:10:23.000He's going to secure our border, and he's going to expel illegal aliens, starting with dangerous foreign terrorists like Tren de Aragua and other Islamist fascists in the Middle East who are killing.
00:10:38.000American Jews and lighting them on fire.
00:10:41.000And the American people like what they heard, and they gave President Trump an overwhelming electoral mandate.
00:10:48.000312 electoral votes, all seven swing states, the popular vote.
00:10:54.000He kept the The American people are firmly behind President Trump, and President Trump is exercising core article to power as the President of the United States.
00:11:08.000He is taking care that our laws are faithfully executed, including cutting waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:11:14.000As the Commander-in-Chief, he's expelling foreign terrorists, right?
00:13:27.000People like Jeb Bosberg, this D.C. He just magically appears on these cases, like Tanya Shutkin magically appears on these Trump cases.
00:13:38.000Maybe they're drawing judges out of the anti-Trump, Trump derangement syndrome lottery pool, because it doesn't seem like President Trump ever gets a fair judge.
00:13:48.000And this is the broader point to the Chief Justice of the United States, John Roberts.
00:13:54.000If you do not get your judicial house in order, And the Article III project is working with Congress right now to do that, including the Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley.
00:14:09.000My former boss, along with other key members of the House and Senate, to rein in these activist judges.
00:14:16.000And so if the chief justice is not going to do it, if they're going to allow these judges to sabotage the president and the presidency, this is so much bigger than Trump, that Congress is going to have to step in with jurisdiction stripping, with funding cuts.
00:14:31.000With eliminating courts, eliminating judgeships, this is a very perilous path that the federal judiciary is heading down, and John Roberts is allowing this to happen.
00:14:45.000Why the hell should the President of the United States have to get permission from each and every one of these 650?
00:14:54.000District court judges around the country before he can do his job.
00:14:57.000That is not how our Constitution works.
00:15:00.000It's not what the American people voted for.
00:15:04.000And if John Roberts does not fix this, again, Congress will fix it for him, and it's not going to be pretty.
00:15:10.000So, listen, I agree with you in concept.
00:15:13.000Will Congress actually do these things?
00:15:16.000You know, just like, you know, the Supreme Court's supposed to do some things that are supposed to be common sense, and I'm seeing even, you know, they, well, you know.
00:15:24.000There's a couple of conservatives, but not that many, even on the right-leaning side.
00:15:28.000You see some of the decisions that there are.
00:15:31.000I'm not a student of law, although I guess I play one on TV these days, given how much time I've spent being subpoenaed and in courtrooms and all of this nonsense as of late.
00:15:39.000I'm probably more qualified than most.
00:15:44.000And then you have sort of the lackluster rhino Republicans that'll prevent these things from happening.
00:15:48.000I mean, everyone just seems to be tapping the ball.
00:15:51.000Will Congress actually act, in your opinion?
00:15:53.000Do you have to go to a vote of Congress and then you have to win a three-seat majority and some guy in a purple district then says, well, I'm just not going to do this because it's a little harder to get reelected because, you know, the Democrats in my district are all for this kind of lawfare?
00:16:06.000Well, let me just tell you how it works before.
00:16:14.000I was the chief counsel for nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee for then-chairman and now-chairman Chuck Grassley, and I had the oversight portfolio for the federal judiciary.
00:16:24.000If you just threaten to have oversight of the federal judiciary, you get John Roberts' attention.
00:16:42.000But he has been derelict in his duty to get his judicial house in order.
00:16:47.000So Congress can step in, like oversight hearings, like cutting the federal judiciary's budget through the reconciliation, the budget process.
00:16:59.000You can also look at other things like opening impeachment inquiries for judges like Jeb Boesburg, who are illegally sabotaging the president of the United States as commander in chief when he's expelling foreign terrorists.
00:17:13.000And Judge Boesburg, without power to do it, without jurisdiction, is exposing ongoing military operations to expel these terrorists, which endangers American lives and allied lives and ordering planes to turn around.
00:17:26.000I didn't realize that these judges were generals and colonels.
00:17:41.000I'll tell you this, Don, they backed down, right?
00:17:43.000On the Trendy Aragua case on Good Friday, they issued that injunction to order the president to stop expelling foreign terrorists, which they had no power to do.
00:17:52.000But then after the political heat from the Article 3 project and other outside groups, Stephen Miller said, They backed out.
00:18:04.000They punted the issue to the Fifth Circuit.
00:18:07.000So I know that the political pressure works with these judges, particularly John Roberts.
00:18:13.000Yeah, and it feels like that's the kind of political pressure we need to start exerting because the conservative judges, they live in D.C. And I always say it's sort of an easy existence.
00:18:23.000You can be a conservative in D.C. as long as you give up when it actually matters.
00:18:29.000And it feels like some of these judges, even on the Supreme Court, who otherwise have pretty solid conservative bona fides, they get there and all of a sudden it's like, man, we're just not going to take this one on because I don't want someone protesting in front of our house.
00:18:41.000Again, if we did that to the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, we'd be in jail and we'd be penalized.
00:18:46.000If it happens to the conservatives, nothing happens.
00:18:50.000Are they likely to just keep folding to that pressure because you know the left is still going to ramp it up?
00:18:56.000Well, here's the dirty secret with these guys.
00:19:05.000I've worked on the confirmations of five of them, so I know how they got on the bench.
00:19:10.000They probably should understand that things have changed from the past.
00:19:16.000These conservative justices can move to the left to get glowing praise from the New York Times and the Washington Post and make the protest at their home stop, and then nothing happened on the right.
00:19:27.000And so it was just a one-way ratchet for these justices and judges.
00:19:31.000They would just move to the left, right?
00:19:35.000Well, we're countering that at the Article 3 project, because when they move to the left, we're going to beat the hell out of them politically from the right.
00:19:43.000Let's talk a little bit about the current makeup of the federal judiciary and, you know, Trump 47 judicial nominations.
00:19:53.000So President Trump's biggest accomplishments of his...
00:20:03.000And I know they disappoint us from time to time, particularly when it comes to keeping Trendy Aragua foreign terrorists in this country.
00:20:11.000They ruled within 24 hours on the Supreme Court to save these foreign terrorists from expulsion, and they waited 30,000 hours to rule on Americans who were persecuted.
00:20:26.00030,000 hours for Americans, 24 hours for Trend Day Iraq.
00:20:30.000So I'll tell you what we're working with.
00:20:32.000President Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, White House Counsel Dave Warrington, Deputy Counsel Steve Kenney.
00:20:40.000We're working with President Trump and his team at the Article 3 project to make sure we have even more bold and fearless judges in his second term, like Whitney Hormenderfer, who's going on the Sixth Circuit.
00:20:52.000In Kentucky, or Amal Bovee, who's going to go on the Third Circuit in New Jersey.
00:21:39.000Well, I mean, you weren't so busy to get something done in 20 minutes to save a murderous, drug-dealing, criminal gang member thug from deportation.
00:21:59.000You have these elite that we I think the problem in the first term is, is we were too elite focused on these judges.
00:22:07.000So we need to pick judges who not only are qualified, but also have a backbone like Whitney and Emil.
00:22:28.000You have Amal Bovee, who was top of his class at Georgetown Law School.
00:22:32.000He clerked for two federal judges, including a Second Circuit judge and a judge on the Southern District of New York.
00:22:39.000And he spent the last four years defending President Trump against unprecedented republic-ending lawfare.
00:22:46.000And Todd Blanche and Amal Bovee are now at the Justice Department as topical.
00:22:51.000These are the lawyers who are qualified and, more importantly, have demonstrated courage, who President Trump should be appointed to these key posts in his White House, in his Justice Department, at DHS, and most importantly, on the federal bench.
00:23:07.000As you know, Don, President Trump has learned his lesson from the first term.
00:23:45.000And, you know, you've sort of covered it a little bit, but what are the other things we should be looking for in judicial nominations in breaking from, you know, what we did the first term?
00:23:55.000You know, I used to be friends with Leonard Leo, and it's kind of sad what happened to him because No one knew who the hell Leonard Leo was until President Trump worked with Leonard Leo and Don McGahn in his first term to create the list of potential Supreme Court picks.
00:24:16.000And then after President Trump made Leonard Leo very famous and Leonard Leo got very rich, Leonard Leo abandoned President Trump.
00:24:25.000Abandoned President Trump, especially During the law fair, Ed Whalen, who is one of Leonard Leo's grantees, has been out there undermining President Trump on the law fair every step of the way, saying that having his presidential records in the office of former president in Mar-a-Lago, which is allowed by the Presidential Records Act, is somehow espionage.
00:24:50.000Going after President Trump's judicial...
00:25:02.000The guy's right out of central casting.
00:25:04.000Emil's right out of central casting the prototype of the judicial nominee for President Trump's second term.
00:25:11.000Leonard's groups even went after President Trump's cabinet picks.
00:25:15.000I would say to Leonard that, you know, if you have any sense of loyalty, just keep your mouth shut, right?
00:25:26.000Wherever the political winds go, whoever's going to decide to fund them, keep them living in whatever style they've become accustomed, that's where their loyalty lies, unfortunately.
00:26:46.000The American people gave President Trump this electoral mandate to cut waste from an abuse, to expel illegal aliens, particularly these foreign terrorists.
00:26:56.000Back in 2023, the Supreme Court said that President Biden essentially can let in 20 million illegal aliens because the plaintiff supposedly didn't have standing.
00:27:08.000Standing's a little trick these judges play to avoid deciding messy.
00:27:22.000Two years later in 2025, they're trying to tell the president of the United States that he cannot expel Tren de Aragua foreign terrorists who are working with the state of Venezuela to rape, murder, kidnap, torture, terrorize Americans.
00:27:38.000Something is very, very flawed with our federal judiciary if they think this is acceptable.
00:27:45.000The American people are the sovereign.
00:28:03.000Not at our founding, not after the Civil War, not in any Congress since then, and certainly not in this last election.
00:28:12.000So if these federal judges think there's going to be constitutional due process in federal Article III courts for 20 million illegal judges, The federal judiciary is going to light its legitimacy on fire with a broad swath of the American people.
00:28:34.000And when they lose their legitimacy, these judges lose everything.
00:28:40.000Yeah, no, that one was sort of the hypocrisy.
00:28:44.000The sheer insanity of like, hey, one president can bring in as many illegals.
00:28:48.000It doesn't matter if they're criminals.
00:28:50.000I mean, we know the numbers were 13,000 murderers.
00:28:55.000You know, they knew about 13,000 murderers, 16,000 rapists, 600,000 criminals, millions of others that will just likely be permanent dependents.
00:29:03.000I'm sure there's a couple of good people in there as well, but like, no problem.
00:29:09.000But the next president can't do anything about it.
00:29:11.000They can't reverse this thing that the president did before.
00:29:14.000And, you know, I just don't even understand how one can have the power to do one thing and the other can't have the power to undo it, especially since none of this went through Congress.
00:29:23.000Yeah, and it's amazing to me that these elitist judges have no problem with these terrorists roaming the streets of Aurora, Colorado, these working class communities.
00:29:35.000Well, they only took over a couple of buildings, Mike.
00:30:50.000So when you file a lawsuit, particularly against the government, and you're asking the government to spend money, Whether it's, you know, USAID sending $2 billion out the door to Gaza terrorists or whatever the issue is, you have to put up money because this is a preliminary injunction.
00:31:09.000You have not resolved the case at trial on the merits.
00:31:12.000It hasn't gone to the judge and hasn't gone to the jury.
00:31:16.000And so when you're doing an injunction that's gonna cost the government money, the plaintiff needs to put up a bond to make sure that the government can recoup that money
00:31:44.000He ordered President Trump to send out $2 billion.
00:31:48.000And foreign aid from USAID without the president being able to do a national security review to make sure we're not funding Hamas terrorists, for example, under the guise of Gaza humanitarian relief.
00:32:02.000And Judge Ali ordered President Trump to send this $2 billion out the door before that review, which is just totally lawless, totally unconstitutional.
00:32:19.000But the problem is that there was no injunction bond.
00:32:22.000And so when this $2 billion gets pissed away or goes to Hamas terrorists to kill Americans, how are we going to get that $2 billion back when the government ultimately prevails on the merits in this case?
00:32:57.000How do you make those things and make it effective?
00:33:00.000I would think that just based on the way the process is designed, you can't just get around that and say, nope, we're not going to waive this one.
00:33:08.000It seems like it would be a great way to stop these things, but is it actually effective in practice?
00:33:14.000I mean, you thought that the Congress has the power of the person, so maybe it would be useful for people like, hey, let's say Jim Jordan, the House Judiciary Chairman, to haul in these judicial officials.
00:33:38.000So that's a good assignment for Jim Jordan.
00:33:40.000I think he's still the House Judiciary Committee Chairman.
00:33:43.000I haven't heard from him for a while, but if he's out there, that's a good assignment for him.
00:33:48.000What's most remarkable is really how We're also now learning that our own NIH was literally funding Chinese researchers that were just busted by the FBI for agro-terrorism and trying to poison the food supply.
00:34:58.000All the people who were back in China for the Chinese New Year went to Italy to go work in the leather factories and brought Wuhan to Italy, and it spread throughout Europe and spread throughout the world.
00:35:46.000But I mean, I'd argue he's one of the greatest purveyors of terrorism on American soil because of that.
00:35:52.000But I mean, the fact that we were ever so naive to think, oh, yeah, we should just fund really dangerous bioweapons potential research in China with U.S. dollars, stuff that they'll weaponize against us.
00:36:05.000I mean, it's it's wild that it's even like that we'd even consider like this could possibly be a good idea.
00:36:37.000You would think that after years of COVID lockdowns and learning loss and human misery that we would lock this down a little bit better now.
00:36:50.000Maybe there's action happening behind the scenes.
00:36:53.000I know that Cash Patel and Dan Bongino are doing a fantastic job at the FBI, and I think Pam and Todd are doing a fantastic job at the DOJ.
00:37:02.000So I imagine that there's an investigation behind the scenes, but I will tell you that Congress needs to start doing public hearings on this immediately.
00:37:14.000Mike, a new report from The Federalist reveals how the Comey FBI basically had a secret feature available to select agents that made certain files unsearchable.
00:37:29.000It's insane, but also probably not surprising.
00:37:32.000What have you been hearing about the work Cash and Dan are doing inside the Bureau to address this, that you could basically prevent anyone from looking at some of these major things?
00:37:42.000Again, make sure just the activist agents, not the real door kickers that actually want to do right by America, but just the activist agents and bureaucrats are able to weaponize the FBI.
00:37:52.000I mean, this is, again, not surprising, but sort of next-level insanity.
00:37:57.000My former boss, Chuck Grassley, the senator from Iowa, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has been a vocal critic of the FBI for 40 years, going back to when Iowans were killed by the FBI at Ruby Ridge.
00:38:10.000Grassley has constantly called for oversight of the FBI, and it has never happened until now.
00:38:17.000And Cash Patel and Dan Bongino are doing a fantastic job of opening the files of the FBI, letting sunlight in.
00:38:44.000And we don't hear about what they're doing every day, but I can assure you, as someone who works very closely with all of them, that they are making very serious reforms.
00:38:57.000Sometimes they do things that disappoint some of us from time to time.
00:39:01.000But I'm telling you what, the president has a very good team at the Justice Department, including the FBI, and they're going to clean out that rat's nest.
00:39:09.000I guess, speaking of corruption and fraud, we seem to be getting more and more evidence of things like mortgage fraud from some of the biggest Trump haters out there.
00:39:18.000I know we've talked about Letitia James and Fannie Willis and some of these guys a few times together on this show.
00:39:30.000Remember Big Tish James, the New York Attorney General, said that Mar-a-Lago, that President Trump somehow defrauded these sophisticated Wall Street banks and then paid them back in full on time as agreed with interest because he said that President Trump overvaged.
00:39:50.000They say Mar-a-Lago was worth $18 million.
00:39:53.000I literally had to do testimony in the Southern District of New York trying to explain that Mar-a-Lago basically being 20 acres, it's on the ocean, it's on the intercoastal Mar-a-Lago from the ocean to the sea, to the lake.
00:40:07.000And I remember the judge being like, oh, he literally complimented me as I'm getting off the stand.
00:40:13.000That was really good because I'm talking about how there's a half an acre lot where they tear down.
00:40:16.000Like, you know, 1970s piece of garbage house, like, literally across the street, and it's on the market for $50 million.
00:40:23.000And, like, he's kind of like, wow, that's a great explanation.
00:40:26.000Like, here's the living room of Mar-a-Lago.
00:40:28.000I mean, I think you can see the difference.
00:41:43.000I was like, I'll take 10 Mar-a-Lagos at $18 million.
00:41:46.000I don't have the money, but I'll figure out how to find it by tomorrow morning.
00:41:48.000Just give me 10. It was kind of funny, but he was like, That's how insane it is.
00:41:57.000Yeah, I mean, I would say this about Big Tish.
00:41:59.000You said that Virginia is your primary residence, but here's the problem, New York statute requires So where's your residence?
00:42:13.000If it's Virginia, you can't be the New York Attorney General.
00:42:17.000And if it's in New York, then you're a felon because you've lied on your mortgage application and said that Virginia's your primary residence.
00:42:29.000And so I would think that the prosecutors And if Tish James can get away with mortgage fraud that's so clear-cut, what signal does that send?
00:42:57.000What message does that send to the rest of America?
00:43:22.000Are there others out there doing the same thing?
00:43:26.000Have they just been able to use their political office to have different a different fact set for themselves?
00:43:32.000You know what I've been saying on your show for many years and it always gets me in trouble, which makes me want to say it again, is that remember, these Democrats politicized and weaponized law enforcement and intel agencies to go after.
00:43:49.000President Trump, his top aides like Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro who went to prison, his supporters on January 6th who were persecuted according to the Supreme Court's Fisher decision, parents outraged by gender chaos in schools and the resulting rapes in bathrooms, Christians who are praying at pro-life,
00:44:07.000praying at abortion clinics while they give amnesty to Biden, his scumbag family who took over $23 million from our worst enemies into their bank accounts, Hamas terrorists who are terrorizing Jews, hunting and terrorizing Jews, abortion industry activists who are obstructing justice and terrorizing justices outside of their homes.
00:44:32.000And I know that Pam Bondi and Chad Mizell and Todd Blanche and Emil Bove and Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, Harmeet Dillon and many others, this is a dream team that President Trump has created.
00:44:46.000And I imagine that justice will come and justice will prevail for all this unprecedented republic-ending lawfare.
00:44:55.000What do you think the time frame on some of these things is?
00:44:58.000I know when it was us, it was like, here's a complaint.
00:45:03.000They were able to fast-track these things and actually get to that justice, even though, as we all know now, it was all BS and it always was.
00:46:34.000That is Thune, and he did a very good job on President Trump's.
00:46:39.000The Article III project had to give these Senate Republicans an attitude adjustment on Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard and others.
00:46:48.000They've had that attitude adjustment for the cabinets.
00:46:52.000Now we need to have an attitude adjustment for the subcabinets, right?
00:46:56.000So we can get President Trump's judges and executive branch officials, including prosecutors, confirmed so we can make sure that President Trump can do his job.
00:47:09.000Mike, how can people find out about the Article 3 project, your organization?
00:47:42.000The most important thing that your audience can do, Don, is take action.
00:47:47.000We saw with the hundreds of thousands of phone calls and emails into Americans' home state senators that we were able to confirm President Trump's cabinets.
00:47:58.000We're going to do the same thing on his sub cabinet.
00:48:01.000We're going to do the same thing on judicial sabotage.
00:48:04.000It is really important that your audience goes to the article three projects dot org action center and take action.
00:48:12.000Who else are the other big guys on your team that they can also follow along?
00:48:17.000Because again, I feel like, It's why you're on the show so often.
00:48:22.000Who are the other guys that they should be following, watching, who are doing this work with you?
00:48:27.000Again, because it's about getting that message out.
00:48:29.000The bigger voice box we can create for those guys, the more effective I think we can be.
00:48:33.000So the Article 3 project has Josh Hammer from Newsweek and Will Chamberlain.
00:48:38.000They do fantastic work, really good, smart attorneys.
00:48:42.000And then we have a lot of good allies like Julie Kelly, like Molly Hemingway, the people.
00:48:47.000At The Federalist, they do phenomenal work.