00:00:26.220And this one dealing with the Trump administration and their request for stay of a lower court's orders blocking enforcement of his birthright citizenship executive order.
00:00:39.660Remember, the president wanted to end birthright citizenship.
00:00:45.300We're going to play all of the president's comments in full also coming up in the next half hour.
00:00:49.800But I want you to just listen to a little bit of what he had to say earlier today.
00:00:53.180I was elected on a historic mandate, but in recent months we've seen a handful of radical left judges effectively try to overrule the rightful powers of the president
00:01:04.120to stop the American people from getting the policies that they voted for in record numbers.
00:01:10.500It was a grave threat to democracy, frankly, and instead of merely ruling on the immediate cases before them,
00:01:17.580these judges have attempted to dictate the law for the entire nation.
00:01:21.740In practice, this meant that if any one of the nearly 700 federal judges disagreed with the policy of a duly elected president of the United States,
00:01:32.020he or she could block that policy from going into effect or at least delay it for many years, tie it up in the court system.
00:01:40.260This was a colossal abuse of power which never occurred in American history prior to recent decades.
00:01:46.040And we've been hit with more nationwide injunctions than were issued in the entire 20th century.
00:02:23.000And and then it slows down the president's agenda.
00:02:25.940And he is duly elected by the people to implement that agenda.
00:02:31.760Senator Danes of Montana is thrilled with the court ruling today and agrees that universal injunctions likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has given to the federal courts
00:02:43.920and allowing a single activist judge to dictate policy for the entire nation needed to stop.
00:02:49.860And I applaud today's Supreme Court ruling to limit nationwide injunctions.
00:02:53.860Senator Danes of Montana, by the way, there are many days I'm not having the best day.
00:03:00.200And I'm thinking, what would life be like on a ranch out in Montana?
00:03:03.820Not that the people of Montana want any more people from any other state coming to their state and and and frankly,
00:03:11.480maybe bringing their dumb policies with them.
00:03:13.640In my case, I agree with the people of Montana.
00:03:16.600Well, well, Sean, we always welcome conservative refugees.
00:03:20.500We just don't want to have liberal missionaries joining us in Montana.
00:03:23.860I mean, I swear, it's like, you know, if you if you're going to move out of California, New York, New Jersey.
00:03:31.600OK, fine. You can move if you're going to come to my free state of Florida, which I do love.
00:03:36.560Or are you going to go to Texas or the Carolinas or Tennessee?
00:03:40.800Just leave. You can you that you know, welcome you with open arms.
00:03:44.460Don't bring your dumb, idiotic policies that destroyed your state with you and then destroy the new state you're going to.
00:03:51.800Sean, we welcome those who want to join us.
00:03:54.340So we hope folks want to change us stay out of the way.
00:04:08.220It's about, you know, the equality here of powers and just proportionality of powers where the left can go shop some rogue judge somewhere in America and stop a significant ruling or order coming from the president.
00:04:22.820United States, who is trying to protect the country as commander in chief.
00:04:28.640You know, it also says to me, Sean, we're reaping the benefits and the fruit of an election that happened back in 2014 when we flipped the Senate.
00:04:36.940That's the year I got elected to the Senate.
00:04:38.200I was the first Republican in 100 years.
00:04:42.800And that was during Barack Obama's last midterm election.
00:04:45.920Set in motion after the tragic passing of Scalia, we put three conservative Trump judges on the bench and we're seeing the consequences of really elections that began back in 14.
00:04:57.840Just a reminder how important Senate races are in America, because you reap the fruit or you reap the curse of what happens in the courts, sometimes for a generation.
00:05:08.220What do you make of the other Supreme Court decisions that have come down?
00:05:13.240I mean, it really has been a little bit of a whirlwind, as it is at the end of every Supreme Court session.
00:05:22.040And, you know, they they now in one swoop of ruled on a lot of issues.
00:05:26.900This one about about birthright citizenship, but but also about a whole variety of issues.
00:06:00.500But why are we teaching this gender radical ideology in great school, even down to preschool anyway?
00:06:07.680But I'll tell you, Alito nailed it when he wrote for the majority.
00:06:11.100I'm going to quote what he wrote in the majority.
00:06:12.540He said, a government burdens the religious exercise of parents when it requires them to submit their children to instruction that poses a very real threat of undermining the religious beliefs and practices from the parents that they wish to instill.
00:06:42.520I mean, think about talking about protecting the rights of the states and a federalism win where South Carolina says, hey, we're not going to allow Medicaid funds, federal dollars to be used to pay to Planned Parenthood for elective abortions.
00:06:58.460And why do we why do we give Planned Parenthood a penny anyway?
00:07:02.840We're working on defunding them right now as we speak, Sean.
00:07:05.720We'd love to get that piece included in the reconciliation bill.
00:07:08.740And I don't even like to use the word Planned Parenthood.
00:07:10.880That sounds way too kind of Planned Parenthood.
00:07:12.960This is called elective abortions on demand.
00:08:25.440And what's happening is with the remaining moderates that no longer exist in Democrats, they've all left.
00:08:30.940So what is left is the radical, radical side of the left.
00:08:33.640So it's doubling down on their ideology.
00:08:35.800And that's their demise as we go forward with elections.
00:08:38.360They don't have a plan going forward to double down on their far left beliefs as we've seen evidence what happened in New York this past week.
00:08:44.220Seventy-nine Democrats this week wanted to impeach Donald Trump, which is remarkable.
00:08:50.640They didn't care when Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, or any past president used force.
00:08:57.400They wouldn't stand at the joint session for Lake and Riley's family murdered by an unvetted Biden-Harris illegal
00:09:03.940or the family of Jocelyn Nungary murdered by a Harris-Biden illegal.
00:09:09.220And to me, if you can't stand for parents that lost their children, you have lost your soul.
00:09:15.680Look, Sean, they've lost their soul on multiple fronts.
00:09:19.520But let's just take what happened last Saturday when President Trump made the absolutely right decision,
00:09:26.740a bold, decisive action to take out the nuclear capabilities of Iran.
00:09:33.300History will look so fondly on what President Trump did.
00:09:37.780And to think the left, what are they doing?
00:09:40.220They're trying to plant false intelligence to the New York Times to undermine what was absolutely a stellar execution by the U.S. military,
00:09:49.680what the Israelis have done to protect their lands and their democracy through their preemptive strikes on Iran.
00:09:58.100And they had one part of that whole plan that they needed our help,
00:10:01.200and that was the heavy lift with B-2s to drop the 30,000-pound bombs that were dropped precisely on the right way.
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00:11:03.880All right, we continue with Montana Senator Steve Daines is with us.
00:11:07.620Let's talk about the one big, beautiful bill.
00:11:10.500Had a little bit of a setback in the last two days, and that is the Senate parliamentarian trying to do her level best to take out a lot of the Republicans' plans here.
00:11:24.360Now, one of the problems is you're looking at an unelected bureaucrat and somebody that was appointed by Harry Reid and somebody that has shown themselves to be pretty left-leaning.
00:11:39.060And now my understanding is, having spoken with a number of other senators and your colleagues, is that it basically is a matter of shifting and changing the language.
00:11:48.860And most of what Republicans want will still get in that bill.
00:11:54.520Yeah, you know, literally, Shama, before I came on the air to speak with you, I was going back and forth with Ted Cruz, a couple of my colleagues, as we are making final adjustments.
00:12:05.060Because you have a chance to go back and clarify language on these arguments before the parliamentarian.
00:12:09.640I mean, look, we strongly disagree with many of the rulings she has made, but she also has given us the ability to correct some of the bill language to give us a chance to actually get it done.
00:12:19.320And so that's exactly what's going on right now.
00:12:21.380And I think we're going to be able to salvage much of what we've been fighting for, not all of it.
00:12:27.220And let me just say this, Sean, when the Democrats tried, you know, their craziness and their reconciliation bills with Inflation Reduction Act and others, they tried to radically change the immigration policies in this country in terms of pathway to citizenship for illegals.
00:12:51.640I don't like a lot of these rulings, but you've got to keep fighting right now.
00:12:54.980Times are the essence to get this bill done on the president's desk by 4th of July.
00:12:58.840Well, looking at, for example, she's trying to, you know, take out the provisions.
00:13:03.640The Medicaid provided provisions, including changes to federal funding for states and the share of health care provider taxes.
00:13:15.200My understanding is it just has to apply to all states, and that will be resolved.
00:13:19.200They were not eligible for approval via the simple majority.
00:13:22.180Other provisions that were axed include eliminating some Medicaid eligibility for non-citizens, meaning illegal immigrants, adults and children,
00:13:31.960and lowered the federal medical assistance percentage of funding percentages for states that allow non-citizens to get health care coverage from 90 to 80 percent.
00:13:44.680Another section that didn't pass muster was blocking federal funding for Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance CHIP program to provide gender transition medical care.
00:13:58.580You know, as Tommy Tuberville said, the woke Senate parliamentarian who was appointed by Harry Reid and advised Al Gore struck down a provision banning illegal immigrants from stealing Medicaid from American citizens is a perfect example of why Americans hate the swamp.
00:14:22.060The reason we're in this position to get major wins on tax and spending policy is because we're using the reconciliation process.
00:14:32.780It has these parameters called the bird bath wrapped around it.
00:14:37.600To get policy outcomes, you typically need 60 votes, not 51.
00:14:41.980So as long as it meets the threshold of being a spending or tax-type impacted provision and not primarily a policy outcome, that makes it compliant with BERT.
00:14:54.360Now, Sean, I went to engineering school, not law school.
00:14:57.260So I'll let my lawyers sort out some of these arguments.
00:15:00.040And, yes, I don't like a lot of the rulings that have come down, but she's giving us such a chance to come back and make a counterargument.
00:15:06.660I think we're going to save several of these important revenue and tax outcome issues that will also have policy implications.
00:15:15.360But the policy argument can't be the primary driver.
00:15:44.700Let's go to Pam Bondi, President Trump, and Todd Blanche.
00:15:48.900And at the Supreme Court decision today, the issue, overall issue is birthright citizenship, but more specifically, the interference of lower courts that would prevent a president from doing his job.
00:16:06.320An amazing decision, one that we're very happy about.
00:16:09.760This morning, the Supreme Court has delivered a monumental victory for the Constitution, the separation of powers, and the rule of law.
00:16:19.100In striking down the excessive use of nationwide injunctions to interfere with the normal functioning of the executive branch, the Supreme Court has stopped the presidency itself.
00:16:44.060Sometimes you don't see that, but this case is very important.
00:16:46.820I was elected on a historic mandate, but in recent months, we've seen a handful of radical left judges effectively try to overrule the rightful powers of the president to stop the American people from getting the policies that they voted for in record numbers.
00:17:02.760It was a grave threat to democracy, frankly, and instead of merely ruling on the immediate cases before them, these judges have attempted to dictate the law for the entire nation.
00:17:14.660In practice, this meant that if any one of the nearly 700 federal judges disagreed with the policy of a duly elected president of the United States, he or she could block that policy from going into effect or at least delay it for many years, tie it up in the court system.
00:17:32.220This was a colossal abuse of power, which never occurred in American history prior to recent decades, and we've been hit with more nationwide injunctions than were issued in the entire 20th century together.
00:17:46.280Think of it more than the entire 20th century, me.
00:17:49.400I'm grateful to the Supreme Court for stepping in and solving this very, very big and complex problem, and they've made it very simple.
00:17:59.960I want to thank Justice Barrett, who wrote the opinion brilliantly, as well as Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Thomas.
00:18:11.880Thanks for this decision and thanks to this decision.
00:18:16.020We can now promptly file to proceed with numerous policies that have been wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis, and some of the cases we're talking about would be ending birthright citizenship, which now comes to the fore.
00:18:31.480That was meant for the babies of slaves.
00:18:33.640It wasn't meant for people trying to scam the system and come into the country on a vacation.
00:18:39.260This was, in fact, it was the same date, the exact same date, the end of the Civil War.
00:18:43.360It was meant for the babies of slaves, and it's so clean and so obvious, but this lets us go there and finally win that case because hundreds of thousands of people are pouring into our country under birthright citizenship, and it wasn't meant for that reason.
00:18:57.380It was meant for the babies of slaves.
00:18:59.340So thanks to this decision, we can now promptly file to proceed with these numerous policies and those that have been wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis, including birthright citizenship, ending sanctuary city funding, suspending refugee resettlement, freezing unnecessary funding, stopping federal taxpayers from paying for transgender surgeries, and numerous other priorities of the American people.
00:19:29.140I'm not going to bore you, and I'm going to have Pam get up and say a few words, but there's really – she can talk as long as she wants because this is a very important decision.
00:19:37.440This is a decision that covers a tremendous amount of territory.
00:19:42.000But I want to just thank, again, the Supreme Court for this ruling.
00:20:32.160Today, in the 6-3 opinion, Justice Barrett correctly holds that the district court lacks authority to enter nationwide or universal injunctions.
00:20:41.740These lawless injunctions gave relief to everyone in the world.
00:20:46.180Instead of the parties before the court.
00:20:49.280As the Supreme Court held today, they turned district courts into the imperial judiciary.
00:20:56.700Active liberal justices, judges, have used these injunctions to block virtually all of President Trump's policies.
00:21:04.800To put this in perspective, there are 94 federal judicial districts.
00:21:12.400Five of those districts throughout this country held 35 of the nationwide injunctions.
00:21:33.800These injunctions have blocked our policies from tariffs to military readiness to immigration to foreign affairs, fraud, abuse, and many other issues.
00:21:42.580The judges have tried to seize the executive branch's power, and they cannot do that.
00:22:24.360These injunctions have allowed district court judges to be emperors.
00:22:28.840They vetoed all of President Trump's power, and they cannot do that.
00:22:33.880This has been a bipartisan problem that has lasted five presidential terms, five different presidents, and it has ended today.
00:22:45.040We will continue to fight for President Trump's policies.
00:22:48.220I want to thank the Office of White House Counsel, Dave Warrington.
00:22:51.660You and your staff have been incredible.
00:22:53.580Our Solicitor General's Office, John Sowers, Sarah Harris, and Todd Blanche and Amel Bovee.
00:22:59.260Todd's going to say a few words because we've had another major ruling today on transgender books and some other great wins that we've had.
00:23:07.920But no longer will they have this power in our country.
00:23:11.100It is the president's authority under his executive branch to do everything to fight for the American people, and he will continue to do that.
00:23:19.520That's why he was overwhelmingly elected.
00:23:24.060Today is a great day for the rule of law.
00:23:27.540It's a great day for the Justice Department, and it's one that's been a long time coming and one that every American should have been waiting for with bated breath.
00:23:36.180And so I echo what the president said and Attorney General Bondi, that the Supreme Court did a great thing today, not only for this administration, but for every American in this country.
00:23:47.780If not for the injunctions case, we would be here talking about another great decision that came down today, the trans books case, which restores parents' rights to decide their child's education.
00:23:57.920It seems like a basic idea, but it took the Supreme Court to set the record state, and we thank them for that.
00:24:03.960And now that ruling allows parents to opt out of dangerous trans ideology and make the decisions for their children that they believe is correct.
00:24:13.020And so we thank the Supreme Court for that.
00:24:14.720There's been multiple decisions over the past several weeks that just show why this injunction, why this nationwide injunction ban had to happen.
00:24:23.320For example, what I mean by that is local district court judges issuing decisions that are clearly contrary to law just because they don't like the policy of President Trump.
00:24:33.420And when it gets to the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court has to correct it.
00:24:38.080The Attorney General thanked our lawyers, and I'll do it again.
00:24:41.800Our lawyers are working 24 hours a day, seven days a week to fight these injunctions and to emergency appeals, emergency states, going back to the district court judge, asking them to change their view.
00:24:52.000And so their hard work is really paying off today, but over the past few weeks.
00:24:57.160We had a stay of an order that prevented DHS from moving aliens to a third country.
00:25:02.020We had a stay of an order that stopped the Department of Defense from implementing military readiness, the EO that President Trump signed.
00:25:09.000We had another stay of an order forcing reinstatement of fired executive branch employees entirely within the president and Article 2, his right to do.
00:25:16.860We had a stay of, as you all know, of numerous DOGE cases.
00:25:20.860And again, every one of those stays requires a tremendous amount of work and effort by the lawyers and parties involved.
00:25:29.760They should be doing the work that the president and this administration demands and has a right to demand, and not fighting these local judges who don't make decisions based on the law.
00:25:40.460They make decisions because they just simply don't agree with the administration's decision about a policy, and that's wrong.
00:26:15.320So, birthright citizenship will be decided in October, in the next session, by the Supreme Court, unless it comes down in the next few minutes.
00:26:24.240I think they're still deliberating right now on some cases.
00:26:27.740As you heard, we just got transgender books, which is a huge win.
00:26:31.020But most likely, that will be decided in October, in the next session.
00:26:35.280However, it indirectly impacts us because, as you correctly pointed out, if there's a birthright citizenship case in Oregon, it will only affect the plaintiff in Oregon, not the entire country.
00:26:46.860So, yes, it's indirectly, but that's pending litigation, and we're waiting on that in the next term.
00:26:51.100And how concerned are you that the Supreme Court will come back and determine that the executive order is unconstitutional?
00:26:56.400Oh, we're very confident in the Supreme Court.
00:26:58.720But, again, it's pending litigation, and that will directly be determined in October.
00:27:03.080But it indirectly impacts every case in this country, and we're thrilled with their decision today.