00:01:52.640You, Jake Tapper, and CNN were 24-7 engaging the cover-up.
00:01:59.040You knew about his mental decline, and you refused to tell anybody.
00:02:03.020All right, so let's go back to this lie that I think the part that blows my mind the most is the fact that Tapper is actually probably going to get a bestseller out of this.
00:02:13.020Everyone in the media is praising him for this incredible reporting, and this is the guy that literally helped cover up the cognitive decline and dismissed anyone who had brought it up on his show.
00:02:23.000So, look, the book, as I understand it, was originally written by Alex Thompson.
00:02:27.300Alex Thompson is not nearly as well-known as Jake Tapper.
00:02:53.100And I got to say, so there are lots of –
00:02:56.020Never let a crisis go to waste, right?
00:02:57.660That's exactly – look, and particularly a chance to make some good money.
00:03:00.180I mean, hey, what's journalism all about if not monetizing your own hypocrisy and your own cover-up?
00:03:05.820Look, Tapper, some of the facts that are coming out in this book.
00:03:09.180In 2023 and 2024, Tapper and Thompson report, Biden's physical deterioration was so severe that his advisors discussed the possibility he would need to use a wheelchair if he won re-election.
00:06:45.140Look, one of the facts in his book, he says at a fundraiser in June of 2024, Joe Biden didn't recognize George Clooney, who he's known for decades.
00:07:01.700This is the same fundraiser, you remember, where Barack Obama had to lead Biden off the stage because he was just confused and staring out in space.
00:07:09.180And Tapper and the rest of them just lied to us and said, A-OK, no problems here.
00:07:14.060Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, you can go back and listen to the full podcast from earlier this week.
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00:07:53.860All right, Senator, so let's dive into this other issue that really is an interesting one.
00:08:00.340You've got a lot to say about the Trump Justice Department telling the American Bar Association that it will no longer comply with ratings for judicial nominees.
00:08:11.840Now, explain the politics behind this.
00:08:14.340The ABA has had a lot of power, and they're basically now saying, we're not going to let you guys have that power because there's been a lot of bias coming out of the American Bar Association.
00:08:25.280Well, the American Bar Association, it's a national organization of lawyers, and it is a left-wing advocacy group.
00:08:38.160And the ABA has had a formal role in judicial selection for 75 years.
00:08:45.300It started rating judicial nominees in 1953.
00:08:50.420And until 2001, the ABA actually had a formal role evaluating judicial nominees before they were nominated.
00:08:59.760So a president, a Department of Justice, an administration would share with the ABA, hey, we're thinking of nominating Ben Ferguson to be a federal judge.
00:09:09.300And they'd go and research and interview former clients, and at some point people would say, wait, Ben's not even a lawyer.
00:09:17.060How the hell is he going to be a judge like he probably should go to law school first?
00:09:21.500And by the way, that point is not crazy.
00:09:25.120But they engaged that they would do a formal role, and they would rate the qualifications of judicial nominees.
00:09:45.160Robert Bork, Ronald Reagan nominated Robert Bork to the Supreme Court in 1987.
00:09:50.420Robert Bork was, by any measure, one of the most qualified federal judicial nominees in the history of this country.
00:09:57.120Robert Bork had been the Solicitor General of the United States, the Chief Lawyer for the United States in front of the Supreme Court of the United States.
00:10:04.960Robert Bork had been one of the most renowned and respected law professors for decades.
00:10:11.680Robert Bork had been a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
00:10:19.960And yet the ABA, when they evaluated Robert Bork, they concluded he was, quote, not qualified to be a judge.
00:10:26.480They also concluded the same thing for Frank Easterbrook.
00:10:29.540Again, brilliant, brilliant judge, brilliant professor, one of the greatest judges to have ever served on the Court of Appeals, Frank Easterbrook.
00:10:37.600The ABA concluded he was not qualified.
00:11:09.260And the Department of Justice said, you know what?
00:11:11.540They can chime in like any other left-wing advocacy group, but they don't have a role in this process.
00:11:17.140This is going to have, I think, a big impact on the quality.
00:11:22.220Pam Bondi informing the ABA that they'll no longer enjoy the special access to judicial nominees.
00:11:27.480And the left, by the way, when that news came out, they totally freaked out.
00:11:32.640And I think that also shows just how much they were depending on the ABA to get rid of good candidates that were maybe more conservative.
00:11:39.920Yeah, and so Pam Bondi sent a letter to the president of the ABA, and she said, quote,
00:11:47.100While the ABA is free to comment on judicial nominations along with other activist organizations, there is no justification for treating the ABA differently from such other activist organizations, and the Department of Justice will not do so.
00:12:01.500And so previously, the Office of Legal Policy, which is the office within the Department of Justice that handles judicial selections, they had previously directed judicial nominees to provide a waiver to the ABA to let the ABA access non-public information, including bar records.
00:12:23.780And so no longer is the Department of Justice going to tell judicial nominees, give the ABA special access.
00:12:29.580That is over. And moreover, Pam Bondi says, quote, nominees will also not respond to questionnaires prepared by the ABA and will not sit for interviews with the ABA.
00:12:42.160In other words, you can be like every other whack job organization on the left, but you're not going to have any special access whatsoever.
00:12:50.880This is something I've called for a long time.
00:12:53.720I have for years, for more than a decade, advocated that the ABA is wildly biased, and it should not have a special role in the process, and I want to commend President Trump and Pam Bondi.
00:13:07.180Senator, we hear a lot about bias and bias against conservatives, but my other question is, were they also biased in advocating for liberals?
00:13:15.960Absolutely. They are a hard-left advocacy organization masquerading as a nonpartisan professional organization.
00:13:25.180And Joe Biden, over the last four years, nominated over and over again radicals and zealots, many of whom were wildly unqualified.
00:13:32.740And the ABA was more than happy to stamp them with a rating of qualified.
00:13:37.940And one example is Charnel Bejelkingren, who was wildly unqualified, and yet the ABA happily deemed her qualified.
00:13:48.860And rather than me lay out how bad she was, I want you to listen to this cross-examination from my colleague John Kennedy to this judicial nominee in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
00:15:32.240So, the first three articles of the Constitution, Article 1 creates the Congress, Article 2 creates the President and the Executive Branch, and Article 3 creates the Federal Judiciary.
00:15:42.340To not know what Article 2 is is stunning.
00:15:46.020To give you a sense, you will flunk constitutional law and not graduate law school if you don't know what Article 2 is.
00:15:53.360She was being nominated to be what is called an Article 3 judge.
00:15:58.240I assume she had no idea what Article 3 was.
00:16:01.960And nevertheless, the ABA said she's qualified to be an Article 3 judge, even though she has no idea what it is.
00:16:08.560I'm very glad the ABA no longer has a role in making those determinations.
00:16:13.240As before, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation on this topic, you can go back and download the podcast from early this week to hear the entire thing.
00:17:02.880She kicked it off and joined The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to do it.
00:17:06.800Harris coming out, swinging, blasting the SCOTUS for forgetting what, quote, democracy and the rule of law is, quote, unquote, supposed to be.
00:17:16.040She also talked about her new book and the, quote, horrors of January 6th on The Late Show with Colbert as well.
00:17:23.080I mean, this was one of those interviews.
00:17:24.420Play a little bit from her announcement video on her new book because I have to say, it's almost like a Saturday Night Live skit.
00:17:33.180This is her real announcement of her real book launch.
00:17:35.720Just over a year ago, I launched my campaign for President of the United States, 107 days, traveling the country, fighting for our future, the shortest presidential campaign in modern history.
00:17:49.660It was intense, high stakes, and deeply personal for me and for so many of you.
00:17:56.560Since leaving office, I've spent a lot of time reflecting on those days, talking with my team, my family, my friends, and pulling my thoughts together.
00:18:07.820In essence, writing a journal that is this book, 107 days.
00:18:14.000With candor and reflection, I've written a behind-the-scenes account of that journey.
00:18:19.320I believe there's value in sharing what I saw, what I learned, and what I know it will take to move forward.
00:18:28.540In writing this book, one truth kept coming back to me.
00:20:32.740This is a time for people to, you know, I mean, look, we designed our democracy with three independent, co-equal branches of government.
00:20:42.600I mean, when you see that the president of the United States is trying to get rid of the Department of Education, and Congress has the role and responsibility to stand in the way of that, and they're just sitting on their hands, and then they go on recess because they don't want to deal with transparency?
00:20:59.160And the Supreme Court says that he can ignore a law that established it.
00:21:05.260Yeah, but the Supreme Court, we knew what they were doing.
00:21:08.420Remember, I talked about it in 107 days.
00:21:10.860I don't put that in the book, by the way.
00:21:31.980So we're not surprised what the Supreme Court is doing.
00:21:34.960And God thank those members of the court who write brilliant dissents and remind us of what the democracy and the rule of law is supposed to be.
00:21:49.520You hear that, and it's like, what are you even talking about?
00:21:52.560There's so much in what she's saying that is incoherent and wrong.
00:21:58.020Let's start off where she's saying, okay, the president is trying to abolish the Department of Education and Congress is refusing to do its jobs.
00:22:08.640No, we actually agree with abolishing the Department of Education.
00:22:12.920This was something that the president campaigned on.
00:22:16.020And the reason the American people agree with abolishing the Federal Department of Education is not because education doesn't matter, but precisely the opposite.
00:22:23.720Because it matters so much that people are ticked off that a bunch of left-wing woke bureaucrats that you and Joe Biden appointed tried to take over schools, tried to indoctrinate kids, tried to push Marxist ideology in our children, and tried to convince them that boys were girls and girls were boys, and tried to let boys compete in girls sports.
00:22:41.280And force this on schools, and the red tape, and the bureaucracy, and the waste, and the ideology from the Department of Education is precisely why President Trump is working to abolish it.
00:22:54.720And I've actually had Democrat senators say to me very much what Kamala does.
00:22:59.160Well, we're just, the Senate is irrelevant because you're not stopping this.
00:23:03.380It's like, no, the Senate is relevant.
00:23:31.260What she's mad at is the American people elected Donald Trump.
00:23:34.400What she's mad at is the American people elected a Republican House.
00:23:37.780What she's mad at is the American people elected a Republican Senate.
00:23:41.040And she's really, really mad that President Trump and the Republican Senate and the Republican House are doing what they said they would do.
00:23:49.120In other words, they are honoring and respecting democracy by carrying out the campaign promises they told the American people.
00:23:57.640And the irony of her claiming that she believes in democracy.
00:24:03.700This was an administration, the Biden-Harris administration, that repeatedly indicted her political opponent, Donald Trump.
00:24:12.960This was an administration Democrats across the country tried to remove Trump's name from the ballot because nothing says protecting democracy like stopping the voters from voting for your opponent.
00:24:23.900And so when she says, well, gosh, we must defend democracy.
00:24:36.100What she means is we need radical left-wing policies.
00:24:41.280And if the voters don't like them, to hell with the voters, we want them anyway.
00:24:48.940And by the way, when she's denouncing the courts, what she's really saying is she wants radical unelected judges to ignore the will of the voters,
00:24:57.360to ignore democracy, and to force her very unpopular policies on the American people anyway,
00:25:03.440doing things like she doesn't want illegal immigrants, Venezuelan gang members, murderers and rapists and child molesters.
00:26:15.440I think it is a mistake for us who want to figure out how to get out and through this and get out of it to put it on the shoulders of any one person.
00:28:51.720I have spent my entire career in service of the people.
00:28:56.680But to be very candid with you, I had to defend my decision to become a prosecutor with my family.
00:29:02.980Why is it then when we think we want to improve a system or change it that we're always on the outside on bended knee or trying to break down the door?
00:29:11.400Shouldn't we also be inside the system?
00:30:09.480And look, part of why, to be honest, you and I, we don't listen to Stephen Colbert, and we very rarely listen to Kamala Harris.
00:30:17.580The reason why we're playing this exchange is because it really does show that there's not a moment of reflection, you know, what she had in her book promo about candor and whatever.
00:30:31.080She continues four years of a disastrous agenda.
00:30:37.660Open borders, 12 million illegal immigrants, the worst illegal immigration in our nation's history.
00:30:42.180She takes no responsibility for that, doesn't acknowledge that.
00:30:44.820Abandoning all of our friends and allies, going from peace and prosperity to two simultaneous wars across the globe, she takes no responsibility for that.
00:30:53.280The Democrat Party becoming rabidly anti-Semitic, her funders funding violent anti-Semitic riots on college campuses, she takes no responsibility for that.
00:31:04.640There's not at all an acknowledgement of, gosh, people voted for Donald Trump in significant part
00:31:14.240because they were really, really, really unhappy with the radical policies that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris put in place.