WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:05.200 This is the first big batch of UFO disclosure ordered 2 00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:08.119 by President Trump. Some of the clips and videos on 3 00:00:08.160 --> 00:00:11.400 there have popped up different places before, some of them 4 00:00:11.640 --> 00:00:13.960 have not. And we have been going through this all 5 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:17.280 morning and overnight to try to put together some of 6 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:19.920 the best video so we can all look at this together. 7 00:00:20.039 --> 00:00:22.320 This is a world exclusive right here. 8 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:25.800 It's the Ricochet Podcast with Peter Robinson. I''s right, I said, 9 00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:28.600 Peter Robinson and Stephen Hayward and Cherls C. W Acrook. 10 00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:30.480 I'm James Lylynx, and today we're going to be talking 11 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:33.119 to Mollie Haming a way about our new book about Alito. 12 00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:34.880 So let's episode a podcast. 13 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:38.479 Supreme Court of Virginia got it exactly right. The governor's 14 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:43.359 jerry mandering scheme fail. The current share congressional maps will 15 00:00:43.399 --> 00:00:46.640 stay in place for the twenty twenty six elections. You 16 00:00:46.759 --> 00:00:49.960 don't change the Constitution in the middle of an election. 17 00:00:51.119 --> 00:00:53.920 Welcome everybody. It's the Ricachet Podcast, number seven hundred and 18 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:57.759 eighty eight. I'm James Lylynx in Idyna, Minnesota, and I'm 19 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:00.320 joined by General C. W. Cook and Florida Stephen Heyward. 20 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:03.920 Somewhere I believe in California, and if you can believe it, 21 00:01:04.239 --> 00:01:08.239 he's joined by Peter Robinson, one of the founders. Gentlemen, 22 00:01:08.280 --> 00:01:11.680 welcome in, especially Peter, welcome back. Thank you, James. It's 23 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:14.959 a delight to be back. And I'm seated right next 24 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:18.239 to Steve as well. You are somewhere in California, as 25 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:20.120 you put it, and behind you, even though the podcast, 26 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:22.239 of course is an audio medium, there's a poster. It 27 00:01:22.439 --> 00:01:25.280 appears to be CCCP and Ronald Reagan in a football 28 00:01:25.359 --> 00:01:29.640 uniform defeating the demons of Marxism. Do I have that correct? 29 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:31.799 Because you're at the Reagan Library and one would expect 30 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:33.120 such a wonderful tableaus. 31 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:36.280 Actually, we're at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, 32 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:38.319 which is separate from the library. We're in their glorious 33 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:40.920 boardroom looking out it's foggy this morning, but looking out 34 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:45.319 over the Pacific Ocean and departing to visit Reagan's wonderful 35 00:01:45.359 --> 00:01:48.480 Mountaintop Ranch directly after we finished this episode. 36 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:51.719 Well, I imagine that the Reagan Library does not have the 37 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:54.760 sort of appearance of Obama's Library, which appears to be 38 00:01:54.799 --> 00:01:57.239 something that the Eloys would construct to keep the Morlocks 39 00:01:57.280 --> 00:02:01.640 in line. It is an absolutely dreadful name. And The 40 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:03.959 New York Times, in discussing the art of the building 41 00:02:03.959 --> 00:02:07.079 this week, had a piece, of course called the audacity 42 00:02:07.159 --> 00:02:11.039 of Art, and everything inside was as predictable as you 43 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:14.599 can possibly imagine. There's nothing audacious about it. Audacious would 44 00:02:14.639 --> 00:02:18.000 be some good Soviet realism or some representational art, but 45 00:02:18.039 --> 00:02:20.680 that's another podcast. Here today, we are to discuss all 46 00:02:20.680 --> 00:02:22.280 the things that have bubbled up in the last week, 47 00:02:22.719 --> 00:02:25.400 and we've got smart minds to take a look. So 48 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:28.639 who wants to have a crack at what appears to 49 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:31.360 be breaking new? Is Virginia Supreme Court rules the redistricting 50 00:02:31.439 --> 00:02:36.759 referendum unconstitutional four to three procedural grounds. The challengers successfully 51 00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:39.520 argued apparently, I'm reading here obviously that lawmakers failed to 52 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:42.319 pass the proposal across two legislative sessions separated by a 53 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:48.240 general election. Details, details, details, All right, gentlemen, somebody take this? 54 00:02:48.599 --> 00:02:51.240 What does it mean? And should the rest of the 55 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:51.840 country care? 56 00:02:52.759 --> 00:02:55.039 Charlie, being in Florida, has been awake for three hours 57 00:02:55.080 --> 00:02:57.439 longer than Steve and I, and I presume that Charlie 58 00:02:57.479 --> 00:03:01.520 being Charlie has also read I have the decision itself. 59 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:04.199 Perhaps so I want to hear about it from Charlie myself. 60 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:07.479 Well, it is hilarious, isn't it. 61 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:09.240 It is. 62 00:03:11.319 --> 00:03:16.759 I do because Senator Luise Lucas, who pushed this whole thing, 63 00:03:17.919 --> 00:03:24.439 was full of it. She was swearing on Twitter, she 64 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:29.080 was calling people who disagree with her cucks. And now 65 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:34.240 she's been arrested and her initiative went down. So it 66 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:38.560 was procedural grounds. The court made it very clear that 67 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:42.280 some might ask why it hadn't done this prior to 68 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:45.759 the referendum, and it said, but the Commonwealth of Virginia 69 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:47.639 is not allowed to ask that question given that it 70 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:52.039 insisted that it couldn't because President in Virginia holds that 71 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:57.000 they have to wait until there is a referendum to 72 00:03:57.159 --> 00:04:01.840 strike down. They can't do it proactively. And they point 73 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:04.719 out quite rightly that if you take the position that 74 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:09.400 it shouldn't get involved before a referendum, and that after 75 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:11.719 a referendum is violating one of the people, then you 76 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:15.719 essentially bolished the court. So Twitter is full this morning 77 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:19.160 of people saying it's crazy they allowed the state to 78 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:23.279 waste seventy million dollars. But that's not really true. The 79 00:04:23.399 --> 00:04:26.959 state told the court correctly given precedent that it wasn't 80 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:30.000 allowed to get involved. What happened here was very simple, 81 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:34.319 James said it. The rules in Virginia are pretty clear. 82 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:39.839 You can't do this sort of thing while an election 83 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:44.240 is on. And Virginia has very long early voting periods. 84 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:49.079 They're already in one, and so the three descents say 85 00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:53.959 that's not the election. They say, the election's only election day. 86 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:58.199 Early voting isn't the election. And the majority says that's nonsense. 87 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:01.120 And there's this great little passage in there where the 88 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:04.319 majority says that if you stopped somebody who was early 89 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:06.639 voting at the polling place and said to him, what 90 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:09.319 are you doing here, he would say, I'm voting in 91 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:11.439 the election. And if you said to him, no, that's 92 00:05:11.439 --> 00:05:14.680 not the election, he would be mightly confused, yes, which 93 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:17.839 is true. So yeah, they pushed it too far. They 94 00:05:17.879 --> 00:05:20.240 knew what they were doing was unconstitutional. And the last 95 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:23.639 thing is Jason Mayiraz was the former Attorney general of Virginia. 96 00:05:24.120 --> 00:05:25.920 It's taking a bit of a victory lap today, which 97 00:05:25.959 --> 00:05:29.560 is deserved because last year his office put out an 98 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:36.439 opinion in which he said exactly what the court said 99 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:40.160 in its majority opinion, and he had offered the Democrats 100 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:42.920 in Virginia the chance to go through it with him, 101 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:45.959 and they declined and called him names. Well, he won. 102 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:49.759 So is this appealable now anywhere? 103 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:52.240 It's a matter of state constitutional law, and the Supreme 104 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:54.680 Court of Virginia, which has just ruled, is the ultimate 105 00:05:54.720 --> 00:05:57.040 and final authority. There's no appeal to the Supreme Court 106 00:05:57.079 --> 00:05:59.000 of the United State or any other court of any kind. 107 00:05:59.079 --> 00:05:59.680 Is that correct? 108 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:02.240 I believe that's correct, because I don't think there's a 109 00:06:02.279 --> 00:06:05.399 federal constitutional issue at state. I think it's purely a 110 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:09.480 matter of state law. And the Speaker of the House 111 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:12.399 of Delegates in Virginia said today they will respect the 112 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:14.319 court's opinion. Now I don't know if that means they 113 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:16.240 won't appeal, because that's not up to him. That's up 114 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:20.279 to our best friend, the Attorney General of Virginia, J. Jones, 115 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:23.519 who's famous for wanting to kill other people's children. But 116 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:27.439 I don't think it looks like they're going to appeal this. 117 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:28.879 But whom would they appeal it to. 118 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:31.319 Well, they could appeal it to the court if there 119 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:35.160 was some procedural problem, I suppose, But yeah, at which. 120 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:37.959 Court they'd ask this federal court, I think no. 121 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:41.600 I think in theory you could appeal it in the 122 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:45.519 Virginia Supreme Court if something changed, right, if there was 123 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:48.879 a substantial shift in the fact, But what could they be. 124 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:52.879 There are some parallel instances of these kind of state 125 00:06:52.959 --> 00:06:57.959 Supreme court rulings about ballot initiatives. Oregon some decades ago, 126 00:06:58.040 --> 00:07:00.000 well twenty thirty years ago, they had a whole series 127 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:03.439 of conservative ballot measures that passed, and the Oregon Supreme 128 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:07.040 Court state Supreme Court, which was very radical at the time, 129 00:07:07.279 --> 00:07:12.399 struck down almost all of them on usually very technical 130 00:07:12.439 --> 00:07:15.199 grounds of violating the so called single subject rule. It 131 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:18.160 was usually nonsense, and there was almost a recall campaign 132 00:07:18.199 --> 00:07:21.079 mounted against a couple of the Supreme Court justices there 133 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:23.120 who became nationally famous for standing. 134 00:07:22.839 --> 00:07:25.199 Up to the conservatives. But that was always the end 135 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:25.439 of it. 136 00:07:25.439 --> 00:07:27.439 There was no appeal of any of those rulings to 137 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:30.199 federal court that succeeded. So I don't see why Virginia 138 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:33.360 would be any more optimistic that they could overturn us 139 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:34.160 at the federal level. 140 00:07:34.959 --> 00:07:35.160 No. 141 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:38.160 I don't think that's going to happen. The timing is 142 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:38.720 the problem. 143 00:07:39.079 --> 00:07:41.639 We have a new map in Florida, and there was 144 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:45.720 some bruhahaigh electoral wise in Indiana people to say the 145 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:49.480 administration could be looking at ten additional seats by twenty 146 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:54.160 twenty eight. Interesting when everybody's been talking about a blot, 147 00:07:54.399 --> 00:07:56.560 of course, because of gases at four forty nine, then 148 00:07:56.600 --> 00:07:58.519 they lose. If gases at three eighty nine they win. 149 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:04.519 Interesting how this will all turn out Another subject that 150 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:06.319 I think you gentlemen would like to talk about because 151 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:09.480 it fascinates me. It's keen Germane to where I live, 152 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:12.759 and it turns out that it's Germane too everywhere, and 153 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:17.319 that's medicaid fraud where oh in Ohio this time? So 154 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:20.480 the Daily Wire sent a guy to Ohio and he 155 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:24.600 did what all of these independent journalists do that Apparently 156 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:29.160 state agencies and mainstream media is don't really seem to 157 00:08:29.199 --> 00:08:31.639 wonder why a windowless building on the edge of town 158 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:34.120 has one hundred and fifty eight hospice centers crammed into 159 00:08:34.120 --> 00:08:36.879 one post office box and when they go there, every 160 00:08:36.919 --> 00:08:39.159 time you look at it, you find a billion dollars 161 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:41.480 has been spent on people who have been vetted not 162 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:44.919 a bit, who are often politically connected, who have no 163 00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:48.519 medical background, and it's just an empty office with a 164 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:50.960 sign on with a piece of paper with something scrawled, 165 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:54.519 little sharpe to indicate that there's a business there. We're 166 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:58.080 losing huge amounts of money to this, and you wonder 167 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:01.559 if there will be some sort of of tectonic shift 168 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:05.519 because of it, because if nothing else, this shows that 169 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:09.000 the largest of the state, far from starving people and saying, 170 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:11.519 oh my gosh, we're not spending enough money on the 171 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:14.200 welfare of our citizens, that huge amounts of money are 172 00:09:14.200 --> 00:09:17.279 being pitchforked out every day to criminals who are wasting it, 173 00:09:17.320 --> 00:09:19.720 sending it back home living high in the hog and 174 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:26.080 that essentially nobody knows how much of the extraordinary amount 175 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:29.080 of money that we spend on these things. Is absolute criminality, 176 00:09:29.159 --> 00:09:32.480 is absolute fraud. So what do you guys think, Peter, 177 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:35.080 you're in California. I believe that there's been some They 178 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:38.720 found what two hundred and ninety seven centers for dying 179 00:09:38.759 --> 00:09:41.200 people crammed into a shoe box that was taped to 180 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:43.039 the side of an office building somewhere. 181 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:45.000 To me, the heartening part about all this is that 182 00:09:45.080 --> 00:09:49.559 investigative journalism is being reinvented. We have had a collapse 183 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:52.360 here in California of the La Times, which used to 184 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:55.919 be of course, it was always left of center in 185 00:09:55.960 --> 00:09:58.200 its good days and became more left and now it's 186 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:04.240 just irrelevant. And Chris Rufo's organization, I don't know if 187 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:07.919 I can't remember what the aegis. Under what aegis Chris 188 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:10.879 couldn't have been the Manhattan Institute where Chris is a fellow. 189 00:10:10.919 --> 00:10:14.519 But Chris Rufo's organization has discovered fraud here. They're actually 190 00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:18.159 onto a story. They've got names and dates and amounts 191 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:18.639 of money. 192 00:10:19.399 --> 00:10:20.480 What's broken? In Ohio? 193 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:25.440 Another organization, Peter Schweitzer, has an operation in Tallahassee which 194 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:29.879 is doing a real investigative journalism. It's moving out. It's 195 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:32.480 no longer being performed by newspapers at all, do you, 196 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:36.320 Steve am I right about this? But investigative journalism is 197 00:10:36.360 --> 00:10:43.000 being reasserted, reinvented by good guys on our side. 198 00:10:43.159 --> 00:10:44.600 Isn't that roughly correct? Yeah, that's right. 199 00:10:44.600 --> 00:10:46.720 And don't leave out the California Post, which is the 200 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:49.240 brand new New York Posts West Coast edition, and they're 201 00:10:49.240 --> 00:10:51.080 going to be after some of this. They're still gearing up. 202 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:54.559 But Christ's operation is actually through City Journal, which is 203 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:57.559 going to revive a California edition here at some point, 204 00:10:57.639 --> 00:11:01.039 which is the the publication of the Manhattan Rights Toute. 205 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:06.440 So okay, right, what wonderful trains sound were by the 206 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:08.399 tract train State. By the way, I can add to 207 00:11:08.440 --> 00:11:10.440 that since we do have a train whistle. It may 208 00:11:10.440 --> 00:11:12.279 not seem related to the welfare fraud, but we did 209 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:15.519 just get news in California this week that are high 210 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:18.919 speed rail that was initially promised to cost only thirty 211 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:22.000 three billion dollars is now projected to cost two hundred 212 00:11:22.039 --> 00:11:25.039 and thirty billion dollars before they finish it, and they're 213 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:26.919 never going to finish it, so that they're not to. 214 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:28.720 Finish it the point wants to finish. 215 00:11:29.080 --> 00:11:31.519 They know the point is to shovel money to unions, 216 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:34.480 which is extraordinary when everybody says we can't do anything 217 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:37.080 in this country anymore. We can't build dams, we're taking 218 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:38.960 them apart. We can't build rail the rest of it. No, 219 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:41.919 we can. It's just that we lack of a political class 220 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:43.759 that has the will to do it or the desire 221 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:46.440 to do it and finish it. It's obvious when you 222 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:48.840 look at Elon Musk and space X and Tesla and 223 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:51.919 other companies that, of course America still can do these 224 00:11:51.960 --> 00:11:55.360 things if unfettered from and not connected to the lugubrious, 225 00:11:55.399 --> 00:11:58.159 massive government that sits upon us. Well, yes, you're right, 226 00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:00.320 it's great that a new class of journalists are doing it, 227 00:12:00.360 --> 00:12:02.879 but you always have to wonder. The response of the 228 00:12:02.919 --> 00:12:06.600 mainstream media is often to sniff and to discount it 229 00:12:06.720 --> 00:12:08.799 because who are these rank amateurs? They didn't go to 230 00:12:08.919 --> 00:12:12.639 journalism school, which means nothing. By the way, never trust 231 00:12:12.679 --> 00:12:15.320 anybody who went to journalism school. I was in the 232 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:18.080 newspapers in college for a long time, longer than I 233 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:20.240 should have, and it was always astonishing to me that 234 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:23.000 we sat underneath an actual journalism school and we were 235 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:26.360 producing an actual daily newspaper of sixty papers and sixty 236 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:29.399 pages a day with a sixty thousand circulation. And the 237 00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:31.879 people from the Jay school upstairs never came down to 238 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:34.039 work there. They just got their degrees and they took 239 00:12:34.039 --> 00:12:36.360 their classes and then went out to do their work. 240 00:12:36.600 --> 00:12:40.039 For those of us actually doing journalism, well, so, I 241 00:12:40.039 --> 00:12:43.000 think part of it is that there's a real uncomfortable 242 00:12:43.399 --> 00:12:46.039 feeling in the mainstream media with who they're finding out 243 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:46.799 is doing the crime. 244 00:12:47.240 --> 00:12:50.279 Oh well, you know, Peter and I were here doing 245 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:53.240 all good and Reagan reminiscing for two days, and we 246 00:12:53.240 --> 00:12:58.279 were reflecting on how Reagan was assailed for attacking welfare queens. 247 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:00.200 He never actually used that phrase, by the way, That 248 00:13:00.279 --> 00:13:02.960 was the media spin to attack him, And so the 249 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:05.600 media very seldom followed up on any of the stories 250 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:07.720 that he referenced. There was the Chicago Tribune and actually 251 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:09.919 did find the woman in Chicago who was registered with 252 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:12.879 fifty accounts and all that. But the point was is that, 253 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:15.240 you know, Reagan, as they used to say, went over 254 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:17.360 the heads of the media to the American people. 255 00:13:17.679 --> 00:13:18.960 We need to have that happen now. 256 00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:21.600 And so, by the way, I have a field theory 257 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:23.559 on this that I can lay out real quickly that 258 00:13:23.639 --> 00:13:24.639 all this is deliberate. 259 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:25.159 I mean, the. 260 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:28.759 Media and the Democratic Party. This is actually on purpose. 261 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:31.879 And I actually think it began here in California. It 262 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:35.559 just came this week after the Northridge earthquake in nineteen 263 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:36.000 ninety four. 264 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:37.360 It was a very serious earthquake. 265 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:40.320 My parents were living there then, and FEMA showed up 266 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:43.600 and there were huge complaints that FEMA's too slow getting 267 00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:46.200 checks to people who are desperate, and you know, their 268 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:48.960 apartments have fallen down and their businesses have been destroyed, 269 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:52.200 and write the damn checks. And so work came down 270 00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:55.720 from the Clinton administration. Quit doing all this due diligence. 271 00:13:55.799 --> 00:13:57.440 Just write the checks and hand them out the people 272 00:13:57.480 --> 00:14:00.279 who show up with like no excuses, you know, no 273 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:06.120 questions asked. And then and I think this spread to medicaid, oh, COVID, 274 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:07.960 same way. Shove the money out the door. 275 00:14:08.039 --> 00:14:08.200 Yep. 276 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:12.039 And I actually think this is airsats redistributionism for the left. 277 00:14:12.120 --> 00:14:16.240 It's inefficient. But you know, given that radical or punitive 278 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:19.799 egalitarianism is now a core principle of the left, they 279 00:14:19.799 --> 00:14:23.519 don't recognize this fraud. This is overdue reparations. It used 280 00:14:23.559 --> 00:14:25.519 any of the buzzwords you want. And I think that's 281 00:14:25.519 --> 00:14:28.360 why it's happened, and why Tim Waltz and others are 282 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:31.240 against investigating any of this, because they're for. 283 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:35.679 It reparations and the rest. You're right, you know, two 284 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:39.159 calleries of this one. There was a recent scandal because 285 00:14:39.159 --> 00:14:40.440 it turns out that a lot of the money that 286 00:14:40.440 --> 00:14:43.639 people donated for the Pacific Palisades fire it didn't go 287 00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:47.039 there all. And the relevant organizations are saying we never 288 00:14:47.120 --> 00:14:49.159 said we were going to give the money with people's 289 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:52.879 houses burn down, we you know, is going to podcasters 290 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:56.080 and art installations and other affected communities and the rest 291 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:58.519 of it, which just shows what a big slashing pile 292 00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:00.200 of money that it is that they do with as 293 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:02.399 they wish. And when the NGO spout dries up because 294 00:15:02.440 --> 00:15:05.799 of Doge, well then you just piggyback off of fire. 295 00:15:05.919 --> 00:15:07.639 But the second thing, Charles, I don't want to leave 296 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:09.559 you out of the loop on this unless I'm mistake. 297 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:12.720 In Florida was successful in actually building a train, a 298 00:15:12.759 --> 00:15:14.720 fast train, quickly, were they not? 299 00:15:15.399 --> 00:15:18.320 Yes, although that company looks as if it might be 300 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:23.480 in trouble. Why because it's running out of money. It's 301 00:15:23.480 --> 00:15:24.639 expanded quite. 302 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:27.320 Quickly usually how it happens, right to explain where the 303 00:15:27.320 --> 00:15:30.039 train goes. It's also fairly expensive. 304 00:15:30.600 --> 00:15:33.559 Yeah, the Bright Line. It doesn't come up to me 305 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:38.039 in Jacksonville. It runs from Orlando and then across to 306 00:15:38.039 --> 00:15:41.440 the East Coast and then down to Fort Lauderdale and Miami. 307 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:44.519 It was supposed to be a bit bigger. It was 308 00:15:44.519 --> 00:15:48.480 supposed to go to Disney World as well, and there 309 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:50.360 was talk of it coming up to Jacksonville, but that 310 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:55.240 didn't happen anyway. They are completely private, they took no 311 00:15:55.320 --> 00:15:57.639 government money, and if they go out of business, it's 312 00:15:57.639 --> 00:16:00.879 ready none of my business. But I think they expanded 313 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:03.639 a little bit too quickly. The one thing they do 314 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:05.200 have going for them is they bought an awful lot 315 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:08.120 of land, and people have described them as a real 316 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:11.639 estate company pretending to be a railroad. So they may 317 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:14.919 be all right, but I did notice last week there's 318 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:17.759 a lot of stories about their future. Anyway, they got 319 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:20.320 it built, just as whether people want to take trains, 320 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:22.759 which is my big criticism. I'm a big train hater. 321 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:27.519 I hate trains. I would use the air Force to 322 00:16:27.559 --> 00:16:31.759 bomb all the trains, not for cargo, but just for passengers. 323 00:16:31.799 --> 00:16:36.840 We'll get the passengers out first, but trains as communist 324 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:40.559 and should be replaced by airplanes where possible. 325 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:46.000 Well, we could just cheerfully blather on here, or we 326 00:16:46.039 --> 00:16:48.120 could talk to our guest, who we love to talk 327 00:16:48.159 --> 00:16:51.240 to whenever possible. That's Baliamiway, editor in chief of the 328 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:54.919 Federalist Journalism, fellow with Hillsdale College, and a Fox News contributor. 329 00:16:55.159 --> 00:16:57.399 She's the author of four books. As of April twenty 330 00:16:57.399 --> 00:17:00.679 first and the latest is Alito, the Justice who reshaped 331 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:04.279 the Supreme Court and restored the Constitution. Bali, welcome back. 332 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:06.440 It is wonderful to be here with you all. 333 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:08.400 And it has been some time. Well. First things first, 334 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:11.240 here explained the title of your book, The Justice who 335 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:13.359 Reshaped the Court? How did you do that? 336 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:16.160 A few years ago I co authored a book with 337 00:17:16.200 --> 00:17:20.799 Carrie Severino on the Kavanaugh confirmation, and we interviewed a 338 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:24.480 bunch of people, including Supreme Court justices, and some of 339 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:28.279 them wondered why nobody ever talks about Alito, because they 340 00:17:28.359 --> 00:17:32.119 consider him to be this giant on the Court who 341 00:17:32.200 --> 00:17:35.680 shapes so much of the Court's jurisprudence and has had 342 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:39.559 a leading role in returning to Congress or returning to 343 00:17:39.599 --> 00:17:44.799 the executive branch their proper constitutional authorities after decades of 344 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:48.000 the Court just trying to act as this super legislature. 345 00:17:48.440 --> 00:17:50.519 And it was from them that I got the idea 346 00:17:50.599 --> 00:17:52.960 that he needed to be profiled and people did need 347 00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:56.400 to know more about him, and also why they think 348 00:17:56.440 --> 00:18:01.240 he's so important, which is his constitutional emphasis, his important 349 00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:04.119 role on the Court, even if nobody really talks about 350 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:06.200 him or knows about him as much as they should. 351 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:09.319 Molly Peter Robinson here. The reason I'm putting this word 352 00:18:09.359 --> 00:18:12.039 to you. You could correct me if I'm wrong. The 353 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:16.599 reason we tend to overlook Justice Alito is that people 354 00:18:16.640 --> 00:18:19.880 are still people who follow the Court still have a 355 00:18:20.039 --> 00:18:23.799 very vivid memory of Justice Scalia, who was so much 356 00:18:24.039 --> 00:18:28.880 louder and more vivid as a personality. And Justice Alito 357 00:18:29.079 --> 00:18:33.680 is a quiet man, a modest man, very sweet tempered. 358 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:36.160 He would never call attention to himself. He's a kind 359 00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:39.839 of pure intellect, and he's easy to miss for that reason. 360 00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:40.400 Is that right? 361 00:18:40.960 --> 00:18:43.279 I think that's a major part of it. He is 362 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:47.839 so unlike almost everyone who inhabits Washington, d C. And 363 00:18:47.880 --> 00:18:50.720 you really get the sense that he doesn't like Washington 364 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:54.400 DC very much. He doesn't want to be the center 365 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:57.599 of attention. He gets uncomfortable when people are talking about him. 366 00:18:57.960 --> 00:19:00.079 But there's another thing too, which I think relates to 367 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:03.680 to his jurisprudence. When you think about how enjoyable it 368 00:19:03.799 --> 00:19:08.880 is to read Escalia, I mean, he's hilarious. He's so biting, vicious, 369 00:19:08.920 --> 00:19:12.759 but in a totally delightful way. And he also has 370 00:19:12.799 --> 00:19:14.960 these you know, he has these big rules. He likes 371 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:19.519 big concepts. Justice Thomas, who's another fan favorite, very big 372 00:19:19.599 --> 00:19:23.799 conceptual thinker. Alito is more focused on, Okay, so we've 373 00:19:23.799 --> 00:19:26.279 made this ruling, how are the lower courts going to 374 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:29.440 implement it? How is a US attorney going to know 375 00:19:29.480 --> 00:19:32.000 what to do with this? And so he's very specific 376 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:35.960 in a way that doesn't lend itself to those colorful aphorisms. 377 00:19:36.839 --> 00:19:36.960 Right. 378 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:42.119 So, Ascalia, the late Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas to 379 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:48.359 this day are justices for law schools. They're justices to 380 00:19:48.359 --> 00:19:50.400 be read. They're justices who are trying to change the 381 00:19:50.480 --> 00:19:53.000 way people look at the Constitution for decades to come. 382 00:19:53.480 --> 00:19:57.400 And Justice Alito is a judge's judge. Is that one 383 00:19:57.400 --> 00:19:58.079 way of putting it. 384 00:19:58.480 --> 00:20:00.960 I think that's a very good way to put it. 385 00:20:01.200 --> 00:20:06.759 I also think, though, that because Scalia and Thomas were 386 00:20:06.759 --> 00:20:11.920 and are more philosophers, more big picture philosophers, and they're 387 00:20:11.960 --> 00:20:14.119 so pure in their thinking, and by the way, I 388 00:20:14.160 --> 00:20:16.759 love that. I love that about them, But they tend 389 00:20:16.839 --> 00:20:21.079 to be more liberty focused, whereas I think Justice Alito 390 00:20:21.400 --> 00:20:25.119 is also just in his core and in his jurisprudence, 391 00:20:25.319 --> 00:20:29.160 very conservative, and there has been this bias towards more 392 00:20:29.240 --> 00:20:35.839 libertarian minded justices. I myself understand that, but Alito is 393 00:20:35.880 --> 00:20:37.759 really the conservative on the court. 394 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:40.839 So Molly, it's Steve Hey. We're sitting next to Peter 395 00:20:40.920 --> 00:20:43.359 out here in California. I haven't had a chance to 396 00:20:43.400 --> 00:20:46.319 get into the book yet, and I'm wondering if you've 397 00:20:46.319 --> 00:20:48.160 got some real scoops here. But I'm wondering if you 398 00:20:48.240 --> 00:20:50.759 got into any of the what i'll call gossip. Although 399 00:20:50.799 --> 00:20:53.720 I have some sources for this proposition, which is, as 400 00:20:53.759 --> 00:20:57.279 we know, Alito was President Bush's second choice. He tried 401 00:20:57.319 --> 00:20:59.960