1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:18,719 my daily show prep with all of the links, become 6 00:00:18,719 --> 00:00:22,359 a patron, go to dpeteclendershow dot com. Make sure you 7 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,920 hit the subscribe button. Get every episode for free right 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,320 to your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so 9 00:00:27,399 --> 00:00:31,559 much for your support. All righty, So Donald Trump sends 10 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:37,200 in the National Guard. Outrage ensues and the state of 11 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:41,000 California has now filed a lawsuit. I'm sure a lefty 12 00:00:41,119 --> 00:00:44,679 judge will do some sort of a temporary restraining order 13 00:00:44,799 --> 00:00:48,320 or an injunction of some kind, and then probably like 14 00:00:48,439 --> 00:00:51,320 demand that he'd be brought in on like troop movements 15 00:00:51,359 --> 00:00:55,200 and such before giving the president the green light to 16 00:00:56,799 --> 00:01:02,960 allocate military resources. But at any rate, the California Attorney 17 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:09,680 General Rob Bunta or Bunta or Bunte, I don't know 18 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:13,879 how he pronounces it, but he, along with the California 19 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:20,040 Governor Gavin Newsom, the Gavineta sued President Trump and Defense 20 00:01:20,079 --> 00:01:24,599 Secretary Pete Hegseeth in response to their orders seeking to 21 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:30,280 federalize the California National Guard for sixty days under Title 22 00:01:30,599 --> 00:01:34,000 or A US Code ten, Section twelve, four to six. 23 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:39,760 I read the lawsuit, so you didn't have to. This 24 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:43,519 is from the press release though from the Attorney General's 25 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:46,879 Office of California. In the early hours of Sunday morning, 26 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:50,000 the US Department of Defense, at the direction of the President, 27 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:55,040 redirected hundreds of National Guard troops from San Diego to 28 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:59,480 Los Angeles without authorization from the governor and against the 29 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:04,400 wishes of local law enforcement. In total, the Department intends 30 00:02:04,439 --> 00:02:09,199 to deploy two thousand troops across the state and inflammatory 31 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:14,159 escalation unsupported by conditions on the ground. In a lawsuit 32 00:02:14,199 --> 00:02:20,080 being filed today which was actually yesterday, Attorney General buntda 33 00:02:20,599 --> 00:02:24,599 and Gaviner Newsom will ask the court to hold unlawful 34 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:29,439 and set aside the President's order federalizing the National Guard 35 00:02:29,479 --> 00:02:32,800 by way of a rarely used law, arguing that such 36 00:02:32,879 --> 00:02:36,879 action exceeds the federal government's authority under the law and 37 00:02:37,039 --> 00:02:40,400 it violates the Tenth Amendment. See all it took was 38 00:02:40,479 --> 00:02:44,280 Donald Trump to get Democrats to recognize that the Tenth 39 00:02:44,319 --> 00:02:47,080 Amendment exists. Well, I mean since the Civil War, but 40 00:02:47,199 --> 00:02:52,199 like ever since then well actually yeah, no, probably like 41 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:56,080 civil rights era, like the sixties maybe, But at any rate, 42 00:02:56,439 --> 00:03:01,280 Attorney General Rob Bunta said, let me be clear. Can 43 00:03:01,319 --> 00:03:04,560 we just drop that? Can we like, let's just drop 44 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:07,919 the let me be clear thing? Can we do that? 45 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:13,199 This verbal crutch, it doesn't have any weight to it 46 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:19,080 any longer. It provides no service, no utility in your argument. 47 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:21,960 When someone says, let me be clear, you know what 48 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,599 I hear, it's like, it's not about the money. Like 49 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:27,439 if somebody tells you it's not about the money, then 50 00:03:27,479 --> 00:03:29,840 it's about the money. So when someone tells me, let 51 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:32,479 me be clear, I know you're not about to be clear. 52 00:03:33,039 --> 00:03:38,120 You're about to throw some propaganda at me that you 53 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:40,680 think is going to work because you prefaced it with 54 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:43,520 let me be clear. It's like, at the end of 55 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:49,280 the day, it's a verbal crutch. Anyway, let me be clear. 56 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:55,479 There is no invasion, there is no rebellion. The president 57 00:03:55,599 --> 00:03:58,919 is trying to manufacture chaos and crisis on the ground 58 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,599 for his own political See the president is doing all 59 00:04:01,639 --> 00:04:04,560 of this. Trump is doing. Trump is the reason why 60 00:04:04,919 --> 00:04:10,120 the rioters burned and looted Los Angeles. It's all Trump's fault. Why, well, 61 00:04:10,159 --> 00:04:14,159 because he was trying to enforce federal law, that monster. 62 00:04:15,439 --> 00:04:18,040 How dare he enforce the law that he took a 63 00:04:18,079 --> 00:04:24,959 constitutional oath to enforce. Federalizing the California National Guard is 64 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,040 an abuse of the president's authority under the law, and 65 00:04:28,079 --> 00:04:31,600 not one we take lightly. We're asking a court to 66 00:04:31,639 --> 00:04:35,759 put a stop to the unlawful, unprecedented order. It's not 67 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:38,600 actually unprecedented, by the way. You actually said that in 68 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:40,839 the beginning of your press release. But I digress, and 69 00:04:40,879 --> 00:04:43,680 I will. I'll come back to that in a minute. 70 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:46,759 Then you got Governor Gavin Newsom quoted in the press 71 00:04:46,759 --> 00:04:50,199 release donald Trump is creating I'm trying. I'm still working 72 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:53,480 on my Newsom impressions, So I apologize. It sounded a 73 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:58,680 little like Joe Biden Gavitt. Sorry, Donald Trump is creating 74 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:02,079 fear and terror by failing to adhere to the US 75 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:07,600 Constitution and overstepping his authority. Right, He's creating fear and 76 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:13,639 terror by enforcing federal law. Think about how asinine of 77 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:18,839 an argument this is. He continues, this is a manufactured 78 00:05:18,879 --> 00:05:21,959 crisis to allow him to take over a state militia, 79 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:26,439 damaging the very foundation of our republic. Well, hey, look 80 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:29,160 baby steps here. People. We got a democrat now to 81 00:05:29,199 --> 00:05:33,639 acknowledge that we are a republic. So let's take that win, right, 82 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:38,399 let's take that win. This is him intentionally causing chaos, 83 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:43,240 terrorizing communities, and endangering the principles of our great democracy. 84 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:49,000 Now we lost it, went right back to the democracy again. 85 00:05:49,759 --> 00:05:55,480 These are the accusations because they were running ice operations. 86 00:05:56,839 --> 00:05:59,639 This is now from the press release. In implementing this 87 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:03,600 direct the Department of Defense circumvented authorization from the governor 88 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:06,959 and began deploying National Guard troops to Los Angeles over 89 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,120 the objections of local law enforcement actively on the ground, 90 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:14,759 although LAPD's chief eventually like he said, yeah, like, we're 91 00:06:14,759 --> 00:06:16,399 gonna have to do a reassessment as to whether or 92 00:06:16,439 --> 00:06:18,240 not we need the National Guard because things are getting 93 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:21,279 out of control anyway. Notably, by the time the National 94 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:25,519 Guard arrived Sunday morning, the protests had dissipated and streets 95 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:29,959 were quiet, But soon after the National Guard arrived, tensions reignited, 96 00:06:30,199 --> 00:06:32,600 leading to the very sort of unrest the National Guard 97 00:06:32,639 --> 00:06:36,600 was supposedly sent into quell. So this is another asenine 98 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:41,360 argument because every morning early morning hours, you know, eight am, 99 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:45,079 nine am whatever. The rioters are not out they're you know, 100 00:06:45,199 --> 00:06:47,680 back at their parents' house, sleeping in their basement bed 101 00:06:47,959 --> 00:06:51,560 like they're not out there rioting. But give them a 102 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:54,439 couple hours and then they you know, get some breakfast 103 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:56,600 or something, and then they show up out on the streets. 104 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,079 They get their gas masks handed to them by the 105 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:02,360 NGOs that and funding those types of supply drops. Yeah, 106 00:07:02,399 --> 00:07:05,120 we had of it on video. Pickup truck driving through 107 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:08,959 the crowd handing out some pretty high tech, expensive gas masks. 108 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:12,600 Don't tell me there isn't Dengo coordination. They've already tracked 109 00:07:12,639 --> 00:07:18,120 the money, all right. So then the press release goes 110 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:23,360 on to note that Trump's unprecedented order is actually precedented. 111 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:29,079 They cite this statute twelve four h six that has 112 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:34,120 been invoked on its own only once before in modern history, 113 00:07:34,279 --> 00:07:37,639 so that would make it the precedent. Trump's use of 114 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:43,120 it would then be based on precedent. It's not unprecedented. 115 00:07:43,279 --> 00:07:46,600 See how that works. Once something happens that breaks the precedent, 116 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:49,639 that sets a new precedent, and then others can do 117 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:52,600 it as well. So the first time this was used 118 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:58,160 nineteen seventy, President Nixon called upon the National Guard to 119 00:07:58,279 --> 00:08:02,879 deliver the mail during a nineteen seventy postal service strike. 120 00:08:04,519 --> 00:08:07,199 This is also the first time since nineteen sixty five, 121 00:08:08,439 --> 00:08:14,079 when President Lyndon Baines Johnson sorry Saint LBJ to the 122 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:19,600 left sent troops to Alabama to protect civil rights demonstrators. 123 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:24,360 That was the first time that a president activated a 124 00:08:24,439 --> 00:08:28,680 state's National Guard without a request from the state's governor. 125 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:33,159 So let's see here, that's a one and then to 126 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:36,360 carry the seven and then that would be two precedents actually, 127 00:08:37,519 --> 00:08:41,240 so again not unprecedented. So their argument is that the 128 00:08:41,279 --> 00:08:45,759 federalization of the California National Guard deprives California of resources 129 00:08:45,759 --> 00:08:48,840 to protect itself and its citizens and of critical responders 130 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:51,519 in the event of a state emergency. So because he 131 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:55,600 took two thousand National guardsmen, in case California wants to 132 00:08:55,639 --> 00:08:57,600 ignore another wildfire, they're not going to be able to 133 00:08:57,639 --> 00:09:00,399 call upon the National Guard to not do anything there, right, 134 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:05,279 so just in case, like what do we need them? 135 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:09,200 So I don't think that's actually a pretty solid legal 136 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:11,840 argument because usually you have to prove that some harm 137 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:17,720 did occur, not that something could occur that's completely unforeseen 138 00:09:17,759 --> 00:09:22,759 at the moment. Also, they say that this section twelve 139 00:09:22,799 --> 00:09:26,360 four h six requires the governor consent to federalization of 140 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:29,879 the National Guard, which Newsom was not given the opportunity 141 00:09:30,039 --> 00:09:33,759 to do prior to their deployment. I don't believe that 142 00:09:33,879 --> 00:09:36,639 is actually the case either. And then it says that 143 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:39,919 the order infringes on the governor's role as commander in 144 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,720 chief of the National Guard and violates the state's sovereign 145 00:09:42,799 --> 00:09:46,360 right to control and have available its National Guard in 146 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:49,879 the absence of a lawful invocation of federal power. 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Mail orders 167 00:11:01,879 --> 00:11:04,799 are accepted to get all the details that create a 168 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:08,159 video dot com. We got a call during the break, 169 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:10,879 Gary wanted to know who's funding the protests. I'm going 170 00:11:10,919 --> 00:11:15,879 to go deeper into this tomorrow, but just shorthanding it. 171 00:11:15,879 --> 00:11:20,720 It's you've got left wing NGOs funded by George Soros, 172 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:27,759 you have Mexican slash cartel money, you have the State 173 00:11:27,759 --> 00:11:31,759 of California tax payers. A little sprinkling of the Tricom's 174 00:11:31,759 --> 00:11:35,080 in there as well. So it's really a team effort 175 00:11:35,759 --> 00:11:38,399 as to who's funding it. But it is being tracked. 176 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:42,320 Now what becomes of that, I don't know, all right, 177 00:11:42,399 --> 00:11:44,559 So the lawsuit that was filed by the State of 178 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:48,080 California against the administration over the deployment of National guardsmen. 179 00:11:49,399 --> 00:11:53,360 The Trump Memo authorizes personnel to quote perform those military 180 00:11:53,399 --> 00:11:57,799 protective activities that the Secretary of Defense determines are reasonably 181 00:11:57,879 --> 00:12:01,360 necessary to ensure the protection and safety of federal personnel 182 00:12:01,399 --> 00:12:06,360 and property. End quote. That's from the Trump Memo. Then 183 00:12:06,519 --> 00:12:10,919 it cites Section twelve four h six, which I've mentioned before, 184 00:12:11,039 --> 00:12:16,720 but here's the actual language. Whenever one the US or 185 00:12:16,759 --> 00:12:20,720 any of the commonwealths or possessions is invaded or is 186 00:12:21,039 --> 00:12:26,039 in danger of invasion by a foreign nation, two there 187 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:30,720 is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the 188 00:12:30,759 --> 00:12:34,159 authority of the government of the United States, or three 189 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:39,519 the President is unable with the regular forces to execute 190 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:43,080 the laws of the United States. Okay, so those are 191 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:48,440 the three circumstances when the President then quote may call 192 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:51,799 into federal service members and units of the National Guard 193 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:55,360 of any state in such numbers as he considers necessary 194 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:59,600 to repel the invasion, suppress the rebellion, or execute those 195 00:12:59,759 --> 00:13:04,840 law orders. For these purposes shall be issued through the 196 00:13:04,879 --> 00:13:07,879 governors of the state or, in the case of the 197 00:13:07,879 --> 00:13:11,120 District of Columbia, through the Commanding General of the National 198 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:15,639 Guard of the District of Columbia. So that's what they're arguing, 199 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:22,320 is that it says shall and so he didn't do that. Now, 200 00:13:23,279 --> 00:13:28,200 Andrew McCarthy, former US attorney, He says there are genuine 201 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:34,360 political arguments against President Trump's deployment of military forces in 202 00:13:34,399 --> 00:13:37,919 response to the rioting arson and potentially lethal attacks on 203 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:42,799 law enforcement agents in California. Those, however, are muted by 204 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:47,639 the left's long standing endorsement of political violence and illegal immigration. 205 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:54,960 In any event, the legal complaints against Trump's response are specious, Okay, 206 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:58,039 So we have to we've got to separate the political 207 00:13:58,159 --> 00:14:03,159 arguments from the legal arts arguments. And he points out 208 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:08,799 the president has broad authority under Article two and statutory 209 00:14:08,919 --> 00:14:14,080 law to use force as necessary to suppress unrest that 210 00:14:14,159 --> 00:14:20,200 creates violent civil strife and impedes lawful federal functions. The 211 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:24,919 ICE operations, no matter your view, it is irrelevant whether 212 00:14:25,039 --> 00:14:29,240 you think ICE is the new Gestapo. It doesn't matter. 213 00:14:29,559 --> 00:14:33,960 They are operating under federal law. They are legally allowed 214 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,919 to be doing the operations that they are doing, and 215 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:41,480 all you're crying about it doesn't matter. And when you 216 00:14:41,559 --> 00:14:46,639 impede that, you obstruct that the federal government can take 217 00:14:46,679 --> 00:14:53,399 steps to make sure that their operations function. These are 218 00:14:53,519 --> 00:14:59,960 lawful federal functions. Section twelve four h six authorizes the President, 219 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:03,600 as I just went through, to call state National Guard 220 00:15:03,639 --> 00:15:10,080 forces into federal service. Prior to the democrats overwrought response 221 00:15:10,159 --> 00:15:13,639 to the events of January sixth, twenty twenty one, it 222 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:17,799 might have been possible to have a discussion about whether 223 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:21,240 what's happening now in LA rises to the level of 224 00:15:21,279 --> 00:15:27,000 a rebellion or know an insurrection. Right, these terms in 225 00:15:27,039 --> 00:15:31,679 our history have been reserved for large scale, organized uses 226 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:34,960 of force that in time and space vary resemblance to 227 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:43,000 the Civil War. But Democrats insisted on hyperbolizing the capital 228 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:47,559 riot into an insurrection that caused the deaths of tons 229 00:15:47,559 --> 00:15:50,559 of police officers when the number was actually zero. So 230 00:15:50,679 --> 00:15:56,360 now that ship has sailed, folks hoisted on your own petard, 231 00:15:56,600 --> 00:16:02,519 as it were. Either way, though, McCarthy says that debate 232 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:06,600 would be just academic because the excerpt of the statute 233 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:10,320 quoted says there need not be an actual rebellion only 234 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:13,639 the danger of one, and then the President can call 235 00:16:13,639 --> 00:16:18,120 in the National Guard. The explicit purpose of the ongoing 236 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:23,159 riot and mayhem is to thwart the enforcement of federal law. 237 00:16:24,279 --> 00:16:27,720 Section twelve four h six expressly authorizes the use of 238 00:16:27,759 --> 00:16:32,200 military force when ordinary law enforcement has been violently prevented 239 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:36,399 from carrying out federal functions and forcible attacks are being 240 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:41,279 trained on federal facilities. As the Biden Justice Department and 241 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:45,360 its Special Council Jack Smith constantly reminded us after the 242 00:16:45,399 --> 00:16:49,360 Capital Riot, the federal government has a high interest in 243 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:56,360 the protection of federal facilities and personnel. 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Andy McCarthy, former 269 00:18:25,279 --> 00:18:30,319 US attorney, writing at National Review headline, President Trump has 270 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:36,519 legal authority to suppress the siege in La he says, 271 00:18:36,559 --> 00:18:39,759 I doubt Governor Newsom's claims are going to get much traction. 272 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:44,880 Section twelve four h six neither requires the President to 273 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:49,799 seek a governor's permission to federalize the National Guard, nor 274 00:18:50,039 --> 00:18:55,039 gives a governor a veto over such federalization. In addition, 275 00:18:55,480 --> 00:19:00,920 Trump's order expressly directs the Secretary of State to coordinate 276 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:06,039 with the governors of the relevant states. Newsome is entitled 277 00:19:06,319 --> 00:19:11,920 to nothing more. It is in his interest, the President's interest, California's, 278 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:15,440 and the nation's interest that the state and federal authorities 279 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:21,079 work together to restore order. But you can't prattle on 280 00:19:21,599 --> 00:19:26,759 about the rule of law while endorsing sanctuary cities designed 281 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:33,079 as sanctuaries from the rule of law. Pick a side, 282 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:38,319 exactly right, exactly right. You do not get to make 283 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:41,400 an argument about rule of law if you are saying 284 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:46,880 we are a sanctuary city, because the sanctuary is from 285 00:19:47,039 --> 00:19:53,119 federal law. He goes on to say, if you indulge 286 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:55,680 a thought from the mists of time, he says, I 287 00:19:55,720 --> 00:20:00,839 once prosecuted terrorists by invoking the seditious conspiracy statu This 288 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:03,039 is a different laws. Section twenty three eighty four of 289 00:20:03,039 --> 00:20:12,160 Title eighteen the statute is broad. It criminalizes forcible opposition 290 00:20:12,319 --> 00:20:17,559 to the government and violent action to quote prevent, hinder, 291 00:20:17,799 --> 00:20:21,039 or delay the execution of any law of the United States. 292 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:25,799 So federal law is very clear that the President has 293 00:20:25,799 --> 00:20:29,480 the authority to use whatever force is required to protect 294 00:20:29,559 --> 00:20:35,240 federal functions and facilities. And here, unlike the Capitol riot scenario, 295 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:39,759 there is no ambiguity about whether the rioters believed they 296 00:20:39,759 --> 00:20:42,640 were acting at the behest of the government's highest official. 297 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:50,160 Comparatively speaking, seditious conspiracy prosecutions against the LA rioters should 298 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:56,720 be a layup. Now there are some risks. Is there 299 00:20:56,759 --> 00:20:59,160 a danger there could be a Kent State like incident 300 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:04,200 that could make matters much worse? Sure, the President and 301 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:07,559 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth must be crystal clear about the 302 00:21:07,599 --> 00:21:10,640 rules of engagement regarding the use of force and the 303 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:15,319 objective of ending the violence, not exacerbating it. The Justice 304 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:20,240 Department should aggressively prosecute people who participated in or plotted 305 00:21:20,319 --> 00:21:26,880 to carry out forcible attacks right, trace the money, trace 306 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:30,480 the organizations and the leadership structure, and the people who 307 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:35,160 were organizing this. And these have been organized. There is 308 00:21:35,279 --> 00:21:39,680 clear evidence that these are organized. This is not grassroots. 309 00:21:39,759 --> 00:21:44,279 This is what they call astroturft. President Trump from the 310 00:21:44,279 --> 00:21:48,839 Oval Office talked about this today. He said, you know, 311 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:54,920 paid agitators. There are people involved in these protests that 312 00:21:55,000 --> 00:22:01,519 are parts of larger operations. I keep saying it, right, 313 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:06,200 the issue is never the issue. The issue is always 314 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:12,880 the revolution. That's the intersectionality. I am oppressed, you're oppressed, 315 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:18,839 but look we're both oppressed by the US government, institutional racism, 316 00:22:19,319 --> 00:22:21,759 white dudes, whatever it is, whatever you need it to 317 00:22:21,759 --> 00:22:24,680 be at any given moment. And then, because you're a 318 00:22:24,759 --> 00:22:27,079 victim and I'm a victim, let's be victims together. We're 319 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:31,359 part of a coalition of victims with a single target, 320 00:22:31,839 --> 00:22:37,160 and it always happens to be Western civilization. That's the point. 321 00:22:37,599 --> 00:22:42,279 So any organization that wants to tear at the roots 322 00:22:42,279 --> 00:22:47,839 and foundation of Western civilization institutions, they are involved in 323 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:51,079 these types of activities. That's why they look a lot 324 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:54,759 like the Black Block Vote rioters. They look like the 325 00:22:54,799 --> 00:22:59,319 Occupy Wall Street crowd. They look like the BLM crowd. Right, 326 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:02,559 they have the same tactics, they have the same chance, 327 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:07,839 They are the same people. There is a reason for it. 328 00:23:07,839 --> 00:23:10,920 It's because the issue isn't the issue. The issue is 329 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:20,000 the revolution. And then I happened upon this. The President 330 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:27,640 of the Mexican Senate today holding up a map of 331 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:32,680 the boundaries between the US and Mexico in eighteen thirty 332 00:23:35,039 --> 00:23:38,599 and he says, the Mexicans living there, meaning in America, 333 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:43,400 are in what has always been their homeland. Have you 334 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:45,839 heard of Larraza. I used to talk about them when 335 00:23:45,839 --> 00:23:48,720 this organization first really got off the ground and became 336 00:23:48,759 --> 00:23:54,279 sort of into the public space during the immigration fights 337 00:23:54,319 --> 00:23:59,319 in early two thousands. LaRaza means the race. They have 338 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:02,359 this belief that called Aztlan. It's like a reconquista. They're 339 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:07,279 going to reconquer all that was lost. They say that 340 00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:09,920 this is their heritage, in ignoring the fact that they 341 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:14,519 speak Spanish because they were colonized by Spain. They were 342 00:24:14,599 --> 00:24:18,720 conquered by Spain first, Like, how far back do you 343 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:23,000 want to go here? Folks? You better find some Aztecs 344 00:24:23,079 --> 00:24:25,440 or something to turn it over to. 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All right, so this 366 00:25:31,079 --> 00:25:34,960 is from this is a public appearance like a press 367 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:39,960 conference the President of the Mexican Senate today. Now this 368 00:25:40,039 --> 00:25:43,680 is going to be in Espanol, so I shall translate 369 00:25:43,799 --> 00:25:48,039 reading the translation on the bottom of the screen. I 370 00:25:48,079 --> 00:25:51,440 was at Trump Tower when President elect Donald Trump said, 371 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:54,960 who was sixteen days away from taking office for the 372 00:25:55,000 --> 00:26:00,640 first time as president, about to assume the role, and said, yes, 373 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,480 we'll build the wall. Yes we'll pay for it, but 374 00:26:03,559 --> 00:26:05,960 we'll do it according to the map of Mexico from 375 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:10,160 eighteen thirties. And now he's showing a map and it 376 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,480 shows Mexico going up, you know, all the way up 377 00:26:12,519 --> 00:26:15,319 to like you know, Oregon or whatever, in all the 378 00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:18,839 state of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and then all the 379 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,279 way over to the coast. He says, this is what 380 00:26:21,319 --> 00:26:27,759 the United States was in eighteen thirty and this was 381 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:33,440 part of Mexico. It wasn't all Mexico. If you can see, 382 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,119 maybe a third, at least a quarter of the North 383 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:42,599 American territory was part of Mexico until eighteen forty six. 384 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:47,960 We were stripped of these territories. We were settled there before, 385 00:26:51,039 --> 00:26:53,400 we were settled there before the nation now known as 386 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:58,880 the United States. The Tragedy of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes rights 387 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,799 for the people, or the treaty rights for the people 388 00:27:01,839 --> 00:27:04,960 of those territories which were not respected. The city of 389 00:27:05,039 --> 00:27:08,799 Nuevo Laredo Laredo was a Mexican city in the city 390 00:27:08,799 --> 00:27:12,000 of Nuevo Laredo was formed by the Mexicans who lived 391 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,440 in Laredo and didn't want to stay on the United 392 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:16,640 States side, so they came over to what is now 393 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:24,279 Mexican territory. With this geography, how can they talk about 394 00:27:24,599 --> 00:27:31,359 liberating Los Angeles in California? The United States government liberate 395 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:36,039 them from whom leftists. The Mexican men and women who 396 00:27:36,079 --> 00:27:41,000 are settled in that place are settled in what has 397 00:27:41,039 --> 00:27:45,680 always been their homeland. Names don't yeah, names don't lie. 398 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,759 The most spoken language in Los Angeles is Spanish. Huh. 399 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,079 You don't need to speak English to be in Los Angeles. 400 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:59,640 And here we are in the current situation. This is 401 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,319 part of the United States. Yes, the United States government 402 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:09,160 has the right to implement whatever immigration measures it deems appropriate, certainly, 403 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:18,079 but they have no right to violate the dignity of migrants. Okay, actually, yes, 404 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:22,599 I'm not advocating that. But yes, I don't know what 405 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:26,519 you mean by dignity. But yes, because that's not actually 406 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:32,400 a constitutional right, it's not a civil right. I don't 407 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,119 even know what the dignity, the right to dignity is. 408 00:28:35,279 --> 00:28:37,880 There is no such thing in any of our governing documents. 409 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,799 So not sure what he's talking about. But this is 410 00:28:41,839 --> 00:28:46,359 what the left does, right. They conflate words and they 411 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:50,880 try to formulate a narrative that makes their positions seem 412 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:54,599 like the humane and morally superior one. But it doesn't 413 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:58,960 work when you actually use language that describes reality. It 414 00:28:59,039 --> 00:29:02,599 only works if you conflate different words that have different 415 00:29:02,599 --> 00:29:06,279 meanings in order to get emotional responses. So you know, 416 00:29:06,359 --> 00:29:10,359 the brain shuts off the logic switch. They have no 417 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,599 right to separate families. They have no right to act. Well, okay, 418 00:29:13,599 --> 00:29:16,799 that's not true either. We do. We do have the 419 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:21,599 right to separate families. If a family has two kids 420 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:25,559 that were born in America, they are citizens and they 421 00:29:25,599 --> 00:29:28,240 don't have to be deported. But if the parents are 422 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:32,640 illegal aliens, they do, and that would separate the families. Right, 423 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:38,160 So parents are gonna have to make a decision do 424 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:42,559 you take your kids with you? Right? Government has that right. 425 00:29:43,799 --> 00:29:47,839 A nation has this right to deport people from its 426 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,880 country who do not belong there. Mexico knows this because 427 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:56,240 Mexico does this. So they have no right to separate families. 428 00:29:56,359 --> 00:30:00,000 They have no right to subject them to suffering person 429 00:30:00,079 --> 00:30:03,000 acution or harassment. They have no right to break the 430 00:30:03,079 --> 00:30:05,440 law that the United States government and the people of 431 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:10,559 the United States set themselves. Okay, we're not breaking any laws. 432 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:14,640 In fact, we are enforcing federal law. But I do 433 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:19,599 find it a bit interesting that Mexican political leaders feel 434 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:26,759 so comfortable telling us how to enforce our laws against 435 00:30:26,799 --> 00:30:33,000 people that fled Mexico, people that hated your country so 436 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:37,759 much that they left to come here, but apparently now 437 00:30:37,839 --> 00:30:40,599 love it so much that they don't want to go back, 438 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,839 and so are flying your flag of the country they 439 00:30:43,839 --> 00:30:45,720 don't want to go back to. This is also confusing, 440 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:52,240 except it's not. It's not. Again, the issue isn't the issue. 441 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:56,480 They're just throwing out different excuses so they can continue 442 00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:01,200 the behavior that they have been implementing, which is to 443 00:31:01,279 --> 00:31:05,359 some of the more radical elements ray conquista. Right. If 444 00:31:05,359 --> 00:31:07,759 you are just a run of the mill Comi Marxist, 445 00:31:08,359 --> 00:31:11,359 you're just in it to tear down Western society, dismantle 446 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:18,519 the capitalist state. Right. If you're an adversary, you're throwing 447 00:31:18,519 --> 00:31:20,559 your lot in with this crowd as well, because you 448 00:31:21,119 --> 00:31:24,640 want to week in America. But isn't that interesting that 449 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:28,200 the Senate leader of Mexico is pointing out the fact 450 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,960 that English is not the predominant language in Los Angeles 451 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:38,279 as proof of some sort of what claim on the land. 452 00:31:39,599 --> 00:31:43,240 The US actually acquired those territories through the Treaty of 453 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:48,440 Guadalupe Dalgo after Mexico lost the war that it started. 454 00:31:49,359 --> 00:31:53,319 The land was purchased, it wasn't stolen, and Mexico agreed 455 00:31:53,319 --> 00:31:56,839 to the terms. So no, you don't get it back. 456 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,279 All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 457 00:32:00,319 --> 00:32:02,240 so much for listening. 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