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Speaker 1: Boy.
Speaker 2: What a day to day Monday, January twentieth, Martin Luther
Speaker 2: King Day, which is not getting as much attention as
Speaker 2: it should. We would probably be talking a lot about
Speaker 2: Martin Luther King and his legacy because the inauguration is
Speaker 2: today and we are inaugurating the most unusual president in
Speaker 2: the history of this country, an outlier among outliers. It's
Speaker 2: just extraordinary what this man has been able to do.
Speaker 1: The only president we've ever.
Speaker 2: Had to confect, a convicted felon, who's been indicted, who
Speaker 2: has paid big money for defamation, known as a womanizer,
Speaker 2: and yet was elected both in a popular vote as
Speaker 2: well as in the electoral college, so there is no
Speaker 2: issue as to his election. So he gets worn in
Speaker 2: at noon today. It's going to be televised course by
Speaker 2: all the networks. Probably local stations will cover it. Certainly
Speaker 2: it's going to be online. We're going to be seeing
Speaker 2: on I don't know how many platforms, and what he
Speaker 2: plans to do is an immediate shock and awe blitz
Speaker 2: of orders and actions begin dramatically changing the course of
Speaker 2: this country big time, and he's going to succeed because
Speaker 2: he is president. First of all, the ceremony has moved indoors.
Speaker 1: Because it is so cold out there.
Speaker 2: Last time it was moved indoors was during I think
Speaker 2: Reagan's second inaugural. It was seven degrees. This time around,
Speaker 2: it's what twenty degrees? Do I have that right? Interesting
Speaker 2: point by the way, that the people who want to
Speaker 2: buy Greenland are the same people that want to move
Speaker 2: the inauguration indoors because it's too cold.
Speaker 1: Okay, Now.
Speaker 2: He is going to do some extraordinary things. He may
Speaker 2: sign as many as one hundred orders. Some are saying
Speaker 2: fifty executive orders, some are saying two hundred.
Speaker 1: And there's going to be the big ones that we
Speaker 1: know is going to happen.
Speaker 2: A new crackdown on illegal immigration we're already talking about
Speaker 2: where they're already talking about deportations and raids happening starting today.
Speaker 2: Terrorists on trading partners, and pardoning of his supporters of
Speaker 2: the January sixth insurrection. We know those three are going
Speaker 2: to happen. The rest we're assuming undoing what Biden has
Speaker 2: done in terms of fossil fuels. In terms of the environment,
Speaker 2: he's not a big fan of environmental controls. He's seventy eight,
Speaker 2: will be the oldest president history to be inaugurated. Biden
Speaker 2: was only five months younger, so they were both pretty old.
Speaker 2: He's the second president to reclaim the White House after
Speaker 2: being defeated for reelection. Grover Cleveland in the eighteen hundreds
Speaker 2: was the first. Biden is going to be there at
Speaker 2: the inaugural. They are back to the tea where the
Speaker 2: new president goes to tea at the White House before
Speaker 2: the inauguration. Usually it's the first lady who handles the tea.
Speaker 2: Now Trump would not do that when Biden was electioned.
Speaker 2: Now we're back to normal, and the list of people
Speaker 2: who are coming just fascinating to the inauguration.
Speaker 1: You've got the three richest people in the world.
Speaker 2: You've got the tech people, Zuckerberg, you have Elon Musk,
Speaker 2: tech business executives, former presidents, all of them are going
Speaker 2: to be there. Assortment of performers, uh, including what Carrie Underwood?
Speaker 1: Do I have that right?
Speaker 2: And boy is she getting nailed on social media for
Speaker 2: that one? Oh my goodness, it doesn't stop. Check Instagram
Speaker 2: and talk about her.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And some very right wing, some straight out members of
Speaker 2: you know mainstream, the mainstream politicians and the press. But
Speaker 2: a lot of really conservative, right wing politicians, and I
Speaker 2: mean people who are straight out racists, uh, straight out
Speaker 2: anti immigration and you know, for example, one of them
Speaker 2: in France, Eric Zimoor, has been convicted of inciting racial hatred.
Speaker 1: He's coming.
Speaker 2: He wrote a couple of best sellers denouncing France uh
Speaker 2: as in a decline of a country that has Christian
Speaker 2: roots undermined by Muslim immigran and their descendants.
Speaker 1: I mean, really crazy stuff.
Speaker 2: He ran for president and got seven percent of the
Speaker 2: vote in France. They got a German guy who is
Speaker 2: head of the Alternative for Germany AfD, classified as right
Speaker 2: ring we'ring extremists by the German government. He's going to
Speaker 2: be there, the super conservative English contingent.
Speaker 1: It's going to be fascinating.
Speaker 2: Also, you've got Mike Vice president, Mike Pence. What Trump
Speaker 2: is doing is he's following protocol and.
Speaker 1: Doing what is traditional.
Speaker 2: All the sitting presidents or the presidents are still alive,
Speaker 2: former presidents, former vice presidents, Mike Pence.
Speaker 1: And so it's not that he's.
Speaker 2: Making the crazy people exclusive members of his inauguration swearing
Speaker 2: in or guests.
Speaker 1: It's just it's fascinating what they're going to do. Boy,
Speaker 1: what a day? What day? Actually, what a week?
Speaker 2: First of all, we have a Martin Luther King Day
Speaker 2: that we're not going to spend enough time on because
Speaker 2: it's also inauguration day of the forty seventh President of
Speaker 2: the United States, Donald Trump, who was also the forty
Speaker 2: fifth president of the United States. And this is only
Speaker 2: the second time that there has been a president who
Speaker 2: ran lost and then ran again.
Speaker 1: And the swearing inn begins.
Speaker 2: At noon traditionally it is now at noon inside the
Speaker 2: Capitol Rotunda because the outside it's too cold. Two hundred
Speaker 2: thousand people were supposed to be there, and now we're
Speaker 2: inside the rotunda, which is a large room. But amy
Speaker 2: do we even know how many people are going to
Speaker 2: be inside the rotunda?
Speaker 1: Is it being reported? It's hundreds, that's it. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't I don't remember the exact number, but it's but
Speaker 1: it's not it's not even a thousand, wow, all right.
Speaker 2: And the reason it's inside is that they had to
Speaker 2: chane plans because of the cold, and that was announced
Speaker 2: by President Trump. The parade has also been canceled, the
Speaker 2: traditional parade, and so guests are going to be invited
Speaker 2: to view those inaugural proceedings at the Capitol One Arena,
Speaker 2: and the President said he would join them. After the
Speaker 2: ceremony and after swearing in, he gives the inauguration speech.
Speaker 1: Don't know how long it is.
Speaker 2: He tends to go off script a lot, so be
Speaker 2: prepared for some fun stuff. Usually it's a very very
Speaker 2: concise and well, not so much concise, but following the
Speaker 2: script on teleprompter.
Speaker 1: Now he goes off the longest inauguration speech.
Speaker 2: A little bit of history here, William Henry Harrison two hours,
Speaker 2: two hours. Can you imagine standing out there in the
Speaker 2: cold for two hours?
Speaker 1: Washington?
Speaker 2: George Washington, one hundred and thirty five words, Thank you,
Speaker 2: I'm president, you're not. Let's go to work. That was
Speaker 2: basically it. So it was not a big deal. It
Speaker 2: happened two months, by the way, after the inauguration. It
Speaker 2: was almost spontaneous. It was part of a parade. Oh,
Speaker 2: here's a quick.
Speaker 1: One about George Washington.
Speaker 2: Here it is that I just want to throw in
Speaker 2: the mix a little historical bit about George Washington. And
Speaker 2: that is we know more about George Washington today historians
Speaker 2: than the people knew about George Washington when he was
Speaker 2: president and he led the Continental Army.
Speaker 1: How is that possible?
Speaker 2: Because he was a master of compartmentalization that various people
Speaker 2: only know bits and pieces, And he kept just extraordinary records.
Speaker 2: Every letter he wrote there was a copy. He kept
Speaker 2: archives of his presidency. He knew who he was, so
Speaker 2: history has an abundance of facts about him that you
Speaker 2: didn't have unless you were looking at the entire process.
Speaker 1: Franklin Roosevelt did the same.
Speaker 2: Thing by the way he compartmentalized and didn't let one
Speaker 2: party know what the other was doing.
Speaker 1: Just, yeah, a little bit of history I wanted to
Speaker 1: throw at you.
Speaker 2: Now a little bit more. After the ceremony, he is
Speaker 2: going to head to the Oval Office and he'll begin
Speaker 2: signing his executive orders. At least fifty some are saying
Speaker 2: at least one hundred. Some are saying, and we're talking
Speaker 2: to people inside. These are not just pundits on the outside.
Speaker 1: Some at least two hundred.
Speaker 2: He has said that he will sign until his hand
Speaker 2: is broken. Now, what are the important ones he is
Speaker 2: going to sign? Immigration is probably the top of the list.
Speaker 2: He ran on immigration as one of his primary platforms.
Speaker 2: Does he really believe going to get Greenland or the
Speaker 2: Panama Canal or Canada is going to become the fifty
Speaker 2: first state?
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: Does he really believe that immigration is a top priority
Speaker 2: and he wants to deport the illegal.
Speaker 1: Migrants here in this country?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, that is part of his basic belief system.
Speaker 1: That is real.
Speaker 2: As far as Donald Trump is concerned undoing executive orders
Speaker 2: that Biden put into place, that is important.
Speaker 1: He will undo those, no question about it.
Speaker 2: He is certainly going to change economic policy in this country,
Speaker 2: the tariffs. Is he going to put tariffs on our partners, Canada, Mexico,
Speaker 2: more tariffs on China?
Speaker 1: Don't know.
Speaker 2: I know he believes in tariffs again as part of
Speaker 2: of his basic belief system.
Speaker 1: How far he's going to go, we don't know. At
Speaker 1: this point. There will be some.
Speaker 2: Government overhaul that is going to happen because he truly
Speaker 2: believes that the government is broken. He has said the
Speaker 2: Democratic Party is broken, it is in disarray, it is
Speaker 2: a failure.
Speaker 1: He is absolutely right.
Speaker 2: Democrats are floundering trying to figure out what the hell happened.
Speaker 2: Super angry at Biden for running when he should not
Speaker 2: have run. Super angry at Biden for the hubris that
Speaker 2: Biden has. Just a few days ago he said he
Speaker 2: could have won against Trump if he stayed in give
Speaker 2: me a break. Super Angry at Harris because she wouldn't
Speaker 2: separate herself out from Biden on the issues that Biden
Speaker 2: had such a low low approval rating. And who is
Speaker 2: now the leader of the party. No one has any idea.
Speaker 2: When Trump wasn't president, he was the leader of the party.
Speaker 2: And this is going to become a Trump country, not
Speaker 2: merely a Trump presidency, the other thing really quickly. And
Speaker 2: here's an interesting sideline. He is coming in as a
Speaker 2: lame duck president. Usually presidents, virtually all presidents who have
Speaker 2: two terms.
Speaker 1: It's the first term where all the action is.
Speaker 2: It's the first term where what presidents stand for is
Speaker 2: past and that policy is put into place. The second term,
Speaker 2: he's already lane duck and people pay less attention to him.
Speaker 1: He's coming in as a lame duck president.
Speaker 2: However, I think this is going to be a second
Speaker 2: term far far different than any other second term that
Speaker 2: we've had in the history of this country.
Speaker 1: He's already broken historical facts. I mean, the guys of Felon.
Speaker 2: He's been indicted, he has been hit with defamation suits,
Speaker 2: I mean just all over the place. And by the way,
Speaker 2: if people know about that, it's not like the secret.
Speaker 2: But his supporters don't care because they are so fanatic.
Speaker 2: That's the other thing I haven't seen is the fanaticism
Speaker 2: of his supporters. That is something that I don't think
Speaker 2: we have ever seen ever. All Right, a couple of things,
Speaker 2: that is to a couple things are going to happen.
Speaker 2: He's going to sign quote a blizzard of executive orders
Speaker 2: on day one, as in today, and you're going to
Speaker 2: see increased oil and gas drilling. You're going to see
Speaker 2: the anti immigration, illegal immigration move that he's going to
Speaker 2: take that he truly believes in to his core. You're
Speaker 2: also going, well, the increased oil and gas drilling. I mean,
Speaker 2: he believes in that. He doesn't believe in environmental issues.
Speaker 2: He has said that climate change is a hoax. He's
Speaker 2: never come back from that. And you look at the fires,
Speaker 2: you look at the snowstorm, and you go, I mean,
Speaker 2: come on, really, his answer is more drilling, more drilling,
Speaker 2: and of course, pardons of the January sixth rioters. So
Speaker 2: a few things he believes to his hard and soul,
Speaker 2: a few things promises he made during the campaign that
Speaker 2: he's going to keep, and the and the pardons that
Speaker 2: he is going to issue today.
Speaker 1: And as far as the pardons go.
Speaker 2: One of the things about President Trump is as he
Speaker 2: looks at people way beyond their.
Speaker 1: Political moves their political beliefs. Is loyalty. That's it. Loyalty
Speaker 1: is everything.
Speaker 2: Look at the cabinet nominees.
Speaker 1: Wait till you see the under secretary, Wait.
Speaker 2: Till you see the administrators of various agencies. They are
Speaker 2: all going to be Donald Trump loyalists. Now you have presidents,
Speaker 2: most presidents that choose people to run the United States
Speaker 2: government who aren't political, have no idea or voted the
Speaker 2: other way, or Republicans that a democratic president keeps around
Speaker 2: just because of sheer competence. It's not going to be
Speaker 2: the case with President Trump. Now, what are these executive orders? Well,
Speaker 2: executive orders are official documents that are issued unilaterally by
Speaker 2: the president. He does it on his own, basically no oversight,
Speaker 2: and these shape policy and they actually manage how the
Speaker 2: federal government operates.
Speaker 1: Not mentioned in the US Constitution.
Speaker 2: No statute gives the president the power to issue them,
Speaker 2: but it is widely accepted that the president's issuing of
Speaker 2: these executive orders is an inherent power of the presidency.
Speaker 2: If you look at history throughout this country, presidents become
Speaker 2: more and more and more powerful, to the point where
Speaker 2: you're supposed to have three branches of government checks and balances,
Speaker 2: the executive, the judiciary, and the legislative. The judiciary, well,
Speaker 2: it's probably the most even though it's biased. It has
Speaker 2: the power to overturn a president's actions.
Speaker 1: And I'll explain why.
Speaker 2: The legislation, Congress, the Senate, the Republicans are his.
Speaker 1: It's not simple. He tells them what to do, they
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 2: Mike Johnson, who is the Speaker, said, the job of
Speaker 2: Congress is to pass what the president wants, not create laws,
Speaker 2: not go against the presidency when the Congress thinks is appropriate.
Speaker 1: There's no such thing as going against this president.
Speaker 2: It's probably the strongest that a president has ever been legislatively.
Speaker 2: So we really have two branches of government won the presidency,
Speaker 2: the all powerful OZ President OZ, and the other one
Speaker 2: is the judiciary, which is not so much pro Trump,
Speaker 2: it's more conservative.
Speaker 1: So what's going to happen today?
Speaker 2: As we know, there will be a blizzard described as
Speaker 2: executive orders.
Speaker 1: You'll see the president signed these.
Speaker 2: Executive orders, increased oil and gas drilling, the mass deportations.
Speaker 2: We've heard of, the pardons of the January six rioters. Now,
Speaker 2: what are executive orders exactly? Well, they're official issued unilaterally
Speaker 2: by the president, and that literally shapes policy and manages
Speaker 2: how the federal government operates. Now, where will the executive
Speaker 2: orders come from? Well, not from the US Constitution. No
Speaker 2: statute gives the president the power to issue them. But
Speaker 2: executive orders are considered an inherent power of the presidency. Okay,
Speaker 2: they have the force and effective law as long as
Speaker 2: the actions fall under the authority granted to the president,
Speaker 2: either an Article two.
Speaker 1: In the way it's discerned, the way it's interpreted.
Speaker 2: It is out of Article too comes these presidential rights.
Speaker 1: It's before Roe Evade Wade was overturned.
Speaker 2: Roe v. Wade was not based on anything in the Constitution.
Speaker 2: The right to privacy doesn't exist in the Constitution.
Speaker 1: But when Roe v. Wade was passed, Justice I think.
Speaker 2: It was Blackman who wrote the opinion said that the
Speaker 2: right to privacy emanates the p number of rights that
Speaker 2: come from the Constitution. They exist somewhere. It's like ectoplasm.
Speaker 2: They flow out of the Constitution somehow, Well.
Speaker 1: They don't.
Speaker 2: In reality, they don't, And the Conservatives have said that,
Speaker 2: and I agree with the conservatives. You look, as it
Speaker 2: is the Constitution a living document that changes according to
Speaker 2: what the societal norms are. Or do you look at
Speaker 2: the Constitution on what's called all four corners? The document itself?
Speaker 2: All right, So Congress can give the president the power,
Speaker 2: but it really doesn't.
Speaker 1: And they're used to direct.
Speaker 2: Usually a federal official or an administrative agency, to go
Speaker 2: through a course of action or stop a course of action.
Speaker 1: One of them, for example, by Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: He had an executive order directing HHS Health and Human
Speaker 2: Services to expand and protect access to abortion medications safeguard
Speaker 2: patient privacy following.
Speaker 1: Overturning Roe v. Wade.
Speaker 2: In other words, he had tried to overturn the overturn
Speaker 2: as much as he could.
Speaker 1: Now, how many executive orders have been issued.
Speaker 2: William Henry Harrison, who died a month after office, okay,
Speaker 2: he had none. Every other one, every other president has
Speaker 2: issued executive orders.
Speaker 1: John Adams, James Madison, James win.
Speaker 2: Wrote one Franklin Roosevelt three thousand, seven hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: one executive Orders. But that was history when Franklin came
Speaker 2: into office. When FDR came into office, this country was dying.
Speaker 2: The depression was hitting us so hard. And what he
Speaker 2: did is he created agencies and programs. Congress was not
Speaker 2: on his side. He had a conservative Congress. The Supreme
Speaker 2: Court was very conservative. They hated his programs and overturned them.
Speaker 2: And then he was just issue another order, going in
Speaker 2: a different direction. And a quick word about people that
Speaker 2: bitch and moan about the conservative court.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the court's conservative. It is horrible.
Speaker 2: Hey, let me tell you, by the time FDR was
Speaker 2: out of office, he had selected every single justice, either
Speaker 2: they died or retired that he had wasn't office twelve years.
Speaker 2: And then it started a liberal court. And then it
Speaker 2: became an insanely liberal court under Earl Warren.
Speaker 1: And now we have a very.
Speaker 2: Conservative court because President Trump had three opportunities to select
Speaker 2: a Supreme Court justice, nominated Supreme Court justices, and he
Speaker 2: chose conservative ones. Hey, welcome to the United States. Welcome
Speaker 2: to the Constitution. You had no problem when it was
Speaker 2: a liberal court. You love that.
Speaker 1: Well, three justices were gone.
Speaker 2: He nominated the Republicans controlled, and he gets his nominations confirmed.
Speaker 2: That's America. President Biden issued some fun one. Oh, by
Speaker 2: the way, Roosevelt Executive Order of the Japanese Internment in
Speaker 2: the camps of World War Two? How about that Harry
Speaker 2: Truman banning segregation in the US military, Lyndon Johnson establishing
Speaker 2: the Warren Commission. After the assassination of JFK. So Joe
Speaker 2: Biden rejoined the Parish Climate of Court, restored the option
Speaker 2: for transgender Americans to join the military, looking for a
Speaker 2: review of federal marijuana law, and then banning oil and
Speaker 2: gas drilling in certain coastal areas, establishing new protected lands
Speaker 2: in California. Trump is going to undo those almost immediately.
Speaker 2: Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate ACCRDS. Biden put
Speaker 2: us back in, and I think Trump's going to take
Speaker 2: us out again. Now, does it differ from a law, Yeah,
Speaker 2: a laws passed by Congress. And can an executive order
Speaker 2: be stopped?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: One of two ways, Well, three ways. The president can
Speaker 2: turn around, change his mind. Congress can override it by
Speaker 2: simply passing a law, but then he can veto it,
Speaker 2: which if you have two thirds of Congress, it becomes law.
Speaker 2: And then one of the big ones is any law
Speaker 2: that's passed in this country that takes money, like building
Speaker 2: a wall, Congress has to fund it. You can pass
Speaker 2: you can have all the executive orders in the world,
Speaker 2: and if they involve money, Congress has to give the
Speaker 2: mon money. And if there ain't no money, it doesn't
Speaker 2: have much impact. However, the president can take existing money
Speaker 2: out of the budget and move it over. For example,
Speaker 2: he did that in the military and moved money over
Speaker 2: to build the wall.
Speaker 1: Is the wall going to be built again? Who knows?
Speaker 1: Who knows? All right?
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