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We got so much to talk about today, honestly.
I mean, it's crazy.
And the good news is we shall have enough time to uh get it all in.
Um I think the most interesting story, I'll probably spend a lot more time in hour two of the program today, and that is the Trump immunity arguments, oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court today.
Uh President Trump's attorney, I thought, you know, raised very good points in the his opening statement.
Well, could President George W. Bush have been sent to prison for obstructing an official proceeding or allegedly, quote, lying to Congress to induce war with Iraq.
Could President Obama be charged with murder for killing U.S. citizens abroad by by a drone strike, which happened.
Could President Biden someday be charged with unlawfully inducing immigrants to enter the country illegally for his border policies?
You know, the answer to all of those questions, this is Trump's attorney saying it is no.
And prosecuting the president for official acts is an innovative, you know, without any uh foothold or history or tradition, and it's incompatible with our constitutional structure.
Uh the just fascinating moments.
I uh the only thing I don't like about, and this came up I think in the one of the earlier hearings, you know, the the absurd ridiculous argument about, well, if the president wants to kill his chief political rival, uh, would that be considered uh an uh uh uh you know one of his official duties?
Okay.
And that gets into the question of whether or not you're arguing really for unlimited immunity or absolute immunity versus limited immunity, which I think is the stronger argument in all of this, and I think that uh they they all agreed with with me based on listening to the answers of the justices, and I think that's where the way this is gonna end up coming out.
If you go back to the eighty-two case, this was a civil case, Nixon versus Fitzgerald, and go all the way back to that.
Uh it was very clear that they said no, uh on civil cases, you're not going to be able to hold a former president liable uh for actions taken while while he was uh president.
Uh and I think that just I I think where they're headed, where they're leaning is towards the issue of limited immunity, and I think that's how it's gonna all play out.
Um I think there are a couple of checkmate moments uh for the for the uh well, the special counsel's attorney.
Uh I don't think you know their main argument that it would be a sea change to announce a sweeping rule of immunity that no president has had or is needed.
Well, go back to the opening arguments of President Trump's attorneys.
Could George W. Bush have been sent to prison for obstructing an official proceeding, allegedly lying to Congress to induce the war in Iraq.
The left believes that.
I do not believe that.
I believe he did it with a sincere heart.
He did it based on intelligence, which is never perfect.
Could Obama be charged with murder for killing U.S. citizens abroad in a drone strike?
Well, I would argue the answer is absolutely not.
But what what some of the justices were pointing out, and this is where maybe Justice Kavanaugh made the the best point.
I'm not focused on the here and now of this case.
I'm very concerned about the future.
I'm worried about the similar kind of situation applying here.
And that was a prosecutor investigating a president eat in each one of these circumstances, and someone picked from the opposition party is is how it worked.
Now, it's, you know, this decision he said is a decision for the ages.
I mean, that that's and it is a decision for the ages.
Because the question then will be will every every president in office be filtering what is through the through the prism of well, maybe maybe just maybe uh I might be uh arrested and charged for something that I'm uh and a decision that I'm making that only presidents have to make.
And is that a special dispensation given to a president in a way?
It kind of is.
But I think they're gonna end up adopting the Fitzgerald case, which was a civil case, and that's Nixon versus Fitzgerald.
And they will adopt it as it relates to criminal cases.
And I think they're going to fall down somewhere in the middle, which is going to be limited immunity.
And I think this is going to be a big setback for the special counsel that wants to prosecute Trump.
And I don't think that this is going to be a short process.
If they remand it to a lower court, and the lower court has to make a very specific decision based on very specific allegations, well, at that point it's going to get very complicated again.
And if I had to guess, I would be leaning towards the Supreme Court, probably bringing some finality to this, like in the Nixon Fitzgerald case, where presidents do have limited immunity, that they can make decisions, right or wrong decisions, in the capacity of being the commander-in-chief and the president of our country.
I thought that, you know, Kavanaugh saying President Ford's pardon, very controversial in the moment, hugely unpopular, why he lost in 76th, Now looked upon as one of the better decisions in presidential history, I think, by most people.
You know, if he's thinking about, well, if I grant this to Richard Nixon, could I be investigated myself for obstruction of justice on the theory that I'm interfering with the investigation of Richard Nixon?
What a good point that is.
Kavanaugh then even later made the point well, what about Obama's drone strikes that killed Americans?
Excuse me, those are all really strong arguments.
The main argument of the special counsel's uh attorney, a guy by by the name of Debreen in this case, I think it would be a sea change to announce a sweeping rule of immunity that no president has had or is needed.
Uh that's because there's never been weaponization of the law like there has been against Donald Trump, because all the cases that I previously mentioned, including Obama and George W. Bush, just to name two, would be applicable here.
And I think we've also had perfect perfectly functioning system that has hasn't seen occasional episodes of presidential misconduct.
Gorsich, by the way, here's some advice if you're an attorney arguing before the Supreme Court.
Don't piss off one of one of the justices uh in the case, because I I don't think that actually works to your benefit here, uh, because Gorsuch at one point was getting very annoyed with the special counsel's attorney about the the use in the term of immunity, and I thought that was actually a fairly entertaining moment.
Uh, but there's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of there's a lot of complexity to this case on the one hand, but a lot of simplicity to it as well.
And that is the president cannot do his job if he in the back of his mind at any moment he's thinking what he's doing is is he's gonna be prosecuted on after he leaves office.
Anyway, we'll get into that.
We have our legal panel coming up at the top of the next hour.
I think you'll find it pretty interesting.
Also the latest out of the Trump witch on trial that has been going on.
Uh, that of course in New York.
Uh, President Trump got his day started, you know, hours after a very dazed, confused, confounded uh President Joe Biden blurted out uh four more years, pause four more it's might that might be my favorite of all time.
Anyway, so uh Donald Trump went out there, made a surprise visit to a New York City construction site where he's meeting with carpenters and and pipe fitters and and welders, and they gave him a hero's welcome.
I think we've got the tape.
USA!
Now, one of the workers was asked by somebody in the media about Biden.
Listen to this.
What's it like seeing so many Republicans in Manhattan, so many Trump supporters in Manhattan?
Is that surprise you?
No, not at all.
It's turning now.
Trump's turn again.
What's your message to Joe Biden?
Thank you.
Okay, there you go.
A New York construction worker.
Love those guys.
They're the best.
Anyway, Daily Caller, 51% of Trump, the issue of Trump's idea of no, we're not, we're gonna send every one of Joe Biden's unvetted illegal immigrants home.
Now Daily Caller put out a poll.
Fifty one percent approve of Trump's mass deportation plan, sixty-eight percent of Republicans, forty six percent of independence.
Uh that is a sea change from where it was before.
Oh, one other issue that came up today on the legal front that I wanted to tell you about.
Uh it was kind of a nice change to see a DC judge, Anna Reyes just ripping Biden's weaponized Justice Department for instructing two lawyers in its tax division to disregard a congressional subpoena in the Hunter Biden investigation, all while it has been zealously prosecuting Trump officials for the very same offense and the two of note that we have discussed at length.
For example, Peter Navarro's spending four months in jail.
Uh he's sitting in why because he defied the subpoena uh for the January 6th committee.
Steve Bannon is is awaiting, you know, uh uh an appeal in his particular case.
He may end up in jail as well.
And by the way, for the record, both of them had the option and the choice.
They could have gone in, pled the fifth, and left, and no harm, no foul, and they would have walked away, but but they both wanted to stand on principle and say no, and you got to give them credit for that.
Uh yesterday, the day before, I've been calling on Arizona Republicans to amend their Supreme Court, the state Supreme Court of Arizona's abortion ban before Democrats uh use it to destroy Republican chances for winning the state.
And thankfully, the Arizona legislature's taking a major step in the right direction.
My sources on the ground in Arizona tell me the House, uh the Senate will follow suit as the Arizona House of Representatives approved a bill uh to remove the state's strict abortion prohibition.
This vote comes two weeks after a judge ruled the state could enforce an 1864 legislation which contains an exemption only for cases in which the mother's life is in in danger, not for rape or incest.
Uh and anyway, they repealed the legislation, and you saw what happened, how immediately the the Democrats tried to pounce on this and and turn this into a political issue.
Democrats sending out Kamala Harris, not exactly the best person to send out for anything, but you know, basically to weaponize and politicize the issue of abortion.
I've been telling Republicans you better understand that abortion, they are going to demagogue this to death.
If you look at that open George Santos seat, more ads run by Democrats about abortion and the Republican candidate in that race, uh, was not anti-abortion.
Didn't run on it, didn't stop them from lying.
By the way, there's a lot of chaos apparently surrounding Kamala Harris, a secret service agent on her detail was removed from assignment after a physical fight while on duty.
Anyway, the chief of communications for the U.S. Secret Service called the incident a medical matter.
But anyway, this this Secret Service agent assigned to Harris's detail was removed from the assignment.
The the apparently there was a fight that took place uh first reported by the New York Post, confirmed to Fox News.com.
The incident happened at joint uh base Andrews in Maryland while Harris was at the Naval Observatory, but and it didn't delay her departure.
But however, the chief of communications for the Secret Service called it a medical matter, adding that the agency wouldn't be commenting ever any further.
But at approximately 9 a.m. we're told the U.S. Secret Service special agent supporting the vice president and her departure was displaying behavior that colleagues found distressing, and one of the other agents confronted this person, and the agent had to be removed from their assignment, and medical personnel were summoned, and the U.S. Secret Service obviously they took the guy's gun away, let's put it that way, so they obviously took it very seriously.
I think more people are laughing at Joe Biden saying, four more years, pause.
Remember the movie, remember what was it, the anchor movie, uh uh what was the anchor car Ron uh uh Burgundy?
Yeah, Rob Ron Burgundy.
Who it was Will Farrell that played that, right?
Okay.
Very funny piece.
And any, but his gaffs have been off the hook.
I I'm telling everybody that he can't get through a single day without having a bad day.
Imagine what they're going to do next.
Four more years.
Four more years.
You can't make it up.
Oh, Biden signs a bill that's going to ban TikTok and in nine months and prov and force the sale of it.
But the Biden campaign is still using TikToks and says TikTok and says they're going to continue to do so.
Wow.
Biden is running as far away from this campus chaos as possible because Joe Biden wants the votes of the lunatics that are running the asylums and that are supporting the these pro-Hamas movements on campus.
It's a pretty unbelievable time we're all living in.
I can't believe it.
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Well, we saw the shocking numbers on the economy that came out in the last two months that year over year.
Last month up 3.5% from the year before.
The month before that, 3.2% from the year before.
On top of that, the CPI numbers, uh, I'm sorry, the GDP numbers are an unmitigated disaster.
It shows just nothing but weak economic growth to non-existent, to be honest.
Uh, worrisome inflation, fears of stagflation on top of it.
I'll tell you about this report when we get back.
Uh, that it looks like president failure and President Bidenomics and and Mr. Biden inflation uh has now set a new record gallup survey.
More people are now going to bed hungry in our country than any other Western nation.
I'll give you the details of that.
Uh, not good news on the economy.
I wish I could give it to you, but I can't.
They're not.
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I mentioned my favorite, you know.
I mean, Biden's had it is absolutely been unreal when you think about it on the campaign trail.
It's a disaster every day.
We played a lot of it yesterday.
Maybe one of my favorites is, you know, four more years.
Pause.
Listen.
Imagine what we can do next.
Four more years.
Thank you.
Now, the White House puts out official transcripts whenever the president speaks.
And in this transcript, he talks about, you know, the economy, which is an unmitigated disaster, grows from the middle out, the bottom up, where the wealthy pay their fair share, and we can have child care, paid leave, and so much more, and still reduce the federal deficit, which he raised by two trillion dollars last year, and increase economic growth, which is not happening.
Folks, imagine what we can do the next four more years.
Pause.
The way they write it up in the official transcript.
Four more years.
Inaudible.
Let's play that again, because it sounds very audible to me when he says pause.
You decide.
Imagine what we can do next.
Four more years.
Four more years.
Propaganda, misinformation, lying, all the above.
I mean, I call it lying.
I think lying really sums it up well.
He's been practicing for 47 years.
So, you know, he's got it down pat.
So we got these bad GDP numbers, and we've been getting nothing but horrific uh consumer price index, the indicator of inflation and wholesale price index numbers.
And year over year, you know, we're up three and a half percent now, the last two months.
Uh we got a horrible growth numbers today.
Uh and here's the worst part.
It looks like president failure, Mr. Bidenomics himself, Biden inflation.
The U.S. has now the highest rated people in our country that are struggling to afford enough food to feed themselves and their families of all the G7 countries last year, according to Gallup.
Now listen to this.
Twenty-six percent of Americans surveyed in this Gallup analysis said that there have been times in the past twelve months when they did not have enough money to buy the food that they needed in Canada, much lower.
Rate of residence in France, much lower.
Germany, much lower.
United Kingdom, Japan, much lower.
I mean, the inability to afford food, just so you know, has never been higher in the U.S. than it was last year since Gallup started tracking the measure, going all the way back to 2006.
And this is from the global analytics consultant at Gallup.
The figure comes amid a backdrop of of food price inflation in the U.S. Now, Joe's blaming Donald Trump.
Joe is blaming uh greedy corporations.
Joe is blaming everybody but himself, as per usual.
You know, the return of Biden inflation has now derailed any economic growth, gross domestic product, which is the broadest measure of goods and services produced across the economy.
It grew by barely grew.
It grew by 1.6% on an annualized basis.
Economists that expected, you know, nearly twice that amount.
The new reading marks another sharp slowdown from the 3.4% pace that they said that we could expect coming into this year.
Nope.
It only shows a weak weak economic growth, worrisome inflation, and stagflation.
You know, Joe Biden basically just promised America a massive other tax hike.
Remember the the Donald Trump tax cuts, they expire in 2025.
If Joe Biden's president, it's going to be the largest tax increase in American history.
You know, and and this will be that that will have an even greater economic ripple.
It's going to be a disaster for the country.
It's really unbelievable.
You know, Biden now is making conflicting promises on taxes.
You know, Scranton Joe floating the tax hike for most Americans, admitting that he'd let the Trump era tax cuts under the tax cut and jobs act expire.
That's what he's saying.
Well, if he does that, the tax foundation, a single person making 75 grand, is going to see their taxes go uh rise by over 1700 bucks in the middle of the worst inflation we've had since the 70s and 80s.
The law has, you know, lowered marginal tax rates, it widened tax brackets, it doubled the child tax credit.
Anyway, Biden was trying to make it very clear that the 2017 tax bill was for billionaires and corporations, and that's not what it's not.
They just make this Adam shift up.
They just make it up as they go along.
How is that how's the economy working for you?
Just ask yourself, are you better off than you were four years ago?
Because I don't know anybody that financially is really better off unless they're getting massive raises or they have a business that just took off for whatever reason.
You know, but Bidenomics shocking numbers of full-time jobs lost over the past five months.
It's it's it's one point seven million jobs.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of Americans reporting full-time employment dropped by more than 1.7 million jobs from November 23 to the end of March of 24.
I mean, that's a decline of it's a massive decline in full-time jobs.
By the way, mortgage rates now have touched 7.5% in April.
In large part, they they had gone down a lot, but now they've they've gone right back up because the promised uh the promised interest rate uh cuts are not going to happen because of Biden inflation.
It's just it's a disaster, but he vows to let the Trump era tax cuts expire.
Well, that means I guess the salt deduction that would benefit only high tax states like New York and California will be put back in place.
Even when I was a resident of New York, I said it was unfair.
That tax cut of Donald Trump that removed rewarding states that have high tax rates uh was the right thing to do.
I did not deserve a tax cut that people in Tennessee, people in Texas, people in Florida were not entitled to they they were getting punished for electing fiscally responsible politicians.
By the way, not a lot of good news on the border front.
The FBI now, this is the fourth time, has now issued a chilling warning about possible terror attacks on U.S. soil, similar to what happened in Russia at the concert hall massacre that they had, which left 144 people dead.
We are increasingly concerned.
This is the fourth time now he has said it.
And he said about the potential for some type of coordinated attack on the homeland.
Why he is not taking it to the next step, the next logical step, which would be to tell Biden to stop allowing people into this country from our top geopolitical foes, and enforced the laws of our country as it relates to the border.
Joe Biden is doing just the opposite.
The New York Sun today.
Biden has now extended his open borders policies to two Middle Eastern nations with well-documented ties to terrorism.
Now we already know we have tens and tens of thousands coming from China, and you have people, all these people from Russia, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan.
Well, anyway, Britain's Parliament has issued warnings about cutters' ties to terrorism.
And anyway, so, you know, the UK Parliament said Qatar has been accused of its neighbors of supporting terrorism.
There is substantial evidence that the country has long been supporting the Al-Nusura Front, designated by the U.S. in 2012 as a foreign terrorist organization and the Al-Qaeda branch in Syria.
And yet Biden is now extending his open borders policy to people from this country, but they're not doing anything in terms of vetting them.
You have the illegal immigrants swinging bats and belts and even, you know, traffic cones at each other in a wild brawl outside of a New York City hotel.
One illegal immigrant arrested by ICE agents has been charged with more sex crimes against a minor.
You know, released multiple times.
They had so many times to deport this guy.
They don't do it.
I mean, Trump slammed him before he went into court today.
You know, by the way, half of Americans now say that they will support Donald Trump's mass deportation of all of Biden's illegal immigrants.
That is good news.
People understand we can't, this this is ridiculous.
Now, interesting poll numbers that are coming out.
Let's look at North Carolina.
Increasingly an important state for any Republican.
You want to be president?
You got to win North Carolina.
Well, Trump is leading Biden, and this is the latest poll that is uh come out.
Bloomberg morning console poll, swing state poll, and Trump is up 10 in North Carolina, 5141.
Georgia, increasingly difficult for Republicans.
Unfortunately, you know, I lived in Georgia, love Georgia, love the people of Georgia.
Anyway, right now, Trump is winning 4943.
If you look at Arizona, and thankfully the State House there fixed this ridiculous 1864 abortion law that which would have turned the state into unwinnable and a disaster.
But anyway, uh Trump is up there 4942.
Uh if you look at Wisconsin, Trump is up 4844.
He's up by one point in Pennsylvania, 4746.
It's always a tough state, Pennsylvania.
Uh, however, Joe Biden did not do particularly well in the primary there.
Uh, although there were there, you know, there was too I thought there were too many votes for Nikki Haley in Pennsylvania.
I don't know if they were early votes or not, but uncommitted for Biden against Biden is very real in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
Right now in Nevada, you have Trump leading 5143.
And the only state, swing state that has Biden leading in this poll is Michigan, which I don't even believe, especially after over a hundred thousand Democrats in the Democratic primary out there voted against Joe Biden for non-committed.
By the way, the RNC is vowing there will be an army of poll watchers, not just in swing states, but all around the country.
Um by the way, Biden is getting more and more criticism for his, you know.
Remember, they made such a big deal.
I read the comments of Trump condemning white nationalists and neo-Nazis when he gave, quote, the Charlottesville speech, and he said, but not everybody is in that group.
Good sides on both people.
Good there are good people there as well.
He got he got brutalized and continues to get brutalized, even though twice in the same speech, he singled out neo-Nazis, singled out white supremacist, and just you know, ripped them to shreds for who they are.
Joe Biden has attributed his run for for you know his decision to run on that that issue, Charlottesville.
You know, and Trump's, you know, quote, good people on both sides.
No, he was saying these people are evil, but not everybody there is evil.
That's what he was saying.
And then you got in the same breath, you've got Joe Biden making the comments.
I condemn anti-Semitism and the anti-Semitic protest.
That's why I've set up a program to deal with that.
And I condemn those.
I also condemn those who don't understand what's going on With Palestinians.
Oh.
So there were good people on both sides, Joe.
You think the media will ever lift a finger to tell, you know, the American voters any of this?
We'll get into more of this later, but you have pro Hamas college students now blasting Israeli uh Hamas uh hostage that reveals that 70 Israelis held by Hamas have been killed.
It's unbelievable.
You have Texas troopers in Austin.
They were out there, you know, on horseback trying to squash these pro Hamas protesters.
You know, it's like it's it's sort of like the inmates run the asylum.
It starts at Cornell, it goes spreads like a cancer to NYU, then it goes to Yale and Havid, and then it goes to UC Berkeley, then it goes to, well, now it's uh the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, it's UCLA, it's all around the country.
Pro Hamas protesters surrounded an LAPD squad car, a little scary.
That turned violent at the USC protest that was going on yesterday as police wrestled the tents and the tarps from the hands of these protesters, detained what at least one individual, a group of protesters surrounded a cop car, allegedly holding a student while the police that police had detained, refusing to move until the police let the student go 20 minutes later.
Wow.
Who we got to protect here?
And why is this college president of Columbia?
Why are any of these college presidents not fired?
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