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If you want to be a part of the program, now we would have thought that lawfare would be long dead and gone after the Biden administration had weaponized their Department of Justice along with Merrick Garland.
You know, hopefully, and and we got some pretty good news today.
Tulsi Gabbard exposing three deep state criminals who have, quote, infiltrated America's intelligence network.
She has referred the Intel officials to the DOJ for prosecution over alleged leaks of classified information, but we have got to restore constitutional order to the Department of Justice, so we have equal justice under the law, equal application of our laws.
We need to make sure that the Department of Justice is not weaponized.
The FBI is not weaponized or politicized.
Our intelligence community is not weaponized or politicized.
And we've got a clean house and restore them to their former greatness.
Now, that is not an easy lift.
I'm sure many of these people are probably just trying to hide in the woodwork and just wait out the Trump administration, hoping another president that's willing to restart weaponization will get back in office.
However, it's not stopped.
Lawfare is still very real.
You see, with every effort that Donald Trump, every executive order, every action that he's taken, there is usually a legal challenge.
And the legal challenge is is usually judge shop to a friendly venue of a left-wing judge, and there'll be a temporary restraining order on whatever Trump's action is.
He has now, I think the numbers five, maybe it's six.
I don't know.
I don't remember the the the final tally.
The Supreme Court for the most part, with one exception, siding with President Trump and his executive authority.
And in that battle, and this is the left's way of accomplishing that which they can't win electorally at the ballot box, and that which they can't get done legislatively.
Uh, they use judicial activism, radical left judges, and judge shopping to get to accomplish that which uh the the American people, frankly, didn't vote for.
Anyway, so the deputy assistant attorney general, Drew Enzyn, uh filed a sealed motion requesting a seven-day state of the judge's directive for the U.S. to provide testimony, documents that involve plans to retrieve Abrego Garcia.
The administration's also seeking relief from having to file daily updates on on their progress.
And lawyers for Garcia, by the way, I wonder who's paying for them, uh, filed a response in opposition of the government's motion to halt the order.
Anyway, uh is it lawfair?
Seems like it to me.
Greg Jarrett, Fox News, legal analyst, best selling author ways in, sir.
What are your thoughts?
It is lawfair, uh and and you and I have discussed over the last two to three years, you know, how the law fair would never end against Donald Trump.
I mean, they, you know, filed criminal cases and civil cases against him to stop him from getting elected last November.
And and then you and I talked on air how it wasn't gonna stop once he took office.
I predicted he'd be sued within the first twenty four hours, and he was.
And y so right now what happens every time Trump so much as sneezes or coughs, liberal groups and Democrats rush to the federal courts and they sue him.
And it forces Trump and his Department of Justice to play an interminable game of whack-a-mole.
And you know, these unconscionable uh plaintiff lawyers use two tactics.
First of all, they go judge shopping like it's half off sale at Macy's.
You know, the plaintiffs may be in Texas, but they rush to a favorable liberal judge in Washington, DC.
And of course, the Supreme Court slapped that down in the Judge James Bosburg case saying, you didn't have any power or authority or jurisdiction.
Get rid of this case.
It's not yours.
And he was embarrassed.
The other thing that they do is that they issue these universal nationwide injunctions, which they have no authority to issue.
You know, there are roughly six hundred and seventy-five uh lower federal district court judges.
Do you mean to say that any one of these unelected judges, the lowest of low in the federal court system, can countermand and override um anything and everything the elected president of the United States says no.
And in fact, even liberal justices have long publicly railed against uh district judges issuing federal injunctions.
I think it may soon come to an end.
There is a Supreme Court hearing on May fifteenth related to the birthright citizenship case, and it would appear that the Supreme Court finally belatedly will address this nonsense of national injunctions by district court judges, and I would hope they would finally put their foot down and say, sorry, you can't do that.
So, I mean, now we have to spend time, money, energy, resources into defending what is clearly you know spelled out in the Constitution, and that is the executive powers of the president.
There really is not a lot of ambiguity here.
And the fact that you can have a judge like like Bosberg and uh I believe an activist judge justice, you know, try and and take away that authority to me, in and of itself is a major problem.
Yeah, and i I fault the Supreme Court.
Um the court has offered only vague and ambiguous rulings so far on deportations.
The court said about a week ago, ten days ago, yes, before being deported, there must be, quote, judicial review.
In other words, to satisfy due process.
But the justices didn't define what that means for people here illegal.
Does it mean that all uh ten or twelve million aliens get to individually and fully litigate their cases in the same way that legal citizens might?
Or is it a simple summary determination by a judge of illegal status sufficient to satisfy due process, meaning that these cases can be expedited, deportation can quickly follow.
I I think that's the better course, but regrettably the Supreme Court hasn't said.
They have been a model of opacity and evasion, which is why John Roberts has been Such a feckless chief justice.
People should understand that deportation is not a criminal prosecution within the meaning of the Bill of Rights.
So the Fifth Amendment due process right is not the same.
An illegal alien does not have the same rights as citizens.
Their rights are very limited.
And the Supreme Court needs to spell it out.
You know, I I think you're right about that.
And you know, you wrote a column when the issue of the Alien Enemies Act came out, and you rightly pointed out, and you gave a a great historic summary of this.
Four prior presidents had used this act, a nineteen forty-eight Supreme Court decision that went very deep and hard in terms of the president's authority to use that act.
And even more importantly to me, is in that decision, the the court determined that once a president has made the decision, it is not subject to judicial review.
That is not a small element in this case.
And I got to imagine, I mean, every Supreme Court justice, when they're up for confirmation, is asked about their belief in in court precedence.
And they all give the same answer that they're big believers in it.
And it turns out many of them are not.
That's neither here nor there.
And that's what was so surprising that John Roberts, who wasn't even prompted, you know, waited on this and said, that's why we have an appellate system, et cetera, et cetera.
When he should have really been defending, in my view, the precedence.
Now, he's had other opportunities to weigh in as well.
This 7-2 decision I thought was a disaster.
And I think Sam Alito, you know, excoriating his colleagues was dead on accurate.
And Clarence Thomas joining with him.
Yeah, it was, but when you look at that, you know, order, um, it's four sentences long.
And it was done in eight hours at midnight one night.
And uh, you know, I'm looking at it here in front of me, and honestly, I've gone over it and over it and over it, and I can't figure it out.
And you know, if a person who's been a lawyer for you know 45 years can't figure out four sim simple sentences, then there's something truly wrong.
You know, so uh I I blame the Supreme Court, they've got to clean up the mess that they have created.
Um, you know, they need to further define what they mean by judicial review.
But this was a temporary hold on deportation.
Um the justices, I think, wanted to buy time.
We got to figure out what to do.
Let's buy some time.
We'll put a pause on this.
Um earlier, as you noted, uh the Supreme Court stated the deportations could proceed under the Alien Enemies Act, as long as there's some sort of judicial review.
But, you know, this sudden action by the Supreme Court is unusual, it's troubling, and no wonder Alito and Thomas were irate about it.
You know, they didn't give anybody on the government side, Trump side, an opportunity to even be heard.
The Fifth Circuit below said, Well, we don't have jurisdiction, we're not going to intervene.
So why is the Supreme Court intervening when the lower courts say we don't have jurisdiction?
Makes no sense.
It really doesn't make any sense.
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What is the best way?
I mean, how do we expedite the president's decisions, or is it just a process that we're gonna have to live with?
In other words, that, okay, the president will issue an executive action or order, and the left won't follow it.
They'll go judge shopping.
They'll even go outside of the jurisdiction, which they got called out on in one case, And they will get their decision, temporarily halt the president's actions, besurping his authority as president, his constitutional authority, and and then the process then begins of taking it to the next court, the appellate court, and then hopefully making it to the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court's not going to be able to punt on the issue of the Alien Enemies Act.
They're not going to be able to punt ultimately.
They're going to have to deal with it.
Yeah.
They are.
And they should have already dealt with it.
And they they dealt with it in the Vosburg case upholding the Alien Enemies Act with a proviso.
Uh, but they need to be more uh deliberate.
Otherwise, this uh game of whack-a-bole will just continue in perpetuity.
Uh, which is why I say this May 15th Supreme Court hearing, very unusual.
They never take cases for oral argument uh that late in the term.
But I think it is a golden opportunity, as I said in my column a few days ago, for them to put their foot down and stop these universal injunctions.
And if they do that, Sean.
How would they do that?
They would just say this has got to stop.
Now, Congress can also act here.
Yeah.
Congress would have would be within their right, and there is discussion and legislation that they're putting on the table in the House, and I believe in the Senate as well.
And that would prevent the weaponization or the law fair or these lower court judges having the power to usurp the constitutional authority of a president.
Yes, but good luck getting that past, you know, the syllabuster.
Um there are ways to do it.
Uh, but I I wouldn't, you know, hold my breath.
Uh you'll pass out waiting for Congress.
You know, I think the better court course of action is as I say, Supreme Court, to issue a ruling sometime before the summer recess, meaning around July first, saying knock it off.
No more uh nationwide injunctions by district court judges.
You know, it is a modern invention that really never happened uh before the mid to late uh twentieth century.
Uh federal district judges knew they had no power to do that.
But slowly but surely, a few decided, let me test this.
And the Supreme Court failed or refused to slap him down.
Well, it's gotten out of control.
Uh these injunctions are epidemic, and uh the court system will be absolutely overwhelmed, and the executive branch will be brought to a screeching halt unless John Roberts and the Supreme Court stops it.
I can't say it any better.
That's why you're the expert.
Uh, Greg Jarrett, appreciate you being with us.
Always appreciate your insight, my friend.
Thank you.
Thanks, Sean, appreciate it.
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I mean, how refreshing it is that we have a president that actually talks to the press and can speak coherently.
Uh you would think the press would love him, but they still hate him.
Anyway, so he was he was with the leader of Norway today, and he spent a lot of time discussing his efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
Now, they are getting to a point here where it's, you know, Adam Schiffer get off the pot.
It's either they're gonna do this deal or they're not gonna do this deal.
And I'm watching a lot of conservative hawks making the the case, oh, this is terrible.
Donald Trump is giving in to Putin, and and he's gonna uh the the annexation of Crimea happened in 2014.
They've already lost a significant portion of their population.
They're running out of not only firepower, but of men to fight this war.
Many people have fled, and if they want the opportunity to rebuild their country, they they they have it.
It's it's not the greatest deal.
Does it reward you know somebody like Putin, who I think is an you know, evil murdering dictator who had no business starting this and beginning this, and if he had territorial claims, there were far better ways to discuss them.
Yeah, I do.
Anyway, the president uh in the Oval Office from earlier today.
We spoke about trade and we understand each other very well.
I think we'll have no problem.
You think that we can get an agreement with that?
I think we'll have no problem whatsoever with Norway.
Um discuss a problem is it the president.
We didn't, but I would I love it.
I mean, I've been there, and it is a beautiful place.
Uh they have told the president that you know he is receiving us early in the term.
He's welcome to visit Norway.
We would like to have him.
Uh, and it will uh be another way of emphasizing this strong friendship.
Uh no one has been a staunch uh supporter of Ukraine since the Russian invasion in 2022.
Has something been discussed here today that have uh may have altered your views on things?
No, we want to uh very simply I have uh no allegiance to anybody.
I have allegiance to saving lives, and I want to save a lot of lives.
A lot of young people's mostly young people.
It's the war, it's the soldiers, and if we can do that, uh also, as you know, I got started because the money that's been spent on this war is insane.
It should have never happened, and it would have never happened if I were president.
But uh Biden Spent 350 billion dollars on this and uh it's a shame and that's what got me involved, and then I looked at and I see the results.
It's uh horrible.
It's a killing field.
Five thousand soldiers a week on average.
Uh and we want to stop that.
We both want to stop that for a lot of reasons, but I would say that uh is my number one reason.
Why do you have to Russia uh that that we will get Russia to accept the deal that also Ukraine and Europe is willing to do?
I think so, yeah.
I do.
I believe they will accept, and I think we're gonna get this over with, I hope so, soon.
You continue to lack support from NATO allies in your goal of obtaining Greenland.
How will you proceed if you don't get that support?
Well, Greenland's gonna be interesting, but that's for another day.
I think we need that for international peace.
And if you don't have that, I think it's a big threat to our our world.
So I think Greenland's very important for international peace.
Yeah, please go ahead.
Mr. President, this morning in uh so proposed, you use the words Vladimir stop.
That seemed like a slightly different message, a personal message.
Uh, what is your level of frustration with President Putin?
I didn't like last night.
I wasn't happy with it, and we're in the midst of talking peace and missiles were fired, and I was not happy with it.
That's what I meant, and that's you know what he said.
I assume that's what you mean.
Yeah, we keep falling.
Uh, will you consider additional sanctions for Russia, or what will you do if President Putin finds?
I'd rather answer that question in a week.
I want to see if we can have a deal.
No reason to answer it now, but it I won't be happy.
Let me put it that way.
Things will happen.
Why are you not putting more pressure on Russia?
I know a lot of Europeans will be.
Putting a lot of pressure, you don't know what pressure I'm putting on Russia.
They're dealing.
You have no idea what pressure I'm putting on Russia.
We're putting a lot of pressure.
Can you maybe tell us actually?
We're putting a lot of pressure on Russia, and Russia knows that, and some people that are close to it know, or he wouldn't be talking right now.
The Prime Minister understands that better than anybody.
He wouldn't be talking right now.
He's talking, and we're putting a lot of pressure.
I think he wants to make a deal.
We're gonna find out very soon.
But it takes two to tango.
So I think that they both want peace right now.
They're ready to do something.
We'll see what happens.
Complicated, very complicated.
But I think they uh are both very much looking to make a deal.
Marco, what would you say?
Well, first of all, the the what was put before our partners was options to discuss about things that it would take to end a war.
This war is endable.
Both sides have to agree to it.
We've shown them a pathway forward, we've discussed those ideas.
It was a good meeting yesterday, there'll be good meetings over the weekend.
We've shown them the finish line.
We need both of them to say yes.
But what happened last night with those missile strikes should remind everybody of why this war needs to end.
It's horrible those missiles landed.
What's even worse is there are today people that were alive yesterday that are not alive today because this war continues, and the president wants to stop it.
And everyone should be thanking the president for being a peacemaker and trying to save lives.
That's what we're trying to do here.
Um it's not our war, we didn't start it, as you know.
It's but we're trying to end the dying, we're trying to end the destruction, and um we've shown the path forward.
Uh we can see the finish line, but both of them have to get there.
We're gonna do everything we can to help them get there, but they have to ultimately say yes.
But we are using a lot of pressure on both.
You know, if you think we're just in there because we're nice people, and we are nice people, but we're using a lot of pressure on both.
What can we do?
What concessions have your president and here national security team?
What concessions has Russia offered up thus far to get to the point where you're closer to peace?
Stopping the war, stopping taking the whole country.
Pretty big concession.
If um you are going to take out the tire, what do you want the Norway to uh buy more from the U.S.?
To buy more?
Uh well, you don't need snow.
You don't need skis, you don't need ski champions either, right?
Yeah, for a lot of them.
Uh we just want to keep the relationship the way it is.
We have we've had a great relationship.
I think now maybe closer than ever, but we've had a great relationship with Norway.
I think just keep it the way it is.
You can't do better.
Really?
Nothing by say uh fighting.
Well, if they want to give us some additional concessions, that's Okay.
You can't do much better.
Yes, yes.
Mr. President, you had a long meeting with Norway today.
Uh you said that Norway is doing a lot of things right.
But on the Ukraine, if I can ask both you and the Prime Minister, did you find common ground today on Ukraine and the peace plan?
Totally.
It's totally common ground.
The Prime Minister can speak about it, but I can just say uh he wants to see people stop dying more than anything else.
And he'd like to see it end.
He's you know he's gonna help us end it.
Mr. President, can I say that uh to move towards an end of this war, U.S. engagement is critical.
Um President Trump made that possible.
That is clear.
That is all this is it's really happening.
Now the important thing is that both parties have to know that they have to deliver and they have to feel the pressure to deliver.
You deserve this price if you measure it.
Do I deserve the noble peace?
Well, maybe for the Abraham Accords.
I don't want to get ahead of myself on this one, but they say for the Abraham Accords, and by the way, speaking of that, we're gonna be filling it up.
A lot of countries want to come into the Abraham of course.
You know, we have four, and Biden did nothing on that one, too.
Uh it's the same four.
But they're great countries and they were brave doing it, and it's worked out very well, and we're gonna be filling up the Abraham Accords.
They're gonna be uh, I think filling it up market very rapidly.
Could you say something about that?
There's great enormous opportunity to uh to grow the Abraham Accords, but I would just point to one thing.
Of all the leaders in the world today, no leader is working harder to prevent wars or end them than President Trump is right now.
We're trying that's why we're talking to Iran.
That's why we're engaged with Ukraine and Russia.
It's the desire to prevent these wars from breaking out and to end the ones that exist already.
And and again, I I just think it's uh tremendous for our country to be led by a president uh who desires to bring peace and establish peace and protect peace.
So um it's hard work.
Mr. President, Mr. President, you know, uh Marco just mentioned uh something that maybe we should uh talk about for just a second if we could, Mr. Prime Minister, and you're involved in it too, because you've been invol involved in the world and peace.
But I think we're doing very well with respect to Iran, and we're having very serious meetings.
And there are only two options, and the one option is not a good option.
It's not a not a good option at all.
And I think we're doing very well on uh an agreement with Iran, but that one we're doing a lot of things, I will say, but that one is uh well in its way.
We could have a very, very good decision, and a lot of lives will be saved.
Mr. President, Mr. President, I mean there was a resolution.
Mr. President, on the economy, there was a slowdown as it relates to home sales in the month of March, the slowest pace since 2009.
Is that an economic indicator?
And perhaps the Treasury Secretary can weigh in on this as well.
Is that an economic indicator that concerns you about the broader US EP?
No, they had very good numbers on housing today, extremely good numbers, and that's despite interest rates, because you know, if you look at what happened, everyone said, Oh, I said I was gonna get prices down.
I did.
Energy just hit one dollar and ninety-eight cents in a couple of states, it's way down.
Energy's down, and we're about sixty-four dollars a barrel when I came in and we were looking at eighty-nine, ninety, ninety-five dollars.
And by the way, that helps us solve the war too.
Having those energy prices is a big a big incentive for Russia to also agree with solving the war problem.
Uh groceries are down.
When I uh was with you two months ago, you were t you were complaining about eggs.
I said, I just got here.
I've been here for I was here for about a week when the when the press started saying about eggs have gone through the roof.
I said, I just got here.
Tell me about eggs, and they happen.
They were they went through the roof and you couldn't get them.
So we just had a big Easter egg hunt at the White House, thousands and thousands of eggs, and the price was down eighty-seven percent.
So we did a great job.
Uh housing is doing very well.
We should lower interest rates, that's the Fed.
I hope they lower interest rates.
That's a smart thing to do, be ahead a little bit, although already it's a little bit late.
But uh in the end, we just have a great country, a very strong country, and we have every other country.
I can't think of one country that doesn't want to negotiate a deal.
And they either negotiate a deal or we set a deal that we think is fair.
Because we don't have to go through all of these, it would be physically impossible.
You know, you have so many people that really understand it, which is a very small group of people here, and we are going to at some point just set prices for deals.
Uh some will be tariffed, some treated as very unfairly.
They'll be tariffed higher than others.
But we've been ripped off for many, many years.
The United States has been ripped off like no country probably in the history of the world has been ripped off for 45, 50 years.
And countries have gotten rich by doing that with the United States.
We've taken care of their militaries and military is another subject we talk about.
We're not going to make that subject to any of the deals.
But you know, you know the same countries that I do where we virtually take care of their military and then don't get treated fairly on trade.
So uh the people, and I don't blame those countries, I blame the people that sat at that beautiful desk right behind you, because those people didn't do the job for this country, and they let us uh lose four billion dollars a day on trade.
We were losing four or five billion dollars a day on trade when I got here, and now we're going to be much better than breaking even, and we're gonna be making four or five billion dollars a day on trade.
So uh, but the I don't blame any country, not not the worst of me.
We were abused by countries.
I blame the president of the United States that happened to be sitting where these deals were made.
Disgraceful.
When I was here, we had a great four years.
We had the most successful economy in the history of our country, my first term.
Uh, and we were very tough on trade, and with China, as you know, they paid hundreds of millions of dollars in tariffs, but nobody else ever did that.
China paid not ten cents to any other president, and uh they but not only China, virtually every country got away with murder, and we just can't let that happen.
Thank you very much, everybody.
Thank you very much.
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We've been around the block in media, and we're doing things differently.
Normally is about real conversations.
Thoughtful, try to be funny, grounded, and no panic.
We'll keep you informed and entertained without ruining your day.
Join us every Tuesday and Thursday, normally on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
I'm Ben Ferguson, and I'm Ted Cruz.
Three times a week we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else.
We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family.
So Dow, verdict with Ted Cruz now, wherever you get your podcasts.
When I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked.
Why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
From Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco.
Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.