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"THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. AFTER WHAT WAS A BLOCKBUSTER DAY AT THE SUPREME COURT AND AS IRAN NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE IN DOHA, WHO IS BETTER TO CHECK IN WITH FOR A LITTLE BIT OF ANALYSIS AND INSIGHTS THAN VICE PRESIDENT J.D. VANCE. MR. VICE PRESIDENT, GREAT TO SEE YOU, THE..."
[0:00] THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.
[0:03] THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.
[0:05] AFTER WHAT WAS A BLOCKBUSTER
[0:07] DAY AT THE SUPREME COURT AND AS
[0:08] IRAN NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE IN
[0:10] DOHA, WHO IS BETTER TO CHECK IN
[0:12] WITH FOR A LITTLE BIT OF
[0:14] ANALYSIS AND INSIGHTS THAN
[0:15] VICE PRESIDENT J.D. VANCE.
[0:17] MR. VICE PRESIDENT, GREAT TO
[0:18] SEE YOU, THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW
[0:20] BEST SELLER, COMMUNION, FINDING
[0:22] MY WAY BACK TO FAITH.
[0:24] MR. VICE PRESIDENT, THANK YOU
[0:26] VERY MUCH FOR JOINING US.
[0:27] WE'LL GET TO YOUR BOOK IN JUST
[0:29] CITIZENSHIP CASE.
[0:30] A LOT OF PEOPLE VERY CONCERNED
[0:33] THAT THIS WILL THROW UP IN THE
[0:35] DOOR TO HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF
[0:37] MORE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE
[0:39] EXPLOITING OUR SYSTEM HERE.
[0:40] WHAT IS THE ADMINISTRATION
[0:42] PREPARED TO DO TO PROTECT THE
[0:44] COUNTRY AND WHAT CAN IT DO
[0:45] AFTER THIS RULING?
[0:46] WELL, ONE OF THE THINGS WE'LL
[0:50] HAVE TO DO IS JUST CONTINUE TO
[0:51] ENFORCE THE BORDER, LAURA.
[0:52] THIS IS A VERY DISAPPOINTING
[0:53] RULING FROM THE SUPREME COURT.
[0:54] OF COURSE, WE RESPECT IT, BUT
[0:56] WE ALSO THINK THAT IT WAS A
[0:57] MAJOR, MAJOR MISTAKE.
[0:58] AS JUSTICES ALITO AND THOMAS
[1:02] POINTED OUT, ONE OF THE THINGS
[1:03] THAT MIGHT INVITE, LAURA, IS
[1:05] PEOPLE TO COME HERE QUITE
[1:07] LITERALLY ON A VACATION, GIVE
[1:08] BIRTH, AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN
[1:10] THE CHILD AND THEIR FAMILY HAVE
[1:12] THE FULL BENEFITS OF AMERICAN
[1:13] CITIZENSHIP.
[1:14] IT'S JUST A PREPOSTEROUS RULING,
[1:16] AND THE ABSURDITY OF THAT
[1:18] OUTCOME SUGGESTS WHY THE
[1:19] SUPREME COURT SHOULD HAVE WENT
[1:20] THE OTHER WAY.
[1:21] NOW, I KNOW A LOT OF
[1:22] CONSERVATIVES, LAURA,
[1:23] I'M TALKING TO, THAT YOU'RE
[1:24] TALKING TO, ARE EXTREMELY
[1:25] DISAPPOINTED IN THIS.
[1:26] I DO ACTUALLY THINK THERE'S A
[1:27] REALLY BIG SILVER LINING
[1:28] HERE.
[1:29] AND THAT'S THE SIMPLE FACT THAT
[1:30] A LOT OF LEGAL EXPERTS
[1:32] EXPECTED THIS CASE TO GO THE
[1:33] WRONG DIRECTION BY SEVEN TO
[1:34] TWO OR EVEN EIGHT TO ONE.
[1:36] THE FACT THAT THIS CASE WAS A
[1:38] FIVE TO FOUR DECISION
[1:39] EFFECTIVELY MEANS THAT THE
[1:40] CONCEPT OF BIRTHRIGHT
[1:41] CITIZENSHIP, WHICH IS AN
[1:42] ABSURDITY TO THE 14TH
[1:44] AMENDMENT, THAT CONCEPT IS
[1:45] HANGING BY A THREAD.
[1:46] AND SO WHAT I TAKE FROM THAT
[1:48] IS, YES, WE'VE GOT TO FIX THE
[1:50] IMMIGRATION SYSTEM EVEN MORE.
[1:51] WE HAVE TO BE EVEN MORE AWARE
[1:53] OF WHO'S COMING INTO OUR
[1:55] COUNTRY TO MAKE SURE THAT
[1:56] THEY'RE NOT BENEFITING FROM
[1:57] THIS ATROCIOUS SUPREME COURT
[1:58] RULING.
[1:59] BUT IT ALSO MEANS THAT WE HAVE
[2:01] TO KEEP FIGHTING, LAURA,
[2:03] BECAUSE WE ACTUALLY HAVE AN
[2:05] OPPORTUNITY TO REVERSE THIS
[2:06] DECISION.
[2:07] JUST AS WE REVERSED SO MANY
[2:09] BAD DECISIONS THROUGHOUT THE
[2:12] GENERATIONS.
[2:13] ROGER SEVERINO, MR. VICE
[2:15] PRESIDENT, ARGUES THAT THE
[2:16] PRESIDENT COULD CHANGE THAT
[2:18] ORIGINAL EO EXECUTIVE ORDER
[2:20] AND PUT RESTRICTIONS ON U.S.
[2:22] TERRITORIES LIKE THE NORTHERN
[2:24] MARIANAS ISLANDS, THEY'RE VERY
[2:26] CLOSE TO CHINA WHERE THERE'S A
[2:28] LOT OF BIRTHRIGHT ABUSE GOING
[2:30] ON, BECAUSE THE SAME
[2:32] PROTECTIONS PERHAPS DON'T
[2:34] APPLY TO THESE TERRITORIAL
[2:36] AREAS.
[2:37] WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT
[2:39] IDEA?
[2:40] I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA.
[2:42] I SAW THAT POINT FROM
[2:43] ROGER SEVERINO.
[2:44] WE'RE CERTAINLY LOOKING AT
[2:45] THAT.
[2:46] WE ALSO HAVE TO LOOK, LAURA, AT
[2:47] SOME CONGRESSIONAL AND
[2:48] STATUTORY CHANGES THAT WE
[2:49] COULD MAKE TO MAKE IT HARDER
[2:51] FOR PEOPLE TO ACTUALLY TAKE
[2:52] ADVANTAGE OF.
[2:53] I HATE TO CALL IT BIRTHRIGHT
[2:55] CITIZENSHIP.
[2:56] IT'S FUNDAMENTALLY A LOOPHOLE
[2:58] THAT NOW EXISTS IN OUR
[2:59] IMMIGRATION SYSTEM THAT
[3:00] REWARDS ILLEGAL ALIENS JUST
[3:01] BECAUSE THEY HAVE A BABY IN THE
[3:02] UNITED STATES WHILE THEY'RE IN
[3:05] OUR COUNTRY ILLEGALLY.
[3:06] SO I THINK THAT LOOPHOLE IS
[3:08] GOING TO CAUSE A LOT OF
[3:09] PROBLEMS.
[3:10] THERE ARE A NUMBER OF THINGS
[3:11] THAT WE'RE ALREADY LOOKING AT
[3:12] IN THE ADMINISTRATION, LAURA,
[3:13] TO TRY TO CLOSE DOWN THAT
[3:14] LOOPHOLE.
[3:15] BUT FUNDAMENTALLY WHAT WE'RE
[3:16] TALKING ABOUT IS FIXING A
[3:17] PROBLEM THE SUPREME COURT
[3:18] CREATED.
[3:19] WE ALSO WANT TO LOOK OVER THE
[3:20] LONG TERM AT UNDOING THAT
[3:21] PROBLEM TO BEGIN WITH.
[3:22] BECAUSE, AGAIN, THIS WAS ONLY A
[3:24] FIVE TO FOUR DECISION, LAURA.
[3:25] HOW MANY TIMES DID WE HEAR
[3:26] PEOPLE SAY THAT THIS WAS GOING
[3:27] TO GO EIGHT TO ONE AGAINST THE
[3:28] ADMINISTRATION?
[3:29] WE MADE SOME VERY COMPELLING
[3:30] ARGUMENTS.
[3:31] WE HAVE THE BETTER OF THE CASE.
[3:33] WE'VE JUST GOT TO KEEP
[3:34] FIGHTING AT THIS.
[3:35] AND THIS DRIVES HOME, LAURA,
[3:36] WHY THE MIDTERMS ARE SO
[3:37] IMPORTANT.
[3:38] BECAUSE IT'S THE SENATORS WHO
[3:39] ULTIMATELY VOTE ON THOSE
[3:40] SUPREME COURT JUSTICES.
[3:41] IMAGINE IF ONE OF THE FIVE
[3:42] JUSTICES WHO MADE A BAD CALL
[3:43] TODAY, IF THEY LEFT THE SUPREME
[3:45] COURT, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE
[3:46] GET SOMEBODY GOOD ON THERE IN
[3:47] THE FUTURE.
[3:48] YOU HAIL FROM THE SENATE AND
[3:50] SO MANY OF THE ANGLE VIEWERS
[3:52] WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS
[3:54] ABOUT THESE THREE OR FOUR
[3:56] SENATORS, SITTING SENATORS,
[3:57] REPUBLICANS, WHAT IS IT ABOUT
[3:58] THE SAVE AMERICA ACT THAT THEY
[3:59] DON'T WANT TO MAKE SURE
[4:00] THAT THEY ARE SO IMPORTANT.
[4:01] BECAUSE IT'S THE SENATORS WHO
[4:02] ULTIMATELY VOTE ON THOSE
[4:03] SUPREME COURT JUSTICES.
[4:04] IMAGINE IF ONE OF THE FIVE
[4:05] JUSTICES WHO MADE A BAD CALL
[4:06] THREE OR FOUR SENATORS, SITTING
[4:07] SENATORS, REPUBLICANS, WHAT IS
[4:09] IT ABOUT THE SAVE AMERICA ACT
[4:12] THAT THEY DISAGREE WITH SO
[4:14] VEHEMENTLY THAT THEY WILL NOT
[4:16] MOVE FORWARD ON LEGISLATION
[4:18] THAT IT'S MAJOR PROVISIONS
[4:20] ABOUT 80% OF THE COUNTRY FAVOR,
[4:21] MR. VICE PRESIDENT.
[4:22] AND IS THERE ANYTHING YOU ALL
[4:24] CAN DO TO TRY TO BRIDGE THAT
[4:26] GAP GIVEN HOW IMPORTANT THAT
[4:28] LEGISLATION IS TO PROTECTING
[4:30] OUR ELECTIONS AND ULTIMATELY
[4:31] OUR CITIZENSHIP?
[4:32] YOU KNOW, LAURA, FIRST OF
[4:36] ALL, THAT LEGISLATION IS SO
[4:37] IMPORTANT THE PRESIDENT HAS
[4:39] BEEN LASER FOCUSED ON GETTING
[4:40] THE SAVE AMERICA ACT PASSED AND
[4:41] YOU'RE RIGHT, WE ACTUALLY HAVE
[4:43] THE MAJORITY OF SENATE
[4:44] REPUBLICANS WHO WILL SUPPORT
[4:45] IT.
[4:46] I ACTUALLY DON'T THINK THE
[4:47] PROBLEM THAT THEY HAVE IS WITH
[4:49] THE SAVE AMERICA ACT
[4:50] LEGISLATION ITSELF.
[4:51] THE PROBLEM THAT THEY HAVE WITH
[4:53] ALL DUE RESPECT IS THAT THEY
[4:55] ARE WORSHIPPING DYING
[4:56] INSTITUTIONAL NORMS WHEN THE
[4:58] DEMOCRATS ARE IN FACT BRAGGING
[5:00] THAT AS SOON AS THEY GET
[5:01] CONTROL, THEY'RE GOING TO THROW
[5:02] THAT STUFF ASIDE AND MAKE IT SO
[5:04] MUCH HARDER FOR REPUBLICANS TO
[5:07] EVEN WIN ELECTIONS.
[5:08] SO WHAT SOME OF THESE
[5:09] REPUBLICANS ARE SAYING IS THEY
[5:11] DON'T WANT TO GIVE UP ON THE
[5:12] NORM OF THE FILIBUSTER, THIS
[5:14] SACRED SENATE INSTITUTIONAL
[5:15] NORM THAT A FEW SENATORS ARE
[5:17] OBSESSED WITH INCLUDING OF
[5:18] COURSE MITCH MCCONNELL.
[5:19] THE PROBLEM, LAURA, IS THAT
[5:21] DEMOCRATS THEMSELVES ARE
[5:22] SAYING THE MINUTE THAT THEY GET
[5:24] POWER THE FILIBUSTER IS GOING
[5:26] OUT THE DOOR.
[5:27] SO UNILATERALLY SUBMITTING AND
[5:29] SURRENDERING AS REPUBLICANS WHEN
[5:31] DEMOCRATS ARE OPENLY BRAGGING
[5:33] THAT THEY'RE GOING TO GET RID OF
[5:34] THE FILIBUSTER, IT'S JUST
[5:35] HANDING YOUR ENEMY A WEAPON THAT
[5:37] THEY'RE GOING TO USE TO STRIKE
[5:38] YOU DOWN.
[5:39] IT'S ABSURD, IT DOESN'T MAKE
[5:41] ANY SENSE, BUT THAT'S WHY WE
[5:43] FRANKLY HAVE TO GET BETTER
[5:44] SENATORS IN THE FUTURE.
[5:45] YOU'VE BEEN FOLLOWING WHAT'S
[5:46] GOING ON WITH THE DEMOCRAT PARTY
[5:48] AND THE RISE OF SOCIALISM.
[5:49] THE PRESIDENT CALLS IT COMMUNISM
[5:51] AND SAYS THIS IS REALLY THE
[5:53] BIGGEST THREAT TO THE COUNTRY
[5:54] NOW, AN INTERNAL THREAT.
[5:56] AND YOU'VE SEEN WHAT HAPPENS WHEN
[5:58] THE BASE OF THE PARTY, A PARTY,
[6:00] TURNS ON ITS ESTABLISHMENT,
[6:02] BEGINNING WITH THE TEA PARTY IN
[6:04] 2009, ULTIMATELY RESULTING IN
[6:05] PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ELECTION
[6:06] TWICE.
[6:07] SO MY QUESTION IS, ARE THESE DSA
[6:09] TYPES, ARE THESE DSA TYPES,
[6:12] REALLY IN YOUR ESTIMATION, GOING
[6:15] TO DOMINATE THE ENTIRE PARTY?
[6:17] I UNFORTUNATELY FEAR THAT'S
[6:18] THE DIRECTION THE DEMOCRATS ARE
[6:19] HEADED.
[6:23] AND IT IS COMMUNISM, LAURA.
[6:25] THIS IS NOT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS
[6:27] NOT RAISING TAXES A LITTLE BIT,
[6:29] HOWEVER MUCH WE MIGHT DISAGREE
[6:30] WITH THAT.
[6:31] THIS IS ABOLISHING THE POLICE.
[6:33] THIS IS LET CRIMINALS RUN AMOCK
[6:35] IN YOUR CITIES.
[6:36] THIS IS FLOOD YOUR COUNTRY WITH
[6:38] LOW-WAGE THIRD WORLD
[6:39] IMMIGRANTS.
[6:40] AND IMPORTANTLY, IT'S
[6:42] CONFISCATING WEALTH, NOT
[6:45] BECAUSE WE WANT TO MAKE
[6:46] ANYBODY'S LIFE BETTER, BUT
[6:47] PURELY OUT OF RESENTMENT, OUT
[6:49] OF AN ATTACK ON THE PEOPLE WHO
[6:51] HAVE THAT WEALTH TO BEGIN WITH.
[6:52] IT REALLY IS SOMETHING WE
[6:54] HAVEN'T SEEN IN THE UNITED
[6:55] STATES OF AMERICA IN THE HISTORY
[6:57] OF OUR POLITICS.
[6:58] AND LAURA, I THINK THAT IT
[7:00] ACTUALLY IS A CONSEQUENCE OF
[7:01] THE FACT THAT THE DEMOCRAT
[7:03] PARTY HAS BECOME RUN BY THE
[7:05] UNIVERSITIES AND BY THE
[7:06] PROFESSORS.
[7:07] THIS IS NOT WORKING CLASS
[7:10] UNION DEMOCRATS.
[7:11] THIS IS NOT SOCIALLY
[7:13] CONSERVATIVE PEOPLE WHO JUST
[7:14] WANT A FAIR SHAKE AT LIFE.
[7:15] THIS IS FUNDAMENTALLY A VIEW
[7:17] THAT THE UNITED STATES IS AN
[7:19] EVIL COUNTRY THAT MUST BE
[7:20] DISMANTLED FROM THE GROUND AND
[7:21] THEN BUILT BACK UP.
[7:22] THAT'S COMMUNISM AT ITS CORE.
[7:24] AND YOU SEE MORE AND MORE
[7:26] MOMENTUM IN THAT DIRECTION FROM
[7:27] THE DEMOCRAT PARTY.
[7:28] FRANKLY, LAURA, I WOULD LOVE
[7:30] IT IF DEMOCRATS WERE WILLING,
[7:31] YOU KNOW, NOT THAT THEY ARE
[7:33] GOING TO AGREE WITH
[7:34] REPUBLICANS ALL THE TIME, BUT
[7:36] IF THEY WERE WILLING TO WORK
[7:37] WITH US ON LOWERING HOUSING
[7:38] PRICES, ON LOWERING GAS
[7:39] PRICES, ON ACTUALLY MAKING THE
[7:41] LIVES OF AMERICAN CITIZENS
[7:42] BETTER, YOU KNOW, WE COULD
[7:44] HAVE SOME REAL BIPARTISAN
[7:45] COMPROMISE.
[7:46] THAT'S NOT WHAT THEY ARE
[7:47] TALKING ABOUT.
[7:48] THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT
[7:49] ABOLISHING THE POLICE AND
[7:50] LETTING CRIMINALS RULE OUR
[7:51] CITIES.
[7:52] THAT IS A FUNDAMENTAL
[7:53] TRANSFORMATION OF THE
[7:54] DEMOCRAT PARTY.
[7:55] IT'S VERY BAD FOR OUR
[7:56] COUNTRY.
[7:57] IT'S BAD FOR DEMOCRATS.
[7:58] IT'S JUST DRIVES HOME WHY WE
[8:00] HAVE TO KEEP THESE PEOPLE FROM
[8:01] GETTING CLOSE TO POWER.
[8:02] YEAH.
[8:03] YES OR NO, DO YOU THINK
[8:05] SCHUMER AND JEFFRIES ULTIMATELY
[8:07] SURVIVE THIS SURGE FROM THE
[8:08] RADICALS?
[8:09] DEPENDS ON HOW LONG YOU'RE
[8:10] TALKING ABOUT.
[8:13] I THINK THEY'LL SURVIVE FOR A
[8:14] COUPLE OF YEARS, LAURA.
[8:15] BUT IN FIVE YEARS, PEOPLE ARE
[8:16] GOING TO LOOK BACK AT HAKIM
[8:17] JEFFRIES AND CHUCK SCHUMER, AS
[8:19] SHOCKING AS THIS MAY SOUND,
[8:20] AND THEY'RE GOING TO SAY THEY
[8:22] WERE THE REASONABLE
[8:23] MODERATES OF THE TIME.
[8:24] AND THE DSA TYPES, THE FAR LEFT,
[8:26] THE COMMUNISTS HAVE TAKEN OVER
[8:30] THAT PARTY.
[8:31] WE KNOW THAT CHUCK SCHUMER AND
[8:33] HAKIM JEFFRIES, THEIR POLICIES
[8:35] ARE PRETTY FAR OUT THERE.
[8:36] COMPARED TO WHAT'S COMING ONLINE
[8:38] IN THE MODERN DEMOCRATIC PARTY,
[8:40] IT'S JUST GOING TO GET WEIRDER
[8:42] AND WEIRDER AND SCARRIER AND
[8:43] SCARRIER.
[8:44] THAT'S WHY I THINK UNFORTUNATELY
[8:46] THE ONLY SANE PARTY LEFT IS
[8:48] THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
[8:49] NOT SAYING REPUBLICANS ARE RIGHT
[8:50] ABOUT EVERY ISSUE.
[8:51] AND I KNOW THAT YOU AND YOUR
[8:53] VIEWERS SOMETIMES DISAGREE WITH
[8:54] REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN.
[8:55] I CERTAINLY DO, BUT WE'RE THE
[8:57] ONLY PARTY FOR COMMON SENSE
[8:59] AND SANITY LEFT IN THE UNITED
[9:02] STATES OF AMERICA IN 2026.
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