Try Free

‘The Five’ on birthright BRAWL...

Fox News April 2, 2026 11m 1,965 words 1 views
▶ Watch original video

About this transcript: This is a full AI-generated transcript of ‘The Five’ on birthright BRAWL... from Fox News, published April 2, 2026. The transcript contains 1,965 words with timestamps and was generated using Whisper AI.

"For the first time in U.S. history, a sitting president attended arguments in person. It was all about the legality of his day one executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants. The president says the goal is stopping Americans from getting ripped off. The..."

[0:00] For the first time in U.S. history, a sitting president attended arguments in person. [0:05] It was all about the legality of his day one executive order ending birthright citizenship [0:10] for the children of illegal immigrants. [0:12] The president says the goal is stopping Americans from getting ripped off. [0:17] The reason was it had to do with the babies of slaves and the protection of the babies [0:23] of slaves. [0:24] It didn't have to do with the protection of multimillionaires and billionaires wanting [0:30] to have their children get an American citizenship. [0:34] It is the craziest thing I've ever seen. [0:36] If people are making a living, a big living, getting hundreds of thousands and even millions [0:41] of dollars from bringing people in and saying, congratulations, your whole family is going [0:47] to be a citizen of the United States of America. [0:50] That's not what it was for. [0:51] And the numbers back up the president. [0:54] Nearly one in 10 babies born in the United States in 2023 were born to unauthorized or [1:00] temporary status. [1:01] But that fact is lost on liberal freaks like this guy in a pink frog costume. [1:08] And check out this Democrat's foul mouth meltdown. [1:10] You ready? [1:11] Rep Susie Lee posting and then deleting. [1:14] It's a whole lot of F-bombs. [1:16] She's defending her comments, saying that Trump's attack on the Constitution struck [1:20] a nerve. [1:21] Dana, do you want to take on the birthright citizenship or you want to talk about Susie? [1:29] Susie, I didn't even know who she was. [1:32] Susie Lee. [1:33] No, I will. [1:34] I'll let her. [1:35] Go. [1:36] Sounds like you after a few drinks. [1:38] She's just totally irrelevant. [1:40] What is relevant is a few things here. [1:44] So for a long time leading up to this, people have been saying, people as in legal scholars, [1:50] that President Trump was likely to lose on this. [1:54] It's not that the issue isn't an important one. [1:57] It's that going about it through an executive order might be the wrong way to try to achieve [2:02] a policy goal. [2:04] Over and over again, what do we face? [2:06] Congress does just. [2:08] It communicates its responsibility, walks away, and presidents get frustrated. [2:12] And they said, we want to solve something. [2:14] So on day one, President Trump, who has thought about this issue for many years, he's run [2:18] on immigration. [2:19] He says this stops today. [2:21] And it's interesting because all of a sudden the Democrats are strict constitutionalists [2:27] and they love the originalism argument of which they have hated from Thomas and Alito, [2:34] Barrett, Kavanaugh and Roberts. [2:36] But now all of a sudden they're like, that's not what the Constitution is. [2:38] And so as somebody who I have always believed that let's stick with the Constitution, however, [2:44] I also think if there's nothing wrong with the Supreme Court saying to the Congress, [2:49] this issue should be fixed, but it's not going to work with just this executive order. [2:54] Now, maybe it'll turn out that the president wins on this one. [2:57] But this is the last point I'll make on this that I thought was so disturbing because I [3:01] don't really understand it. [3:03] Maybe somebody here is going to explain it to me. [3:05] In 2006, I was deputy press secretary. [3:08] And the average poll of how people felt about this issue was that 45 percent of Americans [3:14] thought that everyone who was born in America automatically became a U.S. citizen. [3:18] Forty five percent today, it's 69 percent think that anyone who was born in America, [3:25] even after all of these things, all these stories, people come in here just to have [3:28] their babies. [3:30] And I'm not sure where public opinion changed on this. [3:35] I could maybe take a guess, but it's gone up steadily since 2006. [3:40] If Congress were to take it on, I'm not sure how it would turn out. [3:43] Well, if you're a green card holder, Jessica, you come here, you have a baby. [3:48] That baby's an American citizen and that's fine. [3:49] What you're saying is if you're a legal alien whose allegiance is to Guatemala and he crosses [3:54] over and dumps a baby out, then all of a sudden they're a citizen and so is the mother or [3:59] a tourist from China to come in, have a baby in like American Samoa and then go back to [4:05] Beijing. [4:06] It's being abused. [4:07] You'd agree with that? [4:09] No, not completely. [4:10] I think. [4:11] I think that's abuse. [4:13] Some degree of it, yes, but the numbers and Justice Roberts, Chief Justice Roberts was [4:19] batting the government back on that particular issue, saying that you are picking a few isolated [4:24] incidents for then a sweeping judicial theory and that he wouldn't go along with it. [4:29] That's nine percent of the births are from people that aren't really American citizens. [4:36] That's not. [4:37] That's not. [4:38] But I'm saying which I'm not on the Supreme Court. [4:40] All I can do. [4:41] I'm just what I saw the exchanges were and then report them and the evidence that the [4:47] government was using, talking about birth tourism, talking about how kids of diplomats [4:52] don't get citizenship. [4:53] So why should this be different, et cetera? [4:55] Justice Roberts was poo pooing it. [4:57] That's what was happening. [4:58] Dana's are totally right about the close 70 percent of people who approve of birthright [5:03] citizenship right now. [5:05] I think you get into very sticky territory if you're talking about people who are on [5:09] even temporary visas. [5:10] If someone overstays it. [5:11] By. [5:12] A week or two. [5:13] You have people in the U.S. government right now, Marco Rubio, Cash Patel, Usha Vance. [5:17] These are people who have their citizenship because of birthright citizenship. [5:21] And you know that today didn't go well because Donald Trump's true social post once he left [5:26] was we are the only country in the world stupid enough to allow birthright citizenship. [5:30] He didn't say the government kicked butt. [5:33] He didn't say we're going to win this thing. [5:35] He said, basically, I'm throwing a temper tantrum. [5:38] And a couple. [5:39] That was a fact. [5:40] Is that not a fact? [5:41] It doesn't. [5:42] You know, it actually doesn't matter because you know how he behaves when he's excited [5:46] about something. [5:47] You know, you're focusing on emotion and not the government, the absolute second. [5:50] The government did not seem in certain exchanges to be prepared to come and talk to these justices [5:56] like Neil Gorsuch is going to ask you about Native Americans. [6:00] He always talks about Native Americans. [6:02] No response about what was going to happen there. [6:05] Justice Barrett talking about it's already been educated Native Americans. [6:08] Oh, I don't think so. [6:09] No. [6:10] Did you hear him? [6:11] No. [6:12] He responded. [6:13] I don't know. [6:14] I don't think so. [6:15] Justice Barrett. [6:16] Another time that happened. [6:17] You're ignoring some of the facts that were laid out today. [6:20] You say this is a small sliver. [6:21] False. [6:22] Go check out the data from the Government Accountability Institute, which they made [6:25] reference to today. [6:27] One million people they believe went to the Northern Mariana Islands from China and became [6:33] U.S. citizens. [6:34] There are 500 firms. [6:35] This was listed today in China that make this a cottage industry. [6:39] And. [6:40] The Chinese Communist Party into our country. [6:43] Now, what this could translate to, according to Eric Eggers, is one million new voters [6:48] by 2030. [6:49] I think we can all agree that that is a perilous state. [6:52] If you have people from China coming over, giving birth, one million new voters by 2030, [6:57] that is a big problem. [6:58] And it is inconceivable to think that the framers of the 1868 14th Amendment, that's [7:03] the year it was ratified, had an idea that 4 billion women in the world could come here, [7:08] give birth, take a plane ride. [7:09] And boom, you're a U.S. citizen. [7:11] It's inconceivable on its face. [7:13] Greg. [7:14] Yeah, you're an illegal and you come here and you have a baby that is not a citizen. [7:22] And it amazes me that by saying that you are somehow portrayed as harsh by saying something [7:31] that is so obviously sensible, that like if you it makes it as Donald Trump says and it's [7:40] so mean. [7:41] I'm going to get to that. [7:43] No other country does this. [7:45] No other country does this. [7:46] And why? [7:47] Because nobody wants to do it in those countries. [7:49] There's nobody clamoring in to try to gain the system to have babies in Haiti. [7:55] All right. [7:56] So you're saying they're all coming here. [7:59] What does that tell you? [8:00] The system is being gained. [8:02] So how did this happen when you're talking about these polls? [8:04] I don't think the polls are real, but I do think that there has been a shift due to redefining [8:09] in the last, I would say, 15 or 20 years. [8:10] Redefining the system. [8:11] Redefining common sense, patriotism as intolerant, xenophobic, but most important, mean. [8:18] If you think about every segment that we do or every position we're on, we are always [8:24] portrayed as mean. [8:26] So when you say men cannot be women, men cannot be in women's sports, you are intolerant and [8:33] you are mean. [8:34] If you say illegals need to be deported, all illegals, I think the worst first. [8:38] But in the long run, you never know who the worst is first because you let them all in. [8:41] Yes. [8:41] That is so mean. [8:44] You think this guy should go to prison? [8:46] I mean, he had a terrible upbringing. [8:48] Yes, he should go away for 25 years. [8:51] That is so mean. [8:52] Every single policy that the Democrats try to shove down your throats is based on the [8:57] fact that somehow when you take a stand to protect your country or your family, it's [9:03] somehow mean. [9:04] This is like, I really do think this is a dangerous culture. [9:07] Now, I keep thinking to myself. [9:09] What if? [9:12] What if white citizenship were gung-ho patriotic Americans who said, we need to do this and [9:18] we align it with a dedicated citizenship assimilation path? [9:24] So we have the American ideal protected, valued, cherished. [9:29] I'd be like, wow, that's pretty amazing that these people feel that way. [9:33] But the problem is the people that are pushing birthright are the people who reject American [9:38] culture, who reject assimilation. [9:41] Who embrace. [9:42] The so-called tenants of diversity and identity politics who believe that America as an idea [9:48] is not just flawed, but evil and in need of radical change. [9:53] So I don't trust. [9:54] This is why all the arguments about birthright citizens are what ifs analogies, Kenjin Jackson [10:01] Brown, my favorite artist was comparing it to getting your wallet stolen in Japan. [10:06] They cannot live in the real world where you see the incentives and you see the actual [10:11] data. [10:12] So instead they live in analogies and then they look at you and they go, you're just [10:18] mean. [10:19] And everybody said, so we have this poll that says you're just really mean for believing [10:23] this way. [10:24] I don't care. [10:25] We're right on this. [10:26] Anybody's an illegal has a baby in your country and that makes that, that baby, it's no dog. [10:34] Does justice Roberts then fall into the category? [10:36] I don't know. [10:37] He's got, I just think that also not right about everything and Supreme courts have made [10:40] decisions and so politicians that have been wrong. [10:42] Okay. [10:43] And we're left that way for a century. [10:46] I can think of a couple of them, Jessica, that were then overturned, but we let Congress [10:50] off the hook over and over again. [10:52] Britain did have birthright citizenship in the late 1800s. [10:55] They changed it by law. [10:57] You can do something without an executive order. [11:00] That's going to fail in the Supreme court. [11:02] It just takes a little gumption. [11:04] Gumption. [11:05] Watch your mouth. [11:06] You and Susie. [11:07] Wow. [11:08] Gumption. [11:10] Be sure to like, and subscribe for all the Fox news latest on YouTube and catch up with [11:11] us. [11:12] We'll see you next time. [11:13] Bye. [11:14] Bye. [11:15] Bye. [11:16] Bye. [11:17] Bye.

Transcribe Any Video or Podcast — Free

Paste a URL and get a full AI-powered transcript in minutes. Try ScribeHawk →