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Helping to secure the blessings of liberty
to

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ourselves and our posterity. This is the
Constitution

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Study on the American Outloud Network with
your

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host, Paul Engel.

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Are you familiar with the game show Let's

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Make a Deal? Well, it seems there are

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those who think that the game show is

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actually an instruction manual for
governing. Hello there,

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everyday Americans, Paul Engel here with a
Constitution

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Study, where we read and study the
Constitution.

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Teacher I actually generation freak. Glad
you could

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join me today. Again, this idea, Let's
Make

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a Deal. And of course, if there's one

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thing that Donald Trump was famous for
before

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becoming president, it was this idea of
the

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deal. He wrote a book, The Art of

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the Deal. He was a real estate in

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Tycoon. I mean, he was all about making

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deals. In his second administration, of
course, there

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was this whole deal with Greenland. First,
he

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wanted to buy Greenland. He started all
this

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in order to get control of Greenland. Now,

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from a defense standpoint, I kind

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of understand the idea, right? If you
understand

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a little bit about uh global navigation,
uh

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most of the routes from our greatest
enemies

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to the United States proper involve

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going over the North Pole, which the
Greenland

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is close to the North Pole. It gives

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us it's a strategic point in on the

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earth. So I kind of understand it. But

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you had this whole thing of, oh my

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God, we gotta, we gotta, why do we

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gotta buy it? Why do we gotta own

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it? Why do we gotta run it? Well,

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of course, that I think was more let's

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make a deal in order to come to

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a negotiated agreement that, well, let's
say is

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a little less insane than the United
States

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buying Greenland. Uh, it involves a lot of

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diff of in areas around defense, right?
About

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military installations and and access to

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property and and the ability to use it

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as a defense platform. But what I found

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most interesting was the number of stories
about

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the deal, which was again recently signed
uh

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by the US, by President Trump and the

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Prime Minister of Greenland and and and
and

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of uh Denmark about this this agreement

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about how to treat Greenland. Greenland
will still

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be a self-governing province of Denmark,

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that doesn't change. Um, the United States
basically

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we take a a previous agreement and we

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kind of extend it for a while, pat

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it out a little bit. But here's the

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interesting thing I thought that I haven't
heard

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anybody on the news mention. A lot of

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people mention that this is a great deal.

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Look at all the signatures, this is
wonderful.

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Um,

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by the way, it doesn't mean anything until

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it's ratified by the governments of
Denmark and

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Greenland.

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What happened to the Senate?

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You see this quote-unquote agreement?

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It's it's a compact, it's an agreement
between

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two or more independent nations, i.e.,

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it's a treaty. And we have in the

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constitution this little thing called the
treaty clause,

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which says the president uh uh shall

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um have the power bind with the advice

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and consent of the senate to make
treaties,

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provided two-thirds of the senators
president concur.

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So this agreement is legally not worth

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the paper it's written on unless and until

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the president gets the advice and consent
of

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the Senate. Yet, in all the news reporting

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I've heard about it, not one person has

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mentioned Senate ratification of this

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treaty. Now, why is this? What's

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going on here? And I have my own

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theories. So I remember when uh

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previous presidents created agreements.
You had

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the Paris Accords, uh Kyoto involving

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um uh you know the climate scare and

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and and plenty others. And this idea that,

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well, the president can sign an agreement
and

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somehow that's legally binding on the
United States.

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Now that's absolutely not true,

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but again, we live in a world where

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truth is basically based on, well,

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whoever has the the the loudest mouthpiece
or

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just the ability to control the media to

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say, oh no, we can do this. Certainly

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it's not the courts that are paying
attention

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to the law. I've talked enough about the

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Supreme Court, and as often as they've
well

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basically ignored the Supreme Law of the
Land

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for their own political agendas. They
don't always

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get it wrong, and not all of them

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get it, not all the justices get it

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wrong. But again, this document is not

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legally binding. In order to be legally
binding

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in the United States, it must be a

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treaty ratified by two-thirds of the
Senate. Then

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it not only becomes legally binding, it
becomes

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a supreme law of the land. Now, again,

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this is important for multiple reasons.
One is,

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well, it's the law. I know it's maybe

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a radical concept, but uh, you know,
following

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a law, especially one that's the supreme
law,

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well, that's would be something I'd
consider rather

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important, especially in an employee
that's representing the

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American people, i.e., a member of
Congress or

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a bureaucrat or anything like that. But to

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me, there's a more important scenario.
See,

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the more the president can make deals that

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are not supported by Congress, that are
not

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ratified by the Senate, the more the
president

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acts like a king. Now, again, I I've

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I talked about this under under Biden, I

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talked about it under Obama, I've been
talking

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about this for years. In fact, well, even

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before this program, I was talking about
it.

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It's our fundamental misunderstanding of
the basic concept

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of the Constitution that leads to this
frightful

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despotism that George Washington warned us
about.

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This uh uh this seeking of an individual

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to uh effectively treat like a king.

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Whether it's an executive order or an

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agreement that's not a treat that's not
treated

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like a treaty, these are all examples of

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the president uh assuming

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dictatorial powers that he doesn't have.
The president

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does not have the legal authority to bind

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us in in any foreign escapade

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without the approval of Congress. That's
why the

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Constitution says, remember, uh Congress
was designed to

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represent the states, the parties to this
compact

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called the Constitution. So, in order for
the

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president to bind the states legally

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to some foreign agreement, it's got to get

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the approval of the Senate. And I don't

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know which disturbs you more, the fact
that

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this agreement, that everyone's focusing
on this agreement

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with Greenland, or that nobody, and again,

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nobody I've heard in the media, I'm not

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saying it hasn't happened, nobody I've
heard has

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once mentioned the need for this to be

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ratified by the Senate.

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Now, what what can we do? Well, from

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what I've seen, most of the agreement has

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to do with military access. And I don't

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know who in the military is going to

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sue the federal government saying you
can't uh

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build that base or expand that base or

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implement that in Greenland because that's
not legally

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binding on the United States. Um, there's

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nothing that actually comes into the
United States

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that is that is part of this. Uh,

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there is some talk of investment in

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rare earth minerals and mining and stuff
up

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in Greenland. But again, if you're a

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company that's in that wants to mine for

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rare earth minerals, you're not going to
complain

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because you're getting what you want.
Who's going

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to complain? Who's going to sue? Who's
going

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to point out, hey, wait a second, this

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is not legally binding on the US? In

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order for that to pop up, you'd have

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to have somebody. I mean, basically, what
happened,

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what the only way I see this happening

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is uh something goes on in Greenland or

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Denmark says, hey, you know, the United
States,

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you've violated this agreement, and they
try to

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sue, and then what the the

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Supreme Court says, oh, sorry, there's no
treaty

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here. This is not legally binding in the

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United States. You don't have standing to
sue.

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I don't know. But to me, and again,

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I don't know if this is a good

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deal or not. I'm not uh, you know,

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when it comes to international diplomacy,
military

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upstanding, it looks like it's got some
good

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stuff. It certainly is not what Donald
Trump

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promised. But then again, I'm not in all

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surprised because Donald Trump's now a
politician. How

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can you tell when a politician is lying?

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Their lips are moving. Uh, you know, so

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uh again, that to me, this is more,

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you know, bombast, right? You you you you

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ask for the moon, you settle for low

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Earth orbit. I mean, that's kind of the

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way the way deals are done. But

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I am somewhat disturbed that not a single

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news outlet I've seen mentioned that, by
the

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way, this doesn't legally bind the United
States

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to anything. Not legally, not

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until it's ratified by the Senate.

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I don't know if the Senate's even looked,

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I don't know if they've been getting a

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copy. I don't know. Tell me, uh, where's

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the senator saying, hey, wait a second,
Ms.

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President Trump? You do realize that this
isn't

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legally binding until we okay it, don't
you?

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Again, another example why I tell people
they

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need to read and study the Constitution
for

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themselves. It's understanding the limits
of these powers.

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This says the president can't uh any
agreement

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the president signed is just an agreement
between

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him and whomever. It has it's not legally

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binding on the United States until it's
ratified

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as a treaty, not with foreign actors. So,

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what could happen? Let's say, let's say um

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uh 2028 elections and um

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Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, some other

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uh uh you know Marxist wack-a-doodle wins
the

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presidency, they could turn around and
say, nope,

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we're just gonna pay no pay no attention

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to this agreement. Uh, because again, it's
not

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legally binding, it's not the supreme law
of

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the land because it wasn't ratified as a

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treaty. Now, again, once it's ratified as
a

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treaty, it's not just legally binding, it
becomes

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a supreme law of the land as long

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as the action is in the authority of

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the United States. So, again, we're
talking about

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setting up military bases, mining
agreements. Is this

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all, you know, interstate commerce, or I
should

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say, foreign commerce? That's within the
authority of

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the United States. I don't see this as

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questioning the authority of the United
States, but

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it's not legally binding. It becomes a
supreme

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law of the land when two-thirds of the

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Senate agrees to it. When they

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ratify, when they consent to this. And

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uh really, do you think that's gonna
happen

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right now? Is it simply people are
ignoring

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it because they don't think it's gonna
happen?

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In other words, i is this just more

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political shenanigans? Oh, well, you see,
we

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don't want this, you know, we don't think

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it's gonna pass, we're not gonna mention
that,

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we're not gonna talk about that. But
again,

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I'm surprised even the senators that are
maybe

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opposed to this uh deal, and I'm sure

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they're out there. Why are they not
mentioning

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it? Have we just completely lost the
point,

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the plot of the American Republic, the

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Constitutional Republic? That the
president is not the,

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you know, he's the commander-in-chief of
the military,

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he's not the king. He doesn't get to

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make deals, he gets to propose deals.

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He can make deals with the advice and

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consent of the Senate, but not all on

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his own. Why is this idea lost? Could

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it be that our civics education is so

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flawed in this nation that we don't even

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most Americans don't even realize they
don't see

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the problem here? Now, whether you think
this

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is a good deal or not, I don't

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know. Right? You're free to your opinion.
Whether

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you think it's something we should do or

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not do, that's an interesting debate. And
that's

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a debate I'd like to see happen. But

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the fact that people aren't even talking
about

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this going before the Senate, um well,

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that concerns me. I mean, I even went

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to the Senate website, Sen.gov, and I
searched

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for Greenland, and there's literally
nothing about

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Greenland on the agenda anywhere. In fact,
the

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only mention of Greenland is described in
a

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painting entitled Leave Ericsson Discovers

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America, AD 1000. So the Senate isn't

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looking at this, and in Paris, nobody else

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is. And again, I wonder why. What

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can we learn? What can we learn from

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this? Um, well, it learns that uh yeah,

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the frightful despotism apparently is
alive

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and well, because now the American people
are

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once again treating the president as a
king

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and uh pretty much letting him do whatever

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he wants to. All right, yeah, there's the

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lawsuits about things, but I find it uh

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again, part of me just finds it
interesting

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that people will will get all bent out

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of shape and sue about certain things, but

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here you have a president acting like a

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king, signing a treaty, right? They call
it

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an agreement, but it's it's a treaty, it's

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an agreement between nations. Um, and uh

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everyone's thinking, well, this is now
true, this

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is gonna happen because well, the
president signed

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it without the advice and consent of the

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Senate. Again, to me, this is a concern.

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Am I the only one? Are there other

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people out there that are concerned? If
so,

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hey, please let me know. Uh, this will

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post uh on the website in a couple

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days. You know, comment, let me know. What

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do you think? Am I am I missing

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something? Is there a clause of the
constitution

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I'm not thinking about? Or is there some

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other scenario where this

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Greenland agreement becomes legally
binding without the

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advice and consent of the Senate? And what

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does it say about our federal government?
What

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does it say about the American people that

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they're willing for this to pretend to go

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into effect even though it's not legally
binding

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because it was never ratified by the
Senate?

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What does that mean about the American
Republic?

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Because I see no good answer, I see

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no good outcome of this ignoring

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of the Constitution, even for whether it's

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political games or foreign affair games,
any of

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this. I I don't I don't see it.

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Again, it's nothing new, but

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it's the latest issue, and it's it's one

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that's well, it's top of mind because
people

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have been talking about it. Now, I have

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a break coming up before I go, you

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know, the other thing people have been
talking

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about, they're still talking about COVID
and the

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impact of COVID. And of course, I talk

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about the impact of well what government
did

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under COVID. Would that be the the
shutting

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down of businesses to the the mandating

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of uh experimental treatments? Yeah, the

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the the so-called uh COVID vaccine, which
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a there's a certain logic to that, except

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It means country is not a certain area

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of land of mountains, rivers and wavers.

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And I'm looking at some of these deals

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that are being made that completely
divorce themselves

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from the Supreme Law Land. I talked in

00:20:38.720 --> 00:20:41.360
the first segment about the Greenland
deal. And

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again, whether or not the deal itself is

00:20:43.440 --> 00:20:45.600
a good one is not the point. It's

00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:47.360
the fact that nobody's talking about the
fact

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that it doesn't legally bind the United
States

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unless and until the Senate ratifies it,

00:20:53.280 --> 00:20:56.080
uh consents to it via a two-thirds
majority.

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So uh that's one thing. Well, here's a

00:20:58.320 --> 00:21:00.080
new one. This one actually was reported
by,

00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:02.640
I think it was CBS News first broke

00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:05.520
this one. And uh I I'm actually reading

00:21:05.520 --> 00:21:06.960
it on the Daily Caller, and it's funny

00:21:07.040 --> 00:21:09.520
because they talk about um the title is

00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:12.640
Trump invokes rare authority to cancel
nearly a

00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:15.520
billion dollars in congressionally
approved spending.

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And uh the White House, it was last

00:21:18.160 --> 00:21:21.280
Friday, announced that they're gonna
rescind roughly $800

00:21:21.280 --> 00:21:24.640
million in appropriated funds through

00:21:24.640 --> 00:21:27.520
what's called pocket rescission, which is
just a

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fancy political term for the executive
doing what

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the executive does. Now, as a bit of

00:21:32.880 --> 00:21:36.240
a reminder, under the Constitution,
Congress

00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:39.280
appropriates money, right? It's Congress
that

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appropriates the money, but it's still the

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executive that uh spends the money.

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Right? I know it's it's it's a uh

00:21:47.760 --> 00:21:49.600
it's it's a bit of a thing, but

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it's important to understand. It's part of
the

00:21:51.360 --> 00:21:54.560
checks and balances. See, under Article 1,

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Section 9, we read, no money shall be

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drawn from the treasury, but in
consequence of

00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:03.920
appropriations made by law. So before

00:22:03.920 --> 00:22:05.520
money can be pulled from the treasury, the

00:22:05.520 --> 00:22:07.920
treasury is part of the executive branch,
right?

00:22:08.080 --> 00:22:09.520
So before money can be spent from the

00:22:09.520 --> 00:22:12.320
treasury, there must be a law
appropriating the

00:22:12.320 --> 00:22:15.280
funds. But the appropriation of funds is
not

00:22:15.600 --> 00:22:18.880
the requirement to spend the funds. Right?

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I know it's a little crazy here, but

00:22:21.520 --> 00:22:24.720
remember, there's there's permission and
there's action.

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For example, right, uh uh let's say a

00:22:28.240 --> 00:22:30.880
husband uh uh decides that that he wants

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to buy a new car. And he talks

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to his wife and he gets permission to

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spend the money to buy a new car.

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The wife appropriates it, but the husband
goes

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out and writes the check and actually buys

00:22:40.800 --> 00:22:42.400
the car, or I guess signs the loan

00:22:42.400 --> 00:22:44.880
nowadays, but it's kind of understanding
that that's

00:22:44.880 --> 00:22:46.080
how I know that's I know that's kind

00:22:46.080 --> 00:22:48.720
of strange for Americans nowadays. But
yeah, there's

00:22:48.720 --> 00:22:51.360
a difference between appropriation and
actual spending. There's

00:22:51.360 --> 00:22:54.480
permission and action. Now, why is this
important?

00:22:54.560 --> 00:22:57.280
Well, again, since Congress appropriates
money,

00:22:58.240 --> 00:23:00.880
does that require that the president spend
that

00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:04.000
money? And that's always been that's been,
especially

00:23:04.000 --> 00:23:06.400
lately, uh an interesting

00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:08.320
argument.

00:23:09.440 --> 00:23:10.800
I mean, first, like I said, you got

00:23:10.880 --> 00:23:12.480
the separation of powers. You have checks
and

00:23:12.480 --> 00:23:15.680
balances. One body appropriates, the other
body

00:23:15.680 --> 00:23:18.240
spends. I think, like I said, I'm on

00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:20.720
the board of a nonprofit, right? The
nonprofit,

00:23:20.880 --> 00:23:24.000
the board may approve the spending of
money,

00:23:24.080 --> 00:23:25.440
but it's still got to be spent by

00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:28.160
somebody. We don't actually cut the
checks. In

00:23:28.160 --> 00:23:30.960
the government way, the the Congress can
appropriate

00:23:30.960 --> 00:23:32.320
the money, but it's still up to the

00:23:32.320 --> 00:23:34.800
president or the tr uh, or they should

00:23:34.880 --> 00:23:37.600
say the executive authority vested in the
president

00:23:37.840 --> 00:23:39.920
to actually spend the money, to draw the

00:23:39.920 --> 00:23:43.200
money from the treasury. Um, that's

00:23:43.600 --> 00:23:45.440
done by the the president. Now, why is

00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:48.800
this important? Well, we've never seen
Congress approve

00:23:48.800 --> 00:23:52.160
money that that isn't needed anymore.
We've

00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:54.480
never seen them appropriate money for
things that

00:23:54.480 --> 00:23:57.760
are politically stupid uh or politically
motivated.

00:23:57.840 --> 00:24:01.200
We've never seen, right? No, it always
happens.

00:24:01.840 --> 00:24:05.200
So here's where we're sitting now. So the

00:24:05.200 --> 00:24:08.560
Trump administration says it's roughly
$810 million

00:24:09.920 --> 00:24:12.240
is no longer necessary. In fact, most of

00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:14.800
it um was appropriate for health and human

00:24:14.800 --> 00:24:18.080
services to fund nonprofits serving

00:24:18.080 --> 00:24:21.440
refugees and asylumes that but we don't

00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:24.080
have as many anymore. In fact, officials
in

00:24:24.080 --> 00:24:26.400
the Trump administration said we don't
need the

00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:29.280
money because illegal crossings have
fallen so

00:24:29.280 --> 00:24:32.640
sharply under the Trump administration
that we don't

00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:35.040
need so much money. So why should we

00:24:35.040 --> 00:24:37.920
spend money we don't need? Isn't that
wasteful

00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:41.120
and harmful to taxpayers? Now

00:24:41.200 --> 00:24:43.520
there's other money, right? There's what
the administration

00:24:43.520 --> 00:24:46.720
calls the Woke International Education
Fund for the

00:24:46.720 --> 00:24:50.000
uh housing and urban development, um,
grants

00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:52.960
for migrant student education that
includes uh

00:24:52.960 --> 00:24:56.160
therapy for Latinx workshops. Yeah,

00:24:56.240 --> 00:24:58.240
there's a whole lot of crazy political
nonsense

00:24:58.240 --> 00:25:00.080
in here. Again, it's one thing to
appropriate

00:25:00.080 --> 00:25:01.760
the money, it's nothing to spend the
money.

00:25:01.920 --> 00:25:04.240
So here's the interesting question. The
question I

00:25:04.240 --> 00:25:07.680
have as a constitutional scholar is this

00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:11.360
really a rare budgetary tool, as some

00:25:11.360 --> 00:25:14.400
people describe this pocket rescission, or
is this

00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:17.440
simply the president actually doing his
job?

00:25:17.760 --> 00:25:21.120
Saying, listen, as a as a constitutionally
created

00:25:21.120 --> 00:25:24.080
office with the with all the executive
authority

00:25:24.080 --> 00:25:27.360
of the United States vested in me, should

00:25:27.360 --> 00:25:29.200
I be spending money on this? Now, he

00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:32.560
can't spend money that Congress doesn't
appropriate appropriate,

00:25:32.640 --> 00:25:34.240
but does he have to spend all the

00:25:34.240 --> 00:25:37.600
money that Congress appropriates? I've
told the story

00:25:37.600 --> 00:25:40.080
before. See, when I worked in in corporate

00:25:40.080 --> 00:25:42.480
America, uh I had a lot of customers

00:25:42.480 --> 00:25:45.680
that were most state and local agencies.
And

00:25:45.760 --> 00:25:48.320
uh yeah, every year, right about this
time,

00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:51.440
usually, I'd be getting a phone call or

00:25:51.440 --> 00:25:54.560
an email from somebody saying, Hey, I've
got

00:25:54.560 --> 00:25:56.720
money I haven't spent for my budget. I

00:25:56.720 --> 00:25:58.880
have to spend it, otherwise, I get my

00:25:58.880 --> 00:26:00.800
budget gets cut next year. So, what can

00:26:00.800 --> 00:26:02.160
I spend money on?

00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:05.200
That was common, and that wasn't that that

00:26:05.200 --> 00:26:06.160
was, I mean, I had it in New

00:26:06.240 --> 00:26:08.400
York, I had it here in Tennessee.
Everywhere

00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:11.600
I went, this was a common occurrence. It's

00:26:11.600 --> 00:26:14.080
this mentality of once money has been
appropriate,

00:26:14.240 --> 00:26:16.080
we have to spend it, otherwise, we get

00:26:16.080 --> 00:26:19.280
less next year. And again, to me, that's

00:26:19.760 --> 00:26:23.040
that's problematic. So when I

00:26:23.040 --> 00:26:25.040
talk about the deficit and the debt, you

00:26:25.040 --> 00:26:27.680
know, I most uh frequently focus on
Congress

00:26:27.840 --> 00:26:30.640
because Congress has the power of the
purse,

00:26:30.800 --> 00:26:33.440
they have the power to appropriate money,
to

00:26:33.440 --> 00:26:36.800
authorize the spending of money. Um can

00:26:36.800 --> 00:26:40.080
they compel the spending of money? That to

00:26:40.080 --> 00:26:42.320
me is an interesting question. Right? Do
they

00:26:42.320 --> 00:26:45.120
have the power to tell the president you

00:26:45.120 --> 00:26:47.280
must spend this money? Um

00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:49.760
I don't know, maybe

00:26:50.800 --> 00:26:53.040
because it's law and he's required to
faithfully

00:26:53.040 --> 00:26:56.000
fulfill the laws. The question is does the

00:26:56.000 --> 00:26:59.200
simple appropriation involve the automatic
you have to

00:26:59.200 --> 00:27:01.200
spend the money? And to me, the answer

00:27:01.200 --> 00:27:03.520
is no, and I'd even go so far

00:27:03.520 --> 00:27:06.880
as um the Congress as a as

00:27:06.880 --> 00:27:10.080
a separate branch of government, um, their
ability

00:27:10.080 --> 00:27:12.480
to compel the president, um

00:27:14.000 --> 00:27:16.560
I can't say it's absolute, right? And and

00:27:16.560 --> 00:27:18.160
the only reason I say that is yes,

00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:20.320
he's required to faithfully execute the
law of

00:27:20.400 --> 00:27:23.040
the United States, but only laws that are

00:27:23.280 --> 00:27:26.080
actual the Supreme Law Land that are
actually

00:27:26.080 --> 00:27:29.440
um made pursuant to the Constitution. So

00:27:29.520 --> 00:27:31.680
if Congress were to uh tell the president

00:27:31.680 --> 00:27:34.560
to spend money on something that's
blatantly unconstitutional,

00:27:34.720 --> 00:27:36.720
I think his oath of office required him

00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:38.800
to put the supreme law of land above

00:27:38.800 --> 00:27:41.360
an act of Congress and not spend the

00:27:41.360 --> 00:27:44.240
money. But I rarely see those types of

00:27:44.400 --> 00:27:46.640
arguments, mainly because, well, I don't
even know

00:27:46.640 --> 00:27:49.200
that most people, much less most
politicians,

00:27:49.520 --> 00:27:52.640
understand these particular powers and
their uh

00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:53.600
limitations.

00:27:54.640 --> 00:27:56.800
Speaking of powers and limitations, let's
talk about

00:27:56.800 --> 00:27:58.800
the Department of Energy. Now, again, I've
said

00:27:58.800 --> 00:28:00.640
it before, I'll say it again. The
Department

00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:03.120
of Energy does not legally exist.

00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:07.600
Why? Well, because Alexander Hamilton in

00:28:07.600 --> 00:28:09.680
Federal 78 and the Supreme Court in at

00:28:09.680 --> 00:28:12.480
least three cases have said that
legislative acts

00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:14.640
contrary to the Constitution cannot be
valid. They

00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:17.040
are void, they are empty, they are
meaningless.

00:28:17.280 --> 00:28:19.520
And since nothing in the Constitution
delegates to

00:28:19.520 --> 00:28:22.000
the United States the power to regulate
energy,

00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:24.240
well, then the Department of Energy is the

00:28:24.560 --> 00:28:28.000
when Congress uh passed the act that

00:28:28.000 --> 00:28:30.000
created it, that was not a power delegated

00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:31.600
to the United States. That was an
unconstitutional

00:28:31.600 --> 00:28:33.680
act. That act is therefore void. The
Department

00:28:33.680 --> 00:28:35.920
of Energy, therefore, does not legally
exist, even

00:28:35.920 --> 00:28:38.720
though it is, it exists. It's there, but

00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:41.840
its legal powers are, well, shaky at best

00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:43.840
if we actually follow the Supreme Law of

00:28:43.840 --> 00:28:46.080
the Land. Now, this is where life gets

00:28:46.080 --> 00:28:49.120
interesting, though. So the current energy
secretary, Chris

00:28:49.120 --> 00:28:52.400
Wright, has been ordering certain coal

00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:55.120
plants to remain in operation past their
planned

00:28:55.120 --> 00:28:58.480
retirement date. Now, the Department

00:28:58.480 --> 00:29:00.960
of Energy announced on September 19th that
they

00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:04.240
were ordering uh Indiana's R.M. Schaefer
and F.B.

00:29:04.320 --> 00:29:07.440
Cully coal plants to remain open and
available

00:29:07.440 --> 00:29:10.800
through December 18th. Now, this gets
interesting

00:29:10.800 --> 00:29:12.880
for a couple of reasons. First, uh the

00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:15.120
U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit

00:29:15.360 --> 00:29:18.240
vacated a previous emergency order uh

00:29:18.560 --> 00:29:21.600
for Michigan's J. H Campbell coal plant,

00:29:21.760 --> 00:29:25.040
um, which the the uh secretary had issued

00:29:25.040 --> 00:29:28.000
back in May of 2025. Again, the the

00:29:28.160 --> 00:29:30.640
plants had planned to retire, and that you

00:29:30.640 --> 00:29:33.760
now have the secretary ordering ordering
private

00:29:33.760 --> 00:29:36.800
companies to keep these plans, these
plants

00:29:37.120 --> 00:29:37.760
open.

00:29:38.800 --> 00:29:41.440
Now, if the DC circuit for uh has

00:29:41.440 --> 00:29:44.320
already vacated his order for the Michigan
plant,

00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:45.920
why would they issue new orders for these

00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:48.720
two Indiana plants? Well, the Department
of Energy

00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:51.120
disagrees with the decision and as a
statement

00:29:51.120 --> 00:29:54.080
made, is working with the Department of
Justice

00:29:54.080 --> 00:29:57.040
to assess uh repealing and and and he

00:29:57.200 --> 00:29:59.600
appeal options. So we don't we think it's

00:29:59.680 --> 00:30:01.280
we we don't think the court got it

00:30:01.280 --> 00:30:03.600
right. We want to appeal. We want this

00:30:03.600 --> 00:30:04.720
to be reheard.

00:30:05.920 --> 00:30:08.400
Now, according to a press release, uh the

00:30:08.400 --> 00:30:10.960
Department of Energy says forcing coal
generation off

00:30:10.960 --> 00:30:14.400
the grid would compromise energy
reliability and needlessly

00:30:14.560 --> 00:30:17.440
raise energy costs for Americans. And
again, that's

00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:19.920
an interesting point. I I heard a report,

00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:21.840
I haven't been able to fully vet it

00:30:21.840 --> 00:30:24.800
yet, but the report claimed that um uh

00:30:24.880 --> 00:30:27.280
you know the Americans pay on average 12

00:30:27.280 --> 00:30:30.400
cents a kilowatt hour uh um for

00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:33.840
our our electricity. Now, what's
interesting

00:30:33.840 --> 00:30:36.560
is China, which builds something like a
new

00:30:36.560 --> 00:30:38.880
coal fire plant every month or something
like

00:30:38.880 --> 00:30:42.000
that, they pay four cents a kilowatt hour

00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:44.720
to burn coal, which they then use to

00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:47.440
make uh solar panels that they sell to

00:30:47.440 --> 00:30:49.760
Americans so that we can generate power at

00:30:49.760 --> 00:30:52.080
12 cents a kilowatt hour. Sounds like
they're

00:30:52.080 --> 00:30:54.800
making quite a deal. Now, again, I
understand

00:30:54.800 --> 00:30:56.720
the concerns about pollution. I lived in
upstate

00:30:56.720 --> 00:30:59.120
New York, I dealt with acid rain. Uh,

00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:01.760
there are technologies that can help
mitigate that.

00:31:01.840 --> 00:31:04.240
I understand that, but I have a problem

00:31:04.240 --> 00:31:06.960
here. And the problem is where in the

00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:09.200
Constitution does the United States get
the authority

00:31:09.200 --> 00:31:12.080
to order a corporation to keep a plant

00:31:12.080 --> 00:31:15.360
open for their own benefit. And again,

00:31:15.440 --> 00:31:17.200
it's not just these plants, there are
other

00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:20.320
plants that are impacted by this whole
brouhaha

00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:23.280
about whether or not the Department of
Energy

00:31:23.280 --> 00:31:26.320
has the authority to order a private
company

00:31:26.320 --> 00:31:29.280
to continue operations past their planned

00:31:29.280 --> 00:31:32.640
retirement date. Now, looking at the

00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:35.520
uh Campbell plant in Michigan, it's

00:31:35.520 --> 00:31:37.600
reported that uh it was supposed to shut

00:31:37.600 --> 00:31:39.680
down in May of 2025, it was supposed

00:31:39.680 --> 00:31:42.240
to retire. The fact that it kept open

00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:45.040
because the federal government illegally
demanded that they

00:31:45.040 --> 00:31:48.320
do so has cost almost 260 million dollars.

00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:50.960
In other words, according to the financial
filings,

00:31:51.200 --> 00:31:54.320
um, this company is losing money because

00:31:54.560 --> 00:31:57.600
of the plan. Now, I

00:31:57.600 --> 00:32:00.880
understand the concerns about the the
energy grid.

00:32:01.280 --> 00:32:03.040
Uh, you know, we don't you know the

00:32:03.040 --> 00:32:04.240
part of the problem is you don't produce

00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:05.920
enough energy. Part of the problem is we

00:32:05.920 --> 00:32:08.160
don't have enough grid infrastructure, to
my understanding

00:32:08.240 --> 00:32:11.360
of the but here's the interesting thing.

00:32:11.680 --> 00:32:14.320
You see, the judge in the case, a

00:32:14.320 --> 00:32:17.600
uh uh Cornelia Pillard, uh

00:32:17.920 --> 00:32:21.040
said, basically, you know, what the states
have

00:32:21.040 --> 00:32:24.400
the responsibility uh to plan for and

00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:27.760
avert risk to reliability on an ongoing
basis.

00:32:27.920 --> 00:32:31.040
In other words, we want this plant closed,

00:32:31.280 --> 00:32:33.520
and um it's up to the states to

00:32:33.520 --> 00:32:35.520
figure out how to fund power without it.

00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:38.800
Again, I understand the dichotomy here,
right? There's

00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:40.400
with when I was in IT, there was

00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:42.080
no saying you can have it quick, you

00:32:42.080 --> 00:32:43.280
can have it fast, you can have it

00:32:43.280 --> 00:32:46.240
right, pick two. All right, you can't have

00:32:46.240 --> 00:32:49.520
everything you want. Now, again, our our
our

00:32:49.840 --> 00:32:52.880
fear of coal uh I think is

00:32:53.040 --> 00:32:53.360
is

00:32:54.400 --> 00:32:56.640
there's a rationale for it that is no

00:32:56.640 --> 00:32:59.040
longer maybe as rational as necessary.
Meaning I

00:32:59.040 --> 00:33:01.360
I think it's kind of gone too far.

00:33:01.520 --> 00:33:03.040
I I think it, you know, it doesn't

00:33:03.040 --> 00:33:06.320
deal with modern technology. But there's
also the

00:33:06.320 --> 00:33:09.360
concern of, you know, we are a
power-hungry

00:33:09.360 --> 00:33:12.400
nation. And we have done everything we can

00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:14.880
to prevent the development of nuclear
power, especially

00:33:14.880 --> 00:33:17.920
safer, more reliable versions of nuclear
power.

00:33:18.160 --> 00:33:21.200
Um we've, you know, uh uh we've

00:33:21.520 --> 00:33:24.960
we've demonized coal, we've demonized uh
uh

00:33:25.120 --> 00:33:27.840
oil and and natural gas. You gotta get

00:33:27.840 --> 00:33:31.040
your power somewhere. I don't know if

00:33:31.040 --> 00:33:34.320
this judge made this decision because she
hates

00:33:34.320 --> 00:33:37.440
coal-powered plants and wants them shut
down. Or

00:33:37.600 --> 00:33:39.120
if she actually looked at the constitution
and

00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:40.640
said, wait a second, the pr the the

00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:43.600
executive branch doesn't have the
authority to order

00:33:43.600 --> 00:33:46.960
a private company to keep operating. Um
they

00:33:47.120 --> 00:33:49.920
have a contract, I'm assuming, when that
contract

00:33:49.920 --> 00:33:52.960
expires, it expires. And uh

00:33:53.280 --> 00:33:54.960
uh I I do like the fact that

00:33:55.040 --> 00:33:56.160
she said it was up to the states,

00:33:56.240 --> 00:33:58.800
not the federal government, to deal with
um

00:33:58.800 --> 00:34:02.000
availability. But you know, I I keep

00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:03.680
coming back to this. Where in the in

00:34:03.680 --> 00:34:06.000
the constitution is the federal government
authorized to

00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:09.440
regulate energy? Where they authorized to
tell

00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:12.560
private organizations to remain open.
Again, we're not

00:34:12.640 --> 00:34:15.040
you know, are we talking a national
emergency?

00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:17.120
No. What is he saying? It's gonna cost

00:34:17.120 --> 00:34:19.040
more for your electricity. Well, guess
what? If

00:34:19.040 --> 00:34:22.480
electricity cost more, maybe these coal
fire, this

00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:25.040
coal fired plant, this Campbell plant,
wouldn't be

00:34:25.040 --> 00:34:28.320
losing so much money. Uh uh again,

00:34:28.400 --> 00:34:30.240
you you you're this is a kind of

00:34:30.240 --> 00:34:33.200
a backhanded tax, you know. Um

00:34:33.520 --> 00:34:35.920
you can't shut down, you're losing money,
but

00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:37.200
we're not gonna let you shut down, so

00:34:37.200 --> 00:34:38.880
you got to pay a tax so that

00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:40.240
you we get what we want. Only you're

00:34:40.240 --> 00:34:41.680
not really paying a tax, you're paying to

00:34:41.680 --> 00:34:44.560
operate something at a loss. Uh, that's
what

00:34:44.560 --> 00:34:47.600
communist countries do, ladies and
gentlemen. Is that

00:34:47.600 --> 00:34:50.720
really what we want for this country? Is

00:34:50.720 --> 00:34:52.880
it, hey, let's make a deal. We'll sell

00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:54.640
our rights in order to get uh to

00:34:54.640 --> 00:34:57.120
get electricity, and that includes the
right to

00:34:57.120 --> 00:34:59.600
say, I've had enough, I want to quit.

00:35:00.160 --> 00:35:02.480
I mean, just imagine a situation where
you're

00:35:02.480 --> 00:35:05.200
unhappy with your job, you don't think
you're

00:35:05.200 --> 00:35:07.280
making enough money, you go into the boss

00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:08.720
and you say, you go to your manager

00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:10.560
and you say, Hey, I'm I'm gonna quit.

00:35:10.640 --> 00:35:12.720
You know, I'm here's my retirement date.
Um,

00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:14.960
pick a date, I'm gonna retire then. And

00:35:14.960 --> 00:35:16.880
then the boss comes in and says, No,

00:35:16.960 --> 00:35:19.520
you can't retire. Yeah, but I'm not making

00:35:19.520 --> 00:35:21.280
enough money. It doesn't matter, you can't
retire.

00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:23.280
We're not you can't quit. If you don't

00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:25.600
quit, we're gonna uh, I don't know, sue

00:35:25.600 --> 00:35:27.680
you, uh, you know, put a lien on

00:35:27.680 --> 00:35:30.320
your home, whatever. That's kind of what's
happening

00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:33.680
here at the federal government level. But
again,

00:35:33.760 --> 00:35:35.600
that's the problem with let's make a deal

00:35:35.680 --> 00:35:38.160
is when you dump power in a central

00:35:38.160 --> 00:35:41.040
government like we have, you end up with

00:35:41.040 --> 00:35:44.320
uh tyrannical central governments. Okay,

00:35:44.480 --> 00:35:46.560
listen, I have another break coming up. Uh

00:35:46.720 --> 00:35:48.640
before I go, though, you know, I want

00:35:48.640 --> 00:35:50.560
to remind you, you have a choice of

00:35:50.560 --> 00:35:52.560
who you do business with. You look at

00:35:52.720 --> 00:35:53.920
what's going on around you and you say,

00:35:54.080 --> 00:35:56.400
Oh, you know, we've got the craziness
going

00:35:56.400 --> 00:35:58.480
on here, we've got the Greenland deal,
we've

00:35:58.480 --> 00:36:00.400
got this, we got elections, we got all

00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:03.040
these craziness. And uh what are we gonna

00:36:03.040 --> 00:36:05.040
do? Well, believe it or not, you may

00:36:05.040 --> 00:36:07.280
be funding some of the craziness. Well,
what

00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:08.640
do I mean? I don't mean you're cutting

00:36:08.640 --> 00:36:10.800
them a check. I mean you're doing business

00:36:10.800 --> 00:36:13.120
with companies that are supporting
organizations that may

00:36:13.120 --> 00:36:14.800
be trying to shut down all the coal

00:36:14.800 --> 00:36:17.520
plants or or you know are trying to

00:36:17.520 --> 00:36:20.960
to kill the the the uh uh the

00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:23.680
Greenland deal. See, you're buying you're
doing business

00:36:23.680 --> 00:36:26.240
with companies and they're funding these
organizations that

00:36:26.240 --> 00:36:29.520
you disagree with with your money. Now,

00:36:29.600 --> 00:36:30.880
how do you make sure you buy from

00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:32.880
companies that believe what you and I
believe?

00:36:33.120 --> 00:36:35.200
Well, it starts a little bit of research.

00:36:35.600 --> 00:36:38.160
For example, I joined Patriot Mobile years
ago,

00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:40.800
not because they're America's only
Christian conservative water

00:36:41.040 --> 00:36:43.200
provider. Yes, I'm a Christian. Most
people would

00:36:43.200 --> 00:36:45.040
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Today we're talking about let's make a
deal.

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And well, sometimes that deal is just um

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it's just plain goofy. It's just plain
strange.

00:40:51.120 --> 00:40:53.600
It just plain makes no sense, at least

00:40:53.600 --> 00:40:56.560
as far as I'm concerned. Um let's go

00:40:56.560 --> 00:40:58.240
back to Missouri. This is kind of a

00:40:58.320 --> 00:41:00.480
uh is it three strikes and you're out?

00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:03.920
So for the third time, uh

00:41:04.720 --> 00:41:07.200
Missouri has gone to the Supreme Court to

00:41:07.200 --> 00:41:09.280
overturn the decision of the state Supreme
Court.

00:41:09.440 --> 00:41:11.120
Let me back up a little bit. So

00:41:11.280 --> 00:41:14.720
in 2022, the Missouri legislature

00:41:14.720 --> 00:41:16.480
passed a redistricting map. I think it was

00:41:16.560 --> 00:41:18.800
2022 is when they passed the map. Um

00:41:19.120 --> 00:41:20.960
that's called we we call it the 22

00:41:20.960 --> 00:41:21.200
map.

00:41:22.320 --> 00:41:25.280
Now, the in response to Donald Trump and

00:41:25.280 --> 00:41:28.240
several other states, Missouri went
through another

00:41:28.240 --> 00:41:31.360
redistricting process and and passed a new
map

00:41:31.360 --> 00:41:32.880
in 2025.

00:41:33.760 --> 00:41:36.160
Now, not everybody in Missouri is happy
with

00:41:36.160 --> 00:41:39.360
that map. Why? Well, under the 22 map,

00:41:39.440 --> 00:41:42.560
it's expected that um the Republican

00:41:42.560 --> 00:41:45.600
seats of the of the uh eight

00:41:45.600 --> 00:41:49.040
seats available to Missouri in

00:41:49.040 --> 00:41:52.400
the House of Representatives, six would go
to

00:41:52.400 --> 00:41:55.680
Republicans and two to Democrats. Right?
So the

00:41:55.680 --> 00:41:57.360
the way the map is laid out, six

00:41:57.360 --> 00:42:00.400
districts are are heavily Republican, two
are heavily

00:42:00.400 --> 00:42:03.760
Democratic. The 2025 map would

00:42:03.760 --> 00:42:07.040
change that to seven districts heavily
Republican, one

00:42:07.200 --> 00:42:09.440
heavily Democratic, meaning a and they
would the

00:42:09.440 --> 00:42:11.680
Republicans in Missouri would pick up an
extra

00:42:11.680 --> 00:42:13.680
seat in the House of Representatives. So,
of

00:42:13.680 --> 00:42:15.760
course, I'm sure the groups that are not

00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:17.520
happy about this are

00:42:18.480 --> 00:42:21.600
Democrats. I understand completely.

00:42:22.160 --> 00:42:25.120
So what did they do? Well, um,
interesting,

00:42:25.280 --> 00:42:28.000
they didn't sue, or in this case, the

00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:30.800
issue isn't sue. The issue is they
proposed

00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:33.760
a referendum for the people to vote on

00:42:33.760 --> 00:42:36.400
whether or not to adopt the new map.

00:42:36.800 --> 00:42:40.240
Now, the Missouri Supreme Court decided
unanimously

00:42:40.240 --> 00:42:42.800
back on September 3rd that the state had

00:42:42.800 --> 00:42:45.280
to use a 22 map for elections until

00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:47.040
the people had a chance to vote on

00:42:47.040 --> 00:42:49.920
this referendum. The referendum got enough
uh petition

00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:52.960
signatures to be on the ballot. Then that

00:42:53.040 --> 00:42:55.600
then, according to the Supreme Court of
Missouri,

00:42:55.760 --> 00:42:57.760
that map cannot take effect until the
people

00:42:57.760 --> 00:43:00.400
vote on it. There's there's a city bitty

00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:01.920
little problem. And I'm gonna get to that

00:43:01.920 --> 00:43:03.360
problem in just a minute. But here's what

00:43:03.360 --> 00:43:06.400
happened. So this group called um uh what

00:43:06.400 --> 00:43:09.280
do they call them, People Not Politicians,
they

00:43:09.520 --> 00:43:12.720
sued, they petitioned the Supreme Court to

00:43:13.040 --> 00:43:16.240
uh overturn the or to stay the

00:43:16.240 --> 00:43:19.040
decision of the Supreme Court of Missouri.
Now,

00:43:19.120 --> 00:43:22.400
here's the interesting thing. I have no
clue

00:43:22.720 --> 00:43:24.880
where they seem to think the Supreme Court

00:43:24.880 --> 00:43:27.360
of the United States has jurisdiction. Or
in

00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:30.560
fact, any federal court, because Article
3, Section

00:43:30.560 --> 00:43:32.320
2 of the Constitution says the judicial
power

00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:34.960
selects into all cases in law and equity

00:43:34.960 --> 00:43:37.120
arising under this constitution, the laws
of the

00:43:37.120 --> 00:43:38.880
United States, and treaties made which
shall be

00:43:38.880 --> 00:43:41.200
made under their authority, to all cases
affecting

00:43:41.200 --> 00:43:43.680
ambassadors, other public ministers and
councils, to all

00:43:43.680 --> 00:43:47.040
cases of admiralty and maritime
jurisdiction, to controversies

00:43:47.120 --> 00:43:48.560
to which the United States shall be party,

00:43:48.720 --> 00:43:51.600
to controversies between two or more
states, between

00:43:51.600 --> 00:43:53.680
a citizen, a state and a citizen of

00:43:53.680 --> 00:43:55.520
another state, or between citizens of a
different

00:43:55.520 --> 00:43:57.360
state, between citizens of the same state
claiming

00:43:57.360 --> 00:43:59.840
lands under grants of different states, or
between

00:43:59.840 --> 00:44:01.920
a state or citizen thereof and a foreign

00:44:01.920 --> 00:44:04.560
state, citizens or subjects. In other
words, nothing

00:44:04.560 --> 00:44:07.680
about citizens suing their own state. This
is

00:44:07.680 --> 00:44:10.240
not within the federal jurisdiction.

00:44:11.280 --> 00:44:12.960
So I questioned why they went to the

00:44:12.960 --> 00:44:14.560
Supreme Court in the first place. And I

00:44:14.560 --> 00:44:17.760
haven't seen actually anything that
actually explained

00:44:17.760 --> 00:44:19.920
what where they seem to get uh uh

00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:22.960
uh the Supreme Court gets jurisdiction.
Right. Now,

00:44:23.040 --> 00:44:24.640
the first couple times that this went to

00:44:24.640 --> 00:44:26.400
the Supreme Court, they simply said, no,
we're

00:44:26.400 --> 00:44:29.360
not hearing this. And they didn't explain
why.

00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:32.720
The third time, though, well, they offered
an

00:44:32.720 --> 00:44:35.920
opinion that uh, again, was

00:44:35.920 --> 00:44:38.560
unsigned. Nobody put their name on this,
so

00:44:38.560 --> 00:44:40.320
we don't know anything about it. But it

00:44:40.320 --> 00:44:43.520
reads Um, in 2022, the Missouri

00:44:43.520 --> 00:44:46.320
legislature enacted redistricting map for
the elections to

00:44:46.320 --> 00:44:49.200
the U.S. House of Representatives. In
2025, the

00:44:49.200 --> 00:44:52.160
Missouri legislature enacted a new map.
But under

00:44:52.160 --> 00:44:54.640
the emergency of the Missouri
Constitution, as interpreted

00:44:54.640 --> 00:44:56.640
by the Supreme Court of Missouri, a new

00:44:56.640 --> 00:44:58.800
law such as the 2025 map does not

00:44:58.800 --> 00:45:01.440
take effect unless and until approved by
the

00:45:01.440 --> 00:45:03.440
voters in a referendum in the next
election,

00:45:03.600 --> 00:45:05.440
or at least whereas here the number of

00:45:05.440 --> 00:45:08.480
voter signatures on the petition suffices
to trigger

00:45:08.480 --> 00:45:10.960
a referendum. So, in other words, the
Supreme

00:45:10.960 --> 00:45:12.560
Court says, listen, the the Supreme Court
of

00:45:12.560 --> 00:45:14.480
Missouri has decided this. This is state
law,

00:45:14.560 --> 00:45:17.840
this is state constitution, um, they've
decided

00:45:17.840 --> 00:45:20.560
this. There's just, of course, a little
problem

00:45:20.560 --> 00:45:23.360
here. Actually, it's two problems. Problem
number one,

00:45:23.520 --> 00:45:26.080
um, the Supreme Court of Missouri got it

00:45:26.080 --> 00:45:29.360
completely wrong. Right? Article 3,

00:45:29.520 --> 00:45:32.560
Section 5, subsection I, I believe it
says,

00:45:32.800 --> 00:45:35.200
no redistricting plan shall be subject to
the

00:45:35.200 --> 00:45:35.920
referendum.

00:45:37.200 --> 00:45:39.600
Let me say it again. The Constitution,
contrary

00:45:39.600 --> 00:45:41.280
to what the Supreme Court of Missouri
said,

00:45:41.360 --> 00:45:44.480
that the constitution requires the map be

00:45:44.480 --> 00:45:47.520
suspended until approved by the the by
vote,

00:45:47.760 --> 00:45:50.000
the Constitution of Missouri actually says
that no

00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:52.800
resisting plan shall be subject to the
referendum.

00:45:53.360 --> 00:45:55.600
So the uh uh Supreme Court of Missouri

00:45:55.760 --> 00:45:57.600
just played ignored their oath to the
state

00:45:57.600 --> 00:46:00.480
constitution and got it completely wrong.
So now

00:46:00.640 --> 00:46:02.560
this goes to the Supreme Court, and they

00:46:02.560 --> 00:46:04.480
said, listen, the Supreme Court of
Missouri has

00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:07.840
already decided this. Um what I had didn't

00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:09.280
see, and again, I I only took a

00:46:09.280 --> 00:46:11.920
quick look at this uh opinion. Um

00:46:13.200 --> 00:46:16.400
where do they the really what they should

00:46:16.400 --> 00:46:18.240
do? The Supreme Court should say, listen,
it's

00:46:18.240 --> 00:46:21.040
not a jurisdiction, it doesn't fall under
the

00:46:21.040 --> 00:46:23.920
Article III jurisdictions, therefore we
have no say

00:46:23.920 --> 00:46:26.240
in this. This is a state problem.

00:46:27.280 --> 00:46:30.400
Now it's interesting is this situation
first came

00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:33.520
to me um because somebody asked, somebody
I

00:46:33.520 --> 00:46:36.320
know in Missouri uh asked me, hey Paul,

00:46:36.400 --> 00:46:37.600
can you take a look at this and

00:46:37.600 --> 00:46:39.200
kind of ex give me your point of

00:46:39.200 --> 00:46:41.760
view on it? Which I have. And as

00:46:41.760 --> 00:46:44.240
far as I can tell, again, the Supreme

00:46:44.240 --> 00:46:46.880
Court of Missouri completely ignored the
Constitution of

00:46:46.880 --> 00:46:50.320
Missouri, and um the state of Missouri

00:46:50.320 --> 00:46:53.600
should follow the 2025 map. Here's a
reason

00:46:53.600 --> 00:46:55.200
why. I can the let me give you

00:46:55.200 --> 00:46:57.600
two reasons. One is again, Supreme Court
of

00:46:57.600 --> 00:46:58.880
Missouri, um

00:46:59.840 --> 00:47:02.800
they they got it wrong. They violated the

00:47:02.800 --> 00:47:06.080
constitution of Missouri. The other thing
is

00:47:06.240 --> 00:47:09.040
there has been no legal decision as of

00:47:09.040 --> 00:47:11.600
yet to invalidate the 2025

00:47:12.240 --> 00:47:13.760
um map.

00:47:14.640 --> 00:47:17.440
The 2025, the led the the the they

00:47:17.680 --> 00:47:18.720
said, well it's got to go to the

00:47:18.720 --> 00:47:20.800
referendum. That's a that violates the
constitution of

00:47:20.800 --> 00:47:23.840
Missouri. And and the Supreme Court of
Missouri

00:47:23.920 --> 00:47:27.040
didn't say that the 2025 map was invalid.

00:47:27.200 --> 00:47:29.600
They said because there's now a
referendum, you

00:47:29.600 --> 00:47:31.040
have to wait for the referendum, but
they've

00:47:31.040 --> 00:47:32.560
got no legal basis for it. They've made

00:47:32.560 --> 00:47:33.760
that up, they pull it out of their

00:47:33.760 --> 00:47:37.120
backsides, so it's a complete mess.

00:47:37.840 --> 00:47:40.560
And uh I I think it's time for

00:47:40.560 --> 00:47:43.680
some um impeachment proceedings for the
Missouri

00:47:43.680 --> 00:47:46.240
Supreme Court. I think it's time the
legislature

00:47:46.240 --> 00:47:48.000
of Missouri start and say, wait a second,

00:47:48.080 --> 00:47:50.560
the Constitution says it can't be subject
to

00:47:50.560 --> 00:47:52.560
the referendum, therefore the Supreme
Court got it

00:47:52.560 --> 00:47:54.960
wrong. It's only it's only your opinion.
Um,

00:47:55.120 --> 00:47:56.800
you can put that stay on it, but

00:47:56.800 --> 00:47:59.040
guess what? It's based on a on on

00:47:59.280 --> 00:48:02.720
false information, so it's wrong. So

00:48:02.800 --> 00:48:05.600
what you have is now Missouri is probably,

00:48:05.760 --> 00:48:07.440
based on what I've seen, is probably going

00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:09.360
to use the old map, not because they're

00:48:09.360 --> 00:48:12.800
legally required to, but because of this
idea

00:48:12.800 --> 00:48:14.080
of let's make a deal with the court.

00:48:14.160 --> 00:48:16.240
And the courts decided we're going to
place

00:48:16.240 --> 00:48:19.440
our understanding. Either they either they
don't understand

00:48:19.440 --> 00:48:21.840
the Constitution of Missouri, which case I
think

00:48:21.840 --> 00:48:24.400
they fail qualifications, at least in my
mind,

00:48:24.720 --> 00:48:27.440
or they're placing their own politics
above the

00:48:27.680 --> 00:48:29.920
supreme law of the state, the constitution
of

00:48:29.920 --> 00:48:33.200
Missouri. And um, either way, this

00:48:33.200 --> 00:48:35.840
is not good. But this is what happens

00:48:35.840 --> 00:48:38.960
when we pretend like uh courts are

00:48:39.120 --> 00:48:41.840
are full of kings and queens that they

00:48:41.840 --> 00:48:44.160
rule, right? Because they keep referring
to this

00:48:44.160 --> 00:48:46.240
as the Supreme Court rule. The Supreme
Court

00:48:46.320 --> 00:48:48.640
of Missouri didn't rule anything, they
issued a

00:48:48.720 --> 00:48:52.000
stay, but courts don't rule, not in a

00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:55.440
republic, the people rule and they rule

00:48:55.440 --> 00:48:58.720
through their elected representatives, not
the courts,

00:48:58.800 --> 00:49:00.720
not the unelected bureaucracies.

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This is the problem, and to me, this

00:49:04.160 --> 00:49:06.640
is the the let's make a deal. Now,

00:49:06.800 --> 00:49:09.680
while we're at SCOTUS, let's take another
look

00:49:09.680 --> 00:49:12.320
at another let's make a deal. This time

00:49:12.400 --> 00:49:14.960
it involves elections. And I don't know,
I'm

00:49:14.960 --> 00:49:16.240
talking about the Save Act, but not the

00:49:16.240 --> 00:49:17.440
SAVE Act that's been in the news a

00:49:17.440 --> 00:49:19.680
lot lately. So um

00:49:20.880 --> 00:49:24.320
in 1986, Congress passed what's called

00:49:24.320 --> 00:49:27.680
the Systemic Alien Verification for
Entitlements Program or

00:49:27.680 --> 00:49:30.400
the SAVE program. And what it was, it

00:49:30.400 --> 00:49:33.200
was a system by which federal, state, and

00:49:33.200 --> 00:49:36.160
local agencies could query a

00:49:36.160 --> 00:49:38.720
database to find out if a person was

00:49:38.960 --> 00:49:42.160
their their citizenship and immigration
status, right? So

00:49:42.240 --> 00:49:44.400
uh, you know, you've got somebody's coming
in

00:49:44.480 --> 00:49:47.520
uh and they're they're they're requesting
benefits. These

00:49:47.520 --> 00:49:50.400
benefits may be limited to citizens or
lawful

00:49:50.400 --> 00:49:52.720
permanent residents. This is a place where
the

00:49:52.720 --> 00:49:54.880
agency could check and put in their name

00:49:54.880 --> 00:49:56.640
and and find out if they were actually

00:49:56.640 --> 00:49:57.440
a citizen.

00:49:58.400 --> 00:50:01.680
Now, um okay, that's fine. The problem

00:50:01.680 --> 00:50:04.720
came along in March of last year, March

00:50:04.720 --> 00:50:08.160
of 25, when uh Donald Trump,

00:50:08.240 --> 00:50:11.360
by executive order, expanded

00:50:11.600 --> 00:50:12.960
the save system

00:50:14.000 --> 00:50:15.360
to uh uh

00:50:16.320 --> 00:50:19.360
include using the social security number.
Uh they

00:50:19.680 --> 00:50:21.360
he ordered the social security
administration to make

00:50:21.360 --> 00:50:24.080
its records available to the Department of
Homeland

00:50:24.080 --> 00:50:25.600
Security for the SAVE system.

00:50:26.880 --> 00:50:30.080
Um when DHS launched their modified save

00:50:30.240 --> 00:50:33.360
program. Now, in addition to giving the
name

00:50:33.520 --> 00:50:36.560
first and last name of an individual, they

00:50:36.560 --> 00:50:39.200
also have to give the person's social
security

00:50:39.200 --> 00:50:42.320
number. All right. So now

00:50:42.880 --> 00:50:45.920
that caused that caused concerns for
several

00:50:45.920 --> 00:50:49.120
organizations, including the League of
Women Voters, the

00:50:49.120 --> 00:50:52.240
Electronic Privacy Information Center, and
others. They sued

00:50:52.240 --> 00:50:54.080
the Department of Homeland Security and
the Social

00:50:54.080 --> 00:50:57.360
Security Administration and other
agencies, claiming that

00:50:57.360 --> 00:51:00.640
there were three violations in the
modified SAVE

00:51:00.720 --> 00:51:03.280
Act. First, that it violated the

00:51:03.280 --> 00:51:06.320
confidentiality provisions of the Social
Security Act, which

00:51:06.800 --> 00:51:10.160
prohibits the disclosure of Social
Security numbers and

00:51:10.160 --> 00:51:13.280
other Social Security Act records. Second,

00:51:13.440 --> 00:51:16.080
that it violated the Privacy Act of

00:51:16.080 --> 00:51:19.040
1974, which prohibits the non-consensual

00:51:19.120 --> 00:51:22.480
disclosure of certain information
regarding uh uh requiring

00:51:22.480 --> 00:51:25.840
agencies to notice before you uh uh

00:51:26.400 --> 00:51:29.520
reveal certain information. And third,
that it was

00:51:29.520 --> 00:51:32.880
arbitrary and capricious under the
Administrative Procedures Act.

00:51:33.440 --> 00:51:36.080
So they are suing that uh this, ladies

00:51:36.080 --> 00:51:39.120
and gentlemen, is separate from um DHS

00:51:39.120 --> 00:51:42.240
asking for voter rolls, which is

00:51:42.240 --> 00:51:44.720
another part that gets folded. This has to

00:51:44.720 --> 00:51:47.040
do gentlemen with the the requirement of
Social

00:51:47.040 --> 00:51:50.080
Security and other private data to be used

00:51:50.080 --> 00:51:53.440
to verify citizenship. Now, uh this

00:51:53.440 --> 00:51:56.560
went to the Supreme Court, um, which uh

00:51:56.560 --> 00:51:59.200
actually first it went to a district court

00:51:59.360 --> 00:52:01.280
and uh it was said no you can't

00:52:01.280 --> 00:52:03.920
put this new thing in place. Um it

00:52:03.920 --> 00:52:06.000
made its way up to the Supreme Court,

00:52:06.240 --> 00:52:09.280
which recently decided that

00:52:10.160 --> 00:52:13.360
the government's request for a stay on the

00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:15.920
lower court decision would be granted,

00:52:16.720 --> 00:52:19.600
meaning the expanded data can be used.

00:52:19.920 --> 00:52:22.160
Now, I'm I I have to admit I'm

00:52:22.160 --> 00:52:24.160
I'm I'm kind of interested in in this

00:52:24.240 --> 00:52:27.040
uh for a little more details. First of

00:52:27.040 --> 00:52:28.720
all, yes, I don't know about you, but

00:52:28.720 --> 00:52:30.240
I don't like giving out my social. I

00:52:30.240 --> 00:52:31.920
don't even like giving out the last four

00:52:31.920 --> 00:52:33.920
of my social, right? Because that that's
that's

00:52:33.920 --> 00:52:34.960
frequently the way

00:52:35.840 --> 00:52:38.000
I do it only when it makes sense

00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:40.240
for financial reasons, right? There's a
uh, you

00:52:40.240 --> 00:52:42.240
know, if I'm creating a uh uh

00:52:43.200 --> 00:52:45.520
bank account that has to have tax
reporting,

00:52:45.600 --> 00:52:47.040
uh they need the social security number to

00:52:47.120 --> 00:52:50.000
only report. That makes sense. But let's
say

00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:52.720
I'm applying for something, all right,
some at

00:52:52.720 --> 00:52:55.200
a state or local level, and in order

00:52:55.200 --> 00:52:57.200
to verify that I'm a citizen and therefore

00:52:57.200 --> 00:53:00.400
eligible, they need my social security
number. Again,

00:53:00.800 --> 00:53:03.280
okay, I I'm sure there are more Paul

00:53:03.280 --> 00:53:06.400
Engels in the country than just me. So

00:53:06.560 --> 00:53:08.000
how do you determine how do you think

00:53:08.240 --> 00:53:10.160
between me and maybe someone else who may

00:53:10.160 --> 00:53:11.840
or may not be a citizen?

00:53:12.720 --> 00:53:14.640
But on the other hand, that social
security

00:53:14.640 --> 00:53:16.720
number was always supposed to be kept
private,

00:53:16.800 --> 00:53:19.520
it was not meant as an ID number

00:53:19.920 --> 00:53:22.480
because it it was attached to certain
critical

00:53:22.480 --> 00:53:25.600
information. So I'm kind of torn there.

00:53:26.560 --> 00:53:28.800
So I I I understand the desire to

00:53:28.800 --> 00:53:31.280
accurately identify does this person is a
are

00:53:31.280 --> 00:53:33.360
they a citizen or not? But I also

00:53:33.360 --> 00:53:35.520
understand our right to have certain
financial information,

00:53:35.680 --> 00:53:38.480
private information kept private. Um

00:53:39.440 --> 00:53:42.320
this case is not done. All right, so

00:53:42.320 --> 00:53:45.120
the case hasn't been heard. This is merely

00:53:45.200 --> 00:53:47.520
uh DHS asked for a stay on a

00:53:47.520 --> 00:53:50.320
lower court decision, and we'll have to
wait

00:53:50.320 --> 00:53:52.880
and see. The lower court decision said no,

00:53:52.960 --> 00:53:55.840
you can't expand this data. Again, we'll
have

00:53:55.840 --> 00:53:57.520
to wait and see. But again, it's actually

00:53:57.520 --> 00:54:00.000
this, let's make a deal. The Social
Security

00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:01.680
number, when it was created, was never
supposed

00:54:01.680 --> 00:54:03.680
to be used as an identification number. It

00:54:03.680 --> 00:54:05.040
was supposed to be an account number, like

00:54:05.040 --> 00:54:08.480
a bank account number. That obviously has
changed,

00:54:08.800 --> 00:54:11.040
and in my opinion, not for the better.

00:54:11.360 --> 00:54:13.120
But what do I know? I'm only a

00:54:13.120 --> 00:54:14.640
guy who studied the constitution for the
better

00:54:14.640 --> 00:54:17.520
part of the last 15 years. Now, speaking

00:54:17.520 --> 00:54:19.360
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00:54:19.360 --> 00:54:20.480
I said, I've known this for more than

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