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0:01Darkness is not an affirmative force.
0:03It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
0:07This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
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0:15Delivery people out of the bondage of mainstream media.
0:18And the philosophies of this world.
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0:27Let's not miss our moment.
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0:31Good evening, everyone.
0:34Welcome to the Hamilton Corner.
0:35Abraham Hamilton III is my name.
0:37I am the host of this program.
0:40I am joined by the corner contingent as usual, right
0:44across from me, my man, 100 grand, Mr. Bobby,
0:47and in the screening room produced extraordinary, often
0:52imitated, but never duplicated the real, J-Mac,
0:56not to be confused with the fake, the real J-Mac.
1:01Ladies and gentlemen, we are ready to rock and roll
1:03with today's edition of the program.
1:04I wanna say, I have not abandoned the call taking portion
1:09of the program, I just have so much stuff to get to
1:11that I run out of time.
1:14But I'll announce at the beginning of the show
1:16what I'm gonna take calls and that's not gonna be today.
1:18I just have so much I have to get to, man.
1:21So much I have to get to.
1:23But don't worry, I'd love to hear from you
1:27and we will revisit that more so going forward.
1:32At this very moment, many of you, if not most of you,
1:35are making your transition from your part-time jobs
1:37where you generate an income
1:39to your full-time jobs where you cultivate an outcome.
1:42And as you do so, I want to remind you
1:45to do it with intentionality,
1:46understanding the primacy that God places on family.
1:51You will never be able to out-politik, out-vote,
1:57or even out-church deficiencies
2:00that abound in the home.
2:06The family was the first human institution
2:08that God established before you get to,
2:10in order of priests, in order of prophets,
2:13modern iterations of civil government,
2:15the family is first with marriage at the center.
2:17God did that intentionally.
2:19Did it intentionally.
2:22So it is vitally important that we remember
2:24that what goes on in your house is more important,
2:26far more important than what goes on in the White House.
2:29I'm grateful to have a White House occupied by someone who is clearly alive.
2:36First, in foremost, I would say I'm still getting the chuckle out of all of these people
2:42talking about co-president this, co-president Musk, who said,
2:45Naria word.
2:46When we knew Weekend at Burners when it was in full effect the previous four years,
2:51nevertheless, just like yesterday, I have a full show today.
2:57So we're going to get to it, but we cannot, and I will not refuse to abandon the necessary
3:03reminder that we have to batten down the hatches at home.
3:09What kind of country will you have?
3:12Things be to God that we live in a land where we can say and do something about it.
3:19We live in a land where we get to determine what type of nation we will be.
3:26Government has its role, but there are certain things that government cannot do.
3:31things that we must, we must do. Before we get to the foolishness du jour, you know, that's
3:41French for the foolishness of the day, you know, foolishness du jour. Let's turn to the
3:47word of God. Psalm 37 verses 3 through 6, Psalm 37 verses 3 through 6. Let me explain a little
3:55bit of the context and what's happening in this particular Psalm. So chronologically and
4:03contextually Psalm 37 comes to us following the transition from the Israel
4:10like monarchy moving from David to Solomon. David is still alive. Psalm 37 is a
4:16Psalm that is penned by David, but David effectively sees the throne to Solomon.
4:21So you can truly view Psalm 37 among the parting messages of David as he is
4:27leaving his functional active role as the second king of the unified nation of
4:32Israel and communicating this in view of his son's ascension to the throne.
4:38I believe that context places an additional fine point on what's communicated through this
4:48particular song.
4:49All right.
4:51So it is with that information in view that we get this text Psalm 37 verses three through
4:57This is what David writes.
5:01Trust in the Lord and do good.
5:05Dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.
5:12Some translations they say feed on faithfulness or cultivate faithfulness.
5:18Verse 4, delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.
5:25Commit your way to the Lord.
5:28Trust in Him and He will act.
5:34He will bring forth your righteousness as a light and your justice as the noonday.
5:42Now as we're reading, some of you say, oh, yeah, I'm very familiar with that scripture because most
5:46of the time when people refer to this passage of scripture, they only quote verse four, Psalm
5:5337 verse four, and really only the second half. He'll give you the desires of your heart. That's
5:59as all people here. They don't hear the stuff that proceeds in order to hear the stuff that follows
6:03right? Y'all know I'm telling the truth. It's always important that you navigate the scripture in
6:09this particular context. All right, this is a Psalm. So let's dig into this a little bit.
6:15How does this work out practically? What is truly being said here? What is the Lord conveying to us?
6:20And what is he revealing to us of himself? And remember, this is the seasoned David,
6:27communicating this as Solomon is taking over the functional authority as the monarch of the
6:32the unified nation of Israel. A part of his parting message begins with this. Trust in the Lord and do
6:42good. Dwell in the land and befriend or feed on faithfulness, which should be clear is that the
6:50ending term of verse three, faithfulness is connected to the first phrase of verse three,
6:54the Lord trusting in the Lord. Faithfulness is connected to trusting in the Lord. Trusting in the
7:00The Lord guys is a relational phenomena.
7:05And let me explain this a little bit.
7:08When you and I are blessed to be born again,
7:13you know, Jesus told Nicodemus, when Nicodemus,
7:15the high priest and the New Testament came to Jesus at night,
7:19Jesus told him, unless you're born again,
7:21you cannot even see the kingdom of God.
7:24Unless you are born again, you cannot enter
7:27the kingdom of God, okay?
7:29regeneration, being born again, the Greek phrasing,
7:32Gennao Anothin, which literally translates,
7:34born from above.
7:36Being born from above is the beginning, dare I say,
7:40genesis of the new Zoe life.
7:46It is not the accumulation of it.
7:49It is the beginning of newness of life.
7:53Once again, remember that you and I are made for eternity.
7:59eternity is the broad scope of our creation.
8:06Temporal engagement is a subset of eternal life.
8:11This is why Jesus is recorded in John 17 saying, and this is life eternal to no
8:16good, no scope. God, the son.
8:19I'm sorry to good, no scope, the true and living God and his son, whom he has
8:24sent simply put eternal life begins in the here and now, but it continues on
8:28beyond this temporal station.
8:30All right.
8:31So the concept, or to say it this way,
8:35being born again is what begins our relationship with the Lord.
8:38But you and I can attest,
8:39when you and I are first born again,
8:41our knowledge of the Lord in terms of intimacy and awareness
8:44and knowing Him is somewhat scant,
8:48because the thing that we are impressed of
8:50and that we are confident in when we're born again
8:53is that we are desperately in need of a savior,
8:56that the sin fall in condition,
8:58that has led us to the place to where we have committed sins
9:00sins of our own that show that we are worthy of hell. Paul said, for all that sin,
9:06and fallen short of the glory of God. There's not a one of us who can say,
9:10you know what? I am ripe for eternal life in my own stead. That's just a flat lie straight up.
9:17But our knowledge of the Lord generally stops there. We know we need a Savior, but that's it.
9:24And so regeneration, Gennonathan begins this relational context, including sanctification,
9:33where we begin to learn what life is like now, submitting to the Lord, to where we accept salvation,
9:41but the reality of salvation gives us the incentive that, if he'll save my soul from eternal damnation,
9:50what else does he do? This is why the phrase that has come common that we know him as
9:57Savior and Lord. There's a lot of folks that are interested in fire insurance,
10:01but not as many are interested in submission to his lordship.
10:09Here, the elder David begins, or I should say the portion of the script I'm pointing to,
10:14begins by saying, trust in the Lord and do good dwell in the land and befriend or feed on faithfulness.
10:23This trusting in the Lord and feeding on faithfulness communicates the necessity of a relationship
10:28being established in that we grow in our knowledge of the Lord, where we begin to know,
10:32So, he not only saves my soul, he loved me before I ever was aware that he would save my
10:41soul.
10:42Some of the things I'm learning about him is that he is omniscient, omniscient, all-knowing,
10:48he is omnipresent everywhere all at once.
10:51He is omnipotent, all-powerful, and he is his mind is full of me.
10:58Lord, who is man that you are mindful of him, that he's mindful of feeble man?
11:05How is this? How is this?
11:12Causes people to write songs like overwhelmed. You begin to realize wait a minute. I cannot only trust him for my eternal
11:20Life, I can trust him for my life now. This is what Paul wrote to the Colossians
11:26You've trusted him for salvation
11:28Surely if you can trust him with your eternity, you can trust him in time
11:32And so what happens is that you begin to know him and this is where you know the season
11:37Let's say every term I stand on this own bottom.
11:40I can't know God for you.
11:43I can't export my relationship with God to you.
11:45What I can be is a witness of His goodness
11:49and serve as a means by which I compel men
11:51to be reconciled to Him.
11:54But every time I stand on this own bottom,
11:56you ultimately have to pull up to the seat
12:00and personally taste and see that the Lord is good.
12:03And what the witness of scripture is,
12:05what the witness of our ancestors in the faith
12:07throughout human history, in my own testimony,
12:09all God is amazed. And this is what David is saying. Trust in the Lord. Feed on His faithfulness.
12:19As you feed on God's faithfulness, you become increasingly and repeatedly convinced that you can
12:25put your whole life on Him, that you can bank your whole eternity on Him. And He is worthy of you
12:33given it all. This is why I say very often that when you have been captured by Christ, you transition
12:38from merely giving offerings to becoming the offering because you are fully persuaded of his
12:43worthiness. And it is from that vantage point the next component enters in your life experience to
12:51where the Lord becomes your delight. But the delight is not merely a distant, you know, kind of
12:57pyatistic hymn singing filled with robes and four-point heart-mo-knee. No, it is the more you taste,
13:06The more you see, you become overwhelmed in his goodness and where the hierarchy of affections in life
13:12begin to be ordered properly because to where he is the light of your life. It causes you to say
13:18things like David and Psalm 119, oh Lord how I love your law. It is my meditation day and night.
13:23And what happens in that regard is that it is as the Lord becomes your delight, your will begins to move,
13:31to where your will begins to align with his will, which is the will that he had for you,
13:36before you even came to know him.
13:39So as the Lord becomes your delight,
13:41verse four comes into full focus,
13:43delight yourself in the Lord is the first prerequisite.
13:47Then look at the second half of verse four
13:48and he will give you the desires of your heart.
13:52You know what those desires are?
13:53They actually are the desires of his heart.
13:56You get to the place where you love what he loves
13:58and you loathe what he loaves
14:00and your desires begin to begin to become mobile
14:03and shifting and begin to match.
14:08The character and nature of God that existed from eternity past,
14:12that existed before you ever came to know him.
14:14And then verse five comes in, commit your way to the Lord.
14:18See, in light of trusting Him and feeding on faithfulness,
14:20in light of Him becoming your delight, the light of your life,
14:23and you enjoying the desires of your heart,
14:26which match His heart coming into fruition,
14:28you become fully persuaded that you can trust every aspect
14:31of your manner of living to Him.
14:32And you commit your way to the Lord.
14:35You trust in Him and you see evidence
14:37of his activity in your life.
14:40And because he is your delight,
14:42the capstone of your desires is this,
14:46that your life would be conformed to the likeness of Christ.
14:50Verse six is a promise.
14:51He will bring forth your righteousness
14:54as a light and your justice as a new day.
14:57Oh, what a mighty God we serve.
15:00A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker,
15:03Proverbs chapter 15, verse one.
15:06A soft word turns away rap.
15:09but a harsh word stirs up anger.
15:12Proverbs 16 verse 24,
15:14Gracious words are like a honeycomb,
15:17sweetness to the soul and health to the body.
15:21Words are powerful.
15:23Our words can do things far beyond what we seem to realize.
15:27Words can make someone's day
15:29and words can ruin someone's day.
15:32Words can give people hope
15:34and words can help people feel hopeless.
15:38As the scripture says in Proverbs chapter 18 verse 21,
15:41death and life are in the power of the tongue.
15:44Those who love it will eat its fruits.
15:47We are wise to pray the prayer found in Psalm 141 verse three.
15:52Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth.
15:55Keep watch over the door of my lips.
16:05Shiting light into the darkness,
16:07this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
16:11Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third.
16:14Man, God is good.
16:15And not just good, because I'm saying so.
16:19Oh, man, I feel like testifying.
16:26Oh, your boy, your boy.
16:30Man, it's so good.
16:31This is what James picks up on when I was explaining this,
16:34when he talks about praying and praying amiss,
16:36the reason why you ask and don't receive you
16:38because you ask amiss, because God is not obligated
16:41to sustain anything that doesn't originate within himself.
16:45But as we increase in our knowledge of the Lord
16:49relationship with him, we become exceedingly persuaded fully of his comprehensive goodness
16:57and not just in a general sense, but his goodness specifically applied to us.
17:03And all of the various aspects of his character, his nature and his attributes that we become
17:10fully persuaded that man, we can place our life in his hands.
17:16Oh, man.
17:18All right.
17:21Today, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as President Trump's Secretary of the Department
17:28of Health and Human Services.
17:29Also, Tulsi Gabbard was sworn in today as the head of the Department of National Intelligence.
17:41Also interestingly, and this is, you know, a bit down the line for us, but the Senate
17:49map for 2026 is taking an interesting shape because first I reported to you that incumbent
17:56Democrat Senator for the state of Michigan, Gary Peters, just announced much of the surprise
18:01of many that he would not seek re-election, you know, which set the stage that there are,
18:07this is a state where Governor Wicked Whitmer was re-elected, but you had others in the state
18:17and more importantly, President Trump won the state, won the state of Michigan.
18:22So that is going to be interesting.
18:26And then just today, following a pretty interesting US Senate run in 2024 where former college basketball
18:36star and NBA player Royce White must have to the surprise of many won the Republican primary
18:42for the U.S. Senate and ended up in a general election against Amy Klobuchar, who had a pretty
18:48significant run, even though he came up short.
18:52Well, current Democrat Senator Tina Smith announced today that she is not running for
19:00reelection.
19:02Now, this 2026 is the time where many of the Democrat party, I mean, who knows what they
19:08think, and they can't even get through a chairman election because you have to go through a quota
19:13of they them she's a
19:16a can we cannot proceed because we
19:18don't have enough candidates from
19:19the zur zay them y'all think I'm
19:21joking and I'm not
19:24zur zur zay we don't have enough of
19:29a so we can have the election like
19:31this and like are y'all
19:33the it's it's crazy guys
19:38but there are thirty five seats up
19:41for election in the u.s. senate
19:45uh... this term is always a four-third of the senate itself reelection have six-year terms in it
19:49their stack of that way you never whole sailing turning over the senate at one time
19:55well twelve of that thirty-five seats twelve seats of that thirty-five were held
20:03are held by democrats two of those twelve now have moved from being
20:09democrat incumbent elections to open seats this is getting very very very interesting
20:1913 of those seats are held by Republicans. But it's interesting because with an open election,
20:32the chance exists for Republicans to even expand their majority going forward. So that's
20:39something to just be aware of. And I am keenly aware of that because I've been telling you
20:43guys that things that pressure Trump are seeking to get done have to be done before 2026. I
20:48I mean, because the US Senate is going to be fully in campaign mode.
20:54And so you won't be able to do lots of things legislatively.
20:56And so what I've been saying, these executive orders are a great start,
21:00but in order for anything to be sustaining change, like I'm going to give you an
21:03example. Remember the tax cuts and jobs acts that was passed under President
21:07Trump in his first term?
21:08Do you realize that that expires next year?
21:11You realize that?
21:12So on if if Congress does nothing, everybody's taxes are going up because
21:18The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act had a sunset provision.
21:22Isn't that something?
21:25So I'm not even talking about taxes being cut more than they are currently in order to keep
21:29taxes at the levels that they were established during President Trump's first term, Congress
21:33is going to have to pass legislation.
21:36Otherwise next year is going to look very different from this year in terms of your tax
21:40bill.
21:42Just give me that as an example.
21:44Now, I pulled this next clip I'm going to play for you guys a little while ago.
21:50And the importance of it in light of all of the revelations through those who let the
21:55dough out through that USAID has been involved in.
22:03Goodness gracious.
22:07It makes it not all the more important.
22:15What am I talking about former Kenyan president?
22:19I don't want to mispronounce his name.
22:20I apologize if I do.
22:22The Ruh-Ruh Kenyatta.
22:26He had an interesting response at a meeting for African leaders who were responding to President
22:35Trump's inauguration and his America first policy.
22:40He had interesting words that will become a refrain from me.
22:46Why are you crying?
22:49Listen to and watch former Kenyan President Ruh-Ruh Kenyatta at the African Leadership Summit.
22:55Clip number two, clip two, go.
22:57the other day crying, oh, I don't know, Trump has removed money.
23:05He said he's not giving us any more money or to one other.
23:09Why are you crying?
23:10It's not your government, it's not your country.
23:19He has no reason to give you anything.
23:23I mean, you don't pay taxes in America.
23:29these are peeling to these people.
23:31Shawri N. Ban.
23:32Yeah?
23:34This is a wake up call for you to say,
23:36okay, what are we going to do to help ourselves?
23:39Instead of crying,
23:40you know, to do, to do, to do, to do, to do this,
23:43what are we going to do?
23:44I am a Troi, you are penisess,
23:45I am a nagany jama, what are we going to do?
23:48Yeah?
23:50To support ourselves,
23:52because nobody is going to continue holding out a hand
23:55there to give you.
23:57It is time for us to use our resources
24:01for the right things.
24:01We are the ones who are using them for the wrong things.
24:09President, your rural Kenyatta,
24:11fourth president of the Republic of Kenya,
24:13served from 2013 to 2022.
24:17And I love the accent.
24:19Why are you crying?
24:20Eh?
24:22You do not play Texas in America.
24:23Why does it give you eh?
24:25It just says wake up cold.
24:29For us to do for self.
24:31You don't play Texas in America.
24:33He's appealing to his people.
24:36I love this eh?
24:38I love that.
24:42Blow your trumpet.
24:43Eh?
24:44Why are you cr-
24:45Listen, next time I hear somebody say,
24:47who's side are you on?
24:49I'm gonna say, why are you crating?
24:54Which side are you on?
24:56Why must he give you?
24:59And I'm making jokes now,
25:00but this is what I wanna say.
25:02A salient point that I think must be considered.
25:05America first policies are better for the world.
25:12I'm gonna say that again.
25:13America first policies are better for the world.
25:18world. And what do you say this? Right? President King Yada told you, it is a wake up call for
25:29us to do for ourselves. No one is mismanaging our resources. No one is mismanaging our resources.
25:36What does it's better for the world to not be dependent upon us? Because here's the thing,
25:42and I can tell you this, you heard the old ad is give a man official e-fia four day teacher
25:49artificial eat forever, you infantilize people with perpetual aid.
25:56Now, let me add something into this as well.
25:58Some of us know that, which is why we want to overly cause people to be
26:02dependent upon our aid, because we get a benefit from people being
26:07perpetually dependent upon us.
26:09It's better for the world for other nations to maximize their capacity.
26:17There's a difference between help and infantilization.
26:25perpetual dependency is not an aid to anybody.
26:28So I wanted to share that with you.
26:33The next time you hear somebody, drop the which side are you on?
26:40We'll fight for the do's.
26:42We'll fight Elon Musk.
26:45We'll fight from don't why are you crying?
26:49Why must I was Trump?
26:51What was Trump give you?
26:53What do you work for yourself?
26:59Do you work?
27:07Which adds when you see things like, and I'll speak with myself, and I'm pretty sure I can
27:12speak for a lot of people in our audience right now.
27:20I work very hard for the money that I earn from my family.
27:24I work very hard for it.
27:27So when you have the revelation that some of your hard-earned tax dollars are being used
27:38to send condoms to gosens, that makes me a little bit upset.
27:49And this is so funny.
27:51I've made a decision not to stop mentioning these
27:56Image Bears of God had to remind myself that they're meeting God's image on on on the view
28:04Because joy Bayhart thought it was like of like she she dunked on some items. She said
28:10Joe said they found 50 million in condoms
28:1350 million dollars through USAID going for condoms and Gaza. It's actually Gaza and Mozambique
28:19So that makes it better for you, Joy.
28:28Like that makes it better.
28:31That makes it better.
28:32That's just insane.
28:35And so regardless of where you stand on the political spectrum, one of the most amazing
28:41things that is happening is that many Americans have felt disenfranchised when it comes to
28:49our federal government because we're paying taxes annually.
28:56annually because much of the tax burden is being extracted.
29:02And yet most Americans have no clue what the money is going for.
29:06Millions of dollars for coffee pods for federal agencies when three
29:10fourths of certain agencies of their workforce are working from home.
29:18And so regardless of what you say under the political spectrum,
29:21having this transparency of the activities of those help us to see,
29:25wait a minute.
29:27What's so?
29:29Wait, three hundred, thirty million to cultivate crops in Afghanistan.
29:32in what crops are we talking about?
29:32Poppy fields?
29:38And so we are resting drug dealers over here
29:40but we're growing heroin in Afghanistan?
29:44That's what we're doing?
29:45You got people like Samantha Power running USAID
29:47and I told you guys that these expenditures
29:52are the low hanging fruit.
29:54A lot of the things that USAID is serving as a front
29:58for CIA activities all over the world.
30:00How about this?
30:02Did you know some of the masterminds from 9-11
30:04were receiving college tuition?
30:06the USAID, how does that make you feel?
30:09How does that make you feel?
30:11I know how it makes me feel.
30:15And even more so, how does it make you feel
30:17that you had no clue that this was happening
30:19until Donald John Trump was reelected again?
30:31So coming back full circle, as President Kenyatta said,
30:36why are you crying?
30:38What did it give you?
30:46I was gonna get to this later, but I'm gonna get to it right.
30:48Oh man, I'm running out of time already.
30:49I'll start and then I'll keep going.
30:52So it's become evident
30:55that one of the rinse and repeat methods that are being employed employed is law
31:00fair, which was lob lobbed against president Trump personally to try to keep
31:04it from the ballot. And then I mean, I got a group here of all of these
31:08regressive outfits, teachers, unions, federal employee unions that are trying to use
31:13litigation to hinder president Trump's current term. And in just today, you have a
31:19federal judge, let me see where this is a UNI States District Court judge in
31:23Maryland judge Brendan Hurston today today issued a temporary restraining order concerning
31:34President Trump's executive order to say, hey, we not using federal dollars anymore to
31:39give gender, gender mutilation, surgeries and chemical castrations to minors to minors.
31:51One of the things that I hope that comes out of this and look, I got a lot of hopes.
31:55There's a lot of work to be done guys.
31:56I don't think many of us really understand the true depths of just how swampy this swamp is.
32:00But one of the things that has to be addressed is the abuse of our judiciary with consistent
32:08violations of the separation of powers and I hope President Trump has the courage, which
32:12I believe he does, has the courage to say, you know what?
32:16Since we tear stuff up, let's go ahead and tear it all up.
32:19That needs to be torn up.
32:20Don't tap everything, but tear up the stuff that needs to be torn up.
32:24the Department of Education, he said it,
32:26reported to you yesterday,
32:27I wanted this man to do immediately.
32:31For too long, we have allowed ourselves
32:34to be subjected to a judicial oligarchy.
32:38There's no way our founders would exchange
32:43minority of dictatorship for oligarchical dictatorship.
32:48So I'm gonna direct us to some wise words
32:51from 75th Attorney General of the United States,
32:53Edwin Miese III.
32:55I like the third.
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34:12American family radio. Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner Abraham Hamilton the
34:17third here we've been talking about today's
34:20temporary restriction on President Trump's executive order concerning the
34:25prohibition of utilizing federal funds for general mutilation surgeries and chemical castration
34:31of minors.
34:34Prior to that, you had the President's buyout plan for federal employees, which by the way,
34:38over 75,000 federal employees have accepted President Trump's buyout.
34:42It'll be interesting to see what happens there.
34:45Many of you may recall that when Elon Musk took over Twitter and then laid off what two-thirds
34:54of the workforce?
34:55Twitter has been bigger, better with X, more features, more popular and generating more
35:02revenue than it did before with fewer employees.
35:05A lot of people are expecting similar treatment or similar things to occur within the federal
35:09government.
35:10Can you imagine when you find out, wait a minute, these agencies can run on a lot fewer employees
35:16than they had.
35:17Do you realize that there are, I just want to give you these numbers, 3 million, over
35:213 million federal employees that does not include the military?
35:26You realize that more than three million federal employees and it does not include the military
35:34Guys the total population of the state of Louisiana's four million people the population of the state of
35:41Mississippians three million people. This is what we're talking about now one of the things that I mentioned that I'm hopeful
35:52And I know there's a lot it's a heavy lift. This is a heavy. There's a lot that I'd love to see
35:57President Trump
35:59I'm looking forward to seeing Cas Patel, for example.
36:02You know, I raise the issues that I have my concerns about him.
36:06I shared that I'm on his program.
36:07I shared the concerns I had about RFK Junior.
36:09I shared the concerns I had about Tulsi Gabbard.
36:11Tulsi Gabbard has been confirmed.
36:12RFK Junior has been confirmed.
36:13Cas Patel has yet to be confirmed.
36:15But one of the things I know Cas Patel is planning to do,
36:18day one on becoming head of the FBI.
36:21He's planning to release the Epstein client list.
36:23Could that be why they don't want?
36:28Y'all know the proverbial they don't want Cas Patel to be confirmed?
36:32Patel to be confirmed. We'll see. We'll see. And I do hope he misspoke concerning section 702
36:40the Pfizer reauthorization. But we'll see what happens there. But on this very point,
36:46Attorney General, former Attorney General Edwin Me, 75th Attorney General of the United States,
36:49he was appointed by Ronald Reagan. All right. He wrote an essay titled The Meaning of the Constitution,
36:57The Meaning of the Constitution. And he says this quote,
37:00The Constitution is our most fundamental law.
37:03It is, in its own words, the supreme law of the land.
37:07Its translation into the legal rules under which we live occurs through the actions of
37:13all government entities, federal and state.
37:18What we know as quote unquote constitutional law is the creation not only of the decisions
37:25of the Supreme Court, but also of various Congresses and of the president. Guys, it's highly important
37:34that one of the major things I'm getting away from in Mises essay right now, we're providing
37:39a bit of commentary. One of the major things that has to happen in our nation, and I believe
37:44the Trump administration can't help us in this regard, is that we get out of this habit of
37:48thinking opinions offered by the US Supreme Court are synonymous with, let me say better,
37:55offered by the US Supreme Court concerning the US Constitution are synonymous with the US Constitution.
38:01The court has a role to play, a vital role to play, but the court is not exclusively constitutional law.
38:11It's highly important that we understand that. We have to remember when the US Constitution was
38:17written, the founders intended for families to read, to discuss, and understand the Constitution
38:23by having conversations around their dinner tables.
38:28You and I have to get out of this notion.
38:30Well, we don't necessarily know what's constitutional or not.
38:33No, in order to be a citizen of the United States of America,
38:36we are able to function in our role as the ultimate arbiters
38:40of constitutionality by knowing for ourselves what's in the document.
38:45So to that end, one of the first questions I have,
38:47and this is not a condemnation,
38:49the question is how many of you have read the actual constitution?
38:53It's not very long.
38:55It's not very long.
38:59There are mechanisms put in place that allows for the Supreme Court to function in its capacity.
39:06But guess what?
39:07Congress can turn right around and overrule the Court with amendments and legislation.
39:15Happens all the time.
39:19Well, let me say it this way.
39:20It has happened numerous times back to Ed Mises' essay.
39:29Quote, yet it is the court system, particularly the decisions of the Supreme Court that most
39:34observers identify as providing the basic corpus of quote unquote constitutional law.
39:40This body of law, this judicial hand, this judicial handiwork is in a fundamental way
39:46unique in our scheme.
39:49For the court is charged routinely day in and day out with the awesome task of addressing
39:54some of the most basic and most enduring questions that face our nation.
39:57The answers the court gives are very important to the stability of the law so necessary for
40:04good government.
40:05But as the constitutional historian Charles Warren once noted, what is important to remember
40:10is that however the court may interpret the provisions of the Constitution, it is still
40:15the Constitution which is the law, not the decisions of the court.
40:23By this, of course, Warren did not mean that a constitutional decision by the Supreme Court
40:27lacks the character of binding law.
40:29He meant that the Constitution remains the Constitution,
40:33and that observers of the court may fairly consider
40:37whether a particular Supreme Court decision was right or wrong.
40:42Guys, we literally just experienced this
40:44with Roe being overturned.
40:48And I've shared with you before,
40:51it sickens me to see these hypocritical regressives
40:55on one end saying,
40:57Oh, I need all Supreme Court nominees to swear with a blood oath to uphold stare at the slices stare at the sizes whatever
41:03This we're gonna say before must be right whatever's a big one so much to be right well at the exact same time
41:07These same people want to tell me oh same-sex marriages along the land
41:11That was like yesterday
41:16For all of American history up until 2015 there was no recognition of a right to same-sex marriage
41:22So what I'm saying is that they adhere to stare at the sizes when it's convenient because they like the outcome
41:29The principle is not sacrosanct because as soon as something that they don't want to be president, they'll change it immediately.
41:36Back to General Mises' essay.
41:43Quote,
41:44There remains in the country a vibrant and healthy debate among the members of the Supreme
41:50Court as articulated in its opinions and between the court and academics, politicians, columnists
41:57and commentators and the people generally about whether the court has correctly understood
42:02and applied the fundamental law of the Constitution.
42:05Guys, stepping away from General Mises essay again.
42:09It is your right to opine on whether the court got something right or wrong.
42:14not violating some sacred province, it is your duty as an American citizen to evaluate
42:20whether the court that is funded by your tax dollars, that has been put in place by elected
42:24officials, are functioning consistent with what we the people require. That's all right.
42:33The founders envisioned a society where you want to talk about water cooler conversations
42:38to where judicial opinions were not merely the province of lawyers. It's the province of American
42:45In citizens, in contrary to popular practice, it wasn't limited to somebody who had some
42:51kind of specialized secret knowledge to understand and evaluate whether or not something is constitutional,
42:57like the issue of quote unquote birthright citizenship, which should rightly be described
43:01the whether or not aliens upon stepping foot on our ground are able to bear children that
43:06are automatic citizens.
43:07It should be called automatic citizenship, not birthright citizenship.
43:12But the question is not about birthright.
43:15It's about automatic citizenship.
43:17Which is why the amendment in and of itself begins by saying
43:19all citizens born here or naturalized.
43:24Naturalized citizens are by the very nature of the concept, migrants.
43:28People who are not born here.
43:31But there's no question whether or not migrants who have entered the country
43:34legally and gained citizenship legally, whether or not their children are citizens.
43:38That's not even a question.
43:39The only question is whether or not right now, if confronting us,
43:42whether or not the children of illegal aliens enjoy automatic citizenship,
43:51to which the concept all persons born or naturalized in the United States of America.
43:57Look at the next, the conjunction and which connects the subject to the next concept
44:02and subject to the jurisdiction thereof. If you have violated our laws to enter our soil,
44:09you are by virtue of that act of the violence not subject to our national jurisdiction.
44:14This reality is amplified when you consider that the 14th Amendment was passed within the
44:24Ambit of Reconstruction Amendments, 1314-15, to overturn a Supreme Court decision rendered
44:31in Dred Scott.
44:32Do you understand that?
44:34This is literally constitutional law playing out before us and giving us a 14th Amendment.
44:42Back to General Mises' text, his essay.
44:48quote, we have seen throughout our history that when the Supreme Court greatly misconstrues
44:54the Constitution, generations of mischief may follow. The result is that of its own accord
45:02or through the mechanism of the appointment process, the Supreme Court may come to revisit
45:07some of its doctrines and try once again to adjust its pronouncements to the commands of
45:13the Constitution. This recognition of the distinction between constitutional law and the Constitution
45:20itself produces the conclusion that constitutional decisions, including those of the Supreme Court,
45:27need not be seen as the last words in constitutional construction. A correlative point is that constitutional
45:34interpretation is not the business of courts alone, but is also and properly the business
45:42of all branches of government."
45:46I would add, which is pursued in view of the ultimate accountability to we the people.
45:57Why am I saying this now?
45:59Among the things that I believe that needs to transpire is that it would aid the American
46:03people in an educational exercise for in some of these notions the president to use his bully
46:09pulpit or use his legal counsel or or whoever he would task with this responsibility to explain
46:15to the American people why this district court judge for example in Maryland is wrong in saying
46:21that the president as the chief executive officer head of the executive branch passed
46:27with the responsibility that he's taken a note to do to faithfully enforce the laws of
46:32of the United States of America and to protect and to defend the US Constitution against enemies,
46:38both foreign and domestic, to articulate why he has the authority lawfully to do this.
46:48Once again highlighting the hypocrisy and our regressive media establishment, how many
46:53times did that we can at Bernie's completely disregard the US Supreme Court?
47:00And how many times did you hear the regressive gerbils, Inc. come out and say, we're in a
47:03constitutional crisis. Not once. You know why? Because they are the propaganda arm of the
47:11American Marxist movement. They're not interested in constitutionality. They're only interested in
47:16advocating for their agenda, which is why ultimately we the people should not tolerate this.
47:22The way that we function as citizens and interacting with our government is that when we
47:27We display that this is what we support.
47:31Like for example, President Trump is enjoying record support for the things he's doing, which
47:38is encouraging him to do more.
47:43He needs to understand that the American people are ready for a proper rebalancing of the functioning
47:49of the courts within our constitutional framework.
47:51We need the courts, and we need them to function properly, but we need to help the courts to
47:55understand that you are not a national dictator, United States District Court judge, for the
47:59district in Maryland.
48:03Yes, I'm talking to you, Judge Brendan Hurson of the United States District Court for the
48:08District of Maryland.
48:10There's a reason why your jurisdictional scope is the District of Maryland.
48:16You don't have the authority to dictate national policy.
48:20I'm talking to you also, United States District Court Judge John McConnell in Rhode Island.
48:26You do not have the lawful authority to dictate national policy.
48:31You are an Article 3 judge.
48:33Your position exists because Congress allows it.
48:37Congress also has the authority to remove your district
48:40from existence.
48:46It's clear that the current weapon
48:49is your is the court system.
48:52And they're flailing because they know
48:55that American people voted for this.
49:00But I believe this could be a right moment
49:02to have a proper rebalancing of the functioning
49:06of the courts in our country.
49:10Ultimately, I'm confident President Trump will prevail
49:13on these things.
49:14I would certainly encourage expedited appellate review
49:17for some of these insane decisions that are being made.
49:20But remember, 2026 is Senate election season.
49:25The things that are gonna be done, they have to be done now.
49:28They have to be done now.
49:30And I hope and pray that this is a part
49:33of the President's agenda.
49:39The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast
49:42may not necessarily reflect those
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