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February 24, 2026 · 49:49

The “El Mencho” saga in Mexico should demonstrate finally the necessity of sound border policy, protection, and enforcement.

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0:00 - 15:00. Isaiah 1:4-7. Do we have eyes to see and ears to hear? 15:00 - 31:00. The “El Mencho” saga in Mexico should demonstrate finally the necessity of sound border policy, protection, and enforcement. 31:00 - 48:00. Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump provides an opportunity to consider the constitutionally appropriate source of federal taxation. | 1-800-326-4543 ext. 345 To donate call: 877-616-2396

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  13. 0:38I'm your host, Abraham Hamilton, the third broadcasting
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  20. 1:06We'll broadcast live here today.
  21. 1:09And tomorrow we'll have a couple other episodes coming from here as well to round out the week.
  22. 1:15But we've been on the road.
  23. 1:16We've been on the road quite a bit lately.
  24. 1:19And this will continue really throughout this year.
  25. 1:22But thank you so much for tuning into the program so much is happening around the
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  27. 1:30day that what goes on in your house is far more important than what goes on in the White
  28. 1:35House and simply put you know by now if you've been listening to the show if you're new to
  29. 1:39the program, the simple purpose for articulating that recalibration in that manner is to enable
  30. 1:47us to simply do that, to recognize that what we do to generate revenue is a vital, instrumental,
  31. 1:54indispensable component of our lifestyles, but they are not synonymous with our identities.
  32. 1:59And in fact, the full time job for the believers actually outcome cultivation.
  33. 2:07It's just been fortified and reaffirmed in me. You know, you guys know last week we were in
  34. 2:14Nashville, Tennessee, then we went down to North Louisiana, the Simsboro First Baptist Church,
  35. 2:19what an amazing time we had there. The pastor Jason and brother Hank and the Simsboro
  36. 2:24family. And now we're in South Carolina. It's kind of a whiplash bit of travel, but it just affirms
  37. 2:33and confirmed for me. Once again, the reality that disciple making is the order of the day. We must,
  38. 2:41we must be about our father's business. The Great Commission is not go ye there for and make
  39. 2:47converts, proclaiming the gospel, seeing men and women born again through the regenerative work of
  40. 2:53of the Spirit of God is an indispensable component, but the Great Commission goes beyond conversion
  41. 2:59to making disciples.
  42. 3:02And if we do not make disciples, and I continue to present this analogy, we live in the United
  43. 3:09States of America where every American citizen is guaranteed by our Constitution, the Article
  44. 3:14for Right to a Constitutional Republican form of government or democratic features,
  45. 3:20the citizenry participates in electing our servant leaders. If and
  46. 3:27when we have a continuously wicked populace, how long do you
  47. 3:31expect that populace to endure righteous leadership? Much of
  48. 3:35the societal hemorrhaging that we're experiencing in our
  49. 3:38country, we are experiencing it, because men love darkness
  50. 3:42rather than light. We have allowed a combination of often
  51. 3:46Our history, the phenomena I describe as churchy entity,
  52. 3:52our material abundance, and the host of other factors
  53. 3:57to kind of converge to create a comfortable deception.
  54. 4:03Jesus' example with the fig tree
  55. 4:05should be instructed for us.
  56. 4:06From a distance, the tree appeared to have fruit on it.
  57. 4:09It appeared to be a fruit-bearing tree.
  58. 4:12The expectation was that there was fruit on that tree,
  59. 4:15but upon close examination,
  60. 4:17would Jesus examined the tree up close and personal,
  61. 4:20he found that the tree was fruitless.
  62. 4:27For too long in our country,
  63. 4:28and really, and I've talked about this before,
  64. 4:31we're really dealing with the harvest
  65. 4:33from seed sown a century or more ago
  66. 4:37to move our nation into a comfortable godlessness.
  67. 4:42There's never been a time when our nation's history
  68. 4:44where history where we've been perfect.
  69. 4:47But there was a time when we had a far more
  70. 4:54biblically literate society.
  71. 4:57There was a time when the truths in scripture
  72. 5:02were embraced in much more robust fashion
  73. 5:04than there are now.
  74. 5:07And in our nation's history, when we got,
  75. 5:10when our nation was at our worst,
  76. 5:12it was because we had rejected the truths
  77. 5:15that are contained in scripture.
  78. 5:17And we are at a similar precipice,
  79. 5:19a similar junction in our nation's history today.
  80. 5:22and the disciple making function is something
  81. 5:24that only the Lord's bride can do.
  82. 5:27Something only the Lord's bride can do.
  83. 5:31We must be about our Father's business.
  84. 5:33So as many of you right now are making your transition
  85. 5:36from your part-time jobs,
  86. 5:37where you generate an income to your full-time jobs,
  87. 5:41where you cultivate an outcome,
  88. 5:42please embrace the encouragement to do so with intentionality.
  89. 5:49Understanding the primacy that God places on family,
  90. 5:52recognizing that the familial unit is central to God's plan to establish his kingdom
  91. 5:57generationally is central to God's plan.
  92. 6:01There is no replacement or substitute for the family.
  93. 6:06And if God could get a hold of us within our own families, man,
  94. 6:09and if Christian parents would take the lead in discipling our children as God
  95. 6:13has commanded us, there's no question as to what we could see transpire in our
  96. 6:19nation. To the word of God we go Isaiah chapter one is where we're going to begin
  97. 6:24the program today. Isaiah chapter one. And yes, on site with me
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  101. 6:43content to you this evening. And we're ready to rock and roll with
  102. 6:47today's edition of the show Isaiah chapter one. Isaiah chapter
  103. 6:54one as they administered from about 767 to about 681 BC about a century little over a century
  104. 7:06prior to the Babylonian exile being the culmination of the Babylonian conquest and exile of Judah
  105. 7:14and the Lord attempted to warn Israel and warn Judah through his prophets and at this juncture
  106. 7:24the prophet Isaiah is confronting Judah concerning her sinfulness. And Isaiah
  107. 7:34chapter 1 verse 4 reads thusly, alas sinful nation, people weighed down with
  108. 7:41iniquity, offspring of evil doers, sons who act corruptly. They have abandoned the
  109. 7:50Lord. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They have turned away from Him.
  110. 8:00Where will you be stricken again as you continue in your rebellion?
  111. 8:05The whole head is sick and the whole heart is faint. From the soul of the foot
  112. 8:12even to the head there is nothing sound in it. Only bruises, welts and raw wounds.
  113. 8:21Not pressed out or bandaged nor softened with oil. Your land is desolate. Your
  114. 8:29The cities are burned with fire, your fields, strangers or foreigners are devouring them in
  115. 8:37your presence.
  116. 8:39It is desolation as overthrown by strangers.
  117. 8:47Right in verse four, when you see, and if you're watching this, you see it on the screen
  118. 8:50when Isaiah exclaims, alas, it's a cry of pain.
  119. 8:54Guys, it's a cry of pain.
  120. 9:00And I ask myself, do the believers in our nation currently?
  121. 9:07again, I'll say this, I shouldn't have to disclaim this.
  122. 9:09People should understand this.
  123. 9:11I know America, the United States of America is not Israel.
  124. 9:14I understand that.
  125. 9:15But there are things in scripture that we should,
  126. 9:19that we can navigate and we can see
  127. 9:21and we measure our own nation by the truth of scripture.
  128. 9:24We will see some things with a bit more clarity.
  129. 9:30Isaiah's cry of a last concerning the sinfulness
  130. 9:33of the nation of Judah was a cry of pain.
  131. 9:37It was even personal to him.
  132. 9:42I truly wonder whether the believer in our nation
  133. 9:46is grieved by the state of sinfulness in our country.
  134. 9:50I mean, genuinely grieved, not just bothered by it,
  135. 9:53not just want to kind of dunk on the lip,
  136. 9:57drink lip tears, you know?
  137. 9:59You're so confused, you don't know a man from a woman.
  138. 10:01Oh, look at this dunt.
  139. 10:03You know, not that kind of stuff,
  140. 10:05but a Holy Spirit-induced grief concerning that.
  141. 10:10that. Then when we see these people and these folks who will experience the carnage as a
  142. 10:20result of rejecting the truth of Scripture, do we have a cry of pain similar to that?
  143. 10:29Not merely for how it affects us or it affects the quality of our lives, but for the state
  144. 10:34of the soul of the unbeliever. It's a question it often has. The last sinful nation people
  145. 10:43weighed down with iniquity.
  146. 10:49A synonym for being weighed down with iniquity is sin-laden.
  147. 10:54And this sin-laden condition that has overrun Judah at this stage.
  148. 11:00I mean, remember, this is a nation whose name means praise, but here they're
  149. 11:04identified as sin-laden, the latter part of verse four, the prophet Isaiah
  150. 11:10describes that as despising the Holy One of Israel, despising God, despising him.
  151. 11:25Isaiah identifies they have abandoned the Lord.
  152. 11:28They have despised the whole one of Israel.
  153. 11:30They have turned away from him.
  154. 11:34Where will you be stricken again as you continue in your rebellion?
  155. 11:38Isaiah is saying, how many warning judgments can you endure?
  156. 11:42It's almost like to kind of make it plain.
  157. 11:45You know, some of y'all might have grew up similar to the way I grew up
  158. 11:49in the Hamilton household where Mr. Hamilton Jr. and Mrs.
  159. 11:53Hamilton presided.
  160. 11:56There was no question as to whether or not corporate punishment, corporal
  161. 11:59punishment will be employed. And you ever had one of those, one of those weapons, not a
  162. 12:04weapon, no, no too light spanking, no weapon. Ever had a weapon when you didn't have no more
  163. 12:09territory that had been untouched? Yeah, some of y'all know what I'm talking about. You ever
  164. 12:13had every part of the every part of the surface area has been touched. That's what Isaiah is saying
  165. 12:19as a spider the Lord. Where will you be stricken again? How else can you be judged in order for
  166. 12:25your attention to be captured. How else can the Lord catch your attention as you continue
  167. 12:32on your rebellion? The whole head is sick. The whole heart is faint from the soul of the
  168. 12:43foot even to the head. Here you have the anthropomorphization of the nation to where Isaiah is using
  169. 12:53a description for that people will understand. You know, and this time someone was sick and
  170. 12:58You say the whole head is sick.
  171. 13:01That's a comprehensive entire sickness in the entirety is what Isaiah saying from the foot,
  172. 13:07even to the head.
  173. 13:10There's nothing sound in the body only bruises, welts and raw wounds, not just wounds, but wounds
  174. 13:18that are raw, untreated, unbandached.
  175. 13:22Then you get down to verse seven and you got to remember this is a people who has Deuteronomy
  176. 13:28chapter 28, you know, if you're harking diligently to the voice of the Lord your
  177. 13:33God to do all that he commands you all of these blessings will befall you. However,
  178. 13:38as verses 1 through 14, but verse 15, verse 15 hits you with the but however, if you
  179. 13:44do not harken, this shall be your expectation. Then you get 28 verses of the
  180. 13:53calamity that would befall the rebellious nation. And Isaiah said, your city is a
  181. 14:00burn with fire. Then we just come through a summer where the city was on fire. Your
  182. 14:07field strangers are devouring them in your presence, desolation as overthrown by strangers.
  183. 14:14I'm asking the believer, have we considered when you have, for example, the massive lawlessness
  184. 14:21through illegal immigration that has been falling our nation under the previous administration?
  185. 14:25Have we considered the spiritual implications of that? Though, fall out of Minnesota recently
  186. 14:31concerning ice, the ice operations all around the country.
  187. 14:35I think we have to get beyond merely assessing things concerning as it pertains to the political
  188. 14:42realities and we have to examine them in light of scripture.
  189. 14:47The most desperate enduring need in our nation is repentance and the body of Christ has to
  190. 14:55lead in communicating God's heart on this matter.
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  206. 16:12Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here and the year of travels
  207. 16:17continue.
  208. 16:19Coming up March 27th through the 29th, I will be ministering at the Kingdom Come conference
  209. 16:26at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
  210. 16:31The conference is the Kingdom Come conference, subtitled the Christian Citizen.
  211. 16:37I'm looking forward to this.
  212. 16:40going to be an amazing time. The core Ridge Presbyterian Church is the church that was founded by the
  213. 16:45late DJ'S Kennedy. Many of you are familiar with him. It will be as I mentioned March 27th through
  214. 16:52the 29th. We'll have information in the show notes for those who are in the area. Some people
  215. 16:57have been asking me, Dave, when are you coming to Florida? Well, March 27th through the 29th is when
  216. 17:03this will happen. As I mentioned, I will be ministering at this conference. A couple people I'm looking
  217. 17:09forward to hearing is our sister Rosaria Butterfield. We'll be
  218. 17:13ministering as well. David Bonson will be there. I'm looking
  219. 17:16forward to hearing him. Oz Guinness will be ministering at
  220. 17:20this conference. Bill Federer, you heard him on this show. We'll
  221. 17:23be ministering at this conference. Eric Mataxis will be
  222. 17:27ministering as well as Brad Dakis from the Pacific Justice
  223. 17:30Institute. The conference will be hosted by Pastor Rob Passienza,
  224. 17:34who is the pastor of Core Ridge Presbyterian Church.
  225. 17:38Mark your calendars from March 27th through the 29th
  226. 17:42in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
  227. 17:44It's going to be an amazing time to conference,
  228. 17:46is the Kingdom Come Conference.
  229. 17:48The subtitle for this year is,
  230. 17:50the Christian Citizen, if you are in that area,
  231. 17:53I'd love to meet you there.
  232. 17:55And I am looking forward, eagerly,
  233. 17:57to being a part of this conference,
  234. 18:00coming up later next month.
  235. 18:03All right, by now, I'm sure almost all of you
  236. 18:08have heard about the absolute insanity
  237. 18:12that broke out over the weekend in Mexico,
  238. 18:17just south of our border.
  239. 18:19It should not be lost on us that this happened just after.
  240. 18:23Oh yeah, we had to shoot down some drones in El Paso, Texas
  241. 18:28that cartel members had just floated over
  242. 18:31into American airspace.
  243. 18:33as you probably have heard reported now and I'll give some additional details. I don't know if you've heard all of these details that I'm going to share now.
  244. 18:44But the head of the notorious Jalisco new generation cartel was murdered. The nickname he goes by or went by was El Mincho.
  245. 18:57And I'm saying murdered, not unjustified.
  246. 19:01He was taken out by the Mexican National Guard.
  247. 19:06Now, the Mexican National Guard was working in conjunction
  248. 19:10with US intelligence.
  249. 19:12And for the longest President Trump has said that, look,
  250. 19:16I don't know, Mexico has a president.
  251. 19:17We know about Claudia Shinebaum.
  252. 19:21It's always funny.
  253. 19:22How do you get a Mexican Marxist with the name Shinebaum?
  254. 19:28to be the president. It's pretty interesting.
  255. 19:34But the Mexican National Guard was working with the work using
  256. 19:39US intelligence to get El Mencho,
  257. 19:44but it led to a pretty significant shootout. There were over 25 Mexican
  258. 19:48National Guardsmen who were killed in this battle more than 40 to 50
  259. 19:55Cartel members were killed and some of the top, obviously most of the people talking about
  260. 20:05El Mencho and this is a cartel that was notoriously violent, notorious for outsized reprisals and
  261. 20:15not only that, you had some of El Mencho's lieutenants that actually were killed in the
  262. 20:22process as well, but then you had some other lieutenants who weren't killed.
  263. 20:26They were shot though and they were able to scurry off into nearby woods and the reports
  264. 20:32say that the cartel members flew away in aircraft from the Mexican National Guard.
  265. 20:41Before I get too far, I want you to listen to this clip that's describing the very thing
  266. 20:47that I'm talking about.
  267. 20:48It is clip number one, clip one, go.
  268. 20:51K. Asarubson parts of Mexico after one of the world's most wanted drug lords is killed.
  269. 20:56Nimesio Osegiras-Inventes, also known as El Mencho, died in a shootout with the Mexican
  270. 21:01military as they tried to capture him near Puerto Vallarta.
  271. 21:04New video posted online and verified by ABC News shows the military operation against El
  272. 21:09Mencho.
  273. 21:11Gunshots or explosions and helicopters can be heard near a wooded area next to the cabin
  274. 21:16complex where the cartel leader was hiding out.
  275. 21:20Jalisco new generation cartel members responded by blocking roads and setting vehicles on fire
  276. 21:26President Claudia Shabam says 25 national guard members were killed in attacks in the state of Jalisco now
  277. 21:36With all of that information to president Trump's point and one of the things that that I don't think is getting enough attention
  278. 21:42And this confirms president Trump's point that really the cartels have been running Mexico
  279. 21:49That across 20 different states in Mexico
  280. 21:53So you had, and then we give the appropriate number, more than 250 roadblocks, all in response
  281. 22:05to El Menchos death across 20 states though.
  282. 22:11Think about how expansive that is.
  283. 22:12Across 20 different states in the country.
  284. 22:16There's been lots of reporting about, you know, Costco's and American companies that have
  285. 22:21operations in Mexico being bombed, the Puerto Vallarta airport suffering some bombings,
  286. 22:31but bombings all across the entire nation soon as Al Mencho is dead.
  287. 22:38Then you have the Mexican military pursuing lieutenants.
  288. 22:42They're able to get to the woods, the forest nearby, but they have sufficient aircraft
  289. 22:49to board to just fly away from the Mexican military.
  290. 22:57Imagine something like that happening in the United States of America, right?
  291. 22:59Where you have like some, some drug lord, some drug dealer gets killed and you have,
  292. 23:05you know, that's not how you say to say, yeah, 15 to 17 different states in our
  293. 23:09country that all of a sudden have these uprising and explosions and all this kind
  294. 23:13of stuff. And, and where I'm going with this, of course, this is another exercise
  295. 23:19of, um, the United States of America's military prowess, because could they have
  296. 23:26done this without US intelligence? Well, let's let's just ask a couple questions.
  297. 23:31Has it been done before? Have the Mexicans been trying to be dealing with
  298. 23:37dementia before? Certainly it confirms United States military is the most potent
  299. 23:45fighting for fighting force in the world. That's a fact. That's an unassailable
  300. 23:50fact. But the point I want to highlight that's a that's a little bit different
  301. 23:56than I think a lot of people have pointed out to you. Do you because this is my
  302. 24:02opinion on this. This is a demonstration when you see how absolutely out of control Mexico
  303. 24:10became immediately after El Menchills taken out all of these expressions of violent reprisals
  304. 24:17by the cartel all over the country. Do you see why it was so important that we as the United
  305. 24:23States of America keep a sound firm grip on our southern border? Do you see because my
  306. 24:30My contention is that the whole world now has been confronted with just how much or should
  307. 24:37I say how little control the Mexican government has over the cartels.
  308. 24:44Now a lot of us have known that for a long time.
  309. 24:46A lot of us have known that.
  310. 24:47Known this.
  311. 24:48A lot of us have known nothing goes down in Mexico without cartel consent.
  312. 24:51We've been knowing this.
  313. 24:54But now the whole world has been confronted with this because El Minto is gone and you can
  314. 25:00and shut down the roads in 20 different states,
  315. 25:02all at once, just like that.
  316. 25:06Just like that.
  317. 25:07That you have the armament, the equipment,
  318. 25:09and the ability that in the midst of a firefight
  319. 25:12with the military, y'all could retreat to aircraft
  320. 25:14and fly away.
  321. 25:21And we have people in our country,
  322. 25:23that wanna hem and haul and play tiddly winks about,
  323. 25:29ah, nah, you just wanna protect the boat
  324. 25:32because he rags this and all this kind of stupidity
  325. 25:35where you're floating with that kind of reality,
  326. 25:38just out of our own country, just out of our own country.
  327. 25:48This should, notice I said should,
  328. 25:51I don't have high expectations for this
  329. 25:53to be what actually occurs,
  330. 25:56but this should put an end to any American flirtation
  331. 26:03with a porous southern border.
  332. 26:10I say should because the unfortunate reality
  333. 26:13that regressives in our country are so committed to their ideology, so committed to their radical
  334. 26:20ideology, they have demonstrated their lack of concern for how many people are victimized
  335. 26:29as a result of their radical positions.
  336. 26:38Don't forget that in order for us to have the massive influx of illegal illegal immigration
  337. 26:46in VR Southern border during Mr. Ice Cream Man's administration,
  338. 26:51that him and his team had to literally go in
  339. 26:55and undo everything that President Trump did
  340. 26:57in the previous administration.
  341. 27:03You had to go to the fence, take the lock off
  342. 27:06and lift the latch and offer the policy version of,
  343. 27:13y'all come now?
  344. 27:20And one of the things that is concerning to me in this regard,
  345. 27:25in this regard is that this was done with no regard.
  346. 27:38Who was happening in our own country?
  347. 27:43I'm grateful for the efforts of President Trump
  348. 27:45as employees that he's been back in the Oval Office.
  349. 27:47What Tom Homan is doing?
  350. 27:49I'm grateful, but I cannot help but think
  351. 27:52what all has gotten into our country.
  352. 27:55And then when you consider the Great Lakes people
  353. 27:58like Jacob Fry and Tim Walz and the Los Angeles mayor,
  354. 28:03I forgot her name at the moment and all of these people that are trying to make it like
  355. 28:06It's the civil rights issue of our day like dude if you're if you're desire is to get the criminal aliens out
  356. 28:12Why don't you let us go into the jails like this is this dumb?
  357. 28:15This is just dumb and you can you can play these these ridiculous games if you want, but you're playing with fire
  358. 28:23You're playing with fire in many ways. What's being demonstrated is that at a minimum and I know this is kind of
  359. 28:32euphemistic sounding at a minimum, the cartels have the money and the weaponry
  360. 28:37and the equipment to rival the Mexican government. Others would would say quite
  361. 28:45plainly, we outgun the Mexican government. That's why nothing goes down without
  362. 28:49cartel permission. And now you have complete complete chaos with the
  363. 29:07regressives in our country mind too much. If we fortified our southern borders even
  364. 29:11more now. Would that be too much to ask? Would that be too much to
  365. 29:17have a conversation about? Not to mention, all of those who entered
  366. 29:26our country through the southern border, who are not of Spanish
  367. 29:32heritage. This is just foolish. This is just so foolish to me. It's
  368. 29:41so foolish. And we continue to have these foolish notions that
  369. 29:45take root. And as I started out discussing in the first segment,
  370. 29:53that this is beyond logic at this point.
  371. 30:00Like, you have people taking these positions
  372. 30:05that are beyond the capacity to reason with.
  373. 30:07Many of you have dealt with this.
  374. 30:08Like, man, Abe, I've explained this to them.
  375. 30:09I've talked logically with them,
  376. 30:12and they refuse to embrace this.
  377. 30:15Because a lot of what we're dealing with guys is spiritual.
  378. 30:18And now we have the state of the union address tonight,
  379. 30:21President Trump is scheduled to speak,
  380. 30:24and I'm sure he's gonna talk about the terrorist decision.
  381. 30:27I'm gonna discuss that because I read the 170 some odd pages of this opinion what you have
  382. 30:37Virginia's newly elected governor Abigail Spandberger is gonna do the
  383. 30:42Democrat response to President Trump stated in the union speech
  384. 30:46which
  385. 30:48It's just
  386. 30:49The audacity to do that is just remarkable to me now. I know I didn't gonna spin it
  387. 30:55They're gonna say well. Yeah, because I was able to flip
  388. 30:58a blue Virginia governor's mansion,
  389. 31:02I mean a red Virginia governor's mansion blue,
  390. 31:07but I want you to look deeper.
  391. 31:10What they're literally saying is that,
  392. 31:12almost like the Mandalorian, this is the way,
  393. 31:14this is the way you can lie in your campaign
  394. 31:18to present yourself as a moderate.
  395. 31:20And as soon as you get in office,
  396. 31:23will you let the commie colors fly?
  397. 31:28Or, or you pull a mom downy and I'm just like,
  398. 31:33Can't save you, save your op-ed, save, save your, you know,
  399. 31:37you seein' and doin' runnin' all these pieces.
  400. 31:39Blue states are out of control.
  401. 31:41Can you believe Zaron Mamdoni wants to raise taxes
  402. 31:45in New York City?
  403. 31:46And I'm just like, huh, well Jeff color me surprised
  404. 31:51that you have a self-described Marxist
  405. 31:55that's already run out of other people's money
  406. 31:58and wants to raise more taxes
  407. 31:59to take more of other people's money.
  408. 32:01Ain't that a shocking move to you?
  409. 32:04I'm just like, these are the conversations and the pieces y'all should have been running before
  410. 32:08a homeboy got elected.
  411. 32:10Oh, no.
  412. 32:12That's cause y'all didn't really have a problem with that.
  413. 32:16So you got them running the Abigail Spanberger to say, hey, hey, this is how you do it, you know?
  414. 32:21If you're in one of those hotly contested areas, hey, just make yourself look like you're moderate
  415. 32:25and get elected and then you do all of the communist stuff that we're talking about.
  416. 32:30And then of course they're going to allow US Senator Alex Padilla of California who replaced
  417. 32:36US Senator if he president the remix in the Senate to offer the Democrat response in Spanish.
  418. 32:44But the obla a little espanol.
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  438. 34:14Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here.
  439. 34:19You know, what a tremendous time for our nation celebrating not one but two gold
  440. 34:23medals in hockey. You know, where the U.S. men's team outfellaship died
  441. 34:29to the north you know they they they tend to believe that they have a corner of the market on
  442. 34:34you know passing the puck i know bobbie right now it's cheesy from it it is if you don't know bobbie
  443. 34:38cowbell look look look that's bobbie talking about the cowbell this man is a hockey fan whether the
  444. 34:45united states of america pulled out the tremendous victory on the men's side and the women's side both
  445. 34:51of the
  446. 34:53outfellow shipping
  447. 34:55the Canadians
  448. 34:57in the gold medal game
  449. 34:59there will be
  450. 35:01members from the men's hockey team, US hockey team
  451. 35:04they're already
  452. 35:06in at the White House today
  453. 35:08they made it to the White House today, they picked it from the Oval Office
  454. 35:11all kind of things, they're expected to be at the State of the Union address
  455. 35:14this evening
  456. 35:17but it manages seems like this whole thing
  457. 35:20and our nation concerning younger women in our country,
  458. 35:24not responding similarly to younger men in our country,
  459. 35:29the US women's hockey team declined the invitation
  460. 35:33to attend the state of the United States in that.
  461. 35:35I'm not kidding.
  462. 35:38They had a quite politically correct speech to offer,
  463. 35:45or should I say statement to issue
  464. 35:47to respectfully decline the president's invitation.
  465. 35:52They said, quote,
  466. 35:53"'We are sincerely grateful for the invitation
  467. 35:55extending to our gold medal-winning U.S. Women's Hockey Team
  468. 35:58and deeply appreciate the recognition
  469. 36:00of the extraordinary achievement.
  470. 36:03Due to the timing and previously scheduled academic
  471. 36:07and professional commitments following the games,
  472. 36:09the athletes are unable to participate.
  473. 36:13They were honored to be included
  474. 36:14and were grateful for the acknowledgement
  475. 36:16and the invitation. So while the men's hockey team and I just, you know, I don't I don't know
  476. 36:23their schedules. Now I'm not gonna, you know, say anything or to impugnant them if they have
  477. 36:29scheduled they have schedules. But the men's game finished more recently, the men just won.
  478. 36:34The women won a few days ago, you know, and I, I, you know, the president offered to send
  479. 36:43the military plane to pick them up to bring them from where they were to come to the state of the union.
  480. 36:48Speaker Johnson is going to make sure they were accommodated with the room to attend the state of union address.
  481. 36:54The men's team is coming, but the women's team is not coming.
  482. 37:00And it's sad to me for a host of reasons because one, it just shows another example.
  483. 37:06I'll share with you guys the statistics concerning how younger men are skewing more conservative politically while younger women.
  484. 37:14I'll just say it this way to be kind or not.
  485. 37:17They are not
  486. 37:20And this is just another example of that
  487. 37:24There was a time and I think this is why you saw such a tremendous response all over our country
  488. 37:31We are a patriotic people and when we think about sports
  489. 37:37Nobody is nobody wants to be confronted front and center with these people's political beliefs and all that kind of stuff
  490. 37:42It was a time in a moment to celebrate as a nation and in fact a unifying moment for our country frankly
  491. 37:48because they have some people and I'm not even gonna get into you know the
  492. 37:53leading goalscore for the women's hockey team how you know she's accepting a
  493. 37:58proposal from a woman yeah oh yeah these are just fix yeah yeah just before the
  494. 38:05gold medal game you know I'm not trying to even bring that up as a front and
  495. 38:12center consideration but you don't see the value the women's hockey team now
  496. 38:17well let me finish my statement that I'll say the next thing you don't see the
  497. 38:20value in and having this as a unified moment to celebrate the country. For the whole country
  498. 38:26to be able to rally around and celebrate that we, the United States of America, were victorious,
  499. 38:32especially in the circumstances where we were not expected to be. It just makes you sad.
  500. 38:41And you think about this, we are in the year where we are approaching the 250th anniversary
  501. 38:45of our Declaration of Independence. I don't know what their schedules are. Maybe they do have
  502. 38:54academic and professional commitments that are inescapable.
  503. 39:01I could be wrong, but I do think any professor
  504. 39:04or anyone who had a professional obligation would say,
  505. 39:07hey, you need an extra day to go to celebrate
  506. 39:11and be celebrated for our nation
  507. 39:13as we approach 250th anniversary.
  508. 39:15I have a hard time believing they wouldn't have been able
  509. 39:18to find accommodation for such a commitment.
  510. 39:23Maybe I'm wrong.
  511. 39:25I could be wrong.
  512. 39:27I don't think that I am,
  513. 39:29but it's just a saddening thing.
  514. 39:34And it's a moment that we get deprived of as a nation
  515. 39:36instead of being able to celebrate this together.
  516. 39:43They have respectfully declined.
  517. 39:49And it's indicative of the times that we're in.
  518. 39:54All right, go a little further.
  519. 39:57So in the tariffs case, learning resources, Inc,
  520. 40:00I know this, this came out a few days ago,
  521. 40:05learning resources, inverses,
  522. 40:06the president of the United States of America
  523. 40:08having to do with the tariffs.
  524. 40:10I wanna say on the onset that I agree with the decision
  525. 40:18that the court arrived at,
  526. 40:20but I don't agree in their methodology,
  527. 40:23and more broadly, more broadly,
  528. 40:27I think it's weak sauce, man,
  529. 40:29the way that they arrived at the decision,
  530. 40:32because you have several considerations.
  531. 40:35First, the issue was, the issue plainly put
  532. 40:42is whether or not President Trump
  533. 40:43has the unilateral authority to,
  534. 40:47and I wanna get to this portion of the opinion.
  535. 40:51Let's see, there we go.
  536. 40:56No, that's not it.
  537. 41:00I wanted, yes, here we go.
  538. 41:02I wanna get to this portion of the opinion
  539. 41:04because the reality is,
  540. 41:06It was kind of a weak sauce approach
  541. 41:13because you have a six justice majority
  542. 41:15and you have justices, Amy Coney Barrett
  543. 41:19and Justice Gorsuch and Chief Justice John Roberts joining
  544. 41:25Justice Kataj Brown Jackson,
  545. 41:27Justice Atlantic, Hagan, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor
  546. 41:29to make a six justice majority.
  547. 41:32And the issue is the IEEPA,
  548. 41:36the international economic, let me get back up here to give you the full before I get to
  549. 41:44the acronym in the statute, the statute's full name. It is the International Emergency Economic
  550. 41:53Powers Act, the I E P A, whether or not President Trump has the authority, the unilateral authority,
  551. 42:01under the IEEPA to impose tariffs, right?
  552. 42:11And so, what I'm saying is weak sauce, I have to pay, there we go.
  553. 42:18So, what you have with the six justices, you have a kind of hard spot
  554. 42:22because you have justices so to my your, justice Kagan, and justice Jackson,
  555. 42:26who say that the IEEPA does not authorize tariffs as a matter of ordinary statutory interpretation.
  556. 42:34But that is not the reasoning that Justice John Roberts, Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Gorsuch, and Justice Barrett employed.
  557. 42:42What those justices leaned on, and this is what Brett Kavanaugh, Justice Kavanaugh pointed out in his dissent,
  558. 42:47they leaned on the notion that, quote, the major question canon of statutory interpretation was employed wrongly by the Trump Administration.
  559. 42:59basically that important cannon requires quote clear congressional
  560. 43:03authorization for executive action
  561. 43:06of a major economic political significance now i
  562. 43:09i said what they're saying i think that that
  563. 43:11breaks up the majority in my opinion
  564. 43:14but in their view it doesn't make up the majority because they all conclude the
  565. 43:17same way even though they've concluded for different reasons
  566. 43:22i agree with the decision i'm explain why i agree with the decision because i have
  567. 43:25this radical thing you know this u.s. constitution
  568. 43:28and
  569. 43:29My scotas heroes are Justice Thomas and Justice Elito.
  570. 43:36But I think their argument is flawed in this regard.
  571. 43:43Justice Thomas basically argued that Congress
  572. 43:47has the lawful authority to delegate its taxation power
  573. 43:53to the president.
  574. 43:54I kinda don't agree with that.
  575. 43:59I don't agree with that.
  576. 44:01And the core of Justice Thomas's argument was that the non-delegation doctrine says that
  577. 44:09Congress cannot delegate core legislative power to the president.
  578. 44:18When you zoom out and read the Founders Constitution, and I would certainly not attempt to say that
  579. 44:23I am more prudent, concerned, at Constitution than Justice Thomas, but I disagree with him
  580. 44:29here.
  581. 44:30He's human beings just like everybody else.
  582. 44:33Because I think his description of a core legislative power,
  583. 44:37a core legislative authority,
  584. 44:38is there anything more core in the founders vision
  585. 44:41of our constitution than the ability to tax?
  586. 44:44You know?
  587. 44:45Now, Justice Kavanaugh, while he disagreed
  588. 44:48with the majority in the court, in the case,
  589. 44:51he argued plainly that while the majority finds the IEEPA
  590. 44:58as an inaccurate constitution,
  591. 44:59I'm sorry, congressional authority to base President Trump's
  592. 45:04tariffs on, he could have used other power,
  593. 45:06like the Trade Act of 1974.
  594. 45:08There's another statute from 1962 that Congress granted
  595. 45:12authority.
  596. 45:13And I do agree that Congress did that.
  597. 45:16But my contention here, and I think the court
  598. 45:19landed at the right conclusion for this reason.
  599. 45:22And I want to read this to you guys.
  600. 45:25And this is Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1
  601. 45:30of the U.S. Constitution. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1.
  602. 45:39And it says this, quote,
  603. 45:40the Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties,
  604. 45:46imposts and excise's to pay the debts and provide for the common
  605. 45:51defense and general welfare of the United States.
  606. 45:53But all duties, imposts and excise's shall be uniform throughout the United
  607. 45:57States. Now, the majority in the case said, well, yeah,
  608. 46:03the president has 30 he could shut down imports in total.
  609. 46:09I, that's why I think this is such a,
  610. 46:10this is such an artificial and artificial distinction.
  611. 46:14He could shut down imports in total,
  612. 46:18or he could allow imports, but he can't do the lesser.
  613. 46:22Think about this, this is literally
  614. 46:25what the six justices concluded.
  615. 46:26They said that president Trump, if he wanted to,
  616. 46:29if he wanted to stop China from importing anything
  617. 46:31to the US, he could have done that.
  618. 46:34But it can't do the lesser thing in saying, well, if Chinese companies or the Chinese government
  619. 46:40wants to import goods or export things from China to be imported into the United States
  620. 46:44of America, the president cannot do the lesser thing in impose a duty for that, a tax for
  621. 46:51that.
  622. 46:52I just think that's weak sauce.
  623. 46:53If you can shut it down completely, why can't you charge them?
  624. 46:57I think the more appropriate constitutional balance, and this is why, and we have to consider
  625. 47:02these things until the full extended their consideration. Because if the argument is the
  626. 47:11president either can shut it down in total or if the argument is that Justice Kavanaugh
  627. 47:15asserted, which I don't agree with, Kavanaugh's assertion either, Kavanaugh's assertion is
  628. 47:20that, well, the president can do so. He has to, he has to declare an emergency of his own initiative,
  629. 47:31he could tear whoever he wants. Just imagine for one moment you have a
  630. 47:35regressive Marxist like saying, I don't know, take your pick. She or she'll never
  631. 47:40be president, the original, the remix, you know, Baraku, saying you name them. And
  632. 47:45you've got to give them the authority to declare an emergency according to
  633. 47:50their own initiative and then to tear whoever they want it. I think you begin
  634. 47:55to see how that will fall apart. And here's the thing that I think that people feel
  635. 47:58to realize tariffs are taxes.
  636. 48:03Like I want to give you this definition.
  637. 48:05I just read to you article one, section eight, clause one.
  638. 48:08It referred to a duty specifically imposed in ex-ISIS.
  639. 48:12The U.S. Treasury Department's definition for a duty is this.
  640. 48:18It's a tax levied by government on the importer export of goods imposed act
  641. 48:25as a tax, especially an import duty.
  642. 48:27In quote. All right. There's a reason that the founding fathers said taxation must occur
  643. 48:38and originate in the House of Representatives. When terrorists are applied, guys foreign nations
  644. 48:43are not terrified. The terrorists are applied to the companies in the United States of America
  645. 48:49that is importing the goods. So when you have Chinese companies, for example, selling things,
  646. 48:54The import towards, import terrors in America pay the tariff on it.
  647. 49:00And what usually happens is that the American companies pass off that tax onto the consumers.
  648. 49:07It's the goods that are tariffed, not the nations.
  649. 49:10I agree with the president's objectives.
  650. 49:12I agree that there's an emergency concern in fentanyl.
  651. 49:15I agree that there was a problem with the massive trade deficits and imbalances.
  652. 49:20But you have to do what's necessary in a constitutional way.
  653. 49:23We need to rebalance that. We need to restore domestic manufacturing, but we need to be
  654. 49:27faithful to the Constitution. The Constitution needs to continue to guide our policy because
  655. 49:33President Trump is not going to be in office forever. We need to think through this thoroughly
  656. 49:36before we conclude.
  657. 49:40The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American
  658. 49:45Family Association or American Family Radio.

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