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

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0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
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0:31Good evening, everybody.
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0:38I'm your host, Abraham Hamilton, the third broadcasting
0:42live from beautiful Greenville, South Carolina, downtown.
0:47Greenville, South Carolina to be specific,
0:50where I am attending the B.J.U. Press Home School
0:54Foundation Summit.
0:56And it has been, man, what an amazing, inspirational, informative, and chow, educational and challenging
1:04time we've been having here.
1:06We'll broadcast live here today.
1:09And tomorrow we'll have a couple other episodes coming from here as well to round out the week.
1:15But we've been on the road.
1:16We've been on the road quite a bit lately.
1:19And this will continue really throughout this year.
1:22But thank you so much for tuning into the program so much is happening around the
1:26country so much is happening in the world, but this is a place where we remind you every
1:30day that what goes on in your house is far more important than what goes on in the White
1:35House and simply put you know by now if you've been listening to the show if you're new to
1:39the program, the simple purpose for articulating that recalibration in that manner is to enable
1:47us to simply do that, to recognize that what we do to generate revenue is a vital, instrumental,
1:54indispensable component of our lifestyles, but they are not synonymous with our identities.
1:59And in fact, the full time job for the believers actually outcome cultivation.
2:07It's just been fortified and reaffirmed in me. You know, you guys know last week we were in
2:14Nashville, Tennessee, then we went down to North Louisiana, the Simsboro First Baptist Church,
2:19what an amazing time we had there. The pastor Jason and brother Hank and the Simsboro
2:24family. And now we're in South Carolina. It's kind of a whiplash bit of travel, but it just affirms
2:33and confirmed for me. Once again, the reality that disciple making is the order of the day. We must,
2:41we must be about our father's business. The Great Commission is not go ye there for and make
2:47converts, proclaiming the gospel, seeing men and women born again through the regenerative work of
2:53of the Spirit of God is an indispensable component, but the Great Commission goes beyond conversion
2:59to making disciples.
3:02And if we do not make disciples, and I continue to present this analogy, we live in the United
3:09States of America where every American citizen is guaranteed by our Constitution, the Article
3:14for Right to a Constitutional Republican form of government or democratic features,
3:20the citizenry participates in electing our servant leaders. If and
3:27when we have a continuously wicked populace, how long do you
3:31expect that populace to endure righteous leadership? Much of
3:35the societal hemorrhaging that we're experiencing in our
3:38country, we are experiencing it, because men love darkness
3:42rather than light. We have allowed a combination of often
3:46Our history, the phenomena I describe as churchy entity,
3:52our material abundance, and the host of other factors
3:57to kind of converge to create a comfortable deception.
4:03Jesus' example with the fig tree
4:05should be instructed for us.
4:06From a distance, the tree appeared to have fruit on it.
4:09It appeared to be a fruit-bearing tree.
4:12The expectation was that there was fruit on that tree,
4:15but upon close examination,
4:17would Jesus examined the tree up close and personal,
4:20he found that the tree was fruitless.
4:27For too long in our country,
4:28and really, and I've talked about this before,
4:31we're really dealing with the harvest
4:33from seed sown a century or more ago
4:37to move our nation into a comfortable godlessness.
4:42There's never been a time when our nation's history
4:44where history where we've been perfect.
4:47But there was a time when we had a far more
4:54biblically literate society.
4:57There was a time when the truths in scripture
5:02were embraced in much more robust fashion
5:04than there are now.
5:07And in our nation's history, when we got,
5:10when our nation was at our worst,
5:12it was because we had rejected the truths
5:15that are contained in scripture.
5:17And we are at a similar precipice,
5:19a similar junction in our nation's history today.
5:22and the disciple making function is something
5:24that only the Lord's bride can do.
5:27Something only the Lord's bride can do.
5:31We must be about our Father's business.
5:33So as many of you right now are making your transition
5:36from your part-time jobs,
5:37where you generate an income to your full-time jobs,
5:41where you cultivate an outcome,
5:42please embrace the encouragement to do so with intentionality.
5:49Understanding the primacy that God places on family,
5:52recognizing that the familial unit is central to God's plan to establish his kingdom
5:57generationally is central to God's plan.
6:01There is no replacement or substitute for the family.
6:06And if God could get a hold of us within our own families, man,
6:09and if Christian parents would take the lead in discipling our children as God
6:13has commanded us, there's no question as to what we could see transpire in our
6:19nation. To the word of God we go Isaiah chapter one is where we're going to begin
6:24the program today. Isaiah chapter one. And yes, on site with me
6:30once again is the produce extraordinaire, the real J Mac.
6:33The contingent is on tap Mr Bobby, a lot of my man 100 grand is on
6:38the board. Mr Marty sparked is aiding us and delivering the video
6:43content to you this evening. And we're ready to rock and roll with
6:47today's edition of the show Isaiah chapter one. Isaiah chapter
6:54one as they administered from about 767 to about 681 BC about a century little over a century
7:06prior to the Babylonian exile being the culmination of the Babylonian conquest and exile of Judah
7:14and the Lord attempted to warn Israel and warn Judah through his prophets and at this juncture
7:24the prophet Isaiah is confronting Judah concerning her sinfulness. And Isaiah
7:34chapter 1 verse 4 reads thusly, alas sinful nation, people weighed down with
7:41iniquity, offspring of evil doers, sons who act corruptly. They have abandoned the
7:50Lord. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They have turned away from Him.
8:00Where will you be stricken again as you continue in your rebellion?
8:05The whole head is sick and the whole heart is faint. From the soul of the foot
8:12even to the head there is nothing sound in it. Only bruises, welts and raw wounds.
8:21Not pressed out or bandaged nor softened with oil. Your land is desolate. Your
8:29The cities are burned with fire, your fields, strangers or foreigners are devouring them in
8:37your presence.
8:39It is desolation as overthrown by strangers.
8:47Right in verse four, when you see, and if you're watching this, you see it on the screen
8:50when Isaiah exclaims, alas, it's a cry of pain.
8:54Guys, it's a cry of pain.
9:00And I ask myself, do the believers in our nation currently?
9:07again, I'll say this, I shouldn't have to disclaim this.
9:09People should understand this.
9:11I know America, the United States of America is not Israel.
9:14I understand that.
9:15But there are things in scripture that we should,
9:19that we can navigate and we can see
9:21and we measure our own nation by the truth of scripture.
9:24We will see some things with a bit more clarity.
9:30Isaiah's cry of a last concerning the sinfulness
9:33of the nation of Judah was a cry of pain.
9:37It was even personal to him.
9:42I truly wonder whether the believer in our nation
9:46is grieved by the state of sinfulness in our country.
9:50I mean, genuinely grieved, not just bothered by it,
9:53not just want to kind of dunk on the lip,
9:57drink lip tears, you know?
9:59You're so confused, you don't know a man from a woman.
10:01Oh, look at this dunt.
10:03You know, not that kind of stuff,
10:05but a Holy Spirit-induced grief concerning that.
10:10that. Then when we see these people and these folks who will experience the carnage as a
10:20result of rejecting the truth of Scripture, do we have a cry of pain similar to that?
10:29Not merely for how it affects us or it affects the quality of our lives, but for the state
10:34of the soul of the unbeliever. It's a question it often has. The last sinful nation people
10:43weighed down with iniquity.
10:49A synonym for being weighed down with iniquity is sin-laden.
10:54And this sin-laden condition that has overrun Judah at this stage.
11:00I mean, remember, this is a nation whose name means praise, but here they're
11:04identified as sin-laden, the latter part of verse four, the prophet Isaiah
11:10describes that as despising the Holy One of Israel, despising God, despising him.
11:25Isaiah identifies they have abandoned the Lord.
11:28They have despised the whole one of Israel.
11:30They have turned away from him.
11:34Where will you be stricken again as you continue in your rebellion?
11:38Isaiah is saying, how many warning judgments can you endure?
11:42It's almost like to kind of make it plain.
11:45You know, some of y'all might have grew up similar to the way I grew up
11:49in the Hamilton household where Mr. Hamilton Jr. and Mrs.
11:53Hamilton presided.
11:56There was no question as to whether or not corporate punishment, corporal
11:59punishment will be employed. And you ever had one of those, one of those weapons, not a
12:04weapon, no, no too light spanking, no weapon. Ever had a weapon when you didn't have no more
12:09territory that had been untouched? Yeah, some of y'all know what I'm talking about. You ever
12:13had every part of the every part of the surface area has been touched. That's what Isaiah is saying
12:19as a spider the Lord. Where will you be stricken again? How else can you be judged in order for
12:25your attention to be captured. How else can the Lord catch your attention as you continue
12:32on your rebellion? The whole head is sick. The whole heart is faint from the soul of the
12:43foot even to the head. Here you have the anthropomorphization of the nation to where Isaiah is using
12:53a description for that people will understand. You know, and this time someone was sick and
12:58You say the whole head is sick.
13:01That's a comprehensive entire sickness in the entirety is what Isaiah saying from the foot,
13:07even to the head.
13:10There's nothing sound in the body only bruises, welts and raw wounds, not just wounds, but wounds
13:18that are raw, untreated, unbandached.
13:22Then you get down to verse seven and you got to remember this is a people who has Deuteronomy
13:28chapter 28, you know, if you're harking diligently to the voice of the Lord your
13:33God to do all that he commands you all of these blessings will befall you. However,
13:38as verses 1 through 14, but verse 15, verse 15 hits you with the but however, if you
13:44do not harken, this shall be your expectation. Then you get 28 verses of the
13:53calamity that would befall the rebellious nation. And Isaiah said, your city is a
14:00burn with fire. Then we just come through a summer where the city was on fire. Your
14:07field strangers are devouring them in your presence, desolation as overthrown by strangers.
14:14I'm asking the believer, have we considered when you have, for example, the massive lawlessness
14:21through illegal immigration that has been falling our nation under the previous administration?
14:25Have we considered the spiritual implications of that? Though, fall out of Minnesota recently
14:31concerning ice, the ice operations all around the country.
14:35I think we have to get beyond merely assessing things concerning as it pertains to the political
14:42realities and we have to examine them in light of scripture.
14:47The most desperate enduring need in our nation is repentance and the body of Christ has to
14:55lead in communicating God's heart on this matter.
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16:06Shining light into the darkness. This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
16:12Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here and the year of travels
16:17continue.
16:19Coming up March 27th through the 29th, I will be ministering at the Kingdom Come conference
16:26at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
16:31The conference is the Kingdom Come conference, subtitled the Christian Citizen.
16:37I'm looking forward to this.
16:40going to be an amazing time. The core Ridge Presbyterian Church is the church that was founded by the
16:45late DJ'S Kennedy. Many of you are familiar with him. It will be as I mentioned March 27th through
16:52the 29th. We'll have information in the show notes for those who are in the area. Some people
16:57have been asking me, Dave, when are you coming to Florida? Well, March 27th through the 29th is when
17:03this will happen. As I mentioned, I will be ministering at this conference. A couple people I'm looking
17:09forward to hearing is our sister Rosaria Butterfield. We'll be
17:13ministering as well. David Bonson will be there. I'm looking
17:16forward to hearing him. Oz Guinness will be ministering at
17:20this conference. Bill Federer, you heard him on this show. We'll
17:23be ministering at this conference. Eric Mataxis will be
17:27ministering as well as Brad Dakis from the Pacific Justice
17:30Institute. The conference will be hosted by Pastor Rob Passienza,
17:34who is the pastor of Core Ridge Presbyterian Church.
17:38Mark your calendars from March 27th through the 29th
17:42in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
17:44It's going to be an amazing time to conference,
17:46is the Kingdom Come Conference.
17:48The subtitle for this year is,
17:50the Christian Citizen, if you are in that area,
17:53I'd love to meet you there.
17:55And I am looking forward, eagerly,
17:57to being a part of this conference,
18:00coming up later next month.
18:03All right, by now, I'm sure almost all of you
18:08have heard about the absolute insanity
18:12that broke out over the weekend in Mexico,
18:17just south of our border.
18:19It should not be lost on us that this happened just after.
18:23Oh yeah, we had to shoot down some drones in El Paso, Texas
18:28that cartel members had just floated over
18:31into American airspace.
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.
18:44But the head of the notorious Jalisco new generation cartel was murdered. The nickname he goes by or went by was El Mincho.
18:57And I'm saying murdered, not unjustified.
19:01He was taken out by the Mexican National Guard.
19:06Now, the Mexican National Guard was working in conjunction
19:10with US intelligence.
19:12And for the longest President Trump has said that, look,
19:16I don't know, Mexico has a president.
19:17We know about Claudia Shinebaum.
19:21It's always funny.
19:22How do you get a Mexican Marxist with the name Shinebaum?
19:28to be the president. It's pretty interesting.
19:34But the Mexican National Guard was working with the work using
19:39US intelligence to get El Mencho,
19:44but it led to a pretty significant shootout. There were over 25 Mexican
19:48National Guardsmen who were killed in this battle more than 40 to 50
19:55Cartel members were killed and some of the top, obviously most of the people talking about
20:05El Mencho and this is a cartel that was notoriously violent, notorious for outsized reprisals and
20:15not only that, you had some of El Mencho's lieutenants that actually were killed in the
20:22process as well, but then you had some other lieutenants who weren't killed.
20:26They were shot though and they were able to scurry off into nearby woods and the reports
20:32say that the cartel members flew away in aircraft from the Mexican National Guard.
20:41Before I get too far, I want you to listen to this clip that's describing the very thing
20:47that I'm talking about.
20:48It is clip number one, clip one, go.
20:51K. Asarubson parts of Mexico after one of the world's most wanted drug lords is killed.
20:56Nimesio Osegiras-Inventes, also known as El Mencho, died in a shootout with the Mexican
21:01military as they tried to capture him near Puerto Vallarta.
21:04New video posted online and verified by ABC News shows the military operation against El
21:09Mencho.
21:11Gunshots or explosions and helicopters can be heard near a wooded area next to the cabin
21:16complex where the cartel leader was hiding out.
21:20Jalisco new generation cartel members responded by blocking roads and setting vehicles on fire
21:26President Claudia Shabam says 25 national guard members were killed in attacks in the state of Jalisco now
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
21:42And this confirms president Trump's point that really the cartels have been running Mexico
21:49That across 20 different states in Mexico
21:53So you had, and then we give the appropriate number, more than 250 roadblocks, all in response
22:05to El Menchos death across 20 states though.
22:11Think about how expansive that is.
22:12Across 20 different states in the country.
22:16There's been lots of reporting about, you know, Costco's and American companies that have
22:21operations in Mexico being bombed, the Puerto Vallarta airport suffering some bombings,
22:31but bombings all across the entire nation soon as Al Mencho is dead.
22:38Then you have the Mexican military pursuing lieutenants.
22:42They're able to get to the woods, the forest nearby, but they have sufficient aircraft
22:49to board to just fly away from the Mexican military.
22:57Imagine something like that happening in the United States of America, right?
22:59Where you have like some, some drug lord, some drug dealer gets killed and you have,
23:05you know, that's not how you say to say, yeah, 15 to 17 different states in our
23:09country that all of a sudden have these uprising and explosions and all this kind
23:13of stuff. And, and where I'm going with this, of course, this is another exercise
23:19of, um, the United States of America's military prowess, because could they have
23:26done this without US intelligence? Well, let's let's just ask a couple questions.
23:31Has it been done before? Have the Mexicans been trying to be dealing with
23:37dementia before? Certainly it confirms United States military is the most potent
23:45fighting for fighting force in the world. That's a fact. That's an unassailable
23:50fact. But the point I want to highlight that's a that's a little bit different
23:56than I think a lot of people have pointed out to you. Do you because this is my
24:02opinion on this. This is a demonstration when you see how absolutely out of control Mexico
24:10became immediately after El Menchills taken out all of these expressions of violent reprisals
24:17by the cartel all over the country. Do you see why it was so important that we as the United
24:23States of America keep a sound firm grip on our southern border? Do you see because my
24:30My contention is that the whole world now has been confronted with just how much or should
24:37I say how little control the Mexican government has over the cartels.
24:44Now a lot of us have known that for a long time.
24:46A lot of us have known that.
24:47Known this.
24:48A lot of us have known nothing goes down in Mexico without cartel consent.
24:51We've been knowing this.
24:54But now the whole world has been confronted with this because El Minto is gone and you can
25:00and shut down the roads in 20 different states,
25:02all at once, just like that.
25:06Just like that.
25:07That you have the armament, the equipment,
25:09and the ability that in the midst of a firefight
25:12with the military, y'all could retreat to aircraft
25:14and fly away.
25:21And we have people in our country,
25:23that wanna hem and haul and play tiddly winks about,
25:29ah, nah, you just wanna protect the boat
25:32because he rags this and all this kind of stupidity
25:35where you're floating with that kind of reality,
25:38just out of our own country, just out of our own country.
25:48This should, notice I said should,
25:51I don't have high expectations for this
25:53to be what actually occurs,
25:56but this should put an end to any American flirtation
26:03with a porous southern border.
26:10I say should because the unfortunate reality
26:13that regressives in our country are so committed to their ideology, so committed to their radical
26:20ideology, they have demonstrated their lack of concern for how many people are victimized
26:29as a result of their radical positions.
26:38Don't forget that in order for us to have the massive influx of illegal illegal immigration
26:46in VR Southern border during Mr. Ice Cream Man's administration,
26:51that him and his team had to literally go in
26:55and undo everything that President Trump did
26:57in the previous administration.
27:03You had to go to the fence, take the lock off
27:06and lift the latch and offer the policy version of,
27:13y'all come now?
27:20And one of the things that is concerning to me in this regard,
27:25in this regard is that this was done with no regard.
27:38Who was happening in our own country?
27:43I'm grateful for the efforts of President Trump
27:45as employees that he's been back in the Oval Office.
27:47What Tom Homan is doing?
27:49I'm grateful, but I cannot help but think
27:52what all has gotten into our country.
27:55And then when you consider the Great Lakes people
27:58like Jacob Fry and Tim Walz and the Los Angeles mayor,
28:03I forgot her name at the moment and all of these people that are trying to make it like
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
28:12Why don't you let us go into the jails like this is this dumb?
28:15This is just dumb and you can you can play these these ridiculous games if you want, but you're playing with fire
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
28:32euphemistic sounding at a minimum, the cartels have the money and the weaponry
28:37and the equipment to rival the Mexican government. Others would would say quite
28:45plainly, we outgun the Mexican government. That's why nothing goes down without
28:49cartel permission. And now you have complete complete chaos with the
29:07regressives in our country mind too much. If we fortified our southern borders even
29:11more now. Would that be too much to ask? Would that be too much to
29:17have a conversation about? Not to mention, all of those who entered
29:26our country through the southern border, who are not of Spanish
29:32heritage. This is just foolish. This is just so foolish to me. It's
29:41so foolish. And we continue to have these foolish notions that
29:45take root. And as I started out discussing in the first segment,
29:53that this is beyond logic at this point.
30:00Like, you have people taking these positions
30:05that are beyond the capacity to reason with.
30:07Many of you have dealt with this.
30:08Like, man, Abe, I've explained this to them.
30:09I've talked logically with them,
30:12and they refuse to embrace this.
30:15Because a lot of what we're dealing with guys is spiritual.
30:18And now we have the state of the union address tonight,
30:21President Trump is scheduled to speak,
30:24and I'm sure he's gonna talk about the terrorist decision.
30:27I'm gonna discuss that because I read the 170 some odd pages of this opinion what you have
30:37Virginia's newly elected governor Abigail Spandberger is gonna do the
30:42Democrat response to President Trump stated in the union speech
30:46which
30:48It's just
30:49The audacity to do that is just remarkable to me now. I know I didn't gonna spin it
30:55They're gonna say well. Yeah, because I was able to flip
30:58a blue Virginia governor's mansion,
31:02I mean a red Virginia governor's mansion blue,
31:07but I want you to look deeper.
31:10What they're literally saying is that,
31:12almost like the Mandalorian, this is the way,
31:14this is the way you can lie in your campaign
31:18to present yourself as a moderate.
31:20And as soon as you get in office,
31:23will you let the commie colors fly?
31:28Or, or you pull a mom downy and I'm just like,
31:33Can't save you, save your op-ed, save, save your, you know,
31:37you seein' and doin' runnin' all these pieces.
31:39Blue states are out of control.
31:41Can you believe Zaron Mamdoni wants to raise taxes
31:45in New York City?
31:46And I'm just like, huh, well Jeff color me surprised
31:51that you have a self-described Marxist
31:55that's already run out of other people's money
31:58and wants to raise more taxes
31:59to take more of other people's money.
32:01Ain't that a shocking move to you?
32:04I'm just like, these are the conversations and the pieces y'all should have been running before
32:08a homeboy got elected.
32:10Oh, no.
32:12That's cause y'all didn't really have a problem with that.
32:16So you got them running the Abigail Spanberger to say, hey, hey, this is how you do it, you know?
32:21If you're in one of those hotly contested areas, hey, just make yourself look like you're moderate
32:25and get elected and then you do all of the communist stuff that we're talking about.
32:30And then of course they're going to allow US Senator Alex Padilla of California who replaced
32:36US Senator if he president the remix in the Senate to offer the Democrat response in Spanish.
32:44But the obla a little espanol.
32:52We'll see more Hamilton Corner. Let me get back from this way.
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34:14Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here.
34:19You know, what a tremendous time for our nation celebrating not one but two gold
34:23medals in hockey. You know, where the U.S. men's team outfellaship died
34:29to the north you know they they they tend to believe that they have a corner of the market on
34:34you know passing the puck i know bobbie right now it's cheesy from it it is if you don't know bobbie
34:38cowbell look look look that's bobbie talking about the cowbell this man is a hockey fan whether the
34:45united states of america pulled out the tremendous victory on the men's side and the women's side both
34:51of the
34:53outfellow shipping
34:55the Canadians
34:57in the gold medal game
34:59there will be
35:01members from the men's hockey team, US hockey team
35:04they're already
35:06in at the White House today
35:08they made it to the White House today, they picked it from the Oval Office
35:11all kind of things, they're expected to be at the State of the Union address
35:14this evening
35:17but it manages seems like this whole thing
35:20and our nation concerning younger women in our country,
35:24not responding similarly to younger men in our country,
35:29the US women's hockey team declined the invitation
35:33to attend the state of the United States in that.
35:35I'm not kidding.
35:38They had a quite politically correct speech to offer,
35:45or should I say statement to issue
35:47to respectfully decline the president's invitation.
35:52They said, quote,
35:53"'We are sincerely grateful for the invitation
35:55extending to our gold medal-winning U.S. Women's Hockey Team
35:58and deeply appreciate the recognition
36:00of the extraordinary achievement.
36:03Due to the timing and previously scheduled academic
36:07and professional commitments following the games,
36:09the athletes are unable to participate.
36:13They were honored to be included
36:14and were grateful for the acknowledgement
36:16and the invitation. So while the men's hockey team and I just, you know, I don't I don't know
36:23their schedules. Now I'm not gonna, you know, say anything or to impugnant them if they have
36:29scheduled they have schedules. But the men's game finished more recently, the men just won.
36:34The women won a few days ago, you know, and I, I, you know, the president offered to send
36:43the military plane to pick them up to bring them from where they were to come to the state of the union.
36:48Speaker Johnson is going to make sure they were accommodated with the room to attend the state of union address.
36:54The men's team is coming, but the women's team is not coming.
37:00And it's sad to me for a host of reasons because one, it just shows another example.
37:06I'll share with you guys the statistics concerning how younger men are skewing more conservative politically while younger women.
37:14I'll just say it this way to be kind or not.
37:17They are not
37:20And this is just another example of that
37:24There was a time and I think this is why you saw such a tremendous response all over our country
37:31We are a patriotic people and when we think about sports
37:37Nobody is nobody wants to be confronted front and center with these people's political beliefs and all that kind of stuff
37:42It was a time in a moment to celebrate as a nation and in fact a unifying moment for our country frankly
37:48because they have some people and I'm not even gonna get into you know the
37:53leading goalscore for the women's hockey team how you know she's accepting a
37:58proposal from a woman yeah oh yeah these are just fix yeah yeah just before the
38:05gold medal game you know I'm not trying to even bring that up as a front and
38:12center consideration but you don't see the value the women's hockey team now
38:17well let me finish my statement that I'll say the next thing you don't see the
38:20value in and having this as a unified moment to celebrate the country. For the whole country
38:26to be able to rally around and celebrate that we, the United States of America, were victorious,
38:32especially in the circumstances where we were not expected to be. It just makes you sad.
38:41And you think about this, we are in the year where we are approaching the 250th anniversary
38:45of our Declaration of Independence. I don't know what their schedules are. Maybe they do have
38:54academic and professional commitments that are inescapable.
39:01I could be wrong, but I do think any professor
39:04or anyone who had a professional obligation would say,
39:07hey, you need an extra day to go to celebrate
39:11and be celebrated for our nation
39:13as we approach 250th anniversary.
39:15I have a hard time believing they wouldn't have been able
39:18to find accommodation for such a commitment.
39:23Maybe I'm wrong.
39:25I could be wrong.
39:27I don't think that I am,
39:29but it's just a saddening thing.
39:34And it's a moment that we get deprived of as a nation
39:36instead of being able to celebrate this together.
39:43They have respectfully declined.
39:49And it's indicative of the times that we're in.
39:54All right, go a little further.
39:57So in the tariffs case, learning resources, Inc,
40:00I know this, this came out a few days ago,
40:05learning resources, inverses,
40:06the president of the United States of America
40:08having to do with the tariffs.
40:10I wanna say on the onset that I agree with the decision
40:18that the court arrived at,
40:20but I don't agree in their methodology,
40:23and more broadly, more broadly,
40:27I think it's weak sauce, man,
40:29the way that they arrived at the decision,
40:32because you have several considerations.
40:35First, the issue was, the issue plainly put
40:42is whether or not President Trump
40:43has the unilateral authority to,
40:47and I wanna get to this portion of the opinion.
40:51Let's see, there we go.
40:56No, that's not it.
41:00I wanted, yes, here we go.
41:02I wanna get to this portion of the opinion
41:04because the reality is,
41:06It was kind of a weak sauce approach
41:13because you have a six justice majority
41:15and you have justices, Amy Coney Barrett
41:19and Justice Gorsuch and Chief Justice John Roberts joining
41:25Justice Kataj Brown Jackson,
41:27Justice Atlantic, Hagan, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor
41:29to make a six justice majority.
41:32And the issue is the IEEPA,
41:36the international economic, let me get back up here to give you the full before I get to
41:44the acronym in the statute, the statute's full name. It is the International Emergency Economic
41:53Powers Act, the I E P A, whether or not President Trump has the authority, the unilateral authority,
42:01under the IEEPA to impose tariffs, right?
42:11And so, what I'm saying is weak sauce, I have to pay, there we go.
42:18So, what you have with the six justices, you have a kind of hard spot
42:22because you have justices so to my your, justice Kagan, and justice Jackson,
42:26who say that the IEEPA does not authorize tariffs as a matter of ordinary statutory interpretation.
42:34But that is not the reasoning that Justice John Roberts, Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Gorsuch, and Justice Barrett employed.
42:42What those justices leaned on, and this is what Brett Kavanaugh, Justice Kavanaugh pointed out in his dissent,
42:47they leaned on the notion that, quote, the major question canon of statutory interpretation was employed wrongly by the Trump Administration.
42:59basically that important cannon requires quote clear congressional
43:03authorization for executive action
43:06of a major economic political significance now i
43:09i said what they're saying i think that that
43:11breaks up the majority in my opinion
43:14but in their view it doesn't make up the majority because they all conclude the
43:17same way even though they've concluded for different reasons
43:22i agree with the decision i'm explain why i agree with the decision because i have
43:25this radical thing you know this u.s. constitution
43:28and
43:29My scotas heroes are Justice Thomas and Justice Elito.
43:36But I think their argument is flawed in this regard.
43:43Justice Thomas basically argued that Congress
43:47has the lawful authority to delegate its taxation power
43:53to the president.
43:54I kinda don't agree with that.
43:59I don't agree with that.
44:01And the core of Justice Thomas's argument was that the non-delegation doctrine says that
44:09Congress cannot delegate core legislative power to the president.
44:18When you zoom out and read the Founders Constitution, and I would certainly not attempt to say that
44:23I am more prudent, concerned, at Constitution than Justice Thomas, but I disagree with him
44:29here.
44:30He's human beings just like everybody else.
44:33Because I think his description of a core legislative power,
44:37a core legislative authority,
44:38is there anything more core in the founders vision
44:41of our constitution than the ability to tax?
44:44You know?
44:45Now, Justice Kavanaugh, while he disagreed
44:48with the majority in the court, in the case,
44:51he argued plainly that while the majority finds the IEEPA
44:58as an inaccurate constitution,
44:59I'm sorry, congressional authority to base President Trump's
45:04tariffs on, he could have used other power,
45:06like the Trade Act of 1974.
45:08There's another statute from 1962 that Congress granted
45:12authority.
45:13And I do agree that Congress did that.
45:16But my contention here, and I think the court
45:19landed at the right conclusion for this reason.
45:22And I want to read this to you guys.
45:25And this is Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1
45:30of the U.S. Constitution. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1.
45:39And it says this, quote,
45:40the Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties,
45:46imposts and excise's to pay the debts and provide for the common
45:51defense and general welfare of the United States.
45:53But all duties, imposts and excise's shall be uniform throughout the United
45:57States. Now, the majority in the case said, well, yeah,
46:03the president has 30 he could shut down imports in total.
46:09I, that's why I think this is such a,
46:10this is such an artificial and artificial distinction.
46:14He could shut down imports in total,
46:18or he could allow imports, but he can't do the lesser.
46:22Think about this, this is literally
46:25what the six justices concluded.
46:26They said that president Trump, if he wanted to,
46:29if he wanted to stop China from importing anything
46:31to the US, he could have done that.
46:34But it can't do the lesser thing in saying, well, if Chinese companies or the Chinese government
46:40wants to import goods or export things from China to be imported into the United States
46:44of America, the president cannot do the lesser thing in impose a duty for that, a tax for
46:51that.
46:52I just think that's weak sauce.
46:53If you can shut it down completely, why can't you charge them?
46:57I think the more appropriate constitutional balance, and this is why, and we have to consider
47:02these things until the full extended their consideration. Because if the argument is the
47:11president either can shut it down in total or if the argument is that Justice Kavanaugh
47:15asserted, which I don't agree with, Kavanaugh's assertion either, Kavanaugh's assertion is
47:20that, well, the president can do so. He has to, he has to declare an emergency of his own initiative,
47:31he could tear whoever he wants. Just imagine for one moment you have a
47:35regressive Marxist like saying, I don't know, take your pick. She or she'll never
47:40be president, the original, the remix, you know, Baraku, saying you name them. And
47:45you've got to give them the authority to declare an emergency according to
47:50their own initiative and then to tear whoever they want it. I think you begin
47:55to see how that will fall apart. And here's the thing that I think that people feel
47:58to realize tariffs are taxes.
48:03Like I want to give you this definition.
48:05I just read to you article one, section eight, clause one.
48:08It referred to a duty specifically imposed in ex-ISIS.
48:12The U.S. Treasury Department's definition for a duty is this.
48:18It's a tax levied by government on the importer export of goods imposed act
48:25as a tax, especially an import duty.
48:27In quote. All right. There's a reason that the founding fathers said taxation must occur
48:38and originate in the House of Representatives. When terrorists are applied, guys foreign nations
48:43are not terrified. The terrorists are applied to the companies in the United States of America
48:49that is importing the goods. So when you have Chinese companies, for example, selling things,
48:54The import towards, import terrors in America pay the tariff on it.
49:00And what usually happens is that the American companies pass off that tax onto the consumers.
49:07It's the goods that are tariffed, not the nations.
49:10I agree with the president's objectives.
49:12I agree that there's an emergency concern in fentanyl.
49:15I agree that there was a problem with the massive trade deficits and imbalances.
49:20But you have to do what's necessary in a constitutional way.
49:23We need to rebalance that. We need to restore domestic manufacturing, but we need to be
49:27faithful to the Constitution. The Constitution needs to continue to guide our policy because
49:33President Trump is not going to be in office forever. We need to think through this thoroughly
49:36before we conclude.
49:40The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American
49:45Family Association or American Family Radio.

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