FIGHT OR FLIGHT: Lawfare threatens Trump agenda

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00:00So, given the back and forth with this U.S. District Judge and the administration's use

00:04of the Alien Enemies Act, does the president plan to send new and additional flights of

00:09Venezuelan gang members, now designated as foreign terrorists, from the U.S. to El Salvador

00:13or elsewhere?

00:14Can Americans expect to see those flights sometime soon?

00:18Americans can absolutely expect to see the continuation of the mass deportation campaign

00:22that has been successfully led by this president, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem,

00:28and also our Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.

00:31Since you brought up the judges, I would like to point out that the judges in this country

00:36are acting erroneously.

00:38We have judges who are acting as partisan activists from the bench.

00:43They are trying to dictate policy from the president of the United States.

00:47They are trying to clearly slow walk this administration's agenda, and it's unacceptable.

00:53As the president said last night, we will continue to comply with these court orders.

00:57We will continue to fight these battles in courts, but it's incredibly apparent that

01:02there is a concerted effort by the far left to judge shop, to pick judges who are clearly

01:08acting as partisan activists from the bench in an attempt to derail this president's agenda.

01:14We will not allow that to happen, and not only are they usurping the will of the president

01:18and the chief executive of our country, but they are undermining the will of the American

01:23public.

01:24Tens of millions of Americans who duly elected this president to implement the policies that

01:29are coming out of this White House.

01:30And then one more question.

01:31Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said yesterday that he was united with Democrats

01:36in working against Americans who, quote, their attitude is, I made my money all by myself.

01:41How dare your government take my money from me?

01:44Or I built my company with my bare hands.

01:45How dare your government tell me how to treat my customers?

01:48What is the president's response to this given his upcoming tax agenda and need to work on

01:52Capitol Hill?

01:53Well, we certainly hope that Democrats all of a sudden are for more money in the pockets

01:57of the American public.

01:59The president has made it incredibly clear that he is committed to tax cuts.

02:03He is committed to passing a big reconciliation package later this year, ending no taxes on

02:08tips, taxes on overtime, no taxes on Social Security for our hardworking seniors.

02:13And we encourage everybody on Capitol Hill to support that when it comes to the finish

02:18line, especially Democrats who clearly need a boost from the American public right now.

02:22Their approvals are at an all time record low.

02:24Thanks for being with us, Katie, about that.

02:26Jackie.

02:27Thanks, Carol.

02:28What options does the president have to, you know, he says he's going to follow court orders.

02:32He wouldn't defy a court order, but he's raised these concerns about these judges acting in

02:36such a partisan way.

02:38What option does he have to ensure that his agenda continues to move forward while this

02:43is ongoing and the judges appear to be trying to just block and delay and impede?

02:48Well, you're right.

02:49They are trying to block, delay, and impede.

02:51This is lawfare.

02:52The president is no stranger to it.

02:54He faced it in his campaign, and this is a continuation of the lawfare that president

02:59Trump faced as a candidate.

03:00And he's now unfortunately facing as a president.

03:03Clearly these partisan activists in the judicial branch didn't get the memo on November 5th

03:07when the American people overwhelmingly reelected this president to continue with mass deportations.

03:12So White House counsel and the Department of Justice are working on this.

03:16They're appealing these cases, and we will continue to use the full weight of the White

03:21House counsel's office and the president's team of lawyers to fight this in court because

03:25we know we will win even if we have to go all the way to the Supreme Court.

03:28One more on TDA.

03:30Andy McCarthy said in an interview with Hugh Hewitt, he certainly agrees with what the

03:34president is trying to do with the Alien Enemies Act, but he's not sure that the law is completely

03:39on his side.

03:40He cites some previous Supreme Court rulings dealing with enemy combatants in wartime,

03:45and he says that even they have a right to challenge their detention in court.

03:50He raised concern also that while TDA's been designated as a terrorist organization, these

03:55individuals hadn't been prosecuted for terrorism.

03:58So my question is, will the president ask Congress potentially to declare war on these

04:05cartels for the invasion that he's talked about so that he's on stronger legal footing?

04:09Well, we absolutely disagree with the legal opinion of the individual that you mentioned.

04:13We would not have moved forward with this if we didn't believe the president.

04:16This was within the president's executive authority to continue with this mass deportation

04:22effort under the authority provided to him under the Alien Enemies Act.

04:26And when you read the act, as I did last time at the podium, a predatory incursion is absolutely

04:32what has happened with Tren de Aragua.

04:33They have been sent here by the hostile Maduro regime in Venezuela, and the president immediately

04:39upon taking office designated TDA as a foreign terrorist organization.

04:44And under this act, it is within the president's authority to deport these terrorists.

04:48And anybody trying to defend these terrorists who have now been sent off of American soil

04:54should talk to the families of the individuals who these heinous monsters have killed and

04:59have raped.

05:00If you talk to those families, they are so heartened by the president's decision to take

05:04tough action and to use his executive authority, something that no other president has been

05:08willing to do.

05:10Because President Trump does what he says he's going to do, and he is deporting these

05:13foreign terrorists from American soil to secure our homeland, and he's within his rights to

05:17do that.

05:18Jennifer.

05:19Very quickly on Tesla.

05:20Very quickly on Tesla.

05:21There's a website that's trying to dox Tesla owners across the country and saying they're

05:25only going to take down personal information when people show that they've sold their cars.

05:30What's the administration going to do about that?

05:32I haven't seen that website, but we certainly think it's despicable.

05:35The violence that has taken place against Tesla, the company, its employees, and also

05:39just Americans who have chosen to drive an electric vehicle, many of them are Democrats,

05:44by the way.

05:45Democrats were big supporters of Tesla and of electric vehicles until Elon Musk decided

05:50to vote for Donald Trump.

05:51So we would like Democrats to also come out and condemn this heinous violence that we

05:55have seen.

05:56And I believe the attorney general has said she's investigating these incidents as acts

06:00of domestic terrorism.

06:01So President Trump standing firm on his promise to get migrant gang members out of our country

06:06despite pushback from a U.S. district judge.

06:11He actually said we shouldn't be able to take criminals, killers, murderers, horrible, the

06:16worst people, gang members, gang leaders, that we shouldn't be allowed to take them

06:21out of our country.

06:22Well, that's a presidential job.

06:24That's not for a local judge to be making that determination.

06:27So the administration has until noon today to respond to the judge's questions on the

06:31deportation flights of the alleged members of Trinidad y Agua, the Venezuelan gang.

06:37They are now in El Salvador.

06:39TDA is one of the gangs and cartels the State Department designates as foreign terrorist

06:44organizations.

06:45Here to discuss is National Security Advisor Colonel Michael Waltz.

06:48Colonel, thanks so much for joining the program.

06:51Good to be with you.

06:52So tell me, I mean, I don't know if a lot of Americans realize, but as a former Green

06:56Beret, you know this, we've targeted these cartels before.

07:01The president really doesn't need to declare war to go after them, right?

07:07No, that's right.

07:09And Lawrence, you know, let's go back in time a bit.

07:12I can remember when people were trying to arrest Osama bin Laden and were trying to

07:18arrest Al Qaeda and, you know, debating whether they had the evidentiary standards to get

07:25them through due process here in the United States, which is a very high bar.

07:31We need to perhaps start thinking about these terrorists like what they are, which is terrorists.

07:38Unfortunately, we had 9-11 to begin thinking about Al Qaeda like the terrorists that they

07:43are.

07:44Trinidad y Agua has been labeled a terrorist organization.

07:49They are no different than ISIS.

07:52They maim, kill, torture, create mayhem and chaos on our streets in the United States.

07:59And I think if you had some of those, you know, tattooed, shaved head men labeled ISIS,

08:05then we wouldn't even be having this debate.

08:07So this is about a wholesale shift on what a terrorist is and how they should be treated

08:13in the United States, how they should be treated when they're attacking our soil and when they're

08:18violating our sovereignty and when they're terrorizing our citizens.

08:23And of course, that is going to present an Article 2, Article 3 in the Constitution conflict.

08:29But really that's, that's what this is.

08:31And this is squarely under the commander in chief's authority to keep Americans safe.

08:36And I'm telling you, that's how most Americans see it.

08:39So Colonel, you would never give those operation details to a judge if you were going after

08:44Osama bin Laden.

08:45They're obviously trying to get you to give that information over about these terrorists.

08:51Now I want to move on to the big call with Putin yesterday.

08:53Apparently it was a 90 minute conversations.

08:56There are some reports out there that said that he kept the president waiting.

09:00I don't think that's true based on my sources.

09:02What can you tell us?

09:04Completely false, garbage, fake news.

09:07You know, there's, this is between two heads of state, a major call.

09:13There's, you know, sometimes some technical difficulties.

09:16The call started on time and it lasted for a very long time.

09:21And both presidents covered a lot of ground from the future of bilateral relationships,

09:26keeping, you know, stabilizing the region to solving this problem in Ukraine, ending

09:34this war, stopping the killing.

09:37They went into some operational details of the fighting.

09:40They went into a big picture on how to implement the ceasefire, prisoner exchanges, people

09:47that are being detained.

09:48They covered a lot, a lot of ground.

09:51But I could tell you Donald J. Trump does not sit and wait for an hour for any head

09:56of state.

09:57But look, this was, this was an important historic call that only president Trump could

10:03pull both sides together.

10:06He's going from one side to the other.

10:07Our negotiators are going from one side to the other and we are driving both sides closer

10:12and closer.

10:13Florence, even the NATO secretary general of NATO said, president Trump, you broke the

10:20log jam and everybody agrees now.

10:23It's not if the war ends, we're debating how the war ends.

10:26So real quickly, Colonel, before I let you go, you're in a unique position because you

10:29did used to be a Green Beret.

10:31You've kicked down a lot of doors of some bad guys, but you've also had to work with

10:35some bad guys for the interest of America.

10:38So what did you make of the call?

10:40Do you believe that Putin was an honest broker?

10:44Could you believe what he said when he promised the president that they may be able to come

10:48to an agreement here?

10:50Well, it's not a matter of whether you necessarily believe.

10:55This is trust, but verify.

10:57This is tough negotiation.

10:59Putin's a tough character.

11:00We have no illusions about who we're dealing with.

11:03But both sides, it's in their interest to end the killing, to end the massive loss of

11:10lives and treasure and material, and play this forward a year or two, three years.

11:16You know, how does this end except World War I style grinding warfare with World War III

11:21escalation consequences.

11:23It's in all sides interest to stop it.

11:26And that's what we're, and that's what we're driving towards.

11:28We begin with this Fox News alert.

11:30President Trump is standing strong against the growing list of lawfare, liberal lawsuits

11:36against him.

11:38One of the fights is over his effort to deport hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members,

11:43the worst of the worst.

11:45Many convicted of violent crimes and here illegally.

11:49I'm Harris Faulkner.

11:50You are in the Faulkner focus.

11:52Judge James Boasberg gave the Justice Department until noon Eastern today.

11:57He likes those noon deadlines.

11:59OK, anyway, he wants the DOJ to hand over more information about those deportations.

12:05And he is the same judge who ordered those planes to turn around in the sky after they

12:10left the US.

12:12The president did not hold back.

12:16He actually said we shouldn't be able to take criminals, killers, murderers, horrible, the

12:21worst people, gang members, gang leaders, that we shouldn't be allowed to take them

12:25out of our country.

12:27Well, that's a presidential job.

12:28That's not for a local judge to be making that determination.

12:34All right.

12:35He also posted this.

12:36If a president doesn't have the right to throw murderers and other criminals out of the country

12:40because of a radical left lunatic judge wants to assume the role of president, then our

12:45country is in very big trouble and destined to fail.

12:49Republican Congressman Tim Burchett threw his support behind the president.

12:55I stand with President Trump.

12:57I think it's a complete overreach by this judge.

12:59I think it's political overreach by the left.

13:01This is an act of war by these countries.

13:04These people have come in and they've come across our border illegally.

13:07What would happen if 14 million people swarmed the border at one time, yet it was spread

13:12out over four years, 14 million people?

13:15What do you consider that an unlawful invasion?

13:18It's an act of war.

13:21You know, I've been paying attention to something.

13:23This is senior White House correspondent Jackie Heinrich, and you just heard Congressman

13:27Burchett say this.

13:28The number has crept up because now they're reaching out, Jackie, and they're finding

13:32out how many more people came across our border unvetted, some of them violent.

13:36I mean, it's it's amazing how far away we were from the truth, apparently, Jackie.

13:44That's right.

13:45And, you know, to that point, Harris, the administration right now is not barred from

13:48using the Alien Enemies Act to continue to do these deportations.

13:53They're supposed to notify the court before they use it in the future.

13:56So anyway, the administration has till noon today to provide information on specific movements

14:01that plane made, rejecting the claim that the judge's orders did not carry any force

14:08once that plane was outside U.S. territory.

14:12President Trump clearly not happy with what he sees as the judge's effort to override

14:17his presidential authority.

14:18But he was making clear last night he will operate within the bounds of the law.

14:23Would you defy a court order?

14:27We all know that.

14:28That was out.

14:29I never did defy a court order.

14:30And you wouldn't in the future?

14:31No, you can't do that.

14:32However, we have bad judges.

14:34We have very bad judges.

14:35And these are judges that shouldn't be allowed.

14:37I think they I think at a certain point you have to start looking at what do you do when

14:41you have a rogue judge?

14:43The judge that we're talking about, he's you look at his other rulings, I mean, rulings

14:48unrelated, but having to do with me, he's a lunatic.

14:54Yesterday, Trump called for Judge Joe, Joe, Judge Boasberg, excuse me, his impeachment.

15:00In a rare statement, though, Supreme Court Justice John Roberts pushed back, saying for

15:04more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response

15:09to disagreement concerning a judicial decision.

15:12The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.

15:16Isn't Trump appearing not to take that statement personally, though?

15:20Well, he didn't mention my name in the statement.

15:23I just saw it quickly.

15:24He didn't mention my name.

15:25But many people have called for his impeachment, the impeachment of this judge.

15:29These alleged TDA gangsters were sent to a Supermax prison in El Salvador.

15:34But yesterday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio threatened new escalating severe sanctions

15:39on the Maduro regime.

15:42If Venezuela does not accept its repatriated citizens, ICE says there are about two hundred

15:46fifty eight Trendy Aragua gang members which would likely be placed into removal proceedings

15:52if they are transferred into their custody.

15:54Harris.

15:55All right, Jackie.

15:56Thank you very much.

15:57Katie Trotsky, constitutional law attorney and former federal prosecutor, is with me.

16:01Look, you heard from that report.

16:03The Aliens Enemy Act is not banning sending these bad guys back to their countries.

16:11The president and his team just have to notify the court.

16:15Why?

16:16Well, even that requirement seems like a bit of an overreach by the judge.

16:20The Alien Enemies Act is essentially a unilateral power of the president to remove people who

16:26fall under the provisions of that act, as according to the president, from our country.

16:31And it's something that the Supreme Court has looked at and said that the courts do

16:35not have any sort of power to second guess.

16:38There are only from my reading of the Supreme Court's previous interpretations of this.

16:43There's only some limited questions that a court can ask regarding the jurisdiction and

16:49whether somebody actually falls within the designated group.

16:52But certainly this is a national security issue at the end of the day.

16:56The president has that authority.

16:57Katie, we're doing something that the Biden administration didn't bother to do.

17:00We're vetting the people before we send them out.

17:02They didn't even vet the people when they were coming in.

17:04So this this is something that we know is happening.

17:07That's how we know so much about these guys.

17:09I mean, face recognition.

17:11They're working against people who are trying to help them.

17:13So they've got to go into communities, do all that great law enforcement, you know,

17:18banding up of agencies and all of that.

17:20So if all that work is being done to round these guys up, why can't the judge just look

17:25at the file and say, yeah, A through F, yeah, those guys need to get out of here.

17:30But my big question is, how does a district court judge trim the powers of a United States

17:37president when it comes to getting out people who are dangerous to the citizens of this

17:41country?

17:42Well, I absolutely agree with you.

17:43I think this judge has well overstepped his bounds, but they really they really can't

17:48theoretically do that.

17:49But the problem is that because the case starts at the lower level here, this judge is saying

17:54this particular law, the Alien Enemies Act, has never been used to target a specified

17:58group.

17:59It's only been used against citizens of countries against whom we've been at war.

18:04And so there's a question about does this actually apply here versus if you have people

18:08here illegally, even criminals, there is immigration processes and due process that is required

18:13to get a removal order.

18:14They cannot just be summarily removed, which under the Alien Enemies Act, the president

18:19can order their removal without any due process whatsoever.

18:21And that's the gripe, essentially, that they're not getting due process, even if those things

18:25are true, that they are criminal.

18:27And please, miss, don't misunderstand.

18:29I'm not pushing against what you're saying.

18:31This is not my opinion.

18:32This is fact.

18:33This is common sense.

18:34This is the president of the United States.

18:36And because a district court judge says he's never seen it applied this way, there are

18:40a lot of things I haven't seen.

18:42But it doesn't mean that they don't stand.

18:43Well, that, I think, is the big picture problem here.

18:46When you have these, quote unquote, unprecedented situations and you could interpret the law

18:50one way or the other to defer to the executive authority and you're choosing to resist the

18:55agenda, to resist President Trump's actions, you are undermining that.

18:59And for what?

19:00To keep these people in our country?

19:01I mean, that's absolutely absurd.

19:03At the end of the day.

19:04I wish you were in the courtroom to ask that question.

19:06What is the point of all of this?

19:08What is your goal to Joe's?

19:10To protect the process for these people when the same people are never in favor of that,

19:14when there's people accused of, let's say, like a Me Too crime.

19:16These are the same people.

19:17It's the hypocrisy is overwhelming.

19:18Wow.

19:19Well, the numbers tell the story of the deluge of liberal lawfare against President Trump.

19:25Look, you just heard Katie saying it.

19:27I mean, it is what it is, and it is really obvious.

19:31In fewer than two months, judges have filed 15 injunctions halting Trump policies.

19:37That is more than President Biden's entire four year term and both Presidents Obama and

19:42George W. Bush's terms.

19:44Remember, they were both in office for eight years each.

19:49President Trump also faced a whopping 64 injunctions in his first term.

19:55Three of those came now again in this one just yesterday.

20:00One indefinitely blocked Trump's order banning transgender people from serving openly in

20:06the U.S. military.

20:08Another stopped the EPA's attempt to end 14 billion dollars worth of grants to climate

20:13groups.

20:14A third halted the administration's efforts to dismantle USAID in the push to cut waste.

20:21President Trump is not going to stop.

20:26Look at the fraud that we've caught.

20:28We've caught so much fraud, so much waste, so many employees that never showed up to

20:33work.

20:34I guarantee you, we will be appealing it.

20:36We have rogue judges that are destroying our country.

20:40So Katie, it's obvious what they're doing.

20:44And look, I know you're in law.

20:46You don't want to think of judges not being fair, but they're not.

20:51Well, when you have the choice to interpret in a way that furthers the president's agenda

20:56or not, and you're making the choice to resist that and to make it so difficult to achieve

21:00these very noble goals, it's like these courts are saying you have to spend money on wasteful

21:04things that the American people want nothing to do with.

21:06You must give foreign aid to all of these other places instead of taking care of things

21:11here.

21:12This is essentially what the big picture is.

21:13I think a lot of these judges lose sight of the forest for the trees.

21:16And yes, there is a question about the extent of a president's authority, whether it's

21:20statutorily or constitutionally derived.

21:22And you have to look at that in certain cases.

21:24And, you know, there are processes to go through.

21:26But when there's a valid interpretation that furthers the executive's authority, I think

21:30that that needs to be respected.

21:32Well, look, if the judges, if the attorneys, if you know, I mean, the ACLU is even getting

21:38involved at one point with the with the Mahmoud Khalil situation, the protester who was with

21:44groups aligned with Hamas, that he was leading those protest groups on the campus of Columbia

21:50University.

21:51I mean, you've got it coming from every angle and you can't ignore the politics of this.

21:55So whose side are the lawfare pushers on?

21:59It's like a drug for them.

22:00Well, yeah.

22:01And with the Khalil situation, of course, now they love the First Amendment.

22:04But when anybody spoke out against covid, of course, they lost their jobs.

22:07They lost their livelihoods.

22:08I mean, these are the picking and choosing of the law to further that purpose.

22:12And that is lawfare, because that's clearly inconsistent across the board here.

22:17And so everything is meant to undermine President Trump's agenda.

22:21One target, as you say, President Trump.

22:23It's not even on behalf of the American people because these decisions don't keep us safe.

22:27It's contrary to the wishes of the people.

22:29From what we know.

22:30All right.

22:31Let's bring in Jay Towne now, former U.S. attorney from Northern District of Alabama.

22:34Thank you so much for joining us.

22:36So please do tell us, based on everything you just heard from the White House in that

22:39briefing, we've heard from the president, his administration.

22:42Where does this go next?

22:45Well, ultimately, nearly all, I mean, this is lawfare by other means.

22:50I think Caroline Levitt sort of alluded to that.

22:53There's been 129 lawsuits in Trump's less than 60 days of being in office.

22:59To put it in further context, in his first term, there were 64 injunctions against Trump.

23:05That's more than the sum of George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden's administration

23:11all put together.

23:13The legality of Trump, Donald Trump, President Trump is absolutely right.

23:18It doesn't matter.

23:19This is a 1798 law.

23:21We're using gobs of the First Amendment right now on your air.

23:26That's an even older law.

23:27And so the Alien Enemies Act, what the president did is he very shrewdly intertwined TDA with

23:34the Venezuelan government and calling it a hybrid criminal state because Maduro and TDA

23:42have joined together in law enforcement, in military.

23:46The Maduro government funds TDA to come to the United States to bring cocaine, to sow

23:50discord, to engage in violence.

23:54And he has enacted the Alien Enemies Act, declared TDA a foreign terrorist organization

24:00and ordered their removal.

24:02That's what the AEA was meant to do.

24:05And so the president has acted in his Article II authorities.

24:09And for a district judge in Washington, D.C., and I hope you'll ask me about all the mistakes

24:14this judge has made already, but for a judge to substitute his judgment for the president

24:22of the United States or the ACLU's judgment, you might as well substitute the winner of

24:26the Publisher's Clearinghouse's judgment for the president.

24:30Well, I'll let you share with those mistakes you see the judge has made so far as you wish.

24:35But I'll first play out this sound from Caroline Lovett.

24:38Just moments ago, talking about, as we were watching the video there, of these recent

24:43ICE arrests, a reminder of the atrocities of these people.

24:47Listen.

24:48ICE San Francisco just arrested a citizen of Guatemala convicted of sexual battery.

24:53ICE New Orleans arrested a citizen of Ecuador convicted of rape in Suffolk County, New York.

24:59ICE Atlanta arrested a citizen of Mexico convicted of assault by strangulation.

25:05ICE Dallas arrested a citizen of Mexico convicted of assault with a firearm and rape with a

25:10foreign object.

25:13And ICE Houston arrested a citizen of Guatemala convicted of indecent sexual contact with

25:17a child in Texas.

25:19These are heinous, criminal, alien monsters who the previous administration allowed to

25:24flood into our country.

25:26And every time President Trump and this team deport one of them, our country becomes safer.

25:31Having just eloquently shared with us your legal perspective on all this and where you

25:34see it going next, you hear that and you wonder, how is it possible that there are

25:39Americans, people in this country, citizens of this country today, that are fighting to

25:44keep these criminals on U.S. soil?

25:48Again, I spent a career in law enforcement, Sandra.

25:53My whole life was spent dealing with victims of crime, oftentimes violent crime.

25:59And I can tell you that this is what I think underpins and underscores the idea that this

26:05is just lawfare by other means.

26:08If this was a different president, there would be cheers that these plainloads of terrorists

26:14were leaving our country.

26:15But instead, there are those who would like to keep them here.

26:20And the ACLU has filed this suit, and this judge has entertained it.

26:24And it's quite astounding what you hear from political pundits, from people in media, that,

26:32for instance, this is what was pled by the plaintiffs in this case, that this is merely

26:38a war power.

26:39It is not.

26:40If there is an invasion or predatory incursion, the president has the same powers under the

26:45Alien Enemies Act that he has if there is a declaration of war.

26:49And what is an invasion or what is an incursion, there is no statutory definition.

26:55It is purely the judgment of the sitting duly elected president of the United States.

27:01And that's just the plain language of the statute.

27:03Also, Judge Boasberg has allowed this habeas petition to continue in front of him.

27:09But the Supreme Court has already told us that a habeas petition is only properly venued

27:15in the district in which the plaintiffs are detained.

27:19They're not in Washington, D.C.

27:20One is in New York, four are in Texas.

27:22There's a lot of other mistakes as well.

27:24It's laden in error.

27:27And Judge Boasberg should not even be hearing this case, much less the way he is.

27:31Levitt summed it up calling them partisan activists in the judicial branch.

27:34They didn't get the memo on November 5th when the American people overwhelmingly reelected

27:39this president to continue with these mass deportations.

27:42Always appreciate when you can join us.

27:44Thank you so much.

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