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00:00To all Filipinos in Cebu, Visayas, Mindanao, and the entire Philippines, and to everyone
00:24who are watching across the globe, Bayang Hapun, good afternoon.
00:28I'm Ike Durano, and today is Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025, and welcome to another edition
00:35of The Intruder.
00:37On top of our issues today, we're going to talk about the movement in the United States
00:46towards a unitary executive under the Trump administration, and the question now is that,
00:53is the United States headed for a constitutional crisis?
00:57I invited my former boss and mentor, Attorney Wallace Francis, tonight, here in the United
01:08States, and it's afternoon in the Philippines, to discuss and shed light on what's going
01:15on right now, on the Trump administration, and where will this kind of direction of Donald
01:26Trump administration bring this country into.
01:32So just for the information of our viewers, today, Donald Trump signed another executive
01:39order, and he entitled this, Restoring Democracy and Accountability in Government.
01:48Let's discuss this further, but let me first welcome my guest for today, Attorney Wallace
01:56Francis, a practicing lawyer here in California, USA.
02:01Attorney Francis, we're now live over The Intruder in the Sun-Star in the Philippines
02:07and worldwide.
02:09May hapon, or good evening, to us here in California.
02:14Sir, thank you so much for accepting my invitation.
02:18Thank you for inviting me.
02:19I do appreciate it.
02:21Yes, and it's been a while, Sir Wally.
02:24It's good to see you.
02:25It has been.
02:26It's been a good 10 years, but we've been following each other on Facebook, so sort
02:31of like we never left each other's company in a way.
02:36Sir Wally, I invited you tonight in my program, and it's a platform.
02:46We will be seen in the Philippines and all the Filipinos across the globe.
02:50It's an internet platform, and everybody is watching what's going on and what's happening
02:55right now in the United States.
02:59So I will go first to the question right now that we are so concerned about, Sir Wally,
03:07because the direction of the Trump administration, they first said that they are doing this efficiency
03:20in the government, and in order to do that, they're going to dismantle the federal government
03:27because that is the wise thing to do because it's wasting taxpayers' money.
03:31Sir Wally, what's your take on this?
03:34Is it not the task of the government to give services to the people?
03:39And why are we...
03:42Is it savings or services that comes first, Attorney Francis?
03:48Well, the purpose of the Trump administration in dismantling the government is on the surface
03:57designed to save money for the American people, but that is the fig leaf behind which it's
04:06really hiding.
04:07The truth of the matter is that the Trump administration is not interested in saving
04:11money for individual Americans, and it's not interested in saving money for the American
04:18government and interested in shrinking the government.
04:22The Trump administration is shrinking the government because they are moving towards
04:27an autocratic state, and the more chaos that they can create, and by way of dismantling
04:34every aspect of the government, the more powerful the unitary executive can become in that context.
04:47So the main purpose is, and this is a longstanding tradition among Republicans, which is this
04:54idea behind small government.
04:56It's been going on for decades.
04:58It's not a new idea, but what is absolutely new and extraordinary is the way that he's
05:05literally taken a wrecking ball and used his power not only to shut down government agencies,
05:13but he's used his power to shut down government agencies that are funded by Congress.
05:18Okay.
05:19So...
05:20Sir, there's a question for that.
05:24Is it within the purview of the presidential power, Attorney Francis?
05:29Is it legal for the president to do that?
05:33Or is it also because Congress decided to support Trump because they have the majority
05:41now in the Republican Party in Congress?
05:45Well, I mean, you're an attorney and I'm an attorney, so we both know that in some ways
05:51there's not really this thing called the law.
05:53There's just varying degrees of lawlessness out there and there's ways of controlling
05:58it.
05:59And so when we're talking about the fight between the executive branch and Congress,
06:07Congress is supposed to be controlling the purse strings.
06:12In the United States, they have the power of the purse.
06:15They're the ones that deal with all of that.
06:17So when the executive decides that he's not going to be spending the money that has been
06:22set forth by Congress, then he's invading the province of that branch.
06:27In America, we have three branches.
06:28We have the executive branch, the president, we have the judicial branch, the judge judiciary,
06:35and then we have the Congress.
06:36And it's Congress who is...
06:38It's their purview to determine what is funded and what's not funded.
06:42And so it really is, I think, stepping outside the boundaries of a president to be not only
06:49shutting down these agencies, but he's actually refusing to spend money that's been provided
06:55for by Congress by using a term called impoundment.
06:58Okay.
06:59Sir, what can you tell our viewers right now?
07:07What are your apprehensions, if there are any?
07:10Would we still have a democracy by the end of this four years of Trump administration?
07:16As for today, he signed another executive order and he titled it Restoring Democracy
07:23and Accountability in Government.
07:26And he quoted Article 2 of the US Constitution that cites the executive power as vested in
07:34the president, meaning all executive branches, officials, and employees are subject to his
07:40sole supervision, Attorney Francis.
07:42So there's no more independent bodies.
07:45We have to confirm, to report, and be evaluated by Donald Trump, Attorney Francis.
07:50What's your comment on this?
07:53And then he just fired all the inspector generals and everybody, and there's no more accountability.
08:01I don't know.
08:02He labeled this accountability, but what's going on, Attorney Francis?
08:06It's the opposite of that.
08:09He is basically, and to answer your question, I'm not engaging in hyperbole when I say that
08:16the United States is facing the most extreme crisis in my entire life.
08:21I'm 58 years old and I've never seen anything like this.
08:24And I'm sitting here as an American who's not given to panic.
08:31And I can tell you that in no time in my life has American democracy been more under threat
08:37than it is right now.
08:40And the Trump administration, its attack on the rule of law is something that is the most
08:52concerning.
08:53It's not just the attack on the rule of law, the refusal to follow orders by judges, the
09:00refusal to respect the press and free speech.
09:05It's the attack on elections that is the most concerning thing is that when, and the attack
09:10on the truth, of course, which is really the same thing, which is when everything is the
09:17subject of this firehose of disinformation, which is a Russian misinformation, disinformation
09:23technique, then nothing becomes knowable and everything becomes questionable.
09:28And so, you know, an election, which is clearly free and fair, if he decides it isn't going
09:35to be, then he can go ahead and he can put the story out that it's false, you know?
09:41So there is a piece of good news that came out of Wisconsin today, which is that there's
09:44a Supreme, the Supreme court of Wisconsin, every state in the state of, in the United
09:48States has a Supreme court, its own body.
09:52And that there was a four, three split and a Democrat won that election today.
10:02And that is going to affect the abortion rights and the, you know, the diversity and immigration
10:08issues within that state state still have power in the United States.
10:13So there is some good news, but at the end of the day the way that the Trump administration
10:19is moving towards autocracy by taking over every single branch and taking a wrecking
10:26ball to the rule of law makes me wonder if there is going to be, you know, a transfer
10:34of power.
10:35Cause he actually just, this two days ago was talking about a third term against the
10:4112th amendment of the constitution.
10:43He's not kidding.
10:44You know, we're, we're laughing, you know, because we know that's preposterous.
10:49You're an attorney.
10:50So you know enough about that to be ridiculous, but he's not deterred by the rule of law.
10:56I'll tell you, Francis, did you hear his explanation that he can have JD Vance run as the president?
11:04And then once they are both elected, he will be the vice president and then he will kick
11:09JD Vance and then he will become the president again in the, in the United States.
11:14Well that's the first I've heard of that.
11:16It sounds like you're more on top of it than I am.
11:19And this is the kind of kooky thinking that, that comes out of this man's brain.
11:26You know, this, this is not something that he thinks is impossible.
11:32But you know, I'm, I guess I'm less concerned with him and I'm more concerned with Vance
11:38because I don't think that JD Vance would leave the presidency.
11:41And I don't, and I think he's much smarter than Donald Trump is and much more dangerous.
11:47Scarier.
11:48Huh?
11:49Right.
11:50Yeah.
11:51Much smarter man.
11:52And a finger to the wind kind of guy who will say anything and do anything, you know?
11:57And so that would be an interesting battle to see between those two.
12:01So Wally, I would go to your, you touched a bit about the defiance on a court order.
12:09I think this has something to do with the decision on the Venezuelan's deportation.
12:14And he was like invoking a very old archaic power in the United States.
12:21And so the problem is that despite the decision of the judiciary openly, defiantly, the executive
12:32for the first time in the United States history, no other American president have, you know,
12:37like have done this kind of defiance other than Donald Trump.
12:42And now Congress with the speaker of the house is pushing a bill to limit the effect of judge's
12:52decision only on their respective locality attorney, Francis, what do you think will
12:58be the implication of this kind of move by the Trump administration and Congress at that
13:04attorney?
13:05Well, you know, one of the interesting things about all of this is, you know, when you look
13:10at it from historical perspective, that there's this thing called the law of unintended consequences.
13:16And so one of the things that the Republicans and the GOP and the make America great Republicans
13:20believe is that they, if they create this unitary autocratic, you know, system, then
13:28they're going to be the ones in power.
13:30And that may not be the case.
13:31In fact, they may create a situation in which, you know, the people, they don't like the
13:36democratic party are the ones who end up in power and then remaining in power because
13:42of the system that they've created, because they've destroyed the rule of law and the
13:45transfer of power.
13:46And in the same way, a judiciary, which is no longer federal, because the way it works
13:52in the United States is if one federal judge makes a ruling that applies to everywhere
13:58in the United States, that's, that's the process.
14:02So that would create a situation where a federal judge could make a ruling in favor of Donald
14:07Trump and, you know, that whole crew, and then a judge somewhere, like, for example,
14:13in out in California could rule it a different way, you know, and so it would frustrate the
14:19very thing that they think, you know, that they want, you know, and it's, it's a good
14:25example of the way that they operate, which is they don't understand basic things such
14:29as having a relationship with Greenland and Canada, the way we have now, we can have anything
14:35we want from them.
14:37They're our best friends.
14:38We just, we have military bases there.
14:40We have all the minerals that they want.
14:42So Trump goes and he decides he's going to piss them off.
14:46Suddenly it's a problem now.
14:48Suddenly we can't get these things that we used to be able to get, you know, and so,
14:52you know, a lot of what's happening is really incompetence, you know?
14:57And it's like a monkey throwing shit out of a cage.
15:02It's, you know, everybody thinks there's some kind of genius behind all of it.
15:06And that's like not really often the case at all.
15:10It's, it's more like he's just, you know, spinning out.
15:13His head is like a jar of flies, you know, they're buzzing around and there's things
15:17coming out, you know, and most people can see that, but not everybody can.
15:21Yeah.
15:22I have a question on that too.
15:25Like, attorney, is it, is it possible, like, why is he so desperate on getting, getting
15:31Greenland?
15:32When, as you said, we can access it anytime.
15:36I've been to Greenland, Iceland many times because of the United States Navy and all
15:42these countries and NATO have been giving us access to their territory.
15:48It's, it's a country of 54,000 people and, and it's this gigantic continent.
15:54So they can't be defended.
15:56If the United States wanted to go in there and take it, they could, you know.
16:01But the real question is why, like what, what is the purpose?
16:04And what happens is Trump sits around thinking about how he can become a great man.
16:09And he loves the idea of being this great autocratic leader who rules the world.
16:13That's why he worships Kim Jong-il and Putin.
16:17And you know, surprisingly he's not cozying up to the premier of China because he's that
16:21kind of guy too, where he just, they take what they want and everybody else, you know,
16:26they can go to hell.
16:27So he just looks around at the world, like it's his fiefdom and thinks, oh, you know,
16:32like wouldn't Greenland be great, you know, like wouldn't Panama be great, you know?
16:36And he might even occasionally look back in history and see somebody like McKinley, you
16:41know, you know, this, this, this ancient history, you know, the, those moments of American imperialism,
16:48which people in the Philippines understand quite well, where, you know, there was kind
16:53of an American empire for a minute and maybe thinking somehow that would be a great thing.
16:57There's not really a lot of intense thought processes going on in the man's head other
17:02than I'm great.
17:04How can I be more great?
17:05Attorney Francis, what can you say also about his idea of creating a Middle Eastern Riviera
17:13out of the Gaza Strip?
17:15And in order to make that happen, you have to kick out all the Palestinians from their
17:20homeland and just put them in Egypt or in Jordan, you know.
17:26Because then you got beachfront property.
17:28Yeah.
17:29It's, I mean, that really is a good example of the way that the man thinks is, is, you
17:35know, he doesn't see people when he sees all of these people, you know, they're just asking
17:40him about these American soldiers who, who died in Lithuania.
17:44And he was just like, I haven't heard anything about it.
17:46I don't know anything about it.
17:47He wasn't like, yeah.
17:48Yeah.
17:49I mean, he could have made up something on the spot, like, oh, this is terrible that
17:51they died.
17:52We're looking into it.
17:53You know, we're very concerned, hope their families, you know, but he, he has no empathy
17:58and no sympathy.
17:59He doesn't see people, he doesn't see the refugees in Gaza.
18:03He doesn't see the suffering, you know, he just imagines this, this shining hotel.
18:11The people like him, you know, and that's one of the extraordinary things about the
18:14make America great movement is that all of the people who he despises, who he would not
18:19share space with, who he thinks are disgusting and revolting, they're the people voting for
18:24him and putting him in power.
18:25And so that's kind of why he, he thinks of things like this is because of this unique,
18:32you know, he lives in this elaborate fantasy, you know, we're all just props in his elaborate
18:38fantasy.
18:39It's a great example of how out of touch with reality he is.
18:43Antonio Francis.
18:44So my question, sir, is you're going to just grab any, you know, any nation's territory.
18:52It is criminal.
18:53It is against international law and people are questioning what, what happened to America?
19:01America is the beacon of democracy.
19:04We are, you know, the hope of, you know, when all else fade during the second world
19:09war, it's America who, you know, delivered the world from tyranny, from, you know, and
19:14give us, you know, this the hope for, you know, like this liberty and democracy.
19:22And now with this kind of concept of Donald Trump, you just take anybody's territory because
19:28he thinks he needs it.
19:31Well, you have to remember a lot of this stems from the history of the United States.
19:35And, and we are really still in some ways, two nations, and, you know, we, we suffered
19:42a terrible civil war, half a million soldiers died in that war.
19:47And still to this day, you have people driving around with Confederate flags on their cars,
19:52right next to an American flag, which is very odd, you know.
19:57It's very visible in Virginia and in the East Coast.
20:00Yeah.
20:01And so that, that war in a way never really ended, it just, they were defeated, but they
20:06refused to believe that they're defeated.
20:08So these white Christian fundamentalist nationalists remain, you know, in positions of power and
20:17authority, they remain out there and Trump has given them voice.
20:21And so these are the very same people who would have no problem going into a place like
20:27Panama or Greenland, because they, again, they live in this, in this fantasy land where
20:34they never really lost the war.
20:36And they're going to come back and win it.
20:38And they're going to bring back this great white nation to rule the world.
20:44You know, America has a long history of racism and imperialism and, and, you know, it's not,
20:53it's not a new idea.
20:54It's a very old idea.
20:56And these two Americans are at war with, these two Americas are at war with one another.
21:00And they still are to this day.
21:02So, you know, I mean, the term manifest destiny, I'm sure you're familiar with, you know.
21:09Yeah.
21:10All the white men.
21:11Yeah.
21:12So, you know, it was, it was our job to civilize all of the brown people across the world and
21:18to teach them, convert them.
21:20And those, those, those views still remain very, very prevalent in the least educated
21:28parts of our country.
21:30And there is actually highly educated, powerful people who hold these positions as well.
21:36Senator Wally, he mentioned that the military approach is not off the table.
21:43I served the military and, you know, I'm afraid because we have the mightiest military force
21:52in the whole world.
21:53And we spend a lot of money on the military.
21:56And with all these weapons and technology that we have, God forbid, I don't know if
22:03What's the possibility, Attorney Francis, of actually mobilizing the U.S. military in
22:08order to realize this crazy ideas of Donald Trump of taking over Greenland, taking over
22:16Panama or any other country that he has any kind of, you know, like fantasies?
22:23I'm going to sound like a lawyer here when I answer this.
22:26I'm going to say it's non-zero.
22:27Okay.
22:28Yeah.
22:29Let's put it that way.
22:32I think it's I think it's unlikely.
22:33I think it's cockamamie.
22:35But he has put people in positions of power who are willing to do his bidding.
22:40You know, the Secretary of Defense, Hegseth, he's taken a guy who is a major, I think,
22:47like an E5 or something like that, a very low ranking, like not to be insulting to the
22:52lower ranks of the officers.
22:55But, you know, you know, it's like putting the, you know, the janitor.
23:02And the dude is in the reserves, Attorney.
23:06Yeah.
23:07Yeah.
23:08You know, he's putting this guy in a position of power and authority because he knows he's
23:13going to do what he wants him to do.
23:15He's going to he's going to tell him to do it.
23:16And so if the commander in chief goes to the Secretary of Defense, says we are going to
23:23invade these countries and he tells the Pentagon to get ready and then they go to Congress,
23:27our Congress has been, you know, a willing participant.
23:31I don't even know why these people want to hold office because all they do is rubber.
23:35They're just a giant Stalinist rubber stamp committee for him, basically, they do whatever
23:39he wants.
23:40And so, you know, I remember very well when George Bush invaded.
23:53So a lot of what he's doing is actually designed as theater to try to get a reaction and provoke
24:08a reaction in some way.
24:12And there is some sort of thought process going in there.
24:14And I tend to think Greenland and Panama are more like trying to scare people rather than
24:21an actual plan, you know, recognizing that I could be totally wrong, wake up tomorrow
24:27and watch it, watch it happen.
24:30Attorney, Donald Trump, one of his major moves is to strike out the so-called DEI, diversity,
24:39equity and inclusion.
24:42And honestly, that is a very hurtful, you know, like definition, because anything that
24:49is not white, that is diversity.
24:52Like myself, you know, you're serving the country, but you're brown or you're people
24:56of color.
24:57So, you know, like you're as long as it's a white man doing the job, it is presumed
25:03to be competent.
25:04And if it's not a white man, you know, that's diversity there.
25:08So that has to be stricken out for their definition.
25:11But I don't know how they define this DEI.
25:15Attorney, I think you're well aware of what happened to the military plan leak on the
25:23attack of the Houthis in Yemen.
25:27That is a showcase of this DEI, the only qualification is not the color, but it is who is able to
25:35suck on Trump.
25:39Yeah.
25:40Well, you know, you raise a really good point, you know, which is that one of the things
25:47about the DEI, diversity, exclude, you know, what does it stand for?
25:52I don't even know what it stands for, diversity, equity, inclusion.
25:57Yeah, I didn't even know about it until the Republicans started making a big deal out
26:01of it.
26:02Honestly, you know, it's like like a lot of things.
26:04I don't know about any of this stuff until the Republicans make an issue out of it.
26:09But one of the things it's always designed to do is to create more competent people,
26:12you know, and to make sure that people who are competent end up in more positions of
26:16power and authority so that things work better.
26:18That's actually historically been the strength of the United States and remains that way
26:22today as our ability to bring people from all over the world, the smartest and the best
26:28and the hardest working people, all to live together in a multicultural society where
26:32we can join forces.
26:34And what we have is, you know, a lot of mediocre white men, you know, myself excluded, of course,
26:40mediocre white men who are out there trying to make sure that, you know, they remain in
26:46positions of power because they've convinced themselves that by failing upward, that they're
26:50doing so because they're so fantastic.
26:52I can't think of a better example than these bunch of morons sending emojis back and forth
26:58on, you know, Signal and sharing, you know, war plans, basically over civilian chat when
27:05one of them, I think, is over in Russia while he's doing it, you know, you know, I mean,
27:10these guys, they're, you know, they could screw up a two car funeral.
27:15They couldn't find their butts with a flashlight and a mirror, you know.
27:21And this is not fair, attorney, because if it happened to be like if you're in the military
27:27and you're the one who leaked this plan, you'd be court-martialed, you'd be in jail.
27:35You'd be at Leavenworth.
27:36Is that the name of the federal penitentiary?
27:38Yeah, that's where Leavenworth.
27:40Yeah. These guys didn't even get fired, you know, and the Israelis, by the way, were
27:45incredibly pissed off because that obviously blew their source.
27:48As soon as the Houthis found out that, you know, they had all that information, they
27:54looked around at who was standing around them and they said, oh, OK, we got a spy.
27:58So now they've outed a spy.
28:01They've lost an important resource.
28:02I mean, you know, the incompetence that which these people operate.
28:08It's not surprising, you know, and that's one of one of the great things.
28:12If there's any hope for American democracy, one of the great hopes of American democracy
28:18is how incredibly incompetent and stupid so many of these people are.
28:23And the way that they function, you know, on a daily basis, you know, there's in some
28:29ways they're smarter than we think they are.
28:30And in some ways they're even more incompetent than we can imagine.
28:34You know, and this is a great example of that.
28:38Sir Wally, I don't know what's your comment on this appointees in the cabinet of Trump.
28:45We have Linda McMahon, secretary of education.
28:48And the only background is he's the CEO of World Wrestling Federation.
28:55And Robert Kennedy, who is an anti-vaccine guy and now in the Department of Health.
29:03And Hegseth, who's a reservist in your Department of Defense.
29:09And Tom Bondi is your attorney general who's into the controversy of, you know, the Trump
29:17University in Florida.
29:19Yeah, they're there to destroy everything is what they're there for.
29:23They're there to oversee the destruction of these organizations.
29:27And, you know, I do recall reading that that was one of the things that Hitler did was
29:32was he brought in all of these, you know, mouth breathing idiots who, you know, it was
29:38the idea was for them to be exactly the kind of troglodytes that we see here, you know,
29:44because the more vile they are, the more effective they are in creating the kind of thing
29:49that they want to create, which is destruction.
29:53And that's actually one of the scarier things about all of this is the way that these
29:58people are appointed with with their fealty to Trump being the most important thing and
30:04nothing else.
30:05And that is one of the things he learned from his first administration was he brought in
30:10relatively competent people who knew what they're doing.
30:13And a lot of them said no, and a lot of them quit.
30:16And that was the result of of that, which is he learned now that now that he's back for
30:21a second time, he's going to make sure whoever he gets, they don't have to be competent.
30:25They just have to do what he says.
30:27And the only problem with that is that he's got Elon Musk in tow now, the shadow
30:34president of the United States, who he can't really control in the same way.
30:38And he's much smarter than he is and has a whole plan outside of what Donald Trump
30:43thinks is happening that is executed.
30:47And he made two hundred twenty five million donation.
30:50And yeah, right.
30:52Yeah. Yeah.
30:55Sir, with an example on Social Security, Elon Musk says it's a Ponzi scheme.
31:04And now they started like terminating employees that could take your services by a
31:12phone verification.
31:13So now they required all the seniors to verify your identity online and you have to
31:22schedule an in-person appointment.
31:25But because they don't have enough people there, your appointment is so backed off.
31:31And because of this kind of reality of the Social Security, people get mad at Social
31:39Security. And perhaps this this is the narrative that they wanted to have by the people
31:46that, hey, the Social Security is unable to do its job.
31:50So time to privatize it, Sir Wally.
31:54Social Security is the third rail of American politics, and anybody who touches it in any
31:59way is going to get electrocuted.
32:01This is the one of the things that gives me great hope for the end of the Trump
32:04administration is the fact that he would they would be dumb enough to touch Social
32:09Security. And the fact that they're making these people wait.
32:14You know, I think that the head of Social Security at some point said, well, my
32:18grandmother gets it. And if she doesn't get her check, she'll just wait a couple of
32:21weeks. You know, it's this kind of thing that shows you how out of touch these people
32:26are with reality.
32:28What they say, Sir Wally, that those who cry a lot, complain a lot are the scammers.
32:37That's how you know a scammer is somebody who says, where's my check?
32:40I'm starving. I'm here eating cat food.
32:42So, you know, I must be a scammer.
32:46I'm making that up, you know.
32:47Oh, my God.
32:49Yeah. The thing about, you know, Musk and Trump is that is that they have they have no
32:55idea what it's like to be these people.
32:57They have no sympathy.
32:58They have no empathy.
33:00You know, they're they're billionaires.
33:02They've been billionaires all their lives, you know, rich people all their lives.
33:07I started out with maybe a million, hundreds of millions rather than billions.
33:12But they don't they don't understand what it's like to be poor.
33:15They don't understand what it's like to lose your job.
33:17They don't understand what it's like to be fighting to put food on the table.
33:20And, you know, their their attitude towards those people is like, well, you know, it's
33:27your fault that you know, it's your fault.
33:30You're poor. It's your fault that, you know, you didn't work hard enough.
33:33You're not smart enough.
33:34And that's evolution.
33:35That's that's the way it works, you know.
33:38And I think ultimately this is a bad look for both of them.
33:41And I think that it's going to erode their support.
33:44You know, James James Carville said, you know, all the the Democrats need to do is sit
33:48back and watch these guys implode, you know.
33:52I think I think I've seen the Republican congressmen who are now hiding.
33:59They're afraid to do in-person town halls.
34:03Yeah, I think one made the mistake of doing it last two days ago.
34:07And it went exactly like, you know, everybody was telling him it would go, which is just,
34:12you know, Republicans are angry with them.
34:15You know, Trump voters are angry with them.
34:18You know, people are people are looking at basic, you know, basic things like my my gas
34:23is not cheaper. Inflation is higher.
34:26You know, nothing is tell me how things are better.
34:29Tell me how how firing all of these people in the federal government is is helping us
34:34in any way. You know, no American can see a difference between their life now than
34:40before. You know, and that was how he got elected, is he convinced people that he was
34:44going to get everybody cheap eggs.
34:45And, you know, on the first day of presidency, everything was just going to he's going to
34:50go into the Oval Office and he was going to press the cheap gas button and then
34:54all the gas was going to be cheap.
34:56That's the kind of stuff that the Democrats didn't have the intelligence to be able to
35:00stand up and say, this is bullshit.
35:02That's not how it works.
35:04He's not going to be able to do it.
35:06And we're not able to do it.
35:08It's not how all this works.
35:09We're trying, you know, but why would you believe him?
35:13Yeah, but that's what you tell the people on the campaign trail that, you know, Joe
35:18Biden doesn't know what he's doing.
35:21I am the best.
35:22I am the brightest I can do.
35:23You know, like I know what to do.
35:25First day in office, as you said, push the button.
35:28Yeah. Right. You just get down in the boiler room and you fix the boiler.
35:31You know, that's that's that's how Americans see politics for the most part.
35:35The people who elected Trump see that have this boiler room mentality where you just
35:40fix it, get down there and fix it.
35:41OK, I want my heat on.
35:42And then and Trump's like, I'm going to get the heat on.
35:45And Joe Biden is like, we're going to defeat Medicare or what, you know, like.
35:53Oh, my God. So the question right now about the prices of commodities, we knew that
36:01here in California, in the Central Valley, even in Napa and the rest of the
36:06agricultural sector, it has been the Latinos backbone that has been working on our
36:13farms here in California and across the United States.
36:18They've been arresting people like crazy with ICE and Homeland Security.
36:27There are no more Latinos working in the farms right now and it's harvest season.
36:32So what do you think will happen to our prices in the groceries in the days to come?
36:38You know, I just keep waiting for that moment when when all of this happens, you know,
36:45because that's just one aspect of the whole the whole part of it, everything, everything
36:50altogether, you know, like the agriculture is one part of it.
36:55The deportation of immigrants is going to cause prices to rise.
36:59The tariffs are going to cause prices to rise.
37:02His, you know, his his decision to get in these trade wars with these different countries
37:07are going to cause prices to rise.
37:09He's creating instability in the markets just with his haphazard, you know, on again, off
37:15again, terrorism of different countries that he's decided to bully.
37:21And thus far, I haven't seen it.
37:22And so it's sort of like turning a ship, I guess.
37:26It just takes a while for you to see what's happening.
37:30But I am afraid that we're going to see exactly that, you know.
37:36Sir, I will share your fear.
37:39Is this intentional or is this because they're just stupid or what?
37:45Like, that's a great question.
37:48If this is intentional, it is scary, actually.
37:51Yeah. So so this is this is a good conversation to have, because the difference between what
37:56is intentional and what is just idiocy is important.
38:00And when you look at Project 2025, which I know you're familiar with and the way that
38:05it's created a huge list of things that they're trying to accomplish, the ultimate goal is
38:10autocracy and the elimination of the rule of law and and the deportation of immigrants
38:16and the economic collapse that would ensue would create the opportunity for Trump to
38:25move into that space and, you know, declare martial law and do, you know, if there's
38:32civil unrest, you know, and that's so destroying the social net, you know, destroying
38:39every aspect of the government that functions for citizens in all of the upheaval that
38:45results, you know, there could be that plan, which is to basically create circumstances
38:52under which he's the only guy that can save us, you know, even though he's the one to
38:56blame. You know, when Netanyahu basically allowed a thousand people to get killed because
39:03he was asleep at the wheel in Israel, he turned around and said, well, I'm the guy to save
39:07the day, you know, and he's still in power over there, even though he's the guy to blame
39:12for it. He was he's directly to blame.
39:14He's the one that funded Hamas and kept them in power.
39:17So big surprise.
39:19And Trump is smart enough, at least the people guiding him smart enough to kind of
39:24understand that creating chaos can create an opportunity.
39:28You know, will it work that way?
39:30I don't know. Yeah.
39:31And are we willing to give up like.
39:38Democracy for what do they stand to profit, Sir Wally, with this, like I don't understand,
39:45like America is the leader of the world.
39:48His promise is to make this nation the greatest.
39:51But right now he's teaching the world to isolate America and to look for better trade
39:59partners. And I don't know what's what's what's going on, Sir Wally.
40:09Because the world we already have, like the green box, the dollar is the reserve currency
40:14and it is capitalism, it's the economic way of life of the United States, that's the world
40:20is following. And that's why we have USAID, the goodwill of the American people.
40:25We go there, we give vaccines, medicine, food to the less fortunate countries.
40:31And, you know, not to oversimplify things, but there is in some ways two kinds of people
40:36in this world. There's people who understand that there's other people in the world and
40:40that cooperating and working together with them in harmony makes their lives better.
40:45And then there's people who are who are seeing everyone around them as competition and
40:51seeing people that they can use to increase their own individual lives.
40:56And it's a very, very unique way of looking at the world.
41:01I mean, not unique in terms of it's uncommon, but it's it's it's a specific way of
41:07looking at things. So a lot of what you see happening with Trump, Trump is not the worst
41:12thing about Trump. The worst thing about Trump are all the people around him who want a
41:18career and do not care what happens to their country.
41:23They do not see democracy as an ideal.
41:25They do not see the idea of making everybody's lives better.
41:30They see themselves as advancing their careers.
41:33And every one of them, from J.D.
41:34Vance to Pam Biondi, from from Hegseth, Pete Hegseth, you know, you know, every single one of
41:42these people see it as an opportunity for them to advance their career.
41:47And they're perfectly happy to ditch democracy in order to do that.
41:51They probably didn't believe in democracy in the first place or they just it just doesn't, you
41:56know, they have got this kind of cynical view of it, which is like, well, what does it really
42:00mean anyway? Like, what does, you know, giving a person a vote mean anyway?
42:03Is there really such a thing as democracy?
42:05We're really an oligarchy anyway.
42:06Right. You know, it's a very cynical view of the world, you know, and that's, I think, how I
42:18break it down, which which Trump is Trump is like, I just want more money.
42:21I've got billions and I need more billions.
42:24Sir, how can the American people push back on all these things that's going on?
42:31I participated in the town hall of my congressman here in my district, Congressman John
42:39Garimendi. And while I know the guy was well-meaning, but I'm not satisfied with his
42:46position. And he said, like, we'll just have to wait for the next elections.
42:51And so, like, I don't know if we we have the luxury of the time to wait for that.
42:59Sir Wally, what do you think?
43:00What can we do? We wait for the 2026 and do not worry about what's going on right now.
43:08The Democratic Party has has ceded this ground to the Republicans.
43:14And I've never been more ashamed in my entire life of the Democratic Party.
43:19You know, it's like I think the saying goes, you know, the Democrats, they don't they don't
43:25bring a knife to a gunfight. They bring a covered dish. You know, they they just don't get it.
43:31You know, they sat there in front of his speech with their waving their stupid paddles and
43:35wearing their pink clothes. And only one guy had the guts to stand up and say something.
43:39And then they criticized him. The one guy. He was the only guy, you know, in my opinion,
43:46that's the guy. And it needs should have been every one of those people should have been
43:50standing up and rushing the stage like January 6th is what they should.
43:56Yeah, I'm not the town hall. There was a lady from Vacaville,
43:59and the lady was so mad and like, Congressman, I want you to be mad.
44:02I want you to be fighting and in the fighting mode.
44:05Represent us, you know, like we voted for you.
44:08Yeah, this is no time to remain calm. If there's anything to be said about
44:14the future of how this works is there needs to be outrage.
44:17There needs to be people in the streets. And, you know, I'm 58,
44:20you know, so like I'm not going to be kicking any doors down and throwing Molotov cocktails.
44:26You know, I'm I'm going to be icing my back somewhere, basically.
44:29But there is a younger man out there somewhere or a younger woman, you know,
44:35out there somewhere with an inclination of what needs to happen.
44:40And there needs to be some leadership, some real leadership within,
44:45you know, there needs to be a real opposition and grassroots.
44:49You know, there's an there's an organization called Indivisible,
44:52which I'm sure you've heard of. And I'm joined and I'm getting emails from them.
44:57And they organized protests on Saturday across the nation.
45:02And I think that that is the way to go, that there needs to be civil unrest,
45:07you know, and they can call it terrorism. They can say what they want, you know.
45:10And I'm not saying that I'm not suggesting that anybody go out and burn a Tesla,
45:15but I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. And I will say that the more people that do
45:19that kind of thing, the more they get to look at people like me and say, well, you know,
45:22maybe we can talk to him. Those guys are crazy, you know, but but we can talk to him, you know.
45:29That's kind of my take is like sitting back and waiting is not the plan.
45:34OK. And Attorney Francis, I really thank you for this time and, you know, like all this
45:42perspective that you have shared with our Filipino viewers across the globe.
45:47I sincerely appreciate it. And we have a lot of Filipino Americans in this country. And
45:55what matters to America affects not only the Philippines, but everyone in the world.
45:59Until now, like America is the leader of the world until Trump, I don't know, will decide
46:06to let go of that. Yeah, it's not looking good, you know, but, you know, at the moment,
46:14you know, as long as we recognize we are friends, you know, like friends in the Philippines
46:19and friends in, you know, in Europe and friends in Ukraine and friends in Canada,
46:23you know, what makes us great is our friends. Being us doesn't make us great.
46:28You know, because all of our friends move here and live here and are from here,
46:32you know. And so thank you for inviting me. I really appreciate this. I enjoyed being able to
46:38blow V8 before you and, you know, your poor listeners had to listen to me, but I hope I
46:43entertained some of them. Yeah. And Attorney, thank you so much. Pleasant evening to you, sir.
46:50Thank you so much. All right. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Okay. Thank you. So that's
46:57Attorney Wallace Francis. He's a practicing lawyer here in the United States, in California
47:03in particular. And he's my former boss in the law firm. So when I arrived from the Philippines in
47:112013, yeah. And so like I was his paralegal. He's a Jewish American and a very nice guy.
47:29Yeah.
48:00Love both in Project 2025. But the ultimate goal of Project 2025,
48:09money and unitary executive.
48:18It is established by the founding fathers on the concept and principle of checks and balances.
48:26So
48:34because the founding fathers are afraid that too much concentration of power will create a king.
48:56Kingdom because they wanted a democracy, not a monarchy.
49:03To prevent that possibility.
49:17But this time around, I'll see Donald Trump.
49:51Yeah.
50:03In short definition, this is now what we're witnessing right now is the transition
50:10from democracy to dictatorship.
51:22Illegal.
51:32I'm federal appeals court.
51:43So
51:51United States Supreme Court.
52:15Executive branch of the government.
52:21So that, my friend,
52:25finally, the
52:44enforce their decisions.
52:51But the
53:01marshals,
53:02marshals,
53:10Department of Justice.
53:12Yeah.
53:33So this is a crisis.
53:35Because there is now a conflict.
53:42Yeah.
54:06Which is the province of the courts.
54:12So
54:30Anyway
54:42And I'd like to say thank you
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