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>> Rick Green: Welcome to at the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green. I'm Rick Green. America's Constitution coach. Thanks for joining us today. Gonna just jump right into the headlines.

President Donald Trump says U.S. is negotiating access to Greenland without payment

of course, a lot going on because, you know, anytime Trump gets on Air Force One, or I guess had to end up on Air Force Two or whatever, but, things are gonna happen. there's gonna be some headlines. I did not expect, to find out. That looks like we're going to get, get this. Let me make sure I'm reading this right. Unlimited total access to Greenland without payment. So I went to bed last night thinking, what did I read? 700 billion or some crazy number. And, you know, all of this other stuff. And I was just, I don't know, I was debating with myself. I was like, okay, you know, everybody thought the Louisiana Purchase was too much, and, and yet, you know, obviously turned out to be a good move. And, I'm just going Alaska. You know, I'm thinking about all these times in history and I'm thinking, okay, I get it. I get the, you know, all the national security advantages. I finally now understand a little bit more about that and why this is a, you know, a must for us. This is not even optional for us at this point. But, so I'm just trying to think, okay, probably is worth whatever price tag Trump comes up with. He's doing the calculations. And then I wake up to this headline, us to gain total access to Greenland without payment. Under the agreement, the United States would gain access to the Arctic island for an unlimited period of time and at no cost. Let me just keep going. This is, this is epic. Times I think I said, anyway, President Donald Trump said on January 22 the United States is negotiating an arrangement to secure full access to Greenland with no payment in return. With no payment in return and unconstrained by any time limit. With the president previously describing, U.S. control of the Arctic island is essential to both national and international security. You know, the last part I think everybody's starting to buy into. They're starting to understand, you know, why this is essential and and why we need total access. But I just didn't expect. So anyway, he says, quote, there's no end, there's no time limit. Trump said, we're not doing a 99 year or a 10 year deal or anything else. Trump says the deal could provide broad U.S. military access to Greenland. And re editors reiterated his plans for the construction of a golden dome missile defense shield, for them. So I mean, I'm assuming, you know, he's doing all these deals while he's there with all the other, you know, international or national leaders from across the world. But I know we joke about it, we're always joking about the art of the deal. He's the best negotiator on the planet. Look at all these peace deals he's negotiated. What is like seven wars ended up in just the first year of this second term. But this is, this is ridiculous. I mean like ridiculously good is what I mean. so anyway, we'll see. Is it Trump bloviating? I don't know. I don't know. He's, he is truly the master negotiator. You know, I've always said Zig Ziglar was by far the master on stage. Like the best speaker on stage the world has ever known in my opinion. And just truly the master. I mean God gifted Zig in a very, very special ways. I was blessed to be mentored by him. Love, that man. He had such an impact. Still having an impact. I mean his recordings and his teachings and everything, just incredible. If you've never listened to him, go look him up. Go get some of his stuff over at, [email protected] go to patriotacademy.com and get the what's it called, the Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World. We actually re released that with an intro from my wife and I because we used it with our kids and it's gold. It's just gold. Anyway, he was the best ever at moving a crowd, at motivating you, at sharing the gospel from I mean, just incredible. I've never given a title of the best ever on anything else. I don't think other than Zig as the best speaker. I think we get. We. If this deal goes through for sure. But honestly, he's already earned it. I mean, this would just be another, you know, another feather in his cap.

You have to say that Donald Trump is the best negotiator in the history

You have to say that Donald Trump is the best negotiator in the history of mankind. I mean, I mean, if he had been there instead of Abraham, he probably would have figured out a way to save Sodom and Gomorrah, hopefully, turn it around. But, you know, Abraham tried. He negotiated the best he could. But I'm telling you, Donald Trump is the best negotiator in the history of negotiations and the best troller. While we're, while we're racking up the accolades, he's not yet the best president, but the dude's got four or three more years. And, and he may, he may end up knocking off my, my, My top three. I mentioned the other day that I still had Reagan at 4. That was wrong. I had had to bump Reagan to number five because Trump moved in front of Reagan to number four. And, and I. And he's really close to bumping off Coolidge, man. Coolidge is my number three. Calvin Coolidge. And and then of course, Lincoln at number two and George Washington number one to, to. To knock off Lincoln and Washington. I'm just, I'm just dreaming a little bit here, folks. Okay, Just hang with me for a second here. I'm just. My mind goes these. To these places. Okay. I know I've got a bunch of other headlines to get to, but I, I'm just thinking, like, what would have to happen. What would have to happen in the next three years for me to rank Donald Trump is the best president in the history of America. And I know there's some out there that already, already think that I can't. Look, Washington is the indispensable man. There's no America without George Washington. But arguably that's prior to being president. That's the general, that's the Constitutional Convention. you know, being president there and shepherding that thing through, you know, those things certainly in the war. Indispensable man. No victory over the British without George Washington. No rallying of the troops and the, the comeback after the crossing of the Delaware and all that stuff. I mean, no doubt. But that's. That's before he's president, so can't count that. Right? So you gotta. If we're just saying, best president, who had the best. The most positive impact on the. You know, the job of the president, which is to defend the Constitution and to execute the laws. I mean, that's like. That's it, right? That's the. That's the summary of what the president supposed. Supposed to be Commander in Chief, you know, defend the nation. But. But that's included in defending the. The Constitution. So that's why Coolidge is ranked so high, because he was so good at constitutional limitations and jurisdictions and. Okay, so I'm thinking out loud here. I'm thinking out loud. I'm thinking. I'm thinking if President Trump. So if he could. If he could. Let's just make a checklist. We'll just gonna do this in real time. I haven't thought about this, folks. So if you can't. If you can't tell, I do the show impromptu every. Every Tuesday and Thursday. I don't do any prep. I don't. I don't know if you can tell. Maybe if you can, that's bad. But I just like reacting to the headlines and just, you know, taking your calls and, and having fun together. Okay. It's not because I'm lazy. I got 14 other jobs that I do every day. And, And. And there's just no way. Anyway, all that to say, I'm making this up as I go, but I'm having fun doing it. And so let's make this up as we go here. Let's see.

What would Trump have to do to top George Washington? And I'm thinking

Okay, so if. If we're gonna. And again, my top five, George Washington is number one, Abraham Lincoln's number two, Calvin Coolidge number three, Donald Trump's number four, Ronald Reagan's number five. That's my top five presidents of all time. So if. If Trump's gonna edge out Coolidge, what does he gotta do? Like, what. What has to happen in the next three years? And then if he's gonna topple Abraham Lincoln, do we have to have a civil war? no, but, I mean, we're kind of in one in a way. So I. I'm actually thinking there might be some things he could pull off that would pull, you know, allow him to pull ahead of Abraham Lincoln. Okay. And then George Washington. What would he have to do to top George Washington? And I'm actually in real time right now. As. I'm. As I'm talking through this, I'm starting to doubt my ranking. I'm starting to think. I'm starting to think I put Washington at number one for too many things. That were prior to the presidency. So if we're gonna rank them based on their actual time as president, not just their impact on the nation. In other words, if we had a different list for greatest Americans of all time, greatest impact on the country overall of all time, different measurement, we can count everything George Washington did, and definitely he's number one, but for president. All right, so top five presidents, I'm thinking, you know, if. If, If, If, If. If Donald Trump actually. If he actually pulls off the deportation of, let's say, 10 million. Let's say he gets it up to 10. I mean, he could get it up to 20. If he does what I was talking about the other day, where he, you know, really teams up with a couple of these red states, their legislatures come in and pass some legislation calling forth for the Article 4, Section 4. You know, if all of that happens and they pull off even 10 million. So supposedly, if we. If I heard that headline right, Tuesday, we're over 2 million already. I think they said two and a half. So if he could do that in year one, could he do that in all of the next three and hit 10 million, could he ramp it up? Could. Could he get to a point where these red states truly come alongside him and law enforcement teams up with him, and he focuses there while still having to fight law enforcement and, local law enforcement. And it's really not local law enforcement. It's local law enforcement leaders, some of these chiefs of police that have been hired by these radical leftist mayors and city councils like in Minneapolis. But if he could pull that off, that alone, I think that alone could pull him ahead of, possibly. Possibly all three that I've got in the top three slots, but definitely in front of Coolidge. Okay. And then I would say. I would say a couple other things to look for as we'll just keep having this discussion for the next three years. Okay? If over the next three years he continues to do executive orders that are constitutional and he does not fall into the non, you know, the unconstitutional executive orders, then that could definitely surpass. He'll pass Coolidge. I mean, he's so close in my mind right now that he could pass him in the next few months with just a few more constitutional actions and getting rid of some of the unconstitutional actions that the federal government's doing. So just think about the fact that he's doing the. The whole, you know, he's not yet wiped out the Department of Education, but the redirection of the Department of Education and working towards Getting rid of the Department of Education. So that's a big constitutional, restoration. so if he gets rid of things that we never authorized in the first place, those are big steps. And he's not neutered, but he is certainly weakened. several of these agencies as, as they should be. And he's, he's essentially, he's essentially, you know, completely, you know, radically changed the direction of federal health policy in these agencies through rfk. Obviously, RFK is the change agent there, but Trump is fully supporting him on all of this, as far as we know. And so I would obviously have talked about it on the air all the time. Fda, cdc, these are, these are all nih, all unconstitutional. None of that should exist. That should only be an agency that could be created by the states unless we do a constitutional amendment. So if the states want to, you know, they've all got their own state Department of Health, state, you know, disease control, all that stuff, if they want to come together and pool their resources and have some sort of a, of a, you know, arrangement where they work together and have some, entity that helps monitor across state lines and they opt into that, that would be constitutional. That would be allowed. But the federal CDC and FDA and, NIH and the rest are not constitutional. There's nothing in the Constitution authorizing, federal government to have anything to do with health care. So Trump has not wiped those out by any stretch of the imagination, but he's at least radically changed their direction. And so I don't know which ones would have to be wiped out for me to push him past Coolidge. But, but it wouldn't take much at this point based, on what he's done now to pass Lincoln. He's going to have to, he's going to have to win the culture war. He's going to have to actually continue what he's doing in Minneapolis, do that in Chicago and Seattle and everywhere else, actually deport these illegals from across the nation, which is at the heart of the Civil War that's happening right now, radically transform education so that we're pro America in our education system, which is part of the Civil War in our country right now. So it's a, it's basically between pro America forces and anti American forces. Anti American forces from within and from without. And so if he wins that over the next three years through the education reforms, through a, lot of these other things he's working on, man, I think he could pass Lincoln. and then, you know, you heard it in My voice already in this segment. He may end up passing Washington just by sheer force and my reevaluation of Washington's biggest steps being prior to being, prior to being president. So. All right, I went way too far on that. I just, I'm really, I'm really intrigued by this discussion. I know, I know it's narcissistic for the president to think about his legacy. but it's not. So, you know, for us to think about it is to just be good stewards of what we've been given so we know how to vote in the future and to be good judges of our leaders. That's the kind of judgment we are supposed to do. That is not a judge, not lest you be judged. That's literally using discernment and, measuring the people that we chose to lead our country. All right, we may dive a little bit more into that, but there's some other headlines that we got to get to, dealing with some, of the other issues across the country. Country. So stay with me. Phone numbers, 8885-8988-4088-8589-8880. You're listening to at the Core with Walker Waldman and Rick Reed.

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Walker Wildmon: Preborn ministry helps women who are considering abortion

>> Rick Green: Welcome back to CORE with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green, Rick Green, America's Constitution Coach, thank you so much for staying with me today. All right, before I get into the couple of these other headlines, by the way, I love one of these headlines, Speaker Johnson talking about impeaching these out of control judges. Boy, I've been advocating for this for a long time, so we're gonna have some fun with that one. but first, let me tell you about preborn. This is a great, great opportunity. I mentioned it Tuesday. This is our week to do this, man. We want to save a lot of babies and we know this works. We have, we have quantifiable data, real results, actual babies alive today. Because of what I'm about to tell you about this is. This is, this is one of those times, one of those few times where you don't have to guess whether or not your donations making a difference, whether or not your, prayers are making a difference, whether or not this organization's actually delivering on what they're saying. Preborn and American Family Radio have teamed up on this for years. we love what they do. And I just want to encourage you to, to give as much as you can. If you can only give a little, that's fine. But this is one of those few times I ask you to donate to something. I don't do that very often. It's gotta be something I really believe in, that I personally give to and that I know, I know, I know will make a difference. So they've been doing this since 07, 2007. And what they do is they get these, sonogram machines. They get them, in the hands of these local, pregnancy centers so that they can get the mom that's considering an abortion to just take a look. 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Phone number, directly. So if you want to call in comments, questions, insults, whatever you got is 888-589-8840. That's 888-589-8840. You can pick any of these topics that I'm about to rattle through as Quick as possible.

We have become very frustrated with lack of subpoenas, lack of indictments

So some of these headlines, that are happening, we have. What's a nice way to say this? We have become very frustrated with the lack of subpoenas, lack of, indictments and of lack of arrests and, of course, lack of convictions of those who, had a reign of terror over the United States over the last four years before Donald Trump was sworn in. definitely want to see results in that area. Well, the new one is, of course, this church being stormed in Minneapolis, literally accosted the pastor and, you know, violating private property. We talked about all of it on Tuesday. It's not freedom of speech. You do not get to take someone else's platform or force your way onto someone else's platform. That is not free speech. that's the Marxist tactic of silencing, intimidating. Don Lemon even said that's the whole purpose was to make people uncomfortable, to intimidate them. And, that is not constitutional. That is not the American way. you build up your platform, and free speech prevents the government from coming in and tearing it down and preventing you from. From speaking on your platform or to a platform you've been invited to, but it does not guarantee you the platform.

The Trump administration announced the federal agents had arrested several Minnesota suspects

All right, so had this big crowd, these. These agitators, these ice, rioters, whatever you want to call them, that did this to this church. Everybody's seen it. It's all over social media. Well, apparently, they have already arrested some suspects, so this is actually pretty quick. All right. I mean, yeah, it's Thursday. but still, this could have gone on for a long time. Let's not forget, in blm, Antifa, their rights all across the nation, burning buildings down, all of that, in most of those cases, no arrest. Nobody ever got arrested. And the ones that did were immediately let out on bail. And very few were actually taken to trial and convicted. Compare that to the J6 defendants. So now you've got a new DOJ. this was. I said it on Tuesday that, you know, here's one of those opportunities for Pam Bondi to shine, to basically, you know, rehabilitate her image and the reputation that she's got right now with. With most of the country and certainly with the people that are in the MAGA crowd. So they have arrested, apparently. let's see how many we got. So these are. They're going to be charged with felonies. Trump administration announced the federal agents had arrested several. So maybe they didn't give us an exact, number. First suspect was Nekima Levy Armstrong Apprehended during, a morning operation by FBI. Ah. Charged with a felony for alleged conspiracy to violate someone's constitutional legal rights. Carries a maximum of 10 years and looks, like Pam Bondi said, listen loud and clear. We do not tolerate attacks on places of worship. so I, you know, I don't know how many. I can't find a number for how many they arrested, and I do not see Don Lemon's number or name in here. So, you know, that's the. That's the one you got to get. I mean, he led the charge into the church. He's the one that disturbed him the most. You, can't let him off the hook. Now, maybe they're just trying to make sure it's solid because he's clearly going to have the funds to back him, and the media is going to make him a darling, and maybe they're just calculating. We don't want to make him, you know, a star for the left, which is what will happen if he's charged. He's going to be the spokesman for the left, and maybe they're just essentially robbing him of that. Could be. I haven't talked to anybody about that. Again, you know, this is off, off the cuff here. that. But that's the first thing that came to my mind when I realized they had not indicted him yet. So the other thing on this front, the, they're also. Now, there have been subpoenas issued to some of these, you know, guys like Tim Waltz and Jacob Fay and, some of these other folks. And I think it's. I think they are going beyond the fraud and everything. I think it's also going to be going into, a lot of the tactics that are being used to stop ICE and the encouragement of these people to do those things. So, you know, apparently they've. They've already gotten 10,000 illegal immigrants out of Minneapolis. That's Christine Ohm said last week. And so that's. That's pretty significant, I mean, for one city. And with the resistance that they've had, the weather, I mean, all those things, I'd say that's. That's a. That's a win. Win big time. And they're continuing, of course. But, But. But these investigations. And the House is also investigating. The House representatives is investigating, certainly on the fraud issues out of, Minnesota. So Minnesota's a mess, no doubt about it. But I'm going to say to our listeners in Minnesota, hey, we have not abandoned you, and we know that there are a ton of, Bible believing, Constitution defending and loving America, loving patriots in Minnesota. I speak up there all the time. I don't know how many times over the last 30 years I've spoken in Minnesota, but it's a lot, and was just out in, some of the smaller towns in Minnesota. And there's wonderful people in Minnesota. And like most states, it's the blue cities, man. It's the blue cities that make a state look really bad and end up electing really bad governors like Tim Waltz. But there's still a lot of patriots in Minnesota. Same for Washington. Seattle doesn't, represent all of Washington, unfortunately, it's the population, so it ends up representing Washington and the legislature and, the governor and all of that. But it's, it's, it's similar all across the country. Even in some of your red states, like Idaho, Boise is a real problem. But my point is, Minnesota, we're not done with you. We are not giving up on you. And I think you should be thankful for President Trump, for Kristi Noem, for Tom Holman, for all that is happening right now, to try and save your city, your state and your biggest cities. So Minneapolis and St. Paul, is not being abandoned. We're, in fact doing everything we can to help.

The Constitution splits up powers between the president, the executive and the judiciary

All right, let's move to a couple of the other subjects. We've got the, I already mentioned the Greenland thing. We can move on to the House Speaker. I mentioned this, at break. So, you know, everybody's kind of, I think you've paid attention to this. I know if you're a listener at afr, you have. But the judges have been trying to do everything they can to stop the Trump agenda. So let's just break, let's back up and try to take the personalities out of this for a second and let's just talk. How should a constitutional republic work? Like, where are the checks and balances? We separate the power, on purpose. Charles Mosk's Spirit of the Laws, of course, teaches that. But we know Biblically, Jeremiah 17:9, the heart is evil. No man can know it. And so John Adams and others quoted that Bible verse to say, you got to spread the power out. You got to have checks and balances. You don't want anybody to have too much power. So we did that. We got a phenomenal design. It is really, I think, Justice Scalia was right. It is the secret to what made America so great. Now, I think that secret is just part of the biblical overall formula. But the secret that he's referring to is the fact that we have these checks and balances that nobody gets unlimited. The president doesn't. Congress doesn't. The courts don't. The states don't. Local government doesn't. It's spread out, okay? And we. And we tried to draw lines around that and give the right powers to the right entities that we thought would work best. This is a fundamental line that we'll be repeating a lot this year during the 250th. 250th birthday of the Declaration. And that line in the Declaration says that when any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish and institute new governments, laying its foundation on such principles. And here's the line. And organizing its powers in such forms as shall seem to them the most likely to affect their safety and happiness. So what does that mean? That means how you organize the powers is all about who gets to decide who, you know, does the federal government decide when we go to war or the state governments? Okay, obviously the federal government. And if it's the federal government that decides when we go to war, who in the federal government. So now we split up between fed states and local, but then we split within local, and we split within the state, and we split within the feds. And so in our design, we split within the feds between three branches of government, initially in the contract, in the Constitution. And the Constitution only authorizes those three branches of government. The judiciary, the president and the executive. Unfortunately, we created a fourth branch, and I've called it that my whole career, which is the, bureaucracy, the deep state. All of these bureaucrats, all of these agencies that don't answer to anybody but run our lives, and they have more of the power than even the public servants that are elected have. So the Constitution splits up those powers between the president, the executive and, president, the legislative and the judiciary. Now, the founders, without going too far into the weeds, because we got to take a break. But the founders said very clearly in the Federalist Papers, in the way that they laid out the Constitution, that the judiciary is to be the weakest of the three branches and that we would never have to worry about losing our liberty because it doesn't have any real power, doesn't have the purse, and it doesn't have the sword. And so that's supposed to be the design of our nation. And that should not change unless we do a, constitutional amendment to say we want the courts to have more power we have not done that. All right, so the courts are the weakest. Now let's come over here to the Congress. Is this supposed to be the most powerful or the president? Congress supposed to be the most powerful. In fact, they're very clear about that. in the Federalist Papers, legislature necessarily predominates, is one of the quotes. Why? Because it's closest to the people. We can get to our congressman and have a conversation we can call. Right. We can influence that election more than we can the US Senator or the president. Okay, so that's the, the, the, you already figured out then who would be in the middle. The president. So the Congress is the most powerful, the president is in the middle, and then the courts are the weakest. So now we have to ask ourselves if the president is elected by the American people on an agenda that is very clear. Everybody knows that the number one focus of this new president, if you vote for him, is going to be to do a certain thing. And that certain thing is constitutional, and it's actually just following the law that's already on the books. And then he gets elected by a landslide, wins big, or she. And then starts doing that thing, whatever it is. Should one out of a thousand federal judges out there at the lowest level of the federal judiciary be able to say, no, no, I don't think you should do that agenda. I think there's something in that agenda that's unconstitutional or whatever excuse they come up with. Should one federal judge at the lowest level of the judicial branch, which is the lowest branch of the three branches of the federal government, should that one low level federal judge be able to override the president, who is the executive, by himself? So he's at the highest level of the branch that is in the middle? If you're following that, I need a whiteboard. So Congress, most powerful president, second most powerful judiciary, is the weakest, the weakest of the weakest. One federal judge at the bottom saying, you can't do this. The strongest of the middle branch, who is actually the one that's supposed to faithfully execute the laws, is trying to do this thing that they ran on and got elected on. Should that little, you know, pipsqueak of a federal judge at the bottom be, be able to override the agenda? I think you know the answer. When we come back, we'll talk about what to do when they do override that agenda and violate their oath of office. Can that most powerful branch, the Congress, impeach them? Stay with me. I'm Rick Greene, America's Constitution Coach. You're listening to at the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick.

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Rick Green: Congress should impeach judges who think they are more powerful

>> Rick Green: Welcome back at the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green. Rick Green, America's Constitution Coach. We are walking through what to do with these crazy, out of control radical judges that think they are more powerful than the president. So 22nd review of, segment two. who's the most? Which branch at the federal level is the most powerful? It's the Congress. And which branch is the weakest? It's the courts. And which branch is right in the middle? The President. And, very clearly, in the Federalist Papers, in the way that the government was designed, the way that it ran for the first hundred years, unfortunately, the court has elevated itself to become the most powerful and have the final say on every law in America. But typically that's the Supreme Court that does that. What we've been seeing are these local judges, these local federal judges being able to overturn a policy of the president and stop something from happening in the entire nation. I would argue that even the Supreme Court should not be able to do that. They do not have the power to be able to do that. So why would we allow the weakest of the branches to be able to overturn what the, second most powerful branch is doing? It's insane. And nobody elects these judges either. So here's the question, that is before the Congress at this point and remember we said in the last segment, checks and balances, checks and balances. What do you do if one of the branches violates the balance? What is the check, in other words? So if a judge oversteps their boundaries, or if the president oversteps his or her boundaries, okay, they're outside the balance. Balance simply meaning we gave some power to the, to the courts, some power to the Congress, and some power to the President. If any of them go beyond their balance, what's the check to push them back into the balance. Right. So that's the problem. The courts have gotten out of their balance and no one has checked their power for the last, I don't know, hundred years. I mean, what we used to do is if a judge did something that they weren't supposed to do that was beyond their power, we impeach them. So I mean, even you had a United States Supreme Court, one of the first appointees to the United States Supreme Court, that, that had an impeachment because of overstepping their boundaries. So what we need to be, what we need to be doing is saying, okay, look in, let me see if I can remember which one it is. It's either Federalist 51 or 81. But, in the Federalist Papers it was either Madison or Hamilton. Can't remember. Madison did 51 and Hamilton did 81, but I can't remember which one it's in. they use this line where they say that impeachment is a bridle in the hands of the legislature. Okay, get that word picture. Impeachment is a bridle in the hands of the legislature. What they're saying is this is your check. This is how you reign in, literally, I'm using that word on purpose. You rein in an out of control branch. So it could be that Congress is impeaching a president for going outside of the balance. And so they're reigning in the executive branch and specifically impeaching that president, which not only affects that president if they're, if they're convicted of the impeachment, but it, it affects the presidency because it basically gives you precedent for whatever that thing was that they did was out of balance. It was outside of their jurisdiction. Okay, Same thing with the courts. If a judge goes beyond their power, does something they weren't supposed to do under the Constitution, Absolutely, Congress should impeach them. The House does the impeaching, the Senate does the trial and the conviction or acquitting. So what's, what's being discussed right now, and I think appropriately so and frankly should have been discussed a lot sooner and should be done a lot m. More often is that the House is considering impeaching some of these out of control judges. Actually doing what the founding fathers said to do, reining in that branch, specifically reining in that judge. But it will help to rein in the entire branch and get it back in balance. It's a check. It is the check that brings the balance. And so this, this impeachment process is, is very important only to be used when it should be used, but must be used when it should be used. Because if you don't use it, then that threat is gone. That then, now it's just like saying, you know, the cops aren't going to arrest you if you steal up to $900. Well, what are you doing? Well, you're telling all these thugs to go still up to $900 and they're going to be just fine. So what do you get? You get m. A lot more theft and a lot more thugs. Okay? Same thing. If you have said in the Constitution, here's your power, third, branch. Here's your power, little Mr. M district federal judge. Don't go beyond this power. If they go beyond that power, you gotta slap their hand. You got, you gotta, you gotta use the tool that you have. And for federal judges, impeachment is it. That's the only tool. Well, I take that back. You can defund. So Congress can also wipe out a federal judge's budget and just basically erase that court and get rid of the judge that way. That's absolutely okay. It's been done before, should be done more often.

Multiple Republicans have signaled they want to impeach two U.S. district judges

But the impeachment talk is what's happening right now. So here's what Speaker Johnson had to say. All right? He said, extreme times call for extreme measures. Now, I disagree with the state. I love Speaker Johnson. Don't get me wrong. I've known him for 15 years. I don't know, 20 years. but I don't think it's just in extreme times that you do this. I think you do this when the judiciary gets out of control, which you could argue is extreme every time, but this is definitely extreme times. I don't disagree with his statement there. I'm just saying that's not the only time you should do this. This should be a regular practice so that they know, don't get out of line. Impeach a few, you don't have to peach many. You impeach a few, the rest of them will stay in line. It's the old system of, you know, you punish a few and it is a deterrent. So here's what, it's actually, it's actually a Texas congressman. it's Dinesh d' Souza's son in law, Brandon Gill, I think is the one that is, offering this. Let me see if I can find it here. Multiple Republicans have signaled they want to impeach two specific, U.S. district judges that really went over the top. And Speaker Johnson said, I'm for it. Judge Bozberg is one who's been mentioned. And then there's also Judge, Boardman. So let's see. I think this is. Yeah, this is Johnson. He says impeachment, as we have discussed altogether many, many times, is an extreme measure. But extreme times call for extreme measures. And I think some of these judges have gotten so far outside the bounds of where they're supposed to operate, it would not be, in my view, a bad thing for Congress to lay down the law, so to speak, and to make an example of some of these egregious abuses. That's the House speaker, without naming judges. Now, what I would say is, yes, that's exactly what you're doing, is laying down the law. You're enforcing the law. You're doing your job in Congress. You are called upon in the Constitution to do this. So the House absolutely should impeach. And the way this happens is all you need is 51% to impeach. So the House can impeach and then the Senate has to have a trial. And then you gotta have two thirds that actually, convict. And so if they convict, then it's up to them whether or not they ban that person, from being able to hold public office in the future. They definitely remove them from office and, can potentially ban, them. So, yeah, it's Brandon Gill, Republican in Texas. I think he's a freshman, if I remember right. He's either first time or second term. Very sharp guy. Of course, I love Dinesh d', Souza. but this is his, his son. Son in law that is, that is in Congress now. anyway, so this, this could be huge. Now my Congressman, Chip Roy, who I also love, phenomenal congressman, does a great job. He's. He impeached, or introduced an impeachment resolution months ago, October for, for. For Justice Boardman. It says for a sentencing decision that she made for a man accused of plotting to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. So that man, Nicholas Rusky, was sentenced to eight years in prison while prosecutors had sought upwards of 30 years of imprisonment. the text of the resolution states the Boardman should be impeached for handing down an indefensibly light sentence, to Rosky, who prosecutors had said, had said had traveled to Kavanaugh's home in June 2022, where they planned to kill the justice before he called the authorities, on himself. So, I mean, yeah, this is, I mean, that's egregious. Eight years for a guy that was going to kill a Supreme Court justice, crazy. But the point is the process, the check that puts things back in balance is impeachment. Now some of you may be saying, yeah, but Rick, didn't they abuse that with President Trump? I mean, they impeached him twice, which he's proud of, because that means he's been impeached more than anyone else and he likes to be number one. but yes, absolutely they abused it. Absolutely. No question about it. The process did play out. No conviction in the Senate, so he was impeached, meaning just, it's like an indictment. Sort of like you get a grand jury to indict you. Typically they do that with no evidence from you, so you don't even get to defend yourself. With a grand jury, you don't go in and make your case and respond to all the stuff the prosecutor's saying. Grand jury is going to indict you based on worst case scenario of everything the prosecutor says. They're basically saying if everything the prosecutor says is true, if there's no defense for any of this guy or gal is going to get convicted. So, yeah, let's indict him. If everything's true, then this guy should go to trial. And then when you get to trial, that's where you get to give your defense. And so that's kind of what the Senate does. So the House impeaches or in essence indicts. And that's why you only gotta have a majority. So the Republicans could do it without any Democrat votes. You couldn't have many Republicans defect or it wouldn't happen. And then it goes over to the Senate for a full blown trial. And so then in that trial you've gotta get the 2/3. So now you gotta have, you're gonna have to have some, some Democrat votes that say yes to, to, the impeachment of one of these judges or to the conviction of one of these judges. Okay, so now all of that kind of helps explain how it works, why it should work. and then you got to figure out the politics of it and the likelihood of it. I would argue that if, if they will at least impeach one or two of these judges, the impact would be huge. It would be significant. It would show the proper use of impeachment instead of, you know, it just being a political tool, which is what the Democrats did with, with Trump. They didn't have an impeachable offense for him, so there wasn't anything he did that rose the level of impeachment, but they just wanted to cripple him. If they could, which they didn't. And they wanted to, you know, use, the politics of it, to damage him for any future run. And instead, it actually set him up to have the this incredible four year run that he's in the middle of right now. So, anyway, let's hope that happens. Speaker, Johnson, please, please, please push this impeachment through. Okay, I'm so sorry. I did not get to the phones at all Tuesday and Now I've got four or five minutes left and we'll try to get some 8885-8988-4088-8589-8840.

Rick Green: I think our senators need to do away with the filibuster

Let's go with Oklahoma first. Shari's up in Oklahoma. Shari, go ahead.

>> Shari: Oh, thank you, Rick. President Trump has done so many good things, but I am concerned about, my understanding is the budget has to be complete next week and if it isn't, I'm assuming there's a threat of another shutdown. I think our senators need to do away with the filibuster. Otherwise I don't see how they're going to get any of Trump's agenda pass if they keep using that as an excuse.

>> Rick Green: Yeah, let me make sure I'm understanding what you're saying because honestly I have not followed this. so you're saying that, get rid of the, get rid of the filibuster so that they can get the budget through. Am I understanding you right?

>> Shari: Absolutely, yes. You have to have 60 votes.

>> Rick Green: Well, and isn't that crazy that you have. Yeah. Isn't that crazy that you have a majority of what do we have 54 or whatever it is, and you have to get six Democrats or five Democrats, whatever it is, to get something done. I mean, why, why should you have to have a super majority instead of a majority to do the basic business of the Senate?

>> Shari: I disagree with it totally. I hope everyone listening will call John, do and call their senator and just try and do everything we can to convince them we need to do away with the filibusters who can do what we elected to do.

>> Rick Green: Yeah, exactly. Shari, thank you. Great call. You know, and I would say this applies to a lot more than just the budget. This is the appointees that the Senate has held up and is waiting forever to get done. it's some of the basic laws that need to be done, the codification of so many of the things that Trump did with executive orders that we could get through the House, some of which did get through the House, but we can't get through the Senate because of the filibuster. And let's be clear, the filibuster, as it's being used by the Senate today, is not the beloved filibuster of Mr. Smith goes to Washington, okay? This is not the Jimmy Stewart movie where he, you know, talks till he passes out, all right? That kind of filibuster I'm all for. All right? We do that in Texas in our, in our state Senate. And you gotta just talk as long as you can. And, you know, everybody knows when you do it, you're not gonna stop the agenda. Most likely, you're gonna bring attention to some of the things in the agenda or the bill or whatever it is that you think people may not be aware of. And that if you bring attention to that, then maybe you get enough phone calls to other senators or whatever and build up enough to stop it or, or you're just doing it to grandstand, you know, for good reasons, maybe, to just, again, raise awareness to some of the things that are about to happen if this bill passes. Now, obviously, there's guys like Cory Booker and others that do it to just, you know, try to build up their reputation and their name and all of that. Fine. I mean that, you know, use the process. But you can only do it until you pass out what they're doing. Now you get to just turn in a blue slip on a nominee that you don't want to, support. You get to, you get to just let them know by, you know, some little note that, that, I would feel I would talk forever if you bring this bill up. So don't do it, or I'm gonna, I'm gonna cause delays. Okay, we'll do it. Make them do an actual filibuster. That's one person doing that. And even if they tag team with multiple members back to back to back, they're only gonna be able to delay for so long this business of actually requiring 60 votes, of actually requiring a super majority in order to, get anything done. That's not American. That's not majority rule. You go back to our oldest constitutions in our states, and the Constitution itself, it shouldn't be done that way. It's got to change. And I think, oh, I can't remember who said it. The other day. One of our congressmen said, you know, it's already going to be gone done. If the Democrats get the majority, they're gonna get rid of it on day one. So Republicans should do the smart right thing here. Get rid of the filibuster and start doing majority rules and get the job of the American people Done. We voted for a specific agenda. Go do it. Thanks for listening. You've been listening to at the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Greene.

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