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May 15, 2025 33 mins

Trump is cleaning up Biden's messes, the Putin problem and what’s before the Supreme Court.

Congress is getting closer to passing President Trump’s agenda, but there are stumbling blocks in each chamber. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL takes a look at what Congress is looking at – and what the holdups are.

 President Trump’s attempt to restrict automatic birthright citizenship arrives at the Supreme Court on Thursday. White House Correspondent – and attorney – JON DECKER will be in the Supreme Court chambers for the case.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Starting your morning off right.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
A new way of talk, a new way of understanding,
because we're in this together.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
This is your Morning Show with Michael o'dill chornan.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Well, the big narrative, at least since April and even before,
has been inflation's rising. Donald Trump gads, stop the egg agats,
stop inflation processions coming. Except inflation was just down to
the lowest level since twenty twenty one. Why we'll ask
our money with David Bonson about that. Coming up in
one hour, next half hour. President Trump has announced record

(00:57):
breaking deals between Cutter Boeing and the US Department of Defense.
The Supreme Court is preparing to hear arguments today over
an issue related to President Trump's order to end birthright citizenship.
Are Supreme Court attorney and our attorney and White House
correspondent John Decker will join us on those two topics

(01:19):
in about thirty minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
But Congress is getting closer.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
I mean, Jeffrey read just made a joke off the air,
what would be his commission on all his sales in
the Middle East? With the commission on three trillion dollars
a business drummed up. Well, he's certainly salesman of the month,
that's for sure. The President getting a lot done for
our economy abroad. What is his Congress at home doing

(01:42):
for him and his vision? National Correspondent O'Neill is here
to give us the wrap on that. Good morning, Rory, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Good morning.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
A little progress, Michael, getting through about eight hundred and
eighty billion dollars in total cuts through the Commerce and
Energy Committee. You know, tomorrow the full Budget Committee will
put the whole big, beautiful bill together with those eleven
different congressional spending plans.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
And what'll be interesting.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
Today is that House Speaker Mike Johnson will have a
meeting with his own caucus because not everyone is on board.
There are plenty of people who say these are draconian
cuts that will hurt Americans. Others are saying we haven't
cut enough yet and we need to double these cuts.
So it's difficult because there's very little wiggle room for

(02:30):
the Republicans here with having very slight majorities in the
House and Center.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, I don't want to make our time about something
I would say, but you know, if we had a
zero based to prioritized balanced budget, you know, the way
businesses and homes run, you don't just leave things.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
You know, every year something changes.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Just because it was in the budget last year doesn't
mean it's in the budget this year. That's what zero based.
You start from zero every year. Prioritized defense would be
a priority our interest in and entitlements are over you know, military.
But without that, it leaves you to fight about it.
And then the bottom line is, at the end of

(03:10):
the day, with the cuts, with the compromises, what's the
you know what, what are we looking at in terms
of deficit increase? Because I think currently we're kicking around
numbers with about a three trillion dollar increase in debt
over the next ten years.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
And I don't have to tell you Roory.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
We're already very much in debt well, right, And that's
why a lot of the deficit hawks are saying, you know,
we need to cut back more and more and more
on some of these, especially in the entitlement programs. They're
adding things like work requirements for childless adults nineteen to
sixty four in there as well, the GOP things they

(03:50):
can get eight million people off of Medicaid, you know,
And now we're into verb tenses because or adjectives and
prepositions because you know, the Republicans will say, hey, we're
getting them off Medicaid. Democrats will tell you they're kicking
them off their healthcare plans to the two to fourteen
million people.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
So the spin makes this pretty dizzying too.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah, so we're looking for a big beautiful deal right now,
still looking like a big beautiful mess.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
It is.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
And look, President Trump obviously busy ceiling deals in the
Middle East right now. But Speaker Johnson wants this thing
essentially passed next week. So you're going to have President
Trump back in town next week twisting arms, trying to
get every Republican on board because essentially they need that.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
But it's going to be a challenge.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
And look, there's a lot of you know, rewriting that
could be done. These still could be tweaked. It's not
like it's one big static bill. At this point, changes
can be made. There's the Salt Cauk, because there's the
medicaid folks. There's a lot going on, all right, Maury's
gonna be back next hour. We're going to talk a
little bit about what would have been the cherry on
the whip cream of a very historic foreign policy trip

(04:58):
had those talks in with Putin, Trump and Zelensky taking place.
It looks like it's just going to be Rubio and Zelensky.
But we'll have more on that coming up next hour.
Putin is a problem. I mean, there's just no question
about it. And you know, if his lips are moving,
he's probably lying.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
And this is why Zelenski and Ukraine want these assurances.
Anybody can throw a deal together, but all it is
is giving him what he took with no consequence whatsoever.
And he goes and lays low for a little while
and just comes back again. That's not a good deal,

(05:39):
and the investment of the United States and the investment
of blood in Ukraine deserves better.

Speaker 5 (05:45):
Well.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
The President put together something pretty clever, and that is,
we need the minerals so that we don't need China
to create the things in the new tech economy. That
also puts our interest and some of our feet there

(06:05):
and in that is your assurance of protection is good
or better than NATO. And I'm sure Putin has read
through that. And you know, we talked about this with
Lieutenant Colonel James Carafano several times. It's going to play
out one of three ways. He's gonna sit down and
end this. I mean, he clearly didn't achieve anything I

(06:27):
mean or very little and can't achieve any more. So
probably looking for an exit without it looking like a loss,
or he's going to fight another year. At this moment,
eleven minutes after the hour, it sure looks like he's
more interested in fighting another year.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
And that's disappointing.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
But neither Russian President Vladimir Putin nor President Donald Trump
are likely to unless something changes in these moments and hours,
they're not likely to attend the peace talks in Turkey today.
That is disappointing because everything else was coming up roses
and daffodils. We talked about a narrative that died and
that was well, maybe the president's cutting these deals with Codd.

(07:11):
Yeah to give Boeing some embarrassment and a bum's rush.
Well that's out the window when he just secured two
hundred and ten jets ordered by Codter alone. That's a
two hundred and forty billion dollar deal just in planes.
But with the Cotter announcing record deal with Boeing along

(07:34):
with other investments from Saudi Arabia first, and we haven't
even gotten to the United Emirates. The President's already drummed
up two point five to three trillion dollars worth of
business for the United States.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
That that's a good sales call.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
I mean, if you're the opposition, you know, you just
kind of either root for your country or just stay island,
shut up. And so the Democrats are at home thinking
about moving forward with impeachment that frankly is a gesture.

(08:14):
It can't get anywhere, not because there's just no grounds,
but you don't control the House or the Senate. But
at the height of his success, do you really want
to be impeaching him? Do you really want to look
like Bruce Springsteen who's in in England at a concert
and he's telling everybody in the audience, my country is
currently in the hands of a corrupt incompetent trees in

(08:36):
his administration.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Really, Obviously he didn't get the inflation numbers.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
Obviously he hasn't seen what's going on in Saudi Arabia
and cutter. That's one thing for Bruce Springsteen like an idiot.
I mean, he can always just move there like some
of these Hollywood stars. But there's another for the party.
So a big fight happened behind closed doors about moving

(09:03):
forward with this impeachment, and yet Congressman from California, Nancy
Pelosi and others saying we can't do that. We're gonna
like idiots. But will they time will tell CNN after
a failed streaming service decides it's been three years, let's try.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Again with CNN.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Plus, they'll be launching a new streaming product this fall.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
Do they think that their ratings are low because of cable?
I gotta play something real quick. It's it's gonna come
up and Sounds of the day. But it's actually one
of those where we never even got to play anything
from our favorite member of this panel at Santa newsnight.

(09:56):
This is the fight that breaks out over Kamala Harris.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Say nothing about Kamala Harris. That's a loser. Let's just
put it. Oh, I think there is. She lost big time. Listen,
we are not gonna hold on. I'm not being I'm talking.

Speaker 6 (10:13):
In fact, she got slaughtered because they disobeyed.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, I think that's gonna do a lot better online.
I'll pay for that.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Mean, Well, the whole world is watching THEO and in Rogan.
I guess this was meant to be a hit piece.
What president takes on tasks like for global crises at once.

(10:44):
So here's Axio was criticizing the president, I guess for
doing too much. The president inherit did these foreign policy
messes and he's fixing them up in a way I

(11:07):
didn't even believe was possible. But they break down. You know,
how's this guy gonna do? You know this in Syria?
Well he did it this with the Irad and then
well he's doing it about the only thing that's not
going to happen yet is the Ukraine Russian agreement. But

(11:30):
I'm sure Marco with a representative from Russia and Zelenski
will hopefully get that process moving even more forward. The
Iran thing is what's breathtaking. We can we can actually
report to you. Iran is ready to sign a nuclear deal. Now,
your first though, it's going to be, well, do we
want to sign a deal with them? And how can
we trust him?

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Ay?

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Good? Those are good questions. The conditions are set. Trump
would lift the economic sanctions on Iran. Remember, their first
and foremost goal is to preserve their regime, so that
is their vulnerability. The second goal is destroy Israel, destroy America,

(12:14):
rule the world a llah and they hit me mom,
come and judge us all. But they're in dire straits
right now. So the president is willing to lift these sanctions.
Ali Chamkani, top political military nuclear advisor to Iran Supreme

(12:35):
Leader the Ayatola, is one of the most senior Iranian
officials to speak publicly. He said Iran would commit to
never making nuclear weapons. They would get rid of all
of their stockpiles of You'll hear this often. There is
enriched uranium for the purposes of energy, and then there's
highly enriched uranium for the purposes of a weapons of

(12:55):
max destruction. And then you got to have that material
the Centrifugia's you know, you got to be able to
advance it, and then you've got to have a delivery system.
They're saying we'll get rid of the stockpiles of the
highly enriched uranium which could be weaponized. We agree to
enrich uranium only at a level needed for civilian use,

(13:17):
and we will allow inspectors to supervise the process in
exchange for the lifting of sanctions on Irun. That is,
by definition a framework, and beyond what I thought Iran
would even be willing to discuss. I mean, why bother.

(13:38):
And there are elements of peace through strength here. When
Trump says something, he means it. There is no distance
between him and Israel. And Israel has great military credibility
as well. And if you continue on this path, and
you certainly could, you're going to be a lot broker

(13:59):
and you're probably gonna get bombed and be a war.
This takes a tremendous amount of credibility to avoid a
tremendous amount of war. And the framework is there. I mean,
we can talk trillions of dollars, and it may be
three trillion right now and four trillion by the time
he leaves the United Arab Emirates. That's nothing compared to

(14:22):
leaving with the framework or a deal for Iran to
give up its nuclear ambitions, which is the most predictable threat,
not just to the region but to the world today
and off we could have just gotten booted in a Turkey.
To boot well, you had to start chiseling Mount Rushmore.
At that point. It's your morning show with Michael del

(14:45):
Journal if.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
You were just waking up. I thought the breaking news
in my home was that were out of Red Bull.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
Turns out we have other breaking news.

Speaker 7 (14:55):
I just wanted to let you know that they are
the snake boos in our house somewhere.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
What well. I love animals.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
I have been accused of loving animals more than people.
I have been quoted as saying the more I know people,
the more I love animals. And of all of the
wonderful qualities I have, that's the bad quality that my
daughter's inherited.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Now.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
Unlike me, they don't care for their pets like I do.
So we've had tarantulas, mice, rats, guinea pigs, hamsters, lizards,
and yes, of course snakes. And it has two bald pythons,

(15:45):
one which is breathtaking you wouldn't be afraid of it.
The other one is big and looks like the one
in Harry Potter Scarce. It's not me it's the little one,
the corn snake and cats we have three of We
have four cats and a dog. If I could talk
to the animals right now, it's find that snake before

(16:07):
we smell it. Apparently we have it now. If I
wake up in the mill of night and I go
from Donald Trump handing me cash in a dream to
a snake cuddling up, that's gonna be a real problem. Hey,
this is Jeff from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and my morning show
is Your Morning Show with Michael dev Jorno.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Hey, it's me Michael.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
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(16:52):
never enjoyed the podcast. I'm just sitting here reading. Within
days of unveiling the first Pope Leo the fourteenth bobblehead
on May ninth, it's already achieved national bobblehead Hall of
Fame status and is already the museum's best selling of

(17:17):
twenty twenty five. Red, would you consider hiking to the
bobblehead Hall of Fame and not like you hiked to distilleries?
I had several thoughts go through my head. One is
it disrespectful to make a bobblehead.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
Of a pope?

Speaker 1 (17:39):
Two? How many bibbleheads he got to sell to be
the best seller?

Speaker 2 (17:43):
And I certainly didn't know there was a bobblehead Hall
of Fame.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
Uh. It's already been sold to forty seven and fifty states,
with only Montana, North Dakota and Wyoming not having ordered
a Pope Leo bobblehead. They've been extremely popular, as you
can imagine, in the Chicago Land area as well as
the Philadelphia area where he attended Villanova University. They sold

(18:11):
over two thousand bibbleheads in one week, the museum's best
selling ever. You ready take a cat, Just take your
wildest guess. It should be bonehead, not bobblehead. Doctor Fauci
has sold over fifty thousand bibbleheads, Bernie Sanders thirty thousand,

(18:34):
Sister Jean twenty thousand, but Leo's Coming Up Strong. I
actually owned three Bobbleheads. I wonder if, like the California
Angels would do, the Los Angeles Angels now would do.
Are Anaheim Angels is what they probably are. They ought
to have Pope Bobblehead Night draw some fans to the game.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
So since Nunn are in Montana, the answer would be, no,
you will not be You will have to be hiking.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
Everybody remembers in Happy Gilmore, Morris Morris was the alligator
portrayed is killed and then presented to Carl Weather's character,
but in real life he was an actor. He was
a trained alligator. He appeared in numerous films and TV shows,

(19:23):
probably most famous for Happy Gilmore.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
He died surrounded by his.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Family and friends in I think he died in Colorado?

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Was he Yeah? He was in Colorado? Eighty years old.
Did you know alligators would live to be eighty? Don't
let me have my kids buy any alligators.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
They hadn't want them on the loose, and I don't
want them living to lady.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
He was ten feet eleven inches.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
That's not very big for an alligator, right, twelve feet average.

Speaker 8 (19:53):
They said they were going to stuff him because that's
what he would have wanted.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
That's what he was like, he would have wanted, I
don't think.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
And apparently ironically they planned to put him in the
Bobblehead Hall of Fame.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
For the alligator. We're gone at the age of eighty.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
All right, your top five stories of the day, and
a lot of them involved the president. President Trump's traveling Salvation,
Peace and Prosperity Midies tours show made it stop in Cutter.
Mark Mayfield fills us in Wednesday.

Speaker 9 (20:24):
The President announced new deals between Cutter and Boeing.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
It's the largest order of jets in the history of Boeing.
That's pretty good.

Speaker 9 (20:31):
Boeing is going to be selling billions of dollars worth
of planes to the country. Trump also said the Department
of Defense will be selling the country top tier drones.
Trump made the announcement with the Emir of Cutter. Trump
also pledged his commitment for peace in the Middle East.
I'm Mark Mayfield and he just finished entertaining over a
thousand troops in Cutter. It was literally at some points

(20:53):
stand up comedy. But they love their commander in chief,
and he loves their service, and he's promising them a
stronger arm.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
And now it's on to the United Arab Emirates today,
the final stop of the midies tour.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
Tammy Tricheo has more.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
On Wednesday, the White House said Trump signed agreements with
Cutter that would generate an economic exchange worth at least
one point two trillion dollars. Today, Trump will visit a
US military base and Cutter before leaving for the UAE.
Earlier this week, the State Department announced a proposed sale
of over a billion dollars worth of helicopters in F
sixteen fighter just to the UAE, which is vowed to

(21:27):
spend over a trillion dollars on US investments over the
next decade. I'm Tammy Tricheo.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
I'm just thinking I've done Pope, bobbleheads, and the death
of an eighty year old delegator.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
It may be time for me to take a few
days off. The Secretary of.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
Health and Human Services is telling Congress he doesn't think
anyone should be taking medical advice from him.

Speaker 6 (21:44):
During a House hearing Wednesday, Robert F. Kennedy Junior was
asked if he vaccinate his own children for measles.

Speaker 9 (21:51):
Probably for measles, I you know, what I would say
is my opinions about vaccines are irrelevant.

Speaker 6 (21:59):
He then added, I don't think people should be taking
advice medical advice from me. Kennedy has a history of
questioning the effectiveness and side effects of vaccines, but has
since said vaccines have a critical role in healthcare.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
I'm Brian schuk. Well.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
Things got heated between the Chief of Homeland Security and
House Democrats.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
Lisa Taylor has that story.

Speaker 7 (22:20):
Hearing was supposed to be about her budget, but Christy
Nome was in several back and forth with Democrats about immigration,
specifically the status of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Speaker 10 (22:29):
It's got to be extremely discouraging to be one of
your constituents.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
To see you.

Speaker 10 (22:33):
Fight for a terrorist like this and not fight for
them is extremely alarming to me.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
I'm fighting for due process.

Speaker 7 (22:40):
That was Congressman Dan Goldman and known clashing over a
Brego Garcia, who was deported by the Trump administration to
El Salvador in March on what they said was an
administrative error. They've since said he's a member of the
MS thirteen gang. The Supreme Court is ordered the administration
to facilitate his return, but the DOJ has been fighting
parts of that ruling in a lower court.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
AMY'SA.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Taylor Shaan Colemb's ex girlfriend, will be cross examined today
by Ditty's lawyers. After wrapping up two straight days of
direct testimony in a Manhattan courtroom, Sara Lee Kessler has.

Speaker 11 (23:11):
More Cassie Ventura provided graphic details of an alleged rape
by Didty in twenty eighteen after they'd broken up. The
thirty eight year old singer also testified about a brutal
twenty sixteen beating in a Los Angeles hotel captured on camera.
Cassie also said she participated in hundreds of drug fueled
freakoffs with male escorts paid to have sex with her

(23:33):
while did He recorded. She said when she told him
she wanted to stop, he threatened to release those videos.
Cassie sued Diddy in twenty twenty three, and for the
first time Wednesday revealed he settled with her for twenty
million dollars. Combs is accused of sex trafficking and racketeering
over a period of two decades and is pleaded not guilty.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
I'm Sarah Lee Kessler. I couldn't stand him before I
read this. Now I really can't stand and.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
Bruce Springsteen is calling the Trump administration incompetent, in treasonous
at the height of competence.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
In the Middle East.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
Springsteen kicked off his Land of Hopes and Dreams tour
Wednesday night in Manchester, England. So he's in a foreign
country bashing our country and our president. He told the
cheering crowd that America, the America he loves, is currently
in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration.
He then asked the audience to raise your voices against

(24:31):
authoritarianism and let freedom ring. Springsteen will be touring across
Europe with his E Street Band through July third. I
was thinking I could burn some of his albums, but
I never bought any after all, A right one of
my great crushes, Mary Tyler Moore.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
They're going to be featuring memorabilia from both her own show,
The Mary Tyler Moore Show and her earlier show The
Dick Van Dykes Joe. The collection will showcase nearly three
hundred pieces of artwork, memorabilia, and decorative objects from her Greenwich,
Connecticut home. Doyle auctioners and appraisers will have select items
on display in Beverly Hills May sixteenth through the twentieth,

(25:16):
the Doyle, New York beginning May thirtieth, before the live
auction on June the fourth. Her career earned seven Primetime
Emmy Awards, three Golden Globes, a Tony Award, and an
Oscar nomination. Well, it's another win for chocolate lovers today. No,
not the Oreo pre Tennis with the good news.

Speaker 10 (25:36):
Today we're celebrating the invention of the chocolate chip, dating
back to nineteen thirty seven when Ruth Graves Wakefield invented
the chocolate chip cookie. But today we're not celebrating the
cookie that happens August fourth, just the chip that was
first mass produced in nineteen forty one by the Nesley Company.
So today, grab a bag of chocolate chips.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
An eight.

Speaker 10 (25:56):
I'm bre Tennis.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
This is your morning show with Michael del Chrono.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
The President announced a record breaking deal in cat her
with Boeing. He has racked up about three trillion dollars
worth of business for the US and headed to the
United Arab Emirates. Today there will be no sit down
with Trump, Putin and Zelensky. It'll be Marco Rubio Zelenski
and a representative from Russia, and can't have your morning

(26:24):
show without your voice. I had a dream earlier where
Donald Trump was in my dream and apparently I worked
for him, and we're walking around and he turned to
me at one point and said, you don't agree with
that to you and I said, no, I don't, sir,
but I would never say that in front of other
people and embarrass you because I like you, kid, And
he reached in and he had like a lot of hundreds,
and then he did that like two or three other times.

(26:46):
So I asked, I said, certainly with a national show,
somebody can interpret a dream, of course, Mary and Idaho can.

Speaker 5 (26:52):
Hey, Michael, it's Mary. I looked up your dream and
when someone hands you a large wads of cash, it
means that you have a strong sense of self worth
and positive feelings of success.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
I am not kidding that.

Speaker 5 (27:07):
I also had a dream last night where I met
aoc in a restaurant and asked her if she thought
we could be friends, and she got up and walked away,
and I knew it was a dream because there was
an ash tray on the table.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
Well as an ex smoker Barry, I would have much
rather had a dream with AOC and a bar smoking
reds quite frankly, and I don't necessarily feel all that
successful Blaine and names Iowa, Hey.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
Good morning, Michael.

Speaker 12 (27:33):
You know I had a feeling they were going to
do that like Pope on a rope, you know, soap
on a rope and Pope on a rope. Remember the
Saturday Night Live skin with Guido Sarducci. Yeah, see, and
they had Popa T shirts and Popa hats and all
that stuff. I don't think they sold out all their
stuff they did. You know, this happened too fast. The
poping was too fast. They got lots of stuff to sell. Still, anyway,

(27:55):
have a good day.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
Saturday Life should bring back Wuido. Still I think he is.
I mean, that's going back to like the late seventies.
But he would sit there, remember he just like a pope.
He'd be smoking cigarettes. Father, classics are talking like this.
Do you remember when they pope when they merched out
Pope John Paul when he came to the United.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
Oh that John Paul the second.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
It was classic, all right, John Deckers here he is
good for us. A Supreme Court bar attorney in addition
to being a White House correspondent because the big story
today birthright citizenship.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
It's before the Supreme Court. Good morning, John, Hey, good morning.

Speaker 13 (28:32):
Before I get to that, I heard what you were
just saying.

Speaker 8 (28:34):
Go back on YouTube and watch oh clips of father
Grido Sarduci don Novella, that's the actor that portrayed him.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
Oh brilliant.

Speaker 8 (28:43):
Still is incredibly funny, Like it's not dated in any way.
He is so funny in doing that that role throughout
his time on Saturday Night Live.

Speaker 13 (28:54):
I just love it.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
And do we know if he's still alive reckless?

Speaker 13 (28:57):
I don't know the answer to that. That's very good question.
I think the last time I checked, the answer is yes.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
I mean I would bring him back at least for
one Saturday Life special game.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
Have got an American pope.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
He's sitting there, smoking, talking and broken Italian English.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
All right, this is a big deal.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
The Supreme Court will have a big say on another
big future. The pressent has been racking up a lot
of victories in court.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
This is the High Court. What do you expect?

Speaker 13 (29:22):
This is the Supreme Court.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
That's right.

Speaker 13 (29:24):
So let's get some background here.

Speaker 8 (29:25):
The President, his very first day as president in his
second term, signed an executive order to do away with
what's known as birthright citizenship, and that was challenged, challenged
by twenty two different states. Three different federal judges in
three different districts have put that executive.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
Order on hold.

Speaker 8 (29:46):
They've issued nationwide injunctions. And that is the issue, Michael,
that is before the Supreme Court today. Was it proper
for these judges to issue injunctions, not just impacting those
twenty two states, not just impacting that the parties that
brought the case in the first.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
Place, but everybody.

Speaker 8 (30:05):
It's nationwide, and so you know, there have been complaints
for many years about the power and powers of individual
federal judges. We're going to see that play out today.
The bigger issue of birthright citizenship will ultimately, I think
be taken up by the Supreme Court as to whether
or not the executive order signed by President Trump was constitutional.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
That's the point I wanted you to dust out. You
kind of did in long form, Now do it in
short form that this is not birthright citizenship in and
of itself being constitutional. As much as first the judge,
it'll be a separate one to address that right.

Speaker 13 (30:44):
That's exactly right. So it's not just Donald Trump who's.

Speaker 8 (30:47):
Complained about the power of an individual federal judge, believe
it or not. Barack Obama complained about it, Joe Biden
complained about it, and now of course Donald Trump absolutely,
you know, they have an enormous amount of power. In fact,
there's legislation that's working its way through Congress to try
to chip away at that power that individual federal judges have.

(31:10):
In the meantime this case before the Supreme Court. There
are many legal scholars that will tell you that right
to birthright citizenship is enshrined in the fourteenth Amendment of
the Constitution. If you want to do away with it,
there is a way to do away with it, but
you have to go through the amendment process, which is
a really long process involving Congress and also many pretty

(31:34):
much thirty seven states to get an amendment actually ratified.
So that's the reason why I think the President wanted
to do the shortcut version with an executive order.

Speaker 13 (31:43):
I think he's going to have some problems with that
particular issue once it comes before the US Supreme I.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
I was trying to get yelled at. It's been a while.
Either I've gotten better or you've gotten graceful because I
never would it be over simplifying it to say that
today's ruling will be on the power of judges and
eventually there'll be a ruling on the power of presidents.

Speaker 8 (32:03):
That's a great way to put a headline on it.
I think that's perfect to describe what's happening today and
what may happen.

Speaker 13 (32:09):
In a few months at the US sup.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
And does one indicate another because I don't see them
as related, like if the president gets a victory delay, Yeah,
they're not related.

Speaker 13 (32:18):
They're not related at all.

Speaker 8 (32:19):
No. So you know, look, the President can get a
potentially a short term victory today, but as it relates
to trying to do away with birthrate citizenship down the road,
he may lose on that big issue at the Supreme Court.
We'll just have to wait and see how it all plays. Right.
I'm going to be in the court and I'll hear
all the oral arguments, and you get a good sense

(32:40):
about the way the Court is going to rule on
a particular case, just based upon the questions that they
ask the lawyers during the course of oral arguments.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
You have covered eight presidents now in twenty seconds that
we have left what the president is achieving on this trip.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
Do you have anything to compare it to.

Speaker 8 (33:00):
He's remarkable because you have the foreign policy the foreign
policy victories you want to call them, that he's had,
including essentially re establishing relations with Syria. You have the
economic wins, the big purchase of Boeing jets yesterday by
Qatar Airlines.

Speaker 13 (33:19):
Those are two big things. And the trip's not even
over yet.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Oh he's on his way to the United Reference today.
Great reporting, John, As always, I love you.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
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