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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Good Thnday morning, everyone.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Welcome to Sunday Morning Futures. Thanks so much for joining us.
I'm Marie Barchier Romo. Today the chickens come home to
Ruth's ten years of attacks, smears and in many cases
dereliction of duty against President Trump and against America, and
now criminal referrals for potential mortgage fraud on Adam Schiff
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on Latsia James thirty seven national security clearances revoked many
former henchmen for Barack Obama and his Russia collusion fantasy
in twenty sixteen, and on Friday, a raid of former
national security advisor turned Trump adversary John Bolton's Washington, d C.
Home in search of classified documents He allegedly shared all
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of this as President Trump scores a major legal victory
when a New York state appellate court tosses out the
half billion dollar judgment against him in the New York
A g Letitia James case after she said last year
that she's prepared to seize all of President Trump's property
if he isn't pay up.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I look forward to going.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Into the always of Attorney General every day, suing him,
compending your rights, and then going home. I say one name,
Donald Trump, as you motivate, you will youse sue him
for us. Oh, we're gonna definitely assume we're going to
be a real pay in the He's got to know
my name personally, and President Trump cannot avoid justice in
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the Great State of New York. Coming up, Florida Congressman
and House Oversight Committee member Byron Donell's on why playing
politics with America's law enforcement agencies can be a dangerous game.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Acting New Jersey and.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Just the News founder and editor John Solomon with breaking
news on the lies, the attacks, and the fallout in
now Trump's doj plaus Federal Reserve chief jo finally relents
is he caving, suggesting interest rates will likely be coming
down next month. The President of the European Central Bank,
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Christine Legard, will join me on rates Russia and why
the ECB has been leading monetary policy across the world
instead of the Federal Reserve, The impact of the Janet
Yellen J. Powell years on America's leadership. Ahead of the
full exclusive interview tomorrow on Mornings with Maria on Fox
Business tomorrow morning, join me for the full interview. Also
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just ahead, the race that everybody is talking about who
will run the business capital of the world, with new
polls showing Democrats socialist Zorin Mamdani leading the field, followed
by former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. The governor is
here to join me to make his case right here.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
It's all right here, right now. I'm Sunday Morning.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Futures, and we begin in this Sunday morning with accountability
and retribution. After ten years of attacks against President Donald Trump,
from false narratives and cover ups like Russia collusion and
Clinton's email scandal, to the raid on President Trump's mar
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A Lago home in twenty twenty two, authorized by then
Attorney General Merrick Garland, all part of the Democrats weaponization
of government against President Trump.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
This week, new.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Information emerging about one of Trump's longtime critics and one
time supporter, former Ambassador John Bolton. The FBI on Friday
conducting a surprise raid on the former National Security Advisor's
d C home overclaims he sent highly sensitive classified documents
from a private email server to his family while working
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in the first Trump administration.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
This after President.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Trump scored a major legal victory when a New York
State appellate court threw out the five hundred million dollar
judgment against him from twenty twenty three after Trump was
found liable in a civil fraud trial stemming from New
York AG's Letitian James claims that the President overstated his wealth.
James is now being investigated by the DOJ over possible
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mortgage fraud, as is Democrat Senator Adam Schiff, who is
also accused by a longtime Democrat staffer on the House
Intelligence Committee of leaking classified documents to hurt Trump during
the Russia collusion line. Shiff has now launched a legal
defense fund to push back against those charges, joining me.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
To nod with more in this sentimony.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Huss Exclusive is a key member of the House Oversight Committee.
Florida Congressman Byron Donald's Congressman's good to see you this morning.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Thanks very much for being here.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Good morning, Good morning, marine, good advancy.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
How would you assess all of this? Is this finally accountability?
What shall we expect?
Speaker 4 (04:54):
This is accountability?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Number one.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
People who live in glasshouses, shit and throw stones. It
is crystal clear that Letitia James has been under an
investigation for quite some time with her mortgage fraud issues.
We know Adam Schiff was leaking to the press, leaking
classified information, and apparently he has mortgage fraud issues as well.
And so what you're going to see out of this
administration is everybody's going to be held accountable. The law
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will be upheld, justice will be done. There's not going
to be a picking and choosing the way it was
done under Nancy Pelosi, under Joe Biden, the Democrat Party,
where they were just using the Justice Department and the
Intelligence community to go after their chief political rival. You
couple that with the fact that this mortgage fraud case
in New York, which was the most silly case we've
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ever heard in our life, where Letitia James was saying
that properties like Mara Lago were worth fifteen million dollars,
I mean, complete insanity. The right thing was done that
that ridiculous judgment was thrown out by the appellate court
in New York.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You know, when we spoke with John Rodcliffe recently lay
on this program, the CIA director years ago, obviously on
the Judiciary Committee, knew everything about the Russia collusion story
and how it was a setup against President Trump. He
made an interesting comment to me and said that when
you're talking about conspiracy, conspiracy will not get affected by
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a five year statute of limitations. Our audience knows exactly
what happened with the Russia collusion, how it was a
complete setup of President Trump, and they want to see accountability.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
They want to see people.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Like Jim Comey, Adam Schiff, John Brennan who went out
pushing that lie so aggressively against Trump. They want to
see accountability there. But the five year statute of limitations
stops that accountability.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Do you believe that when it.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Comes to conspiracy and is this a conspiracy?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
That is still the contours of the law when it
comes to this. But you have much more than conspiracy, Maria.
You have a weaponization of the vice of court system,
even as far back as President Trump's twenty six sixteen campaign,
when you had officials in the Obama administration who were
submitting false documents, they were no only lying to the
fights of court in order to get illegal wiretaps. In
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my view, that's bigger than just conspiracy. And then, of
course we all now know from the information that's been
declassified out of the Durham Annex that the Obama White
House wanted a reassessment of Russia Gate on the fly,
when everyone in the intelligence apparatus was very clear that
there was no Russia collusion. They wanted a reassessment, and
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you had John Brennan and those guys of that ILK
go and submit again faulty information which they leaked to
the press to launch the massive restigate Russia Gate investigation,
which was a lie and actually was slow walking the
ability for Donald Trump to do his duty as President
of the United States in his first term. So there
needs to be accountability of this Attorney General and the FBI.
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They're going to get to the bottom of it.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
And the President made the point recently that he could
not even deal with Russia the way he needed to
deal with it because at every turn he was saying,
I didn't collude, I didn't collude. He was constantly on
defense about that. So there's also a dereliction of duty
element to this. While your colleagues on the left were
trying to take down their political enemy and attack President
Trump with all of these made up stories, they were
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ignoring things like communist China, who was eating our lunch
and now controls ninety percent of the underlying components of
our prescription drugs. For example, the supply chains are all
in China. How do they build up all of those
supply chains. Well, our lawmakers were focusing on politics.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
You're absolutely right, Maria, and this is one of the
most destructive things from this era of Democrat leadership. They
were more concerned about power here in the United States
than making sure that the United States remained the number
one economic and military power on the globe. The Chinese
made great gains under Democrat leadership, buying farmland in the
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United States, buying land next to key military installations in
the United States. This is what was happening under the
Democrat Party. So while they were too busy going after
Donald Trump, because the American people saw through the fecklessness
of the Democrats and chose Donald Trump over then Hillary Clinton,
they decided to enter into this war against Donald Trump
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and against the Republican Party, weaponizing our government to do it.
So I'm very happy that the American people saw through
all of this and they decided to actually save our republic,
save our democracy from the insane radical left, who even
still today don't have any ideas, no policy about how
they're going to improve the lives of the American people.
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This is why Donald Trump is riding high with all
time high approval numbers from his time in public office,
because he's getting the job done and delivering for the
American people.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Well, your colleagues on the left must be wondering what
happens next. Adam Schiff must be wondering what happens next?
On John Bolton's house on Friday, talk to us about that,
the controversial twenty twenty memoir that Bolton road apparently sparked
the first probe of the ex Trump National Security advisor.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
And now we see this rate on Friday. What can
you tell us? What should we expect?
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Well, as I understand it, as I understand that Maria,
this is something that was being probed back during the
end of the first Trump administration, there were concerns that
mister Bolton was sending classified information out of the skiff,
which nobody is allowed to do. Nobody's allowed to remove
classified information, and apparently he was doing that. So this
investigation is going to continue. One thing of note, it
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appears that the Biden administration sat on this information and
did nothing. Once again, Democrats weaponizing government against their political
enemies as opposed to upholding the law regardless of where
that goes. So, look, the Administration, the Attorney General's office,
they're going to continue to look into this matter and
we'll see where it goes from here. But I want
to be clear. I have a security clearance. I review
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information in the skiff members of Congress agency staff. Nobody
is allowed to remove classified information.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Nobody.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Speaking of clarity security clearances.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Telsea Gabbard stripping thirty seven security clearances over the Obama
ordered intelligence report that launched Russia Gate in the first place.
Of course, Ed Martin was with us the other day
and he said, we now know the actual date that
the Russia collusion lie really got legs, and that was
in that meeting in the Oval Office in December of
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twenty sixteen where Obama told his henchmen to run with it.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Yep, you're absolutely correct, and that's why John Brann absolute
right thing and revoke their national security clearances because if
you're going to weaponize our system of collecting information against
political rivals, you don't deserve to maintain those clearances. Should
the exact right thing. And depending on where the investigations go,
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they're going to need to go further congssman.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
We'll be watching your work, Sir, Florida Congressman Byron Donald's
good to see you. Meanwhile, another major game in the
stock market on Friday, amid expectations that the Federal Reserve
will finally cut interest rates next month, as President Trump has.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Been urging for the past several months.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
This market is up ten percent on the S and
P five hundred during Donald Trump's term from the beginning
of the year.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Second time around, I caught up with.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
The President of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagard, at
the Central Bank Symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming this weekend,
and I asked her why she's been cutting rates at
least eight times by two hundred basis points in the
last sixteen months, even as Jay Powell has declined to
do so. Laguard walked me through her reasoning for cutting
rates while also assessing the global economy, including stiff regulation
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in Europe and why it can't seem to create the
trillion dollar companies that America has created, and a lot more.
But I began with the war on Russia and Ukraine
and what Europe can do to stop Vladimir Putin because
the European Union and Western governments are overseeing this three
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hundred billion dollars in Russian assets sitting.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
In Europe right now.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I know that the EU has said that the interest
on that money and the profits from that money can
be used to rebuild Ukraine. But what can you do
as the president of the ECB in terms of stopping
Putin from attacking Ukraine? Can you demand that that three
hundred billion dollars in Russian money does not get back
to Putin and you use that to rebuild Ukraine.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
The Europeans, as you know, of financing a lot of
the support to Ukraine, as do the Americans, and I
think it's our joint duty to defend the values of democracy,
of freedom, and of independence. There is Russian money, exactly
central bank up money, that is currently being frozen in
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the accounts of a European institution, and I think so
far what we've done is make sure that that money
stays frozen and is not disposed of by Russia. What
we have considered as perfectly legitimate is that the proceeds
of that money, the interest, if you will, generated by
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the principle that is sitting there, is used in order
to re embrace the loans granted by the EU and
the US, and that is not infringing of the principle
of sovereignty over assets. Now, my hope, my strong hope,
is that as much of that money as possible is
used in the negotiations, and that all of it is
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used to reconstruct Ukraine and to make sure that the
damage that have been inflicted on that country be repaired.
But this is not my decision and just the president
of the Central Bank.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
While you are among the most influential voices in Europe,
if not the most economically influential voice in Europe, so
shouldn't you be able to say this money will not
get back to Russia? I mean, isn't there more that
you can do in your role? You know all about
sanctions and the impact from the IMF days, what about sanctions,
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would Russian sanction? Would sanctions on Russia work? Or what
else can you do to ensure that that three hundred
billion does not get back in Putin's hands?
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Maria, are your right to establish a link between the
sanctions and the freezing of that marth of those funds
and the sanctions have to be imposed and have to
be constantly renewed and reinforced if necessary, in order to
force people to the negotiation table and to extract a
peace agreement. But all I can do is give my
views to the leaders of Europe in order for them
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to make the decisions.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
And I do that in the same vein.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Europe has been a major victim of this Russian aggression, right,
And yet you're not exactly embarrow going Russia, right, I mean,
Europeans are still buying Russian oil?
Speaker 1 (16:03):
What can you do about that?
Speaker 6 (16:04):
It has First of all, Europe has suffered as a result.
But the country that has suffered the most is of
course Ukraine. We have been in a collateral damage of
what has been major damage in Ukraine. The increase, the
massive increase in energy prices, the significant material reduction of
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gas purchases from Ukraine, all of that has inflicted significant
damage and cost to Europe, and we had to face
alternative sources. We had to buy a lot more from
the United States, from Norway, from colleagues and friends around
the world in order to substitute they do.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
In inadvertently funding the war on Ukraine.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
First of all, it's minimal because the amount has been
massively reduced and I think that it's on the way
to complete extension.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Do you feel that the independence of the FED has
been impacted by these last few months.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
I think the independence of any central bank is critically important.
I think we have to be accountable, We have to
report back and to answer all the questions of either
Congress in the US or the European Parliament. For me,
but it's vitally important that central bank is independent. You know,
in my IMF days, I have seen close hand what
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happens when a central bank stops being independent, or when
it's independence is under threat. It becomes disfunctional. It starts
doing things that it shouldn't do, and the next step
is is.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Real.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Yeah, it is disruption, It is instability, if not worse.
So I think that this is I think it's it
should not be debated.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I understand that, and I'm with you on that.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
But I wonder if the critics are onto something when
they say, maybe the Federal Reserve already violated its independence
by as soon as J. Powell got into office, he
came up with all of these climate rules DEI rules
or they said they wanted to have a mandate. But
then he also put climate rules and regulations in place,
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and DEI regulation and then cutting interest rates two months
before an election, and then after an election with Donald
Trump want saying oh, never mind, I'm not going to
continue cutting. I'm focused on inflation now.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
You know.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
On climate change, I disagree with you. I really disagree
with you because as part of our mission, the ECB
must do supervision of the banks. Right, it's a separate umbrella,
but it's part of the ECB. And in the supervision
of banks, it is our duty to check the climate
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change risk to which banks are exposed. You know, if
I have a mortgage on a house which is located
by the you know, the the ocean line, and there
is a risk of flowed or there is there is
a risk of that house never being insured again, it
has to be taken into account in the balance sheet
of the banks. So that is risk management at its
at you know, at this basics, and we are doing
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that at DCB. I think the FED has been very
very much on the fence in relation to climate change,
and I wouldn't say that the FED has been actively
participating in any of our debates on climate change, including
from a risk management perspective.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Please join me tomorrow morning on Mornings with Maria for
the full interview with President Leguard where she.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Gets into the economy.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Tariffs and digital assets, as well as the potential digital
euro That's tomorrow on Mornings with Maria on Fox Business.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Please join me.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
We'll be right back with Acting US Attorney for New Jersey,
Alena Haba next.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
Last night, I was surprised to see President Trump on
True Social go after me and Senate Republicans over what
we call the blue slip. The people in real America
don't care about what the blue slip is, but in
fact it impacts in their states the district judges who
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served their communities and the US attorneys who ensure the
law and order is enforced.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
And that was Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley this
week on the Senate tradition of blue split. After President
Trump posted earlier remarks about Grassley denouncing attempts to block
presidential nominations for ideological and political reasons, on Friday, the
President posted on truth Social comments Grassly made back in
twenty seventeen about not allowing home state senators.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
To abuse the blue slip process.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
It came after a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled that
Acting US Attorney for New Jersey, Alina Haba, is unlawfully
serving after President Trump and A. G. Pambondi extended her
tenure by naming her acting US Attorney rather than interim
to fill the vacancy. Judge Matthew Brown, appointed by the
Bench to the bench rather by former President Obama in
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twenty twelve, said Haba has not been rightfully the top
federal attorney in New Jersey since July first, after a
pair of criminal defendants challenged her appointment. One of the
lawyers involved challenging in the lawsuit, former Hunter Biden attorney
Abby Lowell.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Bondi, says she.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Will immediately appeal the ruling, adding the DOJ will protect
her position from activist judicial attacks. Haba is in this
position because she has not had a confirmation hearing with
the Senate Judiciary Committee, with Chairman Grassley honoring New Jersey
Democrat Senators Corey Booker and Andy Kim's use of that
so called blue slip process.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
It allows senators.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
To block certain nominees who would oversee their home states.
The practice is a Senate tradition, it is not the
law jury.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Now in the sunny whenty Futures exclusive is the woman.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Herself, the acting US Attorney for New Jersey, Alena Haba.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Alena, thanks so much for being here today. What are
you doing about it?
Speaker 8 (21:58):
We're fighting as as usual. You know how this administration works.
It's the new roadblock, it's the new law fair. It's
the same thing that they tried with Tiss James, and
now they're doing it with the US attorneys and judges.
And it's not just me, it's around the country, frankly,
and this tradition that Senator Grassley is upholding effectively prevents
anybody in a blue state from going through into Senate
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to then be voted on. Senator Booker and Senator Kim
had absolutely every right to vote no for me for
the US Attorney position. But I had the right as
the nominee to get in front of Senate and to
be voted on to be vetted. I never even got there,
of course not. I was, according to them, unqualified. Why
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look at HICKEM Jeffries' tweet. Because I arrested a congresswoman
for a charge of assaulting a police officer. And you
know what, I stand by my work as the US
Attorney and I won't be intimidated by this type of
political rhetoric.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
What do you want to say about Senator Tillis.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Tom Killis, a member of the Judiciary Committee, has stated
publicly that if Chairman Grassley tried moving a district judge
or US attorney through the Judiciary Committee without a blue slip,
he would oppose that nominee, and that means he would
We would not even have the votes to pass a
nomination like Haba out of committee because Tillis would.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Vote no along with the Democrats.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
It's not surprising, you know, they're trying to look at
this as they all need to get along to go along,
but they're not looking at what this does. The President
was rightfully voted in by a majority of American The
truth is it has nothing to do with the work
that we're doing. It has nothing to do with the
crime that we're stopping. It has to do with trying
to prevent President Trump from continuing his agenda, and it
has to stop. So I would say to Senator Tillis
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and Senator Grassley, you are becoming part of the issue.
You are becoming part of the antithesis of what we
fought for four years the same reason Tiss James just
got overturned in the appellate division because it was a
hoax and it was misused and abuse of power, and
we cannot allow and promote that kind of behavior. It
is not just about me. It is about people across
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the country, US attorneys across the country that just want
to do right by Americans that voted for President Trump
in this administration.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Alina, you think there's more to it as well, because
your first assistant was in the wedding party of the
federal judge.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Right, tell me more about.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
That and the relationships behind the headlines here.
Speaker 8 (24:28):
Yeah, in New Jersey, we had a very strange situation
that I was made very aware of months ago. Yes,
the Department of Justice official who was named to replace
me was very close with federal judges that voted me
out and voted her in. It was not a typical situation,
was by It was not a partisan situation. It was
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solely let's get our person in. What they don't understand
is Article three. Judges do not pick the US attorney
for the state, the president, Pam Bondi, the attorney General's
who picks it. And they had a collusion, a plan.
I'm aware of it, and the Department of Justice is
aware of it, and soon enough it will come out.
It was inappropriate, it was unethical, and frankly, senators ordering
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the judges in tweets to vote against me was also inappropriate.
And it was all because of one arrest I made,
which I stand by.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
All right, Elena, We're gonna be watching this story. We
so appreciate your time this morning. Thanks very much for
being here.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
All right, Acting US Attorney for New Jersey, Alena Haba,
thank you. Quick break, and then John Solomon gets the
goods on former FBI Director Jim Comey. The editor of
Just the News is here with details on Comy's politicking.
I'm politicizing America's premier law enforcement agency and the accountability
he now faces.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
But first, the race.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
That everybody's talking about with potential national consequences. Democrat socialist
Zorin mom Donnie is leading the polls, with.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo coming in second. The
governor is here to me his case next.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
And so my platform are all about affordability and I
am a democratic socialist and when New Yorkers asked me
what it means. I take them to the words of
doctor Martin Luther King, who said, call it democracy or
call it democratic socialism. There must be a better distribution
of wealth for all of God's children in this country.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
And there was New York State representative and Democrats socialists
Zoron Mamdani. This week, he's been endorsed by Progressives Congress
from an Alexandra Ocasio Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders, by
the Big Apples, shrinking corporate and rich residential tax base.
Jeremy and I was one of Mamdanni's key opponents who
is closest but below him in the polls right now
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for this November's pivotal election. Former New York Governor Andrew
Cuomo my special guest, Governor, thanks very much for being
here this morning.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Pleasure. Thank you for having me Maria.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
So give us your reaction to what you just heard,
and then I want to get into.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
A little of your agenda.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
We want to know what you're planning to do in
New York.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Governor.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah, well, thank you.
Speaker 9 (27:04):
Look, it's no surprise that there has been this internal
debate going on in the Democratic Party where you have
the extreme left, which they are socialists. Let's call it
what it is, you know, democratic socialists.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
No, they are socialists.
Speaker 9 (27:19):
It's Bernie Sanders, it's AOC, it's Assemblyman Mamdani and classic socialists.
Government should control the means of production. Government should be
providing commodities and as you said, free transportation, free food,
free childcare, etc. And income redistribution by taxing the rich
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and taxing the corporations. It's antithetical to New York City
to be anti corporate. As you pointed out, New York
City corporations are already high taxed, as are the individuals.
And I think it would be a death knell for
New York City.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
And he is dangerous, frankly for New York City.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Well, let's talk about the other alternative. I mean, he
wants to raise taxes on the highest earners to pay
for all of this free stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Should we believe you're going to cut taxes?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
What is your agenda? Give us your priorities and your plans.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
For New York.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (28:22):
Well, first of all, New York City is built on capitalism, right.
New York City is all about growing businesses, attracting businesses,
bringing the next entrepreneurs here.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
That's what makes New York City New York. We have to.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
Be more oriented towards a pro growth development strategy. We
want to welcome businesses here, come here, grow here, synergize here.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
That has to be the main thrust. Right.
Speaker 9 (28:53):
Too many businesses, as you know, have moved out of
New York. So number one, get more businesses here and
grow the business is that are here because you are
business friendly.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
New York means business. Second, public safety.
Speaker 9 (29:08):
Crime is a real problem in New York City, as
it is with cities across the country, and New York
City exacerbated it.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
A few years ago.
Speaker 9 (29:18):
The Socialists went through this defund the police right, this
anti police movement which they still hold to, and we
cut a billion dollars from the police. I want to
add five thousand police officers, fifteen hundred in the subways.
People have to feel safe. And then the third piece
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is affordable housing. We have people coming here from all
across the country, all across the world, and that's great.
We have a terrible problem with a lack of supply
of housing, which is driving up rents. We have a
one percent vacancy rate, Maria, so we need development desperately.
Market rate affordable house home ownership. And that's by New
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York City saying again we want you to come here,
we want you to build right now. It takes four
years to get a building permit in New York City.
I built a LaGuardia airport in four years. Right, you
have to be open, efficient and manage this government much better.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
But my plan is fifty thousand new units.
Speaker 9 (30:27):
Per year, which will add to the supply and meet
the demand.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Andrew, I want you to answer some of the critics.
I mean, you're talking about public safety. I went on
your website. That's your number one priority, making sure New
York is safe. And yet we look at your record
and people are.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Wondering, do you have a change of heart.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Do you have regrets from the bail legislation that you signed.
Do you have regrets about opening up Rikers Island shutting
that down? There's the COVID as well criticism. You've got
a select Subcommittee on Coronavirus investigating you because of you
putting seniors in nursing's home. Why didn't you use the
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ship that President Trump gave you. He put the Comfort
Ship in New York for Covida patients.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Yes, You're exactly right. New York City, as you remember,
had COVID first and.
Speaker 9 (31:23):
Worst, so we were literally the laboratory for the country.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Off now the world on what was
Good Thnday morning, everyone.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Welcome to Sunday Morning Futures. Thanks so much for joining us.
I'm Marie Barchier Romo. Today the chickens come home to
Ruth's ten years of attacks, smears and in many cases
dereliction of duty against President Trump and against America, and
now criminal referrals for potential mortgage fraud on Adam Schiff
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on Latsia James thirty seven national security clearances revoked many
former henchmen for Barack Obama and his Russia collusion fantasy
in twenty sixteen, and on Friday, a raid of former
national security advisor turned Trump adversary John Bolton's Washington, d C.
Home in search of classified documents He allegedly shared all
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of this as President Trump scores a major legal victory
when a New York state appellate court tosses out the
half billion dollar judgment against him in the New York
A g Letitia James case after she said last year
that she's prepared to seize all of President Trump's property
if he isn't pay up.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I look forward to going.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Into the always of Attorney General every day, suing him,
compending your rights, and then going home. I say one name,
Donald Trump, as you motivate, you will youse sue him
for us. Oh, we're gonna definitely assume we're going to
be a real pay in the He's got to know
my name personally, and President Trump cannot avoid justice in
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the Great State of New York. Coming up, Florida Congressman
and House Oversight Committee member Byron Donell's on why playing
politics with America's law enforcement agencies can be a dangerous game.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Acting New Jersey and.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Just the News founder and editor John Solomon with breaking
news on the lies, the attacks, and the fallout in
now Trump's doj plaus Federal Reserve chief jo finally relents
is he caving, suggesting interest rates will likely be coming
down next month. The President of the European Central Bank,
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Christine Legard, will join me on rates Russia and why
the ECB has been leading monetary policy across the world
instead of the Federal Reserve, The impact of the Janet
Yellen J. Powell years on America's leadership. Ahead of the
full exclusive interview tomorrow on Mornings with Maria on Fox
Business tomorrow morning, join me for the full interview. Also
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just ahead, the race that everybody is talking about who
will run the business capital of the world, with new
polls showing Democrats socialist Zorin Mamdani leading the field, followed
by former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. The governor is
here to join me to make his case right here.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
It's all right here, right now. I'm Sunday Morning.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Futures, and we begin in this Sunday morning with accountability
and retribution. After ten years of attacks against President Donald Trump,
from false narratives and cover ups like Russia collusion and
Clinton's email scandal, to the raid on President Trump's mar
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A Lago home in twenty twenty two, authorized by then
Attorney General Merrick Garland, all part of the Democrats weaponization
of government against President Trump.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
This week, new.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Information emerging about one of Trump's longtime critics and one
time supporter, former Ambassador John Bolton. The FBI on Friday
conducting a surprise raid on the former National Security Advisor's
d C home overclaims he sent highly sensitive classified documents
from a private email server to his family while working
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in the first Trump administration.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
This after President.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Trump scored a major legal victory when a New York
State appellate court threw out the five hundred million dollar
judgment against him from twenty twenty three after Trump was
found liable in a civil fraud trial stemming from New
York AG's Letitian James claims that the President overstated his wealth.
James is now being investigated by the DOJ over possible
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mortgage fraud, as is Democrat Senator Adam Schiff, who is
also accused by a longtime Democrat staffer on the House
Intelligence Committee of leaking classified documents to hurt Trump during
the Russia collusion line. Shiff has now launched a legal
defense fund to push back against those charges, joining me.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
To nod with more in this sentimony.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Huss Exclusive is a key member of the House Oversight Committee.
Florida Congressman Byron Donald's Congressman's good to see you this morning.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Thanks very much for being here.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Good morning, Good morning, marine, good advancy.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
How would you assess all of this? Is this finally accountability?
What shall we expect?
Speaker 4 (04:54):
This is accountability?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Number one.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
People who live in glasshouses, shit and throw stones. It
is crystal clear that Letitia James has been under an
investigation for quite some time with her mortgage fraud issues.
We know Adam Schiff was leaking to the press, leaking
classified information, and apparently he has mortgage fraud issues as well.
And so what you're going to see out of this
administration is everybody's going to be held accountable. The law
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will be upheld, justice will be done. There's not going
to be a picking and choosing the way it was
done under Nancy Pelosi, under Joe Biden, the Democrat Party,
where they were just using the Justice Department and the
Intelligence community to go after their chief political rival. You
couple that with the fact that this mortgage fraud case
in New York, which was the most silly case we've
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ever heard in our life, where Letitia James was saying
that properties like Mara Lago were worth fifteen million dollars,
I mean, complete insanity. The right thing was done that
that ridiculous judgment was thrown out by the appellate court
in New York.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You know, when we spoke with John Rodcliffe recently lay
on this program, the CIA director years ago, obviously on
the Judiciary Committee, knew everything about the Russia collusion story
and how it was a setup against President Trump. He
made an interesting comment to me and said that when
you're talking about conspiracy, conspiracy will not get affected by
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a five year statute of limitations. Our audience knows exactly
what happened with the Russia collusion, how it was a
complete setup of President Trump, and they want to see accountability.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
They want to see people.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Like Jim Comey, Adam Schiff, John Brennan who went out
pushing that lie so aggressively against Trump. They want to
see accountability there. But the five year statute of limitations
stops that accountability.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Do you believe that when it.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Comes to conspiracy and is this a conspiracy?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
That is still the contours of the law when it
comes to this. But you have much more than conspiracy, Maria.
You have a weaponization of the vice of court system,
even as far back as President Trump's twenty six sixteen campaign,
when you had officials in the Obama administration who were
submitting false documents, they were no only lying to the
fights of court in order to get illegal wiretaps. In
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my view, that's bigger than just conspiracy. And then, of
course we all now know from the information that's been
declassified out of the Durham Annex that the Obama White
House wanted a reassessment of Russia Gate on the fly,
when everyone in the intelligence apparatus was very clear that
there was no Russia collusion. They wanted a reassessment, and
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you had John Brennan and those guys of that ILK
go and submit again faulty information which they leaked to
the press to launch the massive restigate Russia Gate investigation,
which was a lie and actually was slow walking the
ability for Donald Trump to do his duty as President
of the United States in his first term. So there
needs to be accountability of this Attorney General and the FBI.
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They're going to get to the bottom of it.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
And the President made the point recently that he could
not even deal with Russia the way he needed to
deal with it because at every turn he was saying,
I didn't collude, I didn't collude. He was constantly on
defense about that. So there's also a dereliction of duty
element to this. While your colleagues on the left were
trying to take down their political enemy and attack President
Trump with all of these made up stories, they were
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ignoring things like communist China, who was eating our lunch
and now controls ninety percent of the underlying components of
our prescription drugs. For example, the supply chains are all
in China. How do they build up all of those
supply chains. Well, our lawmakers were focusing on politics.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
You're absolutely right, Maria, and this is one of the
most destructive things from this era of Democrat leadership. They
were more concerned about power here in the United States
than making sure that the United States remained the number
one economic and military power on the globe. The Chinese
made great gains under Democrat leadership, buying farmland in the
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United States, buying land next to key military installations in
the United States. This is what was happening under the
Democrat Party. So while they were too busy going after
Donald Trump, because the American people saw through the fecklessness
of the Democrats and chose Donald Trump over then Hillary Clinton,
they decided to enter into this war against Donald Trump
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and against the Republican Party, weaponizing our government to do it.
So I'm very happy that the American people saw through
all of this and they decided to actually save our republic,
save our democracy from the insane radical left, who even
still today don't have any ideas, no policy about how
they're going to improve the lives of the American people.
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This is why Donald Trump is riding high with all
time high approval numbers from his time in public office,
because he's getting the job done and delivering for the
American people.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Well, your colleagues on the left must be wondering what
happens next. Adam Schiff must be wondering what happens next?
On John Bolton's house on Friday, talk to us about that,
the controversial twenty twenty memoir that Bolton road apparently sparked
the first probe of the ex Trump National Security advisor.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
And now we see this rate on Friday. What can
you tell us? What should we expect?
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Well, as I understand it, as I understand that Maria,
this is something that was being probed back during the
end of the first Trump administration, there were concerns that
mister Bolton was sending classified information out of the skiff,
which nobody is allowed to do. Nobody's allowed to remove
classified information, and apparently he was doing that. So this
investigation is going to continue. One thing of note, it
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appears that the Biden administration sat on this information and
did nothing. Once again, Democrats weaponizing government against their political
enemies as opposed to upholding the law regardless of where
that goes. So, look, the Administration, the Attorney General's office,
they're going to continue to look into this matter and
we'll see where it goes from here. But I want
to be clear. I have a security clearance. I review
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information in the skiff members of Congress agency staff. Nobody
is allowed to remove classified information.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Nobody.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Speaking of clarity security clearances.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Telsea Gabbard stripping thirty seven security clearances over the Obama
ordered intelligence report that launched Russia Gate in the first place.
Of course, Ed Martin was with us the other day
and he said, we now know the actual date that
the Russia collusion lie really got legs, and that was
in that meeting in the Oval Office in December of
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twenty sixteen where Obama told his henchmen to run with it.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Yep, you're absolutely correct, and that's why John Brann absolute
right thing and revoke their national security clearances because if
you're going to weaponize our system of collecting information against
political rivals, you don't deserve to maintain those clearances. Should
the exact right thing. And depending on where the investigations go,
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they're going to need to go further congssman.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
We'll be watching your work, Sir, Florida Congressman Byron Donald's
good to see you. Meanwhile, another major game in the
stock market on Friday, amid expectations that the Federal Reserve
will finally cut interest rates next month, as President Trump has.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Been urging for the past several months.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
This market is up ten percent on the S and
P five hundred during Donald Trump's term from the beginning
of the year.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Second time around, I caught up with.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
The President of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagard, at
the Central Bank Symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming this weekend,
and I asked her why she's been cutting rates at
least eight times by two hundred basis points in the
last sixteen months, even as Jay Powell has declined to
do so. Laguard walked me through her reasoning for cutting
rates while also assessing the global economy, including stiff regulation
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in Europe and why it can't seem to create the
trillion dollar companies that America has created, and a lot more.
But I began with the war on Russia and Ukraine
and what Europe can do to stop Vladimir Putin because
the European Union and Western governments are overseeing this three
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hundred billion dollars in Russian assets sitting.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
In Europe right now.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I know that the EU has said that the interest
on that money and the profits from that money can
be used to rebuild Ukraine. But what can you do
as the president of the ECB in terms of stopping
Putin from attacking Ukraine? Can you demand that that three
hundred billion dollars in Russian money does not get back
to Putin and you use that to rebuild Ukraine.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
The Europeans, as you know, of financing a lot of
the support to Ukraine, as do the Americans, and I
think it's our joint duty to defend the values of democracy,
of freedom, and of independence. There is Russian money, exactly
central bank up money, that is currently being frozen in
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the accounts of a European institution, and I think so
far what we've done is make sure that that money
stays frozen and is not disposed of by Russia. What
we have considered as perfectly legitimate is that the proceeds
of that money, the interest, if you will, generated by
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the principle that is sitting there, is used in order
to re embrace the loans granted by the EU and
the US, and that is not infringing of the principle
of sovereignty over assets. Now, my hope, my strong hope,
is that as much of that money as possible is
used in the negotiations, and that all of it is
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used to reconstruct Ukraine and to make sure that the
damage that have been inflicted on that country be repaired.
But this is not my decision and just the president
of the Central Bank.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
While you are among the most influential voices in Europe,
if not the most economically influential voice in Europe, so
shouldn't you be able to say this money will not
get back to Russia? I mean, isn't there more that
you can do in your role? You know all about
sanctions and the impact from the IMF days, what about sanctions,
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would Russian sanction? Would sanctions on Russia work? Or what
else can you do to ensure that that three hundred
billion does not get back in Putin's hands?
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Maria, are your right to establish a link between the
sanctions and the freezing of that marth of those funds
and the sanctions have to be imposed and have to
be constantly renewed and reinforced if necessary, in order to
force people to the negotiation table and to extract a
peace agreement. But all I can do is give my
views to the leaders of Europe in order for them
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to make the decisions.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
And I do that in the same vein.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Europe has been a major victim of this Russian aggression, right,
And yet you're not exactly embarrow going Russia, right, I mean,
Europeans are still buying Russian oil?
Speaker 1 (16:03):
What can you do about that?
Speaker 6 (16:04):
It has First of all, Europe has suffered as a result.
But the country that has suffered the most is of
course Ukraine. We have been in a collateral damage of
what has been major damage in Ukraine. The increase, the
massive increase in energy prices, the significant material reduction of
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gas purchases from Ukraine, all of that has inflicted significant
damage and cost to Europe, and we had to face
alternative sources. We had to buy a lot more from
the United States, from Norway, from colleagues and friends around
the world in order to substitute they do.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
In inadvertently funding the war on Ukraine.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
First of all, it's minimal because the amount has been
massively reduced and I think that it's on the way
to complete extension.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Do you feel that the independence of the FED has
been impacted by these last few months.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
I think the independence of any central bank is critically important.
I think we have to be accountable, We have to
report back and to answer all the questions of either
Congress in the US or the European Parliament. For me,
but it's vitally important that central bank is independent. You know,
in my IMF days, I have seen close hand what
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happens when a central bank stops being independent, or when
it's independence is under threat. It becomes disfunctional. It starts
doing things that it shouldn't do, and the next step
is is.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Real.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Yeah, it is disruption, It is instability, if not worse.
So I think that this is I think it's it
should not be debated.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I understand that, and I'm with you on that.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
But I wonder if the critics are onto something when
they say, maybe the Federal Reserve already violated its independence
by as soon as J. Powell got into office, he
came up with all of these climate rules DEI rules
or they said they wanted to have a mandate. But
then he also put climate rules and regulations in place,
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and DEI regulation and then cutting interest rates two months
before an election, and then after an election with Donald
Trump want saying oh, never mind, I'm not going to
continue cutting. I'm focused on inflation now.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
You know.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
On climate change, I disagree with you. I really disagree
with you because as part of our mission, the ECB
must do supervision of the banks. Right, it's a separate umbrella,
but it's part of the ECB. And in the supervision
of banks, it is our duty to check the climate
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change risk to which banks are exposed. You know, if
I have a mortgage on a house which is located
by the you know, the the ocean line, and there
is a risk of flowed or there is there is
a risk of that house never being insured again, it
has to be taken into account in the balance sheet
of the banks. So that is risk management at its
at you know, at this basics, and we are doing
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that at DCB. I think the FED has been very
very much on the fence in relation to climate change,
and I wouldn't say that the FED has been actively
participating in any of our debates on climate change, including
from a risk management perspective.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Please join me tomorrow morning on Mornings with Maria for
the full interview with President Leguard where she.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Gets into the economy.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Tariffs and digital assets, as well as the potential digital
euro That's tomorrow on Mornings with Maria on Fox Business.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Please join me.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
We'll be right back with Acting US Attorney for New Jersey,
Alena Haba next.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
Last night, I was surprised to see President Trump on
True Social go after me and Senate Republicans over what
we call the blue slip. The people in real America
don't care about what the blue slip is, but in
fact it impacts in their states the district judges who
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served their communities and the US attorneys who ensure the
law and order is enforced.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
And that was Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley this
week on the Senate tradition of blue split. After President
Trump posted earlier remarks about Grassley denouncing attempts to block
presidential nominations for ideological and political reasons, on Friday, the
President posted on truth Social comments Grassly made back in
twenty seventeen about not allowing home state senators.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
To abuse the blue slip process.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
It came after a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled that
Acting US Attorney for New Jersey, Alina Haba, is unlawfully
serving after President Trump and A. G. Pambondi extended her
tenure by naming her acting US Attorney rather than interim
to fill the vacancy. Judge Matthew Brown, appointed by the
Bench to the bench rather by former President Obama in
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twenty twelve, said Haba has not been rightfully the top
federal attorney in New Jersey since July first, after a
pair of criminal defendants challenged her appointment. One of the
lawyers involved challenging in the lawsuit, former Hunter Biden attorney
Abby Lowell.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Bondi, says she.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Will immediately appeal the ruling, adding the DOJ will protect
her position from activist judicial attacks. Haba is in this
position because she has not had a confirmation hearing with
the Senate Judiciary Committee, with Chairman Grassley honoring New Jersey
Democrat Senators Corey Booker and Andy Kim's use of that
so called blue slip process.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
It allows senators.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
To block certain nominees who would oversee their home states.
The practice is a Senate tradition, it is not the
law jury.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Now in the sunny whenty Futures exclusive is the woman.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Herself, the acting US Attorney for New Jersey, Alena Haba.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Alena, thanks so much for being here today. What are
you doing about it?
Speaker 8 (21:58):
We're fighting as as usual. You know how this administration works.
It's the new roadblock, it's the new law fair. It's
the same thing that they tried with Tiss James, and
now they're doing it with the US attorneys and judges.
And it's not just me, it's around the country, frankly,
and this tradition that Senator Grassley is upholding effectively prevents
anybody in a blue state from going through into Senate
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to then be voted on. Senator Booker and Senator Kim
had absolutely every right to vote no for me for
the US Attorney position. But I had the right as
the nominee to get in front of Senate and to
be voted on to be vetted. I never even got there,
of course not. I was, according to them, unqualified. Why
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look at HICKEM Jeffries' tweet. Because I arrested a congresswoman
for a charge of assaulting a police officer. And you
know what, I stand by my work as the US
Attorney and I won't be intimidated by this type of
political rhetoric.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
What do you want to say about Senator Tillis.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Tom Killis, a member of the Judiciary Committee, has stated
publicly that if Chairman Grassley tried moving a district judge
or US attorney through the Judiciary Committee without a blue slip,
he would oppose that nominee, and that means he would
We would not even have the votes to pass a
nomination like Haba out of committee because Tillis would.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Vote no along with the Democrats.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
It's not surprising, you know, they're trying to look at
this as they all need to get along to go along,
but they're not looking at what this does. The President
was rightfully voted in by a majority of American The
truth is it has nothing to do with the work
that we're doing. It has nothing to do with the
crime that we're stopping. It has to do with trying
to prevent President Trump from continuing his agenda, and it
has to stop. So I would say to Senator Tillis
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and Senator Grassley, you are becoming part of the issue.
You are becoming part of the antithesis of what we
fought for four years the same reason Tiss James just
got overturned in the appellate division because it was a
hoax and it was misused and abuse of power, and
we cannot allow and promote that kind of behavior. It
is not just about me. It is about people across
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the country, US attorneys across the country that just want
to do right by Americans that voted for President Trump
in this administration.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Alina, you think there's more to it as well, because
your first assistant was in the wedding party of the
federal judge.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Right, tell me more about.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
That and the relationships behind the headlines here.
Speaker 8 (24:28):
Yeah, in New Jersey, we had a very strange situation
that I was made very aware of months ago. Yes,
the Department of Justice official who was named to replace
me was very close with federal judges that voted me
out and voted her in. It was not a typical situation,
was by It was not a partisan situation. It was
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solely let's get our person in. What they don't understand
is Article three. Judges do not pick the US attorney
for the state, the president, Pam Bondi, the attorney General's
who picks it. And they had a collusion, a plan.
I'm aware of it, and the Department of Justice is
aware of it, and soon enough it will come out.
It was inappropriate, it was unethical, and frankly, senators ordering
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the judges in tweets to vote against me was also inappropriate.
And it was all because of one arrest I made,
which I stand by.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
All right, Elena, We're gonna be watching this story. We
so appreciate your time this morning. Thanks very much for
being here.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
All right, Acting US Attorney for New Jersey, Alena Haba,
thank you. Quick break, and then John Solomon gets the
goods on former FBI Director Jim Comey. The editor of
Just the News is here with details on Comy's politicking.
I'm politicizing America's premier law enforcement agency and the accountability
he now faces.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
But first, the race.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
That everybody's talking about with potential national consequences. Democrat socialist
Zorin mom Donnie is leading the polls, with.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo coming in second. The
governor is here to me his case next.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
And so my platform are all about affordability and I
am a democratic socialist and when New Yorkers asked me
what it means. I take them to the words of
doctor Martin Luther King, who said, call it democracy or
call it democratic socialism. There must be a better distribution
of wealth for all of God's children in this country.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
And there was New York State representative and Democrats socialists
Zoron Mamdani. This week, he's been endorsed by Progressives Congress
from an Alexandra Ocasio Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders, by
the Big Apples, shrinking corporate and rich residential tax base.
Jeremy and I was one of Mamdanni's key opponents who
is closest but below him in the polls right now
(26:40):
for this November's pivotal election. Former New York Governor Andrew
Cuomo my special guest, Governor, thanks very much for being
here this morning.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Pleasure. Thank you for having me Maria.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
So give us your reaction to what you just heard,
and then I want to get into.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
A little of your agenda.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
We want to know what you're planning to do in
New York.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Governor.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah, well, thank you.
Speaker 9 (27:04):
Look, it's no surprise that there has been this internal
debate going on in the Democratic Party where you have
the extreme left, which they are socialists. Let's call it
what it is, you know, democratic socialists.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
No, they are socialists.
Speaker 9 (27:19):
It's Bernie Sanders, it's AOC, it's Assemblyman Mamdani and classic socialists.
Government should control the means of production. Government should be
providing commodities and as you said, free transportation, free food,
free childcare, etc. And income redistribution by taxing the rich
(27:41):
and taxing the corporations. It's antithetical to New York City
to be anti corporate. As you pointed out, New York
City corporations are already high taxed, as are the individuals.
And I think it would be a death knell for
New York City.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
And he is dangerous, frankly for New York City.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Well, let's talk about the other alternative. I mean, he
wants to raise taxes on the highest earners to pay
for all of this free stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Should we believe you're going to cut taxes?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
What is your agenda? Give us your priorities and your plans.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
For New York.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (28:22):
Well, first of all, New York City is built on capitalism, right.
New York City is all about growing businesses, attracting businesses,
bringing the next entrepreneurs here.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
That's what makes New York City New York. We have to.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
Be more oriented towards a pro growth development strategy. We
want to welcome businesses here, come here, grow here, synergize here.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
That has to be the main thrust. Right.
Speaker 9 (28:53):
Too many businesses, as you know, have moved out of
New York. So number one, get more businesses here and
grow the business is that are here because you are
business friendly.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
New York means business. Second, public safety.
Speaker 9 (29:08):
Crime is a real problem in New York City, as
it is with cities across the country, and New York
City exacerbated it.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
A few years ago.
Speaker 9 (29:18):
The Socialists went through this defund the police right, this
anti police movement which they still hold to, and we
cut a billion dollars from the police. I want to
add five thousand police officers, fifteen hundred in the subways.
People have to feel safe. And then the third piece
(29:38):
is affordable housing. We have people coming here from all
across the country, all across the world, and that's great.
We have a terrible problem with a lack of supply
of housing, which is driving up rents. We have a
one percent vacancy rate, Maria, so we need development desperately.
Market rate affordable house home ownership. And that's by New
(30:03):
York City saying again we want you to come here,
we want you to build right now. It takes four
years to get a building permit in New York City.
I built a LaGuardia airport in four years. Right, you
have to be open, efficient and manage this government much better.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
But my plan is fifty thousand new units.
Speaker 9 (30:27):
Per year, which will add to the supply and meet
the demand.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Andrew, I want you to answer some of the critics.
I mean, you're talking about public safety. I went on
your website. That's your number one priority, making sure New
York is safe. And yet we look at your record
and people are.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Wondering, do you have a change of heart.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Do you have regrets from the bail legislation that you signed.
Do you have regrets about opening up Rikers Island shutting
that down? There's the COVID as well criticism. You've got
a select Subcommittee on Coronavirus investigating you because of you
putting seniors in nursing's home. Why didn't you use the
(31:08):
ship that President Trump gave you. He put the Comfort
Ship in New York for Covida patients.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Yes, You're exactly right. New York City, as you remember,
had COVID first and.
Speaker 9 (31:23):
Worst, so we were literally the laboratory for the country.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Off now the world on what was
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