Future of Ukraine - March 18th, Hour 1

Sean covers the potential cease fire between Russia and Ukraine and just how much progress was made today toward peace. 

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
All right, thank you Scott Shannon, and thanks to all
of you for being with us right now. Are toll
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Sean if you would like to join us. We start
out with hope and good news today the two American
astronauts that were stranded and abandoned in space by Joe
Biden and Kamala Harris are set to return to Earth. Honestly,

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it's now at five point fifty seven, just as we're
going off the air, which is a little depressing because
I would love to talk about it immediately. The good
news is is that Elon Musk will be on Hannity
tonight to talk about it, and for that I'm looking
forward to it. I do know, believe it or not.
You may not know this. Our own Sarah Carter is

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so into space stuff. I mean, we're going to talk
to her in a little bit about it. But the
starline of astronauts Barry Butch Wilmore and Sanita Williams undocked
from the International Space Station earlier today for their now
long awaited return to Earth. As I said, nearly three
hundred days. They were only supposed to be there eight days,
two hundred and eighty six days if you want to

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be specific and anyway. Wearing white SpaceX pressure suits, Wilmore
and Williams wavefarewell to their space Station crew mats before
floating into the Crew Dragon ferry ship for a long
overdue return to Earth, and they are now sharing the
seventeen hour ride home with the Crew nine commander and

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a cosmonaut as well, who were launched to the station
last September aboard the same SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, carrying
all four of them home. The flight plan called for
an automated seven and a half minute de orbit thruster
firing starting at about five eleven to slow the ship

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down for re entry after a twenty seven minute free fall.
I mean, this is amazing technology. Is it's scary too?
I mean, I can take on a lot of pressure,
but having the people's lives in my hands and not
something that I really want to take on. But it
was the spacecraft that is expected to plunge back into

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the discernible atmosphere for the final twelve minutes of dissent,
then making a parachute assistant splashed down off of Florida's
Panhandle and Gulf Coast a few minutes before six pm,
at about five point fifty seven schedule time. As of
right now, these SpaceX Recovery ship will be stationed nearby
to haul the space craft on board so the crew

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can be helped out of the crew Dragon's cabin onto
stretchers for initial medical checks. Talking to people that know
a lot more about this than I do, their understanding
is that these two astronauts that had only remember their
planned mission was for eight days, and they will have
a tough time adjusting they've been in zero grab to

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the gravity that we all experience here on Earth. It
will be quite an adjustment, not an easy adjustment, because
that's not what they trained for. And so our hope
in our prayer today is that by the end of
the show that they land safely and can be reunited
with their families sooner rather than later. We'll continue to

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matt or watch this throughout the day to day. Let
me get into the details of President. We have a
readout from the Trump putin phone call from earlier today,
and long story short, if I had to say one
thing that really struck me and kind of jumped off

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the page to me was Putin's agreement to Donald Trump's
proposal to suspend military strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, and
if implemented, this agreement would represent a genuine d escalation
in this three year war in Europe, and the Russian
President agreed to the proposal by President Trump to stop

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attacks on each other's energy infrastructure for thirty days, ordered
Russian military to cease them. Russia has been pounding Ukrainian
energy installations their electric grid throughout the year. Kiev has
responded with damaging strikes on refineries and fuel depots. If implemented,
this agreement would represent a real de escalation and hopefully

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the beginning of what would be the ceasefire that would
end in a negotiated settlement. During the conversation, the President
put forward a proposal for the parties to the conflict
to mutually refrain from doing this for thirty days to start.
Vladimir Putin responded positively to the initiative and immediately gave
the Russian military the corresponding command. According to the Kremlin,

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on the proposed wider truce, Putin reiterated concerns he had
raised last week. According to the Kremlins readout. They said
the conversation between Putin and Trump had been a detailed,
in frank exchange of views. It said Putin had underlined
that a resolution of the conflict must be comprehensive, sustainable,

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long term, and take into account Russia's own security interest
and the root causes of the war. That's Vladimir Putin
negotiating the settlement even in the lead up to a ceasefire.
He also said has apparently responded constructively to the Trump
initiative on protecting shipping in the Black Sea. The two
sides agreed to begin negotiations, so hopefully that'll happen, you know.

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And the Kremlin said Russian Ukraine would conduct another prisoner exchange.
Let me give you some more of the details, because
I have a longer readout here in front of me.
But they they did have a frank exchange. They confirmed
the principled commitment to a peaceful resolution that is progress
the present that in Russia declared his readiness to work
with American partners carefully study possible ways for a settlement.

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They wanted again to be comprehensive, sustainable, long term and
take into account the unconditional need to eliminate the root causes.
These are the territorial claims I'm sure by Russia. I've
said this now for the longest time that in my
view a negotiated settlement would probably end and look something
like this, that the rare earth mineral deal with Russia,

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with the US and Ukraine would result in a US
presence that would help security for Ukraine in the long
term and simultaneously provide a financial benefit for both countries. One,
Ukraine could pay back the United States for the hundreds
of billions that we have already gave them for the war.

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Number one. Number two, it would provide valuable, necessary moneies
to start the process of rebuilding a country that has
been pretty much half destroyed. If this war continues, it's
not going to be a country left fighting over the
only thing it would be left of the minerals and
whatever natural resources exist in Ukraine. So the President's begun

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the process of a thirty day truce. The Russian side
identified their significant points. The one big sticking point that
I picked up out of this is the Russians wanting
the mobilization in Ukraine and any potential rearming of forces
in Ukraine to stop during this thirty day truce, which

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to me would be only advantageous to Russia because they
would likely be be taking that time to re arm themselves.
And they emphasize that the key condition for preventing escalation
and working towards a resolution would be complete a cessation

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of foreign military aid and the provision of intelligence to Kiev.
That would have to happen in my view at the
end of any negotiated settlement, that would be the endgame,
because Russia is not going to stop their intelligence gathering now.
As it relates to some other humanitarian considerations that came
up during the conversation, and the Russians were willing to

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guarantee life and decent treatment of soldiers of the forces
in Ukraine. Number one, Donald Trump put forward a proposal
for the mutual refusal of the parties to strike the
energy infrastructure for thirty days. Then they expressed the idea,
the President expressed the idea of the safety of navigation

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in the Black Sea. It was agreed to start negotiations
for additional study on specific details of that agreement. Vladimir
Putin informed apparently agreed to that on March nineteenth, that
would be tomorrow that Russian Ukraine will exchange prisoners one
hundred and seventy five people. In addition, twenty three seriously

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wounded Ukrainian servicemen that are being treated in Russian medical
institutions would be transferred, and the leaders confirmed their intention
to continue the efforts to achieve a bilateral settlement in Ukraine,
including taking into account their proposals a couple of other
interesting developments. In this They touched on other issues involving

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the international agenda, the situation in the Middle East, the
Red Sea Region. Joint efforts are going to be made
to stabilize the situation at crisis points, established cooperation on
nuclear non proliferation global security issues. This in turn would
contribute to the improvement of the general atmosphere of American
Russian relations, and one of the positive examples is the

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solidarity vote in the n the resolution on the Ukrainian conflict.
The only reason President Trump went in that direction is
for one reason only, because he wants to get peace
in Europe. I don't know what happened to the left
in this country. I thought they were the ones chanting
and singing. All we're saying is give piece a chance.
The last thing that came out of this was pretty interesting.

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They did express a mutual interest in normalization of bilateral
relations in light of Russia and the United States and
the responsibility for ensuring security stability around the world. A
number of ideas going in the direction of development in
the prospective mutually beneficial cooperation in the economy and energy
were discussed. And then lastly, the President supported Vladimir Putin's

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idea of organizing hockey matches in the US and Russia
between Russia and American players playing in the NHL and
the KHL, which, as a hockey fan, I kind of
liked that idea a lot. So definite progress, There's no
doubt about it. Is there a deal, No, Is there
a breakthrough? I would argue, Yeah, there's definitely a breakthrough.

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We have another developing situation here's Elon Musk and SpaceX.
You know, hopefully in less than three hours these stranded
astronauts will be back on Earth, safe and secure. And
we have the Las Vegas Review Journal providing video of
Tesla vehicles once again at a dealership engulfed in flames

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after a Vegas police say they were set ablaze by
an individual early this morning. Now This on top of
previous attacks on a Vegas Tesla center. This on other
attacks around the country. Remember you have the North Colorado
woman you know, was arrested after causing five to two

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twenty thousand dollars in damage to another Tesla dealership. We've
seen bullets being fired into Tesla dealerships. We've seen molotov
cocktails igniting cars in Tesla dealerships. We've seen charging stations
put a blaze as well. You know, the bullets fired
directly at the Tesla dealerships Massachusetts, seven Tesla charging stations

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dealership and at another location in Maryland. Also in Massachusetts,
one man accused of vandalizing several Tesla vehicles with stickers
of musk in Brookline, calling it free speech. In Portland, Oregon,
seven shots fired at a Tesla dealership, damaging three cars

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the Loveland Tesla dealership. In New York City, you had
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and you know what has this guy done? He helped
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Sift six different Tesla models, most American made of any
car company in the country. I thought liberals loved electric vehicles. Well,
they hate him what for his association with Donald Trump?
They hate him for the fact that he's identified waste fraud,
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John Roberts waged in, you know, on the issue of

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this this judge, you know, this is a really you know,
I'm kind of surprised that he did. And it's somewhat
at a character but this judge ruling as a matter
of law, because you know, the idea that the Alien
Enemies Act, which was passed by Congress signed in the
law in seventeen ninety eight, it is well established. This

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has been reviewed by the Court's numerous times. You have
four different presidents that have invoked it. Three of them
were Democrats. In the twentieth century, Woodrow Wilson Harry Truman
used the Act well after both World Wars had ended.
And you know, this particular act, the Alien's Enemies Act,

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permits a president to arrest and remove without a court hearing,
an alien enemy whenever there is a declared war or
a predatory incursion perpetrated or attempted or threatened against the
United States. And Greg Jarrett spelled this out very well
in his column, pointing out something I had not known

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is that nineteen forty eight, the US Supreme Court did
uphold Truman's use of the law and ruled that the
law it's was constitutional. Hence, why, you know, when when
the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court weighs in just
on his own without anybody asking, it makes you wonder why,

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especially since the Supreme Court and Supreme Court precedent exists
involving this very act. You know it's the High Court
stated a president's decision under the Act precludes judicial review
of removal order. In other words, a judge's second guessing
and the president doesn't and should not happen. And the
president invoked this act under the predatory Incursion provision, and

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two hundred and sixty illegals were promptly deported to all Salvador,
many of them under the authority of the AEA. And
they include suspected murderers, rapists, other violent criminals, gang members, kidnappers,
you know, people involved in extortion, human drug weapons trafficking,
and a substantial number of those expelled were no mere
members of the Venezuelan Trende Aragua gang, which has been

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officially designated a foreign terrorist organization. They unlawfully infiltrated the US,
conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions against the US.
And this is yet another hill that it appears that
the Left wants to die on, you know, but you know,

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it just doesn't matter the predatory incursion. If it's perpetrated, attempted,
or threaten against the United States of America, then the
President of our country, the commander in chief of our country,
shall make the public proclamation of the event. And that
means that all native citizens had said subjects of the

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hostile nation government, whoever they happen to be, being males
of the age of fourteen years and upwards, who shall
be within the United States not actually naturalized, shall be
liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as an
alien enemy. And the President shall be in here is

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he is hereby authorized, in any event, by this proclamation thereof,
to direct the conduct to be observed on the part
of the United States towards the aliens who shall become liable,
and the manner and degree of the restraint to which
they shall be subject, in which cases upon which the

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security their residents shall be permitted, etcetera, etcetera. For removal.
It's not that it's not that complicated, but this is
exactly what the President did, and the President is one
hundred percent right. By the way, Sarah Carter who joins
us at the top of the next hour. Back in December,
she did an interview with the President of Salvador. Actually

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the interview was with the El Salvador Minister of Justice
and Public Safety, and he was very clear that El
Salvador is willing to take back illegals. And yesterday President
Trump said, we won't forget the fact that the president
of l Salvador took back these illegal immigrants. And they
can gang, they can they can jail them much cheaper

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than we would be able to do so in America.
The Obama judge that ordered the return to the of
the e Venezuelan gang bangers back to the US. Same guy,
by the way, that led a top FBI lawyer who
fabricated critical Russia Gate evidence off the hook. This very
same judge happens to be the same guy that gave

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a free pass to a top FBI lawyer. You might
remember the name Kevin Klinsmith. Remember he was the one
accused of fabricating the critical evidence and the Russia Gate
probe and then used it. And that was the information
that was used rather to give false information to the
PFISA court. Now, all the people that said in the

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PISA warrants years later said oh, knowing what we know now,
we wouldn't have signed it. But they were all warned
in August of twenty sixteen, before the election not to
trust the information, that it was political in nature, and
they were warned by of old people Bruce or remember
his wife worked for I believe Fusion GPS if my

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memory serves me, well, but it's not. You know, it's
not just the judge that gave this guy a slap
on the wrist. You know, this whole thing was fabricated,
and look what it did to the country for three years.
You know, the only person charged in the Justice Department
investigation and the origin probe of the Russia Gate, you know,
former FBI attorney Kevin Kleinsmith, received the sentence of twelve

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months probation four hundred hours of community service from this
judge during a video hearing, and he admitted in June
of twenty seventeen that he sent an altered email to
an FBI agent that indicated a target. Well, actually, I
think that's the wrong word. I think they indicated target

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of a court ordered FBI surveillance and that former Trump
campaign advisor was Carter Page was not a source for
the CIA. That was a false statement. The false statement
passed along as the FBI was applying for a third
extension of the surveillance warrant on Page, which was a
backdoor door to everything Trump world. My view of the

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evidence is that mister Kleinsmith likely believed that what he
said about mister Page was true. By altering the email,
he was saving himself some work and taking an inappropriate shortcut. Wow,
I guess we know where this judge is coming from.
But this is now what this country is up against.

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Pam Bondi is vowed to defy this judge that halted
the deportation flight. She said that the judge was attempting
to meddle in national security in foreign affairs and can't
do it. There is now an effort that is building
that may result. One House GOP lawmaker filed impeachment articles
against the federal judge who ordered the Trump administration to

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stop deportation flights. I think that's gonna be hard to
pull off, but you know, with that said, I think
it's it's basically being made as a matter of principle.
You know, unlike Democrats, I'm not the biggest impeach, impeach, impeach,
but this judge is clearly not following Supreme Court precedent.
And the president of four former presidents white House says

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the deportation flights left before the judge's order, and with
all that said, the judges as absolutely apoplectic about all
of this, and he goes ballistic as a Trump lawyer
is revealing why the administration ignored the order to turn
around the deportation flight, saying that they were out of
US airspace, which I'm sure they probably were. Well, you know,

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we'll find out over time what happens here. But you know,
it's it is, why are people fighting to keep in
this country? If you can explain this to me, call
it because I don't understand it. The judge slam The
lawyer representing the Trump administration puts them under oath. You know,

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because this planeload full of illegal immigrants were sent to
El Salvador, more than two hundred suspected gang members, many
part of the Trende Aragua gang, illegally living in the US.
They don't have constitutional rights in spite of what the
left is saying. Anyway, slam the excuse. You know, because

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Trump's lawyers in court said that any plane already in
the air must turn around and return to US soil,
but a later written ruling was less specific on those details. Anyway,
the judge slamming the excuse, summarizing the administration's position as well,
we don't care, We'll do what we want. The Justice
Department attorney said, the administration believes that we complied with

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the order. The judge hits back, saying that an order
is an order regardless of whether it's written or provided
or orally in a courtroom. You're saying that you felt
that you could disregard it because it wasn't a written order.
He called the Justice Department's argument a stretch, and was
ordered to answer a series of questions about the incident,
including how many people were in the air at the

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time of his order when it was handed down, but
he refused. He cited national security concerns, saying I am
only authorized to say what we have said. The judge
then ordered him to turn over answers by noon today,
including an official explanation of why he would not disclose
the information on Monday. He said he would put I mean,
do you see where this is going? I mean, this

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is absolutely insane, you know. Marco Rubio reacts to the
judge's order. El Salvador's president and the US Secretary of State,
Marco Rubio, appeared to celebrate the deportation flight that carried
the illegal immigrants out of the country, even after a
federal judge asked for the plane to be turned around. Oopsie.

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Al Salvador president sat on social media in a post
promoted by Marco Rubio, You're not going to take this
crap from these Obama appointed judges that don't believe in precedents,
don't believe in the rule of law. And I'm not
sure why John Roberts even bothered to weigh in. I
think it was inappropriate, I really do. On the economy,

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Donald Trump has moved to free the coal industry from
restrictions imposed by environmental extremists, saying yesterday he was authorizing
the administration to use coal fired power plans for energy
production account of China's economic advantage. Good move by the president,
that'll be good for our economy. New study shows that
Biden's Inflation Reduction Act will ultimately cost taxpayers almost five

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trillion dollars. And this is an insane amount of money.
That's twelve times the stated cost. Now, this study from
the Cato Institute concludes that subsidies are undermining innovation, driving
investments towards subsidy farming rather than satisfying consumer demand. Over
the next ten years, the IRA could cost the taxpayers

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anywhere between nine hundred and thirty six billion and one
point nine seven trillion by twenty fifty, will cost up
to four point six seven trillion dollars. By the way,
Donald Trump pulled the plug on Hunter Biden's eighteen agent
taxpayer funded secret Service detail after he was seen. I
guess he went off. I don't know where he took us, true,

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where did he take his trip to? Do you remember
in South Africa? Went to South Africa. Hunter Biden is
in South Africa. So is Ellen de Generes. By the way, Yeah,
but he can't afford you know, the lawsuit that he
started against somebody, and he had to pull back from
that lawsuit. By the way, the media is lying. One
last thing on the Alien Enemies Act. They're lying when

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they claim it's only been used during wartime. That's all
you've heard the last few days. That's not true. They
say it's only been invoked three times. It's actually four times,
and that it was done during wartime. But of course
the state run legacy media mob which is dead that
they just don't know it yet. You know, you can
go back to James Madison during the War of eighteen twelve,

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Ranklen Delano, Roosevelt, Terry Truman. I forget the other one.
I just mentioned him. I think it was Hoover, but
it's been for presidents and then the last one ended
up in a Supreme Court case, and in that case,
the court allowed him to do so in a landmark
case that stands today unbelievable. We have assaults on ice

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agents have jumped by three hundred percents, three hundred percent.
Democrats coaching illegals on how to resist deportation, and we've
got to get to the bottom of who was tipping
off these illegals. We've got to get to the bottom
of it. It's critical anyway, eight hundred and nine four
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