BREAKING: Trump to Use Primetime Power to Address Nation

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And now your host, Logan Secular. Welcome to Secular! It's April 1st, no April Fool's Day, jokes for us today, though we do have some big breaking news where we're going to discuss President Trump.

It was currently at a Supreme Court case, but we'll be addressing the nation for the first

time since the start of the war in Iran tonight at 9 p.m. now we don't know the details of it, but we do know that it will be specifically about what is going on in Iran. So a lot of us will be watching. That is for sure. With that I want to hear from you.

What do you hope this is? I hope this is the decision to keep going, and you hope this is the decision to wrap things up. Maybe that is over. There's a lot of rumblings of that.

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And how you can be a part of the ACLJ. With that, I could said phone lines are open at 1-800-684-3110 later in the show. Senior attorney here, C.C. High will be joining us, talk about what's going on. Some of the work we're doing in Israel, and then later on my dad, J.Secula will be joining us to discuss the Supreme Court case that is happening right now.

A lot of you are maybe watching it. We decided to provide you some alternative programming, as we know that most of the news is covering currently the birthright citizenship case that is up right now.

My dad will be on with his experts Supreme Court analysis a little bit later in the broadcast.

So again, it's going to be a packed show and I want you to be a part of it. But with that, let's address what's going on again tonight. And that is President Trump is planning to deliver a prime time address, you know, networks across all the networks across the media will be everywhere, of course, on social media, online.

And same time, maybe not so ironically, this is Passover begins. So again, you know, all of God's timing and all very interesting to see this all play out really in real time.

“And that's why this is so interesting, Logan, because I expected a prime time address”

actually when we launched the incursion into Iran. I expected that that time that the President would address the nation of this morning, we took action to decisively go after the regime and Iran, especially after finding out that the Ayatollah had been killed in those actions. But we didn't see that.

We saw the President use news conferences, do things. He isn't unavailable to the press. But the prime time, oval office address from a president is something that you only see with with very serious things. I don't expect this to be from the President just a, we are in the middle of this and

we will continue in the same path. There is going to be something different about what he will deliver to the American people tonight. Once again, when you give an address like this, and we are assuming it's oval office, but it could be in one of the other rooms that doesn't necessarily have to be, that

is though the typical setting, but that he is requesting all the networks to cover him live. That means he is interrupting all programming. That is typically reserved for something that is of great importance that they want as many people to hear it directly from the President himself.

And we will get more into that later. I could see them waiting on this specifically to not infer that we are at war. You know, they've been very careful to not use the W word, if you will, in this situation in Iran.

“Of course, we all have, because honestly, it's the easiest way to describe what's going”

on. Let's not pretend here. But I understand there's legality in terms of using the word war. When you have the President making an oval office address, that kind of feels like you're starting a war.

But maybe this is an oval office address to announce the end of the current attacks in Iran. What do you think? 1-800-684-3110. Do you think the President comes on tonight?

Do you think he makes a statement that says, "We are wrapping up. Maybe we're done in Iran?" Do you hope that's the case? Or do you want to see the push still towards real regime change? The President's Trump is starting kind of kind of slow roll out that the current people

in charge are a lot better. That's also been something his true social posts will discuss that coming up in just a moment, again, on Secular. We'll be right back in just a moment.

Phone lines are open for you at 1-800-684-3110.

We know a bunch of you are just joining us right now. So I want to give you a still at brief kind of breakdown of what this show is going to be about today. Of course we are all covering that tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern-time President Trump will be making a statement to the nation.

A prime time address. What does it look like? What's it about? We know it's about Iran. We don't know the details behind it.

So we don't know whether this is to say, "Hey, we're going in boots on the ground. It could be that. It could be the opposite."

It could say, "We're done.

We've wrapped up the stock markets rallying today with kind of hopes. It seems that we're wrapping things up." And what we kind of can infer from President Trump is a bit of that. Those still with some pretty major caveats. A truth social just did this morning.

He put Iran's new regime president, much less radicalized and far more intelligent than his predecessors, as just asked the United States of America for a ceasefire. We will consider when the Hormuz Strait is open, free, and clear until then that he has to give you his little present Trump here. Until then, we are blasting around into oblivion, or as they say, back to the Stone Age.

That's quote, by the way. President Donald Trump, as they say, back to the Stone Ages. Phone lights are open for you at 1-800-684-31-10. We also know, if you're watching right now, a lot of the other networks are carrying the live audio.

President Trump is actually sitting at Supreme Court right now, listening to the arguments over birth rights citizenship. Now, this is a highly contested topic, even among conservatives, even amongst our listener base, and our viewership base. And we understand that.

“And I thought the best way to give you a real legal understanding of this is my dad, J.”

J. Secular, we'll be joining us later on in the broadcast. You're going to want to stay for that. That's going to be in the back half of the show. We also have C.C. Highle with an update coming in on our other ACLJ attorneys to talk about some of the work we're doing right now in Israel.

But the big topic on everyone's mind is what this nine o'clock address is going to look like. We have some calls coming in about that. Let's go first.

Let's go to Philip first, actually in South Carolina, Philip, you're on the air.

Well, my friend, I love listening to your father in New Jersey. One question. I agree with the President's goals, but couldn't he have waited as a tactical thing until after November? Because right now, with the money going up because of the war effort, prices, gas, he

puts all of these people running for office at risk if this thing goes south. Certainly, it feels more voteable. Philip, I understand. Well, I also feel like Philip, that would be more of a political error, rather than a tactical error.

I think the tactical mission is. Or humanitarian. And doing it at the right timing is doing it when the military advisors, the intelligence advisors, and the president believes is the right time to do that. Now, yes, I understand the political issue that if President Trump was purely a political

machine, would have probably thought, let's do this after the midtermsist could harm

“the party, could harm my agenda, but I think that should almost showcase that it wasn't”

a political move to do this, that they had reasons, and he believed this was the best interest of the United States to go ahead and do this now. But yes, once again, also ending it can have major strategic implications for both the operation itself, but as well as the politics back home, giving the market some time to recover if that is what's needed, showing victory, showing that there is not a threat from Iran.

Those type of things can also calm down and kind of the fog of war in the political sphere has time to clear before the election as well, but I think only thinking about it in a political calendar is part of the problem that so many previous presidents have fallen to, is that we're going to do this only when it's politically expedient. President Trump here didn't do that, and I feel like because of people like the Secretary

of State, the Secretary of War, that are also saying, look, this is something we've been saying as a problem for a long time. Now is a very explicit time, we can take action and get most, if not all of our goals taken care of right now. Yeah, I mean, look, I think what Will said is right, we complain all the time about politicians being politicians, about people switching sides on their own issue just to get a vote or

to wait and hold something till very specific time. Look, we all are pumping gas right now. We all feel it. Let's not pretend we don't. You go and fill up your gas tank. It's not great, okay? We're all looking at ourselves. We all come in an equal playing field here

“and I'm going, it is tough. Now, do I think the ins justify the means of this situation?”

I do. I believe there's also a massive humanitarian crisis where tens of thousands of people are being killed in the streets and we said, you know what, enough is enough. We've

us and we can go in and we can take care of this.

I hope for a full regime check. I don't know where if it's going to lead. I think President Trump is kind of almost saying this is a new regime. By already saying new regime, he is making you at least think that this is a new group of people. Look, for largely it is a new group of people. Your top leaders have all been wiped out. Now, what that means for the people of Iran, I think is very different than what it means for United States

of America. Those are going to be things that I hope he addresses tonight. What do you think? Do you think he addresses the humanitarian crisis that is going on in Iran, where people are being murdered in the streets for their beliefs, where women are being tortured, all of those things that we've heard and we know are happening? Do you think he addresses that tonight or does he just address things like, you know, the actual tactical side of

“the war, the oil, the straight of her moves, those type of moments. You think that's what”

it is or will we get to the heart of the matter? If you think he will, thoroughly yes in the chat. If you think he will, it's just going to be focusing on the economy and things like that, relation to the war in Iran, say no. I'd love to see that in the chat. See what our audience thinks President Trump will do. Not necessarily what you want him to do. What do you think he's going to do? Well, and here's why this is also a curious

timing of this announcement. This was announced and confirmed by Caroline Levitt yesterday that the president would deliver this prime time address tonight. When you think about, I don't, that's why it's probably it won't should not be just something of we are going to continue as long as possible. There should be an announcement, whether that's asking Congress for more authority or whether that is announcing some sort of limited ground

troop mission. I don't think it's something like when Barack Obama came on to announce

“the death of Osama bin Laden, the successful taking out of Osama bin Laden. The way you said”

that the death of Osama bin Laden, right? Yeah, the successful killing of Osama bin Laden finally

getting him. I don't think that would be something if it's like, oh, we sent ground troops in to recover the uranium and that's already happened. They wouldn't have announced it yesterday because you know how bad Washington is about leaking things. From yesterday to tonight, everyone would already know and there'd be no point to it. So it's got to be something strategically, whether it's a drawdown, whether it is or saying we are going to ramp up

and ask Congress for more authority. I feel like it needs to be some sort of strategic change, not a announcement that we have done something because if it were something that we have done, it would have leaked by the time. Normally, they announced that last minute, we're going live in one hour, get everybody ready, get the press here, stop all your programming because Washington notoriously will tell everybody before the president has a chance to.

Yeah, usually they'll release what the transcript will be the president Trump will be giving the written speech seconds before. Maybe minutes before he goes live to make sure the press has the exact quotes ready to go. Hopefully, you know what kind of what president Trump to do the opposite? Don't release it. I like a good surprise. You know, that's part of live television. Well, that's right. And Marine on YouTube did ask what time is the president

show address? It is at nine PM Eastern. It will be available to watch just about everywhere that would break into it. Any over the air broadcast networks, ABC, CBS, NBC, as well as all the cable channels will be having. All your YouTube streams. Everyone will have this. I'm sure here on, if you're watching on sale news channel, if you're watching on one of our conservative

“talk stations, I would think that they would likely be playing it. I think a lot of people”

will have this wherever you need it. President Trump will kind of interrupt the broadcast on everything. And it's Wednesday night. Well, and I think tonight may have been one of the finalies of the mass singer. So my kids may get a little upset. Well, I'm sure they will delay broadcast. He will shift this. I don't know. You'll be able to get it on demand later. I know that your kids will jump right into the final on masking. Oh, I could see a real big turn

into the midterms. Oh, no. You're non voting age kids. They will be real upset. I think there's a lot of voting age kids out there. Watch that are watching them. Yeah. All right. Full lines are open for you. I want to hear from you at 1-800-6-8-4-31-10, CC House, and we joining us in the next segment. I also want to take a minute now that quite a lot more of you are watching right now. I want to say thank you. We had our double your impact drive throughout the month of March,

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ACLJ coming up. Take your calls and comments and see how. Welcome back to ACLJ. We are going to take some more calls and comments coming up. And like I said, we're going to address the Supreme Court or a argument that just I believe concluded on the birthright citizenship a little bit later in the show. My dad just said it was going to join us. So you're going to hear that. Just some analysis. Not even again, we understand that this is a very nuanced situation. There's some of you on each side

of these issues. It is not something that's necessarily following on a party line. But with that, I wanted to make sure we had a top notch analysis. We'll have that as well. I also want to give you an

“update. That's why C.C. is joining us right now. C.C. Hiles in studio with us to address what's been”

going on at the U.N. because there is some pretty big updates. As of course, our work continues on behalf of the United States and on behalf of the state of Israel. So again, our work continues here at the ACLJ. Yeah. So once again, I talk about this a lot. It's the universal periodic review,

which we participate in. There's three sessions each year. And basically, it's the United Nations

reviewing the human rights record of every single U.N. member state. And what's interesting about this year, and we will obviously be reporting on all the 14 member states that come up this in this session this first session. But last year was the United States review period. And if you recall, the United States actually boycotted because they say the U.N. Human Rights Council obviously is made up of members that don't care about human rights and they're the biggest violators. And so they

don't want to be a part of that. And we understand that at the ACLJ. But since the U.N. Human Rights Council continues to go on, we want to be there. And we want to be standing up for what's

“right and true. And so what's interesting, and I think that our listeners will find this”

interesting, is we get to update the USA report then. And so we get to show what has happened from the Biden administration, which we all know, was terrible attacked Christians. Every chance they could get through the Treasury Department through military training. We've talked about those issues on this radio show over and over and over again. But if you didn't know, just for religious liberty, I'm just going to go through some of these things that has happened since the

Trump administration took over. For religious liberty, President Trump established the religious liberty commission, the purpose of creating the new policy is to enforce the historic and robust protections for religious liberty enshrined and federal law. He, President Trump created the White House faith office. He issued an executive order that we will not tolerate anti-Christian weaponization of government or unlawful conduct targeting Christians. He also issued another

executive order, combating anti-Semitism vigorously. And then designed Nigeria as we know as a country of particular concern, standing up for Christians there and that the United States must address the ongoing persecution and killing of Christians. So that was just what the United States has done for religious freedom. And then we go into life for protection of life. And I want to read this because it's an amazing statement, a presidential statement, if you've not heard it,

today we uphold the eternal truth that every human being is created in the holy image and likeness of God, blessed with infinite worth and boundless potential. And it goes on to say that as President

I pledge to always be a voice for the voiceless and to never tire in fighting to protect

the intrinsic dignity of every child born and unborn. And that is from the President of the United States standing up for unborn children. Vice President Vance made a similar statement. The National Institute of Health enacted a new policy that would end the use of a boarded human fetal tissue in research and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights is going after any hospital that wants to stop doctors from having conscience against performing

abortions. Again, then there was another executive order enforcing the high-demiment that prevents federal funding from going to elective abortion and reinstated the Mexico City policy that prevents organizations that receive federal global health funding from providing abortions. This is just

for religious freedom and for life. And we get to say that in a report to the United Nations.

And we know we're probably the only people organization doing that, but it's a good day when we can say our country is doing the right thing. That's right. And when you look at these UPRs, when it comes to other countries trying to raise the human rights record of other countries that receive a lot

“of funding and aid from the UN, it's important for us to weigh in there to make sure that there's”

a full record when it comes to some of these countries that persecute Christians. With the United States, obviously, we're the ones funding to UN to the vast majority. So there's not like that issue with if there's a human rights violation according to all the other nations of the world, but it is good to have that in the record. Because we know the adversaries of the United

States that have a forum at the UN will be taking this opportunity to try and make the United States

look bad, to try to put in the record, look how bad the U.S. is, you know they're going to be putting things about ice in the way and present, prompting a fascist while they themselves have authoritarian regimes that control their countries. Us being able to do this as well as highlight things like life. When you think about how many countries that are representative at the UN are much more pro-life than the United States historically when it comes to culturally that putting that in the record,

“it may be putting it before people that are representatives there are seeing this for the first time”

because that's not what everyone wants to hear about the United States. And so it actually gives us an opportunity to explain to other countries the real record of this administration and of the United States during this time. Absolutely. And you know, you point out a make a good point with the people that are reading this. And these are people that work for the United Nations, but the rhetoric especially around life, we are the one organization that gets to point out just like you said, a majority and most

people probably don't know this, but a majority of the member states, the UN member states, are pro-life, that they do not know how abortion at all, that the majority do. But the UN, the people that run it, would make you think the exact opposite, that of a core abortion is a right and of course it should be protected. And so it is great that we can point this out and we can point out that the United States is definitely standing for life that we have our president of the United States making statements

and our vice president defending the life of the unborn, the most innocent victims that we need to speak up for. So that is awesome. Thanks, CC for that update. We have more that we'll be getting into as these days go on. The deadline is April 10th. Is that correct? So our team working on that right now just a little bit over a week and a half away before we submit that and some other things at the UN. But even when there are things going on, like the conflict in Iran or all the

things going on here at home, our team is still working on these reports to the UN, things that

“most people don't even think about. But they are very important, not only for setting the record”

straight about what's going on in America, but also to put pressure on nations abroad, that are violating the religious freedom, the religious rights and humanitarian rights of their citizens. And a lot of these countries do get a lot of funding and aid from the UN. And so that is why we at the ACLJ, we file a report, CC, on every single country. We do and, you know, usually you're exactly right, usually we are showing every single human rights violations. So most the reports are,

you know, they've done this wrong, they've done this, they kill Christians, they, you know, don't let them have Bible studies. Whatever it is, we point out those rights. So this is a good, it was a good change of pace that we get to say, hey, the United States is doing these things right on religious liberty and life. Thank you so much, CC. We are wrapping up this first half hour of secular. In the next half hour, we've got Logan, your dad joining us to talk about this supreme

court case that was this hearing oral argument that was going on just wrapped up. I know he was watching it, it's going to give us analysis on what he saw, but a lot more ahead. That's right, it will be a packed back half of the show. If you don't get us by them on your local station, you're listening, I'll trust you already or something like that. Some of the stations will carry

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Logan secular. Welcome to secular. We're monitoring a lot of breaking news items right now as it

there have been some rocket launches and rocket attacks in Tel Aviv, that's just coming in right

now. We're going to try to get an update on that from our team, an aclj Jerusalem and figure out what's going on. As again, Passover begins and the war continues on. As we know, all the sites have been closed. There's been a lot. There's been a lot of changes over in the Middle East over the last month. And we hope President Trump tonight, 9 p.m. Eastern time, making a statement to the nation about the situation in Iran. What is it going to be? What does it look like? We got a lot of calls

coming yet. I know we want to take some of those calls. Which one do I know? It was good. It was

“still calling in South Carolina online one. I think it's a very important question. And she's also”

an ACLJ champion. Go ahead. You're on the air. Hey guys, I am totally confused. President, I love President Trump. But he keeps saying, we have enough, my husband's a trucker and diesel is sky high. And the gas is high. But he keeps saying, United States produces more oil and gas. And we don't need to stray to her moves. And another thing, he says he's talking to these people in Iran. Who's he talking to? The Muslims that were there, I noticed. All valid questions is still of, again,

what does that leadership look like? But I think we'll want to do addressing maybe the economic

side of this. Yeah. First turns of the gas price. And I think what, when the President is not wrong,

when he says, you know, we produce enough for this country. Yes, we are a net exporter, meaning that we produce more oil and gas in the United States than we consume. How up? Now, we still do buy some from other countries. There is that the export game. This is a quantity. We do buy some. We do buy some. We do buy some. But this is a commodity. It's a traded commodity. And the world market does affect even the prices here at home, because our

companies here sell it to other countries. When a choke point like the straight of Hormuz, where

“I believe it's like 20% of the world's oil comes out of, not any that we are necessarily using.”

But that's still affects global supply. And when the U.S. is selling it in other places as well, and there is a demand for it because 20% of the oil that is normally in the market places no longer available. That creates a supply and demand issue. When the demand doesn't change, there are still the same amount of demand from the consumers, from the countries around the world. But the supply gets lower prices go up. It's the basic supply and demand formula. And that's going to go up

around the world. If we were a completely isolated system where we only produced oil for ourselves and only sold it to ourselves, then you would probably have a situation where it was not affecting the world prices or we were not affected by, we are isolated from it. But that's not the way it works. The companies that produce it here are also selling it all around the world. And the market is

“dictating that price. It is going to go up. I think you will start to see it come down because what”

have we seen? The markets are roaring today. The stock markets and all of those other markets due to the announcement of an announcement. Right. That Caroline Levitt yesterday said, "Hey, he's going to have a prime time address." The stock market went crazy yesterday afternoon and today, which inversely, the oil market has started to come down. But it still, I hope that gives a little bit of insight into it is that while we do produce more than we can consume here,

it is still connected to that global system. And when a big part of the supply goes missing, it affects prices around the world. Yep. All right. Thank you, Estelle, though. And also, thank you for being an ACLJ champion. And if you don't know what that is, that's someone who gives every month to the ACLJ on a recurring basis. Like a membership. They sign up. You can automatically

charge, of course. You can't slow at any time at all. That night, I like to always put

champions up front when they tell our phone screener there, champion. They can move to the top of the lines and think it's always important to pay respect for those who really support we're doing here. And of course, countdown also underway to a big launch. The Artemis 2 launch. It's been very so much happening in this country today. And now we're also looking to around the world again as there have been some missile attacks in Israel as passed over begins. We're going to discuss that

and more at my dad, J. Seculo, joining us in the next segment. Welcome back to Seculo. We are going to take your calls by the way in the next segment at 1-106-8-431-10. About any of the myriad of visitors we've discussed this morning. Of course, we've talked about President Trump making a statement tonight. We know he'll be making an

that's going to be saying the war in Iran is over or its continues or what it could look like

as he will address the nation formally tonight. For the first time since the beginning at 9 p.m.

we also know President Trump was just wrapped up being as the Supreme Court hearing today on birthrights citizenship. This one, I bring in my dad, J. Seculo, who was listening in and getting his thoughts because, look, this is a highly contested issue, even amongst conservatives when it comes to what the ruling should be in terms of birthrights citizenship, but even worse without necessarily a side, one way or the other. How do you think the arguments

went? Well, I'm interested in the jokes. It's a pushback on both sides pretty aggressively. The love of commentators are thinking that as it stands right now, it's more likely the court

“will not side with the administrative, but you have to start with what the actual text of the”

14th Amendment said. I think we may have lost you. We'll call, or let's say, we got you back.

I'm here. All right, let's try reconnecting here. Well, we're having some connection issues. Now, we'll bring them on to the next segment. So let's just see if we can connect. Maybe there's another way to do that through Wi-Fi or something. With that, we'll bring him back on in just a minute. Let's just call him back. Let's quickly take a call while we wait. Let's go to Ronald, who is watching on Rumble. Long time supporter here, Ronald. Thanks for filming the gap here for us. Go ahead.

No problem. Thanks for taking my call. Yeah, about to us saying concerning the president's speech this afternoon about Iran. It would be great if he was to say that they've come to a kind of a end of the end to the war and conflict with the new regime that everyone's been talking that's in place, but it would also be great if he was to announce that this new committee or governing power would include also many of the people in Iran that have been

abused and everything so that they at least have a voice now to represent in the building and or rebuilding of their country. Well, what am I concerned, Stephen, right now? Is your president Trump started this morning saying that, you know, Iran's new regime president has asked for a ceasefire.

“And then that regime just put out a statement saying, "No, we didn't." So now you have to go with,”

okay, you're still with the regime that is at least likely lying. Right. Well, and once again, I don't think that the new regime that is at least speaking for the revolutionary guard is someone that would bring on a minority group to help re-craft a government, but I do agree around that would be a wonderful thing. I just don't see that being in the cards right now. We do have your dad back. We were talking about the text of the 14th Amendment,

which is kind of the crux of what this oral argument gets at, where how it's interpreted, how it reads and I just want to give the floor back to you on that.

So you guys start with the text of the Constitution, and here's what it actually says. All persons

born or naturalized in the United States, and subjects of the jurisdiction of our citizens of the United States,

“and the state where and they reside. So it says, you have to be born or naturalized in the United States,”

in other words, naturalization through the process of naturalization that we have. Born in the United States, but it doesn't just say all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States, there's a caveat and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, and that is where the argument has come down because the argument being that those here that are not here legally in the United States do not being themselves to be subject to the jurisdiction thereof. So that's where this comes down,

and the impacts are significant. The administration is not proactive. They're asking this to be perspective. But that's really what it comes down to. What does the text actually mean when it says subject to the jurisdiction thereof? And it doesn't simply say all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens. It has that caveat and subject to the jurisdiction thereof. Very hard to predict where the court's going to be on this. My expectation is the government

has the Trump administration has an uphill battle, but there were hard questions posed on both sides. We'll get a decision probably in June. Well, and I think that is what is fascinating about a case like this because even looking at it as a textualist as some like even Justice Alito, it is hard to see how they will perceive what those texts say. And you think of Justice Thomas and those that would be very strict with the wording of it, as well as those that

but even the Cavanos that it's really hard and it always is with the Supreme Court. But with this

issue specifically to see where they're going to land, I think this may be one of the hardest to kind of prognosticate about that we've seen in quite some time before this court.

“I think we've had a technical glitch there, but again, I think it's always important to”

hear this. Look, I want to know what your thoughts are. Where do you hope that this lands? I think this is a real careful one because I think the idea being born in America and having the rights thereof of being born in American citizen has always been something that we've all been taught. What does that look like as it is challenged and do you agree with President Trump on this?

I'd be curious your thoughts. Well, and even as your dad brought up there and Carolyn is asking

so we have to wait until June to get an answer. One, with it being this late in the term, as it is, we're already in March. That's nothing. Right. Come on. That's six weeks. Especially with big decisions like this, they are typically not until the end of the the Supreme Court term. When they are releasing a lot of opinions, they're already releasing opinions from earlier. As you may not know, they vote, at least they're initial vote today. Right. Right after they'll

make a decision, but it takes weeks and weeks to form the official decision. And they can change their mind. Because then they have to start writing the opinion. So they will vote kind of how they

fall on the issue right after. And as you said, until that decision is an opinion is published,

anyone can change their mind about how they are. But they typically see how they vote then the justice to write the opinion is assigned. And then they start writing their opinion. And then other justices see if they want to write a concurrence because they may have read it a little differently, but still agree with the ruling for different reasons. And then you have the dissents. I guarantee you, no matter what, there will be a dissent from someone somewhere on this ruling.

“I feel like it is too polarizing that you're not going to get a 9 to 0, do you think on this?”

Well, lines are open. I want to take them in the next segment at 1-800-6-8-4-31-10. But I also know you wanted to update everyone on the air. Well, well, situation. It's just true. There was a little bit of a pushback that happened over the last way of Irish. You may not remember. Yesterday on the broadcast, we discussed that Eric Swallwell wants to inspire and see on everything. He wants some light to be the disinfectant of the world,

unless it has to do with his own misdoings or has to do with anything related to him and potentially having Chinese spies within his own cabinet administration, if you will. And that kind of changed a little bit overnight. That's right. So he went on CNN and was talking to the host there about the issue surrounding this, because there he sent a cease-in to assist to the director of the FBI saying that if we're going to see this, then this is illegal. You cannot do this. This is a violation

of my rights. Then he went on CNN after this cease-in to assist and said this about if they are to release this investigation into the spy and his office, this is how bad it will be by one. More will come. Other nonsense from the administration, but we don't trust them one bit, and it's also absurd. Just absolutely absurd. Somebody who was on the intelligence committee over saw the CIA for eight years that they're so out to interfere in the California gubernatorial race

where we're leading that they would work with the Chinese. It's just absurd and probably the worst abuse that we've seen since the J. Edgar Hoover days. So if they are to release this, this is the worst abuse we've seen since the J. Edgar Hoover days. I mean, I feel like James Komi's got to be a little upset that he doesn't get an honorable mention for the abuse and interference in election that he did in 2016. Whether you're conservative or liberal on that one,

how many times did he interfere with Hillary Clinton's campaign? Closing, reopening, closing again, the email investigation, and then also we know how hard he pushed and worked with the President of the United States and the director of the CIA when it came to crossfire hurricane to go after

“President Trump. Come on, now no love for Komi. I think it's a ridiculous statement, but obviously”

he's got something to hide. He's not he's not happy about Komi. Don't play that. We know that.

calls like Canada next segment. We have four lines open. So it's the perfect time to call in.

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“If you want to be on the show today, 1-800-684-3110, we got about eight minutes left.”

That's usually enough time for two or three calls at least. So if you want to call in, great time to do it at 1-800-684-3110. Let's go ahead and take a call. It's going to look

in Virginia line. Three, look, you're on the air. Hello, Jake. Thank you very much. This is

Luke and Leslie. Hello. Hi, going in. And I wanted to, what I wanted to say is, I'm talking about the gas prices, is the hand that pumps the gas today is going to be the same hand that pulls the ballot in the midterm election in November. And I don't think that you're going to be able to convince people that paying $4, $5, $6 a gallon for gas is good or correct. They have, you know, when I threw all the arguments for it, but I, you're not going to be able to convince

people. This is my question would be borrow a tactic from James Carvelle. I would be saying, where's the lines? If you go to any gas station, there's no lines because there's not a shortage of

supply. It's over price supply. Well, that's all I wanted to say about the gasoline. The other

thing I wanted to say is March is the Save America month and the Senate. And that is what we really should be talking about is the voter ID. Yes, look, I'm only cutting off because we've just, we only got time to address a few of these. Yeah. The gas price, look, we understand and I brought this up. When we're all feeling it, when we're there at the gas pump, I know I got to go to the later today. Fast, I got told tomorrow before I have to refill. Maybe I'll wait till after the president speaks.

It's usually takes a couple of days, at least for you're going to hedge your vets there. Yeah, I don't even get a better price. Better price. Because look, I understand it's tough. It's, it's, and you're not wrong. When people see those price tags, they see what the final, the fill up the gas. It's, if everyone's thinking about it, then it becomes an issue. But,

“well, I think this is what I love about the colors of calling it into this show.”

Now, Luke and Leslie, there as well, that, yeah, people don't typically vote on foreign policy issues, whether it's for president, especially in the midterms. Foreign policy issues aren't what they usually vote in the midterms. This is true. But what does motivate people is their money, their pocketbook, their taxes, their gas prices, their food prices. We saw what actually was one of the biggest negatives against Joe Biden was all the inflation that happened under his

administration. That is what harmed his presidency among other things as well. But that is one that the people in the middle that decide whether or not to actually just leave their house and go vote. The people that truly decide elections, if they are not motivated to leave if everything's comfortable, that's actually not good for the incumbent many times. If they are comfortable and aren't motivated to go sustain it and Luke to your point, one, if this wraps up and things go back to normal,

then the voter memory is so short. Yeah. The fact that we're paying for that has happened here will not affect the midterms. It may affect some primaries, but it won't affect the midterms. But if it maintains and keeps going on, you are exactly right. The same hand that is pumping the gas is the one that pulls the lever and that they're going to use that car that they filled up with gas to probably go vote against the incumbent party if prices remain high. Because at the

“end of the day, that is really what motivates people to vote. You have to change that now to tap”

the screen. I understand what you're saying. The hand that pumps the gas is the finger that touches the screen. There you go. Yeah. How do you guys feel about that? It's not as good of an analogy. Probably the lever I feel like we're doing slot machines here. Well, you still say that.

and take some more calls. Let's go to Karen, who's calling. We'll keep this on the gas conversation.

Karen, in North Carolina, you're on the air. Hey, how you guys doing? Good, Karen. I wanted to make a statement about the idea of the gas so-called being high because under Trump with the way he has it and the way his systems running, it should be low.

“But I think because the gas industry in their business, they don't want to lower it so they're”

pushing it higher because they don't want to have to lose money so they try to keep the gas higher. Yeah, come on. When I'm looking at even the chat, someone's like, well, here in Northern California,

it's $8 a gallon. It's like, all right. Well, that's a California model that has always been a problem.

Which is, if you, you want to, the most sticker shock is when it's $1.50 at home, here in Tennessee, and then you go travel to the West Coast and you see prices in the $4 or $5 range in a normal day. Well, and Karen also, yes, this is a marketplace for oil and gas. So, the companies that do business outside of the United States as well are not going to just sell their oil and gas at a discount because they can. They are going to be in the marketplace. That is a part of how

that entire industry works. So, yes, they are, they are making money reflective to the marketplace. And it is a temporary thing as, as our previous color mentioned, there isn't a gas shortage, like we saw during the Iranian Revolution, under Jimmy Carter, where people were in lines waiting just to be able to try and get gas. Now, if it extended, things like that could change, but being mostly energy independent here in the United States, we are in a much better position.

But I don't think that they are high because they're opportunistic. They just follow the market. And when it is traded, humongous global industry, they're not just going to be like, well, we're America. We're keeping the price of a barrel of crude low. That would also not work out in the marketplace. That would cost disruptions out. We got one more call related to gas prices. I think we should go ahead and take that. Holland, unfortunately, we're not going to

get to you today. It's just a two different of a topic to really bring it back around a two minutes. Let's go to Maria, who's calling on line two. Maria, go ahead. Maria, you're there. Hello. Hello. Hello. You're on the air. Yes. I'm the same thing that goes with gas. I mean, I am, yes, I understand that you have to keep it in the marketplace in all of this, but this does the present understand

that we need to go to was. We need that gas. We can't just drive or bike so ride a horse anymore. We need all of that. Well, I completely understand where you're going, Maria, as well.

“But also remember that we don't have a nationalized oil and gas industry. Yes, it's heavily regulated.”

You have to get permits. But the president himself does not control the price of gas either. These are market reflections of things that the president has done. And even if he wraps it up, yes, it could potentially bring down prices. There are ways to use strategic reserve. They have done some of that to alleviate it. But at the end of the day, also, he doesn't control that business. That is, those are independent companies that are, that are reflective of the marketplace.

Also, if they were to, as I was talking about earlier, just drop the price here in the United States, that would cause shortages. Because everywhere in the world would try to buy up that oil at the discount and then it would no longer exist. And everyone would be reliant on the higher prices. So it wouldn't work out that way as well. But I do understand your concern. A lot of people

“have that same concern. And that's why we're very curious what the president says tonight about this.”

9 p.m. will all be watching as we see, you know, our mass singer delayed or something like that. But we'll still be watching. President Trump make his statement to the nation.

As well as the first night of Passover as we head throughout Holy Week this week. We'll talk

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