Were they right to move ahead with the same leaders even after the blue wave? And do you think John Thune is up for the job?

Katie, great to join you as always.

So I was definitely disappointed by what happened today.

It was a bit of a false alarm in the morning.

It looked like the election would be delayed.

And then a few hours later, I got some notifications on my phone buzzing up and blowing up that indeed they had the election.

And John Thune was promptly elected.

What does that mean for the future of the country and for presidential elections moving forward, especially in 2028? I mean, we are not far away if they were to make this change.

JOSH, WELCOME BACK.

Well, Dan, if you're looking for someone to calm you down and talk you off the cliff, you've probably come to the wrong person.

I find myself pretty much as apoplectic as you are.

Because yesterday there was this whole double take, this whole about face, where early in the morning it looked like Senate Republicans actually had delayed it.

At first it looked like they had postponed.

Right.

their leadership election.

We're going to get in there and make things more affordable.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR IMPEACHMENT GOING FORWARD? ARE WE JUST GOING TO EXPECT THIS TO BE USED AS JUST ANOTHER WEAPON?

Unfortunately, America has been home to more and more lawfare attacking those with which we share different, profoundly different policy views.

And, you know, there's only been somewhere around eight successful impeachments across American history.

We have held this to a very high standard, deliberately so.

And just to start off with, if we just think about the War Powers Resolution Act, there has been no decided judicial understanding of where congressional power ends and executive power begins.

Both of the presidents, Bush's somewhat complied with it.

President Clinton continued bombing in Kosovo in outright defiance of the War Powers Resolution Act.

THOMAS MASSIE SHOULD HAVE SUED THE ADMINISTRATION IN THE COURTS AND LET THE SUPREME COURT DECIDE, NOT THE POLITICAL PROCESS.

you have to act now

is the upshot.

You have to act now when it comes to pending nominees, when it comes to, frankly, any and all nominees, and also – You know, if there is a sitting judge who is over the age of 65 years old, if you are a conservative judge, 65 and up is the age which you can take to your status, whether it's known in the federal judiciary, at which point you don't resign from the court, but you don't work necessarily a full case or a full docket, and it doesn't allow the president the opportunity to nominate someone.

And there's any number of judges all across the federal judiciary who fit that criteria.

So it's not just the current – open judgeships that have been nominated and the current vacancies.

It's also, frankly, those who are currently in the lower course who ought to be thinking about possibly taking senior status over the next two months.

So there's a lot of clocks that are ticking.

So how much of that pettiness now from some of these butthurt senators are going to be playing into all of this, and really, I suppose, if there's one area of the judiciary that they really need to focus on, I would imagine, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but it's the appellate side of things.

But tonight he is in the gutter.

Yeah, this is really sick stuff, Rita.

Really, really, really sick stuff.

I'm no particularly big fan of Dave Chappelle.

I definitely laugh at some of his comedy, to be clear.

But he has said a lot of things over the years that I view as not just wrongheaded, but as actually just grotesquely and utterly immoral.

And you can certainly add this one to the list.

Josh, what did you make of those comments? Do you get the sense that the Secretary of State is going to stick around and finish the job?

Do you agree with that?

Totally.

Listen, Joe, this isn't your father's or your grandfather's Democratic Party.

At this point, this is a party that bears virtually no resemblance to the party, even of the 1990s and Bill Clinton.

I was thinking a lot about this recent Alyssa Slotkin clip that went viral just a few weeks prior to the election, where she was speaking in Chicago, and she said that she wants to make it painful.

She wants to do criminal repercussions for anyone who goes to marry the chutzpah to work for the Trump administration.

Compare that To the old Democrats of John F. Kennedy of 1960s, who famously said, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

What do you think?

Do you agree with that? Totally.

Listen, Joe, this isn't your father's or your grandfather's Democratic Party.

At this point, this is a party that bears virtually no resemblance to the party, even though the 1990s and Bill Clinton.

I was thinking a lot about this recent Alyssa Slotkin clip that went viral just a few weeks prior to the election, where she was speaking in Chicago, and she said that she wants to make it painful.

She wants to do criminal repercussions for anyone who goes to marry the chutzpah to work for the Trump administration.

Compare that to the old Democrats of John F. Kennedy of 1960s, who famously said, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

Now you have a Democrat, same party, trying to criminalize that what you can do for your country.

What do you think?

And, you know, there was a very

interesting... memo that was written recently by the DOJ's OLC.

The OLC is the Office of Legal Counsel.

It's actually currently headed up by a law school classmate and a very old dear friend of mine, Elliot Geiser, a brilliant attorney.

And this memo at the OLC was clarifying the scope of executive privilege and taking a slightly broader view than I think a lot of other folks have taken about what exactly executive privilege is.

So this is going to be I mean, keep your eye on this.

This is going to be a very testy area for the next two years, is where to draw the line between what is and what is not legitimate executive privilege versus the legitimate ability, which no one disputes, of the Congress to use their subpoena power, which again is the legitimate power of the Congress.

How far up the chain can they go?

I don't think we really know yet, but what's the biggest challenge facing the U.S.-Israeli relations as this new Congress is coming towards us?

Well, it's good to join you guys.

So there's obviously a lot of questions facing the new Congress.

It's going to be a Democrat Congress.

And I think Americans and conservatives have a lot of questions to ask when it comes to a lot of issues.

And certainly foreign policy in this particular relationship is one of those issues.

Look, a lot of these far-left Democrats, whether it's people in the House, people like Brad Lander and Daria Aliza, Avila Chevalier in New York City, whether that's in the House, whether it's Abdul El-Sayed in the Senate, these people represent the far, far left wing of the Democratic Party, increasingly part of the mainstream, by the way.

But that problem is a real one.

YOU GOT YOUR WORK CUT OUT FOR YOU, MY FRIEND, BECAUSE THEY'RE

No, they're not.

They've been saying this quite publicly for some time now with obviously increased fervor and frequency since the elections on Tuesday.

I think the million dollar question is this.

What exactly are they coming for? You know, they definitely want to come.

But what exactly are they coming for? I think the American people.

deserve an answer to that.

SO THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE TO HOPE FOR.

Was it just the Iran war and gas prices that did in the Republicans? Or do you think this is a swing this large is indicative of something more fundamental that is happening in American politics?

Well, I think it's probably all of the above.

Listen, Jonathan, I do think that prices, inflation, cost of living and the economy was by far the number one issue.

In fact, I jokingly say that it was probably the first, second, third and fourth most important issues that American voters face.

The reality is that most American elections are essentially of that James Carville, it's the economy's stupid mold.

There are historical exceptions.

The 2002 midterms after 9-11 was a national security election.

Are the Democrats really interested in, you know, sort of altering Israel's behavior? Or does the nature of these two caucuses, which, as we both conceded, has moved, you know, more than a couple of big steps, giant steps to the left, are they interested in just blowing up the relationship at all?

What do you make of this decision? Was Trump under pressure to do this and what does it mean?

So there's lots to unpack about this.

The first thing to know, Gabrielle, is that I have personally been calling for this exact thing to happen for essentially my entire adult lifetime.

For about a decade, I have been arguing that this has to happen, that the aid from the United States to Israel should wind down.

Now, before we even get to that, let me stipulate This topic gets a lot of airtime in American media, and I find that a little curious insofar as America gives foreign aid to lots and lots and lots of countries.

Israel is barely ahead of Egypt.

Egypt gets a ton of money every year, and for whatever reason, you can probably fill in the blanks, we spend a lot of time talking about USA to Israel and less time talking about USA to any other country.

And, of course, immigration.

Who is this guy to talk about design or to attack the Cheesecake Factory, which is a chain restaurant that, of course, he would never deign to go into because he's too fancy, but that ordinary Americans love?

You know, James, it's funny you bring this up.

I actually was a law student at the University of Chicago where Barack Obama taught constitutional law for 10 years.

And I actually lived about a stone's throw for a year from where this library is going up.

And I can tell you that what was there prior to this monstrosity going up was a heck of a lot better than what it will look like after this.

It is an utter eyesore to the entire Hyde Park, Chicago area.

By the way, it was dramatically over budget, took way longer time.

Am I wrong?

What was the absolute worst of the worst you just witnessed and why?

So listen, the lowest hanging fruit is obviously Alyssa Slotkin.

And I actually have a new column out today.

It's my syndicated column this week on Slotkin and on Democratic law firm.

More generally, go ahead and check out the column.

But I'm not going to talk about that because I think it's been covered extensively.

I want to talk about a brief but very important part of that montage.

What say you?

This just seems to me like another stunt by progressive politicians or activists to use Israel as a way to get votes back at home.

Yeah, Katie, you nailed it.

This is becoming something of a rite of passage for Democrats who are trying to rise through the ranks, and they're increasingly anti-Israel and increasingly outright anti-Jewish political party.

I mean, let's not forget that Ro Khanna basically did the exact same thing, I mean, a month and a half, two months ago, whenever that was, where he went there and essentially fabricated this whole brief checkpoint because he is operating, he was traveling without notice in advance, to where a lot of terrorist activity took place.

And the Israelis came and said, what are you up to? And when there was a congressman who went on his way, he said, oh, they interrogated me.

They stopped me.

They detained me.

Can you give more context to that situation?

WELCOME BACK.

Yeah, they're not hiding it.

They are out in the open.

And to an extent, David, I actually appreciate the candor.

What I hate is when these people hide their agenda.

So I'm actually very happy that they're just saying on the open, this is what is on the ballot this November.

There are some very clear things that are on the ballot.

AND I CAN TELL YOU THEY MIGHT HAVE CANDOR IN THEIR THREATS, BUT I PROMISE YOU THEY'RE NOT TELLING US THE FULL EXTENT OF WHAT THEY'RE WILLING TO DO.

Give us a quick synopsis and then I'm going to ask you some questions.

Yeah, so I won't get to that, but just one quick codicil, if I may, on Omar.

I forgot to mention, Carl, that this notion of webization, let's not forget that the judge who signed off on the warrant to search her home is a liberal left-wing Biden-Harris supporting judge.

This is not a nefarious, quote-unquote, Trump judge.

So that's very clear.

My colleague at the Argo 3 Project, Mike Davis, just published an op-ed on this.

Go ahead and check out the op-ed.

They lie for the sake of advancing Islam.

Give us a quick synopsis, and then I'm going to ask you some questions.

Yeah, so I won't get to that, but just one quick codicil, if I may, on Omar.

I forgot to mention, Carl, that this notion of webization, let's not forget that the judge who signed off on the warrant to search her home is a liberal left-wing Biden-Harris-supporting judge.

This is not a nefarious, quote-unquote, Trump judge.

So that's very clear.

My colleague at the Argo 3 Project, Mike Davis, just published an op-ed on this.

Go ahead and check out the op-ed.

They lie for the sake of advancing Islam.

Josh, walk me through this latest allegation and why it's so important what year Ilhan Omar was born in.

So great to join you as always, James.

So essentially, there was a hard cutoff in order to get citizenship, the method that she was trying to do in order to establish whether or not you were a minor at the time.

And she forged the year essentially on the paperwork by one year in order to make sure that she was not a minor at the time, in order to say that she actually was of adult age.

And it turned out that that actually was just a lie.

By the way, there are all sorts of other lies that Ilhan Omar has committed over the course of her not particularly illustrious career.

It's been public information for years now that she also lied about marrying her own brother, also for purposes of trying to obtain fraudulently US citizenship.

These international players basically attempting to try to affect these midterm elections.

Josh, I think there'll be many people like you that have been following this pretty closely and have been wanting to see some action on this investigation.

Yeah, you know, I mentioned earlier that my, my good friend Ben Weingarten wrote a whole book on this, and the title of his book, I, if I remember correctly, was American Ingrate, and that's exactly what Donald Trump is saying.

She is an ingrate.

She is someone who is not grateful to the country that took her in.

You know, going back to the early 1990s, you know, Black Hawk Down, uh, the United States military was actively involved i, in trying to end tribal ethnic jihadist conflict in Somalia, and then trying to, to ultimately find a place of refuge here in the United States for people from Somalia.

Ilhan Omar should be grateful.

She should have immense gratitude to the country that, that has brought her here.

Lie low, stay safe." Um, Josh, how important is this? How concerning is this? And do the Democrats even care?

What do you make of this?

Well, Mark, it's morally perverse, as the Europeans typically are these days.

And by the way, I think another data point to factor into this whole stew is that Marco Rubio, I think, just gave one of the finest speeches in recent political memory, standing in no less symbolic a visual as in front of the Parthenon in Athens, one of the birthplaces of Western civilization along with Jerusalem.

And there Marco Rubio was calling for Westerners, for Americans – to rediscover and to learn and to appreciate and value and to fight for anew all that made the West in the first place.

And what's happening in Europe and what's happening in the Democratic Party in America and, God forbid, what could happen in America writ large if Democrats start winning successive elections, God forbid, that will never happen.

But we have to fight for that which we have inherited, Mark.

And what have we inherited? Well, Western civilization typically defines as this – This DNA-like double helix of sorts between Athens and Jerusalem, between reason and revelation.

So this is a civilizational battle, no? No.

Your response?

Yeah, Carl, great to join you as always.

It's hard to know where to start, frankly.

Listen, there are some blood libels about the Jewish people that simply will not go away.

Essentially, there is a new anti-Jewish blood libel in any given era.

Now, way back in the day, way back when the Torah, the Hebrew Bible, was first given to Moses and the Israelites in Mount Sinai, the libel then... is that the Jews are blasphemers because they are bringing monotheism to the world.

They are the first people to reject idolatry, reject moral relativism, and so forth.

Can you tell me on 10-7, three years ago, what you remember of that day? Where were you at? What were you doing? How were you processing that?

Your response?

Yeah, Carl, great to join you as always.

Uh, it's hard to know where to start, uh, frankly.

Uh, uh, listen, uh, there are some blood libels about the Jewish people that simply will not go away.

Uh, essentially there is a new, there is a new anti-Jewish blood libel in any given era.

Now, way back in the day, way back when, when the Torah, the Hebrew Bible, was first given, uh, to Moses and the Israelites at Mount Sinai, the, the libel then was that the Jews are blasphemers because they are bringing monotheism to the world.

They are, they are the first people to, to reject idolatry, reject moral relativism and so forth.

Yeah

This story seems extraordinary to me, but is there a bigger danger in the U.S. and around the world of radical Islam in the cockpit? Listen,

the short answer is yes.

The bigger answer is we don't know the extent to which it is a problem.

But like you, I am skeptical that this was a one off, although it is worth knowing that that a lot of things had to go wrong for this situation to happen.

So in the particular fly Dubai situation, the pilot was was a he was an Omani national.

Now, Israel apparently, after the Abraham Accords were reached in 2020, reached an agreement that basically said that for these Arab countries that are starting to fly planes into Israel, the pilots could only be from a country that has itself made peace with Israel.

Well, guess what? Oman has not done that.

How is Soros money not big money?

Can I get your reaction? And how seriously do you think governments should be taking this?

Well, listen, Gabriella, back when he was secretary of defense, Don Rumsfeld famously spoke of the fact that there are known knowns, known unknowns, unknown knowns and unknown unknowns.

And I think this is a known unknown.

We know that we don't know a whole lot about this right now.

We just don't.

And hopefully we learn a lot more.

In the coming hours and in the coming days and frankly, not a whole lot further down the road than that, because we want to have a sense as to what this is and what is happening.

That's no problem for him.