Mehdi Hassan
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Sixth Amendment, right to a fair trial.
He's targeted law firms and judges have said this is assault on the Sixth Amendment.
You keep going down the line.
Tenth Amendment, which says the state should have their own rights.
He's violated that by sending the National Guard into California, into Oregon, into Illinois.
Trump judges have had to say you can't do this.
People he appointed...
are saying, whoa, you've gone too far.
So you go down the list, birthright citizenship, 14th Amendment.
He's saying, no, just by fiat, I'm going to get rid of the idea that if you're born in America, you're a citizen.
And he's made his contempt for the judiciary very clear.
So it is a very dangerous moment when you have a man who believes he's not bound by, forget conventions or norms, which he clearly isn't, but by basic amendments of the Constitution.
Mehdi, birthdays, I guess, are supposed to be a great time to sort of take stock.
And I'm sure the president has meditated on his last year.
Oh, I'm sure, yeah.
He's recently been so busy trying to make peace in the Middle East in recent weeks following a war, of course, that he started.
He even missed his son Donald Trump Jr.
's wedding because, as you said, Iran.
It's an incredibly unpopular war with much of the MAGA base.
But how is Trump faring by and large with the American public?