Mike Davis

Well, I was communicating with Elon last night. Elon and Vivek and I are on a text chain together, and I was explaining to them the background of this. They understand the situation. They said, it's not directed to you, Mr. Speaker, but we don't like the spending. I said, guess what, fellas? I don't either. We got to get this done because here's the key.

By doing this, we are clearing the decks and we are setting up for Trump to come in roaring back with the America First agenda. And all of our fiscal conservative friends, I'm one of them, will be able to finally do the things that we have been wanting to do for the last couple of years. Right now, Democrats still control Pence. And that's the problem.

So we've got to get this thing done so we don't have the shutdown. So we get the short term funding measure and we get to March where we can put our fingerprints on the spending. That's when the big changes start and we can't wait to get there.

I would say this. I think that we get frustrated every year that the reptiles won't drain the swamp. The political branches won't drain their own swamp. And I would say this, that we need to keep pushing them, and hopefully this gets better under a Trump administration. But at the Article III project, we understand that our 20-year goal is

is to have the federal judiciary federal judges drain the swamp by looking at the constitution and saying i don't see for example this particular federal agency named in the constitution so why the hell is does this agency exist and that's uh i think that's the the play over a 20-year period to dismantle the federal government through federal judges are plumbers so uh

Well, I think what has to happen is you need to have your audience, and maybe we can team up on this, is just light up their elected members of the House and Senate and hold them accountable every step of the way during the appropriations process. Because these politicians in D.C. are always going to go – with the lobbyist and the special interest in D.C.

unless and until they hear from their constituents back home. We did this with Kataji Brown, Jackson's confirmation to the Supreme Court. She almost got 10 Republican votes and ended up where she got three and they ran out of town. We're doing this now with these cabinet picks, with Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth. They said they were dead on arrival. And then three days later after we got...

Americans to call their home state senators and light them up. They went from dead on arrival to when can we start? We need to do that same grassroots movements on government spending, every step of the appropriations process to hold these politicians accountable and then make them understand if you go with the D.C. politicians, if you go with the D.C.

lobbyists, the special interest, instead of your constituents back home, we're going to make your lives hell.

Well, Juan Bershon seems to think he can just disregard the Supreme Court's monumental presidential immunity decision back in June, where the Supreme Court correctly held that the president, any president, is immune from criminal prosecution for their official acts, not their personal misconduct, their official acts. And part of that ruling was very clear.

Not only can you not charge a president for his official acts, you can't take evidence from his presidency. You cannot have evidence come in, for example, of Deputy Chief of Staff Hope Hicks or Deputy Chief of Staff Madeline, I can't remember her last name, where Alvin Bragg and this Judge Vaughn Mershon allowed in this testimony over Trump's objection. And now they're saying, oh, that evidence is

didn't really matter, is cumulative, it was harmless. That's nonsense. This Judge Juan Merchan directly violated the Supreme Court's presidential immunity decision. He's going to get reversed on appeal, no question. This case needs to be kicked because of mistrial. And I would say this, This judge is corrupt. He's clearly corrupt.

His adult daughter, Lauren Michon, is a Democrat consultant and fundraiser. She's making money off of this case. Judge Michon should have recused from this case, and he's corruptly moving forward and not recusing, even though a former... Clinton judge went on Caitlin Collins's show on CNN on April 5th and said he had to he had to recuse under New York statute. This this guy is corrupt.

He must be held accountable by the Trump 47 Justice Department.

That's the problem, Charlie, is that they want this sword of Damocles over President Trump's head for the entire four years of his second term. So, for example, maybe he wants to cut funding for illegal immigrants in New York City. And so what does Alvin Bragg do? What does Judge Juan Merchan do?

Then they drop this sword on Trump's head and cut off his head and say that he's going to go to sentence. This is going to create a constitutional crisis. You can't have a president of the United States held hostage by a corrupt prosecutor and a corrupt judge. There's no question that the Supreme Court of the United States is going to step in and stop this.

And I would urge Trump's team to move forward very quickly.

Well, I think they understand that they couldn't go arrest. They couldn't go arrest him while he's president and put him in Rikers Island. I hope they're not crazy enough to try to do that.

Well, I mean, you might have a shootout with the Secret Service if they tried to do that because it's clearly illegal if they tried to do that. But I would say this. Do you want President Trump worried his entire four-year term that he has to be a good boy in Alvin Bragg's mind and Juan Merchant's mind otherwise? He could face Rikers Island at the end of his presidency.

That's not how our system works. I think that even John Roberts, who wrote a very good decision with the presidential immunity decision, understands this is so much bigger than Donald Trump or any one president. This is about the presidency. And you can't have corrupt local prosecutors hijacking the presidency with the threat of putting a president in prison.