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Insurrection clause which bars officers of the United States who stage Instructional Rebellion from serving again. Democratic congressman adam schiff this week. The 14th amendment section 3 is pretty clear, if you engage in rebellion against the government, or give pain and comfort to those who do, you are disqualified from running. Doesnt require you be convicted of insurrection. It just requires you have engaged in these acts. Its a disqualification from Holding Office again and fits donald trump to a t. Paul joining me is the former Attorney General of the United States, general casey. You wrote about the 14th amendment issue arguing there are problems with the argument one of which is the president may not be an officer under the definition of that amendment. There are three steps to take under the 14th amendment under the 14th amendment. One is the step that he cant serve, he cant serve as senator in the House Of Representatives or an elector, need someone in the electoral college. Stop paul doesnt mention the president. Any office under the United States, the question is whether the presidency is an office under the United States. Second question, if you cant serve in that capacity if you previously took an oath as an officer of the United States it is a little different phrase, not office under but officer of the United States. If you have engaged in insurrection or rebellion. Before you reach the question whether you engaged in insurrection or rebellion you have to ask the first two questions with my view the oath that he took in january of 2,017 was not an oath as an officer of the United States. It was an oath as president which is prescribed in article 2, specific to the president. The general language in article 6 says officers have to take an oath is not the one that applied to him. And do so in my view and the Supreme Court authority to this effect, authority in the office of Legal Counsel including one written by Antonin Scalia when he headed that office, officer of the United States, that phrase used in the constitution means an appointed officer, not elected officer. Paul most would think an officer of the United States, president is the top officer, you say thats not a common understanding even by the us government. The Justice Department has taken that position that it, and officer of the United States as used in the constitution means appointed office. Paul the fact that the president is not expressly mentioned along with senator and House Of Representatives, would also make this problematic. That suggests it is problematic, in the part where it talks about you cant serve, but what Office Somebody can serve, there are other places in the constitution where the phrase and office under the United States is used, four 5 of them, two of them may be Elective Office so thats a little dicey but the question, the capacity in which he took the oath thousand officer it is clear he didnt take the oath of an officer. Paul there is disagreement with scholars about this question and i guess that we will see a lot of these suits. These suits by individuals dont have standing. How so . There is no issue presented. The bars against him serving. No particular voter or anybody else has standing to claim donald trump served. You need controversy. Paul but you get the secretary of state, california, secretary of state, i believe he engaged in rebellion and bar him. That is the way. That it is proposed. He is barred by a State Official and State Officials run president ial elections, barred by a State Official from putting electors on the ballot, he then sues, the claims that he violated the 14th amendment. It goes and gets decided by a court. Paul do you doubt it will make its way to the Supreme Court . No. Presumably they would have a very hard time not engaging in the subject of such a moment in terms of president ial election. Right. It is an enormously important issue, the most important issue in that setting and there was a whole listing of issues under the question whether he engaged in an insurrection or rebellion including what form does it become adjudicated that he engaged that behavior. Paul thats an important part of it. Jack smith, special counsel has not charged under the relevant statute that says you cannot engage in insurrection or rebellion which would seem to be relevant in this case because jack smith is not known for shying away from indictments. Not will about pioneering either. But also the inconsistency with the governments theory to prosecute people for the violence on january 6th. It was done informally that those people were acting on their own. They tried to call donald trump as a witness. They said that testimony would be relevant and they prevailed. The evidence introduced, at least one email by a leader of these groups who said that we expect it to be authorized and validated as a militia. We have to do this on our own. That is in evidence, one of those cases. Still had, speaker Kevin Mccarthy weighs an Impeachment Inquiry, President Biden, as the House Get Set to return from summer recess. Special counsel david wise will seek an indictment of first son hunter after the implosion of his plea deal, that and more with our Politics Panel next. Your brain is an amazing thing. But as you get older, it naturally begins to change, causing a lack of sharpness, or even trouble with recall. 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Will be a heavy lift for conservatives in the house to get this off the ground. You need a full vote in the house. They have to at least attempt to make a case with the public. I do believe there is a p impeachment fatigue after the two trump impeachments. Everything that entailed, we know the shoe is on the other foot, republicans would like to do the same thing to President Biden but the question, what would be the goal . You have to come up with accusations. They think it would allow them to investigate more deeply. Paul the inquiry being different from and impeachment vote. This is the way they will find a smoking done on the biden Family Business but thats not in the least assured. We are looking at a big election in 2024. It seems clear to me that independent voters are going to decide that president ial election. As republicans in Swing Districts have said, independent voters are what they have to pull across to get elected and i think those independents are not interested in focusing on impeachment. They are interested on other things, the economy, energy independence, the border but they dont want to go down that impeachment road. Paul the number is 18 seats that republicans hold that biden won in 2020. It is not just independents but other voters in those districts, some democrats who voted for them who may not like this. A big risk for the majority in the house if they go forward. Think about the redistricting that could be coming in new york that could cost republicans a few seats, a new district map in alabama that could cost one seat. I agree that caution is warranted. Kevin mccarthy is trying to walk the fine line giving his members something starting with the inquiry. Hes really saying the point of this is to get the house at the apex of its power to investigate. We have emails President Biden sent as he was Vice President under pseudonyms that we dont have copies of in the public domain. They are trying to investigate but the public wants answers to raise questions about President Biden but if he goes forward with Impeachment Process he has to make the case to the public. Paul kim, you have good sources among members of the capitol hill, what do you think will happen . Is mccarthy going to move . Will they have the votes . It is entirely undecided. We have three ways of thinking about this. You have the investigatory committee, conservatives who want to push ahead because the Biden Administration is not supplying them with the documents they need so they feel only and Impeachment Inquiry will give them the legal ability to do that. Youve got a group of folks in the middle who are concerned about whether or not this is the right way to pursue things, this falls under impeachment given the fact we are talking about acts taken when biden was Vice President , not when he was president so there is a legal argument and you have members in District Seats concerned about the blowback. The latter groups come to additional concerned this could take away from the issues they want to talk about this election. It is a jump ball, and counting votes in the next few weeks. Paul the delaware us attorney, he will file gun charges after the plea deal fell apart. You expect is that significant here . Or is the fact that what happened to tax charges seem to have vanished. Wise has been investigating hunter for five years. The problem with many federal crimes is statute of limitations runs out after five years, six years on tax charges. On the one hand this is not that big a deal. You may indict him on the gun charge. On the other hand an indictment is an indictment. It will put the hunter story back in the news. It is inevitably going to put it in front of people and the rest of it having to do with ukraine, burisma. To be sure, it is a strong circumstantial case but i dont think it helps President Biden to have the story in front of people because its a troubling story. I doubt wise is going to put much further than this. Paul what are you looking for if charges come down . I will be looking to see whether or not they pursue not just the gun charge but also tax charges, whether they are the misdemeanors listed in the original plea deal but whether they are felonies. Paul thanks. When we come back, democratic senator Sheldon Whitehouse accuses Justice Samuel alito of improper opining in the latest and strangest attack on the Supreme Court. Sleep more deeply and wake up rejuvenated. Purple mattresses exclusive Gel Flex Grid draws away heat relieves pressure and instantly adapts. Sleep better. 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In a letter to chief Justice John Roberts on monday, the democrat Accused Alito of improper opining on a legal issue that may come before the justices namely the question of whether congress has the. To regulate the Supreme Court. Improper opining is what they accuse me of doing all the time. Not sure you can accuse a Supreme Court justice of that. What do you make of the charge . Give Sheldon Whitehouse credit for keeping us entertained. He was discussing the idea of some sort of ethics Legislation Congress imposed on the Supreme Court. If he was discussing it in detail, he discussed on the level of constitutional principles. Which justices are treed to do, they teach law courses in the summer, teach students in the summer, are not allowed to say anything about the constitution. I dont think that argument flies. The other problem is after Justice Alito may those are maxima justice on mana kagan made the opposite remark saying do i think congress has the ability to put some sort of strictures on the Supreme Court, i think the answer is yes. Sheldon whitehouse wants, to knock on of these justices out and asked him to read cues and ask two of them this is the real problem, for flavor of what he wants ethics legislation to do in the first place, to have these recusal conversations and kick justices off the cases he doesnt like. Paul Justice Clarence thomas updated his ethical filings this week along with statements from people representing him saying everything was kosher. Anything new that presents any difficulties . No. I argue the latest Financial Disclosure vindicated James Toronto who was pointing out the original stories on this were essentially bunk. I think it highlights the kind of impossible situation when they are under this attack. Justice thomas didnt have to do this because the rules only changed recently about what you were required to report and offers additional disclosure and get slammed for not doing it sooner. The media circus continues. Hes got nothing in his record that shows hes done anything improper. There is that. I wouldnt expect the media to back away from this, that something the justices have to bear in mind. Paul on that point, Justice Brett kavanaugh said that he expects the Supreme Court to come out with its own new standards or rules on ethics. Theres obviously discussion among the justices of whether to do this or if we should consider and make new rules. Lets say they do lay out some standards. Is that going to stop the criticism of the court . Or will there be an opportunity to say inadequate, inadequate, we need new regulation. Theres no possibility the court trying to establish its own ethics rules, because properly understood, fundamentally the left, the democrats cannot abide the reality that donald trump appointed three justices to the Supreme Court giving the Court Conservatives a 6three majority. They cant stand that. This has been a strategy to do something about it. Theyve tried to intimidate the justices with attacks on Justice Thomas or Justice Brett kavanaugh or taken this ethical road on which the argument is they now have to regulate the court, congress has to regulate the court. Olive it is bent towards trying to diminish the effectiveness of those 6 justices on the Supreme Court and brings up the Packing Issue as well if they had the ability, would they add more justices. And they absolutely would. Conservatives have to stand behind those justices. They were legitimately appointed, thats the reality, elections have consequences and it is going to be continuing fight. With something on disclosure make a difference . Ive talked to some judges about this and they agree with dan on the issue of recusal but they say maybe if they do something about disclosure that would make a difference. What do you think . The risk there is if you disclose too much, if you disclose stuff its not pertinent to whether you actually have a Conflict Of Interest in this case you are just giving outsiders like Sheldon Whitehouse new stuff to make up Conspiracy Theories with. It is important to note there are any disclosures on the Supreme Court justice. And they just tightened those. You can see that in Clarence Thomass recent filing, disclosing private travel which he was not before the bull changed. To make the case for disclosure you have to find actual Conflict Of Interest that has not been disclosed and so far theyve come up empty. Paul voters excess concern over President Bidens Agent Ability to serve. 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How concerned should the white house be about the latest poll numbers, how even democrats question the president s ability to do the job. Let me say, i did feel reassured by Kamala Harris saying President Biden was going to be financially is ready to the job. Neither of those things made me feel good. We shouldnt feel good about it. 3660. Six of every 10 americans say hes not mentally up for the job. Three of four say he is too old. Thats very problematic for the democrats because it is not going to get better. Is not becoming less frail, he is not going to get better on the stump. We are not going to have questions about his behavior. These things will get worse in the next year and a half. Old age happens until it doesnt and we are past the moment were old age is taking it. Paul the white house attitude seems to be they are expressing their concerns here but as soon as he gets the nomination, all these concerns by the democrats will melt away because they come out and support biden because the alternative is so much worse. Is that a high Risk Strategy . Particularly with some independents who might say i will take the risk of donald trump again if i dont think President Biden is up to the job. Thats the problem they face. The issues about age and mental fitness. And 4644. And the Trouble Biden has that is the problem. And 57 say no. 37 say no. What we are likely to see is the Ugliest Campaign weve seen in our lifetime. This is only part of the problem President Biden has. Theres another thing in the Wall Street Journal poll that is problematic for him. Think of this, approval and securing the border 30sixty three. Inflation and rising cost 3463 disapproved. Growing middleclass 36 approve, 50 disapprove. Economy, 37fiftyfifty nine. China 36fifty five. Bad numbers on all of them. All of these are going to be big issues and hes below his ballot number. The only thing keeping him up his fear of donald trump. If republicans dont nominate donald trump it is a win for the republicans and if it is donald trump, its going to have to be as we say in politics but ugly for democrats to do that. Paul is there a deadline on the calendar for President Biden to decide that hes not going to run and open it up with enough time for democrats other than Kamala Harris, lbj didnt get out after the New Hampshire primary. Everything is accelerated on the calendar. When do you have to get out if you are President Biden . The sooner the better. It would be best to happen before the iowa caucuses. There is some discussion among some democrats principally in newsom world in california. Hes got until the convention and what can happen, he pulls out in the spring and delegates selected through various primaries show up at the convention and make a decision like we used to have in the old days were delegates themselves show up at the convention without being committed to a candidate and if theres nobody in the field and chose from the available pool of people. I find that farfetched but it is being discussed. Paul every journalists dream is an open convention again. I keep waiting but it is not happening in my lifetime. It would be wonderful if it did. Whats the standing of Kamala Harris . For polls in the survey. One of the fears you hear from democrats is all the liabilities, and it would be handed off to Kamala Harris because shes losing to donald trump head to head and is not popular. Democrats are saddled with her being the Vice President shall nominee no matter who the president a candidate is, no enthusiasm among democrats about Kamala Harris heading the ticket. 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The Senate Return for midsummer recess on tuesday with one pressing task topping its to do list, fund the government by September 30th to avoid a shutdown. We are back with dan heninger, kim strawser, kyle peterson. Does the leader have enough support to stay in the job and any movement behind the scenes that would challenge that . He does at the moment. We will see if that continues. For all the criticism Mitch Mcconnell often gets from the outside or from donald trump, he has been an Effective Senate leader and build strong ties with most of its caucus. A couple of people on the fringes didnt want to see him elected leader, theyve been critical but the vast majority of the caucus is supporting him under the belief that he is still recovering from this fall that he had in march and the fact that apparently in private, most private interviews and the one you saw there, hes operating very much as Mitch Mcconnell. He said that with the views that he knows he has support to stay. Paul he has been leader since 2007, he stays close to them, he not elected by donald trump. He is not elected by when he runs for senate, if hes not elected leader, by some broader electorate, hes elected by members of the republican congress. He raises money for them. He once told me hes focused on two numbers, 51, and 60. They are breaking the filibuster that matter too. The reality is he remains capable of doing all those things you listed. We can make some distinctions about people who have been criticized for stay around too long whether it is President Biden or diane feinstein, they were issue of cognitive decline, Mitch Mcconnell had a concussion, i would add as well John Fetterman of pennsylvania who suffers from clinical depression that impaired his ability to function after a stroke. The fact is all of these people are in office because of elections. This is democracy and you never know what could happen. Ultimately voters have got to decide these things. And Mitch Mcconnells case it is the republican caucus. If it is their decision he is able to be a productive leader than he will stay in that position and there is no alternative to doing that under the system we have. Paul hes a big supporter of aid for ukraine and therefore making that case almost every day, probably explains the hostility from some on the right who dont want to support ukraine. Is that going to on the Spending Fight thats now emerging in congress, he would like to get that past. With the Spending Fight i am hopeful that will get past. You are hearing the usual complaints from the right side of Kevin Mccarthys caucus of that we need more in this spending deal. Paul not more spending, more cuts, defunding certain programs, defunding the special counsel, the dynamic hasnt changed since the similar thing that we saw play out in the Debt Ceiling Fight recently because if those rightward members of the house, Kevin Mccarthys caucus wont pass anything that hands the power to the senate and Mitch Mcconnell who you can bet well get something passed and kick it back over to the senate or the house and the choice is to do that or not and theres going to be a majority in the house who will decide to take what the Senate Offers if we get there. Paul you wrote about this, the strategy of the white house and chuck schumer, the democratic leader is to jam House Republicans to do this. Explain that. I love the fact that Mitch Mcconnell is pushing ukrainian aid. The problem is theres a tactical error in Senate Republicans joining with the white house in putting it together in this giant supple mental spending bill, going around the house negotiated as part of its debt ceiling increase. This is a package starting at 40 billion, you know it will go up if it begins in the senate and put their pet projects in. That will rile House Republicans jamming them is not going to make them more likely. It undermines what Kevin Mccarthy is trying to do to get his caucus together. Theres a better argument the house should go first on this question. The opportunity to unite the caucus and exert some leverage against the white house. Paul are we headed to a shutdown . House republicans cant pass what the Senate Might Pass . They are back this coming week, their First Priority is get their Spending Bills across. If Kevin Mccarthy can show progress they will be more willing to agree to vote for shortterm extension of the deadline which would give everyone time to get stuff done. Paul when we come back, as saudi arabia and russia cut Oil Production and Gasoline Prices rise the Biden Administration wants to block drilling on millions of acres of federal land in alaska. The panel ways in on the potential legal and political fallout next. Your best defense against erosion and cavities is strong enamel nothing beats it. New pronamel active shield actively shields the enamel to defend against erosion and cavities. I think that this product is a gamechanger for my patients it really works. Age is just a number, and mines unlisted. Try boost® high protein with 20 grams of protein for Muscle Health versus 16 grams in ensure® high protein. Boost® high protein. Now available in cinnabon® bakeryinspired flavor. Learn more at boost. 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First of all lets be clear, those leases, seven which were canceled were ordered by congress in 2017 as part of the tax law. The only way they can cancel them was to make up all these fictitious regular story concerns about how it had been done. I expect litigation from their but also this walling off of 13 million acres in the National Petroleum reserve which by the way when alaska was negotiated with the federal government to set up different areas of federal lands, this specifically set aside to remain open for oil and gas drilling so they are reneging on decades of understanding and basically it is being done as apology to the Green Movement for drilling decision they allowed earlier in the year. Paul the Willow Project to that the president did allow to go through had been delayed too long but the left really went after biden on this because they hoped to get some payback on other things and here it is. Its giving republicans in 2024 a great issue. This is political malpractice by the Biden Administration, seeing oil prices go up, gas prices go up, that is not the inflation the fed looks at and talks about but thats the inflation every day people are experiencing and i think whoever is the republican nominee in 2024 is going to make a huge issue of this especially if we get to a point that theres a recession and you can talk about how Rising Energy costs contributed to weakness in the us economy and President Biden has done everything he can to not let us producers drill. We want to drilling the United States instead of buying from adversaries. Paul i want to talk about the legal justification for this because as kim said congress stipulated this, these leases should go ahead, seven or already let. Interior secretary justifying it on grounds of indigenous knowledge which thats an actual phrase if you can tell me what that means, great, but how does that justify this, i thought this was the party of science, supposed to make environmental decisions and judgments based on science. Alaska is going to sue for this and one can only hope it would get to the Supreme Court because i would pay money to see neil gorsuch on the subject of indigenous knowledge. D that as it may the politics are fascinating. Geecishu d will have significant implications for us energy. Why are they doing it . Certainly they want fossil fuel production and exploration ended but they think they can get away with it politically just as they opened the border in texas thinking they would be able to get away with that politically but the reality is they are not. It appeases the democratic left, the Climate Goals are something they are obsessed with but we are heading into a big election next year and voters are focused on things like the economy, inflation, energy and all those numbers are trending very badly against President Biden. Why at this point he would make such a decision that would make him so politically vulnerable is hard to understand bunch republicans should take advantage of it and elevate this as an issue. Paul one of the xmen nations is because biden wants to keep turn out strong on the left, same reason bernie joined at the hip on so many policies. He wants to make sure there is no movement against him from the left. He made the Reelection Decision early on. He decided he was not going to spend his efforts trying to convince the independents, those on the fence or republicans to come over and support him. He will base everything on turnout among progressives. His problem, not just whether republicans will use of this has a message. The reality is since biden shut down so much Energy Production we are no longer a Swing Producer but if you looked at what we should be doing absent the shut down on his part, we would probably be able to be modulating at the moment these Rising Energy prices, those Rising Energy prices have the ability to depress even liberal turn out as much as energize the other side. Paul the president will be at the g 20 in india meeting mohammed been salmon, the crown prince of saudi arabia asking him please increase production. We will take one more break. When we come back, hit and misses of the week. With the freestyle libre 2 system, know your Glucose Level and where its headed. No fingersticks needed. Manage your diabetes with more confidence. Freestyle libre 2. Try it for free at freestylelibre. Us working with newday, My Va Home Loan benefit allowed me to keep my money in my pocket. 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Nows the time to see what americas largest 5g network can do for your business. Time now for our hits and misses of the week. Kim, first to you. Correct a hit and a fond farewell to Jimmy Buffett looked at us with her joy and fun sandd and surf. Thanks to jimmy ween if we couldnt wrap it all go insane. Life is just a tire swing. There are Cheese Burgers in paradise of my favorite it is always 5 00 p. M. Somewhere including a margaritaville. Jimmy buffet oneofakind, rest in peace. Kyle . Whats a hit to eric adams are speaking honestly about the immigrant crisis in a town hall this week said the city has received 100 10,000 people but he sees No End In Sight 12 billion. Mr. Eric adams are speaking dishonestly about the migrant crisis he blamed what he called a madman down in texas that would be Governor Greg Abbott for Setting Busloads of migrants north a small fraction coming to new york city. And remind me who is it that simple charge of Border Security theyll be President Biden of mo form a Second Lieutenant larry taylor who received the Congressional Medal Of Honor for valor in vietnam and 68 lieutenant tailored for comrades triton rice field in vietnam they were certain to be killed he flew his helicopter under heavy fire in their to try to get all four of the in the end of hanging on the skids it to be carried out to safety. Lieutenant taylor flew over 2000 combat missions, 300 under enemy fire. He is 81 years old now, paul. That is one great 81yearold. It is for sure thinking that that for this week chauffeured thanks to my panel and to all of you for watching we hope to see you right here next week. As i have said all along my intent was to pressure him. And try to get them to make a mistake. He becomes a desperate he will have to expose himself. And that is really. We will keep the pressure on. So before the pressure is on the Manhunt Zeroing in now the search in its tenth day print this as police in pennsylvania along with federal officers