WEBVTT 00:00:09.378 --> 00:00:10.77 >> Tucker: THE SUPREME COURT 00:00:10.78 --> 00:00:10.711 HAD AT THE WHITE HOUSE AND 00:00:10.712 --> 00:00:11.446 MEANINGFUL FULL VICTORY TODAY. 00:00:11.447 --> 00:00:13.981 IT RULED THAT A TRAVEL BAN 00:00:13.982 --> 00:00:15.49 AFFECTING EIGHT COUNTRIES CAN GO 00:00:15.50 --> 00:00:16.350 INTO EFFECT. 00:00:16.351 --> 00:00:17.84 THAT DIVISION ISN'T FINAL. 00:00:17.85 --> 00:00:20.421 INSTEAD IT MEANS THE BAN, WHICH 00:00:20.422 --> 00:00:24.559 EFFECTS AND RON -- CAN REMAIN IN 00:00:24.560 --> 00:00:25.560 PLACE WHILE THE COURTS EVALUATE 00:00:25.561 --> 00:00:27.628 WHETHER OR NOT IT'S LEGAL. 00:00:27.629 --> 00:00:32.967 NINE JUSTICES, ONLY SONIA 00:00:32.968 --> 00:00:34.502 SOTOMAYOR AND RUTH 00:00:34.503 --> 00:00:37.405 BADER GINSBURG SIGNALED THEY 00:00:37.406 --> 00:00:40.341 OPPOSED IT. 00:00:40.342 --> 00:00:41.409 MARK STEYN, THANKFULLY NOT 00:00:41.410 --> 00:00:42.877 COVERED BY ANY OF THE COUNTRIES 00:00:42.878 --> 00:00:46.147 LISTED IN THE TRAVEL BAN. 00:00:46.148 --> 00:00:47.148 HE JOINS US TONIGHT. 00:00:47.149 --> 00:00:48.15 GREAT TO SEE YOU. 00:00:48.16 --> 00:00:51.118 >> GOOD TO SEE YOU. 00:00:51.119 --> 00:00:53.788 HE COULD BAN ME. 00:00:53.789 --> 00:00:55.556 >> Tucker: IT COULD HAPPEN. 00:00:55.557 --> 00:00:56.924 >> YOU ARE RIGHT. 00:00:56.925 --> 00:00:57.458 IT'S A BIG VICTORY. 00:00:57.459 --> 00:01:00.361 BUT IF YOU TAKE IT IN HARNESS 00:01:00.362 --> 00:01:03.297 WITH THE LAST HALF-HOUR, 00:01:03.298 --> 00:01:04.98 ESSENTIALLY YOU HAVE HAD SINCE 00:01:04.99 --> 00:01:08.336 THIS ADMINISTRATION WON A YEAR 00:01:08.337 --> 00:01:11.739 AGO, THE BUREAUCRACY ON THE 00:01:11.740 --> 00:01:15.576 COURTS GANGING UP, BASICALLY, TO 00:01:15.577 --> 00:01:17.745 CRIPPLE THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH. 00:01:17.746 --> 00:01:19.13 THE FACT THAT HE HAD TO GO TO 00:01:19.14 --> 00:01:25.987 COURT TO GET A TEMPORARY STAY IN 00:01:25.988 --> 00:01:26.754 THESE TWO LOWER-LEVEL COURT BANS 00:01:26.755 --> 00:01:27.722 ON HIS TRAVEL BAN, ACTUALLY 00:01:27.723 --> 00:01:30.758 TELLS YOU SOMETHING ABOUT WHAT 00:01:30.759 --> 00:01:32.994 AN INSANE SITUATION WE ARE IN. 00:01:32.995 --> 00:01:34.662 THE STATUTORY LANGUAGE IS QUITE 00:01:34.663 --> 00:01:35.363 PLAIN. 00:01:35.364 --> 00:01:36.697 THE PRESIDENT HAS THE AUTHORITY 00:01:36.698 --> 00:01:39.467 TO BAN BY PROCLAMATION ANY 00:01:39.468 --> 00:01:41.269 ALIENS OR CLASS OF ALIENS. 00:01:41.270 --> 00:01:44.405 SO HE CAN BAN ME PERSONALLY BY 00:01:44.406 --> 00:01:46.140 PROCLAMATION. 00:01:46.141 --> 00:01:48.342 HE CAN BAN ALL CANADIANS BY 00:01:48.343 --> 00:01:49.143 PROCLAMATION. 00:01:49.144 --> 00:01:50.978 OR HE CAN BAN CLASSES OF 00:01:50.979 --> 00:01:51.345 CANADIANS. 00:01:51.346 --> 00:01:53.981 HE CAN BAN CANADIAN TAP DANCERS 00:01:53.982 --> 00:01:56.150 BECAUSE HE THINKS THEY ARE A 00:01:56.151 --> 00:01:57.151 THREAT TO THE AMERICAN TAP 00:01:57.152 --> 00:01:59.153 DANCING INDUSTRY. 00:01:59.154 --> 00:02:00.888 THE LANGUAGE IN THE STATUTE 00:02:00.889 --> 00:02:03.291 COULDN'T BE PLAINER, AND THEY 00:02:03.292 --> 00:02:04.225 HORRIBLY POLITICIZE JUDICIARY, 00:02:04.226 --> 00:02:09.764 LIKE THE HORRIBLY POLITICIZED 00:02:09.765 --> 00:02:12.133 POLICEMAN HAS PUSHED LANGUAGE 00:02:12.134 --> 00:02:13.568 BEYOND ITS MEANING IN ORDER TO 00:02:13.569 --> 00:02:14.936 DENY THE PRESIDENT'S MOST BASIC 00:02:14.937 --> 00:02:16.370 EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY. 00:02:16.371 --> 00:02:18.72 >> Tucker: SO HERE'S THE TREND 00:02:18.73 --> 00:02:19.707 I'M SEEING, TELL ME IF YOU SEE 00:02:19.708 --> 00:02:20.374 IT TOO. 00:02:20.375 --> 00:02:21.709 THE LEAST DEMOCRATIC PARTS OF 00:02:21.710 --> 00:02:22.510 OUR GOVERNMENT, WHICH WOULD BE 00:02:22.511 --> 00:02:25.179 THE COURTS AND THE BUREAUCRACY, 00:02:25.180 --> 00:02:26.948 NEITHER ELECTED BY VOTERS, ARE 00:02:26.949 --> 00:02:27.782 GETTING MORE POWERFUL, AND THE 00:02:27.783 --> 00:02:29.383 MOST DEMOCRATIC PARTS, THE 00:02:29.384 --> 00:02:32.53 PRESIDENT AND THE CONGRESS ARE 00:02:32.54 --> 00:02:33.354 GETTING LESS POWERFUL. 00:02:33.355 --> 00:02:34.55 SO THE DEMOCRACY IS ACTUALLY 00:02:34.56 --> 00:02:37.158 WHERE THE NOW. 00:02:37.159 --> 00:02:37.592 >> ABSOLUTELY. 00:02:37.593 --> 00:02:40.861 YOU HAVE A PERMANENT STATE. 00:02:40.862 --> 00:02:44.732 PRESIDENT OBAMA FAMOUSLY SAID IN 00:02:44.733 --> 00:02:46.233 2009 ELECTIONS HAVE 00:02:46.234 --> 00:02:46.667 CONSEQUENCES. 00:02:46.668 --> 00:02:49.270 THE PERMANENT BUREAUCRACY AND 00:02:49.271 --> 00:02:51.539 THE COURTS ARE SAYING IT TO THE 00:02:51.540 --> 00:02:53.541 PEOPLE, ELECTIONS HAVE NO 00:02:53.542 --> 00:02:53.975 CONSEQUENCES. 00:02:53.976 --> 00:02:54.709 YOU CAN VOTE FOR WHATEVER YOU 00:02:54.710 --> 00:02:57.912 THINK YOU WANT, BUT WE ARE GOING 00:02:57.913 --> 00:03:00.514 TO GO AHEAD AND CONDUCT BUSINESS 00:03:00.515 --> 00:03:02.750 AS USUAL. 00:03:02.751 --> 00:03:07.154 AND THAT'S WHY THIS COURT 00:03:07.155 --> 00:03:08.222 DECISION IS ACTUALLY -- THE FACT 00:03:08.223 --> 00:03:11.926 THAT IT'S NECESSARY IS AN 00:03:11.927 --> 00:03:13.928 AFFRONT TO ANY KIND OF 00:03:13.929 --> 00:03:14.662 SELF-GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE 00:03:14.663 --> 00:03:17.264 AND FOR THE PEOPLE. 00:03:17.265 --> 00:03:21.402 >> Tucker: I REALLY LOVE THAT. 00:03:21.403 --> 00:03:23.170 IN THE ORWELLIAN TURN THEY KEEP 00:03:23.171 --> 00:03:24.805 WARNING US THAT THE ELECTION OF 00:03:24.806 --> 00:03:26.374 SOMEONE THEY DON'T LIKE IS A 00:03:26.375 --> 00:03:27.908 THREAT TO DEMOCRACY. 00:03:27.909 --> 00:03:28.976 DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS. 00:03:28.977 --> 00:03:30.611 BUT THE CONTROL OF THE FEDERAL 00:03:30.612 --> 00:03:32.13 GOVERNMENT BY PEOPLE WHO HAVE 00:03:32.14 --> 00:03:33.114 NEVER BEEN ELECTED, WHOSE NAMES 00:03:33.115 --> 00:03:35.816 YOU DON'T KNOW, THE PERMANENT 00:03:35.817 --> 00:03:36.217 BUREAUCRACY. 00:03:36.218 --> 00:03:36.717 THAT'S DEMOCRACY? 00:03:36.718 --> 00:03:37.451 LITERALLY THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT 00:03:37.452 --> 00:03:39.153 IS TRUE. 00:03:39.154 --> 00:03:41.622 >> AND WHAT IS DISTURBING TO ME 00:03:41.623 --> 00:03:42.790 IS YOU FIND THIS ATTITUDE IN 00:03:42.791 --> 00:03:45.660 BRUSSELS, FOR EXAMPLE WHERE 00:03:45.661 --> 00:03:47.228 THERE'S A BUNCH OF CIVIL 00:03:47.229 --> 00:03:48.763 SERVANTS THAT SERIOUSLY THINK 00:03:48.764 --> 00:03:52.500 THEY KNOW BETTER THAN THE PEOPLE 00:03:52.501 --> 00:03:54.101 OF 28 NATIONS. 00:03:54.102 --> 00:03:57.772 AND THE WHOLE POINT ABOUT THE 00:03:57.773 --> 00:03:59.740 U.S. SYSTEM IS THAT IT WAS 00:03:59.741 --> 00:04:03.811 CREATED TO PREVENT THIS KIND OF 00:04:03.812 --> 00:04:04.545 DIVIDE BETWEEN THE GOVERNED AND 00:04:04.546 --> 00:04:06.781 THE PEOPLE. 00:04:06.782 --> 00:04:08.482 AND THIS -- AND ACTUALLY I THINK 00:04:08.483 --> 00:04:09.950 THEY SHOULD HAVE GONE FURTHER, 00:04:09.951 --> 00:04:10.484 THE SUPREME COURT. 00:04:10.485 --> 00:04:12.787 THEY SHOULD HAVE IN A SENSE 00:04:12.788 --> 00:04:13.988 SKIPPED THE TEMPORARY STAY AND 00:04:13.989 --> 00:04:15.89 JUST DECLARED THAT THIS IS 00:04:15.90 --> 00:04:17.358 OBVIOUSLY WITHIN THE TERMS OF 00:04:17.359 --> 00:04:19.393 THE PRESIDENTS STATUTORY 00:04:19.394 --> 00:04:20.428 AUTHORITY AND THAT IF YOU OBJECT 00:04:20.429 --> 00:04:23.998 TO IT YOU MIGHT AS WELL DO WHAT 00:04:23.999 --> 00:04:24.765 DEMOCRATS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE 00:04:24.766 --> 00:04:27.635 SEEM TO WANT TO DO, AND THAT IS 00:04:27.636 --> 00:04:29.3 TO SIMPLY PASS A CONSTITUTIONAL 00:04:29.4 --> 00:04:30.805 AMENDMENT TO SAY THAT IN THE 00:04:30.806 --> 00:04:31.806 EVENT, GOD FORBID, , AND A 00:04:31.807 --> 00:04:34.75 REPUBLICAN SHOULD HAPPEN TO BE 00:04:34.76 --> 00:04:36.10 ELECTED PRESIDENT, THEN THE 00:04:36.11 --> 00:04:36.844 ENTIRE EXECUTIVE BRANCH WILL 00:04:36.845 --> 00:04:38.713 JUST BE PUT IN THE DEEP FREEZE 00:04:38.714 --> 00:04:39.513 FOR FOUR YEARS AND WILL CEASE TO 00:04:39.514 --> 00:04:42.49 DO ANYTHING FOR POTOMAC 00:04:42.50 --> 00:04:42.783 WHATSOEVER, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT 00:04:42.784 --> 00:04:43.551 THEY'VE BEEN TRYING TO DO SINCE 00:04:43.552 --> 00:04:45.887 LAST NOVEMBER.