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* The heated upcoming confirmation battles of President-elect Trump's Cabinet picks.
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* Scalia, a Trump Hero, Would Have Hated His Recess Appointments Plan - Adam Liptak, NYT.
Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative giant, said attempts to circumvent the Senate's responsibility to vet nominees were 'ignoble' and 'just made up.
* Mr. Trump strayed from Justice Scalia's understanding of the Constitution when he proposed using recess appointments to sidestep the Senate's constitutional role of vetting and approving his nominees.
* 'These new rules have no basis whatever in the Constitution,' he said. 'They are just made up.
* 'The court's decision transforms the recess-appointment power from a tool carefully designed to fill a narrow and specific need,' Justice Scalia said in his written opinion, 'into a weapon to be wielded by future presidents against future Senates.
Justice Scalia even anticipated circumstances in which a president's party has a Senate majority, as Republicans will for Mr. Trump. 'Its members,' the justice said from the bench, 'often are not motivated to resist encroachment by a president who is the leader of their own party.
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[00:01:05] Welcome to the broadcast.
[00:01:07] Sheriff Mack was with me last hour.
[00:01:09] We broke down the courts.
[00:01:10] So we broke down all kinds of tidbits regarding Donesta Souza, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden.
[00:01:19] Trump must reject Chad Chronister for sheriff or the DEA.
[00:01:24] Shame Pastor Brown backs the sheriff.
[00:01:27] I don't know what's going on with that.
[00:01:29] Now we spend our time defending ourselves, sadly, from the Trump administration.
[00:01:32] He's not even in office yet.
[00:01:34] I don't know what's going on with that.
[00:01:35] But the House subcommittee released his report on COVID.
[00:01:38] Basically says, hey, trust was broken.
[00:01:40] Trust can be regained.
[00:01:41] That's really helpful after two years, huh?
[00:01:43] All right.
[00:01:44] Anyway, as we take on this hour, we've got another incredible guest, Mark Tapscott.
[00:01:48] He's with the EpochTimes.com.
[00:01:51] He's an award-winning veteran investigative journalist.
[00:01:54] He's the senior congressional correspondent for, I guess, the northern kind of district over there
[00:01:59] at the Epoch Times.
[00:01:59] He covers Congress for Epoch Times and a whole lot more.
[00:02:04] He's also the founding editor of Hill Faith, which we'll get into in a bit as well.
[00:02:10] Mark, welcome to the broadcast, sir.
[00:02:13] Good morning.
[00:02:14] How are you?
[00:02:16] Doing absolutely fantastic.
[00:02:19] So you're an award-winning investigative journalist.
[00:02:21] You deal with Congress.
[00:02:23] This is very interesting as we're kind of in a lame duck session.
[00:02:26] What's your initial thoughts?
[00:02:28] Well, we're going to hear about probably whether or not the government is going to be shut down
[00:02:34] because the evil Republicans won't do what the Democrats want them to do, which is spend
[00:02:39] much, much more money.
[00:02:42] That's what we're going to be hearing, some variation on that for the next several weeks.
[00:02:47] My guess is at some point there will be an agreement in the back room, as there usually
[00:02:52] is, on some kind of an omnibus deal.
[00:02:56] They won't call it an omnibus deal, but that's effectively what it will be.
[00:03:01] And then we'll all go home for Christmas.
[00:03:05] Do you think that the Republicans can hold the line and just simply say, we're not going
[00:03:09] to do it, we'll take it up with the next Congress?
[00:03:10] Do you think they can hold them off or they will?
[00:03:13] Government will shut down if they do that, but not really all government.
[00:03:15] That's kind of a misnomer, too.
[00:03:17] Government kind of, parts of it shut down the parts that you and I interface with so that
[00:03:20] we can feel the pain.
[00:03:21] But the real government doesn't shut down, does it?
[00:03:25] Well, I tell you, there's so many myths about when the government allegedly shuts down, as
[00:03:32] you just suggested.
[00:03:33] And I know this both from having covered several government shutdowns as a journalist.
[00:03:39] And before I became a journalist, I was a Reagan appointee and worked in the government at the
[00:03:47] Office of Personnel Management, which manages the bureaucracy, civil service.
[00:03:53] And we had a shutdown that we went through.
[00:03:56] And when you see it from both the inside and the outside, and then from Congress, you can
[00:04:03] see the government basically keeps right on going.
[00:04:06] There are in every office in the government list of so-called essential employees and non-essential.
[00:04:14] And the non-essential people stay home, though they still get paid, ultimately.
[00:04:19] The essential people keep coming to the office, and the office keeps functioning.
[00:04:24] The Social Security checks keep going out, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
[00:04:28] But the Democrats have this strategy.
[00:04:30] It's popularly referred to here in D.C. as the Washington Monument strategy.
[00:04:36] You were just alluding to it.
[00:04:38] You actually shut down all of the things that people really want to see, such as the Washington
[00:04:45] Monument, the National Park System, those kinds of things, to create public inconvenience in the
[00:04:52] appearance of a crisis.
[00:04:55] But in fact, the government goes right on.
[00:05:00] I don't really know where to go with this, because I kind of believe that government shutting
[00:05:04] down is kind of a lie.
[00:05:06] What I would do personally if I were the Republicans is I would shut down government.
[00:05:10] And I would say, you know what?
[00:05:11] We've got Vivek Ramaswamy.
[00:05:12] We've got Elon Musk.
[00:05:14] We've got Rand Paul all being part of the Doge.
[00:05:17] They're going to go ahead and look at things.
[00:05:19] And what we'll do is we'll bring back government, one constitutional line item at a time.
[00:05:23] And what we'll do is we'll simply ask the question, is it constitutional?
[00:05:26] And if it is, boom, instantly it should be funded.
[00:05:29] Move along.
[00:05:29] If it's not, if it's not, then either we can shut it down if it's non-consequential or we
[00:05:35] don't want to crash the plane, Mark Tapscott, at all.
[00:05:37] So what we'll do is if it's not constitutional, we might reinstate it with limited budget.
[00:05:42] We might reinstate it with a sunset provision.
[00:05:44] We might reinstate it with a phase-out plan or whatever the case may be.
[00:05:49] I mean, isn't that the way we ought to simply go about it?
[00:05:51] Sam Bushman, you are a threat because that is so logical and so obviously what it should
[00:06:00] be, the procedure, but it won't be.
[00:06:03] And there are a lot of folks in this town that, you know, they just don't want to hear
[00:06:08] common sense, honesty like that.
[00:06:11] Do you believe the government will shut down, yes or no?
[00:06:13] Probably not?
[00:06:15] Yes, I do think it will shut down, but it won't be for very long at all.
[00:06:20] Okay, so they'll shut it down, they'll have a bunch of fanfare in the media, and then they'll
[00:06:24] go ahead and just pass the big omnibus and say, oh, golly, how do they do it?
[00:06:28] Yeah, the Republicans will cave like they usually do.
[00:06:32] Won't Mike Johnson hold the line?
[00:06:37] I suspect that he will seek to appear to be holding the line, and then there will be an
[00:06:43] agreement, and everybody will say, well, this is, you know, this is better than a shutdown,
[00:06:48] so let's come back in January and really fix things.
[00:06:54] We've all heard that before.
[00:06:56] Yes, we've heard that before, and that's kind of the part of the problem.
[00:06:59] To me, though, they always set up this crisis, though.
[00:07:02] We can't blame, you know, when we're in the situation, we're like, oh, my gosh, we've
[00:07:06] got to keep government open, we have no choice.
[00:07:07] But they set this up on purpose like this.
[00:07:09] Why are we dealing with this at Christmastime in the first place?
[00:07:12] Well, because Congress for most of the last 20 years has not done its most basic responsibility,
[00:07:21] has not completed its most basic responsibility, which is to authorize an annual budget and decide
[00:07:29] how much is going to be spent and what is it going to be spent on and who is going to be
[00:07:34] taxed at what degree in order to finance that spending.
[00:07:39] We've only had an actual full annual budget approved by Congress and signed into law by
[00:07:47] the president, I think, three times in the last 12 years or so.
[00:07:51] So they first started passing omnibus bills during the Obama administration.
[00:07:59] And lots of Democrats and more than a few Republicans said, you know, this is really a great way to
[00:08:07] do this because they can pack literally hundreds of spending measures worth hundreds of billions
[00:08:16] and even trillions of dollars into one big package that's three, four or five thousand pages long.
[00:08:25] Nobody's going to be able to read it in time to really understand what's in it.
[00:08:29] But we're going to make everybody vote on it.
[00:08:32] And so shouldn't everybody, since they don't have time to read it,
[00:08:36] shouldn't they just simply vote no and say we're rejecting this on its face because we don't know what it says?
[00:08:40] We're not going to agree to something we don't know.
[00:08:41] I mean, isn't that the first thing you're taught in real estate or any other big financial transaction?
[00:08:45] You better read the deeds or you're going to be in trouble.
[00:08:47] I mean, come on.
[00:08:49] There you go being logical and commonsensical again, Sam.
[00:08:54] That's what you would expect.
[00:08:55] All right.
[00:08:56] Do you think that in Elon Musk, if a Vake Ramaswami and a Rand Paul, all three working on this,
[00:09:02] plus I guess Green and the House is going to be helping with it as well, over at the Doge,
[00:09:06] can they really bring common sense to this thing or no?
[00:09:10] You know, I'm actually kind of optimistic about Doge.
[00:09:14] I'm actually working on a big story about it right now that hopefully will be published later this week.
[00:09:22] They need me to help with Doge since I'm so logical.
[00:09:25] You can mention they should grab me and I can kind of put some common sense to this sucker.
[00:09:29] I may not be a rocket scientist, but I'm redneck, stupid smart, right?
[00:09:32] Yeah.
[00:09:34] I'll be sure and tell them that, Sam.
[00:09:36] I'm just saying, there's so many Americans, though, that could bring truth to power on this thing.
[00:09:40] It's not even funny.
[00:09:42] Absolutely.
[00:09:42] It really is.
[00:09:43] It's sad.
[00:09:44] I've been here in this town since 1976.
[00:09:49] I grew up in Oklahoma and Texas, and that's where, you know, common sense is the accepted rule.
[00:09:57] And it's it's D.C. is its own place.
[00:10:01] But I'm optimistic about Doge.
[00:10:03] And the reason I am is precisely because.
[00:10:07] I think they have figured out that the Grace Commission, you may recall, during the the Reagan administration.
[00:10:18] Yes.
[00:10:20] Very similar basic concept.
[00:10:22] Let's bring in outsiders and let them, you know, fresh set eyes.
[00:10:28] Private sector experts is the term that I would use.
[00:10:31] Right.
[00:10:31] When we say outsiders, we're talking about private sector experts.
[00:10:34] When we get back, ladies and gentlemen, Mark Tapscott's going to continue.
[00:10:38] He is an award winning veteran investigative journalist.
[00:10:40] He's a senior congressional correspondent who covers Congress for the Epoch Times.
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[00:10:51] And we'll continue in a second with Mark Tapscott on your radio.
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[00:13:03] Award-winning investigative journalist covering Congress, Mark Tapscott, for the EpochTimes.com with me.
[00:13:11] Right before the break, Mr. Tapscott was explaining that before he was a journalist, he was kind of in the Reagan administration.
[00:13:18] And Reagan kind of had this same idea to bring outsiders in.
[00:13:23] Private sector business experts that could kind of take on the establishment and do something about it.
[00:13:28] Mark?
[00:13:30] And that's exactly what they did.
[00:13:33] The effort was President Reagan came up with.
[00:13:37] He recruited Peter Grace, the founder of W.R. Grace Company.
[00:13:42] And they put together a board of our commission of folks like that from the business world.
[00:13:49] And they came up with hundreds of recommendations that had all of them been implemented as proposed.
[00:13:58] I forget the exact total now, but it was, trust me, hundreds of billions of dollars that would have been saved.
[00:14:05] Many of those recommendations actually were adopted by Congress, which was, at the time, the Republicans had a small majority in the Senate,
[00:14:16] and the Democrats had a big majority in the House.
[00:14:18] So they really had to compromise in order to get anything done.
[00:14:23] But Reagan himself was very much involved.
[00:14:28] He kept track of where the recommendations were, which ones were adopted, which ones weren't.
[00:14:35] And he lobbied Congress a good bit.
[00:14:38] So they did achieve some stuff.
[00:14:40] But the bottom line was it was still an advisory effort.
[00:14:44] The reason I'm sort of carefully optimistic about those, they are clearly preparing to move through the regulatory network,
[00:14:56] which is based in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget.
[00:15:00] There is a particular office there called the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
[00:15:06] And that office has great authority to tell federal agencies you can do this or you can't do that.
[00:15:16] Russell Vaught, who is Trump's nominee to head the Office of Management and Budget,
[00:15:22] he was there in the last year of the first Trump administration.
[00:15:26] He knows how to manage the bureaucracy.
[00:15:29] He knows how to move things through in spite of the bureaucracy.
[00:15:34] And when you combine that kind of understanding of how to get things done in government with people like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy and the others,
[00:15:45] and they're bringing in a whole bunch of really sharp people, you will get a very, very radical basic,
[00:15:55] do we really need this, should the government be doing this, or should it be death left to the people to do?
[00:16:02] Well, you also bring in the House and Rand Paul and the Senate too.
[00:16:06] Rand Paul is kind of the author of the penny budget plan and everything else,
[00:16:09] saying we can reduce these things logically and with accountability and transparency,
[00:16:12] and we can first kind of adopt these as a physician, so he kind of adopts the let's first do no harm policy as well.
[00:16:18] And that's a recipe for some real direct, clear efforts, but not crazy, but yet bold, right?
[00:16:28] Not crazy, but bold, and not instantaneous.
[00:16:31] It will take time to implement all of this stuff, and it takes time for the good effects to all really become evident.
[00:16:39] But that's the way we do things in America.
[00:16:41] We don't jump out and just jump off the cliff.
[00:16:44] We think about it.
[00:16:45] We talk about it.
[00:16:46] We debate it.
[00:16:47] We find a way to move forward that everybody doesn't get everything they want, but we find a way to make America better.
[00:16:55] And I'm hoping and I'm basically cautiously optimistic that that's what we'll see with the doge.
[00:17:02] Our prayers are that it goes well.
[00:17:05] We know Elon Musk can cut deep and cut quickly.
[00:17:08] We know Vivek Ramaswamy is a pretty bold guy as well.
[00:17:11] We know the red tape and Congress is very slow at doing things, and we'll kind of see in the middle where we get.
[00:17:18] But before we get to all that, which our prayers are for success there, because we certainly need to reduce the size and scope and expenditures of government big time.
[00:17:28] But we've got the heated upcoming confirmation battles, if you will, of President Trump's picks before we can ever even get to any of these things, Mark.
[00:17:38] And it's going to be very scrappy, to say the least, right?
[00:17:42] You know, I have a suspicion that it's not going to be quite like – I don't think, for example, we're going to see a repeat of the endless dishonesty about Brett Kavanaugh during Trump's first term when he nominated Kavanaugh to be on the Supreme Court.
[00:18:04] All kinds of people came out of the woodwork with all kinds of accusations to all appearances.
[00:18:12] By the way, just a side note, those people should be prosecuted for the accusations that they couldn't prove.
[00:18:18] They eventually just did their damage and walked away with impunity.
[00:18:21] It's a disgrace.
[00:18:22] Yeah, unfortunately, that's not uncommon in Washington.
[00:18:27] I don't think we're going to see quite that.
[00:18:30] The Hex's nomination, I think he's going to get some grief about some stuff.
[00:18:35] But I have a suspicion that it will be a party-line vote, and he will be confirmed probably 51-49.
[00:18:43] There will be a couple of Republicans, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, who may well not support him.
[00:18:52] John Curtis from Utah, not certain about him, but we'll see.
[00:18:57] But I do think Hex will make it.
[00:18:59] I think the rest of them – one of the nominations that probably should get a great deal of controversy, where I'm kind of surprised, I think Trump stumbled a bit,
[00:19:09] is the woman that he has nominated, whose name suddenly escapes my alleged memory.
[00:19:16] She's a congresswoman to be Secretary of Labor.
[00:19:21] She is opposed to the right-to-work law.
[00:19:25] The folks at the National Right-to-Work Committee are really, really upset and concerned about that.
[00:19:31] And I have a feeling that that one could jump up and bite Trump.
[00:19:37] So, otherwise, I think –
[00:19:38] Yeah, Laurie Chavez is her name, right?
[00:19:40] Yes, there you go.
[00:19:41] Yeah.
[00:19:42] Yes.
[00:19:43] I think that one might just become much more controversial than people think.
[00:19:49] But otherwise, I think Trump is – he's clearly learned a number of lessons from this first term.
[00:19:55] He obviously, once the election was over, boy, he was – he hit the ground running.
[00:20:02] And that's encouraging – should be encouraging to everybody.
[00:20:06] You know, finally, there really is an adult that's going to be in charge.
[00:20:11] Yes, I'm concerned about Trump's pick for the Treasury Department.
[00:20:15] I don't think he'll run into a big sawmill from Congress necessarily.
[00:20:19] No.
[00:20:20] But we're talking about this billionaire Scott Descent, or whatever his name is, or Bascent, I think is how you say it.
[00:20:26] This guy's a George Soros money manager that's literally taking down country's currencies and such.
[00:20:31] I mean, this guy's not a good guy.
[00:20:34] Well, I have to confess, before he was nominated, I'd never heard of the guy before.
[00:20:40] And you are right.
[00:20:41] He does have some links to the Soros network that – if you know anything about the Soros network, that's got to concern you.
[00:20:51] You know, I'm not sure what –
[00:20:55] He's a hedge fund billionaire tied to Soros directly.
[00:20:59] His history is he's taking down other countries' currencies.
[00:21:04] We'll see.
[00:21:05] You've got to have some confidence in Trump.
[00:21:08] I mean, the guy has expressed support for Trump's policies.
[00:21:11] But you have to wonder what kind of advice he gives Trump in private.
[00:21:17] All right.
[00:21:17] So you think Kash Patel will sail through, though, huh?
[00:21:20] I think he will.
[00:21:21] I think Kash Patel is – I think he's going to be –
[00:21:25] They like to gripe about it, but he's got the credentials and he's been there before.
[00:21:29] And so it's going to be pretty hard to challenge his security clearances or anything else like that.
[00:21:34] I mean, they might complain about him, but they don't really have any standing, do they?
[00:21:37] Well, the thing you've got to worry about if you're a member of Congress or another part of the government is you don't know what Kash Patel knows about you.
[00:21:48] And don't forget, Kash Patel is the guy – he was working on congressional staff, the House Intelligence Committee,
[00:21:55] who forced the admission by the FBI that they knew the Russia, Russia, Russia stuff had been paid for originally by Hillary Clinton.
[00:22:07] So I think people will complain and they'll bark and yell about it, but in the final analysis, he will go through.
[00:22:15] And the idea that Hillary Clinton still runs around free after paying for that false deal,
[00:22:20] the FBI literally creating criminal activity knowing full well it was false but peddling it as if it was true,
[00:22:26] using 51 government agencies to try to pretend and document that it was accurate.
[00:22:29] I mean, that stuff's criminal election fraud, in my opinion,
[00:22:32] because it directly, completely changes the landscape of what the American people believe and think going into an election, right?
[00:22:39] Well, you mentioned the 51 intelligence, quote-unquote, experts.
[00:22:45] Who said the Hunter Biden laptop had all the earmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign,
[00:22:52] when in fact they knew the exact opposite was the case.
[00:22:58] Yeah, I think those guys have some – they have some real answers that they ought to have to give.
[00:23:07] Do you think that Kash and some of these people can really get to the bottom of that
[00:23:11] and will have some accountability and transparency?
[00:23:13] Will criminals that are above the law go to jail?
[00:23:16] I think so.
[00:23:17] Other than if you are here in Washington with me, you hear this unusual whirring in the background,
[00:23:24] and I think that might be paper shredders in government offices all over town that are at work.
[00:23:33] So we'll have to see.
[00:23:34] That's a joke, Sam.
[00:23:36] I don't know if it's a joke.
[00:23:37] I know you meant it to be, but I kind of think it's probably true.
[00:23:40] Yeah, that's what you worry about.
[00:23:44] Anyway, I get your point, and it's certainly something we've got to be aware of.
[00:23:48] So we think for the most part, then, a lot of the – do you think they'll put RFKJR in place
[00:23:53] and that kind of stuff too without a problem?
[00:23:55] Yeah, I do.
[00:23:57] All right.
[00:23:58] We'll come back, talk more about some of the appointee battles.
[00:24:01] I also want to talk to Mark Tapscott a little bit about – he's the founding – let me just say it this way.
[00:24:10] He's the founder, founding editor of Hill Faith.
[00:24:15] And Hill Faith is the website of a Christian ministry devoted to presenting the gospel of Christ
[00:24:23] to congressional aides and staffers and such like that.
[00:24:27] That's very interesting.
[00:24:28] Boy, howdy.
[00:24:29] If we want to restore the republic, what we need is a focus on Jesus Christ.
[00:24:32] We'll get to that too with Mr. Tapscott.
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[00:28:07] That I would have a huge slumber party with all the girls there.
[00:28:12] Play with me more often.
[00:28:14] My mom's so busy with the board meeting.
[00:28:17] To spend more time together as a family.
[00:28:19] Do more out-of-the-house activities.
[00:28:21] This is a tough one.
[00:28:23] My parents, they do everything they love me.
[00:28:25] If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't have a roof over my head.
[00:28:28] They don't need to show it to me.
[00:28:29] They just know they love me.
[00:28:30] Well, not yelling at me very much.
[00:28:34] What do you...
[00:28:38] Raise my allowance.
[00:28:40] To not argue together.
[00:28:42] Have my dad be home more for dinner and stuff so that I could be even closer.
[00:28:46] Family, isn't it about time?
[00:28:49] Buy me an ice cream and kiss me to love me.
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[00:30:23] All right, back with you live, ladies and gentlemen.
[00:30:26] Riding shotgun on the broadcast today, Mr. Mark Tapscott.
[00:30:29] He's an award-winning investigative journalist, a senior congressional correspondent for the Epoch Times.
[00:30:37] And we're talking about the heated upcoming battles for Donald Trump regarding the cabinet picks, etc.
[00:30:44] And Mr. Tapscott is basically saying, you know what?
[00:30:49] It might go pretty smoothly for the most part.
[00:30:52] And I pray that that's true.
[00:30:54] They might be resigned to the idea that, hey, Trump's taking over.
[00:30:58] Let's just kind of let happen what happens.
[00:31:00] We've got to somehow, you know, regroup and get some political capital back.
[00:31:04] The Democrats took a beating.
[00:31:05] At the same time, you kind of wonder, is this the quiet before the storm?
[00:31:09] You kind of wonder, last time they were literally crying and melting down and all this kind of stuff.
[00:31:15] Now it seems like they're just kind of like silently resigned or beaten into submission.
[00:31:20] But I don't know that it's that easy.
[00:31:22] Is this quiet before the storm alarming in any way to you, Mark?
[00:31:27] Well, I'll tell you, Sam, you always have to worry about that.
[00:31:31] I mean, you always have to think, you know, what are all the possibilities?
[00:31:35] There's one huge difference.
[00:31:38] Actually, there's a bunch of them.
[00:31:40] But there's one in particular that I think is especially significant between 2024 going into the Trump administration and 2016 going into the first Trump administration.
[00:31:53] The mainstream media's credibility in 2016 was significantly stronger than it is today.
[00:32:03] And there are so many things that have happened in the time since 2016 that have exposed the lack of credibility of the mainstream media for the most part.
[00:32:20] It's even gotten to the point that, you know, the Los Angeles Times owner is basically cleaning house.
[00:32:30] The guy who owns the Washington Post here in D.C., Jeff Bezos, he told the staff, you know, we don't have the readership we used to have.
[00:32:44] We don't have the credibility that we used to have.
[00:32:46] And reality is an undefeated champion, which is another way of saying you guys got to get out of this and somehow figure out how to regain trust.
[00:32:59] People don't believe what they hear and read and see in the mainstream media for the most part.
[00:33:07] And the Democrats know this.
[00:33:09] They, you know, I mean, we all see this incredible discussion that they're trying to have about how in the world did we get so blown out in November.
[00:33:24] And, you know, I mean, they had the media.
[00:33:28] They took it for granted, just like they did so many of their other allies.
[00:33:34] And it didn't work for them.
[00:33:37] I think they thought we wouldn't be able to break through.
[00:33:40] But the new media is indeed taking center stage.
[00:33:42] And they've been absolutely outflanked and they've been discredited.
[00:33:46] And now they're trying to figure out what they're going to do about that.
[00:33:49] And I'm afraid the quiet before the storm could be a big concern.
[00:33:52] Once somebody comes up with a plan, they will embrace it with a fervor.
[00:33:56] What that will be, time will only tell.
[00:33:58] Meanwhile, though, I think what we need to do in our camp is turn to God Almighty.
[00:34:02] OK, it's one thing to say, hey, Vivek and team are going to take it on.
[00:34:05] It's great.
[00:34:06] I mean, I appreciate good, honest people working hard and doing good things.
[00:34:09] But without God, said our founding fathers, we're nothing.
[00:34:13] And so Mr. Tapscott, ladies and gentlemen, is also the founding editor of Hill Faith.
[00:34:18] This is a website and an organization, a ministry that really brings God to Capitol Hill.
[00:34:24] You guys are doing tremendous work there.
[00:34:26] And of all the things that I can think that could make a difference for America, this is it, my friend.
[00:34:31] Well, the Lord called me to start Hill Faith as a ministry that is focused specifically and only on sharing the saving gospel of Jesus Christ with the 12,000 or so congressional aides who work for senators and representatives and congressional committees.
[00:34:57] I tell you, they are predominantly from secular backgrounds, very anti-religion, quote unquote, anti-Christian.
[00:35:07] You know, they all mostly went to the so-called great schools like Harvard and Yale, where they were told that the Bible is just a bunch of fables.
[00:35:18] And yet they come here, they have tremendous influence.
[00:35:23] You hardly ever see congressional aides because they're, you know, they're always in the background.
[00:35:29] They're supposed to make their bosses look good.
[00:35:31] They're not supposed to be seen.
[00:35:33] But they do so much of the daily work, and they have such a tremendous impact on the laws that all of us have to follow.
[00:35:42] And the Lord, I'll be very honest, he just opened my eyes to the fact that, Mark, you know, these kids that you see and their average age is about 27 are like you were when you were 27 and first came to Washington and was a congressional aide.
[00:36:05] And they need to hear about Jesus just like I did way back then.
[00:36:12] Amen to that.
[00:36:14] And I'd be honest with you, Sam, my great passion in life is Hill Faith.
[00:36:21] You know, there's nothing that I love to do more than to talk about the Lord and what he has done to change my life and what he can do to change anybody else's life if they just come to me.
[00:36:35] And my job is to help them do that.
[00:36:38] All right.
[00:36:39] Is the website just hillfaith.com?
[00:36:42] Hillfaith.org.
[00:36:43] O-R-G.
[00:36:44] Okay.
[00:36:45] I want to make sure people know that.
[00:36:46] Hillfaith.org because really this is something sharing the good news of Jesus Christ with congressional aides.
[00:36:56] I mean, that to me is huge.
[00:36:59] Are you seeing an impact?
[00:37:00] Are they willing to listen and at least consider what you have to say, sir?
[00:37:04] Well, I'll tell you.
[00:37:05] It's as I said, it's it's very much you might not expect this in Washington, D.C.
[00:37:12] But the reality is that it is a hostile mission field.
[00:37:17] The missionaries would call it.
[00:37:19] Oh, yes, sir.
[00:37:19] I think probably two-thirds of them come from the kind of a secular hostile background that I just described.
[00:37:26] Another third of them, you know, they basically come from the south and the west, and they come from areas of the country that still have a powerful Christian influence in them.
[00:37:37] So there's a bunch of them here, but they tend to be very reluctant to share their faith with colleagues for a variety of reasons.
[00:37:46] And that's one of the things that the Lord opened my eyes to, that, you know, one of the things that I can do is to show them, I mean, the evidence, historical, archaeological, philosophical, mathematical, scientific, you name it, for the literal resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after he was crucified is overwhelming.
[00:38:15] And if he really was resurrected, like he said he would be, then that proves that everything he said about himself, including the fact that no man comes to the Father but through me, is true.
[00:38:30] And when Christians know and have the confidence that comes from that, then they can do what Peter tells us in 1 Peter 3.15, that we're all supposed to be with a ready defense of what we believe.
[00:38:47] And lots of people, when they hear that, you know, they have to think about it because it is so powerful.
[00:38:55] And that's what I love to do.
[00:39:00] Well, I think that's huge.
[00:39:02] I think it's something that needs to happen.
[00:39:04] I really think, you know what, if we try to come back and say, America, let's make it great again.
[00:39:10] And we don't, and we do it thinking we can do it ourselves without Christ.
[00:39:13] Folks, we're sadly mistaken.
[00:39:15] Yeah.
[00:39:16] We are sadly mistaken.
[00:39:17] And so I appreciate all the efforts that people make, but I also know that we've got to turn to Almighty and say we cannot trust in our own, you know, flesh.
[00:39:27] We've got to turn to thee.
[00:39:28] Without thee, we just can't get it done.
[00:39:30] But if we can be humble and trust in thee, man, we can accomplish a lot, sir.
[00:39:34] Amen.
[00:39:35] Amen.
[00:39:36] One of the things that you'll see on hillfaith.org every Tuesday is a post called Faith of the Founders.
[00:39:43] Most of the founders of this country were very devoted, very knowledgeable and intelligent followers of Jesus Christ.
[00:39:52] And one of the things that Hill Faith does is we show people here's what they said then, and it's just as true as it is.
[00:40:01] It's just as true today as it was when they first said it.
[00:40:07] Well, I love it.
[00:40:08] I appreciate the work you're doing, and I think we just need more of it everywhere.
[00:40:13] And I really think we need to focus on this and highlight this where people understand, look, you've got to have faith-based people in the mix.
[00:40:22] And right now, I don't think that we have it.
[00:40:24] Look, if you take the 12,000 people that you mentioned and divide it by 535 congressmen and senators, you get like 22 staffers per person.
[00:40:34] Yep.
[00:40:34] Wow.
[00:40:35] That's a beefy.
[00:40:36] They don't need that.
[00:40:37] I think we've got to basically restrict Congress to only be at work like three months of the year and chop their salaries big time.
[00:40:43] They don't need those massive staffs.
[00:40:45] Mark.
[00:40:45] Wow.
[00:40:46] Tab Scott, thank you so much, sir.
[00:40:49] Let's do it again sometime, Sam.
[00:40:51] You got it.
[00:40:52] Faithhill.org, epochtimes.com.
[00:40:55] Check it out.
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[00:43:03] Hillfaith.org, ladies and gentlemen.
[00:43:07] Ministries is a partner for Capitol Hill, sharing the good news of Jesus Christ with Capitol AIDS.
[00:43:14] You know what?
[00:43:15] That's really important, folks.
[00:43:17] The faith of the founders, George Washington,
[00:43:21] tells his men to seek heaven's blessings to be free.
[00:43:31] You got to love that, right?
[00:43:33] That's what we're talking about, and that's what we've got to have on Capitol Hill.
[00:43:36] I appreciate that Donald Trump is going to go in there with a wrecking ball.
[00:43:40] I appreciate the Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk and Rand Paul
[00:43:44] and all these people are going to throw down and get her done.
[00:43:47] You know, I hope they do.
[00:43:48] Don't misunderstand me, and I pray for them, and I really hope they do.
[00:43:51] I have my serious doubts, though, because of the moves Donald Trump is making.
[00:43:55] He's putting a lot of wrong, bad people that have a lot of money and a lot of backing.
[00:44:01] You know, when you put this clown, Ms. Chavez, in charge,
[00:44:04] and you know that she's promoting unions, forced unionism in America, it's going to be tough.
[00:44:10] When you put this sheriff, this clown sheriff from Florida,
[00:44:18] what's this guy, Chad, whatever his name is or whatever,
[00:44:21] I don't know how to say his last name.
[00:44:22] But anyway, this guy's literally got ties to drug cartels.
[00:44:26] So goes allegations.
[00:44:28] Now, I don't know.
[00:44:29] I don't have all the facts on him, but I know this.
[00:44:31] He's not a good sheriff.
[00:44:32] He literally betrayed his friend to pastor, threw him in jail wrongfully,
[00:44:37] crowed about it to the media.
[00:44:39] All charges were dropped.
[00:44:40] No apology or nothing.
[00:44:42] Okay, this guy's a bad guy.
[00:44:44] And when Trump puts that kind of people in place, and then when he puts, you know,
[00:44:48] this guy, Ascent or Besant or whatever it is, in charge of the Treasury Department,
[00:44:55] and this guy's literally a money manager for George Soros, of all people,
[00:45:03] I just kind of go, what?
[00:45:04] And then you put the Marco Rubio's in place, and you put the, I just don't have a lot of confidence.
[00:45:10] Even if Trump's true in his intentions, he's being absolutely, as far as I can tell,
[00:45:18] schnookered by the deep state.
[00:45:22] Either that or he's part of the deep state.
[00:45:24] Now, I know a lot of people will be like, let's give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt.
[00:45:27] I would, except for I look at Lascaux round, and it was disaster.
[00:45:32] Did Trump do some okay things?
[00:45:34] Yeah.
[00:45:36] Did he do some great things?
[00:45:38] No.
[00:45:40] Did he decrease spending?
[00:45:42] No, he spent us into oblivion.
[00:45:45] Did he defund or, you know, shut down or decrease the size and scope of government?
[00:45:50] No, not at all.
[00:45:52] Right?
[00:45:53] So you look at this and you just go, man, I don't know what to think about this stuff.
[00:45:56] I hate to be so negative.
[00:45:58] I'm not trying to attack anybody.
[00:46:03] In no way am I trying to undermine anything that they're doing.
[00:46:10] But I just don't have a lot of hope.
[00:46:15] All right?
[00:46:16] Let me give you an example.
[00:46:18] Headline says this.
[00:46:20] Scalia, that's Anthony Scalia, former Supreme Court justice, is a Trump hero.
[00:46:30] But he would have hated his recess appointment idea.
[00:46:39] Adam Liptak with the article, NewYorkTimes.com.
[00:46:43] Now, you say, Sam, why would you quote for the New York Times?
[00:46:45] Because they bring up an interesting idea.
[00:46:47] That's why.
[00:46:48] I keep an eye on the enemy news.
[00:46:50] And oftentimes they bring up things that absolutely have merit.
[00:46:54] See, that's why I'm not Republican or Democrat or right or left or any of those things.
[00:46:57] I call it as I see it every time.
[00:47:00] And right now, Scalia, a Trump hero, would have hated the recess appointment plan Donald's talking about.
[00:47:07] Justice Anthony Scalia, a conservative giant, said attempts to circumvent the Senate's responsibility to vet nominees and provide advice and consent were, what's it called, ignoble?
[00:47:28] And just made up.
[00:47:30] That's right.
[00:47:31] That's what he said.
[00:47:33] Mr. Trump's, he strayed from Scalia's view and his understanding of the Constitution when he proposed using recess appointments to sidestep Congress or the Senate's constitutional role of dealing with these nominees.
[00:47:58] Okay, that's the problem.
[00:47:59] The idea would have alarmed Justice Scalia.
[00:48:04] If you don't believe me, 10 years ago, Justice Scalia anticipated this happening.
[00:48:11] Okay?
[00:48:13] And he gave a 15-minute statement that he delivered from the bench after a five-justice majority got it wrong and ruled that many recess appointments made during, quote, congressional sessions were proper.
[00:48:31] However, that was scant reason to bypass the Senate, said Scalia.
[00:48:38] These rules have no basis whatsoever in the Constitution.
[00:48:42] He said they're just made up.
[00:48:46] Wow.
[00:48:46] Now, the Constitution's recess appointments clause says the president shall have power to fill all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate.
[00:49:07] But that sentence contains two important limitations, Scalia explains.
[00:49:14] Okay, what are they?
[00:49:17] The reference to the recess means that recess appointments can be made only during breaks between Congress and their formal annual sessions, not during shorter breaks within a given session.
[00:49:34] Do you understand?
[00:49:35] That's the first one.
[00:49:36] You cannot pretend it's a recess when they're, like, out for Christmas or they're whatever.
[00:49:42] It meant between the sessions.
[00:49:43] That's the first kind of liberal change they're manipulating this to be.
[00:49:48] Even then, vacancies that may happen during the recess means that the clause applies only to vacancies that arose during those breaks.
[00:50:00] That understanding of the Constitution would thwart Mr. Trump's plan.
[00:50:09] The majority's view in the 2014 case that we referred to would seem to allow it, though.
[00:50:17] The court's decision transforms the recess appointment power from a tool carefully designed by our founders to fulfill a narrow and specific need, Justice Scalia said in his written opinion, into a, quote, weapon to be wielded by future presidents.
[00:50:38] And future presidents will be shanghaied by this effort.
[00:50:45] Yeah.
[00:50:47] Okay?
[00:50:48] The problem is that leaders of the Senate aren't likely to stand against the president making appointments from their own party, so nobody will challenge it.
[00:50:56] But this is a serious problem, in my opinion.
[00:50:59] We have taken, and this is the problem with the Constitution.
[00:51:01] Everybody's like, oh, the Constitution doesn't work.
[00:51:03] It's melting down.
[00:51:04] No, no, no.
[00:51:05] We're violating the Constitution to the point where we're melting down because we don't obey the intent of the founders.
[00:51:10] Take this recess example.
[00:51:11] It was designed to, between congressional sessions year to year or something like that, if there was a legitimate recess and something happened during that recess that would require an appointment, the president was given this limited authority to take care of business and make sure that somebody was in place to carry forward the proper role of limited government and to make sure that the administration was fully staffed and all this kind of stuff.
[00:51:33] It was not designed to be exploited, and if Congress leaves on a Friday because it's whatever, or they leave on Wednesday for Thanksgiving and they come back on Monday, that that's a recess.
[00:51:44] And boy, how did he just appoint a gazillion people during the recess and call it good?
[00:51:48] That's not the intent of the founding fathers at all.
[00:51:52] And Scalia would have hated the plan that Trump has.
[00:51:55] Okay?
[00:51:56] He's a conservative giant, and he says,
[00:51:57] His attempts to circumvent the Senate's responsibility to vet nominees were made up, ignoble, bogus.
[00:52:08] Mr. Trump's straying from Scalia's understanding of the Constitution when he proposes using reset appointments to sidestep Congress.
[00:52:19] These new rules have no basis in the Constitution.
[00:52:22] They're just made up.
[00:52:24] Right?
[00:52:25] Right?
[00:52:26] That's what the problem is.
[00:52:28] So, I don't know where to go, but this is why I'm not trying to criticize President Trump.
[00:52:33] What I'm really trying to do is provide guidance for President Trump so he knows what not to do.
[00:52:38] He should scrap that plan immediately.
[00:52:41] Okay?
[00:52:41] The court's decision transforms the recess appointment
[00:52:47] that was a power that was carefully, narrowly crafted to fill a specific need into a weapon to be used by future presidents against future senates.
[00:53:04] Yeah.
[00:53:05] I don't even know how to respond to this, except for this is really critical stuff that I'm talking about here.
[00:53:11] Who else is highlighting this for you besides me, can I ask?
[00:53:14] Is there anybody else that's really willing to lay this out?
[00:53:18] Or is it that since everybody loves Donald Trump so much,
[00:53:21] well, the people that hate him just hate him, and the people that love him just love him,
[00:53:24] but nobody's willing to go to this level of scrutiny or discussion?
[00:53:27] See, I love President Trump.
[00:53:29] I pray for him every day, and I pray that he's successful in his quest to make America great again.
[00:53:35] But I would give a caution.
[00:53:36] We better turn to God.
[00:53:38] We better be very careful who we put in these appointments,
[00:53:40] and we better be very careful that we do not exploit the checks and balances for political expediency reasons.
[00:53:46] It will backfire on us like no other.
[00:53:50] The Constitution was designed for such crisis situations.
[00:53:54] Let's not think we need to get out of a crisis.
[00:53:57] Before we can apply the Constitution, because that, my fellow Americans, is a colossal mistake.
[00:54:04] I'll tell you that right now.
[00:54:06] A colossal mistake, to say the least.
[00:54:09] And we better be very, very, very careful that we don't fall for this.
[00:54:14] Okay?
[00:54:15] It's something that's very, very critical, and I don't even know who realizes this to the degree that I'm speaking of,
[00:54:21] but this is vital.
[00:54:22] So my goal is to support Trump, and I'm hoping he listens to me.
[00:54:25] I hope I'm a, well, an un, well, let's just say this.
[00:54:29] I hope I'm an advisor.
[00:54:31] I don't need credit for it.
[00:54:32] That isn't what it's about.
[00:54:33] What I do need is the supreme law of the land to be the supreme law,
[00:54:38] and for us to adhere to that guideline that will protect us all and maximize freedom.
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[00:54:45] Let God save the republic.