Mark opens his Saturday, Nov 8 show with a discussion of tariffs and the lack of serious commentary from the SCOTUS justices during their recent Q&A session. In this discussion Mark makes an important point when comparing the effect of regulations on domestic pricing to that caused by tariffs.
Chief Justice Roberts raised the claim that tariffs have the effect of a tax as it causes pricing to increase and must therefore be reserved for the Congress, but by doing so he ignores the effects of executive regulations which don’t even involve the president, but are the result of low level bureaucrats which aren’t even elected to their positions. Mark also challenges the claim made by Justice Amy Comy Barret who seemed to focus her comments on the lack of precedent to support what Trump is doing with the tariffs, but as Mark correctly notes, there is no precedent preventing him from doing so either, indicating the need for a precedent to be set. Mark also pointed out that AOC purposefully addressed the part of the statute under consideration while ignoring the part of the statute which might challenge her interpretation of what was its intended meaning. Ultimately, both the executive and the legislative branches have an input into what the president’s powers might involve, and Congress has in no way attempted to prevent Pres. Trump from acting without their input, calling into question why the judiciary is involved at all at this point. The move to grant standing to other than the Congress and the President is a very bad move, and it will lead to every tariff decision being brought before the courts while usurping the president’s Article II powers. Consequently, Mark calls on SCOTUS to dismiss the case.
In the second segment, Mark talks with Rep. Elise Stefanik who is running for governor of NY. Stefanik argues that the governor should present a block on Mamdani’s radical agenda and that the current governor has failed to even try to due so as she endorsed Mamdani for mayor. Stefanik raises her record of supporting the largest tax break in history in the House to support her claim of being able to return affordability to NY. Noting that she runs a big tent campaign, Stefanik invites support across the political spectrum to support her retaking control of NY and fight the socialist agenda being pushed by NYC mayor Mamdani.
In the third segment, Mark talks with Gene Hamilton, America First Legal co-founder, about James Comey. He describes him as the classic deep stater who sees himself as being above the law, and he provides many examples in which Comey violated law as which he feels don’t apply to him. Hamilton explains that rather than the prosecution of Comey being a point of persecution, it is a factually based prosecution brought over Comey’s having provided the Senate with misleading information.
Mark opens his Sunday, Nov 9 show with an important defense of America’s founding principles while warning of ideological threats from extremes of both ends of the political spectrum. Beginning with the framing the current struggle in America as one for its very survival, Mark describes the “Marxist–Islamist left” as aligned with anti-American and anti-Semitic forces funded by billionaires and foreign interests, even including Hamas. Together with a “fetishistic neo-Nazi right,” these forces seek to destroy the moral and philosophical foundations on which the United States was founded. Mark argues that that America’s uniqueness extends from its being founded upon the fusion of Judeo-Christian ethics with Enlightenment rationalism—an idea embodied in the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. These documents, he says, enshrine eternal truths, individual rights from God, and the principle of self-governance. Contrasting with that heritage, the retrograde movements on the Right and Left are seeking to replace the principles of America with radical ideologies, cultural subversion, and the erosion of civic unity. Mark calls on citizens to reject those who distort conservatism or align with tyrannical ideologies, urging Americans to defend their traditions intellectually and morally. As the nation approaches its 250th anniversary, he insists this generation must wage a new, internal struggle, which is both nonviolent (always nonviolent) but vital to preserving the liberty, faith, and constitutional government against internal onslaught of these enemies within.
In his second segment Mark talks with Sen. Ted Cruz about the rise of antismetism in America and more specifically on the Right. As Sen. Cruz states, antisemitism is not a concervative value, but he also explains that many elected conservatives are terrified to say anything against the Anti-Maga pundits. Mark makes the important point that rather than just engaging with the likes of Tucker Carlson, the Anti-Maga pundits must be stripped of any legitimacy aligning them with the America First movement.
In the third segment, Mark talks with Florida Gov. Desantis about the agenda supported by the anti-Maga, Tucker Carlson crowd, and Desantis states that that is a dead end for conservativism, and he argues that people should be proud that Trump took out the Iranian nuclear facilities, because it was in America’s best interest.
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