For hundreds of gold star families. He speaks to the catalyst behind it all, actor gary sinise. Stay tuned for that incredibly moving report. Its going to bring tears to your eyes. It did when i first thought. First, black robe resistance. Thats the focus of tonights angle. If you are like most americans, you grew up with a special sense of reverence for judges. Watching films or reading books, regular folks have seen countless portrayals of judges as consummate professionals who set their own personal opinions aside and objectively weigh the merits of each case. Since there has been no previous violation of the statute, theres no precedent to guide the bench passing sentence. The witness will address this court as judge or your honor. Im quite certain. Since the United States government declares this man to be santa claus, this court will not dispute it. Case dismissed. Laura i get goose bumps every time. Of course then theres the real world for certain judges act more like political pundits than impartial arbiters. Case in point, yesterday sentencing hearing a former Top National Security advisor michael flynn. Judge emmet sullivan, most recently a clinton appointee, moved his moment in the spotlight to castigate flynn with incendiary charges that werent even brought by the special counsel. At one point, he told the decorated Lieutenant General arguably you sold your country out. Then he cited signs failure to register as a Foreign Agent and the judge actually use the word treason but with clever phrasing. He told the court i wasnt suggesting that he was committing treason. I was just curious if he could have been charged. Lots of conspiracy theories out there. Since when do judges start invoking conspiracy theories as grounds for imposing additional jail time or any jail time for defendant . The special counsel actually recommended no jail time. Nevertheless, judge sullivan warned flynn that even if he cooperated further with the special counsel, he could still serve time. This has to be one of the most dramatic hearings that ive ever witnessed, and ive been here in washington nearly 20 years. Laura it only got worse, by the way. Naturally, liberal pundits were quick to cheer their honorable comrade in arms activism. I will tell you this for today a judge in washington, d. C. , stood up for our country. He spanked everybody in washington. Whatever temperament the judge would like to exhibit in the court. None of them understood the basic moral outrage judge sullivan is going to bring the proceedings. I think today was a really good day for the Justice System and that this charge really did his job. Laura totally. Sure, they love the theatrics because hes part of the resistance. Today he might have earned himself a full time cnn contributed his contact given the latest ruling. A prechristmas permanent injunction, judge sullivan and believe it or not, i read all 107 tedious pages this afternoon. Ruled that trumps tightening guideline for granting asylum is illegal. Remember back when in june when Jeff Sessions announced these new asylum rules . Asylum is available for those who leave their home country because of persecution or fear on account of race, religion, nationality or membership in a particular social group or political opinion. Asylum was never meant to alleviate all problems, even all serious problems, that people face every day all over the world. Laura common sense interpretation, no . The move was needed because asylumseekers were abusing the system, aided by a lot of leftist ngos. Migrants began parroting lines about Gang Violence and Domestic Violence to establish this expanded credible fear category because they didnt want to return to their homelands. Judge sullivans opinion today, its back to business as usual. Trump the way it used to be. The judge not only by the way demands the administration reversed to the old rules of asylum entry but further he instructed that the government returned to the United States the plaintiffs were unlawfully deported and to provide them with new credible fear determinations consistent with the Immigration Laws. Would you like a mint on your pillow too . In other words, all those deported have to be brought back for new asylum hearings. Now, i guess they can stay at sullivans house as they await trial. Who knows. But from haves activist judicial high horse, sullivan apparently isnt bothered by the growing backlog of 800,000 now Immigration Court cases. 30 of those involved asylum requests. Thats more than triple the number from 2009. We have been talking about the scourge of unelected judges substantively their own policy preferences for those of the American Peoples representatives since this joe started back in october of last year. The president ultimately won on his travel ban at the Supreme Court but for every issue from transgender people serving the military to Climate Change to the 2020 senses to the keystone pipeline, these activist judges have waged an assault on trumps agenda and they have exceeded their Constitutional Authority in almost every instance. We are reminded of how important it is that trump gets his judicial nominees confirmed as quickly as possible. Mitch mcconnell has done a pretty good job, but we need this done faster, more expeditiously. Like yesterday, and if this means staying in session for an extra few days he every month or it may be even into the christmas holiday, guess what, the country depends on it. The constitution depends on it. Shame on congress for not doing its job in the first place and passing urgently needed asylum reform at any point in the last two years. They have the house. And the senate. They should have addressed this issue. They should have done a lot on immigration, including funding for the wall. They didnt. Shame on them. Shame on these judicial activists. Thats the angle. All right, joining me now with the reaction is digenova, former u. S. Attorney and ohio cumbersome and jim jordan and al motor, attorney and democratic strategist. Joe, what we do about these activist judges question what they are fighting trump tooth and nail. Lets talk about judge emmet sullivan. This was a 107 opinion. I practice a little Immigration Law back in the day my old law firm so i know it fairly well. We have a rule. If it takes 107 pages to explain, its probably wrong. Its pretty clear that the judge substituted his legislative and political judgment for that of the president of the United States. But what the president did here was a perfectly reasonable rewrite of obamas asylum rules they are subject to a presumption of regularity. The president s rules. He denied in that. More broadly, he used a weird standard. He said that the plaintiffs had a moral right to make certain arguments. That is ludicrous. Thats juvenile. Thats first Year Law School nonsense. So when all is said and done, this is judicial anarchy. Its a shame, and after yesterdays performance. Laura thats a 12 punch. After yesterdays embarrassing performance by this judge, i must say one of the worst judicial performances ive ever seen in the courtroom. This coming after that is really a double whammy of embarrassment. Laura al, lets go to flynn for a moment. Bringing up the word treason. This was not an issue for the special counsel. Special counsel didnt use the word treason. An unelected judge on the District Court in d. C. Brought up the word treason. Oh, i know its a conspiracy theory. Im going to warn you, if you keep cooperating, we can and jail time. What was that sentence of his . Laura, your lawyer, im a lawyer. Judges are obligated to tell defendants even if you cooperate you can still serve jail time. Laura that was right after the treasonnot treason line. Maybe thats a little excessive but the point is he might still serve jail time and theres nothing biased about that. We need to start bringing down our legitimate institutions like the judiciary. Laura do you think judges are beyond criticism . We shouldnt criticize a judge. I see what we are seeing as a subversion of the American Peoples will. Its not the judges who are activists. Its activists going to the judges because as you point out, congress hasnt done its job. Laura jim jordan, its True Congress hasnt done its job on this particular issue. I think not finding the walls going to go down as one of the worst, worse things have happened to this administration. Forget mueller. The wall, the wall, the wall. Has to be built. Its a schedule has been built. We will get to that. On the judicial tyranny stopped, nationwide injunctions, we talked about before. When District Court judge can rewrite National Policy when obama is the one who rewrote it with his immigration appeals judge. Its wrong. We should change the law. We have an amendment were going to have for tomorrow which would reform our asylum operating 5 of the folks who come to this country laura an amendment for what . The spending bill. Take it to the rules committee. Two amendment. One is to build well. The others to reform our soninlaws because if you want to address the care of an, which we been watching on hold for the last several month, the only way to do it, the only way to do it, build a Border Security wall, reform the asylum laws. 85 of the people who shove the border and claim asylum arent legitimate asylumseekers. What did this judge say . Those were sent back or legitimate, you dont have to pay for them to come here. Laura bring them back from honduras. This is what Rush Limbaugh said today about this snow wall getting billed. That was what trump was going to do to get the wall built under the premise that the president can take whatever action necessary necessary, he deems necessary for National Security. I know this looks like read my lips, no new taxes and caving on it. Laura but he says hes going to figure out a way to get it done. Joe digenova. Is very sad. We needed the wall. The wall was a key issue. Its important. However walls are built, 95 of illegal crossings are cut out. Its an amazingly effective tool, and the notion that it has been made this devilish fiendish thing, oh, my goodness, a wall. Perhaps they would prefer the tear gassing and perhaps bullets as opposed to a wall. The people who oppose the wall are inviting violence. They are inviting disruption. And they are inviting further illegal immigration to the United States. I hope that when this things run out in february, the president says thats it, no more. Awol or im shutting it down. Laura all we do is kick it. The president said. They were doing this again. We are not doing omnibus. Paul ryan, what has he done, released a five part miniseries on his life in congress. Did you see that . God bless him. Hes a nice person. It was embarrassing, it was an embarrassing thing he did. Fully once, shame on you. For me twice, shame on me. For the American People four times, shame on congress. Thats what weve done. Four times we promised them we would build the wall and put it on the spending bill never say no. Pelosi is going to be speaker, it will never happen. Laura the republicans also can in good conscience say the democrats had the chance to work with the president on this and refused to do so. This is a bipartisan promise going on for decades. Everyone wants compromise. Youre going to have a situation where were moderate republicans lose like the 40 who lost in the last election. Your constituents believe what you say. I dont thats what suburban voters believe. Laura do you think suburban voters see this and say lets loosen asylum laws . Three cheers for the judge . All voters are for scaredy but they also want laura everyone who was subjected to gain violence, any Gang Violence, thats a lot of trunk of the world and messing violence, do make a credible claim and then youre in. Is that it . He put that up to the American People, they will kill it every time. By the way, the Senate Passed a continuing resolution. Get the champagne flutes. Markets, futures going up. We are going to offer our amendments. Were not going to vote for and less the portable funding 5 billion is on the bill. Laura i want to move on to this telling exchange revealed in the former fbi director jim comeys testimony released yesterday. Trey gowdy asked about remarks made by former president obama in october of 2015. You think its not that big a deal . What i think is that it is important for her to answer these questions to the satisfaction of the American Public and they can make their own judgment. I can tell you that this is not a situation in which americas National Security was endangered. Laura okay, so gaudi followed up, asking call me if u never spoke with president obama about the clinton email investigation to which the exfbi chief replied no. He said he never directed anyone at the bureau to do so either. Joe, let me get this straight. Comeys fbi never briefed president obama on an Ongoing Investigation about the democrats nominee. For the presidency. How could obama be so confident there was no National Security risk . Figure was interesting is what president obama did was command influenced by publicly telling the fbi and the department of justice if he told them the results he wanted. James comey delivered. He exonerated her illegally. She broke the law. There isnt any question she broke the law. The president was communicating with her under a pseudonym to her private email account so what you saw was a lie. He knew she was using a private server. He knew it because he sent her emails using a pseudonym. Do you know what . Thats the kind of thing that makes people sick of politics. There is obama lying through his teeth and he knew that she had a private server. He knew there was classified information because when you communicate with the president , that is classified. Automatically. A communication with the president of the United States. Disgusting. Command influence, right. He told the fbi what he wanted done. Drop the case. Laura we cant criticize him because he showed up at a Childrens Hospital with a vague, with a big, with a bag of gifts. If you keep thinking of him with the picture in the bag of gifts, that was nice. Maybe the emails were in the bag. Maybe thats where the emails are. It wasnt the first time president obama did that. The irs investigation, he said there was no corruption, and even a smidgen. He did the exact same thing where when the investigation was going on, hes doing a bigtime interview and he prejudges the outcome there as well. Its not the first time. I will agree he shouldnt have said publicly that way. There is a bit of command performance there but the bottom line is most americans know this. It wasnt as big a deal. Call me exonerated her, not a legally, fairly. If anyone was hurt by jim comey was having clinton ten days before the election. There was no bias towards her. It was not for her. He was against her. Laura this is congressman Jim Ratcliffe on with martha about what went down. These turned out to be is every bit as duplicitous and sanctimonious his people told me he was. I dont mind if jim comey is a partisan but dont pretend to be a fair and impartial umpire saying that out of 1 side of your mouth while out of the other side of your mouth, youre telling people to use their last breath to stop donald trump and republicans and to vote democra democrat. Laura john ratcliffe. For comey to have said, guys, that he deserves no blame and has no responsibility for the tarnished reputation of the fbi in the donald trump do donald trump signed the fisa warrant based on the dossier . Comey is delusional. Hes a dirty cop. He is smarmy. He is selfindulgent. Hes a loon. I mean, its a most like he doesnt see himself. You watch him and you see a man who is emotionally disturbed. Hes one of the weirdest guys in history. He ruined the fbi. Lets member hes a fired, disgraced fbi director. You cant say that about anybody else. Its amazing. What he did to the bureaus he destroyed federal Law Enforcement for a generation by usurping the functions of the attorney general. And she apparently didnt care. Laura was there any point time in which he really thought that stupid dossier, that all these lurid charges were true . Has he ever answer that question . Was there any point time where he thought any of this might be true . They made it as lurid as possible in order to get everybodys attention. Correct . Thats how it went down. The first guy who wrote about it and the guy who was cited in the vice application said it was a false document just two days ago. Laura without, Merry Christmas everyone. Coming up, are for democrats for endless war all over the globe . Their reaction to an announcement by the president today about bacteria revealed their astonishing interventionist streak. Stay there. Our boys, our young women, are men, they are all coming back, and they are coming back now. We won. Lege college of the ozarks gave me the chance to work for my degree ill graduate debt free from a college where character is as important as class work and Patriotic Education is part of the curriculum we are hard work u and we are working for our American Dream we have been trying to rebuild the world and police the world. Its time to rebuild the United States and properly police the United States. Thats what we are going to do. Laura promises made. Perhaps the beginning of promises kept. On the