Even with all that's going on, Charlie Kirk's assassination and the left wing, a lot of left wing violence going on. Do you plan on designating Antifa a domestic terror organization? Well, it's something I would do if I have support from the people back here. [00:00:18] I think would start with Pam, I think, but I would if you give me, I would do that 100% and others also, by the way. I'm disgusted when reporters give him ideas. It's just he was going in another direction. Another direction. [00:00:35] Just one day, after being asked by a reporter if he would consider designating Antifa as a domestic terror organization, President Donald Trump did just that. He moves quickly. There's not even a committee or let me run this by my advisors. I am pleased to inform our many USA patriots that I am designating Antifa [00:00:54] a sick, dangerous, radical left disaster as a major terrorist organization. I will also be strongly recommending that those funding Antifa be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. [00:01:10] Thank you for your attention to this matter. He offered no other details on how this would be carried out. There are multiple problems here, of course. First of all, Antifa is not one group with a leader. [00:01:27] They have no organizational structure that I mean, that's by definition kind of what what they are. Mark Bray, historian, author of Antifa The Anti-Fascist Handbook, describes it like this. [00:01:45] It is essentially a kind of coalition politics of all kinds of radicals, from different kinds of socialists to communists, anarchists, more independent radicals. Sometimes I compare it to feminism. [00:02:01] There are feminist groups, but feminism itself is not a group. There are Antifa groups, but Antifa itself is not a group. Historian at Rutgers University, author of Antifa The For anti-fascists, Trump's [00:02:16] own former FBI director, Christopher Wray. Here's how he described antifa a movement or an ideology, not an organization with a clearly defined hierarchy that would facilitate a terror designation by the government. [00:02:32] Second of all, there is no legal mechanism in the United States for labeling purely domestic organizations as terrorist groups. For Trump to follow through on his social media declaration, his administration would need to create such a mechanism. [00:02:48] So again, they've given my idea. And that's exactly probably what will happen next 2023. The Congressional Research Service wrote a report about the federal government's role in combating domestic terrorism. They explain that the US doesn't provide public explanations of groups it considers [00:03:05] to be domestic terrorist organizations, because listing groups in this way may infringe on First Amendment protected speech or the act of belonging to an ideological group, which in and of itself is not a crime in the United States. [00:03:20] For now, Maybe. So now there is concern that designating Antifa as a terrorist group will be used to justify further crackdowns on the left. Here's David Axelrod explaining. What it means is he will define just as they will define the public interest. [00:03:38] They will define what is Antifa, and they will go after everyone and everything that they put under that umbrella, even though it isn't an organization, it is a it is a in many ways, mythology, but it gives them a, you know, a pretext [00:03:55] to go after their political enemies. This is going to be a major effort to try and defund any opposition in this country by doing it under this rubric of Antifa and the radical left. [00:04:11] Michael, isn't that really what it's about? I mean, there's never been a more successful can we call MAGA an organization? I don't know. It's got the one dictator. But anyway of defining Trump is defined. What's American, what's patriotic, what's evil, what's good. [00:04:30] - And now Antifa. - Yeah. And you also, I mean, going back to the stage, an area where this question was asked. This is a hand-picked white House press pool. So the notion that they would be giving ideas to Trump rather than the opposite [00:04:47] is, is actually very, very questionable. So you also have to look at who was asking that question, who was right behind him? Brian Glenn, Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend, who is the head of, you know, right side or, you know, I don't even know what it's called, right side broadcasting network [00:05:03] or or America's Real America's Voice or something like that. And he asked a question just after or perhaps just before asked a question of Trump. If if we if, you know, a lot of people feel threatened by the LGBTQ flags that are lining, D.C., should we be taking them down? [00:05:20] And the president is not a bad idea, but I would be, probably sued on all that free speech stuff. Okay. So that's who's in this crowd asking these questions, right? They want to put this in front of the president so that it gets legs. But they've been told to do that in many cases themselves, that this is part [00:05:39] of the agenda that's going on here. So as absurd as it is, and to have a foe, you know, how can you fight a foe so deadly when you don't even know it's there? I mean, it doesn't exist. This is a diffuse group of people, and, and ideas, [00:05:56] and there's no organization behind it. But having this kind of boogeyman is exactly what they want to do, and it gives them an opportunity to be more dictatorial, which is what they want to do as well. Yeah. And thank you. I feel so silly for the reminder of what much of the press corps following [00:06:14] this president has become infused with these ideologues and, yes, people. I guess I was thinking, oh, of that other era pre-trump era of these journalists. - Remember Sam Donaldson? - Yeah, of course. Shouting, I mean, oh my goodness, I. Yeah. [00:06:32] Hold on, Mr. President. That's right Mr. President. Yeah. And I loved it. Every time you ring the bell below an angel gets his wings. Totally not true. But it does keep you updated on our live shows.