Ep. 129 - The Specific Meaning of Trump's National Emergency Declaration & The Story Everyone Missed (Aired 2.16.19 on WSB)

The Propaganda Report

Brad Binkley

News, Daily News, Comedy, News Commentary

4.6 • 916 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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0:00.0	The real state of emergency is not the border crisis.
0:05.0	That's just a diversion.
0:08.0	The Monica Perez show starts now.
0:11.0	This is Monica Perez. now.
0:21.0	This is Monica Perez, your Libertarian voice on News 95-5 and AM 750 WSB Saturday afternoons, today from 3.30. We have a ton of stuff to cover though because just a lot
0:27.9	of things happen this week big and small and I want to get to them as many of them as possible.
0:34.0	So I might try to do kind of rapid fire as far as I can get it.
0:41.0	But I want to start with this story of the week I would say where President
0:48.8	Trump declared a national emergency so I'm spending all my time yesterday trying to figure out what the
0:55.5	implications of that are. We we I think we're in a state of emergency like
1:00.2	30 times over already. People say that, although I couldn't even really get to the bottom of that.
1:08.0	I think they have to keep resigning, which they do, especially the one after 9-11 and all that. But as I dug in and dug in and for all the articles
1:21.6	and all the coverage, there really wasn't a great explanation of what this really meant.
1:28.0	But what, from what I could tell, it is actually rather specific.
1:33.2	They have to say what they're after.
1:35.7	And so I finally did get the text of the National Emergency Order, which I will read to you. But one thing that I thought
1:48.6	was kind of crazy is this National Emergencies Act from the 1970s allows the president to declare a
1:57.7	national emergency which gives him extraordinary powers.
2:03.2	And that just seems silly on its face.
2:05.8	It can be overridden by a veto-proof act of the joint session of Congress
2:11.1	or if the president himself signs a normal act of the joint
2:15.2	session of Congress which presumably he would not do if he's the one who
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