We just start by saying that, you know, you and I have talked about a lot of big issues over the years.

I think right now this is one of the biggest that we've ever discussed.

And for two reasons.

One is the use of this wartime authority is so unprecedented and so dangerous during peacetime

that we all need to be concerned because right now

it's Venezuelans who are being tagged with it and sent off to a Salvadoran prison without any due

process whatsoever but if the courts allow this it could be one group after another that's just

whisked away and put in a Salvador in prison with no access to anybody.

And, you know, these Venezuelan men who have been sent to El Salvador, as the video already

suggests, are in real danger.

But the second reason this is so big is what you also talked about is beyond just the Alien

Enemies Act, the Trump administration seems to be basically

saying the federal court should stay out of their business. But of course, our entire country

is premised on the idea that we have three equal branches of government, and both Congress and

the president will listen to the federal courts.

We were very concerned that the administration just simply ignored and violated the court's order to turn their planes around.

And so we told the judge we were concerned about it, given all the facts.

He said, let's get in here for a hearing.

We left that hearing even more concerned than we were initially.

I mean, the administration tried to first say, well, we didn't think you meant this and that,

but obviously they clearly understood what the order meant. They're basically just saying,

don't interfere with us. And they even went as far as going to the D.C. circuit a few hours

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