all right welcome everybody to the jimicosta show it is monday trump is sounding more out of control

as president every day he is still not pledging to follow the constitution when it comes to

due process in this country and he is still giving evasive answers as to whether he is supposed to uphold

the Constitution as president when the answer is obviously, absolutely, of course. As you can see,

my first guest today is Senator Mark Warner of Virginia. He is the ranking Democrat on the Senate

Intelligence Committee. Senator, thanks so much for joining us. Really appreciate it.

Thank you, Jim. Thanks for having me. You know, I just wanted to start right there because,

you know, honestly, there's a lot going on and we can start in, you know, half a dozen different

places. But when the president of the United States is asked point blank whether you're supposed

to uphold the Constitution, I mean, Kristen Welker on Meet the Press asked, don't you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president? And Trump says, quote, I don't know. I have to respond by saying, again, this is what he says, I have brilliant lawyers that work for me. And they're going to obviously follow what the Supreme Court said. You know, just speaking live right now to our audience on Substack and YouTube,

what's your response to that? Because, you know, he takes an oath as president of the United States

to protect and defend the Constitution. He should know this.

Yeah, what it, what it says to me, Jim, is if Donald Trump was an eighth grade civic student, he'd fail civics, basic American civics. I mean, this is not a hard question.

We had a revolution 250 years ago, which will, of course, celebrate a lot in Virginia being one of the birthplaces of it, but to not have it king.

And the idea that the Constitution says we got three co-equal branches, yes, you're chief executive, but what is paramount beyond any single person is the Constitution

United States. And his answer was an embarrassment. And frankly, I know you probably feel the same way.

If any of my Republican friends aren't willing to say, you know, to just call him out on this,

they would also fail civics 101. Yeah. And a lot of this has to do with, you know, obviously trials for migrants and

so on. He keeps floating this idea of no trials for migrants that you can just scoop people up

off the streets in the United States and remove them from the country without any kind of due process.

That's not what the Constitution says.

He clearly wants to remain on this collision course,

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