THEY COME DOWN.
>> John: DAVID, THANK YOU.
LET’S BRING IN FORMER ASSISTANT
U.S. ATTORNEY AND FOX NEWS
CONTRIBUTOR ANDY McCARTHY.
YOU HEARD THE NEWS FROM DAVID
SPUNT, THE FELLOW FROM SIMI
VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, APPARENTLY
TIPPED OFF POLICE HIMSELF AS TO
WHAT HE WANTED TO DO.
THAT TO ME AS A LAYPERSON
SUGGESTS A DEGREE OF MENTAL
INSTABILITY MAYBE WE HAD NOT
CONSIDERED PRIOR TO THIS.
>> WELL, IT COULD VERY WELL BE,
JOHN.
AND COULD SUGGEST THAT YOU KNOW,
THEY UNDERSTAND BECAUSE THE LAW
HAS NOT BEEN ENFORCED THAT THERE
IS NOT SUFFICIENT SECURITY AT
THE HOMES OF THE SUPREME COURT
JUSTICES TO THE POINT THAT THEY
ARE FLAUNTING IT.
THEY KNOW THEY CAN CARRY OUT THE KIND OF DEMONSTRATIONS THAT WE
KIND OF DEMONSTRATIONS THAT WE
HAVE SEEN AND THEY DO IT WITH IM
IMPUNITY, AND MOVED FROM THE
STATE AUTHORITIES TO THE FEDERAL
AUTHORITIES.
I’LL BE INTERESTED TO SEE WHAT
CHARGE THEY BRING IN THIS CASE.
BUT THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS,
AT ANY POINT SINCE THE LEAKED
OPINION CAME OUT AND THESE
DEMONSTRATIONS STARTED, THE
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT COULD HAVE
CONVEYED A STRONG MESSAGE TO THE
PUBLIC THAT IT WAS PROTECTING
THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES,
THEIR FAMILIES AND THEIR HOMES
BY SIMPLY ENFORCING THE LAW
THAT’S ON THE BOOKS, AND THEY
CONTINUE TO SAY THAT, YOU KNOW,
WHAT THEY ARE AGAINST IS
VIOLENCE AND WHAT THEY ARE
WORRIED ABOUT IS VIOLENCE.
WELL, IF YOU ALLOW THIS TO
SIMMER THE WAY THEY HAVE ALLOWED
IT TO SIMMER, YOU ARE ASKING FOR
VIOLENCE AND WE ALMOST GOT IT
TODAY.
>> John: AND THIS IDEA OF
ALLOWING IT TO SIMMER WENT
LITERALLY ALL THE WAY TO THE
TOP.
REMIND FOLKS AT HOME, FORMER
PRESS SECRETARY JEN PSAKI SAID
ABOUT PROTESTING OUTSIDE THE
HOMES OF JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME
COURT.
LISTEN HERE.
>> PEACEFUL PROTEST IS NOT
EXTREME.
OBVIOUSLY WANT PEOPLE’S PRIVACY
TO BE RESPECTED, WE WANT PEOPLE
TO PROTEST PEACEFULLY.
THAT’S WHAT THE PRESIDENT’S VIEW
WOULD BE.
>> John: WE WANT PEOPLE TO
PROTEST PEACEFULLY IF THAT’S
WHAT THEY WANT TO DO.
THAT WOULD CERTAINLY BE THE
PRESIDENT’S VIEW AS WELL.
SO JEN PSAKI BASICALLY SAID SHE,
THE PRESIDENT, EVERYBODY IN THE
WHITE HOUSE WANTS TO IGNORE THE
LAW THAT PROHIBITS PICKETING OR
PROTESTING OUTSIDE OF SUPREME
COURT JUSTICE’S HOME AND
BASICALLY SAYING GO FOR IT, AND
IS IT JUST INEVITABLE THAT AT
SOME POINT IT WOULD LEAD TO WHAT
HAPPENED EARLY THIS MORNING?
>> YEAH, OF COURSE IT IS, JOHN.
IN FACT, YOU KNOW, THE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT IS CURRENTLY
PROSECUTING IN CONNECTION WITH
JANUARY 6TH HUNDREDS OF CASES
INVOLVING PEOPLE WHO DID NOT
ENGAGE IN VIOLENCE AND WHO ONLY
COMMITTED THE CRIMES THAT THEY
HAVE NOT ENFORCED IN CONTEXT
WITH THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES.
PARADING AND PICKETING, AND
THEIR STATED REASON FOR DOING IT
IS THAT CREATED SUCH A
COMBUSTIBLE SITUATION, CREATED
SUCH A POTENTIAL FOR VIOLENCE
THAT THEY HAVE TO ACT.
SO IT NOT LIKE THEY DON’T KNOW
THIS AND LIKE ATTORNEY GENERAL
GARLAND DOESN’T KNOW THIS.
HE WAS A FEDERAL JUDGE FOR 20
YEARS.
HE KNOWS NOBODY IN AMERICA KNOWS
MORE THAN HE KNOWS THAT WE
CAN’T -- VIOLENCE IS NOT A RED
LINE WHEN IT COMES TO JUDICIAL
PROCEEDINGS.
JUDGES IN OUR SYSTEM ARE
INSULATED FROM POLITICS.
WE DON’T WANT POLITICAL
PRESSURE, INCLUDING PROTESTS,
PICKETING, PARADING, WHAT HAVE
YOU, TO AFFECT JUDICIAL
PROCEEDINGS.
IT’S NOT A FIRST AMENDMENT
RIGHT, THAT’S OBSTRUCTION OF
JUSTICE.
>> John: THIS IS REALLY
TROUBLING, TOO, ANDY,
CONSIDERING RECENT DAYS WITH
JOHN ROEMER IN WISCONSIN, HIS
KILLING, AND ESTHER SALAS’S SON
DANIEL WAS GUNNED DOWN IN HER
DOORWAY IN THE SUMMER OF 2020,
AND SHE HAS BEEN CALLING FOR
GREATER PROTECTION FOR JUDGES OF
ALL STRIPES EVER SINCE THEN AND
CLEARLY THAT’S NOT HAPPENING.
>> NO, IT’S NOT, JOHN.
AND LOOK, TOMORROW NIGHT WE ARE
GOING TO HAVE THIS EXTRAVAGANZA,
THIS PRIMETIME CAPITOL RIOT
HEARING BY THE JANUARY 6TH
COMMITTEE, WHICH IS GOING TO
PROCEED ON THE PREMISE THAT
PRESIDENT TRUMP ENGAGED IN SUCH
DANGEROUS RHETORIC THAT HE
CREATED THE CONDITIONS THAT MADE
THE CAPITOL RIOT, THEY’LL SAY,
INEVITABLE.
OK.
WHAT ABOUT SENATOR SCHUMER?
WHAT ABOUT GOING TO THE FRONT OF
THE SUPREME COURT AND SAYING I’M
TELLING YOU, KAVANAUGH, I’M
TELLING YOU, GORSUCH, YOU
UNLEASH THE WHIRLWIND YOU ARE
GOING TO PAY THE PRICE FOR IT.
WHAT ABOUT THAT?