The Daily Signal - Rubio & Van Hollen Duel, Golden Dome Announced, SCOTUS Delivers Two Victories | May 21, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:25 We'd love to talk, business. Secretary of State Marco Rubio dukes it out with Senator Chris Van Hollen in a committee. President Trump announces a Golden Dome missile defense system for the United States and Canada, and the Supreme Court delivers back-to-back victories for the Trump administration. I'm Tony Kiddott, host of the Daily Signals Tony Kinnett cast, syndicated nationally at 7 p.m. Eastern. It is Wednesday, May 21, 20, 25. This is the Daily Signals top news in 10. In a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing yesterday morning, Secretary of State

Starting point is 00:01:03 Marco Rubio and Democrat Senator Chris Van Holland of Maryland engaged in what could be described as a heated exchange, although mostly it was Senator Chris Van Holland taking seven minutes to lecture Marco Rubio about his disappointment over humanitarian assistance changes, deportations to El Salvador, revoking student visas, the ending of USAID, and after his seven minutes of appointed time, he concluded by stating, I have to tell you directly and personally that I regret voting for you for Secretary of State. I yield back. Secretary of State Rubio promptly responded, and then things got a little out of hand, by which I mean Senator Van Holland began trying to speak to Secretary of State Rubio, and Rubio was given time by the chair for response. And I respond. You may say. Well, first of all, your regret for voting for me confirms I'm doing a good job based on what I know.

Starting point is 00:01:59 That's just a clip in statement, Mr. Secretary. Mr. Chairman? You may? I didn't ask the question. Senator, please let the Secretary have before. I'd be happy to, but then I can respond to his response. Your time's up, Senator, and willfully used, I might add. Your remarks do not represent the view of this committee.

Starting point is 00:02:14 Well, Mr. Chairman. Well, I'd like to. I can't respond to everything he said because much of these are untrue, but I'll go through a few. First of all, I'm actually very proud of the work we've done with USAID. For example, I don't regret cutting $10 million for male circumcisions in Mozambique. I don't know how that makes us stronger and more prosperous. as a nation. I don't regret psychosocial support services. I raise Sudan and, Mr. Secretary.

Starting point is 00:02:36 Can I respond? Senator, Senator, I'd ask you to suspend. You had seven straight minutes of I chose to use my time that way, Mr. Chairman. That's my right to use my time that way. Secretary Rubio. Well, I can go on. I mean, there's other things here. We spent $227,000 for Big Katz YouTube channel from USAID. We spent $14 million for social cohesion in Mali, whatever the hell that means. So I can go on and on. I got the list here and there's more, I didn't even bring the whole list. In the case of El Salvador, absolutely, absolutely. We deported gang members, gang members, including the one you had a margarita with. And that guy is a human trafficker and that guy is a gangbanger. And the evidence

Starting point is 00:03:16 is going to be clear. In the days to come, you're going to see who you went to the law. I'm sorry, Mr. Chairman. Secretary Rubio has the floor. Chairman, he can't make unsubstantiated comments like that. Secretary Rubio has the floor. You had your time. Secretary Rubio should take that testimony to the federal court in the United States because He hasn't done it under oath. Here's another point, okay. There is a division in our government between the federal branch and the judicial branch.

Starting point is 00:03:38 No judge, and the judicial branch cannot tell me or the president how to conduct foreign policy. No judge can tell me how I have to outreach to a foreign partner or what I need to say to them. And if I do reach that foreign partner and talk to them, I have under no obligation to share that with the judiciary branch. Just like a judge cannot order me to negotiate

Starting point is 00:03:56 with a foreign minister of Russia, they cannot order me to negotiate with a foreign minister or the president of El Salvador. And if I did negotiate with them, which we have responded to them, and we've told them we've had communications with the President of El Salvador, I am under no obligation under our division of powers in this country to share with the judicial branch how I conducted diplomacy of the United States. It would actually be counterproductive. If I started sharing with courts, or frankly, with the media, my conversations with foreign

Starting point is 00:04:23 leaders and all of their details, no foreign leader would talk to me again, and we would break trust with them. So I have complied with every court order. What I won't comply with is in order to disclose what I'm saying and what we're talking about with a foreign leader, because then they won't talk to me. Diplomacy doesn't work that way. About the student visas, let me say this. I don't deport anybody, and I don't snatch anybody. The State Department does not have officers in the street snatching everybody. What I do is revoke visas.

Starting point is 00:04:49 And it's very simple. A visa is not a right. It is a privilege. People apply for student visas to come into the United States and study. And if you tell me that you're coming to the United States to lead campus crusades, take over libraries and try to burn down buildings and acts of violence. We're not going to give you a visa. Is that what Ms. Ostork did?

Starting point is 00:05:07 We're not going to give you a visa. Is that what she did? Come on, Mr. Secretary. And every single one of these cases, the factors are different. The bottom line is if you're coming here to stir up trouble on our campuses, we will deny you a visa. And if you have a visa and we find you, we'll revoke it in the United States. And we're going to do more.

Starting point is 00:05:21 There are more coming. We're going to continue to revoke the visas of people who are here as guests and are disrupting our higher education facilities. People are paying money. These kids pay money to go to school. and they have to walk through a bunch of lunatics who are here on student visas, disrupting the foreign policy of the United States. I want to do more.

Starting point is 00:05:36 I hope we can find more of these people. That's pathetic, Mr. Secretary. In fact, the other day, some guys let a riot. I forgot what university it was. And I asked, please, can you find the arrest records of all the people that were arrested at that riot at that campus? Because if any of them have a visa, we're going to revoke it. I feel so much safe.

Starting point is 00:05:50 All right. Lock up people like Ms. Osterk, Ms. Secretary. We've had enough time on the subject. Thank you very much. Yesterday, President Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced a Golden Dome Missile Defense System for the United States, similar to the Iron Dome Missile and Air Defense System used by Israel, which is shot down over 5,000 rockets at a 90% success rate.

Starting point is 00:06:12 The President of the United States also suggested that Canada would take part in the Missile and Air Defense package, arkening back to the desires of the Ronald Reagan administrations to construct the Star Wars Space and Missile Defense System. Check it out. I'm pleased to announce that we have officially selected in our for the state-of-the-art system that will deploy next-generation technologies across the land, sea, and space, including space-based sensors and interceptors. And Canada has called us, and they want to be a part of it. So we'll be talking to them.

Starting point is 00:06:46 They want to have protection also. So as usual, we help Canada do the best we can. This design for the Golden Dome will integrate with our existing defense capabilities. and should be fully operational before the end of my term. So we'll have it done in about three years. Once fully constructed, the Golden Dome will be capable of intercepting missiles, even if they are launched from other sides of the world, and even if they're launched from space.

Starting point is 00:07:16 And we will have the best system ever built. As you know, we helped Israel with theirs, and it was very successful. And now we have technology that's even far advanced from that. but including hypersonic missiles, ballistic missiles, and advanced cruise missiles, all of them will be knocked out of the air. We will truly be completing the job that President Reagan started 40 years ago forever ending the missile threat to the American homeland, and the success rate is very close to 100%, which is incredible. When you think of it, you're shooting bullets out of the air.

Starting point is 00:07:53 I'm also pleased to report that the one big, beautiful bill will include 25 billion. million dollars for the Golden Dome to help construction get underway. That's the initial sort of a downposit. And we have, probably you're talking about, general, we're talking about $175 billion total cost of this when it's completed. And the Supreme Court has delivered back-to-back victories for the Trump administration. On May 19th, the Supreme Court ruled eight to one, with only Katanji Brown Jackson dissenting, to overturned. turn a lower court order that blocked the Trump administration previously from revoking the temporary protected status of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan nationals who were given

Starting point is 00:08:38 this temporary protected status in most part by the Biden administration. And yesterday, the Supreme Court voted 7-2 in favor of Maine State Representative Laurel Libby, after Maine State Democrats stripped her of her voting and speaking privileges for speaking out against men in women's sports. We've previously had Representative Laurel Libby on the show, but perhaps most notably, Katangy Brown Jackson, again dissenting, seemed to argue that the federal government had no right to overturn a policy at the state level, which infringed on an individual's constitutionally recognized rights.

Starting point is 00:09:17 Quote, whether the House's censure and resulting sanction violate Libby's constitutional rights or those of her constituents raises many difficult questions. What are the limits on a state legislature's ability to bind its members to ethics rules? Do federal courts have the authority to determine that those rules are improper? To answer a disturbingly basic civics question, yes, one of the primary functions of a higher court at the federal governing level is to rule when a state or local government's laws violate the constitutional rights of its citizens. To pick one example out of thousands, if there was a state or local government, that came up with a separate set of rules for individuals of a certain color so that there were

Starting point is 00:09:59 classes of citizens in that state, the federal government can and has, ruled that those particular policies are unconstitutional, whether or not they were passed in measure by a state or local legislative body. One would hope that a Supreme Court justice would be aware of the entire reason for the existence of the Supreme Court of the United States. Before you go, head down to the description and make sure you're subscribed to the Tony Kennett cast and join us this evening for an interview with Representative John James of Michigan as well as the day's fire hose of news. I'm Tony Kennett and this has been The Daily Signal's top news in 10. Take care.

The Daily Signal - Rubio & Van Hollen Duel, Golden Dome Announced, SCOTUS Delivers Two Victories | May 21, 2025

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