BROADCASTS.com

Ralph welcomes old friend, Judge Andrew Napolitano, to talk about why the U.S. government offered a plea deal to the supposed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks,\xa0Khalid Shaikh Mohammed\xa0and four others. He asks, \u201cWhy would the government agree to such a plea for the persons it claims are the monsters who murdered 3,000 Americans on 9/11?... What does the government fear?\u201d Plus, Ralph gives us his take on the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. And then on a lighter note, we talk about the Super Bowl.

Judge Andrew Napolitano is a former Superior Court Judge, a syndicated columnist, and host of the Judging Freedom podcast. Judge Napolitano has taught constitutional law and jurisprudence at Delaware Law School and Seton Hall Law School, and he was Fox News\u2019 Senior Judicial Analyst from 1997 to 2021. He is the author of several books on the U.S. Constitution, the most recent entitled Freedom\u2019s Anchor: An Introduction to Natural Law Jurisprudence in American Constitutional History.

\u201cI would try (Bush & Cheney) for war crimes for which there is no statute of limitations\u2026 the war crimes are well-known. The war crimes are leading us into war under false pretenses; intentionally targeting civilians in the Middle East; authorizing torture and purporting to protect it against state law if done in the U.S. and international law. These are all well-known war crimes for which the penalty is life in prison. They can also be execution\u2026 There is still an E.U.-wide arrest warrant live out there issued by Spanish authorities for the arrest of George W. Bush, because of the war crimes I have just summarized.\u201d

Judge Andrew Napolitano

\u201cGeorge W. Bush, arguably the worst president in the post-World War II era for bringing us into two totally useless and very costly wars \u2013 Afghanistan and Iraq \u2013 which cost us in excess of two trillion dollars, which had over 850 thousand people killed \u2013 only five thousand were Americans \u2013 which destroyed the moral order in that part of the world for a full generation also instituted a regime of torture. I believe, Ralph, as do many of us who follow this \u2013 we haven\u2019t seen it in writing \u2013 that Bush somehow pardoned or granted immunity to the torturers, because the torture was so vast and so extensive, and no one has been prosecuted for it. Obama and Holder who said loudly that they were against torture had every opportunity to do it. And they knew the names of the torturers, but it just didn\u2019t happen.\u201d

Judge Andrew Napolitano

\u201cI do believe that Rupert Murdoch called up Donald Trump and said to him, to Murdoch\u2019s credit - to his face, although it was on the phone \u2013 \u2018you are just not institutionally, constitutionally, or temperamentally, or intellectually qualified to be the president of the United States and we will not support you.\u2019\u201d

Judge Andrew Napolitano

This is super Sparta on steroids\u2014the aggressiveness, the lack of diplomacy, the lack of waging peace by the US government. It\u2019s like they\u2019ve mothballed the charter of the State Department, which was diplomacy. They\u2019ve turned it into a bellicose agency, sometimes much worse than the spokespeople for the Defense Department.

Ralph Nader