Posted on 08/27/2013 10:44:47 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
Partial Transcript of the Mark Levin Show aired live on Monday, August 19, 2013
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Hello everybody, Mark Levin here, our number 877-381-3811, 877-381-3811.
Mark Levin: Before we jump in, all I can say is, Wow! You guys, open your microphones a second. Thousands of people at both booksignings. Wasn’t that unbelievable?
Staffer: There were a lot of people there, it was great.
Mark Levin: And the people were just spectacular, weren’t they? Except for one guy in New Jersey which I’ll talk about later.
Staffer: [chuckles]
Mark Levin: This… this birther stuff is way, way out of contr…”Now Ted Cruz” … I swear I almost hit this guy… “Ted Cruz is not a citizen!” No, he’s born to an American mother, no he’s born in Canada to an American mother. So all you pregnant ladies travelling overseas: According to certain birther, uh, groups, if you have a child while you are on vacation, they’re not Americans. They’re not natural-born Americans. I just thought you’d wanna know, if you were thinking of your kid as a potential presidential candidate, uh, because they say so. They have no historical background whatsoever… None! But it’s, it’s just amazing! Absolutely stunning! But we had so many wonderful people, and let me add, all races, both genders… I don’t know the sexual preferences, that wasn’t a requirement to say hello…young people, elderly, middle age people. A particularly young crowd, yeah, we had dogs come too, everybody so well behaved, and uh, it was a pleasure. In New York, we were there about four-and-a-half hours, in New Jersey about five, five-and-a-half hours, and I wanted to be respectful to everybody, so… I just want to thank you all, and this Saturday, Tyson’s Corner, Virginia, at Barnes and Noble. I should add, if you want to see the crowd that was at New York, Mr. Producer went down the line, and this was early on, this, this line kept growing and growing throughout the day…you can go look at uh MarkLevinShow.com on our website, as well as the social sites MarkLevinShow Facebook, MarkLevinShow Twitter. Um, Christians, Coptic Christians are being wiped out in Egypt. Their churches are being burned to the ground….
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Mark Levin: Alright, lets go to uh, Steve in New York, the great WABC, go!
Steve: Great one, it’s great to talk to you, what an honor.
Mark Levin: My honor, thank you, my friend.
Steve: Oh, I got a great story for you, I loved your uh, Hannity special, I enjoyed it very much, I listened to it three times over the weekend…
Mark Levin: Oh, thank you.
Steve: …I got my wife, I got my wife to tape for me, or TIVO it, and she watched it. And she really enjoyed it. She’s not big on politics or anything, and she gets sick of hearing me talk about it, but it was funny ‘cause she said “He is so calm, Steve.” He was, she was trying to do a little wifey/husband training? And…
Mark Levin: Uh huh.
Steve: she said “He is so calm, and he gets his point across. He didn’t raise his voice, or get upset…
Mark Levin: [chuckles]
Steve: …or anything!”
Mark Levin: [breaks out into laughter]
Steve: …and I laughed so hard. I said “How do you, uh, where do you think I learned how to yell?” [laughs] “I just listen to Mark.” And she knows you’re my hero, I go around quotin’ ya, and tellin’ everybody to listen to ya, and…
Mark Levin: Well, that’s great.
Steve: she just … to get me to calm down a little, and I said you just need to listen to Mark. [laughs]
Mark Levin: Well, thank you, uh…well listen, you know what, this is called passion, just remind her it’s passion, you know, and um…what was truly exceptional about the Hannity program, number one, the man has enormous class and decency, and number two, he was asking me questions because he wanted me to inform the public about what I’d written, and to engage the studio audience. And notice we didn’t have a bunch of left-wing bomb throwers just yelling and talking over people. There were conversations actually occurring, did you notice that?
Steve: Yes, there was no crazy, I mean a lot of times he’s got the left wingers on there, and it’s just, kind, it’s almost funny to watch, but that was so interesting and…and it didn’t get me upset, and it just, I just wanted to listen to it over and over and absorb every second of it, and every bit of information, it…it’s just brilliant, Mark, I, you know I hope when um…we’ve got President Cruz, he has the wisdom to make you his chief of staff or vice-president.
Mark Levin: No, no no no no no. And he’s got a great chief of staff, by the way. No, I…I do what I do, and uh, and he will do a great job should he be president. Thank you for your call my friend. And uh, I’m so sick of these birthers. I was going to tell you about this, uh, incident. Just a wonderful group of people, uh, we were in Bookends, Ridgewood, New Jersey, and everyone was respectful until…and it was hot outside, it got hot, hotter than uh originally forecast and it was a very long line, and you know we try to go through it quickly out of respect for everybody in line, but I also try to be respectful to everybody in line. Um…but this fella [breathes out] gets in my face and first of all he points to some obscure note on page I don’t know whatever and he said [cough] excuse me folks, and he says “You were wrong about this, you were wrong about”, and honestly I, I, I didn’t have time to read it, and I’ll go back and check it, if I’m wrong about it I’ll fix it, and that happens sometimes in these books when you’re going into the notes, you might put a word when you mean another word, or a state when you mean another state, so I’m going to check it out, I just haven’t had time. And then he goes, he says uh “And Ted Cruz is not eligible to be president. He’s not a natural-born Citizen.” And I thought to myself, you know I, this is not a subject that I have studied so thoroughly, but he’s born of a mother who is an American citizen. Doesn’t that make him a natural-born Ci… “No, but he was in Canada when he was born!” Okay, but she wasn’t Canadian, she was an American citizen! She was an American citizen. And so, the issue isn’t what the Constitution says in that regard, the issue is how do we interpret that. And the way I interpret it is, his mother’s an American citizen, so he’s an American citizen! That’s not a constitutional issue, that’s an interpretive issue… or, a statutory issue if Congress has passed some law subsequent to that to enforce that provision of the Constitution. So, the face of the Constitution isn’t terribly helpful. If he was born of non-citizens in a foreign country that would be easy, and there’s a lot of easy cases. So the guy gets in my face, and he starts pointing and pointing, and I looked at him and I pointed back, and I cursed, unfortunately, but the, because, uh you know, he was…he was a nutjob. And I thought to myself: Why do you come here and do that? Is this, is this sort of the way you…you excite yourself or something? No. So, I just want you folks to know who like Ted Cruz. I…I assume they’re going to do this to Rubio, or some of these other people too, whether you like ‘em or not for president I’m just making a point, but now this has become an entire industry. And of course [chuckles] Ted Cruz [laughs], he immediately issued today or yesterday his long form birth certificate. Now, some of this is probably coming from the left. So now they’re the birthers. But some of it’s coming from others, too. People just get obsessed, or conspiratorial, and there’s no end to it, on a matter like this, and there’s nothing I can say or point to that’s going to change their mind. But in my view there’s no doubt about it that he’s eligible for president, should he choose to run, just as I believe McCain was eligible for president, when he ran. So…that’s my opinion! You may not like it… But what particularly bothered me about this guy…he was disrespectful in his conduct to everybody else standing there. They were pleasant, talking to each other, you know…listening, watching and so forth. I’m a big boy; I’ve seen this and a thousand times worse. But he was quite obnoxious. He’s the only one…oh no there was another guy, had a prob, wha wha, he what…he had a problem, he was screaming upstairs, I don’t know what he was screamin’ about. It was kind of eventful there in New Jersey. No, there wasn’t anything like that in New York, was there boys? [Staff: No. Peaceful in ji…you know in Long Island] It was peaceful on Long Island! [chuckles] But is was peaceful in New Jersey, too. It really, really was. It was just terrific. If you could have seen that line, well, actually you can. We have the uh video, and this is just the start of the day with the line. It got longer and longer at uh… at Book Review in Long Island if you want to take a look on MarkLevinShow.com or MarkLevi…oh there is now? The…the New Jersey line? Okay. Both lines. On MarkLevinShow.com, are they both on the social sites too? Or…just the Long Island. But we’ll put the other one up later so some of you can see yourselves, too. Alright. GoldLine!
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(further information and videos at: http://queenofliberty.com/2013/08/14/mark-levin-rolls-out-his-new-book/)
Natural Born Citizen means Citizen at the moment of birth and absolutely nothing else.
You have NO legal authority on your side of this issue.
Hi. Sorry but i bowed out of that topic. Partly because of
Inaccurate assertions by folks who have not studied the matter. I have previous posted several references and others have had time to share a lot more than that. Look into the history and the concerns of the founders and look at the constitution itself. Or just observe that language is given effect when applying the constitution or any controlling statute or case. NBC is not the same thing as citizen or native citizen. It is a different phrase with a different meaning. That meaning was in circulation And rather well known And indeed was used in cases See my previous or just get a good history of the constitution. (There are partisan “experts” of both sides of the political aisle who have tried to gloss over this or massage it in their candidates’ favors so caveat emptor on those. ) But I’m out of here on this. I gave it my best in the time I had What it generates now is not scholarly discourse but rather mostly Obama and Cruz (who I like ) partisans making assertions I’ve both studied and taught this subject and while there are greater experts to be sure , this was not a big controversy until of course 2008. It was really rather widely and well understood. Now that half the country still wants to justify Obama and the other half hopes Cruz can get elected , trying to just explain what and why is quite frankly a thankless undertaking. And since our country’s constitution has been ignored or trashed or twisted into a pretzel in several additional respects now, it seems unlikely we’ll suddenly decide to reverse course and honor it on this subject of all possible provisions. A lot if people feel its only fair that if the one party can get away with something then the other party should be allowed to do likewise. Trying to explain or discuss the legal principles in this highly politicized Mileau is like the proverbial rolling of a boulder up a mountain. Bye! Best regards. Write me about something else and I will be very happy to chat with you here further. But please leave me out of this argument. Others can take it up with you with my blessings. . Thanks very much.
Totally - being born in Canada to a Cuban father has no weight whatsoever. His momma was an American citizen when he was born, and he moved here when he was 4. Without a doubt, NBC.
Thank you for your response. That is exactly how I see it as well.
Natural Born
or
Naturalized
PERIOD!
Thosee are false statements and claims as evidencedd by the SCOTUS decisions, the word definitions, and historical practices. False swearing and claims on your part or anyone else’s part does nothing whatsoever to change the historical realities that a person born abroad with U.S. parents was only a U.S. citizen at birth due to statutory laws that retroactively authorized the status, and then such status was not authorized by Congress for many years. Such making a citizen and unmaking a citizen is not possible when the person is a natural born citizen. Sen. Ted Cruz was born abroad, and he therefore cannot possibly be a natural born citizen anymoree than those persons who were denied U.S. citizenship under comparable circumstances in the 19th Century.
I recognize that you want to evade the evidence with some more false and abusive accusations and claims, but your doing so does nothing to change the historical fact that children born abroad with two natural parents having U.S. citizenship and even natural born citizenship were denied any form of U.S. citizenship on the basis those children were alien born and not U.S. citizens of any kind, especiall natural born citizens. Given the fact that these children born abroad were not U.S. citizens of any kind nor natural born citizens of the United States in the early 19th Century, then there can be no basis for a false claim that just one citizen parent is sufficient to qualify a child borm abroad in the 20th Century as a natural born citizen of the United States, when two U.S. citizen parents were incapable of qualifying the child for status as a natural born citizen or any kind of citizen whatsoever of the U.S. in the 19rh Century.
The law can and does change.
The Constitution gives CONGRESS the right to change the law.
The Constitution gives ONLY CONGRESS along with the States, the RIGHT and DUTY to determine eligibility.
The Courts have virtually no role in this process at all. Those who say otherwise are the real Anti-Constitutional Liberals.
And btw, the States ALL OF THEM, and Congress, DOWN TO EVERY LAST MEMBER -—
The all agree with ME and the all disagree with YOU!
I’ll respond to the rest of what you wrote later. For now, let’s address one point of the discussion.
Do you or do you not acknowledge the United States Government denied the status of of a natural vorn citizen of the United States for children born abroad with two natural parents having U.S. citizenship at the time of the birth? during the 19th Century?
Congress has the authority to change the requirements for Citizenship, and it has done so several times.
At the time that Cruz was born, the law made Cruz a Citizen at the Moment of his birth, and that is what Natural Born Citizen means.
Natural Born Citizen means CITIZEN AT BIRTH, under the laws in place at the time of birth, and absolutely nothing else.
Do you acknowledge or do you not acknowledge that Ted Cruz would have been without any form of U.S. citizenship, including natural born citizenship, hade his date of birth been in the year of 1932?
Do you acknowledge or not acknowledge that the Constitution enumerates the power of Congress to repeal the Public Laws it previously enacted and the power to enact Public Laws that rescind the U.S. citizenship of Ted Cruz and other persons born abroad with one or two U.S. citizen parents?
With all due respect, you have no legal training at all.
I do not answer questions from people who do not know what they are talking about.
Ted Cruz is and always will be a Natural Born Citizen, fully qualified to be President of the United States. Cruz met the requirements at the time of his birth, and that is all that is required.
Congress and the States are the ONLY authorities on this issue, and they will agree with me on these issues.
The Courts have no say, under our Constitution, on this matter, and you are fighting the Constitution if you insist on Court challenges to eligibility questions.
Dyou acknowledge or do you not acknowledge that the Government of Canada gave Ted Cruz the status of a Canadian citizen at birth in Alberta, Canada?
Do you acknowledge or do you not acknowledge that Ted Cruz was born in Alberta, Canada; given Canadian citizenship at birth along with a Canadian birth certificate; was subject to and obligated to obey the laws and regulations of the Government of Canada whether or not they conflicted with U.S. laws and regulations; was subject to and owed allegiance and a duty of obediance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain; and was subject to conscription into the armed forces of Canada in the event of another Canadian enactment of a conscription law?
The only thing that would make me dislike Cruz, and I expect it from all politicians eventually, is to start moderating his positions and start being comfortable “playing the game” in DC.
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