FNF: We’re back after interviewing
President Trump, who is quite frustrated with Congress after rebuking his national emergency declaration. You heard him first, explaining
this morning’s tweet: “F*CK PELOSI! F*CK SCHUMER! FINISH THE WALL!” [ProfLERoy has made up this tweet.]
You have to
like the alliteration there. Such a smart man.
We bring in our next guest, President
Andrew Johnson.
On March 27, 1866, President Johnson vetoed the 1866 Civil
Rights Act, a law that contained a hodgepodge of extreme and far-left ideas
such as equal rights for all, and birthright citizenship. President Johnson,
welcome to Fox & Friends!
President Johnson, why did you veto
this law?
PRESIDENT JOHNSON: By the first
section of the bill all persons born in the United States, and not subject to
any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are declared to be citizens of
the United States. This provision comprehends the Chinese of the Pacific
States, Indians subject to taxation, the people called Gypsies, as well as the
entire race designated as blacks, people, of color, negroes, mulattoes, and
persons of African blood. Every individual of these races, born in the United
States, is by the bill made a citizen of the United States.
F&F: Say no more. We get it.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON: It does not
purport to declare or confer any other right of citizenship than federal
citizenship. It does not purport to give these classes of persons any status as
citizens of States, except that which may result from their status as citizens
of the United States. The power to confer the right of State citizenship is
just as exclusively with the several States as the power to confer the right of
federal citizenship is with Congress.
F&F: We get that, too, Mr.
President. The federal government really has no powers other than to make war
and protect borders. It’s states that retain all rights and powers—they are
closer to the people.
The liberal Congress that passed the
law refused to seat any senators or representatives from the 11 states that
formally rebelled. After the war ended, shouldn’t things have been “forgive and
forget?”
PRESIDENT JOHNSON: The grave question
presents itself whether, where eleven of the thirty-six States are
unrepresented in Congress at the time, it is sound policy to make our entire
colored population, and all other excepted classes, citizens of the United
States. Four millions of them have just emerged from slavery into freedom.
Can it be reasonably supposed that
they possess the requisite qualifications to entitle them to all the privileges
and immunities of citizenship of the United States? Have the people of the
several States expressed such a conviction?
F&F: Here at Fox, we agree:
People who rebelled should also have a vote on whether to free slaves. It just
makes so much sense.
We need to wrap things up to cover a story about a
professor who runs mocking blog posts of Fox broadcasts. He insinuates some
kind of weird connection between Fox and politicians like you. So we want to
ask: What do you think of black people?
PRESIDENT JOHNSON: The bill in effect
proposes a discrimination … in favor of the negro, to whom, after long years of
bondage, the avenues to freedom and intelligence have just now been suddenly
opened. He must of necessity, from his previous unfortunate condition of
servitude, be less informed as to the nature and character of our institutions
than he who, coming from abroad, has to some extent, at least, familiarized
himself with the principles of a Government to which he voluntarily entrusts
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Congress overrode President Johnson's veto, ensuring that all people have a right to due process and equal protection of the law. President Trump's declaration of a national emergency to fund the wall is a much less significant issue, but it tracks some of the racially biased arguments made by President Johnson. As of March 14, 2019, it appears that Congress will not have the votes to override President Trump's expected veto.
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Congress overrode President Johnson's veto, ensuring that all people have a right to due process and equal protection of the law. President Trump's declaration of a national emergency to fund the wall is a much less significant issue, but it tracks some of the racially biased arguments made by President Johnson. As of March 14, 2019, it appears that Congress will not have the votes to override President Trump's expected veto.
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