Best of Rebel's 2019 American political coverage
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Summary
Ezra Levengan outside of the White House in Washington, D.C., where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau just arrived for an 80 minute meeting with President Donald Trump, and asks the question: Will he be lecturing the president on social issues?
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tonight we're based in canada but we did some amazing coverage of u.s. politics i'll show you
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some highlights it's december 24th and this is the ezra levant show why should others go to jail
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when you're a biggest carbon consumer i know there's 8 500 customers here and you won't give them an
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answer the only thing i have to say to the government the wire publisher is because it's my bloody right
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kian bexty here just outside of the white house in washington dc where justin trudeau just arrived
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for an 80 minute audience with donald trump now the first 20 minutes that i've seen so far
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have been used up talking about iran after iran shot down an american drone in international
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waters it's a little bit embarrassing that the prime minister of canada only gets less than an
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hour-long audience with our greatest ally it's a little bit disappointing my main question here
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today is if justin trudeau will be lecturing the president on social issues after he lectured
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vice president mike pence when he came to canada here's my question to trudeau prime minister will
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you be lecturing the president on social issues
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no i'm just laughing because as the canadian media passed me uh they were all taking pictures of me
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with my mic flash it's absolutely hilarious that in order to cover my own prime minister i have to go
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to a foreign country uh and get white house press creds to be able to get close to the prime minister
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because of course the canadian press gallery determines who and who cannot get close to the
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canadian prime minister and they know that they're a dying breed and the legacy media is scared that
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the rebel is taking a chunk of their viewership more interesting news today the prime minister
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didn't come alone he brought two of his ministers bill morneau and harjit sejan it's yet to be disclosed
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if the president is seeking our defense minister's counsel on what to do with iran i have my doubts i don't
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think so uh and it's a little bit concerning that this meeting is only going to be lasting 30 minutes
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from what i see now the president isn't spending much time on trudeau you'll note that he came to
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the united states here just yesterday and the president neither the vice president nor the
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president came to greet him similar to what happened in his disgraceful trip in india when
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the prime minister of india just didn't bother to come to the tarmac to give him one of those
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quintessential bear hugs that he's he's very well known for alexandria ocasio-cortez has come under
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fire recently for comparing ice detention centers to concentration camps it demonstrates a weak
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understanding of what the holocaust was at best and at worst it demonstrates the insidious
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anti-semitism that has been creeping in to the democratic party over the last decade or so the
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holocaust museum has called on her to tone it down americans everywhere have been calling on her to
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apologize in fact she's doubled down on her rhetoric today i asked her friend and colleague ilan omar
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what she thought about it while i was at congress today here's what she said hi could i get a moment
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of your time could you tell me do you do you agree with aoc that ice is running uh concentration camps
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on the border there are camps and people are being concentrated this is very simple i don't even know
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why this is a controversial thing for her to say we have to uh really truthfully speak about what's
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taking place and this is why it's really important for us to abolish ice and make sure that we
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have an agency that is accountable to the people that is dealing with the situation in a humane
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way there's no there's no way that we can allow um for kids to be caged uh in in this country and
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and children to be separated from their families uh and people being terrorized in their communities
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is it fair to can we have to make sure that we are calling it out and i am 100 percent without
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the democratic duo are displaying unparalleled levels of anti-semitism you know my boss ezra
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levant was joking when he called it the media party but in fact it's true and i just confirmed it on
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video a prime minister's office staffer stopped me from going in those doors because i have this
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microphone for no other reason than that i came to the white house i covered donald trump and trudeau
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appearing with him for a very brief 80 minutes most of that was taken up with local reporters talking
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about iran so justin trudeau had a pathetic amount of time with the leader of the free world so he
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comes here to speak with media in a controlled environment where the canadian press gallery decides
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who and who can and who cannot go and speak to the prime minister now you're saying oh well the key
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in the canadian press gallery is an independent third-party organization au contraire it's not
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listen to what this pmo staffer had to say good how are you okay to the uh to the event why
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uh just because your organization is associated with white nationalism and white supremacy
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and those values and and views are not uh are not welcome in this place so so i'm allowed in the
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white house to cover a news event and i'm not a white nationalist i'm not a white supremacist but
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you guys have been associated with that type of behavior and rhetoric so the white house so the prime
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minister's office has made the unilateral decision to not let me in the prime minister's office has agreed
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with the canadian press gallery that your organization's views are not welcome so that's
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all i have they'll get you to leave but i just wanted to so the prime minister's office determines
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who can and cannot cover canadian politics it's a canadian embassy event and you are also not an
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accredited journalist in the canadian press gallery at a canadian media event and that's why so that's
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spectacularly disappointing they will let you and pathetic they will escort you out i don't appreciate
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that tone as i'm being respectful with you so you're not being respectful if you're being respectful
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you let me cover my prime minister as i flew to washington to do there's a process uh for
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accreditation and i tried to apply through the canadian press gallery and as i did with the white
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house and they let me in quite smoothly they were they were quite kind and respectful but you guys are
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quite clearly partisan and so and so is the press gallery and it is pathetic and a disgrace did you
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catch what he said the prime minister's office and the canadian press gallery decided together
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a prime minister deciding who can and cannot cover him that sounds a lot an awful lot like a
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dictatorship to me now i'm here today because the story has changed from that to something else the
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mainstream media has picked up a story that has been circling through conservative media circles for
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quite some time now a couple years actually it's pathetic that the mainstream media has just picked
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it up now but what has happened is there's a bunch of allegations that ilhan omar married her brother
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and was playing some sick game of musical chairs with her brother and her real husband and then
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was filing joint tax returns with her husband the second husband even though she wasn't really married
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to him at the time on top of that it looks like she perjured herself in court when she told the courthouse
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after she tried to get a divorce from who people are saying are her brother is her brother she said
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that she hadn't seen him in years since 2011 in fact when really she had been talking with him
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on and off on instagram referring to him as her children's uncle which leads me to believe that yeah
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he is in fact her brother there are tons of questions that ilhan omar needs to answer she's avoiding
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the media the mainstream media doesn't have the kahunas to actually ask her these questions so i'm
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here in washington dc she has a press conference and i'm going to ask her some questions let's see what she says
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ilhan if i could get a moment of your time if i could get a moment of your time could you tell
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me why you filed illegal tax returns in 2014 and 2015. can you tell me definitively or not is ahmad
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elsie your brother for the markup yeah this year in the middle of the legislative briefing we're going
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yeah is he your brother we're going to which one it's foreign affairs i'll go with you can you tell
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me definitively yes or no is he your brother and why can't you answer that question why did you refer
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to him as your child's uncle on instagram and why did you lie on court documents saying that you
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hadn't seen him since 2011 when in fact you'd been talking to him all the time on instagram
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sir we're not doing ambush interviews this isn't an ambush you can send me a an email
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why are you so afraid to answer these questions
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how can anyone take you credibly on the uh on the twi on the uh student loan tax file
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and how can you call for donald trump's tax uh tax filings when you did when you know nobody
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can trust you on the file at all and why are you scared to answer the questions
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what are you hiding trying to find my phone at the moment so that you can go on instagram and talk to
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your brother now i don't know why ilhan omar is so afraid to answer very simple questions if i asked
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you did you marry your sibling you know what the answer to that is no at least it should be i don't
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know why she's not answering these questions i don't know why she's so scared it certainly
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makes her look guilty on a bunch of different counts a radical leftist and an avowed antifa
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member someone who's been photographed uh many times in antifa rallies has been shot and killed
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after attempting to firebomb an ice center now i'm going to ask a very simple question of any congress
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person that i can find will they condemn antifa and the terrorist act that we saw over the weekend
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let's see what we can get will you condemn the antifa attack in washington over the weekend
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it's easy to condemn terrorism will you condemn it
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antifa firebombed a facility in tacoma over the weekend it's an ice facility
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will you condemn them for that will you condemn antifa for the attack in washington
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we're wondering if you'll condemn the ice attack again the antifa attack against an ice facility
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no do you condemn antifa for their violent actions against american law enforcement
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okay so now you're getting in the way of me walking so i'm asking you to please back up
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what i'm condemning is a lack of journalistic integrity
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and you're not respecting my physical space right now and i'm going to ask you to step away
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antifa didn't respect the integrity of that building
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you can give me a card and we can respond so you're not going to condemn them
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this isn't a journalistic ethics thing i'm asking questions that cnn won't
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now these questions that i asked them were very simple and of course they didn't really have
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much of an answer now i waited as the committee meeting where they were going to grill kellyanne
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conway i waited for it to conclude and as i did members of the media who were typically waiting
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outside of the doors where staff and members walk in i saw a few heads poking out of the into the hallway
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and after i sort of stepped into uh into the shadows they all sort of fled out and i was able to ask
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them all the same question and kind of got the same results but i did get an answer from one of them
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would you like to would you like to condemn antifa for their attack on an ice facility
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well obviously any attack on any any facility is is uh something that we shouldn't condone is the
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united states government thank you why is it so hard to condemn terrorism well it's hard for the
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democrats i think because a large part of their grassroots support their activist support would
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be alienated if they did condemn antifa as a whole i think that's a serious problem in american
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politics and particularly in the democratic party what a day here in washington dc i have fun with
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these trucks every single time it's always a blast we're at the washington monument we're at congress
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we're at the white house we're at the trump international hotel and then we went to dnchq over
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the lunch hour to uh show them the billboard truck to remind them exactly who they have in their
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caucus they weren't very happy they sent a security guard out to kind of threaten me take a look at
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this sorry we're not trying to harass anyone we're we're just you know exercising our first
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amendment rights and we want to know if the dnc will condemn terrorism so where exactly are you
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no i i'm the reporter here i'm asking questions and i just want to know if the dnc will will
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condemn terrorism do you work for the dnc or you law enforcement so you're going to continue this
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to probably sorry okay you'll call what am i allowed to be on a public sidewalk we're going to
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find out we're going to find out if i'm allowed to be on a public sidewalk you say that as you have
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a firearm on your hip is this america or am i allowed to be on a sidewalk you can answer that
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i'm allowed to be here i take it whatever you say
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what's your name sorry what is your name my name is kian bexty i'm with rnn from canada
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where i'm with rnn okay so we'll see what we can do part are you trying to get
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i'm allowed to what sorry can you not put that in my face yeah i mean i'm i'm just interviewing
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folks on the sidewalk we'll just we'll just interview folks with the dnc okay have a good day
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hey there how are you we're doing a story on whether or not the dnc will condemn terrorism
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would you do that no i'm not going to let that get me down i think the message was heard
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loud and clear from both the dnc and from americans here in washington dc it was a great day here thank
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you so much for everyone who supported the truck i am here in orange city iowa at the prairie winds
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event center where elizabeth warren just had a community conversation as she calls it there was a
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moment for a press to do a scrum and ask her some questions but i of course was excluded from that
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they kept talking over me i was trying to get some footage i was trying to get in a question but
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they kept asking me who i was with and blocking my view and even blocking my camera at moments
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i was wearing my backpack and even felt somebody pulling at it trying to bring me out of the scrum
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so unfortunately i didn't get to speak with elizabeth warren she did speak about her upbringing
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her background and her career and how she got there and how she got uh to be a teacher in the
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first place which is funny because i guess i'm the only one that noticed the elephant in the room
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the fact that she lied about being a native american to get a tenure teaching position at harvard um so
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right now she is doing some selfies and with uh with some supporters i'm gonna try and go back in
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to see if i can speak with her a little bit more um but i don't see the likeliness of it because i
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actually see um some of her staffers followed me outside and are keeping a close eye on what i'm
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doing so i actually just finished a presser with andrew yang and i have been following andrew yang
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quite a bit and in my opinion he just seems too normal and too cool and laid back to stand out in this
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rather crazy group of candidates so um have a listen to what i got to ask him mr yang you've um
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disavowed your alt-right supporters in the past now with all the violence that we've seen would you
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disavow antifa i wasn't aware that antifa had any involvement with my campaign i'm against violence
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against uh anyone in any quarter and so i'm against violence no matter the source so it's nothing new
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when politicians kind of dodged the question um it seems like democrats are really scared to
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pinpoint and disavow antifa by name they say they're against violence of course but it seems
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like they're always trying to avoid the question directly mary ann williamson she has um been in the
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news maybe not always for the most positive reasons but there has been a video going around
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uh in one of her sermon type of lectures um so she is an author and an activist as well as a lecturer
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so there's this one video and if you haven't seen it yet take a look right now i'm going to ask the white
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americans in the room to please repeat after me on behalf of myself and on behalf of my country
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in honor of your ancestors and on behalf of your children
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so there she was she had all the members uh in the audience put their hands on all the black people
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in the audience to apologize for their ancestors or maybe not even their ancestors but just other
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generations of um you know slave owners and slavery so uh i did try to talk to her a little bit about
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it um again i she's been on um the last i heard her on a podcast with dave rubin and pretty much
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everything she said today i heard on that podcast so um she kind of avoided the question she didn't
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really give me a clear answer um her point is that what people americans specifically white people should
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be paying reparations to black people um so when pressed and asked when i asked her about this
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take a look at what she had to say so you've said that uh white people should be paying respirations to
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for slavery what about people that are half white half black like for example obama would he be
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paying reparations or receiving first of all i don't see it as a matter of white people i see it as a
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matter of america i don't see this as a black agenda i see it as an american agenda my plan is for
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a reparations council that is made up of black leaders some of whom have done scholarly work in
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this country for decades on this issue uh william darity professor at duke university tonahessi coates
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etc are examples this would obviously be very carefully chosen uh council and my recommendation is that we
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we pay between 200 and 500 billion dollars is the number that i feel is enough to be significant and
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yet enough to be politically feasible this money would be dispersed over a period of 20 years in
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addition to that the stipulation would be that the money is to be used for purposes of educational and
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economic renewal in answer to your question within that stipulation of projects of economic and
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educational renewal it would be up to this council it would be up to black leaders to decide the
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answer to the question if i owe you money i don't get to tell you how to spend it these people would
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be answering to injustices and receiving payment for injustices down to their ancestors and it would
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be their job to make the decisions regarding questions such as you guys but if it's not about white
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or black and you put a black council who's going to be paying and who's going to be receiving that's not
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obviously the black council would be people who are descendants of american slaves enslaved persons
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democrats are really good at sticking to their talking points and sticking to their script
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so listen to um what mayor pete had to say when i brought up this issue does the police force in
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southbound have a racism problem so systemic racism is something that impacts the work of everybody and
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certainly one of the challenges of being in law enforcement is to think about how even the best
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individual working in that field even if they themselves are free of any racial bias or impulse
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is impacted just by some of the baggage that historically and in our time is attached to the
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uniform it's something that i think we need to be on guard against and it's one of the reasons why
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in south bend we have worked on things like cultural competency making sure we assess even implicit bias
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where there may not be conscious bias but there are still things that we carry in us that make it
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harder for us to do our job well and it's a difficult conversation to have especially with officers who
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may believe that they're being accused of something when the bottom line is any knowingly racist officer
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should immediately find a different line of work any other officer should ask how they can arm themselves
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against this baggage that challenges a profession that we all depend on in order to keep america safe
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the other reporters as well were asking him mainly about these racial tensions so since 2012 this seems to
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have been following him and it seems like it may hurt his chances in this race a new a newcomer to the
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presidential race is governor of montana steve bolloch and if you haven't heard of him don't feel too bad
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because i'm not too sure how many people know his name outside of montana a big contrast between him
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and the other democratic candidates and he may even with his positions may not be far left leaning enough
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the big contrast is that he unlike his other fellow candidates he is not for open borders and he is
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also not for free health care for illegal immigrants earlier this year the governor of montana steven bolloch
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did actually refuse to send the national guard troops to the southern border to help assist with the
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border crisis so have a listen to what he had to say when i asked him about it another issue at the
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southern border that um other candidates have expressed is the separation of families why do
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you think it's only been coming up now to light and nobody seemed to care while it was happening under
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obama well first of all because it's been having a lot more under this administration both because the
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numbers that have come as we've also cut off agents the three central american countries and also the
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decisions made from this department i mean the thought that we have 450 judges for
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a caseload of 800 000 this is a bureaucratic mess and it is from my perspective at least a
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moral crisis and a crisis of a humanitarian crisis as we're taking these families apart but
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we've had these challenges before so we ought to fix the system and not be ripping families apart and
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not be losing families we shouldn't be using immigration to try to divide us this country
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so for the average person it's pretty shocking that most people don't know that the separation of
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families happened under obama as well and it seems like it's just an outrage now that it's happening under
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trump and as you heard there the governor of montana stephen bloc did say you know why it's
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why it's uh why there's so much light on it right now is because it's just much worse under trump
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bernie sanders has been very open of being pro venezuela pro cuba and pro soviet union so i decided to
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ask him about the one democracy in the middle east and look what happened then excuse me bernie are you
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pro israel ma'am you need a step back excuse me can i ask are you pro israel ma'am you need a step back
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it seems rather odd for him to dodge such a clear question but i wasn't done with bernie i continued
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to his next location and one of the things that fascinates me about bernie sanders is his love of
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the soviet union among many others my parents themselves fled the cruelty of the soviet union back
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in the 80s and bernie sanders ended up vacationing there in the 80s if you haven't seen the video
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take a look at this ladies and gentlemen we have a tradition when people sit at the same table at the
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party and one side of the table staff starts singing a song when they finish it the other side has to
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to sing there also what are we gonna say as director said editor to victor's words um today
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the distinctive feature of our economy is competition
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clearly a cheerful bernie shirtless sweaty drinking and singing and watch what happens when i asked him
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about it cruelty of the soviet union do you regret taking your honeymoon there actually i didn't take
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a honeymoon there you vacation there who are you with by the way i'm with rebel media from canada
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so my parents are polish they actually fled the soviet union my father is polish see we got something in
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common and so do you what do you think that tells people in your vacation it tells people that what
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first of all it wasn't a vacation what was it from what we heard it was your honeymoon oh you heard more
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you should get your facts right okay so what were you doing there establishing a sister city
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relationship with a city called yaroslav very good program okay and are you pro israel
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his response didn't seem totally right to me so i went ahead and did some quick research
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and found when he was speaking to the washington post and he called it quote a very strange honeymoon
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so naturally i went back and asked him again excuse me senator sanders no i'm honestly i'm just
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trying to get my facts right like you said so i see on the national you spoke to the national post
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and you said it was quote a very strange honeymoon so i'm confused if well because i was married just
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previous to that but we were married just previous but this wasn't a honeymoon the purpose of this trip
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where i went with a whole delegation of folks from burlington vermont was to establish a sister city okay
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so when you said uh to the washington post what was that really about thank you okay can i ask you
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another quick question please okay thank you take care i'm standing on the white house grounds in
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washington dc not a busy day here at the white house the president is uh has no open events to the
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public um but it's a good chance for me to come down and familiarize myself with how the washington
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press corps works and i tell you i went in and talked to a assistant deputy press secretary and
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i saw the big room where the press briefings happen and i saw some of the other reporters from other
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networks and they couldn't be friendlier and the accreditation process couldn't be easier it was
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really just an email on friday and here i am here on monday um the only wrinkle is that as a foreign
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national i have to be escorted from the security gate to uh the facility which is fine by me those canadians
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are known to be rascally but my point besides showing off that i'm here at the white house and
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have a little bit of fun is to make uh the opposite point back in canada the rebel.media is blacklisted
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by justin trudeau and his censorious prime minister's office we have been granted accreditation all over
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the world not just here in washington by the way i'm the third reporter for the rebel who's been
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accredited at the white house uh we have been in the national legislature of sweden of holland of
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the united kingdom we've even been guests of the government in iraqi kurdistan we've been in the
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halls of the un headquarters in new york of the european union in brussels and strasbourg there's almost
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no place in the in the knesset in israel there's almost no place we haven't been accredited and we
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were accredited again and again at un conferences until canada uh in the form of christia freeland
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catherine mckenna and justin trudeau blacklisted us and told the united nations no longer to let us report
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in their conferences around the world then we send reporters anyways they just won't let us in
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but what's worse is that canada uh in a combination of the government the prime minister's office and
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the parliamentary press gallery has colluded to blacklist us from any events in canada that are
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sponsored by the parliamentary press gallery so we've been blocked from any parliamentary briefings
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we've been blocked even from the canadian embassy here take a look at that the prime minister's office
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has agreed with the canadian press gallery that your organization's views are not welcome so that's
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all i have they'll get you to leave but i just wanted to so the prime minister's office determines
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who can and cannot cover canadian politics it's a canadian embassy event and you are also not an
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accredited journalist in the canadian press gallery at a canadian media event and that's why so so imagine
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that we're canada's largest independent news network 1.25 million subscribers on our youtube channel
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we've covered governments and politicians around the world from the heart of their legislatures but in our
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own country justin trudeau is so full of hate and so afraid of dissent that he is literally blacklisting
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canada's largest independent media from covering him gee i wonder why let me give you a little tour
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of the white house grounds from a reporter's point of view behind me you can see the security gate that
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i walked through just a simple metal detector and as a foreign national i had to be escorted from there
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to here but of course i'm free to roam now that i'm in behind me you can see it looks like little
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cabanas really little huts that each of the tv stations have um as a little base outside to cover
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any action on the white house lawn so there's not a lot going on today but still each of them are ready
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lights are on they've got fans because it's a nice hot muggy day um in case anything were to happen this is
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where they'd immediately run to film from they're all set up everything's based on a moment's notice
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as i turn around behind me uh you can see some other cameras set up outside that building again
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sometimes administration officials come out and those cameras are ready
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to go even if it's just a 10 20 30 second interaction you can see their base for the news
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let me just turn around a little bit more and you can see of course the white house building the
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glorious glorious building behind me i was told that i cannot go on the lawn the secret service
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would have been talking to me if i tried to do so now down there um actually down there
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is where the white house press briefing room is and it's nice and air conditioned so that in fact is
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where most of the reporters are hanging out today um there's nothing going on so i think they're just
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cool in their heels like the president and there's no official briefings scheduled
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the white house press staff there's a few of them today so not a lot of not a lot going on
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uh publicly there's a few private briefings what's interesting to me is just how minute by minute
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president trump's schedule is released and they have a permanent pool and what that is is journalists
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agree together that on a rotating basis someone will cover literally every move the president makes
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minute by minute they document he landed at 11 37 he walked to marine one at 202 melania the first
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lady was with him like just uh minute by minute things he said things he did uh documenting every
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second of the president what a difference the level of transparency here compared to say canada's
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justin trudeau who's absent for days usually found surfing in tofino
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um the level of scrutiny donald trump undergoes is uh unimaginable justin trudeau of course uh just
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disappears and the media is almost as lazy as he is david menzies for the rebel.media here at the
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university of minnesota in minneapolis well i'm here to take in a community conference on black maternal
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health i'm not sure how black maternal health is different from the maternal health of other races but then
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again i'm not black and nor do i have a uterus however the real reason i'm here is a couple of
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the speakers include ilhan omar and ariana presley i have some questions if i can get to them i want
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to know for example if miss presley is still part of the squad she did vote against the bds sanctions
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targeting israel much to the disdain of her other squad members also would like to know who the real
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voice of the democratic party is these days is at aoc or nancy pelosi and as for miss omar well
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it's beginning to look like paint in place on capitol hill isn't it there's allegations that
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she had an affair with her campaign manager and that his travel expenses were paid for
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out of campaign funds so let's see what she has to say about those storylines anyways i'm about to go
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inside taking the conference and then hopefully i'll get to speak to these congresswomen
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hi miss omar david menzies with rebel media can you comment on the allegations of an affair with tim
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manette and that you were using um campaigns from your uh to fund his travel expenses
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this is miss omar what is the penalty for uh adultery in your native somalia
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miss omar why is minnesota such a hotbed of uh terrorism for recruiting in the u.s miss omar
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miss omar can you tell me uh what the penalty is for adultery in somalia
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hi miss presley david menzies with uh rebel media i'm just wondering hi
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oh i'll just speak while you're getting ready you know um hi there yes miss presley are you still
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a member of the squad after um voting against the uh bds movement wow miss presley can you comment on
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that the squad is anyone doing the work of building a more equitable and just world that's not just four
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people who is the who is the face of the democratic party today is it aoc or nancy pelosi we gotta get
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going can you answer that miss presley who is the uh the face of the democrat party today is it aoc or
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nancy pelosi has nancy pelosi given you a gag order the face of the democratic party are the people of
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this country it's the everyday person it's the american worker it's the immigrant it's the survivor
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the face of the party are the people but there's certainly been a rift uh with the party are the
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people there's no rift thank you well that wasn't the sort of in-depth interview i was hoping for but
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these are busy congresswoman after all uh miss presley i don't know what she said to me it sounded like
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baffle gab but at least she did say something unlike miss omar that was a matter of cat got your tongue or
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just a decision not to exercise her first amendment rights at least not on this day and it's too bad
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because with all the issues surrounding her these days capitol hill at least if you're with the omar
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camp is resembling paint in place what would talk about her having an affair and paying her lovers
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travel expenses with uh campaign funds um that's very interesting indeed and of course i had other
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questions on other issues as for the topic du jour black maternal health uh it basically comes down to
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this in a reader's digest version folks um if black woman or a woman of color or indigenous women are
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having any kind of issues with their pregnancy um it's all to be blamed on you got it systemic racism
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my eyes were diverted to a laptop mean actually a sign on a laptop that reads i'm gay trump 2020
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democrats don't own me and this laptop belongs to scott presler and i'm going to talk to him right now
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and find out what this is all about and why he's advertising both his sexual orientation and his
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political affiliation okay so scott as i mentioned i saw your um signage i'm gay trump 2020 democrats
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don't own me now scott first of all what prompted you to um advertise your uh political and sexual
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affiliation in the first place well i want to show that i am a loud and proud trump supporter i'm so tired
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of people being silenced intimidated bullied into not expressing themselves so here i am with my trump
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shirt here i am with my trump computer and you know part of the reason some people say why do you have
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to say that you're gay well minorities usually vote democrat right if you're black you have to vote
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democrat if you're gay you have to vote democrat and simply by being here simply by showing i'm a gay
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trump supporter i'm totally destroying that narrative i'm destroying that box that the democrats like to
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put all minority groups into and i'm showing other gay people you don't have to vote democrat you don't
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have to vote simply democrat because of your sexuality and scott i have to ask what has been the reactions
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to your signage both good and bad well i'll tell you just here now i've been here for about an hour
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i had four different men come up to me and say i love your laptop can i take a picture of you
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and so to every single person of course i asked are you registered to vote at your current address
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but i want to make it very clear here are these men coming up to me who i presume are straight
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here i am a gay trump supporter there was no homophobia there was no hate i was embraced i was
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welcomed with open arms and open hearts and do you ever get any reaction from democrats or
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other gay individuals who think you know hey what's wrong with you you're yours you're not
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you're not rooting for the right team here absolutely no sometimes i love to sit at starbucks
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and i sit in starbucks in the drive-through window so every single person has to see me
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and i have been accosted a few times but i'm always very pleasant because i know that there are other
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people in the room that are listening that are the independent voter and when they see someone like me
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simply expressing my first amendment right to free speech and i'm attacked attacked for simply
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being who i am i think the middle america voter the independent voter is going wow what has the left