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00:01:56.000Okay, so, last night, another city set on fire.
00:02:01.000Set on fire after there is an indictment that comes down for one police officer in the Breonna Taylor shooting.
00:02:06.000The indictment really was not because of the shooting at Breonna Taylor, it was because this officer fired wildly and hit an apartment wall, and so the idea was that he had misused his firearm.
00:02:16.000Now, as I've been talking about for a while, see, here on this show, we like to give you the facts of scenarios so you know what's coming.
00:02:21.000Probably a month ago, I went through the timeline of the Breonna Taylor killing, and I talked about the fact that while it was a tragedy, there was no law breaking, and it would be nearly impossible to make a case against any of the officers in Breonna Taylor's killing.
00:02:34.000That's specifically because they had a well-predicated warrant, a no-knock warrant for her apartment, the reason being that she was caught on tape talking with her ex-boyfriend about being involved in drug trafficking, apparently, about using her apartment as some sort of pass-through where he could pick up his mail.
00:02:49.000And the cops had a no-knock warrant on her apartment.
00:02:51.000When they arrived, they apparently knocked, despite the no-knock warrant.
00:02:54.000And then her boyfriend got out of bed, and he didn't answer the door.
00:03:00.000He just apparently, as he was going to answer the door, he didn't know who it was, even though they said they were the police.
00:03:05.000He didn't hear them say they were the police.
00:03:07.000And then they bust through the door, at which point he has a gun on him, and he fires at the police.
00:03:13.000And in the process of firing back at him, they kill Breonna Taylor, who was behind him.
00:03:18.000Okay, that is a tragedy, and it's a horrible tragedy.
00:03:20.000It does not mean a crime was committed.
00:03:22.000This was a well-predicated, no-knock warrant.
00:03:25.000Even in order to prove there was a crime that was committed, what you would have to prove is that not only was the warrant bad, the cops knew the warrant was bad, and they decided to serve it anyway.
00:03:33.000And then they decided that they were going to act in violent measures with a bad warrant in order to hurt Breonna Taylor.
00:03:40.000And you can't prove any of those elements.
00:03:42.000Lawyers have been saying this for a long time on the Breonna Taylor case.
00:03:45.000And not just me, I'm talking about people on the left who have studied this case, recognize that there was almost no chance of bringing a prosecution in this case.
00:03:53.000Again, because the timeline just does not lend itself to a prosecution in this case because the cops didn't do anything criminal here.
00:03:59.000Just because something bad happens doesn't mean that the bad thing that happens involves a violent law breaking.
00:04:05.000That does not mean that the person who was involved in the bad thing is to blame when you are talking about criminal liability.
00:04:12.000Here's a brief timeline of what actually happened in the Breonna Taylor case.
00:04:15.000And here on the show, we like to talk about the facts of cases because it explains whether people's reactions are justified.
00:04:20.000I understand that in the media, everybody's reaction to any situation is justified just so long as it cuts against the narrative that America is good.
00:04:27.000If America is bad, your reaction is always justified.
00:04:29.000It doesn't matter if Breonna Taylor's officers Actually, if the killers in the Breonna Taylor case, accidental killers in this case, if those people got off because they should get off, that doesn't matter.
00:04:40.000It is instead indicative of deeper American cruelty and racism.
00:04:44.000It doesn't matter if Michael Brown was shot justifiably.
00:04:47.000It does not matter if Jacob Blake was shot justifiably.
00:04:50.000It does not matter if Rayshard Brooks was shot justifiably.
00:04:54.000The only thing that matters to people who are in the media, apparently, is the narrative that America is bad, filled with racist cops, and every single law enforcement scenario that does not end with a cop going to jail is more evidence that America's cops are systemically racist, and that America itself is shot through with 1619-style slavery-based racism.
00:05:24.000Well, in this particular case, the facts demonstrate that the officers clearly should not have found themselves in the position of criminal liability with regard to the death of Breonna Taylor.
00:05:33.000Here is what the Louisville Courier-Journal had to save up the timeline.
00:05:38.000On December 30th, the police executed three search warrants in the Russell neighborhood, seizing several guns and narcotics.
00:05:43.000Among the six people subsequently arrested was Jamarcus Glover, Breonna Taylor's ex-boyfriend.
00:05:47.000On January 2nd, using a surveillance camera, police saw a white Chevy Impala pull up in front of 2424 Elliott Avenue, which is one of the houses hit with a search warrant a few days earlier.
00:05:56.000Glover got out of the passenger side of the car, registered to Taylor.
00:05:59.000Glover is seen driving to Taylor's Springfield Drive apartment and walking inside on January 16th.
00:06:03.000After a brief stay, police saw Glover leave with a suspected U.S.
00:06:06.000Postal Service package and then drive to a house on West Muhammad Ali Boulevard, which was also hit with a search warrant on December 30th.
00:06:12.000On February 14th, after an officer towed his car from West Muhammad Ali Boulevard, Glover attempted to file a complaint against the officer.
00:06:18.000The phone number he gave on the complaint was registered to Taylor.
00:06:22.000On March 12th, the warrants were set in motion.
00:06:25.000As of midday, Detective Joshua Jones, an officer in the Place-Based Investigations Unit of the Criminal Interdiction Division, requested five no-knock search warrants from Circuit Judge Mary Shaw for an ongoing narcotics investigation.
00:06:37.000The warrants were predicated on a 39-page document demonstrating links between Glover and Taylor, including prison visits and prison phone calls between Taylor and Glover, in which they discussed the movement of packages, for example.
00:06:52.000At 1225 p.m. Shaw signed off, this is the judge, on the affidavits for the first two warrants for houses at 20, 20, 24, 24, and 24, 25 Elliott Avenue, and then a few minutes later signed off on 24, 26 Elliott Avenue, and then another house at 2605 West Muhammad Ali Boulevard.
00:07:08.000And then a few minutes after that, the judge signed off on the search of Taylor's apartment, which was 10 miles away in South Louisville.
00:07:16.000Well, because in the affidavit, the officer wrote that Glover's car had made frequent trips to Taylor's Springfield Drive apartment, that Glover walked directly into Taylor's apartment on January 16th.
00:07:42.000Her new boyfriend was Kenneth Walker, who, by the way, was friends with Glover, apparently.
00:07:45.000Taylor and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, get home from dinner at Texas Roadhouse and, giving a friend's kids rides across town, it was Taylor's first night off after a few consecutive days with 12-hour shifts as an ER technician.
00:07:57.000At approximately 10 p.m., police officers were briefed on the entry plan for Taylor's apartment just before midnight.
00:08:03.000About 45 minutes before serving the warrant, Mattingly said he drove by Taylor's apartment while another officer, Detective Mike Campbell, had an eye on the house.
00:08:10.000The only thing Campbell saw while watching Taylor's apartment, according to Mattingly, was the light on the TV in the bedroom.
00:08:15.000Police thought Taylor would be home alone.
00:08:17.000Inside the apartment, Taylor had fallen asleep watching the movie Freedom Riders, and Walker said he was starting to doze off.
00:08:23.000At 12.40 a.m., officers were in place outside Taylor's apartment and began to knock on the door.
00:08:27.000Remember, they didn't have to knock on the door because it was a no-knock warrant.
00:08:30.000After a few knocks, Mattingly said that they began to identify themselves as police.
00:08:36.000There's at least one witness who said they identified as police.
00:08:38.000There are other witnesses who apparently said that they didn't hear them identify as police.
00:08:42.000They had no legal obligation to identify themselves as police.
00:08:45.000You may not like no-knock warrants, but this is a legal procedure in Louisville.
00:08:48.000The knocking startled Taylor and Walker out of bed.
00:09:36.000Anthony Garden apartments called 911 to report gunshots.
00:09:39.000Walker said he fired one shot as a warning aimed at the ground, but that isn't true because he actually shot one of the police officers in the leg.
00:09:47.000Officers on the scene called dispatch to report that an officer had been shot at 1243.
00:09:52.000Taylor was struck in the return fire by police.
00:09:55.000At 1247 a.m., Walker himself called 911 and said, somebody kicked in the door and shot my girlfriend at 1248.
00:09:59.000That was Taylor's official time of death.
00:10:02.00010 miles away, police were simultaneously raiding Glover's apartment.
00:10:05.000That was her ex-boyfriend and three of his associates, and they had him in custody.
00:10:08.000They seized drugs, guns, and cash from those Elliott Avenue properties.
00:10:12.000The fifth warrant on West Muhammad Ali Boulevard was not executed.
00:10:16.000Police arrested Walker after commanding him to walk backwards as he left the apartment.
00:10:20.000At 1.10am, police told dispatch there was a woman inside of the apartment.
00:10:23.000At 1.46am, EMS left Taylor's apartment complex.
00:10:27.000Inside of Taylor's apartment, they found shell casings and bullets, but no drugs and no cash, although they did find mail for Glover, who again was the target of the narcotics investigation, and the warrants were predicated on the idea that Taylor had been working with Glover and receiving mail on his behalf.
00:10:56.000I think that there's a case to be made against no-knock warrants, particularly in low-level drug cases.
00:11:00.000And the case is fairly good, actually.
00:11:02.000But does that mean that the police officers who were fired upon and returned fire and killed Breonna Taylor in the crossfire, that those officers are guilty of murder or manslaughter?
00:11:12.000Remember, the officers broke through the door on a legally predicated warrant and they were shot at.
00:11:16.000Once they are shot at, they are going to return fire.
00:11:19.000By the way, the person who shot at them, Walker, originally he was charged with attempting to shoot a police officer and then they dropped the charges after it became clear that Taylor was dead and there was going to be a lot of blowback.
00:11:30.000We still don't know the full circumstances surrounding what exactly happened in that apartment.
00:11:34.000What we do know is that if you fire on police officers, they're going to fire back at you.
00:11:38.000So whether he thought that he was firing at just a rando who was breaking down his door, or whether he thought he was firing at the police, tragedy, not crime.
00:11:47.000And this is exactly the finding of the Louisville AG, of the Kentucky AG.
00:11:52.000Nonetheless, the city burns because the narrative does not matter.
00:11:55.000The narrative is the only thing that matters, rather.
00:11:59.000The facts don't matter one iota to people who wish to burn things and pretend that every fact pattern is indicative of deeper American cruelty and bigotry.
00:12:07.000Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who is black, is also a Republican.
00:12:13.000He announced the lack of charges yesterday.
00:12:17.000There was only one charge filed against an officer, and that was for essentially recklessly using his weapon because he fired in the wrong direction and hit an apartment wall.
00:12:25.000He said in the middle of a statement that he met with Breonna Taylor's family, which, again, he should do.
00:12:31.000This is a tragedy, but it does not mean it was a crime.
00:12:33.000Here was the Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron.
00:12:37.000To have to sit in that room and provide the information to Ms.
00:12:44.000Palmer and to other members of the Taylor family.
00:13:05.000Okay, so obviously this is not somebody who is lacking in compassion, which is the only measure, by the way, for Democrats when they measure virtue.
00:13:15.000Well, Cameron obviously is an empathetic person who's deeply disturbed by the situation.
00:13:19.000That does not change the state of the law.
00:13:21.000And this was the point that Cameron was making throughout yesterday, which is we have a legal process in place.
00:13:26.000Just because something bad and tragic happened doesn't mean that I am allowed to charge someone and put them in jail for a legal violation.
00:13:33.000Here was Daniel Cameron saying they were justified in the use of force.
00:13:38.000Our investigation showed, and the grand jury agreed, that Mattingly and Cosgrove were justified in the return of deadly fire after having been fired upon by Kenneth Walker.
00:14:16.000They didn't admit civil liability, but they settled this thing out of court.
00:14:19.000So there's a difference between a criminal charge and a civil charge, right?
00:14:22.000A civil case means that you are suing in tort, okay?
00:14:25.000And the level of legal Surety that you require in order to get a civil judgment is far less than the level of legal surety you require in order to get a criminal conviction.
00:14:36.000Criminal conviction is beyond a reasonable doubt.
00:14:38.000When it comes to a civil case, it can be preponderance of the evidence, for example, meaning, like, does a majority of the evidence show the officer shouldn't have done what they did?
00:14:45.000And police departments routinely settle out because they don't wish to brave a jury that may not like them very much in these cases.
00:14:53.000In any case, Cameron then called out the activists.
00:14:55.000He said, listen, you might want to look at the facts of the case instead of listening to the activists.
00:15:02.000There will be celebrities, influencers and activists who, having never lived in Kentucky, will try to tell us how to feel, suggesting they understand the facts of this case and that they know our community and the Commonwealth better than we do.
00:15:39.000She was changing her life, is sort of what the story was, that she'd broken up with him a month previous, and she had moved on, and that was a good thing, obviously.
00:15:45.000But according to the police records, His actions basically led to all of this.
00:15:51.000I mean, he was using her house in order to receive packages in his drug ring.
00:15:56.000Among other things, he also made her rent a car where he then left a dead body, apparently.
00:16:01.000And then, because of using her apartment, he ended up leading the police to her dorm.
00:16:05.000This is a point that Thomas Chatterton Williams has been making.
00:16:07.000The facts of the case suggest that the outrage against the police is misplaced.
00:16:11.000The outrage really should be against her ex-boyfriend.
00:16:14.000And against no-knock warrants generally, if you don't like no-knock warrants, that is fine.
00:16:17.000But instead, everybody has decided, because again, we don't care about the facts in this day and age, everybody has basically decided that the only thing that matters in the end is that the police are systemically racist and America is evil.
00:16:30.000So Joe Biden put out a statement from his basement, where by the way, Joe Biden has not emerged for days.
00:16:34.000Joe Biden has been doing this thing where he calls a lid.
00:16:37.000Okay, I didn't even know what that was until yesterday.
00:16:39.000Apparently calling a lid Is where you just say, I'm not coming out of the basement the entire day so the media can go away.
00:16:56.000Okay, but in any case, he puts out a statement.
00:16:58.000In the wake of Breonna Taylor's tragic death, we mourn with her mother, family, and community, and ask ourselves whether justice could be equally applied in America.
00:17:07.000See, it's indicative of the evils of American due process that we actually use due process in this case, and we looked through the law, and that a black AG who has sympathy for Breonna Taylor's family used the law instead of his own personal feelings to charge.
00:17:19.000Which, by the way, is the way it's supposed to work.
00:17:21.000If you are a law enforcement officer, if you are an AG, if you are a district attorney, you're supposed to look to the law.
00:17:27.000You're not supposed to look to the mob outside your window.
00:17:31.000It is not justice to look to the mob outside your window and then decide, based on what they want, that you are going to swivel the law in order to achieve their purposes.
00:17:45.000He says, I know for so many people today's decisions does not answer that call for equal justice.
00:17:49.000A federal investigation remains ongoing, but we do not need to wait for the final judgment of that investigation to do more to deliver justice for Breonna.
00:18:06.000There was no chokehold that was applied in this particular case.
00:18:08.000And you can overhaul the no-knock warrants, except that they knocked at the door and identified themselves, apparently, according to witness testimony.
00:18:15.000The former VP then added, blandly, that violence is not acceptable.
00:18:19.000Okay, so you have people outside chanting, no justice, no peace.
00:18:20.000Then you have Joe Biden saying, you're right, there's no justice.
00:18:22.000engaging in any violence, it's totally inappropriate for that to happen, except that you keep fostering the notion that equal justice is not possible in the United States.
00:18:29.000When you say, okay, so you have people outside chanting, no justice, no peace.
00:18:33.000Then you have Joe Biden saying, you're right, there's no justice.
00:18:36.000What do you think is the natural consequence of the statement, no justice, no peace, when you agree no justice?
00:18:42.000You can say, yeah, it would be nice if you guys peacefully protest, but you're out there literally saying that we've never done enough for equal justice and we cannot do enough for equal justice.
00:18:50.000You can't back the narrative in the absence of underlying facts.
00:18:54.000And yet that is exactly what Joe Biden and the media and celebrity class have done.
00:19:12.000Nobody's arguing that black lives don't matter.
00:19:15.000We're arguing as to whether legal criminal liability attaches when you're a cop, when you knock on the door, announce yourself, break in the door because you have a no-knock warrant, and then are fired upon, and then return fire.
00:19:27.000Mandy Moore, she tweeted out, I don't have the words.
00:19:31.000Hashtag Breonna Taylor and her family deserve justice.
00:19:35.000I mean, this isn't about, quote-unquote, justice for Breonna.
00:19:38.000This is about justice for the police officers who are on trial, right?
00:19:41.000They're the ones who are going to have to be put through the justice system here.
00:19:44.000One of these officers is going to be charged with, again, misuse of his weapon.
00:19:49.000Justice for Breonna Taylor would be, presumably, there are a couple of types of justice.
00:20:22.000Cameron is bad, you see, because Daniel Cameron followed the law, and we don't want him to follow the law.
00:20:27.000We want Daniel Cameron to completely ignore the law and simply try officers for not violating the law.
00:20:32.000Ava DuVernay, who is the documentarian propagandist who makes these absurd, overwrought documentaries about how American slavery never ended and such, she put out a, and who cheered on the great citizens of Chas Chop while that newly formed fascistic republic was created in the middle of Seattle.
00:20:51.000She tweeted out, God bless Breonna's family and all who knew and loved her.
00:20:54.000Her tragic death, compounded by the violence of silence and inaction by the city she called home, is more than any of them should have to endure.
00:21:00.000What do you mean the violence of silence and inaction?
00:21:02.000They went through a full-scale investigation.
00:21:07.000That doesn't seem like violence and inaction, per se.
00:21:10.000The Rapper Commons tweeted out, to be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage almost all the time.
00:21:18.000Okay, again, quoting James Baldwin from like the Civil Rights era, 55 years later, as you know, a millionaire, famous black rapper, actor, Seems mildly inappropriate.
00:21:32.000Okay, that would be where I would put most of the responsibility.
00:21:34.000for killing Breonna Taylor? Actually, I mean, if we're going to parcel out responsibility, there are a few places to parcel out responsibility for the killing of Breonna Taylor.
00:21:40.000Number one is on to Marcus Glover, her ex-boyfriend, who roped her into a drug ring.
00:21:44.000Okay, that would be where I would put most of the responsibility. And then there would be the boyfriend, for whom, again, it is not particularly clear why he was firing at the police officers.
00:21:56.000If he didn't know who they were, that's somewhat justifiable, but at no point do the police officers become responsible for not returning fire when they are fired upon.
00:22:03.000You can put it on the no-knock warrant.
00:22:05.000But there's no criminal liability attached to police officers returning fire.
00:22:38.000Anthony Rapp, Black Lives Matter, apparently he changed his name officially on Twitter.
00:22:42.000He tweeted out, Black Lives Matter, Breonna Taylor's life mattered, what has been announced in Kentucky is not even remotely in the realm of anything that even begins to approach true justice for her murder.
00:22:53.000Okay, then over on ESPN, Jalen Rose, former NBA star, he interrupted the middle of an NBA broadcast to simply shout that the cops needed to be arrested.
00:23:25.000Rose, I'm so glad that you were elected Attorney General of the state of Kentucky so that you could simply effectuate the law as you see fit.
00:23:31.000I mean, this is the exact opposite of justice, by the way.
00:23:33.000Justice typically means that you have to be held accountable for the things that you do in terms of criminal liability.
00:23:39.000Not that we craft a crime to fit a tragedy.
00:24:37.000It is nearly impossible to make... There were articles going months back quoting liberal professors at like the University of Kentucky talking about how there were going to be no charges in this case.
00:25:20.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:25:21.000First, let us talk about the fact that these days, it seems like in a lot of major cities, violence is rising.
00:25:27.000And if you live in one of America's major cities, you can look around, you can see it in your daily lives.
00:25:32.000And now you're starting to see that chaos is starting to move out into the suburbs.
00:25:36.000If you're feeling unsafe these days, if you're a law-abiding citizen, now would be a good time to think about getting a firearm and, more importantly, knowing how to use it.
00:26:02.000You will learn in this guide how to detect attackers before they see you, how to survive a mass shooting, the safest and most dangerous places to sit in a restaurant, how to responsibly own and store a gun, particularly if you have kids, and a whole lot more.
00:26:26.000Okay, now the reason I've been going through the Breonna Taylor fact pattern in great detail here is so that you know how full of crap our members of the media and celebrity class are.
00:26:36.000And now the reason I've been going through the Breonna Taylor fact pattern in great detail here is so that you know how full of crap our members of the media and celebrity class are.
00:26:46.000So Joy Reid, who's awful, and given a show on MSNBC, despite the fact that she has bad old tweets that would get anybody else canceled, but apparently somebody went back in time and hacked her blog back in like 2003.
00:26:57.000Anyway, she went on MSNBC and she says, this decision by Daniel Cameron, it's a Black Lives Don't Matter ruling.
00:27:06.000Then you explain to me how legal liability attaches to the legal performance of a no-knock raid that ends with somebody shooting at the cops and then returning fire and accidentally hitting a third party.
00:27:17.000Here was Joy Reid saying it's a Black Lives Don't Matter ruling.
00:27:19.000Again, the narrative overcomes the facts every time.
00:27:23.000This was a Black Lives Don't Matter ruling because they said that her life was irrelevant, that the life of her boyfriend who was in the apartment with her didn't matter, that he attempting to defend her was the crime.
00:27:38.000The potential crime was him trying to defend his castle.
00:27:56.000And you do not have the right to resist arrest.
00:27:59.000So it was unclear whether he thought he was resisting arrest, in which case they could have charged him with attempted murder of a police officer, or whether he thought that he was firing on somebody just randomly breaking into his apartment.
00:28:22.000I've noticed that you, are a black woman who has a show on a major national network, a huge social media presence, and you say stuff like this routinely to the seal-like clapping of your fellow media members.
00:28:34.000I don't remember that happening in the 1920s, when black people were literally being shot in the streets of Tulsa, Oklahoma for the sin of being black.
00:28:40.000I don't remember this happening in the 1920s, when black people were literally prevented from voting by white mobs.
00:28:48.000I don't remember this happening in the 1920s, when there were full legal regimes in place to prevent black people from drinking at the same water fountains as white people.
00:29:58.000It's just another instance as someone who works in the news media of there being, I would say now, three different justice systems.
00:30:06.000One for police officers, one for Americans of color, and one for white Americans.
00:30:11.000That's how folks will see it play out.
00:30:13.000But really, I think the real tragedy, I know the real tragedy is for Breonna Taylor's family.
00:30:18.000I mean, how I feel it's, you know, it's inconsequential to how that family must be feeling right now.
00:30:25.000Okay, when he says things like, you know, people are going to see this.
00:30:28.000People are going to see this like there's one system of justice for black people and one system of justice for white people.
00:30:32.000Why are people going to feel that way, Don?
00:30:33.000Could it be because you didn't report the facts of the case?
00:30:35.000Could it be because you don't give two dams about the facts of the case?
00:30:38.000Could it be because you don't even bother with the legal analysis?
00:30:41.000I mean, meanwhile, MSNBC, again, repository of all virtue.
00:30:45.000They have Al Sharpton, a two-time Quasi-riot inciter and falsifier of actual criminal activity by Tawana Browley and blaming police and DAs for a false rape that never happened.
00:30:58.000This guy, they're bringing on MSNBC to talk about race-based cases.
00:31:56.000Whether they want conflict on the level of what happens after the election, as we'll see, or whether they want conflict when it comes to race-based violence in the country.
00:32:04.000MSNBC hosts a guy named Jason Johnson, and he literally says, You cannot go anywhere if you're black in America.
00:32:10.000You can't go anywhere if you're black in America to be safe.
00:32:13.000It's weird because there are 43 million black Americans.
00:32:15.000The number of unarmed black Americans who are shot by police every year numbers under 20.
00:32:20.000But apparently if you're black in America, you literally can go nowhere, anywhere to be safe in America.
00:32:27.000Cops busted into my house right now and shot me on the air.
00:32:32.000What Daniel Cameron basically told America is that that would be legal.
00:32:37.000If they thought that there was something wrong, I could be shot in broad daylight on national television in my house because the cops can break in and shoot whoever they want if they're concerned.
00:33:13.000So no, they can't do what Jason Johnson just said and bust down my door if they think something is wrong and then just shoot me in cold blood.
00:33:22.000But apparently, again, this is the media fomenting the idea that black Americans are living under the boot of white Americans in the same way that black Americans were living under the evils of white supremacy for at least several centuries of America's existence.
00:33:38.000MSNBC's Kristen Clark repeating this message.
00:33:40.000It's over and over and over and over again.
00:33:42.000And then you wonder why people are in the streets literally firing weapons at police officers, which is what happened in Louisville last night.
00:33:47.000This all culminates last night in violent protests that break out, including the shooting of two Louisville police officers.
00:33:56.000You rev people up to the pitch where you say that black people literally cannot be safe in America, that any black person in America, including prominent commentators on MSNBC, can be shot and murdered at any moment by white cops.
00:34:07.000And then you wonder how it is that violence breaks out.
00:34:09.000They know violence is going to break out and they do not give a damn apparently.
00:34:12.000I don't know how else to interpret this sort of irresponsible and insane commentary.
00:34:17.000Here's MSNBC's Kristen Clark explaining that racism infuses all policing.
00:34:24.000There are those who say, why are people protesting?
00:34:27.000Why does the Black Lives Matter movement exist?
00:34:30.000And it exists because of moments like this, when the system fails us as black people.
00:34:36.000It's an incredibly disappointing day and a reminder of the tremendous work that must be done to address the ways in which racism infects every aspect of policing, the criminal justice system, and our lives.
00:34:49.000Okay, except that you offer no prescription for removing racism from any of these things because you know full well this is not a system of racism.
00:34:59.000Not all tragedies are crimes and not all crimes have to do with racism.
00:35:04.000But in America, for the left, all tragedies are crimes and all crimes are indicative of an evil American system.
00:35:10.000The most insane comments of the day came courtesy of Sheryl Dorsey, another MS... MSNBC is just a trash heap.
00:35:15.000Sheryl Dorsey on MSNBC saying that the Attorney General of Kentucky, Daniel Cameron, because he's black, he's particularly bad because he's complicit in the system.
00:35:46.000I find all of his remarks with regards to this whole entire press conference offensive, and let me just speak to this whole celebrity influencer thing, while they can't speak for Kentuckians.
00:36:22.000A truly black person would recognize how deeply evil America is and that every incident, no matter what the underlying fact pattern, is indicative of that religious view that America is deeply evil and racist.
00:36:32.000As we will see, this results in an extraordinary amount of bad behavior that is quickly overlooked by the media, as well as a bunch of White liberal prostration before the sloganeering nonsense of the Black Lives Matter movement.
00:36:43.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:36:45.000First, let us talk about the fact that right now is a very bad time to go to an auto parts store.
00:37:51.000Okay, we're going to get to the violence that broke out last night in Louisville and the media's willingness to cover for it.
00:37:56.000We're also going to get to the Supreme Court and the very controversial Trump comments about whether he would hand over power if he loses the election.
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00:38:58.000So as the entire media predictably avoids mentioning the facts of the Breonna Taylor case in pursuit of a narrative that America is deeply evil and that Daniel Cameron is deeply evil and Donald Trump is deeply evil and the flag is deeply evil and you should kneel for all of these things.
00:39:18.000And that you should go out in the streets, right?
00:39:20.000You shouldn't get violent guys against the system that has its boot on your neck, but you should definitely protest.
00:39:26.000Shockingly, people both protest and also get violent.
00:39:28.000Who could have predicted such a thing except for anyone with a functioning prefrontal cortex?
00:39:32.000So, last night in New York City, thousands of people marching in New York City.
00:39:36.000I will say I am deeply amused by the fact that the media continue to do this sort of mask-shaming, crowd-shaming thing.
00:39:43.000Yeah, if they were on the beach, you wouldn't be shouting that, would you?
00:39:45.000You'd be talking about the evils of Ron DeSantis.
00:39:47.000crowds show up in order to protest whatever the media liked that day and egg on that day.
00:39:52.000And they're like, oh, no problem at all. So here are thousands of people in New York City who are marching. I mean, they literally can't go to work.
00:39:58.000There's thousands of people in close proximity to one another. And people like, oh, well, they're wearing masks. I mean, they're wearing masks. Yeah.
00:40:04.000If they were on the beach, wouldn't be shouting that, would you? You'd be talking about the evils of Ronda Santas. OK, meanwhile, over in Louisville, people showed up on mass, of course, and decided to protest.
00:40:17.000They had organized violent activity planned.
00:40:20.000I mean, there was tape yesterday circulating in the middle of the day.
00:40:23.000A U-Haul literally just shows up on the streets of Louisville, and people start unloading shields and batons and all sorts of fun stuff.
00:40:31.000And this is Black Lives Matter protesters unloading signs that say, abolish the police with the anarchist symbols, Zantifa members who are wearing all of their black gear.
00:42:03.000Hey, look, it was time to go and loot an antique store.
00:42:06.000I mean, some of us just need an antique, guys.
00:42:09.000They were looting a place called, it looks like, Andrew Gentile Antiques.
00:42:12.000People literally just going and knocking over chairs, and I mean, if you need an Ottoman to protest Breonna Taylor's death, you need an Ottoman gang.
00:42:23.000Now we know that last night two police officers were shot in Louisville.
00:42:27.000According to Reuters, Louisville on Thursday braced for a second night of protests after two police officers were shot during demonstrations over a decision by a grand jury to bring no direct charges against policemen in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor.
00:42:38.000The protests erupted in the Kentucky city on Wednesday immediately after the state AG announced none of the three white officers involved in a deadly botched raid on Taylor's apartment would have to face charges of causing the black woman's death.
00:42:48.000One officer was indicted on charges of endangering her neighbors because he fired at a wall.
00:42:52.000Civil rights activists decried the outcome as a miscarriage of justice in keeping with a nationwide pattern of unwarranted police violence against minorities.
00:43:00.000The demonstration, now the headlines are just wonderful here.
00:43:02.000The demonstration that started peacefully on Wednesday night turned violent after dark when two officers were shot and wounded.
00:43:07.000Police arrested 127 people in Louisville.
00:43:29.000Demonstrations in Louisville wore on past nightfall in defiance of a 9 p.m.
00:43:32.000curfew and remained mostly peaceful until several gunshots rang out in the midst of a skirmish between protesters and heavily armed police.
00:43:39.000Oh, several gunshots rang out, you see.
00:43:43.000And also, it was mostly peaceful until people shot cops.
00:43:47.000The media are actively downplaying violence.
00:43:49.000The media are actively covering for violence.
00:43:51.000They're saying that the more rageful you are, the more justified is your rage.
00:43:54.000That is the argument that is being made.
00:43:56.000It's disgusting, it's wrong, and it is undergirded by another disgusting wrong idea, which is that America is brutally, viciously, unalterably racist, and that every incident, no matter the fact pattern, is indicative of that racism.
00:44:08.000Now, the good news is that this makes middle-aged white ladies feel real good about themselves.
00:44:12.000There's some middle-aged white ladies who feel really, really good about themselves for being able to declare their dissociation from the rest of evil white America.
00:44:19.000Apparently, one of these people is the president of Ohio University, of Ohio State, rather, the Ohio State University.
00:44:27.000Her name is Christina M. Johnson, and she put out a statement after Breonna Taylor.
00:44:32.000Again, remember, this happened in Kentucky.
00:44:37.000President Christina M. Johnson explaining, we cannot accept this verdict.
00:44:42.000We can't accept it, you see, because she's a woke white lady.
00:44:45.000And as a woke white middle-aged lady who is speaking a foreign language, Reading off the cue cards printed for her by Robin DiAngelo and Imbram X. Kendi.
00:44:54.000And to be anti-racist means, of course, to tear down the systems.
00:44:57.000So I guess that she's going to have to take those diplomas off the wall.
00:44:59.000She's going to have to give up that office to somebody black in the name of racial justice.
00:45:03.000And she's going to have to abdicate her position and make sure that all subjects at Ohio State University are advised to teach the social justice warrior nonsense that Kendi would love.
00:45:13.000Here is the president of The Ohio State University participating in the death of intellectualism at the highest level.
00:45:20.000We grieve the tragic and senseless loss of Breonna Taylor, a daughter, a friend, a niece, a loved one, who was unarmed and asleep.
00:45:32.000The breakdown in the justice system and the killings of unarmed black and brown people in our country has become all too familiar, tragically.
00:45:41.000This isn't going to stop until we create an anti-racist world.
00:45:45.000We must come together to draw strength from each other and advance our collective vision for a better world where we one day have justice for all.
00:45:54.000Well, you know, why don't you read up those cue cards?
00:45:56.000The Maoist struggle sessions have begun.
00:45:58.000We have to create an anti-racist world, an anti-racist world.
00:46:01.000Okay, so I very much look forward to the federal investigation of Ohio State University for its complicity in systemic racism, the same way that Princeton is now being investigated for racism since they admitted they're complicit in systemic racism.
00:46:37.000That means the system is racist and so you have to have performative wokeness by a bunch of elite white people talking about how they can Regain the moral high ground simply by declaring themselves part of the anti-racist movement.
00:46:48.000Now, the thing is that they can never declare themselves fully anti-racist.
00:46:53.000He says you can never reach the level of anti-racism.
00:46:56.000You can try to cleanse those racist thetans over and over and over, but until you continue to pay the price.
00:47:01.000Eventually, you might be clear, but that's in the far future.
00:47:04.000And even then, you're not really clear because we can always point back to the fact that you are complicit in your own whiteness, even if you are unconsciously complicit in your own whiteness.
00:47:11.000At no point do you have to offer any proof of your position if you're Ibram X. Kendi.
00:47:14.000You don't have to offer a single iota of data to back your position that anti-racist training makes America less racist.
00:47:24.000The media participate in this religious practice.
00:47:26.000It is a religious practice to believe that America is racist based on a case in which a woman is shot accidentally by police officers returning fire in a no-knock raid.
00:47:51.000Now, the good news is that we can always count on our politicians, particularly those in the Democratic Party, to really focus in on the true cause of the violence we're watching in our major cities.
00:48:59.000Okay, so that was, this is story of the day number one.
00:49:02.000The other controversy of the day, in which the media have been promulgating and pushing the possibility of violence, is the story that President Trump is not going to leave peacefully.
00:49:10.000Now, show of hands, how many people truly believe that the President is not gonna leave peacefully if he loses the election?
00:49:22.000Just gonna put it out there, you're all full of crap.
00:49:24.000None of you in the media believe that Trump won't leave peacefully if he loses.
00:49:27.000If he loses, he will be ushered out of office.
00:49:29.000And he'll be ushered out of office, whether he likes it or not.
00:49:32.000He is not going to hole up in the Oval Office, Al Pacino style at the end of Scarface, snorting lines and firing guns through the door and shouting about That's not what's going to happen.
00:50:10.000They've been promoting this for months now.
00:50:12.000The only people who gamed out the possibility, by the way, of actually involving themselves in some sort of resistance with the use of the military is John Podesta.
00:50:20.000He actually went through the full exercise of what happens if there's a divide between the Electoral College and the popular vote again, and then there are a bunch of rogue electors, and then California decides to break away from the federal government.
00:50:29.000They went through that actual exercise.
00:50:32.000We have seen leftists fantasizing about the possibility of violence after the election so as to justify their preparation for violence after the election.
00:50:40.000There's a long article in the Atlantic, like a super long article in the Atlantic by Barton Gellman called The Election That Could Break America.
00:50:47.000If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result.
00:51:16.000Then suppose Trump declares an emergency.
00:51:18.000Federal personnel in battle dress staged nearby in advance.
00:51:21.000Move-ins restore law and order and secure the balloting.
00:51:24.000Amid ongoing clashes, they stay to monitor the canvas.
00:51:26.000They close the streets that lead to the polls.
00:51:28.000They take custody of uncounted ballots in order to preserve evidence of fraud.
00:51:33.000Norm Ornstein of American Enterprise Institute says the president can't cancel the election, but what if he says, we're in an emergency and we're shutting down this area for a period of time because of the violence taking place?
00:51:42.000If you're in Trump's camp and heedless of boundaries, he said, what I would expect is you're not going to do one or two of those things.
00:51:48.000Barton Gelman says there are variations of the nightmare.
00:51:50.000The venues of intervention could be post offices.
00:51:53.000The predicate could be a putative intelligence report on forged ballots sent from China.
00:51:57.000And then he admits, this is speculation, of course, but none of these scenarios is far removed from things the president has already done or threatened to do.
00:52:06.000Well, he threatened to dispatch the National Guard to DC and send DHS to Portland, Oregon.
00:52:11.000He said he might invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy the U.S. military in order to protect life and property.
00:52:16.000The federal government has little basis to intercede during elections, but no one familiar with A.G. Bill Barr's view of presidential power should doubt he can find authority for Trump.
00:52:25.000Okay, so basically this is just a long masturbatory fantasy by Barton Gellman in the pages of The Atlantic talking about how Trump is going to steal the election.
00:52:34.000He's going to mess around with the Constitution in order to ensure that he remains in office.
00:52:39.000Now, what is the evidence that any of this is going to happen?
00:52:42.000First of all, he says, well, there are contingency plans.
00:52:44.000Like, if X, Y, and Z happens, then maybe there will be an attempt to invoke certain constitutional principles in order to prevent electors from voting or whatever.
00:52:52.000Democrats have already announced they have the same contingency plans.
00:52:57.000And by the way, worth noting, Hillary Clinton literally said, like a month ago, that under no circumstances should Joe Biden concede the election.
00:53:04.000Under no circumstances should he concede the election.
00:53:08.000So when we talk about discounting the results of the election, what do you think will be more probable?
00:53:12.000Violence in the streets if Trump wins or violence in the street if Trump loses?
00:53:15.000I think everyone knows the answer to this.
00:53:17.000You in the media know the answer to this too.
00:53:18.000Here was Hillary Clinton just a few weeks ago saying that Joe Biden should never concede the election ever under any circumstances.
00:53:26.000They have a couple of scenarios that they're looking toward.
00:53:30.000One is messing up absentee balloting so that they then get maybe a narrow advantage in the electoral college on election day.
00:53:40.000Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances because I think this is going to drag out.
00:53:48.000And eventually, I do believe he will win if we don't give an inch and if we are as This is amazing.
00:53:59.000Okay, we're seeing violence in the streets.
00:54:00.000Is it right-wing violence that we're seeing in the streets?
00:54:02.000We saw protests after the last election.
00:54:36.000So you can vote in person, but they were trying to claim that Trump had botched COVID, so you couldn't vote in person, so everybody should vote by mail, hoping that there would be an overwhelming balloting advantage in the mail-in ballots.
00:54:44.000Now they're realizing, oh, wait a second, a lot of people aren't going to bother voting by mail, and so you're going to end up with a lot of Trump voters who believe that COVID has been exaggerated by the media showing up to the polls.
00:54:54.000And voting, and our people aren't gonna show up.
00:54:56.000So now they're reversing themselves, and they're saying every Democrat should show up to vote in person.
00:55:08.000Democrats have put forward these bizarre conspiracy theories about how Trump is gonna foil the election by removing mailboxes, which is just absolute sheer bull crap, about how the post office doesn't have enough money to process mail-in balloting, which of course is absolute sheer nonsense.
00:55:21.000They've been complaining that Trump is going to somehow manipulate the systems of government in order to ensure that he never leaves office.
00:55:29.000Sure, there's no indicator that he's actually doing any of this.
00:55:32.000But, you know, you know, it could happen.
00:55:34.000And that's why we have to mobilize right now.
00:55:36.000And that's why we should never surrender, according to Hillary Clinton, to the rabid cheers of the MSNBC recount crowd.
00:55:42.000Which is my favorite part of that little Hillary Clinton quote, is the cutaway shot of the person asking her the question, literally raising her arms in triumph, as Hillary says, never concede the election.
00:55:52.000These are the same people who say that Stacey Abrams is still governor of Georgia.
00:56:32.000Many people are saying it's a very good idea.
00:56:34.000You could literally say anything to him.
00:56:36.000Mr. President, do you have a plan to create a giant drill down to the center of the earth and then harness the heat of the earth's core and use it for energy to power the grid?
00:56:46.000And Trump would be like, well, that's something I've never thought of.
00:57:03.000And this is why, when people ask him about QAnon and he doesn't know what the hell QAnon is, he'll be like, QAnon, they seem like good people, they like me, I mean, like, whatever, I mean, all I see is that they like me.
00:57:13.000That's how, and then be like, well, they say that you're preventing cannibalism.
00:57:16.000And he's like, well, you know, cannibalism is bad.
00:57:23.000Okay, he's not a tower, he's not quite a tower of Babel, but he's certainly a fountain of Babel.
00:57:28.000Right, out of that mouth emerged many things.
00:57:30.000Some of them are fully formed thoughts, many of them are not.
00:57:32.000Okay, so yesterday, on the aftermath of this Barton Gellman idiotic piece in The Atlantic, speculating that Trump is going to steal the election and all of this, Trump is asked about committing to a peaceful transfer of power.
00:57:45.000And Trump, who does not even compute the question, he, again, people are going to say that I'm defending Trump's comments.
00:57:52.000OK, no president should not say, there should not be any president who says anything other than, of course, if I lose an election, there will be a peaceful transfer of power, as there has been in every presidential election since the beginning of the republic.
00:58:11.000But again, am I going to take Trump super seriously on this stuff?
00:58:14.000Do I think that Trump is now getting ready in the basement of the White House tanks from the Secret Service to defend the White House against the encroachment of the incoming inaugural committee?
00:59:42.000Again, no president should say anything other than, of course, if I lose the election and it's legitimately held, then I will peacefully transfer power.
01:00:02.000But the media spin themselves into a frenzy because, again, this is the narrative they want.
01:00:05.000The narrative they want is that Trump is a threat.
01:00:08.000He's an authoritarian threat to the Republic.
01:00:10.000Now, Democrats are seriously, seriously talking.
01:00:13.000All of the Democratic leadership is currently talking about ending the filibuster, stacking the Senate, packing the court, They are talking openly about measures they can take post-election to resist.
01:00:24.000Okay, they are openly talking about this stuff.
01:00:26.000And then they go to Trump and they're like, and President Trump, what do you think?
01:00:29.000And then, in his own inimitable talk radio caller commenter way, they ask him like, so will you peacefully transfer?
01:00:34.000He's like, I like, you know, if the ballots are legit, sure.
01:00:36.000But if they're not, then you know what?
01:02:01.000For months, they have been claiming that Republicans are going to steal the election, that Orange Hitler is going to just maintain power no matter what.
01:02:08.000They've been saying this since 2015, right?
01:02:10.000They asked him the same question in 2015.
01:02:12.000Are you going to concede the election to Hillary Clinton if you lose?
01:02:15.000And he was like, no, we'll have to see.
01:02:16.000And then they're like, oh, that's terrible!
01:02:17.000And then they went and they asked Hillary and she's like, well, I wouldn't concede either, pretty much.
01:02:21.000And they were like, oh, well, that's OK.
01:02:39.000We'll be back a little bit later today with two additional hours of content, including commentary on Anthony Fauci's dust-up with Senator Rand Paul.
01:02:47.000So he and Rand Paul had a bit of a dust-up where Anthony Fauci said some things that were factually untrue.
01:02:52.000And he said them in pretty high-handed fashion, actually.
01:02:53.000We'll get to that a little bit later today, but you have to be a subscriber to check all of that out.
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