Dave and Alex discuss the Lauer firing, the attack on conservative commentator Lucian Wintrich, and the "cannibalization of the right" by the left and the media. Plus, a story about a teacher who put a woman in a chokehold.
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00:02:02.000And you know, if you got fired like that, it was something big.
00:02:05.000He either grabbed a woman's genitalia, I'm guessing, or there's probably tons of emails of him flirting.
00:02:12.000There's some hard evidence here that he clearly copped you.
00:02:16.000No, I want to talk about Lucian Wintrich at UConn last night getting attacked and daring to grab his speech back after it was stolen from him.
00:02:27.000This is someone who's out there doing real news, doing real things.
00:02:50.000And then James O'Keefe, we're going to talk to him too.
00:02:53.000He got caught trying to infiltrate the Washington Post and the scoops that he got don't seem so amazing and he's being pilloried by the left and the right.
00:03:01.000That's what I really want to talk about also today is this cannibalization of the right.
00:03:17.000What is it about the right wing that demands perfection?
00:03:21.000I don't understand this punching right thing, and I'm kind of envious of the left and their intense unity.
00:03:26.000We have this thing, and it's a despicable trait, to sit on your couch and tweet out criticism to people who are on the front lines, especially when they're right wing.
00:03:39.000I repeat this story a lot, but at Fox News, when Rush Limbaugh called Sandra Fluck a slut, I remember being in the green room and hearing people going, oh, you shouldn't have stooped to that level using that kind of language.
00:03:47.000And I thought, maybe I'm not a conservative after all.
00:03:50.000Maybe I'm calling myself new right for a reason.
00:03:53.000I hate this intense need for perfection, for decency, for taking the high road.
00:06:02.000They called her a white slag, and they beat her within an inch of her life.
00:06:06.000Ezra Levant started a fund for her, Save Nikki.
00:06:10.000And you think, this is the issue here.
00:06:13.000And even to Richard Chambers, I tweeted, I go, acid attacks are at an all-time high.
00:06:17.000And he goes, actually, this is about, that's about gangs.
00:06:20.000So they are tripping over themselves to justify Muslim violence and then criticize certain retweets from conservatives retweeting other people Who are too conservative, and they're totally and utterly blind to extremist Islam and the alt-left.
00:07:52.00099% of what they record gets flushed down the toilet.
00:07:57.000But you got Ben Shapiro after criticizing Lucian, he's also criticizing James O'Keefe, retweeting a Daily Beast article.
00:08:08.000Am I the only one here who sort of smells this Never Trumper thing where you try to impress the left and make them your friend?
00:08:15.000I remember I went to a national review dinner and someone from the New York Times was there.
00:08:19.000And they were all tripping over themselves to please the New York Times writer and make sure they weren't known as racist or right-wing or anti-Semitic or eugenicist or whatever the hell other phobia we have.
00:08:30.000And I said, we're talking about, you know, terrorism and why do they do this?
00:08:53.000Isn't the Hill supposed to be remotely right of center?
00:08:56.000Will Summer is just sort of like this parasite that floats through your entrails, trying to catch you slipping up, trying to spot hate on the right.
00:09:05.000Yeah, I told him the other day, I go, you're a Bigfoot chaser.
00:09:33.000The FBI used his footage when he went across the border as Osama bin Laden.
00:09:38.000Like, if he's so irrelevant, if he's so unprofessional, why do people keep getting fired when they're exposed?
00:09:44.000If the NPR guy who said he hated Trump, he hated middle America and was happy to work with extremist Muslims, if he was just kidding, why did he get fired?
00:09:56.000Why does the teachers union get exposed for saying you'd have to say the N-word to get fired here?
00:10:03.000The list goes on and on with his accomplishments.
00:10:06.000But once again, the less you accomplish, the more you tend to trivialize others' accomplishments.
00:10:12.000And it's something I really don't enjoy about the right.
00:10:15.000And I don't understand why this is such a nothing burger.
00:10:19.000This is someone at the Washington Post saying that there's no evidence that Trump colluded with Russia, and we don't quite have anything yet.
00:10:27.000Our reporting has not taken us to a place where I would be able to say with any confidence that the result of it is going to be the president being guilty of being in collude with the Russians.
00:10:47.000There's no evidence of that that I've seen so far.
00:12:34.000We've just launched another video this morning.
00:12:36.000I don't know if you saw last night I did kind of like a who's coming next and I had four faces.
00:12:41.000And now every single blue checkmark account, every Twitter account in the world was attacking me.
00:12:47.000And now they've just gone dead silent because they're being exposed.
00:12:50.000The national security correspondent for the Washington Post was just exposed this morning, just 10 minutes ago, saying the Russia story is an effing black box, basically calling it a nothing burger, saying they don't have anything.
00:13:03.000He's the beat reporter for the Washington Post, saying the Russia story is nothing.
00:13:07.000So, yes, they're going to spray paint our building, call of our employees, ambush us, and so forth, but we're not going to stop.
00:13:14.000But this is confusing because the backlash is so intense here.
00:13:19.000And I just think it's a Washington Post story.
00:13:23.000One of your people got busted, and that's pretty de-rague.
00:13:27.000I'm honestly confused why you're getting backlash from the right.
00:13:31.000We got Ben Shapiro and Alapundit and when Will Sommer and all these people.
00:13:37.000This is a trend actually in the past 24 hours.
00:13:39.000They're attacking you, Trump for Britain First, and Lucian Wintrich for being too ornery when he got his script stolen.
00:13:47.000Why is the right so eager to attack the right?
00:13:50.000You know, I don't think that what we're doing at Viratas is a right-wing endeavor.
00:13:57.000We're just exposing truth and what these people say in their own words.
00:14:00.000A lot of people like Brent Bezell, I don't want to speak ill of these folks, but I've sent them direct emails and I've been saying, guys, do you understand that this is an existential fight?
00:14:09.000This is an existential holy war here against the most powerful people in the world.
00:14:58.000I say, hey, Ben, here's our new video.
00:15:00.000If you're going to attack us, talk about what we're exposing.
00:15:03.000It is, it's confusing because they say, oh, this Washington Post thing, it's a nothing burger in itself.
00:15:10.000And I go, well, yeah, so far, it's not Watergate, but it's like Woody Allen said he had a bad movie one year and he goes, I make a movie a year.
00:15:46.000If these stories are so irrelevant, why is everyone getting fired?
00:15:50.000Why are the teachers' unions totally changing the way they do business?
00:15:53.000Well, when you have to spend your life behind a microphone making declarative value judgments and using, I don't know, virtue signaling to cast aspersions onto people.
00:16:27.000Sometimes you don't get the story, but even Greg Gutfield on the five yesterday was sort of attacking us, but he said, you know, Veritas is sort of pioneering here.
00:17:11.000And in many ways, Veritas is sort of pioneering a new type of journalism.
00:17:16.000And we have to establish some precedent here.
00:17:19.000And the precedent is I'm not going to talk about, and it's very easy to assign motives to us, but I'm not going to talk about those motives.
00:17:26.000I'm only going to talk about what we expose.
00:17:30.000Well, James, at least you're out there on the front lines.
00:17:33.000And I think those of us who sit behind a desk and tweet from our couches should at least accept a sort of second-tier position as critics of those who are on the front lines out there in the field.
00:17:54.000And thank you for, and make sure you tweet the video out.
00:17:56.000This is a new video exposing national correspondent from the Washington Post, basically saying the Russia story is, there's no story there.
00:18:04.000So I think people need to see this video.
00:19:18.000The beauty of millennials and the internet is there's footage of everything.
00:19:22.000So this woman, whom I believe, rumor has it, that the student that was attacked is actually an associate director of career services and advising named Catherine Gregory.
00:19:35.000This woman is at Quinnebag Community College.
00:22:42.000And literally within seconds, we saw Yukon police swarming Wintrich, throwing him into handcuffs.
00:22:48.000He was then whisked away to a women's restroom where they held him for about 45 minutes before it was okay to get him out of here to a waiting police car and take him away.
00:22:58.000By the way, I have to identify the elephant in the room.
00:23:12.000Now, inside, during the speech, there were several interruptions, students yelling out, chanting, go home, Nazi, and other comments being made during the speech.
00:23:22.000I mean, it was literally out of control.
00:23:25.000Now, just a moment ago, we had a chance to speak to an eyewitness who witnessed this assault.
00:23:30.000TAKE A LISTEN TO WHAT SHE HAD TO TELL US.
00:23:33.000HE WENT FROM I mean, this is fake news.
00:23:40.000Journalists are terrible at their job, and they also rely on liars who are terrible at telling the truth.
00:24:01.000It's obscene that a person that's supposed to be a White House correspondent, he's supposed to be representing our country and what our democracy and press and what freedom of the press is supposed to stand for act like that.
00:26:30.000He said, he's talking about America supporting tens of millions of illegal, unskilled aliens.
00:26:35.000I mean, I don't even see how that's remotely controversial.
00:26:37.000And they erupt into a screaming match.
00:26:40.000Yeah, it was crazy and wild all night.
00:26:44.000People started lining up at the building around 7 o'clock.
00:26:48.000There were groups of people coming all over from not even just at the school, from what I saw.
00:26:53.000The building was completely surrounded.
00:26:55.000There were cops everywhere, students chanting, kids knocking on the windows.
00:27:00.000I had no idea that this was going to be as crazy as it did.
00:27:04.000I thought when I was going to watch, I was like, oh, hey, I'm going to listen to this guy, Lucy Wintrich, and we were going to get his presentation.
00:27:20.000If you're going to a talk, a talk ideally, I know this doesn't always turn out as you want it, but a talk ideally is like a movie theater and people have their Q ⁇ A at the end and that's when they get to talk, just like when you're screening a movie.
00:27:34.000But this was non-stop screaming and yelling from the very beginning.
00:27:39.000It sounded like, say you were on a bus going on a trip to Seattle and the bus broke down in the middle of the highway and people were talking about what they should do, going, why are you in charge?
00:28:02.000Lucian at one point during the live stream, I don't know if you saw this, walked over to one of the security officers who were, from what I was told from other people at the event, they were there to stop that from happening.
00:28:14.000But they ended up just watching and they even let the kids get very close to him at all.
00:28:20.000Although I actually even heard though that the lady who took Lucian's script from the event was actually a student here, but a professor at another college.
00:28:30.000Yeah, that's what Lucian was saying on Twitter.
00:28:36.000I mean, let's just look at this again.
00:29:15.000There's this John Glazer looking dude who comes up and he says that was a real crap monologue, really fourth rate, and starts berating him.
00:29:22.000I don't know how you're supposed to do a good talk with 200 people screaming at you.
00:29:28.000But then this woman, she chickens out first, but on the way back, she grabs his script.
00:29:33.000And this woman, you're saying, is possibly an assistant professor or something or a professor?
00:29:38.000Yeah, apparently she is a professor, also an advisor, I believe, for Quinnipiac Valley Community College.
00:30:47.000It's not like he's trying to strangle her.
00:30:49.000But he's immediately grabbed by the police.
00:30:52.000And you'll notice that's the only time they come to action is when Lucian stands up for himself.
00:30:56.000And I thought one of the really interesting quote I heard from the mob during that kerfuffle was them say, well, so much for the tolerant right.
00:31:11.000No, it was actually hilarious because a lot of students, including myself, as we were trying to get into the building, were getting screamed at asking if we were members of the organization that brought the Lucian to school, asking us where some of us even lived and whatnot.
00:31:26.000So I thought that was really interesting, especially when they were pounding on one of the walls so it broke.
00:31:51.000As we were trying to leave the building, I was approached by several of the other students asking me and one of my friends who I went with where we lived.
00:32:01.000Did we bring the speaker to the school and whatnot, trying to get an idea of who we were.
00:32:04.000And I was just, I just kept on walking.
00:32:07.000I wasn't going to give my information to an angry pack of 20-something people.
00:32:13.000Yeah, you're not going to give a mob of people your residence.
00:32:35.000I believe Lucian said he was going to upload the full entire speech onto his website at some point so that people could see everything in that speech.
00:32:47.000It's being, in my opinion, pretty represented unfairly by a lot of the students who attended, especially because I didn't even give him a chance to speak in the first place.
00:32:55.000I think he maybe got out a sentence or two without people screaming over him.
00:32:59.000Yeah, I mean, I watched it last night.
00:33:00.000He'd say a sentence, it would be remotely controversial, then there'd be screaming and yelling, and everyone gets their two cents.
00:33:07.000Like, we're a nation of immigrants, and these people are human beings, and you created the system.
00:33:12.000And again and again, jumping up, showing off their t-shirts.
00:33:16.000I mean, it was like at Harvard Lampoon when someone gets indoctrinated into, becomes a member of Harvard Lampoon, and the guy does a speech, and everyone gets to yell out things.
00:33:27.000It was like, it wasn't even meant to be a speech.
00:34:50.000Yeah, we've gone over the video 100 times so far, and there's been rumors of chokeholds and everything.
00:34:56.000It is abundantly clear that you grabbed the backpack, pulled her back, and were 100% focused on the script, which you got back.
00:35:04.000Which, if you look at the footage, I'm holding, I did get it back.
00:35:07.000I'm holding the script as I'm being escorted out.
00:35:11.000Now, these campus security folks, the entire time they allowed that escalation to take place, they allowed people to bum rush the stage, steal the speech, and they only react after I pull it back.
00:36:44.000The cops had to hide me in a restroom for, what, an hour and a half while I'm cuffed, while windows are being shattered and smoke bombs are being thrown into the building.
00:36:55.000So for that hour, all the fire alarms are ringing.