After 326 days in captivity, hostage Khad Farhan al-Khadi was rescued by Israeli commandos. A man was arrested for allegedly stabbing a 14-year-old girl who was watching her brother's baseball game in Lowell, Tennessee. The tranifesto of a transgender woman named Audrey Hale has been released.
00:01:56.080Lake County, where the sheriff says a man is under arrest for stabbing a teenager.
00:02:00.240Investigators say 26-year-old DeMoss Gabriel Yanez was taken into custody.
00:02:05.280Deputies tell us he was in the process of cutting his hair to change his appearance when he was arrested.
00:02:10.720They say Yanez stabbed a 14-year-old girl who was watching her brother's baseball game in Lowell over the weekend.
00:02:17.880Investigators believe he's been involved in criminal activity since illegally returning to the U.S.
00:02:23.24028 years old, Audrey Hale, born a woman, identified, though, as a transgender man, according to police.
00:02:29.400Now, police say this was a targeted and premeditated attack.
00:02:33.400Nashville's police chiefs said Hale had left a manifesto, and they were investigating signs that Hale's transgender identity was somehow intertwined with the motive in this despicable, deadly shooting.
00:02:44.800Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily here live, Washington, D.C.
00:02:50.440Today is September 3rd, 2024, Anno Domini.
00:03:21.660And if you go to, if you type Audrey Hale, go try this right now, type Audrey Hale into your Google box, into your Google machine, and it will spit back Aiden Hale with a almost boyish looking photo.
00:03:35.220So it's more important for Google to make sure that they respect the preferred pronouns and nomenclature of an individual who murdered and slaughtered Christian children in their school than to actually, you know, you don't want to be offensive.
00:03:57.260You don't want to offend the mass child murderer.
00:04:45.680I waste too much time in my fantasies.
00:04:47.840The country is not accepting of trans.
00:04:51.300So now, because of you, meaning the country because of America, I wish death upon myself because of the most pure hatred of my female gender.
00:05:00.900With no rights, anyone's country is a dictatorship.
00:05:04.660There's also something very strange here because there's love letters in this thing.
00:22:46.400So this is a huge, a huge piece of it that not a lot of people understand is that Vanderbilt's psychiatric unit had been treating Audrey Hale.
00:22:56.100And this is something where people don't understand because of the photos that are used.
00:24:50.160And I mean, I understand that that may be a question early on in a case like this.
00:24:54.400But with zero evidence to point to that, you probably have to move on to other factors.
00:24:58.480And I think that it's very obvious that when somebody is suffering from mental health issues for that many years,
00:25:04.34020 some odd years essentially of their life, that you can very quickly go, OK, well, maybe this is not just abuse.
00:25:10.300Maybe this is just a mental health issue that this person is suffering from and take appropriate precautions.
00:25:15.120One of the things that was said in this, these new writings that we we had access to today,
00:25:21.000it's a day without a father will be a better day.
00:25:23.500I don't believe that Audrey's father was ever alerted to that kind of rhetoric, especially coupled with the threats of violence.
00:25:30.920So let's say that Audrey helped did not go and shoot this school up.
00:25:34.760The father is there and vulnerable if this person is bent on committing violence.
00:25:40.460And that was very clear by some of the things that they have said in the media about some of the writings outside of this.
00:25:47.260Then obviously alerting the family and saying, hey, by the way, you probably want to be on guard.
00:25:51.500Things are a little unstable and violence may be committed against you.
00:25:55.000At the very least, that should have been something that happened.
00:25:57.460And I don't believe to this day that they were ever notified or there's any record of them being notified.
00:26:02.240Hey, your daughter is a danger to potentially kill you one day in your own home.
00:26:06.400Now, I don't know what would have happened, but I do know that this person, Audrey Hale, went into a school and shot three nine-year-olds and three teachers that day.
00:26:17.680But there's a lesson that we can all learn from this.
00:26:20.140I'm a sports guy. And so when college football season starts, I love talking about college football.
00:26:24.160When somebody does something wrong in college football, like the SMU Mustangs, when they got the death penalty for buying players, essentially, they get made an example of.
00:26:32.960So everybody else fixes their behavior.
00:26:35.800What has happened here is that Vanderbilt hasn't been made an example of so that other hospitals across the country don't put on the kid gloves when it's a trans issue and go, hey, hey, hey, we have a duty to report.
00:26:45.540Make sure you report instead of being afraid of getting sued, instead of being afraid of having somebody be offended that you said, hey, somebody that's got a trans ideology and is threatening violence may need to be reported.
00:26:56.920We need people to understand this is a problem.
00:27:00.720We need hospitals to be able to make the phone call to the police when it's necessary and not shy away from it.
00:27:05.960And we also need to know, was Audrey talking with anybody else?
00:27:09.520Are there groups of these people out there that have the same kind of thoughts and are just waiting for an opportunity, maybe waiting for an anniversary of this shooting to go out and commit one of their own?
00:27:19.320All of that would be great for the public so that we can understand how to address the problem better and be safer.
00:27:24.460And they're depriving us of all of that.
00:27:26.580Well, and my big question in reading some of the pages that have been released this morning that Crowder put up and what I've seen subsequently, there seem to be love notes or love letters that at one point I wasn't sure.
00:27:42.080Maybe it was like the female gender writing a love letter to the male gender and it was she was writing them to herself or something.
00:27:48.400But but but as you go through, it actually does seem that, you know, I will see you again someday.
00:27:54.820I'm not sure what that is, but it does seem to be written to another person, which could speak to a lot, certainly could speak to a lot of things.
00:28:03.340And the idea potentially that someone else may have known about this prior to this going on.
00:28:10.700And again, as you say, it's a duty to report, by the way, writing journals and writing these diaries is a key aspect of therapy.
00:28:20.780This is also why Ashley Biden had wrote her written her diary.
00:28:24.120And so the idea being that, you know, these are being done as a form of treatment.
00:28:28.540And yet we know there there's schematics of the school being written up.
00:28:48.620I want to kill those kids with the white kids with their golden locks or the golden hair like this was obviously targeted at Christian white children.
00:28:56.000There's some things that were written in here, too, about white nothingness and white privilege, embarrassment of self that that Audrey wrote about.
00:29:03.900And then another one that we didn't talk a whole lot about today, but I think Patrick brought this up, was that she described it in some, I guess, some detail.
00:29:12.160I haven't read it specifically, an imaginary penis and things that she would like to do with that imaginary penis.
00:29:18.200And so at the very least, you know, that you have somebody who is mentally not capable of making kind of very rational decisions right now, talking about being violent, talking about things that if I brought up or you brought up in conversation, people would naturally be worried about.
00:29:33.500And it doesn't seem like the proper precautions were taken.
00:29:45.260And this is one that just got through and unfortunately ended horribly.
00:29:49.000But if not, then there needs to be accountability.
00:29:51.320That is what we need accountability in this country for us to be able to trust any institution.
00:29:56.520I don't know that there's one that I can name that I do trust right now because there doesn't seem to be any accountability.
00:30:01.580And this doesn't make the case any better, especially when you still hide and do not release this.
00:30:07.960And when the FBI is still wanting this information not to be released, the spiral notebook that contained more about the day of issues that we released two pages of.
00:30:17.540But there, I think, around 90, 80 something more pages out there of that.
00:30:21.360I don't know why they're trying to keep this information from us.
00:30:23.700I understand it's difficult for the families and I my heart goes out to the families affected by this.
00:31:41.300Sidney Shims and her other friend was talking about this, that she was very close to Sidney Sheer Sims.
00:31:49.140The latter passed away just a few months before the shooting in a car accident.
00:31:54.560And that essentially this was someone she had been very close with and someone who had been killed just a few months prior to the shooting.
00:32:05.660And so the, you know, the speculation could be that that may be who Audrey was addressing in some of these letters.
00:32:13.740Michael Patrick Leahy of the Tennessee Star, who fought tirelessly to get this release, joins us now.
00:33:00.200We've released the last three months of her writings in the 2023 journal.
00:33:05.360The document that was found in her vehicle on the day of the murders, we released that today.
00:33:13.380We'd asked the Metro National Government to release all of her writings, which would be these 90 pages.
00:33:21.780She had 20 other journals, about 1,000 pages that they found at her house that afternoon on March 27, 2023.
00:33:29.500By the way, there was an FBI agent there in addition to Metro National Police Department.
00:33:33.660And also, she left behind a spiral notebook in the vehicle, which was more of an operational plan of attack.
00:33:42.280We want to get all of those documents because I think it's in the public interest to understand what motivated this mass killing.
00:33:51.040And the bottom line is, if you read everything that we put out, Jack, the problem here is, I think, a failure of the mental health system in Metro Nashville.
00:34:02.100And, you know, she was been treated by Vanderbilt University Medical Center for psychiatric problems for 22 years.
00:34:08.860She had, in fact, according to the documents that we obtained from the investigation, legally, by the way, she had told her therapists that she wanted to kill her father and that she wanted to participate in a mass murder at a school.
00:34:24.620So they failed in their duty to warn, which could have possibly changed things.
00:34:29.880And so we filed, we wanted to know this.
00:34:32.640It's in the public interest to understand this.
00:34:35.060We filed, we first asked politely from Metro Nashville Police.
00:34:40.260So then we filed a lawsuit in accordance with Tennessee Public Records Act.
00:34:44.180That lawsuit was filed in May of 2023.
00:34:46.360Three, we also filed a separate lawsuit, because the FBI has all these documents as well, against the FBI in federal court.
00:34:55.020The state court basically obtained all of these writings and other documents and reviewed them in camera for a little over a year.
00:35:04.280And finally, on July the 4th of this year, ruled that they couldn't be released because there's a statutory exception to the Tennessee Public Rules Records Act, which is ongoing investigation.
00:35:15.300And then they invented a non-statutory exception, which will be denied on appeal, in my view.
00:35:23.980That is, that they claimed that the copyright of the writings of the killer, who they claimed died and tested, were transferred from the parents of the killer to an intervening group.
00:35:37.180And they have asserted a copyright ownership, even though their ownership is very dubious, and they don't have any copyright claim here, because that's a federal issue, not a state issue.
00:35:46.940Nonetheless, the state court didn't release these documents, and we've appealed it in the state court.
00:35:52.080And so, you know, we got them, actually, we got these independently, legally, in June of 2024, while the state case was going on.
00:36:04.160We withheld the publication, even though we had the First Amendment right to do so, for three months.
00:36:10.440And the reason was, first, we want to let the state court play out.
00:36:14.880They made a bad decision, which we're appealing.
00:36:17.940And secondly, because, you know, remember that judge hauled me into court on phony charges of contempt of court, claiming falsely that I violated court order.
00:36:28.900When I was hauled into court, she changed her mind.
00:36:31.340But she could still kind of resurrect that false claim.
00:36:34.320So we had to have a legal defense fund to cover that possibility.
00:36:37.500And then there would be still a possibility that there might be a copyright infringement, a frivolous case brought against us by the intervening group that claims to own the copyright.
00:36:50.500Now we are represented by Harmeet Dillon's group, and we feel pretty comfortable that that frivolous lawsuit would not go anywhere.
00:36:58.720Our First Amendment rights have been chilled, but it took us that long to be able to be prepared legally for the onslaught that might possibly happen against us for exercising our First Amendment right.
00:37:19.860As you know, the FBI wrote a memo to Metro National Police Chief in May of 2023.
00:37:27.360Three, the title of the memo is the three page memo came out of the Behavioral Assessment Unit in Quantico, Virginia.
00:37:33.600The title of the memo was Protection of Legacy Tokens.
00:37:38.600You may not have ever heard of a legacy token, Jack, but a legacy token is FBI language.
00:37:44.620They just invented for any writings or social media postings or any documents of a mass murderer.
00:37:51.940And in that three page memo to the chief of police here, they said you can never release this because it might there might be copycats, number one.
00:38:00.740But in addition to copycats, it might have a negative impact on vulnerable groups, i.e. transgenders.
00:38:21.680So they were worried that the writings could potentially be, I don't know, found offensive by members of the transgender community.
00:38:34.060And yet we hear directly from these writings, we see directly from these writings that this that this act was taken out because of of hatred for the world for not accepting transgenderism.
00:38:47.580Again, we know, by the way, that this shooting took place right around the trans day of violence in March of 2023, when the trans community called for a trade or members, radical members of the trans community called for this trans day of violence.
00:39:04.300And then immediately after this Christian school was shot up right in Nashville, Tennessee, I don't think that the motive had to be protecting the public.
00:39:15.100I think the motive was trying to play political games with the lives of our children.