Jury deadlocked on the first charge in the case of former Marine Daniel Peaden, who is on trial for the murder of health insurance CEO Brian Thompson. Will he be acquitted? President Trump speaks on the matter and calls for a thorough investigation.
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00:09:22.900So one of the guys who I'm following, Joseph Rucker, who's there reporting, GB reporting at rotonmail.com, is writing, here's where we're at.
00:09:36.240He said this as of about 30 minutes ago.
00:09:38.780The jury indicated they're determining if Penny reasonably acted in self-defense or defense of others.
00:09:45.740If they agree that that's the case and they follow the judge's instructions, not guilty on both counts.
00:11:16.860No, and this was a – it goes back to Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:11:24.620It goes back to – again, the fact of the matter is we have this on film.
00:11:29.620And that's another case where, you know, another aspect of the case, which I think bears understanding, this idea that we now live in a society where we have constant surveillance, not just from video cameras, but, you know, that are, you know, on the streets for police or from, you know, hotel security like that other – the assassination from a couple of days ago of this UnitedHealthcare CEO.
00:11:56.100But instead, it's also surveillance from just people around us at all times.
00:12:03.740In fact, that's something that I'm, you know, quite known for.
00:12:06.920That if I – I always tell people these days, it's not see something, say something anymore.
00:12:12.280It's if you see something, film something.
00:12:14.700And so in this instance, we do have, from a variety of angles, all of this footage of the incident, and you can tell from all of it that it doesn't appear to me in any way that Daniel Penny is trying to do any harm to this individual other than simply restrain him until police can arrive.
00:12:45.840And, you know, Will, it's a huge question of where we're at in our society because we know that there have been these social justice narratives that have been pushed into this.
00:12:54.580People who say that, oh, we need to make it about race and the fact that it's a white man and a black man.
00:12:59.920But, Eric, you know, there's something – I'll put it this way, I guess.
00:13:23.540We're done with so many of these failed ideas.
00:13:26.180And people just want to get back to living in a society where we base people on – where we judge people based on the things that they do, on their behaviors and their actions rather than their immutable characteristics.
00:13:39.320I mean, listen, Jack, it's not too much to say that the madness we've been living through is demonic deception.
00:13:50.020Now, there are a lot of people that they don't believe in that.
00:13:52.260I believe in that, that there's demonic deception.
00:13:54.520When you think what happened in Germany in the 1930s – I wrote a book about Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
00:14:00.620A lot of people know there's a great film out right now about Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
00:14:05.240I recommend everybody go see it like ASAP because it's not going to be in theaters very long.
00:14:10.020But it tells the story of a nation's descent into madness.
00:14:14.440And when you think about what happened, it's definitely – there's a demonic angle.
00:14:19.080It's not – you can't explain it through psychology.
00:14:21.760And for America to go down the path of lunacy where we are mutilating children – could anybody dream that in America we would ever go that far?
00:15:24.440To see people as different, to suddenly think like, oh, I'm going to be in trouble because I'm white as opposed to I'm going to get a fair shake in America.
00:15:32.420I mean, we know that if people are in trouble because they're black, that you might not get a fair trial.
00:16:54.240If you are a person with conservative traditional values, if you're a Christian and you live in a place like New York City, most people at cocktail parties, they don't go there.
00:17:05.260They don't talk about the big questions.
00:17:07.020And I said, we need a forum in Manhattan called Socrates in the City because Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living.
00:17:15.360We need a forum where I can interview people, brilliant people, amazing people, about the big questions.
00:17:38.940A lot of people's lives have been changed through Socrates in the City over the years.
00:17:42.440I've had some of the greatest minds you can think of, amazing people in these conversations.
00:17:47.420And people can watch them at Socratesinthecity.com.
00:17:50.760Almost everything is available at Socratesinthecity.com.
00:17:54.320But at some point, I said, we need to do a book where I take some of the best conversations and we edit them and we put them in book form because some people, you know, just like to read or would like to kind of, you know, in your spare time, just kind of open it up and dip in.
00:18:08.920And so I picked eight of my favorite conversations over the years.
00:18:14.820And, you know, one of them is with the great Dick Cavett.
00:18:17.280He's become a friend talking about what's the price of fame?
00:18:19.680Do you pay a price for becoming famous?
00:18:21.980He's known some of the most famous people in the world.
00:42:52.340Is it true that the majority view him as innocent and want to quit him because they view him as having it in self-defense?
00:43:02.680So, of course, we're sticking with that.
00:43:04.800We are on top of that as much as absolutely possible.
00:43:08.800I'm just going to check back in with the reporter who was there, Joseph Rucker.
00:43:14.280And, no, I'm not seeing anything new just yet.
00:43:20.200But I will say, I'll just read you what he says, that the jury was asking the judge to elaborate on the reasonable person standard for the justification of self-defense, which would, of course, be a full acquittal.
00:43:33.580The judge clarifies the difference between an objective or subjective standard.
00:43:38.320He references People versus Getz, which created this test, that it was the case that Eric Votaxis referred to earlier of Bernie Getz, the subway vigilante.
00:43:48.700The reasonable person, quote, knows what the defendant knew in that situation.
00:43:54.240To be clear, the jury does not know that during the altercation, Neely had a warrant out from assaulting a woman on the subway because Daniel Penny would not have known.
00:44:59.260And so, about two hours ago, there was a rumor that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his family had fled the country.
00:45:07.460And this wasn't the first time that we heard this rumor because they said that about a week ago when the rebels, these Turkish-backed rebels that are being run by Turkish intelligence, according to reports, have been involved in this new offensive within Syria aimed at regime change.
00:45:26.400And we heard a lot of rumors, and I kept telling people, stay frosty, because you're going to hear a lot of rumors, and you're going to hear a lot of people saying that, oh, someone's been assassinated, someone's been killed, but ultimately, they turn out to be just fine.
00:45:40.360And by the same token, you're also hearing that the leader of the rebels had been killed.
00:45:47.780I guess with Daniel Penny, you could call it the fog of crime.
00:45:51.260Well, on Send Defender, or Send Defender on Twitter, posted a report saying, following earlier reports, that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his family had fled the country from possibly either Iran or the United Arab Emirates, Syrian state media is now claiming that Assad had just arrived in Tehran for a meeting with senior Iranian officials.
00:46:10.160And about 25 minutes later, right, Syrian channels are now denying that Assad is in Tehran, stating that he is monitoring the situation from Damascus.
00:46:22.460I mean, just another situation of, look, when you're in cases like this, when you're in situations like this, when you're trying to figure out the truth, when you're trying to suss out what exactly is going on, it's tough.
00:46:41.460But I will say the one thing that you do need to know, the one thing that is so important is that you absolutely need, you absolutely need to figure out what's happening, when it happens, and you need to stay frosty.
00:47:46.980He said, look, because you guys didn't exist back then.
00:47:50.360That independent media didn't exist, social media didn't exist, where you can disintermediate the power of mainstream media.
00:47:57.440So it used to be that a mainstream report, like, oh, the New Yorker, right?
00:48:01.700So the New Yorker comes out and says, oh, this guy's an absolute drunk, and NBC comes out and says, you know, he committed this, he committed that.
00:48:09.520Well, nowadays, we have the ability, through social media, through intermediation, and from some huge voices and huge names in social media, who can actually respond and get those messages out directly to people.
00:48:25.560That is why we've seen corporate media, legacy media, the regime, and so many of these, the blob as entities, as Mike Benz calls it.
00:48:35.080We did an entire show on blobology yesterday here to explain the reason behind all of it is that they don't like the political outcomes that are going on, and that's why they're trying to censor you.
00:48:47.620That's why they're trying to shut you down.
00:48:49.360That's why they don't want Elon Musk buying X, and that's why Elon Musk purchasing X has been the single greatest decision in terms of freedom in the last, easily, in the last five, ten years.
00:49:02.920And so, and it's very clear to me that President Trump's victory would not have happened without for that, because that gave people the ability to share the truth until the truth scale.
00:49:15.920And just from, on a personal note, from a, I guess, a programming note, I just wanted to say thank you to the audience, and thank you to the crew, the absolutely top-notch crew that we have here on the show on Human Events Daily.
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