EPISODE 363： THE WORLD ON THE BRINK
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In this episode of the China Files, we continue our series on the current events unfolding in the world, including China's latest military provocation to Taiwan, and why Xi Jinping is looking to Taiwan specifically right now. Why is Xi Jinping looking at Taiwan specifically? Why is he doing so? And what is China planning to do in response?
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U.S. arms sales to Taiwan severely violate the principle of one China and the three joint
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communicators between China and U.S. The sales severely violate China's sovereignty and security
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interests and harm China-U.S. relations as well as peace and stability across the strait.
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China solemnly rejects and strongly condemns it. To protect China's sovereignty and security
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interests, based on our anti-foreign sanctions laws, the government has decided to impose
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countermeasures on U.S. military industrial companies Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, who
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sold arms to Taiwan. Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events
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Daily, powered by Turning Point USA. Today is January 9th, 2023. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome
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aboard. And so what we're seeing now out of Taiwan, what we're seeing in Brazil, what we're seeing
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Ukraine. The world is on the brink. Now we'll get to Brazil in the next segment, but right
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up here, I wanted to get into specifically this provocation with Taiwan, because we've been
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telling you now throughout our China Files series, day after day after day, that Xi Jinping is
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coming. He's looking at the situation right now and seeing the chessboard. And I just came
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up from Florida. We were down. We were at Mar-a-Lago. I sat with Gordon Chang. We had this
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discussion. Why is Xi Jinping looking at Taiwan so specifically right now? Number one, we got
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President Biden there. We know he's completely weak. We also know that Biden and his family are
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completely compromised, not just through Hunter Biden, but through all of them and not just through
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the laptop. You have to understand the laptop is just what Hunter Biden saved. It's like he had a
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dossier on himself. That's all we've seen pieces of so far. What about the stuff that he didn't say?
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What about the stuff that he didn't know was being recorded? You really expect us to believe
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that this guy was not going around on all those trips to China and all those deals, the dealings
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with Patrick Ho, the head of the Chinese spy community in his own words. Are we really supposed
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to believe that Chinese intelligence doesn't have that? Really? If this is what Hunter Biden had on
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himself, imagine what the Chinese Communist Party has on him. I'll just leave it at that. But also from a
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pure material perspective, Xi Jinping understands that the United States cannot support active armed
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conflict in two regions at the same time right now in two theaters. We are currently engaged in a hot
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proxy war with Russia in Ukraine. If you're listening to someone and they're not explaining it to you in
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those terms, you must understand it in no uncertain terms. We are currently in a kinetic proxy war with
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Russia. Ukraine's running low on their tanks, so low in fact, that the only tanks soon you're going to
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see rolling through Ukraine this winter are going to be those supplied by NATO, including the United
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States, as well as the armored personnel carriers, the Bradleys. This is the perfect timing. A weak,
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compromised president, the United States distracted in another theater, all while the financial
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underpinnings of the U.S. global financial system and the World Trade Organization hang in the balance
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because the deal that was set up requires that China be the manufacturing hub for the world.
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That doesn't mean you have power over them. That means they have power over you. And we saw this in
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COVID. We saw this in the way that they held back the masks, the ventilators, everything they had,
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medicine, all of it comes from China. So what happened this weekend? You look at the backdrop of all of
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that. Just as we launched the China Files Part 5, which was titled World War Taiwan, and we talked
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about how it would look, we said it would be a blockade. We said that China would launch live
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fire exercises between the Navy, People's Liberation Army Navy, and the Air Force all around Taiwan Island.
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Minutes after the show launched on Sunday morning, in the real world, as we would say in the military,
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military, real world versus exercise. In the real world, actual Chinese fighter craft took off from
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the Eastern Theater, the exact same way they did in our scenario, right in the direction of Taiwan
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Island. And within a 24-hour period, you had 28 separate aircraft, advanced fighters, crossing
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the median line of the Taiwan Strait. And the Taiwan Strait itself is very small.
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That war would engulf itself in the entire region. Japan would be involved, both Koreas. North Korea's
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ballistic missiles would not be launching over Japan in that scenario. They'd be launching into it,
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into Tokyo, potentially equipped with chemical, biological, or nuclear munitions.
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If this kicks off, which we do not want it to, okay? I love people who say,
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No, I don't want this to happen. You understand? I don't want this for the people of Taiwan.
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I don't want this for the people of China. I don't want this. I certainly don't want this
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for the American people. That's my country. That's where I live. That's where my family lives.
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People of Japan would suffer immensely in this. And it's unclear who would win. It's absolutely
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unclear who would win. And I've seen, you know, CNN's pushing this whole thing. Oh,
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the United States would definitely win. It'd be bloody, but the United States would win. You don't
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The way if you can tell a protest movement is organic is if it's not on the news.
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Yeah, yeah, totally. And of course, again, we talk about the revolution will not be televised.
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So the next day, they arrest four more. The day after that,
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Marias puts out warrants for 80 protest leaders he's isolated and picked out.
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That day following, they had warrants. They were pre-dawn raided. Their devices were taken.
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Their bank accounts were frozen. They were deplatformed.
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And this has catalyzed, this gross overreach of a gulag state, which is what you and I have been
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talking about. If Lula got in, it would be gulags within a few months. It would be Venezuela within
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Again, these are the fellow travelers that Lula helped build Chavez.
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Which, by the way, he's not even all the way in yet. He's already talking about normalizing
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Venezuelan relations with no conditions whatsoever.
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Castillo, the Peruvian president, who tried to dissolve the Congress, who then was like
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thwacked down by the legislature and the military and the law enforcement.
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So here's the latest on Brazil. Now, here at Human Events Daily, we've been covering this
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in full detail. We ran an entire special on it with Matt Tierman over a month ago. We're now
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getting you in the latest. So Matt was wondering, the last time we spoke with him, will the Brazilian
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military declare martial law in order to prevent the ceding of Lula? That has not come to pass.
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And so because that did not come to pass, the people of Brazil rose up and they stormed the
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Capitol, specifically the presidential palace, Supreme Court, as well as the legislature. And you can see
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the videos there. You can see the videos across social media. And you know, I said before that
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exact clip of me from a couple of days ago saying the way you can tell a protest movement is organic
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as if it's not on the news. Think of it. That's exactly what we're seeing right now. Or if they cover
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it, they'll say, oh, it's Steve Bannon's fault and Matt Tierman's fault and Jack Posobiec and Donald
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Trump and all these other people. And they're going to say that this is illegitimate. This
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is wrong. This is insurrection. This is evil. Look at them go. Come on, if this were happening in
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Russia, if this was happening in China, anywhere in the Middle East, Iran, our media would be all over
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it, all over it. Look at Ukraine, 2014, the Maidan revolution. John McCain as senator flew over to
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Ukraine, fanned the flames. There was a democratically elected president there. Nobody disputed the election
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of Yanukovych. And yet John McCain went over there along with all the other senators that went
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Klobuchar, Lindsey Ram, and they all called for his ouster. But it's, remember, it's all about
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democracy. It's really, it's just, we just care about democracy so much. So you're seeing that now.
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You're seeing that now. The only time the news will cover this is to attack it, to demean it,
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and to put it down. And here's what's next. They are going to push for the extradition of
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Bolsonaro from the United States. So Bolsonaro, look at the timeline. He arrived in the United
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States on December 30th. He was still the president when he arrived in the United States.
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But now the Supreme Court down there, which is totally communist, they've suspended the governor
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of the federal district of Brasilia, just suspended him, kicked him out of office for 90 days,
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because why not? You know, again, in the name of democracy. Now they're going to move and they've
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already got this in writing. They're working it up through the deputy, federal deputy to go for the
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extradition of Bolsonaro. So what's Biden going to do? What is President Biden going to do?
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Is he going to push for this? Because you've already seen these progressive liberals
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say again and again, whether it be Castro, AOC, the squad, others, send him back to stand crime,
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send him back to stand crime, send him back to stand crimes. The exact same people that say,
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we welcome all refugees. We welcome all refugees. Hashtag World Refugee Day. Don't forget the
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Lazarus poem on the bottom of the Statue of Liberty. That should be our new immigration policy.
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Every single person. You're tired, you're hungry, you're huddled masses yearning to live free.
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Open our doors to everyone. Unless you're President Bolsonaro, in which case you have to be sent back to
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stand crimes. Do you get it? This is what the communists are doing. They're working with their
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allies and collaborators right here on the ground to work the system in their favor.
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And I'm already seeing this. Read between the lines on Ned Price, the State Department Stokesman
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statement, because he said, well, it looks like Bolsonaro came in on a diplomatic visa,
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but he doesn't have diplomatic status anymore because he, quote unquote, lost his status
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when he ceased being president. And so they're going to say he has 30 days to apply for another visa.
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And then they're going to deny his visa. They're going to say, whoops, it's out of our hands.
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There's nothing we can do about it. It's not, it's not extradition. We're not kicking him out.
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We're just, we're just going to, you know, blame it on the process. We're going to blame it on the
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process, which is a cowardly way. It's a coward's way out. Well, you're going to go to HR. We're going
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to go. It's like, it's like blaming it on HR. It's an HR decision. She said, no, if you're going to
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kick the man out, at least man up and say, we're kicking him out, man up and admit that you're kicking
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him out, that you're going in with the communists, that you're going in with the Chinese communist
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party and their takeover of South America and Latin America, the same Chinese communist party
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that has bought an entire port in Jamaica that wants to port their own aircraft, uh, you know,
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not aircraft carrier, but, but potentially naval assets in the Caribbean.
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And you're going along with all of it, Trinidad, so many other places. We know China is investing
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billions and billions throughout our own Caribbean sea. And this guy won't lift a finger to do anything
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about it. Cause like I said before, completely and utterly compromised. It's all about money and
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whether it's through, you know, mental health, drugs, overwatching of true crime and murder mystery and
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serial killer shows. And we got to a point where the serial killers are back.
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Before we're stabbed with a knife, but no weapon has been located at this time. From forensics in
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Idaho to pre-dawn capture in Pennsylvania. It was on the door. Force was used for evening search
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warrants, police, prosecutors, and the courts working hard to bring their a game. So that clip
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was me on November 17th of last year, four days after the killing. So the Monday after the killings
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took place, the Monday after this horrific news broke. And my initial read was that this was a
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serial killer who was obsessed with serial killers. Well, we now have a suspect and arrest has taken
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place. The suspect's name is Brian Koberger. And it turns out that he very well may have been
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a serial killer who was obsessed with serial killers. He studied criminology to sales university
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back in my home state of Pennsylvania. Actually, I believe I visited to sales once when I was looking
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at colleges, a Catholic school, had some friends that went there, ended up not going, but he studied
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under a professor who she herself was directly tied to the BTK serial killer and worked on his
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autobiography together. We also know that this guy, this suspect was studying for his PhD in criminology
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at Washington State University, just 10 minutes away from the killings took place in Idaho.
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And by the way, you know, people have said, well, when you look at this, what, what comes to mind?
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And how do you know when to talk about this in terms of a suspect? Someone's been fingered. What
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if they can be potentially, um, you know, false accusations, that sort of thing. And of course we
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always look at that, especially when people are falsely accused of crimes and especially when the FBI is
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involved. So I say, what's the evidence, show me the evidence. Well, they did the affidavit came out
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and I read all 19 pages of it. They've got an eyewitness who puts them there, by the way, an
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eyewitness who didn't call the police for eight hours, not for eight hours after she saw the killer
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in her home, home that she shared with her friends that night. Next, we've got evidence of his car
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that he drew, he drove his own car. Guy was going for a PhD in criminology. Just goes to show you
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that having an advanced degree in something does not necessarily mean you're not an idiot.
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He drove his own car with his own license plates to conduct the killing. So we've got a video of that
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from ring cameras and everything else all around the area. We've also got his cell phone was seen in
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the area 12 times prior to the killing at the house or in the vicinity of the house. So signals,
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intelligence, communications, intercepts, same type of stuff that we weren't allowed to talk about when
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it comes to Dropbox in 2000. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. But through cell phone tracking, they can see
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him around the house a dozen times. Now his cell phone was silent during the period of time of the murders.
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But here's something that is very important. His cell phone did ping on a cell phone tower
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next to the house the morning after the murders, but before they were reported. So his cell phone
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pings around 913 in the morning. But the roommate didn't call in the murders until 1158. Why did he
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go back there? If he was innocent, why did he go back there after the murders had taken place,
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but before they had been reported? And then finally, the biggest piece of evidence of all,
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his blood was found on a knife sheath that was found next to one of the bodies.
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And I said, look, you got overwhelming evidence here. You just have overwhelming evidence. You really
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do. If you're going to commit a murder like this, a murder out of obsession, perhaps a murder out of
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morbid curiosity. It sounds like Leopold and Loeb to me. This is like Leopold and Loeb. If you go back
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1924, two students that killed a high school kid to try to get away with it, just to prove that they
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could. They were fascinated by what their professors had taught them about how some people were greater
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and some people were lesser. This was very much in vogue in the 1920s. And Clarence Darrow famously
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or infamously, one of the founders of the ACLU went in and defended them, gave a 12 hour defense
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of Leopold and Loeb. That's the kind of case you're seeing now, because otherwise this guy is facing the
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death penalty and he should have known better. Right. At least you'd think as a PhD, but you know,
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PhDs don't think that if you're living in a blue state, like Washington, don't cross the line into
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a red state. If you're planning to murder a house full of people, because they'll give you the death
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penalty. You know, the insanity plea isn't even on the books in Idaho. You can't, can't do it,
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but I saw a lot of people. Okay. I saw a lot of people over the weekend when I was tweeting about
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this, when I was getting into it, got a lot of pushback because I said, Oh wow, you've got
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overwhelming evidence against this guy. Just like you would overwhelming evidence against OJ Simpson,
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DNA footprints, everything didn't have a murder weapon, but you'd overwhelming evidence.
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There is a thread that connects the OJ case, the Idaho massacre and the Kyle Rittenhouse cases.
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What is that thread? It's simple. It's a thread of overwhelming evidence. And so when we investigate
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cases and when we look at things like this, when I look at things like this, I look at what's your
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evidence and what does the law say? Okay. So when I look at the OJ case, I see overwhelming evidence
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of double murder when in the case of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Golden, he murdered them in cold
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blood. He nearly cut his ex-wife's head off. Still allowed on Twitter. In this case, you have
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overwhelming evidence of overwhelming evidence of guilt. You just do. You just do. And then in the
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Kyle Rittenhouse case, you have overwhelming evidence of the use of lawful self-defense. Kyle
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Rittenhouse never once crosses that line to wanton killing, wanton shooting. He only uses lethal force
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to prevent imminent threats of violence to him. Imminent fatal threats to him. Someone chasing him,
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someone shooting at him, someone going for his gun, someone pointing a gun at him, someone trying to
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bash his brains in with a skateboard. That's the overwhelming evidence. And we need to get back to,
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as a country, looking at overwhelming evidence and understanding how that stacks up in court.
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But we also need to look at this from the perspective of holding that out to be the public
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good. Not political correctness, not equity, not any of these other fanciful things that Kim
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Kardashian wants to throw at you. No. Overwhelming evidence, period. No, I don't care what you think
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about the victim. And I certainly don't care what you think about the assailant. Oh, he came from a bad
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life. We can get into all that in the penalty phase. At the end of the day, if someone committed
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a crime, someone needs to be punished. And this individual, unless he takes a plea deal,
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he's going to get the death penalty. Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay