EPISODE 367： THE CORNHUSKER KICKBACK
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There's something rotten in Nebraska, and we're going to talk about it. I call it the Cornhusker kickback, a story about corruption, and an expose on how politics actually works in our country.
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Folks, we got a huge show today. China is building a naval base in South America. And what's going on
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in the state of Nebraska? There's something rotten in Nebraska. We're going to talk about it. I call
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it the Cornhusker Kickback, a story about corruption and an expose on how politics actually
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POSO. Let's get into it. But it was clear the person for the job is Senator Designate Pete Ricketts.
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I often say Nebraska is what America is supposed to be. And it's never been truer at any time in
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our history than today. We think about all the opportunity that we have here in our state,
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the jobs that are available, our high quality institutions of education. And what we have done
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here in state government in my administration over the last eight years was show how can we make
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government work for the people? You know, there's a fallacy in Washington, D.C. that government can't
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work and we have to expect failure. But that's not true. We prove that it's not true here in Nebraska.
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We need to hold Washington, D.C. accountable for making sure they're providing the same level of
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high service that we do here at state government. We need to hold Washington, D.C. accountable.
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We need to hold Washington, D.C. accountable. All right, let's do a little accountability,
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shall we? Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard tonight's edition of Human Events Daily powered
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by Turning Point USA. Today is January 13th, 2023. Anno Domini. We're going to talk about a little
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something called the Cornhusker kickback. And believe it or not, I think I'm one of the only people
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in all of media who's willing to tell you the story. Certainly one of the only people who's on the
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right to tell you this story because, and I posted this in a thread on Twitter this morning, and I
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know, I know, I hate threads. I do. But unfortunately, they serve a purpose, at least for now. So I said I
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was going to expose this story. And I didn't care if it involved people on the right, if it didn't,
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if it involved conservatives. Because Rod Blagojevich went to jail for selling Barack Obama's Senate
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seat. Pete Ricketts just sold a United States Senate seat to himself. Let me explain. So that guy
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you just listened to was the new governor of Nebraska, Jim Pillen. And Jim Pillen, that charismatic
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debonair, just oozing, oozing charisma through the TV set towards you. I know. Grab some of that
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pill and mentum. He decided that he would nominate his former predecessor as governor,
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Ricketts, to fill Ben Sasse's seat. Why is Ben Sasse suddenly not a senator anymore, by the way?
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There wasn't an election. The people of Nebraska had nothing to say. In fact, Pete Ricketts himself
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once ran for governor, 2006, spent $12 million of his personal money and lost. Yet he came back
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and he started financing things around the entire state, financing candidates around the entire
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state and got to the point where he became governor. Now, the Ricketts family, they're billionaires from
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the Midwest. His father was the founder of TD Ameritrade and the family owned the Chicago Cubs. We have no
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problem with their success, right? I don't have an issue with people being successful. But let's continue
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to see what went through here. So Ricketts lavishly spent to support Pillen in the campaign, even made
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sure to do everything he could to clear the path through that primary. Totally got into it, made sure
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that Pillen won. What happened next? All of a sudden, Ben Sasse, out of nowhere, resigns or announces that he
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intends to resign from the U.S. Senate because he's received a job. University of Florida. I'm not sure
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exactly why he was given that job and why it was not offered to anyone else. We don't know. I'd like to
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know. And so if former Senator Sasse would like to tell us or anyone would like to come on the program and
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explain this, I'd be more than happy to have you on and understand what went on here. So Pillen comes out and
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says, I'll make my appointment after the election because there was no real challenge. I mean, he was
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clearly going to win the governor's race. Everybody kind of knew that it was going to be Ricketts because
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everybody knew that Ricketts always wanted to be a senator. Now he is one. So Ricketts had the ability
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term limited. He had the ability to name himself senator, but he said, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not
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going to do that. I'm going to wait. And a couple of days after the inauguration of Pillen as governor,
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his handpicked successor, who does he name other than the person who bankrolled his entire campaign
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for governor? Pete Ricketts. And you can go through, we have videos of, of how all this started. We've
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got the dates, we've got the times, but at the end of the day, what you're really seeing here
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is machine politics. It's machine politics in the Midwest. Look, I'm from Pennsylvania and guess
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what? We got lots of machine politics over there. This is normally something you see in Northeastern
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states. It's like something you'd see in Tammany Hall in New York city, but instead we're seeing
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it in Nebraska, a state where, you know, it's in the Midwest and people just sort of overlook what
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happens there. And I had a problem with that because you see, I went to Nebraska and I met the
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candidates, met all the candidates. I even met Ricketts at one point, met an event. And here's
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the thing. I don't want to live in a country where elections aren't decided by the people. I don't
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want to live in a country where offices for our highest land are bought and sold like this. I think
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that's kind of the whole point. And if we are going to live in a country like that, let's at least be open
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and honest about it, but go and look. And I'd love to read for you the headline from the Omaha
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world Herald. Listen to this. You say, surely Poso, the local media would be all over this. I mean,
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liberal media would do it for some reason. They don't seem to care. What did they write?
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The Omaha world Herald formerly owned by Warren Buffett in some States, Pete Ricketts might've
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risked some political peril by being appointed by to the U S Senate by his ally and successor as governor,
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Jim Pillen, but not Nebraska because it's conservative. Like, so basically they're saying
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Nebraskans are too stupid to understand what went on. I don't think so. I don't believe that for a
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second. I think people are busy, but I don't think people are stupid. No, I don't think it's like that
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at all. And so that's why we here at human events strive to give you the facts and folks, that's what we
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French news site Intelligence Online reported in November last year that China is putting pressure
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on Argentina to build a naval base at Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego province. According to Independent
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Intelligence and local media reports, China is trying to establish a gateway to Antarctica by
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building a port at Tierra del Fuego that could act as a naval base. The base will bring Beijing closer
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to Antarctica and allow it to control the passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.
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Notably, Argentina's southern tip is only 680 miles from the Antarctic coast.
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So we're going to have to go back here to a long-standing tradition, long-standing function,
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long-standing feature here on Human Events Daily that we call the Map Break. Folks, Map Break.
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Here is Tierra del Fuego, located at the nexus of the southern tip of South America between Chile and
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Argentina. It's also, as we just stated in the clip right there for you, right across from Antarctica.
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China has now, essentially, it's been reported, been in talks with the government of Argentina
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to set up not only access to Tierra del Fuego, but potentially a naval base. We're told it's just
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a research base in Tierra del Fuego. Understand, this is one of the most strategic choke points
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across the entire world. Also, what are they doing? They are going to use this to go into
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Antarctica for exploration on rare earth elements. They have an absolute lock on rare earth elements
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around the entire world, through Africa, through Greenland. You know, if we had a government that
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wasn't so stupid, perhaps we would actually look at the world this way too and say, what are the
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things that we are going to need more access to in the future and how do we get them? Because at the
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end of the day, the world is run by real politic. All of the international liberalism, the international
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world order that we're told so much about doesn't exist. It's a figment of your imagination. The
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United Nations does not have an army or a navy. The WTO has no actual enforcement mechanism other than
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pieces of paper. Do you think the Chinese Communist Party cares about a piece of paper? They don't.
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You know what they care about? Resources, cash, their one belt, one road system. And so the one belt,
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one road has now brought them all the way to the Atlantic Ocean. And they're going to be building
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naval base in South America. Just understand that. Just understand that's what they're going to be
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doing. And you need to accept that and you need to embrace it. Because our government's not going to do
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anything about this. Although they might, you know, hem and haw about it. They might say you
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shouldn't do that. But they're not actually going to stand up to China here. Why? Because they're
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getting paid off. Because so many people are getting rich off of our relationship with China. So many
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people are making so much money off of this in terms of trade, political donations that we just
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talked about in the last segment. Understand how the system works. You're going to get to a point
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where China, by the way, already has huge amount of influence over the Panama Canal because of the
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companies that run the Panama Canal and the ones that actually service that thing. Why the US sold it
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back to Panama or turned it back over to Panama, I do not understand. Should never have happened.
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Hong Kong shouldn't be given back either. But we decided to do this because we're stupid.
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So we gave up one of the things that the United States built that created one of the most strategic
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show points in the entire world. Certainly the most important one in our entire hemisphere.
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And we gave it up. And Panama turned around and leased it to the Chinese Communist Party.
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So before the Panama Canal existed, you had to go all, if you wanted to ship anything from the East
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Coast to the West Coast, you had to go all the way around the Southern, like Magellan, right? All the
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way around the Southern tip of Tierra del Fuego. Well, China is going to make sure they get that too,
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just to cover all their bases. So what's going to happen? We've also heard very much about the
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Northern shipping route. So here's the way the world works. Because we have a system of globalism,
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China is the world's manufacturer. The Middle East predominantly is where the world's energy comes from,
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but that's changing. Certainly for China, it's where they get their energy. They're building
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pipelines with Russia. They're building pipelines to Iran. They're building pipelines through Pakistan.
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Why? Because they need that energy to fuel their rise. All of the Ukraine, Russia stuff, you can,
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I mean, just look at, look at what the goal is. US LNG exports are up across Europe. The United States
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is replacing Russia as the importer, the major importer to Europe of energy. Are you paying attention
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yet? Nord Stream 2 and Nord Stream 1 are sitting at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Cherche la petrol.
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Follow the petrol. Follow the petrol. Okay. You want to understand world politics, follow the petrol.
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So Russia is going to control the Northern shipping route. Because at the end of the day,
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if everything is shipped on the oceans from point A to point B, all of that shipping cost
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goes into the final cost of your product. So if you have the ability to ship something faster and
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cheaper, then you're going to beat everyone else shipping it the other way through the Straits of
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Malacca, the Suez Canal, Babel Mendeb, et cetera, et cetera, all the way through. Now, if you want to go
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from China to Europe by ship, you can go over the North Pole. Who's going to control all those
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waterways? Russia. That's why they're investing in mega ports along Russia's Northern coast. In the
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next 30 years, 40 years, that's what you're going to see. China is now making sure that they control
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the global South. The United States, like usual, is not playing to win. We're just playing.
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You've described it as a one in a trillion shot and the gun was in your hand. How do you come to
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terms with that? It wasn't in the script for the trigger to be pulled. Well, the trigger wasn't
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pulled. I didn't pull the trigger. So you never pulled the trigger? No, no, no, no. I would never
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point a gun at anyone and pull a trigger at them. Never. What did you think happened? How did a real
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bullet get on that set? I have no idea. Someone put a live bullet in a gun, a bullet that wasn't even
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supposed to be on the property. I didn't pull the trigger. They pulled the trigger. I didn't pull the trigger.
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It pulled the trigger. I didn't pull the trigger. It pulled the trigger.
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Alec Baldwin. So it's been, and, and I'm looking at the dates here. It has been basically forever,
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forever since this shooting took place, by the way, during the Alec Baldwin situation,
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after the incident, the shooting death of Helena Hutchins, someone reached out to me.
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Who had information from rust from the set told me explicitly what was going on, told me it was
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going on with the armor or told me exactly who the armor was before all of it became public.
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We stayed in touch. It's called source development and source management folks.
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That same source tells me rust is still shooting, pun not intended.
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They're still planning to finish the movie. They're going to refilm going to watch myself
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there. Watch my language. They're now moving production to California out of state. And
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apparently Alec Baldwin is still connected. Well, they're finally now announcing after all this
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time that Alec Baldwin, perhaps just in a few weeks may actually face charges for the shooting
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that again, he is responsible for. Nobody even questions the fact that he's responsible for the
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shooting. So what are we told from the post-millennial, the Santa Fe district attorney's
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office will decide later this month, whether to file charges against Alec Baldwin and others in the
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production of rust for their role in the death of the film cinematographer, Helena Hutchins.
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Hutchins was fatally shot by Baldwin. They live round while rehearsing on October 21st, 2021.
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It's almost been a year and a half. Imagine the lawyers, imagine the fight that's going to,
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and remember we were told a couple of months ago because human events is not dropping the story.
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We're not dropping this. We were told that the Santa Fe district attorney's office went to
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the New Mexico governor, New Mexico legislature, and requested a special dispensation of money,
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extra money that was required for them because they were projecting out that they were going to be
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facing a high profile case. So they have potentially said this. And here's the thing, folks,
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when you are operating a firearm and you're driving a car, it doesn't matter if you don't think
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the gun is loaded. That's like saying, Oh, I didn't know there was gas in the car.
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If you push the pedal down and hit somebody and kill them, you didn't mean to, you are still legally
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liable because you know that a car in that instance is an inherently dangerous object. The same way that
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if you were holding a gun in your hand, you know that you were holding an inherently dangerous
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object. And that is why you have anybody in the shooting community. You go out to the range. What
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are the three rules of safety rule? Number one, it's very simple. And anyone out there who goes
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shooting, anyone out there who's at any training, military law enforcement, you know exactly what I'm
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about to say. What is the number one rule? Treat every gun as if it is loaded. Treat every gun as if
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it is loaded. It's as simple as that. If you always do that, you will always be fine.
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Here's the problem for Alec Baldwin. That's how the law sees it. For the law, it does not matter
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if he did not intend to kill Helena Hutchins. Also, and keep in mind, the FBI, the ballistics
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office has gone through this gun. They've taken the firearm and they've tested it. You know what
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they found? They found this thing don't fire unless you pull the trigger. Somebody pulled that trigger
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and there's only, you know, think about it, right? If a gun is in someone's hand, gun doesn't go off by
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itself magically because he breathed on it too hard or you looked at it too quickly. No. Guns go off
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when you pull the trigger. Somebody pulled that trigger and it was only in one person's hand.
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No, I think this is terrible, but I will also say this and shout out to Viva Fry and Tim Poole who
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have brought up this theory. Why have we yet to see the footage from the camera of the shooting?
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No, I'm not saying I want to see the actual death, but what I'm saying is there's when you were on a
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set, if you've done any time working in media, working on a film set like that, there's always
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a camera rolling. Obviously, we know there was a camera rolling because we know that she, Helena
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Hutchins, as the cinematographer, director of photography, was holding a camera and was talking
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about what kind of angle she wanted for the shot with that camera rolling. Where's that footage?
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We also know there's behind the scenes featurettes. There's people with their cell phones. There's
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always some camera that's rolling that's out there. Where's the footage? We've seen some footage of it,
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but we've never seen the actual footage of the shooting because what I'd like to know
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was Alec Baldwin yelling. Was he upset? Was he angry? Because if this were anyone else,
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you could say, oh my gosh, that was just a terrible accident. But what do we know about
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Alec Baldwin when he gets upset? When he gets irritated? He flies off the handle. We saw him
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do that to his daughter on a voicemail. We saw him do that many times with reporters, people taking
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pictures, all sorts of things. We know that he has a propensity to do this. Did he do that while
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holding a loaded gun? And if charges are filed and they should be filed, because it doesn't
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matter who somebody is, it doesn't matter how connected somebody is. It doesn't matter
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how politically important somebody is or influential. He was kicked off of SNL.
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But at the end of the day, he killed somebody. He shot and killed a coworker. And if that had
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happened to Jack Posobiec or Charlie Kirk or Steve Bannon, or you or anyone in your family,
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God forbid, you'd all be charged. And it wouldn't be a year and a half. You'd be charged the next day,
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maybe the next week, because he killed somebody. And in our society, when you kill somebody,
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there needs to be a debt paid, not just to the person's family, but also to society,
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because that person's life mattered. That's the society we live in. That's our morality. That's
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our law. And it's been like that for a long time. And if we play games with it, we are going to lose
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not only our society, but we are going to lose who we actually are. Ladies and gentlemen, as always,