Erica, Owen, and Marcella pay their respects to Shelly Adams, who lost her life in a car accident yesterday. They also talk about the tragic news of a plane crash involving a Boeing 737-200.
00:07:02.260But Eric Massa seems to be the prime offender.
00:07:05.040There's three different things that were paid out for Eric Massa in 2010.
00:07:10.120And then there's a couple for John Conyers and Blake Farenthold and Patrick Meehan.
00:07:16.840So that looks like those are spanning from 2007 up to 2017.
00:07:23.400The total is something over, I think it's $338,000 to settle all of these cases.
00:07:28.260So I don't think we have any details about exactly what they did yet, but it does look like we're at least getting some details about the payouts, which is something I honestly didn't think we would ever see.
00:07:37.660So compliments to Nancy Mace that she got to the point where she could actually release some details about this and name some of the accused.
00:07:45.900yeah marcella you were looking into this too did you see basically the same info
00:07:51.020yeah i i it was there was an i think that the main part of the coverage on this was an article
00:07:58.140on the new york times with all three of them um i don't know what to think of that but um
00:08:06.300it was disparaging also the new york times disparaged them the nancy mays the bovards the
00:08:11.660anna polina uh lima um they were like well they're really you know nobody can really trust them
00:08:21.380so it's not you know they've been anti-trans and all sorts of things you know so i don't know
00:08:30.040um i think this is not a democrat republican issue i think it's it's our issue as as taxpayers
00:08:38.540as well because I do believe that Nancy Mace is correct that we should be able to see the payouts
00:08:48.080and who and what they're in the very least what the amounts and for what congressman maybe not
00:08:55.900the accuser maybe I'd like to know the offense yeah you know this is all the offense might sway
00:09:05.440how you vote or not vote for a person. So if you're going to be like, oh, you know, this guy
00:09:11.260had an affair, you know, when people are running for president or whatever, well, let us know about
00:09:14.860them too. Then if that's the game everybody wants to play, then tell us what the offense is. So the
00:09:19.620constituents can be clear about who they're voting for and the taxpayers know, you know,
00:09:24.340are we paying for someone who was, you know, allegedly accused of, I'm going to say the word
00:09:30.560grape you guys because you know youtube grape or uh you know something like that or was it
00:09:36.080i i'd like to know like how far the offense goes well i mean to me it's we're already thinking
00:09:41.980past the sale why why is the government paying for this yeah right why aren't these people paying for
00:09:46.620it if they want to try and cover something up i don't understand why we would pay for that and
00:09:50.260you know it seems kind of pointless now if we are going to release the information it's like well
00:09:54.460then what do you you know just let them let it play out in court and be public but um you know
00:09:59.740I don't understand why taxpayers would be on the hook for, for that.
00:10:03.060It's not the government or it's not the taxpayers that's doing it.
00:10:06.680And so I would think the people who are accused of this should be the ones
00:10:09.740paying for any kind of settlement that they make.
00:13:08.980Secret Service agents got into a shootout with a man near the White House today. Senior National
00:13:14.360Correspondent Kevin Cork has the details. Kevin. Evening, Jesse. Plain closed, Secret Service
00:13:19.460agents actually spotted this guy around 3.30 this afternoon near the Washington Monument just
00:13:23.940south of the White House complex. He appeared to have the imprint of a weapon on him. So when
00:13:28.940officers approached the guy, he took off and then he started firing on them. They, of course,
00:13:33.880return fire. The suspect was hit, but then again, so was a child near the scene. And at this hour,
00:13:39.260both the child and the gunman remain hospitalized. They are recovering. It's believed, by the way,
00:13:44.620that the bullet that hit the juvenile came from the alleged gunman. Of course, we'll stay on this
00:13:50.080story as it develops. Meantime, equal justice and equal treatment under the law or isolation for
00:13:56.800his own good. That's the debate surrounding the lockup status of Cole Allen, the alleged White
00:14:01.840House Correspondents Association Dinner Shooter. He's been in a padded cell 24 hours a day for his
00:14:07.120own safety, according to prosecutors, since they collected the guy at the Hilton. But a magistrate
00:14:12.320judge here in the district thinks that Alan's being treated unfairly. Judge Zia Faruqi says
00:14:18.560he's being treated differently than anyone I've ever observed, adding, whatever you've been through,
00:14:24.500I apologize for the prior week. Can you imagine an apology from the bench? He even suggested,
00:14:30.120did the judge that Allen was being treated more harshly than the J6 defendants. Obviously that1.00
00:14:36.540didn't sit too well for the attorney for the District of Columbia, Janine Pirro, who wrote
00:14:41.200this on X. Welcome to Washington, D.C., where U.S. Magistrate Judge Farruki believes a defendant
00:14:47.140armed to the teeth and attempting to assassinate the president is entitled to preferential treatment
00:14:52.960in his confinement compared to every other defendant. Hmm. Prosecutors say Allen, who,
00:14:59.320by the way, is still undergoing periodic psyche evals, said he didn't expect to survive the
00:15:04.800assassination attempt and thus his lockup situation. But with no court docs to examine,
00:15:11.320not even a Bible to read, his legal team says he's being treated too harshly.
00:15:15.700And so now the judge wants an update by tomorrow on where and how he will be confined moving
00:15:20.640forward. A little pity for a guy who wanted to kill a lot of people apparently. Jesse.
00:15:26.320Yep. We'll have more on that later. Thank you so
00:15:29.320So, when did everyone else find out that judges rule the world? Was it right after Trump was elected this time? Because that's when I found out. And I'm so shocked. Okay, Marcella, you know, wow. What do you say?
00:15:46.060I'm not surprised. I'm not shocked. This magister judge, he's different than Article 3 judges. So he's not for life. He's only for eight years. And he's not chosen by the president.
00:15:59.320He's chosen by the other judges within the District of Columbia.
00:16:06.580And basically, I'm not surprised because before this, he had made comments, political comments on President Trump.
00:16:16.660One of the things that judges shouldn't do is make any kind of political contribution, any kind of political comments.
00:16:24.620um and it's starting to be something that is allowed basically nobody goes after them for
00:16:34.220this i don't i don't think it should be allowed even if you're a republican or democrat judge
00:16:41.460it should be you should be impartial allegedly pursuant to your rules um but i am not surprised
00:16:49.300he's previously said um and he's previously also signed many warrants for january sixers um claiming
00:16:56.820that how dare this poor alleged shooter is treated so unfairly compared to january sixers like the
00:17:09.620really there's no comparison and uh removal uh i would say there's grounds for it and but it's
00:17:18.260not going to happen because it's based on the judge's panel that would have to decide to remove
00:17:24.100him and but the the public can complain and should for such things wow that is unbelievable um
00:17:35.700i i don't even know i i mean i thought judges were never supposed to put their
00:17:39.860biases in that they were supposed to put them aside so even when i hear republican judge
00:17:44.980democrat judge to me i'm like wait is that really a thing i mean i know it is but all right oh and
00:17:51.000what what are your your findings yeah i mean i you know i think it is becoming where judges are
00:17:56.980activists now and it's becoming more and more obvious that they're acting that way i think
00:18:01.380some of this was probably a reaction to trump getting elected the first time and now the second
00:18:05.200time that they feel the need to speak out or to you know exercise their activism and steer things
00:18:13.500one way or another and this is a clear case of that where if he's saying that you know he's kind0.99
00:18:17.640of against the j6ers to me that's a very political statement in itself to say that somehow those0.90
00:18:23.640people are worse than someone who tried to assassinate the president um so it's it's clearly
00:18:29.140a a biased opinion there and i'm sure at whatever level he's still involved with this case going
00:18:35.020forward he's going to continue to show that bias and so i think he should be removed from this case
00:18:39.740at least, but also probably from the bench. Um, but you know, again, I, I, I'm with Marcella. I
00:18:46.620doubt, I doubt we'll see it happen, but you know, we can, I guess people can complain and, and try
00:18:52.260and at least make their voice heard that this isn't right. And we shouldn't have judges like
00:18:55.480that. Um, but you know, that's, that's what that is. And then, you know, the other story of course
00:19:01.340was the yet another attempt on the president's life. Um, it seems like it's happening much and
00:19:07.760more frequently now. And, um, I don't know if this is a copycat or if it's, you know, related
00:19:12.660in any way, but, um, it seems like, as I said, I think with the last one that we need to be
00:19:18.120treating pretty much everywhere Trump is as a potential threat situation where we almost have
00:19:23.300to expect that someone's going to be trying something like this. And, um, you know, again,
00:19:28.800it's hard to know in this particular case, I don't think we have a lot of information about
00:19:32.180motive or exactly what he was doing, especially since he was approached before he really did
00:19:36.200anything um so maybe it was only that he was caught with a gun but he shot a juvenile yeah
00:19:42.340no i'm not excusing any of that i'm saying no no i know the situation's a little different in the
00:19:47.200sense that like with this other guy he clearly was heading for the president with a shotgun and
00:19:52.220all these other things whereas this guy was just near the white house and the police approached
00:19:57.600him because they saw something that looked like he had a gun which apparently he did have
00:20:01.840But that in itself is a violation, I think, of the laws there.
00:20:05.700But I think it's not as clear as to what he was planning to do about that.
00:20:10.680But yes, I think that guy should also face very serious consequences and he should be held responsible for what he did to that juvenile that was shot.
00:20:18.820And hopefully this sort of thing will stop.
00:20:23.100I mean, like I said right now, it just seems like it's getting worse.
00:20:28.300One, Smarr in the chat, one of our beloved, said, we need a number of days since a Democrat tried to kill me sign on the White House front lawn, which I think is hilarious.
00:22:35.140And if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd.
00:24:08.720This is what I mourn, what I grieve is when this would have been a thing that never would happen, that people would never talk that way because they knew better, they cared more, they had decency and civility.
00:24:23.320So when you see these shootings and you see these attempts, remember where it came from.
00:33:24.220And, Secretary, let me get your take on what took place in terms of Spirit Airlines, because I know that the Democrats did not want Spirit to merge with JetBlue a year ago.
00:33:36.320And now we see that Spirit Airlines closed operations.
00:33:40.700The Treasury was supposed to be doing a deal to save this company.
00:34:57.800Yeah, Spirit Airlines shut down on May 2nd, effective then.
00:35:03.100They had been going through Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the, I believe, either third time or second time.
00:35:09.960And they were trying to have someone buy, I'm not sure what they were selling, but some parts, because most of their airplanes were leased.
00:35:22.060I know we talked about it at the after party and some of the after party goers called it the Waffle House Airline.
00:35:29.620It was an ultra low cost carrier for 34 years.
00:35:35.340so it is unfortunate uh 17 000 employees will be unemployed um there was talks of president trump
00:35:46.300uh possibly giving um some kind of buyout to them but that didn't really um get too much um
00:35:56.540well obviously it wasn't supported um and possibly the scent was probably not supportive of it but
00:36:02.860yes they're right there was a jet blue wanted to buy out you know whatever was being sold not their
00:36:10.940employees they weren't selling their employees uh they were selling some part of the airline and
00:36:15.100then last year it was uh blocked because of the issue of monopoly and blah blah blah frontier
00:36:24.540also tried united also tried and uh one of the main issues for elizabeth warren was trying to
00:36:33.260get this uh deal not going forward um so it's a rare thing for actually for companies to go
00:36:43.180uh you know to airlines to shut down in the united states um so it's very
00:36:49.820you know what what is it gonna what is it gonna what's gonna happen you know i'll tell you what
00:36:56.900i hope happens what what do you think that everybody that flew on spirit just takes a
00:37:03.220bus from now on because that what that airline the videos oh my god listen i don't know if anyone
00:37:12.080survived a spirit airline flight like not getting attacked and like having your wig ripped off
00:37:17.480congratulations. You're one of the few survivors. Um, and I am all for tripling the cost of airfare
00:37:24.400just to keep the riffraff off the planes. Um, so yeah, so that's, but my other fear is where are1.00
00:37:32.220all of these people now going to fly? They're going to be on other flights. And so now air
00:37:37.240travel will get even worse. Did you expect that analysis for me? That is my analysis. So I don't
00:37:43.420know what's going to happen. Um, but everything right now coupled with, uh, fuel costs and
00:37:51.580everything else, air travel has just got to get remade. I don't know. I think we need to
00:37:55.800privatize some of it. Um, like the TSA, like, I think we need to just start over. Um, I wish we
00:38:03.440could do that, you know, just say like, okay, maybe private companies are better for, for,
00:38:07.740you know, TSA, maybe we need to do, you know, higher quality control on air traffic controllers,
00:38:15.720incentivize people to become them, give them good pay based on merit. Um, you know, I just,
00:38:23.520I've never seen more problems with airplanes, with flights, with mechanical issues, with
00:38:30.000crashes, whether they're minor or huge. I mean, remember the plane hit the helicopter in,
00:38:35.420in DC. It's just, I don't know. I don't know if it's on the rise, but I feel like we need to
00:38:40.460start over. We need to have perhaps, I know it sounded crazy. You guys are going to kill me
00:38:45.980because I am so into like your own rights and like, and less government, believe me,
00:38:51.880like less government is way better. I'm also into, um, industries or private companies
00:38:59.300to be allowed to set their own standards. I think this is where I'm coming from.
00:39:04.100When government interfered with private businesses and started telling us what we have to do, who we can hire, who we can fire, what the terms have to be, it just changed everything.
00:39:17.220And I would love to see airlines say, yes, we have a dress code. Yes, we have a standard
00:39:22.820of quorum. Yes, we have rules and this and that. And let's just give it back to the private
00:39:30.600companies to be able to do what they want within reason. And I'm all for civility. If I was running
00:39:39.300for anything, it would be civility because everything's just turned to shit. Everything0.99
00:39:45.100woke turned to and now rest in peace spirit airlines i don't know that's funny really all
00:39:53.900i have to say about it what i was thinking you know the simulation how scott would always think
00:39:58.940of like the words that that come out and the fact that it's spirit airlines and you know how like
00:40:04.460when something closes they always do the halloween store yeah what the name of it is yeah spirit of
00:40:11.020halloween yeah be the spirit of the airlines yes happy eye doctor i know flying is amazing i'd like
00:40:18.220for it to be amazing again and not like i need to clench my seat and listen i took a little short
00:40:24.600flight from charlotte north carolina to newark no to jfk in a snowstorm just a couple of months ago
00:40:32.840and two people got thrown off my flight. I remember. Okay. So it's not civilized and that
00:40:40.780was Delta. So, you know, imagine what's going on on Frontier. Uh, I mean, on a spirit. So I,1.00
00:40:47.140I mean, like I, I look at the old videos where people like you used to, yes, you used to get a
00:40:51.500nice meal and you got an actual fork and a knife and you got a cup of coffee and everything was
00:40:56.600great. Like, let's do that again. Let's make it a beautiful experience and not like I'm praying
00:41:04.220for my life, like I'm running through Walmart with my hair on fire. So that's all I'm saying.
00:41:09.440I just am saying that. So, okay. So Marcella, what else did we have on the docket to chat about?
00:41:16.800Well, today, this morning, I woke up to Pete.
00:41:22.060Yes, you woke me up and I was just like, Whoa, thank goodness. The Secretary of War had a presser today. He was asked whether there was no whether the ceasefire was over, because of the certain there was an attack yesterday, alleged attack yesterday by Iran to the UAE. And, you know, part of it is you're not supposed to be attacking during your ceasefire.
00:41:51.360that's part of it but he said that there no the ceasefire is not over um and so that's you know
00:41:59.300we don't know if by then today that would change but he spoke on the project freedom which i talked
00:42:05.040about yesterday he said this operation separate and distinct from operation epic fury project
00:42:11.300free i love the name by the way project freedom is defensive in nature focused in scope and
00:42:16.580temporary and duration with one mission, protecting innocent commercial shipping from
00:42:23.340Iranian aggression. So then he talked about, uh, chairman general Dan Kane also talked about
00:42:31.160outlining project freedom on the surface, what it would mean. Um, and talking about Iranian forces.
00:42:39.780um there were um pete as they call him or secretary of war um said that six ships attempted
00:42:51.540to bypass the u.s military blockade attempted meaning that didn't work out um but they are
00:43:00.240trying to reopen the Strait of Hormuz they're still blocked so the Strait of Hormuz is is
00:43:06.980they're trying to reopen it but the blockade is still ongoing against iranian ships that come
00:43:15.300from iran even if they're not iranian ships themselves they're ships that are going they're
00:43:22.180leaving from iran um or going to iran so they don't want iran oil leaving and going anywhere
00:43:30.500so that's the idea of it blocking their oil sales or any or any products to go to iran or whatever
00:43:38.740it is um so it is what it is um we don't know if anything nobody um the uae um basically is has
00:43:52.500been attacked. They alleged it was Iran. They have to have all their kids do remote schooling
00:44:03.620because they're afraid of what occurred. A South Korean ship was also damaged. And yesterday,
00:44:12.500President Trump talked about the South Korean ship while giving... He had some kind of small
00:44:18.900small business gathering and in there he talked about the south korean ship and he said
00:44:25.680okay the south korean ship was attacked so hey south korea why don't you join us to help
00:44:32.300in the effort to you know basically make sure that all these ships are able to go
00:44:38.580there's new stories about the ships themselves they're aware that the u.s can allow them
00:44:45.740a passage safe passage however some insurance companies are deciding not to go for it
00:44:52.720you know it's not the captain himself that decide whether they're gonna go or not so it's kind of
00:44:59.320complicated basically means that we're paying um we might be paying more for gas and um crude oil
00:45:06.880is up like 114 a barrel so yeah it's it's expensive i mean yesterday to fill up our fleet
00:45:17.200was 1100 so yeah it's a lot um all right and also you know we'll we'll find out more about these
00:45:26.560kamikaze dolphins so apparently there was a comment yes well it's been going on for a couple of days
00:45:34.160So they said that, you know, we've, we've all heard, do you guys remember?