Rebel News Podcast - Best of Rebel's 2019 American political coverage

00:00:00.000 tonight we're based in canada but we did some amazing coverage of u.s. politics i'll show you

00:00:21.160 some highlights it's december 24th and this is the ezra levant show why should others go to jail

00:00:28.840 when you're a biggest carbon consumer i know there's 8 500 customers here and you won't give them an

00:00:34.400 answer the only thing i have to say to the government the wire publisher is because it's my bloody right

00:00:40.260 to do so

00:00:41.020 kian bexty here just outside of the white house in washington dc where justin trudeau just arrived

00:00:50.980 for an 80 minute audience with donald trump now the first 20 minutes that i've seen so far

00:00:57.220 have been used up talking about iran after iran shot down an american drone in international

00:01:02.940 waters it's a little bit embarrassing that the prime minister of canada only gets less than an

00:01:08.300 hour-long audience with our greatest ally it's a little bit disappointing my main question here

00:01:12.900 today is if justin trudeau will be lecturing the president on social issues after he lectured

00:01:18.460 vice president mike pence when he came to canada here's my question to trudeau prime minister will

00:01:25.360 you be lecturing the president on social issues

00:01:27.420 no i'm just laughing because as the canadian media passed me uh they were all taking pictures of me

00:01:34.720 with my mic flash it's absolutely hilarious that in order to cover my own prime minister i have to go

00:01:39.740 to a foreign country uh and get white house press creds to be able to get close to the prime minister

00:01:44.720 because of course the canadian press gallery determines who and who cannot get close to the

00:01:50.260 canadian prime minister and they know that they're a dying breed and the legacy media is scared that

00:01:55.060 the rebel is taking a chunk of their viewership more interesting news today the prime minister

00:01:59.540 didn't come alone he brought two of his ministers bill morneau and harjit sejan it's yet to be disclosed

00:02:04.300 if the president is seeking our defense minister's counsel on what to do with iran i have my doubts i don't

00:02:10.620 think so uh and it's a little bit concerning that this meeting is only going to be lasting 30 minutes

00:02:16.500 from what i see now the president isn't spending much time on trudeau you'll note that he came to

00:02:21.360 the united states here just yesterday and the president neither the vice president nor the

00:02:25.800 president came to greet him similar to what happened in his disgraceful trip in india when

00:02:30.580 the prime minister of india just didn't bother to come to the tarmac to give him one of those

00:02:35.660 quintessential bear hugs that he's he's very well known for alexandria ocasio-cortez has come under

00:02:41.200 fire recently for comparing ice detention centers to concentration camps it demonstrates a weak

00:02:47.140 understanding of what the holocaust was at best and at worst it demonstrates the insidious 0.88

00:02:52.340 anti-semitism that has been creeping in to the democratic party over the last decade or so the

00:02:57.620 holocaust museum has called on her to tone it down americans everywhere have been calling on her to

00:03:01.540 apologize in fact she's doubled down on her rhetoric today i asked her friend and colleague ilan omar

00:03:08.440 what she thought about it while i was at congress today here's what she said hi could i get a moment

00:03:13.100 of your time could you tell me do you do you agree with aoc that ice is running uh concentration camps

00:03:19.160 on the border there are camps and people are being concentrated this is very simple i don't even know

00:03:26.760 why this is a controversial thing for her to say we have to uh really truthfully speak about what's

00:03:33.320 taking place and this is why it's really important for us to abolish ice and make sure that we

00:03:38.280 have an agency that is accountable to the people that is dealing with the situation in a humane

00:03:43.560 way there's no there's no way that we can allow um for kids to be caged uh in in this country and

00:03:53.640 and children to be separated from their families uh and people being terrorized in their communities

00:04:00.680 is it fair to can we have to make sure that we are calling it out and i am 100 percent without

00:04:05.800 the democratic duo are displaying unparalleled levels of anti-semitism you know my boss ezra

00:04:11.640 levant was joking when he called it the media party but in fact it's true and i just confirmed it on

00:04:17.400 video a prime minister's office staffer stopped me from going in those doors because i have this

00:04:22.680 microphone for no other reason than that i came to the white house i covered donald trump and trudeau

00:04:28.600 appearing with him for a very brief 80 minutes most of that was taken up with local reporters talking

00:04:34.680 about iran so justin trudeau had a pathetic amount of time with the leader of the free world so he

00:04:40.040 comes here to speak with media in a controlled environment where the canadian press gallery decides

00:04:44.440 who and who can and who cannot go and speak to the prime minister now you're saying oh well the key

00:04:50.200 in the canadian press gallery is an independent third-party organization au contraire it's not

00:04:55.320 listen to what this pmo staffer had to say good how are you okay to the uh to the event why

00:05:02.280 uh just because your organization is associated with white nationalism and white supremacy

00:05:07.320 and those values and and views are not uh are not welcome in this place so so i'm allowed in the

00:05:12.680 white house to cover a news event and i'm not a white nationalist i'm not a white supremacist but

00:05:18.200 you guys have been associated with that type of behavior and rhetoric so the white house so the prime

00:05:24.120 minister's office has made the unilateral decision to not let me in the prime minister's office has agreed

00:05:29.640 with the canadian press gallery that your organization's views are not welcome so that's

00:05:34.280 all i have they'll get you to leave but i just wanted to so the prime minister's office determines

00:05:37.640 who can and cannot cover canadian politics it's a canadian embassy event and you are also not an

00:05:42.360 accredited journalist in the canadian press gallery at a canadian media event and that's why so that's

00:05:47.640 spectacularly disappointing they will let you and pathetic they will escort you out i don't appreciate 0.95

00:05:52.360 that tone as i'm being respectful with you so you're not being respectful if you're being respectful 0.95

00:05:57.080 you let me cover my prime minister as i flew to washington to do there's a process uh for

00:06:01.800 accreditation and i tried to apply through the canadian press gallery and as i did with the white

00:06:06.520 house and they let me in quite smoothly they were they were quite kind and respectful but you guys are 0.96

00:06:12.360 quite clearly partisan and so and so is the press gallery and it is pathetic and a disgrace did you 0.88

00:06:20.120 catch what he said the prime minister's office and the canadian press gallery decided together 0.87

00:06:25.400 a prime minister deciding who can and cannot cover him that sounds a lot an awful lot like a

00:06:32.440 dictatorship to me now i'm here today because the story has changed from that to something else the

00:06:37.880 mainstream media has picked up a story that has been circling through conservative media circles for

00:06:42.680 quite some time now a couple years actually it's pathetic that the mainstream media has just picked

00:06:46.200 it up now but what has happened is there's a bunch of allegations that ilhan omar married her brother

00:06:52.120 and was playing some sick game of musical chairs with her brother and her real husband and then

00:06:59.000 was filing joint tax returns with her husband the second husband even though she wasn't really married

00:07:06.200 to him at the time on top of that it looks like she perjured herself in court when she told the courthouse

00:07:12.120 after she tried to get a divorce from who people are saying are her brother is her brother she said

00:07:18.120 that she hadn't seen him in years since 2011 in fact when really she had been talking with him

00:07:23.720 on and off on instagram referring to him as her children's uncle which leads me to believe that yeah

00:07:29.800 he is in fact her brother there are tons of questions that ilhan omar needs to answer she's avoiding

00:07:35.720 the media the mainstream media doesn't have the kahunas to actually ask her these questions so i'm

00:07:40.840 here in washington dc she has a press conference and i'm going to ask her some questions let's see what she says

00:07:47.640 ilhan if i could get a moment of your time if i could get a moment of your time could you tell

00:07:53.000 me why you filed illegal tax returns in 2014 and 2015. can you tell me definitively or not is ahmad

00:08:03.320 elsie your brother for the markup yeah this year in the middle of the legislative briefing we're going

00:08:10.040 yeah is he your brother we're going to which one it's foreign affairs i'll go with you can you tell

00:08:18.440 me definitively yes or no is he your brother and why can't you answer that question why did you refer

00:08:25.480 to him as your child's uncle on instagram and why did you lie on court documents saying that you

00:08:32.040 hadn't seen him since 2011 when in fact you'd been talking to him all the time on instagram

00:08:36.200 sir we're not doing ambush interviews this isn't an ambush you can send me a an email

00:08:41.960 why are you so afraid to answer these questions

00:08:43.640 how can anyone take you credibly on the uh on the twi on the uh student loan tax file

00:08:56.440 when you were cheating on your taxes in 2014

00:09:00.840 and how can you call for donald trump's tax uh tax filings when you did when you know nobody

00:09:07.320 can trust you on the file at all and why are you scared to answer the questions

00:09:20.200 what are you hiding trying to find my phone at the moment so that you can go on instagram and talk to

00:09:27.000 your brother now i don't know why ilhan omar is so afraid to answer very simple questions if i asked

00:09:36.920 you did you marry your sibling you know what the answer to that is no at least it should be i don't 0.99

00:09:41.480 know why she's not answering these questions i don't know why she's so scared it certainly

00:09:45.800 makes her look guilty on a bunch of different counts a radical leftist and an avowed antifa

00:09:51.400 member someone who's been photographed uh many times in antifa rallies has been shot and killed

00:09:58.440 after attempting to firebomb an ice center now i'm going to ask a very simple question of any congress

00:10:05.320 person that i can find will they condemn antifa and the terrorist act that we saw over the weekend

00:10:12.280 let's see what we can get will you condemn the antifa attack in washington over the weekend

00:10:18.440 it's easy to condemn terrorism will you condemn it

00:10:23.960 antifa firebombed a facility in tacoma over the weekend it's an ice facility

00:10:28.760 will you condemn them for that will you condemn antifa for the attack in washington

00:10:33.960 it's easy to condemn a terrorist attack

00:10:40.760 we're wondering if you'll condemn the ice attack again the antifa attack against an ice facility

00:10:45.800 in tacoma washington over the weekend

00:10:50.040 no do you condemn antifa for their violent actions against american law enforcement

00:10:55.960 okay so now you're getting in the way of me walking so i'm asking you to please back up

00:11:00.200 sir do you condemn antifa

00:11:01.960 what i'm condemning is a lack of journalistic integrity

00:11:04.360 and you're not respecting my physical space right now and i'm going to ask you to step away

00:11:09.800 antifa didn't respect the integrity of that building

00:11:12.520 you can give me a card and we can respond so you're not going to condemn them

00:11:16.600 this isn't a journalistic ethics thing i'm asking questions that cnn won't

00:11:21.400 will you condemn antifa

00:11:23.320 sir asking one more time to please scoot over

00:11:26.280 now these questions that i asked them were very simple and of course they didn't really have

00:11:29.320 much of an answer now i waited as the committee meeting where they were going to grill kellyanne

00:11:34.040 conway i waited for it to conclude and as i did members of the media who were typically waiting

00:11:39.880 outside of the doors where staff and members walk in i saw a few heads poking out of the into the hallway

00:11:46.200 and after i sort of stepped into uh into the shadows they all sort of fled out and i was able to ask

00:11:52.840 them all the same question and kind of got the same results but i did get an answer from one of them

00:11:58.200 would you like to would you like to condemn antifa for their attack on an ice facility

00:12:02.520 well obviously any attack on any any facility is is uh something that we shouldn't condone is the

00:12:10.280 united states government thank you why is it so hard to condemn terrorism well it's hard for the

00:12:15.720 democrats i think because a large part of their grassroots support their activist support would

00:12:20.760 be alienated if they did condemn antifa as a whole i think that's a serious problem in american

00:12:27.480 politics and particularly in the democratic party what a day here in washington dc i have fun with

00:12:33.800 these trucks every single time it's always a blast we're at the washington monument we're at congress

00:12:38.520 we're at the white house we're at the trump international hotel and then we went to dnchq over

00:12:44.440 the lunch hour to uh show them the billboard truck to remind them exactly who they have in their

00:12:49.800 caucus they weren't very happy they sent a security guard out to kind of threaten me take a look at

00:12:54.920 this sorry we're not trying to harass anyone we're we're just you know exercising our first

00:12:59.000 amendment rights and we want to know if the dnc will condemn terrorism so where exactly are you

00:13:04.600 no i i'm the reporter here i'm asking questions and i just want to know if the dnc will will

00:13:09.800 condemn terrorism do you work for the dnc or you law enforcement so you're going to continue this

00:13:15.240 to probably sorry okay you'll call what am i allowed to be on a public sidewalk we're going to

00:13:24.040 find out we're going to find out if i'm allowed to be on a public sidewalk you say that as you have

00:13:28.920 a firearm on your hip is this america or am i allowed to be on a sidewalk you can answer that

00:13:35.880 i'm allowed to be here i take it whatever you say

00:13:38.040 what's your name sorry what is your name my name is kian bexty i'm with rnn from canada

00:13:43.960 where i'm with rnn okay so we'll see what we can do part are you trying to get

00:13:50.760 i'm allowed to what sorry can you not put that in my face yeah i mean i'm i'm just interviewing

00:13:56.040 folks on the sidewalk we'll just we'll just interview folks with the dnc okay have a good day

00:14:01.640 hey there how are you we're doing a story on whether or not the dnc will condemn terrorism

00:14:07.320 would you do that no i'm not going to let that get me down i think the message was heard

00:14:12.120 loud and clear from both the dnc and from americans here in washington dc it was a great day here thank

00:14:18.520 you so much for everyone who supported the truck i am here in orange city iowa at the prairie winds

00:14:24.360 event center where elizabeth warren just had a community conversation as she calls it there was a 0.97

00:14:30.440 moment for a press to do a scrum and ask her some questions but i of course was excluded from that

00:14:36.920 they kept talking over me i was trying to get some footage i was trying to get in a question but

00:14:41.880 they kept asking me who i was with and blocking my view and even blocking my camera at moments

00:14:47.880 i was wearing my backpack and even felt somebody pulling at it trying to bring me out of the scrum

00:14:55.240 so unfortunately i didn't get to speak with elizabeth warren she did speak about her upbringing

00:15:01.080 her background and her career and how she got there and how she got uh to be a teacher in the

00:15:06.760 first place which is funny because i guess i'm the only one that noticed the elephant in the room

00:15:10.680 the fact that she lied about being a native american to get a tenure teaching position at harvard um so

00:15:17.480 right now she is doing some selfies and with uh with some supporters i'm gonna try and go back in

00:15:24.120 to see if i can speak with her a little bit more um but i don't see the likeliness of it because i

00:15:29.720 actually see um some of her staffers followed me outside and are keeping a close eye on what i'm

00:15:37.000 doing so i actually just finished a presser with andrew yang and i have been following andrew yang

00:15:43.880 quite a bit and in my opinion he just seems too normal and too cool and laid back to stand out in this

00:15:52.440 rather crazy group of candidates so um have a listen to what i got to ask him mr yang you've um

00:16:00.520 disavowed your alt-right supporters in the past now with all the violence that we've seen would you

00:16:05.800 disavow antifa i wasn't aware that antifa had any involvement with my campaign i'm against violence

00:16:14.120 against uh anyone in any quarter and so i'm against violence no matter the source so it's nothing new

00:16:20.920 when politicians kind of dodged the question um it seems like democrats are really scared to

00:16:27.080 pinpoint and disavow antifa by name they say they're against violence of course but it seems

00:16:33.000 like they're always trying to avoid the question directly mary ann williamson she has um been in the

00:16:40.440 news maybe not always for the most positive reasons but there has been a video going around

00:16:45.960 uh in one of her sermon type of lectures um so she is an author and an activist as well as a lecturer

00:16:55.080 so there's this one video and if you haven't seen it yet take a look right now i'm going to ask the white

00:17:01.480 americans in the room to please repeat after me on behalf of myself and on behalf of my country

00:17:18.520 to you and all african americans

00:17:21.000 from the beginning of our nation's history

00:17:30.040 in honor of your ancestors and on behalf of your children

00:17:39.080 please hear this from my heart

00:17:40.920 please forgive us 0.96

00:17:49.720 so there she was she had all the members uh in the audience put their hands on all the black people 1.00

00:17:57.320 in the audience to apologize for their ancestors or maybe not even their ancestors but just other

00:18:03.800 generations of um you know slave owners and slavery so uh i did try to talk to her a little bit about

00:18:11.560 it um again i she's been on um the last i heard her on a podcast with dave rubin and pretty much

00:18:18.840 everything she said today i heard on that podcast so um she kind of avoided the question she didn't

00:18:24.760 really give me a clear answer um her point is that what people americans specifically white people should

00:18:31.720 be paying reparations to black people um so when pressed and asked when i asked her about this

00:18:38.600 take a look at what she had to say so you've said that uh white people should be paying respirations to

00:18:44.760 for slavery what about people that are half white half black like for example obama would he be

00:18:49.560 paying reparations or receiving first of all i don't see it as a matter of white people i see it as a

00:18:56.680 matter of america i don't see this as a black agenda i see it as an american agenda my plan is for

00:19:04.200 a reparations council that is made up of black leaders some of whom have done scholarly work in

00:19:10.680 this country for decades on this issue uh william darity professor at duke university tonahessi coates

00:19:16.040 etc are examples this would obviously be very carefully chosen uh council and my recommendation is that we

00:19:24.360 we pay between 200 and 500 billion dollars is the number that i feel is enough to be significant and

00:19:30.520 yet enough to be politically feasible this money would be dispersed over a period of 20 years in

00:19:37.480 addition to that the stipulation would be that the money is to be used for purposes of educational and

00:19:43.800 economic renewal in answer to your question within that stipulation of projects of economic and

00:19:50.760 educational renewal it would be up to this council it would be up to black leaders to decide the 0.89

00:19:56.280 answer to the question if i owe you money i don't get to tell you how to spend it these people would

00:20:00.840 be answering to injustices and receiving payment for injustices down to their ancestors and it would

00:20:07.480 be their job to make the decisions regarding questions such as you guys but if it's not about white

00:20:13.160 or black and you put a black council who's going to be paying and who's going to be receiving that's not

00:20:18.040 obviously the black council would be people who are descendants of american slaves enslaved persons

00:20:24.280 democrats are really good at sticking to their talking points and sticking to their script

00:20:29.400 so listen to um what mayor pete had to say when i brought up this issue does the police force in

00:20:36.040 southbound have a racism problem so systemic racism is something that impacts the work of everybody and

00:20:43.560 certainly one of the challenges of being in law enforcement is to think about how even the best

00:20:49.000 individual working in that field even if they themselves are free of any racial bias or impulse

00:20:55.720 is impacted just by some of the baggage that historically and in our time is attached to the

00:21:00.680 uniform it's something that i think we need to be on guard against and it's one of the reasons why

00:21:05.640 in south bend we have worked on things like cultural competency making sure we assess even implicit bias

00:21:12.760 where there may not be conscious bias but there are still things that we carry in us that make it

00:21:17.640 harder for us to do our job well and it's a difficult conversation to have especially with officers who

00:21:23.800 may believe that they're being accused of something when the bottom line is any knowingly racist officer

00:21:31.400 should immediately find a different line of work any other officer should ask how they can arm themselves

00:21:37.240 against this baggage that challenges a profession that we all depend on in order to keep america safe

00:21:43.880 the other reporters as well were asking him mainly about these racial tensions so since 2012 this seems to

00:21:50.520 have been following him and it seems like it may hurt his chances in this race a new a newcomer to the

00:21:58.040 presidential race is governor of montana steve bolloch and if you haven't heard of him don't feel too bad

00:22:06.120 because i'm not too sure how many people know his name outside of montana a big contrast between him

00:22:13.800 and the other democratic candidates and he may even with his positions may not be far left leaning enough

00:22:22.200 the big contrast is that he unlike his other fellow candidates he is not for open borders and he is

00:22:28.520 also not for free health care for illegal immigrants earlier this year the governor of montana steven bolloch

00:22:36.040 did actually refuse to send the national guard troops to the southern border to help assist with the

00:22:42.520 border crisis so have a listen to what he had to say when i asked him about it another issue at the

00:22:48.120 southern border that um other candidates have expressed is the separation of families why do

00:22:53.800 you think it's only been coming up now to light and nobody seemed to care while it was happening under

00:22:58.680 obama well first of all because it's been having a lot more under this administration both because the

00:23:03.880 numbers that have come as we've also cut off agents the three central american countries and also the

00:23:12.200 decisions made from this department i mean the thought that we have 450 judges for

00:23:19.640 a caseload of 800 000 this is a bureaucratic mess and it is from my perspective at least a

00:23:27.880 moral crisis and a crisis of a humanitarian crisis as we're taking these families apart but

00:23:36.680 we've had these challenges before so we ought to fix the system and not be ripping families apart and

00:23:44.600 not be losing families we shouldn't be using immigration to try to divide us this country 1.00

00:23:51.160 so for the average person it's pretty shocking that most people don't know that the separation of

00:23:56.680 families happened under obama as well and it seems like it's just an outrage now that it's happening under

00:24:01.800 trump and as you heard there the governor of montana stephen bloc did say you know why it's

00:24:07.400 why it's uh why there's so much light on it right now is because it's just much worse under trump

00:24:13.720 bernie sanders has been very open of being pro venezuela pro cuba and pro soviet union so i decided to

00:24:22.440 ask him about the one democracy in the middle east and look what happened then excuse me bernie are you

00:24:28.360 pro israel ma'am you need a step back excuse me can i ask are you pro israel ma'am you need a step back

00:24:34.520 it seems rather odd for him to dodge such a clear question but i wasn't done with bernie i continued

00:24:40.520 to his next location and one of the things that fascinates me about bernie sanders is his love of

00:24:46.200 the soviet union among many others my parents themselves fled the cruelty of the soviet union back

00:24:52.760 in the 80s and bernie sanders ended up vacationing there in the 80s if you haven't seen the video

00:24:59.080 take a look at this ladies and gentlemen we have a tradition when people sit at the same table at the

00:25:05.880 party and one side of the table staff starts singing a song when they finish it the other side has to

00:25:20.200 to sing there also what are we gonna say as director said editor to victor's words um today

00:25:29.400 the distinctive feature of our economy is competition

00:25:35.880 this land was made for you and me

00:25:41.000 clearly a cheerful bernie shirtless sweaty drinking and singing and watch what happens when i asked him

00:26:07.960 about it cruelty of the soviet union do you regret taking your honeymoon there actually i didn't take

00:26:13.400 a honeymoon there you vacation there who are you with by the way i'm with rebel media from canada

00:26:18.040 so my parents are polish they actually fled the soviet union my father is polish see we got something in

00:26:22.600 common and so do you what do you think that tells people in your vacation it tells people that what

00:26:27.960 first of all it wasn't a vacation what was it from what we heard it was your honeymoon oh you heard more

00:26:33.320 you should get your facts right okay so what were you doing there establishing a sister city

00:26:37.400 relationship with a city called yaroslav very good program okay and are you pro israel

00:26:45.000 his response didn't seem totally right to me so i went ahead and did some quick research

00:26:50.600 and found when he was speaking to the washington post and he called it quote a very strange honeymoon

00:26:58.440 so naturally i went back and asked him again excuse me senator sanders no i'm honestly i'm just

00:27:05.080 trying to get my facts right like you said so i see on the national you spoke to the national post

00:27:10.760 and you said it was quote a very strange honeymoon so i'm confused if well because i was married just

00:27:17.240 previous to that but we were married just previous but this wasn't a honeymoon the purpose of this trip

00:27:23.480 where i went with a whole delegation of folks from burlington vermont was to establish a sister city okay

00:27:29.640 so when you said uh to the washington post what was that really about thank you okay can i ask you

00:27:36.280 another quick question please okay thank you take care i'm standing on the white house grounds in

00:27:41.640 washington dc not a busy day here at the white house the president is uh has no open events to the

00:27:49.080 public um but it's a good chance for me to come down and familiarize myself with how the washington

00:27:55.640 press corps works and i tell you i went in and talked to a assistant deputy press secretary and

00:28:00.680 i saw the big room where the press briefings happen and i saw some of the other reporters from other

00:28:05.880 networks and they couldn't be friendlier and the accreditation process couldn't be easier it was

00:28:10.840 really just an email on friday and here i am here on monday um the only wrinkle is that as a foreign

00:28:18.280 national i have to be escorted from the security gate to uh the facility which is fine by me those canadians

00:28:24.040 are known to be rascally but my point besides showing off that i'm here at the white house and

00:28:28.440 have a little bit of fun is to make uh the opposite point back in canada the rebel.media is blacklisted

00:28:35.880 by justin trudeau and his censorious prime minister's office we have been granted accreditation all over

00:28:41.960 the world not just here in washington by the way i'm the third reporter for the rebel who's been

00:28:46.440 accredited at the white house uh we have been in the national legislature of sweden of holland of

00:28:55.480 the united kingdom we've even been guests of the government in iraqi kurdistan we've been in the

00:29:02.520 halls of the un headquarters in new york of the european union in brussels and strasbourg there's almost

00:29:10.440 no place in the in the knesset in israel there's almost no place we haven't been accredited and we

00:29:15.880 were accredited again and again at un conferences until canada uh in the form of christia freeland

00:29:23.080 catherine mckenna and justin trudeau blacklisted us and told the united nations no longer to let us report

00:29:32.040 in their conferences around the world then we send reporters anyways they just won't let us in

00:29:35.880 but what's worse is that canada uh in a combination of the government the prime minister's office and

00:29:42.760 the parliamentary press gallery has colluded to blacklist us from any events in canada that are

00:29:50.040 sponsored by the parliamentary press gallery so we've been blocked from any parliamentary briefings

00:29:54.840 we've been blocked even from the canadian embassy here take a look at that the prime minister's office

00:29:59.240 has agreed with the canadian press gallery that your organization's views are not welcome so that's

00:30:04.440 all i have they'll get you to leave but i just wanted to so the prime minister's office determines

00:30:07.800 who can and cannot cover canadian politics it's a canadian embassy event and you are also not an

00:30:12.600 accredited journalist in the canadian press gallery at a canadian media event and that's why so so imagine

00:30:18.360 that we're canada's largest independent news network 1.25 million subscribers on our youtube channel

00:30:24.760 we've covered governments and politicians around the world from the heart of their legislatures but in our

00:30:30.520 own country justin trudeau is so full of hate and so afraid of dissent that he is literally blacklisting

00:30:37.240 canada's largest independent media from covering him gee i wonder why let me give you a little tour

00:30:43.320 of the white house grounds from a reporter's point of view behind me you can see the security gate that

00:30:48.280 i walked through just a simple metal detector and as a foreign national i had to be escorted from there

00:30:54.040 to here but of course i'm free to roam now that i'm in behind me you can see it looks like little

00:30:59.320 cabanas really little huts that each of the tv stations have um as a little base outside to cover

00:31:07.160 any action on the white house lawn so there's not a lot going on today but still each of them are ready

00:31:12.840 lights are on they've got fans because it's a nice hot muggy day um in case anything were to happen this is

00:31:19.160 where they'd immediately run to film from they're all set up everything's based on a moment's notice

00:31:24.520 as i turn around behind me uh you can see some other cameras set up outside that building again

00:31:32.040 sometimes administration officials come out and those cameras are ready

00:31:35.560 to go even if it's just a 10 20 30 second interaction you can see their base for the news

00:31:41.400 let me just turn around a little bit more and you can see of course the white house building the

00:31:45.400 glorious glorious building behind me i was told that i cannot go on the lawn the secret service

00:31:51.960 would have been talking to me if i tried to do so now down there um actually down there

00:32:00.040 is where the white house press briefing room is and it's nice and air conditioned so that in fact is

00:32:05.320 where most of the reporters are hanging out today um there's nothing going on so i think they're just

00:32:10.440 cool in their heels like the president and there's no official briefings scheduled

00:32:15.160 the white house press staff there's a few of them today so not a lot of not a lot going on

00:32:20.680 uh publicly there's a few private briefings what's interesting to me is just how minute by minute

00:32:26.760 president trump's schedule is released and they have a permanent pool and what that is is journalists

00:32:33.000 agree together that on a rotating basis someone will cover literally every move the president makes

00:32:39.000 minute by minute they document he landed at 11 37 he walked to marine one at 202 melania the first

00:32:46.920 lady was with him like just uh minute by minute things he said things he did uh documenting every

00:32:53.960 second of the president what a difference the level of transparency here compared to say canada's

00:33:00.040 justin trudeau who's absent for days usually found surfing in tofino

00:33:05.000 um the level of scrutiny donald trump undergoes is uh unimaginable justin trudeau of course uh just

00:33:12.600 disappears and the media is almost as lazy as he is david menzies for the rebel.media here at the

00:33:19.480 university of minnesota in minneapolis well i'm here to take in a community conference on black maternal

00:33:28.200 health i'm not sure how black maternal health is different from the maternal health of other races but then

00:33:34.040 again i'm not black and nor do i have a uterus however the real reason i'm here is a couple of

00:33:39.400 the speakers include ilhan omar and ariana presley i have some questions if i can get to them i want

00:33:47.640 to know for example if miss presley is still part of the squad she did vote against the bds sanctions

00:33:54.680 targeting israel much to the disdain of her other squad members also would like to know who the real

00:34:01.080 voice of the democratic party is these days is at aoc or nancy pelosi and as for miss omar well

00:34:08.200 it's beginning to look like paint in place on capitol hill isn't it there's allegations that

00:34:13.000 she had an affair with her campaign manager and that his travel expenses were paid for

00:34:19.160 out of campaign funds so let's see what she has to say about those storylines anyways i'm about to go

00:34:27.800 inside taking the conference and then hopefully i'll get to speak to these congresswomen

00:34:41.000 hi miss omar david menzies with rebel media can you comment on the allegations of an affair with tim

00:34:46.280 manette and that you were using um campaigns from your uh to fund his travel expenses

00:34:52.200 this is miss omar what is the penalty for uh adultery in your native somalia 0.63

00:34:59.320 miss omar why is minnesota such a hotbed of uh terrorism for recruiting in the u.s miss omar

00:35:09.080 miss omar can you tell me uh what the penalty is for adultery in somalia 0.95

00:35:13.880 hi miss presley david menzies with uh rebel media i'm just wondering hi

00:35:18.280 oh i'll just speak while you're getting ready you know um hi there yes miss presley are you still

00:35:26.680 a member of the squad after um voting against the uh bds movement wow miss presley can you comment on

00:35:34.200 that the squad is anyone doing the work of building a more equitable and just world that's not just four

00:35:40.360 people who is the who is the face of the democratic party today is it aoc or nancy pelosi we gotta get

00:35:47.240 going can you answer that miss presley who is the uh the face of the democrat party today is it aoc or

00:35:58.920 nancy pelosi has nancy pelosi given you a gag order the face of the democratic party are the people of

00:36:08.760 this country it's the everyday person it's the american worker it's the immigrant it's the survivor

00:36:16.520 the face of the party are the people but there's certainly been a rift uh with the party are the

00:36:22.040 people there's no rift thank you well that wasn't the sort of in-depth interview i was hoping for but

00:36:29.240 these are busy congresswoman after all uh miss presley i don't know what she said to me it sounded like 0.99

00:36:35.720 baffle gab but at least she did say something unlike miss omar that was a matter of cat got your tongue or 0.52

00:36:44.040 just a decision not to exercise her first amendment rights at least not on this day and it's too bad

00:36:50.200 because with all the issues surrounding her these days capitol hill at least if you're with the omar 0.97

00:36:55.560 camp is resembling paint in place what would talk about her having an affair and paying her lovers 1.00

00:37:02.440 travel expenses with uh campaign funds um that's very interesting indeed and of course i had other

00:37:09.400 questions on other issues as for the topic du jour black maternal health uh it basically comes down to

00:37:16.200 this in a reader's digest version folks um if black woman or a woman of color or indigenous women are

00:37:22.680 having any kind of issues with their pregnancy um it's all to be blamed on you got it systemic racism

00:37:32.280 my eyes were diverted to a laptop mean actually a sign on a laptop that reads i'm gay trump 2020

00:37:44.440 democrats don't own me and this laptop belongs to scott presler and i'm going to talk to him right now

00:37:51.480 and find out what this is all about and why he's advertising both his sexual orientation and his

00:37:58.120 political affiliation okay so scott as i mentioned i saw your um signage i'm gay trump 2020 democrats

00:38:05.960 don't own me now scott first of all what prompted you to um advertise your uh political and sexual

00:38:14.520 affiliation in the first place well i want to show that i am a loud and proud trump supporter i'm so tired

00:38:21.480 of people being silenced intimidated bullied into not expressing themselves so here i am with my trump

00:38:29.160 shirt here i am with my trump computer and you know part of the reason some people say why do you have

00:38:34.440 to say that you're gay well minorities usually vote democrat right if you're black you have to vote 1.00

00:38:41.480 democrat if you're gay you have to vote democrat and simply by being here simply by showing i'm a gay 0.81

00:38:47.720 trump supporter i'm totally destroying that narrative i'm destroying that box that the democrats like to 0.96

00:38:54.280 put all minority groups into and i'm showing other gay people you don't have to vote democrat you don't

00:39:01.720 have to vote simply democrat because of your sexuality and scott i have to ask what has been the reactions

00:39:09.720 to your signage both good and bad well i'll tell you just here now i've been here for about an hour

00:39:15.480 i had four different men come up to me and say i love your laptop can i take a picture of you

00:39:21.240 and so to every single person of course i asked are you registered to vote at your current address

00:39:26.920 but i want to make it very clear here are these men coming up to me who i presume are straight

00:39:31.720 here i am a gay trump supporter there was no homophobia there was no hate i was embraced i was

00:39:38.120 welcomed with open arms and open hearts and do you ever get any reaction from democrats or

00:39:45.160 other gay individuals who think you know hey what's wrong with you you're yours you're not 0.84

00:39:51.400 you're not rooting for the right team here absolutely no sometimes i love to sit at starbucks 0.87

00:39:56.120 and i sit in starbucks in the drive-through window so every single person has to see me

00:40:01.000 and i have been accosted a few times but i'm always very pleasant because i know that there are other

00:40:06.440 people in the room that are listening that are the independent voter and when they see someone like me

00:40:11.160 simply expressing my first amendment right to free speech and i'm attacked attacked for simply

00:40:16.360 being who i am i think the middle america voter the independent voter is going wow what has the left

00:40:22.040 become

Rebel News Podcast - December 25, 2019

Best of Rebel's 2019 American political coverage

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