In this episode of declassified live, we discuss the Michael Cohen tape of Donald Trump and his attorney Michael Cohen discussing a perfectly legal purchase of something that they ultimately decide not to legally purchase. We also discuss how CNN obtained the tape and how they handled it.
00:19:29.280comma uh kills a bunch of people or shoots a bunch of people kills two others
00:19:35.500and then the immediate the immediate narrative is mental illness it seems to me to be a sanitization
00:19:44.860of the narrative especially in light of the fact that canadian authorities didn't want to release his
00:19:49.200name and i have not seen and unless i'm missing it any official statement ruling out terror but man
00:19:56.540that family and those care representatives sure jumped on it quickly and said not terror mental
00:20:02.280illness he was off his meds ridiculous absolutely ridiculous absolutely ridiculous so let's go back
00:20:12.820because leslie sylvan is saying you're an absolute first amendment advocate so am i i don't care about
00:20:17.440being challenged leslie but it's clear to anyone who's done business that cash a cash payment
00:20:23.120does not mean cash in a duffel bag it means a wire transfer or bank check because in the american
00:20:30.440finance system a wire transfer or a bank check is equivalent to cash at a closing so that's the term used
00:20:41.020i was in business before i was in media it's a common business term and a financier a guy like
00:20:46.640trump when he said a cash deal that's what he means because they're equivalent if i wire transfer a car
00:20:53.520dealership money or i go to the bank and get them a certified check it's identical to me giving them
00:20:58.300a briefcase full of cash barbell donated to us barb thank you very much very generous this is a good
00:21:05.880one it's not the 1990s anymore trump voters don't care we enjoy winning yes we do barb right on barb
00:21:13.340excellent comment but that's what cash means let's go back to uh the danforth shooting in faisal hussan
00:21:20.680one uh one okay i gotta address leslie's question leslie sure people can pay off inspectors with cash
00:21:30.440but they were setting up a company to buy the rights from the national inquirer you don't go
00:21:37.260through that trouble and then bring a bag of cash leslie they were creating a paper trail that's public
00:21:42.880record on a state's division of corporations website they were bringing an asset into that
00:21:49.440corporation thereby increasing its value you don't do that if your intention is to put cash in a bag
00:21:56.440you got to read and listen to the totality of the situation and deduce from that
00:22:04.300now it's uh it's go back to the toronto shooting so i'm always suspect i'm always very concerned
00:22:13.500when i see a shooting with somebody who's clearly a muslim and the immediate narrative is sanitized
00:22:20.600because i'm going to say i'm going to go on a limb here and say
00:22:22.820that's what happened in toronto is that the government uh held the information back because
00:22:31.060they didn't want hysteria and now and now we've got katie boo will die so she loves my voice well
00:22:38.820thank you katie boo thank you very much it's uh typically a little beat up i do this many hours a day
00:22:46.740so uh it always concerns me when these narratives appear sanitized because i have to ask why why
00:22:54.600it's um troubling but it's not unique to canada we see liberal cities uh do it here in the u.s
00:23:04.320we see cities here in the u.s that do it we sanitize and sanitize narratives there was that moronic
00:23:14.420uh referendum before the new york city council a couple of years back where far left new york city
00:23:21.400council people wanted to prevent i don't know if you saw this or heard about this and luckily
00:23:28.380sanity prevailed the nypd lost their minds and for those of you who don't know i spent the first half
00:23:36.220of my adult life with the nypd the um the new york city council wanted to prevent 9-1-1 dispatchers
00:23:45.720from giving police the race of suspects think about that so you're robbed at gunpoint by a male black
00:23:52.600you call 9-1-1 i was just robbed at gunpoint by a male black he's running south down 5th avenue
00:23:59.340he just passed 50th street midtown manhattan he's wearing a black hoodie blue jeans and white
00:24:04.780sneakers he's got a red bandana in his pocket he's carrying a handgun the new york city police
00:24:10.960department well the new york city council wanted dispatchers at the new york city police department
00:24:16.640only give police a man about five foot ten and a black shirt and blue jeans and white sneakers now
00:24:23.420the new york city police department let's say it's a november day and they get there and there
00:24:28.560are five men in black hoodie black hoodies blue jeans and white sneakers pretty common looking
00:24:36.880outfit in a city in late fall or winter well think about the unintended consequence of this
00:24:42.920politically correct stupidity now when you can't give the race the white guy is stopped at gunpoint
00:24:48.860the asian guy is stopped at gunpoint the indian guy is stopped at gunpoint the uh you know the
00:24:57.380hispanic guy is stopped at gunpoint and the african-american guy is stopped at gunpoint
00:25:01.560so instead of only being the suspect and somebody that matches the suspect's description four other
00:25:07.240perfectly innocent people just going about their day are stopped at gunpoint that's the unintended
00:25:13.460consequence of political correctness okay meb3 gave us a donation well i don't know if i agree with
00:25:20.880you thank you very much by the way sharia is a better option than today's left i don't know if
00:25:26.420i agree with you but it's pretty funny point and uh i get i get the point point taken yeah the left is
00:25:31.700pretty bad the left is pretty bad um let's see what else we got here i want to start taking some of your
00:25:44.740comments but uh to finish up yeah i think i think they tried to sanitize the narrative the narrative
00:25:50.440in uh in toronto when they couldn't they're now well they tried to hide the narrative by not releasing
00:25:55.780his name i should say and when they couldn't they decided to sanitize it or the family did anyway
00:26:03.580matthew hopman's off to work see you tomorrow matt great to see you every morning let's see
00:26:10.600yeah jimmy's 49 is like van driver in north york was mental also sure seems like all of these
00:26:17.860uh people all of these terrorists seem to have mental illness seem to have mental illness a lot
00:26:26.080of calls to free tommy robinson yes what happened to tommy is a travesty but like i tell you every
00:26:30.600morning that is really ezra's really doing amazing work on that and so i'm really leaving it up to him
00:26:37.500on that story he's in touch with the family with people close to tommy he's in touch with the
00:26:42.460lawyers as we're going to be going back over there when there's additional information from the court
00:26:46.760because he's so on top of the story i'm focusing on the u.s issues with the rebel uh some of the
00:26:52.560canadian issues like the shooter anything that's criminal or anti-terror i'll cover uh but really
00:26:57.460ezra's doing such a great job i would do i would do the story of this service so i really suggest
00:27:02.860pay attention to ezra's twitter and his shows here on the rebel he has i would say ezra's got
00:27:08.460uh worldwide globally there's nobody in media right now with better information on tommy's case than
00:27:13.380ezra and so that should really he should really be your go-to guy for that story not that i don't
00:27:18.720want to cover it just he's doing such a great job like i said he's so on top of it i would do it a
00:27:23.100disservice and so uh i i follow ezra on it you know we chat offline about what's going on
00:27:28.620and uh he he really i i truly believe uh in fact i don't think it's disputable ezra has
00:27:35.000the the best insight on the tommy story of any journalist in the world right now so stick with him
00:27:39.920for that one uh evil bastard says a dc city councilwoman tried to propose that crime surveillance
00:27:45.840footage be classified and kept secret if the perpetrators are minorities yeah it's the trend
00:27:51.400around the country man it is the trend around the country
00:27:54.300they don't want to put the description out and it really does fly in the face of the constitution
00:28:01.880right so a little backstory a little education on that and how cops go about doing this here in the
00:28:07.760u.s so there was a landmark case terry v ohio back in 1964 so when you hear the term stop question and
00:28:17.300frisk the alternative uh description is a terry stop and there are so what it means is here
00:28:24.280in the u.s we have levels of suspicion levels of probable cause for the police all right mere
00:28:32.120suspicion doesn't really give you the right to do anything mere suspicion is i'm an officer on patrol
00:28:40.020in a warehouse district at three o'clock in the morning and that's my typical patrol area
00:28:46.360and the uh and i know the area and i know that nobody's walking around that area that time of
00:28:54.740night so i see a guy looking in one of the windows of one of the buildings maybe it's a warehouse type
00:29:02.920building a machine shop clearly it's not his friend's house or his house and i see him trying
00:29:09.620in the door that's mere suspicion doesn't look right i can approach him and say hey what's going
00:29:17.360on everything all right and he can say to me i want to talk to you and i can say to him well then
00:29:25.440you got to be they know i can stand right here on the sidewalk i can say you know what you can you're
00:29:29.900legally allowed to do that but you can't touch that door it's private property or the guy might say
00:29:34.020hey officer i work here i left my uh backpack it's got the keys to my house and i locked myself
00:29:39.720out i'm just looking inside there's usually an overnight security guard just want to see if he's
00:29:43.140in there so i could bang on the door okay that makes a little more sense to me and i might say
00:29:49.020all right let me shine my light in there let me see if we can get them on the phone for you because
00:29:52.200his phone's in his backpack that's mere suspicion reasonable suspicion is that guy is pulling that
00:29:58.960door on the side of the building and i notice he's got a screwdriver and a pry bar in his pocket
00:30:02.860that's a little more suspicious to me right and i ask him what are you doing here and he says oh my
00:30:08.540aunt lives around here oh really well then why are you trying this industrial facilities door at
00:30:11.780two o'clock in the morning with a pry bar at that point i could ask him some questions and if i see
00:30:18.800a bulge in his pockets or a shape under his clothing indicative to that of a weapon or if i see those what
00:30:25.220we'd call burglars tools that pry bar that screwdriver that wrench those could be used as weapons
00:30:30.180i'm allowed legally to pat down the outside of his clothing i'm allowed to do that now the another
00:30:39.020reason i'd be able to put hands on him and pat down the outside of his clothing is if a call came
00:30:43.940in a 911 that gave me a detailed description of him so if a call for example came in a 911 from the
00:30:50.940apartment building across the street from this warehouse and they said hey look uh we got a 911
00:30:55.920one caller then we have another caller we have callback numbers they see this guy he's out of
00:31:01.160place they know all the employees he's not one he's a male hispanic five foot ten a gray sweatshirt
00:31:08.260with a hood blue jeans and black sneakers and they think he's trying to break into the place that gives
00:31:15.000me automatic reasonable suspicion i can pat this guy down that's why race is so important in a
00:31:22.320description to the police because it enables them to automatically raise their probable cause level
00:31:30.000raise their suspicion level and it enables them to put their hands on someone to detain that person
00:31:38.380while they conduct a summary investigation this is why it is so stupid when leftists who don't
00:31:46.440understand this propose these moronic things like hiding security camera footage or taking race
00:31:52.800at a suspect descriptions because the unintended consequence is it actually infringes on the rights of
00:31:59.960others who might not be involved because now the description is more broad more general so it gives the
00:32:05.960police more suspects to approach so perfectly innocent people the guy who may very well be the night
00:32:13.360security guard at this warehouse who also just happens to be wearing a gray sweatshirt and and dark
00:32:18.160pants he's now going to be stopped by the police under suspicion when he shouldn't be he's a perfectly
00:32:24.760innocent guy just going to work that's why taking race out of the description is moronic that's why now
00:32:33.560luckily it didn't happen nobody you know cooler heads prevailed insanity prevailed and it never never
00:32:38.920happened but that's why uh it's it's a very stupid policy let's um go back to some of your questions
00:32:47.600here but i thought that was in oh you know a lot of people talking about gun control in canada
00:32:52.560uh oh this is an interesting one for uzakati says uk cops always describe the race of a suspect by using
00:32:58.680ic codes ic1 is white euro ic3 is black what's wrong with that because why do it why bother
00:33:06.880why substitute one for the other male black male hispanic why bother why sanitize it there's
00:33:14.540nothing wrong with being a male black there's nothing wrong with being a male white there's
00:33:19.460nothing wrong with being a male asian there's nothing wrong with being a male hispanic there's
00:33:22.800nothing wrong with that why do we have to make believe that it's bad to say male hispanic committed
00:33:28.780a crime male black committed a crime male white committed a crime people commit crimes like it's just
00:33:33.900Why add a step when, when, when it comes to police response for Uzi, we should be doing all we can to shorten the response time, not lengthen it by adding these unnecessary descriptors.