Rebel News Podcast - Hero smeared after raising a million dollars for charity

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. I tell you a story today that will get your blood boiling, I think.

00:00:04.500 It's about Carson King. Who's he? He's just some 24-year-old kid.

00:00:08.340 Asked for some beer money on TV. When it came in, he said, you know, I'm going to give this

00:00:11.780 to charity. Within a few days, $1.4 million came in. That's the good news. The bad news

00:00:17.080 will make you sick. That's today's story. Hey, before I get out of the way, can you do me a favor?

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00:00:37.160 All right, here's today's show.

00:00:42.920 You're listening to a Rebel News podcast.

00:00:45.260 Tonight, a man raises a million dollars for children with cancer and the local newspaper

00:00:58.880 digs up an embarrassing tweet he wrote when he was 16. Oh, and it gets worse. It's September 25th

00:01:05.180 and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:08.700 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:12.420 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:16.480 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody

00:01:21.360 right to do so.

00:01:27.460 You know, I'm still mad about that turkey story in southern Alberta.

00:01:30.600 You know, the 160 animal rights extremists do a farm invasion robbery of a Hutterite

00:01:36.860 turkey farm. Endangered all the animals, of course. Trespassed, of course. It was a farm

00:01:41.640 invasion, but all those families lived there. So it was a home invasion, too. And they stole

00:01:46.760 five animals and they were there for hours while the police did nothing. That's the worst part.

00:01:52.240 But then it got even worse, I guess. The police let them all go. An Alberta's justice minister

00:01:57.640 came to town to have a town hall with lots of media in tow to talk about how much he cares about

00:02:03.420 rural crime. But it's been almost a month and he's laid no criminal charges. I know why this makes

00:02:09.620 me very mad. I've been thinking about it for weeks. Because I could tell everyone was picking on this

00:02:14.920 farm specifically because it was a Christian Hutterite farm. As in, the animal rights extremists 0.99

00:02:22.200 knew they wouldn't get a shotgun blast or a fist in the face because either pacifist Christians who 0.97

00:02:29.480 live the creed turn the other cheek. And the cops knew that, too. So they didn't bother doing their

00:02:34.900 job because, you know, that might require some work and effort. So everyone took advantage of the

00:02:40.120 Hutterites. The cops, too, by refusing to enforce the law in a way that they'd never do with any other

00:02:45.200 farmer. And now Doug Schweitzer, the red Tory, who's always been hostile to Christians, now he's taking

00:02:52.080 advantage of the Hutterites, too. No charges laid against the criminals, but he'll pose with the 0.72

00:02:56.340 Hutterites as some human backdrop for his press opportunities. That's why I'm mad about that.

00:03:02.300 Not because I particularly care about five stolen turkeys, but because I can see the injustice here

00:03:07.140 is deeper and all the people who are supposed to give a damn don't. I'm so mad about that. You tell me.

00:03:13.960 Should I just let it go? I mean, if no one else cares, is it stupid for me to care? Sheila Gunn-Reed cares, 0.99

00:03:20.080 of course. She went down there to talk to the farmers. Well, I saw another story today that

00:03:25.360 makes me even madder. And I didn't wake up on the wrong side of the bed today or anything. I didn't

00:03:29.780 get up looking to be mad. No way. So there's this young man in Iowa, surely one of the best states

00:03:35.480 in the United States. And this young guy, he's 24 years old. His name is Carson King. What a great

00:03:40.620 Iowa name. Anyways, he holds up this funny sign on TV at a football game in Iowa. Bush Light Supply

00:03:46.720 needs replenishing. Venmo and then his account. It's like PayPal. It's a way for people to send

00:03:53.000 you money on the internet. So he holds his sign up and it gets on national TV. And people think

00:03:58.960 it's pretty funny. So strangers actually start chipping in to give him some beer money. Iowa,

00:04:05.000 good people, funny, love their beer. Well, this is very exciting for Bush beer, Anheuser-Busch.

00:04:10.800 They love this viral moment. Everyone's getting this guy beer money. So they jump on board and

00:04:16.580 they send this tweet. They say, hey, Carson, we said we send you a year's worth of Bush

00:04:22.040 Light. But first we had to make sure the cans were fit for a king. Let us know where to send

00:04:26.560 the truck. Iowa legend. And you saw there was a photo of him on the can. Anyway, this is

00:04:31.680 hilarious. This was just all a couple days ago, by the way. And Iowans being Iowans, here's

00:04:37.400 what Carson King does with all his beer money. Let me quote CNN, because this story went national.

00:04:45.240 He said, I didn't think I would make anything. It all started as a joke, he said. After speaking

00:04:51.340 with his family, he decided that minus the cost of one case of Bush Light, he'd give the rest

00:04:57.560 of the money to the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital. As word spread of his

00:05:04.560 plans to donate the money, more people decided to contribute. Bush Beer and Venmo even caught wind

00:05:09.780 of his plans and raised the stakes by pledging to match his contribution. By Sunday morning,

00:05:14.800 the contributions, including Bush Beer and Venmo's matches, had reached $1 million and were

00:05:20.340 continuing to rise. How good are you feeling right now? How good is Carson King feeling? He got his free

00:05:28.060 beer, and then he did a good thing. He didn't even have to. How good is Anheuser-Busch feeling?

00:05:35.780 And how about those kids at the Children's Hospital and their families? I mean, be honest now,

00:05:41.160 would you have the personal character to give up a million bucks to charity when you literally asked

00:05:47.140 for it for beer money, and you were getting it for beer money? You give it to charity instead. Give this

00:05:54.240 guy respect. Here's what he wrote. He tweeted. He said, we just reached a million in total

00:06:00.900 contributions. Bush Beer and Venmo, let's go. We're not done yet. Children's Hospital, what do you think

00:06:07.120 for the kids? And the Children's Hospital wrote this back to him. They said, we can't think. Our minds

00:06:13.720 are blown by all of this. Thank you to everyone who helped reach this milestone. We're so grateful.

00:06:18.360 What a feel-good story. Well, let me take you to some breaking news, okay? Seriously, this

00:06:27.300 was called breaking news on TV in Iowa, like as if North Korea launched a nuclear missile. Breaking

00:06:34.640 news. Let me show you the breaking news from Iowa. Breaking news into the KCCI newsroom in just the

00:06:41.220 past hour. Anheuser-Busch says it will now no longer have any further association with the Altoona

00:06:47.280 Man who has raised more than $1 million for the University of Iowa Children's Hospital. KCCI's

00:06:53.120 Laura Terrell is just back from a news conference where Carson King apologized for using offensive

00:06:57.660 language on social media when he was in high school. Laura? Yes, King reached out to KCCI to talk

00:07:04.600 about what he calls a racially offensive post he made eight years ago. We don't know the content of

00:07:10.020 that post because it's been deleted. King says he doesn't want it to affect his fundraising effort for

00:07:15.120 the hospital. I am embarrassed and stunned to reflect on what I thought was funny when I was a 16-year-old

00:07:20.960 kid and I want to sincerely apologize. An apology from Carson King. The 24-year-old called a press

00:07:27.760 conference Tuesday night after a racially insensitive social media post he made eight years ago recently

00:07:34.480 surfaced. It was brought to my attention by a reporter for the Des Moines Register and once he pointed it out

00:07:41.040 and I went back and looked at it I was you know I was really upset with myself. King says he deleted the

00:07:46.880 post immediately. King became somewhat famous 10 days ago after his beer sign went viral. Instead of using

00:07:54.880 the money for Bush Light he pledged to donate it all to the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's

00:08:00.640 Hospital. I don't want you know what I did when I was 16 to take away from the fact that you know we're

00:08:06.000 over 1.14 million dollars for the Children's Hospital. Yeah this just came in today. This regular guy from

00:08:12.000 Altoona suddenly a hero in the public eye now says he fears mistakes from his past will change that. I'm

00:08:19.440 worried about it. I really hope people focus on the positivity that all this has brought. Obviously you

00:08:25.280 know I've made mistakes in my past you know everyone has. King says all of the 1.4 million and counting will

00:08:33.360 still go to the hospital. Now here is the full statement from Anheuser-Busch they sent to KCCI in

00:08:38.480 just the past hour. Carson King had multiple social media posts that do not align with our values as a

00:08:45.120 brand or as a company and we will have no further association with him. We are honoring our commitment

00:08:50.640 by donating more than 350,000 dollars to the University of Iowa hospitals and clinics.

00:08:56.480 So he's 24 Carson King and eight years ago when he was a high schooler what's that grade 10 he made some

00:09:06.640 dumb jokes and so he's humiliated now but did you hear the language in that breaking news report some 0.93

00:09:14.640 dumb joke that a dumb teenager told recently surfaced it just surfaced look at that passive language 1.00

00:09:22.160 surface no of course it didn't surface it was it was mined it was hunted it was trolled it was creeped 0.99

00:09:30.880 Carson King was investigated for making bad jokes in in high school someone did deep opposition research

00:09:40.000 on him more than was done to vet Justin Trudeau in the 2015 Canadian election I might add Trudeau went full

00:09:48.000 racist in blackface not when he was 16 though when he was 29 and a teacher in school not a high school

00:09:54.720 student himself when he was in his 20s in college he also put on a black face and a wig and he made ape 0.85

00:10:02.080 gestures pretty sure that's comparing black people to apes he did this in his teens he did this in his 20s

00:10:08.320 we know he did it as late as 29 pretty sure it didn't stop there we didn't know about Trudeau until

00:10:15.680 a week ago but Carson King raises what was that final figure according to the report 1.4 million bucks

00:10:21.760 for charity and every tweet he ever tweeted when he was 16 was a grade 10 was dug up

00:10:29.840 who who would dig that up who and who would report it well kudos to Carson King himself I guess for apologizing

00:10:38.400 I think he was almost tearful there I can't remember every dumb joke I told when I was 16 I'm just glad there

00:10:44.160 wasn't twitter back then or some weird creep who would dig it up that's the thing here why was this

00:10:50.160 tv station treating it like war was being declared breaking news why did they hide how the tweet surfaced

00:10:59.040 and why did Anheuser-Busch react in such a cowardly way so smug and self-righteous though why

00:11:06.640 well the Des Moines Register the local newspaper they dug up the tweet that's the media party for you total

00:11:13.680 incuriosity about anything that matters but obsessed with getting a good guy who raised money for

00:11:20.960 charity here's an article in the Des Moines Register register editor here's how we reported on Carson King's

00:11:29.360 tweets some of the toughest decisions in journalism are about what to publish or not people around the

00:11:36.480 nation have been captivated by the heartwarming story of Carson King the 24 year old iowan whose

00:11:41.680 handmade game day sign asking for beer money prompted hundreds of dollars in donations and then

00:11:46.880 when he decided to donate the money to stead family children's hospital hundreds of thousands of

00:11:51.360 dollars poured in on monday evening register reporter aaron calvin was assigned to interview king for a

00:11:58.960 profile on tuesday as he worked to write this story he did a get this get this get this get this

00:12:07.680 he did a routine background check on king that included a review of publicly visible social media posts a

00:12:16.880 standard part of a reporter's work on a profile

00:12:20.720 calvin found two racist jokes that king had posted on twitter in 2012 calvin asked king about them and he expressed deep regret

00:12:30.000 is it indeed a routine background check to creep through a 24 year old man's teenage tweets is that

00:12:40.000 really routine for a profile story on a beer drinker is that a mock round check what does that mean to do a

00:12:48.240 background check were they hiring this guy to work in a bank or something i know a little bit about twitter

00:12:53.440 i tweet more than the average guy these tweets two jokes carson king wrote almost a decade ago

00:13:00.800 they were actively searched for as in the reporter started typing in keywords into a search every

00:13:06.560 swear every epithet he could find into a search engine to find them this wasn't a routine background

00:13:12.800 check that's what police do when they pull you over they check for outstanding warrants or unpaid

00:13:17.840 tickets that's what a routine background check is searching a teenager's jokes from almost a decade

00:13:24.720 ago looking for specific mean words that's not routine that's just gross anything to destroy a

00:13:31.920 good man here's how this self-serving editor ended her excuse ology in the des moines register 1.00

00:13:37.760 eventually register editors decided we would include the information but at the bottom of the story we

00:13:44.000 thought we should be transparent about what we had found but not highlighted at the top of the story

00:13:48.640 or as a separate story it was planned as a few paragraphs towards the bottom of the profile hi guys

00:13:54.560 really what a disgusting disgraceful group of people the des moines register are a hero shamed 1.4

00:14:02.320 million dollars and that fundraiser obviously has been cut short now how many millions more would have

00:14:07.680 come in were it not for this bizarre smear oh but my friends the story has only started

00:14:13.920 who is that reporter who did a routine background check by typing in every dirty word he could think

00:14:19.680 of in a search engine going back almost a decade well it's this guy this creep here aaron calvin look

00:14:26.800 at him now you can't judge someone by their physiognomy uh how someone's face looks doesn't tell you

00:14:34.480 about their character i don't know maybe except in this case here because the reporter doing the routine

00:14:42.160 background check to name and shame and blame a 24 year old man who just donated 1.4 million look at that

00:14:49.680 picture blow it up make that full screen yeah that guy this was the reporter the one who just killed

00:14:56.800 a 1.4 million dollar cancer charity for kids who bravely spoke truth to power well looky here this

00:15:03.680 reporter here well that i guess when he was hired the des moines register didn't do a

00:15:11.120 routine background check on him did they on aaron calvin i mean the reporter now i'm not going to say

00:15:16.320 the n-word but boy aaron calvin sure does as a grown man as a grown-up as a media professional as the guy

00:15:23.920 who took down carson king he sure has a foul mouth on him look at this look at this one too many of the i'm

00:15:30.960 not even going to say the n-word there and he says don't pardon my french yeah it's not french you 0.97

00:15:38.320 racist sexist here's another so i'm not going to pronounce that word i'll just let you read it 0.80

00:15:47.280 so let's catch up here we got racism check we got sexism check we got anti-police profanity check 0.97

00:15:52.480 oh and homophobia i just got hit on by tory amos's makeup guy never talked to strange gay men and and 0.95

00:16:00.720 and then he just got really weird um pedophilia i want to grow up and read sex scenes to high schoolers 0.93

00:16:12.560 sorry if that's not pedophilia what's this then what's this one if you think that's out of context

00:16:19.520 look at this next one here can i be a guest instructor at your theater camp teaching the

00:16:24.880 kids how to abuse substances and turn tricks well who what what is this about who the hell is this 0.65

00:16:32.400 and of course of course he's an anti-christian bigot calling anyone evangelical or racist so

00:16:41.680 that's the media hero that's the great investigative reporter at the des moines register who's just doing 0.95

00:16:47.440 a happy profile on a good news story and he brought down carson king for a dumb joke he made back when

00:16:54.880 he was 16 in grade 10 justin trudeau goes full blackface as an adult again and again and and 0.78

00:17:03.680 and nothing a 16 year old joke is exhumed to shame a 24 year old hero that's unjust but the monstrous 0.73

00:17:11.440 bigot who did this routine background check yeah he's grosser than anything i've seen in a long time 0.55

00:17:18.560 quick question for the des moines register and for that tv station that had their breaking news flash 0.99

00:17:25.600 will they do the same story on this bigot aaron calvin oh and to the hypocrites at anheiser bush 0.84

00:17:33.840 will they now cut off their advertising with the des moines register too a toxic swamp that harbors 0.99

00:17:41.600 racist sexist homophobic and pro-pedophile journalism yeah i'm mad stay with us for more 0.71

00:18:03.840 for you do you personally think impeachment should be considered i think it should is we begin 0.98

00:18:13.440 impeachment proceedings now and that we've got to impeach him and get rid of him my sole focus

00:18:19.360 right now uh is to make sure that he's not the president uh next term we're gonna go in there we're

00:18:25.840 gonna teach the mother we're going to launch an article three impeachment in the question of 1.00

00:18:31.200 impeachment it's about time nadler is i hope he's not following the rules congress should take the

00:18:36.640 steps towards the impeachment we're gonna have to prosecute this we're gonna have to do it we're

00:18:41.360 gonna have to impeach each minute is still on the table absolutely it's always on the table we cannot

00:18:48.800 accept a second term for donald trump if we don't impeach this president he will get reelected it's time to

00:18:57.280 stop this nonsense they think they're gonna win did you see the one man he said it's the only way

00:19:04.640 we're gonna beat him in 2020 they have to do this the only way that well that's a compliment i guess

00:19:10.400 but think of what he said it's the only way they're gonna beat me and actually it's working the other

00:19:15.680 way because now we have our best poll numbers that we've ever had

00:19:33.680 well that is a video tweeted out by donald trump showing the mania in the democrat party to impeach

00:19:41.600 him is that one democrat said they can't beat him so maybe they can stop him this way is it really

00:19:48.960 happening the muller inquiry turned out to be a big nothing are they damning the torpedoes anyways

00:19:55.600 well i think one fellow who knows the story more than most is our friend joel pollack senior editor at

00:20:00.720 large at breitbart.com great to see you again i know you've been traveling around the country

00:20:04.640 following the democrats you're back for a minute and in breitbart hq for a bit at least

00:20:08.880 that's right that's right and they're following me now they're going to start coming to california

00:20:15.280 trying to drum up some votes because this is a very important state we are voting earlier than usual

00:20:22.400 in the primary process next year so this is the fifth state to vote as opposed to one of the last

00:20:27.440 states and so democrats are going to be here we're going to have all the political ads on tv pretty soon

00:20:32.800 and we get to have just as much fun as our friends in iowa new hampshire

00:20:36.880 well let me ask you a question about that before we get back to the impeachment story

00:20:41.520 it seems to me that california democratic politics especially nancy pelosi who's in san francisco the 1.00

00:20:48.400 most left-wing city in america and a lot of the other california political leaders are so radical left

00:20:55.760 that by making california go earlier you're making the democrats you're rewarding any craziness as opposed to

00:21:03.120 more normal or calm or middle america places like new hampshire and iowa where democrats have to try

00:21:08.960 and keep it together at least for a few weeks am i wrong on that well i don't think you're wrong

00:21:14.800 i'm not sure that's the dynamic simply because i think the democratic electorate even in iowa and

00:21:20.080 new hampshire is quite left-wing south carolina less so and i think that's one of the reasons you

00:21:26.240 you see biden doing better there not that he's moderate he himself rejects the idea that he's

00:21:31.280 moderate but the african-american community is more conservative at the moment than the liberal elite

00:21:38.240 white community which is driving a lot of the far left-wing politics inside the democratic party

00:21:45.360 so ironically perhaps south carolina is more conservative politically it has a electorate

00:21:53.120 on the democratic side that's 60 african-american they essentially are now the moderate core

00:21:58.720 of the early primary electorate what's happening in california is a little muddled because unlike

00:22:04.720 republicans who have a winner takes all system for most of these states democrats have a proportional

00:22:10.240 representation system so a candidate can lose california but still come away with a lot of

00:22:16.080 delegates if they do well enough to qualify i think they have to hit a 15 threshold as long as you're

00:22:23.120 above that you still win a lot of delegates so they don't have to dominate here they just have to do well

00:22:28.640 whereas before ted cruz lost every county in iowa i'm sorry not iowa indiana before he lost every

00:22:35.200 delegate race in indiana where they all went to trump they were looking at california as the battle

00:22:41.360 royale that was going to happen to decide the future of the republican nomination that didn't

00:22:45.680 have to happen in the end because trump defeated cruz in indiana but democrats may be playing a longer

00:22:53.520 game here right now the front runner is no longer joe biden it's not yet elizabeth warren it's really in

00:22:59.200 flux depending on which poll you look at some polls say biden's still in the lead some have warren in the

00:23:03.840 lead and sanders is in second place in some of these polls there's also room i think for kamala

00:23:09.200 harris or another candidate to creep back in so we are seeing a very interesting situation unfold and

00:23:15.120 i've been saying this now for a few weeks you could see the early primary states split several different

00:23:19.520 ways elizabeth warren looks like she's going to surge in iowa there may be one or two others to do 1.00

00:23:25.920 well there new hampshire is probably going to be a three-way race and bernie sanders who won in 2016

00:23:32.400 may win there again south carolina is biden's firewall so far so good although there is some

00:23:38.640 movement in second place we'll see if warren can improve and then nevada which actually goes third

00:23:44.800 i believe for democrats even though it's often overlooked it's also wide open kamala harris may

00:23:50.080 have an opportunity to get back in there because of course nevada borders california so a lot of money

00:23:55.680 and volunteers can be brought over from california to nevada so it's really it's really a mess and of

00:24:04.480 course they're all in favor of impeaching donald trump in one way or another except for tulsi gabbard

00:24:11.280 who right now you could say she's sort of in 11th or 12th place not a top-tier candidate but she managed 1.00

00:24:17.520 to get herself back on the debate stage in october so we are seeing her mount a little bit of a comeback 0.99

00:24:23.040 and she has said what i think many americans believe which is that impeachment is divisive

00:24:27.760 and unnecessary and she is also talking like a winner by saying she believes that the right way

00:24:35.200 to get rid of donald trump is to defeat him and she can defeat him but the other democratic candidates 0.87

00:24:39.840 are talking and you'll pardon the expression like losers they are talking like people who cannot win

00:24:45.200 unless donald trump is impeached that is the subliminal message you could say that they're indicating

00:24:51.120 they're basically voting no confidence in themselves by supporting this impeachment so close to an

00:24:55.760 election well that's the thing i mean voters will have their say in what 14 months or something i have

00:25:00.640 to do the exact math uh that it reminds me of of brexit i mean there's a vote there's a vote and then

00:25:07.760 there's all the shenanigans and the attempt to undo it i think it looks bad on democrats to try to

00:25:14.400 replace a president through trickery and scheming rather than at the ballot box i mean i'm as democrats

00:25:21.520 go i'm sympathy sympathetic to tulsi gabbard anyways i mean obviously i'm i'm not a democrat supporter but

00:25:27.280 i like her style and i like the fact that she's being a grown-up about that let me refer to your

00:25:31.840 article and write up right part the headline is impeachment marks triumph of aoc alexandria

00:25:39.920 ocasio-cortez and the squad over nancy pelosi now what do you mean by that why is it a victory for the

00:25:48.000 squad well the squad came into office promising to impeach the president uh the first impeachment

00:25:55.360 resolution was offered by rashida to leave in this congress and she of course is one of the four

00:26:00.000 members of the squad she was quickly joined by elan omar and by alexandria ocasio-cortez who's been

00:26:05.600 tweeting in favor of impeachment for a while and she and nancy pelosi fought a lot over the summer

00:26:12.160 they buried the hatchet after a meeting in july and one of the contentious issues at that meeting was

00:26:17.840 aoc's habit of tweeting against the democratic party leadership and calling them weak and ineffectual and

00:26:23.920 that sort of thing so she agreed essentially to stop doing that but she started doing it again this

00:26:28.400 weekend after the ukraine story came out and more members started using that story as a reason to go

00:26:35.600 public with their support for impeachment nearing the 218 votes that pelosi would need to actually

00:26:42.800 carry a motion of impeachment on the house floor i don't think they're there yet but they're getting

00:26:46.720 closer so aoc tweeted against pelosi indirectly without mentioning her by name but basically saying

00:26:52.720 that the fact that they had not impeached the president was an indictment of their leadership

00:26:56.560 so i think what pelosi realized was that either she was going to move ahead on impeachment or she

00:27:04.000 was going to lose her speakership it was either her or donald trump and i think she chose obviously

00:27:10.960 to save herself although whether she can last is really anybody's guess she has lost control

00:27:17.120 of her caucus on this issue and other important issues the terms under which the democratic party now

00:27:23.120 operates in the house of representatives are being set by aoc and the squad that's an analysis you

00:27:28.560 haven't heard many people talk about because they're focused on the minor details of what trump said trump

00:27:34.160 said to the president of ukraine which really doesn't matter at all but essentially a power shift has

00:27:38.480 happened pelosi holds the gavel but not the power you know i remember it wasn't that long ago where

00:27:44.960 pelosi was asked about aoc and she sort of sniffed and said oh yeah there's four or five of them here let me

00:27:51.360 show you a quick clip of that take a look you have these wings aoc and her group on one side it's like

00:27:58.160 five people i she was dismissive she was like a an old hand laughing at the morning glories there but 0.99

00:28:06.240 it looks like she was overcome by them if she's now obeying them that didn't last long

00:28:14.720 yeah and the other thing that's interesting is when you look at how pelosi has tried to keep impeachment

00:28:19.280 at bay for so long where she kept saying over and over again we're going to wait until the facts

00:28:25.440 emerge we're going to wait until robert muller finishes his investigation and all of that that

00:28:29.680 took two years and it took less than 24 hours for her to flip on this ukraine thing or to put it another

00:28:39.600 way you wait for two years for the muller report and then you can't wait 24 hours for trump to produce

00:28:46.720 the transcript of the ukraine conversation what that tells you is pelosi is under duress she's no

00:28:52.160 longer controlling the timing she's no longer controlling what decisions are made she's still 0.92

00:28:56.880 trying to hang in there with this thing called an impeachment process or inquiry i think

00:29:05.520 what is that i've never heard of an impeachment inquiry inquiry well they're making it up they're

00:29:10.160 making it up you know when they impeached bill clinton the chief justice rehnquist had to decide

00:29:16.480 how he was going to preside over the trial of the president in the senate nobody had any real record

00:29:21.680 of any such trial happening we know we know that they impeached andrew johnson and he survived by one

00:29:27.360 vote back in the 1860s but we didn't have very good records of what that trial looked like or visually

00:29:32.800 what it involved so rehnquist decided to put three gold stripes on either side of his robes just as a

00:29:38.720 a little flourish and he just made it up as he went along and that's sort of what democrats are

00:29:42.320 doing they're making it up as they go along there is an established procedure since we have impeached

00:29:47.360 judges before successfully and we've impeached two presidents although unsuccessfully in terms of their

00:29:53.280 removal from office but the process would seem to indicate the house has to vote on impeachment

00:30:00.560 first or has to vote to launch some kind of inquiry i think nancy pelosi as the effective leader of 0.99

00:30:07.840 the entire house of representatives even though she only represents one party she is the speaker of

00:30:11.440 the house she basically can make this up as she goes along she can she can innovate uh and you know 0.99

00:30:16.800 if she can't innovate she can just pass a new set of rules by a majority vote it doesn't really matter 0.99

00:30:21.840 so what they're trying to do here is to have it both ways to tell the base that they have impeached

00:30:28.080 the president or they're starting to impeach the president and to mollify the moderates such as they are

00:30:33.680 very few of them i think there's 31 representatives out of the 235 democrats who come from districts

00:30:39.440 that trump actually won so they're trying to mollify those people by saying well we haven't

00:30:43.600 really impeached him yet we're just sort of on the way there so they're trying to have it both ways but

00:30:48.480 as jerry nadler who chairs the house judiciary committee has been saying for weeks before this

00:30:52.320 ukraine thing came up that there is no legal difference between impeachment inquiry impeachment investigation

00:30:59.440 it's all the same thing from a legal perspective i don't know why he was insisting on that but it

00:31:04.080 turns out that argument actually helps republicans because they can now say pelosi is impeaching the

00:31:09.440 president and she can't back away from it she is now tied to it right very hard to see anyway

00:31:13.920 politically how she would back out of it now but the facts are not in her favor the release of the

00:31:18.320 transcript is bad for pelosi and good for trump i'm going to get to that ukraine thing in a minute because

00:31:23.440 you've referred to it a few times i've read that transcript myself and i don't even understand why it's

00:31:28.400 controversial but a quick thing i think a lot of canadians want to confirm this and i bet a lot

00:31:33.120 of americans too um based on that little montage video that we started this segment with i think a

00:31:39.840 lot of people think when you impeach a president he's removed but that's just a way of saying we

00:31:45.520 don't like you we think you've done some really bad things now the senate has to have a trial whether

00:31:52.080 or not to kick you out so i think simply impeaching the president is like sending him a scolding

00:31:57.760 letter but he's not going to be actually removed from office am i did i get that right so impeachment

00:32:04.720 is like a state you know it's a little more than that look it's more than a resolution of disapproval

00:32:09.600 impeachment is is sort of like the the political equivalent of what in the criminal courts would

00:32:14.640 be an indictment impeaching the president effectively is indicting him he can't be indicted by a common

00:32:20.320 criminal court while he's president he can afterwards but not while he's president that task falls to

00:32:26.480 the house of representatives which indicts the president for a limited set of actions known

00:32:32.160 as high crimes and misdemeanors they're not defined but the constitution basically says we're not going

00:32:36.800 to allow you to get rid of the president over minutiae we're not going to allow this for small things this

00:32:43.840 is really a very weighty process it's a very heavy responsibility a very powerful and uh grave exercise of

00:32:52.240 legislative authority so what we're going to do is limit it to high crimes and misdemeanors so the

00:32:56.960 house of representatives can impeach the president then goes to the senate the senate acts essentially

00:33:01.600 as the jury and it has to vote by two-thirds majority 67 votes since we have 100 senators now

00:33:08.720 it has to vote to convict the president to remove him from office that doesn't amount to a criminal

00:33:13.760 conviction but the political equivalent really is removal from office and and so he doesn't necessarily go to

00:33:20.720 jail but if the senate decides to remove him he's out now that's never happened to a president in

00:33:26.880 the history of the united states the one time it might have happened had it gone forward was to

00:33:31.520 richard nixon and rather than face that prospect of even being impeached he just resigned so he resigned

00:33:38.400 to avoid being the second president impeached that ignoble title fell to bill clinton who understood that

00:33:44.080 republicans would impeach him the question there wasn't whether bill clinton had committed a crime the

00:33:48.720 question was whether the crime itself amounted to a high crime the crimes included perjury and

00:33:54.400 obstruction of justice tampering witnesses and so forth republicans argued that was a high enough

00:33:59.200 crime because perjury is fundamental you know telling the truth under oath is a fundamental part of our

00:34:04.560 judicial system and so forth but most voters thought yeah it's not really enough that's why clinton

00:34:09.680 understood he had political support to survive the trial in the senate and democrats at the time were

00:34:15.200 scathing about republicans putting the country through this divisive impeachment process when

00:34:19.680 they knew that it was not going to be a conviction and it was all about sex in the end anyway and

00:34:24.000 why do this now of course those same democrats are marshalling this impeachment for non-crimes through

00:34:29.840 the house of representatives basically arguing that although they don't have evidence they need to

00:34:34.400 start an impeachment inquiry so they can get evidence they can later use in an impeachment oh my god

00:34:39.600 first of all i want to ask about the ukraine memo in in 30 seconds but just tell me there is no chance

00:34:45.200 in hell that he that trump would be convicted in the senate i mean if anything his base would be revved

00:34:50.480 up every republican with maybe a few bizarre exceptions i think i think trump would hold every republican maybe

00:34:57.280 save one or two if he was impeached in the house he would never be thrown out by the senate am i right on that

00:35:02.720 mid romney will invoke will vote to remove the president for any reason uh maybe one or two others

00:35:09.840 will as well but that's not good enough you need 20 republicans out of the 53 to defect to the democrats to

00:35:17.680 convict the president yeah that is not going to happen on these charges it might it might happen if they impeached

00:35:24.400 him for bribery if he had been found taking bribes if he had lied to the country deliberately and malevolent

00:35:33.360 about uh something very significant like a war or i don't know a nuclear deal something like that

00:35:41.120 if he had done something very serious i think those 20 votes would not be hard to find in this case

00:35:47.680 they will struggle maybe even to convince mit romney i mean mit romney hates the president so maybe out

00:35:54.240 of spite he would vote to convict him but but even mit romney might have trouble with this one now that

00:35:58.000 i think about it because there's nothing in this transcript at all well let's talk about just for

00:36:02.720 one minute i read it this morning it's a fairly brief phone call i don't i don't think that phone

00:36:07.600 call was even 10 minutes it was between trump and the new president of ukraine and you know the ukrainian

00:36:14.480 president was just showering trump with love i mean he was a lot of flattery they bashed angela merkel a

00:36:22.080 bit saying angela merkel talks about supporting ukraine but doesn't actually support it trump says we

00:36:27.680 support you more than anyone uh the ukrainian says yeah sure uh then they talked about rudy juliani would

00:36:35.280 be in touch with some questions about a past a possible past bribe might be the wrong word but

00:36:44.160 it relates to this here's here's joe biden talking about how he demanded ukraine fire a prosecutor

00:36:51.040 that was closing in on joe biden's son's company and here just let joe biden tell it take a look at

00:36:57.120 this um i remember going over convincing our team or others to convincing us that we should be providing

00:37:04.240 for loan guarantees and i went over i guess the 12th 13th time to kiev and uh and i was going supposed

00:37:12.480 to announce that there was another billion dollar loan guarantee and i had gotten a commitment from

00:37:18.400 poroshenko and from uh yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor and they

00:37:24.800 didn't so they said they had they're walking out to press conference said no i said i'm not going to

00:37:30.080 we're not going to give you the billion dollars they said you have no authority you're not the

00:37:34.320 president the president said i said call him i said i'm telling you you're not getting the billion

00:37:39.440 dollars i said you're not getting the billion i'm going to be leaving here and i think it was what six

00:37:43.680 hours i looked i said i'm leaving in six hours if the prosecutor's not fired you're not getting

00:37:48.160 the money oh son of a got fired and they put in place someone who was solid at the time so if i

00:37:58.000 read the transcript right trump was saying can you help us look into what happened years ago is that

00:38:02.640 there was no bribing in the call going forward it was help us clean up the swamp going backwards did i

00:38:07.920 read the transcript right joel no um you have to read it with a menacing voice and you have to you have

00:38:16.480 to twirl your mustache as you read it that's that's how this is meant to be read we have to

00:38:21.520 stage a dramatic reading of the transcript no you're absolutely right i mean this is basically chit chat

00:38:27.040 and the first person to bring up corruption is actually the ukrainian president who says that he

00:38:32.720 borrowed his idea of draining the swamp from donald trump and they're trying to drain the swamp in

00:38:37.760 ukraine and trump talks about a few other things and then he says oh yeah by the way we've just finished

00:38:44.080 this robert muller investigation and it was a total disaster nothing came of it by the way uh some of

00:38:51.840 it started we're trying to get to the bottom of how it started in the first place and could you tell

00:38:56.320 us what you can find out about that yeah and the ukrainian president said okay yeah sure no problem and

00:39:01.440 then trump says oh yeah and there was this prosecutor that got fired yeah joe biden son has something to

00:39:07.360 do with it can you look into that and i'll have attorney general barr call you and rudy giuliani

00:39:13.520 and he says yeah sure no problem we're happy to help we want to be friendly with you and that's it

00:39:19.360 what the left and the media here are trying to say is that because trump mentioned military aid as you

00:39:24.640 said earlier in the call in the context of completely different part of the discussion talking about the

00:39:30.880 eu and russia and ukraine and that whole conflict they're trying to say that trump dropped a hint

00:39:36.880 earlier in the conversation well we give you a lot of aid don't we and then later said you know

00:39:41.120 you can do me a little favor um they're trying to say that there was an implied threat you have to be

00:39:47.120 brain dead to believe that um but you know what let me be a little bit more polite about it

00:39:52.400 it's not that they're brain dead it's just that they've been persuaded uh to look at the situation

00:39:56.480 that way um we're about here in the states uh you know this some point today to hear from the ukrainian

00:40:02.560 president himself so he'll tell us what he thought but this is really something you have to stretch to

00:40:08.080 find anything sinister in uh there's nothing here it's just nothing here yeah and democrats will regret

00:40:14.240 impeaching the president over this yeah i read it today i i was sort of excited to read a declassified

00:40:20.720 phone transcript and i left thinking is that all there is and holy moly if you're betting an

00:40:27.520 impeachment on that there ain't nothing there well listen joel it's very interesting i remember

00:40:31.760 we spoke a couple months ago and you and i both thought kamala harris of california was the one to 0.99

00:40:36.640 watch she certainly had a rough go let me ask you one last question before i set you free and thanks

00:40:41.440 for being so generous with your time if you had to i appreciate you talking about impeachment but let's

00:40:46.880 just go back for 30 seconds to the democratic presidential primaries if you had to guess

00:40:52.240 now and i know that's unfair to put you on the spot but if you said who do you think might make

00:40:57.600 it through this process in first place who would you bet on today i'd still i'm keeping my money on

00:41:04.000 kamala harris really long way to go and she can make a couple of changes and she can be there when biden 0.73

00:41:10.640 starts to fade uh warren may stay at the top if she does i think democrats are in trouble i think

00:41:15.680 enough of them will realize that and kamala harris might get one more crack at it so i'll leave my 1.00

00:41:19.680 money on that particular space all right well listen always an education to catch up with you

00:41:25.120 you've been following this like almost no one else i appreciate that i recommend uh to our viewers to

00:41:30.640 follow you on breitbart.com and it's great to see you thanks again my friend thank you take care all

00:41:36.400 right there you have it joel pollack senior editor at large at breitbart.com stay with us we're ahead of the

00:41:45.680 hey welcome back on my monologue yesterday about polls showing that trudeau is the most hated man

00:41:54.080 in canada jan writes let's hope come october 21 that trudeau is the most hated man in canada

00:42:01.280 well the thing is you can be the most hated man in canada but you can still win under our multi-party

00:42:06.160 first past the post system i mean i already alluded to that when i took you through the polls

00:42:11.280 you can be despised i mean trudeau can get theoretically 10 of the vote in alberta

00:42:17.680 saskatchewan manitoba even much of bc much of ontario as long as he has enough votes in enough

00:42:24.880 ridings i mean if you've got three or four or in some cases maybe even five viable candidates

00:42:31.200 you could win an entire riding with as few as 25 of the vote in that riding so justin trudeau could

00:42:38.720 win an election theoretically with as few as 25 of the vote um i'm not calling for a change to the

00:42:47.120 first past the post system particularly i'm just saying it's possible for someone that everyone hates

00:42:54.400 to win robert writes the contrast between trump trump and our hapless prime minister cannot be more stark

00:43:02.960 take that howdy modi love fest held by trump and modi before a huge crowd of adoring americans of

00:43:09.760 indian descent as an example of trump's success in foreign relations meanwhile the boy blunder 0.92

00:43:14.400 his persona non grata in india after his griswold style family vacation canada is not back under trudeau

00:43:20.080 it is law i um as i said to prem yesterday i can't think of one single world leader who would speak

00:43:28.800 so lavishly about justin trudeau not one not even in cuba the country that that trudeau has

00:43:36.080 so abased himself to win they of course attacked our diplomats with those sonic weapons china trudeau 0.99

00:43:42.000 said it was his favorite country they have taken two hostages i mean there's not a single country in

00:43:47.680 the world maybe iran but i think that like china they so despise and disrespect trudeau they would 0.97

00:43:53.920 have a kind word to say about him it's it's very disappointing james writes the liberal base is 30

00:44:00.480 which is where it is now down from 38 that got trudeau and harper his majority government sheer

00:44:05.840 only needs three percent more trudeau needs at least eight percent and i don't see it happening

00:44:12.080 well what's the math i think it is 26 more days to the election if i'm counting correctly

00:44:19.120 that's a lifetime in the era of 24 7 news and twitter and instant cycles of news it's not like

00:44:27.040 the olden days where things took a day or two days or days to ricochet i think both the conservatives

00:44:35.360 and the liberals are holding back their biggest bombshells about the other a little bit later i think

00:44:41.920 it's already apparent that trudeau will absolutely survive this blackface scandal because he's whipped his 0.76

00:44:47.920 entire party to give him a pass every visible minority was trotted out and told to praise

00:44:53.120 trudeau we saw that i don't know you caught this in the global mail today there was a a candidate for

00:44:59.600 the liberals in in quebec named uh iva nassif actually an arab woman from lebanon originally uh you would

00:45:06.720 think she would be a ultra high value candidate from a pr multiculturalism point of view a woman 0.99

00:45:12.640 candidate arab candidate visible minority candidate from all i i'd frankly never heard of her but before

00:45:19.760 but just skimming her social media she looked like she was a very hard-working mpi i know nothing about

00:45:26.400 her but in the global mail today in an enormous story she says because she wouldn't tweet her support

00:45:34.240 for trudeau as a feminist and because someone saw her hugging jody wilson raybold she was banned from 0.99

00:45:42.080 running as a liberal get that she didn't praise trudeau as enough of a feminine and she dared to 1.00

00:45:49.360 hug wilson raybold so she was fired as a candidate and that's what they surely did to every visible 1.00

00:45:56.160 minority in the party to say that justin trudeau was a great respecter of visible minorities despite his

00:46:02.400 blackface or you'll be fired like eva and nassif also just incredible well folks that's our stories

00:46:08.640 for today until tomorrow on behalf of all of us here at reverend world headquarters to you at home

00:46:12.560 good night and keep fighting for freedom

Rebel News Podcast - September 26, 2019

Hero smeared after raising a million dollars for charity

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