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Off The Cuff Declassified： Cop killers, Russian meddling, & Republians vs. FBI


Summary

In 2015, a 30-year-old Philadelphia Police Officer Robert Wilson III was shot and killed in a GameStop store while in uniform to buy a video game for his son. His killers were black, and the DA, Larry Krasner, is refusing to press charges against them.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on Off the Cup Declassified, I'm going to give you the infuriating story of a police
00:00:03.740 officer in Philadelphia murdered in 2015 and how the far left district attorney of Philadelphia,
00:00:10.520 Larry Krasner, is denying his family justice. Today, Ben Mattis, former law enforcement officer
00:00:16.820 who lives in Philadelphia and who worked against this DA, joins me to go even deeper into the case
00:00:22.480 that Obama's national security advisor, Susan Rice, give her cybersecurity people a stand-down
00:00:29.380 order when dealing with Russia. We'll discuss and more tension between GOP members of Congress and
00:00:37.040 the FBI. I'm going to tell you about a story, and it's a story you might remember from, oh,
00:00:46.760 about three years ago that has a very, very recent twist and a terrible, terrible twist. Now, I don't
00:00:53.480 know if you remember this. I certainly do. Excuse me all too vividly because it was the murder of a
00:01:00.080 Philadelphia police officer, a young one. He was 30 years old, beloved by the other cops, exceptional
00:01:06.520 police officer, exceptional guy. His name was Robert Wilson, and he's a member of the Philadelphia
00:01:12.580 Police Department. And Officer Wilson, Robert Wilson III, was in a store buying a video game,
00:01:20.940 the GameStop store for his son. Son of did well in school. This was back in March of 2015, a little
00:01:26.940 over three years ago. And while Officer Wilson was in that GameStop store, two absolute savages,
00:01:34.120 a guy named Ramon Wilson and Ramon Williams, and a guy named Carlton Hips entered the store
00:01:40.400 with the intention of robbing it. And what Officer Wilson did next gives me chills. He was in uniform,
00:01:50.600 took a break to go buy his son, a video game. His partner was outside. When he saw that these guys
00:01:56.080 were going to start robbing this store at gunpoint, he realized they had turned their weapons to him,
00:02:01.840 seeing him as a uniformed police officer. He could have sought cover, but to do that,
00:02:08.580 he would have had to move past the civilians waiting in line, putting their lives in danger if these guys
00:02:13.540 started shooting. So instead went the other way. He exposed himself, came out from behind cover
00:02:19.980 and absorbed the gunfire. He fired back. He absorbed the gunfire so that civilians that he was paid to
00:02:27.480 protect wouldn't have to. He literally, he literally gave his life for the people of Philadelphia.
00:02:34.060 Literally. We use that as a platitude. Police officers and firemen go out there and
00:02:37.200 they would give their lives and they would. But Sergeant, he was promoted posthumously as Sergeant.
00:02:43.480 Sergeant Robert Wilson did one of the most heroic, courageous things I've ever seen. I get chills
00:02:50.380 getting my arms in the camera telling this story and reminiscing with some of the Philly PD guys I
00:02:55.400 know about them. This is one of the most heroic things I've ever seen anybody do. It absolutely is.
00:03:00.540 Now, it just so happens he was a young black officer and his killers were black men.
00:03:06.820 They're being treated better than he is. And the facts of the case are, as I said, it was
00:03:12.440 toward the end of the day and Wilson just went into this GameStop store or 5 p.m.
00:03:18.700 Just to buy his son a video game. His son had done well in school. He wanted to buy him a game.
00:03:25.140 He had two young sons. He had been on the job for eight years, much like me. He came on to
00:03:29.120 a job in his very, very early 20s. He had eight years on the job. He was an experienced street
00:03:33.640 cop. Silly young, young guy at 30 years old. Engaged these two savages, threw their fire
00:03:39.900 away from the innocents, and took a bullet to the head and died. Luckily, his partner was
00:03:46.400 outside. He was able to exchange gunfire with the bad guys and they were caught. But this
00:03:57.440 entire story is very, very tragic. At the time, the police commissioner of Philadelphia,
00:04:04.000 Charles Ramsey, said, and I couldn't agree with Commissioner Ramsey more. I was going
00:04:08.720 three years ago. He said, quote, when you look at the actions of the officer, I think he redefines
00:04:13.500 what a hero is all about. We use that word hero a lot. They're a hero. They're a hero.
00:04:18.740 Sometimes it's warranted. Sometimes it isn't.
00:04:20.700 It might be too weak of a word to describe what Sergeant Wilson did here, what he did.
00:04:27.380 He stepped out into a clear area to draw gunfire away from a few feet. He knew. He knew he was
00:04:34.060 taking those bullets. He knew that it was impossible for these guys to miss. But protecting those
00:04:39.960 innocent people was more important to him. He knew what he signed up for. He knew what the job was about.
00:04:44.900 He did it. Commissioner went on to say, one, he stepped away from the counter. There was civilians
00:04:51.100 there. And the commissioner had watched the videos. I counted four behind the counter, a couple in line.
00:04:57.120 He stepped away. So the shots weren't going directly at them, but instead we're going toward him.
00:05:04.440 It's a hard story for me to actually bring you. It's emotional.
00:05:08.320 It just is. Wilson's partner, Damian Stevenson, I'm reading the fact pattern from a Daily News article.
00:05:16.640 Back then, Wilson's partner, Damian Stevenson, encountered the suspects as they were fleeing the store,
00:05:21.740 sparking yet another gunfight. His partner, Stevenson, Stevenson's son's shot.
00:05:27.520 Carlton Hips in the leg. They were both caught.
00:05:31.160 Now, Williams, Ramon Williams, one of the two savages, killed the cop, killed Sergeant Wilson,
00:05:42.140 changed his clothes and went back into the store, tried to blend in as a customer.
00:05:45.680 But by that point, the investigators, they had seen the video, they knew who he was,
00:05:49.880 and they grabbed him at the scene.
00:05:51.040 And, you know, you hear so many stories about young black kids who don't have dads or are not doing well academically.
00:06:01.900 They're just not on the right track.
00:06:03.660 Here was a guy who had excelled in law enforcement, whose son was excelling in school,
00:06:10.200 and he was buying him a video game.
00:06:12.260 And he saved lives and took a bullet to the head.
00:06:16.140 Apparently, that doesn't matter.
00:06:17.380 Didn't matter that he was a role model in the black community.
00:06:19.180 Didn't matter that, and I even hate saying that.
00:06:21.740 His race shouldn't matter, but it does for this story.
00:06:24.860 Because of the way the bad guys are being treated.
00:06:27.340 You know, black lives don't matter when they wear blue.
00:06:29.940 They certainly don't.
00:06:31.180 At least not to far left, silly DA, Larry Krasner.
00:06:35.220 Well, a few days ago.
00:06:38.320 Now, the fact pattern of the cases I gave it to you is exactly the fact pattern of the case.
00:06:44.220 I didn't add anything for drama.
00:06:45.840 I didn't add any hyperbole.
00:06:47.260 I didn't exaggerate the details.
00:06:49.180 I didn't try to make a team worse than it was.
00:06:51.220 Make my point.
00:06:52.580 Research it.
00:06:53.400 Sergeant Robert Wilson, GameStop.
00:06:55.960 Sergeant Robert Wilson murdered Philadelphia.
00:06:59.740 Go out there, do a web search.
00:07:01.100 Read the case yourself.
00:07:02.740 You'll see that I gave you the details antiseptically exactly as they happened.
00:07:07.220 Yeah, he was that heroic.
00:07:09.440 This murder was that bold-blooded.
00:07:12.000 Well, a couple of days ago, a couple of days ago, Friday or Saturday, actually, maybe Thursday, far, far left, far left, radical Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner against, well, not even against the wishes of Sergeant Wilson's family.
00:07:35.820 He never even consulted with him.
00:07:37.460 In fact, the family says he's treated them like dirt.
00:07:40.620 He cut a deal with the killers.
00:07:44.240 Sergeant Wilson's family's infuriated.
00:07:46.380 This from an NBC affiliate in Philadelphia.
00:07:48.860 Let me read you this.
00:07:49.800 And bear with me, because the story is an emotional story.
00:07:54.040 Whenever a cop is killed, I had to respond to those.
00:07:58.400 Tough, you know.
00:08:00.820 The family of slain Philadelphia police sergeant Robert Wilson III got a call from the district attorney's office late Friday.
00:08:07.320 This just happened.
00:08:08.580 This just happened on Friday.
00:08:10.200 Four or five days ago.
00:08:10.960 Late Friday, telling them that the men implicated in his murder will not stand trial or face the death penalty.
00:08:23.480 Law enforcement sources are saying that Larry Krasner's office is allowing Ramon Williams and Carlton Hips, these savage, cold-blooded murderers,
00:08:31.740 to accept between 50 life sentences plus 50 to 100 years in prison in exchange for guilty pleas.
00:08:39.540 Number one, they should get the death penalty.
00:08:42.220 Number two, if this now allows, is years upon years upon years of appeals and the chance that a far-left parole board will let them out of prison.
00:08:53.360 Hips and Williams will formally accept the deal at Philadelphia's Criminal Justice Center.
00:08:58.420 And that apparently happened yesterday morning.
00:09:04.080 The deal was cut.
00:09:05.080 I haven't seen any news, anything to indicate it wasn't.
00:09:10.220 And I actually waited until today to do the story because I was hoping at the 11th hour, the pleas of the family would have mattered,
00:09:19.060 that maybe the district attorney in Philadelphia, Larry Krasner, would have had a common-sense change of heart, but he didn't.
00:09:27.260 And when I checked in with some sources in Philly PD yesterday, they told me the deal went through.
00:09:35.080 The DA's office communications director, last comment from them was they had no pending comment.
00:09:43.120 The plea did not go over well with Sergeant Wilson's family.
00:09:48.560 They feel justice isn't being served.
00:09:50.900 His sister, Akira Wilson-Burrows, said she was speechless when she got the call from the district attorney's office.
00:09:58.900 He simply said, they failed my brother.
00:10:01.240 And she was right.
00:10:03.040 Actually, Ms. Wilson-Burrows is far more dignified than I would have been.
00:10:09.200 Far more dignified than I would have been.
00:10:12.200 She's a class act.
00:10:15.680 I certainly wouldn't have been that polite.
00:10:19.780 Krasner is a terrible, terrible far-left guy.
00:10:23.360 And many, many families, many families who were the victims of murder.
00:10:30.000 They lost somebody.
00:10:32.080 Field at Krasner.
00:10:33.280 I'm going to tell you all about Krasner and who backs him.
00:10:35.380 And then in a little bit, I'm going to bring on Ben Manish.
00:10:38.340 You've seen Ben.
00:10:38.900 He's a former local and federal law enforcement officer.
00:10:42.040 Lives in Philadelphia.
00:10:43.320 Does a lot with law enforcement, a lot with politics.
00:10:44.980 He actually was a senior campaign staff of the Republican who ran against Larry Krasner for district attorney, but unfortunately lost.
00:10:55.280 So Ben has some very deep insights into the Philadelphia district attorney's office, which is really a story of national, essentially international.
00:11:05.020 Because in just a second, I'm going to tell you who backed, who funded the Philly district attorney and why.
00:11:13.180 But Krasner has pledged never to seek the death penalty for murders.
00:11:21.760 Now, Shakira Wilson Burroughs, Sergeant Wilson's sister, said she was told the committee to determine the appropriate sentence, in this case, convened for two hours.
00:11:34.140 Last week, but their family, the Wilson family, she's a borough, she's married, family was never asked to even comment.
00:11:42.400 They knew nothing about this.
00:11:44.160 They were never called.
00:11:45.080 They were never consulted.
00:11:47.280 He said, quote, no one even got a statement from us, even present.
00:11:53.300 Everything is hush hush.
00:11:55.060 It feels as though the district attorney's hand is covering their mouth.
00:11:59.300 Now, the Fraternal Order of Police president, John McNesby, he said, this is a message to Philadelphia police officers.
00:12:07.460 Be careful.
00:12:08.400 You don't have the support from the Philadelphia district attorney's office.
00:12:14.180 And Sergeant Wilson's grandmother, and I've seen the family in press conferences, and these are good people.
00:12:22.360 They're good family.
00:12:22.940 They had all the evidence for Robbie's trial.
00:12:25.800 They had the gun.
00:12:27.260 They had the murderers.
00:12:28.320 They had the surveillance tapes.
00:12:29.780 They had the store where they went in and killed him.
00:12:31.980 All this they had.
00:12:33.300 They were ready to go to trial.
00:12:35.460 No sooner than Krasner gets into office and things back up.
00:12:39.660 Why?
00:12:40.960 That's plain police officer now posthumously promoted to Sergeant Robert Wilson's grandmother.
00:12:46.660 And he's 100% right.
00:12:48.920 Connie Wilson is her name.
00:12:50.280 His paternal grandmother on his death.
00:12:52.940 And Mrs. Wilson is 150% correct.
00:12:58.820 Both women, Wilson's sister, Shakira Wilson Burroughs, and his grandmother, Connie Wilson,
00:13:03.780 they had called for Krasner to step aside in this case.
00:13:06.580 They knew he was rabidly far left.
00:13:08.980 They knew he was going to go soft on crime.
00:13:11.000 And see, this case is less about politics.
00:13:15.580 This is an African-American family from Philadelphia.
00:13:17.400 This is not a white family from the Deep South.
00:13:22.700 And even they could say that this district attorney was way too soft on crime.
00:13:27.960 Because their son, their grandson, their brother, a police officer, was murdered.
00:13:32.260 And three years later, his family waited three years and three months for justice in this case.
00:13:39.820 Three years and three months.
00:13:42.320 He was gunned down early March of 2015.
00:13:44.820 And this case resolved in June 2018.
00:13:49.460 Three years and three months.
00:13:51.560 They didn't get it.
00:13:53.020 They didn't get it.
00:13:56.560 Terrible.
00:13:57.540 Absolutely terrible.
00:13:58.280 Well, who is Larry Krasner?
00:14:01.880 You know who funded Larry Krasner's run for DA?
00:14:04.860 And Ben Maness, when he joins me in a bit, is going to be able to tell us so much more.
00:14:09.020 Larry Krasner's run for district attorney was funded by George Soros.
00:14:16.340 Two million dollars in contributions from various PACs, family members, associates, and hard money from George Soros.
00:14:28.280 And when he was elected, when Krasner was elected, and this is a story from the Free Beacon, from back in January of this year, when Krasner took office.
00:14:41.120 Democrat Larry Krasner, Philadelphia's new district attorney, who was backed almost exclusively by nearly two million dollars in contributions from liberal billionaire George Soros,
00:14:53.820 has purged more than 30 prosecutors from the district attorney's office within days of taking over the position.
00:15:04.220 Krasner, who was sworn in on January 2nd, asked 31 prosecutors to resign on his fourth day on the job and has given no explanation for the request.
00:15:13.820 A list of those who were purged from the office shows that a number of them came from the Homicide Division, Drug Enforcement, and Civil Asset Forfeiture Unit.
00:15:23.820 These terminations have stalled cases.
00:15:27.100 Where one judge on Monday criticized the office after they asked a murder trial be postponed due to the assistant attorney general being one of the dozens of people let go by Krasner.
00:15:39.760 Incredible.
00:15:40.760 Now, Krasner, before he was elected, was a far, far left defense lawyer.
00:15:45.700 Rapidly far left.
00:15:46.760 Bad, bad.
00:15:47.380 I mean, made the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center look conservative.
00:15:51.780 He resented groups like Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter.
00:15:54.600 He had sued the police department more than 75 times and joked that he had built a career that made him completely unelectable.
00:16:04.020 He hates the police.
00:16:05.580 And now he runs it.
00:16:06.300 This is really, really just terrible.
00:16:13.280 Now, Beth Grossman was his Republican challenger, his Republican opponent.
00:16:18.860 That's who our friend Ben Maness worked for.
00:16:20.880 Ben's going to tell us all about this race when he joins me in just a few minutes.
00:16:24.400 But Beth Grossman at the time told the Free Beacon, quote, I have concerns if he gets elected, my opponent, my opponent, I don't want us to turn into a Baltimore.
00:16:35.220 I don't want us to turn into a Chicago.
00:16:37.260 It's really disturbing.
00:16:38.780 We have one of the finest public defender's offices in the country.
00:16:42.940 We don't need to.
00:16:43.980 In other words, saying that if he becomes the district attorney.
00:16:49.100 He would turn the DA's office into a safe haven that coddled and protected criminals.
00:16:54.400 But he beat her in the election for district attorney by more than 40 percent.
00:16:58.540 When I say he runs the police department, well, the commissioner and the mayor really run the police department.
00:17:02.580 But if the district attorney's office isn't going to prosecute cases, then the police aren't going to arrest for those cases.
00:17:07.960 So the district attorney has a lot of influence over how police police.
00:17:12.540 A tremendous amount in a city like Philly where it's an elected DA.
00:17:17.800 Yeah.
00:17:18.760 Now, Soros is pumping money into DA's races around the country.
00:17:24.040 He wants civil unrest in this country.
00:17:26.600 He wants things like no cash bail, light sentences for violent offenders.
00:17:31.220 George Soros is an arbitrage guy.
00:17:34.400 He makes money when the U.S. is destabilized in the dollars week.
00:17:38.480 This is a terrible, terrible, sinister man.
00:17:41.920 Terrible, terrible guy.
00:17:42.860 And he's pumping money into DA races in Florida, Ohio, Illinois, Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico and Mississippi, among others.
00:17:54.520 Florida and Ohio, the two most significant swing states in the U.S.
00:17:57.480 And Pennsylvania, the third, where he pumped money into its largest cities, the A race.
00:18:03.200 Soros has a plan to destabilize the swing states, to get felons out of prison and restore their rights to vote.
00:18:11.100 He wants this country blue.
00:18:13.020 He wants civil unrest in the U.S.
00:18:15.300 We're going to do a whole segment on that.
00:18:16.460 But this case is about the lack of justice for the family of Sergeant Robert Wilson.
00:18:24.040 They waited three years and three months.
00:18:26.160 They got no justice.
00:18:28.400 I'm going to bring on Ben Madison a little bit.
00:18:30.060 Like I said, he's going to tell us all about Krasner.
00:18:31.920 He's going to tell us all about what he's done to the city and how and why he won being so far left.
00:18:39.240 Hating good working people, good decent people and loving and coddling thugs and criminals.
00:18:44.140 I'll tell you one thing.
00:18:46.660 Family of Sergeant Robert Wilson deserved better.
00:18:50.440 Memory of Sergeant Robert Wilson deserved better.
00:18:52.660 The men and women of the Philadelphia Police Department, his brothers and sisters deserved better.
00:18:57.580 And Sergeant Robert Wilson, he deserved justice.
00:19:01.180 He deserved much, much better.
00:19:14.140 In the last segment, I brought you the case of police officer Robert Wilson in Philadelphia,
00:19:18.440 posthumously promoted to sergeant after he was gunned down in cold blood by two savages,
00:19:23.500 shot in the head, doing one of the most heroic things I'd ever heard of in law enforcement,
00:19:28.300 exposing himself to gunfire to pull the barrels of those criminals' guns away from innocent people
00:19:34.520 behind the counter and online at that GameStop store.
00:19:37.200 He took those bullets, took one in the head, killing them.
00:19:39.660 He left behind two young sons.
00:19:42.300 Well, Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner, as I mentioned earlier on the show,
00:19:45.700 doesn't seem to care much about justice for police officers.
00:19:48.120 He sued the Philadelphia Police Department 75 times as a far-left defense attorney.
00:19:53.580 And I want to bring in Ben Mattis, good friend of ours you've seen on the show,
00:19:56.740 former local and federal law enforcement officer.
00:19:58.860 More importantly, in this case, Ben had a front-row seat with regards to the Krasner election
00:20:05.220 because he worked with Krasner's opponent, Beth Grossman, trying to get her elected.
00:20:10.080 He had warned me about Larry Krasner for months.
00:20:13.480 He warned many people.
00:20:14.860 Unfortunately, voters in Philadelphia didn't listen.
00:20:17.640 Ben, thanks for being here.
00:20:20.280 Infuriating case.
00:20:21.740 Infuriating case.
00:20:23.280 I went through the case, the fact pattern, what Krasner is now doing.
00:20:27.000 He basically offered these two savage murderers a plea behind the back of the Wilson family.
00:20:34.940 Wilson's grandmother, Connie Wilson, his sister, Akira Wilson-Burrows, they're infuriated.
00:20:39.560 They were never even consulted.
00:20:41.300 I've seen other reports that said Krasner was downright hostile to them.
00:20:45.580 What the hell is going on in Philadelphia?
00:20:48.780 Well, Krasner himself is a hostile and arrogant person,
00:20:51.320 which is evident by the fact that he has harassed former DAs that are brought back to prep current DAs for cases that they were yanked off of
00:20:59.640 when he fired 31 career prosecutors in his first week there.
00:21:04.100 Now, this is in a city with the highest crime rate of any major city in America.
00:21:07.780 So we need all the bodies we could get.
00:21:10.040 And he went and fired 31 people and the office ran short until he could replace them with his own puppets.
00:21:14.680 But let's talk specifically about Sergeant Wilson.
00:21:18.140 Sergeant Wilson is the epitome of heroism, not just in how he died, but how he lived.
00:21:25.280 We're talking about an African-American man who grew up on the rough streets of Philadelphia,
00:21:29.100 who took the test, became a police officer, and was only in the line of fire that day
00:21:34.080 because while raising two great kids, he was buying a game on his lunch hour
00:21:40.380 because his kid got a good grade in school and he was rewarding him by getting him the game he wanted at GameStop
00:21:46.020 when he interrupted the robbery in front of him.
00:21:47.740 You know, Ben, it gives me chills. The story gives me chills.
00:21:50.680 It is so tragic.
00:21:53.020 You know you say you lost one of the good ones?
00:21:54.980 We lost one of the good ones here.
00:21:56.800 One of the best ones.
00:21:57.740 Yeah.
00:21:58.120 And that's why Commissioner Ross possibly promoted him to Sergeant after he died.
00:22:03.500 But let's let's get into the fact that, you know, one correction on what you were saying.
00:22:07.580 Not only had they been double dealing with these criminals behind the back of the family once,
00:22:14.440 but twice this happened back in March to incredibly negative fanfare and media coverage.
00:22:20.860 The family went around their back and tried to give them a plea bargain.
00:22:25.080 And now they're giving them the plea bargain, which is life in prison without it's like 50 consecutive.
00:22:30.720 It was like life and then 50 to 100 years on top.
00:22:34.540 They're not looking at getting out of of greater for prison anytime soon.
00:22:38.340 The point of the fact is they did all this without once consulting the family.
00:22:44.100 That's right.
00:22:44.440 And they took death off the table immediately.
00:22:47.180 Now, let's be I have unless I miss something.
00:22:50.340 I haven't seen parole 35 years down the road taken off the table.
00:22:55.360 It wasn't mentioned.
00:22:56.860 They they they think because the numbers are so daunting that they don't need to mention it.
00:23:01.280 But you're right.
00:23:01.820 It is something that needs to be mentioned and needs to be included.
00:23:04.800 And it isn't.
00:23:05.880 Now, can I state a couple of facts, please?
00:23:07.700 One, Pennsylvania, even though in prior district attorney administrations had quite a few death penalty cases, almost certainly every officer involved murder was a death penalty case in Pennsylvania.
00:23:22.380 Now, Pennsylvania hasn't actually used the death penalty, even for those who were sentenced on it.
00:23:27.440 Great example would be Mumi Adbul Jamal, who still sits in a luxurious cell after killing Danny Faulkner in 1981.
00:23:34.360 One. Right. But it's symbolic.
00:23:37.360 At least it says to the family, the life mattered.
00:23:41.900 We're not cutting deals behind your back.
00:23:44.180 It not only says the life mattered.
00:23:45.780 What it does is it gives you the instant bargaining chip of we could make it life without parole if you want to live.
00:23:54.540 They're instantly taking that off.
00:23:56.460 Now, a couple of things that need to be mentioned.
00:23:58.640 One, Krasner, you know, I've been no fan of him.
00:24:02.120 You did state the disclosure I had to.
00:24:04.140 I was policy advisor for Beth Grossman in her D.A. run against him.
00:24:08.020 But Krasner has been riddled with ethics and corruption issues since joining, and he's only been in since January.
00:24:14.280 Let's get into a couple of those.
00:24:15.900 Yeah, I didn't know this.
00:24:17.560 You're saying since he's been inaugurated in January this year, six months ago, he's had ethics and corruption scandals.
00:24:26.160 Well, let me let me get into the allegation.
00:24:28.620 You know what?
00:24:28.860 Let's get into the worst, worst conflict of interest.
00:24:32.180 Right.
00:24:32.920 The defense counsel to the two murderers of Officer Wilson.
00:24:36.780 And this is something that automatically should have went to the mat because they have video.
00:24:41.200 They have the fact that these guys were caught red handed in a standoff.
00:24:44.060 They have the weapons.
00:24:44.980 This is a walk.
00:24:45.780 This is not something that you plead down.
00:24:47.680 Wilson's grandmother said that.
00:24:49.520 They've got the weapons.
00:24:50.640 They've got the witnesses.
00:24:51.740 They've got the video.
00:24:53.380 They were caught after a shootout.
00:24:54.840 Caught after a shootout.
00:24:55.660 With the partner.
00:24:56.040 The partner shot Carlton Hips in the leg.
00:24:59.020 They've got this is a smoking gun case in every sense of the word.
00:25:03.920 Yeah, this is there's really no reason to plea this at all other than the expediency and the manpower.
00:25:09.320 Right.
00:25:09.500 But let's even think if that's your overall interest, you really care that much about it.
00:25:15.280 How about the fact that Michael Cord, the defense counsel for the two suspects involved, the two defendants, was on Krasner's transition team?
00:25:24.460 He was a paid member of the Krasner campaign and transition team.
00:25:28.820 Wow.
00:25:29.180 Wow.
00:25:29.380 Even after the inauguration.
00:25:31.240 You're not seeing that in the media.
00:25:32.980 No, you're not.
00:25:33.800 No one.
00:25:34.160 Well, they're mentioning it in local media here.
00:25:36.820 How about this?
00:25:38.400 Krasner, from his campaign to date, has stated his moral and personal obligation never to seek the death penalty.
00:25:45.040 That I mentioned in the previous segment.
00:25:47.040 I did see that.
00:25:47.920 I might have glanced over the information about Cord, but wow.
00:25:51.880 Yeah, I did see that he said he would never invoke it.
00:25:55.020 Yeah.
00:25:55.480 So let's put aside what we know about Larry Krasner.
00:25:58.240 We know from his campaign is he's never been a prosecutor.
00:26:02.060 He was a defense counsel.
00:26:04.280 Sure, he had small pro bono practices for Black Lives Matter.
00:26:08.360 And very important, Ben, not to cut you off, who almost exclusively funded him to the tune of two million bucks?
00:26:14.760 It was one point three million and it was George Soros.
00:26:17.380 But I'm getting there because this is a very, very important distinction.
00:26:22.180 He really was not qualified for this job.
00:26:25.720 He somehow merged because Soros funded him, which, by the way, is is arguably a campaign finance issue.
00:26:34.600 Yeah, I'm trying to figure out how you get those max donations on 1.3 million with those low maxes.
00:26:40.680 I'm still trying to work that math out.
00:26:42.220 A personal donation, not a PAC donation in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is $3,000 to $5,000.
00:26:47.960 Right, right, right.
00:26:48.740 So where are you getting, you know, a million three?
00:26:51.240 But let's leave that out of it if that's not enough.
00:26:53.660 I'm glad you brought that up because I was doing that math in my head as I was prepping for the segments.
00:26:57.500 And it doesn't seem to work.
00:26:59.340 It just simply doesn't seem to work.
00:27:00.680 So other than the fact that Krasner was a pro bono, you know, once in a while protest lawyer.
00:27:07.620 And, you know, when people are arrested at protests, it's usually something like, you know, protesting without a permit.
00:27:13.460 It's minor stuff.
00:27:15.520 It's never it's never a big case.
00:27:17.680 His bread and butter, what actually paid his salary was major defense work.
00:27:22.780 And when I'm talking about a major, he actually advertised on his website that he had a child pornography defense practice for people soliciting and grooming people online.
00:27:32.720 He also had.
00:27:34.120 Ben, I want to go there.
00:27:34.820 But how did this guy with zero experience manage to unseat?
00:27:40.120 What was it?
00:27:40.520 Seven primary opponents?
00:27:42.240 Yeah.
00:27:42.380 So he did it through a mass one point three million dollars for a short race like the district attorney's office.
00:27:47.840 It was a long way.
00:27:48.820 It was a long way.
00:27:49.820 When you add that to the seven to one voter advantage that the Democrats have to Republicans in the city of Philadelphia, he didn't even need the twenty six thousand union turnovers.
00:28:00.900 But I'm talking about I get I get how he won the primary against Grossman.
00:28:05.440 How did he the general against Grossman?
00:28:07.660 How did he win the primary?
00:28:08.640 It was a seven way primary and the vote was split so many different ways that the guy with the TV time emerged the winner and he had the money for TV time.
00:28:18.680 And let's not make a, you know, a sort of thing about Philadelphia.
00:28:22.660 New York and L.A. are the only places with media money as expensive as Philadelphia because you're also covering Trenton, Allentown, Atlantic City and Wilmington through the same channel.
00:28:33.940 So it's a very expensive media market.
00:28:35.420 And he managed to get commercials on every news break.
00:28:38.500 So there was no other dem that had a couple of bucks that had a donor base.
00:28:43.460 He really not a billion three and one donor.
00:28:46.020 No, not at all.
00:28:47.520 Not for a civic election.
00:28:48.720 He broke all the rules.
00:28:50.180 Plus, when we did the postmortem, most of the people, if we looked at the words, they had a two hundred and thirty eight percent uptick in northern liberties and one hundred and fifty percent uptick in University City.
00:29:00.820 And what that was was him registering people who normally were never registered in Philadelphia because they were college students, transplant tech workers, people who always kept their driver's license in their home.
00:29:11.680 This whole thing is dirty, but he did.
00:29:13.820 But but in the end of the day, he had money and he had a pretty robust ground game.
00:29:16.680 Terribly. Yeah.
00:29:18.420 But let's look at the parallels.
00:29:20.100 So, you know, we talked about him firing thirty one people.
00:29:23.400 We talked about the fact I'm not sure we talked about the fact that his wife is a sitting Pennsylvania judge, which may or may not be a conflict of interest.
00:29:30.640 Let's really get into the fact that the things he's been doing, he's been, you know, really dropping charges on a myriad of things.
00:29:38.700 A couple of weeks ago, you and me on this very show talked about drugs and the issue with encampments here in Philadelphia.
00:29:44.720 Well, he's the guy who made the encampments metastasized like a cancer on this city because he basically told the police department, I'm not charging mere possession anymore.
00:29:53.380 So if people are basically walking around with heroin in these encampments, the cops know they they're basically pissing in the wind if they bring that collar in and it's just not getting done anymore.
00:30:04.760 How do we fix this issue?
00:30:07.140 This man needs to be recalled.
00:30:09.740 I am basically going to parallel this to a situation you have in your home state of Florida.
00:30:15.060 Yeah, we had it up north a little bit.
00:30:17.220 Yep.
00:30:17.920 Yeah.
00:30:18.160 Well, do you know the name Aramis Ayala?
00:30:20.440 Yeah, she's the D.A.
00:30:21.420 This is the northern Florida case.
00:30:23.660 Mid-Florida.
00:30:24.080 Yeah, she was the state's attorney in Orlando.
00:30:26.540 Right, Orange County, yeah.
00:30:28.220 Yeah, Orange County.
00:30:29.040 So it's the two-county region of Orlando.
00:30:31.640 And she, just like Krasner, got $623,000 from George Soros, from a PAC, to beat all of her opponents.
00:30:42.700 And she walked in only, she only had 13 years in legal practice.
00:30:46.180 Most of it was the public defender's office.
00:30:48.080 Far left, she was the same, it was the same nonsense.
00:30:51.200 And she did the same thing, refused to invoke the death penalty.
00:30:54.480 The governor had to step in and remove her.
00:30:56.640 Yeah.
00:30:57.080 But that's the difference between Florida and Pennsylvania.
00:30:59.380 So I am imploring and hoping that this video gets viral enough that, you know, some of the Pennsylvania voters will engage their state representatives, like State Representative Martino White, who is a very good friend of the FOP and represents Northeast Philly, to start creating legislation to put checks and balances in place for local elected officials who derelict their duty.
00:31:22.580 Remember something, a prosecutor, whether it's Ayala in Florida or Krasner in Philadelphia, can't create the law.
00:31:30.760 They have to interpret and enforce the law.
00:31:33.140 Both of them coming out and saying, I won't seek a particular penalty within the guidelines of a particular crime because of their personal values is a violation of their oath of office.
00:31:45.440 Well, but down here with Ayala, the governor, Rick Scott, stepped in, issued an executive order and removed her from the case.
00:31:51.480 That's a great template for how our law should change in Pennsylvania and wherever else these viewers are watching that may not have this.
00:31:58.160 And it's not just for the DA.
00:31:59.640 We have a mayor in Allentown who just went into federal jail, federal prison, right?
00:32:05.740 But for the entire year and a half, he was under federal indictment for multiple counts of corruption.
00:32:10.700 He was allowed to stay in office because Pennsylvania doesn't have a statute like Florida does, where in a similar case in Aventura, Rick Scott was able to immediately remove that mayor who was under corruption indictment.
00:32:22.340 Oh, yeah, we've seen it here multiple times.
00:32:24.040 The process in Florida is pretty straightforward, actually, Ben.
00:32:26.700 And when when there's an elected official and there's a hint of wrongdoing, the mayor, the governor can issue an executive order.
00:32:35.840 And so here's what happens that you've got a mayor, but the mayor knew the state attorney in Miami-Dade County and state attorney in Aventura and the state attorney in Miami-Dade County would say, you know what?
00:32:44.600 I came up politically with this guy.
00:32:46.220 The governor does what's called an assignment, basically puts out a notice to other elected state attorneys in the various counties and says, hey, who wants the case?
00:32:54.480 One of them will take it.
00:32:55.620 They finish their investigation alongside.
00:32:58.920 Typically, it's the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
00:33:01.320 The governor gets it.
00:33:02.460 If there are criminal charges or they find malfeasance, misfeasance and recommend removal, the governor can immediately suspend and the state Senate can immediately move to impeach.
00:33:12.560 It's a pretty efficient removal process here.
00:33:14.980 And that's the problem.
00:33:17.500 We just don't have that in places like New York and Philly.
00:33:20.540 And if you think there's you know, this is a minor issue of political and social justice that we're dealing with right now.
00:33:26.500 You know, Pennsylvania's had 17 public officials indicted within the last five years.
00:33:31.760 It is by far the most metric.
00:33:34.640 If you just follow the metrics, Pennsylvania is the most corrupt jurisdiction in America right now.
00:33:41.060 Let's go because we're running out of time.
00:33:42.980 Give me the the list of.
00:33:44.660 So we've got Krasner and Cord, the defense attorney for the guys that killed Wilson.
00:33:50.280 Cord was on his transition team.
00:33:52.040 Krasner's wife is a judge.
00:33:53.280 Anything else?
00:33:53.840 Let's see.
00:33:55.700 Krasner came up, you know, in the Democratic Party with support from John Doherty, local 98 union boss who's under federal investigation.
00:34:04.720 He's had a target letter served on him.
00:34:06.700 He serves in a administration with Councilman Bobby Heenum, who's also part of the same target letter investigation with that union.
00:34:16.940 He's excused a city school teacher.
00:34:19.340 He dropped the charges of him for spitting in a cop's face during a campaign slash anti Rizzo rally for Krasner.
00:34:27.840 You know, so he was charged before Krasner was sworn in and Krasner's first duty was letting his buddy off.
00:34:32.400 So basically, there's a lot of smoke around the sky and anybody with common sense knows there's some fire smoldering under the smoke.
00:34:38.620 Absolutely.
00:34:39.060 Look, he leads with his social beliefs before his duties and has a dangerously chilling effect on the citizens of Philadelphia who are dealing with an unprecedented level of crime.
00:34:51.300 I mean, we're up to three.
00:34:52.400 We had 310 murders at the end of last year.
00:34:54.740 We're, you know, we're up to 142 this year so far.
00:34:59.360 1,200 opioid deaths.
00:35:01.880 I mean, we are of all the major over 1 million cities, the worst in the country.
00:35:05.720 What's the population of Philly right now?
00:35:07.500 1.536 million.
00:35:08.940 Okay, so New York is 8 million.
00:35:10.740 So you're about six times the size of New York with the same amount of actual murders.
00:35:14.220 So arguably, a murder rate, six times that in New York.
00:35:17.020 Not as bad as Baltimore, which is 15 times, but considerable.
00:35:21.040 Yeah.
00:35:21.480 And the difference between Baltimore and Philadelphia is Philadelphia is the only city of the first class in Pennsylvania.
00:35:29.020 So Philly actually, through its home rule charter, figures out a way to make the sheriff a eunuch.
00:35:33.460 And there are no constables elected here like every other county in the city.
00:35:37.260 So where Baltimore has Baltimore and the state's attorneys, you know, who are elected but have oversight from Annapolis, we don't.
00:35:45.640 We are literally on an island of corruption, and the only thing that could solve it is either a billionaire.
00:35:51.860 And I think we had some technical problems with Ben, which is okay.
00:35:58.840 We got to the meat of the segment.
00:35:59.880 I was going to be saying goodbye to Ben shortly anyway.
00:36:03.360 But I want to thank him for coming on the show.
00:36:05.160 It was actually great information, a great segment.
00:36:06.680 I'm going to bring him back on to follow this case.
00:36:09.880 It is an absolutely tragic case, and you can bet your bottom dollar we're going to stay on top of it.
00:36:13.940 So thanks to Ben Mattis.
00:36:14.920 A little bit of a technical issue there, but we'll have him next soon.
00:36:16.880 As if things couldn't get any weirder concerning Obamagate, Spygate, Trump-Russia collusion, call it whatever you will at this point.
00:36:34.720 We're now finding out.
00:36:35.480 Really good story out of the Daily Caller.
00:36:36.880 From a few days back, Obama's cyber chief testified that Susan Rice gave a stand-down order in response to Russian meddling.
00:36:50.220 Why would she do that?
00:36:53.240 Now, this went down last Wednesday.
00:36:55.880 All right, last Wednesday.
00:36:57.520 From the Daily Caller, former President Barack Obama's cyber security czar confirmed Wednesday that former national security advisor Susan Rice
00:37:05.000 told him to stand down in response to Russian cyber attacks during the 2016 presidential campaign.
00:37:13.200 The guy's name is Michael Daniel.
00:37:14.400 His official title was cyber security coordinator, and he confirmed the stand-down order during an SSCI, a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing.
00:37:24.720 I held to review Obama and Donald Trump's administration's policy response to election interference by Russia.
00:37:30.800 Now, this is just incredible.
00:37:38.260 Incredible.
00:37:39.280 So, here is the alleged exchange between this guy, Michael Daniel, and Stephen Rice.
00:37:45.780 Rice opposed the proposals.
00:37:49.500 Don't get ahead of us, he told.
00:37:51.540 And this is all from a book called Russian Roulette by Michael Isikoff and David Korn.
00:37:56.500 And they allege, they're not conservative guys, that Daniel was developing strategies to respond to Russian cyber attacks on U.S. companies and political campaigns.
00:38:05.900 He proposed using what's known as DDoS, dedicated denial-of-service attacks, to take down Russian propaganda news sites and to attack Russian intelligence services.
00:38:14.280 In other words, we were going to hack them.
00:38:15.800 We were going to hit them with DDoS attacks, crashing their sites.
00:38:18.940 Pretty common tactic.
00:38:20.700 Nations do it to one another if you're not familiar.
00:38:22.300 Another idea was to announce a bogus cyber exercise against a Eurasian country.
00:38:27.960 The goal was to put the Kremlin on notice that its infrastructure could easily be targeted by the U.S.
00:38:33.320 But according to the book, Susan Rice opposed.
00:38:36.820 She said, quote, don't get ahead of us, end quote.
00:38:39.880 She told Daniel in a meeting in August 2016.
00:38:42.800 Daniel informed his staff of the order much to their frustration.
00:38:45.340 I was incredulous, quote, I was incredulous and in disbelief that Daniel Prieto, who worked under Michael Daniel, and this is a little confusing with the name, but got Daniel Prieto and Michael Daniel.
00:38:59.140 Michael Daniel being the boss, the cybersecurity coordinator.
00:39:02.920 Why the hell are we standing down?
00:39:05.320 Michael, can you help us understand?
00:39:06.780 This guy Prieto asked.
00:39:07.520 And you were told nobody knows.
00:39:12.620 So Senator Jim Risch asked Michael Daniel, Obama's former cybersecurity coordinator, you were told to stand down.
00:39:23.540 That is an accurate rendering of the conversation of that staff meeting is what he testified.
00:39:28.380 So he was asked by Senator Jim Risch, you were told to stand down.
00:39:33.980 And he basically said, yes, that that is an accurate rendering of the conversation at the staff meeting.
00:39:41.020 Those actions were put on the back burner.
00:39:43.120 Yes, he told the senator that was not the focus of our activity during that time period.
00:39:49.220 He noted that the White House cybersecurity team did continue working to respond to Russia with a smaller staff and less aggressive approach.
00:39:56.260 He said, quote, it's not accurate to say that all activity ceased at that point, declining to describe the activities that did go on in an unclassified setting or hearing.
00:40:06.600 Now, why would Susan Rice?
00:40:10.480 Why would Susan Rice, Obama's national security advisor?
00:40:15.560 Want to allow Russia to keep on using active measures against us in the cyber world?
00:40:23.080 Could it be because she knew, again, speculation, trying to be conspiratorial, but she knew they needed Russian meddling because that was, remember what Peter Strokes said?
00:40:36.540 Excuse me.
00:40:37.340 Remember what James Comey said?
00:40:39.680 They had an insurance policy.
00:40:41.580 Was this part of that insurance policy against Trump?
00:40:45.940 Was Robert Mueller part of that insurance policy?
00:40:49.460 It gets interesting, right?
00:40:54.220 It's really, really interesting.
00:40:58.000 You know, why would the national security advisor tell the cybersecurity coordinator to stand down from using very common, proven, and effective tactics against Russia?
00:41:12.840 We know that the Obama administration knew back in 2015 of Russian meddling.
00:41:19.900 Now, remember, the only alleged evidence, real evidence of any kind of hack was that the DNC server was hacked.
00:41:29.060 But no federal agencies ever been able to look at that server.
00:41:32.560 The only entity that was ever able to look at that server was CrowdStrike, a company run by a former FBI agent who was close to Comey and McCabe.
00:41:42.840 A company funded directly or via the contacts of Tim Geithner, Obama's former Treasury Secretary, who sat on the Committee for Foreign Investment in the U.S.
00:41:53.900 alongside Hillary Clinton when the Uranium One deal was approved.
00:41:57.480 Okay?
00:41:59.080 He was one of the financiers.
00:42:01.340 And Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, now chairman of Alphabet, the parent company of Google.
00:42:06.480 Somebody very close to Hillary.
00:42:09.040 Somebody who considered himself Hillary campaign staff.
00:42:13.080 They were the two guys who almost entirely funded CrowdStrike.
00:42:17.780 Whether the money, their own money, money through the investment banks or investment funds they ran or with people they're closely aligned with.
00:42:23.740 They were the gatekeepers for that outside money as well.
00:42:25.680 So, in common terms, they were the financiers.
00:42:30.820 They controlled CrowdStrike alongside the FBI agents within who were very close to Comey and McCabe.
00:42:36.580 And that was the only entity that was ever allowed to see that server.
00:42:39.640 Now, doesn't that seem bizarre to you?
00:42:41.660 The FBI never went and grabbed that server.
00:42:43.580 They took Paul Manafort's door at 530 in the morning for 12-year-old financial crimes.
00:42:48.140 But the Democratic National Committee was allegedly hacked by Russia that at the time was trying to help Donald Trump.
00:42:56.560 And the FBI and Department of Justice never demanded to see the server.
00:43:00.720 Who believes that?
00:43:02.480 On what planet is that acceptable?
00:43:06.520 I've never heard of anything that ridiculous in my life in terms of chain of evidence, chain of custody.
00:43:13.020 Never.
00:43:13.820 Never, never, never, never, never, never.
00:43:15.780 Never heard of it.
00:43:16.720 It's unheard of.
00:43:20.980 So, you have to ask yourself then why Susan Rice would give a stand-down order.
00:43:25.600 And when you look at all of the other evidence in the talk of insurance policies and using spies against the Trump campaign
00:43:32.280 and using tactics that seem designed to entrap people like Carter Page and George Papadopoulos and General Flynn,
00:43:39.960 and when they couldn't do that, jam them up on false statements in the cases of Flynn and Papadopoulos,
00:43:45.240 it sure seems like Susan Rice had an alternate agenda, doesn't it?
00:43:50.320 And the question that should be investigated, but I'm not sure it ever will, is,
00:43:54.520 was this just one more clause in that insurance policy against Donald Trump being elected?
00:44:01.940 And if he did manage to win, which at the time nobody thought possible,
00:44:05.860 was this one more clause in that insurance policy that would oust him from office?
00:44:10.460 What do you know?
00:44:12.340 What do you know?
00:44:13.980 I don't believe it.
00:44:14.800 I don't believe it.
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