Rebel News Podcast - Off The Cuff Declassified - John Cardillo - May 1⧸2018

00:00:00.000 Today on Off the Cuff Declassified, we discuss Israel's outstanding intelligence operation

00:00:05.120 proving that Iran lied to the world about their nuclear weapons program.

00:00:10.180 Washington Examiner editor Lauren Cooley joins me to discuss why millennials are moving

00:00:15.180 toward Republican candidates in the 2018 midterms.

00:00:19.120 Dr. John Lott is with me to discuss the host of Second Amendment issues.

00:00:23.100 And is the Crips gang after Kanye West because of his support for Donald Trump?

00:00:27.900 We're going to talk all about that.

00:00:30.000 We're going to talk all about that.

00:01:00.400 What Israeli intelligence, obviously led by the Mossad, but I suspect we'll get into

00:01:05.420 it a little bit later in the segment, in partnership with our CIA, our NSA, I expect the Jordanians,

00:01:11.860 possibly even the Saudis.

00:01:13.100 What they were able to glean, the information they were able to capture is nothing short

00:01:18.800 of groundbreaking.

00:01:20.580 What Israel got, if you weren't following any of the news on this or Netanyahu's press conference,

00:01:24.840 they obtained 50,000 pages, actual binders full of written material, published material from

00:01:35.580 a storehouse that looked like a shack in a district of Tehran, an industrial district of Tehran.

00:01:43.340 In that little building were safes that looked like good-sized gun safes or small bank vaults.

00:01:49.760 And the Israeli intelligence services were able to glean, or capture actually, tangible evidence,

00:01:55.420 50,000 hard pages, another 183 computer disks containing an additional 50,000 files.

00:02:02.940 And within those files, blueprints, documents, photos, videos, schematics, plans, irrefutable,

00:02:11.280 conclusive evidence that Iran has been lying to the world about their nuclear weapons program.

00:02:16.100 Now, this program goes back to the 90s.

00:02:18.260 It's called Project Ahmad. 0.85

00:02:20.620 Iran then decided to conceal this under the guise of science.

00:02:25.400 And Netanyahu's case was made brilliantly and beautifully. 0.88

00:02:29.540 He said, how do we know these were not centrifuges for medical research?

00:02:33.460 Well, you don't bury experimental medical centrifuges that when you're experimenting with nuclear medicine,

00:02:41.460 you don't bury those in a bunker underground.

00:02:43.300 That's for weapons, grade, plutonium production, uranium production, things of that nature.

00:02:49.380 Now, there were also other indicators.

00:02:52.520 Most of the documents, if not all, were written in Farsi, but some things simply didn't translate.

00:02:57.160 In one slide, Netanyahu showed us, you know, Farsi, written Farsi, but then 10 kiloton TNT.

00:03:05.040 Once translated, that was referring to Iran's desire to develop five warheads,

00:03:09.700 each with a yield equivalent to 10 kilotons of TNT.

00:03:14.840 Now, that's equal equivalent to about four to five times the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

00:03:22.280 You don't have to be an intelligence specialist.

00:03:24.800 You don't have to be a brilliant analyst to understand that those weapons were being developed to most likely be used on Israel,

00:03:31.060 which leads me to believe that somebody very senior in the Iranian government realized how insane Iranian President Rouhani and Supreme Leader Khamenei had gotten

00:03:41.720 that they were actually trying to develop these nuclear weapons, that the Iran deal was falling apart,

00:03:47.540 and that if they did, in fact, even hint that they had these weapons, let alone use one on Israel or Jordan or another nation in the region,

00:03:56.700 or even try to use one on the United States or Europe or worse, give that material, that nuclear material to terrorists to be used in a dirty bomb, 0.57

00:04:05.280 Iran could very well find itself eradicated off the face of the earth. 1.00

00:04:09.240 It would be a joint international effort.

00:04:12.200 Russia would have to abandon them.

00:04:13.480 It would be the U.S., Russia, China, NATO, and every other developed nation on earth against Iran for giving nukes to terrorists. 0.93

00:04:21.300 Somebody in the Iranian government understood, hey, this is a pretty bad idea.

00:04:25.540 Rouhani and Khamenei are now unhinged, and I believe, and there's really, I've analyzed this, I've been fascinated with this.

00:04:32.360 I've been reading everything I could find on it since it broke yesterday.

00:04:35.180 I watched that in Yahoo's press conference live.

00:04:37.000 I firmly believe that someone senior in the Iranian government opened the door to Israeli intelligence and said, 0.96

00:04:44.700 enough's enough with these lunatics here. 0.96

00:04:46.920 Come on in, guys. 0.86

00:04:47.960 You've got to get this information out to the world.

00:04:49.820 This was an exhaustive, an exhaustive operation.

00:04:54.320 Now, interestingly, this evidence is revealed.

00:04:58.060 A day after, Secretary of State, new Secretary of State and former CIA director Mike Pompeo visited with Benjamin Netanyahu.

00:05:05.920 I absolutely love the renewed alliance between the U.S. and Israel, the renewed alliance between the U.S. and France.

00:05:14.040 The world is much stronger now that Obama, the Muslim sympathetic little communist boy doormat, is out of the Oval Office. 0.98

00:05:24.000 He grew up a little Muslim kid. 0.99

00:05:25.780 He was still a man child, very insecure, very immature, a doormat of the world, sympathized with terrorists, 0.96

00:05:32.600 which also begs many, many questions.

00:05:35.920 Was the Obama administration complicit in helping Iran lie?

00:05:40.360 Valerie Jarrett's born in Iran or family close ties to Iranian hardliners.

00:05:44.180 Was the Obama administration complicit in helping Iran lie? 1.00

00:05:47.960 Or was the Obama administration the most inept group of morons who ever lead the United States of America? 1.00

00:05:54.820 And I'm bringing them all in. 1.00

00:05:55.900 Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Susan Rice, Samantha Power, Ben Rhodes,

00:06:01.740 Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, James Comey, John Brennan.

00:06:05.700 Oh, geez, who did I leave out?

00:06:07.640 I don't even know who I left.

00:06:08.880 I had to leave somebody out.

00:06:10.080 But the list goes on and on.

00:06:11.260 And if you want to find any of them, especially Ben Rhodes, former deputy national security advisor,

00:06:15.740 one of Obama's biggest apologist hacks.

00:06:17.800 Now, Ben Rhodes would tweet every single day criticizing Trump and Trump's foreign policy, Trump's foreign policy team.

00:06:24.980 He said Trump's rhetoric.

00:06:27.080 Well, it was going to cause World War Three between starting on the 38th parallel in Korea. 0.54

00:06:32.780 A couple of weeks later, North and South Korea holding hands.

00:06:35.700 Best of friends again.

00:06:36.620 Well, not best of friends, but you get what I'm saying.

00:06:38.540 The optic is there's some movement there.

00:06:40.340 They've agreed to end the war.

00:06:41.840 Seven decades of war.

00:06:43.460 Ben Rhodes has been dead wrong about literally everything.

00:06:48.020 And Ben Rhodes, who was tweeting every day, hasn't tweeted since April 27, since the day North and South Korea decided to end the Korean War.

00:06:59.540 He's been dead silent.

00:07:01.560 Ben Rhodes has disappeared, as has Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Susan Rice, Samantha Power, Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, 0.99

00:07:07.340 and all these other morons in the Obama administration. 0.91

00:07:09.980 If you want to find them, sources tell me that they're hiding on the wrong side of history. 0.99

00:07:14.960 So go over there.

00:07:16.100 You'll probably be able to find them over there.

00:07:17.700 Now, that all being said, I do believe that the reason French President Emmanuel Macron did that 180 at that Rose Garden press conference,

00:07:27.540 when he got up there and he said, well, it's a bad deal and I'm open to renegotiating the deal.

00:07:31.420 I believe he did that because President Trump showed him this intelligence in the Oval Office.

00:07:36.420 Macron had a decidedly different position.

00:07:40.560 Even his posture, when he was talking about Iran, things were just very different than it had been in the past.

00:07:47.940 I believe Trump sat him in the Oval Office.

00:07:50.160 Emmanuel, I've got to show you a couple of things.

00:07:53.120 Showed him part of this intelligence.

00:07:55.720 Certainly couldn't share 105,000 pages with him off the bat.

00:08:00.080 And Macron said, wow, wow, did we make a mistake?

00:08:05.100 This is not good.

00:08:06.800 OK, this is a massive game changer.

00:08:09.560 I'm not so sure.

00:08:11.960 Trump showed Angela Merkel.

00:08:14.420 Or maybe he showed Merkel just enough to get her nervous.

00:08:17.120 Because if you recall, it was Germany that sold Iran, those binary chemical weapon components that were used in the gas attack in Syria that led to us striking Syria. 0.76

00:08:28.200 But Merkel is now between a massive rock and a very hard place.

00:08:34.060 He just gave chemical weapons to Iran.

00:08:37.340 Now we have conclusive proof that Iran lied about its nuclear weapons program. 0.72

00:08:41.440 Where else are they using those chemical weapons components that they bought from Merkel? 0.66

00:08:45.200 How do we know they were all used in the gas attack in Syria?

00:08:48.240 Did Iran give those to terrorists to use in dirty bombs against Western targets?

00:08:53.420 Either way, Merkel looked very, very nervous.

00:08:56.660 Very unsettled during that press conference.

00:08:58.700 I didn't understand why she looked so nervous.

00:09:00.520 She's been a world leader for a long time.

00:09:01.920 She's not intimidated by Donald Trump.

00:09:03.780 Well, this information Netanyahu released yesterday certainly shed some light on possibly why Merkel looked so nervous.

00:09:11.220 She probably saw a small piece of this or was given a heads up that it existed.

00:09:15.940 And this is a game changer for the world.

00:09:18.380 So what does Iran do next?

00:09:20.940 Iran has been shamed in front of the world community.

00:09:24.040 Rouhani and Khomeini have been embarrassed. 0.80

00:09:26.380 They've been called liars.

00:09:27.640 Now, clearly what they're going to do is say, Israel and the Jews, the great Satans, they lied. 0.57

00:09:32.940 They made all this up. 0.61

00:09:34.100 This is a Zionist Jewish conspiracy against us wonderful Muslim hardliners. 1.00

00:09:38.380 They made it all up, enabled by their horrible friends, the other big bad Satan, the United States, and the CIA who just wants to kill us all. 1.00

00:09:45.400 But there's too much evidence. 0.96

00:09:46.960 This is irrefutable proof. 1.00

00:09:49.160 Now, you've got the alt-right morons and the libertarian morons out there saying, this is all made up. 1.00

00:09:54.000 It's a Zionist conspiracy. 1.00

00:09:55.380 It's not made up.

00:09:56.600 Because our very own CIA vetted this.

00:10:00.020 Our very own CIA vetted this.

00:10:02.300 In fact, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a statement.

00:10:05.340 I wish it would be shared more.

00:10:06.380 It's not.

00:10:06.840 He was formerly director of the CIA.

00:10:09.440 Let me read you his statement in its entirety.

00:10:11.500 I normally don't read full statements, but I need to.

00:10:14.100 You can also find this on state.gov, the State Department's website.

00:10:18.100 Secretary Pompeo generated this statement yesterday.

00:10:21.260 It reads,

00:10:22.080 For many years, the Iranian regime has insisted to the world that its nuclear program was peaceful.

00:10:27.240 The documents obtained by Israel from inside of Iran show beyond any doubt that the Iranian regime was not telling the truth.

00:10:33.520 I have personally reviewed many of the Iranian files.

00:10:38.440 Our non-proliferation and intelligence officials have been analyzing tens of thousands of pages and translating them from Farsi.

00:10:48.320 This analytical work will continue for many months.

00:10:51.940 We assess that the documents we have reviewed are authentic.

00:10:57.440 This from the sitting Secretary of State, who was until a couple of weeks ago our very active and outstanding CIA director.

00:11:05.860 Secretary Pompeo goes on to say,

00:11:08.400 The documents show that Iran had a secret nuclear weapons program for years.

00:11:12.940 Iran sought to develop nuclear weapons and missile delivery systems.

00:11:17.860 Iran hid a vast atomic archive from the world and from the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Association, until today.

00:11:28.120 Among the flaws of the Iran deal was the whitewashing of Iran's illicit activities related to its military nuclear program.

00:11:35.880 Iran had many opportunities over the years to turn over its files to international inspectors from the IAEA and its nuclear weapons work on its nuclear weapons work or admit it.

00:11:45.820 Instead, they lied to the IAEA repeatedly.

00:11:49.120 They also lied about their program to the six nations who negotiated the Iran nuclear deal.

00:11:54.560 What this means is that the deal was not constructed on a foundation of good faith or transparency.

00:12:01.480 In other words, the deal is null and void.

00:12:03.800 It was built on Iranian, on Iran's lies. 0.99

00:12:06.500 Iran's nuclear deception is inconsistent with Iran's pledge in the nuclear deal.

00:12:12.780 That, quote, quote, that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop, or acquire any nuclear weapons, end quote.

00:12:19.480 Secretary is saying many, many times he used the words lied.

00:12:22.920 I'm going to tell you what I think that means in one second.

00:12:25.320 I'll read you the last paragraph.

00:12:26.840 We are therefore assessing what the discovery of Iran's secret nuclear files means for the future of the JCPOA, the Iran deal.

00:12:33.340 Allowing restrictions on Iran's nuclear program to sunset was a mistake.

00:12:37.420 One is to ask, why exactly was Iran hiding half a ton of nuclear weaponization files while implementing the Iran deal?

00:12:45.660 Well, we know why, said Mr. Secretary.

00:12:47.980 We wanted to make a fool of the world and then pop up one day and say, ha ha, we're a nuclear power. 1.00

00:12:52.500 And we got all you morons. 1.00

00:12:54.700 Jokes on you. 0.99

00:12:56.660 It is worth recalling that from 2006 to 2015, Iran was prohibited by Security Council resolutions from enriching any nuclear material.

00:13:05.620 Now that the world knows Iran has lied and is still lying, it is time to revisit the question of whether Iran can be trusted to enrich or control any nuclear material he means for scientific research, medicine, for any reason. 0.70

00:13:18.200 As the president's May 12th deadline to fix the Iran deal approaches, I will be consulting with our European allies and other nations on the best way forward in light of what we now know about Iran's past pursuit of nuclear weapons and its systematic deception of the world. 0.94

00:13:33.320 And that says it all.

00:13:35.140 The U.S. Secretary of State is saying, in short, Iran lied.

00:13:38.680 The Iran deal was predicated upon lies and in bad faith. 0.99

00:13:42.080 The Obama administration got played like fools or they were complicit. 0.93

00:13:45.900 The world knew Iran was bubble wrapping its nuclear program and putting a nice pink bow on it under the guise of science. 0.98

00:13:52.500 No one believed it, but the Obama administration shoved it down our throats and sold it to us anyway.

00:13:57.900 What they did, what the Obama administration did here was graceful.

00:14:01.440 I think the president needs to pull out of the Iran deal and he needs to place the blame squarely at the feet of every Democrat who pushed this deal in Congress right before the midterms, pull out of this disastrous Iran deal, wrap it, bury it in consecrated ground after you burn it, put Iran on notice, ask them for everything, give them nothing, and let's put an end to this globalist nonsense once and for all. 0.67

00:14:31.440 The mainstream media tells us that young voters, especially millennial voters, are almost exclusively Democrat.

00:14:46.560 But a new story in the Red Alert Politics section of the Washington Examiner is telling us something different.

00:14:53.840 It's titled, Republicans Gain Ground with Millennial Voters.

00:14:57.100 Stories being shared pretty widely with titles ranging from its original title to Democrats Losing Ground with Millennial Voters.

00:15:03.980 Let's make sense of it all with the person who wrote the piece, my good friend, Lauren Cooley, Red Alert Politics editor over at the Washington Examiner.

00:15:11.980 Hey, Lauren, how are you?

00:15:13.240 Good. How are you, John?

00:15:14.260 Good. So I'm really, really encouraged by this piece, and I love it when friends of mine write pieces like this so I can call them and say, hey, is it accurate?

00:15:22.840 But give us the background here.

00:15:25.540 Are Republicans now looking better in the midterms with millennial voters?

00:15:29.920 Yeah, so this is a Reuters poll that came out just yesterday, and it was focused on how are young millennials responding to congressional races?

00:15:40.660 So, you know, this really doesn't say much about a Trump effect per se, but it does show that when it comes to the midterms, Republicans are gaining ground.

00:15:49.100 And so specifically with the numbers, support for Republicans didn't necessarily overtly change.

00:15:55.680 Like, people who really consider themselves Republicans are about the same between 2016 and 2018.

00:16:01.140 But the difference is those moderates, the people in the middle who might prefer Republican over a Democrat, there's been a nine percentage point slip there, which shows that Republicans really have an opportunity to win over those voters who may have been voting Democrat in 2016, but are more likely to vote Republican in 2018.

00:16:21.500 See, Lauren, to me, everything you just said is far more encouraging.

00:16:25.920 I'd rather you have told me what you just told me than told me this was all part and parcel to the Trump effect for the simple reason that Trump still has two and a half years to make his case to voters.

00:16:36.000 Republicans in Congress don't.

00:16:38.380 Yeah, that's true.

00:16:39.280 These candidates don't, right?

00:16:40.180 And I think this is a very good gateway.

00:16:43.680 This is the gateway step in a conservative politics for many millennials.

00:16:47.540 But the most telling thing is those independents, especially that really critical four to seven percent in the dead center who tend to decide elections these days.

00:16:57.420 I mean, look at Trump's margin of win here in Florida in the general election, 171,000 votes out of an electorate in the double digit millions.

00:17:05.120 We're talking about sub one percent, right?

00:17:07.340 So that four to seven percent, if you're telling me there's a nine percent net gain for Republicans within that group, man, that has to have the Democrats terrified.

00:17:17.540 Yeah, that's that's the thing that makes this so notable.

00:17:21.620 Not only that it's those independent kind of swing voters, but also the fact that it is young millennials, because, look, Democrats take millennial votes for granted.

00:17:30.280 Republicans have a hard time winning them over.

00:17:32.680 And most importantly, it's now the largest potential or eligible voting bloc in the nation for the first time in 2018.

00:17:40.420 And so if you look at states like Florida, a swing state could go either way.

00:17:46.400 And you think a lot of people think, oh, it's a place where people go and retire.

00:17:49.680 Well, guess what?

00:17:50.520 There are tons and tons and tons of college students in the state of Florida and other swing states.

00:17:55.620 And so not only being the largest voting bloc or potential voting bloc, right, these students have to go out and register to vote still.

00:18:02.660 But not only that, you know, they are in mass population in areas that matter when it comes to voting.

00:18:09.280 I think that this is really encouraging.

00:18:11.540 And it just shows that things that Republicans are doing, whether you want to talk about it being a Trump effect or just the policy that President Trump is signing on his desk, you know, tax reform makes a difference for young people.

00:18:23.500 They actually see that money in their pocket.

00:18:25.200 Yeah, and Lauren, I want to get to the causation in a second, but you make a great point, right?

00:18:30.300 We have massive universities here.

00:18:31.860 We have Florida State.

00:18:32.600 We have University of Florida.

00:18:33.740 We have University of Miami.

00:18:35.100 I mean, Florida is home to some of the largest student bodies in the United States.

00:18:40.620 I would argue it's got to be.

00:18:42.060 How many students are in the state of Florida?

00:18:43.340 It's got to be in the millions, right?

00:18:44.540 Voting age college students?

00:18:46.200 Yeah, that's absolutely correct.

00:18:47.440 I mean, we have the second largest bi-populous university in the country, which is University of Central Florida.

00:18:53.800 That's right, yeah.

00:18:54.380 But there's tons of college students here.

00:18:58.000 I mean, if you look at how many college students there are that are in comparison to the ones that are just registered to vote, it's an extreme small percentage.

00:19:07.000 So, you know, we'll look at the projected polling versus who actually goes out and is mobilized.

00:19:12.300 But this is kind of an indication for the parties that they need to be spending time on campus, spending time online, trying to reach millennials,

00:19:19.360 and not just assuming that they're going to go out and mass and vote, because it's really no longer the days where MTV tells people to go vote.

00:19:28.700 It's going to take a little more courting.

00:19:30.200 But I think that for Republicans, this is a demographic that's really ripe.

00:19:33.700 Yeah, and you know another hidden millennial voting bloc here. 0.68

00:19:37.760 Most people, when they think of Florida, don't think of the technology industry.

00:19:42.100 And it's to their own peril.

00:19:43.880 Two companies that receive some of the largest infusions of venture capital, Magic Leap and Vertical Bridge.

00:19:51.460 Magic Leap does the holographic technology, and Vertical Bridge is in the cell phone tower connectivity business.

00:19:56.760 Magic Leap has raised $2 billion to $4 billion in venture capital, Vertical Bridge.

00:20:02.300 Now, I was just told, on their third round, $6 billion in venture capital, hiring like crazy, expanding their facilities,

00:20:11.020 all located in South Florida for the tax advantages.

00:20:14.480 Look, the millennial voters love coming down here, no state income tax.

00:20:17.360 And so we're going to see, I believe, more younger voters moving into this state as companies like that expand.

00:20:23.700 Massive data companies down here, right?

00:20:25.200 LexisNexis, TransUnion bought a facility.

00:20:27.720 They're hiring the young developers, the young data specialists.

00:20:32.420 This is something, a trend that I've been seeing for quite some time.

00:20:36.140 And interestingly enough, not to talk about gubernatorial politics in Florida,

00:20:39.740 but I was at an event with Adam Putnam, current agriculture secretary, one of the candidates for governor.

00:20:47.180 And surprisingly, he's been an agriculture guy his whole career,

00:20:50.200 but surprisingly, he discussed this very thing and talked about how he wants to add another 300,000 to 400,000 technology jobs to Florida if he's elected.

00:20:59.120 Now, I've got my issues with that because a lot of those people might vote blue.

00:21:02.360 But that aside, there's no doubt the millennial vote in Florida might arguably become the most important voting bloc in the state.

00:21:09.800 Yeah, absolutely.

00:21:11.280 And just to counter your point about a lot of those individuals might vote blue,

00:21:16.740 I would say that those are probably the individuals who have gone through a technical training or a college that hasn't necessarily focused on.

00:21:24.420 I'll agree with you there because these companies have money and they're looking for top talent because they can afford to pay for top talent.

00:21:30.020 Right, and I think that they may be a little older, and we'll see that as millennials get older,

00:21:35.680 the older end of the bracket are going to be more conservative or right-leaning as well.

00:21:39.720 So, I mean, this is just one poll, but it shows that if you're looking at data between 2016 and 2018,

00:21:48.740 whether or not those individuals say they like Donald Trump,

00:21:52.400 the things that he's doing and the policy that he's leading the Republican Party with is resonating and doing well with young people.

00:21:58.960 I think that's a cultural thing.

00:22:00.740 I think it's a financial thing.

00:22:02.780 And quite frankly, it could even be a reaction to foreign policy as well.

00:22:07.000 Okay, that's what I want to get to.

00:22:08.180 Why do you think millennial voters, to take Trump out of the equation,

00:22:11.500 you travel more than anybody I know right now,

00:22:14.540 especially to college campuses engaging these millennial voters.

00:22:18.700 Honestly, I don't know anybody who's out there engaging voters as much as you.

00:22:22.500 Why do you think, it's a two-part question.

00:22:25.000 Why do you think millennial voters are now all of a sudden focused on congressional elections,

00:22:29.820 something they haven't been really in the past?

00:22:32.720 Traditionally, they've looked at the presidential.

00:22:34.660 And B, why are they moving right with regards to those congressional races?

00:22:39.120 So I think first one, why are they focusing more on congressional races?

00:22:42.700 It's because presidential politics has seemed so out of touch and out of control.

00:22:48.300 And what I mean by that is that Hillary Clinton obviously was not a good candidate. 0.97

00:22:52.880 I don't think many young people, even Democrats, wanted Hillary Clinton as their candidate.

00:22:57.740 And I'd say a lot of young people who were interested in presidential politics

00:23:00.960 during the primary season for Republicans didn't necessarily want Donald Trump.

00:23:06.060 I think a lot came around to him.

00:23:07.340 I think a lot like him.

00:23:08.840 But they weren't necessarily all on the bandwagon for Trump right away.

00:23:13.220 So to see these two individuals end up being the two main party nominees,

00:23:18.060 and then kind of feeling like you have to choose between the two, a third-party option doesn't really work.

00:23:23.460 And then see the only way to really continue those bandwagon movements is by going to rallies or going to marches.

00:23:29.460 And I think it's a little out of touch for young people who want to have that genuine conversation

00:23:34.220 and more of a hands-on approach to choosing their candidates.

00:23:39.140 And so I think when it comes to congressional politics—

00:23:41.560 And I would guess more accessible candidates, right?

00:23:43.440 A hell of a lot easier to get close to the candidate,

00:23:45.740 have a personal conversation with them at a rally for a congressional

00:23:48.460 than it is at a rally for presidential with the Secret Service protection and all that, right?

00:23:52.240 They can get them on the phone.

00:23:53.480 They can meet them.

00:23:54.020 They can talk to them.

00:23:54.760 They can have lunch with them in many cases in the early days of the campaign.

00:23:57.880 I would guess that to a millennial voter, that matters, right?

00:24:01.600 Oh, yeah.

00:24:02.000 I think the fact that both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, in a sense, were caricatures,

00:24:07.340 were kind of these larger-than-life individuals didn't necessarily play well for millennials.

00:24:12.600 And so with congressional candidates, they're in your backyard.

00:24:15.340 A lot of times they're a local businessman.

00:24:17.220 They're somebody that a friend of a friend may even know.

00:24:20.560 They may even work at your church, whatever it might be.

00:24:23.160 So I think that's part of it.

00:24:24.500 And then, you know, the other thing is just we keep on seeing that there's so much deadlock

00:24:30.180 in Congress.

00:24:31.120 They can't get anything done.

00:24:32.500 And I think millennials are sick and tired of hearing that.

00:24:35.220 And they think that they're just going to vote out whoever's not doing a good job and

00:24:38.720 focus on the midterm.

00:24:39.860 So in both ways, I think that focusing on midterm elections, smaller local elections, is only

00:24:47.540 just a way for millennials to become more engaged, which I think we need more of.

00:24:51.180 And now I'm even more excited to say that, knowing that they're starting to be more open

00:24:56.740 to Republican candidates.

00:24:57.940 Why do you think that is, then?

00:24:59.700 Part two of that question.

00:25:00.740 Why are they moving right?

00:25:02.720 I mean, the bottom line, the biggest one for me, I think, is the tax reform.

00:25:06.620 I talk to people all the time who are not Republicans, who don't identify as conservative.

00:25:11.720 And they may be freaking out about the fact that Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate

00:25:15.560 agreement, they may not like the fact that he tweets Kim Jong-un, but they have to admit

00:25:21.420 they're making money, more money than they were.

00:25:24.540 They're keeping their heart and money.

00:25:26.240 They like that.

00:25:27.380 I know, like, for example, Starbucks just came out with a policy a couple months ago

00:25:32.160 saying that they were going to allow their employees to keep more money in their paycheck

00:25:35.360 through extended benefits.

00:25:37.880 The Starbucks baristas I talked to are not necessarily conservative.

00:25:42.660 They don't necessarily be Trump.

00:25:43.980 They have to admit that that's a great thing.

00:25:45.960 And look, Lauren, it's the old saying.

00:25:48.040 Well, a few old sayings, right?

00:25:49.280 Jobs, jobs, jobs.

00:25:50.360 We'll go back to political campaigns over the years. 1.00

00:25:52.800 It's the economy, stupid. 1.00

00:25:54.620 And a cliche that's been around politics is a bipartisan statement forever. 1.00

00:25:58.180 No one votes against their own wallet or pocketbook, right?

00:26:00.820 I mean, nobody does.

00:26:01.800 So it's not a sexy argument for me to stand here and just say, oh, well, you know, it's

00:26:06.140 tax reform.

00:26:06.920 But the bottom line is young people are paying off student loan debt.

00:26:11.040 They're trying to save up money for buying a house, even paying their rent.

00:26:16.000 You know what?

00:26:16.620 And it goes beyond that.

00:26:17.460 Come on.

00:26:17.680 I was a young guy when I was in play.

00:26:19.100 You want, as a young guy, young girl, you want to drive a nice car.

00:26:22.260 You want to wear nice clothes.

00:26:23.740 So it's not just the responsible things.

00:26:25.580 You're working hard.

00:26:26.820 You just got out of school where you worked your butt off.

00:26:29.100 You're now in a job that's working your 12 hours a day.

00:26:32.000 You want to go drive that BMW, Mercedes that you want to drive, or maybe that new SUV.

00:26:36.800 You want to be able to go to the mall and drop money on nice suits and nice shoes.

00:26:40.460 You want to live better.

00:26:41.580 That extra money in your paycheck matters on both the things you have to do and the things

00:26:46.020 you want to do.

00:26:47.260 Sure.

00:26:47.680 And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, I think.

00:26:49.780 Oh, God.

00:26:50.320 That's the American way.

00:26:51.340 God bless.

00:26:52.140 People like to attack millennials for eating avocado toast and saying it's like $9 for a

00:26:56.360 piece of toast.

00:26:56.980 And I think, you know what?

00:26:57.720 If you work really hard all week and that's how you want to reward yourself, go ahead and have

00:27:01.500 When people say that, it drives me nuts.

00:27:04.220 When I got out of college, you know, we're friends, you know this.

00:27:06.060 I was a New York City cop and I worked a lot of overtime, lived alone, made a good living,

00:27:10.580 worked in a business my family had a few hours a week.

00:27:13.640 So I had some disposable income.

00:27:15.480 My friends and I were in our early 20s.

00:27:17.220 We were foodies.

00:27:17.900 We liked getting dressed and going to nice expensive restaurants in Manhattan.

00:27:21.620 And we made no apologies for that.

00:27:24.300 It was what we liked to do.

00:27:25.120 All of us, we all worked really hard and that was the luxury we enjoyed and we splurged on

00:27:29.240 it.

00:27:29.820 I can't stand the people who look at someone who got out of college, is working hard, who

00:27:34.360 wants to go to a nice restaurant, drive a nice car, and they, well, that's irresponsible.

00:27:38.120 No, it's not.

00:27:39.140 It's exactly the time in your life when you should be doing those things.

00:27:42.640 Yeah.

00:27:42.800 And I think that there's a lot of times a good balance.

00:27:44.800 It's not like necessarily you're not paying your, you know, your cell phone bill, but

00:27:48.720 you're driving a car or whatever.

00:27:50.220 But I do think there are also young people who would also love to drive a nice car or

00:27:55.300 buy expensive clothing that don't even have that opportunity and are just barely getting

00:28:00.340 by.

00:28:00.760 And I think those are the people that in many cases would be voting Democrat, but because

00:28:05.180 of that little extra money, you know, it's not even a question of if they can afford

00:28:09.000 something nice or expensive or whatever.

00:28:11.360 The couple extra bucks is literally helping them make cell phone payments.

00:28:14.440 And I think those-

00:28:15.360 And buy groceries, the basic life needs.

00:28:17.620 But it's really, really interesting how a little bit of money can change one's political

00:28:23.360 ideology considerably.

00:28:25.320 All right.

00:28:25.600 So a hypothetical.

00:28:27.540 Tomorrow, candidate ABC calls Lauren Cooley and says, hey, Lauren, love what you're saying

00:28:32.780 out there on TV.

00:28:33.800 Love what you're writing.

00:28:35.240 I need you to get in here.

00:28:36.440 I need your advice.

00:28:37.720 I need five talking points to millennials. 1.00

00:28:40.300 I'm a new candidate.

00:28:41.660 No one knows me.

00:28:42.640 I'm running against a far-left Democrat incumbent.

00:28:45.800 What are the five things I need to tell millennials so that I'm on their radar and they vote for

00:28:50.300 me?

00:28:51.420 I think the first thing is being bipartisan.

00:28:54.100 I know that sounds so cliche, but millennials specifically are looking for people who can

00:28:59.800 get things done.

00:29:00.940 And they're very skeptical because they've lived through eight years of President Obama,

00:29:05.420 where they were promised to open change.

00:29:07.280 They didn't get it.

00:29:08.220 I mean, now you even have Kanye West coming out and saying, you know, negative things

00:29:11.860 about President Obama.

00:29:12.940 So it's very clear to young people he was not who he was promised to be.

00:29:16.480 So I think being bipartisan is something that matters.

00:29:20.120 You can be principled and still be bipartisan, but I think being bipartisan, being able to get

00:29:23.780 work done, reach across the aisle matters.

00:29:25.420 Second thing, talking about jobs, talking about the economy.

00:29:29.780 Third, promising to continue the momentum of the tax cuts.

00:29:34.680 Fourth, I would say talking about higher education and jobs training in general.

00:29:40.420 You know, whether that's student loan debt or that's just talking about making a college

00:29:43.820 degree more valuable by what's being taught.

00:29:46.340 A large percentage of the millennial population is in college, and they know that they're taking

00:29:52.080 courses that don't matter, don't teach them anything, and they're paying a lot of money

00:29:56.180 for it.

00:29:56.640 And then I think the last one would just be talking about, you know, the cultural value

00:30:01.520 of free speech.

00:30:02.820 People say that young people are so far left, they don't like to hear other ideas.

00:30:08.980 I would argue that that is a small group of people with a very loud voice.

00:30:13.620 And more and more young people are waking up to the fact that, why can't I have a conversation

00:30:17.980 with somebody without getting in a fight or being offended?

00:30:21.840 And so I think talking about cultural values is not a bad thing as a candidate.

00:30:25.880 You just have to pick the right ones that resonate with people.

00:30:29.980 I'm going to leave it there because that was some pretty good advice.

00:30:32.700 Although, you know me, I'm not a fan of bipartisanship, but I'm also from a different generation.

00:30:36.400 And I do think there's something to be said for effectively communicating.

00:30:40.660 Lauren, it's always an absolute pleasure.

00:30:41.900 Here, Lauren Cooley, you can read more of her work at the Washington Examiner and the

00:30:45.480 Red Alert Politics section, where she's an editor.

00:30:49.060 Always a must read from you when I want to look at what the next generation is doing

00:30:55.560 politically.

00:30:56.200 Lauren, it's always an absolute pleasure.

00:30:57.980 Thank you.

00:30:58.520 The Second Amendment seems like it's under constant assault.

00:31:13.220 Daily, I'm in some kind of debate on social media with people who really want to grab our

00:31:17.020 guns, take our guns away, and create a nanny state where we're subjected to government's 1.00

00:31:22.600 will at the point of government's gun.

00:31:24.960 I'm reading story upon story upon story.

00:31:27.020 I wanted to bring in my good friend, Dr.

00:31:28.720 John Lott from the Crime Prevention Research Center, my go-to guy on all things firearms

00:31:32.800 and Second Amendment to discuss several stories that are trending this week.

00:31:37.700 First and foremost, the NRA, National Rifle Association Convention in Dallas, is coming

00:31:42.820 up.

00:31:43.500 The NRA is being excoriated for a statement they put out saying that while Vice President

00:31:48.780 Pence, and now we're hearing President Donald Trump is going to attend the event, while they're

00:31:52.620 in the room, no private firearms will be permitted.

00:31:56.700 To me, that makes a lot of sense, having been a former law enforcement officer who worked

00:32:00.440 alongside the Secret Service as a New York City cop on presidential details.

00:32:04.240 But I wanted to bring Dr. Lott in to discuss why I believe he agrees with me on this, and

00:32:09.180 it is not hypocritical on the part of the NRA.

00:32:12.120 John, thanks for being here today.

00:32:13.420 You're going to be at the convention, correct?

00:32:14.740 Right, yeah, we have a booth, and also I'm supposed to give a talk on Sunday at 11 a.m.

00:32:23.960 Okay, so you and I chatted a little bit before the segment, and I think we agree on this one.

00:32:29.380 You don't find it hypocritical on the part of the NRA because you see a distinction between

00:32:33.220 public safety and the Secret Service's need to protect one protectee.

00:32:39.720 Right, well, I mean, people know, I write a lot about gun-free zones and the danger of

00:32:47.280 gun-free zones.

00:32:48.440 But what you're talking about in those cases is if, let's say, you have some type of mass

00:32:54.280 public shooting that people try to engage in, if the point is to go and rob somebody or

00:33:00.420 try to kill as many people as possible, you have a chance to respond.

00:33:05.680 I mean, you may not be able to save the first person who shot or what have you, but hopefully 0.93

00:33:11.140 you'll be able to go and stop it before other people are harmed as a result of the attack.

00:33:16.880 Right.

00:33:17.320 The difference when you're talking about a president or a vice president speaking is that

00:33:23.180 they're the only targets that are going to be there. 0.96

00:33:25.780 The point of the person trying to kill somebody is to go and kill the president.

00:33:29.640 And that doesn't give you a chance really to go and respond and stop the person.

00:33:36.680 And so, you know, it's having lots of people armed if they don't see the person while he's

00:33:44.360 in the process of about to shoot the president.

00:33:48.020 They only see it once that that's happened.

00:33:50.980 It's really their ability to respond is kind of beside the point.

00:33:54.900 Yeah, and I agree because we've set a precedent where at certain events with certain public

00:34:00.220 officials, we've put many, many security measures in place.

00:34:05.100 And we even bring it down to courtrooms.

00:34:06.480 The general public can't bring a firearm into a courtroom.

00:34:09.480 You can only bring a firearm into a courtroom if you're a law enforcement officer.

00:34:12.960 And some judges don't even want off-duty law enforcement officers carrying in their courtrooms.

00:34:17.540 They want only those officers who are respondents in the cases.

00:34:21.700 That's been challenged and the judges have tended to lose.

00:34:23.800 So I don't have a problem with this.

00:34:26.720 But speaking of courtrooms and judges, there's a piece up on the Crime Prevention Research

00:34:30.940 Center website about judges who carry conceals.

00:34:34.740 There's lots of judges carry concealed handguns.

00:34:37.440 26% of judges, over a quarter of judges carry.

00:34:41.900 2% more are considering, so it's pushing 30% that either are carrying or will carry.

00:34:47.100 And more wish they could, but are actually banned from doing it.

00:34:50.680 Do you think this is in relation to what they're seeing day in and day out on the bench?

00:34:56.640 Well, I think they know firsthand violence.

00:35:00.240 And they probably see firsthand how people respond to violence and what ways work to go and try to

00:35:06.540 stop violence from occurring.

00:35:08.500 And, you know, you may have, let's say, 6.5% of the adult population with concealed handgun permits in the United States.

00:35:17.060 But, you know, here you have, as you say, 26% of judges.

00:35:21.580 Another 2% are considering doing it.

00:35:25.240 But there are a number of places in the country, a number of states, where judges aren't allowed to carry.

00:35:32.240 And the survey that was done by the National...

00:35:35.860 Now, John, real quick to clarify for the audience.

00:35:38.860 So, judges aren't allowed to carry on the bench in those places.

00:35:42.680 They could have private citizens.

00:35:43.880 Sure.

00:35:44.280 No, right.

00:35:44.760 They could...

00:35:45.060 Right.

00:35:45.120 Yeah, I mean, they could have a concealed carry permit and carry outside the courtroom, outside the court building.

00:35:55.200 You know, there are eight May issue states where they have to go and get permission to carry.

00:36:02.880 So, they may not be automatically granted in those places, but it probably would in the case of a judge.

00:36:08.680 But, right, I mean, the issue is here, when they're in the courtroom, can they carry it for protection?

00:36:19.880 If, I mean, we hear every once in a while about some type of attack on a court.

00:36:25.640 Well, let me read these, because you have a couple of those attacks on your site.

00:36:29.440 You cited some reports from the Associated Press.

00:36:32.980 Last year, a Florida man was sentenced to more than 300 years in prison for trying to kill federal judge Timothy Corrigan in 2013

00:36:39.880 in what prosecutors said was an assassination attempt.

00:36:43.980 He previewed the suspect's face going to prison for violating probation previously imposed by that judge.

00:36:49.920 In Texas in 2015, State District Judge Julie Kosarek was wounded by a gunman in an ambush.

00:36:55.940 In 2006, Reno, Nevada Family Court Judge Chuck Weller was wounded by bullet fragments in glass after a man fired at him with a high-powered rifle

00:37:05.440 after a contentious divorce over which the judge presided. 0.60

00:37:09.840 And Illinois, it says here, basically struck down legislation that would have allowed judges and prosecutors to carry.

00:37:19.280 I'll never understand this, Dr. Lott.

00:37:21.380 I had a friend back when I was in NYPD.

00:37:24.360 She was a female assistant district attorney in the Bronx who eventually resigned from the DA's office 0.99

00:37:29.540 because of all the death threats she received from gang members for prosecuting them.

00:37:33.520 She wasn't allowed to carry a firearm, and at that point, they even took their badges away from them,

00:37:38.120 so they didn't appear to be law enforcement.

00:37:40.440 It was almost as if they were hamstringing these prosecutors on purpose.

00:37:44.240 It never made sense to me.

00:37:45.440 Well, I mean, the last thing you want for the judicial system is for prosecutors or judges to feel that their safety is threatened by doing their job.

00:37:56.180 Right.

00:37:56.340 I mean, you don't want them pulling punches and not going after some gang member

00:38:01.180 because they're worried that their safety might be in danger.

00:38:05.420 One thing to point out is that if they're banned from having guns in the courtroom or in the court building,

00:38:15.080 then their ability to go and protect themselves outside the court building are also restricted

00:38:21.580 because when they leave their car and walk to the court building or travel outside away from the court or to it,

00:38:32.140 they're not going to be able to go and protect themselves in those situations.

00:38:36.620 No, that's absolutely right. 0.96

00:38:38.360 It's actually asinine to me. 0.97

00:38:41.760 A good way to segue, even more asinine, is another story on your website. 0.97

00:38:45.900 An Indiana woman who used her gun to save a police officer's life is being sued by the criminal's family for wrongful death.

00:38:53.800 I had to read this story twice to make sure I was getting the details.

00:38:56.980 This is back from February 2017.

00:39:00.380 The woman's name is Keisty Janin, and she had come to the aid of a police officer who was being beaten by a criminal.

00:39:07.560 This all occurred in Indiana, Dearborn County, Indiana.

00:39:13.240 Now, Indiana State Police conducted the investigation.

00:39:15.220 I'll read the audience's excerpts.

00:39:16.940 A suspicious person was parked in an elderly person's yard for an extended period of time,

00:39:22.220 blocking her driveway and creating a road hazard.

00:39:24.860 A police officer arrives shortly after the 911 call.

00:39:28.440 The suspect resists, and the officer and the man fall to the ground.

00:39:31.440 A young woman standing nearby on her own property ran to help the officer. 0.61

00:39:36.900 She could see the officer was losing the fight, and as the man reached for the officer's gun,

00:39:40.600 Keisty or Kisty, was armed, legally with her firearm, shot the man one time, which ended the fight, 1.00

00:39:48.140 and now this criminal who attacked the police officer tried to grab his gun, presumably to kill him,

00:39:53.920 and maybe others, while that person's family is now suing the Good Samaritan to save the police officer's life.

00:39:58.920 What's going on here?

00:40:01.000 I mean, in Florida, this couldn't happen, because our stand-your-ground law eliminates the ability for the criminal's family to sue

00:40:07.860 if the castle doctrine was followed, which this would absolutely fall within.

00:40:12.700 But this, to me, just seems fundamentally wrong.

00:40:14.720 Well, they're just not suing the woman.

00:40:17.940 They're also suing the officer who is being attacked, and they're also suing the police department there.

00:40:28.340 And basically, they're claiming that the officer could have done more in order to not, I guess, put this attacker in a dangerous position.

00:40:39.520 And therefore, it wouldn't have been necessary for this woman to go and shoot the guy. 0.99

00:40:45.200 You know, it's just, who knows?

00:40:47.080 It's a wrongful death lawsuit.

00:40:49.280 But, you know, there's precedent for this.

00:40:51.220 In New York City, there was a case back in the 90s where a transit, before the New York City Transit Police merged with NYPD,

00:41:00.140 a transit police officer came down the stairway on duty in uniform,

00:41:03.540 sees a suspect beating an elderly man nearly to death with a pipe.

00:41:07.540 The police officer draws his weapon, fires a couple of rounds.

00:41:10.920 One of them hits the suspect in the spine, paralyzing him.

00:41:14.600 And the city of New York gave that guy $4 million.

00:41:18.020 $4 million.

00:41:19.160 Had he not been beating an elderly man to death with a pipe, he wouldn't be a millionaire.

00:41:23.700 But the city saw it as he wouldn't be paralyzed.

00:41:26.320 Penalized the police officer in the department, rewarded the criminal.

00:41:30.140 Things are upside down.

00:41:31.600 No, I mean, it creates perverse incentives, not only for the criminal in that case, but also for the officer.

00:41:40.660 I mean, he doesn't want to have a black mark on his record like that.

00:41:45.100 But, you know, I don't know what to tell you on this stuff.

00:41:50.520 But it's just, thank goodness that this woman was willing to go out.

00:41:56.760 The problem is, even if she's exonerated in the end, the concern is it's going to cost her, you know, $100,000 or more to go and defend herself legally here.

00:42:06.540 Well, it doesn't appear that she's facing criminal charges.

00:42:09.860 I mean, it seems like, and I've been poking around the story as we're talking, it appears the-

00:42:17.420 No, it's a civil suit.

00:42:18.680 Yeah, the Indiana State Police conducted the investigation.

00:42:21.100 The Dearborn County, Indiana prosecutor's office said her actions were justified.

00:42:24.960 No criminal charges, right?

00:42:26.400 But just last month, April 6, 2018, Kisti received the summons from Blake R. Maislin, LLC,

00:42:33.620 Thomas J. Dahl, attorney at law, regarding a wrongful death lawsuit for the assailant.

00:42:37.860 And like you say, the officer involved was also named in the suit.

00:42:42.000 The officer, responding to a 911 call, being beaten and possibly killed with his own firearm before she intervened, is being sued for wrongful death.

00:42:50.720 I hope the judge throws this thing out on its face.

00:42:53.560 I really do.

00:42:54.240 Right.

00:42:54.640 Well, I hope so, too.

00:42:55.840 I'm just saying the sad thing is it's the civil suit, but it can cost a lot of money to go and defend yourself on that.

00:43:05.180 I mean, you have a lot of, you have depositions, discovery, God knows what else.

00:43:12.660 You know, the other side might hire experts, forcing this woman to go and hire an expert to go and respond. 1.00

00:43:20.840 Look, I hope you're right.

00:43:22.000 I hope the judge just throws it out on summary judgment.

00:43:25.280 But sadly, I think you're right, Dr. Lott.

00:43:27.660 I think you're 100% right.

00:43:28.980 I think this poor woman is going to have about $100,000 in legal fees. 1.00

00:43:32.460 Now, luckily, her GoFundMe has raised her about $85,000, so it doesn't look like she's going to be out of pocket.

00:43:38.640 But God forbid she loses the lawsuit. 0.96

00:43:40.620 She might lose her home.

00:43:42.480 Right.

00:43:43.220 It's terrible.

00:43:44.340 Terrible.

00:43:44.580 Yeah.

00:43:45.480 So, you know, it's one of the costs of the legal system.

00:43:50.300 I mean, maybe they're just bringing this as a nuisance suit, thinking that it'll get settled out of court beforehand just to try to make it go away.

00:43:59.500 Could be.

00:43:59.680 Yeah, give us $25,000 and we'll go away, and she's got it in the GoFundMe. 0.98

00:44:03.420 And as much as I hate to say it, probably for her peace of mind, it might even be worth just writing that check and making the whole thing go away, and she can go back and live her life.

00:44:12.640 Right.

00:44:12.860 I mean, she's not going to care.

00:44:15.340 I mean, if the question is, does she give them $25,000 or spend $100,000 on legal costs, she'd probably just give the $25,000 and let the guy brag that he got done out of court settlement or the family brag about it. 0.96

00:44:33.780 I'm surprised, and I'm not saying this, I'm not even saying this to be funny.

00:44:37.360 I'm surprised they're also not suing the homeowner's insurance company on whose lawn they'd have a shot.

00:44:42.620 It's surprising to me they're not doing that.

00:44:44.400 I mean, this attorney appears to have no...

00:44:47.180 All right, let's move on to your Hill piece.

00:44:49.100 You wrote a piece in the Hill a few days back.

00:44:51.840 Waffle Zone shooting illustrates the danger posed by gun-free zone.

00:44:55.420 There's a statistic in here that jumped out at me.

00:44:58.920 Over 98% of U.S. mass public shootings since 1950, according to your research, have occurred in gun-free zones. 0.62

00:45:09.240 Right.

00:45:09.720 Well, just to back up a little bit, the thing that kind of upset me about this story was that here you have yet another mass public shooting in a place where people aren't allowed to have guns to be able to go and protect themselves.

00:45:25.600 The Waffle House was posted, and yet you can't find one single news story on that fact.

00:45:33.820 That, you know, you have all these news stories about calls for new gun control laws, literally within hours, again, as often happens from these attacks.

00:45:46.180 You know, they didn't immediately know what type of gun was used.

00:45:51.140 It ended up being AR-15.

00:45:54.100 But, you know, it's just the one thing that's probably easiest for the media to go and figure out.

00:46:00.180 I mean, they're across the street from the Waffles House.

00:46:02.420 Let me read what you wrote, because you wrote it beautifully.

00:46:05.260 You wrote, the easiest thing to report on is the one thing that the media consistently ignores.

00:46:10.240 Obviously, with an active crime scene investigation, the media can't go right up to the front of the restaurant.

00:46:14.680 But they still could easily have seen the gun-free zone sign through their telephoto camera lenses.

00:46:20.620 A throng of journalists quickly gathered across the street from the Waffle House, but none of them provided a picture of that sign.

00:46:27.900 And you're 100% right.

00:46:29.780 Only, only conservative pro-Second Amendment media posted photos of that sign.

00:46:36.420 I didn't see it in CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC.

00:46:41.780 Well, as far as I know, I'm no one that's posted it.

00:46:44.980 Oh, that picture of the sign with the brick and the yellow sign on the brick wall was your photo?

00:46:49.160 Well, I got somebody there to go and stop by and check to see whether it was posted.

00:46:56.560 It's unreal.

00:47:00.140 And of course, Nashville's Democratic Mayor, David Briley, said, quote, we can take these weapons of war off the streets of our country.

00:47:10.620 They know they're lying.

00:47:12.400 They know the AR-15, semi-automatic AR-15, in no mechanical way mirrors fully automatic rifles used by our military.

00:47:19.060 But they continue to lie to the American public.

00:47:21.920 This is what's the security.

00:47:23.700 Yeah, it's just amazing to me.

00:47:26.620 I mean, here, they say, oh, we don't want to take away hunting rifles.

00:47:30.600 The thing is, the semi-automatic hunting rifle, as you're implying, functions identically to an AR-15.

00:47:39.000 I mean, it's a small caliber hunting rifle.

00:47:42.300 They couldn't even use an AR-15 to go and hunt deer.

00:47:46.500 Yeah, it's banned in like 30-some-odd states for deer hunting because at the end of the day, an AR-15, I'm glad you brought that up, is a .22 caliber rifle.

00:47:56.160 It's a .22 caliber rifle.

00:47:58.280 The bore is not wide enough for it to be legal for deer hunting in most states, the diameter of the bullet, I should say, of the projectile.

00:48:04.760 And I'm glad you brought that up, Dr. Lott.

00:48:06.680 It's really, really troubling.

00:48:10.060 Encouraging, though, that we've seen some pushback.

00:48:14.200 President Trump's speech at CPAC on the Second Amendment was pretty absolute.

00:48:18.280 What do you think?

00:48:18.980 We're running out of time.

00:48:20.160 Real quick, about a minute.

00:48:21.260 What do you think we're going to hear from Vice President Pence and President Trump at the NRA convention?

00:48:26.700 Well, I hope they're going to go and talk about these gun-free zones. 0.53

00:48:31.740 And I hope they're going to kind of flesh out the president's arguments for why he supported teachers being able to go and carry guns.

00:48:42.260 You know, if I were to write his speech, I would go and say, look, enough is enough.

00:48:47.120 We have to be serious about this.

00:48:49.300 The types of gun control laws that gun control advocates push wouldn't have stopped these mass public shootings.

00:48:57.300 Let's do something that would actually matter.

00:49:00.080 And the one thing that I think would matter is letting teachers and staff be able to go and carry.

00:49:06.680 We have 18 states that allow to varying degrees teachers and staff to carry on school property.

00:49:13.900 You know, we have all these discussions about what might possibly go wrong.

00:49:17.400 Let me ask you that.

00:49:17.880 We don't need to guess.

00:49:19.000 We can look.

00:49:19.640 And that's, I hope, I hope Trump and Pence flesh that out.

00:49:24.620 I agree with you.

00:49:25.560 And I want to get your last thought on this.

00:49:27.100 We only have about 40 seconds.

00:49:28.340 I've always, always, but since this debate has been happening now for the last few months, I've said it is a very simple solution that we had after 9-11, the federal flight deck officer program.

00:49:39.220 We gave pilots the opportunity to be armed.

00:49:41.960 And if they so chose to be armed, we put them through a rigid training.

00:49:45.560 To me, that would work very nicely on the state level, just mirroring the federal model that's been proven to work very well.

00:49:52.100 What's your opinion on that?

00:49:54.240 Well, yeah, I mean, that'd be fine.

00:49:56.020 I don't want to have too much training.

00:49:58.640 I think it's easy to go in that direction, but I have no problem with training for teachers and staff.

00:50:05.820 I don't think you could sell it politically without the training component.

00:50:09.980 Well, there are states right now that have Utah, for example.

00:50:16.720 You have a regular concealed carry permit or Alabama.

00:50:20.040 You can go and carry it.

00:50:21.100 But those are gun-friendly places. 0.74

00:50:22.820 You're never going to sell that.

00:50:24.440 I don't want to belabor it.

00:50:25.240 Sure.

00:50:25.400 Like I said, we're running out of time.

00:50:26.340 You're never going to sell that in New York or California.

00:50:28.540 Look, I have no problem with having—all I'm saying is I've heard some things, like in Florida, they briefly talked about something like 140 hours of training.

00:50:39.860 Oh, yeah, it was a bit draconian.

00:50:41.580 It was a bit draconian.

00:50:42.580 Even that wasn't enough for the governor, and he insisted that it be taken out completely.

00:50:50.200 But all I'm saying is you don't want to have something where it's so long that nobody's going to go through the training.

00:50:56.620 Well, right.

00:50:57.060 You don't want to put roadblocks.

00:50:59.540 On that, we completely agree.

00:51:01.740 Dr. Lott, as always, an absolute pleasure.

00:51:03.480 I get smarter on these subjects every time I talk to you.

00:51:05.340 Dr. John Lott from the Crime Prevention Research Center.

00:51:08.020 Thanks very much.

00:51:09.020 Thank you.

00:51:09.540 If you need any more proof that leftists are unhinged, just look at what's going on with Kanye West.

00:51:27.440 The hate that he's experiencing after saying a couple of nice things about Donald Trump.

00:51:31.920 Kanye West never even said he was conservative.

00:51:34.100 He just said he likes Donald Trump.

00:51:35.440 They're friends, and he likes some of his economic policies.

00:51:37.680 And after eight years of Obama, Chicago's still a mess.

00:51:40.820 That's all he said.

00:51:41.320 He never said go out and vote Republican.

00:51:43.080 I'm voting for Trump.

00:51:44.400 I never said any of that.

00:51:45.620 Well, some rapper, some rapper named Daz Dillinger, a former member of Snoop Dogg's Honorage,

00:51:52.560 is calling for crip gang members to assault Kanye West because he supported Donald Trump. 0.74

00:51:59.800 Now, Dillinger apparently recorded, it says here from the CBS local Los Angeles,

00:52:04.220 Daz Dillinger, who recorded several successful hip-hop records as part of the Dog Pound duo in the 90s,

00:52:11.440 made the apparent threat in a video posted to his Instagram, which was later removed.

00:52:15.140 One of the things he said was, quote, yo, national alert, all the Crips out there, y'all, F Kanye up. 0.51

00:52:21.600 What? 0.98

00:52:23.860 He's calling for the Crips to, like, kill Kanye West because he tweeted? 0.93

00:52:28.420 What is wrong with these people? 0.99

00:52:30.280 Now, this is a thug gangbanger. 0.99

00:52:32.240 People are savages anyway. 1.00

00:52:33.640 But the left is as unhinged. 0.98

00:52:36.760 Now, Dillinger, I'm going to read you from the CBS blog.

00:52:38.980 This guy's real name is Delmore Drew Arnault.

00:52:41.880 He also warned Kanye West to stay out of Long Beach and the whole state of California.

00:52:45.900 It's like when the Hells Angels got annoyed that the Mongols were wearing the California rocker 0.95

00:52:50.200 instead of, like, a rocker where they were, you know, the local town they were from. 0.99

00:52:53.540 These people are lunatics, okay? 0.98

00:52:56.360 West lives in Calabasas, though. 0.99

00:52:59.000 But they wanted to stay out of Long Beach.

00:53:01.480 You know Long Beach and Compton together.

00:53:03.000 Now you know you're in trouble.

00:53:04.680 Be careful, Kanye.

00:53:06.640 He also said, quote, Daz Dillinger to Kanye West, quote,

00:53:10.360 better not ever see you in concert.

00:53:13.000 Better not ever see you around the LBC, Long Beach.

00:53:15.400 Better not ever see you around California.

00:53:18.040 The whole state.

00:53:19.360 Kanye West is no longer allowed in the whole state of California

00:53:22.200 under threat of crip gang violence because he liked,

00:53:26.260 didn't even vote, didn't even say he voted for him,

00:53:28.060 because he said something nice about Donald Trump.

00:53:30.440 Quote, stay in Calabasas, you hear me?

00:53:32.940 Because we got a crip alert for Kanye.

00:53:35.700 Gangsters used to threaten me all the time.

00:53:37.020 I love it.

00:53:37.600 I would just carry extra ammo.

00:53:39.380 A message reading, quote, F Kanye up, quote,

00:53:42.080 was also posted on Dillinger's verified Twitter account.

00:53:45.400 This is the left.

00:53:46.940 This is the left.

00:53:48.580 If you dare go against their narrative,

00:53:50.860 they don't just shame you at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. 1.00

00:53:53.360 No, they want to send the Crips after you to kill you. 0.98

00:53:58.100 And these people wonder why we demand less infringement 0.98

00:54:02.800 and more guns and ammo.

00:54:04.400 And more guns and ammo.

Rebel News Podcast - May 01, 2018

Off The Cuff Declassified - John Cardillo - May 1⧸2018

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