Today on Off The Cuff: Declassified, the Obama administration s spying scandal on the Trump administration heats up. National security reporter Jordan Schachtel joins me to discuss the latest on Mueller s probe, a Baltimore area police officer is killed, and American history continues to be called racist.
00:28:27.120Yeah. Unfortunately, I've become convinced that Mueller is out to to he I don't think he's going
00:28:34.460to indict the president because he can't constitutionally do that. But he is out to
00:28:38.480delegitimize the president. And with his team of Democrat, Clinton connected, Obama connected lawyers,
00:28:45.840they will find something to embarrass the president with. And I think that is when they will conclude
00:28:51.520their investigation. They'll find something very small, but the media will elevate it to the extent
00:28:56.760where it could potentially threaten his presidency. I don't know if they're going to find some kind
00:29:01.680of bank records where he forgot to pay pay taxes on something. But it's going to be something minimal.
00:29:07.480Yeah. Yeah. And that that's that's the problem is that Mueller is hellbent on finding something in
00:29:13.520the U.S. criminal code to embarrass the president and delegitimize him and make a case for impeachment.
00:29:20.120And I think that, you know, the president doesn't really have anything to worry about
00:29:24.760in terms of collusion, because we all know that's total nonsense. So that's why it's time to shut it
00:29:30.580down. Yeah. I couldn't agree more. Jordan Tuchel, conservative review, national security reporter,
00:29:35.380as always, my friend. A pleasure. Thanks very much. Yeah. Thanks for having me.
00:29:38.820Another police officer killed, man. It feels like there's one a week because I believe it has been
00:29:54.900for at least every 10 days. This time, a female police officer in Baltimore County, Maryland.0.87
00:30:01.440Now, there are conflicting reports, which I'll get to in a moment. But the story is basically that the
00:30:06.340officer was responding to a burglary and they have not said police have not released her name.
00:30:12.020All we know is that she's a four year veteran of the Baltimore County Police Department.
00:30:15.620They've not released her name. But witnesses are saying it wasn't gunfire. The officer was struck
00:30:21.520by a vehicle. She was hit by a car. Now, the department has two conflicting bits of information.
00:30:28.780The chief, Terrence Sheridan, said that the officer was responding to a burglary call.
00:30:33.320However, the spokesman said the call was for a suspicious vehicle. Now, before you vilify the
00:30:41.340police and say they're incompetent, they're inept, they can't get their story straight.
00:30:44.240That's not the case. This is actually pretty common. What probably happened here is that the chief
00:30:49.400is reading the initial 911 call, a call for a burglary. Now, as oftentimes as the case,
00:30:56.100when officers respond, when they get to that area, the calls change. Another neighbor calls and says,
00:31:01.260well, there's a car. Okay, ma'am, is this for the burglary call we just received?
00:31:05.000Well, I don't think it's a burglary. The car is really suspicious. I've got a better point of
00:31:08.880view than my neighbor. They're not in the house, but they're looking at the house and it looks like
00:31:12.360they sure could be plotting a burglary. And so the dispatcher will go over the radio to the
00:31:16.800police officer responding and say, okay, you know, second neighbor called. They say it's not a
00:31:20.620burglary, but there is a suspicious vehicle in front of the home. And all of that is going to be
00:31:24.660transcribed. When they download those 911 tapes and take the transcripts,
00:31:28.400you're going to see a burglary. You're going to see a suspicious vehicle.
00:31:32.200When all this chaos of a police officer being murdered, it is pretty common. It's not
00:31:36.940inconceivable that different officials in the department might've just been reading a different
00:31:41.120piece of that transcript. Maybe contradictory, but both are giving the public accurate information.
00:31:47.580I suspect, I don't know, but I suspect that's the case because a suspicious vehicle
00:31:52.220would typically go hand in hand with a burglary call. It makes sense to me.
00:31:56.740Okay. Onto the, uh, the manhunt now, now they have not found the perpetrators. This happened
00:32:02.780yesterday afternoon. They've been looking all through the night using dogs and helicopters
00:32:07.440and thermal imaging, uh, other departments from the area, their federal agencies are going
00:32:12.280to lend resources. When a cop is killed, they are going to literally, literally turn over
00:32:18.400every stone. And I mean, literally, if they're walking through the woods, they're going to turn
00:32:21.700rocks over to see if there's a speck of blood. If suspect dropped something, left something,
00:32:26.580just anything, anything, a DNA sample. And, uh, I suspect with the resources being thrown at this,
00:32:32.920this will, uh, resolve with the suspects either dead or in custody. I'd be fine either way.
00:32:39.520Now the, uh, the, um, chief Sheridan said, quote, this is a bad time in the United States for law
00:32:47.100enforcement. And chief Sheridan is right. It's a terrible time for law enforcement. Obama's war
00:32:52.120on police. Obama's campaign of vilification and disrespect for police really does continue two
00:33:00.140years, nearly two years, a year and a half after he left office. It's, it's so sad. It really is so
00:33:05.320sad. And the officer was taken again. Like I said, the, the witnesses are saying the officer was hit
00:33:11.420by a vehicle. He was taken to MedStar Franklin square medical center outside Baltimore, where she
00:33:16.540passed away. Police are not doing to find the guys. It was, uh, four male suspects, the working
00:33:23.300grids, they're putting up a grid pattern and teams are searching that grid. Thermal imaging, dogs,
00:33:29.260uh, aviation units. And I'm sure many agencies have lent, uh, helicopters, more dogs, more bodies to
00:33:36.220search the grids, uh, sophisticated equipment, night vision, things of that nature. Like I said, thermal
00:33:41.260imaging, the, um, this is a major manhunt, a major manhunt, uh, 2000 students were stuck in their
00:33:49.520schools until late last night because the suspects are considered armed and dangerous. Now we don't know
00:33:54.540if the officer was also shot. We're only going off of one witness. And, uh, this is just so
00:34:01.860unfortunate. It really is such an unfortunate thing to see. And, and, uh, young, I'm assuming a
00:34:09.160young officer, four years on the job goes out there, goes through the police academy, loving their job.
00:34:14.480I did it. I know the feeling you're young. You're out there on patrol. It's an exciting job. It's a
00:34:18.720dynamic job. You're having a great time. And then your life is cut short. Your life is cut short.
00:34:25.660Kids, almost 2000 students. They've seen 1900 students in this Perry hall neighborhood, this
00:34:31.120Perry hall area were held until 7 30 PM in their schools, locked down for safety, smart move,
00:34:38.140smart move on the part. I mean, it wouldn't be inconceivable for armed suspects that killed a cop
00:34:44.180to go into a school and take hostages. Really nothing else you can do. Now the, uh, the
00:34:51.040spokesperson for the department, Vincent is saying that the incident began to unfold
00:34:57.580just before 2 PM when police received the call for a suspicious vehicle. That's the suspicious
00:35:03.560vehicle aspect of this. The chief of course said it was a burglary. The officer is pronounced dead at
00:35:08.880two 50 PM. And, uh, a witness, a guy by the name of Tony Couric that he had just walked in the door
00:35:15.680of his home. This from the Baltimore sun walked in the door of his home when his son doubted for him,
00:35:20.940dad, dad, a cop just got run over out front. The officer was lying on the ground in front of his
00:35:26.280house. And the son named Dakota told his daddy had seen the officer draw her gun on a black Jeep
00:35:32.560Wrangler and order the people inside to get out. Instead, the driver's bed forward, ramming the officer0.84
00:35:37.580with the vehicle. She landed about 20 feet away. His family said, he basically landed almost in front
00:35:44.200of my mailbox. They then called 911. They were nerve wrecks screaming curses in the phone. You've got a
00:35:49.360cop lying in the road dying. He said he wouldn't soon forget the look on the cop's eyes as his son
00:35:55.920tried to revive her. He had a very, very bad feeling that she was going out of the picture on it. He was
00:36:01.860young. He said, it just breaks my heart. Now they said glass and one shell casing were found.
00:36:09.160They heard shots fired. They don't know if it was the officer or someone in the vehicle
00:36:15.020who pulled the trigger. This is a very, very volatile time still for police officers.
00:36:21.640Volatile time for police officers. Yet the left, the left, especially the mainstream media,
00:36:25.740would still rather vilify cops. They'd still rather vilify the good guys. They're supporting Hamas0.99
00:36:29.800terrorists in Gaza. And here at home, they were hysterical. They were beside themselves that
00:36:34.700Donald Trump had the audacity to call MS-13 animals because MS-13, well, they are animals.
00:36:41.580And the New York Daily News took this to a new level. A photo has been circling on the web. I don't
00:36:48.500know if you saw this, but of a thug, this 21-year-old little punk standing next to an NYPD patrol car from
00:36:56.920the 45th precinct in the Bronx. While his friend engages the two police officers in the vehicle in
00:37:01.540conversation, this lowlife, this derelict named Kelvin Rodriguez is holding a handgun. He's holding
00:37:08.420a pistol with this thuggy look on his face right next to the vehicle. Now, if he was some kind of
00:37:12.960murdering psychopath, he could have easily turned around and murdered those two police officers.
00:37:18.360Well, you would think that's enough, right? Police eventually caught him.
00:37:21.460They arrested him. He was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, drug possession and
00:37:25.600menacing or harassment. One of those two. No, the New York Daily News, the New York Daily News
00:37:31.780wrote a story that seems to make this derelict the victim. He got a profile piece in the far left
00:37:39.380New York Daily News. Let me read it. Bronx man who posed next to cop car with a gun blows chance
00:37:47.220to work with kids. This is amazing. Career tip. Photographing yourself with a gun next to a cop
00:37:54.180car could wreck your chances for a job working with kids. They keep using this idiot's quotes.
00:37:59.940Quote, I was about to become a teacher's assistant, but this has messed me up.
00:38:04.800Kevin Rodriguez told the Daily News. Rodriguez says he fears his arrest cost him a shot at a job
00:38:10.120at Brightside Academy Child Care Center on White Plains Road. Quote, I have all my certificates.
00:38:15.140Rodriguez said, displaying papers that said he was trained to cope with children suffering from
00:38:20.440shaken baby syndrome and a lookout for child abuse. Quote, they're making me out to be a terrorist.
00:38:25.800I'm not a monster. End quote. The Daily News should be ashamed of itself that they're giving this thug
00:38:31.680his chance to tell his story. No one at the preschool has returned calls, rightfully so.
00:38:38.320Posted by Reels D.A. Blixky, the image showed Rodriguez with a gun in his right hand. The image is here
00:38:45.060on the screen. With a gun in his right hand in front of the cop car while a pal spoke to an
00:38:50.340officer through the car's passenger window. The picture had a comment. Quote, you see the Blixky?1.00
00:38:57.620Stupid, dumb, n as f the 45th. So, stupid, dumb, n word, n word, f, you know what they're saying there?
00:39:09.720The 45th. Meaning, calling the police dumb and saying, f the police in that precinct.
00:39:17.740Putting up a picture of himself like a street thug with a gun and now he's the victim.
00:39:22.720Now, this is my favorite part. Police busted Rodriguez early Sunday near his Frisbee Avenue
00:39:27.880home. They stopped him as he was bicycling the wrong way down the street. Yeah, Daily News,
00:39:32.780that's why the police stopped him. We're going the wrong way on a bicycle, you morons. Quote,
00:39:38.060I was just riding my bike on the street and they tackled me. There were five cops on top of me.
00:39:44.600You moron. You, I, I don't, a criminal complaint. Charge Rodriguez with drug possession, harassment,
00:39:52.040and criminal possession of a weapon. But he was released on his own recognizance. No bail. He got to
00:39:57.220go home. No bail. He posed next to a police car with a firearm that f the police. Intimated he was
00:40:06.000going to kill them. Carried an illegal gun in New York City. No bail. No bail released on his own
00:40:13.300recognizance. Unbelievable. And of course, now he's playing the mental illness card. Quote,0.58
00:40:19.000they charged me because I had a prescription for Xanax and Valium. I take medication for anxiety and
00:40:24.340depression. I am diagnosed with schizophrenia. Well, then you shouldn't be working around kids,
00:40:28.800right? You shouldn't be carrying around an illegal gun. But he also possesses a small amount of weed.
00:40:35.340Here's my favorite. Here's my favorite. Quote, there was no threat. End quote. I'm a good kid.
00:40:41.780Quote, end quote. I don't even really know what to say to this. The Daily News gave a thug
00:40:48.660who said F the forfeit. F the cops while holding a gun next to their patrol car,
00:40:55.240basically saying cops should be shot and killed. He got the last word and the Daily News is trying
00:41:01.140to promote him as a good kid. This is disgraceful beyond words. Disgraceful beyond words. And this
00:41:10.340is why nobody takes the left-wing mainstream fake news media seriously.
00:41:28.920American history is racist. Well, that according to a high school principal in Cherry Hill, New Jersey,
00:41:36.280who apologized because he was going to host a 1776, the year of our nation's birth, deemed prom
00:41:45.580at the, this is great, at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. That is all deemed racist.
00:41:55.860Gary Hill High School East Principal Dennis Perry sent a letter to students, parents,
00:42:00.020and other community members on Friday. This all from Far Left Newsweek.
00:42:03.800Apologizing for the, quote, insensitive wording that led to complaints from African American and
00:42:10.560minority students. Perry said it was irresponsible for he and other prom organizers to overlook the
00:42:17.040historical fact that not all communities can celebrate what life was like in 1776, a time of
00:42:24.180slavery in America. So let's just eradicate American history. Here's the letter. Let's read the letter
00:42:28.860from Dr. Dennis Perry. So Dr. Dennis Perry writes, he's from the Cherry Hill East High School
00:42:37.580and he, principal of Cherry Hill East High School in New Jersey, Cherry Hill High School East, I'm
00:42:42.640sorry, in New Jersey, dated May 18th last Friday. Dear East community, today I learned that members of
00:42:48.440our school community were offended by a statement written on our senior prom ticket. Specifically,
00:42:53.940the statement on the prom ticket called for students to, quote, party like it's 1776. I am writing to
00:43:00.300apologize for the hurt feelings this reference caused for members of our school family. It was
00:43:05.600insensitive and irresponsible not to appreciate that not all communities can celebrate what life was
00:43:12.420like in 1776. I especially apologize to our African American students whom I have let down by not
00:43:20.760initially recognizing the inappropriateness of this wording. You can expect that we will do better as
00:43:27.840a school community and to produce well thought out appropriate communications. In an effort to right
00:43:34.680this wrong and do better for the students, we are going to take the following actions. There are three
00:43:38.840bullet points. Students will not be required to bring their prom tickets to gain entrance to the prom.
00:43:44.680We have a record of who purchased tickets and name will be sufficient upon arrival.
00:43:48.280All students will receive a commemorative ticket at the prom prom ticket. These will feature a new
00:43:54.480design and will be distributed to all attendees. Moving forward in an effort to learn from this
00:43:59.340experience, safeguards will be added to ensure that a diverse group of people view all information
00:44:05.080before it is distributed from the school. I would like to thank members of our school community for
00:44:11.360their caring and thoughtful conversation while discussing the sensitive issue. Sincerely,
00:44:16.460Dennis Perry E.D., Doctor of Education. Now, give me a break. Give me a break. The Cherry Hill
00:44:29.960School, okay, the student body of the Cherry Hill School is 6.2% black, 62.2% white, 22.4% as Asian.
00:44:38.360The school had 22,177 students, and the Hispanic population is just shy of 6%. The NAACP is, of course, in this. And he said, and Camden0.54
00:44:51.860County, NAACP East Chapter President Lloyd Henderson, told the Courier Post, a local newspaper,
00:44:57.820the school's oversight was, quote, another example that the culture at Cherry Hill East is one where the
00:45:03.320African-American students' needs are not considered, along with the rest of the school. However, I do
00:45:09.880take some solace in the fact that Mr. Perry immediately recognized and acknowledged the insensitivity of the
00:45:15.560comment. Give me a break. 1776 is a significant date in America. History is good and history is
00:45:26.220bad. And there could have been a moment of silence incorporated at the prom for those who were victims
00:45:32.540of slavery. Could have done that. Could also celebrate the birth of the greatest nation in the history of
00:45:39.660mankind. But no, no, the left will not be happy until it absolutely eradicates, until it destroys,
00:45:49.660until it sanitizes and makes disappear American history because we were then, and to a 77% degree,
00:45:59.500are now a white Judeo-Christian nation. That's not racist. That's data. We are not a black nation.
00:46:07.140I wouldn't expect to go to Africa, to go to Cameroon, to go to Niger, to go to Somalia, to go to Ghana.
00:46:16.600I would not expect those nations to sanitize their history to accommodate the relatively small white1.00
00:46:24.820population. South Africa is engaging in white genocide, the blacks in South Africa. No one is0.99
00:46:32.740talking about that. Is the NAACP condemning that? We at the Rebel feature it. We talk about it. Our good
00:46:40.140friend Katie Hopkins here at the Rebel has been working on that for a long time, exposing white1.00
00:46:45.360genocide in South Africa. But nobody talks about that on the American left. But if you have a prom
00:46:52.160ticket celebrating the birth of our nation and the year of our nation's birth at the National
00:46:57.540Constitution Center in Philadelphia, a city of extreme historic importance, it's racist.
00:47:04.620It's insensitive to African-American students. What about the 66.2% of white students who want to0.68
00:47:10.440know about this, who want this event? It's not racist. Why does the majority always have to capitulate
00:47:19.580to a small, it's not even the whole minority. I'm sure there are African-American students. I thought
00:47:25.100it was a fun event. But it's always a vocal, radical, fringe minority that ruins it for everybody
00:47:31.760else. And we're going to keep letting this happen. We're going to keep letting this happen until we
00:47:36.960erode and sanitize history, until it's no more. And far left, radicalized, revisionist history
00:47:43.240is in its place. It's despicable. It's despicable. And it's doing students a great disservice.