Off The Cuff Declassified - John Cardillo - May 23⧸2018
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Summary
16-year-old Donta Harris murdered a Baltimore County Police Officer Amy Caprio in cold blood after a burglary. New details have emerged about his crimes and how he got into trouble with the law. Today's Off The Cuff features: Declassified, new and troubling information about the 16-year old who murdered a police officer. Big trouble for Democrats after last night's primaries heading into the 2018 midterms.
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Today on Off the Cuff Declassified, new and troubling information about the 16-year-old
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who murdered a Baltimore County police officer.
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Big trouble for Democrats after last night's primaries heading into the 2018 midterms.
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We're going to talk about how the mainstream media covers threats and shootings depending
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And the New York Times is salivating as Michael Cohen's business partner is charged with tax
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I'll tell you why I think the New York Times is delusional.
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New and very disturbing details have emerged about Donta Harris, the 16-year-old who murdered
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Baltimore County police officer Amy Caprio in cold blood, ran her over after a burglary.
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One of his specialties where he's published is exactly this.
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Unfortunately, because of the murder of police officer, Dr. Dobrin was unavailable today.
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It's going to be a very, very interesting segment.
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We're going to get into all of the problems with juvenile justice, sentencing, and just
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how many of these dangerous kids are out there.
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And before we dig into this Donta Harris case, I want to tell you about something that the
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They have overwhelmingly passed a prison reform bill.
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And what the bill is intended to do is provide more education for federal prisoners and give
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Now, in theory, I don't have a problem with it.
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And so there's really nothing wrong with while they're there.
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In fact, I think the only good things come from that.
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Giving them an education, giving them an opportunity after their release.
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Look, I know someone who went to White Collar, one of the club feds, for Wall Street issues.
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Well, they made a lot of money and they actually won their case on appeal and their sentences
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It was part of the Obama administration's war on wealth.
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It was a very wealthy, but very philanthropic couple in their 60s.
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Their convictions overturned, vacated, and then ultimately dismissed with prejudice.
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Not that they would, but while in federal prison, the wife got her cosmetology license
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They were making so much money on Wall Street, but she just liked the beauty industry.
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And now they'll be investing in a chain of salons and things of that nature.
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So in many respects, the two years that she unfortunately lost of her life in federal prison,
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So I don't know about these programs can yield very good results because there were other women
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And now when she opens these businesses, she's going to put them to work.
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And so now these people are no longer coming out of jail as convicts who are going to be
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They're going to be able to be gainfully employed, making a good living.
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I get my, I'm a guy and I don't have a lot of hair and it's 30, you know, 30 bucks,
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And so the barbers cut my hair, you know, they do okay.
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But I don't want to see the left take this as they often do and bastardize it into something
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Now, the bill was originally authored by a far left guy, Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from
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Brooklyn, and he was joined by a Republican from Georgia.
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The first step act, as it's called, would authorize a quarter billion dollars, 250 million
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over five years to develop and expand programs that reduce recidivism and give incentives
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Again, I have no problem with this because when you, when you put programs like this in
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place, if they're adhered to, everybody's safer.
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However, the Wall Street guy who's screwed up, who's not a hardcore criminal, he's got
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less chance of being, you know, shanked in the shower and murdered in prison.
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The entire population tends to calm down a little bit.
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You're still going to have your vicious gangs in prison.
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The Mexican Mafia, all of the gangs, you know, the Bloods, the Crips, Latin Kings, MS-13,
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The Aryan Brotherhood, they call the brand vicious, vicious guys, horrible guys, alongside
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the Mexican Mafia, alongside the Vice Lords and the Gangster Disciples and all these prison
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They're always going to exist because in many respects, their power comes from their hierarchy
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The Aryan Brotherhood is run from prisons like San Quentin and Pelican Bay out in California.
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They're now run from places like Supermax in Florence, Colorado.
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And that prison gives them that murderous, vicious street cred that entails fear when they're
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But, but knowing that you're not going to rehabilitate those people, there's a large
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inmate population that, well, you might be able to do something with when they come out.
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If you can get them a job, and I've always, I've always been for this, they're not going
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So the bill, over five years, will develop and expand programs that, as I said, reduce
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recidivism and give incentives for good behavior.
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It would also boost current inmates' chances for a GED, vocational and college court, as
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well as substance abuse and mental health help.
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Now, this is what Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from New York, said, quote, these are individuals
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who are in the system right now without hope, without opportunity, without a meaningful
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Now, Gerald Nadler, another Democrat from Manhattan, he said the legislation, he's an opponent
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He said the legislation fails to reform sentencing guidelines and could even exacerbate racial
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biases when prison officials conduct a risk assessment for each offender.
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Now, this shows you the insanity of the Democratic Party.
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He's a very far left, black activist, politician from Brooklyn.
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But Gerald Nadler, the white guy who's been in Congress far too long, oh, this bill is
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No, it was just because Donald Trump was behind the bill.
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Now, look, this is the kind of legislation that does make sense to me, as long as it's
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I don't care if you take the most hardcore right wing cop or ex-cop or the most left
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Nobody would argue or should argue that someone who served a prison sentence and is being
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released, they serve their time, their full time.
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No one would argue that we should do more to try to get these people jobs so that they
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can't or they don't want to go out and rip people off and rob people.
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No one would argue that if this person robbed because they were uneducated, we should try to
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No one would argue that if they were sticking up convenience stores because of their drug
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habit, that we shouldn't get them substance abuse treatment.
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And so in that context, I agree with this bill.
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But no, no, but I did work the street and I saw what happens to people when they're thrown
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into prison, when they're caged up and when it becomes crime school.
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Johnny Depp in that movie Blow, his character, George Young, he said, you know, federal prison
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He was in there teaching inmates how to smuggle.
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He was teaching them how to smuggle drugs, how to get cocaine in the US.
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It becomes a breeding ground for the inmate to become more vicious, more brutal, and
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Quote, on principle, I cannot support legislation which fails to address the larger issues of
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If you're a violent, savage offender, you should rot.
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If you do it to children, if you do it to women.
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Though this bill makes some modest improvements in areas related to our prisons, it actually
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does more harm by cementing into our system new areas of racial biases and disadvantages
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A criminal justice system desperately in need of reform.
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And Gerald Nadler knows that it'll never happen in a sweeping way.
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It's too much of a bedrock institution, the correctional system.
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Instead, he just wants to be a contrarian Democrat saying to the black guy from Brooklyn, the black
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Democrat from Brooklyn, ha ha, I'm more liberal than you.
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I know more about the black experience in prison than you.
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You are a relatively upper middle class to wealthy white man from Manhattan.
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And so it should really highlight the hypocrisy and the disingenuous nature of Democrats like
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When you've got black Democrats from Brooklyn and white Republicans from Georgia coming together
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Those on the fringe who object to this, well, they should have to explain why.
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Now, Chuck Grassley, Chuck Grassley is opposed to this bill, but Trump is not.
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Let me tell you what Trump said, because this legislation is a priority for the White House.
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America is a nation that believes in the power of redemption.
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America is a nation that believes in second chances and third chances.
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In some cases, I don't know, I guess even fourth chances, end quote.
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That's where I disagree with President Trump on this.
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I don't want a third, a fourth repeat offender getting chance.
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I don't want a second repeat offender getting a chance upon chance.
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Now, of course, here's where it gets really interesting.
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The Carl's Koch Institute and the Faith and Freedom Coalition support the bill.
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But the ACLU and NAACP don't because it doesn't go far enough.
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Chuck Grassley has the bill's had a hurdle in the Senate.
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Chuck Grassley wants any prison legislation tried to sentencing reform.
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And his bill, the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act, passed out of committee this year,
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but hasn't gotten support from the Trump administration or hasn't gotten a floor vote either from Mitch McConnell.
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Here is what Representative Bob Goodlatte said.
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But, well, actually, Bob Goodlatte is behind this bill, but he also wants a more comprehensive bill.
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And I didn't even read Representative Goodlatte's quote when I told you they need prison as crime school.
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Prisoners are more likely to recidivate, meaning commit additional crimes.
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Now, this legislation allows inmates to earn up to 54 days of good time credit per year instead of the current 47 days.
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So they get an extra week shaved off their sentence for good behavior.
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It also incentivizes inmates to participate in new programs, including increased phone and visitation periods,
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and transfer to an institution closer to their home if they engage in good behavior.
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If you go to prison and you're not fighting and you're not dealing drugs in the prison and you're not causing a problem,
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I have no problem with an additional week being shaved off your sentence.
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I have no problem with you being able to be on the phone with your family and friends longer.
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I have no problem with them being able to visit you for longer periods of time.
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And I've got no problem with you being moved to another prison closer to home because the families didn't commit the crime.
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I have no problem if they only have to drive two hours into the seven.
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Nobody's giving these people a break as long as that's what it is.
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I don't want this to be for somebody that gets out, commits another violent crime, gets out, commits another violent crime.
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That's where I'm very concerned about this bill.
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Now, Charles Koch Institute released a poll last week that found that 80% of managers,
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human resource professionals, and employees servered are willing and open to working with individuals with a criminal record.
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I don't know if I'd hire somebody with a past of robbery.
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I can tell you I don't want somebody who's a rapist within miles of any business I'm involved in.
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But if you were a white-collar criminal, if your company was involved in insider trading and you got wrapped up in it,
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Probably overeducated for the job you're going to get.
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So you're going to wind up being a pretty decent employee.
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And you're not going to be in a position to engage in that type of crime because you're not going to be allowed to work in the securities industry or the trading industry anyway.
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And so as conservative as I am and as hardline as I am on criminal justice,
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I think nonviolent offenders, as long as you weren't engaged in bad check scams or extorting a small business,
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But if, you know, you work for one of the big banks and six traders on the desk got jammed up
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and it was really an institutional problem and you guys were the scapegoats, then yeah.
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I mean, I don't, to me, that's not a hardcore criminal.
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That's somebody who got swept up in a wave of problems.
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And yeah, I wouldn't, you know, go to sleep at night worried if they're going to go on a killing rampage in the office.
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So for me, it's very situational for something like this.
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But in the juvenile system, we don't have these controls.
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And that's why we have a dead police officer, 29-year-old Amy Caprio, three years, 10 months on the job,
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not even on the job, four years in Baltimore County, Maryland.
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We now know, we brought you the story yesterday about police officer Caprio.
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The chief of the Baltimore County Police, Terry Sheridan, Terry Sheridan said that the teens were going into homes.
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They, quote, went inside stealing jewelry, cash, anything they can get their hands on.
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So with that kind of linkage, we believe the four were acting together to commit these burglaries.
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Now, the one charged with the first-degree murder of Officer Caprio, Donta Harris, a judge called him, judge called him a one-man crime wave.
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District judge over in Baltimore County, Sally Chester, said, I'm not, and she said, quote,
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in the last six months, no offense, said this to his public defender, your client is a one-man crime wave.
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I'm not certain any juvenile facility is secure enough to hold him.
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The prosecutor, William Bickle, said, I will tell you, judge, he did, in fact, confess.
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Remember yesterday, there was a little confusion as to what the initial call was, burglary or a suspicious vehicle.
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It originated as a burglary call, then other neighbors saw a suspicious vehicle.
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It's just because that's pretty common in law enforcement.
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I've responded to so many of those, I lost count.
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You know, one neighbor has one vantage point, right?
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They see people breaking into a home and maybe a side door.
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But the other neighbor on that side can't see the door they broke into.
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They just see this vehicle with four, three, four guys in it or one guy in it.
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It's very common for those calls to come in together very rapidly and be very confusing.
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Now, as is the case in suspicious vehicle calls, you get a description of the vehicle,
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If I'm calling about a vehicle, I'm going to tell the police what the vehicle looks like.
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The vehicle starts to drive away into a courtyard area.
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The vehicle then makes, so this is the vehicle.
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Now, the vehicle is facing, the deputies here, the vehicle's facing her.
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Police Officer Caprio, at this point, is out of her vehicle, ordering the suspects out of
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The driver, Donta Harris, opens his door a little bit and rapidly closes it, guns the
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29 years old, three years, 10 months on the job.
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Killed by this little savage, who the juvenile justice system kept letting slip through the
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Now, here's a tweet from yesterday from a guy named Brian Kubler.
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Brian is an investigative reporter in Baltimore at WMAR2 News.
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He tweeted, quote, prosecutors say Donta Harris was arrested four times for auto theft since
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December 2017, the last time he was sentenced to home detention in West Baltimore.
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If you've ever watched the show The Wire, that's West Baltimore, those neighborhoods.
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The murder rate is 15 times greater than that of New York City.
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And in certain tracks, census tracks in West Baltimore, 50 times higher, higher than some
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He was sentenced to home detention in West Baltimore wearing an ankle bracelet.
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I mean, the prosecutor says he fled Gilmore Homes last week and stole the Jeep in question before
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And it goes back to the story we were talking about yesterday about this, this Kelvin Rodriguez,
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who is Kelvin Rodriguez, who took the photo next to the police car with the gun released
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Just it is graceful, graceful, and it's going to keep happening.
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That's why the prison reform bill concerns me as much as it does.
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That's why that prison reform bill concerns me as much as it does.
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Because we have these left wing judges that are going to look at that.
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Well, the nation on the whole is going soft on these bad guys.
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Let me put the juvenile offenders back on the street.
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And as I'm all for prison reform, if it helps calm things down, make the facility safer
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for the guards, make these prisoners more employable, so they're less of a threat to
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When liberal judges take advantage of it, misunderstand it, go soft, and set people back on the streets
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I want to thank the Democratic Party for what they did in yesterday's primaries in four states.
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They decided to disregard what American voters want.
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They completely, completely ignored Conor Lamb's win against Saccone in Pennsylvania.
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Conor Lamb concerned me, a conservative Democrat, former U.S. Marine, pro-gun, pro-life, an old-school
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They completely disregarded that and went for the farthest left faction of the party.
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Good opinion piece by Doug Schoen on foxnews.com.
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He also wrote a very similar one a few days before the primaries in The Hill.
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As the Democratic Party struggles to find its identity in this primary season, it's clear
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that Tuesday's contests continue to show the internal struggle for the party's future direction.
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Progressives are overwhelmingly beating their more moderate primary opponents.
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And uncertainty remains around the Democratic Party's ability to retake the House in November.
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The growing progressive insurgency presents serious questions for the Democratic Party
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In Georgia, former state House minority leader and staunch progressive Stacey Abrams
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defeated moderate former state rep Stacey Evans by an overwhelming margin of 74 to 26.
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Abrams, who is now one step closer to becoming the nation's first black female governor,
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who notably received an endorsement from Hillary Clinton.
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In Texas, progressive sheriff Lupe Valdez defeated moderate Democrat Andrew White.
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And that's the special election race we had for Tom Price's seat.
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It was the most expensive House race in history.
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That other guy, John Ossoff, brought in like 11 or 18 million dollars from Hollywood.
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His moderate former TV anchor, Bobby Capel, will face a community activist.
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And that'll be a Democratic runoff primary in June.
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He's facing Lucy McBath, a gun control activist.
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And there are a couple of other races around the country.
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The reason I love this is that it's a midterm year.
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Meaning that on both sides, on both sides, you typically get the super voters.
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Voters that vote in every election down a local school board.
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And those voters tend to be the most ideological.
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Now on the Republican side, the Trump message is really resonating.
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On the Democrat side, nationally, the far left message isn't.
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But among those super voters, those Dem super voters, you're finding that only the farthest
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left are coming out to vote in the local and statewide primary election.
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Meaning the Democrats are fielding candidates that are not electable in the general election.
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The two big races, the governor's race in Texas, Lupe Valdez is that sheriff in Texas
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who's constantly posing with illegal aliens, who's in favor of Sanctuary City.
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No matter how much they want you to believe Texas is going to go blue.
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In Georgia, a radical progressive is not going to win.
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Sure, Atlanta's a liberal city, but the rest of Georgia isn't.
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It's going to be very, very difficult for a radically far left progressive to win statewide
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And when it concerns a guy like Doug Schoen, who's a long time, Doug's an older guy, is a
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I think we're going to see a bloodbath for the Democrats come November.
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I think it's going to be terrible for the Democrats.
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Now, a Reuters poll now has the GOP lightly up on the generic ballot in the midterms.
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With 15.4% undecided, 6.5% voting for a third party candidate, and 3.3%, 3.3% voting or not
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However, five days prior to this new Reuters poll, the numbers are flipped.
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Democrats were up by 1.1, 16% undecided, 7% third party, 3.2% not voting at all.
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What's interesting to me is of the undecideds, Republicans picked up.
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I don't think Democrats win those 24 seats they need in November.
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In fact, I can't see a path to victory for Democrats to retake the House.
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They're going to get nowhere near the Senate, and we'll probably pick up seats in the Senate.
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We're probably going to pick up in Florida here.
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Rick Scott is going to pick up Bill Nelson's seat, so Florida should be an easy pickup for
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He's been MIA, and Rick Scott got a lot of credit from Democrats for doing something
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He went a little soft on guns, banning bump stocks, and raising the age limit to purchase
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And he performed incredibly well, incredibly well when the hurricanes hit us last year.
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So I don't see any problem with Rick Scott winning that seat.
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Now, as far as the House goes, Republicans are up on the generic Barrett.
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Rasmussen has Trump still around 50%, despite all the attacks.
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And so I don't see how Democrats recover from this.
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But back to the races in Georgia, when these far-left Democrats aren't looking at the writing
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on the wall now, the Lamb-Saconne race in Pennsylvania, that district, man, it is so
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representative of the Rust Belt, so representative of the areas that cost Hillary Clinton the
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The Democratic Party is run by far-leftists, right?
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Nancy Pelosi is juiced because she brings money into the party.
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People like Dianne Feinstein, Chuck Schumer bring money in.
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But if they're not looking, I mean, who are their strategists?
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If they're not looking at that Pennsylvania race and saying, well, that race is, I mean,
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that Pennsylvania, that Lamb-Saconne race was perfectly representative of what Democrats
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would need to win in the midterms and need to win in 2020.
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They looked at the candidate and they said, eh, not radical enough, not communist enough,
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We're going to go with the lunatics on the fringe left.
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I could not be happier that Democrats are doing that to themselves.
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This is a Christmas present that they're doing this to themselves.
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I don't know if they're where the Republican Party was years back, and I'm sorry I keep
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We had terrible rain down here in South Florida for the last couple of weeks.
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It's continuing, a little bit sunny outside the studio today, but my allergies are just
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So I apologize for my voice and sounding like I have a cold.
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But Democrats are going to, well, I don't know what they're thinking.
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I don't know if they're just that ideologically left, that they are completely out of touch
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Perhaps that Conor Lamb, Rick Saccone race was really just an anomaly.
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That was one pocket of America, the Rust Belt, the working class people in the Midwest into
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Hardworking, patriotic Americans that voted them because Democrats were better on their
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Democrats had closer relationships with their unions that kept them working and earning a
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They might not be representative of the nation as a whole.
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The Democratic Party, though, believes, because think about where the money's coming from in
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Nancy Pelosi in her district, which is her district, which is probably the farthest left
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He's in the most liberal district in San Francisco.
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And Chuck Schumer, who spends his time around the far left elitists in New York City and Washington,
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They don't come down here to Florida and speak to the Cuban community down in Miami, the most
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patriotic, conservative, hardworking people you will ever meet.
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They love America far more than any New York City liberal does.
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The Cuban community in Miami and pockets in Union City, New Jersey, they bleed red, white,
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The elitists in the Democratic Party don't go and speak to them.
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No, Tom Perez goes down and talks to Lupe Valdez and Art Acevedo, the Houston police
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chief who wants to stand by illegal aliens, take guns away from law abiding people and
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criticize other police agencies for dare enforcing crime against bad guys.
00:31:27.600
Well, this is who the Democratic Party believes are the barometers of what the nation wants.
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And I think the Democratic Party is going to be in for a really, really rude awakening.
00:31:44.900
Look, midterm years are typically very low turnout anyway.
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But for a couple of governor's races and a few governor's races around the nation and some
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Senate races, there's really nobody out there that anybody is particularly jazzed up about.
00:32:10.000
I don't predict huge turnout in these congressional races.
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I don't predict big turnout in the Senate races.
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And the gubernatorial races, I think, are going to be average for a midterm year.
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But what is what is inflaming passion is our statements from people like Representative Al
00:32:28.960
Green, that if Democrats take back the House, Speaker Pelosi will most definitely impeach Donald
00:32:36.780
Not getting Democrats out to vote for Democrats, but it is getting Republicans and it is getting
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crossover Democrats who voted for Trump, who are very happy with more money in their
00:32:46.760
We're very happy about the way things are going.
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It is going to get them to the polls to make sure it doesn't happen.
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But people aren't really going to vote for something as much as they're going to vote
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In the last 10 days, the Democrats platform has been defending Hamas terrorists trying to
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invade Israel and crying hysterically that Donald Trump called raping, murdering MS-13
00:33:19.500
Raising taxes, supporting terrorists, supporting criminals and supporting illegal spying on
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American citizens who worked for or volunteered with the Trump campaign.
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And the turnout and who they voted for in those primaries last night confirmed that to me.
00:33:43.240
And I have to tell you, that makes me a very, very happy guy going into 2018 and 2020, because
00:33:52.780
I think Republicans pick up seats in the Senate, and I think we easily, Republicans easily keep
00:34:12.320
Let's talk a little bit about the way the media reports things, depending on who's saying it.
00:34:17.580
Now, when a conservative, even so much as says the word firearm, in the media, the left-wing
00:34:38.940
But when Democrats say things, when people who are anti-Trump say things, oh, it doesn't
00:34:46.920
Now, Lawrence Tribe, Harvard Law professor and known Trump critic, he's all over social
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He even engages in conspiracy theories with those lunatics who were saying Trump's going to
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But Lawrence Tribe went on CNN, and he was speaking on CNN's new day to insufferable
00:35:09.740
Now, Chris Cuomo could have jumped all over Tribe and had him clarify.
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However, the right is losing their minds on social media, and I don't agree with them
00:35:26.140
Let me give you the exchange between Cuomo and Lawrence Tribe.
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Cuomo noted that Tribe's book comes with a note.
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His book is called The End of Presidency, The Power of Impeachment, and The Resistance.
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And he was warning Democrats about throwing the impeachment card down too hastily, too quickly.
00:35:52.700
Tribe explained that impeachment is not about, quote, garden-variety crime, but about abusing
00:35:57.820
the authority that we give to high officials like the president.
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Now, Tribe is hysterical, but Trump hasn't abused his authority.
00:36:06.960
And he said impeachment, quote, will be available if we don't use it loosely and ring the bell
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You can't be the boy who cried wolf and have a viable impeachment.
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You can't use it over and over again against the same president.
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Republicans losing their minds and conservatives and some of the alt-right people who really
00:36:33.820
don't think things through, doing exactly what Tribe warned against, crying wolf.
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Tribe said, quote, if you're going to shoot him, you have to shoot to kill, end quote.
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I can't believe he teaches at Harvard with some of the loony conspiracy theories he floats.
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But he went on to say, and that requires, so he said, if you're going to shoot him,
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And that requires an overwhelming majority of a bipartisan kind.
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Otherwise, you're just going to nick the guy and make him feel empowered and vindicated,
00:37:12.920
And what he's talking about is the political sense.
00:37:15.820
I say it all the time when I'm talking about politicians and messaging.
00:37:22.900
If you're going after a major, very powerful politician with a lot of money in their campaign
00:37:29.180
account with very well-funded PACs backing them and you take a shot, not a literal shot
00:37:36.000
But if you put a story out in the media to hurt or damage them and you don't have the
00:37:41.180
resources they have, that story better be what we call a kill shot.
00:37:45.520
It better do irreparable damage to their career.
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Otherwise, they're going to come at you very viciously and they're probably going to kill
00:37:59.180
You assert that Lawrence Tribe was talking about people going out there and shooting the
00:38:04.560
Everybody said, oh, this comes after death threats.
00:38:06.500
And this comes after the guy shot up Trump to Ralph.
00:38:10.360
But it's only the people on the right in this case.
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Look, I'm an equal opportunity critic when need be.
00:38:16.180
It's the people on the right taking that soundbite out of context.
00:38:20.260
But what they're really doing is counterproductive because now if a Second Amendment advocate to
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make a point goes and takes a shot at Larry Tribe, at Lawrence Tribe, just to scare him,
00:38:32.740
Now, we on the right are all going to be painted as lunatics who engage in violence.
00:38:37.220
The left is going to work overtime to say that Lawrence Tribe used a metaphorical narrative
00:38:41.660
talking about very common in the media business, in the political business.
00:38:55.260
And for people on the right to make it out to be something it isn't actually does a disservice
00:39:00.620
If, God forbid, some lunatic who identifies his right and enjoys the Second Amendment,
00:39:08.340
the rights it affords us, the Second Amendment, or I should say the rights that it tells government
00:39:13.560
it can not take away from us, we're all going to be blamed on the right.
00:39:18.820
We are sometimes, especially when it comes to the alt-right, our own worst enemy.
00:39:25.740
They think framing that out of context is going to damage the other guy, but it's not.
00:39:31.960
It's not an intelligent way, a strategic way to go about damaging the other side, the side
00:39:45.560
Hunter is the brother of Meadow Pollock, who was killed at Stoneman Douglas High School in
00:39:51.660
He and his dad, Andrew, have done a phenomenal job, very apolitical.
00:39:56.620
They lean a little bit right, the Pollock family, but they haven't engaged in politics.
00:40:02.960
He put out a tweet yesterday about the shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas.
00:40:11.660
It's sick that since the majority of Santa Fe students oppose gun control and favor school
00:40:18.040
security measures instead, that the media won't give them nearly as much coverage as
00:40:23.580
the Marjory Stoneman MSD, Marjory Stoneman Douglas students, students of Santa Fe High School.
00:40:37.400
Young sister was gunned down brutally by Nicholas Cruz.
00:40:52.460
At CNN, why no town hall for the Santa Fe school shooting?
00:40:55.320
Is it because he, I won't say the shooter's name.
00:40:57.600
He didn't use an AR-15 and this community supports the Second Amendment?
00:41:01.200
Michelle Malkin quote tweeted Hunter Pollock this morning.
00:41:05.100
Michelle said, and this is why the Santa Fe kids won't get a CNN town hall.
00:41:12.020
It's disgraceful that CNN that presents itself as hard news has ignored, has ignored the families
00:41:23.240
They don't get to give their opinion on gun safety, on school security, because they're
00:41:28.720
not anti-gun, because they don't have a Ted Deutch and a Debbie Wasserman Schultz out there
00:41:33.200
in front of them, because every town wasn't embraced there, every town for gun safety,
00:41:37.980
Michael Bloomberg's far-left funded group, Moms Demand.
00:41:46.860
They would rather see armed personnel in the schools.
00:41:55.180
And it's just a very interesting example of the way different these, all these examples,
00:41:59.480
Lawrence Tribe saying what he said, because if Lawrence Tribe had said, if you're going to
00:42:02.900
shoot, shoot to kill, and he was a Republican strategist talking about Obama, it would have
00:42:13.160
And it would have been stupid, and we would have criticized them for doing that.
00:42:18.360
But we shouldn't do it, because we look stupid when we do it.
00:42:22.580
But what the mainstream media is doing by not giving the Santa Fe victims, 10 dead, 10 dead,
00:42:30.440
by not giving these victims and their families the same forum that they gave the anti-gunners,
00:42:35.440
because these families, these families are not anti-gun, is disgraceful.
00:42:39.740
And I think the president is right when he wants to talk about pulling the credentials
00:42:54.780
And I just hope in this AT&T takeover of Time Warner that we're going to see, let's call
00:43:03.780
The New York Times is salivating on news that a guy named Evgeny Friedman, who's a business
00:43:20.940
partner of Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen, the guy who I think is being persecuted for only
00:43:27.120
Well, the New York Times, I'm reading a CNBC story, because I don't even want to read the
00:43:33.300
Their headline, well, the CNBC headline is, Michael Cohen's business partner, Evgeny Friedman,
00:43:41.540
Now, this guy has agreed to cooperate with federal and state prosecutors.
00:43:46.580
You would think, by the way, the New York Times and CNBC and all these others are salivating,
00:43:51.160
that this is about the president, that he's a law partner of Michael Cohen, that he has
00:43:58.580
But no, this guy, Friedman, is somebody called the taxi king of New York City.
00:44:05.980
And what Friedman does, Michael Cohen is invested into taxi medallions.
00:44:11.240
And if you don't know what those are in New York City, yellow cabs in New York City, ones
00:44:15.840
you can wave down that have a meter, those famous yellow cabs on the hood of the vehicles.
00:44:20.520
I'm sure you've seen it, but if you haven't, if you've never been in New York City or you
00:44:28.700
Black with a number, it says New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission.
00:44:32.440
And that medallion is what enables that cab to be yellow, to operate with a meter and
00:44:38.780
run under their control in the New York City and Taxi and Limousine Commission.
00:44:41.660
And the numbers of those medallions are regulated.
00:44:45.900
You buy these medallions for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
00:44:48.300
Most of the cabbies you see out there lease those cars day to day.
00:44:52.700
The medallions are owned by companies that own many of them, large companies.
00:45:09.640
This has nothing to do with Donald Trump or anything having to do with legal representation
00:45:17.580
Friedman, Friedman pleaded guilty for tax evasion up in Albany, New York.
00:45:24.460
And the Times is suggesting that Friedman's cooperation, quote, could be used as leverage
00:45:28.560
to pressure Cohen to work with Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
00:45:33.500
A guy invested on tax, a guy, a guy indicted and pled guilty to tax evasion in Albany,
00:45:40.800
Why would he in any way, shape or form have anything to do with the president of the United
00:45:45.980
It's like the reporters of the New York Times doesn't, the reporters of the New York Times
00:45:55.440
At one point, Friedman was one of the largest operators of taxi medallions in New York City.
00:45:59.760
Interestingly enough, when I first started getting my feet wet in politics, I was still
00:46:11.720
And I remember an older, older man, he's now passed away, was a very powerful attorney
00:46:20.540
He died about 10 years ago and he was a political mentor of mine.
00:46:26.740
And they really were powerhouses in that business, in the taxi cab business.
00:46:33.400
Michael Cohen had always been, as a matter of family investments, involved in those
00:46:46.220
CNN reported last month that prosecutors are interested in Cohen's financial dealing
00:46:49.960
with a husband and wife who in a large tax business in Chicago.
00:46:53.440
Well, prosecutors are interested in everything surrounding Donald Trump.
00:46:56.160
They want to know what Donald Trump ate at a diner in 1985 to see if Donald Trump doesn't
00:47:03.520
But if he did, you can bet they would be going to every bar in New York City saying, did
00:47:05.840
he ever order a white Russian or a black Russian?
00:47:10.460
Friedman was arrested last June on charges that he and another business partner stole
00:47:13.840
more than $5 million in state surcharges that are imposed on taxi rides in New York
00:47:19.460
So, the cabs collect all this money and they never sent the state surcharges, which are
00:47:28.660
People get arrested for this all the time by not sending sales tax, surcharges, excise
00:47:36.920
The amount of taxes he pled guilty to evading was much less than that.
00:47:42.480
Other cases involved in agreement to cooperate with prosecutors, probably against the other
00:47:48.240
people involved in the taxi and tax scam, not against Donald Trump.
00:47:53.440
So, they keep going back and forth, back and forth.
00:48:00.440
A guy who helped Michael Cohen manage taxi cabs and taxi medallions several years ago
00:48:07.540
gets arrested in upstate New York on tax evasion with a completely different business partner
00:48:13.480
and the New York Times, CNBC, and the mainstream media are salivating.
00:48:17.440
The complicity that the mainstream media has with Robert Mueller and his team, it's tragic
00:48:24.640
And stories like this, stories like this are only designed to hurt the president and people
00:48:30.440
But like we spoke about in the last segment, it's not a kill shot.
00:48:44.480
And let's say we had a liberal administration and the liberal administration was coming after
00:48:51.000
And a guy that I worked in the police department with 18 years ago gets jammed up because in
00:48:58.480
retirement, he evades taxes in his new business.
00:49:04.080
Cardillo's, Cardillo's former NYPD partner indicted, cooperating with prosecutors could
00:49:15.900
And it is absolutely journalistic malpractice for the New York Times and the rest of the