Rebel News Podcast - Off The Cuff Declassified - John Cardillo - May 24⧸2018

00:00:00.000 Today on Off the Cuff Declassified, President Donald Trump cancels the summit with North Korea.

00:00:06.300 Police body cam saves the career of a Texas state trooper.

00:00:10.660 Trump holds a roundtable on MS-13 and doubles down on calling them animals,

00:00:14.880 while billionaire Elon Musk takes on the fake news media as a federal judge rules

00:00:20.200 Donald Trump can't block people on Twitter.

00:00:23.300 This news is breaking as I record you this segment this morning.

00:00:33.520 President Donald Trump has canceled the Singapore-based summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un

00:00:39.180 because of Kim's recent nasty and horrible rhetoric. 1.00

00:00:44.660 The meeting would have marked the first face-to-face encounter between a sitting U.S. president

00:00:50.640 and North Korea, a North Korean leader.

00:00:54.020 And it was said, of course, for June 12th, just a couple of weeks from now.

00:00:57.940 Let me read you the letter that the White House sent early today to North Korea,

00:01:04.740 addressed to His Excellency Kim Jong-un, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission

00:01:08.680 of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Pyongyang.

00:01:12.400 Dear Mr. Chairman, we greatly appreciate your time, patience, and effort

00:01:17.860 with respect to our recent negotiations and discussions relative to a summit long sought

00:01:23.300 by both parties, which was scheduled to take place on June 12th in Singapore.

00:01:29.580 We were informed that the meeting was requested by North Korea, but that, to us, is totally irrelevant.

00:01:36.140 I was very much looking forward to being there with you.

00:01:41.540 This is where Trump becomes Trump, and this is why America is strong and the world is safer.

00:01:47.860 Words from the President.

00:01:51.300 Sadly, based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement,

00:01:57.580 I feel it is inappropriate at this time to have this long-planned meeting.

00:02:04.960 Therefore, please let this letter serve to represent that the Singapore summit,

00:02:10.400 for the good of both parties, but to the detriment of the world, will not take place.

00:02:16.040 Now, this is where Trump is really Trump, and I could not be prouder of our president at this moment.

00:02:24.580 You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God

00:02:30.580 they will never have to be used.

00:02:33.040 I felt the wonderful dialogue was building up between you and me, and ultimately, it is only that dialogue that matters.

00:02:39.680 Someday, I look very much forward to meeting you.

00:02:42.000 In the meantime, I want to thank you for the release of the hostages who are now home with their families.

00:02:46.880 That was a beautiful gesture and very much appreciated from just sticking it to them.

00:02:50.760 If you change your mind having to do with this most important summit, please do not hesitate to call or write me.

00:02:56.880 The world, and North Korea in particular, has lost a great opportunity for lasting peace and great prosperity and wealth.

00:03:05.040 This missed opportunity is a truly sad moment in history.

00:03:11.380 Sincerely yours, Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America.

00:03:15.520 Now, this all comes on the heels of Kim, I'm going to find you the quote here, him insulting Vice President Mike Pence.

00:03:26.080 He said that the Vice President was stupid, that he was politically stupid, and Trump had no choice but to cancel the meeting.

00:03:37.120 Kim spokesman, Joe Sanhui, said the North would not beg for dialogue and warned of a nuclear showdown if diplomacy failed.

00:03:51.780 The North Korean says it will not give up its nuclear weapon unilaterally.

00:03:55.040 Now, Joe Sanhui has been involved in these talks for quite a while, and the North Koreans are really asking for it. 1.00

00:04:15.960 They're really asking for it.

00:04:17.520 They are now prodding the United States, but they never banked on Trump.

00:04:22.720 They never banked on a guy like Donald Trump, who was actually going to call their bluff.

00:04:28.100 Obama would have gone to the summit.

00:04:29.840 If Obama had gotten the summit, if he had gotten that summit to take place,

00:04:35.360 and Kim Jong-un, via a spokeswoman, Joe Sanhui, had insulted Joe Biden, called him stupid, and had ranted and raved.

00:04:47.400 This is all over Mike Pence saying that the Libya model wouldn't apply to North Korea if North Korea played ball.

00:04:54.520 In other words, there wouldn't be regime change if North Korea played ball.

00:04:58.000 Pence warned that North Korea may end like Libya, meaning him could be deposed and carried out into the streets and murdered in public and his body torn apart.

00:05:07.840 And, again, Gaddafi died a horrible death.

00:05:11.040 But Trump is not Obama.

00:05:15.000 So this is what Joe said, the spokeswoman for North Korea.

00:05:18.600 He added, quote,

00:05:19.460 Whether the U.S. will meet us at a meeting room or encounter us at nuclear-to-nuclear showdown is entirely dependent upon the decision and the behavior of the United States.

00:05:44.300 Now, North Korea is playing the wrong game with the wrong guy.

00:05:50.740 They are playing the wrong game with the wrong guy.

00:05:53.200 Now, let's go back through Trump's letter, knowing all that.

00:05:57.320 He said to Kim,

00:05:58.900 You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used.

00:06:06.840 Meaning, if you dare try to launch a nuke.

00:06:09.140 First of all, we have missile defenses that could take out Kim's nuke. 0.71

00:06:12.540 So, Trump will level.

00:06:14.520 He will level North Korea. 0.97

00:06:17.800 He also says,

00:06:20.140 The North has missed, North Korea in particular, has lost a great opportunity for lasting peace and great prosperity and wealth.

00:06:29.680 He's telling North Korea, 0.74

00:06:31.620 We will annihilate you.

00:06:33.440 If you even think about using a nuclear weapon, you will cease to exist.

00:06:37.580 And now we are going to put pressure on China, on South Korea, on Japan, to choke you economically. 0.72

00:06:47.240 We are going, you're broke.

00:06:49.100 I read you North Korea's GDP last week.

00:06:51.800 It's only something like $12.4 billion, compared to the U.S.'s $17 to $18 trillion GDP.

00:07:02.380 Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates can buy and sell Amazon, buy and sell North Korea, rather.

00:07:07.360 Jeff Bezos is Amazon.com, and Bill Gates, Microsoft.

00:07:11.400 Well, the men could personally buy and sell North Korea a couple of times over. 0.71

00:07:15.720 And there is absolutely nothing Kim can do.

00:07:20.760 He has a few nuclear weapons.

00:07:22.260 China's going to squeeze them now. 1.00

00:07:23.960 South Korea's going to squeeze them. 0.96

00:07:25.720 Japan's in the mix.

00:07:26.980 I expect we're going to put tremendous pressure on Russia.

00:07:29.820 North Korea made a very, very serious miscalculation here.

00:07:36.300 Very, very serious miscalculation.

00:07:38.580 And this story, as I said, as I'm bringing this to you, is just breaking.

00:07:42.620 And so I want to, there's not much on this.

00:07:47.000 Now, North Korea was claiming they demolished a nuclear site ahead of the summit.

00:07:53.460 They claim, this is from the Associated Press,

00:07:57.100 because just weeks ahead of a planned summit with U.S. President Donald Trump,

00:08:00.440 Kim Jong-un made good on his promise to demolish North Korea's nuclear test site,

00:08:05.840 which was formally closed in a series of huge explosions Thursday,

00:08:10.280 as a group of foreign journalists looked on.

00:08:13.180 The explosions at the nuclear test site deep in the mountains of North Korea's sparsely populated northeast

00:08:17.860 was centered on three tunnels at the underground site

00:08:21.800 and a number of buildings in the surrounding area.

00:08:23.960 They held a closing ceremony.

00:08:27.660 North Korea, their state media, called the destruction of the site,

00:08:32.100 quote, a nuclear-free, the process to build a, quote, nuclear-free, peaceful world,

00:08:36.500 and, quote, global nuclear disarmament.

00:08:39.000 And they went on to say,

00:08:40.540 the dismantling of the nuclear test ground conducted with high-level transparency

00:08:44.900 has clearly attested once again the proactive and peace-loving efforts

00:08:49.260 of the DPRK government, Democratic People's Republic of Korea,

00:08:53.260 being made for assuring peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula

00:08:56.380 and all over the world.

00:08:57.340 But apparently, they weren't serious

00:09:01.300 because they decided to attack our vice president.

00:09:06.240 Now, you can like a politician.

00:09:09.800 You can dislike a politician.

00:09:11.840 You can love Trump.

00:09:12.760 You can hate Trump.

00:09:13.800 You can love Pence.

00:09:14.780 You can hate Pence.

00:09:15.940 But an American respects the office.

00:09:18.780 I despise Barack Obama,

00:09:21.960 but I wouldn't stand for attacks on the office of the presidency.

00:09:27.240 I thought Joe Biden was a buffoon, a moron.

00:09:29.680 But I wouldn't stand for attacks on the office of the vice president

00:09:32.480 by a foreign enemy.

00:09:36.380 By a foreign enemy.

00:09:38.080 I thought Obama was a doormat.

00:09:39.480 I was offended that Obama allowed his presidency to be trampled on by bad guys.

00:09:45.280 I didn't think Obama was a fan of American exceptionalism.

00:09:49.160 I thought he made the world very unsafe and America very weak.

00:09:52.780 But I don't want Kim Jong-un

00:09:54.980 calling our vice president an idiot on the world stage.

00:09:58.700 Stupid.

00:09:59.700 Or be a spokeswoman.

00:10:02.060 I don't want that.

00:10:03.720 And us going to a summit.

00:10:05.480 I think the president did exactly the right thing canceling this summit.

00:10:09.720 I love that he canceled it after the statements.

00:10:11.900 I love that he canceled it after we got the hostages back.

00:10:14.600 And I love that he told North Korea,

00:10:16.800 yeah, you want to saber rattle with nukes?

00:10:19.820 We're going to have some problems.

00:10:21.960 We're going to have a lot of problems.

00:10:25.080 And I believe that Donald Trump will take action.

00:10:27.500 Now, this has certainly made the likelihood of some kind of military action more likely.

00:10:34.560 It certainly has.

00:10:36.840 You know, we're deluding ourselves to believe it hasn't.

00:10:39.880 Do I think we're going to war with North Korea?

00:10:43.140 No, I don't.

00:10:43.900 Now, the stock market's being affected.

00:10:47.420 Stocks are slipping a bit as Trump pulls out of the North Korea summit.

00:10:50.880 But that was to be expected, right?

00:10:53.540 I mean, we didn't expect the stock markets to rally on claims of, on news that we're exiting the summit.

00:11:02.840 We also found out that one of the ways Kim Jong-un and his top advisors, his inner circle,

00:11:07.560 were preparing to meet with Donald Trump were, by reading that ridiculous book, Fire and Fury,

00:11:15.240 that book that's been basically debunked.

00:11:17.900 And that, to me, is actually pretty sad.

00:11:21.600 That, that's the extent of North Korea's intelligence, that they read gossip books, fake news gossip books. 0.66

00:11:29.540 It's actually really kind of pathetic.

00:11:31.860 And so, but I don't expect any more from a nation like North Korea. 0.97

00:11:36.240 Now, from Fox Business, they're saying stocks fell off a bit.

00:11:39.800 The S&P 500, as it reaches, down about 13%.

00:11:44.120 The Dow Jones averages, the S&P 500 had 13 points.

00:11:47.980 It's a net change, I'm sorry, it's down 13, it's down 13, not 13%, Jesus, devastating.

00:11:55.560 Down about half a percent.

00:11:57.600 Dow Jones averages are down about 0.7%, 0.69 as I read this.

00:12:02.260 And the NASDAQ composite, down about 0.36.

00:12:06.480 So, not massive sweeping losses, but a typical market correction with news like,

00:12:12.020 and that can certainly change by the time you watch this video later in the day.

00:12:16.100 But I do not predict, do not predict, that we are going to see anything change with regards to the summit.

00:12:25.000 Do not predict that whatsoever.

00:12:27.920 But I'm glad we have a strong president.

00:12:29.860 The world is a dangerous place.

00:12:31.000 And we were beaten up, we were browbeaten by Barack Obama for so long.

00:12:34.860 We were treated like the doormats of the world.

00:12:38.880 And there's more news.

00:12:39.760 I keep, you know, as I keep glancing at the screen, news items are popping up as I talk to you about this.

00:12:44.580 So, is, you know, even Marco Rubio is saying that North Korea's solution is in China's interest as well.

00:12:52.420 I rarely agree with Marco Rubio on this one.

00:12:55.280 I do.

00:12:57.740 But he, Marco Rubio is right.

00:13:01.040 Finding a solution with North Korea would benefit China as well.

00:13:03.860 It's in China's best interest to pressure North Korea. 0.96

00:13:06.360 And I don't know if you remember, back about, well, it's got to be back about 10 to 12 years now.

00:13:12.720 Could be even a little longer.

00:13:14.780 Then-President George W. Bush was caught on a hot mic at a summit.

00:13:18.840 It was one of the G summits, G8 or G20 or something like that, talking to British Prime Minister, then Prime Minister Tony Blair.

00:13:25.500 But we're going back well over a decade and plus.

00:13:27.940 He was caught on a hot mic saying that China has to tell North Korea to stop the s, stop the nonsense, basically, with an expletive.

00:13:38.740 And that's the way you control North Korea. 0.86

00:13:41.320 And China's always been the key to controlling North Korea. 0.69

00:13:44.660 But so is a strong U.S.

00:13:46.240 And we've never had a Donald Trump.

00:13:48.640 This letter is absolutely outstanding.

00:13:50.960 I like what Trump is doing here.

00:13:55.300 And this woman, Chosun-hoy, who I talked about a little earlier, she's a top Korean official.

00:13:59.860 She's a spokeswoman for Kim's administration, his dictatorship, really.

00:14:06.240 Her insults to our vice president, well, it just couldn't go unanswered.

00:14:11.700 And John Bolton, you know, look, we've got a foreign policy A team.

00:14:15.980 I say it every day.

00:14:17.040 A plus, plus, plus, plus team.

00:14:18.340 And in Donald Trump, Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, some other people on the National Security Council, General Mattis over at Defense, now Gina Haspel at CIA.

00:14:27.660 Look, I don't like her relationship with Brennan, but she knows how to handle bad guys in the world.

00:14:31.740 And it appears Donald Trump has become much smarter about who he can trust and who he can't after this Mueller thing.

00:14:38.640 I don't think he'd have appointed Gina Haspel unless he felt he could trust her, that she wasn't going to work against him.

00:14:44.040 We don't know what private conversations they have.

00:14:45.860 We don't know if she walked into the Oval Office and said, my God, I'm so glad to be rid of Brennan.

00:14:50.160 What a disaster that guy was.

00:14:51.660 But I kept my mouth shut because I had to work under the guy.

00:14:54.480 We don't know that that didn't take place.

00:14:56.620 Part of me suspects something like that probably did for Donald Trump to appoint her.

00:15:01.600 I know that Mike Pompeo and Trump have always been, they've always seen eye to eye.

00:15:05.900 But I like that we pulled out of this summit.

00:15:07.600 Look, I was encouraged when it was going down.

00:15:09.240 But I wanted the summit to happen only if the United States walked into that meeting in Singapore in a position of power.

00:15:15.420 That's why I never wanted it on the DMZ.

00:15:17.180 I never wanted it on the North Korean side of the DMZ, the militarized zone.

00:15:20.820 I never wanted it anywhere near that area.

00:15:23.160 I didn't like us going to Kim's home field.

00:15:26.120 No, Singapore was always a good location.

00:15:29.300 Neutral.

00:15:30.780 Both teams on an equal playing field.

00:15:32.680 The United States, obviously, far more powerful militarily, economically.

00:15:36.060 I mean, dramatically more, like I said, 12.4 billion in GDP for North Korea, 17.8, almost 18 trillion for the United States, according to the most recent numbers.

00:15:46.720 And militarily, it's not even a contest.

00:15:50.180 Not even a contest.

00:15:51.920 And I think we now have to take an even harder line on North Korea. 0.80

00:15:56.320 Let them know that if they open their mouths, they're going to face the full wrath of the United States.

00:16:02.660 If they want to see, they want to read that book, Fire and Fury, to learn how to deal with Donald Trump.

00:16:07.700 Well, in a completely different context, Donald Trump should now show North Korea fire and fury unless they get in line, apologize, and beg to be brought back to the table.

00:16:19.320 I love bringing you to the show every day.

00:16:32.440 You know that.

00:16:32.960 I'm always enthused and excited.

00:16:34.480 I love this content.

00:16:35.800 But there are some stories I love bringing you more than others.

00:16:40.460 I enjoy bringing you all of them.

00:16:41.880 But some of them, I can't wait.

00:16:44.280 I cannot wait to sit in front of this camera and bring you.

00:16:47.660 And this is one of those.

00:16:48.820 Now, let me preface this by saying I'm going to leave you in a little suspense as to what I'm talking about right now.

00:16:53.740 Let me preface this by saying that during my career in law enforcement and even after, early on, I was very much against police body cameras.

00:17:01.500 And then I started to evolve.

00:17:02.920 And I said, OK, I can see the merit.

00:17:04.960 But I was still very skeptical because I didn't want a situation where police officers wearing body cameras would be reluctant to do their job.

00:17:12.600 They might hesitate to draw their gun or a nonlethal device.

00:17:15.060 And they would get killed or seriously hurt.

00:17:17.620 Well, now I am the world's biggest fan of police body cameras.

00:17:23.580 Now, I'll admit I was wrong.

00:17:26.160 And about two years ago at dinner, a good friend of mine, a retired NYPD chief, then a police commissioner of another city, said, Cardillo, you're wrong.

00:17:33.920 I was your boss in the NYPD.

00:17:35.660 I'm older than you.

00:17:36.320 I'm wiser than you.

00:17:37.040 I have more experience than you.

00:17:37.880 And he did.

00:17:38.220 The guy's a legend in law enforcement.

00:17:39.520 He said, kid, I was where you were when I was young.

00:17:42.820 You're wrong on body cameras.

00:17:43.980 You're going to come around.

00:17:44.720 They help the cops.

00:17:45.640 All right, chief.

00:17:46.840 We'll save him.

00:17:47.840 Well, he was right.

00:17:48.700 He was right.

00:17:49.880 Because we have a story.

00:17:50.800 I mean, everything about this story is great, the way it resolved, not the early state, where a body camera just saved a Texas state trooper from Trooper Hubbard from losing his job, destroying his reputation, his family, and possibly going to jail.

00:18:07.920 The story is as such, a woman named, what was her name, Sharita Dixon Cole, via her attorney, put out a statement that she was sexually abused by Trooper Cole.

00:18:23.180 Now, this story, before being investigated, before any contact was made with the Texas DPS, the Department of Public Safety, that's Texas' state troopers, state police, Texas DPS.

00:18:38.620 Even better is that liberal social justice warrior activist, Sean King, a guy who was white and claims he's black.

00:18:47.500 Sean King took to Twitter.

00:18:49.480 I hope he is sued for every penny he has.

00:18:52.020 And he smeared this trooper.

00:18:55.300 Now, a couple of days back, about four days ago, Sean King, he's now deleted the tweets, but they were captured.

00:19:00.380 Sean King went on Twitter on the morning of May 20th, and he wrote, quote,

00:19:05.500 This woman was kidnapped and raped by a Texas state trooper, Officer Hubbard. 0.72

00:19:12.800 He is now being held hostage in the Ellis County Jail.

00:19:17.560 So he accused a state trooper of felony kidnapping, felony rape, and then the county, which is run by the sheriff's office, of kidnapping.

00:19:25.940 He accused them of three felonies and named the trooper.

00:19:29.820 However, Sherita Dixon Cole just happens to be a close personal friend of civil rights attorney and my friend at Merit Law, this attorney. 1.00

00:19:39.000 I'm going to get to the attorney in a second, who did a big mea culpa.

00:19:42.800 These are the facts he got from her family.

00:19:44.900 And Sean King goes on to say, I just spoke to a witness who says he strangely saw Sherita Dixon Cole put in the front seat of this officer's car, as she said in her statement to her family.

00:19:59.720 Just confirm that Sherita Dixon Cole passed her breathalyzer test and was arrested without cause.

00:20:06.460 He then goes, very important story, not only on the sexual assault of Sherita Dixon Cole, he's doubling down now, calling the police officer, a rapist, the trooper, a rapist and a sexual abuser.

00:20:18.860 But on the mistreatment of black women across the country by American police and why these stories are just not told widely enough.

00:20:26.860 The problem, however, problem, however, is that Mr. Merit, the attorney, watched the footage released, two hours of footage released by the Texas Department of Public Safety of Trooper Hubbard's body camera that completely debunks the claims.

00:20:48.000 Let me read you the letter written yesterday from S. Lee Merit, Sr. Esquire, attorney at law barred in the states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

00:20:59.720 It was a press release by attorney Merit for immediate release, sexual assault allegations, excuse me, against Texas DPS officer.

00:21:09.760 Waxahachie, Texas, the body camera footage released directly conflicts with the accounts reported to my office.

00:21:20.840 There is no readily apparent evidence of tampering with the footage.

00:21:25.480 Officer Daniel Hubbard seems to comport himself professionally during the duration of the traffic stop and arrest with and without more should be cleared of any wrongdoing.

00:21:39.760 It is deeply troubling when innocent people are falsely accused, and I am truly sorry for any trouble these claims may have caused Officer Hubbard and his family.

00:21:51.740 I take full responsibility for amplifying these claims to the point of national concern.

00:21:56.980 This office regularly receives hundreds of complaints of abuse from across the nation, and we are obligated to filter these messages thoroughly before relaying them to our powerful allies.

00:22:08.700 Our office necessarily takes claims of abuse, particularly by law enforcement officers, very seriously.

00:22:14.760 It is our responsibility to call for swift, transparent, and thorough investigation in any such accusation.

00:22:19.980 Our calls for professionalism and adherence to protocols, however, should not be misconstrued as a rush to judgment.

00:22:28.700 To the contrary, our goal in presenting claims of misconduct is to arrive as quickly and as accurately as possible to the truth.

00:22:37.940 We are thankful to members of the community for the willingness to echo our demands for transparency and justice.

00:22:42.000 However, in this matter, it seems your righteous vigilance was abused.

00:22:47.540 And you know what I say?

00:22:48.920 Screw this guy.

00:22:50.500 Because he starts his letter saying, I was wrong.

00:22:54.200 I smeared the trooper for no reason.

00:22:55.920 But I never heard the guy say, I'm sorry.

00:22:59.920 He didn't apologize.

00:23:01.620 He didn't once apologize.

00:23:03.460 And he admits that if the police are accused before he has any evidence, before he has any evidence, he will blast it out and amplify it.

00:23:13.760 He should be disbarred.

00:23:15.520 This guy should be disbarred.

00:23:17.820 This is disgusting.

00:23:20.420 And this is a lawyer who, this Merritt, he's an activist, black activist and lawyer who goes out there and he smears cops daily.

00:23:29.600 Well, he's embarrassed.

00:23:31.460 Now, Dixon Cole, despite, despite what Sean King lied about, admitted that she failed a field sobriety test.

00:23:42.720 She might have passed the breathalyzer, but she failed her field sobriety test.

00:23:48.480 He claimed, quote, the officer suggested she could go home in exchange for sexual favors.

00:23:53.960 And that was according to Merritt's original press release.

00:23:58.320 Now, I read you his letter, his mea culpa.

00:24:02.020 In his original letter, he slammed this officer.

00:24:07.580 He even goes to say, Ms. Dixon Cole's report of sexual assault by Officer Hubbard has been mishandled from the outset.

00:24:14.940 After she was processed into the detention center, she immediately reported the incident.

00:24:18.840 Certain protocols exist that must be that that must be followed when a victim reports an assault.

00:24:24.060 These protocols include, but are not limited to, direct medical attention and a thorough investigation into the allegations.

00:24:30.220 Hubbard's uniform, patrol vehicle and other equipment should have immediately confiscated and held over as evidence.

00:24:34.880 But, but, but, the Texas DPS watched the video.

00:24:43.160 They knew the trooper did nothing wrong.

00:24:45.100 So there was no reason to seize his car, to seize his uniform, to conduct any further investigation.

00:24:50.820 Video doesn't lie.

00:24:53.560 In this case, the perp did.

00:24:56.320 Benita Dixon Cole.

00:24:57.280 So, this case, this case, proves the efficacy and the necessity of body cameras.

00:25:05.640 Now, right after Merritt, this moron, did his presser and he released this statement and slamming the cop.

00:25:13.000 Before he apologized, I love that he had to do the mea culpa.

00:25:15.980 The Texas Department of Public Safety immediately denied all of his allegations.

00:25:19.460 They said, quote,

00:25:22.060 Upon learning of the allegations, the department immediately took action to review the dash cam video.

00:25:27.800 The video shows absolutely no evidence to support the serious accusations against the trooper during the DWI arrest of the suspect.

00:25:36.740 The department went on to say, it was, quote,

00:25:41.880 Appalled that anyone would make such a despicable, slanderous, and false accusation against a peace officer who willingly risks his life every day to protect and serve the public.

00:25:53.880 Good for the Texas DPS.

00:25:55.740 This is a textbook way on how a law enforcement agency should handle false claims of wrongdoing against their law enforcement officers.

00:26:06.740 Now, the Texas DPS did the right thing here.

00:26:13.700 What I don't like is that this woman, Karita Dixon Cole, is not being criminally charged yet.

00:26:22.760 This woman needs to be criminally charged. 1.00

00:26:24.820 Now, you know that Sean King, if you don't know who Sean King is, Sean King is this black liberal activist who is very big in the Black Lives Matter movement.

00:26:34.500 And he's well known for having to retract, correct, walk back stories, delete tweets, Facebook posts, because he jumps to conclusions and he accuses people by name.

00:26:46.420 He accuses people by name without any evidence.

00:26:49.740 I actually, back when I was doing more investigative type exposés, I dug into Sean King.

00:26:56.940 He's been accused of scamming his own charities.

00:27:01.200 This is not something that I dug up that's hard for you to find.

00:27:04.080 You can just Google his name, Google Sean King and charity issues.

00:27:07.640 You'll see post upon post upon post from people who say they donated money to Sean King.

00:27:12.740 They were never contacted.

00:27:13.640 Again, their money wasn't used for the intended purposes.

00:27:16.220 Now, Sean King tried to address the false accusation that he helped spread.

00:27:26.860 He wrote an article in Medium yesterday and he wrote, quote, I can't even begin to make sense of why someone would concoct such an awful story, particularly in light of the reality that both police brutality and sexual assaults are a very real crisis in this nation.

00:27:41.180 It does a tremendous disservice to actual victims when something horrible like this is fabricated.

00:27:47.200 It provides an unfair spotlight to a good cop and undeserved cover for the bad ones who will try to use an incident like this as false proof of their innocence.

00:27:56.880 He always has to jab the good guys, but they won't try to use an incident like this to prove innocence if they're guilty because the body cams, which more and more police officers are wearing, are proving the liars to be liars.

00:28:09.320 And if a cop does wrong, the camera shows that as well.

00:28:14.100 This case is everything that is wrong with social justice warriors.

00:28:20.520 Everything.

00:28:22.460 These people are literally scourges on society.

00:28:27.140 It's disgraceful.

00:28:28.840 The only thing left in this case, the only thing left to have happened in this case is for this woman. 0.98

00:28:35.440 Sean King and her attorney to be criminally charged and or civilly sued.

00:28:43.460 It needs to happen.

00:28:45.120 We need to start cracking down on these false allegations.

00:28:48.680 President Donald Trump held a roundtable yesterday on Long Island, New York to discuss immigration.

00:29:05.200 But it was really a roundtable on MS-13 with the Mickens and Cuevas families in attendance.

00:29:10.440 Both lost their young daughters, 15 years old, almost 16 years old, to a brutal, brutal attack by MS-13 because the girls had the audacity to get into an argument at school, as kids do, with MS-13 gang members.

00:29:26.760 And the family's stories were absolutely heartbreaking.

00:29:29.780 But what really struck me, now my entire family lives in Long Island.

00:29:35.800 I grew up in Queens, which is technically part of the island, but it's one of the five boroughs of New York City, of course.

00:29:42.500 But my entire family, about 20 years ago, moved out to Long Island.

00:29:46.620 And I was shocked to learn.

00:29:48.400 Now, I bring you this subject matter every day.

00:29:50.320 I study groups like MS-13.

00:29:52.140 I know quite a bit about them.

00:29:53.240 And I've always known the numbers that about 10,000 to 20,000 MS-13 gang members exist in the U.S.

00:29:59.400 But I didn't realize that there are now 20% of those in Long Island.

00:30:05.080 I knew the population of MS-13 in Long Island was growing.

00:30:08.360 I knew it was bad.

00:30:09.980 But I didn't realize that it accounted for nearly 20% of the group's membership and as a byproduct activity in the United States.

00:30:18.240 Now, one of the things I was very encouraged by is that ICE director, Tom Homan, and he's retiring.

00:30:24.120 And I just, Tom has been in law enforcement 30 some odd years.

00:30:28.100 He is so good at what he does.

00:30:31.080 He's a rough around the edges street cop.

00:30:33.400 He's not the most polished sounding guy.

00:30:35.540 But the president loves him because he's effective.

00:30:38.400 And I think we need more guys like that in federal law enforcement and fewer DOJ lawyers who polish up and present well.

00:30:46.020 Those street cops make a dent. 1.00

00:30:48.600 And one of the things Director Homan spoke about was how we've been working in concert with our law enforcement partners down in El Salvador, where MS-13 is from, Mara Salva, Trucha, 13, and working with a vetted program.

00:31:03.360 In other words, we will only work on these task force with law enforcement, military, and prosecutors in El Salvador that our people, our federal agents, our agencies have vetted.

00:31:19.020 We don't take their word for it.

00:31:20.760 So these are vetted people.

00:31:22.740 And as a result, they are putting thousands of MS-13 gang members, leaders, in jail in El Salvador.

00:31:33.280 They're cleaning up El Salvador so that MS-13 leadership has taken off the streets down there.

00:31:38.760 The country's safer.

00:31:39.660 Those people want to leave.

00:31:40.680 And it's having a ripple effect with a leaderless entity here in the U.S.

00:31:44.980 Now, it's not making them any less brutal.

00:31:46.480 MS-13 has been watching the president's press conferences.

00:31:49.280 MS-13 is a horribly, horribly brutal group.

00:31:52.920 Terrible, terrible people.

00:31:54.360 And they're going to continue to be.

00:31:57.480 And we need to crack down on them.

00:31:59.280 And the president is right when he calls them animals.

00:32:01.820 And you've heard people like White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders say they're worse than animals.

00:32:05.840 The president was being kind when he said animals.

00:32:08.060 And you heard a couple of people around the table yesterday.

00:32:09.940 If you watched the press conference say the same.

00:32:12.800 The police commissioners of Nassau and Suffolk counties, the two counties that comprise Long Island,

00:32:17.980 were there talking about the problems they have with murder and drug trafficking and human trafficking.

00:32:23.440 And MS-13, how witnesses are afraid to come forward.

00:32:26.160 There were representatives of the U.S. Attorney's Office.

00:32:28.720 There were congresspeople there. 0.59

00:32:30.600 Representative Lee Zeldin.

00:32:31.700 Representative Pete King sitting next to the president.

00:32:34.160 I've often disagreed with Representative Pete King on gun control.

00:32:39.620 Full disclosure, my family knows Pete King socially.

00:32:43.400 We have mutual friends.

00:32:46.720 And I've often disagreed with the congressman on gun control.

00:32:49.620 But there is, for a few people, better than Congressman Pete King when it comes to homeland and national security.

00:32:55.820 And because he's from Long Island and his district actually covers some of the areas that are the most predominant hotbeds of MS-13 activity,

00:33:05.080 Representative King has really been on top of this issue, as has Donald Trump.

00:33:09.840 Trump is probably doing more damage to MS-13 than any other president since they've been on the radar.

00:33:14.400 Really, Obama, the tail end of Bush.

00:33:16.580 And he's treating MS-13 like he did ISIS. 0.72

00:33:19.240 And we're systematically destroying the group.

00:33:22.140 But the stories from the families are really the most impactful.

00:33:27.600 Law enforcement is doing their job.

00:33:29.200 They're making a dent.

00:33:30.060 But people need to hear the victims.

00:33:32.380 They need to hear the victims.

00:33:35.080 Apparently, though, outlets like the Washington Post don't.

00:33:38.980 Now, you saw Nancy Pelosi double down and talk about dignity and how we should treat MS-13 with dignity. 0.99

00:33:44.900 And all of these liberals saying we shouldn't be calling them animals.

00:33:48.980 They're still human beings.

00:33:50.040 They prefer machetes, knives, and baseball bats.

00:33:53.420 They rape.

00:33:54.440 Their mantra is rape, control, and kill.

00:33:56.980 Rape, kill, control. 1.00

00:33:58.540 Anyway, you dice it up.

00:33:59.820 And that's what they do.

00:34:02.020 That's what they do.

00:34:03.660 But Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and the Democrats want MS-13 to be treated fairly.

00:34:07.520 Now, remember, the director of ICE, Tom Holman, said, as did some representatives of the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Eastern District of New York.

00:34:19.140 There are two districts in New York down in the city, Southern District of New York, which covers Manhattan and the Bronx and areas of Westchester County and parts in those areas.

00:34:33.260 And then you have the Eastern District of New York, which is Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Nassau and Suffolk counties.

00:34:40.400 These are representatives of the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Eastern District of New York.

00:34:44.300 And they said, again, alongside ICE Director Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Tom Holman, that there are about 10,000, 10,000 MS-13 gang members in the United States, 2,000 of which live in Long Island, New York.

00:35:02.680 And that's a conservative estimate.

00:35:03.720 But loose affiliates, people associated with the group who aren't full members yet, a double, about 20,000 full-blown members or associates of MS-13 in the United States.

00:35:16.520 The Washington Post, last night after the Trump roundtable, runs a political analysis, and it's entitled, you ready for this?

00:35:25.080 Trump, again, mirrors a large immigrant community with the violent actions of a few people, a few. 1.00

00:35:35.720 For the second time in his presidency, President Trump traveled to Long Island to talk about immigrants and crime.

00:35:42.060 No, he went to talk about illegal criminal aliens, those who commit crimes.

00:35:48.960 Nothing was said about the people who come here legally.

00:35:52.620 Why would it be?

00:35:53.800 They're coming legally.

00:35:55.760 They're non-news, waiting online.

00:35:58.500 They're paying the fees.

00:35:59.380 They're coming legally.

00:36:00.460 They're working.

00:36:01.440 They're contributing to America.

00:36:03.360 They're making America great.

00:36:05.880 The legal immigrants.

00:36:06.820 We're a nation of legal immigrants.

00:36:09.020 He wasn't talking about immigrants.

00:36:10.580 He was talking about criminal illegal aliens.

00:36:13.500 While the event in Bethpage, New York, was described as a roundtable on immigration,

00:36:18.220 the chosen location, Trump's opening comments and assembled guests made clear

00:36:23.140 that the focus was more specifically on the criminal gang MS-13 and tying their actions to immigrants more broadly.

00:36:30.760 Again, no, another lie by the fake news, Washington Post.

00:36:35.760 In that sense, evening, the event was perfectly fitting.

00:36:40.060 The conversation was supposed to be about immigration.

00:36:42.220 But Trump instead focused almost entirely on a subset of the subset of the immigrant population,

00:36:48.980 some of whom are members of a gang and have committed violent crime.

00:36:53.340 But by returning to Long Island, he also highlighted how hollow that rhetoric actually is.

00:37:00.060 The president said, quote,

00:37:01.700 We're here today to discuss the menace of MS-13.

00:37:04.100 It's a menace, a ruthless gang that has violated our borders and transformed one's peaceful neighborhoods

00:37:10.380 into blood-stained killing fields.

00:37:12.880 Horrible people, by the way.

00:37:14.900 He's right.

00:37:15.620 He introduced the families, the Mickens and the Cuevas family, said, quote,

00:37:21.500 Their beautiful daughters were murdered by MS-13 gang members, many of whom exploited glaring loopholes.

00:37:27.540 And we have the biggest loopholes of any country anywhere in the world.

00:37:30.660 We have the most worst immigration laws of any country anywhere in the world. 0.94

00:37:34.360 But they exploited the loopholes in our laws to enter the country as unaccompanied alien minors. 0.99

00:37:39.940 They look so innocent.

00:37:41.660 They're not innocent, the president said.

00:37:43.600 He went on to say crippling loopholes in our laws have enabled MS-13 gang members and other criminals

00:37:48.780 to infiltrate our communities.

00:37:50.600 And Democrats in Congress refuse to close these loopholes.

00:37:54.320 According to the disgraceful practice known as catch and release,

00:37:57.040 Democrats have to abandon their resistance to border security

00:37:59.260 so we can support law enforcement and save innocent lives.

00:38:03.580 And he went on to say they're animals.

00:38:06.240 He calls the way they kill.

00:38:07.580 The killing feels.

00:38:08.460 He's right.

00:38:10.080 Because law enforcement was in that room and they agreed with the president

00:38:13.140 and they thanked him.

00:38:13.940 But the far leftists, this moron, Philip Bump, at the Washington Post,

00:38:20.140 wants to make believe that Trump hates legal immigrants.

00:38:24.300 His wife is one.

00:38:25.600 His wife is one.

00:38:27.060 That he hates legal immigrants.

00:38:29.160 And that MS-13 are a few fringe players.

00:38:32.240 Three or four people in MS-13.

00:38:34.100 Oh, forget what the ICE director is telling you with 10,000, 2,000 in New York alone.

00:38:39.060 There's a few.

00:38:40.280 A minor few.

00:38:41.000 Democrats, of course, are on the rampage again because they need illegals. 1.00

00:38:46.180 They need illegals for votes. 0.99

00:38:48.740 A lot of money.

00:38:50.000 A lot of money in having illegals vote. 0.70

00:38:52.300 A lot of money in that.

00:38:53.360 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce loves it.

00:38:54.700 They get that cheap labor.

00:38:57.020 The immigrant groups that are funded by far leftists like George Soros and Tom Steyer,

00:39:02.600 Peter Lewis, they love this.

00:39:04.760 They love this.

00:39:06.180 They will throw millions upon millions of candidates that push to legalize illegals, to make the 0.96

00:39:11.720 United States more socialist, to bring the United States to its knees.

00:39:17.400 Terrible.

00:39:18.320 These are horrible, horrible people.

00:39:20.700 And President Trump is right.

00:39:21.980 And everybody around that table.

00:39:24.680 These are a diverse group of people.

00:39:26.240 Peter King was not a Trump guy.

00:39:28.440 He was all in for Jeb Bush, then all in for John Kasich.

00:39:32.760 Peter King was not a Trump guy in 2015, 2016.

00:39:36.920 But people understand Trump's making a dent.

00:39:39.540 You've got U.S. attorneys, assistant U.S. attorneys, police commissioners, thanking the

00:39:45.420 President of the United States for his leadership.

00:39:49.000 They're not doing that in a vacuum.

00:39:51.260 They're not doing that because they want to pander to the President.

00:39:54.340 They're doing it because the threat is real.

00:39:57.940 The threat is real.

00:39:59.380 And that one dad, I believe his name is Mickens, I, unfortunately, for, I don't have his

00:40:06.380 first, I want to see if it's in this article, but I doubt the Washington Post would.

00:40:10.100 Give much attention to the families of these victims.

00:40:19.060 The White House, in contrast, tweeted out a photo of the family, the White House Twitter

00:40:25.980 account of all of them.

00:40:26.660 I believe the man's name was Mr. Mickens, and he said his daughter was killed.

00:40:30.960 It was heartbreaking that, you know, some days he thinks about going up to her room to

00:40:35.640 tease her like a dad does to a daughter to just, you know, joke around with her and

00:40:38.720 she's not there.

00:40:40.360 And it gives you chills and it breaks your heart.

00:40:43.020 And he said, I try to explain to people that are critical.

00:40:46.400 I'm going to paraphrase Mr. Mickens.

00:40:47.840 But he was basically saying that.

00:40:49.160 And he is a, either an African-American or a dark-skinned Hispanic man.

00:40:52.800 I mean, I would venture that many people he knows that he, that he works with, they don't

00:40:56.620 probably don't support Donald Trump, but Trump has been wonderful to his family.

00:41:00.640 And you could tell that he genuinely appreciates the president.

00:41:04.400 They, they've created a relationship.

00:41:06.580 And he said, you know, I tried to explain to people, I'm paraphrasing, but the gist of

00:41:10.880 it was what this president is doing.

00:41:13.780 And, and what he was trying to say, and it was hard for him to get his words out because

00:41:16.840 he was overwhelmed and he's grief stricken and he lost his daughter.

00:41:19.160 And I can't imagine that you don't bury your children.

00:41:21.200 He said that you shouldn't bury your children.

00:41:23.760 And it was very overwhelming and emotional for him.

00:41:25.920 But I actually thought he did a great, great job.

00:41:28.440 I was making a note to myself as I was watching it as somebody who's on air every day, you

00:41:32.880 know, here's a guy who's not, who doesn't do what I do.

00:41:35.460 And despite all of that and the emotion and, and, uh, so he did a very, very good job addressing

00:41:42.180 the media, addressing the nation.

00:41:44.000 And he basically said, I try to explain to people that this president really is trying

00:41:49.160 to solve this problem with this gang.

00:41:52.040 He was trying to say, Mr. Mickens was, this is not a political issue.

00:41:55.560 This isn't Democrat versus Republican.

00:41:57.860 This isn't about legal immigrants.

00:41:59.320 This is about a criminal gang.

00:42:02.240 The other gentleman there, Mr. Cuevas, I believe his name was broke down.

00:42:05.320 And tears, uh, these families, they don't care about conservative, liberal, Republican,

00:42:11.900 Democrat, Trump, never Trump, liberal, this, that, MAGA, whatever.

00:42:15.180 They don't care.

00:42:16.040 They lost their two little girls in a brutal, torturous murder.

00:42:20.880 And the president of the United States reached out to help them, to help them by trying to

00:42:27.740 ensure that it doesn't happen to any other kids.

00:42:31.460 He's given these families a mission.

00:42:33.680 He's given these families something to live for after they lost their kids.

00:42:37.620 He's working alongside these families.

00:42:40.680 That's apolitical.

00:42:43.080 The left, though, they can't handle that.

00:42:45.080 The left can't handle that.

00:42:46.040 How dare Donald Trump insult them as 13 gang members?

00:42:49.200 Oh, my God, how dare he?

00:42:50.600 They have dignity.

00:42:51.340 Don't you know they have dignity?

00:42:53.420 They have dignity.

00:42:54.120 There are only a few people, a few, a little few.

00:42:58.780 That ICE director doesn't know what he's talking about.

00:43:00.620 I mean, that guy, what does he know?

00:43:01.980 The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been in the field for 30, 35 years, has

00:43:06.440 the utmost unilateral respect, unanimous respect from all his men and women whom he leads.

00:43:12.220 But what does he know?

00:43:12.860 What does that guy know?

00:43:14.080 Regarded as a world authority on illegal immigration, Tom Holman, what does he know?

00:43:17.620 He doesn't know anything.

00:43:18.220 Philip Bump at The Washington Post knows much more than Director Holman.

00:43:23.260 This is disgraceful.

00:43:25.060 And you can only conclude when you read things like this, that the left truly hates America.

00:43:32.240 They have no interest in protecting this nation.

00:43:36.660 They are absolutely hysterical.

00:43:38.840 They are so beside themselves that the president of the United States insulted a gang whose mantra

00:43:45.600 is rape, kill, and control. 1.00

00:43:49.160 It is despicable.

00:43:50.580 It is disgraceful.

00:43:51.380 And quite frankly, it's unbelievable.

00:44:04.840 A couple of interesting items happened over the last couple of days.

00:44:07.940 In the state of media, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York ruled.

00:44:11.720 This is according, well, not according to, this is according to the judge, but I'm reading

00:44:15.240 you this story from NBC News.

00:44:17.440 Donald Trump cannot block users from his Twitter feed, federal judge rules.

00:44:23.160 President Donald Trump cannot block Twitter users for the political views they've expressed

00:44:27.760 a federal judge in Manhattan ruled on Wednesday.

00:44:30.180 Now, the president's account blocked people who trolled his account and insult him.

00:44:35.440 The judge said that the blocking is unconstitutional and a violation of the First Amendment.

00:44:42.220 Her name is Naomi Rice Buchwald.

00:44:44.460 In her ruling, she wrote, quote, while we must recognize and are sensitive to the president's

00:44:49.800 personal First Amendment rights, he cannot exercise those rights in a way that infringes

00:44:54.520 the corresponding First Amendment rights of those who have criticized him.

00:44:59.180 Now, the government argued that blocked individuals can still access the president's tweets.

00:45:03.780 They can set up another account.

00:45:05.460 They can look at a friend's account.

00:45:07.220 The judge agreed, but said that even considering the president's First Amendment rights, preventing

00:45:11.580 users from interacting directly with him on Twitter represented a violation of a real,

00:45:17.960 albeit narrow, slice of speech.

00:45:20.780 It argued that Donald Trump's Twitter account is a, quote, unquote, public forum under the First

00:45:27.160 Amendment.

00:45:28.340 Very, very interesting.

00:45:29.400 The Institute represented seven individuals who had been blocked by the president's Twitter

00:45:34.960 account.

00:45:35.800 They said they were pleased with the decision.

00:45:38.220 The White House has no comment.

00:45:41.100 Now, here's the problem.

00:45:43.740 There have been conservative media figures who have been banned from Twitter.

00:45:48.060 Does the same apply to them?

00:45:51.360 Are their comments First Amendment protected?

00:45:54.040 Because as members of the media, of the press, their Twitter accounts would be deemed a public

00:46:00.540 forum.

00:46:01.200 Ergo, do they have the right to say what they want to say?

00:46:03.420 And do viewers, do Twitter users have a right to view their tweets?

00:46:09.120 It's going to be very, very interesting.

00:46:10.560 And I would encourage those people to sue.

00:46:12.400 The other big question is, does this ruling apply to Facebook?

00:46:14.880 Now, at face value, I've spoken at some, a few, two to three last, three actually, constitutional

00:46:21.120 lawyers, one more of a specialist in interactive law, two constitutional with regards to First

00:46:27.660 Amendment issues, things of that nature, one more an interactive lawyer, all seem to agree

00:46:31.600 that this ruling sets up a challenge to those who are banned from Twitter if they're media

00:46:36.380 figures.

00:46:36.840 Now, if you're an unknown person with a profile using a fake name and photo and you have 70

00:46:41.240 followers, probably not so much, but if you were, say, an alt-left, an alt-right, a very

00:46:49.220 controversial person with a large following who had previously been verified, a Milo Yiannopoulos,

00:46:54.640 for example, who is considered media, is considered a public figure, there's a very strong, according

00:47:01.080 to these experts, I'm not a constitutional lawyer or an internet lawyer, but they feel that a guy

00:47:06.320 like Milo Yiannopoulos would have a very strong claim against Twitter and most likely Facebook

00:47:12.200 as well.

00:47:12.760 Now, this is a pretty broad case, right?

00:47:14.940 It'll go to the Court of Appeals, it'll go up to the Supreme Court, but very, very interesting.

00:47:18.940 Now, while all this is happening, billionaire Elon Musk, probably one of the most brilliant

00:47:24.560 guys in history, says he's going to create a website, this is the Washington Examiner, and

00:47:30.080 Musk's Twitter was on fire.

00:47:31.660 He was going to create a website where users can track and rate the credibility of journalists,

00:47:37.520 editors, and publication.

00:47:40.200 Elon Musk wrote, quote, going to create a website where the public can rate the core truth of

00:47:45.840 any article and track the credibility score over time of each journalist, editor, and publication,

00:47:51.800 thinking of calling it Pravda, a joke about the old Russian media outlet.

00:47:57.520 Somebody said, well, except that much of the public doesn't appear to care about or truth.

00:48:01.660 Musk said, enough of the public does care about the truth.

00:48:04.680 I have faith in people.

00:48:05.520 He's right.

00:48:06.080 They do.

00:48:07.380 They do.

00:48:08.200 Musk also tweeted, the holier-than-thou hypocrisy of big media companies who lay claim to the

00:48:14.780 truth but publish only enough to sugarcoat the lie is why the public no longer respects

00:48:21.140 them.

00:48:23.120 And he went on then to say he was going to create that site.

00:48:25.480 He also put out a poll on Twitter.

00:48:29.380 It's going to say, create a media credibility rating site that also flags propaganda botnets.

00:48:34.420 The choices were, yes, this would be good.

00:48:36.500 No, media are awesome.

00:48:38.100 Let's see how the votes shook out.

00:48:42.620 And let me see.

00:48:43.800 It's not letting me.

00:48:44.560 Oh, let's see.

00:48:45.100 The votes, 88% of the, as I clicked, yes, 88% of the 631,952 votes would like him to

00:48:57.040 create that site.

00:48:58.360 12% of that 631,952 right now say they would not.

00:49:04.700 Elon Musk went on to tweet, come on, media, you can do it.

00:49:07.520 Get more people to vote for you.

00:49:08.560 You are literally the media.

00:49:09.680 Yeah, amazingly, the, quote, media is awesome, end quote, vote is declining despite hundreds

00:49:16.100 of articles attacking this very poll.

00:49:18.340 And he's right.

00:49:19.220 The media was beside themselves trying to now attack Elon Musk for wanting them to be credible

00:49:25.000 and truthful.

00:49:26.480 You know, I often tell you the editorial standards here at The Rebel are clearly much higher than

00:49:32.000 they are at CNN.

00:49:32.860 There are a lot of stories I want to do that get shot down because we don't have them sourced

00:49:36.660 properly or we don't have enough on the record sources or the off the record sources just

00:49:42.100 don't, well, they don't rise to the bar that we're comfortable with.

00:49:44.480 And it's really, really important because we need to do that so that when you watch the

00:49:48.140 show, you know that you're getting accurate information.

00:49:51.560 I also let you know that I have a conservative bent.

00:49:53.660 I'm not a, an objective down the middle newsreader.

00:49:57.080 I don't want to be never claimed to be.

00:49:58.700 I'm not a journalist.

00:50:00.060 I'm an opinion commentator.

00:50:01.900 I was an investigator.

00:50:03.040 I've never claimed to be a guy that would ever have wanted to sit on the CBS nightly

00:50:07.780 news and be supposedly objective.

00:50:10.280 But man, I love that a billionaire like Elon Musk is doing this.

00:50:14.100 It's going to be really, really interesting.

00:50:15.620 These are two incredibly interesting media stories.

00:50:18.340 One, that Elon Musk wants to call the media to task on their lack of truth.

00:50:24.320 And two, that Donald Trump's Twitter is a public forum.

00:50:27.500 Does it apply to other public figures, politicians or not?

00:50:31.540 Now, I will give a special mention and credit where due to somebody, somebody I've never

00:50:37.200 given credit to, but I'm a fair guy.

00:50:40.260 Chris Cuomo from CNN held a roundtable on school violence with Nancy Pelosi and didn't

00:50:45.720 let her get away with anything. 0.95

00:50:46.920 Cuomo really pressed Pelosi on the federal government funding, something that I'm very

00:50:51.660 passionate about, a hardening of schools as targets, a centralized access point.

00:50:56.160 I thought Cuomo's questioning was very intelligent.

00:50:58.440 I thought it was spot on.

00:50:59.480 He said things as nuanced as, look, of course, we'll have multiple doors of egress, meaning

00:51:04.840 12, 15 doors for students to get out if, God forbid, there's a fire or an active shooter.

00:51:09.980 But we need to centralize the ways in.

00:51:12.120 We need to have those exit doors locked with those standard bar locks.

00:51:15.820 We see them all the time.

00:51:16.760 No handle on the outside.

00:51:18.160 One of those bar locks that somebody could easily just nudge and get the door open in a

00:51:21.480 split second. 0.96

00:51:22.300 I have to give Chris Cuomo a lot of credit.

00:51:24.380 He engaged in good journalism in that interview with Nancy Pelosi.

00:51:29.040 And hopefully if Elon Musk gets that site off the ground, we'll see more of that.

00:51:33.660 And maybe just maybe this lawsuit against Donald Trump will have unintended consequences.

00:51:38.880 And all of those public figures from the right that have been banned on Twitter and Facebook,

00:51:43.480 Facebook is trying to do that to the rebel Facebook page.

00:51:45.760 They are trying to get the rebel to shut down their Facebook page because of things that

00:51:51.080 the far leftists at Facebook deem inappropriate.

00:51:54.700 They won't tell us here at the rebel what that is.

00:51:57.240 They won't tell us what that is.

00:51:59.120 We, of course, all feel that it's just more censorship of conservative speech.

00:52:02.920 Maybe just maybe this lawsuit forcing President Trump not to block people on Twitter is going

00:52:08.440 to have unintended consequences and blow back on the left, reinstating conservatives and

00:52:13.960 opening up, opening up that freedom of speech for those of us on the right.

00:52:38.440 .

Rebel News Podcast - May 24, 2018

Off The Cuff Declassified - John Cardillo - May 24⧸2018

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