Off The Cuff Declassified： Trump's Korea win, veteran vs. goverment, Obama running the Democrats
Summary
Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un agreed to denuclearize North Korea, which is a big deal for the people of North Korea and the families of those who lost a loved one in the Korean War. It's a win for the president and a big win for America.
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Today on Off the Cuff Declassified, we're going to be analyzing Donald Trump,
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America's, and the world's big win in Singapore at the summit between Donald Trump and North Korea's
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Kim Jong-un. I'm going to have attorney Christopher Reed joining me. This story will infuriate you
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how our government is so inefficient it declared his young disabled veteran client dead and yanked
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all of his benefits. We were able to help him. You're going to want to hear this. It tells you
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everything wrong with big government. I've got to bring you a tragic, tragic update about a hostage
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situation in Orlando, Florida. And Barack Obama just won't go away. He's meeting with Democratic
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2020 hopefuls. And wait till you hear who this group of winners is. I could not be prouder today
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of our president, Donald Trump, prouder to be an American and prouder to live in an America
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that again leads from the front. Of course, I'm talking about the historic summit in Singapore
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that took place last night, this morning, Singapore last night, our time here on the East Coast
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at 9 p.m. out of which came an agreement where North Korea agrees to completely denuclearize. Now,
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I'm not saying I trust North Korea, but the mere fact that Donald Trump in the United States of
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America got North Korea to the table, shaking hands. Trump, by the way, is to be commended. Yes,
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I believe he deserves a Nobel Prize. Now, you guys know I'm a fan of the president, but I've never
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been a cheerleader of the president. When he's wrong, I call him out. There are people in his
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administration that I still think and have thought shouldn't be there. His son-in-law, his daughter,
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I never liked that idea. There are some other people that I would have liked to have never seen
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been in the administration, Reince Priebus, Katie Walsh, his prior chief of staff and deputy chief
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of staff. But there is no debating the fact that Donald Trump knows how to make a deal.
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And there's no debating the fact that he is completely, completely dismantling Barack Obama
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and the Republican neocons, the Democrats' globalist agenda. There is no doubt.
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So let's look at the pre-meeting, if you will. Much has been written in the media about the
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meeting itself. Now, the details of the denuclearization deal are pretty scant right
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now. We don't have many details. We know that there are certain concessions,
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the most important of which, of course, is that North Korea is going to denuke.
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Others are that we're going to get the remains of 6,000 service people from the Korean War.
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That's a big deal for those families, a very big deal for the children and the grandchildren of
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those who fought in that war. Many of them are alive. Many of those families, their children
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would be in their 60s and 70s, their grandchildren in their 20s, 30s and 40s. But these are relatively
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young families that will now get some closure for a deceased relative, which I think is a
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spectacular, spectacular thing. I've told you on the show many times, there is no more powerful
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weapon on this planet to destroy communism, dictatorships, totalitarianism. No greater
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weapon than capitalism. None. So, of course, the left-wing media is hysterical about the way Donald
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Trump handled the meeting. But let's first go to the pre-meeting. Trump, Pompeo, and National
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Security Advisor John Bolton pulled off, Bolton pulled off a work of art. I'm suspecting, although
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she was less visible for obvious reasons, the new CIA director, Gina Haspel, had a lot to do with
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this as well. Not to mention Secretary James Mattis over at the Department of Defense. Many,
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many people. General Kelly, the Chief of Staff, had input here. Tremendous input into this.
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The President is his Chief of Staff, but there's also a Marine four-star general who has tremendous
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experience around the world. Now, Trump commanded this meeting from day one. First, by sending
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to meet with Kim twice, an underling. I am the biggest fan of
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Secretary of State Pompeo, so I don't say underling in a demeaning way whatsoever. I think he might go
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down in history as one of the greatest Secretaries of State. This man has accomplished more in months
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than its predecessors of many administrations have in decades. But he's clearly in the chain of
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command, subordinate to the President. And so that sent a message to Kim that the President was going
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to send an emissary twice to feel things out. Then the minute Kim stepped out of line, the President
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walked from the summit. Kim then sent an emissary with a big card to the White House. Summit was back on.
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The summit took place as scheduled, something I've actually been predicting at a better than 50%
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chance. Now, yesterday I predicted that we'd come out of this with a win. I didn't know it was going
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to be this big of a win, but I predicted we'd come out of it with a win because I suspected the
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groundwork was already laid. I didn't think Donald Trump was going into this blind. I think a lot of
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the work was done by Secretary Pompeo and through the intermediaries. But the fact that Trump handled it
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that way, the fact that he handled it that way showed us something else. It showed us that the
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United States controlled this from start to finish. The United States was in complete control here,
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complete command and control. Even the way Trump exited the meeting for a couple of days,
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it forced North Korea to take a submissive posture and go back to the White House with that letter.
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Then we get to the meeting itself in Singapore. If you look at the nuances of the body language,
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Trump escorting Kim in, Trump commanding the room. When they shook hands and looked at the camera,
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Trump giving Kim a nod, it's okay, now you can talk to the cameras. He controlled it. Those little
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subtle cues. Kim was looking to Trump to figure out when it was time to do the next thing.
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There was already, there was already a superior subordinate relationship there with the United
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States in the position it should have been, superior, superior, not subordinate like Barack Obama was
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with Cuba. Those embarrassing, embarrassing photographs of Raul Castro holding Obama's
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limp wrist over his head. In contrast, the Trump, six foot three, six foot four, standing there,
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shaking Kim's hand firmly, looking down at Kim. That's what the United States need. I'm not saying
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height. That's something you're born with. Obama was much taller than Raul Castro. He got a foot
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taller than Raul Castro. Raul Castro still made Obama look weak, feckless, but weak, silly. It was such
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an embarrassing visual for the United States of America. But Trump goes into this meeting and he gets
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out of the meeting what he expected to get going in. Trump never sold, despite what the left-wing
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media tells you, Trump never sold the American people on anything remotely resembling him having
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come out of that meeting with North Korea, demolishing all its nuclear sites while they were
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in the meeting. He always said, we're going to get to an agreement where they'll denuclearize,
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which we did. And we're going to create an inspection framework and then we're going to move
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forward. And we're going to get some other things as well. The left was hysterical. People like Jim
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Acosta saying, well, Trump gave himself all kinds of outs if it doesn't work. These people are so
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unpatriotic. So unpatriotic. It's sickening. Then the left-wing media was hysterical because what
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came out of this was that Trump showed Kim a North Korean coastline on an iPad. And he said,
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what beautiful beaches. Wouldn't it be great if you had hotels and resorts? So of course the left
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said, oh, this is all about personal enrichment for Trump. A, so what? And B, it's brilliant.
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I don't care if it's Marriott, Ritz-Carlton, Hyatt, Hilton, or the Trump organization that builds
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hotels there. Capitalism creeping in is only a good thing. Only a good thing.
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The left is hysterical for no reason. It was brilliant. A stroke of brilliance for Donald Trump
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to show Kim a developed coastline. Kim is infatuated with the West. He's infatuated with
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wealth. It was one of the, one of the, one of the best, one of the best exercises in asymmetrical
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diplomacy I've ever seen. And I'm getting news alerts. See, I'm looking at my other screen. I'm
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getting news alerts about, they pop up about Trump, but it's not, it's just stuff we've seen before.
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But I always, I want to check them in case something breaking happens. Even though we're
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not a breaking news show, I want to at least give you the freshest content I can when you watch the
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show. I thought it was brilliant. Now think about the Democrats are hysterical that Trump used
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asymmetrical diplomatic warfare, let's call it, or diplomatic strategy to win. I don't care how we win.
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I want to win. I don't care how we win. If it requires Trump pulling an iPad and showing Kim
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that he can get rich off a developed coastline, God bless him, do it every single time. And the
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left knows that as well. So think about the platform of today's democratic party. Think about
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the platform of their left-wing media allies. Seriously. It is literally, it is, they are literally
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saying, this is literally the platform of the left today. They would rather a destabilized
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Korean peninsula, destabilized Korean peninsula under new threat. It would rather higher taxes,
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more regulation, higher unemployment, Hamas murdering Israelis, and MS-13 gang members flooding the U.S.
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They are literally saying that is literally the platform of today's democratic party. This meeting
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in North Korea did not just, did not just see a win for Donald Trump. It was devastating to the
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Democrats in the left. Look, the Democrats in the left already had no economic platform going in to
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2018, the 2018 midterms and into 2020, none, zero, right? Now they have no foreign policy message.
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They have no, if this simply maintains, if this accord, this agreement that was reached last night,
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simply maintains its status quo into the midterms. The Dems have zero foreign policy message.
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How do you run against Trump on foreign policy? Well, he was wrong. North Korea might do something.
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Well, it doesn't matter because right now it's working. They have nothing. I honestly have never
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seen a political party in my lifetime literally have no political platform. I've never seen it literally
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have no political platform. The Democrats do not have one winning message. This summit was devastating
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to them. They, and it, and it shows you how sinister they are. They were rooting. They were rooting for a loss.
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Enter Dennis Rodman and his MAGA hat frying on CNN. Dennis Rodman slammed Obama five years ago. This
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is from a Fox news story. Rodman said, Kim told Rodman certain things to relate to Obama concerning
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potential negotiations. But the former president Obama didn't even give me the time of day. He just
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brushed me off. That didn't deter me. Rodman got death threats, but Kim was willing to talk five years
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ago. Obama, like his neocon buddies on the right, wanted a globalist world under the threat of war.
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Because if you have a globalist world under the threat of war, what do people need? Government. And
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why do they need government? To protect them, right? And when government has to protect you,
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when government is your safety net, because North Korea is going to nuke you and Russia is going to
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nuke you and China is going to nuke you and ISIS is going to kill you and Al Qaeda is going to kill
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you and Hamas is going to kill you. Government becomes big brother. They're going to protect
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you. They're your bodyguard. Give us your guns. Give us your guns. Let us regulate your speech. We
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don't want to make anybody mad now. We don't want to get into that war. The plot, the globalists,
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they're so sinister. And guys like John McCain tweet, and make no mistake, that's what globalism is about.
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To keep the world unstable enough so that the global citizenry needs government to protect them.
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But it's all a fallacy. It's all a fallacy. And this entire lie, this entire lie that Americans
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and the world have been told by the globalists, the Democrats, the neocons for decades.
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Well, Trump is debunking it. He's smashing it. I feel Trump is at risk. You've never heard me talk
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this way. I genuinely feel the guy's life is at risk. I really do. I think the Secret Service has
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to be very nervous. Trump is disrupting a world order. He's bringing us back to a place we were
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right after World War II, when we were safe and prosperous and free and secure. And then the
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globalists, the neocons, the Democrats, the John McCain. There is probably nobody more evil in DC than
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John McCain, except maybe Harry Reid, is not there anymore. Pelosi's a bumbling idiot. Feinstein,
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Dianne Feinstein, as liberal as she is, he is often a pragmatist on intelligence matters.
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But McCain was a really sinister, is a really sinister George Soros type guy. I think he's done
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in the Senate, a very sick man. So I'll say was in terms of his political career. But a George Soros
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sick type, Harry Reid was like that. These were evil guys. He loved this globalism, this ability
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for the governments to make people live in fear, to be afraid. I am so proud of our president,
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so proud of our president. This was such a win, such a win. And I hope my analysis is starting to
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explain to you why the left is so terrified, why they couldn't have this win. A peaceful world
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means a prosperous U.S. A peaceful world means a peaceful U.S. And when the U.S. is prosperous and
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peaceful, what don't you have? You don't have unemployment, so no one needs entitlements. They
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don't need welfare. They don't need benefits. You don't have poverty, rampant poverty. They don't need
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their EBT cards and their food stamps. You don't have race riots and groups like Black Lives Matter
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because the nation is peaceful and everybody's getting along and everybody's got money. And
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black families and Hispanic families are buying houses in nicer neighborhoods and people are
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integrating and everybody's getting along and their kids are playing together and people are having
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barbecues together. And it completely eliminates the need for the left and for government intervention.
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That's where Donald Trump is bringing us as a nation, where the U.S. is now bringing us as a
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world. And it has the left, the neocons and the Democrats hysterical. Let's keep it up. Let's keep
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this up. I want to see this president win for another how many years he's got, six, seven years in
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office. I want to see him keep winning. But as much as Donald Trump has a mandate to win,
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you have a mandate as a voter. I have a mandate as a voter. Get up out of our chairs and vote.
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Because if we put Democrats into power, if we allow Democrats to take the House of Representatives
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here in the U.S., if we allow that, they are going to impeach Donald Trump. They are going to block his
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agenda. They are going to try to put that globalist power back into place. So it's time for us to do our
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part. Time for us to get up and to fight at the ballot box in November, at the ballot box, in the
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primaries that are going on right now, into June, into August. Put the best Republican, the best
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conservative candidates on the ballots in those primaries and get out and vote in November and
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make sure that Republicans keep their majorities in both the House and Senate and that we replace
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the retiring rhinos in Congress with conservatives. They're going to help this president keep putting
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There's a story I've been working on about a young disabled veteran, an awesome guy named Kyle
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Noose, just an absolute sweetheart of a guy. You can't help but like him from the minute you speak
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to him. I profiled Kyle and his attorney, Chris Reed, who joins me now, on another show I do last
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week. The story really hit me and many others, not just on that production team, but also in the
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conservative world. And we took to social media to get the word of Kyle's case out there. I then
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tweeted it out and I got it to some friends of mine in the White House, Dr. Sebastian Gorka, who's a good
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friend of mine. You know, Seb Gorka has been on the show many times. He was really struck by this.
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We got it to many, many people close to the administration, and I couldn't be happier.
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The report, there was a little bit of movement. So to tell you all about it, a really great guy,
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by the way, who's doing, he's a hero in his own right. He's doing outstanding pro bono work for
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veterans, is Kyle Noose's attorney, Christopher Reed. He joins us from Birmingham, Alabama.
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Chris, thanks so much for being here this morning on short notice. Really appreciate that you made the
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My pleasure to have you. All right, so give the audience a bit of background on Kyle.
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Kyle is a young guy. He's in his 20s. He was a veteran. He served his country. He's had a mild
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form of cystic fibrosis that's progressed, but he hid this. As a kid, he played baseball. He played
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sports. He joined the military, but now it got to a point where it progressed, and the Social Security
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Administration, Kyle's dad, who he was very close to, sadly died about a month or so ago. The Social
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Security Administration mistakenly declared Kyle dead, and Chris has been fighting his battle. So,
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Chris, tell us a little bit about that, what happened, how Kyle was affected, and where
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Well, Kyle was very close to his dad, and so that really did complicate his cystic
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fibrosis. Now, what I really like about Kyle is he's got this drive to overcome. It's like
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his mind is stronger than his body. But whenever his dad passed away and complications of a cystic
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fibrosis acted up, and then Social Security declared him dead, it was almost too much for
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him to handle. In fact, when I took over the case, he was maybe 16, 17 percent oxygen function,
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and he just kind of lost the will to live. He just looked in his eyes because they told him if they
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didn't get this health insurance fixed by the time he got out, if he got better, he wouldn't get his
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oxygen tank. He wouldn't be able to talk to a physician about pain management. And so, if he
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got better, he was either going to come back to the ER because of shock or because he couldn't
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breathe. And he had tried so hard to get Social Security to listen. He sent them all forms of ID.
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Every one of his doctors wrote a letter and sent it.
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Let's back up just so the audience is clear. So, how did it come to pass, that Social Security
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Administration, declared Kyle dead when it was in fact his dad who passed? Well, like Winston
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Churchill said, civil servants are neither civil nor servants, and that definitely applies to the
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Social Security Administration. So, they just, it's the easiest error to avoid. All right, so when his
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dad died, they both had the first name. Gregory's are both their first names. They don't have the same
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birth date. They don't have the same Social Security number. So, somebody just keyed in
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Gregory Nuss. And instead of looking at it like... Is Kyle a nickname, his middle name?
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It's Gregory Kyle Nuss, and he's named after his dad. But whenever you're entering somebody's name
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to a death master list, you always enter in a birth date and a Social Security number. Well,
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somebody at the Social Security Administration decided that was too much work for them to do.
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So, they just saw a name that looked like Kyle's and said, oh, I guess he's dead. And once that entered
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in, Kyle's, his life, his health insurance was canceled. All his debit cards, he couldn't use
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any debit card. It's still going to be three weeks until he can access his accounts even now.
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And whenever we talked to the, whenever we talked to different people that have been through this,
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they said earliest we could expect would be about six months for them to fix it. And that would be
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soon for the Social Security Administration. Well, Kyle didn't have six months. So, at that time,
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we're just like, well, we're going to bring it to the media. We're going to bring it to
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congressmen and senators. And then we finally got it to the White House. And it literally takes an
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act of Congress for the White House to get somebody at Social Security Administration to cut through
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red tape and help somebody like this. Because whenever they talked to Kyle initially, they were
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mad because he couldn't come over to prove he was alive, even though he was fighting for his life in
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a hospital bed. And he had told them, like, can you guys just walk over here? It's a five-minute walk.
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Right. God forbid these taxpayer-funded employees could have sent somebody over in an Uber to the
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hospital to check on them. No, let's make the disabled veteran with cystic fibrosis come to
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them and wait online for four hours. It's so infuriating. Now, one of the things about this
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story that I particularly loved was that this was really a bipartisan effort. Look, I've always been
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very honest about my political bent. I'm a conservative commentator. But there are certain things that
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should be apolitical. They shouldn't. I don't even want to say bipartisan. They should be apolitical.
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So helping someone like Kyle serve this country, the government completely botched it. It should
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have been apolitical. And this was correct. You had Republicans and Democrats from his
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congressional delegation pretty much working very hard to help rectify this.
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Yeah, Senator Doug Jones, who's a Democrat, was very helpful. And Congressman Gary Palmer was very
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helpful. And actually, whenever I was thinking about how to do this, I really wanted it to be that way
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because it shouldn't be a right-left issue to help a disabled veteran in need. And every person I
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talked to on the left and right that's an elected leader did everything they could to help. And so
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this was one example where everybody kind of came together and put politics aside and helped Kyle.
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How many times, Chris, did you get any indicator when you were dealing with the representatives,
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when you were dealing with Social Security Administration, how many cases like this happen yearly? How many times
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does this happen where somebody's erroneously declared dead and their life is completely thrown
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And Alabama system is not as sophisticated as some other states, so we even have a higher error rate.
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And this would never happen in the private market. This error rate would not happen because you would
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fire somebody if they consistently didn't know how to enter a birth date or a Social Security
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number. Literally, your only job is to make sure that the date of birth is correct, the Social
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Security number is correct, before you enter somebody being dead.
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You know, Chris, not to interrupt you, but I know the audience. I know the audience. As incredulous as I am
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listening to this, we're talking about the Social Security Administration not properly entering or
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entering at all Social Security numbers and erroneously declaring people dead. If that isn't – if that
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doesn't perfectly illustrate how dysfunctional big government can be, I don't know what does.
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Oh, I mean, I'm very conservative. I always grew up very conservative, and I was furious because whenever I was
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calling them, they made it seem like we were inconveniencing them to try to get somebody over there to fix the
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error. But once they started getting calls from congressmen, senators, and the media – in fact, one of their
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attorneys emailed me with another, like, I think it was 15 pages of form for Kyle DeFell Friday. And I wrote him back and
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cc'd about 20 people in media, and I wrote him a very stern letter. But within about an hour and a half, the Social
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Security people were in the office, and they were apologizing, and they had fixed the issue. But he's like, this is very
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important. I think it was very important for them to keep it private. But I wasn't going to keep it private. I'm like, look, if you're going to
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treat people like this, you're going to treat them like this in front of the entire media. And I hope
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that you have cameras coming to your office. And if that's what it takes for you guys to do your job
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to a disabled veteran, fine. They don't like me very much, but I don't care. I mean, if they're going to do
00:24:48.420
this to a veteran – Your job as an advocate is to not be liked by bureaucrats, right? I mean, you're not really
00:24:53.320
doing your job if bureaucrats don't want to do something like you, if you're playing ball with them. You know, this story
00:24:59.480
had a good ending. And it'll be a good ending if Kyle – if one day we find a cure for cystic
00:25:04.160
fibrosis and Kyle's fully cured. But I'll say this subpart of the story had a good ending because you
00:25:10.400
happen to be a media-savvy guy. You're a media contributor. You write. A lot of people don't
00:25:15.080
have those resources, right? A lot of – even veteran attorneys out there like you who are doing the
00:25:20.860
right thing or helping people might not be media-savvy. And they might not know that route to take.
00:25:27.380
And it's a scary prospect, Chris, to know that this is happening to 14,000 people yearly. So if this
00:25:34.080
is happening to someone else, what advice would you give them? Look for an attorney that understands
00:25:39.680
what? Obviously, I know you'd have anybody call you, but you're in Birmingham, Alabama. So if this
00:25:43.960
is happening to somebody in Seattle, Washington, what's your advice for them?
00:25:48.240
Yeah, I do think having an attorney with media background makes a real difference because if
00:25:53.240
you went about this the normal process, it would be prohibitively expensive and take
00:25:57.120
forever. I mean, the only reason I was able to do it because I co-host a radio show, I do frequent
00:26:01.660
TV appearances, and I worked in D.C. for Heritage and for the Republican Party. So I kind of know my
00:26:06.340
way around that whole system. But even if you have an excellent attorney who knows how to file things
00:26:11.800
and move things along, you really have to have an attorney who knows how to work around the system
00:26:16.460
and can get through the red tape. And if I didn't have this specific background, it would have taken
00:26:21.920
forever. So I was very thankful that somehow he found me. But once he did, I wasn't going to let
00:26:27.420
it go until we figured out how to get his health insurance back. And yesterday he got his health
00:26:31.580
insurance back. And instead of six months, it took eight days. And I was like, that's what that's the
00:26:38.120
difference when you can apply media pressure and political pressure to those people. But if you can't
00:26:43.400
apply those things, they don't care if they get sued or you file something or whatever. They can't get
00:26:48.100
fired. But once people start coming to their office and yell at them, you have the White House giving
00:26:51.920
them calls, even they have to respond to that because at the end of the day, they don't want
00:26:56.320
to be bothered. And so if you annoy them enough, they'll actually do their job. But that's what it
00:27:00.240
takes. You know, I try to tell this to people all the time. I'm running a situation, even down here in
00:27:07.760
South Florida, where I am, where people had issues with politicians. I'm from a law enforcement and I am
00:27:13.240
a conservative guy. My show is 99.999% pro law enforcement. There was a situation down here with a
00:27:19.840
sheriff who's got problems. He's under criminal investigation. The case is currently with a state
00:27:25.240
attorney's office. And he was particularly heavy handed to the African American community. And I went to some of the
00:27:30.140
community leaders there, a couple of pastors, and I said, look, this is a small rural county. The only thing,
00:27:36.100
Reverend, that's going to get your attention from prosecutors up in Tallahassee and around the state is media
00:27:41.620
attention. And they refused. No, we don't want to bring attention. This is private. And some people
00:27:46.580
just don't understand how powerful that can be to move people who'd otherwise be apathetic because
00:27:52.500
Christopher nailed it. They don't want to be bothered. They're very comfortable collecting
00:27:57.080
that government paycheck. It never stops coming. And unless you make their lives a little bit
00:28:01.220
uncomfortable, they have no incentive to help you. Yeah. Until we actually reform our federal worker
00:28:08.260
laws to make it easy to fire them, it's always going to be like this. And we passed these laws
00:28:13.140
in the 19th century. It's terrible. Okay. So what now needs to be done for Kyle? He doesn't have
00:28:20.580
access to his bank accounts. It's pretty hard to function. How old is Kyle, by the way?
00:28:24.980
He's 28 and his life expectancy, best case scenario, is about 35, 36. But if there's some new treatments
00:28:31.480
coming out, hopefully he could extend it out a few years. Now, this new right to try law that the
00:28:36.580
president signed a few weeks back, which gives patients access to drugs not yet approved by the
00:28:41.060
FDA, but in the FDA pipeline. Does this help him at all? Are there any of those types of treatments
00:28:45.980
in that pipeline? Actually, I did some research and there's 123 trials related to cystic fibrosis
00:28:52.420
in Birmingham alone. So we're trying to see which one would be good for Kyle. But Alabama had a right
00:28:58.700
to try law very similar to the federal law. What President Trump did was streamline the process for
00:29:04.240
every state, which will amazingly move the process so much quicker. So Alabama actually had a very good
00:29:11.060
law on this. So we'll see. He's not terminal at this point, but as he progresses and progressive,
00:29:16.660
if it looks like there's some promising studies that could save his life, yes, he absolutely would
00:29:21.360
qualify for right to try. And this will make a difference for tens of thousands of people.
00:29:26.060
My dad's a physician. Whenever he heard about this going through, he was ecstatic because he's like,
00:29:31.000
it's ridiculous that terminally ill people can't at least get a chance when we know some of these
00:29:35.780
medicines could cure them. So we should have done this years ago. And I'm so pleased with President
00:29:39.920
Trump taking the leadership because it will absolutely save so many lives and make a difference
00:29:44.900
in so many families. Now, with the federal right to try law, Chris, patients can go across state lines,
00:29:50.220
correct? So if there's a trial being run at CDC or just for argument's sake in Georgia,
00:29:55.620
Kyle will be allowed to go there. He doesn't have to only admit the trials in his home state,
00:29:58.960
right? You can go, yes, you can go anywhere as long as you meet the criterion for the trial.
00:30:04.000
And they've reduced all, like virtually all the barriers for people to get these medicines.
00:30:08.640
And it's truly amazing because they cut through so much red tape in this thing. It's going to truly
00:30:13.420
reform and change people's lives who need access to those drugs from all over the country.
00:30:17.780
So what can the audience do? Look, he still doesn't have access to his bank accounts. I know you have
00:30:22.140
a GoFundMe set up for him. And I want to say that I rarely sponsor GoFundMes,
00:30:26.980
but I've now dealt professionally with Chris. I've spoken to Kyle on air. These are two of the
00:30:31.980
most genuine, reputable men I've ever come across. I have, no, I enthusiastically encourage people to
00:30:39.180
take a look at any way they can help Kyle. What are some ways that the audience can?
00:30:43.900
Yeah, if you go to GoFundMe, the hashtag is saving private Kyle. So GoFundMe, saving private Kyle.
00:30:51.240
You can donate there. And that's a way for him to get access to funds until his
00:30:55.820
cards are open. I'm actually bringing them cash to the hospital on Friday. Hopefully I don't get
00:31:00.980
mugged. So until he gets it fixed, we're going to have to find out a unique way to do it. But that
00:31:05.800
will help him a good deal. And then just if your audience would be able to just lift him and his
00:31:10.560
family up in prayers, it's just been tough losing their dad and with him going through this. And
00:31:15.280
that's made a world of encouragement. But really, you made a huge difference. Just that tweet you sent
00:31:20.220
and Sebastian Gorshut's in, that made, that started the process and it truly, truly sped up
00:31:25.600
everything. So we're very thankful for you, John, for doing that. And Kyle could not be more thankful.
00:31:29.640
So I just want to make sure your audience knows that.
00:31:31.480
Oh, well, Chris, this isn't for recognition. It was the least we could do. I rarely do a segment
00:31:36.380
where I speak to people and it's tough during break. We were so infuriated by what you and Kyle
00:31:42.960
told us that when we went into break after the segment ended, I was livid. I said that the second I'm
00:31:49.120
off air today, I'm going to start making phone calls and working on this because this shouldn't
00:31:53.540
be. This absolutely shouldn't be. But thank God, people like yourself, I mean, you're taking on
00:31:57.680
veterans cases pro bono. You're a busy guy. You've had a successful law practice. And you're,
00:32:02.240
this was really, I was so impressed. This was not about money for you. It's never been about a red
00:32:09.760
No, it wasn't. And he, he couldn't have paid me even if you wanted to. And I was thinking like,
00:32:14.600
you know, I can move my cases around and God will provide. And I just could not take the case.
00:32:21.000
And it's just, I saw him suffering and I knew that if I would get involved, I could really help.
00:32:25.880
But you just to look on his, after I heard his life story, I was like, I have to do something.
00:32:30.400
So I told my staff, we're going to do this, whatever it takes. And everybody,
00:32:33.840
nobody complained. They stayed late. They moved things around. My clients were super nice about
00:32:38.200
giving me a little extra time. So I love doing it. And I was happy that I even got the opportunity
00:32:43.840
to serve someone like Kyle. It meant the world to me to even get to be a part of it.
00:32:48.080
Chris, you're a good man. Very good man. And it's too few and far between. You've done,
00:32:52.360
you've done exceptional, exceptional work here. You may have saved Kyle's life.
00:32:56.960
Attorney Christopher Reed, Birmingham, Alabama. His client is Kyle Noose.
00:33:00.900
It's GoFundMe slash saving private Kyle. Really important case shows the dysfunction of the
00:33:07.040
federal government. And like Chris says, can't afford to donate. Just send some prayers to Kyle and
00:33:11.140
his family. And also read about his case. I want you to read about Kyle's case.
00:33:15.660
There are a couple of good articles on it. There's an article on Newsmax.com where we did
00:33:19.540
the original segment on this. But it's very important for you to read this so you can
00:33:23.840
understand the dysfunction of big government. Chris, I'm going to be wanting to talk to you
00:33:27.460
again. I want to do a whole segment on the inefficiency of government. So I want you to
00:33:30.520
come back on with me and let's talk about that.
00:33:34.340
All right. Chris, Christopher Reed, Attorney Christopher Reed out of Birmingham. Chris,
00:33:36.840
thanks very, very much for your time this morning.
00:33:52.540
Terribly, terribly tragic story out of Orlando, Florida. I was following this story yesterday.
00:33:56.720
It happened after I had already recorded the show and I had hoped to bring you a different
00:34:02.120
story today. When an Orlando police officer was responding to a domestic dispute, was shot
00:34:06.840
in the neck. Police officer was severely wounded, but lived. Went to the hospital, had extensive
00:34:12.900
surgery and lived. Fight these massive injuries. Very, very lucky on the part of the great work
00:34:19.140
by the surgeons and a very lucky, lucky police officer. The guy that nearly killed the officer,
00:34:24.120
shot the officer. His name is Gary Lindsay. And after he had shot the police officer, responding
00:34:30.520
police officer, Lindsay took four children hostage in the apartment. Now, the standoff lasted
00:34:36.220
for about 12, 13 hours. The children ranged in age from one to 11 years old. Originally,
00:34:43.100
that was thought to be 12 years old, 11 years old. Two were believed to be Lindsay's kids.
00:34:48.040
And the other two belonged to his girlfriend who had fled the home. Now, this went on and on and on
00:34:54.880
until about 9 p.m. last night. The SWAT team, the Orange County and Orlando City SWAT teams were
00:35:03.580
there. Many, many police officers. They were trying to negotiate, trying to negotiate, trying to
00:35:08.000
negotiate. Well, they heard gunshots, breached the apartment, thinking that he had killed one of the
00:35:14.020
children. And sadly, it turned out he had killed all four kids and himself. It's a hard story to
00:35:21.020
report. I've unfortunately had to respond to murdered children. They originally, this was in
00:35:26.380
West Orlando, right near the Universal Studios Amusement Park, an area where families are. Many
00:35:31.560
of these condos are rented out as Airbnbs or vacation rentals. This is not a place where you
00:35:38.260
typically expect this, the place where people go to enjoy themselves, have vacation with their
00:35:43.160
families. This all started on Sunday around midnight. Sunday, you know, Sunday going into
00:35:50.480
Monday morning around midnight. They received the domestic abuse call. Let me read this to you.
00:35:56.080
Authorities from a Fox News story. Authorities are responding to a domestic abuse call at a West
00:36:00.280
Orlando apartment complex when Lindsay, the killer, fired at them around midnight on Sunday. Officer Kevin
00:36:07.120
Valencia was shot and suffered, quote, very significant injuries. That from a chief of
00:36:15.200
Orlando, chief of police, Mina. And the officer is expected to survive. The officer is expected to
00:36:22.300
survive. It's, uh, wow, it's tragic. And like I said, the Orlando chief of police, John Mina said
00:36:28.060
that officer Valencia is expected to survive, but the injuries were significant and that's touch and go.
00:36:33.180
They're watching that. This guy was 35 years old. He was on probation again with the liberal judges
00:36:39.060
on probation and had a criminal history involving arson, battery, and death. But again, this criminal
00:36:46.000
justice system we have sucks. A neighbor, uh, who lives in a complex that she was awakened by the sound
00:36:52.820
of four loud gunshot. After being asleep on the couch, she said, she just heard pop, pop, pop, pop.
00:36:59.860
He looked out her window to see several police people carrying a police officer and performing
00:37:04.800
first aid before getting them into a patrol car and speeding away. Now there's going to be a lot of
00:37:10.620
after action analysis here. A lot of people are going to say, well, the police should have, could have,
00:37:14.520
would have. Let me tell you, this is about the most difficult scenario I can think of. A hostage
00:37:23.540
situation is difficult in and of itself. A hostage situation in an enclosed area, like an apartment,
00:37:30.640
is even more difficult because you only have one way in and out. It's not like a big house
00:37:35.560
where a SWAT team can come in through a basement window or a side window, or excuse me, or a door.
00:37:41.140
Often in an apartment, there's one way in and out. One door, maybe a window. If it's a garden type
00:37:46.260
apartment with windows facing the outside, not in a high rise, or it's a low floor. One way in and
00:37:51.420
out, meaning it's a kill zone for the shooter inside. That's difficult enough, even without
00:37:57.660
hostages, with a barricaded person. Now you're adding four children to the mix. Can't breach the
00:38:04.600
apartment. You can't just pick the door in and throw in flashbangs. People are certainly going to die.
00:38:08.500
Very hard to use a sniper because apartment walls are typically sheetrock. That round could
00:38:15.180
penetrate the bad guy and potentially hit an innocent. One of the kids, a neighbor.
00:38:22.720
I can't think of a more difficult tactical situation. So in this case, the Orlando police,
00:38:29.360
the Orange County Sheriff's Office, really did the only thing they could do, negotiate with the guy.
00:38:34.920
In this case, the hostage taker, most definitely tactically speaking, had the upper hand.
00:38:42.540
He was talking to them. They really had no reason to go breach while he kept talking.
00:38:47.480
But this guy was just evil. Evil. And when they heard a gunshot or gunshots and feared he killed one of
00:38:59.620
the children, they breached. They entered. They had no choice at that point. I don't think anything.
00:39:05.880
I know the police are going to be praised by some. I'm going to praise them. I think they did a great
00:39:09.880
job here. I think they did the only thing they could do. Right. And I know it sounds it might not
00:39:17.340
sound right. Say great job. I don't mean it to diminish this tragic loss of life. They don't.
00:39:23.540
But I think their restraint. Was what was needed here. Some situations just go sideways. They just
00:39:31.540
go wrong. People die. Babies. The police, to me, as somebody who's responded to things like this,
00:39:38.980
they had no other option. No other option. I've looked at the aerial shots of the complex. I've
00:39:45.560
talked to guys I worked with who went on to SWAT, some other active SWAT officers I know now.
00:39:51.820
And a guy I worked with in NYPD who spent many years as a hostage negotiator with the NYPD,
00:39:58.900
one of the most well-trained negotiation units in the world. To a man and woman, they all said.
00:40:05.520
And I feel the same way that the Orange County PD, Orange County Sheriff's Office in Florida,
00:40:10.280
the city of Orlando police did the only thing they could do. And let me tell you,
00:40:16.360
these cops are devastated. They are absolutely devastated. The photos of them having to hug each
00:40:21.840
other are just heartbreaking. No police officer wants to have a partner, a brother officer,
00:40:26.960
a sister officer shot in the neck. That's tragic enough. But there's something particularly
00:40:32.800
heartbreaking to a cop about losing children. Those are the ones you always want to win.
00:40:39.920
Those are the scenarios you always want to win. Unfortunately, here, it just wasn't going to
00:40:46.600
happen. This guy was too far gone. He was too maniacal. He was too homicidal. He was not letting the
00:40:53.140
police take him. He could have just killed himself. That's why I say he was pure evil.
00:41:00.420
Pure evil. He should have just killed himself. But instead, he took four babies with him.
00:41:07.780
They were one, five, seven, and eleven. It's an absolutely heartbreaking, heartbreaking story.
00:41:15.740
And pure evil does exist in this world. And our criminal justice system certainly needs reform.
00:41:21.900
I don't want to see non-violent drug offenders doing life without parole.
00:41:25.820
I don't want to see that. But man, I don't want to see homicidal maniacs like this evil, demonic,
00:41:31.300
savage out there on the streets, able to kill one other child.
00:41:45.740
Somebody really can't come to terms with the fact that they're not president anymore. And of course,
00:41:52.920
I mean Barack Obama. You know, the guy that embarrassed us in Cuba with Raul Castro holding
00:41:57.880
up his little limp wrist. He basically was the world's doormat. He's hysterical that Donald Trump
00:42:02.320
won big in North Korea while in Singapore with North Korea. But Obama is still apparently running
00:42:08.860
the Democratic Party. No, it's not Tom Perez. No, it's not Keith Ellison. It is Barack Obama.
00:42:15.520
This from Politico inside Obama's secret meetings with 2020 contenders. Still the reluctant leader
00:42:23.080
of the Democratic Party. Reluctant. I don't think he's reluctant. I think this guy wants to be in
00:42:27.260
power again. I think he is anything but reluctantly leading the Democratic Party from the shadows.
00:42:33.260
Obama has been providing counsel to Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and other presidential hopefuls.
00:42:40.460
Barack Obama has in recent months met with at least nine prospective 2020 Democratic
00:42:44.900
presidential candidates, including, and look at this winner bench. Remember, this is the party of youth,
00:42:51.180
the party of progress. This is the party of millennials. This is the party that's supposed to show us
00:42:58.340
new blood and new ideas. Obama has met with at least nine prospective 2020 Democratic presidential candidates,
00:43:05.100
including, drumroll please, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, and Deval Patrick,
00:43:11.120
former governor of Massachusetts, pulling them in for one-on-one sessions at his Washington office.
00:43:17.960
Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, and Deval Patrick. New blood, huh? Haven't heard those names.
00:43:26.240
Haven't heard those names before. I think the collective age of the first three is like,
00:43:29.640
let's do the math, like 200 years old. But I think it's more than 200 years old.
00:43:35.000
But it's just, it's perfect. It's just perfect. Now, the meetings have all been arranged quietly
00:43:41.680
and without any public fanfare. Apparently, Obama keeps offices on the third floor of the World
00:43:48.360
Wildlife Fund's building in Washington, D.C.'s West End area. The sources are talking about the secretive
00:43:56.880
sit-down, saying a stream of these people have been coming into this office. Obama apparently is not
00:44:02.680
making any promises of support and is not expected. This is from the Politico piece. He's not making
00:44:09.480
any promises of support, though, and is not expected to endorse in the 2020 race until after a nominee
00:44:16.980
has emerged. And this is just an absolute lie from Politico. Obama has so far avoided direct conflict
00:44:26.680
with President Donald Trump, save for a few public statements criticizing his moves attempting to
00:44:33.140
dismantle the Iran deal. Obamacare, protection for dreamers, though without naming Trump. Well,
00:44:39.260
so basically, Obama has criticized and had direct conflict with Trump on every single issue that
00:44:44.560
Trump has attacked. Nice spin, Politico. Nice spin. Now, they are downplaying and trying to make Obama
00:44:52.500
seem like this reluctant hero who's in the shadows and doesn't want to be the savior of the Democratic
00:44:57.820
Party, but unfortunately is just going to have to be. But I guess the lefties over at Politico are not
00:45:04.160
reading the writing on the wall. Obama's entire platform has just been dismantled. Even Obamacare
00:45:11.360
has been gutted with the destruction of the individual mandate. Obama's office is declining comment on all
00:45:16.980
this. But Obama is not reluctant. Now, here is there is some some detail. There are some details on
00:45:25.900
the Bernie Sanders meeting. Sanders, who has more respect for Obama and the work of his administration
00:45:30.240
than is often portrayed, requested his meeting with the former president held in mid-March. They
00:45:35.960
talked about the future of the party and their different roles in it. They talked about what the
00:45:39.600
party should be focused on and what would be a distraction. Obama discussed his views on the
00:45:45.480
differences between idealism and practicality and Sanders responded with his. It was like commie
00:45:50.660
palooza in that office, OK? They did not get into a specific discussion about whether Sanders would
00:45:56.280
run again for president in 2020 because it would be a disastrous fool's errand, especially after win
00:46:07.020
upon win upon win upon win economically, defensively, foreign policy wise by Donald Trump. It'd be the
00:46:13.880
dumbest thing any politician in history could ever do. Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb.
00:46:20.140
The meeting with Warren was Obama's second since leaving office, according to people who know
00:46:24.380
about both encounters. The first was in the spring of 2017 after Warren said she was troubled
00:46:28.900
by the 400,000 bucks Obama was getting to speak at a Wall Street investment firm,
00:46:33.900
describing it as an example of the influence of money that she called, quote,
00:46:37.480
a snake that slithers through Washington, end quote. Obama responded by inviting her in. They
00:46:44.220
heard each other out. She didn't apologize, but she acknowledged what she'd kicked up with the
00:46:48.240
comment, and they talked about keeping that conversation in mind for the future.
00:46:52.640
And then their second meeting, Obama and Focahontas, Elizabeth Warren, was warmer,
00:46:57.620
they said, from start to finish, and came in April. They talked about Richard Cordray,
00:47:01.440
the former head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, who is now the Democratic nominee
00:47:05.820
for governor in Ohio. They reminisced. They talked about Trump. They probably also talked about
00:47:10.860
grandkids and golf, like Loretta Lynch and Bill. Right? Because Democrats never talk about
00:47:15.900
anything substantive. Obama and Biden apparently remain close and speak by phone. Biden came in
00:47:21.880
for an in-person meeting. Deval Patrick is Obama's good buddy. They want to see Deval Patrick in the
00:47:27.240
race in 2020. He's a bit younger. He's African-American. That was always going to happen. I don't
00:47:30.700
predict it'll make it out of the primary. He's not a particularly inspiring guy. He is a
00:47:35.240
solid Democrat establishment. So I don't expect Deval Patrick to get too far when you've got bigger
00:47:42.680
names who are solid Democrat establishment. Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden. Deval Patrick,
00:47:48.320
relatively unknown guy outside of being the governor of Massachusetts, had a little national notoriety
00:47:52.460
during the Boston Marathon bombing, but quickly fell off the national radar. And not a very wealthy
00:47:58.600
man or like a Mitt Romney that has the money to keep himself relevant.
00:48:02.720
Now, this is really just about 40, 30 some odd, 20 some odd, 30 some odd, 40, I don't even know,
00:48:09.880
down in paragraphs of Obama's swoon. But it also goes on to say that Obama is continuing to make
00:48:17.620
those very well-paid speeches, no matter what Elizabeth Warren said, and no matter how many
00:48:22.160
tantrums she threw. Now, they are saying that Obama is still fundraising aggressively. He's urging
00:48:28.120
donors to contribute to the DNC, the Democratic National Committee. And he says his staff is
00:48:34.460
looking at who to endorse on the campaign trail in the fall with an emphasis on the down ballot
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races, having everybody vote Democrat down the ballot. One thing is sure, Obama is not going to
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go away. He is still very actively involved in the Democratic Party. I wouldn't be shocked
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if we saw Michelle Obama, God help us, make a run for something. But what we really need to do
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is reject any candidate Obama backs at the polls. We need to reject them. We need to make sure they
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lose in the landslides so we can send a message to Obama and the DNC that socialism in the United