Rebel News Podcast - Rebel News reporter jailed in NYC： The fight to free Anna Slatz

00:00:00.000 Hello Rebels, today we have a semi-live show.

00:00:03.840 Our reporter Anna Slatz was arrested last night

00:00:06.700 in New York City.

00:00:07.920 She was swept off the streets for violating a curfew

00:00:10.740 even though she was specifically exempted

00:00:12.920 from the curfew as a journalist.

00:00:14.960 We have been fighting to get her out of jail ever since

00:00:18.020 with not one, not two, not three, not four,

00:00:20.840 but five lawyers in two countries.

00:00:24.480 Alas, between the pandemic

00:00:26.360 and the overwhelming number of arrests,

00:00:28.440 we have not yet succeeded.

00:00:30.680 But in today's show, I'll tell you what happened

00:00:33.240 and our plan to fix it.

00:00:35.300 And I'll invite you to help

00:00:36.940 if you want to be part of the solution

00:00:38.380 at saveannaslatz.com, S-L-A-T-Z.com.

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00:01:07.000 All right, here's today's podcast.

00:01:08.860 You're listening to a Rebel News Podcast.

00:01:23.500 A Rebel reporter is arrested in New York City

00:01:26.920 and she's still being held in jail. 0.99

00:01:29.440 I'll tell you what happened

00:01:30.620 and what we're doing to get her free.

00:01:32.720 It's June 3rd and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:35.780 Why should others go to jail

00:01:39.380 when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:41.580 There's 8,500 customers here

00:01:43.640 and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:45.640 The only thing I have to say to the government

00:01:47.560 about why I'm publishing

00:01:49.000 is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:56.600 I'm doing today's show without a script.

00:01:59.120 Normally I write things out

00:02:00.900 and arrange things more closely with producers.

00:02:03.420 It makes it a bit smoother that way

00:02:05.480 but today has been anything but smooth.

00:02:08.600 In fact, today started for me last night

00:02:11.240 at around 11.30, 11.40 p.m.

00:02:14.620 I got a phone call from Anna Slats.

00:02:18.360 Anna is our newest reporter.

00:02:19.980 She's from Atlantic Canada

00:02:21.140 and on the weekend,

00:02:22.800 she and I talked about her covering

00:02:24.640 the Black Lives Matter protests

00:02:26.680 and the Antifa riots.

00:02:28.980 Anna comes from a different political point of view

00:02:31.020 than I do.

00:02:31.540 She's more left-wing but she's very sensitive 1.00

00:02:33.840 to issues in a way I very much respect.

00:02:36.660 Her particular thesis is that

00:02:38.380 the legitimate voices of Black America,

00:02:41.860 including peaceful expressions

00:02:43.500 of Black Lives Matter,

00:02:45.040 have been hijacked and drowned out

00:02:47.380 by violent rioters,

00:02:49.540 especially those of Antifa

00:02:52.020 and others using the Black Block tactics.

00:02:55.480 I thought, well, that's a fascinating point of view

00:02:57.520 and she went to Washington, D.C.

00:03:00.160 on the weekend to start her coverage for us

00:03:02.900 and it was excellent.

00:03:04.180 You might recall,

00:03:05.160 I interviewed her on the show the other day.

00:03:07.560 Here's a quick clip of how that looked.

00:03:09.760 So last night, yeah,

00:03:11.340 there was lots of destruction.

00:03:14.480 There was a ton of arson.

00:03:17.440 Trees were being ripped out

00:03:19.680 of the street on the sidewalk

00:03:22.740 and being thrown into a massive bonfire

00:03:24.920 they had outside of Lafayette Park,

00:03:26.920 outside the White House.

00:03:29.280 There was a ton of property destruction,

00:03:31.420 especially of government buildings,

00:03:33.200 but a church also was lit on fire.

00:03:35.180 I found this out in a separate location.

00:03:38.720 There were stones being thrown

00:03:40.520 through private businesses.

00:03:41.640 There was, I believe, a little bit of looting

00:03:43.660 and it was a different group of people.

00:03:47.440 Absolutely.

00:03:47.840 When the Antifa Black Lock showed up,

00:03:52.780 they, and I caught them on film,

00:03:54.800 they were the ones who were perpetrating

00:03:56.500 the majority of the damage.

00:03:58.220 The Black Lives Matter protesters

00:03:59.500 were actually telling them to stop

00:04:00.960 and they were not listening.

00:04:02.720 They were hurling bottles at police,

00:04:05.460 you know, beating up police cars,

00:04:07.020 things like this.

00:04:08.220 That's just not something that was happening

00:04:10.160 when BLM was controlling the protest.

00:04:11.980 So Anna was doing a great job,

00:04:14.820 very articulate,

00:04:16.020 and she sort of blended in.

00:04:17.940 I guess there's two ways

00:04:18.980 to cover a protest like this.

00:04:20.620 One is to stand out

00:04:22.080 and maybe have some burly bodyguards around you,

00:04:25.000 but then you're just drawing attention,

00:04:26.420 both of police and Antifa.

00:04:29.140 Anna took the other approach,

00:04:30.380 low-key, blend in, film things, quiet.

00:04:33.600 I really liked it and it really worked.

00:04:36.080 After two days of great journalism

00:04:37.940 in Washington, D.C.,

00:04:39.260 she was right out there by the White House

00:04:41.800 when the great conflagration happened.

00:04:44.140 We knew that Washington was winding down

00:04:46.560 as Donald Trump reasserted authority over the city,

00:04:49.660 but New York was heating up,

00:04:52.100 partly because of the radical politics

00:04:53.860 of Bill de Blasio, the mayor.

00:04:56.480 In fact, the mayor's own daughter

00:04:58.580 was arrested for taking part in a riot.

00:05:03.040 Here's her mugshot.

00:05:05.240 So New York was the place

00:05:06.700 and Anna took the train from Washington to New York

00:05:09.860 and she did the same thing in New York

00:05:12.140 that she did in Washington,

00:05:13.680 walking with the crowds,

00:05:15.400 close to the police,

00:05:16.640 close to the protesters,

00:05:17.740 really the front line where the two sides met,

00:05:20.960 keeping a low profile,

00:05:22.440 filming, not saying a word,

00:05:24.200 not picking a fight.

00:05:25.400 And her footage was shocking.

00:05:29.260 Take a look at this

00:05:30.200 as the peaceful protest suddenly turned into smashing and looting.

00:05:36.000 That was footage filmed by Anna herself.

00:05:38.600 And then suddenly the filming stopped.

00:05:41.840 I hadn't heard from her.

00:05:43.160 I presumed she was taking some well-deserved time off

00:05:46.320 or maybe more likely that her phone battery had just died.

00:05:50.000 Well, then at around 11.30, 11.40 p.m.,

00:05:53.560 I got a phone call.

00:05:54.800 It wasn't a low battery.

00:05:56.660 She had been arrested,

00:05:58.180 swept off the streets as part of the curfew.

00:06:01.200 Apparently police were just sweeping people up by the hundred.

00:06:05.680 And she told me she had been taken

00:06:07.180 to Brooklyn's police processing center

00:06:11.100 where they would process all these incoming prisoners,

00:06:14.840 hold them until they had an arraignment,

00:06:19.560 to use a legal word.

00:06:21.560 Well, the phone call with Anna was very brief.

00:06:23.780 I should check the timer on my phone.

00:06:26.020 I would think it was even less than one minute.

00:06:29.020 All I could hear from her

00:06:30.700 is that she had been arrested for breaking the curfew 0.98

00:06:33.760 despite her exemption as a journalist,

00:06:36.140 which is built right into the curfew.

00:06:38.060 She told me the name of the officer who arrested her

00:06:40.920 and where she was.

00:06:42.800 And that's all I had to go by.

00:06:44.380 But that was actually enough to start.

00:06:46.920 A few years ago,

00:06:47.960 we hired an excellent criminal law firm

00:06:50.280 that helped us when we had another pickle in that city.

00:06:53.100 So I immediately called up the top criminal lawyer

00:06:56.180 I knew in New York who had worked with us before.

00:06:59.400 I left him a message

00:07:00.380 and he called me back within minutes.

00:07:02.240 And he remembered the last work we did together

00:07:04.140 and he went to work straight away on this project,

00:07:07.320 calling the police station

00:07:08.500 and having an officer go back to the holding pens,

00:07:12.000 the cells to call out for Anna,

00:07:15.100 hopefully to set her free right there and then. 0.73

00:07:18.380 Alas, the officer claims,

00:07:20.220 and at least said to our lawyer,

00:07:22.160 that when she called for Anna,

00:07:23.660 she didn't answer.

00:07:25.000 Maybe we were calling the wrong facility.

00:07:27.440 Maybe she just didn't overhear over the din.

00:07:30.060 But whatever it is,

00:07:31.000 that was the report I heard back from our criminal lawyer.

00:07:34.020 But nonetheless, he said,

00:07:35.160 given the nature of the summons,

00:07:37.800 it was a casual and minor enough offense

00:07:40.540 that she ought to be spat out by the system

00:07:43.780 within an hour or two anyways,

00:07:47.060 and that that would likely happen.

00:07:48.780 Well, Anna was not in communication with us,

00:07:51.640 but I sent her a text and an email

00:07:53.620 for when she got her phone back,

00:07:55.900 me presuming that she would be let go that night.

00:07:58.800 Well, I stayed up till, I don't know,

00:08:00.300 three or four,

00:08:00.940 and I guess I just dozed off.

00:08:02.680 I woke up with a start at 7 a.m.

00:08:04.560 I checked my watch,

00:08:05.500 and I realized I had not heard from Anna.

00:08:07.720 She had not, in fact, been released overnight.

00:08:11.420 So I started calling around more lawyers.

00:08:13.960 I got our Canadian lawyers involved.

00:08:15.540 They retained additional lawyers in the States.

00:08:19.100 We got the consulate involved,

00:08:22.280 and we learned that there was

00:08:23.620 such an overwhelming number of people arrested,

00:08:26.460 plus the snail's pace of the pandemic

00:08:29.080 on the court system,

00:08:30.420 that Anna would likely be held for 24 hours.

00:08:33.700 which is the time by which most arrestees

00:08:37.180 are brought to a judge for a hearing.

00:08:40.060 I thought I would personally go down to New York,

00:08:43.060 and I consulted with lawyers who said

00:08:45.020 that I can certainly go to the United States.

00:08:47.540 There's no more 14-day quarantine

00:08:49.580 for people arriving in the United States,

00:08:51.980 but for me to come back,

00:08:53.720 I would be subject to a 14-day quarantine

00:08:56.440 upon returning to Canada.

00:08:57.600 However, my lawyer suggested there were exemptions.

00:09:01.700 Perhaps I could call myself an essential service.

00:09:04.340 Journalists are called that in Ontario, for example,

00:09:07.220 or that my work in the States was essential too,

00:09:10.000 and thus be exempted from the quarantine.

00:09:12.620 They said I had enough of a legal case

00:09:14.460 that I could go down to help rescue Anna

00:09:16.520 and come back without the 14-day quarantine.

00:09:19.020 So I quickly bought a ticket

00:09:20.900 and raced off to the airport

00:09:22.680 to catch one of, I think, only two flights a day

00:09:25.480 between Toronto and New York.

00:09:27.880 How incredible it was at the airport today.

00:09:30.600 It was barren. 0.98

00:09:31.420 It was so sad.

00:09:32.300 There were so few people, so few flights.

00:09:35.160 I remember that route, Toronto to New York,

00:09:37.600 between North America's fourth largest city, Toronto,

00:09:41.400 North America's largest city, New York,

00:09:43.680 two cities that are very integrated

00:09:45.120 but not close enough for a train or a car ride.

00:09:48.140 There were probably 20 or 30 flights a day

00:09:50.660 between those two cities before.

00:09:52.220 Now there's like two.

00:09:54.480 So I bought a cheap ticket

00:09:55.880 and I listened to the whole explanation at the gate.

00:10:00.380 I was going to fly Delta,

00:10:01.480 but then I started getting phone calls from people saying,

00:10:03.840 look, even if you technically can evade

00:10:07.040 the quarantine upon return as a fact,

00:10:09.980 is it the right thing to do?

00:10:11.700 Will other people, if you go back to work,

00:10:14.000 want to quarantine themselves from you?

00:10:16.080 And then there's family and friends

00:10:18.160 and friends and friends of family.

00:10:19.920 And do you really want to be someone who's saying,

00:10:22.060 no, I can find a loophole through the quarantine?

00:10:24.700 And I thought about it and I thought,

00:10:26.060 I'm not really adding any legal firepower

00:10:29.680 by going down there.

00:10:30.600 I'm not a lawyer in New York.

00:10:32.320 We already have the embassy

00:10:33.840 and five lawyers on the case.

00:10:36.100 Other than showing my moral support for Anna,

00:10:39.280 was it worth going down there

00:10:41.020 to either violate the spirit of the quarantine law

00:10:43.680 upon my return or literally to be out of action

00:10:46.160 for two weeks.

00:10:46.860 And I decided it was not.

00:10:49.340 It was not.

00:10:50.300 And I could show my moral support for Anna in other ways.

00:10:54.260 Yankee Pollack, one of our employees,

00:10:56.200 decided to drive down there

00:10:57.680 and take the 14-day quarantine on return

00:11:00.580 so he could at least meet Anna

00:11:02.720 when she got out of jail.

00:11:04.740 And we also retained a lawyer

00:11:06.160 to station himself outside the jail.

00:11:08.600 So if Anna is released, 0.54

00:11:09.960 she'll have a friendly,

00:11:11.520 if not a familiar face.

00:11:13.380 So we're pulling out all the stops

00:11:15.100 and we've set up a crowdfunding site,

00:11:17.600 saveannaslatz.com,

00:11:20.020 S-L-A-T-Z dot com. 1.00

00:11:22.300 Last I checked,

00:11:23.080 I think it had five or $6,000.

00:11:24.900 Given how many lawyers are on the file

00:11:26.940 and the three of them are American,

00:11:28.420 billing in real American bucks

00:11:30.000 and we're raising the money in mini bucks,

00:11:31.820 we'll probably need $10,000

00:11:33.700 to cover the bills.

00:11:35.180 But I think it's important we do that.

00:11:37.020 Number one, we fight for free speech.

00:11:39.820 We fight for our rights,

00:11:41.080 our rights as the press.

00:11:43.040 And we have to show that support

00:11:45.520 for all of our staff,

00:11:47.040 including and especially new staff.

00:11:50.020 Second of all, for goodness sakes,

00:11:51.340 if I would schlep all the way

00:11:52.640 to the United Kingdom

00:11:53.560 and back to cover Tommy Robinson's trials,

00:11:56.200 the least I can do,

00:11:57.740 the least we can do as a company

00:11:59.100 is support Anna

00:12:00.200 when she is wrongfully arrested.

00:12:02.500 And I'm not particularly blaming the NYPD,

00:12:04.680 a police force that I deeply respect.

00:12:07.360 I think she was swept up

00:12:08.620 and they just weren't being very careful

00:12:11.260 because it was such a crisis in New York.

00:12:14.380 I'm just frustrated

00:12:15.340 that she's still in the system.

00:12:18.120 So we decided to make this our stand.

00:12:21.780 Five lawyers and the consulate

00:12:23.320 fighting to get Anna out.

00:12:25.040 Yankee going down to show moral support.

00:12:27.860 I don't know when Anna will get out.

00:12:29.620 I hope it's tonight.

00:12:30.520 I hope she doesn't have to serve another night in jail 1.00

00:12:34.620 because even if she's safe,

00:12:37.240 it would surely be uncomfortable

00:12:38.640 and stressful and a terrible experience.

00:12:42.360 Oh, I haven't spoken to her

00:12:43.840 since that one minute phone call

00:12:45.660 just before midnight last night.

00:12:47.860 So for the duration of the show,

00:12:49.880 I'd like to talk to three people

00:12:51.520 who are involved in the campaign,

00:12:54.880 the project to get Anna free

00:12:56.660 to save Anna Slats.

00:12:58.480 First is a lawyer

00:13:00.220 who is on the scene right now

00:13:02.780 at the criminal courts in New York.

00:13:05.800 His name is Michael Weinstock.

00:13:07.800 I had talked to him briefly on the phone

00:13:09.900 and by electronic messages.

00:13:12.380 Here's my first TV conversation with him

00:13:14.980 about an hour ago.

00:13:16.200 Well, we have marshaled all of our resources in Canada

00:13:32.540 as well as signing up a dream team

00:13:35.440 in the United States

00:13:36.820 to free Anna Slats

00:13:38.660 who was arrested last night

00:13:40.300 and joining me now live

00:13:41.620 from, well, I'll get him to explain

00:13:44.620 exactly where he is,

00:13:46.020 is one of our legal eagles.

00:13:47.820 Michael Weinstock, a lawyer

00:13:49.340 and a former prosecutor,

00:13:51.000 joins us via Skype from his phone.

00:13:54.180 Pleasure to meet you, Michael Weinstock.

00:13:55.940 We've only talked briefly by phone and email.

00:13:59.560 Why don't you introduce yourself

00:14:01.020 a little bit to our viewers?

00:14:02.640 Tell us who you are in your legal career

00:14:05.620 and I understand you also are interested

00:14:07.400 in public policy and public affairs.

00:14:10.560 Yes, my name is Michael Weinstock.

00:14:12.920 I'm an attorney here in New York.

00:14:14.680 For many years,

00:14:15.420 I was an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn

00:14:17.420 and I spent a long time,

00:14:19.940 many years actually in arraignments.

00:14:22.420 I haven't been working as a lawyer the past year.

00:14:26.180 I've actually been a full-time candidate in Congress.

00:14:28.520 I made an exception today.

00:14:30.480 Well, thank you very much

00:14:31.400 for dropping your other matters to come

00:14:33.380 and on the phone you told me

00:14:34.800 that the free speech angle of this

00:14:37.020 is what motivated you.

00:14:38.860 Just before we move on from the politics,

00:14:40.660 what district are you running in?

00:14:42.920 And that's, of course,

00:14:43.540 for the United States Congress, right?

00:14:45.920 Yes, U.S. Congress,

00:14:47.140 the third district of New York.

00:14:49.080 It begins in Queens

00:14:50.420 and it goes through Nassau and Suffolk County.

00:14:53.040 Well, go ahead, please.

00:14:55.280 You were saying?

00:14:56.900 I was going to say,

00:14:57.660 I was a firefighter

00:14:59.340 before I went to law school

00:15:00.320 and became a prosecutor.

00:15:01.320 And if I'm elected,

00:15:02.460 I'll be the first 9-11 firefighter

00:15:04.000 elected to the U.S. Congress.

00:15:04.940 Wow, you were a 9-11 firefighter.

00:15:07.580 Well, that's outstanding.

00:15:08.580 I thank you for your service.

00:15:10.060 9-11 firefighter,

00:15:11.500 prosecutor, lawyer,

00:15:12.660 and now a candidate for Congress.

00:15:14.880 I'm impressed with your resume

00:15:16.720 and you have presented yourself.

00:15:19.380 Tell me the building behind you.

00:15:21.000 I see the majestic pillars.

00:15:23.300 Where are you?

00:15:24.300 And is that where Anna Slats is? 1.00

00:15:27.040 Sure.

00:15:27.560 I'm standing outside

00:15:28.940 the New York City criminal court court house.

00:15:31.080 Behind me actually is one courthouse.

00:15:32.760 Hers, if you can see me,

00:15:34.460 is the courthouse behind me.

00:15:36.820 And we'll be heading in

00:15:37.600 in a few minutes

00:15:38.120 to conduct the arraignment.

00:15:40.360 Excellent.

00:15:41.640 Do we know if Anna is physically here?

00:15:44.760 Will she be brought here

00:15:46.220 for her arraignment?

00:15:47.160 Yes, it's my understanding

00:15:48.460 she's in the building.

00:15:49.860 I'll go in

00:15:50.380 and I'll introduce myself

00:15:51.600 and hopefully I'll have

00:15:53.060 the opportunity to go down,

00:15:54.500 we call it in the pens,

00:15:55.360 and meet with her.

00:15:56.380 This is the first time

00:15:57.280 I've done an arraignment

00:15:58.640 since the pandemic

00:16:00.720 went into effect.

00:16:01.400 I'm not 100% sure

00:16:03.180 if they allow lawyers

00:16:04.140 to go down and speak

00:16:04.840 with their clients

00:16:05.340 the way we normally do,

00:16:06.500 but I'm hoping I can do it.

00:16:07.580 If nothing else,

00:16:08.880 I want to talk to her.

00:16:10.060 I want her to feel

00:16:11.480 a little bit more comfortable

00:16:12.240 and understand

00:16:12.740 she's in good hands.

00:16:14.020 I'm very glad

00:16:15.100 and I deeply regret

00:16:16.560 that I'm unable

00:16:17.280 to come down there.

00:16:18.240 I was going to try

00:16:19.200 to fly down today,

00:16:20.340 but the quarantine restrictions

00:16:21.960 that would be placed on me

00:16:23.400 when I return

00:16:24.200 were too onerous.

00:16:25.440 We have another staffer

00:16:27.060 from Rebel News

00:16:27.740 who is driving down

00:16:28.820 from Montreal,

00:16:29.460 so hopefully he will be there

00:16:31.340 when Anna is released.

00:16:33.000 But I want to tell you

00:16:33.820 it means a lot to me

00:16:35.000 that you will be there

00:16:36.080 to greet her,

00:16:37.220 to let her know

00:16:38.020 that she has friends,

00:16:39.540 and to let her know

00:16:40.440 that we have been going

00:16:41.460 to great lengths

00:16:42.220 to get her out

00:16:42.920 because we have not

00:16:44.100 had any communication

00:16:44.920 with her

00:16:45.520 since my one-minute

00:16:46.920 phone call with her

00:16:48.040 at almost midnight

00:16:49.600 last night.

00:16:50.360 So thank you

00:16:51.440 for being there

00:16:52.100 in sort of a

00:16:52.840 client hand-holding

00:16:54.820 perspective.

00:16:55.540 I don't think

00:16:56.500 Anna has been

00:16:57.340 in jail before.

00:16:58.280 It must have been

00:16:58.740 a shocking night

00:17:00.460 for her,

00:17:01.080 but hopefully

00:17:01.460 she's in one piece.

00:17:05.740 Yes, I've done

00:17:07.280 this many times

00:17:07.940 and I've gotten

00:17:08.320 a lot of very healthy,

00:17:09.540 normal,

00:17:10.100 well-rounded young people

00:17:11.060 out,

00:17:11.960 but it must be

00:17:13.180 especially anxiety-producing.

00:17:15.120 Not only is there

00:17:15.820 a pandemic,

00:17:16.500 not only are there

00:17:17.360 the troubles

00:17:18.920 that have been

00:17:19.740 all over the news,

00:17:21.460 but she's not 0.62

00:17:22.040 a New Yorker

00:17:22.560 and it must be

00:17:23.220 especially frightening

00:17:23.960 and my heart

00:17:24.980 breaks for her.

00:17:25.640 And truth be told,

00:17:27.260 I'm also saddened

00:17:28.100 because I love

00:17:28.640 New York City so much

00:17:29.540 and it saddens me

00:17:30.820 that we're going

00:17:31.340 through this moment

00:17:31.960 and we're not

00:17:33.480 putting our best

00:17:34.040 foot forward.

00:17:34.680 I hope Anna

00:17:35.100 will come back.

00:17:36.100 She's always welcome.

00:17:37.640 Well, that's very

00:17:38.120 nice of you to say.

00:17:39.060 She's very courageous.

00:17:40.280 She's got a big heart

00:17:41.380 and she's got

00:17:42.920 a strong personality

00:17:44.760 and she's pint-sized,

00:17:46.280 so I think you'll

00:17:47.060 like her.

00:17:48.320 Right in.

00:17:48.800 Yeah, and you know,

00:17:50.040 maybe she's got

00:17:50.540 a little New Yorker

00:17:51.280 inside of her.

00:17:52.440 So thank you

00:17:53.000 for being there.

00:17:53.960 Do you have

00:17:54.760 any more thoughts

00:17:55.580 for us?

00:17:56.140 My understanding

00:17:56.940 is that the order

00:17:58.220 for the curfew

00:17:58.980 specifically had

00:18:00.040 an exemption

00:18:00.640 for journalists.

00:18:02.420 My hunch

00:18:03.140 is that the stress

00:18:04.460 and chaos

00:18:05.460 of the evening,

00:18:07.080 that the New York

00:18:07.680 Police Department

00:18:08.360 just was sweeping

00:18:09.080 people into the buses

00:18:10.060 to take them away

00:18:10.880 and they weren't

00:18:11.860 being as particular

00:18:13.320 and, you know,

00:18:16.300 they weren't

00:18:17.200 messing around.

00:18:18.140 Things were so critical.

00:18:19.140 So my guess

00:18:20.180 is that it was

00:18:20.840 a bit of an oversight,

00:18:22.220 a bit of a rush

00:18:22.860 and that she was

00:18:24.280 just swept up

00:18:25.080 with other people.

00:18:26.100 That's my hunch

00:18:27.000 and I think she should

00:18:27.980 get out quite quickly

00:18:28.960 given the journalistic

00:18:31.100 exemption.

00:18:31.640 Is that your view

00:18:32.240 as well?

00:18:33.820 Yes.

00:18:34.200 I didn't hear

00:18:34.800 the first part

00:18:35.660 of what you're saying

00:18:36.080 because it's so loud

00:18:37.280 here with the rain.

00:18:38.300 But yes,

00:18:38.660 I have,

00:18:39.740 in my briefcase,

00:18:41.240 the statute

00:18:41.700 you're referring to

00:18:42.320 that there's

00:18:42.700 a journalistic

00:18:43.340 exemption

00:18:44.160 for the quarantine

00:18:46.620 or for the

00:18:47.460 current restrictions.

00:18:50.740 And I'm also

00:18:51.580 hoping and praying

00:18:52.240 that there's some

00:18:53.120 sort of benign

00:18:53.720 explanation,

00:18:54.540 not only for Anna,

00:18:55.300 but for the city

00:18:56.080 I love

00:18:56.440 and the police department

00:18:57.160 that I have

00:18:57.520 such an affinity for.

00:18:58.660 Yeah,

00:18:59.160 I really think

00:19:00.220 that this was not

00:19:01.160 a malicious

00:19:02.040 or willful act.

00:19:05.000 I think the police

00:19:05.560 were just sweeping

00:19:06.180 the streets clear

00:19:07.000 because,

00:19:07.720 in fact,

00:19:07.980 the last video footage

00:19:09.240 we saw from Anna

00:19:10.300 was rioters

00:19:11.800 looting stores.

00:19:12.800 So it was quite

00:19:13.460 a critical moment.

00:19:14.580 Well,

00:19:14.720 listen,

00:19:15.000 Michael,

00:19:15.240 I'm so very grateful

00:19:16.280 for you to go

00:19:17.860 into this part of town

00:19:19.320 in the pandemic

00:19:20.300 during the protests

00:19:21.860 and riots.

00:19:22.600 It shows some

00:19:23.440 personal courage

00:19:24.320 for you to do so.

00:19:25.520 And,

00:19:25.840 of course,

00:19:26.200 you're there to help

00:19:27.340 release our journalists

00:19:28.860 from jail,

00:19:29.820 which is very important

00:19:30.980 to us.

00:19:31.400 And I'm sure she'll be

00:19:32.240 grateful to have

00:19:32.900 a friendly face,

00:19:33.820 even if it's a new face

00:19:35.520 to her,

00:19:36.300 to welcome her out.

00:19:37.620 So thank you for

00:19:38.420 dropping everything

00:19:39.260 and rushing to the courthouse.

00:19:41.100 The next time we'll speak,

00:19:42.040 I'll have a hedge phone

00:19:43.300 so I can hear you

00:19:43.860 a little bit of this.

00:19:44.760 I've got a handy wipe

00:19:46.840 in my pocket

00:19:47.480 and a face mask.

00:19:48.700 It didn't occur to me

00:19:49.140 to bring a microphone

00:19:50.260 too,

00:19:50.520 but I'll take care of that.

00:19:51.540 No problem.

00:19:52.140 We actually heard you

00:19:53.380 quite clearly,

00:19:54.160 even if you couldn't

00:19:55.520 hear us.

00:19:55.860 Well,

00:19:55.940 I know that it's raining

00:19:56.800 there.

00:19:57.460 Well,

00:19:57.640 Michael Weinstock,

00:19:58.560 thank you so much.

00:19:59.360 I think you're the perfect

00:20:00.480 combination of things,

00:20:02.340 a patriot,

00:20:03.520 a 9-11 firefighter,

00:20:05.720 a former prosecutor,

00:20:06.580 so you know the law well,

00:20:07.800 and you've obviously

00:20:08.680 got a big heart.

00:20:10.020 I think you're

00:20:10.760 the perfect lawyer

00:20:11.440 to be on the scene

00:20:12.520 for Anna when she comes out,

00:20:14.440 and hopefully you'll see

00:20:15.380 our friend Yankee

00:20:16.100 down there soon.

00:20:17.200 So thanks very much

00:20:17.940 for joining us

00:20:18.540 on this live location update.

00:20:20.660 Take care and good luck

00:20:21.660 to you and to Anna.

00:20:23.520 Thanks so much.

00:20:24.380 Cheers.

00:20:24.640 All right,

00:20:24.800 there you have it,

00:20:25.360 Michael Weinstock,

00:20:26.600 a lawyer and a candidate

00:20:27.800 for U.S. Congress

00:20:28.860 who dropped everything

00:20:30.080 to go down to the courthouse

00:20:31.520 to meet Anna

00:20:32.620 and get her out. 0.95

00:20:34.160 Stay with us for more.

00:20:43.880 That's Michael Weinstock,

00:20:45.100 very interesting man.

00:20:46.560 We're very grateful to him

00:20:47.580 for being there on the spot.

00:20:49.540 Well, the next conversation

00:20:50.500 was with our friend Yankee Pollack

00:20:52.160 who decided that he would

00:20:54.000 take the 14-day quarantine

00:20:55.640 upon return

00:20:56.360 and he would drive

00:20:57.860 as fast as he could

00:20:58.960 down to New York

00:21:00.040 from Montreal.

00:21:01.380 It was actually quicker

00:21:02.720 than if he got to the airport

00:21:04.040 got a plane, etc.,

00:21:05.660 because there's just

00:21:06.380 so few flights anymore.

00:21:08.140 So Yankee drove 0.99

00:21:09.720 and about half an hour ago

00:21:11.660 he pulled over

00:21:12.620 to the side of the road

00:21:13.460 and he did this brief

00:21:15.580 Skype interview

00:21:16.820 from his car with me.

00:21:18.660 Take a look.

00:21:19.780 Well, all hands are on deck

00:21:21.660 for Anna Slats,

00:21:23.100 our new reporter.

00:21:23.880 She's based in New Brunswick

00:21:25.040 but covers stories

00:21:26.020 about things across Canada

00:21:28.300 and around the world

00:21:29.100 and so when we sent her

00:21:30.140 down to New York

00:21:30.940 it was a great fit

00:21:31.860 because one of the things

00:21:32.940 she focuses on

00:21:33.960 is Antifa.

00:21:35.420 Little did we know

00:21:36.120 she would wind up

00:21:37.380 being scooped up

00:21:38.700 by police

00:21:39.900 and thrown in the same jails

00:21:41.320 as protesters

00:21:42.800 and even rioters.

00:21:44.580 Now, I myself tried

00:21:45.620 to get back down there

00:21:46.660 but in the end

00:21:49.000 I could not overcome

00:21:50.160 the requirements

00:21:51.040 of the quarantine

00:21:52.060 for returning to Canada

00:21:54.100 and there was just

00:21:54.980 technical and practical reasons

00:21:56.780 I could not do it.

00:21:58.080 But I am so grateful

00:21:59.780 for someone who does

00:22:01.280 some work with Rebel

00:22:02.320 based in Montreal

00:22:04.040 who is a friend of Anna

00:22:05.900 who was so concerned

00:22:07.700 about Anna

00:22:08.160 that he agreed

00:22:08.760 to hop in his car

00:22:09.840 and drive down

00:22:11.640 to New York.

00:22:12.240 It was quicker than flying

00:22:13.260 from Montreal

00:22:14.820 and we've caught him

00:22:16.720 right now.

00:22:17.680 He's just about an hour

00:22:18.700 away from the police station

00:22:20.300 and he's pulled over

00:22:21.600 to the side of the highway.

00:22:23.140 His name is Yankee Pollack

00:22:24.280 and he joins us

00:22:24.940 now via Skype.

00:22:26.060 Yankee, great to see you.

00:22:27.220 Thank you very much

00:22:28.440 for going down to New York

00:22:30.200 to personally be there

00:22:32.300 for Anna

00:22:32.940 when she gets out of jail.

00:22:35.840 Yeah, hi Ezra.

00:22:37.080 Yeah, it's been a long morning.

00:22:38.920 You called me about 8.30.

00:22:41.140 I was barely up

00:22:42.400 and you were like,

00:22:43.420 are you willing to go down?

00:22:45.280 And I was like,

00:22:46.520 sure, let's do it.

00:22:47.660 I just packed my bag

00:22:49.720 and just ran

00:22:52.080 and just started driving basically.

00:22:55.000 I rented a car,

00:22:55.760 just started driving

00:22:57.180 and the border was easy

00:22:59.240 since I am a U.S. citizen.

00:23:01.080 I'm a dual citizen.

00:23:02.980 Just passed,

00:23:04.160 told them going to the States 0.88

00:23:06.060 to report on the protests

00:23:08.800 and meet other of my other friends there.

00:23:13.440 And, you know,

00:23:14.300 I've been driving since.

00:23:15.300 I've actually taken my first break now

00:23:18.140 since I left Montreal 9.30.

00:23:21.940 I'll fill up with gas,

00:23:23.840 eat something,

00:23:25.340 and make it to,

00:23:28.000 I'm hoping to be in Brooklyn

00:23:31.560 or wherever Anna is,

00:23:34.260 she might be in Manhattan

00:23:36.080 by 3.30, 4-ish.

00:23:39.820 And hopefully,

00:23:40.760 I'll meet with the lawyers

00:23:42.200 and see.

00:23:43.860 Hopefully, by the time I'm there,

00:23:45.180 she's out.

00:23:45.900 So, I'm hoping for that.

00:23:47.940 Well, Yankee,

00:23:49.260 I can't thank you enough

00:23:50.280 and you absolutely did

00:23:52.400 respond so quickly

00:23:54.420 and so generously

00:23:55.460 when I said,

00:23:56.340 would you consider going down?

00:23:58.140 And, of course,

00:23:59.240 this puts the quarantine restrictions

00:24:00.940 on you yourself

00:24:01.960 when you return.

00:24:03.080 So, it's a much greater sacrifice

00:24:05.000 than just the duration

00:24:07.460 of the journey itself.

00:24:08.720 So, that's quite a sacrifice

00:24:09.860 you're making,

00:24:10.580 not only to show solidarity

00:24:12.060 with Anna,

00:24:12.620 but I know she's a friend of yours too.

00:24:14.400 I know she'll be touched by it.

00:24:15.520 Thank you for that.

00:24:16.940 We have lots of lawyers

00:24:18.140 on the ground in New York, Yankee,

00:24:19.740 but they're not her friends

00:24:21.180 and they don't work for Rebels.

00:24:22.520 So, the fact that she'll see

00:24:23.600 a familiar and friendly face down there

00:24:25.800 I think is very meaningful.

00:24:27.440 So, thank you for doing that.

00:24:30.060 Yeah.

00:24:32.040 It's my pleasure.

00:24:33.740 You know,

00:24:34.160 I've done this trip

00:24:36.520 to New York many times,

00:24:37.940 so it's not something

00:24:38.880 I've never done,

00:24:39.800 but I've never gone,

00:24:41.620 I've never been to a jail

00:24:42.920 or went to see someone in jail

00:24:45.860 or anything like this.

00:24:46.920 I've never done anything like this.

00:24:48.400 So, it'll be interesting.

00:24:49.660 I'm a bit anxious

00:24:50.540 for myself,

00:24:52.200 my own safety,

00:24:53.280 not safety,

00:24:54.160 but, you know,

00:24:55.480 the curfew,

00:24:56.140 it starts at 8.

00:24:58.200 Will I be arrested?

00:24:59.600 I'm hoping to be

00:25:00.940 off the streets by then.

00:25:02.460 I do not intend

00:25:03.920 to get arrested,

00:25:04.920 but I'm hoping

00:25:05.660 Anna's out before that. 0.97

00:25:07.560 And maybe we'll head right back

00:25:09.920 or maybe we'll see.

00:25:11.520 I don't know.

00:25:12.340 We'll see what the lawyers

00:25:13.540 suggest we do

00:25:14.400 and that's what I'll do.

00:25:16.480 Well, luckily,

00:25:17.180 we've got an army,

00:25:18.380 a small army of lawyers

00:25:19.660 on the ground,

00:25:20.360 including I just spoke

00:25:21.620 with a lawyer

00:25:22.240 who is physically

00:25:23.040 at the courthouse

00:25:24.220 and he just sent me a picture.

00:25:25.380 He's now in the courthouse,

00:25:27.120 so you will have allies

00:25:28.400 on the ground.

00:25:30.580 So, my hope is that

00:25:32.360 Anna is out of jail

00:25:33.440 by the time you arrive.

00:25:34.320 I don't think

00:25:35.000 that's going to happen,

00:25:36.100 but when she gets out,

00:25:37.480 my goal is to have you

00:25:38.500 welcome her warmly

00:25:39.440 in a friendly way.

00:25:41.000 Take her back 0.95

00:25:41.560 to her hotel.

00:25:42.480 She'll probably want

00:25:43.140 to get cleaned up

00:25:43.720 and maybe even have a nap

00:25:44.700 and then take her out

00:25:45.940 for a nice meal.

00:25:47.420 Send me the bill,

00:25:48.300 obviously.

00:25:48.860 Send me the bill

00:25:49.200 for your entire journey,

00:25:50.520 Yankee.

00:25:51.400 And just basically

00:25:52.720 be there as a friend.

00:25:54.180 If she needs anything,

00:25:55.340 help her out with errands.

00:25:56.500 I don't know

00:25:57.080 how she'll be feeling.

00:25:58.100 Maybe she'll feel fine

00:25:59.480 and like she wants

00:26:00.420 to keep doing it.

00:26:01.480 Maybe she thinks

00:26:02.200 it's time to pack it up

00:26:03.180 and come back to Canada.

00:26:04.100 I don't know.

00:26:04.980 Other than my one-minute

00:26:06.160 conversation with her

00:26:07.280 just before midnight

00:26:08.340 last night,

00:26:08.960 I have not been

00:26:09.620 in contact with her.

00:26:10.820 So I'll be relying

00:26:11.660 on your judgment

00:26:12.620 to sort of read her mood

00:26:14.560 and help her out. 0.52

00:26:15.880 Obviously,

00:26:16.200 I'll talk with her

00:26:16.920 on the phone

00:26:17.300 when she's out.

00:26:18.260 So I won't keep you

00:26:19.200 any longer

00:26:19.600 because every minute

00:26:20.220 we're talking

00:26:20.800 is the minute

00:26:21.240 you're not driving.

00:26:22.120 What town are you in

00:26:22.900 right now?

00:26:23.340 Do you know

00:26:23.600 where you're near?

00:26:25.020 Yeah,

00:26:25.460 I'm in Spring Valley,

00:26:26.760 New York.

00:26:27.820 I'm going to stop

00:26:28.900 here for gas.

00:26:30.360 I have some family here,

00:26:31.740 but I'm not going

00:26:32.260 to go see them.

00:26:32.960 I just know the area,

00:26:34.180 so I know

00:26:34.940 where the groceries are.

00:26:36.060 I used to live here

00:26:37.640 actually 10 years ago.

00:26:41.080 So I know where

00:26:41.680 the gas stations are

00:26:42.700 in the store,

00:26:44.120 so it can be a bit

00:26:45.360 faster for me

00:26:46.060 to in and out.

00:26:47.140 So that's why

00:26:48.220 I chose to stop here

00:26:50.160 and I'll be on my way

00:26:52.460 very shortly.

00:26:53.920 Well,

00:26:54.080 thank you.

00:26:54.700 And it's a sacrifice

00:26:55.720 that you're not even

00:26:56.460 stopping to visit

00:26:57.220 your own family.

00:26:58.040 And I think that's

00:26:59.840 a touching sign

00:27:00.600 of dedication

00:27:01.120 to your mission.

00:27:02.220 I won't keep you

00:27:03.040 one minute longer.

00:27:04.080 Yankee,

00:27:04.420 it's nice to see you.

00:27:05.780 Thank you for responding

00:27:06.660 so quickly and generously

00:27:07.800 to my invitation

00:27:08.680 to go and meet Anna

00:27:10.560 and I'm sure

00:27:11.220 she'll be happy

00:27:11.820 to see a friendly face.

00:27:13.320 She'll be happy

00:27:13.680 to see our little

00:27:14.400 army of lawyers,

00:27:15.760 but I'm sure

00:27:16.180 she'll prefer to see

00:27:17.200 your friendly face too.

00:27:18.420 Good luck

00:27:18.780 and drive safely

00:27:19.580 and we'll talk later today.

00:27:21.720 Yeah,

00:27:21.980 we'll talk.

00:27:22.520 Thank you.

00:27:23.060 Have a good day.

00:27:24.200 All right.

00:27:24.640 Thanks.

00:27:25.000 We'll let you go right now.

00:27:25.960 That's Yankee Pollack 0.91

00:27:26.720 who's been helping us out.

00:27:28.360 He's based out in Montreal,

00:27:29.880 a friend of Anna's.

00:27:31.280 And I myself

00:27:32.480 cannot go down there,

00:27:33.460 but I was very glad

00:27:34.380 that Yankee could.

00:27:35.680 Stay with us for more.

00:27:44.880 That's Yankee Pollack 0.91

00:27:45.960 going down to visit Anna.

00:27:47.920 I think when someone

00:27:48.860 gets out of jail,

00:27:49.540 they should have someone

00:27:50.240 to greet them.

00:27:51.040 I don't know if you recall,

00:27:51.820 but when Tommy Robinson

00:27:52.680 was released

00:27:53.820 from a prison

00:27:56.240 in the United Kingdom

00:27:57.120 from solitary confinement,

00:27:58.540 it was my great pleasure

00:27:59.740 and honor

00:28:00.220 to be there

00:28:01.080 when he was finally

00:28:02.240 released into the world.

00:28:04.380 I can only imagine

00:28:05.320 how badly you want

00:28:06.460 to see a friendly face.

00:28:07.880 So Yankee will be 1.00

00:28:08.700 that friendly face

00:28:09.540 for Anna.

00:28:10.780 And finally,

00:28:11.800 I just spoke

00:28:12.740 with Aaron Rosenberg,

00:28:14.520 who is one of our lawyers

00:28:15.700 who fights on the

00:28:16.420 free speech battles for us

00:28:17.540 and he has been coordinating

00:28:19.160 the legal fight back

00:28:20.600 and working with the consulate.

00:28:22.740 Here's my conversation

00:28:23.660 with him.

00:28:24.440 We've talked to

00:28:25.580 Michael Weinstock,

00:28:26.620 who is a lawyer,

00:28:27.880 a former 9-11 first responder,

00:28:32.520 which is pretty incredible,

00:28:34.040 and a political candidate.

00:28:35.680 He was there on the scene

00:28:37.120 of the building

00:28:38.160 where we believe

00:28:39.000 Anna Slats

00:28:39.660 is being held inside.

00:28:41.420 We also talked

00:28:42.500 with Yankee Pollack,

00:28:44.400 a rebel helper-outer

00:28:46.040 in Montreal

00:28:47.000 who volunteered

00:28:49.100 to go down to New York

00:28:51.020 to visit and greet Anna

00:28:53.020 when she comes out of jail,

00:28:54.340 which I think

00:28:54.740 is a nice touch.

00:28:55.720 I myself really wanted

00:28:56.760 to do that,

00:28:57.700 but there's just no

00:28:58.820 getting around

00:28:59.400 the 14-day quarantine

00:29:01.000 requirement upon return

00:29:02.580 and I simply couldn't do it.

00:29:04.420 I love to travel

00:29:05.540 for legal matters,

00:29:06.360 as you know.

00:29:07.400 I certainly went

00:29:09.260 to the UK a lot

00:29:10.660 for Tommy Robinson

00:29:11.820 and that was a seven-hour

00:29:12.940 journey each way.

00:29:14.460 So I suppose

00:29:17.200 I make myself feel better

00:29:18.160 for not going down there

00:29:19.100 knowing that we have

00:29:20.200 a massive legal brigade

00:29:22.780 fighting to get Anna

00:29:24.920 out of jail

00:29:25.540 and it is being

00:29:26.320 quarterbacked

00:29:27.540 here in Canada

00:29:28.560 by our old friend

00:29:30.340 Aaron Rosenberg,

00:29:31.620 who you'll remember

00:29:32.400 from our free speech battles

00:29:33.720 and he joins me now

00:29:34.980 via Skype.

00:29:35.640 Aaron, great to see you again.

00:29:37.680 So nice to see you.

00:29:38.280 Thanks, Ezra.

00:29:38.820 Well, you have been

00:29:39.900 working on this

00:29:41.500 since moments

00:29:42.860 after I got

00:29:44.020 the phone call

00:29:44.820 last night

00:29:45.500 at just before midnight.

00:29:47.280 I got the one-minute call

00:29:48.820 from Anna Slats.

00:29:49.860 I immediately wrote

00:29:50.680 to our first

00:29:52.980 New York criminal lawyer

00:29:54.500 who we had worked

00:29:55.460 with before

00:29:55.860 and I copied you

00:29:56.960 because you're sort of

00:29:57.780 helping us

00:29:58.360 get through all

00:29:59.440 our legal battles

00:30:00.220 and you have since then

00:30:01.760 increased our firepower

00:30:04.920 on the ground

00:30:05.760 with other lawyers,

00:30:07.720 lawyers who were

00:30:08.280 making appearances,

00:30:09.520 lawyers who were

00:30:10.160 standing by.

00:30:11.220 We've got a bit

00:30:11.960 of a legal dream team

00:30:13.000 trying to get Anna

00:30:13.720 out of jail,

00:30:14.240 don't we?

00:30:14.560 That's right.

00:30:16.980 I mean,

00:30:17.560 this is an unprecedented

00:30:19.280 amount of firepower

00:30:22.300 to be throwing

00:30:22.980 at the situation.

00:30:24.040 I don't think

00:30:24.680 anything more

00:30:26.220 can be done

00:30:27.380 that's already

00:30:27.820 been done right now.

00:30:28.940 We've got amazing

00:30:30.240 people on the ground

00:30:31.920 just highly credentialed.

00:30:35.480 They are fighting

00:30:36.400 every step of the way

00:30:37.440 and they are doing

00:30:38.460 everything in their power

00:30:40.540 to get Anna

00:30:42.620 out of this

00:30:43.520 terrible situation

00:30:44.640 and I'm just so proud

00:30:46.060 of the people

00:30:46.480 that the team

00:30:47.300 that we've assembled

00:30:47.880 and the amount

00:30:49.140 of firepower

00:30:49.740 that's going into this.

00:30:51.320 I just think

00:30:52.540 it's absolutely

00:30:53.100 so critical

00:30:54.040 that we get her

00:30:55.920 out of this situation

00:30:56.820 as quickly as possible

00:30:57.920 and I am just

00:30:58.620 so honored

00:30:59.680 to play

00:31:00.600 even a small role

00:31:02.180 in this.

00:31:03.120 I jumped out of bed

00:31:04.380 and I was ready

00:31:06.020 to take the next flight

00:31:07.000 to New York.

00:31:07.600 Of course,

00:31:07.860 I had the same

00:31:08.440 quarantine issues

00:31:09.700 as yourself

00:31:10.260 but I'm just so thrilled

00:31:11.600 with who's down there

00:31:12.520 and I'm very proud

00:31:13.780 of the situation.

00:31:15.080 Well,

00:31:15.660 in addition to

00:31:16.680 assembling the lawyers

00:31:17.720 and I thank you

00:31:18.580 for putting together

00:31:19.540 we've got three lawyers

00:31:20.980 now in New York.

00:31:21.960 I had one

00:31:22.800 from before

00:31:24.180 and you've added two

00:31:25.220 including

00:31:25.780 Michael Weinstock

00:31:27.260 who we just interviewed

00:31:28.280 outside the courthouse.

00:31:29.220 He seems like a very nice man

00:31:30.780 and a great patriot too.

00:31:33.500 You've also

00:31:34.420 did something

00:31:35.520 that I didn't think

00:31:36.220 of doing.

00:31:37.200 You and your colleague

00:31:38.180 David

00:31:38.640 who's working with us

00:31:40.060 on so many free speech battles

00:31:41.240 contacted the Canadian consulate

00:31:44.320 in New York City.

00:31:46.100 I just wouldn't have thought

00:31:47.360 of that

00:31:47.680 and they responded

00:31:49.280 very quickly

00:31:49.960 didn't they?

00:31:51.420 That's right.

00:31:52.260 You know,

00:31:52.520 they connected us

00:31:53.680 to a specified agent

00:31:55.140 who specializes

00:31:56.540 in arrest

00:31:57.460 and detention

00:31:58.160 of Canadian citizens

00:31:59.420 in New York City

00:32:01.240 so it's exactly

00:32:02.200 the people

00:32:02.940 we want to be talking to

00:32:04.100 and they were

00:32:05.220 so helpful.

00:32:06.200 they facilitated

00:32:07.380 finding out

00:32:08.680 where Anna was

00:32:10.040 which was probably

00:32:11.140 the most important question

00:32:12.480 that was unanswered

00:32:14.260 at that time.

00:32:15.440 So once we found out

00:32:16.460 where she was

00:32:17.020 we could actually

00:32:17.880 go to the location

00:32:19.620 send our fighting force

00:32:21.240 over there

00:32:21.800 and stand out there

00:32:23.480 and demand

00:32:24.360 that she be released.

00:32:25.960 So that was

00:32:26.600 such critical information.

00:32:27.720 We've been in contact

00:32:28.400 with the consulate now

00:32:29.640 since the morning.

00:32:31.080 They've been very helpful

00:32:32.000 checking in

00:32:32.780 and they're

00:32:34.380 very interested

00:32:35.340 in this fight.

00:32:36.800 They want to keep

00:32:37.520 fighting for us

00:32:38.360 and that's just a fuse.

00:32:40.420 We've got the legal

00:32:41.120 team down there.

00:32:42.540 We've got the Canadian 0.88

00:32:43.340 Embassy in New York City

00:32:44.680 working on this

00:32:45.520 and we've got

00:32:46.400 we're getting many

00:32:47.840 more phone calls

00:32:48.980 from support people

00:32:50.200 support teams

00:32:51.300 across the country

00:32:53.220 and in New York

00:32:54.760 itself

00:32:55.240 with people just

00:32:56.540 trying to figure out

00:32:57.940 how can we lend a hand

00:32:59.080 how can we help

00:33:00.080 and it's just

00:33:00.900 the outpouring

00:33:01.680 of support

00:33:02.660 for Anna

00:33:03.620 and for Rebel

00:33:04.400 for this cause

00:33:05.340 is so important.

00:33:07.260 You know

00:33:07.540 we cannot leave

00:33:09.160 a man behind.

00:33:10.820 This is such

00:33:11.820 an incredibly

00:33:12.900 important

00:33:13.520 free speech battle.

00:33:15.600 It's clear

00:33:16.540 that there's

00:33:17.020 an exemption

00:33:17.580 for journalists

00:33:19.040 on the ground

00:33:19.940 after the curfew

00:33:21.360 and it was exercising

00:33:22.780 in America

00:33:24.140 her First Amendment 0.95

00:33:25.020 right

00:33:25.300 what we would call

00:33:25.900 free expression.

00:33:26.960 It's so critical

00:33:27.940 if we're going to fight

00:33:29.020 battles about free expression

00:33:30.220 and freedom of the press

00:33:31.140 this is the type

00:33:32.420 of battle

00:33:32.760 we have to be fighting.

00:33:33.960 It's shameful

00:33:34.700 that she was rounded up

00:33:35.860 and as I said before

00:33:37.400 and I'll say again

00:33:38.180 we're not going to

00:33:38.860 leave a man behind

00:33:39.720 we're not going to

00:33:40.460 leave this woman behind 0.98

00:33:41.440 we're going to

00:33:42.120 fight tooth and nail

00:33:42.920 and we're just

00:33:44.600 working our way

00:33:45.720 to get her release

00:33:46.540 as quickly as possible.

00:33:48.080 Yeah.

00:33:48.400 Now in one sense

00:33:50.120 it's not actually

00:33:51.120 a complicated

00:33:51.920 or serious

00:33:53.180 offense.

00:33:54.340 It's a summons

00:33:55.240 which I think

00:33:56.360 if I'm translating

00:33:57.140 that into plain language

00:33:58.240 it's really like a ticket

00:33:59.260 and if I understand

00:34:02.320 it's not

00:34:02.800 it's not a serious matter

00:34:04.280 we don't have to put together

00:34:05.180 a lot of bail

00:34:05.840 it's not a big hullabaloo

00:34:06.980 except for the fact

00:34:08.480 that number one

00:34:09.380 the New York courts

00:34:10.980 were pretty much

00:34:12.240 ground to a halt

00:34:13.120 because of the pandemic

00:34:14.240 and number two

00:34:15.120 then they got this

00:34:16.300 massive wave

00:34:17.300 of people who were arrested

00:34:18.400 because of the curfews

00:34:19.480 so you have the courts

00:34:20.520 going at the speed

00:34:22.120 of molasses

00:34:22.620 to begin with

00:34:23.420 then you dump

00:34:24.440 hundreds and hundreds

00:34:25.400 of arrestees

00:34:26.280 at once.

00:34:26.700 I think that's why

00:34:28.640 she didn't get out

00:34:29.540 last night

00:34:30.100 which is what I think

00:34:31.100 would have normally

00:34:31.760 happened.

00:34:33.160 We have so much

00:34:34.180 legal firepower

00:34:35.020 on this

00:34:35.480 but frankly

00:34:36.340 even if we had

00:34:37.020 50 lawyers

00:34:37.940 that's not going to

00:34:39.340 speed up police

00:34:40.300 entering forms

00:34:42.140 in their computers

00:34:43.000 which is I think

00:34:43.800 actually what we're

00:34:44.440 waiting on

00:34:45.040 right now

00:34:45.900 so I think

00:34:46.440 we're maximum strength

00:34:48.360 it's not even

00:34:49.300 in our hands anymore

00:34:50.320 I think

00:34:50.920 I think it's in the

00:34:51.960 hands of the police

00:34:52.640 now is that right?

00:34:53.380 Well yeah

00:34:55.760 I mean unfortunately

00:34:56.600 we are at the mercy

00:34:58.260 of this slow

00:34:59.800 justice system

00:35:00.700 I mean we've all

00:35:01.400 heard about the

00:35:02.480 problems with the

00:35:03.200 U.S. justice system

00:35:04.080 and the delay

00:35:06.340 that can be caused

00:35:07.300 I mean our view

00:35:08.420 here at our firm

00:35:09.840 is just

00:35:10.280 justice delayed

00:35:11.920 is justice denied

00:35:13.460 and you know

00:35:14.900 I appreciate

00:35:16.000 that this is an

00:35:16.700 unprecedented situation

00:35:17.760 in New York City

00:35:18.440 with the curfew

00:35:19.760 and the amount

00:35:20.780 of people that have

00:35:21.260 been rounded up

00:35:22.280 that were disobeying

00:35:24.180 the curfew

00:35:25.660 and so I appreciate

00:35:27.400 that it's unprecedented

00:35:28.320 but you know

00:35:30.000 in my view

00:35:30.760 this is a very

00:35:33.440 significant amount

00:35:34.400 of time

00:35:34.800 for Anna

00:35:35.800 to be

00:35:36.540 you know

00:35:37.600 held up

00:35:38.300 and detained

00:35:39.740 without knowing

00:35:41.640 exactly what

00:35:42.520 is going on

00:35:43.440 and so that's why

00:35:44.120 we have people

00:35:44.620 on the ground

00:35:45.120 that are checking

00:35:45.780 things out

00:35:46.300 figuring out

00:35:47.660 exactly what is

00:35:48.480 happening on a

00:35:49.300 moment to moment

00:35:49.960 basis

00:35:50.400 but I do

00:35:52.040 understand

00:35:52.520 that it's

00:35:53.080 certainly

00:35:53.320 unprecedented

00:35:54.000 the world

00:35:55.280 has been

00:35:55.560 turned upside

00:35:56.020 down

00:35:56.380 and with all

00:35:56.960 of that

00:35:57.200 we're trying

00:35:57.620 to break her

00:35:58.140 free

00:35:58.440 we're going

00:35:59.020 to continue

00:35:59.420 doing it

00:36:00.040 but no question

00:36:01.480 this presents

00:36:02.780 all sorts of

00:36:03.440 unique challenges

00:36:04.120 that we're going

00:36:04.640 to be fighting

00:36:05.420 through

00:36:05.780 yeah

00:36:06.380 we're recording

00:36:07.500 this in the

00:36:08.140 late afternoon

00:36:09.060 there is a chance

00:36:10.680 she could be

00:36:11.140 released theoretically

00:36:11.960 any moment

00:36:13.080 I understand

00:36:15.120 from one of

00:36:15.620 our New York

00:36:16.040 lawyers

00:36:16.400 typically

00:36:16.960 an arrestee

00:36:18.780 has to be

00:36:19.220 brought before

00:36:19.700 a judge

00:36:20.160 within 24

00:36:20.880 hours of arrest

00:36:21.720 which I

00:36:22.440 understand

00:36:22.900 happened at

00:36:23.820 9pm last night

00:36:25.120 I didn't get

00:36:25.860 a phone call

00:36:26.380 from Anna

00:36:26.760 until about

00:36:27.260 1130

00:36:28.140 last night

00:36:29.220 so hopefully

00:36:30.400 there's just

00:36:31.140 no way

00:36:31.880 she'll be in

00:36:32.600 for a second

00:36:33.160 night

00:36:33.480 that's what

00:36:34.680 irks me the

00:36:35.500 most

00:36:35.780 I'm not worried

00:36:36.560 about the

00:36:38.100 legal result

00:36:39.140 we know

00:36:39.640 that she was

00:36:40.180 exempt

00:36:40.460 we know

00:36:40.900 it's just

00:36:41.260 a matter of

00:36:41.680 time

00:36:41.920 I'm not

00:36:42.680 worried about

00:36:43.280 the money

00:36:44.400 that much

00:36:44.940 I mean

00:36:45.180 we got a lot

00:36:46.120 of lawyers

00:36:46.460 fighting this

00:36:47.320 but I think

00:36:47.960 we'll crowdfund

00:36:48.720 it at

00:36:49.320 saveannaslats.com

00:36:50.860 what I'm

00:36:51.560 worried about

00:36:52.060 is this young

00:36:52.720 woman who 0.99

00:36:53.540 spent a night

00:36:54.460 in jail

00:36:55.420 and that's

00:36:56.560 not any

00:36:56.940 and not

00:36:57.660 not exactly

00:36:58.380 a comfortable

00:36:58.940 friendly

00:36:59.520 jail either

00:37:00.660 like the

00:37:01.140 the holding

00:37:01.960 pens at a

00:37:02.640 police station

00:37:03.320 which if I'm

00:37:04.400 not mistaken

00:37:04.880 are maximum

00:37:05.600 security by

00:37:06.420 definition

00:37:06.920 that's not

00:37:07.900 a nice night

00:37:08.700 no absolutely

00:37:11.240 not and you

00:37:11.920 know this goes

00:37:13.120 back to the

00:37:13.640 tradition that's

00:37:14.600 been set out

00:37:15.180 for

00:37:15.440 hundreds of

00:37:16.920 years

00:37:17.220 the idea

00:37:17.700 of presenting

00:37:18.280 the body

00:37:18.920 aides corpus

00:37:19.700 and it's

00:37:21.180 just so

00:37:21.660 fundamental

00:37:22.620 to western

00:37:24.060 justice systems

00:37:25.040 that people

00:37:25.840 should have

00:37:26.800 the right

00:37:27.140 to be heard

00:37:27.720 and to be

00:37:28.080 presented

00:37:28.480 before the

00:37:30.280 court

00:37:30.600 so the

00:37:31.780 sooner this

00:37:32.320 happens

00:37:32.780 the more

00:37:33.360 faith I'll

00:37:33.840 have in

00:37:34.680 the court

00:37:35.200 system down

00:37:35.760 there

00:37:36.020 I think

00:37:37.380 in my

00:37:38.000 view it's

00:37:38.340 unacceptable

00:37:38.940 despite the

00:37:40.320 unique challenges

00:37:41.080 but I just

00:37:41.840 feel so horrible

00:37:42.600 for Anna

00:37:43.060 and I can't

00:37:43.940 stop thinking

00:37:44.480 about the

00:37:44.900 circumstances

00:37:45.460 she's under

00:37:46.100 so I'm just

00:37:46.720 going to

00:37:46.920 continue fighting

00:37:47.740 and working

00:37:48.440 with our team

00:37:49.080 to ensure that

00:37:49.960 we break her

00:37:50.460 out as soon

00:37:51.240 as we possibly

00:37:52.520 can and not

00:37:53.580 a moment later

00:37:54.880 well I'm so

00:37:56.000 grateful to you

00:37:56.840 and the crazy

00:37:57.920 thing is Anna

00:37:58.760 has no contact

00:37:59.760 with the outside

00:38:00.320 world she doesn't 0.97

00:38:01.380 have her phone

00:38:01.980 obviously she's

00:38:02.920 not checking

00:38:04.280 email or text

00:38:05.120 in jail she

00:38:06.400 doesn't even

00:38:06.840 know what's

00:38:07.140 going on

00:38:07.800 when she

00:38:09.140 gets out

00:38:09.580 she'll see

00:38:10.120 all sorts

00:38:10.700 of activity

00:38:11.160 that was

00:38:11.500 done on

00:38:12.380 her behalf

00:38:13.060 however

00:38:14.180 frustratingly

00:38:15.080 slow the

00:38:15.560 effect is

00:38:16.160 I'm glad

00:38:16.600 we're sending

00:38:17.020 down a

00:38:17.420 staffer

00:38:17.940 that she

00:38:18.520 knows Yankee 0.99

00:38:19.080 Pollack to

00:38:19.520 personally greet

00:38:20.140 her and we

00:38:20.720 have a lawyer

00:38:21.140 on the scene

00:38:21.840 too Aaron

00:38:22.560 thanks a

00:38:23.020 million for

00:38:23.360 working so

00:38:23.760 hard on

00:38:24.060 this

00:38:24.320 oh it's

00:38:25.540 my pleasure

00:38:25.960 thanks keep

00:38:26.540 fighting

00:38:26.800 all right we

00:38:27.480 sure will

00:38:27.940 well that

00:38:29.820 wraps up our

00:38:30.660 coverage of

00:38:31.900 well where

00:38:34.200 our own

00:38:34.540 reporter got

00:38:35.180 sucked into

00:38:35.860 the news

00:38:36.280 she was no 0.95

00:38:36.900 longer reporting

00:38:37.620 the news

00:38:38.040 she made

00:38:39.020 the news

00:38:39.380 she was

00:38:39.920 improperly

00:38:40.880 arrested and

00:38:41.800 detained even

00:38:42.320 though there

00:38:42.640 was a specific

00:38:43.280 legal exemption

00:38:44.040 for journalists

00:38:44.820 we've been

00:38:46.260 fighting the

00:38:46.660 matter since

00:38:47.240 about 11 40

00:38:48.820 p.m.

00:38:49.660 last night

00:38:50.220 we've got a

00:38:50.720 lot of lawyers

00:38:51.280 in two

00:38:52.100 countries and

00:38:52.760 the consulate

00:38:53.520 you heard from

00:38:54.240 Aaron there

00:38:54.700 so we'll keep

00:38:55.800 at it

00:38:56.240 hopefully we'll

00:38:57.180 have good

00:38:57.480 news tonight

00:38:58.040 if you want

00:38:58.980 to help us

00:38:59.360 I know Anna's

00:38:59.940 new to our

00:39:00.440 team in fact

00:39:00.900 this was her

00:39:01.380 first video

00:39:02.020 assignment for us

00:39:02.860 I think she

00:39:03.420 was doing

00:39:03.680 great

00:39:04.160 you can help

00:39:05.840 us out

00:39:06.300 please go to

00:39:09.120 saveannaslats.com

00:39:11.980 last I checked

00:39:13.160 there's about

00:39:13.600 $5,000

00:39:14.500 about $6,000

00:39:15.420 being raised

00:39:16.160 there

00:39:16.440 that's Canadian

00:39:17.940 mini bucks

00:39:18.540 and three of our

00:39:19.500 five lawyers

00:39:20.280 are on the

00:39:21.280 U.S. side

00:39:21.880 so that's not

00:39:22.340 going to go

00:39:22.600 very far

00:39:23.040 if there is

00:39:24.040 a surplus

00:39:24.600 we've decided

00:39:25.680 to give it

00:39:26.100 to Anna

00:39:26.460 personally

00:39:27.040 as a sort

00:39:27.580 of danger

00:39:28.400 pay bonus

00:39:29.280 of sorts

00:39:29.720 but I think

00:39:31.100 if this matter

00:39:31.940 stretches into

00:39:32.600 a second day

00:39:33.260 that $5,000

00:39:34.800 $6,000

00:39:35.420 will probably

00:39:35.980 be eaten up

00:39:36.720 so if you

00:39:36.980 want to help

00:39:37.340 us

00:39:37.500 please do

00:39:38.000 alright

00:39:38.720 well that's

00:39:39.220 the emergency

00:39:40.020 show

00:39:40.800 which is really

00:39:41.700 what it is

00:39:42.740 until tomorrow

00:39:43.920 on behalf of

00:39:45.280 all of us

00:39:45.820 here at

00:39:46.300 Rebel World

00:39:46.800 Headquarters

00:39:47.340 to you at home

00:39:48.000 goodnight

00:39:48.540 and keep

00:39:49.740 fighting for

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Rebel News Podcast - June 04, 2020

Rebel News reporter jailed in NYC： The fight to free Anna Slatz

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