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00:00:00.000Fallout from the Texas shooting Democrats are out over their skis again, plus some new information on the identity of the shooter and the man who took him down, a real American hero.
00:00:15.000All right, so many things to talk about today, and I am looking forward to things I like today because there's some fun things I like.
00:00:20.000In fact, it's so much fun that I actually didn't want to do the show today.
00:00:22.000I just wanted to be on Twitter, hashtagging accurate movie summaries.
00:00:25.000But we'll get to that in a little while, because some of these are really funny.
00:00:27.000But before we get to any of that, and I really do want to talk at length about the hero who shot the Texas Massacre guy, the evil shooter who walked into a church and murdered 26 people, including somewhere between 12 and 14 children.
00:00:41.000The guy who shot him is an amazing story and really gives the lie to a lot of democratic talking points.
00:00:45.000Before we get to any of that, first I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at MVMT.
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00:02:01.000We begin today with the update on all the information that you need to know about this awful shooting in Texas.
00:02:07.000So, we now know, we now know, that the reason this man had guns, the reason this piece of human debris had guns, is because the government screwed it up.
00:02:15.000So whenever you hear people talking about why the government needs more regulations, just remember this was a government screw-up in the first place.
00:02:22.000This man was legally forbidden from owning or buying guns.
00:02:25.000He was legally forbidden from doing so.
00:02:27.000That's not stopping people like Ted Lieu, Democratic congressman from California, from legitimately walking out on a moment of silence for the victims in Congress.
00:02:36.000He walked out on it in order to quote-unquote draw attention to gun control.
00:02:42.000I asked him if he made a habit of walking out on funerals so that he could go to soup kitchens, or does he wait until after the funeral in order to do the things that he thinks are worthwhile?
00:02:49.000Well, he wasn't, you know, happy to hear that.
00:02:52.000Instead, he said that he was standing up for everyone because we need more gun control.
00:02:55.000And this, of course, has been the consistent call from everyone on the left.
00:03:06.000In a statement released by the Air Force today, a spokesperson confirmed that the shooter, his criminal convictions did not make their way into the federal database.
00:03:14.000According to the Texas Tribune, the Air Force has launched a review of how the service handled the criminal records of former Airman Devin P. Kelly following his 2012 domestic violence conviction.
00:03:22.000Kelly was convicted by a general court-martial on two charges of domestic assault against his wife and stepson under Article 128 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
00:03:31.000He served 12 months in confinement at the Naval Consolidated Brig Miramar in California before being released with a bad conduct discharge in 2014.
00:03:48.000Because initial information indicates his domestic violence offense was not entered into the National Criminal Information Center database by the Holloman Air Force Base Office of Special Investigations.
00:03:59.000Okay, so this is the fault of the Air Force that did not enter the information into the computer.
00:04:02.000We've seen situations like this before.
00:04:05.000I believe that it was, I think it was the Charleston shooter, who also was forbidden from buying guns, and there was a screw-up in the background check.
00:04:13.000Just saying there ought to be background checks doesn't make the background checks actually happen.
00:04:16.000And now, we know that there were tons of red flags about this, again, human piece of crap.
00:04:21.000Here are some of the things we now know about this guy.
00:04:23.000And again, this is why it's so foolish to suggest that the best way to weed out mass shooters is by confiscating guns from hundreds of millions of Americans.
00:04:32.000Instead, we ought to be looking for red flags, because almost invariably, the only exception I can think of, actually, is the Las Vegas shooter.
00:04:38.000Every one of these guys has a bunch of red flags in their history.
00:04:41.000So here are just some of the red flags for this shooter in Texas.
00:04:48.000Number one, he tried to date underage girls, and I mean really underage.
00:04:51.000According to the New York Post, when he was 18, he tried dating a 13-year-old and later reportedly suggested she live with him and his wife as a topless maid, and that 13-year-old suggested that Kelly essentially stalked her.
00:05:02.000His court-martial for domestic violence was not just him hitting his wife or hitting his stepson.
00:05:05.000He cracked the skull of his infant stepson multiple times, okay, on purpose, according to court records.
00:05:50.000Not only that, the government fails to report his criminal activities so that the laws that are on the books don't work, right?
00:05:56.000You saw actual people like David Frum saying yesterday, I think we should bar all mentally ill people and people with criminal convictions for domestic violence from owning guns.
00:06:08.000It doesn't help if the government can't enforce.
00:06:10.000This is the problem with how the government, how people on the left like to think about gun control.
00:06:14.000The government is big and inefficient.
00:06:16.000It lets things slip through the cracks.
00:06:17.000Whether you're talking 9-11, the JFK assassination, or this shooting, they let things slip through the cracks they should have known about.
00:06:23.000And then later, we say, well, if we just passed a few more laws, that would fix it.
00:06:26.000Making a big and inefficient government bigger and more inefficient is not the way to stop these things.
00:06:31.000The only way to stop these things is to either give the government fewer things to do and make them better at it, or, presumably, to allow armed citizens to walk around with guns.
00:06:41.000And this is where we get to the final thing here.
00:06:43.000This guy was threatening his mother-in-law.
00:06:44.000So his mother-in-law went to the church.
00:06:46.000This was apparently sort of a family dispute.
00:06:48.000There was a domestic situation going on within this family.
00:07:15.000The suspect's mother-in-law attended this church.
00:07:18.000We know that he had made threatening text from him.
00:07:24.000And we can't go into details about that domestic situation that is continuing to be vetted and thoroughly investigated.
00:07:34.000But we want to get that out there that this was not racially motivated.
00:07:40.000There was a domestic situation going on within the family and the in-laws.
00:07:43.000We can confirm that the suspect did not have a license to carry.
00:07:46.000The suspect did have a non-commissioned, unarmed private security license similar to a security guard at a concert type
00:08:14.000Situation private security background checks including fingerprints and criminal history checks with the Texas Crime Information Center and National Crime Information Center databases were checked and he was clear
00:08:28.000Okay, so this, again, is a government failure, and we're told that the solution here is government.
00:08:33.000I'll tell you, sometimes there's just not a solution.
00:08:37.000This is something that the left will say about terrorist attacks, and I think there is some truth to it.
00:08:41.000I think there are measures that we can take to minimize the possibility.
00:09:09.000John Adams talked about the fact that everyone in Massachusetts was mandated, mandated by law in colonial times, to own a gun for purposes of being part of the state militia, protecting their lives and their liberty.
00:09:19.000This has always been part of the American creed, and I think it's a very good part of the American creed.
00:09:24.000Elizabeth Warren, however, says the NRA is responsible.
00:09:26.000You see a bunch of people on the left saying things like, the NRA just doesn't care if there are terrorist attacks.
00:09:29.000The NRA doesn't care if there are mass shootings.
00:10:00.000Stephen Williford represents everything that the left hates about American gun ownership.
00:10:05.000But here they have to pay homage to him because he actually saved lives.
00:10:07.000I mean, this guy could have gone with his gun and shot up many more places if Stephen Williford hadn't hopped in.
00:10:12.000I mean, this is an amazing thing that happened in Texas that wouldn't happen nearly anyplace else.
00:10:16.000There were two separate people who came running to the situation, carrying guns, and then chased this guy down with their truck, knowing that not only was he armed and dangerous, he just murdered dozens of people.
00:10:26.000Every time I heard a shot, I was thinking that was a sign to someone else.
00:13:30.000But the fact that, you know, he's a deeply religious person, obviously.
00:13:34.000The fact that the left does not... I'm seeing a lot of folks on the left today, and, you know, it's not everyone on the left, obviously, but I think that I'm seeing a lot of folks on the left today who are disparaging the thoughts and prayers stuff.
00:13:44.000And they're also suggesting, how could you be religious?
00:13:46.000This is such a, it's such a, honestly, teenage take on religion.
00:13:50.000How could you be religious when people in a church just got shot and killed?
00:13:54.000The problem of theodicy, the problem of how does evil exist in a world where God has providence?
00:14:48.000I want to give some time to the other hero in this situation, a guy named Johnny Langerdorf, and talk about a misconception of my own in a second.
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00:16:07.000Okay, so the other hero of this story is a guy named Johnny Langerdorf.
00:16:10.000So what happened is that Stephen Willefer charged out of his house after being told by his daughter there was some shooting going on at the church.
00:16:44.000In Texas, okay, I've lived my entire life in LA.
00:16:46.000The same thing is true in Cambridge, where I lived for three years.
00:16:48.000In Texas, when there's a bad guy, people understand that they may be the only, the last dividing line between that bad guy and bad thing happening, and bad things happening, and so they hop in their car and they follow.
00:16:58.000There's a movie called Hell or High Water, which is kind of a fun movie, and it's one of my favorite things in that film, is that there's a bank robbery, and
00:17:05.000Everyone at the bank pulls out a gun, and then they all begin chasing down the bank robbers.
00:17:10.000It's one of my favorite things in the film.
00:17:11.000And that was true to life, because that's exactly what happened in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
00:17:15.000Here is Johnny Langerdorf talking a little bit, and I believe this is his wife, talking with Anderson Cooper about whether he would have done this again if he knew that the guy was armed and dangerous.
00:17:39.000Johnny, knowing what you know now, I mean, would you do the same thing over again?
00:17:45.000I would do it a hundred times over, sir.
00:17:48.000Okay, so, you know, one of the things that I was gonna say about misconceptions, look at this guy.
00:17:51.000I mean, he's got a neck tattoo, he doesn't look like he's necessarily, you know, going to the Ivy League colleges, and it's very easy for those of us who live on the coast to look at somebody like Johnny Langerdorf, neck tattoo, and say, oh, what a hick.
00:18:04.000This is the kind of guy, you know, not everyone with a neck tattoo is Johnny Langerdorf, but not everyone without a neck tattoo is Johnny Langerdorf either.
00:18:11.000And the fact is this guy is the guy who is on the spot and he did the right thing.
00:18:15.000And that's a good lesson to people like me who sometimes make judgments based on things like this as well.
00:18:21.000Heroism comes in a lot of different shapes and sizes, but it does share a belief system.
00:18:24.000And that belief system is that when someone has to stand between the evil and the innocent, you're the person who has to stand up and do something.
00:18:32.000Okay, and we can treat government like it's God, we can pretend that government is capable of protecting us against all evils, it's just not true.
00:18:39.000It is just not the case that government can protect us against all evils, and that's why an armed populace is very often necessary to stop this stuff.
00:18:46.000You know, the Washington Post put out an article yesterday with the headline, one thing mass shooters have in common, they're men with guns.
00:18:52.000Well, yes, in a mass shooting situation you would assume they have guns.
00:18:56.000And you would assume that criminals are typically men.
00:19:01.000In a mass shooting situation, the person who typically stops the mass shooting is also a man with a gun.
00:19:07.000Whether it's a police officer or whether it is a civilian, as in this case, and it is much more likely that an NRA member is going to stop a mass shooting than that an NRA member is going to perpetrate a mass shooting, despite what the left would have you say.
00:19:19.000Well the media, of course, don't care about any of this.
00:19:21.000The media don't want to hear any of this.
00:19:23.000The media simply want to talk gun control.
00:19:24.000And if you don't believe in media bias, let me show you this clip of President Trump in South Korea.
00:19:28.000So he's in South Korea now, and he was asked by an NBC News reporter, I guess he's still in Japan, he's heading South Korea today, but he's asked by an NBC News reporter about
00:19:39.000You've talked about wanting to put extreme vetting on people trying to come into the United States, but I wonder if you would consider extreme vetting for people trying to buy a gun?
00:20:01.000Well, you know, you're bringing up a situation that probably shouldn't be discussed too much right now, but it's okay if you feel that that's an appropriate question, even though we're the heart of South Korea.
00:20:12.000If you did what you're suggesting, there would have been no difference three days ago, and you might not have had that very brave person who happened to have a gun or a rifle in his truck go out and shoot him and hit him and neutralize him.
00:20:31.000And I can only say this, if he didn't have a gun, instead of having 26 dead, he would have had hundreds more dead.
00:20:41.000And are you considering any kind of gun control policy going forward?
00:20:44.000Can you look at the city with the strongest gun laws in our nation is Chicago.
00:20:53.000If this man didn't have a gun or a rifle,
00:20:56.000You'd be talking about a much worse situation in the great state of Texas.
00:21:00.000Okay, Trump is of course right, and this is why so many people on the right like Trump, is because, you know, at least Trump is and Hillary actually applies here.
00:21:07.000Because if you imagine Hillary Clinton in this situation, she's pushing for widespread gun confiscations in all likelihood.
00:21:11.000She's praised Australia's gun buyback program and confiscation program.
00:21:41.000The difference between owning a gun and entering the country is I have a right to own a gun to protect my life and my family's life.
00:21:47.000I do not have a right to become a citizen of the United States.
00:21:50.000Extreme vetting is necessary for people coming into the country because they don't have a right to enter the United States because we have to protect ourselves.
00:21:57.000That same decision to protect ourselves undergirds our ability to own a gun and use a gun in our own self-defense.
00:22:06.000The reason you have extreme vetting with regard to people entering the country is the reason why you don't have extreme vetting for American citizens who have not committed a crime and want to own a gun to protect themselves.
00:22:17.000Of course no one wants to have criminals with guns.
00:22:19.000Of course no one wants to have mentally ill people with guns.
00:22:22.000And Ted Cruz makes a really good point here.
00:22:24.000Ted Cruz is specifically asked about people who are violating the law by owning guns, and here's what Senator Cruz has to say.
00:22:30.000This should have been stopped beforehand.
00:22:33.000Under federal law, it was illegal for this individual to purchase a firearm.
00:22:39.000He had a conviction for a crime that's punishable by more than a year in prison, and he had a conviction for multiple domestic violence crimes.
00:22:47.000Both of those, it's already ineligible.
00:23:03.000And so, when he went in to buy the guns, they ran the background check.
00:23:07.000And they didn't find it because it wasn't in the database.
00:23:10.000Okay, and Cruz here is exactly right, of course.
00:23:12.000Now, a lot of people have been saying, well, you know, if we just had gun confiscations like Australia, then the number of mass shootings would go down.
00:23:19.000Mass shootings are so statistically uncommon.
00:23:21.000I'm not saying they're uncommon in the sense, like, colloquially, they never happen.
00:23:24.000But they're statistically uncommon as compared to other types of murder, and so there is no good comp in terms of looking at a system where, okay, there's a massive gun confiscation and the number of mass shootings went down.
00:23:33.000It may have gone down from three to zero.
00:23:35.000It wasn't like Australia had mass shootings every five minutes.
00:23:37.000Australia had very few mass shootings, and now they have no mass shootings.
00:23:40.000But, their murder rate actually declined at a lower rate than the U.S.
00:23:43.000murder rate over the same period since their gun confiscation.
00:23:47.000's murder rate declined faster, even though more people were purchasing guns, not fewer people.
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00:26:08.000As I said, I'm not anti-thoughts and prayers by any means.
00:26:12.000I grew up in a very, the very religious Deep South.
00:26:15.000A Baptist who went to a Catholic school where we prayed at least four times a day, plus mass on Fridays and church on Sundays, sometimes twice.
00:26:34.000Thoughts and prayers did not stop an oversight from the justice system which enabled a guy who attacked his stepson and assaulted his wife from getting a gun.
00:26:43.000Thoughts and prayers didn't stop a troubled person from buying assault-grade weapons that took the lives of 26 people in an instant.
00:27:08.000Again, the problem of the Odyssey has been one that religion has taken up time and time again.
00:27:12.000When it comes to human evil, the idea here is that human beings have free will and we can pray that those human beings don't use that free will in the worst possible ways.
00:27:19.000We can pray that God protects us, but God sometimes says no.
00:27:41.000When I say relatively, I mean very formulaic.
00:27:43.000You say the same prayer three times a day.
00:27:44.000The idea is that it's supposed to be almost like a mantra.
00:27:47.000It's supposed to provide you a leaping off point to actually think about God and think about your relationship with Him.
00:27:52.000But prayer can be very difficult unless you're actually just sitting there concentrating on what the purpose of prayer is.
00:27:56.000So, I've really done a lot of thinking myself, for myself, about what I think prayer does, particularly prayer in the aftermath of tragedy.
00:28:04.000I think that prayer does really three things.
00:28:27.000I mean, the ineffability of God is a sacred notion in virtually all major religions.
00:28:31.000The idea that you are not in control of the universe and
00:28:34.000The suggestion that you can prevent all bad things from happening with prayer, that's not what prayer is for.
00:28:37.000That's why religious people get upset when they hear things like what Don Lemon is saying, because he's misconstruing what prayer is for.
00:28:42.000No one who believes in prayer believes that prayer is going to prevent a Justice Department oversight.
00:28:47.000No one believes that that's what prayer is designed to do.
00:28:49.000One of the things prayer is designed to do is remind us not to be utopian, not to believe that we can stop every tragedy from happening, not to believe that there's any power in the universe that is capable of implementing
00:28:59.000Our will, specifically, and making it the rule for everyone.
00:29:03.000It's designed to remind us not to be utopians in what Karl Popper would call a sort of utopian negative model that would help us run roughshod over the rights of other people.
00:29:14.000Because, remember, half of what Don Lemon is saying here about we need to change the law, every law is an imposition on somebody.
00:29:39.000What that means is blessed is the true judge, meaning that I don't get to make the call as to whether something that just happened is according to God's plan.
00:29:46.000Only God can make that call and I may not understand it and I can mourn it.
00:30:20.000Prayer takes place in communal settings, not just individual prayer.
00:30:22.000I think that individual prayer is valuable, but Judaism believes, and I believe so does Christianity, that communal prayer is more valuable than individual prayer.
00:30:29.000That individual prayer is useful, but you're supposed to get together in a community.
00:30:32.000Because the idea is that that community draws other people in.
00:30:35.000How many bad people, how many would-be shooters, have been converted by going to places like churches and praying with others?
00:30:52.000You never see it because you only see the bad stuff.
00:30:54.000Remember with the Charleston, South Carolina shooter?
00:30:57.000There was a report that came out shortly afterward, I'll have to look it up, where this piece of garbage white supremacist who murdered a bunch of people in the church, he said he had trouble pulling the trigger because when he went in there, there were all these black people who were really nice to him and were praying with him.
00:31:11.000He was evil enough that he was able to overcome that drop.
00:32:00.000Prayer, obviously, is supposed to motivate you to go out and do better things.
00:32:02.000It's supposed to motivate you to do better.
00:32:03.000It's supposed to be fuel in your gas tank.
00:32:05.000But the left assumes that if I disagree with the direction you're steering the car, I don't have fuel in the gas tank.
00:32:11.000That prayer didn't put fuel in my gas tank.
00:32:13.000Prayer was useless because I don't agree that you ought to be aiming the car at gun control.
00:32:17.000Well, I don't believe you should be aiming the car at gun control because I don't think that the additional laws that you've been proposing are useful.
00:32:22.000By the way, I have said when I think an additional law might be useful or at least called for after Las Vegas.
00:32:27.000I said that I would not vote against a law that prevented the sale of bump stocks.
00:32:34.000So it's not like I'm against ever- I'm in favor of better enforcement against people who have been mentally ill and have been in mental hospitals owning weapons.
00:32:43.000Cruz pointed out, and he's right, that there were like 40,000 people who illegally owned guns in the United States and 44 of them were prosecuted.
00:32:49.000There was 40,000 people who tried to illegally buy guns and Obama prosecuted 40 of them.
00:32:53.000And we need to implement the laws that we already have on the books.
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00:35:05.000The left says prayers are good, but only if they are directed in our direction.
00:35:10.000Now, what people who are conservative believe, conservative religious people, is that the direction for the prayer is basically toward God, which means that you actually have to look at what God's agenda is in particular circumstances.
00:35:20.000God is not just something out there that is non-discoverable.
00:35:52.000Well, Hillsong, there's a megachurch pastor.
00:35:55.000I don't know Hillsong particularly well, but there's a guy named Carl Lentz, apparently, who's quite popular and dresses in very odd fashion.
00:36:04.000And he was on The View wearing glasses that he apparently got from a Forever 21.
00:36:09.000And a medallion that I don't know what it represents, but he looks kind of like Marky Mark from 1991.
00:36:15.000In any case, Carl Lentz is a very popular pastor.
00:37:30.000And soft-pedaling it for the left is not going to win you adherents or converts.
00:37:33.000Soft-pedaling bad, you know, evil is not going to... Soft-pedaling sin is not going to draw more people to you.
00:37:39.000It's going to alienate more people from religion because that's what gets people to believe in this I'm spiritual but not religious nonsense.
00:37:45.000Okay, whoop-dee-doo, you believe in the force.
00:38:11.000So I have some things I like and some things that I hate that I want to talk about today, and it's going to be fun things I like, so you're going to want to stick around for that.
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00:39:49.000There is a book that I read, very quick read, by a guy named Alan Jacobs.
00:39:54.000It's a bestseller now called How to Think.
00:39:56.000And it is sort of a short-form review, essentially, of ways that we are biased and how best to conquer those biases.
00:40:05.000I love reading these kinds of books, right?
00:40:06.000I've recommended Daniel Kahneman's book before.
00:40:08.000I've recommended the book Flow and the book Drive.
00:40:10.000I've recommended a lot of books about how it is that we have cognitive biases, and this book is about that, but it's also about why we shouldn't despair of our ability to overcome these challenges to bias.
00:40:21.000The book, again, is How to Think by Alan Jacobs.
00:40:23.000It's like 150 pages, very slim, very easy to read, very conversational.
00:40:33.000John Podhortz and I like to go back and forth on movies.
00:40:35.000John is the editor over at Commentary Magazine.
00:40:38.000And so, not related to that, I decided that I was going to start a hashtag called Accurate Movie Summaries.
00:40:43.000Kind of taking a lead from the famous accurate movie summary about The Wizard of Oz, which is three friends gather to kill witch, then band together to kill again.
00:40:54.000Or, Young Girl Kills Witch, then bands together with three friends to kill again, which is the summary of Wizard of Oz.
00:41:00.000So, the hashtag, accurate movie summaries, was trending on Twitter, and I do love some of these, so I have to read you some of them.
00:41:07.000Noseless guy has a unhealthy obsession with a teenage boy.
00:42:26.000You've heard this one before, I'm sure.
00:42:27.000Teenager destroys military installation at the behest of an elderly religious zealot with the aid of a wanted criminal, killing millions of active military service members.
00:43:35.000I think what the president needs to do is make sure that he's not feeding into North Korea's fear of regime change or of a unilateral attack or otherwise.
00:43:49.000And I think the rhetoric to date has, frankly, stepped over the line with respect to the messages that are being sent.
00:43:55.000It's given North Korea a reason to say, hey, we need a bomb, because if we don't have a bomb, we're going to, you know,
00:44:02.000Not be able to protect ourselves, and they'll come after us.
00:44:07.000Okay, the idea that you're mean to North Korea, and so that's why they're developing a bomb.
00:44:11.000They started developing the bomb under the auspices of the Clinton administration, which signed a North Korean framework in 1994 and said the problem was ended.
00:44:17.000They continue it through the Bush administration.
00:44:18.000They accelerate it under the Obama administration.
00:44:21.000Say, wouldn't it have been nice if there had been a Secretary of State who could have done something about that?
00:44:24.000I'm just trying to think of a secret— Oh, wait.
00:44:29.000Also, I do have—you know, I'm going to be mean to John Kerry now, but he deserves it after slandering our troops in Vietnam and spending his entire career being awful at everything.
00:44:37.000The man's face is at a stage of full structural collapse.
00:44:40.000It's like a mudslide in the Hollywood Hills at this point.
00:44:43.000At a certain point, you do too much Botox, and you start to look like Lurch.
00:44:49.000In any case, deconstructing the culture, we'll do for five seconds here.
00:44:54.000First, I do want to mention that there's a new report from the New Yorker about Harvey Weinstein and how he was attempting to cover up his sexual assault and sexual harassment.
00:45:03.000Ronan Farrow released a blockbuster expose.
00:45:06.000Multiple women have accused him, Weinstein, of rape.
00:45:09.000And now, apparently, Weinstein had these extensive efforts to silence people.
00:45:12.000He hired private investigators and ex-spies to suppress allegations.
00:45:16.000They hired Kroll, one of the world's largest corporate intel companies, and Black Cube, an enterprise run by former officers of Mossad, and they used false identities to meet with Rose McGowan, who eventually publicly accused Weinstein of rape, to extract information from her.
00:45:31.000He directed efforts to kill accusation stories from the New York Times and New York Magazine, and he used his lawyer, David Boies, to lead his effort to prevent the New York Times from doing any of these reports.
00:45:42.000David Boies, as you remember, was an attorney