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00:00:33.000It's basically the movie Twister, except with news.
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00:01:51.000Okay, so we'll get to everything that is happening in Atlanta in just a second because it is chaotic and it is also an excellent indicator of where America's major cities are going.
00:02:01.000Now let's just say it's not in good directions.
00:02:03.000First, the breaking news as of this hour is the Supreme Court has just ruled that President Trump does not have the ability to strike down the Obama administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
00:02:14.000Now, that's not really what the Supreme Court said.
00:02:16.000What the Supreme Court actually said is that Trump could do it, but he did it wrong.
00:02:20.000So the Supreme Court has taken up a line of cases recently that basically says, orange man bad.
00:02:24.000In other words, if the orange man did it right, it would be okay what he did.
00:02:27.000But he did it wrong, so it's not okay what he did.
00:02:31.000So you will recall that Barack Obama claimed dozens of times, literally dozens of times, that he did not have the unilateral ability to simply legalize illegal immigrants in the United States.
00:02:40.000And then he ignored all of that and he just said, okay, you know what?
00:02:43.000We're not prosecuting anybody who's here illegally.
00:02:54.000But that's something Congress has to do.
00:02:56.000You don't just get to do that as President of the United States, decide that an entire class of human beings are no longer prosecutable because you're the President of the United States.
00:03:03.000That violates every statutory rule of interpretation.
00:03:07.000And the Obama administration offered no real justification for this.
00:03:11.000They didn't offer any sort of legal memorandum explaining why the law required this, which you're supposed to do if you're the executive branch, because you execute the laws, you don't make them.
00:03:19.000Instead, they just declared that they would start handing out papers, that they would start protecting you from deportation and all the rest.
00:03:27.000So the Trump administration comes in and they say, listen, we're reversing this.
00:03:36.000The Department of Homeland Security rescinds the DAPA memo in June 2017, citing the fact that it is unconstitutional and that the federal government, the executive branch, does not have the power to unilaterally declare who they will and will not prosecute on a class.
00:03:52.000It's one thing to use prosecutorial discretion.
00:03:55.000It is another thing to completely invalidate a law just because you don't like the law.
00:03:59.000That's not something that the executive branch has the power to do.
00:04:02.000That September, in September of 2017, the Attorney General, who was then Jeff Sessions, advised the Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, Elaine Duke, that DACA shared legal flaws and should be rescinded.
00:04:13.000The next day, Duke acted on that advice and wrote the so-called Duke Memo, which basically suggests that the thing's unconstitutional.
00:04:20.000And then, a few months later, there was something called the Nielsen Memo, and the Nielsen Memo came out, that was from the new Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Nielsen, Bridget Nielsen.
00:04:27.000And that more fully explained the rationale for rescinding DACA.
00:04:31.000So there's nothing illegal about what the Trump administration did.
00:04:37.000It was never legal in the first place.
00:04:39.000Obama himself had said it was never legal in the first place.
00:04:42.000And so the Supreme Court has now held that you're not allowed to rescind an illegal order unless you go through all of the hoops of the Administrative Procedures Act.
00:04:49.000So the Administrative Procedures Act is basically an act that creates internal judicial mechanisms for administrative agencies.
00:04:56.000So let's say that the EPA promulgates a rule, and you want to sue the EPA because you don't like the EPA's rule.
00:05:00.000You have to sue them in an EPA court, essentially.
00:05:03.000Well, the same thing holds true here is that the administrative agencies are tasked with defining their own regulations and their own rules, and a court is not supposed to interfere.
00:05:14.000The court is not supposed to interfere in the decision-making processes of administrative agencies unless the administrative agency has been arbitrary and capricious.
00:05:22.000is generally the standard that is used.
00:05:25.000The Obama administration did not provide any rationale for why DACA was constitutional.
00:05:29.000So they were arbitrary and capricious.
00:05:31.000But the Supreme Court didn't find them arbitrary and capricious.
00:05:33.000So now, they're saying that the Trump administration was arbitrary and capricious in rejecting an illegal order from the Obama administration.
00:05:41.000So in other words, it was okay for Obama to put forward an illegal order saying we won't enforce the law.
00:05:45.000It is very bad for Trump to put forward an illegal order saying we will enforce the law and we'll take back the old illegal order.
00:05:50.000That is basically the rationale of the court.
00:05:54.000I mean, Justice Thomas looks at this and he says, you guys are insane.
00:05:58.000You've basically made it that your rationale is orange man bad.
00:06:01.000You don't like Trump, and so you're just not going to enforce the law.
00:06:04.000He says, DHS created DACA during the Obama administration without any statutory authorization, without going through the requisite rulemaking process.
00:06:11.000As a result, the program was unlawful from its inception.
00:06:14.000The majority does not even attempt to explain why a court has the authority to scrutinize an agency's policy reasons for sending an unlawful program under the arbitrary and capricious microscope.
00:06:23.000The decision to countermand an unlawful agency action is clearly reasonable.
00:06:27.000So long as the agency's determination of illegality is sound, our view should be at an end.
00:06:31.000In other words, if it is plausible for the agency, in this case DHS, to say that this is in illegal order, then we don't get to review whether it's in illegal order because they've made the determination.
00:06:42.000So if you're using the loose standard that they get to decide that things are randomly legal, like ignoring the law, Then you can't suddenly tighten the standard and say, OK, and by the way, if you go back to enforcing the law, then that's illegal now.
00:06:53.000Thomas says today's decision must be recognized for what it is, an effort to avoid a politically controversial but legally correct decision.
00:06:58.000The court could have made clear that the solution respondents seek must come from the legislative branch.
00:07:03.000In other words, if you don't like immigration policy in the United States, then why don't you go to the legislative branch?
00:07:09.000Instead, the Supreme Court has been irrigating more and more power to itself.
00:07:13.000That's been the story of the last several days at the Supreme Court, is the Supreme Court basically deciding that Congress isn't doing the Equality Act, so Justice Gorsuch will do the Equality Act.
00:07:22.000They'll just rewrite the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and read into its sexual orientation and gender identity, neither of which are in, or were even remotely thought to be, within the scope of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
00:07:33.000We don't like the legislature not doing what we want it to do, so we're just going to rewrite the law.
00:07:37.000It's what Justice Roberts did when he rewrote Obamacare to make it a tax instead of a fee.
00:09:28.000And all the attempts to rewrite Justice Gorsuch's opinion there to say, oh no, he was being textualist, he was just being talmudic about it.
00:09:35.000If you have to, if you overtly say no one could possibly have interpreted this law as I am interpreting it now when it was written, you're not a textualist.
00:09:43.000You are magically now rewriting the rules.
00:09:49.000So bottom line is that this has some pretty significant ramifications for President Trump for a couple of reasons.
00:09:54.000One, because the big pitch for Republican policymakers, and this has been true for a long time, the big pitch has been, listen, we may not do a lot when we're in Congress.
00:10:03.000In fact, we're pretty much going to do nothing.
00:10:04.000But the things that we are going to do are tax cuts and judges.
00:10:07.000You're going to get some tax cuts, which is great, nice.
00:10:10.000And we're going to give you textualist, originalist judges who are going to protect your rights.
00:10:14.000Well, listen, there are a lot of appeals courts where presumably that is happening.
00:10:18.000There are a lot more judges than just the Supreme Court.
00:10:20.000But suffice it to say that three of the last four judges that Republicans have appointed from the presidency are questionable.
00:10:28.000And if you go back further than that, then you have to take into account Stevens, you have to take into account Souter, you have to take into account Justice O'Connor, you have to take into account Justice Kennedy.
00:10:38.000In other words, Republicans suck at this.
00:10:40.000So if you think that voting Republican is a guarantee that the Supreme Court is going to be your bulwark for liberty, Wrongo.
00:10:48.000What you should be demanding of your Republican legislators is actual conservative legislation, actually standing up and protecting your rights at the legislative level, not just saying, listen, we're not going to do much over here, but you can rely on the justices we pick because clearly that ain't true.
00:11:01.000So one of the chief kind of mechanisms for gaining Republican votes turns out fairly flawed, fairly flawed.
00:11:07.000And Republicans have a, Republican voters have an absolute right to point out that it's insufficient for you to say you're going to appoint conservative judges because frankly, we have no idea whether that's true or not.
00:11:16.000By the way, only one person I know, me, has opposed two of the last four Republican judges appointed.
00:11:22.000I opposed Kavanaugh, I opposed Roberts.
00:11:24.000So, anyway, we'll see where Kavanaugh ends up.
00:11:26.000In coming up, we're going to talk about Atlanta, where things are going south in a hurry.
00:11:31.000We're going to get to that in a second.
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00:12:42.000Okay, so the Supreme Court, another pillar of American life that is consistently being undermined by people who staff it, so that's exciting stuff.
00:12:49.000Meanwhile, Things are coming to a head with regard to the situation in the United States regarding police.
00:13:00.000The evidence of this is scanty at best.
00:13:03.000The fact that lots of people around the United States have cameras and that you can identify a few dozen cases of police brutality in a country where there are 375 million interactions between the police and civilians on a yearly basis.
00:13:46.000There were more of them in high crime areas.
00:13:48.000They were using smarter policing tactics.
00:13:50.000And so we've decided that it's time to do away with all that because obviously the big problem, particularly facing black Americans, is not high levels of crime in black communities.
00:13:59.000It is not poor schools in black communities.
00:14:01.000It is not single motherhood in black communities.
00:14:04.000The real issue that creates income inequality and wealth inequality in the United States is systemic American racism beginning with the bleeding edge, the cops.
00:14:12.000And so the best thing that can happen is for the cops to go away, presumably.
00:14:14.000And this is where the defund the police movement comes from.
00:14:17.000If the police are the problem, remove the problem, and then you don't have to worry about it anymore.
00:14:20.000Well, we're about to find out how this is going to work, because we have now decided to make it impossible for police officers to do their job in this country.
00:14:34.000The shooting involved a suspect named Rayshard Brooks.
00:14:38.000Rayshard Brooks had a very long criminal record.
00:14:40.000This is relevant because when you drive up on somebody with a very long criminal record, you're obviously going to treat it with caution.
00:14:45.000Rayshard Brooks had a long rap sheet, including obstructing police battery, possession of firearm, and commission of crime, drug dealing, and multiple thefts.
00:14:52.000So they drive up on Rayshard Brooks because somebody at the local Wendy's called and said, there's a guy who's asleep in our drive-thru, he's obstructing traffic, and he's behind the wheel of a car.
00:16:58.000I've talked to a bevy of police officers.
00:17:00.000Every single one of them told me it is within police procedures that if someone takes your taser off of you and tries to tase you, you can shoot them.
00:17:06.000Because that is a threat of deadly force.
00:17:08.000How do you know that that's a threat of deadly force?
00:17:09.000Because if someone shoots you with a taser, first of all, a taser could theoretically be a deadly weapon.
00:17:13.000As it turns out, you hit somebody the right way with a taser, they die.
00:17:16.000But, beyond that, if a person has shown the willingness to take a weapon off your body, and they shoot you with a taser, and you have a gun on your body, There is the significant possibility... You don't have to lie there prone, waiting to see if the criminal is going to be a nice guy and continue walking down the street.
00:17:32.000According to Atlanta Police Department, official procedure, you're allowed to defend your life if there is the danger of significant bodily harm to yourself or somebody else.
00:18:14.000Racial justice is, you're a white police officer, you did something justifiable, but you did it to a black guy in the middle of a massive national controversy over policing and race.
00:18:22.000And therefore, we are going to try you for murder.
00:18:49.000And there's a reason the DA's pursuing this.
00:18:50.000It has nothing to do, nothing to do, with what actually occurred on this tape.
00:18:55.000It has everything to do with the DA being in the middle of a hard-fought re-election battle and being under investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
00:20:29.000He is charged with murder in Brooks' death.
00:20:32.000He could face life in prison or the death penalty for shooting a man who broke away from police custody, resisted arrest, stole a taser, and tried to taser him.
00:20:40.000And now the DA is just, he's either a liar or an idiot.
00:21:08.000While there may be debate as to whether this was an appropriate use of deadly force, I firmly believe that there is a clear distinction between what you can do and what you should do.
00:21:23.000I do not believe that this was a justified use of deadly force and have called for the immediate termination of the officer.
00:21:33.000So she fired the officer right away, and then she declared that it was a murder, essentially.
00:22:02.000He apparently, allegedly, used a non-profit to funnel at least $140,000 in City of Atlanta funds to supplement his salary, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
00:22:11.000He's being challenged in the Democratic primary for re-election.
00:22:13.000He's also facing allegations of sexual harassment, which he strongly denies.
00:22:18.000So he's in the middle of a bad re-election battle.
00:22:23.000And so he's decided, you know what, time to make a headline for myself in a different way and pander to black voters by unjustly charging a man.
00:22:31.000I mean, that's obviously what is going on right here.
00:22:32.000He's attempting to pander to Democratic primary base voters, particularly black voters, by suggesting that racial justice is being done on behalf of a man who stole a police officer's taser and tried to tase the police officer and then was shot for his trouble.
00:22:44.000So here are the charges he's being charged with.
00:22:46.000And we need to actually point this out because the charges conflict.
00:22:49.000I mean, it's the whole thing is when you hear the DA, you'll see how insane this is.
00:22:53.000So Rolf is facing a bunch of charges, felony murder.
00:22:57.000He's also facing aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
00:23:00.000The offense carries a possible sentence of 1 to 20 years.
00:23:05.000Aggravated assault for kicking Brooks.
00:23:06.000So this was the only real bombshell that was released by the DA, is that apparently there's third-party footage of Rolfe kicking the suspect when he's down.
00:23:13.000Now, the problem is he didn't actually show the footage.
00:23:15.000All he showed was a still from the footage.
00:23:17.000So it'd be nice to see the actual footage.
00:23:19.000But if Brooks was kicked by Rolfe after he'd been shot, that'd be a case for assault.
00:23:26.000It would not be a case for felony murder.
00:23:27.000And if he kicked somebody, that doesn't mean he killed them.
00:23:30.000That is an assault charge, that is not a felony murder charge.
00:23:32.000But this is my favorite part of the indictment.
00:23:35.000So the DA, first of all, normally, the way this goes is that the DA works with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
00:23:40.000The Georgia Bureau of Investigation does the investigation and then they work with the DA to bring charges.
00:23:44.000This DA rushed out the charges without consulting with the GBI.
00:23:48.000Perhaps because the GBI is investigating him right now.
00:23:52.000And then he just rushed forward and did what no prosecutor is supposed to do.
00:23:55.000He presented all of the evidence in a very selective fashion.
00:23:59.000Before this thing has even gone to a grand jury.
00:24:02.000By the way, the actual result of this is that it will go to a grand jury and it probably will not go forward to prosecution.
00:24:06.000So he's making a headline right now, and the prosecution probably will not go forward because I cannot imagine a grand jury going along with the idea that you can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that this officer was involved in a felony murder.
00:24:19.000He gets aggravated assault, an aggravated assault charge for kicking Brooks, according to an arrest warrant.
00:24:24.000Rolf was wearing a shoe, quote, which, when used offensively against a person, is likely to or actually does result in serious bodily injury.
00:24:32.000Now, the reason I particularly like this charge is because, as you will see, this DA is claiming that if you fire a taser at somebody, that you are not in threat of serious bodily injury.
00:24:40.000If you kick somebody, yes, the shoe is a weapon that could be used for serious bodily injury, but a taser is not a weapon that could be used for serious bodily injury.
00:24:49.000Also, four counts of violation of oath by a public officer, a felony offense under Georgia law, each offense carrying a sentence of one to five years.
00:24:57.000Prosecutors say that Rolfe broke his oath and didn't follow police department policies when he used a taser as Brooks ran away.
00:25:02.000Failure to render timely medical aid to Brooks because after he was shot, it took a couple of minutes for them to render medical aid.
00:25:08.000And failed to tell him he was under arrest for driving under the influence.
00:25:11.000You know, about the time when you are being arrested for driving under the influence after a 25-minute questioning for driving under the influence, I figured that people might know that they are being put under arrest for driving under the influence, which might be why you resist arrest and run away.
00:26:23.000You can pick which painter is going to do the best painting of you, and then they will turn your favorite picture into a beautiful portrait in a variety of sizes.
00:27:16.000Okay, so so this particular this particular indictment, the charges are just absurd.
00:27:25.000They're absurd on virtually every level.
00:27:28.000And the DA, his presentation of the facts are just crazy.
00:27:31.000So the DA says, at the time that Rayshard Brooks was shot, he didn't pose an immediate threat of death or injury to the officer.
00:27:36.000In fact, the DA actually said that he was very calm and collected in his interaction with the police.
00:27:41.000That's true up until the point he tries to break away from the police, takes two of them to the ground, takes a taser off the body of one of them, and then tries to shoot the other.
00:28:14.000Based on the way that these officers conducted themselves while Mr. Brooks was lying there, that the demeanor of the officers immediately after the shooting did not reflect any fear or danger of Mr. Brooks, we've concluded at the time Mr. Brooks was shot,
00:28:37.000That he did not pose an immediate threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or officers.
00:28:48.000No serious threat of death or injury to the officers.
00:28:51.000So, again, to get this straight, someone fires a taser at you.
00:28:54.000That's not a threat of death or immediate injury to the officer, but a shoe is, according to the actual charges filed against the officer.
00:29:01.000Plus, I will note that two weeks ago, the same DA prosecuted officers on the basis of using a taser and called the taser a deadly weapon.
00:29:09.000I think my favorite part of this particular clip is that there's a picture of the man who's speaking right behind the man who's speaking, which is one of my favorite things.
00:30:13.000Because Officer Brosnan is now becoming a cooperating witness for the state, we are asking the court to grant a bond of $50,000.
00:30:29.000And to allow Mr. Officer Brosnan to sign that bond, as I indicated, that he would become one of the first police officers to actually indicate that he is willing to testify against someone in his own department.
00:30:49.000The attorney for the other officer, whose name is Devin Brosnan, they said he's cooperating with the Fulton County DA's investigation and met with the ADA yesterday, but he has not agreed to be a state's witness or to testify in any court hearing or to plead guilty to any charge.
00:31:01.000The decision to initiate charges by the Fulton County DA's office is irrational, obviously based on factors which should have nothing to do with the proper administration of justice.
00:31:12.000According to the lawyer, He also said that Brooks used the taser he took from Brosnan against the officer as he resisted arrest and later ran from the scene.
00:31:20.000The lawyer says that Brosnan sustained burns from the taser.
00:31:24.000Samuel also states that when Brooks began to violently resist arrest, Brosnan's head hit the asphalt parking lot, and he was later diagnosed with a concussion.
00:31:29.000But don't worry, he was not a danger to anyone.
00:31:39.000Now, again, the only piece of new evidence that we actually got from the DA yesterday was this still photo of Rolfe kicking Brooks.
00:31:44.000We haven't seen the actual video, so we don't know what was happening at the time, other than the still photo.
00:31:49.000So this was the only piece of new evidence, which would suggest that even if that was the case, that he ran up to the guy and kicked him, Apparently, the other piece of evidence he said is that he said to his partner, I got him.
00:31:58.000Which, by the way, is not evidence that you tried to murder somebody.
00:32:01.000If you're trying to collar a suspect and the guy fires a taser at you and you shoot him, you say, I got him.
00:32:05.000That doesn't mean I wanted to murder the black guy I just had a 30-minute conversation with in the parking lot of Wendy's.
00:32:29.000When we examined the videotape and in our discussions with witnesses, what we discovered is during the two minutes and 12 seconds that Officer Rolfe actually kicked Mr. Brooks while he laid on the ground, while he was there fighting for his life.
00:32:51.000Okay, and then we don't actually release the tape, we just release the sit hill.
00:32:54.000Forgive me if I don't trust this DA, who seems to be completely full of crap, politically motivated, and under investigation by the GBI.
00:32:59.000Forgive me if I have problems believing that this guy is really acting in the interest of justice, rather than in the interest of his own career, and in the interest of so-called racial justice, which suggests that in order to rectify the imbalances of criminal justice in American history, this means that we have to straighten out the stats, even if that means that people who ought not go to jail, go to jail, and people who ought to go to jail, ought not go to jail.
00:33:20.000It is very, very, I mean, incredibly dangerous stuff that we are engaged in and with real ramifications, as we are about to talk about in just one second.
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00:37:58.000I've talked to a bevy of police officers.
00:37:59.000I haven't talked to a police officer in the last month who has not suggested that they are seriously considering early retirement or leaving their major city department.
00:38:07.000Because these departments are not protecting their cops.
00:38:25.000I mentioned a study the other day from Roland Fryer, another researcher from, I believe, the National Economic Council, that showed that in the aftermath of viral incidents in places like Ferguson and Baltimore and Cincinnati and Riverside, that in the aftermath of viral incidents that prompted major investigations that in the aftermath of viral incidents that prompted major investigations of police departments, policing basically stopped in those cities, leading to 900 excess deaths, 900 excess homicides in the Now think about that in every major city in the United States, which is basically what is happening now.
00:39:00.000Even the cops who stay on the job, do you think that they're just going to proactively police now?
00:39:06.000They'll respond to 911 calls, but only after somebody's been shot and is bleeding out, presumably.
00:39:11.000So, a bunch of precincts of Atlanta walked out last night.
00:39:15.000One observer who was sort of observing the radio traffic said that this afternoon when the DA announced murder charges were filed, almost an entire shift in a patrol zone drove back to the precinct, said they needed to talk to the EAP or weren't feeling well.
00:40:47.000Once the criminals know that the cops are not on the streets and not responding to calls, then see how it goes.
00:40:51.000By the way, she was apparently trying, according to a lot of the radio traffic, the Atlanta Police Department, the dispatchers, were trying to call in people from surrounding counties, and the surrounding counties were like, nope, you're on your own.
00:41:01.000I'm not going down there, I'm not getting prosecuted for you guys.
00:41:11.000We don't have a count yet because we were in the midst of a shift change.
00:41:15.000But what I do know is that we do have enough officers to cover us through the night.
00:41:21.000And our streets won't be any less safe because of the number of officers who've called out.
00:41:28.000But it's just my hope, again, that our officers will remember the commitment that they made when they held up their hand and they were sworn in as police officers.
00:41:39.000According to Charlie Gile of NBC News, producer over there, he says Atlanta Police Union spokesman Vince Champion tells me officers around the city are protesting the charges announced against officers Rolfe and Brosnan.
00:41:49.000Because they're walking off the job, not responding to calls unless backup is needed, and going silent on the radios.
00:41:54.000And if you listened to the radio traffic last night, that was perfectly obvious that was happening.
00:41:57.000You can do that for one night, you can't do it for two weeks.
00:42:47.000We've already heard evidence that there are going to be blueouts in places like Los Angeles, where people were not being paid proper overtime, that the LAPD was just going to be like, you know what?
00:43:39.000The posturing from all of the white, woke liberals meets the reality that when you remove the cops from high crime scenarios, crime goes up.
00:43:50.000And don't give me Camden, New Jersey, where they got rid of the police department by doubling the size of the police department and getting rid of the local police union, which is what actually happened there.
00:43:57.000Meanwhile, you know, Bottoms says there, Keisha Bottoms, the mayor of Atlanta, she says, That the morale is down in the police department.
00:44:12.000Maybe one of the reasons for that is because everyone sort of feels like they are being treated unfairly.
00:44:16.000You have an entire narrative on one side of the aisle that declares that America is sexist, racist, bigoted, homophobic, horrific in every way.
00:44:23.000So if you're a member of a minority group, you're being told over and over every day that your fellow American is seeking to keep you down.
00:44:28.000And something Michelle Obama actually said to people, no matter how hard you work as a young black person, the system is designed to keep you down.
00:45:08.000There's a story by Mark Fisher and Sydney Trent.
00:45:11.000The picture on the story has a picture of two Washington Post staffers, one named Lexi Gruber and one named Lyric Prince, standing next to a statue in the park looking very, very determined.
00:46:16.000Quote, every year, Tom Tolles' Halloween party draws an eclectic mix.
00:46:19.000Journalists and political types from Washington's power elite, but also artists and musicians, everyone from retirees to college kids, jammed into small rooms and sprawled across the backyard, dancing and gossiping, checking out the crowd to see who has the most inventive and outrageous costumes.
00:46:31.000At the 2018 party at the home of the Washington Post editorial cartoonist, in addition to several Ruth Bader Ginsburgs, someone dressed as the Mueller witch hunt and post columnist Dana Milbank came as just confirmed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, complete with a beer dispensing device on his head.
00:46:45.000A guest named Lexi Gruber wore a scary Beetlejuice getup and called herself dead.
00:46:50.000A middle-aged white... white... named Sue Schaefer wore a conservative business suit and a name tag that said, Hello, my name is Megyn Kelly.
00:47:00.000Her face was almost entirely blackened with makeup.
00:47:02.000Kelly, then an NBC morning host, had just said that week she'd caused a stir by defending the use of blackface by white people, saying, quote, when I was a kid, that was okay as long as you were dressing up as like a character.
00:47:11.000First of all, if you recall, that was a bullcrap story in the first place, because what Megan was not doing was defending actual blackface.
00:47:17.000She was saying there's a difference, as by the way, Juan Williams has said on my show, right?
00:47:22.000For Fox News, there's obviously a difference between you dressed up as Michael Jackson in 1985 and you dressed up like Ralph Northam did, just plainly in blackface in 1985.
00:47:32.000But, in any case, put aside the Kelly controversy.
00:47:34.000This lady, this middle-aged white woman, was making fun of Megyn Kelly for supposedly being racist by dressing up as Megyn Kelly in blackface.
00:47:41.000It was not because she was doing blackface, right?
00:47:44.000Like, she's so woke that she's un-woke.
00:47:46.000She was dressed up as Megyn Kelly and she had black on her face because she's supposed to be making fun of that evil, conservative, vicious, racist Megyn Kelly.
00:47:54.000And now she's being targeted as a racist for targeting the supposed racist Megyn Kelly.
00:47:59.000And now she's been ousted for her racism.
00:48:02.000Just before heading over to the party, Schaefer, a graphic designer and friend of Tolles, decided to dress as Kelly in blackface to mock her, she said.
00:48:07.000Well, yes, clearly, because that's perfectly obvious.
00:48:10.000Some of the approximately 100 guests at the home of the cartoonist in the district's American University neighborhood said they didn't notice the blackface.
00:48:32.000It's funny, Schaefer replied, the witnesses said.
00:48:34.000Nearly two years later, the incident, which has bothered some people ever since, ever since, but which many guests remember only barely or not at all, has resurfaced.
00:48:43.000Ooh, resurfacing in the nationwide reckoning over race.
00:48:46.000By the way, resurfaced is code for a woke staffer decided to go up and dig up an old photo to get somebody fired.
00:49:51.000This lady kept this around in the back of her mind so she could get a heroic picture in the Washington Post for getting another Washington Post employee in graphic design fired for a costume that was not racist.
00:50:02.000Okay, again, the costume is not racist because it's making fun of the evils of blackface, you stupid idiots.
00:50:07.000It is not about how blackface is good.
00:50:09.000It's making fun of the evils of blackface.
00:50:12.000After the killing of George Floyd in the protests, I began reflecting more on this incident, Gruber said in an email seeking post coverage of the incident.
00:50:23.000That a party full of prominent people in Washington welcomed a person in blackface, danced and drank with her, and watched in silence as she harassed two young women of color.
00:50:31.000Prince, 36, a science writer, art critic, and artist, wants Schaeffer to explain publicly why she did what she did.
00:51:24.000He said, I meant I didn't recognize any bad intent.
00:51:25.000I didn't feel it was my place to tell her who my other guest was when she had misinterpreted what the other guest intended with her costume.
00:51:31.000I mean, this is just, it's plainly insane.
00:51:37.0003,000 words because a 27-year-old is so weak-minded that she believes a costume that is meant to mock the evils of blackface is actually horrifically racist to the point where two years later, she's still having bad dreams about it and has to get the person fired.
00:51:48.000Well, I wonder why people are feeling so negative about the future of the United States.
00:52:00.000You're firing a 56-year-old lady because she wore a liberal costume making fun of Megyn Kelly to a Washington Post party, and then the Washington Post does a 3,000-word mea culpa with hero pictures of the people who were offended.
00:52:11.000And can I just tell you something about being offended?
00:52:13.000Being offended does not make you virtuous.
00:52:17.000If you are that offended by these- like, as a person who's the number one target of all antisemitism on the internet in 2016, and watched people send me actual memes of my- of me being gassed by Hitler, okay?
00:52:39.000My wife, as an Israeli-American woman, walking with her father in Sacramento, a man drove past, threw a rock at her, and yelled, killed the Jews.
00:52:48.000She's mentioned it to me once in our 12 years of marriage.
00:52:51.000Those are all worse things than, I saw a costume that made me feel bad at a party, even though the costume was supposed to be making fun of alleged racism.
00:53:17.000Meanwhile, you want to talk about more ridiculous sort of woke scolding.
00:53:23.000So there are a couple more stories that are worth noting in the woke scolding lane, and then we'll get to John Bolton for a little while here, because John Bolton is, of course, a big story, because John Bolton wrote a book.
00:54:11.000You're Malcolm X. You've really stood up to true American prejudice by calling out a lady who you didn't know from two years ago at a Washington Post editorial cartoonist party.
00:54:34.000When I used to talk about trigger warnings and microaggressions on the show and in my college speeches, people were like, that's not going to enter the real world.
00:54:40.000These young people, they're going to get out there and then the real world's going to hit you hard, bro.
00:54:45.000The real world is going to change them.
00:54:46.000They're going to come face to face with reality.
00:54:49.000And then it turned out that reality came face to face with the woke skulls and ran.
00:54:53.000And the new reality is, the more offended you are, the more virtuous you are.
00:54:56.000So find something that offends you, and you too can be initiated into the woke, into the woke priesthood, where you can rip out the entrails of your enemies and just spread them on the ground and read the auspices.
00:55:35.000Lieutenant Harry Callahan of the San Francisco Police Department is determined to uphold the law even if he has to break the rules.
00:55:40.000It started a craze for movies about maverick cops who get the job done by following their instincts rather than the law.
00:55:45.000The film mocks liberal judges and do-gooders, and the villain claims police brutality, planting the seed that other such charges are fake moves to get sympathy.
00:55:51.000And one of the things that they're not going to mention is that Dirty Harry was an extraordinarily popular movie because it came amidst one of the great crime waves in American history, beginning in the mid-60s and culminating in 1994.
00:56:01.000Dirty Harry was a direct reactionary response to the fact that criminality was being allowed to run wild by the left.
00:56:09.000Both of those movies were very popular because they were actually responding to the ridiculousness of the left taking over the auspices of law and order and destroying them.
00:56:23.000Forrest Gump was made by intelligent people, won six Oscars, and is beloved by many.
00:56:26.000While the film is condescending to anyone with a disability, Vietnam vets and people with AIDS among others, it's actually hostile to protesters, activists, and the counterculture.
00:56:34.000As a bonus, lovable title character Nathan Bedford Forrest was named after his grandfather, the first Grand Wizard of the KKK.
00:56:44.000Ah, we have to get rid of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom because the exotic villains are portrayed as primitive and bloodthirsty foreigners, resulting in negative and stereotypical depictions of India and of Hindu customs.
00:56:55.000I'm pretty sure that anybody who watched Temple of Doom didn't go away thinking, I feel like all Hindus just, like, rip hearts out of chests.
00:57:11.000Because it's a romance about a man who becomes paralyzed after an accident and falls in love with his new companion, and then he urges her to live her life to the fullest instead of living half a life with him.
00:57:18.000So he kills himself, presenting the idea that suicide is better than life with a disability.
00:57:22.000So first of all, I agree with the take on the film, but I wonder why it needs a disclaimer.
00:57:26.000Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is also very bad.
00:57:30.000Because the film is set in 1969, when some Americans felt the status quo was being threatened by minorities, hippies, and newly liberated women.
00:57:38.000From the controversial depiction of Bruce Lee, to the fact that black people seem non-existent, and the Mexicans, as they're called in the film, are car valets or waitresses, Tarantino's film seems to have several blind spots.
00:58:24.000The city of Seattle has now put out, I'm not kidding you, this is according to Dr. Carolyn Borsenko, who's an organizational psychologist.
00:58:32.000The city of Seattle asked its white employees to voluntarily spend a day off in a training about their internalized racial superiority.
00:58:39.000There's an email that was sent out to white employees.
00:58:44.000It says, the Office of Civil Rights is hosting a training on internalized racial superiority tomorrow morning, specifically targeted for white employees.
00:58:52.000They say, we're opening up this Friday's long-scheduled citywide RSJI training on internalized racial superiority, a training for white people, to additional white city employees.
00:59:01.000We'll hold the training on Microsoft Teams from 9.30 a.m.
00:59:18.000We're inviting city employees who identify as white to join this training to learn, reflect, challenge ourselves, and build skills and relationships that help us show more fully as allies and accomplices for racial justice.
00:59:28.000We'll examine our complicity in the system of white supremacy.
00:59:31.000This was sent out by the City of Seattle to its white employees.
00:59:34.000Nothing like a little racial targeting of your white employees and suggesting they ought to take the day off that's been given to them to consider their racial guilt and come on in to learn about their internalized white superiority.
00:59:47.000Yes, I wonder why so many people are negative.
00:59:49.000Maybe it's because things suck right now, like radically suck right now in a huge way.
00:59:53.000Okay, meanwhile, I would be remiss if I didn't talk at least a little bit about John Bolton's book.
00:59:57.000So John Bolton has a 496-page book out, which, I mean, frankly sounds interminable.
01:00:01.000I don't like reading political books that are that long because they rarely justify the word count.
01:00:06.000I've also, I will admit, I've gotten to the point in my life where I will get, if there's an 800 page book and I start it and I get 500 pages in, and I get bored, I'll just put it down.
01:00:15.000I just don't have that many breaths left in my life.
01:00:17.000When I was younger, I would be like, okay, I'm gonna blow my way all the way through the end of this thing.
01:00:21.000But if I'm reading Vanity Fair and it's 900 pages long and I get to page 700, and I'm like, okay, I feel like I got the gist.
01:00:49.000I think people who are trying to flip on him now that he is saying things that are anti-Trump, that's sort of absurd.
01:00:54.000The idea that Bolton is just making things up full-scale.
01:00:56.000Why is it that everybody who turns against Trump is a liar, but Trump himself is considered the epitome of honesty?
01:01:00.000Like, that's just not something I believe.
01:01:02.000Now, do I think that it is worthwhile for John Bolton to talk out of school?
01:01:06.000I generally don't think that it's worthwhile for government officials to talk out of school unless they quit over a matter of principle and want to talk about the matter of principle.
01:01:13.000But this idea that you're going to sit in on meetings for three years and take the benefits of the job and try to swing the job and then you're just going to go out and talk about it.
01:01:20.000That's really kiss and tell kind of stuff that I'm really not fond of.
01:01:23.000I will also say that most of the things that we learn about Donald Trump in the excerpts of the book that we've seen are not particular revelations.
01:01:46.000So one of the big headlines from this is that apparently Trump talked to Xi Jinping about his re-election.
01:01:55.000So according to John Bolton, President Trump was constantly motivated by re-election, which, by the way, is true for virtually every president.
01:02:02.000Barack Obama always had an eye toward re-election.
01:02:04.000So Bolton says in a piece in the Wall Street Journal, I'm hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my White House tenure that wasn't driven by re-election calculations.
01:02:11.000Okay, well it's just called Welcome to Politics.
01:02:15.000So he says that Trump saw his meetings with Xi not as a policy issue to be resolved, but as an opportunity to make personal gestures to Xi.
01:02:23.000In 2018, for example, he reversed penalties that had been carried out by the Commerce Department on ZTE.
01:02:28.000In 2019, he offered to reverse criminal prosecution against Huawei if it would help in a trade deal, which of course was primarily about getting Trump reelected in 2020.
01:02:37.000So apparently, he talked openly with Xi about the fact that he wanted Xi to start importing all sorts of agricultural products, because if he imported agricultural products, then Trump would have the ability to win some of the swing states.
01:02:52.000You don't want the President of the United States going to foreign dictators and being like, you know, it'd be great if you could help me out with my re-election prospects by importing some of our agricultural goods.
01:03:16.000But this idea that politicians are never thinking about re-election and never talk with foreign leaders with an eye toward re-election is very silly.
01:03:22.000This is a distinction that I made when we were talking about Trump and Ukraine.
01:03:25.000I said, if one of the motivations for a president is re-election, if it is not the only motivation, but if one of the motivations is re-election, Then that's just called politics because that's what politicians do.
01:03:37.000And so that's that one is sort of the least of my concerns among the John Bolton bombshells.
01:03:42.000Some of the other John Bolton bombshells is just Trump generally going easy on China because he was trying to win over Xi Jinping on a personal level.
01:03:49.000This is, again, an aspect of Trump's negotiation that I've always thought is dumb, obviously.
01:03:55.000The worst thing that apparently Trump said is that he was talking with Xi Jinping about Xi Jinping's concentration camps for Uighur Muslims, and apparently he suggested that he was okay with them.
01:04:17.000According to Bolton, at the opening dinner of the Osaka G20 meeting in June 2019, with only interpreters present, Xi had explained to Trump why he was basically building concentration camps in Xinjiang.
01:04:27.000According to our interpreter, Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps that Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do.
01:04:33.000The National Security Council's top Asia staffer, Matthew Pottinger, told me that Trump said something very similar during his November 2017 trip to China.
01:04:41.000Apparently Trump was particularly dyspeptic about Taiwan, having listened to Wall Street financiers who had gotten rich off mainland China investments.
01:04:47.000Apparently Trump used to point to the Resolute desk and say, this is China, and then point to the tip of his Sharpie and say, this is Taiwan.
01:04:55.000The stuff about concentration camps, apparently Trump was asked about it, and Trump said something like, America does bad things too.
01:05:00.000So the question isn't, did Trump say a very bad thing?
01:05:02.000And is that a horribly evil thing to say, that concentration camps are okay?
01:05:06.000Yes, that is a horribly evil thing to say with no justification whatsoever.
01:05:10.000Also, this is coming from the same guy who said openly in an interview with Bill O'Reilly in 2016 that Vladimir Putin routinely killing his political enemies, America does bad stuff too.
01:05:46.000I don't think he has the competence to carry out the job.
01:05:49.000There really isn't any guiding principle that I was able to discern other than what's good for Donald Trump's re-election.
01:05:57.000I think he was so focused on the reelection that longer term considerations fell by the wayside.
01:06:06.000So if he thought he could get a photo opportunity with Kim Jong-un at the demilitarized zone in Korea, there was considerable emphasis on the photo opportunity and the press reaction to it.
01:06:18.000And little or no focus on what such meetings did for the bargaining position of the United States.
01:06:25.000Okay, so again, he disagrees with the policy.
01:06:28.000This makes him no different, Bolton, than any other officer who has left the Trump administration.
01:08:35.000Okay, now, unless they are making some sort of, like, patently absurd accusation, like, Brett Kavanaugh is guilty of gang rape.
01:08:42.000If somebody says, I was in the room and this person said X, and it was a bad thing that they said, and the person says, no, I never said it.
01:08:48.000Generally, believe the bad things in politics.
01:09:44.000So again, the only part of this I actually agree with with Chris Hayes, not the characterization of Bolton, but the idea that Bolton was like avoiding testimony, avoiding testimony, avoiding testimony.
01:09:52.000And then he says in his book, you know, if the Democrats had broadened out their impeachment inquiry to include all transactional politics for Trump, they would have had a better shot.
01:09:58.000Yeah, you know, if you really thought that, you could have said that at the time, John Bolton.
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