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00:00:31.000So, the January 6th Capitol riot, which has become basically the touchstone for not only all of American politics for the last several years, but all of world politics.
00:00:43.000A lot of that was rooted in the footage that we were allowed to see.
00:00:45.000Tucker Carlson was given access by Kevin McCarthy, the Speaker of the House, to 40,000 hours of heretofore unreleased footage from January 6th.
00:00:55.000And as Tucker made clear, the vast majority of that footage was kind of empty rooms or there was nothing going on in the footage.
00:01:00.000But there's some aspects of the footage that are rather telling because what we were told about January 6th is that not only was it a riot, we saw outside obviously the footage exists, We all watched it in real time.
00:01:10.000There was in fact a riot outside the Capitol building in which windows were broken and police officers were attacked and all of the rest.
00:01:16.000But what we were told is that the pictures that were shown inside the building, it was universally of rioters.
00:01:22.000It wasn't just two groups of people. So the reality is that what happened is they riot began from a rally, the rally was was perfectly legal and then there was outside the Capitol building a rally, a certain percentage of those people rioted, they went into the Capitol building and many of the people who went into the Capitol building actually were not rioters. Many of the people who went into the building, there were allegations at the time, were guided into the building by police officers.
00:01:48.000And we were told by the media that a lot of that stuff just didn't happen.
00:01:51.000And in fact, many of the images that we were shown of January 6th featured certain people who are the faces of the riot.
00:01:57.000People who apparently had violently broke into the Capitol building, attacked police officers, and then had rampaged through the building.
00:02:04.000Now, again, there were some people who did that, but many of the images that we were shown, as it turns out, We're not true, as Tucker showed last night.
00:02:10.000So the most obvious example of this was QAnon Shaman.
00:02:13.000So if there's one picture that sort of exemplifies the January 6th day, and again, this became the tip of the spear, January 6th, for a wide variety of activities that are un-American in the extreme.
00:02:23.000I'm not just talking about riots themselves.
00:02:25.000I mean, obviously you shouldn't ride and break into the Capitol building based on the false pretext that you're going to overturn the results of a duly certified election at the state level.
00:03:20.000And what you heard from the left is that January 6th was just as an important inflection point in American history as, for example, September 11th, when 3,000 Americans were murdered at the Twin Towers and at the Pentagon.
00:03:30.000What we heard is that all of American politics had to be recapitulated around this signal inflection point, this signal moment in American history.
00:03:38.000Well, as it turns out from a lot of the footage, the media accounts were, in fact, exaggerated.
00:03:42.000Now, again, this does not mean there wasn't a riot at the Capitol building.
00:03:45.000It doesn't mean the police officers weren't attacked.
00:03:47.000But what the footage that Tucker showed last night showed is that some of the narratives that we were told were just flat out wrong.
00:03:54.000They were flat out lies, in fact, because if members of the January 6th committee saw the footage and then they said these things, it turns out that some of those things were not true.
00:04:04.000And that is a serious problem because, again, the same people who are out there claiming that conspiracists are becoming more common.
00:04:13.000You know, it's a great way to feed conspiracy theories.
00:04:16.000A great way to feed conspiracy theories is to lie to people and then hide footage from them for two years.
00:04:21.000And then finally, when the footage emerges, it turns out that there's some pretty significant details that should have been mentioned in the coverage of January 6th.
00:04:30.000Two things can be true at once, as I'm very fond of saying.
00:04:32.000One, January 6th, the actual riots were really bad.
00:04:36.000They were predicated on a falsehood, which is that, again, the election was capable of being overturned by Mike Pence in the Senate, or some such nonsense.
00:04:44.000There was no actual legal theory that held that, and that was credible in any real sort of way.
00:04:50.000And at the same time, it can be totally true that the media decided that January 6th was the most important thing that ever happened in American history.
00:04:56.000And they're going to use this each and every day and that Democrats were going to use this going forward into 2022 as the basis for their election.
00:05:04.000And in 2024, they plan to use this again as the basis of their election.
00:05:11.000It can also be true and criminal things and some of the people who are in the Capitol building actually did deserve to go to jail.
00:05:15.000It can also be true that some of the people who are in the Capitol building were basically let in by the cops and that the media decided that the threat to democracy was far graver than what actually happened on January 6th.
00:05:25.000Remember, we're told that democracy was nearly overthrown on January 6th.
00:05:29.000The building was clear within two hours and the Senate was moving forward with the business of certifying the election, led by a Republican Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, and a Republican Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence.
00:05:39.000So the idea that democracy was ever in serious threat because of droogs and idiots breaking into the Capitol building and a few of those people running around and threatening violence and shouting in the halls without, by the way, firearms.
00:05:51.000I mean, again, we were told this was an armed insurrection.
00:05:54.000Armed would actually imply that there were, you know, firearms on the premises.
00:05:57.000And as it turns out, the only person who was shot and killed that day was an unarmed rider, Ashley Babbitt, by a police officer.
00:06:09.000We'll get to that in just a second because it really is shocking.
00:06:12.000Honestly, as just an observer of politics and someone who covers this stuff at a pretty granular level, I was shocked by some of the footage that Tucker showed last night.
00:06:21.000First, if the idea is that you shouldn't trust A lot of people out there, big tech, the government, because they have narratives and they push those narratives.
00:06:28.000Why would you trust them with your data?
00:07:24.000Okay, so there were two real major revelations from Tucker last night, and they have to do with two major sort of visual and also factual claims that were made by the Democrats, by Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney on the January 6th committee and by the media.
00:07:39.000So claim number one was that QAnon shaman was the chief rioter, right?
00:07:45.000He was on the cover of literally every magazine in America, every newspaper in America.
00:07:49.000He was a violent rioter who was attempting to assault police officers.
00:07:52.000He was a danger to himself and others.
00:07:54.000Okay, well, Tucker showed footage last night that kind of blows that narrative up.
00:08:04.000That was what he was named, the QAnon Shaman, walking through, his name is Jacob Chansley, The one who's wearing the horns and the weird walking around shirtless and carrying a staff and all of this.
00:08:19.000The footage shows him literally being guided through the Capitol building by police officers.
00:08:24.000Being guided through the building by police officers.
00:08:27.000Two of them walk him through the entirety of the building.
00:08:54.000So he did a jailhouse interview with Tucker Carlson.
00:08:56.000He said, the one serious regret I have is believing that when we were waved in by police officers, that it was acceptable.
00:09:01.000The Capitol Police said that one of the officers that Chansley was trying to deal with was trying to quote-unquote de-escalate the situation because he was outnumbered.
00:09:09.000But again, he walked past nine police officers.
00:09:42.000And again, it's kind of shocking because the only imagery that you've seen of Jacob Chansley, the QAnon shaman, is him bellowing from behind the podium, right?
00:09:50.000People hanging from the rafters over in the Senate chamber.
00:09:53.000But he was escorted into the building by the cops and then escorted around the building by the cops.
00:11:23.000Again, it prevents people from believing the idea that two things can be true at once.
00:11:28.000It turns people into conspiracy theorists because there is a conspiracy when it turns out that you had the footage and you didn't release it.
00:11:35.000You know, the whole point of an adversarial justice system, typically speaking, is the defense and the prosecution get to see the material, and then all of it enters the public light, and then people can make judgments.
00:11:43.000That's the whole idea of, for example, a trial.
00:11:46.000In this particular case, this is a public trial, right?
00:11:48.000It was a public trial over what actually happened on January 6th.
00:11:51.000We got to watch it in real time, but only part of it in real time.
00:11:59.000Like that's, that's relevant to your judgment of what happened inside the building that day.
00:12:03.000And that doesn't change that the people who actually committed violent acts should be in, people who commit violent acts should go to jail.
00:12:08.000It doesn't change the fact that people who stormed the Capitol building that day were doing so on the basis of a falsehood told by Donald Trump and by others that the election was capable of being overturned if you yelled at Mike Pence loud enough.
00:12:22.000But what does change is the idea that this guy was like a true threat to America.
00:12:26.000He was walking through the Capitol, escorted by the cops.
00:12:30.000Or the idea that the vast majority of people inside the building, they were all violent rioters who were looking to do violent damage to legislators, for example.
00:12:38.000Well, it makes you doubt the evidence, considering that there's also footage of people walking in queue lines through the Capitol building.
00:12:46.000None of that was made public by Congress.
00:12:48.000None of that was made public by the January 6th Committee, which is one of the reasons why Kevin McCarthy presumably handed it to Tucker.
00:12:55.000By the way, Jacob Chansley, just for the record, he was sentenced in 2021 to 41 months in prison.
00:13:01.000He acknowledged using a bullhorn to rile up the mob, offering thanks in a prayer while in a Senate for having the chance to get rid of traitors, and scratching out a threatening note to Vice President Mike Pence saying, it's only a matter of time.
00:13:14.000Prosecutors say he was the public face of the Capitol riot, who went into the attack with a weapon, ignored repeated police officers to leave the building, and gloated about his actions.
00:13:21.000Okay, where are the repeated police officers telling him to leave the building in that tape?
00:13:26.000He said he wasn't an insurrectionist, and he said he was troubled with the way he was portrayed in a news story in the aftermath of the riots.
00:13:46.000In a lot of states in America right now, you can rape people and get less of a sentence than Jacob Chansley got for apparently being escorted around the Capitol building by police officers before giving a speech into a microphone and scrawling out a bizarre note to Mike Pence.
00:14:05.000Why weren't they calling for that to be revealed to the public?
00:14:08.000As we'll see, there are some more lies that we were told about what exactly happened on January 6th, and those lies ended up imploding as lies tend to do.
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00:16:12.000The subhead said, the death of the officer, Brian Sicknick, appeared likely to lead to calls for profound changes to the Capitol Police, a centuries old force.
00:16:19.000And the article said a United States Capitol police officer died on Thursday night from injuries sustained while physically engaging with pro-Trump rioters who descended on the U.S.
00:16:28.000The fifth fatality linked to the chaos that engulfed the nation's capital on Wednesday, according to the authorities.
00:16:31.000Now, again, when they say the fifth fatality linked to the chaos, they're talking about Ashley Babbitt, who was shot by a cop.
00:16:38.000They're talking about Sicknick, who, as we will see in a second, Did not die from being hit in the head with a fire extinguisher, which was the actual original report.
00:16:47.000And then there were some people in the crowd who had heart attacks.
00:16:50.000Later, there would be some police officers who committed suicide, but that's not directly linkable to the January 6th riot.
00:16:57.000According to the New York Times, the officer, Sicknick, was only the fourth member of the force to be killed in the line of duty since its founding two centuries ago.
00:17:03.000And you'll recall that his death then prompted Democrats to have him lie in state, and they did a whole ceremony, and Joe Biden went to visit, and all the rest.
00:17:14.000Now, it was only, I mean, a few months later, there was an actual police officer murdered at the Capitol building by a person who drove a car over him, I believe the case was, and it turned out to be a person who is not of the political right.
00:17:26.000That person didn't, you don't know that guy's name because he wasn't Brian Sicknick.
00:17:29.000You all know Brian Sicknick's name because he became the face.
00:17:31.000Again, there were two faces that were presented to January 6th.
00:17:33.000One was QAnon Shaman, who it turns out was being basically guided around the Capitol building.
00:17:37.000And the second person was Brian Sicknick, who was supposedly murdered by the rioters.
00:17:41.000Well, what the footage actually shows, as Tucker revealed, is that after apparently he was supposedly murdered, right, I mean, after he'd sustained life-threatening injuries, according to the media, and according to the narrative, He was walking around pretty spry.
00:17:57.000I mean, here is some of the tape from Tucker.
00:17:59.000Here is surveillance footage of Sicknick walking in the Capitol after he was supposedly murdered by the mob outside.
00:18:06.000By all appearances, Sicknick is healthy and vigorous.
00:18:09.000He's wearing a helmet, so it's hard to imagine he was killed by a head injury.
00:18:14.000Whatever happened to Brian Sicknick was very obviously not the result of violence he suffered at the entrance to the Capitol.
00:18:21.000This tape overturns the single most powerful and politically useful lie the Democrats have told us about January 6th.
00:18:30.000Remember, the New York Times report said, quote, These circumstances surrounding Mr. Sicknick's death were not immediately clear.
00:18:35.000Capitol police said only that he had, quote, passed away due to injury sustained while on duty.
00:18:40.000Law enforcement officials initially said Sigmund was struck with a fire extinguisher.
00:18:44.000But weeks later, police sources and investigators were at odds over whether he was even hit.
00:18:47.000Medical experts have said he did not die of blunt force trauma, according to one law enforcement official.
00:18:51.000And of course, weeks later, the New York Times had to correct its report because, as it turns out, It wasn't true.
00:18:57.000As it turns out, Brian Sicknick died of a multiplicity of other causes and it is not clear.
00:19:04.000The evidence just does not exist that he died because he was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher or that his death had was directly connectable, in fact, with the events of January 6th.
00:19:16.000In fact, in April of 2021, according to the U.S.
00:19:19.000Capitol Police, a medical examiner found that Brian Sicknick died of natural causes.
00:19:24.000C.P., that's the Capitol Police, accepts the findings from the District of Columbia's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner that Brian Sicknick died of natural causes.
00:19:30.000This does not change the fact that Sicknick died in the line of duty, courageously defending Congress and the Capitol.
00:19:44.000But the clear evidence that he died because he was hit with the fire extinguisher does not exist.
00:19:53.000I mean, according to NPR, Sicknick died after suffering strokes, according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Francisco Diaz.
00:19:59.000In an interview, Diaz told the Washington Post that Sicknick suffered two strokes.
00:20:03.000He was sprayed with a chemical substance outside the Capitol on January 6th, but did not suffer an allergic reaction to the chemical irritants dispensed by the rioters, nor was there evidence of internal or external injuries.
00:20:14.000At approximately 10 p.m., he collapsed at the Capitol, was transported to a local hospital, and died about 24 hours later.
00:20:19.000Again, they tried to open a murder investigation into his death.
00:20:24.000That's inconclusive because it's not clear exactly how he died in the first place.
00:20:29.000And as that tape shows, you know, again, the idea that he was hit in the head and then suffered injuries, they dragged him away, and then he died at a hospital, that obviously is not true.
00:20:38.000These sorts of details matter when you are rolling out a narrative, which presumably is why we never saw these details until this very moment.
00:20:46.000In just one second, we'll get to the reactions from various sides of the aisle to the new footage that's been released by the House Republicans to Tucker Carlson.
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00:21:57.000OK, so the fallout here has been, of course, absolutely polarized.
00:22:02.000Donald Trump put out a statement on Truth Social saying congratulations to Tucker Carlson on one of the biggest scoops as a reporter in US history.
00:22:08.000The new surveillance footage of the January 6th events sheds an entirely different light on what actually happened.
00:22:12.000The unselected committee was a giant scam and has now unequivocally been stamped as criminal fabricators of this most important day.
00:22:18.000Pelosi and McConnell failed on security.
00:22:42.000Well, Donald Trump isn't under arrest, but you know, the fact of the matter is that again, What's amazing is that our media and our polarized political environment are so extreme right now that people were willing to essentially leave this landmine lying around in the hopes that no one would discover it for years on end.
00:23:04.000Knowing that there's a possibility that was gonna blow up in Democrats faces.
00:23:07.000So Democrats literally did not reveal this footage, which they could have done.
00:23:10.000By the way, if they'd brought this out in the January 6th committee, if they'd said, guys, we just wanna tell you the whole story here.
00:23:15.000The whole story is that there was a riot at the Capitol building.
00:23:18.000It was a small percentage of people who had started off a much, much larger rally for Donald Trump.
00:23:24.000And then there are a bunch of people into the Capitol.
00:23:25.000And of those people, a percentage broke into the Capitol building.
00:23:28.000And of the percentage who broke into the Capitol building, a small percentage were violent and terrible.
00:23:48.000Instead, they decided that they were going to cover this up, and again, they were going to make the faces of the media coverage.
00:23:52.000Brian Sicknick, the officer who was supposedly murdered by the Capitol rioters, again, the evidence does not support that at this point, and probably never supported that.
00:24:03.000And second, that QAnon shaman was the great And by the way, we were supposed to also believe that the guy who's dressed in the buffalo horns, that that guy was going to lead like a full-on violent insurrection that was going to take down democracy in the most powerful country in the history of the world.
00:24:34.000But I mean, this is, again, the danger of when Kevin McCarthy and this also relationship that we're talking about with Fox News, look at the situation that they're in now with Dominion.
00:24:52.000You should give it to every news organization at the same time so that they're able to, as you say, analyze it each in real time and not one, particularly, especially someone who is not considered to be a journalist, to be able to disseminate it and give his take on it.
00:25:21.000I mean, again, the reason that it was revealed to Tucker Carlson, presumably, is because... Let's be real about this.
00:25:27.000Kevin McCarthy and the rest of the House Republicans were quite afraid that the Democrats on CNN would presumably cover up the footage because Democrats in the actual House covered up the footage.
00:25:37.000And the Democrats in the media work hand in glove.
00:25:40.000I didn't see CNN clamoring for the full footage when Democrats were in charge of Congress.
00:26:10.000There is the best way to undermine trust in this country right now is to make outlandishly large claims and suggest that the evidence supports those claims.
00:26:18.000And then it turns out that you've been hiding crap the whole time.
00:26:21.000And it's again, it doesn't mean that January 6th was a wonderful bed of roses.
00:26:25.000It doesn't mean that everybody who's currently in jail for January 6th deserves to be free.
00:26:29.000It doesn't mean that Donald Trump was telling the truth between November 4th and January 6th because he wasn't.
00:26:35.000However, what it does mean is that when you draw a giant narrative that the country was on the verge of overthrow by QAnon shaman, who's being guided around the Capitol building by police officer.
00:26:46.000And when you suggest that that an officer who became the face of the murderous rampage.
00:26:52.000Because, of course, he was the only officer who could be, quote unquote, directly linked to the riot was killed.
00:26:59.000When you say that and then you don't actually show the video evidence of him walking around looking pretty good, like right after.
00:27:05.000Of course that undermines your case, and you knew that when you hit it.
00:27:10.000Yes, it's a very, very big story because cover-ups are a big story even if the cover-up isn't of the entire event, even if it is just of how the public perceives the event and the images that you chose to make the forefront of the event in the first place.
00:27:22.000Now, speaking of cover-ups, it is the continuing The continuing Democratic media complex attempt to cover up narratives that are unfriendly to left-wing ideas, it's astonishing.
00:27:35.000Again, the same people, Don Lemon over at CNN.
00:27:38.000Why did the House Republicans only give the footage to Tucker Carlson?
00:27:41.000Maybe because you are as biased in your way as Fox News is in its way.
00:27:45.000Tucker's pretty obvious about his biases.
00:27:46.000Tucker doesn't pretend to be an objective journalist.
00:27:48.000CNN does pretend to be objective journalists, but as it turns out, the objective journalismers over at CNN tried to quash any investigation into, for example, the COVID lab leak theory.
00:27:59.000According to FoxNews.com, CNN has long referred to itself as the most trusted name in news and famously launched a fast-first campaign during the Trump era.
00:28:06.000But like many other outlets, that sentiment fell by the wayside when it came to the COVID lab leak theory.
00:28:11.000In the early months of the pandemic, then-CNN president Jeff Zucker would not allow his network to chase down the lab leak story because he believed it was a, quote, Trump talking point, according to a well-placed CNN insider.
00:28:23.000People are slowly waking up from the fog, the insider told Fox News Digital.
00:28:25.000It's kind of crazy we didn't chase it harder.
00:28:27.000Throughout Tucker's tenure as CNN chief, he pulled what was once widely seen as a straight news organization into an anti-Trump operation.
00:28:34.000Apparently, on March 28, 2020, CNN's Oliver Darcy published a story headline, Here's How to Debunk Coronavirus Information and Conspiracy Theories from Friends and Family.
00:28:43.000And that article said, while the coronavirus pandemic has isolated friends and family out inside their homes, it has in many cases increased online or over the phone communication with loved ones.
00:28:51.000But in some cases, relatives and friends share poor information.
00:28:54.000Whether it is bad science related to how to prevent the virus, debunked rumors about cities being put on lockdown, or conspiracy theories about the origins of COVID-19.
00:29:03.000Darcy's admonition came as CNN was one of the many mainstream outlets to declare the lab leak notion utterly preposterous.
00:29:10.000CNN host Fareed Zakaria said that the far right has now found its own virus conspiracy theory while talking about the possibility of a lab leak.
00:29:18.000On February 18th, 2020, CNN published a faxed first examination of claims made by Senator Tom Cotton, who was one of the big supporters early of the lab leak theory.
00:29:26.000And CNN insisted it's possible but unlikely that the lab was connected to the start of the outbreak.
00:29:31.000CNN anchor John Valls called Cotton's theory misinformation.
00:29:33.000So if it's true that Jeff Zucker thought that this was a Trump narrative and so they never chased it down.
00:29:40.000Well, that would answer a lot of questions about just what kind of place CNN is.
00:29:43.000And again, meanwhile, the Democrat media complex is undefeated.
00:29:50.000So the same exact people at CNN, same kinds of people at CNN who are shutting down investigation into the lab leak theory while informing you that they were being perfectly transparent of everything COVID related.
00:30:00.000I'll tell you who else is not transparent.
00:30:03.000The great and sainted Dr. Anthony Fauci.
00:30:06.000He who must be tributed with votive candles.
00:30:09.000According to Miranda Devine, reporting for the New York Post, new emails uncovered by House Republicans proving the COVID-19 pandemic reveal the deceptive nature of Dr. Anthony Fauci.
00:30:18.000They show that he prompted or commissioned and had final approval on a scientific paper written specifically in February 2020 to disprove the theory that the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China.
00:30:28.000Eight weeks later, Fauci stood at a White House press conference alongside President Trump and cited that paper as evidence the lab leak theory was implausible, while pretending it had nothing to do with him and he didn't know the authors.
00:30:39.000He said, April 17, 2020, there was a study recently where a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences in bats as they evolve and the mutations it took to get to a point where it is now totally consistent with the jump of species from an animal to a human.
00:30:52.000I don't have the authors right now, but we can make it available to you.
00:30:55.000That paper, titled The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2, was sent to Fauci for editing and draft form, and again for final approval before it was even published on February 17, 2020 in Nature Magazine.
00:31:05.000It was written four days after Fauci and then-NIH boss Dr. Francis Collins held a call with the four authors to discuss reports that COVID-19 may have leaked from the Wuhan lab.
00:31:16.000Apparently, the House Oversight Subcommittee published emails in which the paper's co-author, Dr. Christian Anderson, admits that Fauci prompted him to write the paper with the goal of disproving the lab leak theory.
00:31:28.000So basically, Anthony Fauci, he prompted and oversaw a paper dismissing the lab leak theory and then went out and touted the paper without admitting that he prompted and oversaw the paper.
00:31:40.000But these are the people we should trust.
00:31:42.000You wonder why conspiracy theories are blooming?
00:31:44.000Maybe it's because the conspiracies sometimes seem to be kind of true.
00:31:48.000It sometimes seems to be that you guys are hiding things that our experts think that you are too stupid to be given the full information.
00:32:23.000So, for example, I don't know how much you've seen about this amazing Act of terrorism over in Atlanta.
00:32:32.000CNN is reporting on it, although they are not being particularly clear about where it came from.
00:32:37.000Quote, police say at least 23 people will face domestic terrorism charges after they were arrested Sunday amid violent protests at the site of a planned law enforcement training facility in Atlanta, dubbed Cop City by opponents who claim it would propagate militarized policing and harm the environment.
00:32:50.000Authorities said that violent agitators attacked police officers and construction equipment with Molotov cocktails, commercial grade fireworks, bricks and large rocks.
00:32:58.000Footage from the area shows a construction tractor was set ablaze and smoke billowing into the air.
00:33:02.000At least four other fires burned in and around the fence site as people dressed in black swarmed both sides of a police barricade before additional officers arrived.
00:33:08.000Surveillance videos released by the Atlanta PD show.
00:33:28.000Police in a statement said officers exercised restraint and used non-lethal force to make the arrest.
00:33:34.000Protesters will not be deterred, according to the leader.
00:33:38.000This was all about, apparently, going after the cops for killing a 26-year-old protester named Manuel Esteban Pez Teran.
00:33:47.000By protester, they mean, in the case of Teran, somebody who's threatening the cops.
00:33:52.000According to CNN itself, back in January, officers spotted someone in a tent in the woods and gave verbal commands.
00:33:57.000The person did not comply and shot a Georgia State Patrol trooper.
00:34:01.000Officers returned fire, fatally wounded the person, who was identified as Tehran.
00:34:05.000A handgun recovered from the individual's possession matched the projectile from the trooper's wound.
00:34:10.000But this is apparently a protester, according to CNN.
00:34:12.000So CNN reports that the guy tried to shoot a cop.
00:34:14.000And then CNN also reported the person's a protester, like five minutes later, in order to presumably grant some sort of credibility to people who are attempting to destroy police assets and harm police officers.
00:34:27.000One of the people, by the way, who was involved in the arrest, one of the people who was arrested, was a quote-unquote legal observer employed by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
00:34:36.000Oh, so that means that the Southern Poverty Law Center, used as a resource by the left on a routine basis in order to malign people on the political right, people will be labeled hate speech proponents by the SPLC.
00:34:46.000The SPLC is a radical left-wing propaganda group.
00:34:50.000And the SPLC, turns out, one of their lawyers was literally arrested.
00:34:53.000for apparently participating in an act of terrorism, which means that despite the media's attempts to paint the NRA as the font of terrorism in America, the font head of terrorism in America, well, the SPLC has now had more people arrested for actual terrorism than the NRA.
00:35:08.000And again, the media downplay that sort of stuff because this is what they do.
00:35:12.000We'll get to that in just one moment first.
00:36:03.000Again, Dennis Prager is doing wonderful work there.
00:36:04.000PragerU is responsible for literally thousands, tens of thousands probably, of young people actually taking a look at conservatism and becoming conservative.
00:36:12.000You should go check them out right now.
00:36:13.000PragerU.com, make a tax-deductible donation today and that donation will be doubled.
00:36:17.000Also, folks, did you know that back in 2021, during a five-hour hearing before Congress, Mark Zuckerberg admitted he didn't let his own kids use Facebook?
00:36:25.000Which should be enough to make you think about letting your kids use social media.
00:36:39.000It's called Stolen Youth, How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation.
00:36:43.000When I read this particular passage, well, that just doubled me down on my commitment to throw all the phones away.
00:36:51.000Quote, TikTok was the center of a 2021 Wall Street Journal investigation, which uncovered how the app targets users with content revolving around sex, drugs, eating disorders, and more, calling it an addiction machine.
00:37:00.000Investigators created 31 accounts, registered young teens, turned them loose to, quote, browse TikTok's For You feed.
00:37:06.000The highly personalized, never-ending feed curated by The Algorithm.
00:37:09.000The article explained, quote, an analysis of the videos served to these accounts found that through its powerful algorithms, TikTok can quickly drive minors, among the biggest users of the app, into endless spools of content about sex and drugs.
00:37:20.000TikTok served one account registered as a 13-year-old at least 569 videos about drug use, references to cocaine and meth, and promotional videos for online sales of drug products and paraphernalia.
00:37:41.000Order your copy on Amazon or wherever you get books right now.
00:37:44.000Now, again, when it comes to the media, the media, they look at a story like an SPLC staff attorney being arrested on domestic terrorism charges in Atlanta.
00:37:53.000After, like, an actual act of criminal terrorism in Atlanta.
00:37:58.000And many members of the media don't see anything political about that.
00:38:01.000They don't see anything that really is worth the comment, per se, about the politics of the SPLC.
00:38:07.000The FBI, by the way, has used the SPLC as an actual source for who should be considered domestic terrorism, terrorists before, which is kind of amazing stuff.
00:38:15.000And then you have the media host people like The Atlantic's executive editor, Adrian LaFrant, who says, well, you know, we really don't have to worry about extremist left wing violence is on MSNBC, of course, because really what we have to worry about is extremist right wing violence.
00:38:26.000How about we worry about extremist violence of like all sorts?
00:38:29.000But I noticed that The terrorist attacks in Portland, which they were.
00:38:33.000It was like a months-long terror attack by Antifa on federal buildings.
00:38:39.000When Donald Trump actually put federal forces there to defend the federal buildings, you guys screamed bloody murder.
00:38:47.000When there were mass riots causing $2 billion in damage during the Black Lives Matter riot summer, I noticed that you guys had no objections whatsoever.
00:38:55.000It's that disparate treatment that leads people to not trust you, folks.
00:38:58.000Here is the Atlantic's executive editor suggesting that extremist right-wing violence is significantly more problematic than left-wing violence.
00:39:07.000You also write about some of the violence we saw in places like Portland in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
00:39:14.000That violence, whatever side you're on, has become, I don't want to say an acceptable outlet, but to some people, I guess, yes, it has been a way to express their anger with what's happening in the country.
00:39:32.000I want to say that, you know, I wrote about violence erupting from the far right, from the far left.
00:39:37.000But when you look at what's happening, it really is extremist right wing violence that scholars who look at this most closely are most worried about.
00:39:47.000And so it's not sort of that it's equal on all sides.
00:40:00.000In fact, you know what we could do to cure extremist violence?
00:40:03.000What we probably could do in order to cure extremist left-wing violence is we could be more fair and more just.
00:40:07.000Because the left-wingers, they're right, according to the executive editor of The Atlantic, who blamed the wealth gap for left-wing violence.
00:40:15.000In your article you talk about the years of lead in Italy and the violence in Italy in the 1980s, and you write that finally it ended, you know, it was fueled by a poor economy and then people got sick of it.
00:40:38.000I think you see this again and again throughout history.
00:40:41.000When economic conditions are poor, people often feel like they have no other option but to turn to violence or to an extreme.
00:40:49.000And so certainly a stronger economy and a, you know, less highly visible wealth gap would be better for our country, just for people, you know.
00:41:02.000The actual story here, and that's the important part about this particular nonsense, is that violence from the left is justified very often by people from the left because after all, their agenda is okay.
00:41:12.000And what that means, that if the agenda of people who riot on January 6th is not okay, that means that we can exaggerate the stuff that happened on January 6th because after all, their agenda was not okay.
00:41:20.000This is about the agenda, not the violence, according to the great arbiters of morality in our country right now.
00:41:26.000Well, hilariously, what this is leading to is a sort of crack up inside the Democratic Party right now.
00:41:31.000So there was a bill that came up in Washington, D.C.
00:41:34.000that would have essentially pushed criminal justice reform, meaning it would have loosened all the restrictions on criminal activity in Washington, D.C.
00:42:54.000already has a higher incarceration rate than any state in America.
00:42:59.000And so if long sentences prevented crime, we would already be the safest city in the nation.
00:43:07.000Okay, so they're defending it, but Joe Biden didn't actually defend this policy because Joe Biden, at least he has his political life in his hands still.
00:43:16.000And so, hilariously, Joe Biden could allow the criminal code to take effect by vetoing a measure running through Congress, but he's not going to veto it.
00:43:22.000Instead, he's going to allow Congress, because Congress has plenary power over the District of Columbia, it's a federal district, Congress has said we are going to not allow this sort of criminal justice reform, quote unquote, in D.C.
00:43:32.000And Joe Biden is going to go along with that because it turns out that reality actually sometimes sets in.
00:43:37.000By the way, speaking of reality setting in, this is hysterical.
00:44:05.000I mean, obviously it was a human rights violation when Trump was doing it, according to the media on the left.
00:44:09.000Now Biden's doing it, so apparently it's good now.
00:44:12.000According to the New York Times, the Biden administration is considering reviving the practice of detaining migrant families who cross the border illegally.
00:44:18.000The same policy the president shut down over the past two years because he wanted a more humane immigration system.
00:44:23.000Officials familiar with the discussions said on Monday, although no final decision has been made, the move would be a stark reversal for President Biden, who came into office promising to adopt a more compassionate approach to the border.
00:44:32.000Well, it turns out that your compassionate approach was garbage.
00:44:53.000Like, basically, Joe Biden's having to come back around to all of- Joe Biden's coming back around to all of Donald Trump's border policies.
00:45:11.000The Biden administration, according to the New York Times, has largely ended the practice of family detention, instead releasing families into the United States temporarily and using ankle bracelets, traceable cell phones or other methods to keep track of them.
00:45:23.000The administration has turned to a more restrictive measure as it struggles to handle a rise in migrants, fleeing authoritarian governments and economic ruin in their countries.
00:45:30.000Officials also fear a surge of the border after May 11th when Title 42 ends.
00:45:34.000So apparently this is going to allow for the redetention of families.
00:45:42.000to comment, but administration officials reject any comparison to Mr. Trump and said Biden's policies are focused on finding ways to decrease the number of illegal crossings and expand migrants abilities to seek legal pathways.
00:46:20.000Yesterday, he was talking about how one time he had brain surgery and things went wrong.
00:46:27.000And I had these terrible headaches, was diagnosed with having a, anyway, They had to take the top of my head off a couple times, see if I had a brain.
00:46:40.000The answer, unfortunately, the test came up negative.
00:48:51.000This infusion of such a substantial amount of resources, which also, by the way, will spur private investment, That will then incrementally and actually exponentially grow that number and what an impact we can have to really fast forward what is long overdue on a number of issues that is both about what we'll do around greenhouse gas emissions, what we will do around water policy.
00:49:21.000I think we're going to talk about that.
00:49:44.000Also, she, um, but that wasn't our only deep thought with Kamala Harris.
00:49:47.000She also had thoughts about conservatives during this event in which she praised water policy for its, you know, phenomenal, phenomenal fascination.
00:49:55.000Here was Kamala Harris talking about why she didn't become a conservative when she was young.
00:50:00.000And also having whatever disorder afflicted Joaquin Phoenix in the last Joker movie.
00:50:06.000In fact, I'm going to share with you a very simple story, which is that I went home one day and I said, well, what's why are conservatives bad, mommy?
00:50:14.000Because I thought we were supposed to conserve.
00:50:57.000He's gonna be stumbling upstairs and they're gonna be like, I don't care what we have to do.
00:51:00.000This dead corpse is going to remain president of the United States because they cannot have Kamala Harris as president of the United States.
00:51:08.000Alrighty, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:51:10.000So things I like today, I do love when the mask comes off for the left and you just see the insane hypocrisy of the left.
00:51:19.000That example is the contrast between Ron DeSantis in Florida and Gavin Newsom in California.
00:51:25.000So, Ron DeSantis in Florida, according to NBC News' presidential historian, Michael Beschloss, who, by the way, writes speeches for Joe Biden.
00:51:33.000Beschloss apparently bonds with Joe Biden.
00:51:44.000Well, Beschloss still appears as some sort of insightful commentator on MSNBC on a regular basis, though he is a historian and not a propagandist.
00:51:53.000But he says that Ron DeSantis is like Mussolini.
00:52:10.000Hitler was the worst fascist because of Holocaust, and Mussolini was the second worst fascist because he's the fascist without the Holocaust.
00:52:16.000And so those are the only two comparisons.
00:52:17.000When there is a right-winger they don't like, he is Hitler or he is Mussolini.
00:52:21.000Stalin and Mao don't exist in their lexicon because Stalin and Mao were left-wingers, and they don't really want to talk about that.
00:52:25.000That's real awkward because Stalin and Mao were really, really, really evil.
00:52:29.000But instead, they go directly to Mussolini.
00:52:32.000What exactly makes Ron DeSantis the governor of a state that he just won by 20 points and who has ensured that his citizens do not have to mask and do not have to vax and who has maintained law and order in the state while allowing for civil liberties to continue and who has made sure that your kids aren't indoctrinated in school and in fact is attempting to grant school vouchers to all parents How is that like Mussolini?
00:52:56.000He hasn't explained, but that is the new narrative because the media are terrified of DeSantis.
00:53:09.000As soon as Trump became not president, literally that moment, the next Republican that they saw looming on the horizon was going to become worse than Trump.
00:53:21.000But the even more dangerous thing, Stacey and Michael, is that, you know, people who try to get a nomination in parties, you know, do it by trying to appeal to what they think will work.
00:53:32.000Well, look what Rick DeSantis has done in Florida.
00:53:36.000He was known as sort of a nondescript political leader, member of Congress.
00:53:41.000Suddenly he really has tried to turn himself into sort of a local Mussolini in Florida with the book banding and the brutal tactics and even this week this suggestion that bloggers have to register with the state for the honor of writing about the governor and other political leaders.
00:55:00.000I can order whatever book I want in the state of Florida.
00:55:03.000What he says is that third graders should not be treated to genderqueer in which they are watching two dudes engage in anal sex in their school library book.
00:55:12.000Like that's that's what Ron DeSantis has said.
00:55:14.000And you are like, oh, well, you know, he is banning books.
00:55:16.000OK, so Rick DeSantis, Mussolini, banning books.
00:55:20.000And then he says that Ron DeSantis wants to have all bloggers in the state of Florida Register with the government if they cover him.
00:55:27.000There's one Florida state senator who has proposed that bill.
00:55:29.000There's not one iota of evidence that Ron DeSantis supports that bill.
00:55:33.000Or even that any other state senator in the state of Florida supports that bill.
00:55:36.000In fact, most Republicans in the state have called for that bill to be withdrawn because it's stupid.
00:55:40.000That is four lies in 45 seconds from the great presidential historian, Michael Beschloss, who writes speeches for the current president of the United States.
00:55:53.000And my favorite thing, you know how full of it they are?
00:55:55.000So, what they say is that Ron DeSantis is super bad.
00:55:57.000Ron DeSantis is super bad because, for example, he went after Disney.
00:56:00.000And he went after Disney because Disney decided to inject itself directly into the politics of the state, despite the fact that they are just a corporation who is there to protect children's innocence.
00:56:09.000And they decided instead to inject themselves in the Parental Rights and Education Act.
00:56:14.000And so, Ron DeSantis is apparently super duper duper terrible.
00:56:19.000In fact, Ron DeSantis is so terrible, Because he is calling on corporations not to get political, and he's injecting himself into corporate decision-making, that the entire left is now injecting itself into corporate decision-making.
00:56:30.000So, Gavin Newsom over in California, remember that time that Ron DeSantis said that Disney wouldn't get special tax breaks?
00:56:36.000He wasn't, like, banning them from the state.
00:56:37.000He wasn't saying they can't say what they want to say.
00:56:39.000He was just saying, you guys get no special tax breaks.
00:56:41.000Your special tax district goes away because if you want special treatment, well, then you have to be apolitical.
00:56:46.000If you want to be political, then you don't get special treatment.
00:56:48.000Well now, over in California, Gavin Newsom is targeting Walgreens.
00:56:53.000Gavin Newsom has now said that the state of California will not do any business with Walgreens.
00:57:19.000He's a hero of the republic, is Gavin Newsom.
00:57:21.000Not only that, people in the media are calling on MLB.
00:57:25.000They didn't get enough of MLB getting its butt kicked around the block over the Georgia voting nonsense.
00:57:32.000Remember that MLB withdrew the all-star game from Georgia, from Atlanta, Georgia, because of the lie that Joe Biden, the over-absolute lie Joe Biden was telling about how Jim Crow 2.0 was on the verge of happening in Georgia.
00:57:43.000And then the election happened, and you literally could not find a black voter in the state of Georgia who did not have the ability to vote.
00:57:50.000Remember that MLB completely be-clowned itself on that one.
00:57:53.000Well now, Kevin Blackistone, who is a clown, writing for the Washington Post says baseball can no longer ignore Ron DeSantis' culture wars.
00:58:01.000So he says that it's time for baseball and its 15 franchises that started spring training last month in Florida to consider making the annual exercise an all-Cactus League affair as long as DeSantis commands an attack on diversity.
00:58:15.000So what that means is, presumably, that everybody should move over to Arizona.
00:58:19.000They should just move to Arizona because they don't like Rhonda Santos.
00:58:21.000Yeah, let's see if that works out well for you.
00:58:40.000It's a again corporate involvement from the left. Totally, totally fine. Corporate involvement from the right just saying don't get political. Not saying get political. The opposite saying don't get political. That's really, really bad. Well, that would be the reason why Ron DeSantis was over in California mocking Gavin Newsom the other day as well he should. I know you guys got a lot of problems out here, but your governor's very concerned about what we're doing in Florida, so I figured I had to come by. Okay, that that is that is correct. He is.
00:59:10.000Gavin Newsom, it is amusing that Gavin Newsom continues to run for president just assuming that Joe Biden is dead.
01:00:08.000Certainly, your gender confusion should not be in the public eye.
01:00:12.000Also, it turns out that when you indulge your child in the bizarre fantasy that they can be a member of the opposite sex and start pretending that 12-year-olds are capable of making that decision to transition themselves into boys, for example, constructing, presumably, you go all the way through the process, a false penis from arm flesh that will never work properly, you will never be a man, it's never going to happen, that you are somehow a better parent for this.
01:00:39.000You pat yourself on the back as you screw your kid beyond all recognition for life.
01:00:44.000So Heather Dubrow writes, quote, It's International Son's Day.
01:00:48.000Our job as parents is to give our kids a safe and supportive environment so they can grow up as healthy, happy, confident, independent humans.
01:02:13.000Why, it's almost as though this is a s**t show provided by zero guidance from your parents.
01:02:18.000The New York native has supported all of their kids as they've explored their gender and sexuality.
01:02:21.000It's weird how we're getting all these weird genetic bottlenecks, guys.
01:02:23.000I gotta say, the genetic situation here, the notion this is all biologically driven and non-environmental at all, I don't think that's true.
01:03:27.000Like, um, Darwin, do you think that this is like, Basic evolution.
01:03:34.000Are we watching here like the evolution in real time of humanity as we enter a new phase of sexual orientation and sexual identity?
01:03:40.000Or perhaps, are we engaged in a mass sh** where my parents wreck their lives?
01:03:45.000Because I'm finding that this is, I'm finding it weird to think that genetically speaking, you have four kids and three of them end up as LGBTQ.
01:03:55.000Just by the percentages, I don't see how that works.
01:04:03.000Or is it maybe that when you decide that the height of parenting is you being a good mom, you being a good mom, is to essentially mainline your kids into radical gender ideology and sexual orientation culture, that they enter into that culture.