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00:02:14.000Okay, so time for some updates on what has happened in Parkland.
00:02:18.000So every day, there's more information now coming out on what the sheriff's office in Broward County did and did not do in the lead-up to, during the attack, and in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting attack at the school shooting.
00:02:38.000The shooter threatened classmates, posted photos of himself holding guns, made violent statements online, and was repeatedly described to authorities as a potential school shooter.
00:02:47.000His troubling behavior gave law enforcement plenty of opportunities to investigate and arrest him, according to the Miami Herald, and even take away his guns long before he shot up Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland last week, according to interviews with former South Florida prosecutors and legal experts.
00:03:03.000Sheriff Scott Israel had claimed that there is no way under law for him to actually confiscate the weapons of the shooter or to arrest the shooter.
00:03:21.000So not only did the FBI refuse to act on two strong tips, one of which involved the shooter posting on the internet that he planned to become a professional school shooter, which is illegal.
00:03:30.000The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office was told that the shooter had put a gun to others' heads in the past.
00:03:34.000The Florida Department of Children and Families ruled him stable despite clear evidence of self-harm, and at the school where the shooter killed 17 people, they knew he was cutting himself, threatening students, and taking pictures with guns, and that he may have ingested gasoline in an attempt to commit suicide.
00:03:47.000And nothing was done about any of these things.
00:03:50.000They did have the legal authority to go in and arrest him.
00:03:53.000They had the legal authority to ensure that he did not have weapons.
00:04:00.000There are some rumors out there, and we'll see if they're substantiated.
00:04:03.000Sarah Rumph over at Red State has a long piece about it.
00:04:06.000It is obvious that the sheriffs of Broward County have been attempting to minimize the number of arrests that take place on campus.
00:04:11.000The reports that the student, that the shooter, was expelled from the school are not true.
00:04:15.000He was actually allowed to remain in the school.
00:04:17.000And there are a lot of questions being asked today about whether the determination to end the so-called school-to-prison pipeline allowed the police to let this guy off the hook.
00:04:25.000That basically, they didn't want to be part of that school-to-prison pipeline, so instead they let an incipient school shooter
00:04:30.000Run around on the loose with guns, which would just be devastating.
00:04:34.000We'll see if there's more information that comes up.
00:04:37.000Even if a case couldn't have been made, the arrest should have happened.
00:04:40.000The teen might have been placed squarely on the radar of police analysts, and then any time anything else came up, there'd be more action taken by the police.
00:04:48.000Another prosecutor named Priovlis, according to Miami Herald, says at the very least, the most capable intelligence detectives should have been monitoring him.
00:04:56.000The sheriff has said that the BSO's handling of tips is under internal investigation.
00:05:00.000He says, I don't know that the signs were missed.
00:05:03.000We're not allowed to arrest on what a person thinks about on pre-crimes.
00:05:06.000But this wasn't a matter of pre-crimes.
00:05:08.000There are reports of this shooter threatening other students.
00:05:10.000That is cyber-stalking under the law in the state of Florida.
00:05:13.000There's pictures of this student online brandishing guns and talking about being a school shooter.
00:05:17.000These are crimes in the state of Florida.
00:05:20.000And there have been other people who have been arrested for similar stuff.
00:05:23.000Miami-Dade schools policed on Friday arrested Crop High senior Sean Mesa for posting photos of himself with guns on social media.
00:05:30.000Improper display of a firearm is a misdemeanor in Florida.
00:05:34.000That's not the only case that is like that.
00:05:36.000There's another arrest that was made in 2016 of somebody who was involved in very similar behavior.
00:05:43.000There is a Miami-Dade Police Homeland Security Bureau arrest of a guy named Enrique Dominguez, who is posting apparently disturbing images of himself dressed like the Joker with combat-style knives.
00:05:54.000And his co-workers report he pledged allegiance to Allah, showed them ISIS execution videos, and vowed to dress like the Joker before gunning down co-workers.
00:06:18.000Yesterday, the deputies were told to stand outside and wait because they didn't have body cameras on.
00:06:22.000So because there were no body cameras on the detectives, or on the sheriff's deputies, and because they didn't want to go in without those body cameras so that they could defend themselves against possible lawsuit, maybe?
00:06:33.000Whatever the case was, according to Ingram, her sources in the department say these deputies were told to stand around outside while kids were getting shot inside.
00:06:39.000Our sources near the Broward County Sheriff's Department are telling us that the deputies who arrived at the scene of the shooting were told not to enter the school unless their body cameras were turned on.
00:06:53.000And then we found out that the deputies did not have body cameras.
00:06:57.000So they did not enter the building or engage the shooter.
00:07:02.000So curiously, police also lost radio communications during the Parkland shooting.
00:07:09.000They didn't even have body cameras, but they suddenly obeyed the rule that they weren't allowed to go into dangerous areas with body cameras.
00:07:17.000There was an EMT who was on national TV last night, an emergency medical respondent, who was saying that the police were barring them from getting in.
00:07:23.000They said they could have saved some more lives if they'd been allowed to get in there right away, but they weren't allowed to get in there.
00:07:27.000The police were stopping them from going in.
00:07:29.000Three high-ranking Florida officials are expressing their frustration because they say EMS was delayed getting inside Stillman Douglas High School on the day of the shooting in the critical moments when victims lay inside in need of immediate care.
00:07:43.000One source tells Fox News some EMS teams requested to go inside but were denied by the commanding agency, the Broward County Sheriff's Office.
00:07:51.000That source alleges scanner recordings will reveal that.
00:09:16.000He ran to the west side of building 12 and set up in a defensive position, then did nothing for four minutes until the gunfire stopped, according to the sheriff.
00:09:23.000But according to this deputy, he says that he heard the gunshots but believed the gunshots were originating from outside the building on the school campus.
00:09:29.000And he said BSO trains its officers that in the event of outdoor gunfire, one is to seek cover and assess the situation in order to communicate what one observes with other law enforcement.
00:09:38.000So maybe a mistake was just made as opposed to cowardice, or it's possible that there was something else going on because we still have not fully rebutted that CNN report that says it was not one deputy on premises, but four deputies on premises who are outside doing nothing.
00:09:50.000And if Ingram's report is correct, if Laura's report is correct, then that means that there were four people outside who were told not to go in because their body cameras weren't on them, which is just insane.
00:09:58.000Now, meanwhile, the sheriff, Scott Israel, is doing his best to avoid all culpability.
00:10:04.000Just a few hours ago, The Ingram Angle received copies of internal emails from a source close to the Broward Sheriff's Office, which has since been confirmed by a second source, that email urges all staff members to vigorously support Sheriff Israel.
00:10:16.000So in other words, he's too busy defending his own ass to actually take responsibility for what went on in his department.
00:10:22.000There's no question this guy's a political actor through and through.
00:10:25.000Israel actually got into hot water back in December.
00:11:02.000If you expect me to give up my weapon when the authorities won't even do their job, you must be out of your mind.
00:11:07.000If you think that I'm going to give up my method for defending myself because the authorities want me to, and then they won't even defend my kids if my kids are going to a school that they are assigned, try again.
00:11:38.000So, that means that more of these school shootings are likely to happen.
00:11:41.000And the grandstanding doesn't help either.
00:11:43.000Which brings us to the grandstanding itself.
00:11:46.000So, there's been a ton of focus on a specific subset, I should say, of kids who were at the Parkland School, at Marjory Stoneman High School, when this happened.
00:11:59.000You know Cameron Kasky, you've seen him on TV.
00:12:01.000And you know Emma Gonzales, you've seen her on TV as well.
00:12:05.000And she has now over a million Twitter followers after having basically zero Twitter followers a week ago because the media have really been pushing her out there.
00:12:12.000And of course, David Hogg, who's been on every TV show that he can possibly find.
00:12:15.000Now, they have every right to speak as much as they want, and we have every right to criticize them as much as we want, because this is still the United States of America, and just because you went through something tough does not mean that you are an expert on what happened or why it happened.
00:12:27.000It just means that you're an expert on suffering, as I've said here on the show a bunch of times.
00:12:32.000But nonetheless, we are being treated to the awkward spectacle of these kids being trotted out there by a compliant media that actually, as Charlie Cook over at National Review says, are laundering their views through the moral bank accounts of these students.
00:12:46.000All the people in the media wish they could call for a ban for guns every day on the air.
00:13:17.000In the same way that the left will maintain that your opinion should be gauged not based on the actual content or value of your opinion, but based on the color of your skin, your ethnicity, your religion, your background.
00:13:29.000Instead of doing it on that basis, they're saying that we should now judge the decency of your viewpoint or the genius of your viewpoint based solely on whether you went through a terrible experience at a school shooting.
00:13:41.000So here is David Hogg suggesting once again for the umpteenth time that politicians don't care about kids' lives.
00:13:47.000He cares deeply about kids' lives, David Hogg.
00:13:49.000He cares so deeply that he's called for a boycott of Amazon.
00:13:52.000He's called for a boycott of the state of Florida because there's nothing like harming those family business owners down in Miami Beach.
00:13:58.000You have to make sure that those new immigrants can't sell their tacos during spring break.
00:14:01.000We've got to make sure that doesn't happen.
00:14:02.000So, he wants people to boycott Florida until the gun laws in Florida change.
00:14:07.000He has spoken at a rally in New Jersey.
00:14:09.000He is pushing for a boycott against FedEx.
00:14:11.000He says he's not going to go back to school until he gets what he wants.
00:14:40.000And, like with Marco Rubio, for example, the man must be a professional dancer, just like other politicians, because he's great at sidestepping questions.
00:14:47.000At the CNN town hall, he turned a one-
00:14:51.000He said he would continue to take money from the NRA because he's a proponent of Second Amendment rights.
00:14:55.000I mean, Senator Rubio was perfectly honest on that special.
00:15:16.000about whether he would take money from the NRA.
00:15:19.000Again, when David Hogg says all of these very, very silly things, when he suggests that it's about the governor, Rick Scott, or it's about the senator, Marco Rubio, Bill Nelson has nothing to do with it, right?
00:15:27.000Bill Nelson has all the right views, so that's totally fine.
00:15:29.000This is the same guy, David Hogg, who went on TV and defended Scott Israel, the actual sheriff of Broward County, right?
00:15:36.000The entire first part of the show is about all of the botchery by the sheriff's office, and yet somehow Rick Scott is responsible for the deputy not doing his job, but the sheriff's office is not responsible for the deputy doing his job.
00:15:57.000Here's Jimmy Fallon praising the Parkland students and suggesting that they are all heroes and he is going to march with them.
00:16:03.000So it's not enough, by the way, that we have one pope of politics in Jimmy Kimmel on late night.
00:16:08.000Now we have to have two popes of politics on late night.
00:16:11.000Jimmy Fallon joins Jimmy Kimmel in this effort
00:16:14.000Stephen Colbert, of course, has been the Pope of Politics before, so we actually have the Holy Roman Empire, and the kingship is passed around, the emperorship is passed around between various parties depending on how the ratings are.
00:16:23.000Fallon wants to get in the game because he's been ripped as too anodyne, as too lackluster, as not political enough by a lot of the left-wing commentators, and therefore he wants to get in the game.
00:16:33.000So here is Jimmy Fallon doing his best Jimmy Kimmel impression.
00:16:35.000He needs to grow a little bit of stubble and cry if he really wants to do this right.
00:16:38.000I think what the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are doing is unbelievable.
00:16:43.000They're speaking out with more guts, passion, conviction, and common sense than most adults.
00:17:16.000I mean, all the late night hosts immediately coming out and signaling, virtue signaling, that everything that these kids have to say is wonderful.
00:17:54.000They were going to do Me Too, but now this obviously allows them to virtue signal on another topic.
00:17:58.000Now, never mind that half the people in the audience have done movies in which guns are glorified as the way of stopping violence.
00:18:04.000Never mind that all those people are millionaires who are protected by armed security outside.
00:18:08.000You watch, on Sunday during the Oscars, the entire thing will be about how we need to get rid of guns in our society, and then presumably all of our action movies can be Bruce Lee-style karate fights.
00:18:17.000That's basically what all of these things will turn into.
00:18:21.000So there's a problem with the suggestion that the children shall eat us and that the kids shall eat us.
00:18:28.000It's a different problem even than the identity politics question of does victimhood confer expertise?
00:18:37.000I mean, I'm not saying these kids who are speaking on TV aren't bright.
00:18:40.000You know, for their age, I'm sure they're very bright.
00:18:42.000I'm talking about, are these kids, are kids in general capable of the kind of decision making that adults are capable of?
00:18:49.000And the answer, as a general rule, is no, which is why, of course, we have legal restrictions on kids buying cigarettes and kids buying alcohol and kids buying guns and all the rest of this sort of thing.
00:18:56.000There's a reason that 16 year olds don't vote.
00:18:59.000Now, there are a lot of people who have gotten on my case for saying this because I was writing syndicated columns at 17.
00:19:21.000When you grant this pure virtue to children to be our political leaders, it doesn't end well.
00:19:29.000So I'm going to show you some video of it not ending well.
00:19:31.000So over in Bakersfield yesterday, there was a student protest over guns.
00:19:34.000Now, why there should be a student protest over guns in Bakersfield, in the state with the most gun restrictions in America, right?
00:19:39.000California, where I live, has incredible gun restrictions.
00:19:42.000There was a protest over in Bakersfield.
00:19:44.000And the kids, of course, used this as an excuse to leave school and basically run roughshod through the community.
00:19:49.000Let's face it, most of the kids who are getting involved in this cause are not doing so because they want the extra credit in class or because they deeply care about the issue or know anything about the issue.
00:19:59.000Just like most protesters do things because they are fun.
00:20:01.000Okay, so here is some video of the kids and notice how the adults essentially let them have their way because after all, kids are our moral leaders now.
00:20:08.000Hundreds of students took to the streets to protest gun violence.
00:20:14.000These students from Stagg High School were told by officers to disperse the streets.
00:20:19.000The Stockton School District says what started out as a peaceful protest on campus turned rowdy as about 100 of 300 students jumped the fence of the school.
00:20:29.000Some were seen throwing rocks at cars, including police cars.
00:20:34.000I'm really upset that I'm on my way to school.
00:20:38.000Like, I go to Delta College, so I'm on my way to school and I can't even get in my car now.
00:21:09.000One of the worst things that you can do as a parent is suggest to your children that they have the absolute moral immunity to do whatever they want.
00:21:18.000Parenting is about teaching and cultivating children.
00:21:21.000It is not about granting children leadership positions and suggesting that in the absence of knowledge they ought to lead us because after all they're so innocent and the innocent children among us shall lead.
00:21:32.000These kids and their impact, they wouldn't be making this sort of, they wouldn't be as big a phenomenon as they've become, except that the media have obviously magnified their influence to tremendous, tremendous effect.
00:21:44.000And the media are even worse at this stuff than a lot of the child advocates are.
00:21:49.000They're members of the media who legitimately know nothing about what they're talking about.
00:21:52.000So, we're going to show you some members of the media saying things about guns that are utterly asinine.
00:21:57.000And then they're supposed to, we're supposed to believe they're experts?
00:21:59.000We're supposed to believe that these people know what they're talking about?
00:22:21.000Handguns can also be semi-automatic, but some, like revolvers, they're not.
00:22:26.000Meaning it can take a lot longer to fire multiple rounds.
00:22:29.000Another big difference, the speed of bullets.
00:22:31.000The AR-15 can fire bullets between 2,800 and 3,000 feet per second.
00:22:35.000A 9mm handgun, between 700 and 1,100 feet per second.
00:22:43.000So I'm really enjoying the media doing this routine about the speed of bullets as though that is the only thing that matters in terms of the amount of damage that is done.
00:22:50.000The caliber of the bullet matters also, right?
00:22:52.000The size of the actual bullet matters.
00:22:54.000Beyond that, if we're going to talk about guns that are used in the killings of human beings, there's no question that rifles are the vast minority of guns that are used in the killing of other human beings in the United States.
00:23:05.000Like, 13% of all murders involving guns involve rifles.
00:23:11.000And then the rest involve weapons that have not really been specified.
00:23:14.000The notion, again, that we're going to measure the velocity of the bullets, and that therefore we ought to ban rifles but not ban handguns,
00:23:24.000And again, if you're going to make the argument that Lawrence O'Donnell made the other night, that a person with a handgun can't stop somebody with an AR-15, that's, again, ridiculous, considering that in the congressional baseball shooting, the guy apparently had an AR-15, and it was a person with a handgun who took him down.
00:24:09.000Yes, I'm definitely going to trust you on what types of guns ought to be banned when you literally cannot tell the difference between a semi-automatic, an automatic, and a manual revolver, for example, when you can't explain to me why it is that velocity of a handgun matters as opposed to velocity of a rifle.
00:25:40.000There's an actual political reason, an actual values reason, why so many conservatives are not speaking up about why guns should be confiscated because we don't think guns should be confiscated or the sale of them should be banned.
00:25:52.000I've proposed on this program at least three different measures that we could all take as a society in order to push forward against the scourge of mass shootings.
00:26:03.000And none of these have been seriously discussed by the media.
00:26:05.000They would prefer to just shout, guns, guns, guns, ban, ban, ban, confiscate, confiscate, confiscate.
00:26:09.000But none of them actually want to talk about serious, hard proposals.
00:26:12.000The Democrats, apparently, have now made a move in the House.
00:26:15.000They've introduced a piece of legislation to ban all semi-automatic rifles.
00:26:19.000Of course, this is going nowhere, and they know it.
00:26:21.000The reason they're proposing it is because they want kudos from a bunch of the people in the media.
00:26:40.000They waited until Republicans took office, and now they get to grandstand.
00:26:42.000They get to stand there and claim that it's Republicans who are standing between Americans and safety.
00:26:47.000If those dastardly Republicans would just get out of the way, then we'd be able to pass some really good regulations.
00:26:53.000They have no intention of pushing anything remotely resembling a good regulation.
00:26:57.000They just want a posture about all of this.
00:26:59.000And fortunately, they have the media to do it for them.
00:27:01.000They have the media to stand there and do it for them.
00:27:03.000Now, there are some folks who are actually mentioning some solutions.
00:27:07.000You know, those folks actually include the presidents of the United States.
00:27:10.000So the president of the United States has actually put forward a couple of different proposals.
00:27:14.000I think some of those proposals are smart.
00:27:16.000I think some of those proposals are not so smart.
00:27:18.000One of the proposals that he put out yesterday was actually, you know, in our good Trump, bad Trump matrix, this goes in good Trump, Trump talked about
00:27:26.000You know, in the old days, we had mental institutions.
00:29:00.000Well, over the next 17 years, the Feds funded nearly 800 of these, with a total of what would be about $20 billion in today's dollars.
00:29:08.000And during those same years, the number of patients in state mental hospitals dropped from 500,000 people to 132,000 people, and the beds were closed down.
00:29:13.000Well, it turns out the community mental health
00:29:19.000We're not interested actually in taking care of patients who are being discharged from the state hospitals, meaning the people who are the most unsafe.
00:29:27.000Instead, they're focusing on people with less severe problems, people who were then termed the worried well.
00:29:33.000So, you know, the normal person who's taking an antidepressant now.
00:29:36.000This is what these centers focused on.
00:29:38.000So, state mental institutions, which were very bad places, were replaced by something even worse, which was nothing.
00:29:44.000And so a lot of these people ended up on the streets.
00:29:46.000There was no way to forcibly, involuntarily commit somebody.
00:29:53.000It became very difficult to actually get somebody who was dangerous to themselves into a treatment facility.
00:29:58.000Right now, you have to provide serious evidence that somebody is a threat to themselves or others, which means an actual suicide attempt.
00:30:05.000It means an actual suicide attempt in most states.
00:30:08.000You just acting like this shooter acted may not be enough in some of these states.
00:30:14.000So, as E. Fuller Tory writes, he says, And he concludes,
00:30:34.000Approximately half of the mentally ill individuals discharged from state mental hospitals, many of whom had family support, sought outpatient treatment and have done well.
00:30:42.000The other half, many of whom lack family support and suffer from the most severe illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, have done poorly.
00:30:50.000Untreated mentally ill are responsible for 10% of all homicides and a higher percentage of mass killings, constitute 20% of jail and prison inmates, and are at least 30% of the homeless.
00:30:59.000Severely mentally ill individuals now inundate hospital emergency rooms.
00:31:03.000They've colonized libraries, parks, train stations, and other public spaces.
00:31:24.000It's a huge increase in what we are spending and we are not getting what we paid for.
00:31:27.000And part of that is because of the social liberals who decided that it was important to release people onto the streets as an element of freedom.
00:31:33.000They all read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and decided that the entire institutional system was Nurse Ratched.
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00:32:31.000Okay, now with all of that said, with regard to what President Trump had to say that was good, President Trump also had some stuff to say that was not good.
00:32:38.000And this is where, you know, President Trump is an unguided missile.
00:32:43.000What he actually implements very rarely ends up being some of the weird ideas that he puts out there.
00:32:48.000Yeah, I've learned over the past year that you ought to pay less attention to what he says he's going to do on policy and more attention to what he actually does on policy.
00:32:56.000But some of the stuff that he said yesterday about guns was less than edifying.
00:33:01.000So yesterday he was talking about the deputy who apparently was armed outside and did not run into harm's way to try to save the students.
00:33:08.000He said that he himself, Trump said he himself, would have confronted the shooter.
00:33:12.000You know, I really believe, you don't know until you test it, but I think, I really believe I'd run in there even if I didn't have a weapon, and I think most of the people in this room would have done that too, because I know most of you.
00:33:26.000I'm just gonna put that out there, no.
00:33:28.000No, I don't think most people would run into the line of fire unarmed of a guy who had a rifle.
00:33:35.000I think that is really, really unlikely.
00:33:38.000I think the likelihood that President Trump, who does not, shall we say, have a stellar record on military matters personally,
00:33:45.000He, you know, obviously his bone spurs prevented him from serving in the Vietnam War, and then he suggested that his personal Vietnam War was avoiding STDs during the 1970s.
00:33:58.000We can all call on this law enforcement officer to have done his job, but I think that it's a bit of an exaggeration to suggest that you personally are gonna go in there and save the children by running in there without a gun.
00:34:34.000But Trump is saying something smart politically, but probably dumb in terms of policy, saying that he's going to buck the NRA and consider some measures that they may not want him to consider.
00:35:48.000On the morning after the October 1st mass shooting in Las Vegas,
00:35:51.000A member of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's press staff warned House candidates and their staffs not to politicize the shooting that day.
00:35:58.000Politicization, according to the DCCC official, included talking about gun violence prevention policy.
00:36:03.000He says you and your candidate will be understandably outraged and upset, as will your community.
00:36:09.000There will be a time for politics and policy discussion, but any message today should be on offering thoughts and prayers for victims and their families, and thanking first responders who saved lives.
00:36:18.000So this, of course, would be wise politics, but the Democrats have run screaming from this.
00:36:22.000The guy who wrote it was Evan Lukasky.
00:36:24.000Lukasky is one of the—he's the DCC regional press secretary, I guess.
00:36:30.000And people are very angry at him and the Democratic Party for having said this.
00:36:35.000But look, even a bunch of people who are gun control advocates are now saying there's not a whole hell of a lot that we can do in order to stop these mass shootings and we're not going to call for actual bans on semi-automatic weapons.
00:36:46.000Again, showing the hypocrisy of all the folks on the left who are virtue signaling.
00:36:49.000Speaking of the virtue signaling, there's now been a call to boycott FedEx.
00:36:54.000There's been a call to boycott Amazon because you can buy NRA products on Amazon.
00:36:58.000That boycott has been called for, I believe, Thursday.
00:37:01.000So, that would be a good time to buy from Amazon, folks.
00:37:03.000If you want to go and buy something, now's the time to buy it on Amazon.
00:37:06.000Demonstrate that you stand with companies that are not going to close off alternative political viewpoints out of political convenience and expediency.
00:37:20.000I'd be very upset with them were they to try and disassociate politically from Second Amendment advocates just because the media would like them to.
00:39:02.000The author of Fire and Fury, a charlatan, a con man, a guy who went into the White House and basically just wrote down all of Steve Bannon's pathetic musings and then turned it into a book about how everybody in the Trump White House was incompetent and stupid and all the rest of this.
00:39:14.000So Michael Wolff was on Australian Today Show and he was asked some pretty specific questions about You Say.
00:39:24.000He was asked specifically—it was London's Today Show, rather—he was asked specifically about whether he had any evidence to the effect that Donald Trump was having an affair, which he had implied.
00:39:34.000He had suggested that Nikki Haley was having an affair with Trump, which of course is absolute bunk.
00:39:38.000There is no evidence to support it whatsoever, and Wolf has been implying it anyway.
00:39:42.000Well, Wolf is asked specific questions.
00:39:44.000Watch as he pretends he can't hear the audio, but notice something weird about this.
00:39:48.000OK, he only says that he can't hear the audio every time the person asks him if he can hear the audio.
00:39:54.000Michael Wolff doing his dishonest routine.
00:39:57.000You said during a TV interview just last month that you are absolutely sure that Donald Trump is currently having an affair while president behind the back of the first lady.
00:40:07.000And I repeat, you said you were absolutely sure.
00:41:17.000And we've got to do something about this spate of earpieces that don't work.
00:41:20.000Apparently, whether it's Trump with Jake Tapper or whether it is Michael Wolff, when you hear a question you don't like, suddenly the earpiece just bugs out.
00:41:28.000Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:41:35.000Okay, so thing number one that I hate, the NCAA has been under severe attack because the NCAA does have a couple of stupid rules.
00:41:43.000Some of these stupid rules include that if you are in college and playing for a college basketball team on scholarship, so let's say that you're getting a scholarship that's worth 45 grand a year, that this somehow compensates you for the use of your name.
00:41:53.000And the NCAA can use your name on its jerseys, they can sell those jerseys, they can make millions of dollars off of you, and you have been fairly compensated with your 45 grand.
00:42:19.000There is no one-and-done rule in baseball, by the way.
00:42:21.000You can go directly from high school to the minor leagues with no stop in between.
00:42:25.000The one-and-done rule is particularly stupid because all of these kids who are going to college for a year are not suddenly deciding to stick around and pursue their business economics degree.
00:42:33.000They're not sticking around because they really want to go into—all these kids who are going to play at Kentucky on scholarship, they're not actually going there because they are deeply invested in getting their neuroscience degree.
00:42:44.000They're going there because they know they have to play there for a year before they can be drafted by the NBA, which is why John Calipari has been making a pretty solid living for years and years and years by simply recruiting four or five guys who will be there for a year, renting them for a year, and then sending them on to the NBA.
00:43:01.000What that policy is, it's a way for the NBA to prevent a glut of younger players who don't know what they're doing, and it's a way for the NCAA to make a lot of money.
00:43:16.000I've said before that it is weird to me.
00:43:19.000That somehow baseball has never made this rule, but the NBA has.
00:43:22.000Again, I don't think that has to do with race so much as it has to do with the minor leagues.
00:43:26.000There is a minor league that exists in baseball that does not exist in basketball, right?
00:43:31.000There's a D-League, but that's a new creation, essentially.
00:43:36.000The minor leagues are a job, and people will work in the minor leagues for 10 years.
00:43:38.000Nobody's in the D-League for 10 years.
00:43:40.000In any case, here is Stan Van Gundy suggesting that one and done itself is a racist policy.
00:43:45.000The people that were against them coming out made a lot of excuses, but I think a lot of it was racist, quite honestly.
00:43:52.000And the reason I'm going to say that is nobody, I've never heard anybody like go up in arms about, oh my god, they're letting these kids come out and go play minor league baseball, or they're letting these kids come out and go play minor league hockey.
00:44:57.000When you see people selling shoes for a little bit of extra money, and suddenly this is some sort of terrible thing, it's just stupid all the way through.
00:45:06.000That is something I would like to see, and I'd like to see the NCAA change its policy pretty radically.