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00:01:29.000Well, we begin today with the inflation news, which, again, is terrible, and was widely expected, according to the Wall Street Journal, U.S.
00:01:36.000inflation surged to a new four-decade high of 8.5% in March from the same month a year ago, driven by skyrocketing energy and food costs, supply constraints, and strong consumer demand.
00:01:46.000It's a lot of fun what's happening here under Joe Biden, isn't it?
00:01:49.000I didn't think that this man could set so many things on fire so quickly, but it turns out that when you have a senile old doof in the White House who's running around spilling gasoline and then lighting matches, this is what happens.
00:01:59.000The Labor Department on Tuesday said the Consumer Price Index, which measures what consumers pay for goods and services, last month rose at its fastest annual pace since December 1981, up from the 7.9 percent annual rate in February.
00:02:53.000Your family budget, your ability to fill up your tank, none of it should hinge on whether a dictator declares war and commits genocide a half a world away.
00:03:04.000Okay, so here's the problem for Joe Biden.
00:03:06.000First of all, anytime he leans over during a speech, you're just afraid he's not going to be able to lean back.
00:03:11.000He's going to lose his center of gravity and like the leaning tower of Pisa in slow motion, except in fast motion for Joe Biden.
00:03:20.000You may have noticed that he had something on his lapel there.
00:03:22.000That is because he was pooped on by a bird while he was speaking about inflation yesterday, which is just the best symbolism ever.
00:03:50.000No, it's not Joe Biden's fault that he got pooped on by a bird.
00:03:52.000I'm just going to say that symbolism in politics matters a little bit, and the fact that birds are pooping on the President of the United States while he is speaking about how he is handling inflation, yes, that is how we all feel.
00:04:03.000In the words of Triumph, the comic insulted dog, I poop on you.
00:04:07.000When Joe Biden says that it is the Putin price hike, this is obviously untrue.
00:04:10.000So let me show you just a couple of graphs to demonstrate how untrue this is.
00:04:29.000inflation wasn't all that high for the past 20 years.
00:04:33.000And there were a few times when European inflation was a little bit above the United States, but after the COVID downturn, what you see is that the inflation rates in Europe basically went down to zero.
00:04:43.000The inflation rates in the United States ran at like one and a half percent.
00:04:46.000And then under Joe Biden, just this skyrocketing inflation.
00:04:49.000And you see some increase in inflation in Europe, but the European inflation rates right now, like you're talking about like 5% as of February, and you're talking about nearly 8% for the United States.
00:05:02.000So if this were just a matter of Putin's price hike, you would think that the inflation rates would be worse in, say, Europe, where they are wildly dependent on Vladimir Putin's natural oil and gas.
00:05:11.000So you would think that that's not the story.
00:05:13.000So that is graph number one, demonstrating that Joe Biden is a liar.
00:05:18.000So Joe Biden says that it is Putin's price hike.
00:05:20.000This right here is a graph of inflation in the United States.
00:05:24.000And what it shows, for those who are only listening and can't see this, is that beginning, in the beginning of 2021, when Joe Biden took office, inflation starts to skyrocket.
00:05:33.000It goes from a little bit under 2% to, by summer, about 5%, and then it stays at kind of 5%, and then it's already spiking up to almost 8% by the time that Putin actually invades.
00:05:45.000So what the chart looks like is a huge mountain, and then very tip-top of that peak is right after Putin invaded.
00:05:53.000So yeah, when he says Putin's price hike, that's just a lie.
00:06:11.000The White House says those price jumps are happening because of the war and what they call, quote, Putin's price hike.
00:06:17.000But remember, prices started spiking well before the war in Ukraine began.
00:06:22.000CBS News polling out this week shows nearly 70% of Americans disapprove of President Biden's handling of inflation.
00:06:28.00066% say the higher prices have been difficult or a hardship.
00:06:35.000So, when CBS News is calling you out, it's a problem.
00:06:37.000When CNN is calling you out, it's even more of a problem.
00:06:39.000Here's CNN's Caitlin Collins being like, yeah, no, this is not just the gas prices.
00:06:45.000All of these steps that they are taking because they know what they are facing with these prices, with the inflation numbers the way they are, which we should know, it's not just being driven by gas.
00:06:53.000It's also being driven by other things.
00:06:57.000But of course, this is really a main pressure point for the White House.
00:07:02.000So yes, this is a big problem for Joe Biden.
00:07:04.000The good news is that Joe Biden is totally on top of this thing.
00:07:07.000And when he's not being pooped on by birds, he's absolutely on top of this.
00:07:10.000He's a coherent president with a clear policy agenda.
00:07:14.000Here he is randomly whispering in to a microphone and then making the microphone scream, as you would if Joe Biden whispered into your ear.
00:07:23.000We've gone from waiting for infrastructure week, now you've got infrastructure.
00:07:37.000Okay, but by the way, when you talk about how you're going to solve inflation by pouring money into infrastructure, this is because you're already dumb dumb.
00:07:45.000I will give credit to Joe Biden for at least having the introspection to point out that he's a very boring individual.
00:07:50.000So he did say during his speech that he was even starting to bore himself.
00:07:52.000Bars often need to be split into smaller groups to make it through taking hours and sometimes greater delays.
00:08:00.000With new modern locks, we're going to help farmers get their products to market faster, more efficiently, lower cost, and keep American acres globally competitive.
00:09:57.000So the president of the United States clearly is doing a bad job on inflation.
00:10:01.000And if you mention this, it must be because you're in league with Putin.
00:10:04.000Because everything that the left has decided since 2016 is that if you do something they don't like, it's because you are somehow In league with Vladimir Putin or Putin is sponsoring you because Putin is the man behind the scenes with the marionette strings pulling your strings.
00:10:16.000He's paying you to say that Joe Biden is responsible for the massive inflation we have seen crushing American consumers and investors and savers.
00:10:25.000And by the way, I guess that means that Joe Manchin is now on the same page as Vladimir Putin.
00:10:29.000So I didn't know that Joe Manchin was a Putin-esque cat paw, but apparently he is.
00:10:33.000So here's what Joe Manchin had to say.
00:10:36.000It is a disservice to the American people to act as if inflation is a new phenomenon.
00:10:40.000The Federal Reserve and the administration failed to act fast enough.
00:10:43.000Today's data is a snapshot in time of the consequences being felt across the country.
00:10:46.000Instead of acting boldly, our elected leaders and the Federal Reserve continue to respond with half measures and rhetorical failures, searching for where to lay the blame.
00:10:53.000The American people deserve the truth about why record inflation is happening and what must be done to control it.
00:10:57.000And one of the reasons that Joe Manchin is the one pushing this out, you know, actually saying this, is because Joe Manchin opposes the part of Joe Biden's agenda that exacerbates inflation.
00:11:07.000Remember, this inflation is hitting pretty much everywhere in the American economy.
00:11:55.000You'll notice all of that happened before Putin invaded Ukraine.
00:11:59.000And again, it's not just supply chain issues, because that should be affecting Europe somewhat equivalently to the way it's affecting the United States.
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00:13:20.000Now the real reasons for inflation are pretty clear.
00:13:22.000One, is that the Federal Reserve has done a horrible job of reining in its own Electrified spending policy.
00:13:30.000So the Federal Reserve has been pumping money into the economy for a decade and a half.
00:13:35.000And this is the predictable consequence of pumping money into the system for a decade and a half.
00:13:39.000Between 2008 and 2015, the Federal Fund's effective rate, which is the overnight lending rate that the Federal Funds set, the Federal Reserve sets, where banks lend money to each other backed by the Federal Reserve so they can shore up their balance sheets at the end of every day.
00:13:51.000The Federal Fund's effective rate was essentially zero.
00:13:54.000It rose to about 2.25% in May 2019, and then it dived back down to zero as a stimulative measure to try and stimulate the economy during the COVID lockdowns.
00:14:04.000Which means the Federal Reserve essentially from 2008 to now subsidized spending at a 0% interest rate.
00:14:11.000The problem didn't stop there because during the COVID downturn, the Federal Reserve purchased about $4 trillion in assets, picking up a bunch of troubled assets and injecting more money into the economy that is going to supercharge the economy.
00:14:26.000But one of the things that is supercharged, this under Biden specifically, Is the ridiculously spend thrift policy by the Biden administration.
00:14:34.000The Trump administration in 2020 spent an enormous amount of money.
00:14:37.000Now the case can be made is bipartisan spending, Democrats and Republicans.
00:14:41.000The case can be made that some of that spending was necessary because when you lock people in their homes, even if they are young and healthy and tell them they're not allowed to go to a restaurant or go back to work, you're going to have to fill in that gap somehow.
00:14:52.000And the federal government basically just paying people to stay home for prolonged periods of time is going to amount to extraordinary spending.
00:14:59.000Joe Biden came into office and none of that was necessary.
00:15:01.000We had vaccines by the beginning of Joe Biden's administration.
00:15:04.000By April, every elderly person in the United States had had the opportunity to take the vaccine.
00:15:09.000My parents got it at the end of February and they're 65.
00:15:13.000Now, this bizarre notion that you needed to continue to stimulate the economy to the tune of trillions of dollars, it's totally crazy.
00:15:19.000In 2020, the government spent about $6.6 trillion in federal outlays.
00:15:23.000In 2020 year, the year of the amazing recovery, the government spent $7.2 trillion.
00:15:27.000And this is going to be the new normal from here on out.
00:15:30.000Projected spending for every year, and that's projected, okay?
00:15:33.000That's not going to include all the new discretionary spending that people are going to add on top of it.
00:15:37.000We went from spending, in this country, about $3 trillion a year prior to the 2008 recession, to spending about $4 trillion a year after the 2008 recession, to spending $6 trillion a year in 2020.
00:15:48.000And I promise you, within two years, we'll be spending $7 trillion a year in this country.
00:15:55.000The federal debt burden in the United States is now $30 trillion.
00:15:58.000And that does not include the unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare.
00:16:02.000That's just the stuff we've already borrowed.
00:16:05.000That is utterly unsustainable over the long term.
00:16:07.000So why are you surprised that the currency is inflated?
00:16:10.000And what you really should be worried about is the fact that in bipartisan fashion, but really exacerbated by Democratic administrations like Joe Biden and Barack Obama, what you've got here is a tremendous failure to rein in spending that is going to create economic stagnation in the long term.
00:16:24.000Inflation is a really bad short-term problem, and it will get solved over the course of the next year and a half by the Federal Reserve ratcheting up those interest rates in dramatic fashion.
00:16:32.000We'll probably tip over into a recession in order to do that.
00:16:35.000The Federal Reserve actually does know how to do it.
00:16:36.000It's just ugly and no one wants to do it, but they know how to do this.
00:16:39.000The bigger problem is when you saddle the American economy with tens of trillions of dollars in debt and you create new mandatory spending programs, which is what Joe Biden wants to do.
00:16:49.000When you do that, you're burdening the American economy with such a heavy burden that there's no way that the spindly legs of American capitalism can maintain that burden.
00:16:59.000This is not a matter of a straw breaking a camel's back.
00:17:02.000This is a matter of a truck breaking a camel's back.
00:17:05.000You cannot pile this kind of spending on top of the American economy and regulate the American economy and tax the people who actually generate the revenue at exorbitant rates and then expect the American economy to be able to hold up to this.
00:17:18.000But that's exactly what Joe Biden is pursuing right here.
00:17:21.000So when they try to shift blame, recognize that it's just a lie.
00:17:23.000They can't shift the blame because this is indeed their fault.
00:17:26.000And if Republicans take power again, they need to be looking at the sort of measures that are going to rein in the spending because the long-term problem here is spending and fiscal policy, not merely the monetary policy of the Federal Reserve.
00:17:39.000Again, the Wall Street Journal points out just how untrue it is that this has nothing to do with Joe Biden.
00:17:44.000They say the nearby chart shows the inflation trend began in earnest a year ago at the onset of the Biden presidency.
00:17:48.000It has accelerated for most of the last 12 months.
00:17:51.000That's long before Putin decided to invade.
00:17:52.000The timing reflects too much money chasing too few goods owing mainly to the combination of vast federal spending and easy monetary policy.
00:17:58.000President Trump signed on to an unnecessary $900 billion COVID relief bill in December 2020.
00:18:03.000Democrats threw kerosene on the kindling with another $1.9 trillion in March 2021.
00:18:08.000The Federal Reserve continues to support negative real interest rates.
00:18:10.000Nearly two years after the pandemic recession ended, that inflation was made in Washington, D.C.
00:18:16.000The overall price news is terrible for American workers and consumers.
00:18:19.000The March surge means real wages fell 0.8% or a decline of 2.7% in the last year.
00:18:24.000Real average weekly earnings fell a striking $4.26 in March alone, and they have fallen nearly $18 during the Biden presidency.
00:18:34.000Even the core inflation of 6.5% is more than three times the Fed's target rate of 2%.
00:18:40.000Bottom line is that the fiscal and economic policy pursued by members of both parties because no one wishes to speak the honest truth to the American people about the fact that there are consequences to spending, it leads to some pretty dire consequences and that is what you are seeing right now.
00:18:57.000Hollywood, it's a very principled place, Hollywood.
00:19:00.000It's so principled that they let off the Oscars with intellectual and comedic luminaries like Wanda Sykes and Amy Schumer and some lady who I'd never heard of shouting gay at you.
00:19:15.000Because after all, Florida has a bill that says you're not allowed to sexually indoctrinate young children.
00:19:20.000And this has been deemed by the left to be the don't say gay bill.
00:19:24.000So they say that we have to say gay as often as humanly possible in a state like Florida where gay people literally have all the rights that they have everywhere else in the United States.
00:19:32.000But we have to pretend that Florida is a really, really backward, horrifying place where gay people cannot live their lives, which of course is wildly untrue.
00:19:41.000Now the thing is, Hollywood can say this because they know that they can get away with it.
00:19:45.000One, that there will be no governmental punishment for Hollywood for saying this sort of stuff, nor should there be because this is a free country.
00:19:52.000And number two, That most American consumers will probably ignore what they are saying and then just go watch movies as they see fit.
00:20:00.000However, Hollywood's principled stand on behalf of LGBTQ plus IA minus quotation mark, carrot, backslash, colon, semicolon, hashtag, tilde.
00:20:12.000It seems that their courage ends where their bank account begins.
00:20:15.000Because now, as it turns out, Warner Bros.
00:20:18.000has stripped a direct reference to a gay relationship from Fantastic Beasts The Secrets of Dumbledore for the film's Chinese release.
00:20:25.000According to The Hollywood Reporter, which confirmed that Warner Bros.
00:20:27.000admitted to the move, the studio scrubbed the film of clear references to Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald's intimate past.
00:20:36.000Now you'll recall that this was a dumb move by J.K.
00:20:38.000Rowling after all the books came out, which had no sexual orientation talk in the books because they are directed at children, and J.K.
00:20:44.000Rowling is not stupid enough to undermine her own market.
00:20:46.000She did an interview where she's like, yeah, Dumbledore is gay, and everyone's like, okay, fine, Dumbledore is gay, whatever.
00:20:50.000So now they're putting it in the movies.
00:20:52.000Again, directed at children, which is pretty wild.
00:20:55.000But in China, they don't really like that sort of stuff.
00:21:18.000It features in-depth interviews with some of the world's most fascinating minds, ranging from Charles Koch to Neil deGrasse Tyson.
00:21:23.000Kobe Bryant, Jack Schafer, maybe Dan Carlin.
00:21:26.000They've got so many great guests over there.
00:21:28.000You're always going to learn something.
00:21:29.000And Jordan really does his research because he asks creative questions you're not going to hear anywhere else.
00:21:33.000Every Friday, Jordan also releases a Feedback Friday episode to respond to listener questions.
00:21:37.000He covers everything from conventional problems like leaving a dream job to heavy subjects like helping somebody escape an abusive relationship.
00:21:44.000By the way, he has some great interviews recently with Bob Saget and Dennis Quaid.
00:21:56.000That's H-A-R-B as in boy, I-N as in Nancy, G-E-R in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Okay, so according to Mediaite, Jude Law portrays Dumbledore in the Harry Potter prequel series.
00:22:05.000It is worth the listen at it's your podcast rotation.
00:22:27.000While Harry Potter author J.K. Riddell Rowling revealed Dumbledore was gay in 2009.
00:22:30.000You can't reveal that one of your characters is gay like 10 years after you write the character.
00:22:34.000The movies had never explicitly mentioned the character's sexuality until The Secrets of Dumbledore.
00:22:38.000Dumbledore's lines, I was in love with you, and the summer Gellert and I fell in love, which marked the first time he professed his sexuality, were taken out of the film in China.
00:22:48.000While the dialogue amounts to just 6 seconds of the 143 minute film, and other allusions to Dumbledore and Grindelwald's relationship remained intact, the moment was crucial to understanding the Hogwarts professor's past.
00:22:58.000actually issued a statement, quote, As a studio, we're committed to safeguarding the integrity of every film we release, and that extends to circumstances that necessitate making nuanced cuts in order to respond sensitively to a variety of in-market factors.
00:23:10.000That's a nice way of saying we just completely collapsed to the Chinese regime.
00:23:15.000Our hope is to release our features worldwide as released by their creators, but historically, we've faced small edits made in local markets.
00:23:21.000In the case of Fantastic Beasts, The Secrets of Dumbledore, a six-second cut was requested, and Warner Bros.
00:23:25.000accepted those changes to comply with local requirements, but the spirit of the film remains intact.
00:23:45.000You are totally principled, exactly to the point where it starts to hurt your pocketbook, at which point you're like, those gay people!
00:23:53.000Whatever, I mean, China's got a really big market, guys.
00:23:56.000Okay, so what this should tell conservatives in the United States is one, use your market power.
00:24:00.000Use your market power, because Hollywood does respond to market incentives.
00:24:03.000If you stop going to movies that you think spit on your values, Hollywood will have to respond.
00:24:08.000And if they don't respond, we here at Daily Wire are happy to take your money for DW Entertainment or DW Kids and provide you with entertainment that you actually seek.
00:24:15.000But Hollywood, again, their principles run precisely as deep as their pocketbook.
00:24:21.000And we'll see if there's any blowback.
00:24:22.000Of course there won't be blowback, because here's the thing.
00:24:24.000All of the actors, all the Wanda Sykes and the Amy Schumers of the world, they want their movies released in China too.
00:24:28.000That's why you have John Cena speaking Mandarin to apologize for having referred to Taiwan as a country at one point.
00:24:36.000All these people are as corrupt as the day is long.
00:24:39.000And their pretend principles are nothing like principle at all.
00:24:43.000There are a few of them who may be principled enough to lose the money to make the stand.
00:24:46.000But that is a very, very limited number of human beings over in Hollywood.
00:24:52.000Incredible story out from the Washington Examiner today about Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrice Cullors.
00:24:57.000So you now have to say Black Lives Matter was one of the great scams in American history, maybe the greatest scam in American history.
00:25:03.000Corporations spent $21 billion on Black Lives Matter associated causes in 2020 to back a lie, which is that American police are systemically racist and targeting black people for no reason other than their race.
00:25:16.000It was a lie, it was promulgated by the media and corporations in order to buy the woke crowd, basically threw a bunch of bucks at a bunch of organizations, and then the money just sort of disappeared.
00:25:26.000Black Lives Matter, the organization itself, took in 90 million dollars over the course of 2020, and we have no idea where any of that money went.
00:25:34.000It just went right down that, right down that rat hole.
00:25:37.000So when people accuse political people of grift, just understand, this is the greatest grift I have ever seen.
00:25:45.000According to the Washington Examiner, laws that require charities to disclose their finances and activities to the public endanger the lives of activists, according to Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors.
00:25:54.000The embattled activist was facing renewed criticism following reports BLM Global Network Foundation, while under her control, purchased a $6 million L.A.
00:27:14.000It's one of the great scams in American history, and they were all participants in the scam.
00:27:18.000The idea was that if you paid your little religious indulgence to Black Lives Matter, they would leave you alone.
00:27:24.000And then they took that money and they used it on... I mean, listen, this has been a scam in American life.
00:27:29.000The race-baiting scam has been a scam in American life since Al Sharpton was claiming that Tawana Browley was raped by a DA.
00:27:36.000And still you have politicians who arrive at the National Action Network to give Al Sharpton, one of the great grifters in American history, piles of cash so that he will then pretend that he has absolved you of your racial guilt and sins.
00:27:47.000You have major corporations like Macy's in New York.
00:27:50.000He'll accuse them of racial profiling without any evidence and they'll be like, what if we give a donation to the National Action Network?
00:27:56.000This ain't about principle, it's about the money.
00:28:01.000I love that Cullors is now saying that if you're asked for a 990, this means that racial discrimination is happening.
00:28:06.000Quote, people's morale in an organization is so important, but if their organization and the people in there are being attacked and scrutinized at everything they do, that leads to deep burnout, that leads to deep resistance and trauma.
00:28:16.000Let me just point out that under Barack Obama, the IRS actively targeted conservative 501c3s for destruction for no reason other than the fact that they were conservative.
00:28:25.000There were documents to this effect from Lois Lerner at the IRS and no one was prosecuted.
00:28:30.000And if the right yelled about it, which we did, then you were accused of just seeking to avoid the consequences of the law.
00:28:37.000Here you have a person who's clearly grifting for millions and millions of dollars, and she is just complaining openly about the fact that she might be audited.
00:28:45.000She says they know what they're doing, how to create the infighting, how to create the distrust.
00:28:54.000So I would like to point out here, That this is cult behavior.
00:28:58.000So the way that cults typically work is that if you question the leadership of the cult, the cult immediately goes into defense mode and says it's an attack on all of us.
00:29:15.000Okay, so Patrice Cullors is doing that routine here.
00:29:17.000If you ask why she bought herself a $6 million mansion with a bunch of donations directed against systemic racism, she'll be like, that's an attack on all of us.
00:29:35.000Major story of the day yesterday is that there was this unbelievable subway shooting in New York.
00:29:40.000At least 29 people were injured in this mass shooting.
00:29:43.000According to the New York Post, a madman disguised as a construction worker turned a Brooklyn subway car into a bloodbath during the early morning rush on Tuesday, setting off smoke bombs before opening fire and wounding 29 people.
00:29:53.000The shooter was wearing a neon orange and green construction vest and a neon green helmet and muttering to himself on a Manhattan-bound N train when he unleashed a bloody havoc just before 8.30 a.m.
00:30:03.000The gunman suddenly put on a gas mask and released two smoke grenades as the car pulled into the 36th Street station in Sunset Park.
00:30:09.000Oops, my bad, the suspect mumbled, according to witness Fitim Jaloshi, after opening the canister and then pulling out an axe and dropping it on the floor.
00:30:17.000As the crowded subway car filled with smoke, the shooter took out a 9mm semi-automatic Glock and fired 33 rounds at commuters, hitting 10 victims, leaving at least 19 others wounded.
00:30:25.000Those hurt include two teenagers aged 15 and 19, a pregnant woman shot in the leg, seven men, three women, law enforcement said.
00:30:32.000Of the ten victims hit by gunfire, five were listed in critical but stable condition.
00:30:36.000Others suffered from smoke inhalation and other related injuries.
00:30:41.000He said he'd been treated for mental health issues at a facility with violence, not physical, but the kind of violence a child experiences in grade school that would make him go get a gun and start shooting mother effers.
00:30:49.000A stranger named Claire, who witnessed the shooting, said of the gunman, I thought he was an MTA worker at first.
00:30:53.000Adding, so many rounds were fired, she lost count.
00:30:56.000The gun which was used by the shooter had three extended magazines on him.
00:30:59.000It jammed in the middle of the bloodshed.
00:31:01.000One of the magazines was found in a backpack.
00:31:28.000What is the physical description of the suspect?
00:31:31.000We're now like 20 paragraphs deep into the story.
00:31:34.000The answer is that he is a 5'5 black man.
00:31:37.000Now, if you watch the early coverage of the story, you would never see any of that.
00:31:40.000And it matters an awful lot when you're trying to track down a suspect at large, the physical description of the suspect.
00:31:45.000And you know that if this was a white guy, that would have been revealed by the media immediately along with a picture.
00:31:49.000And yet there was a real hesitance to acknowledge the race of the suspect in the early going here, because to do so might trigger thoughts and feelings of racism in people is always the idea.
00:32:01.000If a crazy black person shoots a bunch of people on a subway platform, and your immediate response is, all black people are bad, this makes you a racist, and you're stupid, and there's no reason why we should take you seriously.
00:32:11.000But what is incredible to me is that a media whose job it is to provide a description of a person who is at large for shooting nearly 30 people, refused for hours to mention the physical description of the suspect.
00:32:24.000Out of fear that you might have bad thoughts.
00:32:45.000It is mentioned, his race is mentioned precisely one time in the story, and not in the context of the shooting.
00:32:50.000Quote, a neighbor who saw a black man park a U-Haul on Monday night on West 3rd Street near Kings Highway reported it to police late Tuesday after realizing there had been a shooting on a nearby train line.
00:33:03.000Here is the timeline of events that was provided by the NYPD commissioner in all of this, Kishant Sewell, providing a timeline of events.
00:33:10.000824 this morning as a Manhattan bound N train waited to enter the 36th Street station an individual on that train donned what appeared to be a gas mask.
00:33:21.000He then took a canister out of his bag and opened it.
00:33:24.000The train at that time began to fill with smoke.
00:33:27.000He then opened fire striking multiple people on the subway and in the platform.
00:33:49.000We are now unclear on what the definition of terrorism for purposes of investigation of this sort of stuff.
00:33:53.000Meaning terrorism used to be a shooting determined for political purposes to achieve a purpose.
00:33:59.000This guy apparently was quite political.
00:34:01.000Apparently the suspect in this particular case is on YouTube ranting and raving about race war and why black people and white people should not associate and seems to be somewhat of a black nationalist from what you can tell.
00:34:13.000But he also is pretty clearly mentally ill.
00:34:15.000So where's the borderline between mentally ill and terroristic?
00:34:20.000In any case, early on it was said this was not an act of terrorism per se.
00:34:25.000I want to begin by assuring the public that there are currently no known explosive devices on our subway trains and this is not being investigated as an act of terrorism at this time.
00:34:37.000Okay, meanwhile, Eric Adams, the mayor of the city, he yesterday was talking about why they were reluctant to release the photo of the suspect.
00:35:02.000You talk about getting the public to try to help you find this suspect.
00:35:05.000An image, a picture, would be useful, yes?
00:35:07.000Do you anticipate being able to release one anytime soon?
00:35:10.000Yeah, but what we don't want to do is to put out the wrong picture, the wrong image.
00:35:15.000This must be done in a coordinated, intelligent way to make sure that whatever leads we receive, once we properly identify the person we're looking for or a person of interest, that's when you want to release that photo.
00:35:32.000So you have like a real-time crisis in terms of finding the shooter, but you're not going to release the photo because, you know, gotta be real, gotta be real careful here.
00:35:40.000I mean, they have photos from the platform.
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00:36:35.000Obviously, a lot of what's going on in New York City is a gigantic failure of policing and that failure of policing is political.
00:36:47.000And if you talk to New York police officers, all they want to do is be able to do their job.
00:36:51.000But they've been spending years on end hearing from Mayor Bill de Blasio and now Mayor Eric Adams that they really shouldn't do their job.
00:36:57.000And even Adams, who is supposed to be the pro-police Mayor, he's been rather hesitant to just unleash the police to stop the crime wave that has engulfed the city.
00:37:06.000When people are being pushed in front of subway trains or being shot on subway platforms, at that point, you might think about actually allowing the police to do their jobs.
00:37:13.000Eric Adams has asked a very awkward question.
00:37:15.000The mayor of New York is asked, would you ride the subway right now?
00:37:42.000I want to be on the front line with the people of this city, not only as a former police officer who had happened to have been A transit police officer, but this is what I do.
00:37:55.000I'm in the subway system three and four in the morning because if I'm telling New Yorkers they could ride to subway, then I need to leave from the front and that is what I'm known to do.
00:38:07.000I mean, so I'm glad that he'll ride the subway, but he is also protected by the mayor's security contingent.
00:38:12.000Meanwhile, the Associated Press reporting, as the new year begins, New Yorkers shuttered a subway crime straight out of Urban Nightmares.
00:38:18.000The death of a woman shoved onto the tracks by a disturbed stranger.
00:38:20.000The city's new mayor vowed to make sure New Yorkers feel safe in our subway system.
00:38:23.000A commuter on Tuesday morning faced an attack that evoked many riders' deepest fears.
00:38:27.000A rush-hour train car filled with smoke as it pulled into a Brooklyn station.
00:38:30.000Gunshots at least 33 of them rang out, wounding at least 10 people.
00:38:33.000Frightened riders fled, so did the gunmen who remained at large on Wednesday.
00:38:37.000Much is unknown about the attack, including whether it was an act of terrorism.
00:38:39.000At a Tuesday evening press conference, authorities said they were looking for this Frank James 62 character who they say rented a van linked to the shooting.
00:38:47.000It was a searing reminder of the city's unyielding battle with gun violence and the specter of terror-like attacks that hangs over New York City, and particularly the subway system that is its transportation backbone.
00:38:56.000Oh, is it really about the battles with gun violence and terror attacks, or is it about the fact that you guys undercut the cops for years on end, to the point that when Mayor Bill de Blasio would go to the funerals for cops who had been slain in the line of duty, police officers from the Fraternal Order of Police would literally turn their backs on de Blasio.
00:39:14.000Police and security officers have made many attempts to harden the city against such attacks, putting officers on trains and platforms, installing cameras, even doing rare spot checks for weapons on passengers entering stations.
00:39:23.000Yet the sprawling system with nearly 500 stations largely remains, like the city streets themselves, too big to guard, too busy to completely secure.
00:39:30.000So I love how the media is covering this.
00:39:42.000You put more cops on the street, and you allow them to actually enforce the law.
00:39:47.000Yes, you bring back the much maligned stop-and-frisk programs, or stop-question-and-frisk, as it is more properly called, and you allow the police to actively look for people who actually have guns on subway platforms.
00:39:58.000I know this is really difficult for people, but the reality is that crime dropped in New York City because of these policies.
00:40:05.000And then everybody got very angry on the left because it turns out that a disproportionate number of people being arrested were black and Hispanic.
00:40:11.000Well, it turns out that a disproportionate number of crimes in the city of New York are committed by people who are Black and Hispanic.
00:40:42.000If a disproportionate number of people in New York committing crimes wore red hats, you would assume that the police were probably pulling over a lot of people with red hats, or should pull over a lot of people with those red hats if those people were walking with a bulge in their pocket.
00:40:56.000But the city decided that all of this was just too hot to touch, so instead they moved away from actual proven policing policies, and then surprise, surprise, it turns out the crime rates increase.
00:41:50.000Turns out that I think you're going to get a generation of conservatives out of all of this, because if you got a generation of conservatism after the 1970s, when a bunch of liberals were mugged by reality, when people are being shoved into subway trains by reality, at that point, I think you're going to start to see a lot of people disillusioned by the bad inflationary economic policy of the Democrats, the bad crime policy of the Democrats, the bad social policy of the Democrats.
00:42:10.000A lot of people are getting mugged by reality these days.
00:42:13.000All right, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content coming up soon as the Matt Wall Show airing at 1.30 p.m.