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00:01:29.000Okay, so, I just want to remind you, before we go through the details of the Britten House trial, which has just gone completely sideways for the prosecution.
00:01:36.000It's a complete fail for the prosecution.
00:01:38.000And honestly, it has created significant issues for me with institutional trust.
00:01:43.000I think the last couple of years in particular have demonstrated that all of the institutional distrust that frankly drove Donald Trump to the presidency was well-founded.
00:01:52.000It is deeply disturbing when you see that institutions that you are supposed to trust have been lying to you, are manipulatable, are not honest, they don't do their fundamental job.
00:02:04.000And when you see trials like the Rittenhouse trial, you think to yourself, okay, I'm not sure how I'm supposed to trust that the system is apolitical.
00:02:12.000We've seen this in nearly every area of American life.
00:02:14.000We've seen bureaucracies that are designed to protect you at your workplace now being used to ram down vaccine mandates on 85 million Americans.
00:02:21.000We've seen CDC A system that is supposed to prevent the spread of disease, telling homeowners that they're not allowed to evict renters.
00:02:30.000We've had bureaucracies that have been completely twisted into what they were not supposed to be.
00:02:35.000The FBI and the DOJ basically using Clinton oppo dump research in order to initiate investigations on allies of President Trump and then spend four years essentially propping up an investigation predicated on false nonsense that was propagated by the Clinton team.
00:02:52.000You know, we've seen so many institutions in American life that have completely blown all credibility.
00:02:57.000What we're now watching as the supposedly independent Federal Reserve takes its orders from the Biden administration.
00:03:03.000What we're watching as the media, which was supposed to be the arbiter of truth, becomes essentially just a democratic left-wing talking points propaganda machine.
00:03:12.000We've watched as Facebook and Google and all of our social media tech companies, the big tech companies, are batted about by the state so much that they essentially just become propagators of Democratic Party propaganda attempting to scuttle any outlet that doesn't mirror those positions.
00:03:27.000All of this is super disturbing for people and the Rittenhouse trial is just one of those moments when the truth bobs its head above the waves and you say, oh, there's probably an iceberg under there.
00:03:37.000There's definitely an iceberg under there.
00:03:38.000So I just want to go for a walk down memory lane.
00:03:41.000Grabian put out a supercut of all of the various pundits and commentators who had things to say about Kyle Rittenhouse in the immediate aftermath of what happened in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
00:03:50.000Last year, you'll recall that Kenosha, Wisconsin was set on fire over Jacob Blake after the media promulgated a lie, which is that the police shot an unarmed man for no good reason.
00:04:01.000Jacob Blake was a criminal, and Jacob Blake was carrying a knife, and the police shot Jacob Blake because he refused to put down the knife after they ordered him a million times to put down the knife.
00:04:09.000And all of it was on tape, and the media ran with the false narrative anyway, and Kenosha burned.
00:04:13.000And then Kyle Rittenhouse, Who apparently knew the people who were attempting to guard a car dealership, decided that he was going to go 20 minutes down the road, and he was going to help protect the car dealership, he was going to wipe away the graffiti, he was going to do some medical treatment on people who were injured in the riots that were happening, and then he got roped into a horrible situation in which he had to shoot three people.
00:04:46.000I try to be considered about jumping in in the early moments of cases and giving you sort of preliminary thoughts without all of the evidence being available because sometimes you get more evidence that wasn't available.
00:04:56.000I'd rather be late than be first and wrong.
00:04:58.000Late and right is better than first and wrong.
00:05:00.000But everybody in the media is incentivized to give an opinion on cases right from the get-go and without any provisos.
00:05:06.000And so the media, in the face of the available evidence, suggested that Rittenhouse went there as a white supremacist to murder people.
00:05:12.000Here is a supercut from Grabian, people making the suggestion, beginning with Jason Johnson over at MSNBC.
00:05:18.000Rittenhouse is basically what you would have had in a school shooter.
00:07:04.000So you could have Kamala Harris bailing out rioters in the middle of the 2020 BLM riots.
00:07:09.000But Kyle Rittenhouse could not raise a defense fund because the big tech companies essentially labeled him a domestic terrorist.
00:07:16.000They labeled him somebody who is not worthy of being able to raise money for his legal defense.
00:07:20.000The Blaze reported that just last year, Facebook has banned users from sharing a crowdfunding link to assist with the legal fees for 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, who was charged with homicide last week following fatal shootings that occurred during a riot in Kenosha.
00:07:31.000But the site allows posts asking for fundraising for several other individuals who have been charged with crimes, including murder.
00:07:39.000So they basically singled out Rittenhouse.
00:07:42.000The Washington Times reported online fundraisers were made for the teen's legal defense shortly after he was identified as the suspect, but they quickly vanished from GoFundMe.
00:07:50.000GoFundMe said that campaigns for Rittenhouse violated its terms of service, but did not explain any further.
00:07:57.000Facebook did allow links for other fundraisers, including Mark Wilson, a 21-year-old who was charged with felony murder after killing a 17-year-old girl.
00:08:05.000There was a GoFundMe started by Michael Moore to support individuals prosecuted for tearing down monuments.
00:08:12.000There's a Minnesota Freedom Fund promoted by Kamala Harris.
00:08:15.000All of these people were able to raise money, not Kyle Rittenhouse, because Kyle Rittenhouse was prejudged by the media to be a domestic terrorist, guilty white supremacist.
00:08:26.000This case never should have been brought.
00:08:27.000Again, my faith in the system is such that I figured if they're bringing a case, maybe they know something I don't.
00:08:32.000Because that does happen in trial sometimes.
00:08:33.000Sometimes they bring a case and then the case ends up being stronger than you thought it was going to be.
00:08:37.000Or sometimes they bring a case and it ends up being weaker than you thought it was going to be.
00:08:41.000And you don't know until the evidence is in the room.
00:08:43.000And so I tend to withhold judgment in these cases until the evidence is in the room.
00:08:48.000But when you see a case this bad being brought, this horrible being brought, you gotta think, the institution has now been gutted from the inside.
00:08:56.000When prosecutors are bringing cases specifically because of political pressure, you cannot feel safe.
00:09:04.000You cannot feel safe in a system where prosecutors are bringing cases purely out of political pressure.
00:09:09.000If you happen to be on the wrong side of the media in any particular conflict, you will end up in the prosecutor's crosshairs.
00:09:15.000And it undermines my faith in the system when it comes to everything from the BLM rioters, most of whom were basically let off scot-free, to the sentencing of people on January 6th.
00:09:27.000Again, I think criminals should go to jail.
00:09:29.000If you commit a crime, you should go to jail.
00:09:32.000But now, I want to see all the evidence in all these cases.
00:09:36.000Because I gotta say, again, when you see a little bit of the iceberg above the waterline, you start to think, oh, maybe these institutions, maybe that iceberg is real.
00:09:45.000And I don't want to rip on the institutions.
00:09:47.000I think the institutions are necessary and good, but only if they follow due process of law.
00:09:53.000And prosecutorial discretion is part of due process of law.
00:09:55.000And that prosecutorial discretion is supposed to be independent and not shaped by media pressure.
00:10:01.000In one second, we'll get to the actual testimony yesterday because Kyle Rittenhouse took the stand, which is a unique and rare move in a defense of a murder trial.
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00:11:15.000We know That the narratives that are formed in the lead up to criminal cases obviously have an impact on both juries and how prosecutions conduct their case.
00:11:23.000We saw this in the Derek Chauvin trial, where without any evidence whatsoever, that case was made to face the bleeding edge of racism in the United States.
00:11:31.000There was no evidence that Chauvin was racist.
00:11:32.000It was not even alleged in the courtroom.
00:11:34.000The media instead decided it was a referendum on all cops and a referendum on racism in the United States.
00:11:39.000With Rittenhouse, they did the same thing.
00:11:41.000They said this is a referendum somehow on racism.
00:11:44.000Okay, now they're having a tough time with this one because Rittenhouse, number one, is not a white supremacist.
00:11:48.000And number two, the people he shot were all white.
00:11:55.000So, this was not the best case to pick if you're a member of the media and you wish to talk about the evils of domestic terror, white supremacists running around.
00:12:05.000But the goal, you have to remember, when this happened with Rittenhouse, was to posit that there was a great conflict in the nation between the morally just BLM rioters and Trump supporters who are evil.
00:12:14.000That was the conflict they were trying to create.
00:12:16.000This case didn't fit inside that conflict at all.
00:12:18.000The conflict itself was stupid and didn't make any sense, but the media had a narrative and whatever the narrative had to be, they were going to cram this into it.
00:12:25.000Well, this is where you would expect the system of justice to actually do its job and stand aside.
00:12:40.000Let me just tell you, this prosecutor ought to be disbarred.
00:12:42.000There is no way this case should have been brought.
00:12:44.000It's insane that this case was brought based on the evidence.
00:12:46.000So Kyle Rittenhouse, yesterday, takes the stand.
00:12:48.000Now, as a lawyer, I gotta tell you, first-year criminal law, they tell you, if you got a client, do not let your client take the stand.
00:12:55.000Because, especially, unless the evidence really runs against you, and you feel that it is definitely necessary, that you need your client to take the stand, you don't put your client on the stand, because you just don't know what's going to happen.
00:13:05.000Courtrooms are unpredictable, juries are unpredictable, you don't know how they're going to react to particular testimony.
00:13:11.000But, Rittenhouse decided to take the stand.
00:13:14.000And again, that's kind of an incredible thing.
00:13:16.000You got to remember, it's an incredible thing because the prosecutor had completely failed to make his case.
00:13:20.000In the days leading up to this, I mean, I did a lot on the podcast Monday about this.
00:13:24.000In the days leading up to yesterday, Rittenhouse's prosecutors did a horrible job.
00:13:28.000They were calling witness after witness, the prosecution, and those witnesses were quickly turning into defense witnesses.
00:13:36.000Gage Grossklutz, or whatever the guy's name is.
00:13:39.000He was the guy who was shot in the arm by Rittenhouse.
00:13:43.000He was asked by the prosecutor if he had dropped his gun, or what was going on.
00:13:48.000And instead, he was like, oh yeah, yeah, no, I was pointing my gun at him.
00:13:51.000I mean, he literally just made the defense case.
00:14:46.000And Rittenhouse turned around, Rosenbaum grabbed for his gun, and Rittenhouse shot him.
00:14:51.000Rittenhouse then stood there, as a reporter came over, a reporter from the Daily Caller came over, and tried to provide medical aid to Rosenbaum, who was bleeding out.
00:14:59.000And a crowd started to gather and Rittenhouse didn't feel safe, so he started trying to run toward the cops.
00:15:04.000As he was running toward the cops, he was pursued by a bunch of Antifa thugs.
00:15:10.000One of those Antifa thugs was Huber, who jumped on him with a skateboard and started trying to clock him in the head with the skateboard.
00:15:17.000Because he was now prone, he'd fallen down and tripped and fallen.
00:16:18.000Is that also how you, like... Well, if a firefighter gets a phone call and he says, go to a fire, Would you say to him, there are many other fires in the city, sir.
00:16:27.000Why aren't you going to those as well?
00:16:29.000Like that, what are you even talking about?
00:17:11.000That he's hit me in the head with twice!
00:17:12.000Okay, as it turns out, under American law, I don't have to wait for you to hit me in the head with a skateboard the third time.
00:17:19.000Once you've hit me in the head with a skateboard the first time, I can- By the way, if you come at me with a skateboard, and you swing back, and you are about to hit me in the head, I can shoot you before you hit me!
00:17:28.000Self-defense is still a part of American law.
00:17:31.000And by the way, all Western common law- And by the way, all non-Western law!
00:17:36.000Okay, like, I'm unaware of any state, anywhere, where self-defense is not a thing.
00:17:41.000Where if somebody swings a skateboard at your head, you're supposed to just stand there and take it.
00:17:46.000Okay, and then the prosecutor suggests that Rittenhouse is just out to shoot people.
00:17:50.000And Rittenhouse is like, uh, I didn't want to shoot people.
00:17:53.000I mean, you can see in the tape that he's holding back from shooting people.
00:17:57.000You just assumed that he was going to use it, that he was going to try and take it from you, first of all.
00:18:03.000And then you assumed he was going to try and use it on you.
00:18:06.000If I would have let Mr. Rosenbaum get my gun, he would have killed me.
00:18:11.000But you had already pointed your gun at him.
00:18:38.000Okay, I love how the prosecutor suggests that if you point a gun in the vicinity of a person who is chasing you with violent intents who would threaten to kill you, that this means- and then you don't shoot!
00:18:48.000Okay, and then Rittenhouse is asked about the third character who attacked him, Gage Grosskreutz, and he says to him, you know, you had a rifle, he had a pistol, so what made you think you had to shoot him?
00:19:02.000I don't understand, does this prosecutor not understand how guns operate?
00:20:20.000I don't know how ass-backwards you have to be not to be able to watch that video and come away with the idea that gauged road scoots is not a lethal threat.
00:20:30.000If you fall on your back, you're running away from people, you fall on your back, you got your rifle here, somebody approaches you with his pistol, he's withdrawing it to shoot you, and the prosecutor's like, why would you feel like you were in dire threat?
00:20:44.000You mean he wasn't coming to give you a Christmas present?
00:20:46.000He wasn't coming over there to give you a nice shoulder.
00:21:26.000Okay, so, this testimony goes very, very poorly for the prosecution.
00:21:31.000Like, super poorly for the prosecution.
00:21:33.000But, the left has to have its narrative.
00:21:34.000Because remember, they've doubled down on the notion that Rittenhouse is a white supremacist murderer who went out that night to shoot people.
00:21:40.000The evidence is precisely the opposite.
00:21:49.000So, they need something to hang their hat on.
00:21:51.000And what they decide to hang their hat on is the fact that Rittenhouse cried yesterday at the trial.
00:21:56.000That is what they've hung their hat on.
00:21:57.000Okay, so yesterday, Rittenhouse is getting beat up by the prosecutor.
00:22:02.000He's being asked over and over about shooting people.
00:22:04.000He's 18 years old, so he's a young man.
00:22:07.000Now, the reason I use the term young man here is because I want to be consistent, right?
00:22:10.000Michael Brown was also a young man when he attacked a police officer and when he was shot for his trouble.
00:22:15.000Okay, so when you're 17 years old, 18 years old, I'm hesitant in a criminal justice context to use different terminology for different people based on the age, right?
00:22:25.000If you're 17, 18 years old, you are now a young man.
00:22:27.000So Rittenhouse, if you were a kid, then not only should he not have been out on the street, there would have been no excuse for him to be out on the street.
00:22:35.000If he's 14 years old, 13 years old, but he's 17 years old, he's out there, he's a young man.
00:22:41.000That does not mean that it's not rather an emotional thing when you're on trial for your life for having shot three career criminals, essentially.
00:22:48.000So Rittenhouse is being beat up by the prosecutor and he starts crying.
00:22:59.000That's basically what happens on the stand.
00:23:01.000And frankly, I can't really blame him.
00:23:04.000I mean, if you were called to testify for your life in a trial that was so ridiculous on its face, And you knew that you'd had to shoot three people.
00:23:14.000You hadn't wanted to shoot going out there.
00:23:15.000You brought the gun to defend yourself and you had to defend yourself.
00:23:19.000And now you're on trial for your life with a prosecutor who's attacking you for shooting people, attempting to hit you in the head with a skateboard and approaching you to grab your gun and alternatively trying to point a pistol at you.
00:23:30.000You might have a panic attack on the stand too.
00:23:31.000And that's essentially what happened with Rittenhouse yesterday.
00:24:44.000There are people who are tweeting out photos of him next to, of course, Brett Kavanaugh, because all white people who cry are apparently the same.
00:24:52.000And not only that, also Brett Kavanaugh, we know, was lying because he got upset too.
00:24:56.000It turns out that when you are accused of a thing you did not do, you tend to get upset.
00:25:00.000But apparently, according to the media, your tears are some sign of guilt.
00:25:05.000So you have, for example, LeBron James, who tweeted out, I mean, LeBron is just, I'm sorry, LeBron is just kind of a garbage human.
00:25:18.000A person who spends all day whining about how America is deeply racist while he becomes one of the wealthiest people in the country.
00:25:24.000Who bullies people into saying nothing about Chinese human rights violations, but he has time to suggest that Kyle Rittenhouse is lying, and this is all false.
00:25:35.000Here's what LeBron James tweeted, quote, what tears?
00:25:43.000That boy ate some lemon heads before walking into court.
00:25:46.000And then three emojis of laughing, crying.
00:25:50.000Yeah, I mean, coming from a guy who acts like a soccer player on the court frequently, I will not take acting lessons from LeBron James.
00:26:03.000And I've noticed that, again, LeBron has a lot to say when it comes to defending the Chinese government and pretty much nothing to say when it comes to the question of due process for people he doesn't particularly like.
00:26:19.000He has every right to speak his mind, and frankly, I'm glad he does, because he demonstrates what kind of person he is pretty much every time he goes on Twitter.
00:26:25.000You'll recall that this is not the first time LeBron James has had to do this.
00:26:30.000You remember that just back in April, he had to delete a tweet about a police shooting of Makia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio.
00:26:38.000You'll remember that Makia Bryant was a 16-year-old black girl who was attacking another black girl with a knife.
00:26:42.000And a cop drove up and had to shoot her.
00:26:44.000And LeBron James tweeted out in giant letters, your next, all caps, your next, hashtag accountability and an hourglass emoji.
00:26:53.000And then added, I'm so damn tired of seeing black people killed by police.
00:26:56.000I took the tweet down because it's being used to create more hate.
00:27:09.000We need more of LeBron's insightful political commentary to make the world a better place, really.
00:27:15.000In Space Jam 3, I look forward to him maligning an innocent person.
00:27:19.000I mean, he maligns an innocent cop for saving a black person, and now he's maligning Kyle Rittenhouse as a guy who eats lemon heads before going into court while he's on trial for his life.
00:27:28.000Space Jam 3 should just be about an innocent person being victimized and LeBron James standing on them and spitting.
00:27:35.000That's what Space Jam 3 should be about.
00:27:44.000So, Merriam-Webster tweeted out, the term crocodile tears, a superficial display of anguish, comes from a medieval belief that crocodiles shed tears of sadness when killing their prey.
00:27:55.000They tweeted that out in the middle of the trial.
00:27:58.000Because Merriam-Webster is now run, their Twitter account at least, is run by wokesters.
00:28:02.000So people who literally are defining the words you use in English are sounding off this way in the middle of a trial.
00:28:11.000Hakeem Jeffries, a progressive congressman from New York.
00:28:25.000You're a supposed in-house Republican in places like CNN and The View.
00:28:27.000She tweets out, Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed Anthony Huber, 26, and Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and injured Gage Grosskreutz, now 27.
00:28:34.000Think about how much their loved ones have cried real anguish and grief, not crocodile tears.
00:28:39.000And by the way, you can see in this picture the actual tears on his face.
00:28:44.000So LeBron is not only stupid, he's blind apparently.
00:28:48.000But Ana Navarro here saying that you have to think about the families of Joseph Rosenbaum, who was a child molester, a serial child molester, and Gage Grosskreutz, who was attacking a 17-year-old who was thrown on the ground with a pistol, and Anthony Huber, Who had a criminal record and was swinging a skateboard at this guy's head.
00:29:07.000Think about how much their loved ones have cried real anguish and grief, not crocodile tears.
00:29:28.000He says, what people could do with anger about the Rittenhouse trial is advocate for a law that says that if you bring a weapon to a public place where you know violence is basically guaranteed, you lose any self-defense grounds.
00:29:41.000So basically, if you bring a weapon to defend yourself to any unsafe area in the United States and someone attacks you, you can now be murdered at whim.
00:30:14.000Honest to God, I kept waiting for them to bring forth the piece of evidence that we hadn't seen already.
00:30:18.000And then every additional piece of evidence was worse for the prosecution.
00:30:22.000As somebody who generally wants to uphold institutional trust, as somebody who believes the criminal justice system is imperfect, but generally does a decent job, it is hard to watch trials like this and believe that sort of thing.
00:30:36.000I'm going to chalk this one up to a bad apple in the prosecutor.
00:30:40.000But it seems more and more often that criminal justice trials are now being brought simply because of public pressure brought by the media.
00:30:45.000The media can whip up an outrage and then you just use the prosecutor as the head of the mob in order to go after somebody.
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00:32:00.000And this thing went super poorly for the prosecutor, not just according to people who are sort of watching the trial, but according to the judge.
00:32:07.000So the prosecutor... I don't know how disbarment is not considered here.
00:32:14.000The prosecutor, twice, essentially, got called on the carpet by the judge, who was very, very pissed off, and for good reason.
00:32:23.000And the reason that the judge was pissed off is, in the first instance, The lawyer attempted to make the argument during cross-examination.
00:32:34.000about why he had remained silent after his arrest.
00:32:38.000So when he was arrested, he didn't talk to the police.
00:32:43.000I mean, literally going back centuries, that silence is not an admission of guilt.
00:32:47.000Okay, this goes all the way back to like the Thomas More trial.
00:32:50.000The belief that if you are silent on a particular topic, this means that you are guilty, as well as the notion that if you take the Fifth Amendment, that this is an implication of guilt in a courtroom, you're not allowed to even bring that up if you're a lawyer in a courtroom.
00:33:34.000It means that you need to talk to your lawyer because the police are there to do their job.
00:33:38.000And that job might involve asking questions that implicate you in crimes you didn't commit, for example.
00:33:43.000So you always want to work with your lawyer.
00:33:45.000But one thing that's not allowed to happen is in the courtroom, the opposing lawyer isn't allowed to say, because you didn't talk to the cops, this means you're guilty.
00:33:53.000That gets rid of the purpose of the Fifth Amendment in the first place.
00:33:55.000Here's the prosecutor just getting ringed by the judge for this one.
00:33:59.000You are already, you were, I was astonished when you began your examination by commenting on the defendant's post-arrest silence.
00:34:10.000That's basic law, it's been basic law in this country for 40 years, 50 years.
00:34:15.000I have no idea why you would do something like that.
00:34:17.000I said I had heard nothing in this trial to change any of my rulings.
00:34:21.000That was before the testimony, Your Honor.
00:34:26.000You're an experienced trial attorney and you're telling me that when the judge says, I'm excluding this, you just to take it upon yourself to put it in because you think that you've found a way around it?
00:34:40.000Okay, and then the judge says, I don't believe that you're acting in good faith.
00:34:43.000Okay, the second thing he's commenting on there is that there was a piece of evidence that was ruled out pre-trial.
00:34:48.000Okay, that piece of evidence has nothing to do with the case.
00:34:51.000It comes from like a month after Hal Rittenhouse got out on bail to talking about months after the initial incident.
00:34:57.000And he was photographed in a bar with members of the Proud Boys wearing a shirt that said, free as F. Okay, that is not relevant to his state of mind on the day that he shot people.
00:35:09.000That was declared out of evidence by the judge because when it comes to criminal trials, you have to weigh prejudicial evidence against the probative value of the evidence.
00:35:18.000What that means is that, for example, in a criminal trial, you're generally not allowed to bring up the criminal history of the person who is on trial because that does not go into the calculation as to whether the person committed this particular crime.
00:35:31.000So, if something happens three months after an incident, In which you're wearing a shirt that's offensive and stupid.
00:35:37.000Does that have anything to do with whether you committed the particular crime that is in question three months earlier?
00:36:20.000He says the judge just went after him.
00:36:23.000And then, according to the Associated Press, The defense asked for a mistrial over what appeared to be an out-of-bounds question asked of Rittenhouse by the chief prosecutor.
00:36:31.000The judge did not immediately rule on the request.
00:36:34.000The judge did say that the kind of activity that the prosecutor engaged in here essentially was bordering on mistrial.
00:36:45.000It was certainly grounds for an appeal if Rittenhouse were to be convicted.
00:37:04.000This is a thing that happened in real life in a courtroom.
00:37:07.000Did this lawyer get his degree from a Cracker Jack box?
00:37:11.000Did he just mail in a bunch of box tops and they sent him a lawyer's degree?
00:37:17.000Honestly, God, I want to know where he went to law school because he apparently went to law school at like the Fisher-Price School of Law or something.
00:38:16.000And Michigan University, the University of Michigan Law School should be extraordinarily proud.
00:38:21.000By the way, Binger ran as a Democratic candidate for the position of District Attorney in Racine County and was appointed Kenosha County DA about 18 months ago.
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00:40:35.000So when the media aren't attacking Kyle Rittenhouse for the great sin of crying on the stand, you know, while he's on trial for murder in a clear self-defense case, they're very upset about that.
00:40:51.000Steven Crowder, I thought, made an excellent point about this.
00:40:53.000The same people who will tell you that it should be verboten in American life to call people by their biological pronouns because it might hurt their feelings are the exact same people who are laughing at Kyle Rittenhouse for crying on the stand in a murder trial where he's being wrongly accused of murder.
00:41:31.000Bruce Schrader, the longest serving circuit judge in Wisconsin, is presiding over the homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:41:38.000At times during Rittenhouse's testimony on Wednesday, he took a strict line with prosecutors, clashing with them over a reference to Rittenhouse's silence in the months before the trial and an attempt to introduce testimony on a previous incident the judge had ruled inadmissible.
00:41:49.000Judge Schrader, 75, who has said he believes he has seen more homicide trials than any other judge in the state, graduated from Marquette Law School in 1970, worked as a prosecutor, and began serving as a circuit judge in 1983.
00:42:01.000His longevity is a subject of frequent conversation in the courtroom.
00:42:04.000In Kenosha legal circles, Judge Schrader has a reputation for strictness in sentencing.
00:42:09.000He's known for delivering lectures to prospective jurors about their civic duty, which in this trial he likened to serving as an American soldier in Vietnam.
00:42:15.000He frequently complains about media bias and the impact news coverage can have on prospective jurors.
00:42:20.000As Judge Schrader quizzed prospective jurors, he said he's read news articles on the Rittenhouse case, has asked himself whether he was in the same courtroom that was described in the articles.
00:42:28.000He has also acknowledged that some of the topics raised in pre-trial hearings are new to him.
00:42:32.000Until this case, Judge Schrader said in a hearing he'd never heard of the Proud Boys.
00:42:36.000The first time I saw it, or a version of it, was Chef Boyardee on a can of spaghetti because of the OK hand signal, is what he's talking about.
00:42:42.000In one of the judge's highest profile cases, the 2008 murder trial of Mark Jensen, who was accused of poisoning his wife with antifreeze and smothering her, a conviction was overturned when appellate courts and the state Supreme Court ruled that Schrader had improperly allowed evidence in the trial.
00:42:56.000The judge allowed the prosecution to present a letter that Julie Jensen had written and given to a neighbor, as well as a voicemail message she left for a police officer, suggesting if anything happened to her, her husband would be responsible.
00:43:04.000So in other words, the only case that they can find on this judge that was overturned is because he was too favorable to the prosecution.
00:43:13.000But apparently this means he's very bad.
00:43:14.000So the New York Times is going after the judge.
00:43:19.000Saying, as Kyle Rittenhouse trial nears end, judges' decisions from the bench come under scrutiny.
00:43:24.000Regardless of how he is viewed, Judge Bruce Schrader is indisputably a man with fixed rules for how trials in his Kenosha County courtroom will be run.
00:43:34.000All reflect the experience of a jurist who believes trials can be too easily manipulated, particularly by the prosecution.
00:43:40.000For a jury trial, if you get him, you're happy as a defense attorney, said Michael Cecchini, a criminal defense lawyer in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
00:43:47.000He's appeared before Schrader numerous times, including earlier this year.
00:43:49.000In that case, he won an acquittal for his client, who was charged with battery.
00:43:53.000Schrader's reputation has summoned Kenosha worried.
00:43:55.000The 75-year-old judge is running the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:43:59.000The defense has already logged some wins in Schrader's courtroom.
00:44:02.000Gage Grosskreutz, the man who survived Rittenhouse's gunfire, took the witness stand for the prosecution but acknowledged he was pointing his gun at Rittenhouse when the teenager fired at him.
00:44:10.000Then, as the prosecution resisted its case, Schrader dismissed a charge for his alleged failure to comply with curfew.
00:44:16.000The judge said he agreed with defense attorneys the prosecution had not entered sufficient evidence to prove a curfew was even in effect.
00:44:22.000And then he got sharp with the prosecutor.
00:44:26.000It seems like he's aiming to let this man out of his courtroom scot-free.
00:44:29.000We're not gonna let that happen, said Justin Blake, whose nephew Jacob Blake was shot by the police last year, triggering nights of unrest.
00:44:34.000By the way, if he's friendly to the defense, I'm finding it kind of hysterical that the same people who are all in on defending career criminals are like, yeah, but we can't have a judge who's pro-defense.
00:44:48.000So in other words, exactly the kind of judge you would be looking for if Jacob Blake was on trial and you were an ally of Jacob Blake, you don't want for Rittenhouse.
00:44:54.000I've noticed a slight difference in how you're treating prospective criminal cases.
00:45:13.000I'm, again, getting the impression that the media are mostly interested in a verdict that they like.
00:45:24.000According to the Washington Post, while generally respected, Schrader is not universally loved and has been accused of overstepping his authority.
00:45:30.000He once ordered a woman convicted of shoplifting to inform an employee of any retail store she entered she was under supervision for her theft.
00:45:37.000In another case from the 1980s, Schrader ordered a babysitter accused of molesting a child to submit to an AIDS test.
00:45:54.000Clearly, he will be to blame if the prosecutor brought a crappy case and the media went completely over its skis in order to push a false narrative about what was happening in Kenosha and used Kyle Rittenhouse as their case in point to prove American white supremacy.
00:46:07.000For a white guy who shot a bunch of other white guys, Really, genius, genius stuff.
00:46:13.000Again, faith in institutions has been shaken here, and it should be shaken.
00:46:17.000And I would recommend that everybody take the same attitude when it comes to these criminal trials as we should all be taking, I think, which is wait to see how the evidence shakes out before you immediately assume the institutions are doing their job, because of late, they have not been.
00:46:31.000Okay, meanwhile, Inflation hit a 30-year high, according to reports yesterday.
00:46:39.000If it had been slightly higher, it would have been maybe a 50-year high, since the late 1970s.
00:46:44.000According to the Wall Street Journal, U.S.
00:46:45.000inflation hit a three-decade high in October, delivering widespread, sizable price increases to households for everything from groceries to cars due to persistent supply shortages and strong consumer demand.
00:46:54.000The Labor Department said the Consumer Price Index, which measures what consumers pay for goods and services, increased in October by 6.2% from a year ago.
00:47:02.000That was the fastest 12-month pace since 1990.
00:47:03.000Again, it just missed since like 1978.
00:47:07.000And the fifth straight month of inflation above 5%.
00:47:09.000The core price index climbed 4.6% in October from a year earlier.
00:47:15.000On a monthly basis, the consumer price index increased to seasonally adjusted 0.9% in October from the prior month.
00:47:20.000That is a sharp acceleration from 0.4 in September and the same as June's 0.9.
00:47:27.000Remember, the Biden administration was suggesting 2% inflation across the year.
00:47:30.000We are now talking about 6% inflation across the year.
00:47:37.000That is scary as all hell for many people who are attempting to just live in the country.
00:47:42.000And by the way, inflation has completely wiped out all wage gains.
00:47:46.000Wage gains in the United States no longer exist because inflation is just too high.
00:47:52.000All of the wage gains have now been taken away, according to CNBC.
00:47:56.000The Labor Department reported on Friday the average hourly earnings increased 0.4% in October, but top-line inflation was 0.9%, which means you might have been earning more, but you were spending way more than you were earning.
00:48:07.000Real average hourly earnings when accounting for inflation actually decreased 0.5% for the month.
00:48:14.000So when Joe Biden brags about how wages are rising, understand that in real terms they are falling.
00:48:20.000Wages have swelled since the beginning of the year.
00:48:22.000Average hourly earnings are up 4.9% year over year in October.
00:48:26.000But, compared with inflation, which is what you actually care about, real hourly wages have declined more than 1.2% during the same time frame, according to the Labor Department.
00:50:02.000The Federal Reserve Bank of New York said in research released Monday that Americans on average expect rents to rise 10 percent over the next year, the highest reading in the history of the survey.
00:50:12.000Robert Dietz, the chief economist at the National Association of Home Builders, says, quote, We could face an economy a year from now where some of the supply chain disruptions are going to ease and price growth will ease.
00:50:21.000But housing is likely to be the one where we are going to continue to see cost growth, and that will have an impact on households.
00:50:29.00063% of Americans in a recent poll say they are very concerned about the rising cost of food and consumer goods in a poll of more than 10,000 adults conducted by Pew.
00:50:38.000That's one reason why Joe Biden's failed policies are having a real impact on his approval ratings.
00:51:37.000He's out there in Baltimore, that's where he is, touting the infrastructure plan.
00:51:42.000which just tossed $1.2 trillion more into the spending hopper.
00:51:46.000So inflation is spiraling out of control. He just tossed over a trillion dollars in new spending out there with the help of some idiot Republicans and many, many idiot Democrats. And that's what he's touting in the middle of an inflationary spiral. And he continues along these lines, admitting that everything costs more.
00:52:04.000Man, he's just making campaign ads for Republicans now.
00:52:07.000Today's economic reports showing unemployment continue to fall, but consumer prices remain too high.
00:52:15.000Tell us, the American people, in the midst of this economic crisis, that recovery is showing strong results.
00:52:25.000Everything from a gallon of gas to a loaf of bread costs more.
00:52:28.000And it's worrisome, even though wages are going up.
00:52:35.000So this senile old man is going to jabber at you about how he will save everything by spending more money.
00:52:41.000So he's touting the bipartisan infrastructure plan.
00:52:44.000And for some odd reason, he started jabbering about how people get their internet from McDonald's.
00:52:47.000Now, I don't know if this is a major thing, I will admit.
00:52:50.000It has been a rare circumstance where I've been in the car and I haven't had internet and I have to pull over someplace and try and leech onto somebody else's Wi-Fi.
00:52:57.000But I'm just wondering, is this like a major thing that lots of people do?
00:53:00.000And also, why would that justify $1.2 trillion in spending in the middle of an inflationary spiral?
00:53:05.000Here's Joe Biden being incoherent as per his usual arrangement with reality and words.
00:53:11.000Those of you who have kids in school, when we've been going this hybrid thing, some in class, some out of class, how many times, if you don't live in an area where you have high-speed internet you can afford, how many times you've driven your kids to the parking lot of McDonald's and sat there going off the McDonald's internet so you could hear?
00:53:40.000When you're going to Zoom school and it's hard.
00:53:41.000When you're going to Zoom school and it's a little hybrid and you're at McDonald's and you like their hash browns but their fish sandwich is kind of soggy and you're like, I don't even think the kids are around.
00:54:52.000Today, we received two pieces of economic news, which underscore that our recovery is continuing to progress, but that we also have more work to do before our economy is back to normal.
00:55:01.000First, on employment, we learned that we have had six consecutive weeks of decline in new unemployment claims.
00:55:05.000By the way, that dates back to, wait for it, wait for it, the end of unemployment benefits Democrats wanted to extend the rest of the year.
00:55:11.000Then he says, on inflation, today's report shows an increase over last month.
00:55:15.000Inflation hurts Americans' pocketbooks, and reversing this trend is a top priority for me.
00:56:10.000Now, CEOs of major American companies, they're starting to freak out.
00:56:13.000We looked at the stock market yesterday, which declined even while the treasury yields started to go up, meaning that fewer people were invested.
00:56:19.000The price of the bonds was going down, and so was the price.
00:56:21.000People are like pulling their money out.
00:56:24.000According to Politico, spiking inflation, underscored by two government reports this week showing the biggest price surges in decades, presents a powerful threat to the economy as it struggles to shake off the pandemic, executives say.
00:56:34.000The CEO of one of the US's largest companies, who spoke on a condition of anonymity out of concern for over angering the administration.
00:56:42.000Because that's what we do in this country now.
00:56:44.000Our capitalist overlords are in complete cahoots with the Democratic Party so often these days.
00:56:54.000I'm more free market than nearly anyone in American public life.
00:56:57.000And there is something deeply wrong with free markets when the heads of major corporations have to be afraid of mentioning that inflationary policies are bad for fear of pissing off the president who might then sick the government on them.
00:57:08.000He says, I don't think the administration is on top of it at all.
00:57:11.000How many people inside this White House really know what inflation is or how it impacts businesses?
00:57:18.000Many executives are flying blind, growing increasingly worried that Washington politics, in which Democrats want to spend hundreds of billions more on Joe Biden's agenda and Fed Chair Jerome Powell wants to avoid denting the labor market while Biden weighs nominating him for a second term, will block any real steps to address inflation before it gets worse.
00:57:34.000The executives would like to see less eye-popping spending proposals, stronger moves to boost supply chains, more pressure on Powell to speed up his efforts to choke off rising prices.
00:57:42.000But they're all doing it with limited real world experience.
00:57:44.000So CEOs are going, uh, you guys don't know what the hell you're doing, but we're afraid to say that directly to you because if we do, we're afraid you're going to punish us publicly because you guys are so anti-business.
00:57:52.000Now, if you want to take a what should be the greatest gangbusters economy in human history and spiral it into recession, this is a great way to do it.
00:58:00.000Meanwhile, I got Janet Yellen, who is as bright as a bag of bricks, explaining that inflation is no longer something that Americans should really worry about.
00:59:00.000I have complete trust that an institution that is so fungible that the head of the Federal Reserve, which is supposed to be independent of the President's policy, moves right over to the Treasury Department and is promoting exactly the same policy.
00:59:16.000Our institutions are not broken in any serious way.
00:59:20.000Just excellent, excellent stuff right there.
00:59:24.000The Wall Street Journal, by the way, points out that his economic agenda, Joe Biden's, was not designed for shortages and inflation.
00:59:30.000Greg Ip writes, But, President Biden's approval ratings are underwater.
00:59:31.000politics that a strong economy is essential to winning elections. Today, jobs and wages are growing rapidly. The stock market is at records. The public is upbeat about jobs and financial prospects. But President Biden's approval ratings are underwater. Democrats just lost the governor's race in blue trending Virginia. That's because of an unusual economy, because of shortages, inflation, daily disruptions, a gen- Biden's agenda was not designed to address that sort of problem.
01:00:16.000According to Axios, red-hot inflation data validates the instinct of Senator Joe Manchin to punt President Biden's Build Back Better agenda until next year, potentially killing a quick deal on the $1.75 trillion package people familiar with the matter tell Axios.
01:00:30.000Well, yeah, that would make some sense.
01:00:33.000So all the people the Democrats are targeting and yelling at are the people who may be saving them from disaster.
01:00:39.000Right now, Joe Biden's best bet is to move with Manchin, not to move with the rest of his caucus.