The Ben Shapiro Show - Why You’ve Heard Of George Floyd But Not Mohammed Anwar | Ep. 1224

00:00:00.000 A Pakistani-American man is murdered by two female black teenagers, but that's not national news.

00:00:05.000 Meanwhile, the Derek Chauvin trial begins, and the left's agenda is obvious.

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00:01:46.000 Alrighty, so the big story of the day continues to be over the course of this week, the trial of Derek Chauvin.

00:01:52.000 He's the police officer in Minneapolis who infamously knelt on the neck of George Floyd for some eight minutes and 46 seconds.

00:02:00.000 That video, of course, went completely viral.

00:02:01.000 It spurred the largest protests in American history.

00:02:03.000 Some estimated 15 to 20 million Americans in the street in the middle of a COVID pandemic.

00:02:07.000 Our public health officials decided randomly that that was now okay because, of course, racism was a public health crisis as well.

00:02:14.000 In any case, this is the biggest story in the country.

00:02:16.000 It has been the biggest story in the country since that video emerged.

00:02:19.000 And this raises the question, which stories become national stories?

00:02:23.000 A pretty simple question.

00:02:24.000 Why do some stories become national stories and other stories do not become national stories?

00:02:28.000 And the answer, quite obviously, is the narrative.

00:02:31.000 Because certain stories are national stories until they don't match the narrative, at which point they sort of fall off the radar.

00:02:35.000 And other stories just stay national stories forever.

00:02:38.000 So to take a perfect example, three weeks ago, all we were talking about in this country was the Atlanta shooting, where a white man killed eight people, including six Asian women.

00:02:47.000 And the story was supposedly anti-Asian American hate.

00:02:52.000 And it turned out the evidence just wasn't there to back it.

00:02:53.000 We're not talking about that story anymore.

00:02:55.000 Did you notice how that story just disappeared?

00:02:58.000 Nobody's talking about Atlanta anymore.

00:03:00.000 Meanwhile, we are still talking about George Floyd, not just because the trial is going on, but because we never stopped talking about George Floyd.

00:03:06.000 And for those people who say, well, yes, police brutality is a bigger story than a mass shooting in Atlanta, Let me just point out that it depends on the police brutality story.

00:03:16.000 The case of Daniel Shaver, the young man who was shot to death by police, I believe in Arizona, a couple of years ago.

00:03:23.000 He was shot to death.

00:03:24.000 The video was available to everyone who was attempting to obey police commands, and they just shot him.

00:03:27.000 He was lying on the floor of like a La Quinta Inn, and they shot him in the hallway.

00:03:32.000 That was not a national story.

00:03:33.000 Nobody knows Daniel Shaver's name, but everybody knows George Floyd's name.

00:03:37.000 What becomes a national story and stays a national story is completely up to a national news media that have decided that each story that is important is important because it is a data point in support of the broader narrative.

00:03:47.000 The George Floyd story became a national story not because of the specific circumstances of the George Floyd story.

00:03:53.000 As it turns out, if you are attempting to establish reasonable doubt on behalf of Derek Chauvin, if we're talking about preponderance of the evidence, I think Derek Chauvin gets convicted.

00:04:04.000 If you're talking about reasonable doubt, it seems to me that the defense has a fairly easy case for reasonable doubt in this case.

00:04:10.000 Again, remember, the standard in criminal law in the United States is not preponderance of the evidence.

00:04:14.000 It's not what you think might have happened.

00:04:15.000 It's not what you think is probably what happened.

00:04:17.000 It's whether it is beyond a reasonable doubt.

00:04:20.000 In that particular case, The circumstances surrounding that particular case are pretty dicey.

00:04:27.000 At the very least, it's going to be a tough uphill battle for prosecutors in that particular case.

00:04:31.000 But it is treated as a national story where the conclusion is a foregone conclusion or should be a foregone conclusion.

00:04:36.000 Because again, it apparently is a data point in support of two ideas, one of which is that the police are routinely brutal to suspects, which the evidence is not there for.

00:04:45.000 And the second is that police Routinely target black men for death, which again is also not true by the statistics, but the media love that narrative.

00:04:53.000 And so this is a national story.

00:04:55.000 You can tell what becomes it.

00:04:56.000 You can tell what the narrative is by what becomes a national story and what is treated as a local crime story.

00:05:00.000 So today's local crime story comes courtesy of Washington DC.

00:05:06.000 There is a case.

00:05:07.000 It is a horrific case.

00:05:08.000 The video is now available.

00:05:10.000 It is just horrendous of Mohammed Anwar, 66, a Pakistani American. 0.65

00:05:15.000 He immigrated to the United States in 2014.

00:05:17.000 According to USA Today, he was assaulted on Tuesday with a taser when two girls attempted to carjack him, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.

00:05:26.000 Graphic video was posted to Twitter.

00:05:28.000 It shows Anwar in a struggle with the suspects, who then speed off and crash and flip the car with him hanging onto the side.

00:05:34.000 We actually have the video available.

00:05:35.000 It's tough to watch, so that is your warning.

00:05:37.000 If you don't wish to watch the video, then duck out for the next 25, 30 seconds.

00:05:42.000 Here's what that video sounded like.

00:05:45.000 This is my car!

00:05:46.000 Stop it! 0.99

00:05:49.000 He's hanging onto the side of the car.

00:05:51.000 The door crushes him as it hits a lamp post, and then the car continues to speed down the street, and then it flips.

00:05:59.000 You can hear it crash.

00:06:00.000 The car flips.

00:06:01.000 When people arrive there, the two teenage girls are attempting to get their phones.

00:06:07.000 They stole the car, and they are attempting to get their phones.

00:06:10.000 They don't care about the death of the man that they just murdered.

00:06:12.000 They care about their phones.

00:06:14.000 Anwar had been working on an Uber Eats delivery Tuesday when two girls attempted to carjack him, according to a GoFundMe set up by a family member.

00:06:21.000 A 13-year-old and 15-year-old were charged on Wednesday with felony murder and armed carjacking with a Taser.

00:06:27.000 By the way, there are apparently 7,500 stolen vehicles in Washington, D.C., the city, every year.

00:06:32.000 Every single year, 7,500 stolen vehicles.

00:06:35.000 The GoFundMe for Anwar said Anwar was a beloved husband, father, grandfather, uncle, and friend.

00:06:41.000 Okay, so how did the mayor of Washington, D.C.

00:06:42.000 respond to this?

00:06:43.000 Respond to the fact that her city is in the midst of a massive crime wave?

00:06:46.000 The GoFundMe raised more than half a million dollars in three days since it was published on Thursday.

00:06:50.000 Anwar was the financial provider for the family.

00:06:52.000 The funds will be used to pay for his lost income and to provide a traditional Islamic funeral, according to the fundraising page.

00:06:58.000 Okay, so how did the mayor of Washington, D.C. respond to this?

00:07:02.000 Respond to the fact that her city is in the midst of a massive crime wave? 0.98

00:07:05.000 In part, created by her own crappy... 0.96

00:07:08.000 anti-police policy. Muriel Bowser instead released a video about how you prevent auto theft. 0.84

00:07:13.000 That's that was her response. Her response was not we have a systemic crime problem here. Her response was not about racism or race. Whereas we know for a fact that if this it is a simple fact that if Mohammed Anwar had been killed by two white teenagers, that would be a national news story.

00:07:30.000 This is not.

00:07:31.000 This is a local news story because of the race of the people involved. 0.70

00:07:34.000 And the DC mayor would not be talking about the threat of auto theft if these had been two white teenagers who killed a Muslim man. 0.91

00:07:39.000 She would be talking about white supremacist hate against Muslims in the United States. 0.68

00:07:43.000 Because again, the narrative matters more than the explicit data.

00:07:47.000 On any particular story.

00:07:49.000 So, Muriel Bowser shared a video on quote, preventing auto thefts amid her silence on the death of Mohammed Anwar, who died just days ago after two teen girls allegedly tasered him to steal his vehicle.

00:07:58.000 She wrote on Twitter on Sunday, quote, Unbelievable.

00:08:01.000 Unbelievable!

00:08:01.000 of opportunity. Follow these steps to reduce the risk of your vehicle becoming a target.

00:08:05.000 Remember the motto, protect your auto.

00:08:07.000 Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Apparently it was a pre-scheduled tweet, but if that's a pre-scheduled tweet, that is the worst time pre-scheduled tweet I have ever seen in my entire life.

00:08:19.000 We'll see you next time.

00:08:20.000 Now, of course, this is not a national news story.

00:08:22.000 A week from now, you will not remember Mohammed Anwar's name.

00:08:25.000 You won't.

00:08:26.000 Because crimes that are far more common than what happened with regard to George Floyd and Derek Chauvin, which again, may or may not be a crime according to the black letter definition of the law, Crimes that are much more common get ignored, even though those crimes are much more of a problem.

00:08:40.000 Carjackings. 0.93

00:08:42.000 Racist crimes against Muslim Americans that don't come from white Americans. 0.99

00:08:45.000 Racist crimes against Asian Americans that don't come from white Americans. 0.98

00:08:48.000 Those are stories that won't get covered from the media.

00:08:51.000 They just will not be covered.

00:08:53.000 And if they are covered, they will be covered in a way that avoids any sort of racial angle on them, because the only racial angle that we're allowed to discuss in the United States is, of course, white hate crime against everybody else in the United States.

00:09:05.000 We'll get to that in one second, because there's another story that will not be a national news story.

00:09:08.000 If it is a national news story, it will be tied into broader anti-Asian animus without ever mentioning the source of the anti-Asian animus.

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00:10:21.000 Okay, other stories that are not gonna be national news stories for more than about five seconds here.

00:10:26.000 So there's a story in New York, horrific video that has now emerged, in which a 65-year-old Asian woman is walking down the street, just walking her way to church, and a black man beats the living hell out of her.

00:10:41.000 And we know he is black because there's surveillance footage of the man walking down the street.

00:10:46.000 And in the video, what you can see is that she's just walking in front of a security, it's a secure building. 0.92

00:10:51.000 The man walks forward, he kicks her in the chest, knocks her to the ground, steps forward, kicks her in the face to the ground, kicks her again in the head to the ground. 0.91

00:10:59.000 He's significantly larger than she is, kicks her again in the head, and then starts to walk away.

00:11:03.000 There are two security guards who are looking on.

00:11:06.000 Neither one of them do anything in New York.

00:11:08.000 Not only do they do nothing, they walk over and they close the door.

00:11:11.000 They close the door to the building.

00:11:13.000 Okay, all of this is in the video.

00:11:16.000 Is this going to be a national news story for more than five seconds?

00:11:18.000 Of course not.

00:11:19.000 Are we going to talk about the fact that a huge number of anti-Asian hate crimes, particularly in America's major cities, which is where we've seen the escalation, are not coming from white supremacists? 0.95

00:11:27.000 In the same way that a huge number of anti-Semitic hate crimes occurring in New York City are not coming from white supremacists that are coming from young black men? 0.86

00:11:34.000 Are we going to talk about any of that? 0.93

00:11:35.000 Of course we're not going to talk about any of that.

00:11:37.000 Because that is not part of a media narrative that they wish to portray.

00:11:41.000 They wish to say that the biggest problem in America is white supremacy.

00:11:44.000 Any narrative that does not fit that narrative is simply going to be ignored.

00:11:47.000 And any data point that doesn't fit that narrative is going to be treated as a local news story.

00:11:51.000 We are not going to talk about any of the broader trends in American society that could lead to the spate of increased hate crimes against Asian Americans in America's major cities.

00:12:00.000 We're not going to talk about that.

00:12:01.000 We're not going to talk about the amount of crime in Washington, D.C.

00:12:05.000 We can't talk about that.

00:12:06.000 Those are things that we are not supposed to talk about.

00:12:08.000 Why?

00:12:09.000 Because again, the narrative is that when it comes to the problems of the United States, they're attributable, not in large part, in their entirety, to the white supremacist, white systems of the United States of America.

00:12:21.000 And this infuses all of American politics, everything from crime talk to economic talk.

00:12:27.000 It's the same reason why you will see the Biden administration pushing forward with the idea that if there is economic inequality, that economic inequality cannot be attributed in any way to individual decisions that differentiate by group, meaning that if you take any group in America and you put a dividing line down the middle of the group, there will be inequalities in that room because individuals within those groups make different decisions.

00:12:47.000 That's just the way human beings are.

00:12:49.000 Instead, what the Biden administration says is that any sort of group inequality must be attributable to the whiteness of the system.

00:12:55.000 It's inequitable.

00:12:57.000 This is why the Biden administration will continue to use racial gaps in income as an excuse to cram down a sort of redistributionist economic system.

00:13:06.000 And they'll simply ignore stats that don't actually fit that line.

00:13:09.000 So for example, the most important chart of the last couple of weeks minimum is a chart that was put out by, I believe, the American Enterprise Institute.

00:13:20.000 And what this chart shows is median household income and share of births to unwed mothers by race, 2019.

00:13:25.000 And what you will see in this chart is that there is an incredible correlation between the amount of single motherhood in a community and the lack of income in that community.

00:13:37.000 Asian Americans are by far the highest earning median household income group in America.

00:13:41.000 Almost $100,000 a year median household income for Asian Americans.

00:13:45.000 Their single motherhood rate is 11.7%.

00:13:48.000 For white Americans, the second highest earning group, $76,000 a year, 28% single motherhood rate.

00:13:52.000 For Hispanic Americans, it is $56,000 a year and a 52% single motherhood rate.

00:13:54.000 rate. For Hispanic Americans, it is $56,000 a year and a 52% single motherhood rate. And for black Americans, it is $45,000 a year and a 70% single motherhood rate. We're not going to see this chart because this chart suggests that some of the decisions you make in your life might actually be responsible for your outcome in life.

00:14:12.000 But that doesn't fit the narrative.

00:14:13.000 The narrative, of course, is that it is systems of power in the United States, racist systems of power in the United States, that cause all suffering in the United States.

00:14:20.000 So suffering that can be attributed to any other individual action, or suffering caused by some groups on other groups and neither of the groups is white, or suffering that is caused in circumstances that don't fit the narrative, That sort of suffering is just ignored.

00:14:32.000 It is not important.

00:14:34.000 And that is why Mohammed Anwar will be a footnote in history by this time tomorrow. 0.76

00:14:39.000 And George Floyd will continue to be a major story because the media have decided it is not a story when a Pakistani American man is killed, is murdered by two teenage girls stealing a car in Washington, D.C.

00:14:50.000 The media have decided it is not a story when individuals are beaten because of their race by people who are black in New York City.

00:14:58.000 That is not a story.

00:14:59.000 It is only a story when there is a white police officer, of whom there is no proof of racism, by the way.

00:15:04.000 They still have not proven a single shred of evidence that Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd because of race.

00:15:10.000 Even if you think he killed George Floyd, the race angle is one that has been utterly non-proven throughout this entire... It doesn't matter.

00:15:16.000 That's the national story.

00:15:17.000 The story is The Derek Chauvin George Floyd story because again, that is one that fits the narrative and all that matters to our lying media are narratives that are untrue and data points that can be twisted to fit that narrative.

00:15:29.000 We're going to get to the Derek Chauvin trial in a second and all the hullabaloo surrounding it because you can see how this is now being politically used.

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00:16:45.000 Okay, so now we get to the actual story of the day, the one the media would love to cover, and that, of course, is the Derek Chauvin trial.

00:16:52.000 Now, understand, the reason they're covering this trial is because they hope that it promotes a narrative.

00:16:56.000 The narrative is, One of two things.

00:16:59.000 One, that if Derek Chauvin is convicted, that's because America's police ought to be convicted.

00:17:04.000 And if Derek Chauvin isn't convicted, it's because America's racist.

00:17:07.000 That's how the narrative is gonna go.

00:17:08.000 If Derek Chauvin is convicted, it's because his activity is far too common across the land, and we can use that as a wedge to simply indict all of America's policing systems.

00:17:16.000 And if he is not convicted, then we can do even more than that.

00:17:18.000 We can indict all of America as racist for Derek Chauvin not being convicted.

00:17:21.000 Remember, the standard in criminal court is not the standard of public opinion.

00:17:25.000 The standard is beyond a reasonable doubt.

00:17:26.000 This is true in every single criminal case.

00:17:30.000 Maxine Waters, of course, who is a racial radical, a woman who once declared that the L.A. 1.00

00:17:35.000 riots, which did literally a billion dollars in damage and ended with tremendous loss of life and tremendous suffering, particularly in black areas, Maxine Waters declared that the L.A.

00:17:43.000 uprising way back when.

00:17:46.000 The same Maxine Waters who said that you should get up in people's face and confront them over politics.

00:17:49.000 She also says that the police around America believe that their job is to keep black people in their place.

00:17:53.000 Remember, this is the narrative that the media wish to push, is that Derek Chauvin is all of American policing and Derek Chauvin was a racist.

00:17:59.000 Again, they haven't proved that.

00:18:00.000 In fact, they haven't shown any evidence of that.

00:18:02.000 They just sort of assumed it because he's white and George Floyd was black.

00:18:05.000 And then the idea is that their goal is to keep black people in their place, which is very strange since that is absolutely not the goal of the police around the nation.

00:18:15.000 There are 42 million black Americans living in the United States right now.

00:18:20.000 The grand total number of black Americans who have been murdered, shot by police, unarmed every year is less than 25.

00:18:31.000 That is not an existential threat to black life in the United States the way that the left would like to make it out to be.

00:18:34.000 Here's Maxine Waters basically laying out there what the narrative is. 0.85

00:18:39.000 This thinking about the need to control, the need to, you know, make sure that people stay in their place.

00:18:47.000 So called, has been basically what has happened in America for all of these years.

00:18:56.000 And I think it continues in various ways, sometimes a little bit more sophisticated ways. 0.81

00:19:01.000 But the police, I think, really believe and in some ways are led to believe that their greatest challenge and their greatest chore is to keep black people in their place. 0.96

00:19:15.000 I mean, this is just a lie. 0.52

00:19:16.000 The notion that police all around America are racially motivated to keep black people in their place.

00:19:22.000 What an incredible slander against police departments all around America.

00:19:25.000 By the way, you will also notice how when it comes to police officers, Democrats have a varying view of police officers, depending on who's doing the victimizing of the police officer.

00:19:32.000 If a police officer is out there on the streets attempting to stop crime, then Maxine Waters' view of police officers prevails.

00:19:38.000 If a police officer is being attacked by criminals inside the United States Capitol building, then all police officers are heroes.

00:19:44.000 Very weird how the vision of police officers change depending upon which part of their job we are talking about.

00:19:49.000 If the idea is that police officers all around America are into victimizing black Americans, George Floyd was arrested many, many, many times and let out of jail many, many, many times.

00:20:01.000 The problem in this particular case is that he was counterfeiting.

00:20:05.000 He's apparently high in his car.

00:20:07.000 He resisted arrest for 45 minutes.

00:20:09.000 They were attempting to get him to sit in the back of the car.

00:20:11.000 They were attempting to arrest him.

00:20:13.000 If you view the full 45-minute tape and not just the 8 minutes, 46 seconds of Derek Chauvin on his neck, what you will see is that he is begging not to be put in the car.

00:20:21.000 They say they will crack a window open for him so that he has enough air.

00:20:24.000 He pushes his way out of the car.

00:20:25.000 He's resisting arrest.

00:20:27.000 They were called to the scene because he was committing a criminal act in the first place.

00:20:31.000 The notion that police all over America are attempting to keep black people in their place.

00:20:36.000 is just belied by the evidence from across America.

00:20:40.000 Again, Black Americans are not being held down by the police.

00:20:45.000 There are other factors in American life that really harm Black Americans. 0.99

00:20:49.000 The crappy public school systems in their areas would be a big one. 0.98

00:20:53.000 The government incentivization of single motherhood would be an enormous one. 0.97

00:20:57.000 The notion that the police are the biggest barrier between Black people and success in the United States is just not true.

00:21:02.000 But again, this is all part of the broader agenda, which is why Karen Bass, Congresswoman from California, she is openly stating that Chauvin has to be convicted as proof that America is moving in the direction she wants it to move.

00:21:14.000 Now, normally, when we look at criminal cases, the goal of a criminal case, the goal of due process of law is that what is happening outside the courthouse, the calls for For heads outside the courthouse that those are not respected.

00:21:25.000 What happens inside the courthouse?

00:21:26.000 Due process of law actually matters.

00:21:27.000 But we're a country that now values the opinion of the mob more than it values due process of law.

00:21:32.000 Karen Bass says Chauvin should be convicted.

00:21:34.000 And if he is not convicted, then we can't get the police reform we want.

00:21:38.000 Again, it is just a data point in pursuit of a narrative.

00:21:40.000 Here is Karen Bass.

00:21:42.000 We have got to deliver for the American people.

00:21:45.000 There has got to be hope that we can actually transform policing.

00:21:50.000 And if there was ever a case that you can just not argue, it is this one.

00:21:55.000 This trial has got to come out the right way, and we have to deliver.

00:21:59.000 I believe that we will get a bill on the president's desk.

00:22:03.000 I know the White House and the president absolutely wants us to move forward, and we have to deliver.

00:22:11.000 I'm not aware that Chauvin's conviction has anything to do with what Congress does.

00:22:14.000 Congress can do whatever Congress wants to do.

00:22:16.000 Democrats are in charge of both houses of Congress.

00:22:19.000 The notion that if Chauvin is not convicted, that police reform dies is just a lie.

00:22:22.000 By the way, they've tried police reform in Minneapolis.

00:22:24.000 You know what the effect of that police reform in Minneapolis was?

00:22:26.000 Skyrocketing crime rates in Minneapolis.

00:22:29.000 According to the New York Times, the sacred intersection, sacred, like hallowed, Like somebody who's made a saint.

00:22:37.000 The sacred intersection where George Floyd died beneath the knee of a police officer has seen such an increase in violence that food delivery drivers are afraid to venture there.

00:22:44.000 There have been gun battles with bloodied shooting victims dragged to ambulances because of barricades keeping the police and emergency vehicles away.

00:22:51.000 Having no police, this is the experiment right here, said PJ Hill, a leader of Worldwide Outreach for Christ, a church that has been on that corner in Minneapolis for almost 40 years.

00:22:58.000 This is their one block experiment.

00:23:00.000 And you know what it turns out?

00:23:02.000 It turns out that when you get rid of the cops, you know what happens?

00:23:03.000 Crime increases.

00:23:05.000 That doesn't back the narrative.

00:23:05.000 Weird.

00:23:06.000 The narrative is that the cops are the threat to black life. 0.98

00:23:08.000 It turns out as soon as the cop leaves, people are shooting people. 0.91

00:23:11.000 Turns out people are victimizing people.

00:23:14.000 At the same intersection, the sacred intersection where George Floyd died beneath the knee of Derek Chauvin.

00:23:19.000 I mean, technically speaking, he actually died after that, but where Derek Chauvin's intervening act allegedly caused the death of George Floyd.

00:23:28.000 The narrative doesn't back, the data doesn't back the narrative.

00:23:32.000 That doesn't matter.

00:23:32.000 So we ignore the data.

00:23:34.000 Okay, now we get to the actual Derek Chauvin trial.

00:23:38.000 So again, it's all the narrative surrounding the trial that the media are very into.

00:23:41.000 It's not the actual facts of the trial that matter.

00:23:43.000 In reality, it is very, very difficult to achieve a confession beyond, to achieve a conviction Beyond a reasonable doubt in this particular case, the nature of the charges makes it very difficult.

00:23:54.000 The reason that that makes it very difficult is because there are several charges that have been brought against Chauvin.

00:23:57.000 We've explained this on the program before.

00:23:58.000 There's third degree.

00:23:59.000 Third degree murder does not really apply in this case.

00:24:02.000 Third degree murder is a case where you are threatening murder.

00:24:06.000 It's what's called depraved heart murder, where you don't care that somebody is going to die, but it has to be directed at a random victim.

00:24:12.000 Okay, it can't be that you targeted X and you didn't care about X and that person died.

00:24:16.000 It has to be like you take a brick and you throw it off of the top of a freeway intersection, off of an overhang, and then you hit a car, right?

00:24:23.000 That would be depraved heart murder.

00:24:24.000 You don't care who it is you kill, you're targeting just kind of generally humanity at large. 0.91

00:24:28.000 You shoot a gun into a crowd, right? 0.93

00:24:29.000 That would be depraved heart murder.

00:24:30.000 So third degree really does not apply.

00:24:31.000 In this case, it doesn't fulfill the element.

00:24:33.000 Second degree murder is the one that they're really attempting to go for here.

00:24:37.000 Second-degree murder is felony murder.

00:24:38.000 So the idea is that if you commit a felony, and in the process of committing that felony, somebody dies, you are now responsible for murder.

00:24:44.000 So for example, you go and you rob a bank with a gun.

00:24:47.000 And in the process of that felony, you shoot somebody accidentally.

00:24:47.000 That's a felony.

00:24:52.000 The gun goes off and you kill somebody.

00:24:53.000 That's called felony murder.

00:24:55.000 The reason that's felony murder is because it was a part of a crime that you were already committing.

00:24:58.000 So what they actually have to prove is that it was a felony, not for Chauvin to kill George Floyd, because that's in doubt.

00:25:06.000 They're not charging first degree, which would assume that Chauvin actually meant to kill George Floyd.

00:25:11.000 It's pretty obvious that Chauvin did not mean to kill George Floyd.

00:25:14.000 I mean, from the tape, the best you can say is that he was indifferent to the fate of George Floyd from the tape.

00:25:19.000 But you can't make the case that he intended to kill.

00:25:22.000 That would be the first degree.

00:25:23.000 They're not even charging first degree.

00:25:24.000 So they're charging second and third degree.

00:25:26.000 The court reinstated the third degree charge, even though the third degree charge doesn't really seem to apply in this particular case.

00:25:34.000 Yes, that's right.

00:25:35.000 And so the second degree charge, which is the felony murder charge here, So I'm sorry, the third degree charge is the felony murder charge.

00:25:42.000 The second degree charge would be the depraved heart murder.

00:25:44.000 Okay, they reinstated the depraved heart murder.

00:25:45.000 It doesn't really apply.

00:25:46.000 Third degree murder is the felony murder charge.

00:25:49.000 The problem with felony murder is that you have to prove that he intended to commit a felony.

00:25:53.000 Intent is still an element of the crime.

00:25:55.000 If this was just negligence, then you're talking about maybe manslaughter.

00:25:59.000 Even there, the elements there are kind of dicey.

00:26:02.000 And I'm not the only one who's saying this.

00:26:03.000 I mean, this has been pretty well known here for a while.

00:26:06.000 Robert McQuaid wrote in May of 2020, In the Daily Beast, that it's going to be very difficult to convict Chauvin.

00:26:13.000 She said to convict Chauvin of third degree murder, the prosecutor will have to prove that he acted with depraved mind without regard for human life.

00:26:18.000 For second degree manslaughter, the prosecutor will have to prove that Chauvin acted with gross negligence.

00:26:23.000 These are the same standards that apply in every case of third degree murder or manslaughter under Minneapolis law.

00:26:28.000 What's different when the defendant is a police officer is that he may use a public authority defense.

00:26:32.000 That means the state has the burden of proving the force used was not justified.

00:26:36.000 A jury would be instructed to conclude that the force was not justified.

00:26:40.000 It must find that Chauvin created an unreasonable risk of death or great bodily harm.

00:26:43.000 So in other words, he would have had to know that Floyd was dying under his knee and he didn't care.

00:26:49.000 That's kind of difficult, beyond a reasonable doubt at the very least, because there were intervening factors that Chauvin was not aware of.

00:26:57.000 Namely, that George Floyd had a serious heart problem, and that he was full of fentanyl.

00:27:02.000 This is why the medical autopsies are going to be a major issue in this particular case.

00:27:06.000 This is why when you see people on the TV who are telling you that this case is a foregone conclusion, and that conviction is inevitable, and that if it is not happening, if it's not a conviction, then that is because of the racism of the American system.

00:27:15.000 That's because they're lying to you.

00:27:17.000 This case could go either way, and there's decent cause to believe it could go either way or should go either way.

00:27:23.000 But beyond a reasonable doubt, it's certainly not a foregone conclusion based on the evidence in this particular case.

00:27:30.000 In addition to the reasonableness requirement, writes Barbara McQuaid over at the Daily Beast, the federal offense also requires a showing of willfulness.

00:27:37.000 To prove willfulness, the prosecutor must show the officer had a specific intent to do precisely what the law forbids, not just a bad purpose.

00:27:44.000 A jury would be instructed it is not enough that an officer's force was excessive or unjustified, or that he intended to harm or to frighten the suspect.

00:27:51.000 It's not enough to show that death was accidental, negligent, or reckless.

00:27:55.000 It's not enough to show that death was caused by a mistake, panic, or bad judgment.

00:27:57.000 Instead, prosecutors must prove the officer knew what he was doing was illegal and chose to do it anyway.

00:28:05.000 Right?

00:28:05.000 So it's not just that in order to prove a felony murder, he has to show that he knew that kneeling on Floyd's neck that way was illegal, that he was committing a crime.

00:28:15.000 And he ignored that in order to commit the crime because he hated Floyd that much or because he didn't care about Floyd that much.

00:28:22.000 That's very difficult.

00:28:23.000 That's particularly difficult because the Minneapolis Police Department actually instructs people to use exactly this kind of hold on suspects who are resisting arrest, which Floyd was.

00:28:31.000 They tried to put him in the car.

00:28:32.000 He pushed his way out of the car.

00:28:34.000 He said he would rather be outside the car than be in the car.

00:28:38.000 So this is a very, very difficult case for prosecutors.

00:28:41.000 And the fact that the media have turned it into a not difficult case is because the media are ignorant about the law or they don't care about the law, which is probably the more likely scenario in this particular case.

00:28:50.000 But again, the idea here built up by the media is that if he is not convicted, it is not because some of the jurors have good faith, reasonable doubts, which, again, very plausible in this particular case.

00:28:59.000 It's because America is systemically racist.

00:29:01.000 And this is the media the narrative are going to continually build over the course of the next couple of weeks.

00:29:05.000 George Floyd's family knelt outside the courthouse for eight minutes and 46 seconds in symbolic protest at the activity of Derek Chauvin.

00:29:12.000 The media covered this widely.

00:29:13.000 Here's a little bit of video of that happening.

00:29:18.000 Al Sharpton, by the way, being part of anything just immediately discredits the enterprise.

00:29:22.000 Al Sharpton is one of the great race baiters in American history. 1.00

00:29:27.000 And then we got Benjamin Crump, the attorney for the Floyd family, and Benjamin Crump, who's also been the attorney in a wide variety of other cases, including cases in which he's openly lied to the media.

00:29:40.000 It was Benjamin Crump and his attorney's team who suggested that Jacob Blake was unarmed and shot by the police for no reason at all in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

00:29:47.000 Benjamin Crump A person who has told repeated untruths.

00:29:52.000 He says that the Chauvin trial is a referendum on how far America has come.

00:29:54.000 In other words, if George Floyd, if Derek Chauvin is not convicted in the murder of George Floyd, then this means America has not come far enough.

00:30:02.000 By the way, even if Chauvin is convicted, the implication is going to be that America still has so far to go because people like Derek Chauvin were on police forces in the first place, of course.

00:30:11.000 It's a catch-22.

00:30:12.000 There is no way, out of the conclusion promoted by the left, that police forces across America are racist.

00:30:16.000 You convict him, it's just a demonstration that Chauvin is indicative of all of America's police. 0.65

00:30:20.000 If you acquit him, and you show no evidence of racism, that is an indication that America is a white supremacist country that lets people like Derek Chauvin be on the police force.

00:30:28.000 It's a complete catch-22.

00:30:29.000 Here is Benjamin Crump saying this is a referendum on race in America, as always.

00:30:34.000 Today starts a landmark trial That would be a referendum on how far America has come in its quest for equality and justice for all.

00:30:54.000 It would be prima facie evidence whether America is going to live up to the Declaration of Independence.

00:31:05.000 Mm-hmm.

00:31:07.000 Well, here's the thing.

00:31:09.000 In a criminal trial, you have to show proof.

00:31:11.000 Show proof.

00:31:11.000 I keep saying this.

00:31:12.000 Show evidence.

00:31:13.000 I could easily see this case going either way.

00:31:15.000 I think anybody who is an honest legal observer can see this case going either way because, again, the Minneapolis Police Department does teach exactly the kind of suppression hold that was being used on George Floyd here.

00:31:24.000 And you have to prove felony murder if you want a convicted felony murder.

00:31:26.000 You don't have to prove bad things happened.

00:31:29.000 You don't have to prove that this was an ugly video.

00:31:31.000 You don't have to prove any of that.

00:31:33.000 You have to prove actual felony murder.

00:31:34.000 And the notion that if Derek Chauvin is acquitted in this particular case, that is because America will not live up to its founding promise and refuses to live up to its founding promise, that's always the narrative.

00:31:45.000 And that will be the narrative no matter what the outcome of this case.

00:31:48.000 Frankly, I think that for many in the media, they're hoping that Chauvin gets acquitted so we can have another spate of remonstrations over how America is deeply racist and horrible.

00:31:58.000 If Chauvin is convicted, we're still going to get those remonstrations.

00:32:00.000 They just won't have the same sort of edge to them, obviously.

00:32:04.000 In a second, we're going to get to the actual testimony that was happening inside the courtroom yesterday.

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00:33:12.000 All right, in just a second, we're gonna get to the actual testimony in the courtroom, in the Derek Chauvin case.

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00:34:14.000 All right, so let's get to the actual testimony and the lawyer's cases in the Derek Chauvin-Trausman So the special prosecutor in this case makes the case that Chauvin betrayed his badge, that he acted in a way that was a violative of Minneapolis police policy.

00:34:33.000 It's going to be a bit of an uphill climb there for the prosecutor, to be frank, because again, Minneapolis police policy does allow the use of exactly the sort of hold that Chauvin was using on George Floyd in those particular circumstances, which is why Minneapolis changed the procedure after the George Floyd case.

00:34:46.000 Here's a little bit of the special prosecutor talking about the case.

00:34:49.000 You will learn that on May 25th of 2020, Mr. Derek Chauvin betrayed this badge when he used excessive and unreasonable force upon the body of Mr. George Floyd.

00:35:08.000 That he put his knees upon his neck and his back, grinding and crushing him Until the very breath.

00:35:19.000 No, ladies and gentlemen, until the very life.

00:35:22.000 We're squeezed out of it.

00:35:23.000 Okay, so one of the witnesses that was called to this effect was a man.

00:35:29.000 Who is there?

00:35:30.000 His name was Donald Williams, who's one of the witnesses.

00:35:32.000 And frankly, I'm kind of amazed that the judge allowed this sort of testimony because it really is pretty prejudicial.

00:35:38.000 But the testimony that this guy gave was based on his extensive experience as an MMA fighter, which again, does not make him a doctor.

00:35:47.000 It does not make him a person who is an expert in medical autopsy.

00:35:51.000 Basically, he was allowed to give his quote-unquote expert testimony as an MMA fighter as to the kind of hold that Derek Chauvin was using.

00:35:59.000 And of course, he used the most colorful language and described the kind of hold that Chauvin was using.

00:36:04.000 He called it a blood choke.

00:36:06.000 Now, normally, There is an air choke and a blood choke. 0.80

00:36:09.000 When we're actually talking about MMA language, an air choke is where you're actually cutting off the trachea and somebody can't breathe.

00:36:15.000 There was no damage done to George Floyd's trachea in any of the autopsies.

00:36:19.000 A blood choke is usually just a sort of suppression hold.

00:36:22.000 That usually is meant to deprive oxygen to the brain long enough to suppress the person.

00:36:28.000 I've had this done to me.

00:36:29.000 This happens to you anytime you spar with anybody in MMA.

00:36:33.000 It is unpleasant.

00:36:34.000 It generally doesn't kill you.

00:36:35.000 It's considered much, much safer than an air choke, for example.

00:36:38.000 An air choke can absolutely kill you. 0.59

00:36:41.000 A blood choke typically is meant to knock you out.

00:36:43.000 And it's used frequently by police officers, by MMA fighters, etc.

00:36:47.000 So here was the witness, Donald Williams, who talked about how this was a quote-unquote blood choke or a kill choke is what he called it.

00:36:54.000 And of course, for people who are not familiar with any of the language, that sounds like significantly worse than, for example, an air choke, because blood sounds worse than air.

00:37:00.000 But here is Williams testifying.

00:37:03.000 The neck was diagonal across the throat, which on a blood choke, you would just tack the side of the neck, you know, in which you're in a camorra or side chokes or things like that.

00:37:15.000 You want to tack the side of the neck to cut the circulation.

00:37:19.000 from your person and then to get the choke tighter you hit different shimmies which I felt the officer on top was shimmying to actually get the final choke in while he was on top to get the kill choke because a side choke or a blood choke can ultimately turn into death and that's what we've seen here. Okay well here's the thing in MMA you don't kill people. The reality is that a suppression hold a quote-unquote blood choke is not designed to kill people.

00:37:19.000 Okay, well, here's the thing.

00:37:46.000 Again, there's a reason that many police departments have allowed suppression chokes.

00:37:50.000 Suppression holds is what they're typically called.

00:37:52.000 The reason they allow that is because it is a lot safer for the person they're attempting to suppress than anything like an air choke, for example.

00:37:59.000 So again, what they have to prove here is a felony.

00:38:01.000 They have to prove that Chauvin intended to commit a felony.

00:38:05.000 He intended to use excessive force against George Floyd, sufficient that it ended with the death of George Floyd.

00:38:11.000 So they have to prove two things.

00:38:12.000 One, that he committed a felony, and two, that it was that action that led to the death of George Floyd and not any of the intervening factors.

00:38:17.000 Because remember, if it was an intervening, non-known factor to Derek Chauvin, it's very difficult to claim that he should have known that what he was doing was going to lead to the death of George Floyd in any way.

00:38:29.000 And the autopsies tend to show that Floyd was chock full of fentanyl, that he had a serious, serious heart problem.

00:38:35.000 George Floyd was a large man who was a very big guy, and he was actively resisting arrest up to the point where he was on the ground and Shalvin was on him.

00:38:45.000 This sort of testimony is, having him use these sorts of terms, being a non-medical expert, is definitely an interesting move by the judge.

00:38:53.000 I'm frankly a little bit surprised that the judge allowed this sort of thing to go through, but I guess I shouldn't be that surprised because the judge did allow the reinstatement of a charge that clearly does not apply.

00:39:01.000 A second degree murder, that is the depraved heart murder, that clearly does not apply by black letter law.

00:39:06.000 So, we'll see how this thing progresses.

00:39:08.000 We'll continue to update you on the case.

00:39:10.000 Again, the reason it is a national case is because of two things.

00:39:13.000 One, the idea that white police officers are routinely doing this sort of stuff, brutality to black suspects.

00:39:18.000 That has yet to be proved.

00:39:19.000 And two, this is a racially driven act in the first place.

00:39:22.000 Again, that has yet to be proved.

00:39:23.000 But the narrative matters a lot more than the actual circumstances of the case.

00:39:26.000 And narrative always matters more than the circumstances of the case, as it turns out.

00:39:29.000 You can say pretty much anything so long as you are a backer of the left-wing narrative.

00:39:34.000 Shifting topics a little bit.

00:39:35.000 This is what you see.

00:39:37.000 Heidi Heitkamp, former senator from North Dakota.

00:39:39.000 She was on Bill Maher's show over the weekend.

00:39:42.000 And she just called Gina Carano a Nazi. 1.00

00:39:44.000 Like, for no reason at all.

00:39:45.000 Just called her a Nazi.

00:39:46.000 Because this is the way racial discourse in America works.

00:39:49.000 If you are on the left side of the aisle, you can say literally anything. 0.63

00:39:52.000 Because the only problem in America is white supremacy. 0.92

00:39:54.000 And thus, anybody who you don't like is a white supremacist. 0.89

00:39:57.000 And you don't need any evidence of that proposition.

00:39:59.000 And in fact, when informed that you are wrong about it, you just double down.

00:40:02.000 That's what Heidi Heitkamp did over the weekend. 1.00

00:40:04.000 Who was the woman in the Mandalorian?

00:40:07.000 What did she do? 0.80

00:40:08.000 She like something? 0.89

00:40:09.000 She was a Nazi. 0.86

00:40:10.000 Oh, that's different, right? 0.68

00:40:12.000 I'm thinking of somebody else.

00:40:15.000 Well, she's not a Nazi. 1.00

00:40:16.000 She's a white supremacist. 0.98

00:40:19.000 She's called other people Nazis. 1.00

00:40:21.000 She's the Nazi. 0.78

00:40:22.000 Okay, everyone's a Nazi now. 0.99

00:40:24.000 She does hang with white supremacists. 0.96

00:40:25.000 It's like a Mel Brooks movie.

00:40:26.000 She does? 0.98

00:40:27.000 Yeah. 0.84

00:40:27.000 Hangs with white supremacists? 0.84

00:40:28.000 I suppose I'm now subject to defamation. 0.96

00:40:31.000 Well, yes, you would be.

00:40:33.000 Yep.

00:40:34.000 And she's a public figure, so you have to prove malice, but the fact that you immediately say that you don't care if there's evidence, and then you say she hangs with white supremacists, I suppose when Heidi Heitkamp says she hangs with white supremacists, what she means is she hangs out over here at the Daily Wire while she'll be doing a movie with us. 0.96

00:40:48.000 Heidi Heitkamp is a bag of garbage, and Heidi Heitkamp was tossed from her seat in a year, 2018, where Republicans got shellacked because the people of North, she lost by like 1,000 points. 0.98

00:40:58.000 Her opponent won 55% of the vote. 0.99

00:41:00.000 There's a reason. 0.98

00:41:00.000 She's awful. 0.98

00:41:01.000 She's awful. 0.99

00:41:02.000 But this sort of language on the left is fine. 0.60

00:41:03.000 It's good.

00:41:04.000 It's fine and good.

00:41:06.000 And not just that, racism has now been boiled down in such a clear and overt way to whatever the left-wing agenda is, that it's now out in the open how exploitative these sorts of charges are, how much the narrative matters more than the fact.

00:41:22.000 Let me give you an unbelievable example of what is clearly obvious, a clearly obvious extortion case being guised as an anti-racism case.

00:41:31.000 Okay, so, the Detroit Free Press, Printed a story today.

00:41:35.000 This is an unbelievable story.

00:41:36.000 Full-page ad blasts GM CEO Mary Barra as racist.

00:41:40.000 Leaders of several major black-owned media companies, including Byron Allen and Ice Cube, are accusing General Motors CEO Mary Barra of being a racist for what they described as her refusal to meet with them.

00:41:49.000 They're asking for an hour-long Zoom meeting with her or, in the alternative, her resignation.

00:41:53.000 That's according to a full-page ad on page 3A in Sunday's Detroit Free Press, accusing Barra of refusing to meet with them, quote, consistently over time and after multiple requests.

00:42:03.000 So, Mary Barra wouldn't meet with them. 0.96

00:42:05.000 Why wouldn't she meet with them?

00:42:05.000 She wouldn't meet with them because what did they want?

00:42:07.000 They wanted her to sign millions of dollars over to them.

00:42:09.000 The ad is signed by the heads of seven black-owned media companies, including rapper and actor Ice Cube, who co-founded pro basketball league Big 3 TV, and film production company Cube Vision, and contract with Black America, which he started with the goal of initiating dialogues about racism.

00:42:22.000 Oh, was that the goal?

00:42:23.000 Also signing the ad is native Detroiter Byron Allen, head of Allen Media Group, and former NBA player Ulysses Jr.

00:42:28.000 Bluett Bridgman, who bought Ebony Media last year after bidding $14 million for it in U.S.

00:42:32.000 bankruptcy court.

00:42:33.000 In response to the ad, GM said it aspires to be the most inclusive company in the world, and that includes how it allocates its advertising expenditures.

00:42:40.000 We have increased our planned spending with both diverse owned and diverse dedicated media across our family of brands, said GM spokesman Pat Morrissey in an email.

00:42:48.000 The black-owned media group wants GM to allocate at least 5% of its ad budget to black-owned media companies, said Allen in an interview with the Free Press on Sunday.

00:42:56.000 The ad says less than 0.5% goes to media companies owned by African-Americans.

00:43:01.000 Allen said the group could recommend 14% of the budget be spent on advertising with black-owned media companies.

00:43:06.000 That would be economic parity.

00:43:07.000 We're not even asking for parity, we're asking for inclusion.

00:43:10.000 Alan said the men who signed the ad have known each other for years, and they've been reaching out to Byron, asking for a meeting to win more of GM's advertising.

00:43:17.000 But Byron does not respond.

00:43:19.000 So just to get this straight, there's a group of black-owned media companies who are asking for a meeting with GM's CEO so they can attempt to force her into spending her money on them. 0.91

00:43:28.000 And then if she says no, she's a racist. 1.00

00:43:32.000 That's just extortion. 0.82

00:43:33.000 Okay, that is just a soft form of extortion.

00:43:36.000 If you go to somebody and you're like, here's the deal.

00:43:38.000 You're going to meet with me.

00:43:39.000 And not only are you going to meet with me, you're then going to give me all the money in your wallet. 0.66

00:43:43.000 And if you don't give me all the money in your wallet, I'm going to go to the press and I'm going to call you a racist and your entire company racist and try and take down your stock price. 0.83

00:43:51.000 That's extortion gang. 0.79

00:43:53.000 But apparently racism has now been boiled down to anything that people of a particular left-wing bent do not like. 0.95

00:44:02.000 If Heidi Heitkamp doesn't like you, you're a Nazi. 1.00

00:44:04.000 If a black-owned media group doesn't get paid by you, you're a racist. 0.99

00:44:10.000 Alan said, if you say status quo is okay, that's wrong. 0.99

00:44:12.000 That is racism.

00:44:13.000 Status quo is racism.

00:44:14.000 Let me be clear.

00:44:15.000 That is racism.

00:44:16.000 But if you get to the table and you lean in to effectuate change, I love all of the newfangled synergistic terminology.

00:44:23.000 Then you are showing the world who you really are.

00:44:24.000 This is an opportunity.

00:44:25.000 The numbers will never lie.

00:44:26.000 You're either doing business with black-owned media or you're not in a fair and equitable way. 0.93

00:44:30.000 Now, fair and equitable means give us a check.

00:44:33.000 Give us a check.

00:44:34.000 And we're going to distribute those checks by racial subgroup.

00:44:37.000 Fan-freaking-tastic.

00:44:40.000 So, apparently, GM is now racist because they don't abide by the full agenda of a group that is attempting to essentially extort money out of them.

00:44:49.000 Meanwhile, if you even defend people for not being racist, you'll get ousted.

00:44:49.000 Amazing.

00:44:52.000 Sharon Osbourne, finally the other shoe dropped, and she has been forced off the show. 0.95

00:44:57.000 She's been forced off a talk show that she has been co-hosting for 11 years after defending Piers Morgan and saying that he wasn't a racist.

00:45:05.000 So she's been thrown off the talk.

00:45:06.000 The network announced on Friday Osbourne had decided to quit, saying their internal investigation found Osbourne's actions, quote, did not align with our values, which is mush mouth for people inside the brass were angry that she wasn't woke enough.

00:45:17.000 The events of the March 10th broadcast were upsetting to everyone involved, including the audience watching at home.

00:45:22.000 As part of our review, we concluded that Sharon's behavior toward her co-host during the March 10th episode did not align with our values for a respectful workplace.

00:45:29.000 Remember, Sharon Osbourne committed the great crime of saying that Piers Morgan was not a racist, her other co-hosts started berating her as a racist, she refused to acquiesce to their description that she was a racist, and now she is losing her job.

00:45:41.000 But remember, every time this stuff happens, an angel gets its wings and we become a less racist country, every time you think more in terms of race, every time you take a data point that is not racial and you make it racial, any time you ignore an act of crime by a person who's of minority group that is higher ranked on the intersectional hierarchy than the member of the victimized group who actually is the victim, every time you ignore that, an angel gets its wings, America gets more woke, and racism is solved.

00:46:07.000 Really, really exciting stuff happening in the country right now.

00:46:12.000 Okay, final note for you right here.

00:46:14.000 So, the Biden administration continues to promote doom with regard to COVID.

00:46:18.000 I just have to note this very quickly.

00:46:19.000 Rochelle Walensky over at the CDC.

00:46:21.000 She says that doom is impending.

00:46:23.000 Put on your mask, doom is coming.

00:46:26.000 No, doom is not coming.

00:46:28.000 Here's Rochelle Walensky, head of the CDC.

00:46:30.000 Now I'm gonna reflect on the recurring feeling I have of impending doom.

00:46:35.000 We have so much to look forward to, so much promise and potential of where we are, and so much reason for hope.

00:46:43.000 But right now, I'm scared.

00:46:44.000 So I'm speaking today, not necessarily as your CDC director, and not only as your CDC director, but as a wife, as a mother, as a daughter, to ask you to just please hold on a little while longer.

00:46:57.000 I so badly want to be done.

00:46:58.000 I know you all so badly want to be done.

00:47:01.000 We are just almost there, but not quite yet.

00:47:05.000 I'm sorry, this warning of impending doom is a lie.

00:47:08.000 It is a lie.

00:47:08.000 We are not going to get impending doom because a huge percentage of the American population is vaccinated.

00:47:13.000 Soon, more people will be vaccinated, according to the New York Times and the CDC.

00:47:17.000 The coronavirus vaccines made by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech are proving highly effective at preventing symptomatic and asymptomatic infections under real world conditions, according to the CDC, which she runs.

00:47:27.000 So no, no, this is just, the panic is the point.

00:47:32.000 It's ridiculous. 0.74

00:47:32.000 The panic is the point. 0.74

00:47:34.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here today with an additional hour of The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:47:37.000 This week, Michael Knowles will be guest hosting.

00:47:38.000 Make sure to tune in.

00:47:39.000 Also, coming up at 1.30 p.m.

00:47:41.000 Eastern, The Matt Walsh Show.

00:47:42.000 You can watch it over at dailywire.com.

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00:48:15.000 Kristi Noem won't go all the way to fight gender ideology. 1.00

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