The Charlie Kirk Show - March 16, 2022


What Really Happened the Night Breonna Taylor Died, Two-Years Later with Sgt. John Mattingly


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On this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, we dive deeper into the bio-labor story, and also on the two-year anniversary of the Breonna Taylor incident, we talk to the police officer that was involved for his first-person perspective.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show, we dive deeper into the biolab story and also on the two-year anniversary of the incident of Breonna Taylor.
00:00:08.000 We talked to the police officer that was involved for his first-person perspective.
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00:00:44.000 Here we go.
00:00:46.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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00:00:54.000 Folks, I want to thank Charlie.
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00:01:30.000 I'm always fascinated by the totalitarian hobbies of the American elites.
00:01:35.000 I mean, they live very.
00:01:36.000 Their lives are very vacant and devoid of purpose, so they kind of hop from one purp, one kind of political movement, to the other.
00:01:44.000 Uh, try to scream at the top of their lungs as saying that if you do not agree with everything that we say, you're a terrible person and we want to imprison you do.
00:01:53.000 We have the Whoopy Goldberg clip from yesterday.
00:01:55.000 We got to get that.
00:01:56.000 It's just one example of many.
00:01:59.000 But there is this kind of continual theme that if you disagree with the status quo as we've built out, such as you don't believe in the competence competency of our leaders you don't think success could be easily achieved.
00:02:10.000 You also believe that this might destabilize the United States positions at the world reserve currency.
00:02:16.000 All these very rational things that you're somehow an agent of Putin.
00:02:20.000 And this is happening not just from left-wing media, but even people on the right are saying this as well.
00:02:26.000 I mean you take one person for example Adam Kinzinger who's been wrong about every major foreign policy situation since he got elected.
00:02:34.000 Adam Kinzinger says I refuse to validate the evil Tucker Carlson's propaganda program.
00:02:39.000 This is all around this idea of whether or not there are bio labs in Ukraine and whether the United States is funding them.
00:02:45.000 We're going to separate fact from fiction on that because for whatever reason, this is kind of one of the most amazing gaslighting experiments I personally have ever lived through where you could see so easily in front of you what's actually happening.
00:02:59.000 And they're like, no, no, no, no, that's not happening.
00:03:02.000 Play Cut 42.
00:03:04.000 I got an invitation to do Tucker Carlson's show tonight.
00:03:07.000 And there's no way I'll go on his show for a number of reasons.
00:03:11.000 But first, let me state that his insistence that the West was provoking war with Putin, his spreading lies about bio labs, and his continued spewing of conspiracy theories are nothing but complete evil.
00:03:26.000 His show is full of Russian propaganda and not news.
00:03:30.000 And I will not validate his show by making an appearance.
00:03:34.000 Validate his show by making an appearance.
00:03:37.000 No, you're just scared he's actually going to ask you direct questions.
00:03:40.000 So Adam Kinzinger, we'd love to have you on our program.
00:03:43.000 In fact, we will give you this.
00:03:45.000 We will allow you to have a minute uninterrupted.
00:03:47.000 I'll get a minute uninterrupted.
00:03:49.000 That way, no one will be interrupting each other.
00:03:51.000 Adam, you're welcome on our show anytime.
00:03:52.000 We're both from Illinois.
00:03:54.000 I knew you years ago.
00:03:57.000 I've never been anything but fair towards you, Adam.
00:03:59.000 So, you could come on here anytime.
00:04:01.000 We have a lot of mutual friends, or at least we used to.
00:04:03.000 So, Adam Kinzinger is calling Tucker Carlson, all of that, a propaganda program all around this idea of these biolabs. 0.97
00:04:10.000 And it's such a weird story that everyone kind of springs into this posture of that you're some sort of propaganda pusher because you're just mentioning the fact that the United States very well might have been involved in funding biolaboratories.
00:04:24.000 So, this all kind of stemmed from Tulsi Gabbard in Cut 48, who actually served in our military, and Adam did as well, playing Cut 48, saying that we know about Ukrainian biolaboratories and how they can be a danger. 0.99
00:04:36.000 Play Cut 48.
00:04:38.000 Here are the undeniable facts: There are 25 to 30 U.S.-funded biolabs in Ukraine.
00:04:45.000 According to the U.S. government, these biolabs are conducting research on dangerous pathogens. 1.00
00:04:51.000 Ukraine is in an active war zone with widespread bombing, artillery, and shelling.
00:04:57.000 And these facilities, even in the best of circumstances, could easily be compromised and release these deadly pathogens.
00:05:06.000 Now, it wouldn't be as if we have any recent experience of a viral pathogen escaping from a laboratory and altering our way of life.
00:05:13.000 So, stop looking, everybody.
00:05:14.000 Stop watching.
00:05:15.000 Just, you know, keep on making Zelensky videos on TikTok.
00:05:21.000 Okay, so here's what we know: quote, in a remarkable off-camera briefing held last week, the Department of Defense further spoke about these claims in that briefing.
00:05:30.000 An unidentified, quote, senior Department of Defense official said, among a few things, quote, a few key points about the Department of Defense's cooperative threat reduction program and biological threat reduction program activities in Ukraine.
00:05:42.000 This is part of the Department of Defense's cooperative threat reduction program.
00:05:46.000 So, the Department of Defense is saying, according to the Department of Defense, that, quote, in Ukraine, they have a cooperative threat reduction program and a biological threat reduction program.
00:05:46.000 Whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:05:59.000 That this is in part of the Department of Defense's cooperative threat reduction program.
00:06:03.000 Through this program, the Department of Defense says, quote, we have invested approximately $200 million in Ukraine since 2005.
00:06:11.000 The Department of Defense says, you might say, Charlie, what's your source?
00:06:15.000 The Department of Defense's website.
00:06:18.000 They said, quote, we have began supporting 46 Ukrainian labs, health facilities, and diagnostic sites.
00:06:24.000 The Department of Defense's CTCR or CTR program began its biological co-work with Ukraine to eliminate the remnants of the Soviets' illegal biological weapon program left in the Soviets' successor states after the USSR fell.
00:06:41.000 It says, quote, there are cooperative threat reductions, is what CTR is.
00:06:45.000 There are no DOD bioweapon labs in Ukraine or anywhere else in the world.
00:06:50.000 The first, the most obvious point about the statement is that admission that A, these laboratories exist, and B, we've given them money.
00:06:56.000 So, wait, they say there's no bio-labs, but then they say that there's a cooperative threat reduction program of the biological threat reduction program.
00:07:05.000 And why are we giving $200 million to Ukraine?
00:07:08.000 That I can't understand to do this.
00:07:10.000 So, according to DOD's own website, we've invested $200 million.
00:07:15.000 We supported 46 Ukrainian labs, health facilities, and diagnostic sites.
00:07:20.000 Now, was there gain of function research done in this?
00:07:22.000 What sort of research was done?
00:07:23.000 What sort of development was done here?
00:07:25.000 So, here's what I don't understand.
00:07:26.000 If we've been spending that money since 2005 as allegedly trying to end them, we're trying to, quote, eliminate the remnants of the Soviets' illegal biological weapon, why does that take 17 years? 0.57
00:07:41.000 If you want to end bioweapon sites, why is that a 17-year project?
00:07:48.000 Why did the government lie about this story when it first broke?
00:07:52.000 The government totally lied about it, of course.
00:07:55.000 That's what the government does.
00:07:58.000 It's almost as if the government wasn't trying to end these laboratories.
00:08:04.000 It's as if they were trying to continue them.
00:08:06.000 So the DOD says, look, okay, these labs were built by the Soviet Union.
00:08:11.000 And yes, we spent $200 million at 46 of them, but we were really just trying to sunset them.
00:08:18.000 Okay, why does it take 17 years to sunset a biolab?
00:08:21.000 I get maybe two years.
00:08:23.000 I mean, let's just say we're grading on the TSA curve, five years, okay?
00:08:29.000 How about 10, a decade?
00:08:31.000 But 17 years?
00:08:35.000 Also, if we're going to be conducting these research in labs, why don't we do that at, I don't know, Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford?
00:08:43.000 I mean, we have the best research facilities on the planet, and we have to go to Odessa to go research Ebola right on the Russian border.
00:08:54.000 Where is this going?
00:08:55.000 What type of research was being done?
00:08:57.000 Who authorized this?
00:08:58.000 Was Anthony Fauci involved?
00:09:00.000 These are all things that I want answers to, and you should too.
00:09:03.000 Provide the answers, and we'll stop asking questions.
00:09:06.000 So, this old crow on CBS, he even admitted that there are biolaboratories in Ukraine, and they can be used to weaponize pathogens. 0.80
00:09:16.000 If CBS is saying it, why are lawmakers like Adam Kinzinger saying that this is Russian propaganda, even though it's on the DOD website, PlayCut 49?
00:09:28.000 Honeygun official I talked to this morning said there is no movement of chemical weapons into Ukraine.
00:09:36.000 At least they're not seeing the signs of it.
00:09:38.000 The concern is that the Russians will seize one of these biomedical research facilities that Ukraine has where they do research on deadly pathogens like botulism and anthrax, seize one of those facilities, weaponize the pathogen, and then blame it on Ukraine and the U.S. because the U.S. has been providing support for some of the research being done in those facilities. 0.59
00:10:07.000 This whole thing feels identical to what we went through with the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab leak.
00:10:12.000 They smear you, they lie about you, then they're like, oh, yeah, actually, it did come from a lab.
00:10:16.000 Now, we just got fact-checked by Facebook this morning for even mentioning biolabs, even though the DOD says they're doing it, even though the old crow on CBS is like, oh, yeah, biolabs are a huge threat.
00:10:29.000 So the philosopher queen herself, Whoopi Goldberg, who just a couple of weeks ago, let's remember, said the Holocaust was not inspired by race and like bizarrely double and triple down on that, comes out in this exchange on the view.
00:10:46.000 This is cut 40, where everyone on the view agrees on everything.
00:10:51.000 It's just kind of, it's not the view.
00:10:52.000 It is like the view of the state.
00:10:55.000 It's like Ana Navarro and Alyssa Farah, who I knew when she worked in the White House, and now she's just become like a complete propagandist of the totalitarian left. 0.99
00:11:04.000 It really kind of tells you a lot about who is actually staffing our government in the Trump administration, actually.
00:11:11.000 So there's Ana Navarro and all these people kind of yammering on. 0.96
00:11:14.000 And then there's Whoopi Goldberg, who just says the most unbelievable thing.
00:11:18.000 Play tape, we'll go through it.
00:11:21.000 And I think DOJ, in the same way that it is setting up a task force to investigate oligarchs, should look into people who are Russian propagandists and shilling for Putin.
00:11:31.000 That's being, if you are a foreign asset to a dictator, it should be investigated.
00:11:37.000 That's not the one.
00:11:38.000 I want the Whoopi Goldberg tape, please.
00:11:41.000 So that's the one of Ana Navarro calling for the Department of Justice to be investigated. 0.99
00:11:45.000 That's kind of the new thing.
00:11:46.000 It's like, oh, yeah, let's do the, let's use the DOJ.
00:11:48.000 Let's not investigate foreign ties to Hunter Biden, who might be actually compromising the entire government.
00:11:54.000 But you know who we need to investigate?
00:11:55.000 A cable talk show host because he has a contrarian view of whether or not we should get involved in a war 5,000 miles away.
00:12:01.000 That's who we should use the Department of Justice for.
00:12:04.000 Now, if we can't get the Whoopi Goldberg tape, I'll just kind of tell you what she says.
00:12:07.000 So, this, what I love about watching, I don't watch the view.
00:12:10.000 It's tough.
00:12:11.000 As Tucker Carlson calls it, he says it's an IQ killer.
00:12:13.000 I think that's perfect.
00:12:14.000 But when I watch some of the tapes, is that they always try to outdo one another.
00:12:18.000 They're screaming over each other, just kind of escalates.
00:12:21.000 And then Whoopi Goldberg just kind of parachutes in.
00:12:23.000 She says, Yeah, we used to arrest people for this.
00:12:26.000 Like, really, Whoopee?
00:12:27.000 When would we ever arrest people for having an opinion?
00:12:30.000 Like, what?
00:12:32.000 And what I love about this is that Whoopee's entire deal is that anything that happened before is like really bad, right?
00:12:40.000 Slavery, systemic racism, all this stuff she can't stop talking about.
00:12:44.000 It's like, wait a second.
00:12:45.000 So, you want to go back to something Whoopi?
00:12:47.000 It's like you want to go back to like floggings and beatings?
00:12:50.000 Like, I'm not really sure the whole kind of thought process behind that.
00:12:54.000 So, we'll get that tape as we move forward here.
00:12:58.000 Okay, so there's another, I mean, I could play one after the other of this kind of ridiculous, you know, narrative that is being pushed.
00:13:08.000 And now we're seeing from even the tech companies, they're cracking down on alleged Russian disinformation.
00:13:15.000 DuckDuckGo, which is supposed to be a good search engine, stop using DuckDuckGo.
00:13:19.000 And YouTube are cracking down on Russian disinformation, allegedly.
00:13:23.000 Play cut 10.
00:13:25.000 Cracking down on Russian disinformation has been used by all kinds of people, particularly big tech, to censor speech.
00:13:32.000 Now, even the search engine DuckDuckGo, which you may use because they promised you that they would not use algorithms to suppress your speech or track your searches online, has joined the herd.
00:13:44.000 DuckDuckGo's CEO is promising that the search engine will downrank sites that are, quote, associated with Russian disinformation.
00:13:51.000 Associated with.
00:13:52.000 Okay.
00:13:53.000 In other words, saying things the Biden administration doesn't like.
00:13:55.000 YouTube has just removed an episode of the Full Send podcast featuring Donald Trump.
00:14:00.000 It got 5 million views in 24 hours, but they couldn't handle it.
00:14:05.000 So they hid it.
00:14:06.000 And they got rid of them.
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00:15:28.000 I visit college campuses all across the country with Turning Point USA, and I have to hear all of the latest points of outrage.
00:15:37.000 And one of the things that many young people will mention repeatedly is the incident involving Brianna Taylor, an incident that happened in Louisville, Kentucky.
00:15:48.000 Now, this is not just some one-off incident.
00:15:50.000 This was a civilizational defining event.
00:15:54.000 didn't get as much coverage as, of course, the George Floyd situation, but the Breonna Taylor incident, the Breonna Taylor raid, has been used by activist groups by people that go to corporations to raise tons of money as a rallying cry.
00:16:08.000 The problem is what most people think about what happened there, which has now been used to justify public policy changes and power grabs.
00:16:17.000 Most of it is a lie.
00:16:19.000 The man who was involved himself in that situation the night Breonna Taylor was shot is John Mattingly, and he has a new book, To Tell Us the Truth, and he's with us right now.
00:16:31.000 John, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:16:33.000 Appreciate you having me, Charlie.
00:16:34.000 How are you doing?
00:16:35.000 So tell us why you wrote the book and walk us through what happened that evening versus what the media actually reported happening that evening.
00:16:35.000 I'm doing great.
00:16:44.000 Well, the entire reason for the book is to simply get some of the truth out.
00:16:49.000 For two years, we've been silenced.
00:16:52.000 Our city leaders, our department have refused to debunk any of the lies that were put out.
00:16:59.000 Therefore, the officers involved have all been demonized.
00:17:03.000 And to put it quite frankly, we have to get the truth out because for future generations of police officers that are coming after me, they have been just totally demoralized.
00:17:15.000 And the more officers that you run off from departments, the more people that get chased away from this great calling, and that's what it is, it's a calling.
00:17:24.000 It's not just a job, but the more people get chased away from it for fear of prosecution for doing the job that you're trained to do and asked to do, then you're going to get corruption that sets in and just filters up the ranks of command.
00:17:37.000 And we don't want that in America.
00:17:39.000 So on last or two years ago, on March 13th, we were doing a search warrant on an apartment that belonged to Breonna Taylor.
00:17:48.000 Her ex-boyfriend, Jamarcus Glover, had been selling narcotics.
00:17:52.000 He had been locked up five previous times for guns and drugs in the past two years.
00:17:57.000 And she bailed him out in January.
00:17:59.000 His vehicle was registered to her house.
00:18:01.000 His bank accounts, his license said that he lived there.
00:18:06.000 When she bailed him out in January, they put that address as his.
00:18:09.000 And so everything tied back to Brianna's apartment.
00:18:13.000 Now, do I think she was out there personally selling the narcotics? 1.00
00:18:16.000 No, I don't.
00:18:17.000 But I do know that she was holding money for them and she was allowing things to come filtered through her apartment that shouldn't have been, which put her directly in target and directly in the limelight of the police for that night.
00:18:30.000 So when we showed up to that apartment, we banged, we knocked, we announced, we announced and were so loud that one of the residents upstairs came down, opened his door and was like, what are you guys doing?
00:18:40.000 And there was a little argument that ensued between us.
00:18:43.000 He finally went back in his apartment.
00:18:45.000 We continued banging on the door, knocking and announcing loudly.
00:18:49.000 And after about a minute, there was no response and we had to take action.
00:18:54.000 You know, at some point, you've got to move.
00:18:56.000 And so we rammed the door, which is a utility that we use to force the door open.
00:19:03.000 And as soon as that door came open and I started to step in the doorway, I was met with two individuals down a hallway.
00:19:10.000 And they were almost blended together.
00:19:12.000 They were so close.
00:19:13.000 It was a dark hallway about 30 feet away.
00:19:16.000 And all I could see was the end of a gun that Kenneth Walker was standing there waiting for us.
00:19:20.000 And he fired the weapon and it struck me.
00:19:23.000 We returned fire. 0.91
00:19:25.000 And unfortunately, Kenneth Walker being the coward he is, he dove out of the way behind a wall that was right there in the hallway. 0.84
00:19:32.000 And Brianna attempted to follow him. 0.95
00:19:35.000 And she was caught in a crossfire and she perished.
00:19:39.000 As soon as that incident took place, I was able to get out of the hallway and into the street where they were able to put a tourniquet on my femoral artery that had been severed and saved my life.
00:19:51.000 Wow.
00:19:52.000 One of the narratives that was pushed forward is that Breonna Taylor was in the bed and was shot in the bed in a no-knock raid.
00:20:03.000 So you already debunked the no-knock raid.
00:20:06.000 You said you repeatedly knocked, and then you came in and there was a long hallway.
00:20:11.000 And this individual, Kenneth Walker, who I think survived the shooting.
00:20:15.000 Is that right?
00:20:16.000 I'm not, is that right?
00:20:17.000 That's correct.
00:20:18.000 That's correct.
00:20:18.000 Matter of fact, when they first brought him out, he said that it was Brianna that shot me, not him.
00:20:24.000 So it just goes to show his character and the lies he's willing to tell to keep himself out of trouble. 0.98
00:20:30.000 Yeah, he's a criminal.
00:20:31.000 And so he, and he's proven in a court of law.
00:20:35.000 So then he goes out of the way, right, and dashes out of the way.
00:20:40.000 And then Brianna, who's not in bed, right?
00:20:42.000 So there is this kind of narrative that, and the way that it was portrayed is she was peacefully sleeping in her bed and was caught, you know, while trying to hide under the sheets, basically.
00:20:57.000 How did that ever get into the news narrative?
00:21:01.000 That was a Ben Crump push.
00:21:04.000 As soon as he got on board with this, after Maude Aubrey, he came to town with his circus, stirred things up, riled the people up, continued to spread lies.
00:21:14.000 And again, that's one of the easy things that the department could have debunked from the get-go and refused to for whatever reason.
00:21:19.000 We begged him to do it.
00:21:20.000 And they said, no, it would set precedent for future cases.
00:21:23.000 We can't do that.
00:21:24.000 And so we were like, so you'd rather the city burn and officers be put in danger than to correct a narrative.
00:21:31.000 And that's the stance they took.
00:21:33.000 That's the stance they continue to take to this day.
00:21:36.000 So she wasn't in bed.
00:21:37.000 She may have been asleep before we got there. 0.84
00:21:40.000 But again, had we conducted a no-knock, she would have been in bed.
00:21:44.000 And you wouldn't even know me because I don't think any of this would have taken place.
00:21:48.000 Yeah, I mean, look, and it wasn't a no-knock.
00:21:51.000 And that's the point, right?
00:21:52.000 Is that that was part of the narrative.
00:21:54.000 So, and this is the two-year anniversary, right, of the week that it happened.
00:22:00.000 USA Today has an article that came out just an hour ago.
00:22:05.000 The anniversary of Breonna Taylor's death just passed quietly, and I'm so disappointed.
00:22:10.000 It writes about how this was a murder is the word that is used, how this is a wrongful killing, all these sorts of different things.
00:22:19.000 It goes on and on and on and on, endlessly almost.
00:22:24.000 And so what's so striking is that this is a much more complicated and nuanced situation.
00:22:31.000 What was it that kind of motivated the media to want to slander this so badly?
00:22:37.000 I mean, this must have been so frustrating.
00:22:38.000 I mean, you almost lost your life because you were shot at.
00:22:42.000 Yeah, the frustration, it was just mind-boggling.
00:22:45.000 So I believe a lot of it had to do with the fact that we were in the 2020 elections because we simply, I mean, we reached out to Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul and we're like, hey, is there anything you guys can do?
00:22:57.000 Because we had hits on our lives that were placed and both of them were like, yeah, we really can't get involved.
00:23:04.000 So people were scared to step up.
00:23:06.000 People were scared to step up and say, hey, these guys, there was 100,000 overdose deaths last year.
00:23:13.000 We're out there trying to prevent this, trying to save lives.
00:23:16.000 And yet, somehow we became the bad guys for me getting shot.
00:23:21.000 And also, you know, the media storm blew up whenever I countersued Kenneth Walker.
00:23:26.000 It wasn't because I want Kenneth Walker's money.
00:23:28.000 I don't think he's going to have any.
00:23:29.000 He's going to blow through it.
00:23:30.000 It's not about that.
00:23:30.000 It's the principle that he shoots me while doing illegal activity and then turns around and sues me for it.
00:23:38.000 And people are outraged that I want to defend myself.
00:23:41.000 You know, that just goes to show you the type of environment that we're in right now, that the bad guys are able to have freedom to do whatever they want.
00:23:51.000 Yet when you stand up and try to fight back and push against it, we're the ones that get attacked.
00:23:55.000 Same way with you on the political stance.
00:23:57.000 It's no different.
00:23:58.000 Well, I've had a lot of things on me.
00:24:00.000 I've not been shot at, and nor have I nearly died like you have.
00:24:03.000 The book is 12 Seconds in the Dark.
00:24:05.000 And so I'm just going to read some of these headlines, and this is why it's so newsy, right?
00:24:08.000 Front page of the Washington Post: quote: Two years after Breonna Taylor's death, her family wants answers.
00:24:13.000 We still don't know what happened.
00:24:15.000 It says Breonna Taylor's family supporters push for justice, blah, blah, blah, all this stuff.
00:24:20.000 But what they don't want to talk about, and it's a tragedy, right?
00:24:23.000 And we don't want bystanders to die, but she wasn't in her bed.
00:24:28.000 But also, is that this thug, this criminal started shooting at you, you nearly died, and that she got caught in the crossfire, right?
00:24:38.000 That's not a that's not like the narrative that you just kind of came through the back door and performed an execution when someone was in their bed.
00:24:48.000 So, I mean, can you just walk through?
00:24:50.000 I mean, you the kind of how this happened back and forth, that you guys were returning fire after someone was trying to kill you.
00:24:58.000 Yeah, I mean, I don't know what else they expect when we're there legally to conduct a search warrant signed by a judge.
00:25:06.000 And as we're coming in, I receive fire.
00:25:09.000 I know I'm hit.
00:25:10.000 So we fire back at the threat.
00:25:12.000 And the way we're trained is you fire until the threat is stopped.
00:25:16.000 So in that split second, I mean, the rounds from beginning, from the door opening until the very end was less than 10 seconds.
00:25:25.000 I mean, this thing happened very quickly.
00:25:26.000 And my part of it lasted maybe two seconds from the time I was shot to return fire and I got out of the way.
00:25:33.000 So things are moving so rapidly.
00:25:35.000 Your brain slows down, but things are moving rapidly.
00:25:37.000 And in the dark, with the echoes of the metal and the concrete and the flashing of the light kind of makes it like a strobe light effect, then it makes it difficult to, it's impossible to stop on a dime and go, okay, let me stop here and reevaluate while I'm being shot at.
00:25:52.000 And that's what people expect.
00:25:54.000 They expect superhuman type things that are just impossible.
00:25:57.000 They watch too much TV, is what it is.
00:25:59.000 Well, yeah, I mean, you were shot at, and it's a tragedy that she got caught in the crossfire.
00:26:04.000 It's 12 Seconds in the Dark.
00:26:06.000 Tell us a little more about the book.
00:26:08.000 So it talks about a little bit of the early part of my life, the foundation.
00:26:08.000 All right.
00:26:11.000 I'm a Christian.
00:26:12.000 My dad's been a pastor for over 50 years.
00:26:15.000 So that's embedded in me.
00:26:16.000 And that's what got me through this tragedy.
00:26:18.000 Just my strong faith in God and the support of family and friends.
00:26:22.000 So it talks about that.
00:26:23.000 It talks about the event, but then it talks about mainly what happened after the lack, all the things, the death threats, us having to move and sell our house, our family being uprooted, all the things that factor in that nobody knows about.
00:26:36.000 All the people that tweet and say all these hateful things that stir up this problems, they don't think of what the consequences of those are for other people.
00:26:43.000 And I just want people to see that in this book.
00:26:45.000 Amen.
00:26:45.000 Well, thank you so much, John, for joining us.
00:26:47.000 And everyone, pick up a copy of the book, 12 Seconds in the Dark.
00:26:50.000 Thank you so much.
00:26:51.000 Thank you.
00:26:51.000 Appreciate your time.
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00:28:02.000 As you heard, we went through in great detail kind of how the media is reacting to the entire biolab story.
00:28:08.000 So the philosopher queen herself, Whoopi Goldberg, she decided she has to weigh in on this and just play cut 60.
00:28:18.000 Propaganda that has been brought down.
00:28:20.000 They used to arrest people for doing stuff like this.
00:28:23.000 If they thought you were colluding with the Russian agent, if they thought you were putting out information or taking information and handing over to Russia, they used to actually investigate stuff like this.
00:28:35.000 And I guess now, you know, there seems to be no bars.
00:28:40.000 And people are not being told to hate Putin.
00:28:43.000 Putin doesn't need a reason to be hated.
00:28:46.000 It's pretty much clear.
00:28:48.000 He started a war. 0.68
00:28:49.000 He's starting to find unnecessary.
00:28:51.000 But this is kind of what he wants.
00:28:52.000 Isn't this contributing to the death? 0.95
00:28:55.000 Just arrest them all.
00:28:56.000 I mean, come on.
00:28:58.000 You notice how she just changes terms?
00:29:00.000 We used to arrest people.
00:29:01.000 I mean, come on, investigate.
00:29:03.000 She's all over the place. 1.00
00:29:04.000 But of course, it's a threat.
00:29:05.000 It's a signal threat is what it is.
00:29:07.000 They want that to go viral for anyone that dares to question the mainstream narrative.
00:29:13.000 ABC goes after Tucker Carlson for, quote, being the Putin wing of the Republican Party.
00:29:18.000 Play cut 47.
00:29:21.000 What seems to me almost the Putin wing of the Republican Party, which, to be fair, is not highly, not prevalent much on Capitol Hill, but we've seen Tucker Carlson, you know, basically repeat Russian propaganda night after night.
00:29:37.000 What the hell is going on?
00:29:39.000 Well, first of all, before they fell in love with Putin, they fell in love with Orban and Hungary.
00:29:44.000 Make America great again meant let's make America more like Hungary. 1.00
00:29:48.000 Now, of course, George Will used to be really interesting and smart, and now George Will is really boring, predictable, and just kind of a spokesperson and a mouthpiece, honestly, for the regime.
00:30:00.000 Now, Viktor Orban has a completely different country than Vladimir Putin in Russia.
00:30:05.000 Anyone with eyes to see can see that.
00:30:07.000 In fact, Hungary has denounced the Russian aggression in Ukraine, but that's a bridge too far for Mr. Will.
00:30:15.000 Maybe he's going to write another irrelevant book about baseball or something.
00:30:20.000 So I want to get to this tape here.
00:30:23.000 I think it's interesting from Senator Ron Johnson.
00:30:26.000 It's about China and about China's image.
00:30:29.000 Let's go cut 11.
00:30:32.000 China is worried about their image, and they need to understand that their image is being tarnished even further by literally their lack of response.
00:30:41.000 They should be forcefully coming out against what Russia is doing, but they're not.
00:30:45.000 Now, can we decouple from China overnight? 0.99
00:30:48.000 No.
00:30:48.000 But you begin the process.
00:30:52.000 There's going to be a lot of movement with China in the coming weeks.
00:30:57.000 Now, we should have done everything we possibly could to keep China and Russia from coming into a partnership.
00:31:02.000 We've decided not to do that.
00:31:04.000 Said China and Russia are now closer than ever.
00:31:06.000 Now, there are some signs that there might be some fault lines in that entire relationship, but we're forcing them into each other's arms.
00:31:16.000 I kind of laugh.
00:31:17.000 Somebody the other day, they said, you know what we have to do?
00:31:19.000 We have to make sure that Russia doesn't become like Nazi Germany.
00:31:22.000 You know how we're going to do that?
00:31:23.000 We're going to deteriorate their currency.
00:31:25.000 We're going to shut them off from the rest of the world and make... 0.97
00:31:28.000 Wait a second.
00:31:29.000 That doesn't seem like a good predicate to try to deter radicalism.
00:31:35.000 Or we're going to try to make the dictators just kind of fall into each other's arms. 0.98
00:31:39.000 And this all, of course, should center around China.
00:31:41.000 But what is China doing?
00:31:43.000 China is lecturing our own government about human rights abuses.
00:31:49.000 Play Cut 51.
00:31:52.000 There has been an endless stream of malicious incidents involving deaths caused by police brutality in U.S. law enforcement.
00:32:01.000 The CIA, using the so-called war on terror as a pretext, set up black sites in many countries where the so-called terrorist suspects were secretly held in arbitrary detention and confessions were extorted by torture.
00:32:19.000 China calls on Human Rights Council and the Special Repertoire on Torture to pay closer attention to U.S. violation of human rights and urge it to adopt concrete measures to resolve relevant issues.
00:32:34.000 Yeah, it's the Americans that are the human right abusers. 0.97
00:32:36.000 Why are we putting up with this exactly?
00:32:38.000 We're allowing China to trade potentially petrodollars to Saudi Arabia.
00:32:42.000 Every single one of these dictators are in self-preservation mode right now.
00:32:46.000 Without American leadership, without a strong American dollar, without American energy independence, with a strong American border, the world goes to bedlam.
00:32:53.000 And you're seeing it unravel right now.
00:32:55.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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