Brenda Snipes, the Broward County supervisor of elections in Florida, is under fire for a laundry list of no-nos, including a 2016 mailing that went out to an unknown member of absentee ballots that left off a constitutional amendment. Also, in 2016, she posted early voting numbers online half hour before the polls closed.
00:03:16.940Now, she is accused of a laundry list of no-nos, including a 2016 mailing that went out to an unknown member of absentee ballots that left off the proposed state constitutional amendment.
00:03:31.980Oops, I forgot to include that constitutional amendment thingy.
00:04:03.440After last week's election, in the middle of the night, her office suddenly uploaded tens of thousands of new ballots that caused Governor Scott's margin to fall below half a percent lead in his Senate race against Bill Nelson.
00:04:20.660But who doesn't upload thousands of new voters, you know, after the election?
00:04:28.160There's a lot more problems with the Broward County Elections Office, but, you know, we only have three hours.
00:04:35.460If nothing else, it is clear that Snipes is guilty of extreme incompetence with the missed deadlines, discovering ballots in the couch cushions.
00:04:45.680As county elections supervisor, you know, you really only have to prepare one big event, you know, every two years.
00:04:57.300It's kind of like Santa Claus screwing up Christmas, and he takes every other Christmas off.
00:05:31.280Do you have that moment in the morning where you sort of roll over and you bring out your phone or wherever your phone's charging and you look at it and it has the alerts on the screen?
00:05:39.860And like a lot of times it'll pop up and, you know, a bunch of the news sources I have alerts set.
00:05:44.360So, it's like, you know, Wall Street Journal or CNN or New York Times or whatever pops up and I'm like, oh, and I see all of them and I'm like, crap, something either terrible happened, somebody died, there's some tragedy, something terrible is going on.
00:05:56.840And then you have that moment where you just know today's going to suck.
00:06:33.220First of all, you can't be in a two year investigation on the corruption of our voting system and our hacking of the votes by Russia to get Donald Trump elected and then lecture me about some conspiracy theory.
00:06:53.780I think you've lost your right to do that.
00:07:57.780And if you need another one, do you remember in 2004, John Kerry only lost because the election had been hacked with all of these new electronic machine things?
00:08:09.960And that someone was out there telling people that Democrats voted on Wednesday and Republicans voted on Tuesday, which is obviously I mean, you shouldn't do things like that.
00:08:21.940Well, I mean, if you were if you happen to be in Ohio during the 2004 election and you saw a big waffle, a big waffle head that looked like John Kerry, but an enormous.
00:08:34.680It was like a 12 foot waffle and it was telling you.
00:09:31.440But that's, it kind of brings you back a little bit in that the big issue of that election in 2004 was that John Kerry flipped flopped on positions all the time.
00:09:40.340When's the last time anyone in America cared about that?
00:09:50.220Hillary Clinton is like the, the, goes from like the biggest, uh, you know, uh, pro that she goes, I'm Hillary Clinton and I have to tell you, we need to string up them gays.
00:21:29.420Yesterday, yesterday, some news broke that actually kind of made me sad and surprisingly, because I didn't grow up with comic books.
00:21:38.560I just, I didn't, and I never really understood them until I had a son, and I wanted him to read, and the only thing I could get him to read early on were comic books.
00:21:52.840And so we went out, and we started reading Spider-Man, and, you know, I'm trying to think of what else we read, but mainly Spider-Man is where we started.
00:22:06.080And then the movie started coming out, and we really started to get into it, and then we started kind of collecting some comic books, and it's been fun with my son.
00:22:17.880And I have become such a big fan of Stan Lee, because I really, truly believe he is probably the closest thing in our generation to Walt Disney.
00:22:33.360Walt Disney was a storyteller, period.
00:22:36.080And his stories were so impactful for so long that they actually helped shape America and now the world, and imagine a world without Walt Disney.
00:22:48.500No Mickey Mouse, no Disneyland, no Disney World, none of the Disney movies.
00:22:53.080Imagine our childhood without Mary Poppins and without all of these things that we all grew up on as staples.
00:23:00.700I think Stan Lee is that guy for this generation, and his characters were endless and so well-written and so well-thought-out.
00:23:13.960He created his own universe, and it's remarkable what he did.
00:23:20.000Yesterday was kind of a sad day, but in a good way.
00:23:24.780When Walt Disney died, nobody understood his plans.
00:23:28.160Nobody understood his vision of where he was going next.
00:23:32.260Luckily, people do understand, and they respect his vision.
00:23:37.500Brad Meltzer, who is the author of many children's books and really great novels as well, is with us.
00:23:51.160His new book out, I Am Neil Armstrong.
00:23:53.340I thought of you, Brad, when I saw this yesterday, because I know at least you're a big DC comic fan.
00:23:58.860And I assume that you're also a Stan Lee fan.
00:24:48.760It was the American dream that he was giving us.
00:24:51.340And Walt Disney's era, he gave us innocence at a time when we needed it and wanted it so desperately.
00:24:58.580And Stan Lee certainly gave, you know, co-created Spider-Man and the X-Men and Hulk and Iron Man and all these characters we know and love.
00:25:07.040But what he gave me personally was a creed to live by, principles to honor, and the way to behave toward other people,
00:25:17.420that you should be good as opposed to being bad.
00:25:20.520And I think that that, to me, is his greatest legacy, is that we could, you know, the reason those lessons are so powerful is because we can use his lessons to this very day.
00:25:29.960You know, no corporation or advertising or politician stands for good for good's sake.
00:25:37.760Stan Lee, yes, he made money years later, but not at the start.
00:25:40.720I mean, he wrote those heroes that were just doing good because you had to do good.
00:25:56.160But when you're fighting for yourself and you're fighting for power, you're fighting for money, you've already lost.
00:26:02.020And I would much rather honor Stan Lee's stories where the characters fight because it's just the right thing to do.
00:26:07.260So, Brad, I've really been taken by the fact that Spider-Man and all of these, you know, Captain America, all these heroes came at a time when people felt powerless.
00:26:22.760You know, World War II and then the Cold War, those were frightening times for people because they didn't feel they had control over their life, really.
00:26:35.260It could be taken by a foreign power and a menace that was so far beyond evil with the Nazis that they couldn't get their arms around it.
00:26:43.580And then with the Cold War, the same thing, devices that they just you're defenseless against a nuclear missile.
00:26:51.320And they were at their peak at that point.
00:26:54.780And then they kind of fell, you know, to a normal level.
00:26:58.960And then when we need these heroes again and when heroes are gone and we feel like we don't have any power over our life, we go back to Stan Lee's stories.
00:27:11.560And we're looking for those those heroes, superheroes.
00:27:16.840But as you said, also heroes just because they stand to do the right thing.
00:27:21.520And that's exactly I mean, that is the history of the superhero and and and any popular culture, entertainment movement.
00:28:23.000We felt like we were vulnerable, but we still wanted to give it everything we had to fight back, everything we had to do right.
00:28:30.100And it's why 16 years after 9-11, we still are here today with the superhero movie boom, where even the terrible ones are making over $100 million.
00:30:42.120The greatest stories, whether it's biblical or Superman or Spider-Man, but the greatest stories in the whole universe are not the stories about other people.
00:30:50.820They're the stories that tell us something about ourselves.
00:30:52.780That's why the Bible is written in story.
00:30:55.620It's not written with just, you know, here's the Ten Commandments and then here's all the list of things to do.
00:33:34.220It was, you know, the X-Men was, it was always an allegory for African-Americans who were different and hated for being different.
00:33:41.040And I love that he took all those issues on full force.
00:33:44.520Brad, you posted a bunch of these yesterday on Twitter.
00:33:46.980And it was amazing to read that because I'm not a big comic book fan, per se, but looking at that and comparing it to the sort of entertainment that is now pushed to young people.
00:33:59.300It's like these, Stan Lee's messages were all, he was fighting against things that were overtly bad and fighting for things that were overtly good.
00:34:06.480And now we have a situation where, you know, things like, you know, promiscuity and anti-God messages and anti-American messages are so prevalent in so much of the entertainment today.
00:34:18.880I really found that to be a stark contrast.
00:34:26.980You know, I feel like in a strange, odd way, and I appreciate you reading those.
00:34:31.560They were so vital to understand is we've just become a culture that fights well, but we don't, we are not a culture that speaks well to each other, that tolerates each other, that looks at differences and sees something that, you know, we all have the same things in common.
00:35:21.780Uh, back with, uh, something I don't know.
00:35:26.020I'd like to know how his end of his life was.
00:35:28.660I've, I've read some things that are really quite sad and I hope they're not true.
00:35:32.900We'll talk to Brad Meltzer about that in a second.
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00:37:43.120So I'm taking the, I'm, I'm choosing the Stanley route and choosing to see the better side of it rather than focus on what clearly were a rough six months.
00:39:16.880Uh, there are some important things going on in the world, but we don't seem to care about those, uh, anymore.
00:39:21.000But there is one thing that I think you're going to start hearing in the media and it is, uh, possible to, you know, uh, spiral out of control into something much, much bigger and broader.
00:39:31.920You're going to hear from probably all the media and multiple world leaders and maybe even the glorified UN.
00:39:39.060And they're going to say this Israel attacks, Gaza.
00:39:44.020The IDF has launched multiple airstrikes aimed at the poor Palestinians.
00:39:49.140And now is Israel planning on invading.
00:40:40.520The world has gone completely and absolutely insane.
00:40:45.980Now, here's what's really going on in Israel.
00:40:51.760It's kind of long, but let me quote this from the Hamas charter because it says everything.
00:40:57.520I want to point out that Hamas is a terrorist organization.
00:41:02.560And anyone who says you can have peace with Hamas doesn't know who Hamas is and who Hamas says they are.
00:41:10.800The, this is their, this is their charter.
00:41:12.640The Islamic resistance movement believes that the land Israel, Palestine, is an Islamic land consecrated for future Muslim generations until judgment day.
00:41:25.600It or any part of it shall not be squandered.
00:41:29.480It nor any part of it should be given up.
00:41:32.820Neither a single Arab country nor all Arab countries, neither, uh, any king or president, nor all the kings and presidents, neither any organization, nor all of them, be they Palestine or, uh, or Arab possess the right to give this land away.
00:41:51.180So anybody who says, well, you know, the Jews, they're just using the Bible.
00:42:04.080Palestine is Islamic land consecrated for Muslim generations until judgment day.
00:42:11.380Initiatives and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic resistance movement, Hamas.
00:42:37.260Justice for them is the destruction of Israel, and they will pursue that regardless of whether the international community tries to broker a peace deal or not.
00:47:20.180And Jason has been following Israel and has been talking to sources on the ground.
00:47:27.820Can you tell me the other side of this, Jason, is that Israel had some sort of a botched incursion or something that they were doing over the weekend that kind of caused all this?
00:47:42.780Over the weekend, there was – I've had a hard time with the people that I know in Israel actually getting a straight story on this.
00:47:49.700And frankly, I don't think we're going to get a straight story on this because it sounded like one of your SEAL Team 6 type operations going on.
00:47:58.080But over the weekend, there was – it appeared to be either a surveillance op gone bad or possibly even a snatch and grab gone bad.
00:48:07.240But it was across the border in the Gaza Strip and an IDF Special Forces team got into a shootout with a high-level Hamas operative.
00:49:34.960And they were places that if you heard the sirens go off, you have no time to run into a building and down the stairs.
00:49:41.940You don't have time to get off the playground.
00:49:43.640So all over the playground were these little safe shelters that, you know, here's the hopscotch and five steps away is a bomb shelter.
00:49:53.720Over here is where you're playing kickball and five steps away is a bomb shelter because you don't have time to run from one end of the playground to the other.
00:53:28.800If one of those situations spirals out of control, the rest of them, there's a very strong possibility that they can all engage at the same time.
00:53:35.420Now, again, one country or one border going against Israel, Israel is going to mop the floor with them.
00:53:41.120The only time when Israel is going to be in bad shape – and again, the Ayatollah knows this, Hezbollah, the leader of Hezbollah knows this –
00:53:47.620they all know this – is that once multiple borders – this is the same thing what Nasser did, you know, back in the day with the Arab Republic.
00:53:55.140They wanted to get everybody, Jordan, everybody, Egypt, all of them going at once.
00:53:59.460If you can envelop Israel, that's when they are vulnerable.
00:54:02.720So it depends on how strong this incursion gets.
00:54:07.460If Israel does do a land incursion and they do get bogged down in that one area,
00:54:11.620I would not be at all surprised to see Iran start launching from Syria again and for Hezbollah to push down from Lebanon.
00:54:17.180It's just – we'll just have to sit back and watch.
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00:59:18.740Next hour, we hope to hear from Marco Rubio about Florida and somebody will be joining us from the UK to tell us what's happening there.
00:59:27.020An act of cowardice that is beyond understanding and should come as a surprise and a warning to all of us about our ally, the United Kingdom.
00:59:38.200That's coming up in just about a half hour from now.
00:59:42.260So the New York Times has a thing out from their Upshot section of their website, which has a lot of really interesting things.
00:59:48.140Even if you don't like the Times coverage on other topics, they're pretty interesting there because it's a lot of their data stuff.
00:59:53.680And then it's not all politics, though.
00:59:55.160They have kind of a really cool poll that they came out with, which is judging by the way you refer to certain things, they can pinpoint where you're from and where your area of influence is.
01:00:11.420Like, if you say, like, for example, the first question is, how would you address a group of two or more people?
01:00:18.120Is it you all, yous, you lot, you guys, youans, yins, you, or y'all?
01:15:59.320Christian mother, Asia Bibi, continues to remain in Pakistan despite open threats against her life from Islamic radicals who are desperate to, quote, finish the job and execute the harmless mother of two,
01:16:15.000despite the fact that she was acquitted by the Supreme Court on bogus charges of blasphemy.
01:16:21.580This is the opening paragraph from Will Maul.
01:16:24.500Well, Asia Bibi's life still in grave danger as she desperately seeks asylum in the West from faithwire.com.
01:16:46.280But first, fill the audience in just a little bit on who she is.
01:16:50.340Yeah, so Asia Bibi, she's a 53-year-old Pakistani Christian woman who, about 10 years ago, actually, in 2009, was convicted on charges of blasphemy.
01:17:04.240And that was basically as a result of her getting into an argument with a group of women while she was working on her farm.
01:17:10.400The women accused her of drinking from the same tap as them and said, because you're a Christian, you know, we think you're unclean and actually this is offensive.
01:17:19.500And she then allegedly responded, well, Jesus Christ died for my sins and what did the Prophet Muhammad do for you?
01:17:27.300That has since now been proved to actually be wrong.
01:17:30.780But at the time, that was what they claimed.
01:17:33.280And a big, you know, she got mobbed at her house, arrested, and was tried and then convicted in 2010 of blasphemy.
01:17:40.660Can I tell you, let me just make a comment here.
01:17:44.380If your God can't handle some earthling saying, well, Jesus Christ died for my sins, what has your God done for you?
01:17:52.440If he can't handle that, your God ain't powerful enough.
01:17:55.400If he needs you to kill others for saying things like that, it's just outrageous that in this time, when we are rehashing the past, that we have an actual, hey, whites only, Muslims only water fountain dispute and blasphemy, and nobody on the left seems to even care.
01:18:20.920And then, of course, 10 years later, she's in prison.
01:18:23.740And 10 years later, this case finally goes to the Supreme Court in Pakistan.
01:18:27.980And everyone's kind of holding their breath because we think there's just no way they're going to rule in her favor.
01:18:32.220And then they made this landmark ruling just last month on the 31st saying that, you know, the two sisters who are accused, I had no regard for truth.
01:18:41.840And that they basically, they threw it out completely and declared her innocent.
01:18:46.160They said, well, actually, it was crazy.
01:18:47.620They said something, they said it was not, it was nothing short of concoction incarnate.
01:18:52.300It was all completely made up and they were going to free her.
01:18:56.560And, of course, then that sparked huge, massive uproar in Pakistan amongst the radicals who are now still campaigning for her to be executed.
01:19:06.740And it's not a small group of radicals.
01:19:09.300This is a major, at least the videos seem to be major movements in the streets.
01:19:16.340A couple of weeks ago, towards the end of the week, it was getting ridiculous.
01:19:21.520I mean, three or four thousand strong crowds in the streets demanding her death or at least demanding an appeal against the ruling.
01:19:29.560And initially, the prime minister, Imran Khan, he seemed like he was going to stay strong.
01:19:34.500He made a public address to the country where he basically said, we won't be cowed by these clerics and actually we're going to uphold the rule of law here and this is the final ruling.
01:19:46.300And then, of course, a few days later, entered into talks with a lot of the clerics and the political parties and agreed some things which were pretty disturbing.
01:19:54.860So now she wants to come to the United Kingdom.
01:19:58.880And over the weekend, the United Kingdom, in the biggest act of cowardice I have ever seen from Great Britain and something that is gravely disturbing.
01:20:12.040In a nutshell, tell me if I don't speak the Queen's English, but I'm an alcoholic, so I do speak bullcrap.
01:20:22.860And if I may, if I may translate the Queen's English out of bullcrap into regular people speak, what they said was, we're afraid of our of our Islamicist communities.
01:20:38.140We're afraid they're going to rise up and we don't feel comfortable taking you in.
01:20:44.000So go find some other place to ask for help.
01:20:46.920Yeah, yeah, there was the head of the British Pakistani Christian Association.
01:20:54.140That was exactly what he and he's he's been campaigning for about, you know, 10 to the entire time that she's been in prison.
01:21:01.880And that was his understanding through getting in touch with MPs and actually putting the case to them and saying, why are we not immediately offering asylum?
01:21:10.060Was that the government is just worried about what they call security concerns.
01:21:14.340No one really knows quite what that means.
01:21:15.640But like you said, that there might be attacks on embassies and all sorts of things, very vague.
01:21:20.660And actually, I mean, I've actually just just heard from a couple of members in parliament on this.
01:21:26.520And there are guys who are vouching for asylum.
01:21:30.660I mean, I've just heard from MP Desmond Swain, who's just told me he's just written to the prime minister with his colleagues asking for to be given asylum here.
01:21:41.700So it's just a case of actually trying to grasp why the UK is holding back.
01:21:46.520And really, there is in my mind, there's no reason why we should be at all.
01:21:50.820Except unless you think that the United the United Kingdom, you know, is is is not under the influence now of Islamist.
01:22:02.560I mean, I that to me, this screams cowardice and it screams we're on our last leg here.
01:22:09.180If you are afraid of a group of people and what they're going to do to the streets of Great Britain or what might happen to your embassies, you are not a world power.
01:22:25.420Yeah. And I mean, we're seeing particularly today, we're seeing more and more people come out and actually advocate.
01:22:32.560I mean, Boris Johnson, the former foreign secretary today, said that there's absolutely no reason why we should.
01:22:38.720You know, we've got we've got a moral responsibility and absolute responsibility as the British government does to to offer asylum.
01:22:45.720And really, I don't really see why I can't see personally why there's any reason why we shouldn't be the home office doesn't doesn't comment on particular like on individual cases, which is frustrating.
01:22:59.560And then there's various news outlets in the UK are reporting that the government has said things like we welcome the assurance of the Pakistan government.
01:23:07.880There's, you know, is keeping us safe and things because, of course, Asia Bibi is being held in Islamabad under guard in an undisclosed location.
01:23:16.960So they're sort of saying, well, we we trust the Pakistani authorities to keep us safe until something can be organized.
01:23:22.860But the problem with that is that at the moment, there's the Pakistani government is saying, well, we won't stop any appeals that are lodged that could that could that could appeal her sentencing and even overturn it.
01:23:34.840So that was one of the criteria of the deal that they did with the Islamists.
01:23:42.340And I think it's there's just nothing really else other than MPs writing to the prime minister, which Desmond Swain just told me he's he's done.
01:23:53.200And actually, I've just heard from a European member of parliament as well, who has told me that it's immoral that Britain will allow thousands of illegal economic migrants to come into a country pretending to be refugees in need of asylum.
01:24:08.020And then bar Asia Bibi, a young woman in danger of the most terrible mob death because she's a believing Christian.
01:24:14.260And if Asia cannot claim asylum in Britain, then Britain must ask itself what sort of country we have become.
01:24:25.280And this is this will be remembered in history.
01:24:29.440This is a very big moment for the United Kingdom.
01:24:33.120And it it signals, I think, to those of us who stand in America that, you know, our ally is weaker than we ever thought.
01:24:45.900I mean, you know, this is this is this is, you know, pre World War Two kind of stuff that that is happening here.
01:24:53.300And if you're afraid of your own population, boy, that's that's real trouble.
01:24:58.260Can you tell me also what's happening with the Scotland Yard just started an investigation in the Labour Party because of anti-Semitism, because it's getting so bad there now as well?
01:25:10.640Can you tell me anything about the Labour Party and what's happening on that?
01:28:03.140And in the next few weeks, I hope to be able to spend some time and talk to you about the the shortage of cash.
01:28:09.580And this seems really weird because, you know, we we're printing all of this money.
01:28:15.820How could we possibly have a shortage of cash?
01:28:17.940Well, the Fed is raising the interest rates, bringing that all in.
01:28:22.180Plus, the world is looking for dollars because the world has to pay their debts back in dollars.
01:28:28.740So some of these emerging companies or countries are going to basically, you know, loan sharks to borrow the dollars to be able to pay the loans back that they own.
01:28:39.760And meanwhile, we're looking to borrow dollars as a government as well.