Steve Dacey breaks down the tragic crash of a private helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant and his family to a youth basketball tournament in Calabasas, California. He also talks about the impeachment of Donald Trump and why it's important to pay attention to it.
00:02:33.580And already there, or was that the daughter?
00:02:36.000The daughter was going to be playing in the game.
00:02:39.120Yeah, very talented basketball player in her own right.
00:02:42.400And he routinely took, you know, a helicopter to do this travel because of the traffic so bad there.
00:02:52.160They had problems with really thick fog and circled, you know, for a very long time.
00:02:58.680And, you know, there's all sorts of complications.
00:03:00.520And, you know, obviously, as everybody knows at this point, the helicopter crashes.
00:03:05.520Nine people total are killed in the crash.
00:03:08.640And, you know, outpouring of real reverence and, you know, sadness for, you know, a guy who was really one of the all-time great players.
00:03:18.520I mean, he is, you know, top five to top ten player of all time.
00:03:22.260If I was, you know, I'm not in the majority on this, but if I'm starting a team and I'm going to get their primes, I'm picking Colby Bryant over LeBron James.
00:04:31.000They said that in Calabasas, they don't see fog like that.
00:04:34.300A lot of people had not seen it as thick like that in Calabasas for a while.
00:04:38.180And, you know, any helicopter pilot would know you don't fly in fog.
00:04:45.660Well, we'll know, we'll know this, I guess, going forward.
00:04:48.160They hit a couple really bad patches of it.
00:04:50.140And at times they thought they were going to be able to circle and then wait for it to clear and then make it past the fog once it cleared.
00:04:57.280I know that they were saying that the police and rescue workers weren't even allowing their helicopters to go take off to go check it out because that fog was that bad.
00:05:26.740But anybody who has a respect for a helicopter, anybody who flies in a helicopter should know you're, you are, you know, it's different than a plane.
00:05:35.000Remember, JFK Jr. was killed in fog in his plane because your body doesn't understand.
00:05:41.480You can be upside down and it doesn't.
00:05:43.660I mean, so you have no bearings at all in fog in a helicopter.
00:05:51.400But the idea that they took a chance and maybe thought they were going to be fine and probably had tried it five other times and were fine.
00:06:02.020You know, it's just, it's unbelievable though, especially because he has, he had really kind of cleared out a lot of, you know, people knew him as so competitive.
00:06:10.880They worried whether he'd be able to have a normal life afterwards where you're going and you're doing these other things.
00:06:16.360How do you survive when you're that competitive and you lose the thing that you're so involved in?
00:06:21.400And he had seemingly really figured it out.
00:06:24.700Like he was, yeah, seemed to be a great father by all reports.
00:06:29.080He had won a, was it an Oscar or what was it?
00:06:35.040He had built a, you know, all sorts of businesses and such when it relates to basketball with his camps and tournaments and all these things.
00:06:42.880And seemed to really be doing a good job with all of this.
00:07:26.560Washington Post reporter tweeted an article from, I think it was 2016.
00:07:31.720And it was basically the outlining of the actual evidence that was presented in the case against Kobe Bryant when it came to his assault in Colorado, or at least alleged assault.
00:07:48.360And she got suspended because she tweeted it a few hours after the crash goes down.
00:07:52.700Everyone's in, you know, reverence mode, and you're not supposed to do that, which I think is probably a good piece of advice as far as timing.
00:12:30.660Everything they say can't be questioned.
00:12:32.400All of these things that, I mean, if they'll believe the Brett Kavanaugh thing, I mean, Kobe Bryant would have been out of the league because of this.
00:16:24.880Bad person was referring to a heavily edited video posted on Facebook in 2019 that appears to show Nancy Pelosi slurring her words at a press conference.
00:17:03.280The Pelosi video, which is also often called a cheap fake, was slowed down and designed to make Pelosi sound and look drunk.
00:17:11.520YouTube removed the video, but Facebook and Twitter left it up.
00:17:14.560Members of the media joined lawmakers shortly thereafter condemning Facebook for leaving up that video, which they said could alter the public's perception of Pelosi.
00:17:29.860Pundits cried foul after Facebook argued its adherence to free speech prevented the company from removing the video.
00:17:37.420Bette Medler, Alyssa Milano, also bad people, but not the bad person we're talking about here.
00:17:43.560And other several celebrities complained after Facebook executive Monica Bickert told CNN in May 2019 that the company determined dinging the video was the wrong move.
00:17:56.700Bad person said for her part, the tech giant's endgame is much more sinister.
00:18:06.080Facebook is not going to just re-elect Trump, but it intends to re-elect Trump, bad person told The Atlantic.
00:18:22.920So bad person continued to suggest that Zuckerberg's views on Facebook's role in society and American politics is Trumpian and authoritarian.
00:18:33.060Bad person is not the only person to express concerns about Zuckerberg's supposed intentions.
00:18:40.680Also, equally known bad person, billionaire financier George Soros and Elizabeth Warren also say that Facebook and Trump are in cahoots.
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00:31:48.480So they're not even really fully engaged in South Carolina yet, and they're going to react to the sifting that's gone on here in Iowa and New Hampshire.
00:31:57.280So I think that's still up for grabs as well.
00:31:59.960And so I think what you – and I think, you know, Joe Biden putting out statements about trans-civil rights, and he's grasping now.
00:32:07.740You know, I used to say when I was a professional football analyst, when your team believes the game plan has failed, they just start trying things.
00:32:16.720You know, you're just, well, let's try a run here, a pass here, a draw there, a play action there,
00:32:20.440and see if we can get something to click because we're at a loss for why nothing we had game planned for is working.
00:32:26.020And I think Joe Biden, at least in terms of Iowa and New Hampshire, which is all that matters right now, he's at the trying things stage.
00:32:47.060So there's rules of order, there's orders of business, there's delegate, you know, appointment.
00:32:52.480It just depends on what all is on the agenda.
00:32:55.180You know, on the Republican side, because a lot of those people are in private industry, they try to get in and out as fast as they can, and the process can still take an hour.
00:33:03.100On the Democratic side, though, everyone's got to kvetch, so grab a Snickers.
00:33:07.320You're going to be here for a while, okay?
00:33:09.120And they're going to handle all of their business.
00:33:11.180And this year it's different in that when they're gaveled – when you come into the caucus and have your name checked, and, yes, you do have to verify that you are you.
00:33:20.340So apparently it's not racist when the Democrats do it to themselves.
00:33:23.540When you do that, this year is different because of what happened in 2016 where Bernie Sanders won the popular vote, but Hillary Clinton won Iowa's electoral college with the delegates.
00:33:32.140They're now making it so that you have to declare who you're for when you come in.
00:33:44.300You're now going to declare when you come in.
00:33:46.300That's a huge advantage to somebody like Bernie Sanders because when you declare for him, I mean, the Soviets there are going to make sure that you follow through.
00:33:56.080There's one candidate in this race that knows right now that he's not coming out of the room in Iowa with fewer votes than he had going in.
00:34:03.860And the only candidate I think that can say that is Bernie Sanders.
00:34:06.960So where we're going to decide this last week, guys, is what is his ceiling?
00:34:11.360And you're going to see a lot of things thrown at him to try to mitigate his ceiling.
00:34:15.780And I do believe he has a ceiling because if he hadn't had such a high name ID candidate, he would have been leading this race the whole time.
00:34:29.900Somebody has to be the place where everybody that thinks this guy is another Jeremy Corbyn and he can't win, where they believe they can settle on who that is.
00:34:38.220And we're sitting here one week from Iowa after a year-long campaign, and they still don't know who that is.
00:35:29.580And now I think you have seen that the stunt that her and CNN orchestrated – I do believe they orchestrated it the last debate with the hot mics and stuff – it's blown up in her face and hasn't really helped her at all.
00:35:39.100And so he seems to do well with calamity.
00:35:41.440Like, his numbers rose after a heart attack.
00:35:43.480His numbers rose after getting embarrassed by Elizabeth Warren.
00:35:46.500It's a damnably weird thing, but it's the numbers are what they are.
00:35:50.620And so she's now in danger of – you could have people who are just now at the point where I just want to vote for a woman, where you could see them now say maybe Bernie Sanders has drained all of her support that they were tethered together he could drain.
00:36:05.220And maybe some of that now starts to go to an Amy Klobuchar because we might get down to I just want to be able to vote for a woman in the room.
00:37:02.620I think it's possible she could finish in the top three and survive as viable beyond here.
00:37:07.800I don't believe she can get a percentage that would win.
00:37:11.340You mentioned Santorum, and that's a good analogy.
00:37:14.720If you remember, that campaign was the flavor of the month, and Rick never had his turn, and it got down to the end.
00:37:19.580He never really had an impressive galvanizing moment, but it got down to the end.
00:37:23.540And if you were a conservative that didn't want Mitt Romney as your nominee, he was the last one left that hadn't been branded or tarnished in some way.
00:37:30.560She's running great ads right now, and they're very likable.
00:37:37.440At some point, you know, we have to win an election once we're done, you know, checking our woke credentials.
00:37:42.640She should have started doing this about two months ago.
00:37:45.820If she had started doing this in the fall and built her name ID high enough, particularly as Warren and Sanders got, you know, really handsy, I think she could have, and Biden began to implode with his appearances, I think she could have really been a viable threat here.
00:38:01.760She was too timid, waited too long to make her move and choose her lane as the adult in the room.
00:38:09.160But the fact that she can still get a late rise here into a respectable finish is indicative of how weak we just got to win the election lane has become for the Democrats.
00:38:45.220So how did, with Bernie gone for the last few days, how is AOC doing?
00:38:52.960And did you see much of the Soviet show that they were really putting on for Bernie?
00:39:00.440No, and I think that that's great for us from a clickbait perspective, and it's going to be very harmful in a general election.
00:39:13.980But right now, the biggest issue is Bernie Sanders is a defined entity, Glenn.
00:39:20.260I mean, this idea now that we're going to get all this oppo research dump on him from the left, and it's going to hurt him with leftists, it's desperation time.
00:39:30.220It's fouling at the end of a basketball game when you're down by 10 to prolong it, but you've already lost.
00:39:35.980What they've got to figure out, they've got to come up with an alternative to him.
00:39:51.200I mean, there was a Boston Globe poll out yesterday that had him way ahead in New Hampshire.
00:39:56.700No one that has ever won both Iowa and New Hampshire has failed to win their party's nomination ever in either the Republican or Democratic parties.
00:40:05.540So Bernie Sanders, you can – okay, you take him from 30 to 25.
00:40:09.620Who is your candidate that's going to get 26?
00:40:32.860The Democratic platform contains language that basically says that we don't belong, we have no part in the party,
00:40:38.800because it says abortion should be legal up to nine months, the government should pay for it.
00:40:42.640And there's nothing that says that people have a diversity of views on this issue should be included in the party.
00:40:49.100In 1996 and several years after that, there was a language in the Democratic platform that said that we understand that people have very differing views on this issue,
00:40:58.620but we are a big tent party that includes everybody, and so therefore we welcome you, people like me, into the party so we can work on issues that we agree on.
00:41:06.880So my question was, would you be open to language like that in the Democratic platform that really did say that our party is diverse and inclusive and we want everybody?
00:41:18.060Well, I support the position of my party that this kind of medical care needs to be available to everyone.
00:41:27.360And I support the Roe versus Wade framework that holds that early in pregnancy there are very few restrictions and late in pregnancy there are very few exceptions.
00:41:37.060And again, the best I can offer is that we may disagree on that very important issue, and hopefully we will be able to partner on other issues.
00:41:45.360That wasn't an answer to the question at all, and he got hammered for it.
00:41:51.280Are there a lot of Democrats in Iowa that are in her situation?
00:41:57.060No, there's not a lot of Democrats like this.
00:42:00.500Well, there's not a lot of white Democrats in her situation really anywhere in the country.
00:42:05.420Most of those people have either already become independents or Democrats because they got this message 10 years ago that this is the direction their party was going to go.
00:42:13.280But where it does hurt him is his entire calculus.
00:42:32.380If a straight individual that was mayor of Cedar Rapids, a town in Iowa, a town of 100,000, was running for president, would they have lasted this long?
00:42:39.700Would they have been taken straight of any ethnicity, any color?
00:42:49.080No other reason to support him other than you just want to check that intersectionality box.
00:42:53.160And he's run a very clever campaign where he doesn't highlight that really at all and tries to highlight his military service and I am a centrist.
00:43:01.000Well, if you're going to run as I am a centrist, I'm going to run in Joe Biden's lane.
00:43:04.260And then in the last debate, you get caught lying about, well, yeah, it's Medicare for all.
00:43:08.440And then you turn around on national TV and say stuff or turn around in a forum and say stuff like that that goes on national social media.
00:43:14.880It shows that the thin, narrow road, pardon the pun, that he has tried to carve out here for himself is an untravelable pass.
00:43:23.700And it was only going to be a matter of time before it was going to be exposed.
00:43:27.940He's undermined his own argument that I'm the person that can reach people we traditionally cannot get to build our coalition.
00:43:55.260I don't think there's any scenario, barring he's alive on February 3rd, Bernie Sanders is not in the top three in Iowa, any scenario.
00:44:03.600And then after that, I don't know what happens after that.
00:44:06.740I think Joe Biden could finish second to fifth.
00:44:08.620I think Elizabeth Warren could finish still in the top three and then finish sixth.
00:44:13.060I think Amy Klobuchar could get in the single digits and finish third.
00:44:16.100The rest of this is very fluid because they haven't figured out who is the more polished candidate that can win those suburban, ex-urban voters that they took away from Trump in 2018 when it was a blind taste test, and they didn't have to put a candidate opposite him.
00:44:33.200But you could just check yes or no in what you thought of Trump.
00:44:49.760That 14-point swing is the whole election.
00:44:52.880And the Democrats are struggling to figure out who is a candidate that won't scare those voters off so they'll just vote against Donald Trump and for us like they did in the 2018 midterms.
00:45:02.560How's the impeachment working in Iowa for the regular person?
00:45:16.340A lot of these networks now are running stories about how people in these early states don't care, and then they just go back to wall-to-wall impeachment.