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On today's show, we go into the Derek chauvin trial, including the back and forth between the media and the coverage of the jury selection process, we see that apparently if you're at all skeptical of covid restrictions, you're not allowed on the jury, and at the same time, it's offensive if you believe there's deep-seated racism in the police force, that you are not allowed to serve as a juror in the Deke Ch chauvin case, and we have a special guest on the program, Steves Dace, who's got a new book out called The Faucian Bargain and it's about anthony Fauci and all the stuff that has gone on over the past year.
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welcome to the podcast uh today it is it's a pretty amazing show we go into the derek chauvin
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trial including um the back and forth between the media and the coverage of the jury selection
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process where we see that apparently if you're at all skeptical of covid restrictions you're not
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allowed on the jury um at the same time it's offensive if you believe there's deep-seated
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racism in the police force that you're not allowed on the jury it's it's bizarre to hear it back in
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a and b comparison we also have a steve dace on the program dace uh he's got a new book out called
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the faucian bargain and it's about anthony fauci and all the stuff that has gone on over the past
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year it's something you want to definitely check out he joins us in hour two of the program uh you
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well he's he's very worried because yesterday can we play the cdc director and what she had to say about
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the coming pandemic and how it's going to get worse i'm going to pause here i'm going to lose
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the script and i'm going to reflect on the recurring feeling i have of impending doom
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we have so much stop i can't take it i've only heard this and now i'm watching it on the blaze
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stew did you happen to see this i heard it i heard the audio of it watch the screen watch the screen
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this is hysterical go ahead play it from the beginning here i'm going to lose the script
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and i'm going to reflect on the recurring feeling i have of impending doom stop we have stew what have
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you noticed there she seems very upset uh no are you watching her eyes yeah she's reading the script
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it does look like she's reading it yeah she absolutely is i'm gonna toss the script she's
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reading all of that okay go ahead we have so much to look forward to so much promise and potential
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of where we are and so much reason for hope but right now i'm scared i'm speaking today not
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necessarily as your cdc director and not only as your cdc director but as a wife as a mother as a
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daughter to ask you to just please hold on a little while longer i so badly want to be done i know you
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all so badly want to be done we are just almost there but not quite yet wow so sincere and uh and
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so scared and joe biden says that he shares that sense of impending doom and here to talk about it
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is our our one and only steve days hello steve morning glenn how are you i gotta say every time
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i hear from our cdc director i get a sense of impending doom as well i do too uh tell me you
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have written a book about fauci uh and uh the most you say the most powerful man uh uh i can i can
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barely read the cover from here i'm sorry uh the most powerful and dangerous bureaucrat in american
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history that's quite a statement 14 15 months ago glenn we didn't know who anthony fauci was
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yeah and in that short amount of time uh he has without a single vote cast even by mail not a
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single vote cast has rearranged the lives of every american every american family every american business
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every american school every american church need i go on to the point can we actually step outside
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our homes and breathe free air that is now a current debate now if that's not the most powerful and
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dangerous bureaucrat in american history then by golly i don't want to know who is well according to the
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cdc and joe biden if we let our guard down now we'll see the virus get worse not better and i know
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that texas let its guard down about 20 days ago and uh we're still declining uh in hospitalizations and
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infections this book is a reference guide glenn it has more references and footnotes than pages
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and a lot of it is how often and infrequently these people have been wrong anthony fauci told
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christy noem she was going to have 10 000 people in the hospital she never had more than 600 the last
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time we heard this emotional lament from our new cdc director it was her unveiling a map of where it is
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safe to go to school and for the kids to do extracurricular activities and glenn international
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falls minnesota was the only place in the dead of freaking winter glenn was the only place safe for
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kids to be fully back in person learning with extracurricular activities i mean that's just
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obviously defies any form of common sense on and on and on it goes um they have lied repeatedly gaslighted
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us repeatedly the previous cdc director told us that a useless face diaper from china would protect
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him from covet 19 even more than the vaccines we might as well go outside and rain dance moon dance
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this is flat earth voodoo it has to stop and that's why for this book we bypass the normal publishing
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process of hard covers and distribution that takes six months we got to get this in as many people's
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hands as we can right now we went right to paperback but that means we can only sell it in amazon that's
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the only place on earth we could get an audience of this size this many books and so that's where you have
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to get it unfortunately but it's got all the information we need to take this to our legislatures
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our governors our city councils our boards of health and end this farce once and for all you call it the
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faucian bargain uh that's the name of the book um and i i love the uh title actually uh for all of its
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all of its meaning tell me what you're going to find in this book i'm an average citizen
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i you know i i'm i'm up on it but not really uh whatever what what's in here that is going to
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help me go to my school board and and to my uh community and to my senators and congressmen
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all the facts and all the data you've largely not been told or shared there was a recent survey that
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found our media was the most negative in the world for covet 19 i i woke up this morning and i had a uk
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physician who has written a book and has 60 000 twitter followers come at me first thing i see
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this morning is he comes at me for fake news and he makes this claim that 0.25 percent of all people
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in the uk have died of covet 19 i just did the math of population and death in three seconds that's not
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true that's his own that's his i mean this is a doctor with a book and 60 000 twitter followers
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you know this isn't you know uh pez dispenser me 14 with five people following him and and so
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this goes on constantly i've never seen a stream of this disinformation like this people like you
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and i that have been in this conservative media game for a long time we've been told for 20 years
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we need to be more like sweden suddenly we forgot sweden wrecked them barely knew them we don't know
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what a sweden is like they fell off a map never existed the amount of gaslighting that's gone on here
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it will all be debunked in this book and it calls into question you know we have numerous elected
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officials have endorsed this book florida governor ron de santis uh senator ran paul senator ted cruz
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congressman chip roy and i'm already bugging those people that are in washington we need a 9-11 tribunal
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glenn to get answers to the two most important questions of this past year that are raised by this
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book number one how come only experts with one particular narrative were considered experts and
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were mainstreamed and were used by the white house coronavirus task force our own media etc when we had
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experts from the very beginning from oxford the number one university in the world harvard yale
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carnegie mellon glenn these are all places that believe in global warming and 57 genders too
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and they all thought this was flat earth junk science these lockdowns and yet they were totally ignored
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we give you all their names all their citations in this book we need to know the answer to that and
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then number two that we have to get an answer to is what changed from february 28th of last year to
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march 11th on february 28th 2020 anthony fauci wrote in the new england journal of medicine that when we got
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done with this when we looked at the ifr the infection fatality rate for covet 19 it would be that of about
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a bad pandemic flu that's where trump got is it's a bad flu talking point trump just parroted fauci his entire
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final year of administration and now look what happened he's not in the white house and so he wrote that on
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february 28th glenn on march 11th just 11 days later and just three days after he went on 60 minutes and told
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americans not to wear masks three days later after that and 11 days after he wrote that in the new england journal of
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medicine he went to congress said that this was going to be basically captain trips college basketball and the nba
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shut down that night the country was shut down less than a week later and for the better part of the
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next year what changed what new piece of data did anthony fauci acquire what what information stream
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did he get access to from february 28th to march 8th when he was singing a totally different song
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to march 11th when he sounded the shofar on this thing we need to know the answer to that and there's
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two reasons why glenn number one so that we never fall for this form of authoritarianism ever again
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but then number two when when we finally do to get a contagion that may actually be a history book or
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biblical level event and now we've conditioned a bunch of our people to just ignore it because anthony
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fauci is such a fraud we need to get to the bottom of the truth here glenn well they're going to i mean
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they already know the truth and now the white house is targeting an ad campaign for conservatives
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uh and they're uh trying to get the conservatives because they know they're going to be extra hard
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they've already gotten all the liberals they say to to get the vaccines now they just need the
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conservatives and so they've got a very slick ad campaign that will uh will convince us all that we
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all have to get uh the uh the vaccine uh and uh and and a passport to be able to go back to our lives
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this is almost like i mean i hate to say this but if they weren't trying to condition us for
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something in the future glenn what would they be doing differently oh nothing nothing so it's just a
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matter of whether this is a an accidental proto version of something to condition us for in the future
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or it's intentional malevolence but the the end result is just the same yeah i mean listen i i hope
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the vaccines work they're experimental vaccines there is some conflicting data that's out right
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now every day i look i get one source it's conflicting i get another it's positive there's
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very positive vaccination data right now coming out of governor de santis is florida where they have
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emphasized seniors with one of the largest senior populations for example so what i would tell my
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audience and you know i told my audience from the very beginning vitamin d vitamin c workout get
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outside get in the sun um if you've got elderly if anybody has a sniffle or a cold you know social
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distance unless you test negative i mean we haven't just put our heads in the sand on our show about
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this whatsoever but we've actually followed established science like ran paul was grilling anthony
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fauci with uh about a week ago in the senate when it comes to this vaccine what i've urged my
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audience is unless you're in a high risk group or you're elderly first of all why are you getting
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in the way of somebody in the high risk group anyway that's kind of selfish let them go first
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and then secondly just observe the real-time data we didn't go through a normal fda approval process so
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just observe the real-time data about efficacy and safety pretty much unless you're under the age of
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you're over the age of 75 with a immune deficiency um this virus if you were to get it you're going to
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survive at about 99.6 percent of the time so i don't know why you'd be in a hurry to rush out and
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get an experimental vaccine under those conditions anyway if you weren't in those groups i mean glenn
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the median age of death for covid in america is 78 that's the average lifespan in america
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let me let me read something that a blue check mark uh wrote yesterday vaccine passports are a good
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idea among other things it will single out the still large contingent of people who refuse vaccines
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who will be foreclosed from doing a lot of things their peers can do it will help break the resistance
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down your thoughts on that my thoughts are the fifth and 14th amendment amendments to the constitution
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have a few things to say about singling people out creating different classifications of people no
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person shall be denied life liberty or property without due process of law that's the fifth amendment
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the 14th amendment the equal protection under the law clause what's happening here is these people
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are using this to show you what their true malevolent intentions are if you're pro-vaccination this is and
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you're reasonable this is the worst messaging you could possibly ask for you're you're basically
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begging people who have already seen their their livelihoods taken away instead of a friend a pastor
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from my church just texted me their kid in the public school was just told to start bringing a second
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mask because they sweat too much during recess so they need a backup and i'm like why don't they just
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have them do rain dances you know just might as well do you know moon for the second recess it'll be
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just as effective and so the they just these people are tyrants authoritarians they cannot wait
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to impose on you and that's another reason why we had to get this book out in as many people's hands
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as possible i think a lot of people uh i would urge i've never done this before i mean by going
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straight to paperback i'm going to make a lot less money on this because it's the information that's
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important buy extra copies send them to people that you're paying that are panic-stricken elderly
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your elderly that have been isolated stop doing that if they've been vaccinated there's no reason
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for you to continue isolating with them the amount of junk science here literally headlines this morning
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that say yes the vaccines worse work but here's why you still must wear a mask this is absolute
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authoritarian garbage with one exception glenn there there is there is one exception here that doesn't
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make this all flat earth voodoo would you like to know what it is yes the one exception would be as if
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the virus is not a natural phenomenon because if it's a natural phenomenon what these people are
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asserting this is what rand was pointing out to to anthony fauci uh you what you're asserting
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and this is scott atlas's great frustration we are violating the established laws and precedents
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of virology immunology and biology so the only reason we would violate those is if this is not entirely
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a natural phenomenon if indeed it was either originated or altered or engineered or modified in a lab
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and therefore if it's been synthesized at all then we're out then we may be outside the natural laws
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of science and then maybe we do have to look at things differently but then that would make anthony
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fauci guilty of treason for lying to the american people for a year and funding the wuhan virus
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institute at the same time steve dace thank you so much the uh name of the book is the faucian bargain
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uh you can find it on amazon right now the faucian bargain by steve dace uh go there now by the way his
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name is spelled like peace except with a d and it's pronounced dace so you figure it out um you can find
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him now at amazon.com and he uh is on the blaze radio network right after uh this program
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you know steve dace was just talking about what is happening um uh with the passports and everything else
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and stew you and i were talking off the air that just the messaging of uh the the vaccine from the
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government is is the biggest detriment to getting a vaccine they're they're not saying about how great
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it is and just get the vaccine then everything will go back to normal what they're saying is
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get the vaccine you still probably have to isolate you still have to wear masks oh and we're going to
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get passports for everybody right it's like just the worst messaging campaign of all time you know
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it goes back to what steve was talking about i think uh in in the in the interview that we had the
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most negative coverage of covid in the world and this continues you listen now look health officials
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and scientists are going to say things that aren't necessarily about messaging they
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shouldn't be they shouldn't be focused on messaging per se right but like you it's i think a lot of
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this is the media who is taking this information is there a small chance after you get vaccinated that
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you could still be infected yes it's possible obviously these things are 95 effective not 100
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so yes there's a chance is there a chance that you could spread to someone else it seems possible but
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incredibly rare so why would you focus on that when you talk about vaccine passports and you talk about
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um all of these sorts of uh of things uh you know when it comes to well you still have to wear a mask and
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you still can't gather you know what maybe by july 4th you'll be able to gather with a group of other
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vaccinated people in your backyard it's a it's terrible messaging now so far we have not crossed
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the line where the supply and demand are out out of out of whack i mean you know the the people who
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do not want to get the vaccine has decreased over the past few months uh we're down you know now south
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of 20 percent of people and it keeps as as they're shown to be effective it keeps going down but we're
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gonna get we're gonna hit that point eventually and there's no reason to to to make that point
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happen any earlier than than it needs to the messaging from our government should be if you get
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the vaccine or honestly if you've had covid already as as you and i glenn are covid 19 survivors yes if
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you've had it already like it's time to go back to normal life you know and at some point especially
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now that there's enough supply and i know in texas this week they started out anyone over 16 can get it
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we're at the point now where if you don't want to get it if you're a person who says i don't want to
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get the vaccine you're just going to take on your own risk right it's now available for you if if you
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don't want to take it it's a different it's a different calculus than back in march and april when
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we didn't know where it was we didn't have testing we didn't have treatments we didn't have a vaccine
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and people were getting it no matter even when they were trying to avoid it now if you're at the
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point where you don't want to participate in this stuff you shouldn't have to and you should be able to
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take on your own risk but see that is not the plan you can't you're you have to lose your individual
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choice for us to be able to build back better or to go back to a new normal you have to lose your
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choice and they are already doing it already today we have talked about the forced vaccine and the
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campaign to belittle people and the campaign with passports to make sure that you don't get your
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freedoms back unless you do what the government says we told you about a school district in
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virginia that is taking away and and and actively saying and stating on facebook that they are going
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to silence all opposition to their critical race theory teaching etc etc now let me tell you what
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we're going to talk about tomorrow on tomorrow night show at 9 p.m we have been talking about esg that's
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environment social justice and governance scores if you've been watching my show you remember how the
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environment and going green is being used to bend people to the government's will tomorrow i'm going
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to expose the s in esg gone are the days of social justice being used as a political tool it is now being
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weaponized by the largest financial institutes in the world i'm going to cover this more on tomorrow's
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program but i will tell you that pointing this out in one show one mention has already made me a target
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of the financial industry the information that i will share with you scares the crap out of the banks and
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investment firms that are involved and i do not believe that most of the people that are involved in these
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financial institutions have a nefarious bone in their body they are not trying to control your life they just
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haven't thought it through now that means on the lower levels i believe the upper levels know exactly what they are
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doing and they think they're doing the right thing they're telling us that this is not going to affect the
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little guy at all it's just for your educational use so you can know who to invest in really
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so aren't the banks then controlling the investments by telling you that you should probably be investing in
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this institution or this particular business because the others aren't really socially acceptable
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it's not surprising to me in the slightest that these institutions can't grasp how this is going to
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affect the individual because they couldn't care less they couldn't care less they really couldn't
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why would they care about you we're the ants we are the last because of the the um the uh
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biden or the uh the frank the dodd frank bill that went through after 2008's crash the banks can now
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look at you as the lender of last resort so they take your money and you're last in the line to get any
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money and when i say take your money i mean the money that you have in their bank so this is what
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they think of you i want to show you this is john carrey after being asked what would happen to the
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oil workers that just lost their job because of the pipeline listen what president biden wants to do is
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make sure those folks have better choices that they have alternatives that they can be the people who go
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to work to make the solar panels so if you're somebody that you know has been educated to uh work on a
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pipeline and that's your skill just go get a new education and you know forget about your family
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right now you just just go back to school get an education and then find a job in the solar panel
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industry it's just that easy they see control they see power and they see a whole lot of dollar signs
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to boot i want to show you a chart if you're watching blaze tv right now take a look at this graphic if
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you're just listening to us let me describe what's currently on the screen this is a representation of
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what the people pushing all of this plan to do now the image is taken from their own reports
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it depicts the flow of money those that control the money are at the very top they funnel the money
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cash down through the investment firms and the banks that money then goes to industry as a whole
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but in the middle of the image they propose a disruption they plan to turn off the funds going
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to where they deem are high carbon and towards entities that are low carbon as i will show you
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tomorrow night this includes those people who are or are not woke enough now to the banks claiming
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that this won't hurt the individual tell me this what happens to everyone associated in any capacity
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to the companies the cities the towns that operate on the left side of this graphic those considered
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high carbon and not woke enough what happens to those people well they will tell you well you just have
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to move to the other side well that's taking away my freedom of choice and it's it's not uh
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this is why libertarians have got to lose the mantra of well it's private business
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this is now a cabal of business they are working in tandem to control
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what happens to the west virginia coal town it's already struggling as it is but now it has to deal
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with all their investments being pulled one by one when the coal mine is forced to shut down what
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happens to the corner drugstore the popular cafe everybody likes to have breakfast in the hardware
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store that's been in business since the town was founded tell us tell us what happens to those
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individuals to those businesses because i don't think they're going to buy this is for educational
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purposes only what happens to the college town that you may live in if the university takes a stand to
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go against critical race theory they're turning the coin on go rogue go woke go broke to go woke or will
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force you to go broke how many scholarships will be lost when their low esg score dries up all the cash
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how many less bodies walking into local businesses will that mean how long before the little college
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town can't last if it stands against the woke theory how many parents are going to be forced to pay the
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last bit of their savings to to go to an out-of-state more expensive school see these are the factors that
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they are not putting in their equation they don't consider you because they don't consider the individual
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the individual in this theory and our coming society does not matter the largest banks and financial
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institutions all around the world are currently redirecting money by the trillions of dollars
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they don't care about the trickle-down effects the new ghost towns that it will create the closed
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businesses the joblessness and the 401k and retirement funds that will begin drying up
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this is all about control and it all fits in the covid virus the control of your schools control of your
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children control where you can go when you can go the destruction of your business and now the esg
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can anyone see how this all fits together this is not a conspiracy theory this is as i showed you that
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chart that's from their own website this is this is their theory not mine
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we're going to show you tomorrow night directly from their own reports how they plan to weaponize social
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justice and re-engineer our society and probably the largest power grab in history i'll show you how
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they're going to do it examples of it taking place right now and where it all began i'll only show you how
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it's moved on from college campuses and now been injected directly into big businesses but how it is now being
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pushed in grade school you will be forced to comply unless you stand together now that's tomorrow night
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9 p.m eastern on blaze tv and youtube it is the wednesday night special titled comply
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this is the best of the glenn beck program and we really want to thank you for listening
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all right so derek chauvin the trial has now started and both the prosecution and the defense
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have given their opening statements the prosecution is honing in on the amount of time that george floyd
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was being restrained the defense is focusing on george floyd's continuous struggle with drug addiction
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and health problems including a heart condition but let's state the the ridiculous obvious right up at the
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beginning this case is way more than whether a cop committed murder
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this is the latest attempt to further the lie that racism is rampant in our country and they're using
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the death of a civilian and taking advantage of the emotions of a family and of the country
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to ignore some facts and some evidence i don't want to set this guy free nor convict him in the media i
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i haven't seen all of the evidence neither have you but the defense started uh uh with the fact that
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there are 50 000 pieces of evidence in total for this case but this case is being painted as something
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that it isn't this case is about two people derek chauvin and george floyd that's what this is about and the
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prosecution has stated in the opening statements quote this case is about derek chauvin and not the police
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or the minneapolis police department that's great i wish it was about that but with the establishment
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media they have already taken this case as they do with every case and giving it the meaning they always do
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another sign of racism in america and george floyd family has already bought into that narrative
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claiming quote derek chauvin trial is a referendum on how far america has come do you understand the
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danger of that statement because if you do not convict derek chauvin for for chauvin for some reason or
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another it will show that america is racist our judicial system is not set up that way our judicial
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system in uh it demands that this is all about the individual and not about uh some other bigger uh
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picture this is all about the individual if it becomes about the bigger picture we're in trouble you
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won't get real justice you'll get somebody with an axe to grind and they'll blame that and say you
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know what by punishing this guy it helps this problem over here that is not justice
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the new york times released an article sharpton and crump warned that the world is watching as
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witnesses begin to testify here's a line from the article quote america is on trial to see if we have
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gotten to the place where we can hold police accountable if they break the law well i hope that
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we have gotten to that place i think we have been at that place for a while but that's not what they're
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asking they have already decided that he is guilty now how are you expected to get a fair trial if
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everyone just assumes you're guilty how can anyone with articles like this turning the temperature up
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for everybody in america who already believes the lies that this country is irreparably damaged by
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racism how do you get a fair trial all this is doing is getting people worked up to a point to where
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if the trial doesn't go their way things will get violent it will be much much worse than rodney king
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it will be much much worse than oj simpson this is extraordinarily dangerous we cannot have a country
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where our criminal justice system is so polarized and politicized that you can't get a fair trial without
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fears of more crime and more harm being done now the first witness that was called yesterday was the
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911 operator who handled the 911 call on george floyd she stated in her initial testimony
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that the footage she saw of george floyd's arrest was unusual and disturbing but my question is which
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footage is she talking about if you're watching the blaze you will see this footage was it this footage that
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she was talking about watch i didn't know man get out of the car i didn't know here he is in the car
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now they're putting him in the back of the police car
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and i'm gonna die now was it that because i never saw that footage do you know why because
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the attorney general keith ellison deemed that footage too shocking for the public to view
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that's more shocking than the police officer kneeling on his back really because i don't find that part
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why would this footage be hidden by keith ellison
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you see this is far more than a simple racist murder from a racist cop
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they have charged derek chauvin with second-degree murder now a person can be charged with second-degree
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murder if a person causes the death of a human being without intent of killing them
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but you're committing or attempting to commit a felony offense all right so you can be charged with a
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second-degree murder if the death was caused without the intent quote uh of murder but while
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intentionally inflicting or attempting to inflict bodily harm upon the victim so if you are restrained
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and uh you are trying to quote protect the victim and you are intentionally harming him
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then you can be charged in minnesota with second-degree murder now i just showed the footage that ellison
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didn't want anybody to see where he is pulled out of the car he's resisting arrest and then they're
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trying to put him in the back of the squad car for his own protection and he won't go he will not bend
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and they're like come on get into the car and he won't bend and he's like i am getting in the car you
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won't let me but he's not getting into the car was he trying to hurt him
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there wasn't a shortage of cameras filming this whole thing are we supposed to believe that
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hurting george floyd in front of all of the witnesses and the cameras was the real intent rather than restraining him
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not in a million years would you be able to prove that one way or the other so what's actually going on here
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is this about justice or is this about making a bigger statement now i want to talk to you about
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the jurors how is the jury going to be able to handle all this they see the news they know what's on the
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line if they decide that you know uh he's not guilty they know that violent political groups what they're
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wanting them to do they're from that city they know they're in trouble if they don't go along with the
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mob outside and some of them agree with the mob outside now they should be going in with no facts no
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opinions no headlines but the media has made this impossible as did the riots for a good reason
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election the media has done a lot of this because the jurors have those headlines floating around in
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their heads so this has made jury selection very very interesting and i want to play something from the
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new york times this is the new york times on the selecting of the the uh jurors and they they there's
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actual audio of the interviews of each juror this is michael babara uh speaking uh with the new york
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times criminal justice reporter about the list of questions sent to potential jurors to determine
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what lens they see the case through now listen carefully to not only the questions and the answers
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but how it's being framed by the new york times i want to just start with what this jury selection process
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looked like and felt like i know you watched it very closely my sense is that it was always seen
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as something that was going to be very difficult just to pull off because of how many people have
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seen this video that's at the center of this case and how many people have developed a pretty strong
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opinion about what happened that's right the judge set aside three full weeks almost as much time as he
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set aside for the trial itself just to pick the jury and last fall they sent out a 14 page questionnaire
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which was returned by more than 300 jurors who filled this out and sort of a first take at screening
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jurors for you know some of the mundane things like could you even do this do you have young children
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would your job allow you to do it but more importantly questions like what are your attitudes
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about the criminal justice system how do you feel about black lives matter how do you feel about the
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police do you think the police are racist i mean just pages and pages of questions and they're trying
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to get at this really central idea which is what is your lens we're all going to look at the same set of
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facts here we're all going to look at the same video but what lens are you seeing it through
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and what did you make of that what do you think the lawyers are trying to really get at there well the
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lawyers are using these questions to try to figure out who they want to kick off the jury and who they
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think will be on their side and they want to keep on so this is not about these two people or really just the
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police officer because the jury is asked just to judge the police officer and what he did no no we
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have to make it about more than that so what did the prosecution and the defense do they sent out uh
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for these potential jurors over 300 uh forms and and had all kinds of question pages and pages of questions
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about the people so they could figure out who they wanted on the jury and who they didn't now i want
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you to listen here's how they here's how the uh prosecution was interviewing people and deciding
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who they were going to have on and who they were going to uh dismiss listen carefully this is from the
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daily podcast from the new york times listen each of these things is like a cue it's like the
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prosecution and the defense are putting little check marks in their columns yes no good bad pro
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defense anti-defense come on up have a seat and there was one woman they asked um you know there
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were some people and perhaps very vocal folks who would say that the restrictions that the government
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placed on people for social gatherings and whatnot went a little too far how do you feel about the
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covid restrictions it's been pretty tough right um bars restaurants gyms what's your opinion of
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the restrictions there erring on the side of conservatism and just trying to keep it as you know as safe as
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possible i think also that may have as it turned out gone overboard but then you hear and she said the
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covid restrictions have been a little too tight so that again is like proxy for kind of conservative
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attitude that the prosecution wants to avoid so they moved to get her off the jury that's kind of
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fascinating shall so this juror's objections to government restrictions on people's movements
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during the pandemic was seen by the prosecutors as potentially something that could inform her bias
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against george floyd or towards the police yeah i mean it's a little reductive but they have all of
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these indicators and they fit together like pieces of a puzzle and they just don't want too many
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conservative puzzle pieces nor do they want someone whose conservative views are really strongly held
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so strongly held that they can't set them aside okay so they're so strongly held that they can't set
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them aside i don't know if you heard the woman uh she was dismissed but she said she thought at first
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the the government was you know uh maybe doing and you know uh standing on the side of error
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for safety you know it's better to do a little more than it is to do less and she thought that was fine
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and then maybe perhaps it got a little out of control uh but then again she said but then again
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you hear reports so she was not steadfast in this she was questioning she was open
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and didn't know it was this way but maybe maybe it turned out to be uh wrong but then again you hear
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reports that say it was right so i don't know that's what she was saying she had to be dismissed
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and the new york times didn't really seem to have a problem with it