Steve Baker, a reporter for The Blaze, was arrested by the FBI for doing journalism. Alan Dershowitz was on today's program to talk about that. Also, Ezra Levant called in from Canada to tell us what's happening in Canada.
00:12:03.180So the Soviet secret police chief, Lavrento Beria, said, show me the man, I'll find you the crime.
00:12:08.580We're all guilty of having hate in our hearts.
00:12:11.640So it's just whoever they choose to prosecute who will get dinged.
00:12:14.900So tell me this won't pass in Parliament.
00:12:18.780Well, the reason it was introduced this week is because last week, Justin Trudeau signed a new coalition agreement with a hard left wing socialist party.
00:12:29.660Justin Trudeau does not have a majority of seats in our house.
00:12:32.700So we signed a coalition deal with an even worse party.
00:12:36.660And I fear this will be passed into law.
00:12:39.720And I fear, you know, I mean, it'll take some time.
00:12:42.120They're setting up three new censorship agencies, not one, but three.
00:12:47.260There will be three new censorship bureaucracies.
00:12:50.940And I think it's going to take them a number of months to get it going.
00:12:55.320I think this will probably be operational in 2025.
00:12:59.580And then it's going to be the final battle, Glenn, because, you know, this this will bankrupt any critic of the regime.
00:13:05.640And then there's those pre-crime restraining orders.
00:13:09.600And then there's the actual criminal prosecution.
00:13:12.060They've created a standalone hate crime law for life in prison, not even murder gets you that in Canada.
00:13:33.860Yeah, the secret informants, the secret prosecutions, the secret witnesses, the subjective political nature of the crime, the three different agencies.
00:13:46.340It's oh, and they have special rules for Facebook, YouTube, Instagram.
00:13:50.240They say if they get a complaint, a hate complaint, they must take it down within 24 hours or be subject to enormous fines.
00:13:59.580And so there's no way you can adjudicate if something is right or wrong or fair or not in 24 hours.
00:14:06.040And the fines are so enormous, basically, a complaint will automatically get things taken down.
00:14:12.800Again, I'm going to tell you something now, and you're probably not going to believe me, but I swear it's in the text of the law.
00:14:18.160There are fines in there that can tag global social media companies 8% of their global revenue.
00:14:26.480So Justin Trudeau, sitting up here in Canada, says to Facebook, if you break my law, I will fine you 8% of your entire worldwide revenue.
00:14:40.740Now, I think Facebook, YouTube, Google, et cetera, I think they're probably going to push back on this.
00:14:44.680Or maybe they'll just leave Canada, and Trudeau's going to be fine with that.
00:14:48.760And Facebook has already left Canadian news, because Trudeau said to them, you have to pay $100 million to our list of approved journalists for the pleasure of linking to them.
00:15:00.200And Facebook said, that makes no sense.
00:15:02.620We're getting out of the Canadian news business.
00:15:04.460You cannot post a Canadian news story on Facebook.
00:15:55.220The economic upheaval we're experiencing is being done on purpose.
00:16:00.040According to a recent Business Insider article, Jamie Dimon, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg have all been selling stock in their own companies to the tune of about $9 billion.
00:16:10.500Now, what do they know that you don't?
00:16:13.200My grandfather used to always say in the Great Depression, if we just knew what the millionaires knew.
00:16:17.800Now it's the billionaires, and they're selling.
00:16:20.320A storm is coming, and Lear Capital is here to help you build a shelter that will withstand the storm.
00:18:22.040Well, you know, when the government starts going after journalists, you know we're in real, real problem.
00:18:27.860When they go after them selectively, for example, a group of anti-Israel demonstrators early on, even before Israel sent in troops to Gaza, were demonstrating right in the Capitol rotunda.
00:18:38.980And they were just, you know, politely asked to leave.
00:18:43.380No charges, as far as I know, have been brought.
00:18:47.340Likewise, with many, many other demonstrations.
00:18:49.840And, for example, Black Lives Matter demonstrations and other demonstrations.
00:18:53.720When the government can pick and choose which journalists to go after and which protesters to go after, you know, we're in Russia, Iran, Cuba territory.
00:19:04.820Not Thomas Jefferson territory, where as soon as he became president, he rescinded the alien and sedition laws that had blemished our statute books after the enactment of the First Amendment.
00:19:18.380So we have to stand up and protect our journalists.
00:19:20.740And, you know, I'm representing one of the people as well, a young law student who went into the Capitol and was charged with a felony.
00:19:28.840As you know, the Supreme Court has granted review and will hear arguments soon in a case involving whether or not you can charge obstruction of a proceeding.
00:19:38.000And so I think the Supreme Court may give us some important guidance as to the limitations on what can be done to people who protested on January 6th.
00:19:48.840Look, myself, personally, I believe the election was acceptable.
00:19:53.820But I also believe that anybody who disagrees with that has an absolute right to protest it and protest it in a way that our First Amendment protects.
00:20:21.400And the government has no power to arrest somebody.
00:20:24.360And these charges, you know, trespassing and Justice Brandeis, in a great opinion, 100 years ago,
00:20:32.020said that even trespass laws must give way to the First Amendment.
00:20:35.380If if you're in his case, he was saying if you're protesting capitalism and you walk on the lawn of a corporation illegally, the First Amendment prevails.
00:20:45.940And so this is a case that probably will end up in the right way, but not until he's dragged and wear shackles and he has to wear, you know, all that stuff.
00:21:00.240I would think that all these cases should be stayed pending the Supreme Court decision, because we don't know how far the court decision will go in permitting protesters.
00:21:11.560And it doesn't even do it with journalists.
00:21:13.500As you say, journalists have a special right under the First Amendment.
00:21:17.060Congress shall make no law, no law abridging the freedom of the press.
00:21:25.080Alan, before we move on to other things, I would like to talk to you about hiring you if if that I don't even know how to go about doing that.
00:21:32.820But I don't get hired on First Amendment cases.
00:22:08.160And especially the selective application.
00:22:11.540And again, I don't want to focus too much on this because that's the subject of the show.
00:22:15.160But these veeringly and pro-Hamas, anti-Israel demonstrations that have involved spitting at Jews and calling them filthy names and and hitting them and harassing them.
00:23:55.600I don't have a lie detector in my brain, but I've been doing this now 60 years.
00:24:00.820And I think I can tell the difference between people who are telling the truth and people who are hiding the truth.
00:24:07.040And the three key witnesses in the Fonnie Willis case, obviously, we're doing everything to prevent the truth from coming out.
00:24:15.880I just wonder, and we'll know in a few hours, maybe what the judge's attitude is going to be toward this.
00:24:20.980I mean, it's going to be very difficult for an elected judge in the same county where she's elected as the DA to look her in the eye and say, I just don't believe you.
00:24:55.640But it was so clear that this this witness who came forward, the partner of Nathan Wade, was doing everything in his power to try to take back what he had written.
00:25:14.140And it's clear that their relationship began before they said she began.
00:25:19.260But they, you know, he had gotten a phone call from a friend.
00:25:22.060I don't know whether it was a threatening phone call or what.
00:25:24.820But clearly he decided when he took that witness and I'm not testifying against these guys.
00:25:32.280So you also have the triangulation of their phones that that show.
00:25:39.400I mean, and I don't believe I mean, Alan, this is the this is the stuff that you would use or anybody else would use to convict a murderer.
00:25:48.080It's the it is the go to tracking of phones.
00:25:52.640And they're trying to make it sound like, oh, well, you can't trust that he might have been in the area.
00:25:57.260This is, you know, I can crazy tell you.
00:26:31.700She she is destroying one of the major weapons that technology is now provided.
00:26:38.480Prosecutors, look, she has a right to say it's circumstantial evidence and it is circumstantial evidence.
00:26:42.680But it's damn compelling circumstantial evidence if the guy is right near her apartment at 11, 10 o'clock at night and leaves at 2 30 in the morning.
00:27:27.980The most recent one is War Against the Jews.
00:27:30.360But in the Get Trump book, I go through all of these cases and it's so clear that this is selective prosecution, that if his name wasn't Donald Trump and if he wasn't trying to become president again, I'm not going to vote for him.
00:27:45.000I'm not a Trump supporter, but I am a supporter of the Constitution.
00:27:48.320If his name wasn't Trump and he wasn't running, there's no way he would be charged in Florida, in Washington, D.C., in New York, in Fulton County.
00:28:01.420And we have to really stand up against it.
00:28:04.300Whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, a liberal, a conservative, we all share a commitment to the rule of law and to the Constitution.
00:32:58.240Yeah, he's not engaged in anything other than writing or something.
00:33:03.760And then soon he's going to move around the crowd and he's going to stand in a doorway doing exactly the same thing except taking pictures.
00:35:30.440I was just up in the room with Steve Baker as he was going through his arraignment.
00:35:34.940He was there with four, uh, four defendants walked in.
00:35:38.600Steve, it was nice enough, uh, that they were letting him wear his blue dress pants and dress shirts.
00:35:43.880So the orange jumpsuit that we were talking about earlier on the show, Glenn, did not happen.
00:35:47.980But he was indeed shackled at his wrists and ankles.
00:35:51.900Steve looked over at us as he walked in to the, to the courthouse and indefinitely showed, uh, those, those shackles there on his wrists and ankles.
00:36:00.360And Steve, it is going to be known that he will be released sometime today.
00:36:05.200They were asked that the government lawyer said that that was fine, that that was going to be part of, of today's proceedings.
00:36:11.140Um, and then he will be set to appear in court in the district of Columbia on March 14th at 1230 Eastern standard.
00:36:20.120So that will be the next thing that we should look for, for Steve Baker.
00:36:23.580Do we know the judge still in the, um, in the charges, it was signed by a district of Columbia judge.
00:36:44.800And I think that was one of the things that the lawyers definitely knew what they were getting in for today.
00:36:49.360We were able to speak with them just briefly, uh, before they went up into the courtroom.
00:36:54.340But that is now the unknown is what happens when things do get to the district of Columbia on March 14th.
00:37:00.000Uh, tell Steve that I talked to Alan Dershowitz today and, uh, Alan is, uh, willing to get involved, uh, pro bono to help him, uh, for free speech cases.
00:37:13.620This isn't the only one, unfortunately, that is now popping up.
00:38:15.020Uh, and I think that's when his real trouble began, um, because we had the money to be able to, uh, fund him going in with a whole staff of people to go through these 40,000 hours of, uh, of video on January 6th.
00:38:34.360And we showed that, I mean, these guys who have been convicted by testimony of absolute liars, provable liars.
00:38:44.800What he did a few weeks ago with, um, two of the people that are testifying against a lot of these people, uh, in January 6th, we, Steve went and he followed them on all of the video cameras in the Capitol.
00:38:58.660And he could track them and where they said they were and what they said they saw and what they said they did.
00:39:05.780And what the crowd did all lies, not even close, not like, oh, well, you couldn't see how he not even close.
00:40:09.280This is from the actual government complaint that was just released today.
00:40:16.880Certainly go through this as we, uh, as we get it and, uh, all the information that comes through is going to be a lot of legal wrangling and looking at this through not only the lens of public opinion, but also obviously the legal lens, which is going to be the more important thing for Steve personally.
00:40:33.200Um, but regardless, you know, you, we, we've seen how many times the behind the scenes, the behind the scenes, uh, text messages of, of FBI officials and CIA officials and journalists, uh, on the other side, they say all sorts of stuff.
00:40:55.980Uh, you know, this has been common and honestly, usually dismissed by the left and certainly the legal institutions.
00:41:03.200And, uh, by the way, all you have to do is smear somebody in a way you can't prove.
00:41:09.580Smear somebody in, because already anybody who is arrested for January 6th is going to be discredited by half the country.
00:41:18.360Half the country will say, well, I got what I deserve.
00:41:33.120Look, if I go in there and I see you hitting, hitting a cop over the head with a flagpole, I'm going to be rooting for you to be in prison for many, many years.
00:41:40.540Well, uh, there's just no evidence of this.