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00:00:00.000 Hey, it's Pat Gray for Stu. On the Glenn Beck Program podcast today, we start off with another

00:00:05.240 national broadcast from the woke party. Comedians on YouTube show that those who are woke might

00:00:13.240 actually just be racist or at the very least have the same ideas as racist. Glenn talks with

00:00:19.200 Yonkers police commissioner John Mueller to talk about how he's no longer crossing into New York

00:00:24.320 City. He claims that the no chokehold ban is making their job harder. And Eric Schmidt,

00:00:31.080 Missouri attorney general, joins Glenn to talk about dismissing the charges that were brought

00:00:34.800 against the St. Louis couple, the McCloskeys. And finally, is everything okay with Kanye West?

00:00:42.140 His social media rants show he wants a divorce from his wife, Kim, and he compared his mother-in-law

00:00:48.900 to Kim Jong-un. All this and more coming up on the podcast today.

00:00:54.320 By the way, has anybody noticed the very strange relationship between the Klan and what they

00:01:18.180 preach and BLM and what they preach. It is this bizarre world where they seem to be they seem to 1.00

00:01:29.860 be okay with each other right now, or at least they claim not to be okay, but they're saying exactly the

00:01:35.380 same things. Do you know what I'm saying, Pat? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The wokeness is very close to

00:01:44.180 exactly what the racists are saying. I mean, it's exact. There's a comedian on YouTube. I want to play

00:01:52.120 what he and his friend went out and they played. One was woke and the other one was a racist. And

00:02:01.540 listen to the conversation. When me and Brad first met, I didn't think we'd get along, but turns out

00:02:06.260 we kind of agree on everything. Your racial identity is the most important thing. Everything should be

00:02:10.100 looked at through the lens of race. Jinx, you owe me a Coke. Damn. We both have a lot of opinions about

00:02:13.880 people of color, even though we barely know any. I say colored people, but as long as we're 1.00

00:02:17.500 classifying them, we both think minorities are a united group who think the same and act the same.

00:02:21.680 And vote the same. You don't want to lose your black card. Sorry, I don't know. I just think we

00:02:24.880 should roll back discrimination law so we can hire based on race again. Jinx, now you owe me a Coke.

00:02:29.000 Hey, tell him what you told me yesterday. White actors should only do voices for white cartoon characters. 0.91

00:02:33.340 I've been saying that for years. Stick to your own. Us white people, we have so much privilege.

00:02:36.780 I agree. It is a privilege to be white. Ask him about interracial dating. All I said is that black 0.57

00:02:41.340 men who date white women have internalized racism, and white men that date ethnic women are fetishizing 0.98

00:02:45.860 them. Guys against interracial dating now. Like, am I being pranked? Did Boomer put you up to this?

00:02:50.460 Ugh, you know that taco place is white-owned? White people should be making white foods, 1.00

00:02:54.080 like crap macaroni and cheese. No seasoning. Not even salt. It's like he's a mind reader. I mean, 1.00

00:02:57.860 I've been pushing for segregation forever, and my man does what? I created an improv comedy show

00:03:02.140 exclusively for ethnic people. Guys, segregates comedy. On my birthday. White people need to stop 1.00

00:03:06.700 wearing dreadlocks, and they need to stop appropriating black people's music. Shaved heads 1.00

00:03:10.300 and country music, the way God intended. You know all white people are racist. I'm listening. 1.00

00:03:14.820 Even if you have a black wife or a black friend group, you're still really racist. You know, 0.99

00:03:18.600 he just kicked a guy out of the organization for having a black girlfriend, but if you can promise 1.00

00:03:21.700 me he's still really racist, we'll consider letting him back in. Black people should only shop at black 1.00

00:03:25.640 businesses. I guess the only thing we really disagree about is I think white people are the root of 1.00

00:03:29.680 all evil. But what did I tell you, though? If we can narrow that down to a certain group of tiny-hatted white 0.99

00:03:33.700 people, I think we can come to an understanding. Technically, I don't consider Jewish people

00:03:37.860 white. Neither do I. I mean, that's incredible, isn't it? Yeah. I mean, it's just so great. It's 0.94

00:03:46.360 exactly what's going on. They agree with each other, the two sides now. They're in complete

00:03:51.560 agreement. They do. Yeah. I mean, Martin Luther King would be against the Black Lives Movement.

00:03:57.940 I mean, the Black Lives Matter movement is absolutely the opposite of what he taught. And I don't know

00:04:08.360 how people aren't seeing that this is racist. Exactly what's going on is all racist.

00:04:20.100 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:04:22.620 John Muller, how are you? Good morning, Glenn. I'm great. Good morning.

00:04:31.940 So first of all, how are your officers doing through all of this? Before we get into the

00:04:35.960 rest, how are your guys handling what's happening in the country and in Yonkers, I assume?

00:04:44.520 The Yonkers Police, the men and women of the Yonkers Police Department have been doing an

00:04:48.600 amazing, incredible, outstanding job. They're fantastic. Through all of this, you know, we

00:04:54.100 made a lot of deposits in our community bank account. And so a lot of the things you're

00:04:58.640 seeing across the nation, Glenn, you're not seeing in the city of Yonkers, thanks to a

00:05:03.260 mayor who supports his police department. And, you know, we're just we're getting through

00:05:07.860 it pretty well. Good. I'm glad to hear it. Now, you have decided with the city that you

00:05:14.600 are no longer going to send a Yonkers officer across the city line. You're right there on

00:05:22.160 the line of New York City. What does that mean? And why did you do that?

00:05:27.100 Well, what it means is, is that New York City Council passed legislation that essentially

00:05:32.120 made an impossible standard to meet for the officers. And if they do not meet this impossible

00:05:38.780 standard, they're going to be subjected to criminal liability. And I just couldn't in good

00:05:43.820 conscience allow that to happen. You know, this was a hastily crafted, irresponsible law.

00:05:50.820 I'm hoping that they would circle back and listen to the experts in the NYPD, who, by the

00:05:56.140 way, have one of the greatest departments, one of the most progressive departments. But

00:06:00.360 right now, it seems like everyone is operating in an echo chamber. And the result of that is

00:06:05.160 hastily prepared laws that really put people in jeopardy for and they're not listening to

00:06:11.040 everybody. It just seems like the people who want to talk to each other are talking to each

00:06:15.240 other over and over and again.

00:06:18.040 Well, the thing that, you know, you bring up that this, they've set a ridiculous standard

00:06:23.140 that no one could ever accomplish 100% of the time. Can you get specific on that?

00:06:29.160 What was it that they passed at City Council?

00:06:33.260 So they passed an anti-chokehold bill. And so just for the record, let's start with

00:06:37.980 the actual chokeholds. I, nor the NYPD, has a problem with chokeholds being banned. That's

00:06:44.820 absolutely not. I mean, I think sometimes people are conflating the issues, but in this case,

00:06:48.960 the chokehold is not the issue. It's the knee to the back or the chest. So essentially what

00:06:53.440 they're saying, the council, the way they wrote the law, it is so restrictive that if you happen

00:06:58.700 to put an inadvertent knee on someone's chest or someone's back, you will be subject to criminal

00:07:04.420 prosecution. So when you're wrestling with someone, if your knee happens to touch their

00:07:09.000 chest or their back, there is an opportunity there for a prosecutor to want to prosecute

00:07:13.400 you under this statute. And we just can't have that.

00:07:15.660 And you go to jail. The police officer goes to jail if they do that, right?

00:07:22.420 Yes. And I, you know, it's just a position that we took in Yonkers, supported by Mayor

00:07:27.160 Spano, that we were not going to be a test case for such irresponsible legislation. And my heart

00:07:34.700 goes out to the NYPD. I spoke with Chief Monaghan, the chief of patrol, fantastic guy, progressive

00:07:40.220 police leader, and expressed, you know, how sad I was about this, because this is just an example of

00:07:46.160 going too far and not talking to everybody.

00:07:50.720 So tell me how you arrest someone, because, you know, I saw the shooting in Atlanta,

00:07:55.480 and that guy seemed to be totally cool. And then all of a sudden, he flipped on a dime and just went

00:08:03.900 crazy. And there's no way they could have put him into cuffs, which

00:08:10.120 they were trying to do, if they wouldn't have pinned him to the ground. So, John, how is a

00:08:15.440 police officer, with somebody who's fighting them, how is he supposed to keep them down

00:08:21.800 without putting his weight on the main part of their body?

00:08:27.620 That's correct, Len. You've nailed it. Putting their weight on the main part of the body. And

00:08:32.620 let's keep in mind that this is not a George Floyd situation where there was pressure on a neck

00:08:37.920 for nine minutes. This is a situation where it could be five seconds to maintain control.

00:08:43.740 And what I might like to add is, is that the safest way to take a violently resisting suspect

00:08:48.280 into custody is to get him as handcuffed as quickly as possible. When you're able to knock that time

00:08:53.960 down, where there is the struggle point, and they're not in handcuffs, that's where the highest

00:08:59.340 likelihood and the most propensity is for a subject of arrest to be injured or a police officer to be

00:09:05.780 injured. So, this almost seems to be counterintuitive to what I think they were trying to do. But

00:09:10.700 when they're not listening or they're not willing to exchange different perspectives, this is what

00:09:17.260 you get.

00:09:20.240 So, what is this really going to mean to New York? Yesterday, CNN was talking about all the problems

00:09:29.600 in New York. The radical spike in New York of problems is caused by Donald Trump and the Republicans

00:09:38.260 for not, you know, passing new gun legislation. That is so ridiculous. It is something right out of 0.98

00:09:45.940 1984 in Newspeak. Everyone with any kind of common sense knows that the cops are afraid to do anything.

00:09:56.300 They're being told not to do anything. And that's what's causing the rise in crime. The bad guys have

00:10:04.400 the upper hand. What does this mean for New York City to be isolated like this and not have other

00:10:13.580 officers run in? It is really a problem for New York City. And sadly, and you used the two most

00:10:21.320 important words probably right now that we need to be more heedful of is common sense. And there is

00:10:28.480 no common sense right now when you pass legislation like this. And unfortunately, what you find, Glenn,

00:10:34.220 is the folks that need us most in communities of color, in neighborhoods that have issues with

00:10:40.360 poverty, they need the police. They need good policing. They need good, solid policing. We understand

00:10:47.720 about police reform. We're for many different aspects of police reform. You know, this is a

00:10:52.920 very, this is a business that shifts and change. You have to be situationally agile. You have to be

00:10:59.380 able to move, you know, as time goes on. But we enjoyed a historic drop in crime. I was a New York

00:11:05.880 City police officer for a very short time in 1992. And at that time, I believe there was around 2,100

00:11:11.000 murders. Now, last year, I think it was around 300. That's nothing short of miraculous. Now,

00:11:17.700 could we have done things better? Of course we could. But we but what you're seeing now is a

00:11:22.560 reversal of this. And, you know, the one thing you want is officers to come to work and feel like

00:11:27.120 they're wanted and needed and appreciated, respected and valued. Because when you do that,

00:11:32.940 they're going to go out and they're going to interact with the community and value and respect

00:11:36.720 and listen to what they have to say. It's really a win-win situation. So what we're trying to do

00:11:42.240 here is just to bring, you know, a little, listen, at the end of the day, I have, I'm responsible for

00:11:48.140 the city of Yonkers and police commissioner there. I work at the behest of the mayor. And, you know,

00:11:54.580 this was just something that I'm not going to go down this road. I see bad things as a result of it.

00:11:59.760 I see rising crime is, you know, and this is just one example of steps that have been taken

00:12:06.880 without talking to the experts in the NYPD. And like I said, they are the light. They have gone

00:12:12.600 all over the world. People have come from all over the world to learn how the NYPD does policing.

00:12:18.940 So when they say something like this is a problem. And again, I don't believe I'm not going to speak

00:12:22.700 for Commissioner Shea, but it's my understanding. They're fine with the chokehold band. It's the knee on

00:12:26.860 the back, the knee compressing the chest. That is the issue. And I think when you explain it to people

00:12:31.580 like you and I are talking right now, I think the overwhelming majority of people are going to say,

00:12:36.200 okay, yeah, I get that. But right now it seems like the most shrill, the loudest minority,

00:12:41.940 like if you scream the loudest in the minority group, a small minority that just wants to yell and

00:12:49.180 scream, you're taking away reasonable common sense. You're taking away people that are willing to

00:12:54.820 listen and go back and forth and exchange ideas to get where we want to get in terms of policing

00:12:59.840 in America. John, help me out on something because you've been with the police for, when did you

00:13:06.800 join the force? I started in the NYPD in 1992. I transferred to Yonkers in 94 and I've been there

00:13:13.580 ever since. So you're talking about 28 years. All right. Okay. So what is it like for a guy who

00:13:19.860 I assume was on duty or was called onto duty on 9-11, a guy who witnessed that and then went through

00:13:30.520 the months of every New Yorker and everybody saying, thank you, thank you, thank you, knowing that our

00:13:39.220 first responders go through hell that none of us want to go through. And being that, that guy or that

00:13:47.720 group of people that was probably put too far up on a pedestal, but now, 20 years later, you're hated.

00:13:58.200 How, what does that swing feel like?

00:14:01.860 Well, I think, I think we have to be mindful that I don't know if we are hated. I think, I think that

00:14:08.120 the hateful, a small segment of the population is very, right now their, their voices are very

00:14:13.780 amplified. And it seems like they seem to be the darling of certain media outlets. So it seems like

00:14:19.680 we're hated, but the truth is, Glenn, I can tell you this with confidence. Our communities, our communities

00:14:24.360 of color, our communities all over Yonkers, and I imagine it's the same in New York City, support the

00:14:28.760 police. They want police. They want good policing. They want to feel safe because of the police and they want

00:14:34.560 to feel secure with the way we police, right? And we're constantly working towards that goal way

00:14:39.640 before this. And I'll even do you one better. We were really appreciated during our officers did a

00:14:44.440 fantastic job during COVID where, you know, New York city, New York in general was the epicenter.

00:14:50.380 You know, with many, many, many cases and probably is where it's all started. But at the end of the

00:14:54.520 day, people really appreciated us. And then it all kind of fell apart. But I think the key is, Glenn,

00:15:00.560 is to continue to engage your community, to talk with them, to exchange ideas and take the time to have

00:15:06.560 discussions, real conversations, not when someone's screaming at you or trying to coerce you to do

00:15:11.240 something, because that's not what professionals do. Professionals stand up and professionals

00:15:16.220 assess situations and they take the time to talk to people. And then you arrive at decisions that

00:15:22.280 that's what they're paying us for. Unfortunately, it appears that, you know, sadly, the New York City

00:15:27.720 Council has no interest in talking to Commissioner Shea or the leadership of the NYPD, which is second to

00:15:32.740 none in policing in the entire world. John, I've got to cut our conversation short, unfortunately,

00:15:39.240 but I want to ask you one more question. Sure. And this goes to just your general, your general

00:15:45.060 feeling with what's going on, let's say, right now in Portland, the governor and the mayor, they're

00:15:51.600 screaming that the the feds are there and they're kidnapping people in the street, et cetera, et cetera.

00:15:58.480 And they want nothing to do with that. Is the president, do you believe, is he right? And I

00:16:04.980 don't want to make this about the president. So if you were president, would you be doing similar

00:16:11.000 things? Are we reacting or are we overreacting or underreacting on these cities where they don't

00:16:17.820 seem to enforce the law at all? It's a great question, because in a democracy, these are the

00:16:25.000 these are the steps that, you know, Western civilization has to take to get where they

00:16:29.480 need to be. Like there was a there was a transformation when, like I said, the twenty three hundred murders

00:16:34.760 in New York City, people got to the point where they said enough is enough. And we need, you know,

00:16:39.180 really good, clean crime strategies to get us where people feel safe and secure. It's the same

00:16:44.220 thing in Portland. You're there's going to be a consequence for lawlessness. There is. And you hope

00:16:50.980 that people will take a look at it and say, I don't think this is exactly the good way to go

00:16:55.660 that, you know, we have elected leadership saying, well, you know, we have to let people vent.

00:16:59.940 But venting is one thing. It's OK to say how you feel. It's OK to be frustrated and angry. It's not

00:17:05.880 OK to damage property. It's not OK to try to hurt police officers. And I think what you're seeing

00:17:10.500 there is really irresponsible among elected leadership. And you hope that eventually people

00:17:14.500 will take notice of it and say, this just isn't the way we can do things. I mean, it's 55 days now

00:17:20.040 and it's it's it's 30 million dollars worth of property damage. Like at what point does anyone

00:17:24.420 say this is absolute this is a disaster? We have to try to figure out a way to secure and reclaim

00:17:32.500 the streets and not allow people to get hurt, not allow lawlessness. That's that. I mean,

00:17:37.900 that's the answer. So, you know, it's solely it's the same thing with the decisions made here.

00:17:42.160 It lays at the feet of the elected officials. You know, it's someday you hope there are consequences

00:17:46.760 and people say, I don't want to live through this again. This is not the way to achieve

00:17:50.600 change, especially for 55 days.

00:17:54.640 John Miller, he is the New York City or New York Police Commissioner from Yonkers, New York.

00:18:02.380 And we really appreciate your time and tell your officers, millions of Americans do have their

00:18:09.120 back. We're behind you guys. Thank you, John. I really appreciate that. Thank you so much.

00:18:16.760 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:18:23.800 Eric, welcome to the program, sir. Great to be with you, Glenn.

00:18:29.180 So tell me, tell me what, tell me what you guys are going to do. I know the the governor said he

00:18:37.320 would pardon them if they're convicted, but you have the castle doctrine. How can these people even

00:18:44.360 have to face a day in court? Well, they shouldn't. The charges should have never been brought in the

00:18:50.640 first place. I mean, this amounts to pure and simple, a political prosecution, which in the

00:18:57.000 United States of America is a very dangerous idea that you've got a local prosecutor

00:19:00.820 bringing the full force of the government against law abiding citizens who are protecting their home and

00:19:07.160 their lives. And they're facing four years in prison. I mean, if you let that sink in, I think

00:19:12.960 it has it could have a chilling effect on people exercising their fundamental right of self-defense,

00:19:17.800 which, as you know, is deeply rooted. It's deeply rooted in this country. It predates our

00:19:21.940 Constitution. The idea that you can defend yourself. It's in our Second Amendment. In Missouri,

00:19:25.920 it's in our Constitution. As recently as 2014, it was even expanded to make sure that any any

00:19:32.020 infringement would be met with strict scrutiny by the courts. But Missouri also has the most

00:19:38.720 expansive castle doctrine in the country. And what do I mean by that? I mean that you have a

00:19:43.700 right if you're threatened to not just defend your life or your family members' lives and not just your

00:19:48.200 castle or your home, but your property. And that's exactly what's in play here. So at a time where

00:19:53.360 you've got, you know, calls to defund the police, spiking violent crime rates, including in St.

00:20:00.340 Louis. It reached over 135 murders already this year. You've got a prosecutor now targeting,

00:20:07.160 targeting individuals, targeting law-abiding citizens for exercising this fundamental right.

00:20:12.920 So it's incumbent upon me as attorney general, I felt somebody needs to do something about this.

00:20:17.520 So we're stepping into the case and we're seeking a dismissal because it's my belief that the entire

00:20:22.640 state has an interest in being involved in this case because of the chilling effect that it has.

00:20:26.880 You know, a high-profile prosecution like this, Glenn, where people feel like if they defend their

00:20:32.360 property or their own lives, that they might be sent to prison themselves is completely outrageous.

00:20:38.120 I will tell you that, I mean, we are in so much trouble. And, you know, I thank you for the work

00:20:44.160 that you are doing with several other attorney generals across the nation to point out how much trouble

00:20:50.640 we're in. You know, this prosecutor is taking money from George Soros. It seems to me that the attorney

00:20:58.200 generals and the prosecutors locally that have taken money from George Soros are the ones that are all

00:21:03.600 letting prisoners go and charging all the wrong people. But if you allow this to stand,

00:21:12.240 God help us in the future, if someone can come in and take your stuff or burn your house to the ground

00:21:21.020 and receive no punishment at all. But if you try to stop somebody from doing it, you go, you go to jail.

00:21:31.060 It's a world of the insane. It's completely upside down, Glenn. And, and I view my job as the attorney

00:21:38.180 general, the great state of Missouri is the last line of defense. I mean, again, these charges should

00:21:43.080 not have been brought, but this is a political prosecution by a local prosecutor who has an

00:21:48.140 abysmal record of actually prosecuting violent crime. And she's the COVID-19 pandemic to release

00:21:54.020 dozens and dozens of inmates charged with violent crimes out onto the streets, including people who

00:21:59.460 were, you know, had, um, guns out on a restaurant workers, attack cab drivers. These people were let

00:22:05.840 loose. Um, you know, and you've got, again, the backdrop here of defunding the police so that if

00:22:10.840 you actually did call somebody to come and help, there wouldn't be the money there to support that

00:22:14.600 effort. And, and our founders knew that in those instances, right, the right to defend yourself is

00:22:21.020 paramount. It's a natural right. We're all born with and government is our shared project to protect

00:22:27.300 our rights, not to take them away. And that's what this prosecutor is doing. And so, you know, it's time

00:22:32.820 that we stand up to this kind of nonsense. It's, um, I mean, this isn't just a political statement.

00:22:37.400 I mean, this is a criminal prosecution, uh, which is dangerous. This is, this is, um, this is one of

00:22:45.200 the most dangerous things I have, uh, seen, uh, possibly in my lifetime, uh, in America, because this

00:22:52.280 is not what just one prosecutor. Um, you know, you had the, uh, the Massachusetts attorney general,

00:22:58.720 um, Mara Healy, come out and said, yes, America is burning, but that's how a forest grows.

00:23:07.360 We are looking at people who are in charge of our laws and law enforcement and, and they are rooting

00:23:18.000 for the burning down of this nation. We are not just having some little disagreements. It is a,

00:23:24.800 excuse the expression, black and white reversal of all that we hold dear that is happening with

00:23:33.620 some of these prosecutors and attorney generals. Can you speak to that at all? Yeah, look, this is

00:23:39.320 a fight for the rule of law. What kind of country do we want to have? Right. Do we want to have a

00:23:43.300 country where, uh, people, you know, can speak their minds freely in the town square, right? Uh,

00:23:48.980 that people can exercise fundamental rights. Um, the idea that, you know, debate is being shut down

00:23:54.800 now by a cancel culture. That's completely out of control. I mean, all these things are on the table,

00:23:58.780 but the most basic thing, public safety is at stake here. You have people who can want to dismantle

00:24:04.580 and defund, uh, law enforcement. Um, you know, those law enforcement officers are standing on that

00:24:10.660 thin blue line between chaos and order. And, um, you know, they're under assault by,

00:24:16.040 by a lot of local prosecutors and activists and it's wrong. And so anyway, we need to stand up to

00:24:22.500 this and I, and I believe we can do it. Um, but, but, uh, you know, in moments like this,

00:24:26.460 uh, when these charges are filed, that's the crucible, right? You got to decide, you're going

00:24:30.840 to stand up for the rule of law. You're going to stand up for the second amendment. You're going to

00:24:34.060 stand up for these important things that we believe in as Americans. And that's what I'm doing right

00:24:38.400 now. We're not backing down. Well, I thank God that you are in that role in Missouri because

00:24:45.060 Missouri is, I mean, look, we all are in the same, we're all in the same boat. There are some places

00:24:51.940 that are worse, you know, uh, New York, uh, Los Angeles, uh, Seattle, Portland crime is out of

00:25:01.560 control. And what is, is just as frightening as what's happening in Missouri with this case

00:25:08.040 is the idea that they are now blaming the crime and the murder rate going up, not on any of the

00:25:16.000 disruption, not on defunding the police, not on no one being arrested in our prisons being opened up.

00:25:22.160 They're blaming it on guns. And so they'll take more guns away from law abiding citizens

00:25:29.020 who are scared out of their mind because they don't know if they can call the police and the police will

00:25:35.220 show up. Yeah, look, you've got, um, uh, violent crime is spiking. Uh, as I mentioned in St. Louis,

00:25:42.920 Kansas city, um, and Missouri has always been a bit of a microcosm for the country, right? We've got

00:25:47.580 two major Metro areas, St. Louis and Kansas city, um, uh, you know, per sort of a demographic, uh,

00:25:55.860 layout that, that reflects the country. And so Missouri has always been kind of a reflection

00:25:59.820 of what's going on. And what we're seeing is rising violent crime rates. And you're seeing

00:26:03.220 that across the country. Uh, and in the face of that, the answer by, by those on the left is,

00:26:08.380 um, to defund police departments. And the other thing is criminals have been emboldened. If they

00:26:14.060 don't believe that they're going to be held accountable or prosecuted for, you know, carjackings

00:26:19.020 and murders, um, you know, we're going to get what we've got. So we've got to, we've got to stand

00:26:24.060 up to that. And this local prosecutor in St. Louis, who's brought these charges with all of those

00:26:28.240 things happening in St. Louis, a carjacking a day, there's the last year alone in the city of St.

00:26:32.320 Louis are 360 plus carjackings. You know, they've got 135 murders and she's spending her

00:26:39.140 time, um, instead of taking care of those issues by targeting law abiding citizens who are exercising

00:26:45.620 their fundamental right to self-defense. It's an upside down world. Um, but again, why it's

00:26:49.860 important. Is she in the, is she in the mainstream of, uh, the people of Missouri? I mean, do,

00:26:57.640 do, do, do, is this what people are crying out for? No, I don't, I mean, I could, I hope not. I

00:27:05.960 don't believe that to be the case that the people, you know, have reached out to our office are really

00:27:09.740 appreciative, um, that we stood up here and, uh, you know, are entering this fight. Um, because

00:27:15.880 my job as AG is to represent 6 million Missourians in the rule of law in our constitution. It's a,

00:27:22.380 it's a document I swore, um, to protect. And so the entering in this case, the chilling effect

00:27:29.080 that this kind of prosecution can have on individuals exercising that fundamental right

00:27:34.400 to self-defense can't be, you know, understated or can't be overstated. It's a, it is a, it's a,

00:27:40.020 it's a very dangerous road to go down and it needs to be stopped right away.

00:27:43.980 Can I ask you one more question? I know your time is tight, but if I may, let me ask you one

00:27:49.880 more question about, um, what's happening in Portland. Uh, I do not want a federal police

00:27:56.440 force. I don't like the department of Homeland security coming into our towns and, and be in

00:28:01.800 an extra police force. It's wrong, but we're sitting in a situation in like, uh, Portland where

00:28:08.800 the mayor, the governor is not doing anything to a protect federal buildings, which I understand is

00:28:16.980 what's happening right now with a DHS is they're just protecting those buildings. Um, but, but don't

00:28:24.120 we have a responsibility to the citizens of every town when their constitutional rights to be free

00:28:32.080 are being violated by a mob and a governor and a, and a, a mayor that won't do anything about it

00:28:41.060 to uphold the constitutional law. How do we walk this line? Uh, Eric, how do we, how do we not become

00:28:50.720 everything we despise, but also protect everybody's freedom? Well, I think there's a, it's a great

00:28:58.240 question. I think there's a balance there. I'll just give you an example in Missouri. Um,

00:29:02.080 the governor was very open to, um, attorney general bar offering the help in Kansas city.

00:29:08.640 And so, uh, federal law enforcement is going to be working with local law enforcement there

00:29:12.620 on operation legend, which was named after, uh, Kansas city's youngest victim about a month ago.

00:29:18.400 Um, and we, in our office have a partnership with the U S attorney's office, both in Kansas city and

00:29:23.120 St. Louis. Oh, you know, part of that reason is the local prosecutor in St. Louis isn't interested

00:29:28.520 in prosecuting violent crime. So we're working with the U S attorney's office to prosecute violent

00:29:33.260 crime, uh, in federal court where the penalties sometimes are even stiffer. So I think the answer

00:29:38.120 is there's partnerships in a shared understanding that everything we hold dear in this country,

00:29:42.260 this idea, the American experiment, right? It is, I wrote an op-ed on the 4th of July. It's a very

00:29:47.500 unique thing. That's the, the idea of American exceptionalism. We stand out from the rest of the

00:29:52.320 world in the history of the world where you had, um, you know, rights were given to you by government

00:29:57.980 and you were subjects. And this experiment we have of self-government is that everybody has dignity

00:30:03.160 and we have fundamental rights and government's role is to protect those rights. All that stuff's

00:30:07.500 on the table here. And so I think that, uh, standing up for constitutional liberties,

00:30:12.440 making sure people feel safe, striking that balance there is really important in a big conversation

00:30:16.940 we should be having. And it sounds like, you know, some of these governors and mayors on the left,

00:30:21.440 because they don't like the president are unwilling to help, you know, protect the citizens they

00:30:26.140 represent. And in Missouri, we're trying to forge a different path with those partnerships to make

00:30:30.720 sure people feel safe. The victims always need to be front and center here. What gets lost sometimes

00:30:35.760 are the kids being murdered, the mothers and fathers being lost. Uh, and as I talk to people in the

00:30:41.840 community, they want to feel safe. They want to make sure that their kids can go to school and not have

00:30:46.360 to worry about violence. And they have every opportunity this country, you know, can provide people.

00:30:51.160 So, uh, it's, it's a really important issue. And it's just sad that some people are politicizing

00:30:55.600 this, uh, when this is a core fundamental value of public safety.

00:31:01.180 Well, thank you for trying to get these charges dismissed against this couple, um, in Missouri.

00:31:06.900 Uh, I, I don't think it's right that they have to go through a year's worth of, of hell in a

00:31:13.740 courtroom for something that is so clear, especially in a state with castle doctrine. Uh, Eric,

00:31:19.460 I appreciate your work. Thank you so much. Let us know how we can help. Okay. Take care.

00:31:24.160 Take care, Glenn.

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