Glenn and Stu are joined by former FBI agent Steve Friend to talk about the use of lethal force by police, the fallout from the firings of journalists who leaked information to the media, and how the government is trying to silence the whistle blowers.
00:16:41.820I thought I was mentally and emotionally prepared for this because I've followed too many of these cases to not have been.
00:16:51.460I've seen too many of these guys, even misdemeanor defendants, even misdemeanor independent journalists marched before a magistrate in leg chains and the orange jumpsuit.
00:17:01.360So I thought I was ready for it until they put the leg chains on.
00:17:04.700And I mean, I've never even been fingerprinted for anything in my life.
00:17:10.580And actually, in the moment that it was happening, it was overwhelming.
00:17:17.860And then on top of being chained at your waist and your legs, then they put you in a cage with a meth dealer.
00:17:27.940And of course, Lee can speak to this better than I can.
00:17:37.140But the process of putting a nonviolent misdemeanor defendant who has been utterly and totally cooperative since the very first phone call from the FBI over two and a half years ago.
00:17:51.620So it could have been just an order to appear.
00:17:57.100I could have walked in with Lee, both of us with our jackets and ties on.
00:18:50.940This was determined by the DOJ in Washington.
00:18:53.240They had us turn Steve into the FBI at their headquarters, 7 a.m., walked him through, processed him, put him in leg chains and a waist chain, handcuffs to his waist, and then took him directly to the marshals down at the Cabell Building here in Dallas.
00:19:07.740Yeah, I don't remember anybody in leg chains and irons for BLM setting cities on fire.
00:19:15.140In fact, most of those were just catch and release if they bothered to catch at all.
00:19:18.880In fact, most of them had their cases dismissed, and then many of them have been awarded cash payouts from the government because they were unfairly arrested or prosecuted because, obviously, we had to understand what their frustrations and what made them burn a building down.
00:19:41.380So I was really encouraged by the op-ed that came out from Jonathan Turley this weekend.
00:19:50.940He makes the point that you might be an activist journalism or a journalist activist, whatever this new thing is that they're doing, because you have an opinion.
00:20:07.260And Stu and Stu and I were talking about it earlier this morning, yes, you have an opinion, I have an opinion, but that doesn't mean that you are finding the story you want to find.
00:20:21.460You can still have an opinion on things, but as long as you're honest enough to say, I'm going in and I don't know what's going to happen, I have an idea what could happen, but I'm going to tell the truth no matter which side it falls on.
00:20:39.740Well, see, that's the thing that, obviously, not only the charging documents themselves, because the charging documents are what they call the statement of facts.
00:20:47.840They are, in fact, specifically put together for the purpose of constructing a narrative for prosecution out of context comments.
00:20:57.820More importantly, and this is the key, Glenn, look, I'll tell you what, let me let NBC, the court reporter, the guy who does every one of the cases, J6 cases for NBC, he's there every day.
00:21:13.020His name's Ryan Riley, and he tweeted out yesterday.
00:21:16.120He said if it wasn't for Steve's language on January 6th before he entered the Capitol, and then after that evening, this case almost certainly wouldn't have been brought.
00:21:30.400Okay, so that's, wow, that's interesting here in America.
00:21:34.240Let me go through the actual charges, and let's take them one by one.
00:22:06.160So of the four charges that Steve's been charged with, 18 U.S.C. 752A1, that's knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority.
00:22:17.880That's the one that carries up to a one-year-in-jail penalty, minimum of six months.
00:22:21.98018 U.S.C. 1752A2, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or ground, 40 U.S.C. 5104E2D, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and then 40 U.S.C. 5104E2G, parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.
00:22:45.320Okay, so the, I don't know, I'm sure you know this now, I don't know when you found out, but the Speaker of the House released 5,000 hours of videotape, much of it centering around you, and showing that you weren't parading or picketing or being disorderly at all.
00:23:13.140That's going to be fascinating to see.
00:23:14.640Well, you know, this is, and again, I don't want to get into being the legal expert or even trying.
00:23:23.900I mean, I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but the point being is, is that they always, because I've followed so many of these trials, they always overcharge.
00:24:12.220I mean, I think we've, I think Steve and I were talking earlier, and I think we've estimated that roughly 60 journalists went into the rotunda, went into the Capitol building on that day.
00:24:23.780Six to seven have been charged now out of 60, rough.
00:24:28.460All of those have been right of center media.
00:26:50.220Because I always sat in the back of the room so I could watch them and see what was on – what they were doing, see what was on their screen, see which games they were playing during the important testimonies, to see who was pre-writing their stories and then just hanging out in the hallway talking.
00:27:05.200Because that's what they do, and they're really good at it.
00:27:07.160They can pre-write two or three stories in a day, and then as soon as the rulings or the motions are filed, they can then fill in the blanks and boom, submit, submit, submit, and they get out.
00:27:15.900And then more importantly, I was able to show on certain very significant testimonies how the comparison of how the various journalists withheld – because, see, we all know it is – it's not that they lie.
00:27:35.580It's when you're only covering the government's case-in-chief and their witnesses, and then all of a sudden they get out and go for coffee break during the cross-examination.
00:27:48.900How can you tell the truth about what happened in the trial?
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00:28:00.000Okay, really excited to have somebody who I hope to have on from time to time.
00:28:05.340She's in our building now and with a new network.
00:28:10.860Her name is Karina Yapur, and she is the executive producer and host of Vose News, right?
00:29:11.020Unfortunately, for decades, the Hispanic community has been getting their news for these two major networks, Telemundo owned by NBC and Univision.
00:29:21.180And unfortunately, in the recent years, these two networks have gone – have walked away of representing the Hispanic values.
00:29:32.540And some people – things are maybe wondering why do we see the same headlines all over the place.
00:29:51.420And the thing is that, for example, Univision, when they don't cover the news directly, they work with a platform called CNN Newsers, which means that they get all the videos, press releases that they don't cover directly from CNN.
00:30:08.380So, that's why you see the same headlines that – and the same rhetoric that CNN uses.
00:30:35.260And that's why we are launching Voz News tonight, because we really need to provide the Hispanic community a non-virus perspective, conservative perspective of the news, so they can really understand what's going on.
00:30:52.580And they can really make better decisions for their lives and for their families.
00:30:57.680You know, Soros, George Soros just bought a radio group that has some of the biggest Spanish-speaking stations in the nation.
00:31:08.580And you're getting the George Soros look at things if that firewall isn't dirt strong.
00:31:55.580And we have to recognize that some of them were one or two jobs or even three to be able to provide for their families.
00:32:02.520They don't have the time to do their own research.
00:32:05.920And a lot of times they watch these TV networks because they like novellas, like the series, Hispanic series, because they feel attached to their culture and all of that.
00:32:15.140And they just listen to the rhetoric that they use in the news.
00:32:18.220And I remember one example on the last presidential election when they were saying the headline was that Republicans were pushing against voting rights for minorities.
00:32:29.420And I remember myself reading this press release that our producers provide us.
00:32:36.740And I was, I mean, reading along and I couldn't find anything that was trying to, you know, to restrict voting rights.
00:32:45.020I mean, and I have to tell you, it is even harder to vote in Mexico.
00:32:49.740In Mexico, you only got one day to vote.
00:32:53.040There's no early voting, nothing like that.
00:32:55.880And there's only one kind of ID, the voter ID that you need to use to be able to vote.
00:33:03.280So when I was reading this, I was like, what are they talking about?
00:33:06.400You know, here we have primary election, we have anticipated election, we have several options of IDs that we can present.
00:33:16.900So all of that, I mean, to me, look pretty reasonable.
00:33:21.340And I couldn't find something that that was really the headline that they were presented.
00:35:06.200So we're launching Voz News, which means voice, tonight at 7 p.m. Eastern Time, 6 p.m. Central, through Daystar Español.
00:35:17.060We are very, very blessed that we are partnering with Daystar because, of course, this is a huge Christian network.
00:35:25.440And I have to tell you, they launched the Español Spanish channel a year ago, and they are reaching 14 million Hispanic households in the United States.
00:35:35.880And they even reached a total of 90 million households, counting the U.S., Mexico, and Latin America.
00:36:26.160And it's important for them to know and realize that that's not the truth, that they need to stay there, that they need to follow a legal process.
00:36:34.120Because, honestly, illegal immigration is impacting Hispanics as much as it's impacting anybody else.
00:36:40.580So, I've done this for a very long time.
00:36:46.840And I have seen my share of death threats and everything that goes along with it.
00:36:53.580You, being Hispanic, speaking Spanish, having it going through South America, Central America, Mexico, and here in America, you're messing with some very powerful people.
00:37:44.960Because, as I told you, I wanted to be a light in the darkness that we're living in this world, not only here in the United States, but in the world.
00:37:51.520I know the blessing of being able to be in this country.
00:37:55.320I have to tell you, I love the United States of America.
00:37:59.140I was born in Mexico, and it took me 19 years.
00:38:03.360I just became a U.S. citizen after 19 years of following different legal processes.
00:38:13.740And I just feel I can see the difference in the opportunities, in the safety.
00:38:19.360Of course, no country is perfect, but America, to me, is the best country in the world.
00:38:24.620And I feel so bad that people here don't realize that because they haven't experienced what we have experienced in Mexico and other countries.
00:38:33.160So tell me how Hispanics here in America that have come here the right way, how do they view the border situation?
00:38:42.020Well, they don't like that because, of course, that is making their legal processes taking longer.
00:38:48.920There's Hispanics that have came here following a legal process, and probably they are requesting now their parents to live with them in the legal way.
00:39:00.720And they have to pay, they have to weigh, and unfortunately, or people that real have, you know, an asylum, a real threat, real threat, and now they are being left behind because all this illegal immigration and people claiming asylum when they don't really have a case.
00:39:20.720I would think that one of the things that you would come for, because this is why business came to America, is we had laws, and they were equally applied.
00:39:31.340And we've become this lawless nation on so many fronts.
00:39:35.960And I would imagine people who have lived this before can see this and go, what are you doing?
00:39:43.280So, Glenn, for example, a lot of people left their countries because of the violence.
00:39:48.060So now seeing that there's, you know, violent people crossing the border, doing what we saw they're doing in New York, for example, beating police officers and then walking away.
00:40:01.400No one wants that, not even the Hispanics.