'Lies, Worries and the Beginning of the End'？ - 7⧸26⧸18
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 51 minutes
Summary
Glenn Beck explains why plastic straws are the single biggest environmental disaster in the history of the world and why the GOP is powerless to stop it. Glenn Beck is a conservative radio host and host of the radio show "The Blaze" on the Blaze Network.
Transcript
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The Blaze Radio Network, on demand, Glenn Beck.
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The number one threat to America, the number one threat to the world, the indoctrination
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of our kids, freedom of speech, freedom of press, war, debt, the death of the Western
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I mean, what is the number one threat to America and the world?
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It's a catastrophe, especially the extendable bendy kind of straws.
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And they make people want to use a straw, even if one is technically not necessary.
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Now, I didn't get the specs on when a straw is necessary and when it isn't.
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Now, we use plastic straws one at a time and then we throw them away.
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When I was a kid, sometimes we would take more than one and we would use more than one, but
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And every single discarded straw in America ends up in the ocean.
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Now, I believe it's part of the Republican Party platform to ensure that all straws are
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dumped directly into the ocean, you know, along with plastic bags and those plastic six pack
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OK, because Republicans hate nature and everyone knows this.
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So the plastic straws end up forming giant straw masses the size of icebergs that float
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around just looking for another ship like the Titanic to sink and menacing small islands,
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boating enthusiasts and even nuclear submarines.
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Now, don't ask me how, but trust me, it happens.
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These plastic straw icebergs are large enough to be seen from space.
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In fact, astronauts report that they have made the mistake of spotting a floating straw iceberg
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And that's really much more important than anything else we've talked about here.
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The aquatic life that is going extinct because of plastic straws.
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Dolphins are being decimated by the straws clogging up their blowholes and octopuses, which
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I always thought it was octopi, but it is technically octopuses.
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Octopuses can't squirt ink now because the ink squirter is all blocked by straws.
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Discovery Channel is even talking now about canceling Shark Week because sharks all have
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tummy aches because, yes, they've been eating plastic straws, you know, because there's
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no more fish to eat and they're all dying from straws and everybody knows it.
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But the evil Republicans won't do a damn thing about it.
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Now, since Americans use 500 million plastic straws every day, 500 million plastic straws
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every day just in this country, I think Republicans actually use more than that themselves.
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But it is clear just looking at that number that we're all about to die.
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And virtually every major media outlet has cited that stat as a fact.
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And so we know it is until it's not because NPR, of all sources, did some digging.
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Turns out that 500 million straws that America uses every day, that number just came from a
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Now, when I say young, well, he was younger when he was, you know, when it was seven years
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So when he found that stat, well, he didn't actually find that stat.
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He couldn't find any stats on how many straws were used each day in the U.S.
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So he just called straw manufacturers around the country and said, hey, how many straws
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And he decided that 500 million there in the fourth grade sounded right.
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So now major companies like Starbucks routinely make million dollar decisions like their decision
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to ban plastic straws based on research data from fourth graders.
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And and Starbucks has banned the plastic straw, which is also really good, except except don't
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pat yourself on the back just yet, Starbucks, because the lid that you made to replace the
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Is twice as bad, you know, in the amount of Moby Dick Tummy Killers plastic.
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Uh, it's got twice the amount of plastic as a straw.
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America just discards directly into the eye of an octopus.
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I don't know if this is true, but a second grader called me a little while ago and said
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that a lot of those lids are ending up right in the tear ducts of zebras.
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And if I put it on the Internet, then you'll have second source material for that.
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We have this stuff that's going on with CNN and the White House.
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And now Brett Baer is being, you know, just killed online.
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Now, there's this this this kick up of dust with the White House.
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And quite honestly, the best way to explain what's happening with the First Amendment is
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to explain to you what's happening with the Second Amendment.
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And we'll get to that here in in just a second.
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But I wanted to start with something different today.
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I don't know, a little more a little more personal.
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And I don't know if you listen to that podcast at all, but probably not because it's from NPR.
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But I listen to StoryCorps because I think I think these guys are I think they're really good at what they do.
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And and what they do is they they go and they record people having conversations, honest conversations.
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They put up these booths and and they and people come in and they say, I just want to record my thoughts about whatever's going on.
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And they have a gigantic library now of all of these voices and they will someday in history be really important.
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And one of the things that they did in, I think, 2006, and they've done several of them, was the story between Danny and Annie.
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And they went in to record their story one day and everybody fell in love with him.
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And so Danny kept calling and he wanted to do more StoryCorps.
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And so he would he would come in from time to time.
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And then there was one last episode of Danny and Annie.
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On on over the weekend, you know, I've just got I've got all these weird things that are just I don't know, but I could barely use my hands over the weekend.
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And I've had to pack my hands in ice for the last few days and sleep with ice bags around my hands.
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And and and, you know, I think my wife is looking at me now going, I think I made the right choice.
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I think I when when there was the whole selection of men to marry, I think I made the right choice.
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So yesterday I'm I'm coming in and I'm listening to this story of StoryCorps and.
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And at the same time, I'm listening to this, I'm I look up at the TV and there's a picture that had gone viral of these two people.
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And they were in their 80s and they were on a subway in New York.
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And the old man who looked like an old man and the old woman who looked like an old woman.
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They're sitting next to each other on the subway and they're practically in the same seat.
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And they're holding hands and he has his head down and his eyes closed.
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And she is sitting right next to him and she has pressed her forehead next to the side of his forehead.
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I want to be old and gray and I want her to be old and gray and I want to be the couple that is still in love with each other.
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With that in mind, let me share a bit of the story of Danny and Annie from StoryCorps.
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Being married is like having a color television set.
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Danny and Annie came back to StoryCorps many times.
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He wanted to record one last interview, so StoryCorps went to their home in Brooklyn.
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Because when we were married, you know how your brother takes you down, your father takes you down?
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She said, well, I don't know which of my brothers to walk in with.
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I said, you walk in with me, you walk out with me.
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And the other day, I said, who's going to walk down the aisle with you behind the casket?
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I always said, the only thing I have to give you is a poor gift, and it's myself.
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And if there's a way to come back and give it, I'll do that too.
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It is a day on which we share our love, which still grows after all these years.
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Now that love is being used by us to sustain us through these hard times.
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She lights up the room in the morning when she tells me to put both hands on her shoulders so she can support me.
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She lights up my life when she says to me at night, wouldn't you like a little ice cream?
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I mean, those aren't very romantic things to say, but they stir my heart.
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There has never been, there is not now, and never will be at night already.
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When you find the right person, don't let them go.
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My daughter, when she was in college, she fell in love with her husband now, Tim.
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And, um, we were driving into the city, and she was sitting in the back seat, and I was driving, and I said, um, do you love him?
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And I said, then why aren't you, why haven't you married him?
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She said, because, Dad, you know, I mean, you know what society thinks, and you know, I'm young, and I'm in college, and you know, you're not supposed to do that.
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And I didn't say anything for a while, and I said, I can't believe my daughter cares about what the rest of the world thinks.
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If you found the right one, there is nothing better than marriage.
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My father told me once, he said, son, make a list.
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Make a list of everything that you're looking for in a spouse.
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The mind is like a beacon, and you will attract those things that you are looking for, whether you know you're looking for them or not.
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I was about to ask Tanya to marry me, and she said no the first time.
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It was about three years old, and I found that list.
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And if I had any doubts, which I didn't, she was everything that I had written down.
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If you are, if you have forgotten what it was like when you first fell in love with the person that is by your side,
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I've got this thing that I've wanted to talk to you about on Elon Musk for, I don't know, almost a whole week now.
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I also want to talk to you about Iran and Russia.
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But we have to talk about the CNN scandal with the Trump administration and the First Amendment.
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Why is it cheaper here in Texas than it is in California?
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So a press release came out yesterday from CNN.
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CNN White House correspondent Caitlin Collins was denied access to cover an open press event at the White House.
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After posing questions to President Trump earlier in the day as the network pool reporter,
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Collins was told by White House press deputy chief of staff for communications, Bill Shine,
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and the press secretary, Sarah Sanders, that her questions were inappropriate.
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Just because the White House wasn't comfortable with a question regarding the news of the day
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doesn't mean the question isn't relevant and shouldn't be asked.
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That decision to bar the member of press is retaliatory in nature and not indicative of an open and free press.
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The president is meeting with the head of the EU and they're in the Oval Office and the you know,
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the press is allowed to come in and and view it and take some notes.
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And if the president wants to allow people to take questions, he can allow them to take questions.
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If he doesn't want to take questions, he doesn't.
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He takes questions a lot in scenarios, more than I think any other president.
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He doesn't do a lot of formal press conferences, but like he'll just let people come in
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and they just start peppering him with questions quite often.
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Now, if you watch the tape, this is where you have to remember, this is the president's office
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and you know what it's like if you've if you've ever done anything.
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You're a manager and you have to let somebody go.
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You bring them into your office, but you want to have a way so everybody gets up at the end
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You have to have the plan of how do we get out?
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That's why he will walk to the Rose Garden to do this so he can walk away.
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That's important because if you're staying in that room,
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it requires somebody to say, OK, everybody, let's go.
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And if they don't want to go, then you have ugliness.
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So here is the the actual raw tape of this correspondent, Caitlin Collins from CNN.
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Ask ask yourself if you think she's out of line by asking these questions as the press conference
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is is breaking up and and they are being escorted out.
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Mr. President, are you worried about what Michael Cohen is going to say to prosecutors?
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Are you worried about what is on the other tapes, Mr. President?
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There are people in the room screaming at the president.
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It's almost like, did they get the wrong person?
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So she's and she's asking, did Michael Cohen betray you by releasing these tapes?
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Are you concerned about anything else that might be on those tapes?
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President may not want to answer them, but those are legitimate questions.
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And she's not screaming or being inappropriate.
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So on the first on the first point with the, you know, did she do anything inappropriate?
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Yeah, it doesn't seem to be a lot of movement from the press corps, though.
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So I don't know, maybe the first people were starting to strike, you know, yeah, so it seems
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So they have to go all the way around the room.
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She's asking normal questions that we would have asked if it was Barack Obama.
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So I'm actually interested in the answers to those, too, because it will indicate kind of
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Like, is Trump going to try to say, no, no, he's a good guy and who knows what kind of
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pressure he's feeling, which would indicate a much more a bigger possibility of the, you
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Or is it like, look, I, you know, he's he's, you know, I don't know what kind of crazy attorney,
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Because if he's still in that mode, the rift is still quite wide.
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And quite honestly, I think the other person that wants that answer more than the American
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He wants to know from the president, what, where, what am I, what, what Donald Trump
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Caitlin Collins came to CNN from the Daily Caller.
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So, I mean, that doesn't mean that she's an ideological conservative, but certainly
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she's not, you're not, you're not a nut job liberal.
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No, it's, it's a, it's a very, people are trying to make this out because she currently
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works at CNN that she's this like ideological liberal just out for the president.
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But I mean, you know, she's, she's a well-respected reporter, but came from a conservative outlet.
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So now have you ever noticed, have you ever noticed that, uh, when the press has any
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violation at all of the first amendment freedom of press that they freak out and it's, it's
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like this, they're all against terrorism until one of theirs is kidnapped by a terrorist.
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And then it's the biggest story of all time, right?
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And when it affects your world, you're going to be more fired up about it.
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When it affects your world, you're going to be a lot more fired up about it.
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Can you think of another amendment that maybe the press doesn't understand when it is violated
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Let me think, uh, the second amendment, second amendment, second amendment.
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And what happens when the second amendment is violated?
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So I don't really care about them and I'm never going to own them.
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And they really don't do anything that you can't do yourself with a belt loop.
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You can find dozens of people doing the exact same thing a bump stock does with their belt.
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So why does the right get all freaked out when you come after something like bump stock?
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Because when you, they, when you give them an inch, they look for a mile.
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And it's the same way the press is feeling today.
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When there's an inch taken, yes, one reporter not allowed at one press.
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But they're looking at the long term there and they're worried their rights are going
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They're the, the right associated to a constitutionally guaranteed amendment that says you, there
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shall not be any infringement on your, in this case, free speech in our case, uh, second
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And that's why what's so frustrating when the press caught, uh, covers the second amendment,
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What do you need bump stocks where you don't need, you don't need bump stocks.
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There's other, there's dozens of other reporters.
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It's just one reporter and the president is upset and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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We make all kinds of excuses, but we don't, we don't.
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And anybody who is mad at Brett Baer today from Fox, when he came out and said, we stand
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If you want to be mad at anybody, be mad at the constitution and be mad at James Madison
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and Thomas Jefferson and all the great thinkers that gave us these rights.
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And when anybody starts to violate those rights in the least amount, we must stand up for those
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that even those, maybe more importantly, those we do not agree with.
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Last night I tweeted, I stand fully behind a free and unfettered press.
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I fully support the first amendment right of the press.
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As much as it kills me to say this, I stand, even though I disagree with the way CNN has handled
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the president and treats the president, they have this right and no government official should be able
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However, CNN, we will follow the constitution and you have a problem right now with the first amendment
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violation because you say the president is making you into the enemy of the country.
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So when I stand firmly for the first amendment and your right to be an idiot, in my opinion,
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not in this particular case, but in others, I don't, you don't, you don't even say thank you.
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You don't even recognize half of the country will stand up.
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They despise you and they will stand up and say, I stand with them today, but you don't even notice
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And then every time we stand up for a right that is just as airtight and guaranteed as yours,
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You say that you are so offended because the president is calling a free press in your mind,
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the free press, an enemy, an enemy of the people, an enemy of the West.
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And yet when we stand up for our second amendment, right?
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You say that about us, that we are the enemy of freedom.
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We are the enemy of common sense and common decency.
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Now, I don't try to shut you down from saying that you have a right to say that.
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But I would like to say, CNN, I stand firmly by your right.
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I will go as far as George Hay did when he was writing the defense of freedom of press after
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Even if your intent is to lie, the government has no place, no place to say, well, that one's
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No place, no place because sometimes it is a matter of opinion and the government should
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So I'll stand for your full right, even though you don't stand for mine.
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But I would like to ask CNN, would you take a minute and think about that right and what
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responsibilities you hold to at least listen and recognize that we, too, are not your enemy.
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We, too, are not the enemy of freedom and the people.
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The American people, you said yesterday, CNN, that you demand better.
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Well, the American people have demanded better from you for a very long time.
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Even though I don't want to, as an American, I have to.
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So I stand with you shoulder to shoulder to defend you today.
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I would just like to ask once in a while, surprise us, surprise us, use that right and try
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Hello, James, you're on the Glenn Beck Program.
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You want to make a comment on CNN and Caitlin Collins?
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You know, I mean, I just think there's a time for everything.
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She's talking, asking questions at a normal voice.
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She's not yelling like the other people in the room.
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But if you notice, she's the only one asking about something other than the tariffs and this
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That is the way everyone deals with the president.
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No matter who the president is, you have a chance to ask a question.
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I mean, they're not shouting helicopter questions as he's walking to the helicopter.
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When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union and the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the Axis
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If you're going to go to war, it might not be a good idea to start another one with the
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Three against the rest of the planet should have been easy numbers for the Axis statisticians
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Now, think about those odds and how ludicrous it sounds to win a fight like that.
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Now, think about how many countries we are currently threatening with a trade war.
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China, all the countries within the EU, Mexico, Canada.
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You're not going to win a war that you are fighting on all fronts.
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And we might beginning and we might be beginning to see the the end of this trade war.
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Yesterday, President Trump and the joint head of the EU made a statement yesterday from
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the White House announcing a pause in the escalating trade war with the Europeans.
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Now, this has been going on ever since the Trump administration hit the EU with these steel
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Europe then retaliated by imposing over three billion dollars in tariffs on U.S.
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The president then, in turn, threatened an imminent response targeting European cars.
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We're not entirely sure how long this ceasefire is going to take place, and we're definitely
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But we do know that President Trump agreed not to follow through with the European car tariffs
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and to, quote, reassess the steel and aluminum tariffs while negotiations are taking place.
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In return, Europe will boost purchases of U.S. soybeans and import more of our natural gas.
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So if I have this straight, and I think I do, all we have to do is not do something we hadn't
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done yet, the car tariff, and just reassess something we've already done.
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And in return, Europe will start buying more of our stuff.
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I don't know about you, but I'm pretty good with that.
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This is a temporary agreement that still has a long way to go.
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And the president tweeted that the eventual goal is the elimination of all tariffs.
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The president is not wrong about EU having greater tariffs on U.S. goods.
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But that's low, considering how European tariffs are slapped on the U.S. agriculture imports.
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Because if it breaks down, as it does with China and Mexico and Canada, and the 11th billion other countries we are threatening trade war with, we will lose.
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And he's an author of the latest book, Lincoln's Last Trial, the murder case that propelled him to the presidency.
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He's a co-author with David Fisher, who is just a great man.
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I'm fascinated by history, and in particular, Abraham Lincoln.
00:41:10.680
The Lincoln Museum right now is about a year away from losing some of the most remarkable things that were personally owned and used by Abraham Lincoln.
00:41:23.600
His hat and his bloodstained gloves from that night.
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You know, Mary's fan from that she was fanning herself that has blood splatters all over.
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And now the Lincoln Museum has to meet a note, and they're about nine million dollars away from making that.
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So I'm really kind of fascinated by him right now for many reasons.
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But this is a new discovery of the last case that Abraham Lincoln tried.
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He gets the Republican nomination in June of 1860.
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And this is the only case that Lincoln ever argued that was transcribed.
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Literally, every word of the witness's questioning, of the lawyer's questions, et cetera, transcribed in a new thing called transcription.
00:42:33.320
No, most trials and most things weren't transcribed.
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I mean, what made Lincoln think of this for this case was that the person who transcribed this, and he's the person that we look at this story through the eyes of the transcriber, Robert Hitt.
00:42:48.240
He was the guy who transcribed the Lincoln-Douglas debates for Lincoln to the point where there was one of the debates, I think it was the second one, where Hitt wasn't in his seat in the front.
00:42:59.760
And Lincoln would not start, and Lincoln would not start the debate until Robert Hitt was sitting there ready to transcribe for Lincoln the debates.
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And so he recommended to the family of the defendant in this high-profile murder case that in the event your son, your child is convicted, you'll want a record of what was said in court.
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And so they hired Robert Hitt, who also was able to distribute his transcriptions to the media at the time of what was happening.
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This was a high-profile case, and not really because Lincoln was arguing it.
00:43:38.200
It was a high-profile case because it was a long-standing feud between two neighbors, both of whom were known as good young men with promising futures.
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And they have this ongoing fight, and a fight ensues, and one stabs the other, then claiming self-defense.
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And there's a celebrity witness in the case in the form of a preacher who was much better known than Lincoln was at the time, one of the most famous people in America at the time, Peter Cartwright.
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He had had a long-standing, he was a long-standing political rival of Lincoln's.
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He'd actually beaten Lincoln in an election in the 1830s.
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And this is not, and someone who really had harsh words to say about Lincoln over time.
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So Peter Cartwright was no friend of Lincoln's, and he was the key to the case for the defense.
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And the reason was because he had went, he had gone and counseled the victim before he died.
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He had gone, he had sat on his, and people didn't know if he was going to survive or not.
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But in the context of that, the victim allegedly said, I brought this upon myself, and I forgive Peachy, the defendant.
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And those are incredibly powerful words when you're talking about a self-defense case.
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And there was one point where there was an argument over whether this should be permitted into evidence.
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Is there an exception to the hearsay rule here?
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And we describe in the book how furious he became.
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And we have quotes from people who were in court when this happened saying they'd never seen him ever like this.
00:45:38.240
And it's another side to Lincoln that we don't see and we don't hear about is not just Lincoln the advocate, but Lincoln becoming enraged at losing what he thought was a critical, and he believed he had the right to introduce this evidence.
00:46:00.580
So the fury that they describe is, you know, it's over initially losing this legal ruling and saying to the effect that they felt like he was about to climb onto the bench of the court.
00:46:16.580
And, you know, really just to the point where, you know, all I can all we can do is use the the contemporaneous responses from the people who were there.
00:46:29.300
But both the court crier and his law partner both described later just the the depth of his fury and how they had never seen him anything like like that.
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Now, he he had done like twenty five murder cases and thousands of other cases.
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The murder case that he tried before, I think the guy was hung.
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He lost. And the one before that, he had won. Right.
00:47:00.040
Well, so, you know, his most famous case was called the Almanac trial. Right.
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I mean, this was the case where this is in 1857.
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So this was two years before this case where Lincoln, a guy had been convicted for killing another guy with effectively a rock.
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And the key eyewitness said he saw it clear as day because it was a full moon.
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And he said he said he was about 150 feet away and he described everything that happened with these two guys.
00:47:29.880
But they were tried separately. The one guy got convicted and the second guy was on trial.
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And he hired Lincoln and everyone presumed he would be convicted as well.
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And when this guy gets up on the stand, he starts telling his whole story about the moon.
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And he remembers seeing exactly what he saw, the two of these guys hitting the sky.
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And Lincoln pulls out an almanac from that day, turns to that page, says, read to me what the moon was that day.
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Guy couldn't have possibly seen what he says he saw with no lights out there.
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And it really, that case really put Lincoln on the map.
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He was already well known, but this one elevated him.
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So was he concerned at all about what this might mean to a presidential bid if he lost?
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Well, you would think he should have been, right?
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I mean, obviously, any candidate today wouldn't take a high-profile controversial murder case.
00:48:25.480
But I think, you know, back then, look, A, he wasn't a serious candidate.
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When I say serious candidate, he wasn't a favorite in September of 1859.
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But he had just lost the Senate election in Illinois.
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This was only, as you know, the second time the Republicans were having a convention in 1860.
00:48:53.880
So, you know, I don't think he thought seriously that he had to think about the presidency.
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Now, keep in mind, he also had a relationship with the family of the defendant.
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He was also asked to do it by his former law partner.
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He always had enormous respect for Stephen Logan.
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The defendant, but he also had a relationship with the, what was it?
00:49:31.520
So the victim had actually interned in Lincoln's office.
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And trials back then were just, you know, were different.
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The only people who can serve on a jury are white men of a certain age who own land.
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You've got a limited, everyone kind of knows everybody.
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And I think that's part of the reason that the community was so invested in this case.
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But I also think, much like today, when, you know, there's a good story, right?
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That leads to a trial becoming more well-watched.
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And I think that that's why this became a national case.
00:50:12.260
So how come these transcripts were not known for so long?
00:50:17.620
They were in a chewed-up box with a yellow bow around it, found in the garage of the great-grandson of the defendant after he died.
00:50:34.420
And my co-author, who brought me this project, he came to me and he said, you know, there's a transcript out there.
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The only transcript that exists of a Lincoln trial.
00:50:52.420
What do you mean no one's really written about the last major trial that Lincoln did?
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There was one New York Times article from 1989 of the discovery.
00:51:08.920
And then the American Bar Association did a sort of legal review of it a few years later.
00:51:16.820
And yet our position is that this case was very important to him.
00:51:25.900
Meaning Lincoln Douglas, he was very high, 1858.
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He's not really considered a serious candidate for president.
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He's trying to figure out, you know, his next step.
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And this was a high-profile case being widely covered.
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And so Lincoln had everything to lose by taking it.
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A number of the people who worked on this case ended up working on his 1860 campaign, for example.
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What's the one thing about Lincoln that you learned?
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I know you've been fascinated by him and, you know, have consumed his life throughout yours.
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I think for me it was, this is a book about Lincoln, the lawyer.
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We don't try and be the biographers of Lincoln.
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So what I learned was that Lincoln really was a smart attorney.
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And what I mean by smart is he knew how to relate to people.
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Not just how to ask questions, but he knew how not to bore the jury.
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He knew how not to get bogged down in details and he would be able to close those things up later.
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And I think that for me, learning all of this about Lincoln, the lawyer, and then seeing it, how he mastered it in this case, was probably the thing I learned most about him.
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The name of the book is Lincoln's Last Trial, the murder case that propelled him to the presidency.
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Dan Abrams, he's a great storyteller, isn't he?
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We're doing something with the Lincoln Museum down here at the Mercury Studios in February.
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We're going to do Black History Month, and we'll be telling you more about that coming up.
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And so many people are starting to lose touch with our past and our heritage and Abraham Lincoln.
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They have a nine million dollar bill that they have to pay.
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Otherwise, this huge collection of really important stuff that has never been seen in public since his death.
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His hat and his bloodstained gloves, all the stuff that he had with him, including a lot of the letters and everything else.
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And if it goes for auction, it's going to go back to private hands.
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And it's important that the Lincoln Museum has these so you can see them.
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And so we're trying to help them raise the money.
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And we would love to ask you if you would if you're if you're a history fan, five for Lincoln.
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Could you could you just do five dollars a month for Abraham Lincoln?
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I cannot believe what we as a society are doing about or to Elon Musk.
00:57:10.900
Now, listen to what the New York Post just wrote about Elon Musk.
00:57:14.520
So far, Elon Musk has only been successful at tricking people into thinking he's a success.
00:57:21.680
One disastrous tweet has finally revealed Elon Musk for what he is, a fraud.
00:57:27.220
Enraged that a British cave diver called his his idea to rescue the Thai soccer team for what it was a PR stunt with absolutely no chance of working.
00:57:40.420
Just like that, Mark is Tesla's market value plummeted by two billion.
00:57:46.780
His stated goal is nothing short of transforming humanity through his products, his electric car, space travel and an underground high speed Hyperloop system.
00:57:58.620
But somehow spins every failure into proof of imminent success.
00:58:03.260
His only accomplishment has been this decade long Jedi mind trick.
00:58:08.240
Tesla, best known for blowing deadlines and constantly falling short on production.
00:58:14.300
The company has burned through five hundred thousand dollars per hour.
00:58:21.120
That's to say nothing of the human toll that Tesla has caused.
00:58:25.280
In March, a Tesla driver was killed while test driving an autopiloted Model X.
00:58:30.120
Then in May, they announced an investigation after two teenagers were killed in a Tesla Model S after a battery caught fire.
00:58:38.820
A similar accident claimed the life of a driver two months prior.
00:58:46.300
That's four people that have died in a Tesla for with a car that drives itself for.
00:58:53.460
Anyway, California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health opened its third investigation into workplace safety at Tesla in July after a employee complained.
00:59:03.900
Two investigations have been ongoing since April.
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Yet Musk took to Twitter to boast that Tesla was now building cars in a tent.
00:59:19.140
World's largest automakers quickly surpassed Musk's vision for electric vehicles.
00:59:22.900
Oh, you mean like the Volt that was catching on fire all the time?
00:59:30.780
Musk isn't sorry and nothing is ever his fault.
00:59:34.060
So should the government, which reportedly gifts Musk's companies with an estimated $4.9 billion in subsidies.
00:59:44.540
SpaceX, which Musk touts as replacing NASA and colonizing Mars, has been a literal failure to launch.
00:59:54.080
I did, I, I, I, I, I, let me just go through this here.
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Name the car every single person that you know wants or drools over when you see them.
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Name the only car that right now basically drives itself.
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Tesla's the most advanced probably in that, right?
01:00:34.740
Probably the author of that article that you were just reading, right?
01:00:36.760
No, strangely, Elon Musk, who didn't succeed at anything.
01:00:50.040
Well, if you have, you can thank Elon, you know, the guy who has never succeeded at anything.
01:00:58.620
Name any other person, any other company, any other government, any other country that has ever put a payload into orbit and then landed three rockets so perfectly it looked like CGI footage.
01:01:24.240
If it weren't for Elon Musk, this country would barely have a space program and there'd be a lot of hungry astronauts.
01:01:35.380
So the government giving gifts to the companies, $4.9 billion in subsidies.
01:01:41.260
Yeah, that's the one thing I don't like about him.
01:01:43.640
He takes the subsidies, but he has also said, why would I not take them and let my competitors take them?
01:01:51.320
So it sounds like he's being responsible to his shareholders.
01:01:55.260
I mean, there's a huge problem with this as a country.
01:01:58.980
But I mean, you know, look, if you're here, every business that has including oil and gas companies and all sorts of things.
01:02:07.080
I'm against the subsidies, but the press, people like you beat the hell out of everybody in this country to make sure that we had those subsidies.
01:02:16.660
You would think that maybe this this writer would would be appreciative on making the making the very green lifestyle that idiotic progressives are incapable of creating themselves as being created by Elon Musk.
01:02:33.040
SpaceX Musk counts is replacing NASA colonizing Mars failure to launch.
01:02:41.900
Who has a sports car circling Mars choreographed perfectly with a David Bowie soundtrack?
01:03:05.820
Because he's one of the only people that actually has a sense of humor.
01:03:10.640
He doesn't hide the difficulty of the challenges that he's trying to tackle.
01:03:16.060
As for the hyper loop, most experts say it's impossible and unnecessary.
01:03:20.600
It gives me pause to think that otherwise intelligent people are buying into this kind of utopian vision.
01:03:30.880
They're up against the airlines and airlines don't need to install hundreds of miles of track.
01:03:39.780
We should probably come back to this one in 20 years.
01:03:44.140
But I think I remember reading stuff from these experts that said, oh, air travel, that will never.
01:04:11.920
I don't think that's a real solution to our problem.
01:04:14.660
But like wouldn't their history has not been written on that one yet.
01:04:18.180
And can I ask you, Stu, which one burns up, you know, millions of gallons of jet fuel and
01:04:30.300
And of course, obviously, that's one of his motivations.
01:04:34.800
So she harps on about how, you know, the the Thai rescue, blah, blah, blah.
01:04:40.340
He first of all, he apologized for his disgusting accusations against the hero diver.
01:04:48.600
The diver has said, you know, this is just a PR stunt.
01:04:51.960
Imagine, imagine, imagine just for a second that Elon Musk was actually trying to do the
01:04:59.220
And he actually, I mean, we have the we have the email exchanges from the Thai government
01:05:04.100
that the sub was built to specifications from the dive team leader.
01:05:21.800
I wasn't able to invent a submarine capable of fitting through a cupboard door in time to
01:05:27.500
But the Thai military is keeping it and said that will be used for rescues in the future.
01:05:33.380
He sent 10 engineers from SpaceX, Tesla and the Boring Company to help.
01:05:47.460
The real reason why I want to bring this up is because I think we have we are looking at
01:05:52.340
a guy where we're living at a time right now where we have Edison and Tesla and and Armstrong
01:06:00.920
and some of the greatest inventors of all time.
01:06:05.080
And they're doing miraculous things and we don't seem to even notice.
01:06:11.580
These people are changing the world and they're going to fail over and over and over again because
01:06:16.520
there's no model for this because it's brand new.
01:06:42.240
And it's funny because they seem to have found out that in this current cycle, he gave seven
01:06:51.920
times more money to the right than he did to the left.
01:06:57.980
Now, normally he gives equally to the left and the right.
01:07:01.300
But in this current election cycle, he has given more money to the GOP than to the DNC by
01:07:12.620
I wonder if that's not what drives Maureen and others crazy.
01:07:21.600
I'm just wondering if, if maybe, perhaps, how dare you step out of line, Elon Musk?
01:07:41.500
I mean, people could be so short sighted and so blind that they don't see that somebody like
01:07:50.760
And so they'll just, they'll just torch him because they are small minded.
01:08:00.160
And they don't know how real science and, and, and they don't know how, how real innovations
01:08:10.360
You're going to fail much more than you succeed.
01:08:12.240
But it is the one who keeps picking himself up and brush and brushes the dirt off of his
01:08:19.660
face and the sweat off of his brow that says, okay, let's go again.
01:08:29.220
And I know Elon Musk isn't originally from American America, but he sure has the American
01:08:38.280
He, he is the embodiment of what made us great in many ways.
01:08:44.960
He's not without his flaws, but I'm not sure which it is.
01:08:54.580
It's either just my optic little people or it's worse.
01:09:02.280
It's people that will destroy anybody who has a different political opinion than theirs.
01:09:22.680
I, you have to admire the ability though, to go through all these supposed failures.
01:09:26.620
And he's had some failures and many question marks, right?
01:09:29.900
We don't know what, how these things are going to turn out.
01:09:34.980
Like, how does he have the money to start all these businesses?
01:09:38.080
Shouldn't you point out that he obviously did succeed and make billions of dollars to
01:09:44.000
give him the opportunity to fail at whatever you think he's failing at?
01:09:49.520
Those were things that were, were not easy slam dunks.
01:09:55.100
He graduated from that kind of crazy to, hey, let's go to Mars.
01:10:02.960
And he's, he's obviously had a lot of amazing technological success there.
01:10:07.040
And, but think about how difficult PayPal was at that time.
01:10:11.140
People didn't want to put, they didn't want to use their ATM card to, to deposit money.
01:10:15.280
They didn't want to put, put their credit card into a computer because they were worried
01:10:20.700
And you tell me, you tell me of any man besides Ben Franklin, who has been in his position with
01:10:28.440
inventions, who has said, I'm going to make all of, I'm going to make all of my research,
01:10:38.740
I hope somebody will take it and build off of this because it's important for humanity.
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Only Ben Franklin that I know of has done that.
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01:16:24.640
Well, it was another man by the name of David Royals.
01:16:29.000
I was told to meet with him at Joe's Coffee Shop, and we was going to meet with the builder
01:16:34.980
to interview with him to see if I can be a candidate to receive a mortgage-free home
01:16:42.440
And once I got there, I was told we have to go and meet with the builder because there
01:16:52.840
I said, okay, if I suppose I met with the builder here at the coffee shop and he's not
01:16:59.100
here, then maybe they've already interviewed the other candidate, and they want to go with
01:17:04.640
So, they pretty much just want to now cut my interview time down and meet with me and
01:17:09.820
my family for a couple of minutes and send us on our way.
01:17:12.120
And so, you pulled up, and you saw everybody there.
01:17:28.200
And then when I was told, well, hey, you've already been selected at that point, I just
01:17:34.500
became very emotional and just shocked and surprised.
01:17:38.260
So, you, when you pulled up, you didn't know it was for you.
01:17:41.420
As we were pulling up, and I'm like, hey, what's going on?
01:17:44.580
Well, at first, when the police escort pulled out, I'm like, okay, we just got into something
01:17:55.000
I just thought you were like, you're accidentally in the middle of a funeral procession or something's
01:18:05.380
Oh, we was just driving down the street, and they just pulled out of a parking lot and
01:18:15.680
Ronnie, tell me what a mortgage-free house means.
01:18:23.140
I mean, I know what it means, but do you have to pay for anything?
01:18:31.620
Well, back when we started in 2005, Glenn, our mission was to provide custom-built mortgage-free
01:18:37.820
homes to America's wounded, ill, and injured veterans, as well as the widows of the fallen,
01:18:44.560
And so what we do with every project is start with a builder.
01:18:48.640
And when a builder confirms that he wants to do a project, then we reach out to his trade
01:18:53.100
partners, his suppliers, vendors, and we get them to donate as much as they can.
01:18:58.560
So at the end of the day, Operation Finally Home picks up the gap funding, but we are
01:19:04.120
presenting a truly deserving veteran, such as Major King, with a 100% mortgage-free home
01:19:10.360
that's going to, you know, change their lives forever.
01:19:21.340
They go through a very thorough vetting process.
01:19:31.040
They have to pass a criminal and a financial background check.
01:19:35.000
They have to be able to show that they could take home ownership as a responsibility.
01:19:41.460
And so when we present our candidate to the builder and the builder community, we want them
01:19:50.320
So in this case, with Major King, I think we've hit a home run.
01:19:53.520
He, as well as his family, are just great folks, and they are excited to be getting a mortgage-free
01:20:00.700
home and starting a new step in their lives in Irving.
01:20:06.960
When I retired in June 28th of 2016, I came here to Dallas.
01:20:12.740
Prior to getting out, I wanted to see what state and city had the best veteran facility, of course, the VA, that would be able to provide me all the assistance
01:20:27.720
And I found that Dallas was the best VA for me.
01:20:33.060
Tell me about what happened to you with the IED.
01:20:34.720
Well, it was my very first mission, actually, when I went out, my first IED encounter that came about with the traumatic brain injury
01:20:47.160
and all the other ailments or disabilities that came behind it.
01:20:50.540
But I was an infantryman, rifle platoon leader, and we was out on a mission and just out of nowhere, IED explosion,
01:21:07.020
The VA, if it wasn't for the VA, I'd probably be worse off than what I am.
01:21:13.760
The VA here in Dallas has provided me with the utmost care and treatment and meeting the needs for me to make sure that I can be in a position to help reclaim my life,
01:21:28.740
Right now, I'm 100% permanent and total disabled, so I'm unable to work due to my disabilities.
01:21:37.300
But currently, right now, I have kids that I am home for that I can help now raise because I miss so many years of their lives
01:21:46.460
coming up due to multiple deployments and training.
01:22:28.500
Well, hopefully my wife and I will be able to restore our marriage.
01:22:43.540
And I would say to a lot of veterans who have served in the military, who have encountered physical and mental things from being deployed, coming back from deployments, coming out of the hospital, being medically retired out of the military.
01:23:00.740
As a transition that we go through, and a lot of times, things that we have endured and encountered, it kind of fall back into our homes with our families.
01:23:13.520
And there was a period where I was going through a lot.
01:23:17.700
I was going through a lot before I finally started getting the actual help that I needed mentally.
01:23:24.840
And that brought a wedge in between myself and my family.
01:23:28.660
So, I would say to all veterans out there, get the help that you need, not tomorrow, but today.
01:23:36.020
Because it can totally change your life in a way where your loved ones are forced to feel like they're walking on eggshells.
01:23:46.760
Because we are going through some things that's pushing our families away from us.
01:23:52.340
I have to tell you, you know, everybody I know that is in the military, you're just different.
01:24:00.740
I mean, you know, you have brothers and that was your life, you know, and you're doing things that nobody does.
01:24:10.080
And everyone that I know that has been wounded, especially if they're fully disabled, they're not fully disabled up here.
01:24:18.680
You know, and it has to be, I don't want to get too personal, but I can imagine that it's a challenge to you as a man to come home, to lose all that,
01:24:33.920
and then not be able to, you know, do what society or what you've always thought you were supposed to do.
01:24:48.640
Being back home, being told you can no longer serve, coming into the military, in my mind, I want to serve 30 plus years.
01:24:57.860
I want to go as far as I can possibly go beyond Major, Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel and above.
01:25:03.320
But being told you can no longer serve, you are being forced to medically retire out, and you feel like that there's still unfinished business overseas.
01:25:18.080
Like, so being back at home with your family, every day you're thinking about the soldiers' lives that were lost, the soldiers that were injured,
01:25:27.980
things that felt like, for me, under my command and the positions I served.
01:25:33.000
And I've started saying to myself, what could I have done differently on that mission?
01:25:39.480
You don't ever get to, you know, it's like when you fall off a horse, you get back on.
01:25:50.600
Is it hard to come back to a society that seems so frivolous?
01:25:59.420
Operation Finally Home has helped since last Monday me to say, you know what, the American people in public, they still care.
01:26:11.200
Because once you come back and you've gotten out of the military, for me, I was no longer Major King.
01:26:23.940
I felt like I lost, you know, taking care of soldiers, making decisions.
01:26:28.920
And now I'm here and it's like, well, nobody care about me.
01:26:33.140
You know, I go to the VA, I get my treatment, get my medications, physical therapy, you know, behavior, health and all that.
01:26:43.420
So it really made me, you know, say that the American people, they still care about us.
01:26:58.280
I was just a nobody now who was fighting to reclaim my life.
01:27:21.360
We love to let the community get involved in each project.
01:27:24.820
So I would encourage everyone to go to our website, OperationFinallyHome.org.
01:27:31.560
They can follow every project that we've got going throughout the country.
01:27:36.040
They can also look at the bios and visit and find out more about our heroes that we've been able to honor and projects that are currently underway.
01:27:44.760
And they can also donate to OperationFinallyHome or to a specific project.
01:27:49.620
So if you if you're a builder, you want to get involved.
01:27:51.940
If you if you make things that, you know, are used for home building or for home supplies, you can donate.
01:27:58.400
But you can also, as a regular person, just donate cash.
01:28:05.180
And I thank you for that and all of the people that you work with.
01:28:10.500
Um, I, I, I don't know if you ever feel like this, but in a man's life, you can feel like, do I make a difference at all?
01:28:27.060
And, uh, if you ever feel like this, you can feel like this.
01:28:30.800
And, uh, if you ever feel that way, you listen to what he just said.
01:28:45.140
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what a sincere guy that was an amazing story he just said to me uh off air he said this is one of the
01:30:50.520
first times i've gone back out and i said what do you mean we were talking about his wife and uh
01:30:57.220
he said you know it's taken me a while to realize it it it was me it really was me wow yeah and um
01:31:03.980
i said you know uh good luck and he said i'm i just have to just i just have to show her that i
01:31:13.420
understand that it was me not her and he said you know but it was the night terrors and the and the
01:31:20.360
on guard all the time and he said and not wanting to go anywhere not going out he said i i i i refused
01:31:27.340
to go out anywhere i didn't want to go outside uh uh and this is the first time he got back home 2015
01:31:35.260
2015 yeah i mean we've had so many you know veterans come through here with with similar stories yeah i mean
01:31:46.400
it's so common to have to go through that and you know it's just like as you said there you know the
01:31:52.540
people in the military that we see all the time they're just different i always think of them just
01:31:55.480
better i'm just better people they're like how are they the same species i know me this i know you
01:32:00.440
just adult who's just sitting there eating cheetos every day i know uh but i part of that i think is
01:32:05.120
what makes it so difficult it's easy for me to transition to a life where i don't leave the house
01:32:09.580
because first of all no one wants to see me and secondly i'm slovenly uh but for someone who has
01:32:15.880
gone through all of that achievement and all those important tasks and all those life-threatening
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situations to to adjust to a life like that is is incredibly taxing on you mentally i feel i because
01:32:28.980
i think of the veterans all the time all the time i see these guys who uh you know are veterans and they
01:32:36.040
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this is the glenbeck program detectives in canada are still seeking a motive for a mass
01:34:38.160
shooter that left three dead including the gunman and injured more than a dozen others
01:34:42.080
as residents of toronto grapple with the latest in a string of violence incidents to hit canada's
01:34:47.860
biggest city in recent months federal officials said on tuesday that there was no terror link in
01:34:53.260
sunday's attack in which the lone gunman open fired open fire along a bustling avenue in the city
01:34:59.700
at this time there's no national security nexus to the investigation spokespeople said the attack
01:35:05.300
killed two people recent high school graduate reese fallon and 10 year old juliana cosis 13 injured
01:35:13.000
including six women and girls and seven men authorities have not publicly speculated on the
01:35:18.680
motive of the gunman faisal hassein or explained how he obtained the handgun used for the attack
01:35:27.440
okay uh so what they're saying here is this is a uh this is a a guy who went through depression
01:35:36.200
uh they're not blaming it on the gun you know they have a pretty tough gun laws up in canada uh so
01:35:44.060
it's certainly not the gun although he strangely found a way to a gun uh but they can't figure out
01:35:50.740
um quote i can't put two and two together said amir shakira uh i just can't believe it's him
01:36:02.540
mm-hmm uh he lived with his uh parents uh hussein parents uh he did carried out uh boxes of possible
01:36:10.720
evidence with uh you know the the equivalent of the fbi up in canada but he was found dead on sunday
01:36:17.720
after he exchanged gun uh gunfire with police and then fled so can't figure out what he did well why
01:36:24.740
would he do that can't figure it out right isis uh it's claimed responsibility said he was one of
01:36:31.020
theirs he still can't figure it out i don't know what the deal is i mean pretty confusing it is
01:36:37.180
when you think about it i mean what could it be did you have any idea is there any are there any
01:36:40.820
theories about for faisal hussein and why he shot people yeah does anyone have it was it um did he
01:36:47.180
have an issue well he was probably depressed he was probably depressed because yeah he's living in
01:36:51.700
canada and you know that can be a little oppressive and you know people probably might have been mean to
01:36:56.480
him did trump set him off that's the only thing i can think well that could be trump's fault but
01:37:01.740
trump's fault that's good could i throw one out there um uh barack hussein obama our former president
01:37:06.820
faisal hussein right right is it possible that this guy is just uh an incredible mean christian a
01:37:13.460
mean christian because our president as you remember uh former president a hardcore christian
01:37:17.820
was at church for 40 years and i didn't really catch anything that happened in the sermons well he
01:37:21.840
slept through a lot of the sermons a lot of sermons but i mean you know he's a he's a hard worker
01:37:25.140
hard core christian guy yeah so hardcore christian guy could it be an extremist christian attack
01:37:30.400
that's probably right okay that's probably right okay good it probably is so is there is there any
01:37:38.960
evidence of anything else uh pat any evidence of anything else no i mean we can't other than what
01:37:44.840
we've just outlined here we can't figure it out again isis tried to shed some light on this but i
01:37:51.900
still don't get it what did isis say what did isis say well they claimed credit they claimed he was
01:37:56.580
an isis fighter um well you can't trust a radical islamist you can't you can't trust them they don't
01:38:04.360
you know they'll say anything right they yeah they usually tell you what they're doing kind of in
01:38:09.640
advance and then afterwards they'll also tell you what they've done so i think we need to look into
01:38:15.180
his mental health again and gun laws you should look in oh that's a great gun laws because there's
01:38:21.300
no gun laws in canada it's it's a it's basically a the wild west out there other than some of the
01:38:26.660
toughest in the world uh yeah well other than that other than that i mean we all know that it's other
01:38:31.820
it is the wild west other than the toughest gun laws in the world right um and there is a 59
01:38:38.680
percent increase in gun violence uh over the same period from last year wait a minute so no wait
01:38:45.780
what is it the damn americans coming over with our guns the nra is looking for a root in good time
01:38:52.920
has to be that it has to be yeah but well they've run out of people to shoot here so they're going up
01:38:57.980
to canada now really right yeah oh yeah they've killed everybody they possibly can so now they're
01:39:03.100
looking for fresh killing territory in canada white men bastards americans yeah christians yeah
01:39:09.820
christians now he wasn't by trump he he was uh he was he was arab uh faisal hussein yeah um was it
01:39:19.640
was he oh can i guess there's no clue as to his heritage no i've got a guess you don't guess well i
01:39:25.420
believe uh that faisal hussein was colluding with donald trump in russia okay that's what i think
01:39:31.460
happened okay well there i'm not sure if i could go take you on that lead can i ask was he an
01:39:37.160
immigrant was he was he was he born in canada um i don't know all right i don't know was he doesn't
01:39:46.800
was he was he a muslim well i with a name like hussein sharing the same name as our former president
01:39:56.240
you would say no i'd say no i would say no he was not but have you seen any reporting on
01:40:01.400
whether he was i have zero zero reporting on that yeah huh this is perplexing it's a conundrum
01:40:09.240
it is it is perplexing i wonder what's happening huh i think our best guess as it's formed right now
01:40:16.160
is uh donald trump colluded with the russians to place this person here an extremist christian
01:40:21.360
extremist christian yeah as he shares the name with our former president uh and uh and it was because
01:40:27.400
the nra gave him the guns to cross the border um and then then he shot a bunch of people i think
01:40:35.600
that's where we are that's what it's exactly where we are we may now that's not to say there might be
01:40:40.300
some information at some time that may make us believe something else but one thing we can rule
01:40:44.500
out is the Islamic extremism we can rule that out there's no there's no immediately there was no
01:40:49.700
evidence no evidence none none zero zero zero now we may come to find out that perhaps a
01:40:59.140
a tea party extremist oh uh was involved um we're not sure we're not like it could be a tea party
01:41:06.700
extremist could be uh you know a member of the freedom caucus and there are several possibilities
01:41:11.340
of of of who this guy could be but we know they're all white we know they're white and we know
01:41:16.640
they're christian we know they're christian and we know that they're conservative you know well let
01:41:23.160
me just say it all right i mean there let's just stop using thank you the cover story of conservative
01:41:28.520
we've all been beating around the bush let's just stop doing it the all right it's nazis okay it's it's
01:41:35.880
white small government nazis that are christians i think it had to be said you know what i'm i
01:41:45.500
you know i wouldn't be surprised to find out that faisal hussein wasn't even there
01:41:51.420
that he wasn't there he wasn't even there that's a great point it wasn't even there he was probably
01:41:57.480
it's a false flag probably tied up by some white christian held and they're only using him because
01:42:06.220
he's a minority would you be surprised to find out that this story we're hearing about this faisal
01:42:13.540
hussein was just a cover up for the person who really did it brett kavanaugh i would not be
01:42:19.500
surprised i would not be surprised that is the thing fit my world belief right you know sometimes
01:42:24.700
like a glove when sometimes people say something you know how it just it just like connects with you
01:42:30.300
and it rings true right now it probably didn't happen but what high impact oh if it did if it did
01:42:39.700
probability high impact yeah yeah i mean i'm learning that from i'm learning that from msnbc
01:42:44.660
you know it may not have happened but we should seriously consider that kavanaugh trump white
01:42:52.820
supremacists christians nazis tied this guy to a chair wound him up okay and then he's still no matter
01:43:05.240
how crazed they made him he still would not do it wouldn't do it so kavanaugh himself came and was
01:43:10.940
the trigger man uh for the massacre up in toronto that makes sense it does it does make sense that
01:43:17.200
was basically like an entire like law and order or 48 hours episode right in front of your eyes
01:43:21.940
you just heard it the problem is solved when am i ever going to get a client that will tell me the
01:43:26.820
truth when will i ever get a guy like kavanaugh to come into my office and say look i killed him
01:43:31.860
i mean i can't help these clients if they don't tell me the truth
01:43:35.720
that's the way it works it always wraps up so nicely on those programs we never get the truth
01:43:45.580
though we never really find out what happened and we'll probably never know pat we won't there but i
01:43:50.660
do know this there's no evidence of muslim extremism here why are you even bringing no evidence i'm rolling
01:43:55.580
it out i just wanted to make sure that everybody knew i don't want any hate yeah to happen as a result
01:44:01.360
cut the knees off of those those speculators right and i mean literally literally cut the knees off of
01:44:09.260
them yes uh because we have there's no place for that kind of speculation not in our society not in
01:44:15.080
our society at all not in our society at all okay um now there is there has been a case that has been
01:44:21.560
solved um uh there was a uh there was a there was a guy named kelton griffin who uh asked a woman
01:44:34.620
uh whose name shall remain uh uh nameless here um uh she she she she griffin approached her and said
01:44:43.540
hey i i really i i think we have a lot in common and uh and i think we should we should we should go out
01:44:50.100
and she said well um that wasn't really elegant the way you stated that but uh okay so he said look
01:44:58.700
can i come over to your house and can we take your car and she said okay you're starting to sound like
01:45:07.780
a loser but okay sure so he um he rang the doorbell and uh he said i tell you what uh you know let's
01:45:16.920
you know what let's stop for some gas uh for the car and she's like well you know we have we're just
01:45:22.300
going around the corner he said yeah but let's let's stop for some gas so um he gets out and
01:45:27.540
chivalrous that he is uh and he was driving i believe yeah he was driving yeah yeah her car
01:45:33.480
yeah her car right that's i mean what part of this didn't you understand yeah so he takes her car and
01:45:38.760
they're stopping to get gas and and he says hey let me pump the gas you go in and uh pay for the gas and
01:45:44.300
why don't you get us a couple of cigars that's nice okay all all right that's again a little weird
01:45:52.100
but okay so she's in you know and she's in the 7-eleven you know walk-in humidor i'm i'm imagining
01:45:59.800
and uh saying what you know what do you suggest and uh he's like oh i've got a monte cristo over here
01:46:05.100
that's great anyway so she's buying the cigars and uh when she finishes buying the cigar she walks
01:46:10.620
outside and um the car is gone and uh and her phone is in the car okay and so she's she's she's
01:46:21.180
calling him she's calling her and she's like uh where's the car and uh he's not answering um and so
01:46:28.300
she you know she she calls the police and um they said you know mike you know the car has been stolen i
01:46:34.900
know who did it uh and so they the police are like okay well we'll look around but you know we're
01:46:40.520
police and so we we we usually beat minorities uh and is that what they said well i'm pretty sure
01:46:47.560
that's that's probably if they were these were the honest cops okay okay and they said we're usually at
01:46:52.460
this time just beating minorities so i don't know if we're going to be able to squeeze this in
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she said well i happen to know uh my sister knows uh his relative so i'll call i'll call my sister she'll
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call the relative and maybe the relative will call him and find out where the car is and so um she did
01:47:10.660
and she found out that he was at a drive-in movie theater um because um he he had made a he had made
01:47:21.640
a date uh with somebody that he he really uh liked a lot and uh he didn't have a car and so he he he
01:47:29.800
needed to borrow somebody else's car and uh so he he left you know uh the cigar and gas store and uh
01:47:38.780
and drove to another girl's house and and said hey i'm here for the date and what do you think of the
01:47:45.340
car huh we've all been there right how many times does that happen you know three times last week alone
01:47:50.480
really wow is that weird times the last week yeah there's a lot seems coincidental but it seems
01:47:56.460
like uh if you're going to target this sort of maneuver you're going to go out on a date with
01:48:03.040
another woman perhaps you don't go to a date that requires the car right like you could have gone to
01:48:10.120
a normal movie theater and met them there and not needed to steal a car but instead you went to a
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drive-in movie theater which is was there 20 of them in the country yeah i mean
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and you know and how many people were probably there i mean i don't think it was a you know a
01:48:24.880
big stakeout there were probably like four cars there so like you know it's like barney fife just
01:48:30.920
waiting going yeah get out of the car what's interesting is the guy had no car and no money
01:48:37.200
so so both dates had to pay for the gas had to pay for the cigars had to pay for the food that they
01:48:43.800
picked up at the at the uh gas station humidor store right and and then had to pay for the
01:48:49.480
drive-in movie the new date yeah so but it's not like he doesn't love them i mean no no he went to
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