The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1642 - Why Foreign Truck Drivers Are An Extreme Danger To All Americans

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, an illegal immigrant truck driver was somehow granted a CDL. He then

00:00:03.820 went on to cause an accident that killed three people. This incident was not an aberration. It's

00:00:08.160 part of a much larger and very disturbing pattern we'll discuss. Also, Barack Obama is building a

00:00:12.560 giant hideous monument to himself in Chicago, and the local residents aren't happy about it.

00:00:17.240 And Joy Reid declares that white people have never invented anything at all. Is that true? 0.80

00:00:21.400 Obviously not, but we'll talk about all of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:04.480 There's never been a political movement in world history that relied on euphemisms more than the

00:02:09.420 modern left. Every single issue was filtered through euphemisms like restorative justice or

00:02:14.180 affirmative action or a woman's right to choose, quote unquote, or equity. So it's not surprising

00:02:20.040 that as America imported tens of millions of foreign nationals, Democrats used the same

00:02:24.280 familiar strategy. Instead of explaining in detail why America needs to open its borders or how the job

00:02:30.560 market would benefit from a massive new influx of people, Democrats simply extolled the virtues of

00:02:35.560 diversity. Or a melting pot, they said. Until they stopped talking about melting pot because that

00:02:41.660 implies assimilation, which they are not in favor of. But the point of these euphemisms is to

00:02:46.740 misdirect. In the context of immigration, they want you to talk about the abstract concept of

00:02:51.940 multiculturalism without getting into the specifics of the particular cultures that we are inviting

00:02:57.060 into this country. You know, we've talked a lot on the show about third world immigration and the

00:03:01.580 problems that it causes. But one problem in particular that we haven't spent a lot of time on,

00:03:07.440 because there's so many problems, you know, you got to know where to, you can only focus on one at a time,

00:03:11.340 but one of the big problems is, is road safety. Because one thing about the third world, third 1.00

00:03:17.840 world, third world countries is that they tend not to have traffic laws the way that we do in this

00:03:22.520 country. Their roads are total chaos and people die all the time in very preventable ways. And when I

00:03:30.300 say preventable, I mean like just a traffic light or a crosswalk might have prevented it. But in many

00:03:36.040 of these countries, they don't have that. Of course, if you take a huge number of people from

00:03:40.800 these cultures and you quickly relocate them to the United States without any degree of vetting 0.97

00:03:45.940 whatsoever, you're not going to magically reprogram any of that kind of behavior. Realistically,

00:03:51.800 you can't tell all the foreign trunk drivers to forget everything they know about the free-for-all 0.99

00:03:58.060 system in their home countries. You can't force them all to learn English well enough to understand

00:04:03.540 every sign that we've placed on the interstate. That's simply not a reasonable expectation when

00:04:08.440 you're bringing in so many people all at once. Instead, the more we bring, uh, the more we bring

00:04:14.680 into this country, the more our roads will resemble the roads of their home countries. And in practical

00:04:20.300 terms, that means that the roads will become a lot more dangerous. Um, now after this fatal crash

00:04:27.520 that took place last week on the Florida Turnpike, which was caught on video, a lot of people are

00:04:32.560 finally coming around to this realization. Uh, watch. Now this is footage from inside, uh, the cab of

00:04:44.720 the truck. A truck driver named Harjinder Singh was driving an 18-wheeler in the right-hand lane on the

00:04:50.900 Florida Turnpike. Singh then realizes he's going the wrong way, but instead of continuing on to the next

00:04:57.020 exit, as any competent or sane truck driver would do, Singh instead turns his truck to the left, uh,

00:05:05.020 from the right lane in order to enter an emergency U-turn area, which is reserved for emergency vehicles.

00:05:12.860 And this maneuver has the effect of suddenly and unexpectedly blocking all lanes of traffic on the

00:05:19.440 freeway. Within seconds out of the blue, a van that had been traveling in the left lane had nowhere to

00:05:24.780 go. The van then plows into Singh's trailer, killing all three passengers in the van. Now Harjinder Singh

00:05:32.400 has been charged by Florida authorities with three counts of vehicular homicide. The victims include

00:05:37.660 a 30-year-old man, a 54-year-old man, and a 37-year-old woman. It was clear that everyone in the van was

00:05:43.720 killed immediately on impact. And yet, as you saw from the footage, Singh didn't appear to be particularly

00:05:48.680 horrified by the crash that he had caused. In the aftermath, as he's standing on the side of the freeway

00:05:54.520 while firefighters removed the three bodies from the van, he seems mildly annoyed by the whole

00:06:00.100 thing. I mean, it's almost as if he comes from a country where these kinds of deadly highway 0.67

00:06:04.460 accidents happen all the time. It's almost as if street signs aren't a big deal to Harjinder Singh.

00:06:11.100 Who could have seen this coming? By now, you've probably heard that Singh entered the U.S. illegally by

00:06:16.680 crossing the U.S.-Mexico border seven years ago. After he was caught, Singh claimed that he was afraid to

00:06:22.600 return to India, where he's from, and so he was allowed to remain in the United States, pending

00:06:27.360 immigration proceedings that, of course, have dragged on for the better part of a decade.

00:06:31.080 This is the asylum scam that we're all very familiar with. Foreigners have learned that 1.00

00:06:35.000 if they say the right words, they can just walk right into the country and there will be no follow-up

00:06:39.640 whatsoever. And then once they're here, they can undercut U.S. workers by taking jobs for much less

00:06:44.900 pay. No one in the government does anything to stop them, particularly in left-wing states.

00:06:48.740 There's no oversight whatsoever. And that's why Singh was able to obtain a commercial driver's

00:06:52.860 license in California, even though he had no legal right to be in the country. Yes, a criminal

00:06:57.480 who should have been deported many years ago, who comes from a country that's notorious for its 1.00

00:07:03.440 extremely high rate of highway fatalities, was allowed to obtain a government-issued license to

00:07:08.460 drive an 18-wheeler on our highways. As confirmed by DHS, Singh's federal work authorization was rejected

00:07:15.360 by the Trump administration in mid-September of 2020, but the Biden administration approved it

00:07:19.860 less than one year later, in June of 2021. And the state of California, meanwhile, was no obstacle

00:07:25.800 whatsoever. What this means is that the leadership of the state of California, along with the Biden

00:07:29.860 administration, is an accomplice to these three homicides that took place on the Florida turnpike.

00:07:35.900 The point of a driver's license, in particular a commercial driver's license, which lets you operate the

00:07:40.180 single most dangerous vehicle on the interstate, is to ensure that only competent, law-abiding people

00:07:46.780 are behind the wheel. Somebody who breaks federal law to enter this country, by definition, is not

00:07:52.500 law-abiding. Therefore, they cannot be relied upon to follow traffic laws or laws against DUI or any other

00:07:58.240 laws. But because of so-called sanctuary policies, criminals are allowed to drive these massive trucks all

00:08:03.320 the time, all over the country. Now, obviously, California should be sued immediately, and a

00:08:10.440 criminal investigation should be opened into Gavin Newsom as well. There's actually precedent for this.

00:08:15.660 George Ryan was the governor of Illinois from 1999 to 2003. He was taken down by a scandal known as

00:08:21.640 Operation Safe Road, involving the sale of commercial driver's licenses to unqualified drivers. The scandal

00:08:28.840 dated back to 1994, when six children were killed after a taillight assembly fell off a semi on the

00:08:34.040 interstate and struck the gas tank of a minivan behind it. Other drivers had tried to warn the

00:08:39.700 semi-driver that his taillight assembly was dangling loose, but the semi-driver couldn't speak English.

00:08:44.280 He had bought his license on the black market. It later emerged that the governor himself was

00:08:48.760 implicated in distributing commercial licenses to drivers who were unable to understand basic English.

00:08:54.360 Now, in today's California, Gavin Newsom is clearly overseeing the distribution of driver's

00:08:58.780 licenses to very unqualified drivers. So it's reasonable to say that we need a full accounting

00:09:04.820 for exactly how this is happening and how state officials in California are processing these

00:09:09.800 licenses. But at the same time, we have to acknowledge that the problem is not limited

00:09:14.600 to California. The biggest open secret in the trucking industry is how widespread this fraud really

00:09:21.740 is. Foreigners with no understanding of our country's customs or laws are routinely handed the 0.57

00:09:27.800 keys to 18 wheelers, often to disastrous results. And very often their employer is a shell company 0.52

00:09:33.900 that's impossible to actually punish in any meaningful way. Now, when I was researching this

00:09:39.360 monologue, I went online and looked up a bunch of recent crashes involving 18 wheelers. All of these

00:09:44.820 clips are from the last two years. And every single one of them involves a driver who very clearly is not

00:09:51.180 an American. This is a report from just a few months ago out of Dallas, Fort Worth. Watch.

00:09:57.380 Five people are dead, including children. And at least four other people are fighting for their lives

00:10:03.640 after a drunk driver caused a chain reaction crash in Austin that happened around 1130 last night.

00:10:09.740 And the man now charged with this violent accident was behind the wheel of an 18 wheeler.

00:10:15.240 Solomon Weldekiel Araya was arrested and charged with five counts of intoxication manslaughter,

00:10:21.540 two counts of intoxication assault. The 37 year old was driving an 18 wheeler. Weldekiel Araya was

00:10:28.600 supposed to be in court in Wilmer just south of Dallas this coming Tuesday for a 63 in a 30 mile an

00:10:34.680 hour zone speeding ticket. An Amazon spokesperson in a statement writes, this is a horrible tragedy

00:10:40.320 and our thoughts are with all those involved. So Solomon Weldekiel Araya is accused of causing

00:10:49.320 an 18 vehicle pileup that killed five people, including children and injured 11. And now guess

00:10:54.600 what? He's out on $7,000 bond. Most likely he won't spend any time in prison at all. One of my producers

00:11:01.540 reached out to ICE about Solomon's case and they told us he was subject to removal proceedings.

00:11:06.160 So we can make the obvious inference here. This is yet another person who shouldn't even be inside

00:11:12.320 the country. And yet he's here and he's driving a semi truck. Here's another report from the same

00:11:17.900 news station in Dallas just three months ago. A man named Alexis Asmani Gonzalez Campagnani fell

00:11:24.720 asleep at the wheel of his 18 wheeler. And here's what happened next.

00:11:28.380 20 year old woman is the only survivor from her immediate family after a deadly multi vehicle

00:11:33.420 crash. Hello everybody. I'm Heather Hayes. I'm Steve Eager. It's nine o'clock. The seven vehicle

00:11:37.580 crash happened in Kaufman County over the weekend. The driver of an 18 wheeler allegedly told police

00:11:43.220 he fell asleep at the wheel. The crash killed five people, one solo driver and four members of the

00:11:49.800 same family in one car. Fox Sports David Centendry has been learning about all those victims tonight.

00:11:55.420 David.

00:11:55.640 Yes, even Heather and that arrest warrant we obtained reveals that the driver of that 18

00:12:02.780 wheeler reportedly admitted to police that he fell asleep behind the wheel until he was awoken by that

00:12:09.460 deadly crash. He caused 27 year old Alexis Asmani Gonzalez Campagnani faces five charges of manslaughter

00:12:17.320 and one charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. According to an arrest warrant,

00:12:22.260 the first trooper on scene did not see any brake or skid marks on the ground. This indicated that

00:12:28.380 the tractor trailer did not apply its brakes. Now, um, so that's a horrifying story. And as I said,

00:12:36.480 they're happening all the time. Meanwhile, over in Nevada, a 29 year old African named Claude

00:12:41.480 Rafiki drove on the wrong side of the road in his 18 wheeler. He ran over several motorcyclists,

00:12:46.840 killing three of them. One of the fatalities was a 22 year old man celebrating his birthday. He was

00:12:51.660 crushed by the 18 wheeler as his parents looked on. Here's how the media covered that story.

00:12:58.940 It's just after two 30 on March 23rd. This video, the eight news now investigators obtained

00:13:04.240 shows this semi truck heading West on route one 63 near Laughlin when it slowly moves across a pair

00:13:11.040 of rumble strips and onto the wrong side of the road. The driver narrowly misses a car before staying

00:13:17.000 on the wrong side for 15 more seconds. Then as a group of eight motorcycles comes around the corner,

00:13:23.320 the impact. We are pausing the video there. 22 year old Owen Hart was riding with his fiance

00:13:30.120 to celebrate his birthday. They would die along with another rider in the group.

00:13:36.280 Nevada state police originally arrested 29 year old Claude Rafiki on three charges of DUI

00:13:43.460 resulting in death. In an arrest report, the eight news now investigators obtained a trooper deemed

00:13:48.920 Rafiki's performance on a field sobriety test unsatisfactory. As of Tuesday, we don't know why

00:13:55.480 Rafiki was on the wrong side of the road. In all, the video shows him there for 25 seconds.

00:14:02.300 Now, Rafiki told police that it was actually the wind that caused him to go the wrong way.

00:14:06.220 And the National Weather Service had issued a warning that day about gusts in that area.

00:14:12.780 Yes, the wind. The wind did it. The wind supposedly blew an 18-wheeler onto the wrong side of the road

00:14:18.160 for 30 seconds. Now, what's strange about the wind is that other than Claude Rafiki,

00:14:23.480 no one else was blown out of their lane. No one else seems to have been impacted by it.

00:14:27.600 Even the motorcyclists were able to maintain their lanes right up until he killed them.

00:14:30.680 But according to a local news report, we're supposed to infer that Rafiki has a plausible

00:14:35.560 defense here. Now, notice how in this news report, they don't demonstrate any curiosity about whether

00:14:40.940 Claude Rafiki was a legal immigrant or whether he could speak English, how he obtained a commercial

00:14:47.440 driver's license in Michigan. According to one local news station, quote, Rafiki's initial court

00:14:52.420 appearance was delayed several days as the courts were working to find Rafiki a translator. Rafiki speaks

00:14:58.140 Kinyarwanda, a Central African language. Now, right away, you think this would disqualify someone

00:15:05.600 from holding a commercial driver's license? He can't read the street signs. He needs a specialized

00:15:10.280 translator from Africa in order to understand what's happening around him. But apparently none of this

00:15:17.160 is disqualifying in sanctuary states. They'll hand you a commercial driver's license and send you on

00:15:21.760 your way. Even if you kill several people, they don't think it's a big deal. Rafiki was only

00:15:28.080 sentenced to roughly four years in jail after all this. For killing three people, he got four years

00:15:34.460 in jail. It's about, what, a year and, you know, four months per person that he killed. Again, pretty

00:15:43.900 much every single trucking accident is like this. Back in Fort Worth, I came across this report from late

00:15:49.080 last year. The family of a woman killed in Fort Worth by a suspected drunk truck driver is suing

00:15:57.660 the truck company. Fox Sports Dan England spoke with a mother of two. The family expressed their

00:16:03.820 frustration. Dion. Clarice, the family of Amanda Michelle Wright says she was taken from them by

00:16:11.800 someone who decided to drive while intoxicated. He should have never been hired. He should never

00:16:17.420 have been behind the wheel. 24-year-old Guadalupe Velasquez Cruz is behind bars charged with 0.98

00:16:23.540 intoxication manslaughter and intoxication assault. A friend riding with Amanda was seriously injured

00:16:30.680 in the rear-end collision. She was a designated driver coming home from a concert. There was traffic

00:16:36.120 on 820 West early morning of September 19th. As she was stopped in traffic, there was cars in front

00:16:42.440 of her. Yes, Guadalupe Velasquez Cruz was the culprit here. So another classic American name for you.

00:16:51.220 And who could forget the crash caused by Ignacio Cruz Mendoza, the drug trafficker who had been

00:16:55.980 deported more than a dozen times? Watch. Federal court documents which show Ignacio Cruz Mendoza was

00:17:02.980 arrested for a low-level drug crime. Punishment was 10 days in jail. Now he's behind bars in Colorado

00:17:08.880 for vehicular homicide. A driver of a semi-truck may have been going too fast when he lost control

00:17:17.440 on Highway 285. Law enforcement is familiar with this man, Ignacio Cruz Mendoza. Federal officials say

00:17:24.380 he had been deported or left the U.S. voluntarily 16 times over the last 22 years. It began in 2002

00:17:31.360 when Cruz Mendoza was arrested in Oregon. 9 News Investigates learned it was a low-level drug

00:17:36.600 trafficking charge. 10 days in jail, 18 months probation. Federal records show some of his

00:17:41.960 immigration history. Cruz Mendoza was deported on September 10, 2004. He re-entered the U.S.

00:17:48.360 without proper authorization 10 days later. Other than the drug trafficking charge, ICE is not aware

00:17:53.820 of any other local criminal charges on his record. In Colorado, State Patrol says he was driving a big

00:17:59.540 brake without a commercial driver's license. The crash killed the 64-year-old man and seriously hurt

00:18:05.640 another person. Colorado police determined that, quote, speed was a primary reason for the crash

00:18:12.600 and that the truck's brakes failed. But in the end, this guy only received a seven-month prison

00:18:18.040 sentence. He's been deported, so essentially he suffered no consequences whatsoever. Before long,

00:18:22.500 he'd probably be back in the country driving another truck for some other fake company.

00:18:25.540 The truth is, there are so many crashes like this taking place every day in this country that it's

00:18:30.160 impossible to track them all. And very often, the media doesn't tell us anything about them.

00:18:34.800 Take this crash from late last month at Coachella Valley, for example. We still have

00:18:38.000 no explanation for how this happened or who the driver was.

00:18:42.640 New at 6, stunning new video capturing a deadly crash on the 10 freeway in Coachella Valley. The CHP says

00:18:49.520 it happened just before 7 o'clock this morning near Date Palm Drive exit. A big rig appears to have

00:18:55.120 lost control and swerved straight into the center divider before crashing into oncoming traffic.

00:19:00.520 It all happened so fast that drivers didn't have enough time to react. The CHP says two people

00:19:06.580 died in this crash. Now, the latest news article I can find in the story is four weeks old. There

00:19:11.840 doesn't seem to be much urgency in California to get to the bottom of it. An 18-wheeler views across

00:19:17.320 the freeway, killed several people, and we're not allowed to know anything about who the driver was.

00:19:21.260 Nobody will provide any kind of update on the investigation whatsoever, and that's how things

00:19:24.920 work in California. It's also how things work in Canada. A few years ago in Ontario, a truck driver

00:19:30.200 named Mahakdeep Singh plowed into a car while he was texting on his phone. We'll pull that footage.

00:19:37.360 I'll put it up on the screen right now. The crash killed two children ages 7 and 3, and their 68-year-old

00:19:43.800 grandmother. Now, Mahakdeep Singh shouldn't have been driving at all. He falsified his logbook for one thing.

00:19:49.440 For another, Canada never should have allowed him into the country, but in the end, he was

00:19:52.840 sentenced to just five years in prison. Probably won't even be deported. For wiping out an entire 1.00

00:19:57.700 family, you get a lighter sentence than what George Santos got. That's not surprising in Canada. Back in

00:20:04.000 2018, somebody named Jaskarat Singh Sidhu killed 16 people, including several members of a junior ice

00:20:11.380 hockey team called the Humboldt Broncos. Jaskarat failed to stop at a stop sign, plowed directly into the team

00:20:18.520 bus. He had dozens of recorded safety violations the days prior to the crash. Shouldn't have been

00:20:23.940 on the roads either. And as punishment for destroying more than a dozen families and wiping

00:20:28.660 out a small town's hockey team, killing everyone, he received a sentence of just eight years in prison.

00:20:35.520 For comparison, that's what? That's six months per death? For comparison, that's the same sentence

00:20:42.500 that the government of Canada sought against the organizer of the nonviolent trucker convoy

00:20:48.000 protesting COVID mandates. That's how far gone Canada is. Upsetting the government

00:20:53.740 is treated as equally as bad as mass murder. What's extraordinary about these kinds of incidents

00:21:01.320 from a political perspective is how easy they would be to stop. In the United States, at least,

00:21:06.180 we don't have to tolerate this. Here's a paragraph I just pulled from the U.S. Immigration Law

00:21:11.100 Council, which assists illegal aliens. Quote, if you're not a citizen, legal permanent resident

00:21:15.900 or resident of Canada or Mexico, then you could obtain a non-domiciled CDL in the U.S. if you meet

00:21:22.380 certain requirements. Skillful immigration attorneys can help navigate you through this process when

00:21:27.840 you're unsure. Well, this process needs to be ended immediately. There should be no room for a

00:21:35.840 skillful immigration attorney or any immigration attorney to secure a commercial driver's license

00:21:41.780 for someone who is not a citizen or even legal permanent resident of the United States. The

00:21:47.680 entire category of non-domiciled CDLs should be outlawed federally by Congress. States like California

00:21:54.600 should be barred from issuing them for any reason. This would not be remotely difficult to do.

00:22:00.560 Under the Constitution, the federal government has the authority to regulate interstate commerce,

00:22:05.420 so it's time to regulate it. Doing so would save lives. There's no question about it. But at the

00:22:10.540 same time, it wouldn't solve the whole problem. In part, that's because of open corruption that takes

00:22:15.280 place in DMVs all over the country. It's not just happening in Gavin Newsom's California. This is from

00:22:20.520 the Fox affiliate in Florida just a month ago. Quote, eight people have been arrested in Florida in

00:22:24.640 connection with an alleged driver's license scheme involving undocumented immigrants. During the

00:22:29.400 investigation authorities discovered that two DMV employees were issuing an abnormally high number

00:22:34.140 of driver's licenses. Upon reviewing DMV surveillance footage, investigators confirmed that the

00:22:39.880 individuals receiving these licenses were not completing the legally required tests. The probe

00:22:44.040 also revealed that the individuals seeking the licenses were connected through a third-party

00:22:47.740 intermediary. Recently, there have been similar busts in California and New York and all over the

00:22:53.520 country. And we all know that these arrests are barely scratching the surface. The only DMV employees

00:22:59.260 who were caught in all these cases were being extremely obvious about it. So this is Operation

00:23:04.000 Safe Road all over again. So we have systemic corruption at every level. The DMV is corrupt.

00:23:10.180 Many of these trucking companies don't really exist. Totally unaccountable. And the drivers,

00:23:15.120 who often have no regard for our laws or our language or our anything, are able to walk free just a

00:23:21.160 couple of years after they kill American citizens. Getting rid of non-domiciled CDLs is one step, 1.00

00:23:27.180 but the Trump administration has to go much further than that. We need daily raids at rest stops on

00:23:32.820 all these highways, just like they're raiding Home Depots. Arrest every single illegal alien with a 0.88

00:23:37.580 useless CDL from California or Michigan or anywhere else. And then the federal government should use 0.93

00:23:44.320 the same dragnet they used on the January 6th grandmothers to hunt down everyone who's ever opened 0.86

00:23:50.440 one of these fake trucking companies to employ illegal aliens. This is what RICO laws were made 0.96

00:23:55.780 for. Don't just go after the companies that employ these truckers. Go after the people who establish

00:24:00.720 all of these shell companies. And then when you're done with all that, find a way to make sure that

00:24:05.840 more Americans are driving these trucks and running these companies. Give them whatever incentives are

00:24:12.500 needed. Make the mandatory testing for CDLs about 10 times harder than it is and include a language

00:24:18.140 test. Force states to immediately report the name of every trucker involved in a fatal crash, along

00:24:25.000 with the name of their company and its owner. If the information doesn't check out, which it almost

00:24:29.580 certainly won't, then cut federal funding to the state until they've reformed their DMV. Very quickly,

00:24:35.980 the Trump administration, if it takes any of these steps, will find that you'll have more Americans on

00:24:40.500 the road and fewer illegals like Harjinder or Singh. This is the only viable approach because Americans, 0.82

00:24:47.140 you know, Americans generally value the rule of law and they tend to care about human life.

00:24:52.860 They tend to speak English and understand our customs. And those are attributes that are actually

00:24:59.300 pretty rare when you zoom out and look at the entire world. But they're attributes that every single

00:25:04.600 truck driver must possess. Or else you'll keep hearing more stories about entire families getting

00:25:10.360 wiped out on the interstate. No matter how many euphemisms Democrats come up with, these stories will

00:25:16.040 not go away until the foreign truck driver problem does. These foreigners will lose their livelihoods, 1.00

00:25:22.500 but Americans will keep their lives. And that's a pretty easy trade. It's time we make it. 1.00

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00:28:56.340 the market. The mayor's race in Minneapolis continues. Voting begins soon, I believe.

00:29:02.620 So let's check in on the latest political rally for the leading contender in that race. And let's

00:29:08.120 see, let's see what that's like. Here it is. Check it out.

00:29:12.940 Congresswoman Adashain! Yeah! 0.99

00:29:14.480 Congresswoman Adashain! 1.00

00:29:35.960 Yes, that is a political rally in Minnesota in the year 2025.

00:29:53.380 It's not Mogadishu.

00:29:55.080 It's in Minneapolis, Minnesota, home of the Minnesota Vikings, the 32nd state in the union.

00:30:00.560 The birthplace of Bob Dylan, land of 10,000 lakes that were created through the footsteps of Paul Bunyan, as the folk tales, as the American folk tales tell us.

00:30:14.200 Minnesota is an American state.

00:30:16.060 It has a lot of American history tied to it.

00:30:19.300 It's our state that belongs to us.

00:30:22.920 And yet the leading mayoral candidate is holding rallies that look like a scene from Black Hawk Down.

00:30:28.020 If I showed you that without any context, and I told you that it was a rally in Somalia to elect the new village warlord or whatever, you'd believe me. 0.92

00:30:37.780 I mean, I don't think they elect warlords.

00:30:39.140 That's not how it generally works.

00:30:40.080 But, you know, you get my point.

00:30:42.560 And notice, when you look at that clip, notice what you don't notice.

00:30:47.680 You don't notice American flags, patriotic music, English.

00:30:55.420 Nobody's speaking English at this rally.

00:30:58.020 And it's a disgrace.

00:31:02.160 It's a disgrace because here's the thing.

00:31:06.620 This is what I want everyone to understand.

00:31:08.400 We don't have to allow this.

00:31:10.540 We don't have to tolerate it.

00:31:12.740 Just like the problem of drunk illegals on our roadways, behind semi-trucks, killing entire families. 1.00

00:31:19.420 We don't have to tolerate that.

00:31:20.980 It's very possible to make it so that that doesn't happen.

00:31:26.240 And it's the same thing with this.

00:31:29.080 We don't have to tolerate this.

00:31:30.360 This is our country.

00:31:31.140 This is America.

00:31:31.820 It's our home.

00:31:33.000 We can make the rules in our home.

00:31:35.980 Did you know that?

00:31:36.840 We're allowed to do that.

00:31:38.440 We really are.

00:31:39.600 Despite what you may have been told.

00:31:40.760 We can make whatever rules we want.

00:31:43.860 This is our country.

00:31:44.600 Now, what rules could we make that would prohibit the scene that we just witnessed?

00:31:51.120 Well, we could pass a law saying that political candidates and political officials cannot engage in political activities in any language but English.

00:31:59.800 That'd be a good law.

00:32:01.480 This is America.

00:32:02.480 We speak English.

00:32:03.220 And if you want to hold political office in this country, you need to speak in a language that your constituents can understand.

00:32:09.400 You know, if I'm a Minneapolis resident, there should never be an occasion ever where the mayor of my town in official capacity is addressing a crowd in a language that I don't understand.

00:32:20.120 And there are other laws that we could pass, too.

00:32:21.620 We could pass a law saying that only native-born people can hold office. 1.00

00:32:27.520 You know, any political office.

00:32:28.760 We already have that.

00:32:29.700 We have that law for the—obviously, that's the rule for the presidency.

00:32:34.300 And why shouldn't we apply it to congressmen, senators, mayors, governors?

00:32:40.020 Plenty of countries have these restrictions for most major political offices.

00:32:44.160 The Philippines, for example, I think has that.

00:32:46.780 So why shouldn't we do that?

00:32:48.700 We can.

00:32:49.420 Again, we can do that.

00:32:51.300 We can pass whatever law we want.

00:32:52.840 Again, and if there's any law that would be supposedly unconstitutional, well, we can change the Constitution.

00:32:58.600 We can do that.

00:32:59.380 This is our country.

00:33:00.020 We can do what we want.

00:33:01.660 We can run it how we want.

00:33:03.660 Granted, Omar Fateh is actually native-born.

00:33:06.800 He was born in D.C. to Somali immigrant parents.

00:33:10.040 But he's clearly unassimilated.

00:33:11.760 Is there a law we could pass that would prevent the Omar Fatehs of the world from holding office here? 1.00

00:33:18.820 Sure, we could ban people from certain countries from coming here in the first place. 1.00

00:33:22.900 Not all countries are compatible with ours.

00:33:27.720 Not all cultures are compatible with ours.

00:33:29.740 Not all cultures should be welcome here. 1.00

00:33:31.320 This is our home.

00:33:32.320 We're under no obligation to welcome whoever happens to come knocking on the door.

00:33:35.820 And it's funny when people cite historical precedent as a justification for shipping, you know, Somalis here en masse. 1.00

00:33:46.240 And they'll say, well, we're a nation of immigrants.

00:33:48.860 It's what our founders wanted.

00:33:50.380 Is it, though?

00:33:52.800 Is it?

00:33:54.820 Does anyone actually think that Thomas Jefferson had this in mind?

00:33:59.280 If Jefferson arrived here in a time machine and saw that rally in Minneapolis, does anyone think he would say, oh, yeah, great.

00:34:08.120 This is exactly what I wanted.

00:34:09.860 This is what I had in mind, guys.

00:34:11.540 Nice work, folks.

00:34:13.360 Does anyone think that?

00:34:15.080 No, of course not.

00:34:16.040 And this nation of immigrants thing, I mean, I've addressed it many times.

00:34:23.140 But just to emphasize the point again, we are not a nation of immigrants.

00:34:28.800 We are a nation of settlers.

00:34:30.720 We're a nation of pioneers.

00:34:33.680 And that's completely different.

00:34:35.100 We are a nation of builders.

00:34:36.680 We're a nation of people who came here and built a country from scratch.

00:34:40.040 But the immigrants who come here now are not doing that. 1.00

00:34:43.840 They just aren't.

00:34:44.580 Like, take, well, take Minnesota as an example.

00:34:48.680 Somalis are migrating to Minneapolis, Minnesota.

00:34:53.080 White Europeans also migrated to the place we now call Minnesota.

00:34:58.980 What's the difference?

00:34:59.800 Well, the first European settlement in Minneapolis or in Minnesota was established in 1731.

00:35:08.280 It was an outpost for fur traders.

00:35:10.240 Minnesota, you know, was a wilderness back then.

00:35:17.020 There were maybe about 10,000 or 15,000 Indians there spread out across 80,000 square miles.

00:35:23.580 It was a wilderness.

00:35:24.920 And those European settlers built a community from scratch, chopped down trees, built homes, farm, hunt, establish trade, defend their communities from Indians and bandits and all the rest of it. 0.94

00:35:35.640 That's what the migrants had to do.

00:35:37.660 Somalis who come here now are not doing any of that. 1.00

00:35:41.540 They're not building anything.

00:35:42.760 They're instead taking advantage of what was built.

00:35:46.140 And that is the crucial difference.

00:35:47.780 So that's why we are not a nation of immigrants. 0.97

00:35:53.000 We are a nation of pioneers.

00:35:56.360 And there is a very clear distinction between those two categories of people.

00:36:00.060 All right, here's an article in the Daily Mail headline, Obama's obscene monument to his ego dramatically backfires as $850 million vanity project sparks outrage.

00:36:16.380 Reading on, President Barack Obama's promise to build and revitalize blighted neighborhoods was a centerpiece of his first term in the White House.

00:36:22.940 But now, nearly nine years after he left the Oval Office, he might be destroying one critical area in the city he called home.

00:36:30.000 His $850 million presidential center in Chicago, due to open in April, has come under fire from residents, community leaders, and one-time supporters who now warn that the massive 19.3-acre facility is gentrifying the neighborhood, increasing rent, and forcing families out.

00:36:44.520 Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor, who represents much of the area where the center is being built, told the Daily Mail she's a fan of Obama and believes in the project, but has fought aspects of it to protect her constituents.

00:36:55.620 Her efforts have had mixed results.

00:36:58.260 She said, we're going to see rents go higher.

00:37:00.300 We're going to see families displaced.

00:37:02.260 Every time large development comes to communities, they displace the very people they say they want to improve it for.

00:37:06.460 This was no different, and we're living what is actually happening.

00:37:08.960 The city of Chicago should have done a community benefits agreement before the first shovel went into the ground, but they didn't.

00:37:14.520 So, people are complaining about this giant monument that Obama has built to himself.

00:37:19.320 Many of the complaints are legitimate. 1.00

00:37:22.360 Some of them are dumb. 0.98

00:37:24.760 Gentrification, you know, as if gentrification isn't obviously a good thing. 1.00

00:37:28.800 So, you know, that's stupid. 0.99

00:37:30.600 But generally, yeah, they're right to be annoyed. 0.99

00:37:33.200 Yet nobody, if you read the whole article, nobody hits on the worst thing about Obama's monument to himself, which is that the thing is an absolute monstrosity.

00:37:42.320 It's one of the ugliest buildings ever designed.

00:37:46.320 So, let's take it.

00:37:47.160 We'll put some pictures of this thing up on the screen so you can see it.

00:37:52.760 And just look at this thing.

00:37:54.500 This massive, windowless hunk of concrete.

00:37:59.060 It looks like a villain's lair.

00:38:01.100 You know, it looks like a giant prison where you keep supervillains.

00:38:04.960 It looks like if you walk into this thing that, you know, Magneto will be in there in a glass box.

00:38:11.500 That's what it looks like.

00:38:12.640 It looks like a prison where they keep Magneto.

00:38:15.940 It looks like a picture of a building that an emotionally disturbed child would draw on lined paper.

00:38:22.560 It's hideous.

00:38:23.280 It's like a doomsday bunker. 0.64

00:38:27.680 It's like a tower where an evil wizard would live.

00:38:31.720 It's just, it's very ugly is what I'm saying.

00:38:34.420 And in that way, it's the perfect monument to Obama. 0.97

00:38:38.740 Obscene, ugly, cumbersome, sinister.

00:38:42.320 Really does capture Obama's essence, you have to admit.

00:38:45.760 And it captures the essence of the ideological movement that he represents.

00:38:49.260 It's a movement that hates beauty.

00:38:52.580 You know, everything starts to make more sense.

00:38:54.960 So much of what's happening in our culture kind of makes sense.

00:38:57.920 When you realize that these people, leftists, hate beauty.

00:39:02.480 They hate things that are beautiful.

00:39:04.380 That's why they've gone out of the way to make everything ugly. 0.99

00:39:06.900 Ugly buildings, ugly art, ugly music, ugly people. 0.97

00:39:10.600 Why is leftism associated with copious facial piercings and ridiculously colored, you know, unnatural hair? 0.98

00:39:18.520 I mean, if you see a woman who's morbidly obese and has a septum piercing and green hair, you immediately know her political ideology. 1.00

00:39:30.440 Why is that?

00:39:32.080 I mean, it's worth thinking about.

00:39:33.260 It's become a meme.

00:39:34.420 It's a cliche.

00:39:34.960 You know, we talk about the blue hairs and the green hairs, and it's cliched at this point, but it's also true.

00:39:42.020 It's cliche for a reason.

00:39:44.080 But why is that?

00:39:45.800 Why is green hair political?

00:39:48.120 I mean, how could a hair color have a political party?

00:39:51.500 How could a piercing signify your ideological alignment?

00:39:55.640 How could that be? 0.98

00:39:56.260 Well, the answer is that green hair is ugly. 0.97

00:40:01.820 Septum piercings are ugly.

00:40:05.460 You know, a woman who dyes her hair blonde, that doesn't necessarily tell you anything about her politics. 1.00

00:40:11.480 Because blonde hair can be attractive. 0.88

00:40:15.040 But green hair cannot be.

00:40:17.320 Like, by definition, it's just, it's not, humans don't have that color hair.

00:40:21.100 So it's ugly.

00:40:22.120 It's weird.

00:40:22.740 It's bizarre.

00:40:24.620 And leftism celebrates and elevates ugliness.

00:40:31.000 Just like if I showed you Obama's presidential library and you didn't have any context at all, and I didn't tell you whose library it was, and I told you it was a presidential library for an American president of the past 50 years,

00:40:42.740 and that's all I told you, you would immediately guess that it must be a Democrat president.

00:40:47.460 And then you'd probably guess Obama, just by process of elimination, and he's the most left-wing of the Democrats.

00:40:53.820 How do you know that?

00:40:54.700 How could you make that guess?

00:40:55.700 Well, because it's hideous.

00:40:58.020 And making hideous things on purpose, spending $100 million to make hideous things, is a political act, a left-wing political act, because leftism hates beauty.

00:41:08.140 All right, here's Joy Reid on her podcast.

00:41:10.060 I guess this is her podcast, or maybe someone else's, I don't know. 0.94

00:41:12.740 Anyway, she's talking about why she hates white people, so a change of pace for Joy Reid. 0.98

00:41:16.020 Here it is, listen. 0.96

00:41:17.460 They can't fix the history they did.

00:41:20.080 Their ancestors made this country into a slave hell, but they can clean it up now because they got the Smithsonian. 0.94

00:41:28.920 They can get rid of all the slavery stuff.

00:41:30.340 They got PragerU.

00:41:31.380 They can lie about the history to the children.

00:41:33.060 They can't originally invent anything more than they ever were able to invent good music.

00:41:38.780 We black folk gave y'all country music, hip-hop, R&B, jazz, rock and roll.

00:41:43.900 They couldn't even invent that, but they have to call a white man the king.

00:41:47.460 Because they couldn't make rock and roll. 0.98

00:41:50.180 So they have to stamp the king on a man whose main song was stolen from an overweight black woman.

00:41:57.340 So this is the mythology, and it is just pure mythology. 0.99

00:42:02.240 Race hustlers like Joy Reid have invented this kind of Wakanda mythology where black people invented everything and whites stole it. 0.97

00:42:09.300 We hear this all the time. 0.99

00:42:10.220 It's completely fake.

00:42:11.920 She talks about music.

00:42:13.560 This is a common misconception or more like misinformation, right? 0.81

00:42:17.220 It's a deliberate lie that's told, which claims that white people pilfered every genre of music from black people. 0.96

00:42:23.900 But that's nonsense. 0.51

00:42:27.000 Country music has origins in European folk music.

00:42:32.060 European folk music, English, Irish, Scottish, was brought here by European settlers.

00:42:40.280 And they found their way to the Appalachian region.

00:42:43.020 And that's where country music, as we know today, was gestated.

00:42:46.600 Rock music is more of a hybrid.

00:42:49.000 Lots of different genres and influences went into it.

00:42:51.820 Yes, some black artists were instrumental in pioneering rock music, also white artists.

00:42:55.260 The majority of the most influential and iconic rock bands and rock stars of all time were white, you know, the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, AOC, AOC, AOC, she's a real rock star, ACDC rather, Metallica, you know, so on and so on. 0.64

00:43:11.600 So if you were to make a list of the 100 greatest rock bands of all time, you know, there'd be probably three or four black artists on it.

00:43:19.560 Chuck Berry, you know, Jimi Hendrix, a couple others. 0.93

00:43:23.880 So the idea that rock music belongs to black people or was a black genre stolen by white people is just total gibberish. 0.72

00:43:30.380 It makes no sense at all. 0.62

00:43:32.400 And, you know, we don't need to rehash this again.

00:43:35.740 But in terms of other inventions, I mean, Joy Reid is talking about inventions in general, saying whites can't invent anything.

00:43:43.140 Meanwhile, almost all the most important inventions of the past, say, 2000 years came from white people. 0.93

00:43:49.480 That's just a fact.

00:43:51.140 I mean, go ahead and test me on it.

00:43:52.400 Make a list of the top 50, top 100 inventions of all time by your standard, whatever that, you know, and look up who invented them.

00:44:00.280 I mean, it'll be a white guy, a white man specifically, like 98% of the time, if not more.

00:44:07.220 And again, that's just it's just a fact.

00:44:09.200 That's the reality.

00:44:09.740 Which is why every place that Europeans settled and colonized had new technology introduced to it.

00:44:17.660 They didn't discover new technology among the tribes they encountered.

00:44:22.020 They introduced the tribes to technology.

00:44:25.320 Now, sure, Europeans discovered, say, you know, kayaks from the Inuit, surfboards, the Polynesians invented the surfboard, that sort of thing.

00:44:37.040 But those are interesting variations on old technology, not new technology itself.

00:44:44.040 Now, you might be asking, why does this matter?

00:44:47.280 I'm like, why do we have to keep a racial scorecard for inventions?

00:44:52.400 Well, I don't know.

00:44:53.240 Ask Joy Reid that. 0.73

00:44:54.520 People like her are the ones who insist on rewriting history to claim that white people didn't invent or innovate anything, which could not be further from the truth. 0.57

00:45:03.060 And if not for people like her making this claim, if not for this claim being widely popularized and even taught in schools, then it wouldn't be necessary for people like me to point out the reality.

00:45:14.120 But they do make that claim, so I do have to point it out, and that's on them.

00:45:18.740 And going back to the music point, because it's true that black culture had a heavy influence on many modern musical genres, even country music, sure.

00:45:27.440 You know, it's not true that black people invented country music, but as I said, you can trace it back to European folk music.

00:45:35.120 You can trace it back, I mean, this stuff goes back hundreds of years to European cultures.

00:45:40.640 But black artists did have an influence there.

00:45:42.660 I mean, the banjo, for example, I think came from Africa, like West Africa.

00:45:46.540 African enslaved Africans in this country were the first to play, you know, the banjo.

00:45:52.380 Eventually, that sound was combined with Appalachian folk music, and that's all great.

00:45:56.180 Music is an example of cultures influencing each other to create, you know, in many cases, something beautiful.

00:46:02.560 Not always, but something beautiful.

00:46:07.400 And so Joy Reid could try to say that, look, music is a great example of the wonders of multiculturalism.

00:46:16.280 And I would object to that conclusion.

00:46:18.380 I would say that, I mean, music is one thing, but that doesn't.

00:46:22.380 And in fact, if anything, it's an example of assimilation when you've got different influences that assimilate into one melodious sound.

00:46:30.680 And the multicultural dystopia we live in now, there's no melody here. 0.99

00:46:38.640 There's no assimilation.

00:46:40.520 We're not all assimilating into one song or one symphony.

00:46:44.240 It's a whole bunch of different people playing different instruments and different songs and different notes.

00:46:48.980 And it just sounds like chaos because that's what it is.

00:46:51.360 But anyway, that's not even the point she's trying to make.

00:46:57.340 She's not satisfied for that.

00:46:58.920 She wants to pretend that white people never had music because really she wants to pretend that white people never had a culture.

00:47:05.180 And she knows that music is a big part of culture.

00:47:09.320 You know, if you're Joy Reid, it's very important to you that white people believe that they have no culture.

00:47:15.840 And that there's no reason to be proud of, you know, being white, like there's not there's nothing to be proud of, which means that they can never have invented anything and they can't have music. 0.96

00:47:25.500 So this is all part of an effort to deprive a global minority. 0.96

00:47:32.620 White people are a global minority of of culture. 0.97

00:47:37.720 And and instead replace it with, you know, a sense of nothingness and guilt and all of this, because that's what they want white people to feel. 0.66

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00:48:44.580 Well, we announced that she's joined the Daily Wire. You've seen her on the shows.

00:48:48.900 And now Isabel Brown has important news to share. Watch this.

00:48:51.960 Isabel Brown.

00:48:52.760 Isabel Brown.

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00:48:54.600 The wait is almost over.

00:48:55.960 She's joining Daily Wire Plus with the Isabel Brown Show.

00:48:58.860 Cannot wait for you guys to see how hard we've been working.

00:49:01.380 I could not be more excited for this new adventure.

00:49:03.720 You can expect larger-than-life guests.

00:49:05.640 Seeker questions.

00:49:06.440 I'm encouraged by it. I see what you're seeing.

00:49:08.280 The gift that you have as a woman to create life is the most badass, punk rock, incredible thing that you could possibly do. 1.00

00:49:17.920 This is an active culture war that we are still fighting.

00:49:20.940 And it's vitally important that we fight now harder than ever.

00:49:24.040 To the nerds.

00:49:25.520 Meeting the President of the United States and the Vice President.

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00:50:08.280 Well, ever since that DOJ employee threw a subway footlong at a federal officer, then pranced away in his shorts before being arrested, it's been hard to imagine how a Democrat could possibly cause a more embarrassing scene on the national stage.

00:50:20.580 To be fair, it's been a very difficult eight months for these people.

00:50:24.260 Criminals are actually being arrested.

00:50:25.940 Immigration laws are being enforced.

00:50:27.980 The President can actually complete a sentence.

00:50:29.960 These are all major changes in our country.

00:50:31.640 Democrats are still adjusting to them.

00:50:33.440 But all the same, you might hope that their public meltdowns will become less severe over time instead of intensifying with each passing day.

00:50:39.620 You think that now that one federal employee has been fired for throwing a sandwich, committing assault with a deli weapon, as I saw when we made that joke on.

00:50:49.020 I wish that was my joke.

00:50:50.100 It's not my joke.

00:50:51.180 It's a great pun.

00:50:52.900 Assault with a deli weapon.

00:50:54.320 Anyway, but after that happens, every other Democrat with a government job would be on their best behavior, at least for a little while, you would hope.

00:51:02.100 But alas, recent events have proven that indeed things can get much, much more embarrassing for these people.

00:51:07.560 Yesterday, body camera footage was released showing the arrest of Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan, who works in the office of Rhode Island's Democrat Attorney General.

00:51:18.380 Flanagan was arrested along with a friend after the two women refused to leave a restaurant. 0.92

00:51:24.060 Now, this is one of the more entertaining body cams of the past year, so we're going to break it down like the Zapruder film.

00:51:30.320 And here's how the saga begins, with police arriving on scene at the restaurant.

00:51:36.020 Watch.

00:51:37.560 I want you to turn your body cam off.

00:51:39.620 The protocol is that you turn it off.

00:51:41.240 As a citizen request, it's to turn it off.

00:51:43.720 So they want you guys to leave?

00:51:46.140 Yes, we're going to.

00:51:46.740 Let's just leave.

00:51:47.480 Let's just make it easy, okay?

00:51:48.420 We're going to leave.

00:51:48.680 We're going to make it easy.

00:51:49.560 No, no, no.

00:51:50.320 Are you with them?

00:51:51.480 I am.

00:51:52.060 Okay.

00:51:52.420 I'm a resident.

00:51:52.900 That's not the point.

00:51:53.460 Can you look at me right here?

00:51:54.560 We'll talk over here, okay?

00:51:55.840 Your protocol is.

00:51:56.740 Can we all talk?

00:51:58.260 Can we all talk?

00:51:58.880 We'll talk over here.

00:51:59.500 They want you to leave.

00:52:00.220 Your protocol is.

00:52:01.360 Can we talk?

00:52:02.420 Now, the woman is demanding that the police officers turn off their body cameras, and that 1.00

00:52:09.020 woman is Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan.

00:52:12.400 Now, the younger-looking woman, who also has an attitude, is named Veronica Hannon. 0.51

00:52:17.180 She reportedly identifies herself online as a champion of diversity in STEM.

00:52:20.900 So, she's a college friend of Flanagan's.

00:52:23.600 Now, watching this tape so far, one can only guess why the Special Assistant Attorney General

00:52:28.400 would want the police officers to turn off their body cameras.

00:52:32.140 It's more than a little ironic, since leftists were the ones who demanded that police wear

00:52:35.320 body cameras all the time, but now that they've realized body cameras helped the police,

00:52:39.060 they've done a 180 on that whole idea, as we previously discussed.

00:52:42.060 In any event, the Special Assistant Attorney General is wrong on the law here.

00:52:46.260 I mean, this was pretty obvious, but just to be sure, I spent five seconds looking it

00:52:49.500 up.

00:52:50.360 In Rhode Island, police officers are given the discretion to turn off their body cameras

00:52:53.680 upon request of a witness or victim in a very sensitive situation in a private place.

00:53:00.100 But this is a completely different scenario entirely.

00:53:03.440 In this case, the suspect is making the request on a public street.

00:53:07.300 And while I'm not a lawyer or even an assistant attorney general, it's safe to say that this

00:53:12.380 is a pretty massive distinction.

00:53:14.400 But apparently, this woman believes that if criminals just say the magic word, then the body

00:53:18.000 cameras will be shut off.

00:53:19.500 This is the kind of statement that might make you wonder how intelligent this woman is 1.00

00:53:23.080 or how she could possibly qualify to serve as an assistant attorney general. 1.00

00:53:26.640 But as the footage went on, she doubled down on her credential and the entertainment value 0.65

00:53:32.400 of the footage increases exponentially at the same time.

00:53:36.060 Watch.

00:53:36.320 Do you guys just want to know?

00:53:38.580 Do you want to trespass?

00:53:39.740 Anything we can do.

00:53:41.060 Trespass?

00:53:41.420 Yeah.

00:53:41.740 I just need to.

00:53:42.400 Trespass.

00:53:42.760 Get him out.

00:53:43.740 Please.

00:53:44.240 It's the only way to know.

00:53:45.740 No, I'm not.

00:53:46.980 No, I'm not.

00:53:49.540 Do we want to chat?

00:53:50.800 I know that your protocol is...

00:53:52.540 So you're trespassed, so we've got to leave now.

00:53:54.700 Unless you want to be in the ambulance.

00:53:55.340 We're not trespassing.

00:53:56.200 You haven't notified us that we're trespassing.

00:53:57.700 Number one.

00:53:58.300 Number two.

00:53:58.400 What did I just say to you?

00:53:59.560 You're trespassing.

00:54:00.000 Let's go.

00:54:00.440 Number one.

00:54:00.980 I don't want to arrest you guys.

00:54:01.940 You're not going to arrest us.

00:54:03.600 Number two is that...

00:54:03.960 So let's leave.

00:54:04.540 We've got to go.

00:54:05.120 We've got to go.

00:54:05.460 I don't want to deal with this.

00:54:10.320 Let's go.

00:54:10.900 I understand you don't want to deal with it, but the protocol is...

00:54:13.900 And your protocol is if I ask you to turn off the body cam, you have to turn it off.

00:54:17.860 And that's your protocol. 0.98

00:54:19.100 She's a f***ing lawyer, so she knows. 0.98

00:54:21.480 Well, that's f***ing lawyer stuff, so that's not true. 0.99

00:54:23.640 So we've got to go. 0.96

00:54:24.460 No.

00:54:24.800 It is.

00:54:25.800 That's law.

00:54:26.580 I'm an agent.

00:54:27.760 I'm an agent.

00:54:28.560 Good for you. 0.99

00:54:29.220 I don't give a f***. 0.99

00:54:29.820 Let's go. 0.98

00:54:31.220 We're going.

00:54:32.360 Let's go.

00:54:33.100 We're leaving.

00:54:33.540 Please don't put your hands off.

00:54:35.460 Now, this is one of the better exchanges that you'll see caught on police body cam.

00:54:42.920 She says, quote, if I ask you to turn off the body cam, you'll have to turn it off.

00:54:48.000 Well, that's BS lawyer stuff, so that's not true.

00:54:49.960 I'm an AG.

00:54:50.760 Good for you.

00:54:51.280 I don't give an S.

00:54:52.220 It was the cop's response.

00:54:54.160 You can tell they weren't remotely prepared for this response.

00:54:56.320 They thought that talking to a cop in Rhode Island is a bit like talking to a stormtrooper in Star Wars.

00:55:00.920 They genuinely believe that they can just wave their hands and say, you know, these aren't the droids you're looking for.

00:55:05.460 And the cops would just say, well, you're right.

00:55:07.640 We're turning off our body cameras immediately.

00:55:09.320 We'll be on our way.

00:55:10.140 Never mind.

00:55:11.240 But even in Rhode Island, as it turns out, this kind of trick doesn't work.

00:55:14.000 And that leads us to the really good part of the footage where the officers are reminded again and again and again and again that this woman is an AG and therefore cannot be arrested. 0.64

00:55:23.000 But first, we're treated to a gallant defense of the honor of these women, courtesy of Veronica's husband.

00:55:28.280 Watch.

00:55:28.640 Can you get your children out of your, like, I don't know why.

00:55:32.520 I'm sorry, what?

00:55:33.700 Let's go.

00:55:34.220 Let's go.

00:55:34.800 Let's go.

00:55:35.540 Let's go.

00:55:36.060 Let's go.

00:55:36.600 Come on.

00:55:36.880 There are two full-grown women and mothers.

00:55:40.360 All right.

00:55:40.760 All right.

00:55:40.940 All right.

00:55:41.280 All right.

00:55:41.320 All right.

00:55:41.640 All right.

00:55:41.720 All right.

00:55:42.240 All right.

00:55:42.840 All right.

00:55:43.540 You're just being detained.

00:55:44.780 You're just being detained.

00:55:45.740 I'm an 18.

00:55:46.540 He's an 18.

00:55:47.180 I'm an 18.

00:55:48.640 I'm an 18.

00:55:49.300 What are you?

00:55:51.960 What are you?

00:55:52.620 What's wrong with you?

00:55:53.380 What are you a probable class of detain me for?

00:55:55.460 You're being detained because you're not leaving.

00:55:57.380 Because I'm what?

00:55:58.980 You have a problem.

00:55:59.760 You have a problem.

00:56:00.260 Can you relax?

00:56:01.140 Sarah, Sarah, she's not doing anything wrong.

00:56:03.260 I'm an AG.

00:56:03.820 She's not leaving.

00:56:04.680 I'm an AG.

00:56:05.620 She's an AG.

00:56:06.480 What's your AG?

00:56:07.380 Buddy, you're not.

00:56:08.260 She's not being arrested.

00:56:09.500 Let's go.

00:56:10.140 I'm not being arrested.

00:56:11.380 You're putting me in cuffs.

00:56:12.800 I'm not being arrested.

00:56:13.420 Do you have any weapons on you?

00:56:14.680 No.

00:56:15.560 I'm an AG.

00:56:16.280 Her badge is in the car.

00:56:17.660 You want me to go get a badge?

00:56:18.760 Let me tell you something.

00:56:19.600 You're arrested.

00:56:20.020 Buddy, get the hell out of here.

00:56:21.440 Wait, buddy.

00:56:22.180 You're serious.

00:56:23.220 You're arresting an AG.

00:56:25.460 Are you on arrest right now?

00:56:27.000 No.

00:56:27.760 You're putting me on handcuffs and you're merendezing me. 0.95

00:56:30.000 You're not merendezing me.

00:56:33.280 Relax.

00:56:33.960 Relax.

00:56:44.580 Buddy, you're going to regret this.

00:56:46.300 Yeah.

00:56:47.040 You're going to regret it.

00:56:49.100 How many?

00:56:49.580 In just case you lost count, by one estimate, there were 11.5 repetitions of the phrase,

00:56:59.020 I'm an AG, in this clip.

00:57:00.960 The last one counts for one half because of door slam.

00:57:03.540 Easily the most satisfying door slam in the history of police body cams, which cuts her

00:57:07.240 off mid-sentence.

00:57:07.880 But just to be sure, and really to verify this figure, let's roll the tape one more time.

00:57:14.200 I'm an AG.

00:57:15.400 I'm an AG.

00:57:16.380 Good for you. 0.99

00:57:17.080 I don't give a shit. 1.00

00:57:17.700 Let's go. 1.00

00:57:18.160 I'm an AG.

00:57:18.860 She's an AG.

00:57:19.500 I'm an AG.

00:57:20.880 I'm an AG.

00:57:24.280 I'm an AG.

00:57:25.220 She's an AG? 0.99

00:57:26.080 What's an AG?

00:57:27.400 I'm an AG.

00:57:28.260 Her badge is in the car.

00:57:29.540 You want me to get a badge?

00:57:30.920 No.

00:57:31.340 Rusty, you're an AG.

00:57:32.580 Let me tell you something.

00:57:33.980 Buddy, you're going to regret this.

00:57:35.480 Yeah.

00:57:36.160 You're going to regret it.

00:57:38.300 I'm an AG.

00:57:40.280 That's a lot of I'm an AG and she's an AG.

00:57:42.620 If I'm being honest, I lost count again, but a total of 11.5 repetitions.

00:57:45.280 Sounds about right.

00:57:45.880 Regardless, the really funny thing is, despite all the repetition here, it turns out she's

00:57:50.720 not actually an AG.

00:57:52.260 Devon Flanagan, as we previously established, is really an assistant attorney general.

00:57:56.400 Specifically, she worked for seven years in the appellate unit of the criminal division

00:57:59.440 as an assistant attorney general.

00:58:01.200 She was never an attorney general herself.

00:58:03.020 In other words, we have a pretty flagrant case of stolen valor on our hands here.

00:58:07.620 It's a bit like saying you're the assistant regional manager when you're really assistant

00:58:10.100 to the regional manager.

00:58:11.140 What she should have said, although it wouldn't roll off the tongue quite as well, is I'm an

00:58:14.840 AAG.

00:58:16.120 I'll be more honest.

00:58:17.140 Of course, there's a good chance that if she said that, the officers would assume that

00:58:19.600 she was choking and commenced the Heimlich maneuver. 1.00

00:58:21.760 On the bright side, though, she would have been about 1% less humiliated than she is right

00:58:25.500 now. 0.81

00:58:25.680 But as it stands, Devon Flanagan has not simply outed herself as a drunk narcissist. 0.98

00:58:29.340 She's also added herself as a liar on top of that. 1.00

00:58:32.180 And the AAG's friends didn't fare much better, for the record.

00:58:36.720 Here's how her night ended.

00:58:39.940 Take your hands off me. 1.00

00:58:41.160 We will get the license.

00:58:42.000 Take your hands off me. 1.00

00:58:43.240 We will get the license.

00:58:44.900 No, no, no, no.

00:58:46.160 Get out of here.

00:58:47.240 Get out of here.

00:58:50.000 Get back.

00:58:50.760 Get back right now.

00:58:52.000 Get back.

00:58:52.300 Get detained.

00:58:53.020 No.

00:58:53.840 No.

00:58:54.100 No.

00:58:54.420 No.

00:58:57.700 Get back.

00:58:59.340 Get in the car.

00:59:00.500 No.

00:59:01.020 No.

00:59:01.700 No.

00:59:02.820 Babe, no. 0.99

00:59:04.080 You got two to take.

00:59:04.860 I'm right here.

00:59:05.640 No.

00:59:06.480 Just put her in.

00:59:07.240 No.

00:59:07.920 Get back.

00:59:08.640 Get back.

00:59:09.400 Bro.

00:59:09.640 Dan.

00:59:10.780 Get in the car.

00:59:11.280 Dan.

00:59:12.220 No.

00:59:14.240 Get your feet in the car.

00:59:16.140 Dan.

00:59:19.160 I'm right here.

00:59:19.980 No.

00:59:21.160 I'm right here.

00:59:21.840 No.

00:59:23.360 Dan, please.

00:59:24.380 Get your feet in the car.

00:59:25.600 No.

00:59:26.080 Get your feet in the car.

00:59:27.780 Dan.

00:59:28.260 Hey, I'm right here.

00:59:29.860 No, Dan.

00:59:32.760 You know, it goes on like that for a few more minutes.

00:59:34.900 The husband says, I'm right here.

00:59:36.620 And she shrieks uncontrollably. 0.91

00:59:39.520 I don't know why the husband stayed right there.

00:59:41.500 I mean, he should have just left at that point.

00:59:43.480 You want to humiliate yourself.

00:59:44.460 You could do it.

00:59:44.880 You know, you could do it by yourself.

00:59:46.040 I'm not going to stand around and be a part of this.

00:59:48.800 Eventually, they finally do get her in the police car, bringing a merciful end to the footage.

00:59:52.720 The woman, in turn, was charged with several counts, including disorderly conduct, willful trespass, and resisting arrest.

00:59:59.680 The AG, for her part, was hit with a trespass charge.

01:00:03.440 Now, her lawyer is saying that she regrets the whole thing, as you'd expect.

01:00:06.480 The AG's office in Rhode Island, meaning the actual office of the AG, says it's looking into it.

01:00:11.000 Quote,

01:00:11.160 Now, we have no idea how this will turn out, of course.

01:00:21.880 In a state like Rhode Island, this kind of behavior might qualify Devon Flanagan for a promotion.

01:00:25.920 Who knows?

01:00:26.340 But at the moment, things aren't looking good, as far as we can tell.

01:00:29.240 In a month where a government employee was arrested and fired for throwing a sandwich at a cop,

01:00:34.280 Devon Flanagan's night out has simply emerged, somehow, as the single most humiliating case of government misconduct.

01:00:41.160 At least in the last two weeks, which is an impressive feat, on some level.

01:00:45.160 But at the same time, it all but guarantees that this particular AAG will never become an actual AG,

01:00:50.200 no matter how much she obviously thinks about that promotion.

01:00:53.380 And that is why AAG Devon Flanagan, who managed to make the Subway sandwich attacker look good, is today.

01:01:00.700 Cancel.

01:01:01.820 That'll do it for the show today.

01:01:02.480 Thanks for watching.

01:01:02.960 Thanks for listening.

01:01:03.440 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:01:04.500 Have a great day.

01:01:05.360 Godspeed.

01:01:11.980 Today on the Ben Shapiro Show, President Trump's huge meeting with Ukraine and European allies goes swimmingly.

01:01:17.420 Democrats remain bamboozled at Trump's diplomacy and Texas Republicans finally get their quorum for redistricting.

01:01:22.540 All that on today's show.

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